Chapter 64: Contradictions intensify
Xu Shuzheng's army, which had left Omsk, immediately rushed to their next stop, Petropavl, and continued to advance if they could, but it was estimated that there was not much time left, and the Russian army in the Greater Caucasus was about to be killed.
In Omsk, they didn't leave troops to guard it, and as for why they didn't let the army occupy it because they didn't have enough troops to hold these places, otherwise they wouldn't give up, after all, they still had to continue to move west, and the headquarters was still in a hurry to occupy the land of Tsarist Russia, and they didn't bother to care about it.
Although Omsk, which did not have the Chinese army to maintain order, was in chaos here, it was not as strict as before, and the people in the city were all looted, and there was nothing to rob there, and it would be desperate to rob it again, and no one would let people rob their last things. As for the nobles and wealthy people, when the Chinese army left, they raised money and bought a batch of guns from the Chinese army at a high price, although they were not very sophisticated, but they were satisfied.
Nicholas II was very angry at the frenzied looting of the Chinese army in Tsarist Russia, which was completely done when they invaded China before, and he didn't expect that it would be his turn so soon, and at this time he kind of understood the pain of the Manchu royal family.
Nicholas II urged the army of the Greater Caucasus to hurry up and destroy the Chinese army that entered the empire and looted everywhere, and let them stay in Siberia for a day would be a huge loss for the empire, all of which was money!
The Entente believed that it was inhumane and irresponsible to the common people, and that many people would starve to death if they could not survive this winter. However, Germany and other countries think that it is normal, this is a country where Tsarist Russia is asking for hardships and has nothing to do to split other people's countries, and besides, the victorious side has the right to do this, and if it were replaced by them, it would even be even more looted, shouldn't it get back some military spending?
The people of the hostile country are also enemies, because they are likely to pick up guns and fight you in the next second, and the Chinese army is already quite merciful.
In any case, the materials looted by Xu Shuzheng's army made the Imperial Treasury breathe a sigh of relief, and they also thought that the looting could be more violent, so that the financial expenditure on military spending could be reduced, and more money could be invested in the great construction of the empire.
After a period of preparation, the new Far Eastern Army of Tsarist Russia had been formed, and an army of 700,000 troops began to board the trains, and the soldiers who had not been trained for a few days were very frustrated, because it was very likely that they would not be able to return once they were gone.
The guerrilla army went to pick up the troops from the Greater Caucasus, and their remaining army was no match for the Chinese army at all, and there was also a shortage of ammunition, and it was no different from sending them to death if they didn't know how to attack them.
The troops of the Greater Caucasus had already arrived in the Kustanay region and were rushing frantically towards Petropavl, and according to their speculated route of the advance of the Chinese army, the next target of the Chinese army was Petropavl.
They met the Skies and other troops who went to pick them up, and they were shocked after seeing the army led by Gao Ji Wensi and others, all dressed in tattered military uniforms, many people had no weapons, and hundreds of thousands of troops were only left in the end, so there were only tens of thousands, can they not be shocked.
After some understanding, they knew why this was happening, and they had to let their army take out some of the spare weapons and ammunition for Gao Ji Wensi and the others to equip them, after all, they still needed this army to lead the way.
Soon Lieutenant General Ski also came with men, and as soon as he came, he had Gogis Winth brought to him to ask for his guilt.
"Why don't you resist and retreat, the troops in front of you have been severely damaged, I will take them to a military court, and if you don't listen to the command and flee, if the Grand Duke is still there, I will kill you directly!" Lieutenant General Ski said angrily.
"Hmph, that's called preserving strength, when I was in the previous operation, the general seemed to say that if I could fight, I would fight, and if I couldn't fight, I would withdraw, but I acted according to the general's orders. Sue me for court-martial, well, let's go up and confront each other, the general declares a personal vendetta, and transfers all the worst troops to my army, with the least weapons and ammunition, and don't tell me that this is an order of the Empire. "Since you have torn your face, Gao Ji Wensi is not welcome.
"You ......" Lieutenant General Sky was obviously choked, what did he do according to his orders, he had never seen such a shameless person, and he really won the kung fu of his master.
"That's 20,000 Huaxia cavalry, I paid such a big price to delay those 20,000 cavalry, this is all my strategy. If it weren't for the fact that we dragged the Chinese cavalry and didn't know how big the losses were, didn't the general know that they had cavalry before the action? How can soldiers who are not well armed and ammunition fight with cavalry? I also want to refer to you as Commander Brunov. Goggie Winside continued unforgivingly.
"Hmph, this time the matter will not be so settled, if you don't escape from the battle, you will definitely not lose so much, when the commander arrives, I will tell the commander to let him make a decision." After saying that, Lieutenant General Ski brushed his sleeves and left.
Gao Ji Wensi's henchman also walked in at this time, "General, since we are not welcome here, let's go back, staying is also angry, after General Irry goes back, we will be targeted everywhere." ”
"Hmph, do you think Admiral Irry won't be back? Look at it, we won't have to be angry in a few days, no matter how powerful we are, we can't withstand the queen's pillow wind, and they are still tender if they want to fight us. Gao Jiwen smiled wickedly.
After Polivanov became Minister of War, the forces against Rasputyan became even more rampant, and even the defeat of Grand Duke Nicholas could not hit them, but Rasputyan was not casually kneaded, and the queen was his biggest hole card.
The commander of the army who came from the Greater Caucasus also knew about the quarrel between the two, but he did not interfere, he was a centrist, only obeyed the orders of the tsar, he was just here to support the scene, and if he could, he would rush back to the Greater Caucasus and station.
St. Petersburg, the capital of the Tsarist Empire, General Airry was sitting on the train to the Far East at this time, he was going with the New Far Eastern Army, he was not removed from his post after returning, he was released after a series of inquiries, the Tsar directly intervened, wasn't it just borrowing the food of those untouchables, in other words, he would do the same, so he was released.
Rasputyan would not watch his henchmen be killed by a court-martial, and besides, this Far Eastern war made him a fight, and he was unwilling to beg the empress to blow the pillow wind at the Tsar's place, and sure enough, Irry successfully entered the Far Eastern army again.
Seeing that Polivanov, a sworn enemy, became the Minister of War, he gritted his teeth, and if he could fight for military merits, of course it would be good, if he couldn't, he wouldn't mind pushing Polivanov into the abyss, anyway, the army of the Chinese Empire would not be able to reach St. Petersburg.
Admiral Brunov also has a little opinion about Airry's re-entry into the Far East Army, after all, Airry is a native of Rasputyan, and he is not very good in the previous war. But he still obeyed the Tsar's orders, and as long as Irry didn't spoil the whole situation, he was not unacceptable to him.
Irry hated Ski's little report for beating him behind his back, and he didn't stop him when he ordered to borrow it, and he remembered this hatred, and if it wasn't for Rasputyan, he would have been doomed.
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Xu Shuzheng went straight to Petropavl all the way, and he didn't even ask for the food prepared in those villages, and now they are competing with the Tsarist Russian army, as long as the Far Eastern Railway in Petropavl is destroyed, the Tsarist army can only go to fight with their headquarters on foot, so that the empire will have enough time to lay out.
Another is that Xu Shuzheng got the intelligence of the empire, which showed that the army of Tsarist Russia had already arrived from Europe on a train, and Tsarist Russia also had conscription in Central Asia and Asia Minor, so they had to destroy it before the Greater Caucasus reached Petropavl, and then went north to return to Novosibirsk.
The Chinese Empire is sending a large number of troops to the Novosibirsk region, and there is a big war that will break out below, and winter is coming, which is very unfavorable to the Chinese army, and only adequate preparation can defeat Tsarist Russia with minimal losses.