After learning the news that Russia was preparing to expand its army on a large scale, the Chinese Empire did not hesitate, and suddenly launched a comprehensive attack on Russia on the border line of the two countries, which immediately caught the Russians by surprise, and it is not an exaggeration to describe the Russian army stationed on the border line as a mountain of defeat, even the city of Novosibirsk, which is heavily guarded by the Russian army, was occupied by the Third Guards of the Chinese Empire in just one day, and all the many fortifications built by the Russian army outside the city for many years were occupied, and hundreds of thousands of Russian troops were defeated, and the casualties were very heavy.

You must know that the city of Novosibirsk is another starting point of the truncated Trans-Siberian Railway, and its importance to Russia is self-evident.

In the city of New Asia, in the temporary headquarters of the Third Guards of the Imperial Chinese Empire, Ni Fan, the commander of the Third Guards, stood in front of a huge sand table, which was made according to the terrain of Novosibirsk City and the surrounding cities.

There are also several staff officers of the Third Guards Army Headquarters around the sand table, who are adjusting the marking of the enemy's situation on the sand table according to the changing situation on the front line on the west bank of the Ob River.

There was also a person standing beside Ni Fan, who was Li Kai, the commander of the Andong Provincial Garrison. Li Kai is the second phase of the teaching team, and Ni Fan has known each other for a long time, when Ni Fan was the commander of the Third Division of the Army in the Water Division Academy, Li Kai was a regiment commander under Ni Fan, and now Li Kai has also been promoted to a garrison commander with military merits all the way.

"Brother Ni, your Third Guards are fighting too hard, if you continue to fight at this speed. It seems that none of our garrisons need to join the battle, and the city of Novosibirsk should be taken by your 3rd Guard. However, we can't let the more than 40,000 soldiers of the Andong Provincial Garrison stay here to watch the show, and we have to show our faces! Li Kai looked at the sand table with a smile on his face and said to Ni Fan.

The red flag on the sand table represents your own side. It has been planted on the periphery of Novosibirsk City, and the small blue flag that originally represented the Russian army outside the city has completely disappeared on the sand table, and the city of Novosibirsk on the sand table is also completely surrounded by small red flags.

Ni Fan moved his neck and said: "Although the Russians have also strengthened their defenses after the border conflict, they definitely did not expect that our Chinese Empire would so resolutely declare war on them and launch a surprise attack, in order to be prepared against unprepared, plus our army has air superiority and artillery superiority. As well as the lightning assault of our tank troops, I am not surprised at all to achieve such results, tomorrow's siege battle will require your Andong Provincial garrison, and the siege of Novosibirsk City will be 100% brutal street fighting, and our two armies must be mentally prepared. ”

The reason why the 3rd Guards Army achieved a huge result in defeating the Russian army on the outskirts of Novosibirsk in just one day was inseparable from the blitzkrieg of the tank forces.

In order to defend the strategic location of Novosibirsk, the Russian army deployed 600,000 troops from two group armies at once, and the entire Novosibirsk city west of the Ob River has a total of more than 200,000 residents. The strength of the Russian army here is three times that of the residents of Novosibirsk, which shows the importance that the Russian army attaches to the city of Novosibirsk. The Russian army defending the city of Novosibirsk not only built a large number of strong fortifications with the help of various buildings in the city. Trenches and fortifications were also built outside the city, and the two Russian armies stationed more than 300,000 troops just outside the city. It is equivalent to placing an army group outside the city of Novosibirsk.

If it is common sense, if you want to capture so many Russian military fortifications outside the city. The Imperial Army of the Chinese Empire did not know how much time and losses it would have to take, but the tank units of the Third Guards used blitzkrieg. Use tank clusters to carry out lightning-like interspersed breakthroughs on the Russian army's fortifications outside Novosibirsk, and shock the Russian army's fortifications outside the city, and then the tank troops do not care about the Russian officers and soldiers in chaos on the Russian positions, and continue to surprise the next Russian position, as for the Russian officers and soldiers who are in chaos, they are left to the armored vehicles and infantry of the Third Guards Army following the tank unit to be responsible for solving them.

In this way, the tank troops of the Third Guards Army rampage against the Russian fortifications outside the city of Novosibirsk, and all the Russian fortifications outside the city were in front of the powerful tank forces, because of the lack of necessary fire support, coupled with the cooperation of the other side and aircraft and artillery, they could only be broken through and broken through, so that the positions outside the city defended by 300,000 Russian troops were captured by the Third Guards of the Chinese Empire in only one day, and the city of Novosibirsk was also surrounded by the troops of the Third Guards.

The tank units of the Third Guards Army, the losses cannot be said to be nothing, 9 heavy Black Panther tanks and 28 light Black Wolf tanks were destroyed in the daytime battle, most of them were destroyed by the battle defense artillery on the Russian positions, and some of the tanks were blown up by the Russian army with explosives packs, and the Third Guards Army also lost nearly 30 armored vehicles, with about 8,000 casualties, which is nothing compared to the losses of the Russian army.

Li Kai continued: "Don't worry, Brother Ni, more than 40,000 soldiers of our Andong Provincial Garrison are ready for a hard battle, just waiting for your order!" By the way, Brother Ni, do we need to continue the attack on the city of Novosibirsk overnight? If we can capture Novosibirsk as soon as possible, we can use the railway west of Novosibirsk to continue our attack into the Russian hinterland, taking advantage of Russia's lack of preparation. ”

Ni Fan shook his head and said: "It's not bad for this night, at night, our air force fighters can't take to the air to fight, can't provide air support to our army, and it's dark to carry out siege warfare and even street fighting, which may bring more losses to our two armies, the fortifications built by the Russian army in Novosibirsk City, only using tank troops can not be completely defeated, we must rely on infantry to conquer little by little, when it gets dark, the impact on the infantry is relatively large." ”

Li Kai hesitated for a moment and said: "The battle during the day has destroyed most of the Russian artillery units, if the siege is launched at night, there is no air support, and our artillery is enough to provide strong fire support, I think we can take advantage of the fact that the Russian army is now in shock and continue to put pressure on the Russian army." Maybe an overnight attack can achieve unexpected results! Brother Ni, your Third Guards have been fighting for a day. It's better to let the Andong Provincial garrison behave at night, hehe! ”

After Li Kai finished speaking. The expression was a little unnatural, and the right hand involuntarily scratched the back of the head, and the smile suddenly became unnatural.

When Ni Fan saw Li Kai like this, he suddenly realized that the Ministry of Defense had sent out the news, and the emperor had issued an order to the Ministry of National Defense that the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire would expand 10 new field armies and 2 new guard armies, so that there would be a lack of commanders of the 12 main forces, and the commanders of these 12 main forces had a probability of more than 90 percent. To be selected from the commanders of the 45 garrisons in the country, it seems that Li Kai has already aimed at one of them, and now he takes the initiative to let the troops under his command attack Novosibirsk City, and he wants to add points to himself.

Ni Fan thought of this and pondered for a moment and said: "What you said is also reasonable, after a day of fighting, the Russian army has been scattered by our beating, if we continue to attack, there should be some ideal results, but my Third Guards is indeed a little tired after a day of fighting." It is also possible for your Andong Provincial Garrison to attack Novosibirsk City at night, and I will let the artillery units of the 3rd Guards Army provide fire support for the Andong Provincial Garrison. ”

Ni Fan agreed to Li Kai's request after a little consideration, although the garrison of Andong Province was only a garrison. This time, part of the troops of the Andong Provincial Garrison was part of the 3rd Guards Army to launch an attack on the city of Novosibirsk, but the Andong Provincial Garrison needed to defend the border with Russia. Among the 45 garrison armies in the country, the strength is one of the best. Regardless of the problem of numbers, the combat effectiveness of the garrison of Andong Province was definitely not inferior to that of the field army.

And it can continue to maintain an oppressive offensive against the Russian army in the city of Novosibirsk at night. Even if it doesn't achieve the desired effect, it will be very advantageous for the siege battle during the day tomorrow.

As soon as Li Kai heard that Ni Fan agreed to his proposal, he immediately said excitedly: "Brother Ni, don't worry, my Andong Provincial garrison can at least capture a foothold in Novosibirsk City at night." ”

In this offensive of the Chinese Empire's sudden offensive against Russia, the garrison of Andong Province, in accordance with the order of the Ministry of National Defense, except for the 20,000 defensive troops left near the entire border line between Andong Province and Russia, the other 100,000 troops were divided into several units to cooperate with the main force to launch an attack on Russian territory.

Li Kai deliberately transferred the most elite troops of the Andong Provincial Garrison Army to New Asia City, just to rely on his friendship with Ni Fan to use Novosibirsk City, a strategic place of the Russian army, to get enough combat exploits in this war against Russia, and in this expansion of the Royal Army, he can be successfully promoted to the commander of the main army.

At this time, in a small two-story European-style building in Novosibirsk, the commander of the Russian 7th Army, Klikoilev, and the commander of the 8th Army, Vichgsky, both had a bitter face.

Klikoilev said gloomily: "I really didn't expect that the Chinese Empire would launch an attack on our Russian Empire so suddenly, and the war would break out so easily, and the army offensive of the Chinese Empire on the other side of the Ob River was too fierce, and all the positions carefully built outside our Novosibirsk city were left in one day, how could this battle be fought?" ”

Vechigsky said with a wry smile: "We can only fight hard, now our Novosibirsk city has been surrounded by the Chinese Imperial Army, and the 300,000 troops arranged by our two group armies outside the city can retreat to less than 100,000 people in the city, this is still the result of seeing that the fortifications outside the city can not resist the impact of the Chinese Imperial tank group, and ordering the troops outside the city to withdraw to the city, otherwise we don't know how many people can escape into the city." Now in the entire city of Novosibirsk, our two armies add up to 400,000 people, I hope to withstand it! ”

Karikoilev said helplessly: "Hard fighting? But how do you have to fight hard? With absolute air and artillery superiority in the armies of the Chinese Empire, coupled with hordes of tanks, how long can we hold out in the city of Novosibirsk? Not to mention anything else, the army of the Chinese Empire only needs to use artillery to bombard the remaining 400,000 people of our two group armies to the point where they can no longer hold on. ”

Because the Chinese Empire knew almost everything about the situation of the Russian army in Novosibirsk, the artillery positions arranged by the Russian army inside and outside the city of Novosibirsk were subjected to large-scale bombing and shelling, and the losses were so heavy that the two Russian commanders trembled in distress.

Vichgsky sighed and said: "We have sent a telegram to the St. Petersburg War Department asking for help, and I hope that Your Excellency Gorrosky can mobilize reinforcements for our city of Novosibirsk as soon as possible to relieve the siege. His Excellency Korrosky replied by telegram that he had promised to send reinforcements to support the city of Novosibirsk as soon as possible, and asked our two army groups to hold out until reinforcements came. ”

Klikoilev shook his head and said: "Didn't the War Department send us a telegram saying that the Chinese Empire was launching an attack on the entire border line of our Russian Empire this time!" In this way, reinforcements are needed everywhere, but we don't know when we will be able to send reinforcements to the city of Novosibirsk! ”

Vicky hesitated for a moment and said: "Novosibirsk City has a direct railway to the hinterland of our Russian Empire, the location is very important, I believe that the War Department will be more anxious than us, even His Majesty the Tsar will not let Novosibirsk City fall into the hands of the Chinese Empire, otherwise the consequences will be absolutely very bad for our Russian Empire." ”

Klykoilev sighed and said, "I hope the reinforcements will come soon!" ”

After the Chinese Imperial Army surrounded the city, the Russian troops in Novosibirsk had entered various fortifications in the city in accordance with the orders of the two army commanders, preparing to rely on these fortifications to resist the attack of the Chinese Imperial Army on Novosibirsk City, waiting for reinforcements sent by the Russian War Department.

The Third Guards of the Chinese Empire, which had been fighting for a day, began to rely on the fortifications of the original Russian army outside the city of Novosibirsk to rebuild a defensive front to prevent the Russian army in the city from launching a counterattack.

At the same time, from the city of New Asia east of the Ob River, there was a mighty Imperial Chinese Army unit, which crossed the pontoon bridge to the outside of Novosibirsk, and this new army crossed the river was the troops of the Andong Provincial Garrison preparing to launch an attack on the city, and in the attack team of the Andong Provincial Garrison, there were many heavy Black Panther tanks, light Black Wolf tanks and Z1 armored vehicles. (To be continued......)

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