On the night of August 22, the Russian army outside Omsk still attacked the defense line of the Chinese Imperial Army all night, but the size of the Russian offensive force, compared with the previous few days, has shrunk a lot, it turns out that every time the Russian army attacks is at least the scale of the division, the number of troops put into the attack at one time reached about 10,000 people, and on the night of the 22nd, the troops of the Russian army each time they launched an attack became a regimental scale, only about 1,000 people.

This is the result of joint discussions among the commanders of those group armies of the Russian army, which can greatly reduce the losses of the Russian army outside the city, after all, under the bombardment and artillery bombardment of the Chinese Imperial fighters and artillery, attacking the defense line of the Chinese Empire is almost the same as sending them to death, but the commanders of these group armies know that they are letting their subordinates go to death, and they have to give orders to continue the attack, and they must follow the orders of Tsar Nicholas II to rescue the city of Omsk.

The wishful thinking of several commanders of the Russian army group outside Omsk was that they had been ordering their troops to attack the defense line of the Chinese Imperial Army outside the city, so as to give Tsar Nicholas II and the War Department in St. Petersburg an explanation, and when the two armies of the 12th Army in Omsk could no longer hold on to it and threw away the city, these rescue troops outside the city would be smeared with oil on the soles of their feet.

How can things in the world be so satisfactory, the commanders of several group armies of the Russian army do not know that the two armies of the 12th Army that they have been trying to rescue have actually been completely annihilated by the Ninth Field Army of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire, and the city of Omsk has long fallen into the hands of the Chinese Imperial Army. It's for them to see.

Today, the Third Guards of the Imperial Chinese Army has been sent from Novosibirsk hundreds of kilometers away. rushed to the city of Omsk, and the curtain came down on this great drama staged by the Chinese Imperial Army. And another good show against these Russian troops outside the city has started again.

Early in the morning of August 23, 1908, nearly 1,000 Russian troops of one regiment had just launched an attack in less than 5 minutes, and lost more than 700 people under the blows of aircraft artillery and machine guns, and the remaining less than 300 Russian troops fled back to the Russian positions they set out from.

The Russian army established a position about a kilometer away from the defense line outside the city of the Chinese Imperial Army, which was intended as the starting point for the attack troops, and the troops of the Russian army outside the city all started from here, so that about 100 meters in front of the position of the Chinese Imperial Army went all the way to the front of the Russian army's position about 1,000 meters. The corpses of Russian officers and soldiers are densely covered with them, and several layers of corpses have been stacked in some places, and some Russian soldiers who died a few days ago have even emitted the smell of corpses.

However, there are also many corpses on the Russian positions, and many places on the Russian positions are dilapidated, which are caused by the fighters and artillery of the Chinese Empire.

In the temporary command of the Russian army to the west outside the city of Omsk, the commanders of the four Russian army groups, although they had known for a long time that such a regiment-sized attack could not achieve much effect. But when the troops of 1 regiment were wiped out by nearly seventy percent in such a short period of time, I still felt uncomfortable in my heart.

The commander of the 14th Army, Milonushka, sighed and said: "An offensive of this scale. In fact, it is equivalent to letting the soldiers commit suicide, which is really unacceptable. ”

The commander of the 15th Army, Rostislav, said helplessly: "There is no way either, we must maintain the offensive against the defense line of the Chinese Empire." Otherwise, the remaining troops in Omsk would probably have sent a telegram to St. Petersburg. ”

The commander of the 9th Army, Sarrochka, and the commander of the 10th Army, Yaroslavovich, smiled bitterly at each other. No one wanted to let their men die in vain, but they did not continue to attack outside Omsk. They could not give an account to Tsar Nicholas II.

At this moment, the commander of the 14th Army, who was looking at the defense line of the Chinese Empire with a new telescope in his hand, suddenly shouted: "Look, there is a situation!" The tanks of the Chinese Empire came out of their positions! ”

As soon as Milonushka's words fell, hundreds of warplanes suddenly appeared in the sky and pounced in the direction of the Russian position, and the artillery units of the Chinese Empire also began to bombard the direction of the Russian position with large-caliber artillery.

The attack of the Chinese Imperial fighters and artillery on the Russian army was not limited to the positions of the Russian army, when the Russian positions were bombed by aerial bombs and shells, the Chinese Imperial fighters and artillery began to attack the rear of the Russian positions.

Behind the Russian position, there is a camp of hundreds of thousands of Russian troops stretching for more than ten kilometers, and in the past, the fighters and artillery of the Chinese Empire also attacked the Russian camp from time to time, which also brought a lot of casualties to the Russian army, but it has never been as strong as this time.

With the bombardment and artillery bombardment of fighter planes and artillery, the armored division of the Third Guards Army from the north of the Russian camp, and the tank brigade of the Ninth Field Army from the west of the Russian camp, launched an attack on hundreds of thousands of Russian troops outside Omsk at the same time......

Behind the steel behemoth, there were countless officers and soldiers of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire, shouting to kill the earth-shattering and following the armored troops, killing the Russian army outside the city of Omsk......

Although the strength of the Russian army outside Omsk has hundreds of thousands, even more than double the Chinese Imperial army that attacked them, but under the blow of aircraft, artillery and tanks, it suddenly collapsed, that is, some Russian officers and soldiers can organize to block the attack, and they are also easily defeated by the Chinese Imperial army, so there is a scene of hundreds of thousands of Russian troops being embarrassed to the east, and behind them are bitten by the armored forces of the Chinese Empire, and there are constantly Russian troops who are lagging behind, being swallowed up by the armored forces of the Chinese Empire.

The pursuit battle outside Omsk lasted for a day, until it was dark, the pursuing Chinese Imperial Army stopped and began to count the results, and the hundreds of thousands of Russian troops outside Omsk, there were not many people who could escape, and many Russian troops saw that the general trend had gone, and they did not have to wait for the superiors to issue a surrender order, so they chose to surrender to the pursuing Chinese Imperial Army in pieces. Even the 4 army group commanders of the Russian army. did not escape, and all became prisoners of the Chinese Imperial Army.

When the commander of the 14th Army of the Russian Army, Milonushka, the commander of the 15th Army, Rostislav, the commander of the 9th Army, Sarrochka, and the commander of the 10th Army, Yaroslavovich. Early the next morning, these four men were taken to the temporary headquarters of several armies of the Chinese Empire in Omsk. They saw three high-ranking officers of the Chinese Empire with a smile on their faces.

These three high-ranking officers of the Chinese Empire were Ni Fan, commander of the Third Guards, Yu Lichen, commander of the Ninth Field Army, and Xie Jun, commander of the Tenth Field Army.

These three army commanders were in a very happy mood at this time, they did not expect that the attack launched outside Omsk yesterday would be so smooth, and there were about 800,000 Russian troops, but they did not organize a relatively large-scale resistance, and they were almost crushed under the attack of aircraft, artillery and tanks, and they only knew how to flee all the way to the east.

But in front of the mechanized armored forces of the Chinese Empire, it was not so easy to escape on two legs. After a night of statistics, the troops of the three armies, only captured as many as 530,000 prisoners, many Russian officers and soldiers saw that they could not escape, so they directly chose to surrender, this is also the troops of the three armies, counting the approximate number of prisoners who were taken out overnight, it is really too many Russian prisoners of war captured.

And the number of people killed by the Russian army in yesterday's offensive. According to preliminary statistics, there must be nearly 200,000, so if you calculate it, the number of Russian troops who were able to escape yesterday was only a few tens of thousands, which has already completed the operational goal issued by the Ministry of Defense. Annihilating most of the living forces of the Russian army will reduce the pressure on the attacking troops for the future offensive on the front line of the Ural Mountains.

Yu Lichen, the commander of the Ninth Field Army, looked at the four commanders of the Russian Army Group and said with a smile: "You should introduce yourself!" ”

There is an interpreter next to Yu Lichen's words. The translation was made into Russian and told to the four commanders of the Russian army group, who then introduced themselves in Russian.

Ni Fan, the commander of the 3rd Guards Army, said to the four commanders of the Russian Army Group with a smile on his face: "In the prisoner of war camp in our Novosibirsk city. And 2 of your colleagues are here, and I'm sure you'll see each other soon. ”

The commander of the 14th Army, Milonushka, hesitated and asked: "Is it the commander of the 7th Army, Klykoilev, and the commander of the 8th Army, Vickysky?" ”

Ni Fan nodded and said, "It's them!" ”

The commander of the 10th Army, Yaroslavovich, then asked: "Several generals of the Chinese Empire. I have a question, isn't your army still fighting in Omsk? How did we suddenly gather such a large force and launch an attack on the Russian army outside our city, which caught us off guard at once, and the entire army was beaten and scattered, this is too sudden! ”

After listening to the translator translating Yaroslavovich's words into Chinese, Xie Jun, the commander of the 10th Field Army, smiled and said to the translator next to him: "If you tell this old Maozi, just say that Omsk City has been taken by us a long time ago, and the firefighting in the city in the past few days has been made by us ourselves to bluff them, but I didn't expect them to be really easy to deceive." ”

After the interpreter translated Xie Jun's words into Russian, the faces of the four Russian commanders suddenly became rich, and they were genuinely a little aggrieved.

In the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, the capital of Russia, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia sat on his throne with a gloomy face, and the Minister of Finance and Finance Witte, the Minister of the Navy Makarov, and the Minister of War Gorrosky stood below, with very bad faces, they had received the bad news that the city of Omsk had been conquered and millions of reinforcements outside the city had suffered heavy losses.

War Minister Korrosky hesitated, broke the silence and said: "Your Majesty the Tsar, now that the city of Omsk has been lost, we have to prepare for the defense of the Ural Mountains. ”

Tsar Nicholas II said listlessly: "The more than 1 million troops outside Omsk have basically been wiped out, and the rout that can escape may be less than 50,000 people, so the defense of our first line of defense in the Ural Mountains is somewhat insufficient in terms of troops, can our Russian Empire still hold the Ural Mountains?" And will it be possible to prevent the armies of the Chinese Empire from entering the European regions of our Russian Empire? ”

Since the start of the war, Russia's army losses have almost reached 2.2 million, you must know that the Russian army, that is, counting the newly formed 4 group armies, has a total of 5.1 million troops, but how long has it been in the war, it has shrunk by a small half all of a sudden, leaving less than 3 million Russian army, so that Tsar Nicholas II is distressed, can not be expressed in words.

Seeing that Tsar Nicholas II was in a somewhat depressed mood, War Minister Gorrosky immediately said excitedly: "Your Majesty, the terrain of the Ural Mountains is dangerous and difficult to defend and difficult to attack, and there is only one place in the Ural Mountains where large troops can pass. And if the Chinese Empire wants to pass through here, it must capture the city of Chelyabinsk on the west side of the Ural Mountains, as long as we mobilize heavy troops to defend the city of Chelyabinsk, which has been built into a fortress by us, we will definitely be able to stop the footsteps of the Chinese Imperial Army, and at the same time create time for our Russian Empire to complete the expansion plan of the army. ”

Tsar Nicholas II nodded when he heard this, but his spirit still did not improve, the fiasco of Omsk City, for the tsar who was ready to take revenge, was a very big blow, I didn't expect that in just a few days, not only Omsk City, an important town on the railway line, was lost, but also took more than a million troops, although Russia is known as the European steamroller, but there are not a few million troops, can resist such a toss.

The army of the Chinese Empire is also too fierce, and Nicholas II is somewhat prepared for the strong combat effectiveness of the Chinese Imperial Army, but you are also too strong! It's simply not going to give anyone else a way to live, and the millions of Russian troops are easily cleaned up.

Admiral Minister Makarov said at this time: "While we are strengthening the city of Chelyabinsk, we must also ask for help from Britain and France, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese Imperial Army is completely beyond our expectations, if we rely on the Russian Empire alone, the Minister will ......."

Admiral Makarov's words were not finished, but everyone understood what he meant by what he did not finish, with the strength of the Chinese Empire after the war, if Russia continues to carry the Chinese Empire as a country, then Russia will be absolutely dangerous, and if this war is not done, the Russian Empire will be destroyed. (To be continued......)