Iron armor. An armored train with an iron-blue sheen on the outside galloped on the railroad tracks leading to Xinjiang under the arch of eight double-headed 27-section military trains in front and behind.

This is Liu Xian and his Praetorian Guard!

Five days ago, Liu Xian left Beijing, and now the entire camp and escort troops have traveled to the border of Gansu. In five days, he will be able to follow Urumqi.

The special train he is in is probably the highest level of manufacturing in the world today. The wrapped steel armor, which is claimed to be steel-faced iron armor, cannot be bombarded by 75 guns, but in fact it is the absolute leading nickel steel armor in this era, and the nickel steel armor after the surface carburizing and hardening operation of gaseous carbon elements, that is, the famous Krupp armor in history.

This is one of the few truly world-class advanced technologies that China's shipbuilding industry has mastered. Naturally, under Liu Xian's 'blind command', the blind cat bumped into the dead mouse. In order to study this in recent years, Shijingshan has spent hundreds of millions of yuan, but it is definitely worth the money.

Liu Xian's 'Huaxia' special train can definitely withstand the bombardment of 105mm caliber cannons.

There is no dead angle on all sides, and the speed can be increased to 50 kilometers per hour. Double locomotive with fifteen carriages. Dining rooms, conference halls, study rooms, more luxurious bedrooms, power generation carriages, logistics carriages, member dormitories, etc., are all the same from the outside. Because which carriage and which bedroom Liu Xian is in to rest in is completely up to him after he boards the train. You have to change the position in the middle! Liu Xian's 'great cause' has not yet been accomplished, and his life is very precious.

Liu Xian's people were on the train, and the city of Beijing was handed over to Zhang Shouyan. At the same time, he ordered Liu Sheng, who had turned 16 years old, to supervise the country. This is not the first time, when Liu Xian went to the Northeast and Mongolia to inspect before. It was left that Liu Sheng was left to supervise the country. It can be said that Liu Sheng is not a prince but a prince now. It is the authority of the crown prince to do so. is respected by the prince, and he does not have to bear the slander of the prince. He is not yet eighteen years old, and he is not yet an adult under Chinese law, and he will have to wait another two years to officially get the crown prince's hat.

However, the report that should be forwarded to Liu Xian was still forwarded to Liu Xian. It just has Liu Sheng's signature or a simple approval. This is a powerful master, and he is also a smart master, Liu Xian's previous attention was unsuccessful. But his son's growth is still satisfactory to him.

Later. Just let him toss it himself. If the 'system' is perfect, it will be the turn of the royal family to protect their own interests. Although a monarch who is too ordinary can transition the country as a whole to the point of a 'hypocrisy', he must also prevent people from gaining an inch.

Five days later, in the afternoon, the train stopped at Urumqi East Railway Station on time.

In the sonorous military music, Liu Xian was the first to step out of the carriage. With one foot on the boarding board and the other on the concrete floor of the platform, he was 'protected' by a group of reporters and soldiers to record this historic moment with a camera mounted in front of him.

"Victor in the Far East!"

After the Second Sino-Russian War. The four great powers of Britain, France, the United States, and Germany used this title to describe Liu Xian at the same time. Looking at China's current national situation and industrialization, there is really no more appropriate title than this short sentence, and the implication of this is self-evident.

Now, the Third Sino-Russian War has broken out. Whether Liu Xian's aura of 'victor' continues. Whether his heroic posture of the 'famous general' can still stand tall is an unknown mystery!

There were many people who came to greet the emperor, and the heads of the troops gathered in Xinjiang were all over the country. Except for those who are already in place, there is no less of a left one. A local official in Xinjiang. The original local nobles, and the two counts of Xinjiang - the king of Turghut and the king of Hami.

And, of course, the heads of the national observer missions in Xinjiang. and journalists around the world.

Liu Xian will not refuse the field observation missions of various countries. In such a large-scale war, some news cannot be concealed. It is better to directly open up, and it can also make the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army more visible in front of the eyes of the world.

A series of welcome ceremonies, banquets, and meetings took Liu Xian two days.

On the third day, Liu Xian led a team to Ili, and his destination was not the city of Ili, but Kuitun. This place was originally the grazing land of Erut Mongolia. At the beginning, Xinjiang officially established a province, and the military stations and Yingtang in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains were all changed into post stations, specializing in the transmission of military, political and righteous information; Kuitunyi is one of them.

At the same time, Kuitun is also not far from the Alatau Mountains. It is also a relatively large town in the Ili River valley except for the nine cities.

Liu Xian can directly command the Battle of Alatau there, and he can also take into account the Tacheng side, and his virtual map that has rested for N years is very amazing. What's more, he also needs to meet with the natives of Usu before entering the front line. It was a decision he made before he left Beijing. Balikun, Hami, and Turpan, Liu Xian all stopped to meet with a few local indigenous representatives, otherwise it would not have taken five days to travel from Jiuquan in Gansu Province to Urumqi. Naturally, the same is true here in Usu.

Finally, when Liu Xian arrived in Yili, the time was already in March. It's been a month since the war in Xinjiang began.

The situation in the Battle of Alatau has turned into a stalemate. Wang Guosheng didn't want to waste his troops in a senseless attack, his task was only to stabilize the situation in the early stage. The Russian army is trapped in the weakness of logistics, although the Russian army has gathered more than 80,000 troops opposite the city of Alatau, but they really dare not continue to storm the city of Alatau when the logistics cannot be guaranteed.

At this time, when Liu Xian arrived in Ili, a high-level Russian army combat meeting was going on in Hohan, Qihe Prefecture.

The meeting was attended by the President of the Russian Army in Central Asia, Mikhail Mikhail. Grand Duke Nikolayevich, he was the youngest son of Nicholas I, younger brother of Alexander II, and another uncle of the current Tsar Alexander III, Field Marshal.

The front commander of the cavalry, Lieutenant General Vladimir. Sukhhomlinov, Chief of Staff Alexei. Nikolaevich. Lieutenant General Kuropatkin, cousin of Alexander III Nicholas the Younger. Grand Duke Nikolayevich, who was a very capable military man and had a certain political acumen, unlike his father Nikolai. Grand Duke Nikolayevich, the person in charge of the last Sino-Russian war, was so arrogant that no one was impatient with him.

Yevgeny. Lieutenant General Kreel, the commander of the 2nd Army of the Steppe, was a tough old man. His hair was gray, his cheeks were thick, and his forehead was covered with deep wrinkles, but his gray-blue eyes were still very energetic, and his tall body stood up like a stake.

In addition, there are more than a dozen lieutenant generals and major generals whose positions are relatively secondary. If this place had been razed to the ground by bombs at this time, the two or three hundred thousand troops of the Russian Empire in Central Asia would have been in disarray.

The long conference table, as far as the eye can see, will be shining one by one. Make elaborate sand tables and huge 1/100,000 maps and put them where they should be. The entire conference hall was silent. There was only the slight sound of junior officers pouring coffee for the generals.

The importance of this meeting can be said to be very high-level. The importance is self-evident.

"Our biggest adversary has arrived. Napoleon of the East, the victor, the invincible god of war, the Great Emperor of China. ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, the real war is coming. The Chinese will launch a counteroffensive. Admiral Wang was assembling troops at the rear of the battle line, and I believe that this should be the meaning of the Emperor of China. "Mikhail. The words of Grand Duke Nikolayevich won the unanimous approval of those present.

When the emperor of China came to the front, the morale of the Chinese army must be boiling, just as the tsar came to Andijan, he will make all the soldiers brave and strong, not afraid of death.

Wang Guosheng gathered troops behind the city of Alatau. This was certainly the opinion of the Chinese emperor. Although the Russian army has 80,000 troops on the front line of the Alatau campaign, the logistics are still far from unimpeded. The restoration of the Talamangan railway station was easy, but the Dara railway bridge was not repaired in a short time. For at least half a year, the Russian army can no longer move troops and deliver supplies to Andijan by train.

The logistics department of the Russian army and the local government are making every effort to raise wagons to transport ammunition and supplies from Hokhan to Andijan little by little. However, the amount of ammunition used by the army on a daily basis far exceeds their ability to transport supplies. Especially within Central Asia, there is still a group of hateful rebels who have not been cleared.

The army's ammunition reserves have been declining rapidly in the past month, and if the Chinese attack, this will be a good opportunity to severely damage the Russian army in front of them.

"We fought two wars in Kashgar and in Ili. We have the advantage on the battlefield, the Chinese army is not as large as ours, but we have nothing until now. Casualties outnumbered Chinese troops, and victory seemed to have been in the hands of the emaciated Chinese.

Especially in Kashgar, the tsar's army suffered heavy losses on the battlefield, as if it had fallen into a flesh mill! ”

"We have to change that." Mikhail. Grand Duke Nikolaevich waved his arms and spoke in a sonorous tone.

"Tacheng, I think it's time to open a third battlefield in Tacheng."

"While the eyes of the Chinese were focused on Alatau, we caught them off guard when we hit them in Tacheng."

The progress of the Russian army after the start of the war was almost none, and it also lost more than 10,000 troops, and China and Russia fought very fiercely in Kashgar, which made everyone here be reprimanded by St. Petersburg.

The Russian army in Central Asia needs a victory to tell St. Petersburg about its confidence.

"But we have only two divisions in Alahu. And the Chinese have at least 10,000 people in the Ernen River and Tarbagatai. ”

"Then move the troops. Move troops as quickly as possible. At the same time, Chinese bewildered and let the Cossack cavalry of Zaisangbo harass the Chinese lands north of the Surry Mountains ......" (to be continued......