The Tsarist government quickly recruited more than 600,000 troops by forceful means, and the other 300,000 troops had not yet been formed, because the new Minister of War Alexei Andreyevich Polivanov persuaded the Tsar to suspend the compulsory conscription. Polivanov believed that excessive compulsory conscription would cause dissatisfaction among the imperial people and make more people disgusted with the war in the Far East, which would affect the war in the Far East.

The tsar was also very satisfied with the use of public opinion to scandalize the Chinese Empire, and publicized everywhere that the Chinese Empire would advance westward on a large scale, that the Chinese army had bombed the trading city to the ground, and that once the Chinese army crossed the Ural Mountains, it would be a disaster for the empire, and the Chinese people were murderous, and hoped that the people of the whole country would support the empire to expel the Chinese army, etc.

Alexei Andreevich Polivanov graduated from the Nikolai Engineering School in 1874 and participated in the 10th Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 and fought in the Gornyak campaign. Later, he entered the Nikolai Engineering Academy for further study, graduated in 1880, graduated from the Academy of General Staff in 1888, served in the command of the Kiev Military District, transferred to the General Staff of the Russian Army in 1899, successively served as deputy editor-in-chief of the magazine "Military Anthology" and "Russian Disabled Servicemen" and the director of the Office of the General Fortress Committee, in 1905 he was appointed chief of the General Staff, in 1906 he was appointed deputy minister of the army, and later dismissed for too close cooperation with the liberals in the Duma. After 1912 he was a member of the Russian State Council.

He was supposed to succeed Sukhomlinov as Minister of War in June 1915, but Sukhomlinov was removed from office due to his defeat in the Far East War. His nemesis, Rasproyan, was ordered by the Tsar not to participate in military and political affairs, so that he could take office in advance, otherwise under Rasproyan's obstruction and his experience, the post of Minister of War would not have been his turn.

As soon as Polivanov came to power, he began to consider the war in the Far East, and the retreating troops of the empire were no match for the Chinese army at all, and intelligence showed that China was still conscripting, and more than 200,000 regular Chinese troops had invaded the territory of the empire again, trying to control the vast territory of the empire west of Siberia.

His War Minister would not have been able to do so for long if he had not solved this urgent need, so he quickly promoted some of the officers who had been removed or demoted during the Russo-Japanese War, because they were most familiar with the Far East. In addition, he also asked the Tsar to bring Brunov, a cavalry general, and by the way, some high-ranking officers of the Twelfth Army of the Tsarist Russian Empire.

At this time, Brunov was the commander of the Twelfth Army, and there were not many officers in the Twelfth Army who were willing to follow Brunov to the Far East, only his henchmen and some civilian officers, who wanted to take this opportunity to promote their ranks and positions.

After Brunov took over the Far Eastern Army, he directly became the Commander-in-Chief of the Far East, jumping directly from army commander to commander-in-chief, in charge of hundreds of thousands of Far Eastern troops, and his henchmen and all those who came with him were promoted.

Although the Far Eastern army is still a group of new soldiers, there are some veterans, but it is also more than the number of a regular army in the Tsarist Empire, as long as you see blood and then practice to the death, you can be pulled into the battlefield.

Since the newly formed Far Eastern Army is basically recruits, as soon as Polivanov and Brunov took office, they directly asked people to train these recruits fiercely, and from time to time asked the officers to persuade the recruits to train hard, otherwise they would easily die on the battlefield, and they must be ruthless to themselves for their own lives, and they can only go home if they live.

I have to say that the recruits who were forcibly recruited were originally very negative, because hundreds of thousands of troops of the empire had died in the Far East, and there were a large number of veterans in them, not to mention that these recruits who had not yet been trained were simply going to be cannon fodder, and no one would be happy if they were replaced. But in order to survive, they also have to be cruel to themselves, they are not fighting for the Empire, but for themselves to come back alive.

Tsarist Russia once again recruited so many new soldiers, weapons and ammunition and other materials were very insufficient, because they reinforced the Far East twice in a row, and the consumption of materials was astronomical, and the second time it also used some of the materials sold to them by Britain and France at a "low price". The increase in taxes did not have an immediate effect, so the tsar had to once again whisper to Britain and France and other Entente countries for help to buy their supplies, and large quantities of supplies were transported from Britain and France to the Tsarist Empire.

The Tsarist Empire's own materials could only support more than 600,000 recruits plus more than 100,000 retreating troops for about a month, and the tsar was also very helpless, so he couldn't take out his private money, so he could only wait.

At present, a large part of the Far Eastern Railway has been destroyed by the troops of the Chinese Empire, and there is basically no contact between Tsarist Russia and the places west of Siberia, and only a small part of the army has sent a little useful information before it is annihilated. The information was that Vladivostok was under Japanese control, and Sakhalin and most of the easternmost territories were occupied by the Chinese army.

The Russian army in the territory west of Siberia was basically the one led by Grand Duke Nicholas, plus some troops in Vladivostok and Sakhalin, and there were only a few guards in other places, except for some guards in the places where there were villages.

The more they didn't know about the situation in the west of Siberia, the more anxious Tsarist Russia became, if Huaxia really controlled most of the territory of the Far East of the empire, it would have to cost a huge price to spit out of Huaxia's mouth in the future, and it didn't know how much it could get back, unless it could defeat the Huaxia army and force them back into China.

Tsarist Russia, which was greedy for land, would not give up an inch of territory lightly, even though the territory west of Siberia was full of desolate, icy mountains where crops could not be grown.

The Chinese Empire's crazy occupation of the territory of the Far East of Tsarist Russia is very envied by all countries, although the land west of Siberia has no great effect, but after all, it is also a land equivalent to most of China, even if it is not used, it is a very face-saving thing.

If the Chinese Empire finally really acquired the territory of Tsarist Russia west of Siberia, China would become the largest country in the world, and most of Asia would be Chinese.

The tanks that Britain and France promised to give priority to Tsarist Russia are already on the way, and it has been more than half a year since they got the drawings of the first generation of tanks in China, and it is not difficult to make tanks according to the industrial strength of the two countries, and even their own tanks are being studied.

The tanks manufactured by the two countries were provided to Tsarist Russia before they were equipped with their own armies, and a group of experts followed them to Tsarist Russia to collect actual combat data on tanks in order to find defects and improve them.

In order to help Tsarist Russia, Britain and France once again increased the blockade of technology and machinery in China, and this time not only military machines, but even civilian machines were greatly blocked, and even flour manufacturing machines were in the ranks of the blockade.

Huaxia has no complaints about this, and the people of Huaxia have kept these in their hearts, which has also stimulated the people's bloody nature of creating zào inventions, and triggered Huaxia's own industrial upsurge. The government of the Chinese Empire has nothing to do with this, if you don't sell it, someone will sell it, I will buy it from Germany and the United States, the quality is better than yours, and it doesn't matter if the price is more expensive.

The Chinese Empire, which had the upper hand, was not afraid of the Tsarist Empire playing tricks at all, if it were not for the wariness of Japan, Tsarist Russia would have been defeated a long time ago, and the Tsarist Russia at this time was similar to the Manchu Qing at that time, but it was only slightly better than the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

At a time when the Tsarist government was preparing for a large-scale counteroffensive in the Far East, the Red Party of Tsarist Russia was also taking action, and a large number of Red Party personnel entered the new army under the arrangement of the Red Party, and many of them even entered the upper echelons of the army, which was also the flag planted by the Red Party.

The Red Party of Tsarist Russia not only operated with the army, but also sent people to China to try to contact the prisoners and persuade them to join the Red Party, after all, they had negotiated with the Chinese government beforehand.

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The retreating Russian army, led by Admiral Ariel, was frantically hurrying because they had been spotted by the Chinese airships, and their airships had also spotted the Chinese army following them closely. The retreating Tsarist Russian army "borrowed" the peasants' grain everywhere along the way, and the speed of the march had been very slow, and now they were about to be caught up by the Chinese army, and of course they had to speed up their flight.

The grain "borrowed" along the way was simply not enough to feed the more than 100,000 troops who had withdrawn, and the land west of Siberia was too barren, and there were not many peasants cultivating here, only the relatively rich Siberian plain had more grain and people.

At this time, the chasing Chinese army was only about 100,000, and Jiang Fangzhen did not allow the whole army to go deep into the hinterland of Tsarist Russia, and only sent an army to chase after him, by the way, to sabotage the Siberian railway, and if he could, to grab some supplies, to feed the war.

Airri's 100,000 troops are short of ammunition, and their weapons and equipment have been damaged a lot along the way, even if they are 100,000, they don't dare to fight hard with Huaxia's 100,000 troops, and God knows if there are reinforcements from Huaxia's army.

The retreat of the Russian army was no longer in charge at this time, and even though the newly appointed Minister of War of the Empire repeatedly telegraphed them to protect the railway, prevent the Chinese army from advancing westward, and delay as much time as possible, they still "withdrew" to the rear regardless of it. Airray's army has completely lost the courage to fight against the Chinese army, no one will go to death, the official knighthood is nothing in front of his own life, you don't see the Grand Duke Nicholas who is the imperial family of the empire died on the battlefield, they don't have the courage to serve the country with their bodies.

As soon as Airray took over the army, he let his men seize their military power, and also forcibly requisitioned the peasants' grain along the way, so a large number of peasants were likely to not survive this winter, so they sent a telegram to the new Polivanov, a friend of the Grand Duke Nicholas.

Polivanov, who is a mortal enemy of Rasputyan, is also very unhappy with Airry, plus Airry is very strict about what he has done, and it is not legal to collect peasants' grain without the order of the Empire, and this reason can make Airry eat a pot.

Soon Airry, who was fleeing, was demoted by Polivanov and became a lieutenant general, and he had to be summoned by a military tribunal after returning to the imperial capital. The failure of the Far East needs to bear the blame, there is no doubt that Airray is also one, this has become the consensus of many ministers, who is called Airry or Rasputyan, it is difficult to escape.

The Russian army, which had barely set foot in Siberia, listened to the deposition of Airri and prepared to block the westward advance of the Chinese army according to the orders of the Empire, and the troops in Central Asia would come to help resist it.