At the Siberian Theater Command in Irkutsk, Oleglev, as Chief of Staff and Deputy Commander of the Siberian Theater of Operations, said to Kuropatkin: "Commander, at present we have 350,000 people in the theater of operations, 12 corps, all concentrated in Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude, Chita and Haktu, these four cities. In addition to the 5 corps of the 1st Siberian Front in Khaktu, 4 corps in Irkutsk, 2 corps in Ulan-Ude, and 1 corps in Chita. Commander, what troops should we transfer to support the 1st Siberian Front? ”

After thinking about it for a long time, Kuropatkin said to Oleglev: "In this way, transfer the 33rd and 34th armies of Irkutsk and the 35th army of Ulan-Ude to the 1st Siberian Front." As for the artillery, Chief of Staff, didn't a batch of artillery just be delivered from Europe? ”

Oleg nodded and said: "Yes, commander, the day before yesterday a batch of artillery was delivered to Irkutsk from the railway, there were 30 152-mm howitzers, 30 127-mm howitzers, 80 75-mm field guns, and at the same time a large number of shells. ”

Kuropatkin said: "Then let the 33rd and 34th armies transport this batch of artillery and shells to Hacktu, send it to the 1st Siberian Front, replenish their lost artillery, and tell Sù Ivanov that they must take the city of trade as much as possible." ”

Oleg Lev nodded and said: "Okay, commander, I will immediately inform the 33rd, 34th and 35th armies according to your wishes." ”

After Chief of Staff Oleg left the headquarters, Kuropatkin himself hesitated in the headquarters for a while, he knew that the Dingbei Army had hundreds of thousands of land forces, and if they all had the combat effectiveness of the Dingbei Army, then with the current strength of the Russian army in Siberia and the Far East, it was inseparable from the victory or defeat of the Dingbei Army, and it seemed that Russia must also invest its strength in Siberia and the Far East, so Kuropatkin wrote a telegram and asked the personnel of the headquarters to send it to St. Petersburg.

Alekseev, the Governor-General of the Far East in Vladivostok in the Russian Far East, received telegrams from Willistov, commander of the First Far Eastern Front, and Leseklov, commander of the Second Far Eastern Front.

After the staff of the Governor's Palace sent two telegrams to the office, Alekseev, after reading them, handed them to Makarov and said: "Look, this is a telegram from the front. ”

Makarov took the two telegrams and read them one by one, then frowned and said: "God! Unexpectedly, Lin Daxin, the military strongman in the Far East, not only has a powerful navy, but also has such a strong combat effectiveness of the army, and the First Front Army in the Far East has lost nearly 45,000 people before it even reaches Dongning City, and even our only tank and armored division in Russia has also been lost. The strength of the three armies of the Second Front Army in the Far East was also helpless in the face of Fuyuan City, which was guarded by one division of the Dingbei Army. ”

Alekseev was an arrogant Russian supremacist who looked down on the Qing Dynasty people very much, believing that the Qing Dynasty people were synonymous with ignorance and backwardness, and did not deserve such a vast land, and that the Russian Empire should have occupied the entire Qing Dynasty a long time ago, so that those ignorant and backward Qing Dynasty people could enjoy the glory of the Russian Empire.

What Aliksayev didn't expect was that among the ignorant and backward Qing Dynasty people, Lin Daxin suddenly rose, and the development of the Northeast in recent years, Alekseev, as a neighbor, has always been in the eyes, which made him very worried, if the Northeast continues to develop like this, let alone let the Qing Dynasty people enjoy the glory of the Russian Empire, and if it is not good to make the land occupied by the Russian Empire in the Qing Dynasty, it will have to be recaptured by the Qing Dynasty.

Fortunately, the wise Tsar's Majesty decided to launch a war against Lin Daxin's northeast region, which made Aleksayev breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time, Alekseev was determined to eliminate the hidden danger of Lin Daxin's empire for the Russian Empire, and assigned Lin Daxin's northeast territory to the Russian Empire.

However, as soon as the war began, the two front armies in the Far Eastern Theater encountered difficulties, which Alekseev did not expect, but it did not affect his confidence in defeating Lin Daxin and occupying the Northeast, and when he heard Makarov's sigh, he couldn't help but say: "Although the combat effectiveness of Lin Daxin's Dingbei Army exceeded my expectations, but we have 550,000 elite troops of the Russian Empire in the Far Eastern Theater, and I want to defeat Lin Daxin's Dingbei Army with superior forces, come!" ”

A staff officer of a lieutenant colonel of the Russian army from the Governor's Palace walked in: "Governor, what do you command?" ”

Alekseev said: "Convey my order that the 22nd and 23rd armies in the Vladivostok region immediately go to the Twin Cities to join the 1st Far Eastern Front, and in addition transfer 1 heavy artillery division from Vladivostok to the 1st Front. Didn't the Twin Cities still have 1 corps to defend, so let the 28th Army, which was responsible for defending the Twin Cities, also join the First Front. He told Sù Willistov that he must launch another attack on the city of Dongning, defeat the Dingbei army in the city of Dongning, and open a passage for the Russian Empire to enter the northeast, and then his First Front army continued to attack and advance towards Harbin in the hinterland of the Heilongjiang River. In addition, the 39th and 40th armies of the Amur City were ordered to support the Far Eastern Second Front Army under Fuyuan City, and the heavy artillery division in Amur City was also transferred over, and the commander of the Far Eastern Second Front Army, Leseklov, must do his best to conquer Fuyuan City, and then his Second Front Army continued to advance to the hinterland of Heilongjiang and attack Qiqihar. ”

After the staff officer of the lieutenant colonel of the Russian army who delivered the order walked out of the office, Makarov said with a smile: "Your Excellency the Governor is really generous, so that the First Front Army in the Far East already has 10 armies, even if it has lost some, it also has nearly 250,000 troops. The Second Front Army of the Far East also had more than 150,000 men in five armies. It is believed that the commanders of the two fronts will send back the news of victory to His Excellency the Governor. ”

Alekseev nodded and said: "I hope they can bring news of victory to Russia, and in addition I will continue to ask His Majesty the Tsar to send more troops to the Far Eastern theater of operations." By the way, Makarov, how is the defense of the port of Vladivostok? It's a pity that our Pacific Fleet is so powerful that it still can't catch up with Lin Daxin's Northeast Navy, so it can only stay in the port of Vladivostok. ”

Makarov smiled bitterly, the Pacific Fleet now has 10 all-steel battleships, and 4 large fast armored cruisers, plus 3 ironclad battleships, 4 old ironclad ships, 7 protective cruisers, 25 torpedo boats, 9 small gunboats, and a displacement of almost 300,000 tons.

Such a powerful fleet is still not the opponent of the Northeast Navy under Lin Daxin, especially after Lin Daxin captured 9 all-steel battleships and 4 large fast armored cruisers from the United States and Italy, Makarov thinks that the Pacific Fleet should not say that it will go to sea and Lin Daxin's Northeast Navy for a decisive battle, but it can rely on the shore defense artillery of the port fortress of Vladivostok to hold the port of Vladivostok, thank God!

Makarov said: "Your Excellency the Governor, although our Pacific Fleet is not sure of defeating the Northeast Navy, with the more than 100 large-caliber coastal defense guns in the port, plus the mines released in the sea area outside the port, we are still certain to hold the port of Vladivostok. In addition, in order to prevent sneak attacks by the elusive submarines of the Northeast Navy, we have laid an iron net to prevent torpedo attacks in the sea water in front of the dock where the warships docked. ”

Alekseev nodded with satisfaction and said: "Very good, the current task of the navy is to hold our port, as long as our strong Russian army defeats Lin Daxin's Dingbei army and occupies the northeast, let's study the way to deal with the northeast navy!" ”

In the Kremlin in St. Petersburg, Tsar Nicholas II received a telegram from the commander of the Far Eastern theater of operations, Minister of War Kuropatkin, and another telegram from the commander of the Far Eastern theater of operations, Governor Alekseev of the Far East.

The three of them soon came to the palace to meet the Tsar, and Nicholas II sent two telegrams to the three of them, and the three of them read them.

Nicholas II said in a deep voice: "Now that the two theaters of the Far East and Siberia are in trouble, I didn't expect that the combat effectiveness of the Northern Army under Lin Daxin's command was very strong, what do you have to do?" ”

After the Minister of War Kuropatkin went to Siberia, the Chief of the General Staff Gorrosky was the highest-ranking official in the War Department, and when he heard Tsar Nicholas II's question, he first said: "Your Majesty the Tsar, in more than one month, we have transferred another 350,000 troops from Europe to Siberia, and now our Russian Army is less than 800,000 in the whole of Europe, and our Russia still has to face many hostile European countries in Europe, and these nearly 800,000 troops can no longer leave Europe." Unless...... Unless we in Russia carry out wartime mobilization, the expanded army will be able to continue to send troops to Siberia and the Far East. ”

Nicholas II nodded and said: "I also think so, it is impossible for European troops to be transferred to Asia, and the only way to win the war is to mobilize in wartime." ”

Chancellor of the Exchequer Witte said at this time: "Your Majesty, but the amount of weapons and ammunition stored in our arsenal of the Russian Empire is not much, and the weapons and ammunition produced by the domestic arsenal are only enough for the current army consumption. ”

Nicholas II also knew about these situations, so he said: "This is indeed a difficult problem, Witte, you immediately go to contact France and buy some weapons and ammunition from the French, and in addition, our Russian arsenal does not have a large number of old weapons and ammunition sealed?" Tsar Ben believed that even if the valiant Russian soldiers were armed with single-shot rifles, their combat effectiveness would not be much weaker. ”

Vidthorn said that he would contact the French immediately, and Gorrosky did not object when he heard that Nicholas II wanted to expand the army with mothballed single-shot rifles, and he also thought that even Russian soldiers with single-shot rifles were not bad in combat, because the Russian army at this time still advocated the combat concept of white-knuckle combat to win a decisive battle.

Gorrosky asked: "Your Majesty the Tsar, how many troops will our army expand first?" ”

Nicholas II waved his hand and said: "The army will expand by 2 million first, and I will let the Russian army of millions set foot in the northeast and Mongolia of the Qing Dynasty, and let that Lin Daxin taste the power of European road rollers." ”

As the chief of the army's general staff, Gorrosky, as the chief of the army's general staff, is very much in favor of expanding the army, and no one does not want to have more of his subordinates.

Gorrosky said excitedly: "Your Majesty the Tsar, after the minister returns, he will immediately issue a wartime mobilization order, which can be expanded to 500,000 troops within one month, and the 2 million army required by His Majesty within three months." ”

The reason why Gorrosky is so sure that he can expand the army by 2 million in just three months is that Russia has more than 5 million reservists and can become a regular army in a short period of time.

Nicholas II smiled, although there are some difficulties on the front line now, but when the 2 million Russian troops press over, Nicholas II believes that any problem will be solved. R1152