"Alright then!" The chief of staff reluctantly answered, turned around and went to convey the order.

Two days later, the battle finally began, and in order to ensure the victory of the battle, the Siberian Army Group dispatched dozens of planes and a dozen large airships, and also used hundreds of artillery pieces to pour hundreds of tons of poison gas bombs on the Russian positions. Soon the front-line positions of the Russian army in Tyumen were enveloped in raging poisonous gases, which ruthlessly claimed the lives of one Russian soldier after another.

Although since the large-scale use of poison gas by the Chinese army in the Battle of Vladivostok, the armies of various countries have been equipped with anti-poison equipment. However, at this time, Tsarist Russia was facing internal and external troubles. As a result of the war, a large number of strong men in Russia joined the army, and the already weak industry of Tsarist Russia was dealt a heavy blow. Due to the stagnation of industry, Russia was extremely short of various strategic materials.

According to incomplete statistics, about one-third of the Russian soldiers at this time did not even have rifles, so they could only wait pitifully for their comrades to fall, and then pick up the rifles in their hands and continue to fight! This is not war at all, it is simply sending to death. Not only is there a shortage of guns and ammunition, but other strategic materials are also extremely scarce, including anti-poison equipment, the 300,000 Russian troops on the Tyumen front have less than 100,000 sets of anti-gas equipment, and there are only 100,000 gas masks. That is to say, about half of the Russian army does not have special anti-poison equipment at all, and can only use some simple methods to resist the invasion of poison gas, but the effect of these methods is really limited.

Therefore, after the Chinese army used poison gas bombs on a large scale again, it caused great damage to the Russian army, and according to post-war statistics, at least 30,000 Russian soldiers died of poison gas. Such a case of warfare is rare after the mass popularization of gas masks. The poison gas not only brought great casualties to the Russian army, but also dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the Russian army.

Subsequently, the Ural army dispatched hundreds of thousands of people to launch an offensive on all fronts, and the Siberian Army of the Chinese Empire also invested 100,000 troops to participate in the battle, under the cover of more than 100 tanks. The Chinese army quickly broke through the Russian army's defense line like a knife cutting tofu.

It took less than a day for the Chinese and Ural armies to completely defeat the Russian army and successfully occupy Tyumen. In this battle, more than 100,000 Russian troops were killed, more than 100,000 were captured, and the 300,000 Russian troops in Tyumen were almost completely wiped out.

Having conquered Tyumen, the coalition forces advanced towards Yekaterinburg. Catherine Fort was founded in 1723 and named after Empress Catherine I. Located in the eastern foothills of the Ural Mountains, on the banks of the Iset River, Yekaterinburg has always been an important transportation hub and industrial base of Tsarist Russia. Strategic position is very important.

Tsarist Russia had been on the defensive on the Siberian front, concentrating its main forces on the western front against the German and Austro-Hungarian armies. But the Russians also have a bottom line, and this bottom line is Yekaterinaburg. In view of the importance of Fort Yekaterina, the plan formulated by the General Staff of the Russian Army that the Eastern Front battlefield must ensure the safety of Fort Yekaterina no matter what, so the Russian army sent 500,000 troops to garrison here, and after the Tyumen line was broken through, although the Russian army was extremely short, there were 200,000 additional troops to reinforce Fort Yekaterina. And that's not all. For more than a year, the Russians have mobilized a lot of manpower and material resources to build a large number of permanent fortifications in Yekaterinburg, and Yekaterinburg has successfully built Yekaterinburg into an impregnable fortress, at least the Russians think that the current Yekaterinburg is impregnable.

When the combined Chinese and Ural armies advanced to the outskirts of Yekaterina. Faced with this strong fortress, it had to be stopped for a while.

Ren Chao was also afraid that he would inflict huge losses on the Chinese army when attacking Yekaterinaburg, so he ordered Hu Guangde to temporarily stop the offensive and just put on an offensive posture. Create pressure on the Russian army and contain the strength of the Russians.

In the Supreme Command of the Military Commission of the Chinese Empire, in the splendid command hall. Ren Chao sat on the throne and said with a stern face, "According to the current situation, the Siberian battlefield will enter a period of stability, and Russia has nothing to fear after the war has been fought so far. With the Siberian group and the Ural army, the Russians couldn't make any waves, and the Germans had already seen that Tsarist Russia at this time was at the end of its strong crossbow, although they could not be allowed to surrender, but they could not pose any threat, so Germany and Austria once again concentrated their main forces on the Western Front. ”

"Your Majesty! At present, the Siberian battlefield has entered a phase of stalemate. In the next period of time, our Chinese Empire will concentrate its forces to take India and Australia, as long as the two main colonies of the British are taken, then the British will have no advantage at all! Yang Jichang nodded and said.

"Hmm~! What is the current state of the war in India? Ren Chao nodded and asked.

"At present, the Northwest Front has successfully captured Islamabad, and the Southwest Army has basically occupied the Bengal region. According to our plan, our two armies will attack the capital of India from two directions, and once they occupy Delhi, they will be able to occupy the entire Indian subcontinent. Moreover, due to the successive defeats of the British and Indian armies, under the leadership of the Indian National Congress Party, uprisings broke out in various parts of India, and several states have now declared independence from British colonial rule, and I believe that in a few months, we will be able to completely solve the Indian problem. Yang Jichang replied respectfully.

"The South Seas side has also begun to attack the Papua New Guinea region, and if it occupies Papua New Guinea, it can further attack the eastern coastal areas of Australia, and then occupy the entire Australian continent." Zhou Tai interjected at this time.

"Good!" Ren Chao nodded with satisfaction and said, "Our army is progressing smoothly in various battlefields, and our allies such as Germany and Austria have asked our Chinese Empire to organize an expeditionary force to enter Europe from the Ottoman Empire through Iran and the Arabian Peninsula to assist friendly forces in combat." I don't know what you think about this? ”

"Weichen thinks that with the current situation of our Chinese Empire, it is completely possible to form an expeditionary force with a strength of more than one million people and participate in the war in Europe. The minister thought that if we were thrown into the European theater, on the one hand, we could quickly defeat the Entente led by Britain and France and end the war as much as possible, and on the other hand, we could also win more benefits for our China after the war ended. Yang Jichang replied honestly. (To be continued......)