Chapter 29: The Attack on Kyakhta
When the news of the bombing and capture of the city reached Tsarist Russia, it caused a great sensation again, and the people began to be dissatisfied with the current situation in the Far East.
The people of Tsarist Russia, who originally did not pay much attention to the Far East, were disappointed after the bad news came back one after another, and it was a shame that the great Tsarist Russian Empire would lose to the weak Chinese Empire one after another!
A large number of people increasingly perceived the incompetence of the imperial government, and some accused the Grand Duke Nicholas in the Far East of misdirecting and directing the present unfavorable situation in the Far East to the Empire.
These are all spread in the demon monk Raspuyan, who wants to take the opportunity to get rid of the thorn in the side of the Grand Duke Nicholas, only then can he continue to swagger and deceive in the royal family and enjoy the glory and wealth.
"Bastards, they're all a bunch of rubbish, they lost Kulen, Uriya Sutai before reinforcements arrived, and now it's a trading city, those yellow monkeys are really hateful, and they even sent out a massive airship bombardment.
And the damned Germans, who even help the yellow monkeys and not help us, who are also Europeans, if my airship troops are also sent to the Far East, the odds of victory will be greatly increased. Nicholas II roared hysterically.
"Your Majesty, the things in the Far East are too weird, the 200,000 reinforcements of the Chinese Empire have already appeared in Kulen, it seems that they want to do it with the Empire, damn it!" The War Minister said fiercely.
"I still know the things in the Far East, the empire's operation in Outer Mongolia has basically failed, it's not the emperor's uncle's fault, it's the enemy's weapons are much more advanced than ours, after the reinforcements arrive, they must hold the Wulianghai area, and then advance slowly, and they must not be allowed to step into the territory of the empire." Nicholas II was not blindly arrogant as an emperor, he was self-aware of many things, and it was taboo to temporarily change the commander, and it was his own imperial uncle who was replaced meant that he did not trust the imperial uncle.
When the tsar spoke, Rasputyan didn't dare to say more bad things about Archduke Nicholas, so he could only keep comforting the tsar, and the minister of war naturally didn't dare to say anything, and the pressure on Archduke Nicholas to support him was relatively reduced.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Tsarist Russia condemned the indiscriminate airship bombing carried out by the Chinese Empire in the trading city, which was inhumane and anti-human, and called on all countries in the world to rise up against the Chinese Empire.
For this Chinese Empire, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately said that the Chinese airship troops did not carry out indiscriminate bombing, but only bombed military targets in the city, nothing more.
The war of words between China and Russia did not attract the attention of other governments, they were more concerned about the bombing power of the Chinese Empire's airship troops, and the public power of the airship was once again displayed in front of their eyes, and all countries continued to increase the study of airships.
At present, the war in Outer Mongolia has always been dominated by the Chinese Empire, and the defeat of Tsarist Russia has made all countries aware of the power of those tanks and airships of the Chinese Empire.
Britain, France and other countries, which were originally gloating, now have the idea of intervening in this war, and the purpose of suppressing the Chinese Empire has been broken, Tsarist Russia is too useless, and it is not worth it for a small Outer Mongolia.
The Chinese Empire didn't feel anything about the bombing of the trading city, maybe this is the revenge that the empire is talking about, this is revenge for those merchants.
Sure enough, the Chinese Imperial Government said that after the war, it would build monuments and cemeteries for those merchants in the trading city, which was also a voice released by the empire, and the empire loved the people very much.
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Ma Qi's Third Army finally arrived in the city of Kobdo, and by the time they arrived, the Russian army had already withdrawn from the city, leaving only an empty city after the locusts, most of the merchants in it had followed the Russians, and a few did not leave because their headquarters or homes were in the territory of the Chinese Empire.
The Third Army "took over" the city of Kobdo very lightly, and while sorting out the affairs in the city, it built military defenses on the outskirts.
Xu Shuzheng, who entered the trading city, looked at the devastated scene and felt very heavy, this was originally the city of the empire, but now the situation is only rebuilt, and the anger of that person seems to be not ordinarily great.
Since joining the Wehrmacht, Xu Shuzheng can be regarded as knowing a lot of the military secrets of the empire, and he also knows that Beiyang was unjustly defeated before, and it is already a huge sublimation for the original resistance to the current pride in serving the Wehrmacht.
"Report to the commander, everything has been cleaned up, and some of the fire has not been extinguished."
"Well, go ahead, get the warriors ready, it's much more prosperous on the other side than here!" Xu Shuzheng said half-jokingly.
The silence of the night was broken by the bunches of torches and the occasional shouting of the night, and half of the retreating Russian army had already crossed the border, which finally relaxed the heart of Major General Yuris.
Suddenly, a burst of gunfire rang out, and the Russian soldiers were shot one after another and fell, and under the reflection of the torches, one by one the Chinese soldiers launched a fierce attack on the Russian soldiers behind.
"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! โ
"Enemy attack! Shoot back! โ
"Don't panic, fight back!"
The Russian soldiers reacted quickly, the Chinese army came after them, and the Russian troops who had crossed the border in front did not return to help their comrades behind, but instead accelerated their speed.
The Russian army behind them fought back and sped up, they didn't want to die here, and some soldiers even began to abandon their supplies and throw away their torches and flee frantically in the night.
Major General Yuris, who had crossed the border, looked at the battle behind him and was very puzzled, how did the Chinese army get here without torches, did it always follow behind his own army?
"Quick, put out the torch and speed up!" After thinking about it for a while, Yuris ignored and directly ordered the soldiers to extinguish the torches.
With the guidance of torches, the Chinese army can easily find the target to shoot, and the Russian army in the open will become a target that does not move.
Under the orders of the commander, these Russian soldiers also realized the disadvantages of the torches and extinguished the torches one after another.
With the extinguishing of the Russian torches, the Chinese army could only use their ears to identify the source of the gunfire and shoot, but the number of gunshots on the battlefield had a great impact on them.
The soldiers of the Russian army quickly dropped their supplies and began to smear and run in the direction they had just advanced, and many soldiers ran and ran into the transport truck in front of them, or tripped and fell.
As for the people who were pushing the carts, they scurried around when the shots rang out, taking the opportunity to get rid of the shackles of the Russian army, and some of the timid ones shrank directly into the carts. Most of the people who were scurrying around were killed by indiscriminate shooting, and both China and Russia were smearing and shooting, so it was normal to hit the people who were scurrying.
After more than an hour, the gunfire basically stopped, because the Russian troops basically crossed the border except for the dead and wounded, and then they went straight to Kyakhta, which was close in front of them.
Seeing that the Russian troops had crossed the border, they did not continue to pursue, they wanted to cross the border to pursue, but the order did not allow them to pass.
The thousands of Tsarist defenders on the Kyakhta side had already seen the miserable situation of the buying and selling city, and they were also very afraid that the Chinese Empire would directly cross the border, in which case they would die.
The merchants of Tsarist Russia have now packed up, as long as the Chinese Empire comes over, they will run away, and some timid ones are already on their way back to Europe, and no one wants to gamble with their own lives.
The merchants who did not go back were basically people from big families in Tsarist Russia, and they were still very confident in the strength of their empire, and they did not think that the Chinese Empire would declare war with the empire.
The retreat of the wolf bรจi finally arrived in Kyakhta, and they were finally relieved that the army of the Chinese Empire really didn't come over, which was really good.
"Report to the commander, the headquarters telegraph, there will be 100,000 reinforcements arriving here, you see!"
Xu Shuzheng took the telegram and read it for a while, and said: "Let the soldiers get ready, there is a big task again, and there is also not to lose face in front of the reinforcements." โ
"Yes!"
The order of the headquarters was to ask them to take Kyakhta, and then rush from Kyakhta to Ulianghai, all the way to the territory of Tsarist Russia, and implement the battle plan of outflanking Ulianghai on three routes.
At noon the next day, Xu Shuzheng's troops gathered again, and they began to run towards Kyakhta, where they would wait for reinforcements to go to the Wulianghai area.
The Russian army in Kyakhta also discovered the movements of the Chinese army, but Kyakhta was too close to the city of trading, and in less than half an hour, the army of the Chinese Empire had crossed the border, and they could only urgently return fire on the trench defense line that had been there before, and the Russian troops who had just fled here were very shocked.
Major General Yuris, who heard the gunshots, hurriedly ran out of the warm bed, and when he came back last night, he was so tired that he slept until now.
"What's going on?" Yuris asked, grabbing a soldier running past him.
"Huaxia ...... It's coming,......," the soldier said with a shudder.
"How is it possible, are they going to declare war on the Empire?" Yuris couldn't believe that the Huaxia Empire had really crossed the border, but the Huaxia army that was attacking in front told him that it was true, it was over, it was really over this time.
Crossing the border is tantamount to declaring war on another country, which the tsar cannot tolerate, and it seems that a major war will break out between the two countries.