"Your Majesty, the commander of the city defense of Saratov is Nikolai Jr. Nikolayevich, a close cousin of the tsar. This close relative of the tsar suffered a big loss from us during the Battle of Tacheng and became very cautious. Although he could not defend and fall down, the defense was really good, the machine guns and artillery were well arranged, and a number of trenches were built outside the city of Saratov, all of which turned Saratov into an iron cylinder. ”

Liu Xian ate three pieces of fat meat in one go, and captured more than 30,000 prisoners, but he ate a little too much. But the Russian army continued to surround it, and after the ice and snow melted, the speed of the Russian cavalry unit increased significantly, and the cavalry from the Naton River would be able to enter the key position in the future.

At that time, if Liu Xian still stays in Rothdal, then the cavalry corps of the Russian army on the Don River will become very threatening, whether it is waving troops at Saratov or directly attacking Rothdal. Liu Xian naturally will not give up the initiative. Of the 30,000 prisoners and wounded soldiers, only more than 500 officers were left in the army, and the rest were left with injuries, and those who were not injured were stabbed in the thighs and thrown into Rothdal. Then quickly returned to Saratov with troops.

The solution to this kind of trench warfare in Saratov is to carry out civil engineering operations, dig the trenches of your own army directly under the enemy's nose, launch a tentative attack, find out the enemy's firing points, and at the same time use artillery to destroy the enemy's various firing points. Attack at the end!

It's just that it all takes time!

Zhang Zhongkui saw that Liu Xian had a thorough understanding of the battle situation in Saratov, so he talked about the matter of the Fourth Division. He also received the news just now, and it was not from Shi Donglai's hand. "There is also news from the Ural side that the Russian troops in Urda and Getbayi have been routed by the 4th Division. Shi Donglai led his troops south to Astrakhan, and the Russian army on the west bank of the Caspian Sea had already appealed to Tsaritsyn for help. "If it weren't for the fact that the scouts caught a couple of Cossack cavalrymen from the Tsaritsyn side. Zhang Zhongkui will not know any of this.

He now hopes to be able to launch a real offensive against Saratov, if he can. Then really take the city in front of you.

"We only have three days now. After three days, whether he takes Saratov or not, he will have to leave. Otherwise, we are in danger of being wiped out. Do you think we can take Saratov's guards in three days? And at what cost? ”

Rothdal ate three pieces of fat in one go, killed sixty or seventy thousand Russian troops, and Liu Xian's stomach was already indigestible. Gnawing on Saratov's hard bone again, Liu Xian has no appetite at all.

However, as it approached dark, the Wehrmacht fire began again. Although it is not dense and violent, shells can fall on the heads of the Russian army every once in a while. It also frightened the entire Russian military and people in Saratov. They already knew about Liu Xian's return, and the imperial flag that represented Liu Xian made their hearts twitch.

In the black, the hard earth was blown into the sky by artillery fire, and it was scattered everywhere. In the city of Saratov, which was shrouded in night, I don't know how many buildings were full of soldiers and civilians. Every shell represents destruction and destruction, and those who are wounded lie helplessly in the open air on the cold ground, letting the blood on their bodies flow and coagulate.

In the darkness of the night, the occasional sound of artillery attracted all the attention of the Russians. They didn't know that Liu Xian had already mobilized five field battalions to quietly move south.

Three days later, when the last Wehrmacht troops bluffed south from outside Saratov at night, no one knew that Liu Xian had taken tens of thousands of vanguard troops to Taraganda, more than 200 miles from Saratov.

There weren't many Russian civilians encountered along the way. At this time, the fighting on the Volga River was raging, and the common people had long fled to the west. In particular, this Talaganda is also close to the Volga River. It is an absolute hard-hit area. Liu Xian marched all the way, and the Russian civilians who were restrained were only 3,000. These people have slowed down Liu Xian's speed to a certain extent. Otherwise, he would have been able to advance at least three hundred miles in three days.

Heavy equipment such as artillery and a lot of logistical supplies passed over the Volga. Only the soldiers walked along the riverbank, and it was not difficult to travel hundreds of miles a day at that speed.

The front and rear four parts of the troops swept over. On the way from Saratov to Talaganda, there was really no trace of the Russians.

Heavy snow fell on the fifth day of Liu Xian's departure from Saratov, which caused the third group of troops to rush to the top, and the arrival of the last group of troops was guaranteed the date of the trip without delay. It's just that a sleigh was used in the middle!

To their north, five Russian troops crossed Saratov and continued their aggressive pursuit to the south. The total number of these Russian troops exceeded 100,000, and their total number was as high as more than 130,000, but how much of it was requisitioned civilian power, Liu Xian couldn't say. After all, this is no better than Central Asia, this is a key place for Russia, with deep roots, and it is possible to recruit civilians in the army to help.

Liu Xian didn't move. After converging with Liu Jintang's cavalry, his army now has more than 40,000 troops, and Liu Xian is ready to finish up with the Russian army that has been chasing circle after circle in Talaganda. Because Tsaritsyn's 60,000 or 70,000 troops were attracted by the 4th Division, even the troops that had rushed to Saratov before were withdrawn, and they also sent a team to the west bank of the Caspian Sea, and now there were only 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers and horses left in the city. Naturally, he didn't dare to come out to find trouble with Liu Xian. Then he will be able to wait for the Russian army to come to the door in Talaganda with peace of mind.

And after this battle, he will gather all the troops and horses of Orenburg and the Ural Valley. If the Russian army can still gather more than 100,000 or 200,000 troops, then it will fight a big battle. And if not, in Tsaritsyn, Saratov, Samara and other cities, Liu Xian will be beaten down one by one, depending on whether Lao Maozi can still sit in St. Petersburg at that time!

As for the Fourth Division's southward march to Astrakhan, Liu Xian didn't think that Shi Donglai would really attack Astrakhan, that place does not freeze in winter, and is the main base of the Caspian detachment of the Russian Navy, although it is only three or four hundred miles away from Guryev.

At the same time the Caspian Sea.

The Russians are now nervous. The troops that Tsaritsyn had sent to the north were dragged back, and the infantry lieutenant general Leonid . Ilyich divided half of his army to the south, just to pin down the 4th Division. And also to make the Kalmyks living in the lowlands of the western coast of the Caspian Sea feel the power of Russia!

This lowly group of Tatars, like their ancestors, once again betrayed Russia. Or in the difficult situation of Russia, betrayal was chosen. In the eyes of Lieutenant General Ilyich, such a people should all be sent to hell. Catherine II should not have shown mercy to them in the first place.

Otherwise......

Lieutenant General Ilyich wrote in a telegram to St. Petersburg that he would "erase the traces of the existence of this people", and he now really gritted his teeth with hatred for the Kalmyks. 20,000 cavalry, they provided 20,000 cavalry for the Chinese!

Ilyich must send troops south, otherwise a large area south of the Volga will sink under the iron heel of the Chinese army. Because in order to deal with the threat of the Chinese, St. Petersburg has almost removed almost all the elite of the Caucasus.

The Kalmyks have fallen to China!

This news was bad news for St. Petersburg, but it symbolized a great feat. With the help of these Kalmyks, they can get a clear idea of the complex terrain here. Although the Kalmyk people live on the edge of the Caspian Sea, it is a land of grasslands, deserts and deserts, which is huge in size, equivalent to half of Henan Province, but has very little surface water. If you are not familiar with the terrain there, lead the army and plunge headlong, and hard times will come.

And in order to settle his own internal strife, on an ordinary day, Turghut Taiji Amha, the chief Hanzils, the head of the Ulus, Mokusian, the lama Genkuzang Bagsur, Zaisang Zodpa, Zangpa and Baksardmuchi, Dulbert Chucheitiji, the fire and the Khulteji, Chelbeychumenev, the Durbo Zaisang [Prime Minister] Batur, the Heshute Zaisang Badba, the lords Nadmut, Yandeko.

These people are among the highest ranking in the entire Kalmyk clan. They hold all the rights of the Kalmyks in their hands.

Among them, Chuche Tidegi of the Durbo Department, who was also the governor of the Kalmyk office, was given a flag, a sabre, a carbine, a mink coat and a hat by the tsar. But he was not inclined to Tsarist Russia from the bottom of his heart.

In fact, just from the names of these people, it can be seen who has the most 'feelings' for Tsarist Russia. Cherbaychumenev, this is a name that is thoroughly Russified. It is not surprising that his heart is biased towards Russia.

And when it came to quarrels and arguments between the Kalmyks themselves, Cherbechumenev was always a representative of the pro-Russian faction. Without killing him, without liquidating his comrades, the Kalmyks could not be united.

Then there was the fire of that day, which lasted for three days of fighting and hunting for the real Kalmyk office. The Russophiles completely lost ground among the Kalmyks.

At least 1,000 young men died in these three days. However, this is the price of the clan's advance. The Kalmyks, who had reorganized themselves, provided the 4th Division with a cavalry of 3,000 men, and then organized 20,000 men. This almost drained some of the most beaten Kalmyks.

And the Russians in the Kalmyk office, except for those who fled when they saw the situation was not good, the rest of the Russian men were all dead. Even the teachers of the school set up by the Russians here were killed.

Liu Xian did not know that 20,000 Kalmyk cavalry were about to be brought under his command. In order to mobilize 23,000 cavalry, the Kalmyks spent almost half a month. In addition, Shi Donglai wants to allocate officers for this group of people, not to organize and organize, or to let the Kalmyks form their own teams according to tradition, but to be able to obey orders, they also need a group of Mongolian Wehrmacht officers.

Otherwise, even communication will be troublesome. (To be continued......)