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In Astana, inside the headquarters of the war against Russia, Marshal Cai Yun was looking at the large map of the Siberian Plain hanging on the wall! The battle reports of the various group armies below have been summarized to him, and Marshal Cai Yun is not very satisfied with today's battle! In the six Russian-held cities, today's losses were as high as nearly 100,000 people, and the Chinese army alone lost more than 20,000 people. This is definitely the day with the most losses of the ** team since the start of the war!

Although he was a little dissatisfied, Marshal Cai Yun was not angry! He already knew that this battle was a fast and hard one, and the Russians had been preparing painstakingly on the Siberian Plain for more than ten years, and although the troops they deployed on the Siberian Plain were not as good as the squadrons, they were all Jīng Rui troops in the Russian army. With these almost fortress-like cities as support, it seems that it is not easy for the squadron to annihilate these Russian troops in a short period of time. However, today's battle has basically completed the pre-war pre-war goal, the Trans-Siberian Railway has been cut off, and the connection between the Siberian Plain and the Eastern European Plain has also been cut off by the squadron, more than 1.7 million Russian troops have been surrounded on the Siberian Plain, what the squadron has to do now is to slowly eat all these Russian troops!

"Marshal, a telegram from His Majesty!" Marshal Cai Yun's adjutant walked in and whispered to Marshal Cai Yun! Today, the atmosphere in the entire command headquarters is solemn after all, and everyone knows that the battle on the front line is not going well, so everyone is cautious.

"Hmm!" Marshal Cai Yun nodded, took the telegram from the adjutant and read it! The content of the telegram was very short, and Marshal Cai Yun read it in more than ten seconds! What moved Marshal Cai Yun was. There was not the slightest hint of reproach in the telegram. Even today, the squadron suffered heavy losses. But His Majesty the Emperor still believed in his command, and just told him that he asked the squadron to fight steadily in the next battle, not too eagerly, and he didn't want to get the kind of victory that he had to fill with his life! After reading the telegram, Marshal Cai Yun was in a much better mood, and his original worries disappeared. With the support of His Majesty the Emperor, he is even more confident in the next war!

"Send a telegram to the generals at the front. The Russians are now surrounded by us, the 11th Army has enough ability to resist the attack of the Russian army, what we have to do now is to eat the Russians little by little, and we must not be rash! Order all units to fight steadily in the next battle, give full play to our superiority in weapons, and minimize losses as much as possible! Marshal Cai Yun ordered! In this operation, all departments were equipped with more than 200,000 mercenaries, and these mercenaries were very good candidates for cannon fodder. In street fighting, it is completely possible to let these mercenaries stand in the way. To reduce the losses of the Chinese as much as possible!

"Yes, Marshal!" The adjutant nodded. Almost all the squadrons do not doubt that China will win the war this time, but everyone just doesn't know how much it will cost to pay for this victory! Although, the best fate of a soldier is the horse leather shroud, but when the country is getting stronger and stronger, no one wants to die, everyone wants to continue to live.

"Wait, let the cavalry of the five tribes of Central Asia go out and destroy the railway line west of Chelyabinsk! Now the main forces of the Russians have been surrounded by us in several cities, and the Russians only have a few hundred thousand reserves in Yekaterinburg! Let the cavalry units of the five tribes of Central Asia give full play to their combat power and destroy the railway lines and supply bases of the Russians! Sue them, this time, the squadron will not give them any restrictions, they can do whatever they want! Marshal Cai Yun's eyes flashed with a hint of murderous intent, he knew very well that after he gave such an order, what would happen to the cavalry troops of the five Central Asian tribes. However, he didn't care at all, since the Russians wanted to use these almost fortressed cities to drain the blood of the squadron, then he wanted to make the whole of Russia bleed, whether it was soldiers or civilians, as long as it was Russians, until the end of the war, they were enemies!

"Yes, Marshal!" The adjutant replied, and immediately went to the telegraph room to give the order!

A total of 15 brigades of cavalry units of the five Central Asian tribes have already arrived at the front line, but they have not participated in the attack! When Marshal Cai Yun's order was issued, these nomads were extremely excited, and they crossed the border overnight, entered the plains of the Siberian Plain, and began to burn, kill, and loot, doing all kinds of evil! Looting and slaughter, as if it has always been in the blood of nomads, as long as it is stimulated, these nomadic cavalry will become the most terrifying demons, and the Russians will experience a catastrophe!

The cavalry of the five tribes in Central Asia is very poorly equipped, with only a small number of machine guns and light artillery, and has no ability to siege cities! But the cavalry, which comes and goes like the wind, is definitely a slightly weaker logistical supply line for the enemy and a sharp weapon for destroying the rear. When the Russian army concentrates almost all of its forces in a few cities, the vast Siberian plain will become a paradise for these nomads! And those Russians who fled from the city to the countryside will be completely destroyed, and after that, the Russians will find that the cities they hold on to will be reduced to islands, and they will lose the possibility of rescue from each other, although they have sufficient food and ammunition in these cities, but in the face of the strong squadron, their final result will be gradually eliminated by the squadron one by one. It's like a rope around the neck of the Russians, getting tighter and tighter, and finally strangling these Russians to death!

On the morning of May 1, when the sun had just risen from the sky, the squadron was ready for battle! Yesterday's attack was thwarted, and almost everyone was holding their breath in their hearts, and they would be very ashamed if they did not eliminate these Russians! You must know that in the war more than ten years ago, the squadron was able to defeat the Russian army lightly, and now the squadron has more advanced weapons, but it can't gnaw at these Russian troops, how is this possible?

Starting at 7 o'clock in the morning, the 6 group armies of the Chinese Army began to shell the cities held by the Russian army! Thousands of heavy artillery shells are constantly smashing shells into the cities defended by the Russians, as if the shells don't want money! Such a fierce shelling lasted for a full hour before it ended, until the mountains of shells piled up on the artillery positions had been finished! However, now the railways from China to China and the Siberian Plain are all military trains transporting war materials, which is completely enough to support the consumption of the front line, not to mention that before the start of the battle, the squadron has stored a large amount of war materials in Central Asia and Siberia!

The H5 'Hongyan' bombers dropped bombs at an altitude of more than 2,000 meters, turning the Russian cities into a sea of fire, and the houses that were lucky not to be destroyed in yesterday's battle were no longer spared in this bombing. The FH5 "Falcon" dive bomber is looking for more valuable targets, the "Falcon" dive bomber only carries a 500 kg aerial bomb, if the bomb is thrown indiscriminately, it seems a bit wasteful, only the bomb is accurately thrown on those fortresses built by the Russians, this is worthwhile! As a result, one after another 'Falcon' dive bombers began to dive bomb at those suspicious-looking targets with a terrifying whistling sound. Of course, some of these targets were indeed fortifications built by the Russians, but some were nothing more than ruins! While the H5 'Hongyan' bomber and the FH5 'Falcon' dive bomber were bombing, the F5 'Haidongqing' fighter was hovering in the air, and the pilots were watching the city below, and once the Russian anti-aircraft fire began to attack, they would be responsible for destroying these anti-aircraft fire! In yesterday's battle, the Chinese Air Force also lost more than a dozen aircraft. The vast majority were shot down by the Russian high shè machine guns!

At 8:30 a.m., the air raid was over, and the Air Force fighters flew back to the airfield in the rear to overhaul and replenish fuel and ammunition, after which they would continue their mission to provide fire support to the attacking army!

After the Air Force planes flew away, the Army launched another attack. Although they suffered heavy losses in yesterday's battle, basically every army had a foothold in these Russian cities, and attacking from these bases would minimize the losses!

The 11th Army's attack on Orsk was still the most important battle of the campaign, and yesterday's losses did not make the 11th Army panic, but made them face the enemy on the opposite side! Since the Russians are stronger than they imagined, then everyone will do their best to fight this battle! They all believe that victory will be their own!

In the attack on May 1, the commander of the 11th Army, General Zhou Shun, sent 6 infantry divisions and 6 divisions of the Rìben mercenary army to attack Orsk from the east, south, and west, and more than 200 tanks and armored vehicles of the 11th Armored Brigade also drove into the city to cover the infantry attack! Of course, in order to reduce losses, the mercenaries are required to walk at the front of the queue, and the squadrons are distributed around the tanks and armored vehicles. As for those mercenaries, they are undoubtedly the best candidates for cannon fodder, they are ahead of the curve, and they can detect the danger earlier, so that the losses of the squadron will be further reduced! (To be continued......)