When the four armies of the Russian Twentieth Army, which were struggling to block the Chinese attack on the east shore of Lake Balkhash, learned that their rear bases had been terminated and the commander of the group army had been captured, the armored sixth division that turned around and rushed south along their military highway was already almost behind their ass, and the entire Russian defense line immediately collapsed under the enemy's back, and those gray cattle fled from their defense line in an orderly manner, and then fled westward in the bitter cold of minus ten degrees after the snow.

"Chasing? What to chase on such a cold day? From here to the west, it is basically a semi-desert no-man's land, at most a few Kazakh herdsmen, and more than 100,000 people ran in without food or drink, do we need to do it? "In the headquarters of the Ninth Army in Taldi Kurgan, Miao Haining insidiously stopped the pursuit of his generals.

In fact, as he expected, these four armies, totaling more than 120,000 Russian troops, foolishly plunged headlong into no man's land, and within two days they staggered back hungry and staggered back to find the Chinese soldiers to surrender, of course, some of them were determined to continue walking, but soon the cold and hunger turned them into stiff corpses. Fewer than 20,000 people eventually reached Akmolinsk hundreds of kilometers away, and all of them were so hungry that they reportedly left more than 50,000 corpses in their sights, as well as hundreds of Kazakh herders who had starved to death after they had robbed their livestock.

As for the rest, all went to Chinese prisoner of war camps.

The destruction of the Russian Twentieth Army turned the entire east of the Ural River into ripe fruit, ready for Emperor Yang to pick, in addition to Irkutsk and Yekaterinburg, there were also a small number of defenders, and the only people who could defend this land for the Tsar were the policemen of the cities, this terrible news immediately made Nikolai in St. Petersburg unable to sit still, he knew very well the consequences of losing this land, and Yang Feng's seizure of the Far East was nothing for him. It was nothing more than a remote place for criminals and poor ghosts.

But if the Chinese advance the front to the Ural line, it will really threaten the core area of Russia, with the bombing radius of the heavy bombers currently used by China, soon even the Volga River basin will have to be involved in the war, if it is replaced by an airship, it is estimated that the bomb can be dropped on Moscow, this terrifying scenario he will never allow to happen. Especially at this time, the Ottoman and Persian forces were attacking the Caucasus more and more violently, and the Russian army group and the Armenians who had organized themselves could only rely on the difficult terrain of the mountains to hold back. If the Chinese are allowed to advance to the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea at this time, and then there is nothing to do with bombers to come to support, then the Caucasian front is very likely to collapse, thinking of the Ottoman and Persian coalition troops coming to Tsaritsyn. His Majesty the Tsar had a chilling feeling.

In this case, he had no choice but to draw troops from Europe, and the entire three army groups were withdrawn from Poland, Silesia, and Bessarabia, and then loaded onto the train and rushed to the East, although Britain and France desperately lobbied Nikolai to let him go all out to solve Europe first, and let Yang Feng run rampant as for the East!

But it's a pity that this time Nikolai was resolutely not fooled, he knew very well that even if Yang Feng robbed him of Central Asia and Siberia. In the end, Britain and France will definitely not continue to fight with Yang Feng to the end in order to snatch him back, everyone is a smart person, and there is still some awareness of this.

And the contraction of the Russian army means that neither Germany nor Austria-Hungary needs to worry about the pressure on the Eastern Front. A German army group and an Austro-Hungarian army withdrew from the battlefield at the same time and returned to their respective reinforcements, and the Berlin battlefield was better, even if one more army group was added, it was still impossible to gain an advantage in the face of the influx of North American armies. Fighting continued among the ruins of Berlin.

But when an Austro-Hungarian army joined the Hungarian battlefield, the Italians, who were already trembling with the Sino-Austrian coalition forces, could not stand it, and the Italians who lost their troops under the city of Budapest could not move an inch. Defeated by an angry flank attack by an Austro-Hungarian army, he retreated to the city of Vekshbewår. At the same time, they urgently appealed to the British for help and threatened to withdraw directly from Hungary if they did not give them support, giving up the backs of the American and British forces in the Balkans, in which case the two North American divisions, which had just arrived in Europe and had not even had time to rest, had to abandon their journey to Berlin and go north to Italy by train for reinforcements.

Just when the whole European war situation was disrupted, the resistance of the Russian army in Vladivostok finally came to an end, and after the minesweepers at sea cleared enough safe passage, the huge Beiyang Fleet finally aimed its guns at Vladivostok, and as for Russostan Island, it had become a scorched earth at this time. During the indiscriminate bombardment that lasted for several days, the bombers of the Chinese Army Air Force dropped at least 2,000 tons of coagulated shells on this island, burning them to the point that they were crispy to the ground, while the Huaxia and Yanhuang super battleships fired a total of more than 800 380 shells at this island, and the Kunlun-class battleships and Hongwu-class battlecruisers dumped more than 2,000 280 shells on this island, and in the end they were almost completely unexploding.

After learning that the city of Vladivostok had entered the range of naval guns, the Chinese army, which had already occupied most of the city, immediately found the easiest way to fight, and with the coordinates of the positions of the warships at sea notified by radio, under the guidance of the air calibrators, 280 or even 380 mm shells flew towards Vladivostok with a roar, and then the Russian fortresses that blocked the army's advance were instantly turned into ruins in the explosion, and then called the army bombers in the air to throw a few coagulated qiyou bombs into the ruins. When the fire is over, the infantry will go over to clean up the remnants of the enemy that may be stored in the residual temperature of the ground, and of course there will be no remnants of the enemy at this time.

This kind of fighting style made Colonel Kolchak, who was trapped in the governor's palace, have a deep sense of despair, and he now no longer wants to be able to hold Vladivostok, but only wants the fall of the first fortress in the Far East to be decent, he leads 40,000 Russian troops and 20,000 armed civilians, not to mention more, even if the Chinese can pay an army, and not even the price of a division, at least save a little face for Russia. But even if it was full of water, his men would not inflict more than a brigade of casualties on the attackers, and as the battleships at sea joined the battle, the ratio of casualties on both sides was approaching a sad and indignant number.

"Fight, defend the honor of the Empire to the death!" He stared at his blood-red eyes, brandishing his saber like a gambler about to lose and yelling at the air, because he hadn't closed his eyes for several days and nights, his current mental condition was indeed a little unstable, and to put it bluntly, he was moving closer to madness.

"Colonel, Your Excellency the Governor wants to see you." At this time, the second lieutenant who was in charge of Alikseev walked up to him and said.

Kolchak frowned, His Excellency the Governor had not stopped his efforts for peace these days, or had not stopped persuading him to surrender, and it was certainly the same today.

"Tell Your Excellency the Governor, I don't have time right now!" He snorted coldly and said.

"Colonel, the Governor says he has another way to solve the current situation." The second lieutenant said.

"Joke, what else can he do but surrender?" A staff officer beside Kolchak said with a sneer.

"Listen to it, what if he really has a way?" The lieutenant said with a smile.

Kolchak nodded, although he was more contemptuous of Governor Alikseev's character and ability, but he also knew that this was an old fox in the political arena, and it was hard to guarantee that there would not be a way to survive, but it was a pity that he didn't notice that the second lieutenant was smiling more deeply.

The two of them left the command together and went to the conference room where Alikseev and the generals were under house arrest, and just as they entered the door, a 380 shell fell nearby, and the huge explosion even shattered all the glass on the window.

"Your Excellency, what are you looking for me?" Kolchak said contemptuously as he looked at Alikseev, who was screaming and burrowing under the table.

His Excellency the Governor, who had climbed out from under the table, quickly regained his former majesty, and in Kolchak's puzzled gaze, said with the same contemptuous smile as he had just now: "Colonel, you are now arrested for rebellion and court-martialed for treason!" ”

Kolchak was stunned for a moment, then reacted, and when he turned around, he found two rifles with spiked cones stabbed in the chests of the two guards who were following him, and the second lieutenant in charge of Alikseev was pointing a revolver at his head.

He immediately understood that he had been betrayed, and couldn't help but sigh, and then a major general of the Judge Advocate General's Department, who was also under house arrest, took out his verdict in a serious manner, of course, it made no sense to say anything, anyway, the last sentence was a death sentence, and he would be shot immediately.

Instead, Colonel Kolchak sat down in a chair with a relieved expression, then looked around at the hideous faces like a clown, and said to the second lieutenant, who was still pointing a gun at him: "Vladimir, give me a cigarette." ”

"Colonel, I, I don't want to die here, Your Excellency the Governor promised me that after surrendering, I would ask for the status of a Chinese citizen from His Majesty the Emperor of China." The second lieutenant said sneeringly as he puffed out his cigarette.

"There's no need to explain, you have the right to make your own choice, and I made my own choice." Kolchak lit his own cigarette and said lightly as he smoked it.

Alikseev, who was next to him, glanced impatiently at the second lieutenant and motioned for him to hurry up, the second lieutenant gritted his teeth and pulled the trigger suddenly, and at the moment when the gun rang out, Kolchak suddenly looked at the top of his head in confusion, but then the bullet got into his head. (To be continued......)