On the evening of August 15, 1908, the entire city of Novosibirsk was constantly bombarded by the artillery of the Third Guards of the Chinese Empire and the garrison of Andong Province, so that the city of Novosibirsk was shrouded in artillery fire, as bright as day.

The artillery bombardment of the city of Novosibirsk by the artillery of the Third Guards of the Chinese Empire and the garrison of Andong Province began after the attack force of the garrison of Andong Province arrived on the west bank of the Ob River and entered the attack position, and finally lasted for nearly 40 minutes, before the artillery units of the two armies stopped the shelling, a large number of Russian fortifications were destroyed, and many Russian officers and soldiers died in this shelling, but the number of dead would have exceeded 10,000, if it were not for the fact that the Russian army dug a lot of tunnels and air-raid shelters in the city of Novosibirsk, Many Russian officers and soldiers were able to enter tunnels and bomb shelters to avoid shells, and many more Russian officers and soldiers were killed in this shelling.

After the shelling stopped, the attack force of the Andong Provincial Garrison, just northeast of the city of Novosibirsk, launched a fierce attack on the city, and the infantry of the Andong Provincial Garrison advanced towards the city of Novosibirsk little by little with the cooperation of the armored troops, but the Russian army in the city of Novosibirsk was very tenacious, using dilapidated fortifications and tunnels to desperately resist the attack of the garrison of Andong Province, so that the progress of the attacking troops entering the city was not very smooth, and sometimes they just captured a ruined city. The Russian army used the tunnel to repeatedly launch counterattacks, which made Li Kai, the commander of the Andong Provincial Garrison Army at the headquarters of Xinya City, a little helpless, in such street battles, the casualties of the Andong Provincial Garrison attack troops are increasing.

It has to be said that the combat effectiveness of the Russian soldiers is still very strong, compared with the soldiers of the Chinese Empire. Aside from the aspect of equipment, other aspects are not much weaker than the soldiers of the Chinese Empire. Especially in terms of not being afraid of death, the Russian soldiers were even more ruthless than the soldiers of the Chinese Empire.

The attack force of the Andong Provincial Garrison was armed with a large number of heavy Panther tanks, light Black Wolf tanks, and Z1 armored vehicles. In the street battles in Novosibirsk, a considerable part of these tanks and armored vehicles were blown up by Russian soldiers with explosive packs, but it is not easy to use explosives packs to blow up the tanks and armored vehicles of these Andong Provincial garrisons, not to mention the machine guns equipped on tanks and armored vehicles that can be used for defense, those infantry who follow behind tanks and armored vehicles will also prevent Russian soldiers from approaching, and Russian soldiers can successfully blow up tanks or armored vehicles with explosives packs, which are basically suicide attacks, to blow up one steel behemoth after another.

Received the battle status of the front-line attacking troops. Li Kai said secretly in his depressed heart: "Why is the Russian army in Novosibirsk so tenacious, Lao Tzu is ready to obtain the capital from here to be promoted to the commander of the main army, can't you old hairy people be soft!" Outside Novosibirsk, why don't you die like this! ”

Looking at Li Kai with an unhappy face, Ni Fan walked up to him and patted Li Kai on the shoulder and said: "Li Kai, it seems that the Russian army is very well prepared for the night battle, and the Russian army in the city has recovered some spirit from the panic during the day, and the resistance is unexpectedly tenacious, coupled with the tunnels throughout the Novosibirsk city. We continue to attack at night, and the losses to ourselves are too great, and some of the gains outweigh the losses, and it seems that we still have to wait for the daytime to fight street battles with the Russian army! ”

Li Kun smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Ni." You also know that I want the Andong Provincial garrison to attack at night, but I will not risk the lives of soldiers to add chips to my promotion, so I will order the troops to stop attacking. Let's talk about it in the day! ”

Ni Fan patted Li Kai's shoulder again and said, "With your brother Ni, what do you have to worry about." Brother Ni won't eat meat by himself, he only lets you drink soup. Wait until tomorrow during the day, your Andong Provincial garrison does not need to cooperate with our 3rd Guards, and still launch a siege battle against Novosibirsk from the northeast of Novosibirsk, and my 3rd Guards will attack Novosibirsk from the southwest and take Novosibirsk City, the credit is counted as our 2 armies! By the way, tonight's attack was not in vain, didn't it capture a small piece of territory in the northeastern part of Novosibirsk! Try to keep the troops holding this territory and leaving a support point for tomorrow's offensive. ”

Li Kai nodded depressedly, now in order to reduce the losses of his garrison in Andong Province, he can only do this, don't he just want to get some military merits, why is it so difficult!

In a large hall of the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, the capital of Russia, the haggard Russian Tsar Nicholas II, as well as the Russian Minister of Finance Witt, the Minister of the Navy Makarov, and the Minister of War Korrosky, who were also in bad spirits, looked at the latest news from the front line of the Sino-Russian border, and the faces of several people became even worse.

At this moment, in the main hall, there are a row of more than a dozen telegraph machines, more than a dozen Russian military telegraph operators, and dozens of staff officers wearing Russian military uniforms, constantly reporting front-line battle reports to the tsar and three important ministers.

Tsar Nicholas II and three important Russian ministers received the shocking news that the Chinese Empire had declared war on Russia in the second half of yesterday night, as well as the report of the Chinese Imperial Army's large-scale attack on Russia on the Sino-Russian border. However, what is heartbreaking is that the war reports on the Sino-Russian border are one bad news after another, and it was not until the evening in St. Petersburg that a relatively bad news was received.

War Minister Gorrosky took a telegram from the hands of a staff officer, looked down and read it quickly, because the war was not conducive to a little blue face, regained some blood, Gorrosky hurriedly took the telegram and hurriedly walked a few steps, and said loudly to Tsar Nicholas II: "Your Majesty, the latest battle report from Novosibirsk City!" ”

Tsar Nicholas II asked weakly: "What happened to the city of Novosibirsk?" Shortly after that, the commander of the 7th Army in Novosibirsk, Khalkoilev, and the commander of the 8th Army, Vechgsky, sent a telegram jointly saying that the attacking forces of the Chinese Empire were attacking too hard. Possessing air superiority and artillery superiority, the two group armies fought bloody battles. Still defeated by the overwhelmingly superior Chinese imperial army, the outer fortifications of Novosibirsk City were lost. The army of the Chinese Empire basically completed the siege of the city of Novosibirsk! And now they're sending another piece of bad news? Could it be that they lost the whole city of Novosibirsk? ”

The bad news on the front line one after another, has tortured the sleep-deprived Tsar Nicholas II is about to collapse, how long has the war started, although the Chinese Empire is equivalent to an undeclared war, a surprise attack on the garrison of the entire Russian border, so that the Russian garrison on the border line is a little unprepared, but it can't be beaten so badly!

Not much to say about the situation in the city of Novosibirsk, where the garrisons elsewhere on the Russian-Chinese border were almost completely routed. Even many of Russia's border cities have been lost, and the Chinese Empire's armies are continuing their offensive into the Russian hinterland.

Tsar Nicholas II felt that it was normal for him to collapse, you must know that in order to guard against the Chinese Empire, the garrison of the Russian Army on the border of the two countries reached 7 group armies, with a strong strength of 2.1 million, accounting for more than half of the Russian Army before it was expanded, and the result was only one day, to be precise, only one day, and the army of 2.1 million was on the Sino-Russian border. Except for the Russian army in several border cities like Novosibirsk City, which is still resisting, the other Russian troops have been defeated, and the Russian army of more than 2 million is a bit of a fictitious meaning, and Russia has placed so many troops on the border line. The Tsar's depressed mood can be imagined.

Gorrosky handed the telegram in his hand to Tsar Nicholas II, and said in a somewhat high tone: "Your Majesty Tsar, the commander of the 7th Army, Kulkoilev, and the commander of the 8th Army, Vechgsky, have just sent another joint telegram. After besieging the city of Novosibirsk, the troops of the Chinese Empire carried out a prolonged artillery bombardment of the city. Most of the houses in the city were destroyed by artillery fire, and then the troops of the Chinese Empire attacked the city of Novosibirsk at night. However, the two armies of our Russia in Novosibirsk desperately resisted the Chinese Imperial Army besieging the city, so that the offensive of the Chinese Imperial Army did not achieve any results, but was destroyed by our army A large number of tanks and armored vehicles, and the infantry of the Chinese Imperial Army also suffered a lot of losses. At present, the 7th and 8th armies are organizing forces to counterattack the Chinese imperial forces in this area, preparing to completely drive them out of the city. ”

Tsar Nicholas II, who had not received good news since the beginning of the war, as soon as he heard Gorrosky's words, he immediately snatched the telegram from Gorrosky's hand, and then read it carefully before sighing and saying: "Khalikoilev and Vichygorsky have not lived up to the hopes of Tsar Ben, if the city of Novosibirsk is captured by the troops of the Chinese Empire, it will be very unfavorable for us Russia, and the army of the Chinese Empire can use the railway to quickly advance to the hinterland of our Russian Empire, Gorrosky, Send another telegram to the 2 generals of Novosibirsk, telling them to hold on to Novosibirsk and that reinforcements will arrive in Novosibirsk as soon as possible! ”

Gorrosky hesitated for a moment and said: "Your Majesty the Tsar, the railway from the city of Novosibirsk to the hinterland of our Russian Empire, because of its proximity to the Kazakhstan region, we must consider not only the Chinese Imperial army in Novosibirsk, but also the Chinese Imperial army that attacked our Russia from the Kazakhstan region, and now there is an army of the Chinese Empire, starting from the central border of the Kazakhstan region, which has routed 2 infantry divisions on our border, and is now advancing towards the city of Omsk, If the city of Omsk is captured by the troops of the Chinese Empire, then we will not even be able to send reinforcements to the city of Novosibirsk. ”

The city of Omsk was an important stop on the Great Railway to Europe, and if it was captured by the troops of the Chinese Empire, the Chinese Empire could also use the Great Railway to Europe to quickly attack the Russian hinterland.

Admiral Makarov continued: "Novosibirsk City, Omsk City, these important cities on the railway line, must not be lost, otherwise the army of the Chinese Empire can even directly hit the European region of our Russian Empire through the railway, then it is not simply bad to describe it!" ”

Tsar Nicholas II slapped his head, and just now there was such a not too bad news, and immediately there was an even worse situation, and Nicholas II felt that his head was going to explode.

"Gorrosky, how many troops do we have in the city of Omsk, and can we resist the attack of the Chinese Imperial Army?" Nicholas II asked Gorrosky.

Gorrosky immediately said: "There are two armies of our 12th Army stationed in Omsk City, with about 120,000 troops, but the Chinese Imperial Army attacking Omsk City is at least a hundred thousand, so the minister thinks that it is still necessary to strengthen the strength of Omsk City." ”

"Then hurry up and send reinforcements to Omsk City, Omsk City must not be lost!" Tsar Nicholas II said urgently.

Gorrosky nodded and said: "Yes, Your Majesty the Tsar, the minister has mobilized the newly formed 14th Army and the 15th Army to advance in the direction of Omsk City, of which the 14th Army will defend Omsk City together with the 2 armies of the 12th Army, and the 15th Army will continue to advance in the direction of Novosibirsk City to relieve the siege of Novosibirsk City." ”

Nicholas II then asked: "Did you send reinforcements from other directions?" ”

Gorrosky replied: "Our other two newly formed 16th and 17th armies have been sent to support other directions along the border. ”

When the Chancellor of the Exchequer heard this, he frowned and suggested: "Your Majesty the Tsar, we must prepare for the worst, and be ready to destroy the big railway leading to the European region of our Russian Empire at any time, and we must not let the army of the Chinese Empire use this big railway. In the last war, the Dingbei Army didn't know where it could fight in the end! (To be continued......)