On the evening of May 24, 1902, at the headquarters of the Seventh Field Army of the Dingbei Army on the east bank of the Lena River, a young colonel staff officer reported to Zhang Zuolin, the commander of the Seventh Field Army: "Commander, at present, our army has landed on the 711 Brigade and 712 Brigade of the 71st Division on the west bank of the Lena River, as well as the 721st Brigade of the 72nd Division, which has cleared all the positions of the Russian army outside Yakutsk, and even Yakutsk has captured about one-third of the urban area. ”

Since the establishment of the General Staff Headquarters of the Dingbei Army, the General Staff Headquarters has trained a large number of staff officers and sent them to all levels of the army above the Dingbei Barracks to assist the military commanders in formulating peacetime training plans and wartime operational plans, and in wartime, with the consent of the military commanders, they convey operational orders to the troops below and are responsible for sorting out combat information.

The numbering of the units of the Northern Army is based on, for example, the 1st Division of the First Field Army, numbered as the 11th Division, and its First Brigade numbered as the 111th Brigade, and so on.

Zhang Zuolin's military rank at this time was already lieutenant general, the king of the Northeast in history, who had made great achievements under Lin Daxin over the years, and was loyal to Lin Daxin.

After listening to the staff officer's words, Zhang Zuolin nodded and said: "The sky is about to get dark, you can order the troops to suspend the attack, now that we have an absolute advantage, we can fight steadily." ”

The colonel's staff officer nodded and said: "The air force cannot provide air support after dark, and if we continue to carry out night attacks, the losses will indeed increase, but tomorrow there will be some Russian troops near the city of Yakutsk." Probably, rush to the city of Yakutsk for support. ”

Zhang Zuolin said indifferently: "The more troops the Russian army comes to Yakutsk City, the better, which will be for our future advance." Reduce a lot of stress. Sue the troops in the city of Yakutsk to defend themselves tonight. Prevent the Russian army from launching a counterattack, wait until tomorrow morning, our fighters will be able to take off, and then continue to launch an offensive against the Russian army in the city of Yakutsk. ”

"Yes, army commander, I will immediately convey your order to the troops in the city of Yakutsk!"

In the headquarters of the 8th Army of the Russian Army in the city of Yakutsk, the atmosphere was very depressing, and the commander of the 8th Army, Haridonovich, said with a wry smile to the chief of the General Staff of the 8th Army next to him, Potapuska: "The Dingbei Army does not know where such an advanced aircraft came out, not only can shoot at the ground with machine guns. It can also drop bombs, and the speed is very fast, our anti-aircraft guns have no way to aim, these planes should not be gliders, and I don't know how the Dingbei Army built them. The tide of battle is now very unfavorable for us, and if it weren't for the fact that it was dark, perhaps the enemy would have fought all the way to our headquarters. ”

Chief of the General Staff Potapshka said with a very bad face: "The situation is indeed very bad, the 37th Army was originally guarding the fortifications on the west bank of the Lena River outside Yakutsk. It was basically disabled, and the 38th Army was not good, and now it has lost nearly half of its troops, if it were not for the fact that we had transferred 2 divisions of the nearby 39th Army into the city of Yakutsk. If we don't get it right during the day, we will have to be driven out of the city of Yakutsk by the Dingbei army. And our artillery suffered heavy losses, most of which were blown up by the planes of the Dingbei Army. Tomorrow the battle will be even harder. ”

Commander Harry Donovich asked: "What happened to the other support units that were mobilized?" Has there been a response to the request for help from the War Department? ”

Chief of the General Staff Potapushka said helplessly: "The Dingbei Army has launched an offensive along the entire border, and the War Department says that there are no troops to support our 8th Army in the short term. Let's hold on to the city of Yakutsk. In addition, tomorrow 1 division of the 40th Army will be able to rush to the city of Yakutsk, as for the rest of the troops. They were also attacked by the Dingbei Army across the river, especially the 41st Army, and also sent a telegram asking for help from the headquarters of our group army. ”

Commander Haridonovich sighed after hearing this and said: "Today, during the day, the Dingbei Army has occupied a lot of blocks in Yakutsk City with the cooperation of those planes, are we taking advantage of the darkness to launch a counterattack?" It is better to drive the Dingbei army out of the city of Yakutsk, and at the worst to recover some places, to lay the foundation for tomorrow's defense. ”

Chief of the General Staff Potapshka hesitated for a moment and said: "It's okay, there is no interference from those planes of the Dingbei Army at night, and we can mobilize a part of the troops to counterattack the blocks occupied by the Dingbei Army in Yakutsk City, but it is a little difficult to drive all the Dingbei Army out of Yakutsk City, after all, the combat strength of the Dingbei Army is there, and I hope to recover some blocks." ”

It's a pity that the calculations of the two bigwigs of the 8th Army of the Russian Army did not start, and the chief of the General Staff Potapshka organized nearly 20,000 Russian troops to launch a counterattack from 5 or 6 points that night, but was attacked by the well-prepared Dingbei Army, and the troops of the Russian army launched counterattacks everywhere lost no less than 7,000 people, and the remaining remnants of the soldiers returned to the Russian army's own control area, stealing chickens and rice, which made the faces of the two bigwigs of the 8th Army of the Russian Army even more ugly.

The faces of those high-ranking generals of the Russian Army on the entire Russian border line are not much better than the two bigwigs of the 8th Army, and even many high-ranking generals have no chance to make their faces look good, because they have already been killed in the sudden attack launched by the Dingbei Army today.

On this day on May 24, from the Uzberi Pass in Xinjiang to the area near the confluence of the Arctic Ocean and the Lena River in Saisi Province, the first, second, third, fourth, seventh, and eighth field armies of the Dingbei Army, a total of six field armies, suddenly launched a surprise attack on the Russian army on the border line of Russia.

In addition to the Yellow Bird fighters and Blue Eagle bombers that came out of the Northeast Air Force, the offensive of the entire Dingbei Army was almost described as overwhelming, and the progress of the Dingbei Army here in Yakutsk was slow, and the troops of the Dingbei Army in some places completely crushed the Russian army on the opposite border in one day, and began to advance into the Russian depth, and the fastest had already entered the territory of Russia for more than ten kilometers.

And Russia and even the other countries of the Eight-Nation Alliance were shocked by the powerful attack power displayed by the Dingbei Army, especially for the newly emerged aircraft, which felt unreal, how could Lin Daxin have such an advanced aircraft that could be used in war!

Some countries in Europe have already appeared airplanes, but those planes are gliders without power, and they can't fly far, let alone be used in war, but now Lin Daxin's hands suddenly appeared in the hands of these planes that are equipped with power at a glance, or called fighter planes, and all of a sudden the troops on the Russian border line, the ecstasy that bombed them, can definitely make these Russian officers and soldiers who have experienced it personally remember for a lifetime, provided that these Russian officers and soldiers can survive.

Russia was originally going to send 1.8 million troops to join the attack on Lin Daxin's northern provinces, that is, the battle on the northern front, including 900,000 of the 1.2 million Russian troops on the border line, and 900,000 army troops ready to be drawn from Europe and the Siberian region of Russia, including 600,000 in Europe and 300,000 in Siberia. And it rushed over like chicken blood, almost the entire defense line of the Russian border, and the impact was scattered.

Russia immediately transferred 300,000 troops from the Siberian region, which is relatively close to the border, to the border line, hoping to resist the offensive of the Dingbei Army, and let the 600,000 troops in the Russian European region that had been prepared immediately cross the Ural Mountains, first enter several important towns and several strategic points in Siberia, Russia, and guard these places together with the 200,000 Russian troops who remained in the important towns and strategic places in Siberia. If you don't get it right, the defense line of the entire border line will collapse.

The Eight-Nation Alliance originally discussed that Germany and France would each send 150,000 armies to join the battle on the Northern Front, Austria-Hungary would also send 80,000 Army, Italy would send 60,000 Army, and Britain would send 20,000 Army, and they would also join the battle on the Northern Front. This is a matter for all of us in the G-8 Alliance, and we Russians can't carry it alone!

Not to mention that the other European countries of the Eight-Nation Alliance are quite particular, as soon as they saw that the Dingbei Army suddenly launched a large-scale attack on Russia, they all promised to transport troops to Russia immediately, and they must not let the Dingbei Army under the command of Lin Daxin run rampant on the soil of our Eight-Nation Alliance countries.

However, to the surprise of the Eight-Nation Alliance, the offensive of the Dingbei Army was too fierce, and by the day after the Dingbei Army launched its attack, that is, on May 25, the sun went down, and the defense line of the entire Russian border line could almost be declared lost.

For example, the troops of the 8th Army of the Russian Army in Yakutsk City, although they desperately defended and even gathered forces to launch counterattacks continuously, but in the face of the double attack of the sky and the ground, by 4 pm on the 25th, most of the Yakutsk City still fell into the hands of the Dingbei Army.

The two bigwig commanders of the 8th Army, Haridonovich, and Potapuska, the chief of the General Staff, saw that the war was no longer possible, so they took the initiative to withdraw from the city of Yakutsk with the remnants of more than 30,000 Russian troops, and the wolf bèi fled to the west.

However, the more than 30,000 remnants of the Russian army that escaped from the city of Yakutsk did not escape easily, and the tank regiment of the Seventh Field Army of the Dingbei Army had already transported the Lena River by transport ship, and the 24 heavy Panther tanks and 48 light Black Wolf tanks of the tank regiment launched a massacre pursuit in the wilderness of Siberia. (To be continued......)

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