On June 13, 1902, outside the eastern part of Krasnoyarsk, an important town on the Yenisei River, the first, second, third, fifth, and sixth attack units of the five field armies of the Dingbei Army were ready early in the morning, waiting for an attack on the Russian positions outside the eastern city, but then Wang Hongjun, the temporary commander of the attack on Krasnoyarsk, asked all the attacking troops to return to the camp to rest and wait for the attack order.

At the headquarters in a small village more than 20 kilometers east of Krasnoyarsk, Wang Hongjun said helplessly to the other four commanders of the field army: "The air force has just sent a telegram that the wind is too strong this morning for our planes to take off. ”

Without the air support of the aircraft, the Dingbei Army was not unable to continue the offensive, but the casualties would definitely be relatively large, after all, the enemy's position outside the eastern city of Krasnoyarsk was still relatively well built, and the bombs without the aircraft opened the way, which was still a relatively difficult bone for the Dingbei Army.

In the city of Cherkar in the western region of Kazakhstan, Russia, today, that is, June 13, there was a rumbling of artillery, and the sky was clear here today, so the Fourth Field Army of the Dingbei Army launched a fierce attack on the city of Cherkar, which was heavily guarded by the Russian Army and the German Army, under the air cover of 90 Yellow Sparrow fighters and 54 Blue Eagle bombers of the Northeast Air Force.

Kazakhstan in the 3rd century BC to the 1st century BC appeared a state called Wusun, from the 6th century to the 8th century AD established the Turkic Khanate, Turgish, Qarluq and other states, in the first half of the 12th century, Kazakhstan was invaded by the Khitans, in the early 13th century, Kazakhstan was conquered by the Mongol Tatars. The Kazakh Khanate was established here in the 15th century, and at the beginning of the 16th century, the Kazakh ethnic group was basically formed, and then fought against the Uzbeks and the Yarkand Khanate. At the beginning of the 18th century, the Kazakh Khanate fought against the invasion of the Dzungars. But from the 1830s to the 1840s, Kazakhstan was gradually occupied by the Russian Empire.

The Russian Army and the German Army concentrated their main forces in the city of Cherkar in the north of the Aral Sea, preparing to prevent the Dingbei Army from continuing to advance to the western part of Kazakhstan.

The strength of the Russian army in the city of Cherkar reached 100,000, and the German Army sent a total of 200,000 troops to the western part of Kazakhstan, of which 180,000 German troops and 9 German infantry divisions were concentrated in the city of Cherkar.

The Fourth Field Army of the Northern Army only mobilized two infantry divisions outside Cherkar, with nearly 100,000 troops, and the 43rd Division, another infantry division of the Fourth Field Army, was preparing to launch an attack on Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, where there were few Russian troops left.

Although the Fourth Field Army had only two divisions and less than 100,000 troops, Hu Desheng, the commander of the Fourth Field Army, was full of confidence in capturing the city of Cherkar. In the first half of the month's fighting, the Fourth Field Army attacked almost everything along the way, occupying most of Kazakhstan, covering an area of one million square kilometers, and the losses of the troops were not large, and the total losses of the three divisions of the Fourth Field Army were more than 5,000 people.

Hudson did not think that the Russian and German armies in Cherkar would be able to stop his Fourth Field Army, and that his Fourth Field Army would definitely complete the task of occupying the entire Russian Central Asian region.

The Persian Empire, an ancient country that originated on the Iranian Plateau, is currently under the rule of the Qajar Dynasty, and has been encroached upon by Russia a lot of land, including Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, and also belongs to the Central Asian region controlled by Russia.

Early in the morning of 13 June, 90 Yellow Sparrow fighters and 54 Blue Eagle bombers of the Northeast Air Force arrived at the positions built by the Russian Army and the German Army outside the city of Cherkar.

Then 90 Yellow Sparrow fighters and 54 Blue Eagle bombers began to cooperate with the infantry attack, bombing and strafing the positions outside Cherkar, clearing the way for the infantry to attack.

However, the German army carried a lot of anti-aircraft guns with a relatively fast rate of fire, scattered in the positions outside the city of Cherkar, and the threat to the Yellow Sparrow fighters and Blue Eagle bombers of the Northeast Air Force was still relatively large, and even one Blue Eagle bomber was hit by the shells of the anti-aircraft guns not long after the start of the war, and detonated the bombs that were not thrown in the cabin of the Blue Eagle bomber, which suddenly caused the Blue Eagle bomber to explode in the air.

At the headquarters of the defenders in Cherkar, the commander of the German Army, Maximi, frowned and said to the commander of the 10th Army of the Russian Army Filippovich beside him: "These planes of the Dingbei Army are really a very powerful weapon, so many anti-aircraft guns have been placed in the positions outside the city, and the news of shooting down one plane has come so far." ”

The 10th Army of the Russian Army originally had most of its main forces guarding the border between Kazakhstan and Xinjiang, but the Fourth Field Army was beaten and retreated to the western region of Kazakhstan, and the 10th Army of the Russian Army had lost two-thirds of its troops, including its troops in the western region of Kazakhstan, and finally the remaining 100,000 troops of the 10th Army were concentrated in the city of Cherkar.

The commander of the 10th Army of the Russian Army, Filippovich, said with emotion: "General Maximi, this is our first record, in the previous half a month of fighting, we have never shot down a single plane, this is the first time we have shot down a plane of the Dingbei Army!" ”

The expression on the face of the German army commander Maximi did not show any relaxation, he did not think that shooting down a plane of the Dingbei Army was something to be proud of, he continued to say to Filippovich: "We must resist the attack of the Dingbei Army outside the city, hold out until night, and then counterattack, now the situation in the positions outside the city is not good, we must increase the strength outside the city." ”

It turned out that Maximi was not prepared to be passive all the time, he had already formulated a plan for a night counterattack, and after dark today, the German Army of 6 divisions would be dispatched to launch a large-scale counterattack against the Dingbei Army outside Cherkar, preparing to take advantage of the fact that the Dingbei Army planes could not take off at night to defeat the Dingbei Army outside the city in one fell swoop.

However, in this way, Maximi had only 3 German infantry divisions at his disposal for defense, and if he wanted to hold the position outside Cherkar during the day, he had to rely on the troops of the 10th Group of the Russian Army.

At present, the remnants of the 10th Group of the Russian Army have been reorganized by Commander Filippovich into 2 corps and 6 divisions, restoring some combat effectiveness.

Filippovich, commander of the 10th Army of the Russian Army, nodded approvingly and said in agreement that Maximi wanted to increase the number of troops outside the city: "Now there are 3 divisions of mine and 2 divisions of General Maximi outside the city, and General Maximi still has to keep his troops for counterattacks at night, so let's do it, I will immediately send 1 division of troops outside the city, and I must drag the Dingbei Army in the position outside the city until dark." ”

German Army Commander Maximi nodded approvingly, the combat effectiveness of the Russian Army is simply too weak in Maximi's opinion, if Maximi is allowed to command the German Army to engage the Russian Army, he is sure that with 100,000 German Army, he can defeat a 300,000 Russian Army group.

But now everyone is a comrade-in-arms of the Eight-Nation Alliance, and Filippovich's attitude makes Maximi very satisfied.

The Fourth Field Army of the Dingbei Army attacked the positions built by the Russian Army and the German Army outside the city of Cherkar, and met with stubborn resistance from the Russian Army and the German Army, especially the German Army, which deserved to be the army that competed with the French Army for the first place in the European Army.

The officers and men of the Russian Army, led by the officers and men of the German Army, also doubled their combat effectiveness, much to the surprise of Hu Desheng, the commander of the Fourth Field Army, who attacked for one day and lost several thousand men, but as a result, even the positions outside the city of Cherkar were not completely captured.

However, in addition to the 6 infantry divisions in the hands of the German Army commander Maximi as a night counterattack, the other 3 German infantry divisions and the 6 divisions of the 10th Army of the Russian Army were all sent to positions outside Cherkar City, which were able to block the offensive of the Dingbei Army, and more than half of the positions outside Cherkar City were also occupied by the Dingbei Army.

By the evening of 13 June, the Yellow Bird fighters and Blue Eagle bombers of the Northeast Air Force had already returned to the temporary airfield built near Lake Balkhash, and the offensive of the Fourth Field Army of the Dingbei Army had also stopped.

Today is not a good day for the Northeast Air Force, because the German Army brought a large number of anti-aircraft guns scattered on the positions outside Cherkar, and the ants bit the elephants to death, and today 1 Yellow Sparrow fighter and 2 Blue Eagle bombers were destroyed by the anti-aircraft artillery, and it was also the first time that the fighter unit of the Northeast Air Force lost fighters since they entered the war.

Hu Desheng, commander of the Fourth Field Army, frowned and said to a lieutenant colonel staff officer: "I didn't expect the Russian Army and the German Army outside Cherkar to be so tenacious, with such a big loss, and there was no sign of collapse at all. ”

The lieutenant colonel staff officer of the Fourth Field Army said: "Army commander, in today's attack, the 41st and 42nd divisions have lost more than 4,000 casualties, and more than 3,000 people have been wounded, of which nearly 1,000 are seriously wounded, and the losses of the Russian army and the German army outside Cherkar should be several times or even more than ten times that of our army, but the intelligence of the military intelligence agency shows that the Russian army in Cherkar City has 100,000, and the German army is even more, with 180,000 troops in 9 infantry divisions. The strength of our Fourth Field Army is obviously somewhat insufficient. ”

Hu Desheng nodded and said: "The principal has already sent me a telegram, there are 10 new divisions are rushing to our Kazakhstan, and these 10 new divisions will also be under our command, so that we will have 200,000 reinforcements, and we will not suffer in terms of troops." Pass my order to let 5 of the 10 new divisions come to the city of Cherkar, and 3 new divisions will join up with the 43rd division and take Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan. The other two new divisions began to purge the remnants of the Russian forces that we had occupied in Kazakhstan, and we wanted to drive the Russians out of Central Asia cleanly and completely. ”

The lieutenant colonel staff officer of the Fourth Field Army nodded and said, "Yes, army commander, I'll go and send a report right away!" ”

Hu Desheng continued: "In addition, let the troops be careful tonight, the Russian Army and the German Army are likely to launch a counterattack at night." ”

Although Hu Desheng took precautions against the night attacks of the Russian Army and the German Army, he did not expect that the German Army did not invest most of its forces in the fierce battles during the day, and completely relied on the three German infantry divisions and the 10th Army of the Russian Army to withstand the attack of the Dingbei Army during the day at a very heavy price, and the German Army left six complete infantry divisions in the counterattack at night.

In a day's offensive and defensive battle, the losses of 3 German infantry divisions and the 10th Army of the Russian Army were really very large, and the commander of the German Army, Maximi, and the commander of the 10th Army of the Russian Army, Filippovich, held the list of battle damages, and their faces were very unsightly.

There were 60,000 German infantry divisions in 3 divisions, and by the time the Dingbei Army stopped attacking in the evening, there were less than 35,000 German officers and soldiers left, and some were wounded, with nearly half of the losses. The losses of the 6 divisions of the 10th Army of the Russian Army were even worse, and by the evening of 100,000 people, there were less than 50,000 left, and not even half of them remained.

And most of the losses of the Russian Army and the German Army were caused by aircraft and artillery, who let the Russian Army and the German Army lose almost most of the artillery at the beginning of the battle, so that the artillery of the Dingbei Army can unscrupulously carry out non-stop artillery bombardment of the positions of the Russian Army and the German Army, not to mention the aircraft.

Maximi, the commander of the German Army, put the list of battle losses on the table, grimaced his face, and gritted his teeth and said: "Next, it's time for the Dingbei Army to taste our strength!" ”R1152