The cold wind blew, mixed with cold, biting snowflakes and kept hitting people's faces. Heaven and earth seem to have turned into a big cold storage, and the nose and cheeks that are exposed are freezing and stiff. The bitter air poured into the holsters more often, even as the warriors had wrapped their coats tightly around their bodies.

The army marched silently, and from time to time some soldiers slipped and fell to the ground, because the cold weather had already frozen the surface of the Volga River into large ice. This is the Volga River in October, and here it is a world of ice and snow.

The Russian army that Saratov drove over was blocked twice by Liu Xian using two battalions of the banner army, and then used cavalry to cut off their connection with the surrounding area, and for a time 30,000 Russian troops became deaf and blind, and they were really nervous for a while. Because they couldn't figure out what Liu Xian was going to do next. The only thing that can be done is to defend in place and be fully guarded. As a result, when they got in touch with the outside, Liu Xian and his troops had fought a battle in Saratov. Defeated the defenders of a division, captured a number of material reserve warehouses and quartermaster depots outside the city, and allowed the troops to make a good fortune. These materials were originally prepared by the Saratov side to support the 30,000 Russian troops who attacked. As a result, most of them fell into Liu Xian's pocket.

Because the Russians prepared a large number of carriages, it was also very convenient for Liu Xian to take them away.

Now Liu Xian was running along the Volga to Samara, and the cavalry had destroyed the Saratov railway connecting the north and south and the west, and cut off the telegraph line there. And the distance between the two is not too far, and it is still snowing, which can drown out the traces. For a while, you can shake Saratov's Russian army.

By the time they came to their senses and galloped to Saratov. Liu Xian should have been able to take down Samara, who had less than 10,000 troops left.

Although the ice was covered with snowflakes and became more slippery, it was not even useful to have hay on your feet. But the wheels rolled over the smooth ice, which also saved the soldiers a lot of effort. And emergency Samara along the river, not only the road is smooth, but also the shortest!

The whole world was snow-white. Not only the surface of the river, but also the open fields on both sides of the river were all flooded with snow and ice.

The snow was also dazzling, as if there was a strong light shining on the snow-white fields, shaking people's eyes to tears. Liu Xian had not lived in such a situation for a long time, and it was during the battle of the Western Expedition that year.

With the distance from Samara approaching. The width of the river has also been greatly widened. From less than a kilometer at the beginning, it is now two versts wide. And I have encountered a lot of Jiang Xinzhou one after another. The barrier-like riverbank 'disappeared', and only white diagonal lines of falling snow could be seen in all directions. In the wilderness, the wind stubbornly blows everything in one direction. But in the river, the wind swirled and swirled, and on the right and left, there was the same white scenery everywhere.

Liu Xian really feels green now. He sleeps at night with his eyes closed. It's all white in my head. I couldn't see anything, and the sky was full of snow.

The cold wind blew the snowflakes and confused the eyes, and from time to time the faces of the warriors were caressed with ice and snow; The coat and lint were wrapped more tightly, and the snow that fell on the collar and hat still slipped through the neck. The cold made the soldiers shiver.

This team has high morale and will not cry out bitterly when people are struggling to advance in the ice and snow. The bitter cold froze the entire subarctic zone into a large ice mound, and the wind howled. The heavy snow could not stop this army from advancing towards the goal.

Liu Xian is confident of victory. After obtaining a large number of supplies and chariots outside the city of Saratov. Liu Xian could even burn a large number of supplies when necessary, and then use the one or two thousand wagons to directly transport a brigade. Advance quickly. In snowy and frozen weather, the cards in his hand will not be weakened by the weather, but will be stronger.

Samara has only seven or eight thousand soldiers, and 30,000 Russian troops have marched from Samara before, and they are still trudging on the way to outflank Mapotsk. This was the effect of the heavy snow and ice after the telegraph connection was severed.

The climate has greatly weakened the army's reconnaissance capabilities, and it has also made communication between the armies extremely difficult. Therefore, Liu Xian is not worried that the 30,000 Russian troops will turn around, nor is he worried that the Russian troops in Ulyanovsk, more than 300 miles away, will suddenly come to Samara, he is sure that Samara will be eaten.

Liu Xian walked on the road for five days, and the follow-up troops were still two or three days away from Samara, and the vanguard led by him had already arrived in Samara City. And without waiting for the follow-up troops at all, they immediately launched their forces and launched an attack on Samara.

Samara City is a bustling city, although the population here is not very large, less than 50,000 in total. But you know, only 4% of Russia's urban dwellers live in a population of more than 100 million, so Samara is no longer small.

In Liu's investigation, there were more than twenty factories in the city of Samara, with more than 1,000 workers. This is the place where the wheat production is highest in Russia, so trade is booming, and there are three or four hundred shops in the city. There are three large fairs a year, one in autumn and two in summer, each lasting 10 days. There are also five granaries that store at least 60,000 metric tons of wheat. Because Samara is an important place for railway and waterway transportation in the Volga River basin, many materials to Central Asia pass through here. The bridges, and even the railway bridge across the Volga, are like a spider web, communicating railways, waterways, and Russian traffic.

The forward force had only one integrated brigade and lacked the necessary heavy artillery, only a large number of mortars and individual rocket artillery. But the defenders of Samarra behaved in a panic in the face of the Wehrmacht, and they hurriedly laid out a defensive line outside the city, leaning against the Volga. And sent cavalry units to sluggish the Wehrmacht's offensive. As a result, the cavalry of a regiment of cavalry troops never returned, and they were caught in a trap by Liu Xian, and they were easily eaten and cleaned.

The Samara guards, having lost a cavalry regiment, seem to be more cautious, and the troops can be deployed along the Volga River, in a completely defensive mode. Liu Xian raised his banner, and the soldiers of the Praetorian Guard Division around him made it look like they were about to attack, but he ordered another banner battalion to wear a white cloak and quietly move to the back, and then brought his own light weapons, sledding, and went around to the east of Samara City, where the Russian guards were the weakest, and suddenly attacked, opening the breach in one fell swoop.

The Russian army, of course, is desperately fighting back. However, the Praetorian Division in front of the main force of the Russian army took the opportunity to bombard the Russian defense line with mortars, covering the infantry to launch an attack and contain the deployment of troops by the Russian army. By the end of the battle, the Russian positions had been further compressed, and they had all been driven back to the city of Samara. Two small gunboats docked at the pier were also sunk and one captured.

By the time the follow-up troops had fully reached Samara, the walls of Samarra had already been hit by Wehrmacht fire, which had opened several gaps. The defensive power of the city walls here is on the same level as Orenburg, and they are all antiques that are behind the times for I don't know how many years. In front of high-explosive bombs, they are as fragile as tofu scum.

The firing points on the front line of the Russian army's city defense were basically dumbfounded, and the soldiers also used explosives bags to continuously clear a number of bunker fortifications built by the Russian army in a hurry, and the progress went smoothly even Liu Xian did not expect. By the time the main force arrived in Samara, the vanguard had broken through the walls and was advancing deeper into the city.

It's time to run out of water, but Lao Maozi has shown his unique tenacity. They did not break through, nor did they sit back and wait for their destruction. They transformed every street and every house into a position, a fortress, a fortification, and engaged in fierce and brutal street battles with the Wehrmacht forces that had entered the city.

Liu Xian captured the city of Samara, but the Wehrmacht directly lost two brigades, plus serious wounded and slander, anyway, they were wounded, and the soldiers who could not fight in a short period of time, Liu Xian lost a battalion.

This price gave Liu Xian a toothache, and once again strengthened his determination to fight field battles - siege warfare, especially brutal street battles, was too costly.

The news of the presence of Chinese troops in the city of Samara has spread to all directions with the airwaves. On the virtual map, Liu Xian can see a large number of Russian troops coming from all directions, towards Samara.

Among them were the original defenders of Samara, the troops of Kazan and Ulyanovsk, the troops of Saratov, and the cavalry troops of the Don River, each of which was not strong enough to compete with the Wehrmacht alone, but their total strength was more than 100,000 men.

Liu Xian then asked Liu Jintang to lead the cavalry, with a cart of military supplies and food, as infantry, leaving traces of the 'large army' marching in the snow, killing Ulyanovsk, and he took the main force to prepare to fight the original 30,000 Russian troops in Samara and the part of the Russian army that Saratov came over.

He's going to hit Saratov again! As for the problem after Liu Jintang was discovered, Liu Jintang could burn all the military quartermasters and carriages with one fire, and then lead his troops to the east bank of the Volga River on horseback, and go directly to Saratov. For this reason, Liu Xian collected all the horses and carriages in the city of Samara.

The five large granaries that stored 400,000 tons of wheat were burned down by Liu Xian because they couldn't be moved away at all, and they couldn't eat much. This fire alone will definitely make the blood of those Tsarist Russian bigwigs in St. Petersburg feel distressed.

The food problem has always been a headache for Russia. Just like China and Japan before it, they don't produce enough food to eat. Therefore, the value of 400,000 tons of wheat in Russia is definitely not comparable to 800 million Chinese dollars.

Liu Xian was staring at the Volga River basin at the same time, his eyes were also on the Ural River, and he didn't know if Shi Donglai had taken Guriev now. The average winter temperature in this area is between -10°C and 20°C, and the port can freeze. The Russian Caspian detachment would return to Astrakhan for the winter. Presumably, there won't be a few Russian troops there, Shi Donglai was decisive, and now he has taken here.

The task of the 4th Division was not only to maintain stability in the lower Ural region, but also to actively contact the Kalmyks on the edge of the Caspian Sea and persuade them to return to the motherland. If these descendants of the Oirat Mongols, who have always believed in Tibetan Buddhism, can take up their swords and spears and stand with the Wehrmacht, the situation of the Wehrmacht here will be greatly reversed. (To be continued......)