The vast land of Siberia is small in population and full of resources. However, Zhao Yun's roots are still in the country, and only a sufficient population can obtain greater resources, so for the economy of the Siberian region, Zhao Yun adopted the strategy of moving eastward.

For the time being, the power of Soviet Russia in Europe is not something that the White Russian army can contend with. Although he has achieved some small victories, Zhao Yun also knows the truth of accepting when he sees a good thing. Until Soviet Russia has not resolved the European intervention force led by Poland, which directly threatens the European region, it will not fight Siberia unless the White Russian army crosses the Ural Mountains and enters the European region. Then in order to avoid being attacked by the enemy on the back and abdomen, Soviet Russia will definitely pick and pinch the persimmon softly, turn around and clean up the White Russian army first. Of course, this also has a lot to do with the fact that Soviet Russia looked down on the achievements of the White Russian army, so the development of Zhao Yun's development, the arrangement of the arrangement, and the light start of the city of Omsk made this western expedition richly rewarded.

As soon as Zhao Yun returned to the big tent, Rokossovsky came to visit. When Zhao Yun entered the city just now, Rokossovs did not arrive, because Yegorov had just withdrawn, and Rokossovsky did not dare to worry whether this person would make a move to "return to the carbine", so he kept leading the team outside the city to martial law.

However, when Zhao Yun returned to the big tent, Rokossovsky naturally didn't need to be so nervous, and immediately came to visit.

"Not bad! What a good fight! As soon as he heard that Rokossovsky had come to pay a visit, Zhao Yun personally went out to greet him and said hello with a smile.

"My lord! Weekend...... The last general, this is what the last general should do! "Rokossovsky is also quite excited, this time to win, luck also accounted for a considerable part, so I don't dare to say more.

"Come, come, come! Talk to me about this battle! Zhao Yun casually took Rokossovsky's hand and motioned for him to follow him and step into the big tent together. This time the Western Expeditionary Army was able to win the battle of Ishim, Rokossovsky's credit was definitely the first, although Yegorov was not caught for the time being, but Zhao Yun had already laid a net, and he was not worried that Yegorov would be able to bring the troops at hand back to Tyumen.

"My lord, the last general will ...... this time" In the big tent, Zhao Yun and Rokossovsky sat opposite each other, and Rokossovsky spent an hour telling Zhao Yun the experience of this battle. Well, this battle was good! Zhao Yun smiled at Rokossovsky, "Next, I will ask the general to continue the pursuit of Yegorov." This person is not simple, it only took 3,000 elites to gather a group of remnants of the defeated generals to block our army in the second line of defense for ten days. ”

Hearing that Zhao Yun wanted to continue the pursuit of Yegorov by himself, Rokossovsky hesitated slightly, but still admonished, "My lord, there will be an immature opinion, should we take Omsk now, remove this nail embedded in our supply line, and then continue westward!" ”

"Omsk? Hehe, I forgot to tell you, I have good news here, we have taken the city of Omsk! Zhao Yun said with a smile, this city was conquered under the command of Zhao Yun, and it was the first big city conquered by Zhao Yun.

"Congratulations, sir!" Rokossovsky knew that Zhao Yun had been "low-key" before, and every time he commanded a battle, he basically hid behind the scenes and rarely made a move, so he knew the significance of this attack for Zhao Yun and immediately said hello to Zhao Yun.

"Haha, it is also me who took advantage, the city defense commander of this city is very good in tactics, and I have been fighting for four or five days, and I have not taken any advantage, but his move, "First Army Policy", made him lose in the hands of the people in the city. Zhao Yun was also quite satisfied with his "achievements", and this time he could have a listener, so he naturally told Rokossovsky about the experience of siege warfare with a happy face.

"The city of Omsk had not had much food after last year's Operation Rat, but although it was replenished, because it was not a front-line area, most of the food was sent to Siberia for our requisitions. However, when our army suddenly reached Western Siberia, they were in a hurry, and temporarily transferred another batch of grain from Europe and hoarded it. However, due to the fact that the construction of fortifications and defensive lines began in the vicinity of the city of Omsk, soon the outside of the city became a large construction site. These garrisons and people ate a lot, and when our army besieged the city, the food in the city was only enough to eat for a month. In order to defend the city, the commander of the city defense promulgated the "Songun policy", which collected the people's grain and distributed it to the army, and then to the people. In this way, the food in the city can be enough for everyone to eat for three months, but because it is the "Songun policy", the people in the city have opinions. And the city is not all one, the men of Tsarist Denikin have long been arranged in the city, they are fanning the flames, and some of the officers "persuaded" by our monks, plus some of the men sent into the city before the start of the raid, are also waiting for the opportunity. An arms depot was conquered, and civilians who dared to cause trouble were armed. It is still difficult to get an arsenal if it is in other cities, but the city of Omsk was originally the military production base of the Soviet Russian army, and it is a large arsenal itself, and the whole city is tight on the outside and loose on the inside due to the siege of the city, which led to the victory of seizing weapons. With weapons, you have the right to speak, and the next thing is that under the guidance of people with hearts, the people in the city gather more and more, and finally, some of the Soviet troops in the city were persuaded to defect, and the Soviet troops in the city did it themselves, and our people took advantage of the chaos to open the south gate and put the army in, and I left a team to deal with the aftermath, and then I hurried to you. I thought it was to support you, but unfortunately, I was in a hurry and still missed a good show. You're so bold, you've been worrying for days in vain! ”

"The last general, I am sincerely afraid of ......"

"Haha, you, you're really a blessing for me, don't worry! This time you don't have to go after Yegorov, I have a new errand for you to do. This time, the biggest gain from the breakthrough of Omsk is the talent in the city, our army has captured a total of nearly 200,000 craftsmen sent by Soviet Russia to build a defensive line, these people are young and strong, whether it is used for the economic recovery of the Siberian region or joining the army, they all play a key role in the future of the White Russian army.

Together with the population of more than 100,000 and 30,000 or 40,000 young men in Omsk, as well as the Soviet troops who were captured along the way, this western expedition captured hundreds of thousands of people in population alone, and nearly 100,000 people were able to pull into the ranks. The good news is that the kingdom of Afghanistan to the south has surrendered to us. ”

Afghanistan was established under the Durrani dynasty in 1746, but the independence of Afghanistan's national sovereignty was only in 1919, when King Amanullah was in power, he asked Britain to sign a treaty of equality, which triggered the third war of resistance against the British, and won the war, and finally broke away from the British control after the new treaty of equality was re-signed on November 22, 1921. During the British intervention in Afghanistan, the Pashtun territory was divided into two parts by the Durand Line, which led to the cause of tension between Afghanistan and British India and later Pakistan.

In order to pay the "certificate of surrender", after hearing about the Western Expedition of Belarus, he actively contacted the White Russia in Ulan-Ude, formed a team of 100,000 people, and joined the sequence of the Western Expeditionary Army.

The 500,000 troops of the Western Expedition snowballed to 800,000 after absorbing the people who had built the defense line of Soviet Russia and the people along the way. Of course, among them, there are still tens of thousands of people under Rokossovsky, and the rest are here to fight soy sauce.

In addition to the 800,000 troops belonging to White Russia, there are also some vassal forces that slowly moved closer after seeing the Western Expedition of White Russia.

The Kingdom of Afghanistan was very active in the Belarusian expedition to the west, and was the first to jump out and support 100,000 people. In Central Asia, the Bukhara Khanate, which was conquered by Tsarist Russia in 1873 and became a vassal state, and the Khiva Khanate, which was destroyed by Soviet Russia in 1920, also broke out in uprisings. Both of these regions were occupied by Soviet Russia after 1920, and the Soviet Russians controlled it for a short time, because the Soviet Russian power was driven to Western Siberia by the White Russia, and its influence in the local area weakened, and the local people quickly fell to the White Russians.

In order to show their loyalty and accept a "petition of nomination," the pro-Belarusian forces in these two regions easily carried out the Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Khorezm, and Bukhara Soviet People's Republic, which had just been established by Soviet Russia.

These two Central Asian countries are not strong, but they have a lot of cavalry. If you think about the bloody horses and the name of the Khorezm Republic by Soviet Russia, you will know that these two regions are inseparable from the Khorezm Khanate in Central Asia. When Zhao Yun conquered the city of Omsk, nearly 40,000 cavalry and nearly 100,000 infantry came one after another.

With the joining of these vassals, the city of Omsk, which Zhao Yun originally wanted to give up, is worth considering. In Zhao Yun's plan, in order to avoid being defeated by Soviet Russia one by one by dividing the troops and garrisoning, Zhao Yun chose to create a "no man's land" of thousands of kilometers, and adopted a passive way to avoid war with Soviet Russia. But now it seems that if the city of Omsk is not abandoned, the distance from this city to Tyumen is also a thousand kilometers, and it is enough to create a "buffer" zone.

After all, in Central Asia, such a large piece of territory is now in the hands of Belarus, and if it is spit out again, then I don't know who I will have to fight with in the future to recapture this fast land.

Therefore, Zhao Yun immediately began to build fortifications there, and first drew a large circle. With the direct construction of the camp, Zhao Yun commanded the army to move the equipment and universities in the city back to Ulan-Ude, but also paid a high cost to build the unfinished Omsk defense line.

It is said to be a defensive line, but unlike Yegorov's philosophy, there are not many fixed fortifications, and an offensive is more suitable for the next move than a passive defense.

The "no man's land" is said to be a buffer zone, and at the same time it is a zone of engagement. Neither White nor Soviet Russia would stop expanding here, and it was only a matter of time before they fought again. Therefore, Zhao Yun calculated that it was better to build those strong bunker groups than to directly produce weapons, and to arm these vassal troops could also gnaw a piece of Soviet Russia's meat.

As soon as he occupied this place, Zhao Yun obviously felt the pressure on his hands. But it is clear that the strategy of building a defensive line this time is correct, and only with a bridgehead can the foundation be laid for the next offensive, otherwise the main arteries of the Far East alone will not work.

"Population and energy are the foundation of the country!" Zhao Yun backed by China, the industrial base is weak, but the manpower is surplus, under Zhao Yun's "secret manipulation", the first round of negotiations between the White Russia and Jixian County in Ulan-Ude has begun, and the White Russia has given up some of the territories occupied by Tsarist Russia in exchange for China's rich human resources. After all, this time Huaxia fell out with the Japanese for the sake of "Luda", and gathered an army of two million at once, but it scared a large number of people. After all, it was an army of two million people who were just fighting, and the civilian men and logistics personnel who accompanied the army involved tens of millions of people in all aspects.

Compared with Belarus, Soviet Russia has European human resources, and although it is laborious to form an army of millions, it can be pieced together, while Belarus, counting the young and strong population on its own territory, if they are all pulled into the army, they will not be able to make up this number.

For the ensuing war, the White Russian regime in Ulan-Ude could only adopt the methods of the French during the First World War, requiring China to provide civilian husbands, be responsible for transportation in the rear, and even leave the farms in some places under the management of Chinese peasants.

In this way, getting rid of the trouble of logistics, the old Maozi of White Russia, who has the advantage of fighting race, can enter the civil war with peace of mind, and some of the "soup and water" obtained in the war will be transferred to China, which can be regarded as an additional reward paid by Belarus.

For Belarus, the inconspicuous "soup and water" was urgently needed by China, and China's industrial foundation was too weak, even if the steam engine before the First World War was in short supply in China at this time. Although Zhao Yun has a camp in hand, it is impossible to make a lot of advanced machines for Huaxia overnight, so he can only make excuses everywhere and start with the basics.

In addition, a very important one is to help build several "water bead" production lines in Huaxia. This time, Rokossovsky fought a battle with Soviet Russia, and found that after a long period of shooting, some muzzles of the "Water Lianzhu" would be red and deformed.

Originally, I thought it was because of cutting corners, but when I checked later, it was because of the problem of production source. Although the weapons currently used in the Western Expeditionary Army are gradually unified into "water beads", the sources are varied. There are Tsarist periods, there are White Russian self-made, there are made in China, and the made in China is divided into imitation and original, there are too many imitation versions, not to mention, the original version of China is also roughly divided into Yan Laoxi's Jin and Zhang Huzi's Northeast Manufacturing. Because the quality of steel in China was not as good as that of Tsarist Russia, the barrel of some "water beads" was deformed after firing 30 rounds of ammunition in a short period of time. And the original Russian-made "Water Lianzhu" fired 45 rounds in the same time, and only the barrel was red.

As for the "Water Lianzhu" produced by the camp, because of the use of the Chinese version, the quality is slightly better than that of the Chinese version, but it is also far inferior to the Russian-made one.

Although weapons do not fully represent the combat effectiveness of the army, they have a great impact on combat effectiveness.

In this battle, excluding the reasons for weapons, the real combat effectiveness of the White Russian army can be said to be at a glance, except for the elite of Belarus led by Rokossovs, the combat effectiveness of the rest of the White Russian army made Zhao Yun quite speechless. In the case of superiority in weapons and numbers, in the siege and annihilation battle on the banks of the Ishim River, in the face of the fleeing Yegorov, four times the size of the White Russian army was routed. Although there is an element of half-crossing and attacking in this, the combat effectiveness of the streamlined Soviet army still makes Zhao Yun look sideways, which can be seen that if Rokossovsky had not struck with all his might, this time Zhao Yun came to Ishim City, it is very likely that he would have collected his body.

But fortunately, Rokossovsky won, and Yegorov, who had just crossed the river, was eager to join the besieged army and return to Tyumen, otherwise Zhao Yun would still have to spend time with Yegorov on the front line!

With the change of the strategy of the western expedition, Zhao Yun became more and more busy in the next half a day.

Although because of Rokossovsky's tactics of killing 1,000 enemies and losing 800 of himself, he won a crucial battle. But the original purpose of luring and destroying Yegorov did not succeed. It can only be said that there was a temporary cessation of war between Belarus and Soviet Russia, Belarus was licking its wounds and devouring its prey, and Soviet Russia needed to return to Tyumen to prepare for defense. After the Battle of Ishim, the military balance between the two sides in Siberia has been reversed, and the offensive and defensive postures of the two sides have also changed.

However, Zhao Yun not only had to deal with the changes in the situation during this half day, but also made targeted arrangements for the shape of the Western Expeditionary Army after he left.

In the next half a day, Zhao Yun reversed his previous style of acting in the army in a low-key manner, and successively summoned his descendants in the White Russian Army and various senior generals in the servant army, the three barons of Belarus, the Soviet Russian descendants, the Mongolians, and the Western Xinjiang people, or praises or promises, for a time Zhao Yun's big tent was full of people coming and going, and it was very lively.

It wasn't until after the moontop treetops that Zhao Yun roughly arranged these proud soldiers. Zhao Yun, who hadn't looked for someone to "talk to" like this for a long time, was still tired and deliberately summoned Rokossovsky alone before resting.

Zhao Yun was busy summoning the generals of various ministries today, and Rokossovsky did not rest, the tragic victory of the White Russian army led to a surge in wounded soldiers in the army, and the prisoners of Soviet Russia also needed to be appeased, so Rokossovsky has also been running in and around the city of Ishim, until Zhao Yun summoned him to have time to breathe.

"It's been a hard time for my general." Zhao Yun said with a smile: "Although the Western Expeditionary Army has not been established for a long time, the composition of the internal personnel is also complicated, and it is necessary to fight and reorganize, which is really a bit reluctant to you." If there were other possibilities, I would not be willing to give you this burden. However, I have not been able to replace the right person around me, hey......"

Rokossovsky's face changed greatly, and he hurriedly said: "Don't worry about it, if there is no adult. Now I am afraid that he is still a regiment-level cadre, how to command these thousands of troops, not to mention that the last general has no other strengths besides fighting, if the adult does not reuse the last general, the last general is just a prisoner. ”

"Captive? Hahaha, if you don't say it, I'll forget! The past is in the past, and your big break with Yegorov this time has turned our passive defense to the west into an offensive and defensible one, and we have seized the initiative. Therefore, the goal of this western expedition has been half completed, and you are the first hero of this western expedition. ”

"The last general is under the command of the ......."

"Needless to say, these polite words, I still know how many catties I have, let me, a person who is not even as good as a grassroots platoon commander in military affairs, command tens of thousands of troops, that is, let these tens of thousands of people go to death. In terms of war, I only decide whether to fight or not, and how to win is the business of you generals. At present, there is less than a month left for China to agree on the date for the return of the University to Japan, and China needs time to prepare, and Japan also needs time to discern Russia's actions. Although the entire three eastern provinces have been the sphere of influence of the Japanese since the Russo-Japanese War, Russia still has a strong position to be reckoned with over the three eastern provinces and the Far East. Therefore, before the results of the White Army's westward expedition came out, Japan would not have made a big attack on China. But now in Siberia, whether Yegorov wins or loses, it does not affect the overall situation. The Soviets lost their cities and lost the last of their counterattacks in Siberia, allowing us to threaten the Urals, and even if the White Russians no longer pursued Yegorov, the best outcome for him would be to be dismissed from office. ”

Zhao Yun spread out a map of Siberia and the Urals and said, "The Soviet army in the Urals has a total of only 130,000, of which 60,000 are newly formed teams. Although our army won, the consumption is also very huge, and we have to swallow the war dividends we have just obtained, so the next sweeping work will be handed over to others to deal with. You immediately draw out the teams that you can fight, travel lightly, and go to the Far East. All the supplies have been prepared for you, and as soon as you go, expand your team and try to restore the combat effectiveness of your team. The Japanese can't wait, the big war between China and Japan is imminent, you have to catch this train! It's a chore, but for now I can count on you. Zhao Yun patted Rokossovsky's shoulder and said expectantly.

Rokossovsky stood up and said loudly, "Guaranteed to complete the task!" ”

"I can rest assured of you, you have to rest assured of me, this time I transferred you over because I really have no one at hand, but you don't have to worry, the commander-in-chief of the Western Expeditionary Army is still you, before you leave, choose a general who can guarantee our existing interests, I don't need this person to have strong offensive ability, but he must be able to defend, and he must be able to appease those vassal forces. As for the most troublesome local forces, I will go to Ulan-Ude, where a new city of a million people is being built, and where the new political, cultural, and scientific centers of Belarus will be. ”