Early in the morning of March 11, Lin Daxin had just gotten up and received the good news that more than 220,000 remnants of the Russian Second Siberian Front, under the leadership of Commander Oleg Lev, had surrendered unconditionally to his Svobodner Northern Army.

Lin Daxin laughed excitedly and said to He Yue beside him: "This is equivalent to the Russian Siberian Second Front almost being wiped out in Svobod, I'll see what Tsar Nicholas II of Russia has to brag about!" ”

In the last bloody battle of the city, although the Dingbei army finally withdrew from the city, it eliminated more than 200,000 Russian troops and suffered more than 30,000 casualties, but in the mouth of Tsar Nicholas II, it became a great victory for the Russian army, annihilating 300,000 Dingbei troops, and the cowhide blew through the sky.

Lin Daxin really wants to see what Tsar Nicholas II can say this time, can he continue to boast that Russia has won a great victory in Svobodne.

He Yue yawned sleepily, and let Lin Daxin toss for half a night yesterday, who made Lin Daxin's other 3 wives pregnant, and now the energetic Lin Daxin can only toss He Yue himself.

He Yue saw Lin Daxin's excited appearance, yawned and said: "That Tsar Nicholas II lost more than 700,000 people at once this time, but I have to feel distressed!" Our forces in the northeast have suddenly become much more abundant. ”

Lin Daxin smiled and asked He Yue: "Wife, the only threat to us now is the Siberian First Front led by the Russian War Minister Kuropatkin, according to the intelligence of the Military Intelligence Bureau, after Kuropatkin transferred more than one million troops to the other 2 fronts in the Siberian Theater, the Russian European troops quickly replenished him with a lot of people, and now the strength of the Russian Siberian First Front has reached 650,000, and the Russian European troop transport trains to Irkutsk are still coming. Wife, do you have any good plans to help your husband eat the First Siberian Front, then the victory of this war will be completely ours! ”

The plan to encircle and annihilate the Second Siberian Front Army of Russia was conceived by He Yue, and Lin Daxin hoped that his wife, who had come up with a modern time and space by chance, would come up with a flash of inspiration or something, and come up with a clever plan to directly destroy the First Front Army of Siberia.

He Yue shook his head when he heard this and said: "I have studied the situation in Outer Mongolia for a long time, and I think it is best to implement it according to your husband's strategy, we have gathered heavily in Darkhan City, and we have also used a hill outside the city to build dozens of mountain fortifications, although because of the limitations of the terrain, it is not as conducive to defense as the mountain fortifications outside the inner city of Svobod, but it is still not something that the Russian army can capture lightly, and perfect overall fortifications have also been built in the city, and even tunnels have been built. We can consume a large number of Russian forces in the city of Darkhan, and then dispatch the armored division in Manchuria, directly detour back to the back of the First Siberian Front, give full play to the surprise advantage of the armored division, and defeat the Russian army attacking the city of Darkhan in one fell swoop. ”

Lin Daxin nodded, this plan was conceived by Lin Daxin himself, since even He Yue agreed, it strengthened Lin Daxin's determination to implement this plan, and now that the more than 700,000 Russian troops of the Second Siberian Front Army have been eliminated, Lin Daxin can draw out a lot of troops and devote them to the battle of Darkhan City in Outer Mongolia.

Lin Daxin then sent a telegram to Yu Lichen, the commander of the 14th Division, ordering Yu Lichen to establish a prisoner of war camp in the inner city of Svobod, to imprison all the surrendered Russian troops in the prisoner of war camp, and to order the 38th and 39th Divisions that did not participate in the battle to withdraw to Hailanpao, and then let these two divisions go to Manchuria in the Mongolian region.

In addition, the 31st, 32nd, 33rd and 17th Divisions damaged in the battle, Lin Daxin asked their four divisions to rest and recuperate in the inner city of Svobod for a period of time, and at the same time was responsible for guarding the Russian prisoners of war in the prisoner of war camp, and was ready to go to the front line in other directions at any time.

The 14th and 18th Divisions, which did not suffer losses, Lin Daxin ordered them to advance in the direction of Tegda City after the weather warmed up, capture Tegda City, and then attack along the railway line to capture the Russian army stations along the way, but do not approach the heavily guarded Chita City of the Russian army, and stop at the area east of the Yablonov Mountains, so that these two divisions can cross the Yablonov Mountains at any time, enter the area east of Lake Baikal and west of the Yablonov Mountains, and threaten the Russian cities of Ulan-Ude and Chita. It can also echo several divisions of the Dingbei Army east of the Lena River.

The Battle of Svobodne ended on March 11, but the Russians only got the terrible news in early April, and it was only from the celebrations of the great victory in the Battle of Svobodne in the four northeastern provinces that they learned that the Russian Siberian Second Front, on which they had high hopes, had been surrounded and annihilated 720,000 people in the inner city of Svobod, and even the commander Oleg Lev had entered the prisoner of war camp of Lin Daxin.

This celebration was held at the behest of Lin Daxin, first, to strengthen the determination of the people of the four northeastern provinces to defeat Russia, and second, to warn those countries with ulterior motives that the strong combat strength of the Dingbei Army was there, and they should no longer get involved in this war between themselves and the Russians.

The commander of the Siberian Theater of Operations in the city of Hacktu, Kuropatkin, whose face was almost as cold as a layer of frost, asked Antonovich, the commander of the 3rd Army, the main Russian army, who had just arrived in the Siberian theater: "Has the news been confirmed?" ”

Antonovich smiled bitterly, nodded and said: "Your Excellency Commander, after many confirmations, our Russian Second Siberian Front is now only left with 2 corps defending the supply line from Tegda City to Chita City. His Excellency Oleg Lev, Deputy Commander of the Theater of Operations, fell into the continuous trickery of the Dingbei Army, first surrounded in the middle of the inner city of Svobod and a group of mountain fortifications outside the city, and after losing most of the troops, the troops who broke through to the north of the mountain fortifications group, and the supply was cut off by the troops that suddenly appeared in the Dingbei Army, and finally the deputy commander took the remaining more than 200,000 troops who had run out of ammunition and food, and chose to hand over weapons to the Dingbei Army. ”

Kuropatkin did not speak for a long time, this bad news is really too big a blow to Russia, although the Second Siberian Front Army still has the strength of 2 armies left, but this Russian heavy group has almost been wiped out as a formation, and the loss of 720,000 troops is now a few million army Russia, which can not afford it.

And what worries Kuropatkin even more is that the defeat of the Second Siberian Front is not just the defeat of one of its fronts, you must know that it went to the Far East to rescue Vladivostok, and now the huge army of 780,000 people, there are only 2 armies of 60,000 left, and they are not able to rescue Vladivostok at all, so it is very important to Russia, and it is also the only Vladivostok in the Far East that Russia is still in its hands, what should I do?

The Governor of the Far East, Alekseev, sent several telegrams to himself and His Majesty the Tsar, informing Sù that Vladivostok would only have enough food until June, and that if the siege of Vladivostok could not be relieved in June, then the 500,000 soldiers and civilians in Vladivostok would have to go hungry.

If people can't even eat, how can they guard Vladivostok, then the fate of Vladivostok can be imagined, and once that happens, even some of the remaining essence of the Russian Navy in the port of Vladivostok will also fall into the hands of the Northeast Navy under Lin Daxin, which will undoubtedly be worse for the Russian Navy, which is already at a low ebb.

Kuropatkin waited for a long time before he spoke: "Then send a telegram to His Majesty the Tsar, and report this bad news to His Majesty the Tsar!" ”

Antonovich said: "Probably His Majesty the Tsar already knows that the countries of the world have already received the news of the Battle of Svobodny from the city of Shenyang, and it should have reached St. Petersburg!" ”

Kuropatkin smiled bitterly and said: "His Majesty the Tsar has already called the countries of the world to ask if the news that the main force of the Second Siberian Front has been annihilated, whether it is true, now we can only tell His Majesty the Tsar, the news that is extremely bad for Russia is true, alas-"

Antonovich shook his head helplessly, the 3rd Army, the main Russian army he led, had just arrived in the Siberian theater of operations, and received this bad news, which was really not a good sign.

Immediately, Kuropatkin rubbed his hands and said: "Since the situation of the Second Siberian Front is already like this, we have no time to be upset, now what we need is how to deal with the next battle!" ”

Antonovich nodded and said, "Your Excellency Commander is very right, Commander, what are the plans under our theater of operations?" ”

On the table in front of Kuropatkin was a military map spread out, Kuropatkin pointed to the map and said: "Now our Third Front Army in the Siberian Theater is nearly 310,000 people, under the leadership of Ivanov, the commander of the 6th Army, and the troops are stationed in several important towns west of the Lena River, preparing to attack the Dingbei Army east of the Lena River, and the First Front Army led by me personally is currently not counting your 3rd Army, but it has also reached 650,000 troops, and the First Front Army is about to launch an attack on the city of Darkhan, where the Dingbei Army is heavily concentrated. However, there are only 2 corps left in the Second Front, so that in the area from the city of Tegda all the way to Lake Baikal, our forces are somewhat empty, and it is very likely that the Dingbei Army will attack all the way west along our railway line, posing a threat to our Chita City and Ulan-Ude City, so I am ready to send your 3rd Army to the area east of Lake Baikal, reorganize the Second Siberian Front, hold this area, and prepare for our Siberian theater of operations, the second expedition to the Far East! ”

The reason why it is said that the 3rd Army is the main army of Russia is because Russia sees that the allocation of army-level units in other European countries is very large, and the number of division-level units is also more than that of Russian divisions, which is formulated to meet the requirements of the current large corps operations, so the Russian army has also begun to reorganize its own corps, and at present, because of the war, only the 1st Army, the 2nd Army and the 3rd Army in Russia have completed the new establishment, and the new establishment has made the three armies in front of Russia huge. R1152