Zhang Zuolin and Li Yuandong, who had been waiting for news in Fuyuan City, were overjoyed when they learned that the Second Front Army of the Russian Far East had been completely annihilated by their four brigades, and that nearly 90,000 Russian troops had been taken prisoner, and that even the commander of the Second Front Army of the Russian Far East had not run away. ／.

Zhang Zuolin laughed and said, "Damn! What a beautiful battle! In this way, in addition to Vladivostok and the Twin Cities, there are still heavy Russian troops in the entire Russian Far East, and there are not many Russian troops in other places! ”

Zhang Zuolin still doesn't know that the First Front Army of the Russian Far East has been defeated by Lin Daxin with 5 divisions of the main force of the Dingbei Army, and even the Twin Cities have been abandoned.

Li Yuandong also said excitedly: "Brother Zhang, should we report to the principal immediately, please ask the principal, should our two divisions immediately send troops to seize the important Russian town of Boli City, there should not be many Russian troops in Boli City now!" ”

Zhang Zuolin nodded and said, "It must be!" Come on, send a good news to the big handsome! Our 12th and 13th divisions completely annihilated the Second Front Army of the Russian Far East! ”

Then Zhang Zuolin said to Li Yuandong: "As soon as our good news arrives in front of the principal, the principal will definitely order us to capture Boli City, let's wait for the principal's order!" ”

Lin Daxin, with more than 100,000 officers and soldiers of the Guards Division, the Second Division, the Fourth Division, and the Eleventh Division, had just entered the Twin Cities that the Russian army had voluntarily abandoned.

After Lin Daxin read the telegram, he laughed. said to several division commanders of the Dingbei Army around him: "Zhang Zuolin and Li Yuandong did a beautiful job!" It is even cleaner than us, and the Second Front of the Russian Far East has been completely wiped out, and even the commander of the Russian army has been captured! Hahaha! So. In addition to Vladivostok, the entire Russian Far East is basically at your fingertips for our Dingbei Army! ”

After that, Lin Daxin gave the telegram to Chen Ergou beside him, and then several other division commanders Wang Hongjun, Jiang Yu, Zhang Daxiong and Duan Qirui all read the telegram.

The five division commanders of the Dingbei Army all showed excited expressions after reading the telegram, and Wang Hongjun, the commander of the second division, said: "Headmaster, in this way, you can order the 12th and 13th divisions of Fuyuan City to achieve a great victory. The 14th Division of Hailan Pao has attacked Russia! ”

Jiang Yu, the commander of the Fourth Division, continued: "After the Second Front Army in the Far East was completely annihilated, there should not be many Russian troops defending Boli City. The Twelfth and Thirteenth Divisions should easily capture the city of Burleigh. As a result, only the city of Amur, the inner city of Svobod, and the fortress of Vladivostok remained in the Russian Far East, and there were more Russian troops in these three places, and the rest of the Russian Far East had very few troops. The Russian troops in the cities of Amur and Svobod each had the strength of 1 corps. As long as we take these 2 cities down. Except for Vladivostok, the Far East can be occupied by us with a small number of troops. ”

Lin Daxin nodded and thought for a while, and said to the adjutants of the Governor's Mansion behind: "Send a telegram to Zhang Zuolin and Li Yuandong in Fuyuan City, and order their two divisions to cross the border line of the two countries, quickly occupy the Russian city of Boli, and then launch an attack on the Russian city of Amur, annihilate the Russian army guarding the 1 army of the Amur City, and capture the city of Amur!" ”

After a pause, Lin Daxin continued: "Send a telegram to Yu Lichen, the commander of the 14th Division in Hailanpao." The 14th Division was ordered to cross the border between the two countries and launch an attack on the inner city of Svobod, an important Russian city, and capture the inner city of Svobod as much as possible. Cutting off access to the Russian region of Siberia and the Far East. After capturing the inner city of Svobod, let the 14th Division establish a position in the inner city of Svobold to block possible Russian reinforcements to the Far East. ”

In the end, Lin Daxin said: "Order the newly expanded 34th Division of Division B to rush to Fuyuan City, and order the newly expanded 33rd Division of Division B to rush to Hailanpao to support the troops in Russia at any time." ”

The two new divisions were also newly expanded from the garrison brigade.

After giving the order, Lin Daxin led the five division commanders to go around the headquarters of the original Far East First Front, and then came to a conference room, Lin Daxin smiled and said to several division commanders around him: "The environment here is good, let's have a combat meeting here, and study how to attack Russia's largest stronghold and fortress in the Far East, and Vladivostok, which is also the largest naval base!" ”

In the end, after Lin Daxin discussed with the five division commanders, it was decided that the Guards Division would leave one brigade in the Twin Cities, and all the other Dingbei Army units in the Twin Cities would advance towards Vladivostok, Russia, preparing to attack the largest city in the Russian Far East.

At the time when Lin Daxin was preparing to lead his troops to attack Vladivostok, the First, Second, and Third Fleets of the Northeast Navy had already blocked the Russian Pacific Fleet in the port of Vladivostok in the Ussuri Bay near Vladivostok.

In addition, the Marine Division, with the cooperation of the Navy, captured Sakhalin Island, which was not defended by many Russian troops.

The sea area outside the port of Vladivostok was set up by the Russian Navy with a large number of mines, so that the Northeast Navy did not dare to enter the sea area of Vladivostok lightly and attack the Russian Pacific Fleet.

Moreover, a large number of large-caliber coastal defense guns in the port of Vladivostok also made the three fleets of the Northeast Navy more scruples, so at present, the three fleets of the Northeast Navy only blocked the port of Vladivostok and did not launch an attack.

The remaining troops of the 1st Russian Far Eastern Front, led by Commander Willistov, ran wild for a day and a night, and fled all the way into the fortress of Vladivostok.

Alekseyev, the governor of the Far East, looked at him with a very bad face, and when he walked into his governor's office, Willistov said in a very bad tone: "Willistov, how did you command the troops?" I have put more than half of the troops in the Far Eastern Theater under your command, and now you have not only left the 3 armies of the 22nd, 23rd and 28th armies on the border line of the two countries, but even our Twin Cities, an important town in the Far East, have let you give up without firing a single shot! How do you ask me to explain to His Majesty the Tsar? ”

Willistov smiled bitterly and said, "Your Excellency the Governor, I don't want to lose 3 armies either. Giving up the Twin Cities again, it was really the firepower of the Dingbei Army that was too strong, and our First Front Army in the Far East was in the battle of the border line. Three heavy artillery divisions were concentrated, plus the field artillery attached to each army itself, there were nearly 800 guns of more than 75 mm caliber, but the number of artillery was still not as large as that of the Dingbei Army, so that our artillery suffered heavy losses in the artillery battle. Without the containment of artillery, the tanks and armored vehicles of the Dingbei Army would not have been able to cope with it at all! Our 1st Far Eastern Front would have retreated in time either near the border line. Probably, the entire Front army will not want to return to Russia. After that, there was no artillery, and according to the fortifications of the Twin Cities, we could not resist the heavy artillery and tanks of the Dingbei Army at all. Your Excellency the Governor-General. If the First Far Eastern Front is completely annihilated in the Twin Cities, then even Vladivostok will not have many troops to defend it, so the subordinates will abandon the Twin Cities. Retreat with troops to Vladivostok. No matter how you say it. Vladivostok is the most important thing for us! ”

Alekseev's face was much better when he was explained by Willistov, and he nodded and said, "What you said also makes sense!" If the First Front Army of the Far East is eaten by the Dingbei Army, then my current Vladivostok will only have 1 army guard, even if you add the artillery guarding the fortress, it will be less than 50,000 troops, which is really dangerous! However, Willistov. Is the artillery fire of the Dingbei Army really that powerful? ”

Willistov was relieved to see that the governor's face had changed for the better. Nodding his head, he said: "Your Excellency, my subordinates are not exaggerating at all, nearly 800 artillery pieces of 75 mm caliber or more of the First Front Army have engaged in an artillery battle with the artillery of the Dingbei Army for less than 2 hours on the border line, and now there are less than 300 artillery pieces left that we brought back to Vladivostok." ”

Alekseev frowned when he heard Willistov say this, but then his brows relaxed again and said: "Since you are back, you will have a good rest first, no matter what, you will also bring back more than 100,000 people, at least relying on our Vladivostok fortress and heavy artillery group, it is no problem to hold Vladivostok." ”

Vladivostok has always been built as a fortress by the Russians, especially after the rise of Lin Daxin in the northeast, the Russians have increased their investment in the Vladivostok fortress. Not only were a large number of batteries built in the direction facing the sea, and more than 100 large-caliber coastal defense guns of more than 200 mm were placed, but also in the land direction, a large number of fortifications dug in the interior of the mountain were built on the basis of the mountain, and many artillery pieces and Makqin heavy machine guns were placed in them.

On top of these hills, a lot of permanent cement and steel fortifications and pillboxes were built, and only with enough troops, Governor Alekseev was confident that even if the Dingbei army had a million troops, he would not want to break through the fortress of Vladivostok. And there are also large-caliber naval guns of the Pacific Fleet, which can provide artillery support, so that the fortress of Vladivostok is absolutely impregnable.

Originally, Governor Alekseev was ready to use the First and Second Far Eastern Fronts to take the entire Northeast in one fell swoop, but he did not expect that the combat effectiveness of the Dingbei Army far exceeded the expectations of the entire Russian high-level, and now the entire war situation has become very unfavorable to the Russian Far Eastern Theater.

However, as long as Vladivostok, the most important place for Russia in the Far East, Governor Alekseev believed that Russia would eventually turn the tide of the war, because he already knew that His Majesty the Tsar had approved the order for mobilization in wartime, and he also knew that Russia had signed a Russo-French alliance with France, and that the two European fleets of the Russian Navy, the main warships of the Baltic Fleet and the Black Sea Fleet, would rush to Asia together with the French Navy to destroy Lin Daxin's Northeast Navy.

Willistov said: "Your Excellency the Governor, I also think so, there are more than 150,000 men left of our 1st Far Eastern Front, plus nearly 50,000 in Vladivostok, to guard the entire fortress of Vladivostok. The Dingbei Army has an army of one million, and no amount of army artillery can break through our strong fortress of Vladivostok. ”

"When—when—" There was a knock on the door outside the office, and Governor Alekseev said, "Come in!" ”

A handsome and tall Russian captain walked in and said, "Governor, there's an urgent telegram from Boli City!" ”

Alekseev hurriedly said: "Bring it to me!" Pagiritav! ”

The Russian captain named Pagiritav hurriedly handed a telegram in his hand to Governor Alekseev.

After reading the telegram, Alekseev said with a depressed expression: "Willistov, it's really bad, when the Second Far Eastern Front attacked Fuyuan City, it was counterattacked by the Dingbei Army and the whole army was annihilated. The Dingbei Army has appeared under the city of Boli, and the city of Boli is almost no longer defended against the Dingbei Army, the total defenders are less than 500 people, and the highest officer is 1 lieutenant colonel, this lieutenant colonel has decided to surrender to the Dingbei Army after sending this telegram! ”

Willistov was taken aback and said, "Oh God! Then our cities of Amur and Svobod are also in danger. (To be continued......)