"Your Excellency, General Augusta has been defeated, more than 80,000 men, and only a few thousand cavalry remain. Now General Augusta is retreating towards Irkutsk, and the squadron is in hot pursuit! The adjutant of the Grand Duke Nicholas reported to him with an anxious expression. He never thought that why the thing that was so sure would become the way it is now.

"Damn it, I'm going to take that guy Augusta to court-martial!" Grand Duke Nikolai was furious. Before launching an attack on Meggett, he had repeatedly instructed Lieutenant General Augusta, but he didn't expect it to end up like this. How can this keep him from getting angry?

"Your Excellency, the squadron is now in pursuit of Lieutenant General Augusta. What do we do now? We must send an army to stop it! Otherwise, the Chinese may have been calling from the bridge in New Losica! The adjutant reminded. The railway bridge between Irkutsk and Novolosika is an important link between Irkutsk and the west. And now, if this railway bridge is captured by the squadron following Lieutenant General Augusta, then Irkutsk will directly face the attack of the squadron!

"Order the front line, blow up the railway bridge!" Grand Duke Nikolai hesitated slightly, and then said. Although the railway bridge is expensive, the most important thing now is to hold Irkutsk. The railway bridge was blown up and could be rebuilt later. If Irkutsk falls, then Russia will lose this war, and this large area of land will probably no longer belong to Russia in the future.

"Yes, Your Excellency!" The adjutant hurriedly went down to deliver the order. The Russian army had already planted enough explosives on the railway bridge, as long as it waited for the remnants of Lieutenant General Augusta to cross the bridge. You can blow up the bridge.

"General. The Grand Duke called. Let's do our best to pass the guò bridge. After that, the bridge will be blown up! The communications officer reported to Lieutenant General Augusta.

"I see! Order everyone to speed up, and when we cross the bridge, we will be safe! Lieutenant General Augusta said. Now he looks like a defeated general, and he looks very wolf.

Soon, the defeat of several thousand remnants will accelerate towards Irkutsk. And behind them was the cavalry brigade of the First Army. The First Army wanted to fight a battle of total annihilation, but was escaped by thousands of Russian troops. Therefore. Pursued. On the one hand, it is naturally to eliminate these Russian troops, and on the other hand, there is no intention of taking advantage of this to bring down more railway bridges.

The Cossack cavalry was on the battlefield, although lost to the Chinese cavalry. But their riding skills are really good. In addition, the war horses used by the Cossack cavalry were all tall Don hippos, which were faster than the war horses of the Chinese cavalry. By the time the cavalry brigade of the First Army arrived at the railway bridge, Lieutenant General Augusta had already crossed the bridge with the remnants of his defeated army.

And at this time, the Russian army guarding the railway bridge. Detonated the explosives planted on the bridge. Under the powerful impact of hundreds of kilograms of explosives, a railway bridge seven or eight hundred meters long. It collapsed and fell into the Angara River.

"It's a pity, Lao Mao blew up the railway bridge, and we have to make a detour to attack Irkutsk. If this land becomes our territory in the future, we will have to rebuild the bridge. The cost of such a railway bridge must be expensive! These old hairs are really losers! The brigade commander of the cavalry brigade of the First Army said with some regret.

After the Russian army attacking Megot was almost completely annihilated, the army attacking Megot from the west also retreated rampantly, not daring to attack. Their forces are already scarce, and even more than 80,000 Russian troops sent by Irkutsk have been wiped out, can they still please them? Along the railway, these Russian troops retreated all the way west, until they stopped at Cheremkhovo, a hundred kilometers away from Megart. In addition, the Guò Trans-Siberian Railway began, and began to accumulate troops here to prepare for the next attack.

The railway bridge west of Irkutsk was blown up, forcing the squadron to make a detour to Megett in order to launch an attack on Irkutsk. Although it is necessary to take a detour of tens of kilometers, it is also very advantageous for a certain distance. The bridge was blown up, and the squadron was certainly unable to launch an offensive against Irkutsk, but at the same time, wasn't the Russian team also trapped in Irkutsk?

According to the order of War Minister Cai Yun, the First Army left two divisions in Megett, on the one hand, to defend the Megot Bridge and ensure the safety of the bridge, and on the other hand, to deal with the Russian troops coming from the west of Megett. The remaining troops, together with the 3rd Cavalry Corps, attacked Irkutsk.

As for the Third Army and the Fourth Army, they had to completely annihilate the Russian troops south of the Angara River before they could make a detour to Megart and launch an attack on Irkutsk.

"My lord, the battle report is out. The Third Cavalry Army and the First Army annihilated more than 73,000 Russian troops, including more than 38,000 prisoners. The 3rd Cavalry Corps suffered more than 4,000 casualties, of which 1,700 were killed and more than 1,100 were seriously wounded. The First Army suffered more than 1,000 casualties, more than 300 killed, and more than 200 seriously wounded! "A staff officer reported to Cai Yun the battle report compiled after the Battle of Meggot.

"I see, let the Third Cavalry Army and the First Army act according to the plan!" Cai Yun said. In the Battle of Megett, the 3rd Cavalry Corps lost half of its brigade's equipment, most of which was paid by the 1st Cavalry Brigade guarding Megget. Especially in the night attack launched by the Russian army last night, although the Russian attack was repelled and the Russian army suffered very heavy casualties, the 1st Cavalry Brigade also paid a heavy price. For a person as powerful as Cai Yun, the casualties of soldiers are, in their eyes, just a number. It's not that they disregard the lives of their soldiers, it's that they're used to it.

Where there is war, there will be casualties, this is an immutable theorem. In the process of China's rise, many people will inevitably pay for it. This is the inevitable price to be paid in the process of rising. Their sacrifice was worth it. When the Chinese nation became the most powerful nation in the world, their contributions were indispensable.

The successful capture of Megot opened the way to an offensive to Irkutsk. The next step is to completely annihilate the hundreds of thousands of Russian troops entrenched in Irkutsk, break the backs of the Russians in one fell swoop, and force them to surrender. After winning the land battlefield, China will be truly invincible!

At the same time, Grand Duke Nikolai in Irkutsk was also making tactical adjustments. The failure to recapture Megot left Irkutsk without supplies to Europe. The failure to blow up the Megot Bridge frustrated Irkutsk's plan to defend the Angara River. There is no doubt that in the future, the Russian army will start a head-on confrontation with the squadron. Even though Grand Duke Nicholas still had nearly half a million troops in his hands, he had no confidence at all. When he was in Ulan-Ude, the squadron broke through the strong defense line of the Russian army lightly, which shocked him very much.

"Your Excellency, I'm sorry, because of my mistakes, I lost tens of thousands of troops!" Lieutenant General Augusta, dejected, stood in front of Grand Duke Nicholas. Originally, among the Russian generals in Irkutsk, he was second only to Grand Duke Nikolai. However, because of this failure, his position was greatly affected. If Grand Duke Nicholas refused to let him go, he would have paid even more terrible costs, such as going to court-martial, or being shot outright. After all, Grand Duke Nicholas was now the supreme military and political governor of Irkutsk, and even if Lieutenant General Augusta was shot, Tsar Nicholas II would have no objections.

Grand Duke Nikolai did not speak, his falcon-like gaze was fixed on Lieutenant General Augusta. In his heart, the anger of proportion, the army of 80,000 people, including the two elite Cossack regiments, was gone. In the whole of Irkutsk, there were only three Cossack regiments, so he lost two of them, which made his heart feel like he was dripping blood!

The attitude of Grand Duke Nicholas made Lieutenant General Augusta very worried, and he didn't know what Grand Duke Nicholas would do with him.

"From now on, you're fired! Whether you make a mistake or a mistake, wait until the war is over and it will be decided by a military tribunal! Grand Duke Nikolai said coldly.

"Your Excellency, please let me go this time! It's the Chinese who are too powerful, and I shouldn't be responsible for it! Lieutenant General Augusta shouted. He knew that if he went to a military court, his life would be over, even if he would not be shot, but it was estimated that in his lifetime, he would not want to rush out of prison. As for his family, a small aristocratic family will decline because of this.

Grand Duke Nikolai waved his hand, and several guards rushed in and pulled Lieutenant General Augusta out. Grand Duke Nicholas needs to use Lieutenant Augusta to warn other generals, so Lieutenant General Augusta is in danger this time.

After that, Grand Duke Nikolai once again adjusted the Russian army. He ordered all the 120,000 Russian troops stationed at Binsholten and Burwell to withdraw to Irkutsk, and blew up the bridge south of Irkutsk, completely cutting off the opportunity to cross the Angara River south of Irkutsk. In Grand Duke Nikolai, since the Russian army is now at a disadvantage, the remaining forces are very wrapped, and there is no need to lose them on the periphery of Irkutsk.

The retreat of the Russian army made the squadron pounce. The Fourth Army drew one division to defend the southern Angara coast, and the rest of the troops made a detour to Megart and attacked Irkutsk.

By June 9, the squadron arrived in Irkutsk and completed the encirclement of Irkutsk. (To be continued.) )

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