"The army retreated day and night, and all the supplies and military supplies were lost on the road, to the Chinese, and it was difficult to even eat. This war is really unfortunate, but what can be done?

I am safe, healthy, and unharmed, God blesses. But my soldiers were miserable.

The Chinese were well prepared for this battle, they had sufficient supplies and ammunition, enough cavalry to pursue, but we had nothing.

Trench warfare deprived us of maneuver. Although it did cost the Chinese some soldiers, we failed. The previous results would only cause more and greater disasters for the Russians in Nersersk [Nebuchu].

May the Lord forgive us. At the point of life and death, we retreated.

It couldn't have been a worse fight. It's been a long time since I've had such a terrible defeat, and the two-thousand-man army was completely defeated in just three days. This makes me feel that our use of trench warfare is not as good as that of the Turks, although it is true that Nersesk does not have enough barbed wire. In short, the brutality of war is creepy.

Yesterday evening, I was particularly happy to see that I was still alive and had temporarily escaped the pursuit of the Chinese. But after setting up camp for the night, too many familiar faces disappeared.

Dear Ivanov, Gaidar, Yakov, as well as Malinovsky from the police station, and the young Second Lieutenant Dzerzhinsky......

I didn't bother to ask who was dead and who was still alive in the crowd, my heart was bleeding.

Luckily, we are only 100 versts away from Chita. Major Lyudmila must have gathered enough fighters there, and Chita had a company of regular troops.

Thank God.

A company of regular troops, although small, dispersed the soldiers into the militia. It will allow the militia to live longer.

War, war with the Chinese. It is a stage for the most elite professional soldiers, and the militia should not be in such a cruel place.

They are full of patriotism. Brave and not afraid of death. But they do not have sophisticated military skills and common sense.

Cheers to us, dear. We will have a good commander, Major Lyudmila is my superior on the Turkish battlefield, he is very capable of fighting. Although I would be removed from office even if I lived to the end, it didn't matter.

Yelena, my dear, I will return to Orenburg when this battle is over. Our family will be reunited soon, so let's pray that day will come soon. I don't want to fight the Chinese anymore.

Love you Milosevic. ”

In the camp where he was temporarily settled, the commander of the Nebuchu Russian army, Captain Milosevic, wrote a letter to his wife in Orenburg, who was thousands of miles away.

He didn't know when the letter would reach Orenburg, but it was always a sustenance.

Fixing the envelope, Milosevic sent his men to rush towards Chita. He doesn't need Lyudmila's rescue now, but hopes that Lyudmila will really be ready. As for the letter, it is only a small incident.

Chita.

It was a gathering place for northern nomads, but it was occupied by Cossacks in the 17th century, and the Treaty of Nebuchu brought the entire region to Russia. The aborigines here are Buryat Mongols. One is the same as the rest of the Mongols. The traditional Mongolian script has been used for generations, and they live by nomadism and hunting.

It is one of the most agrarian and economically backward regions of Tsarist Russia, with Tibetan Lamaism and more than a dozen lamastic monasteries of various sizes. In total, there lived nearly 10,000 Buriyat Mongols.

Further west from Chita, Transbaikal is the largest concentration of Buryat Mongols. It accounts for a third of the population of Transbaikal Province.

As the original military stronghold, to the center of military and political rule. and then to the current commercial and commercial center. In the past two hundred years, Chita has changed several positions. None of these positions allowed Chita's city defense to grow and consolidate at all. But when the war came suddenly, Mayor Vlamiky and Major Lyudmila of Chita. All that can be done is to bring together the largest number of local men possible. All stockpiles of ammunition, including rifled guns, were distributed, and bullets and gunpowder were distributed.

"I was commanding a demoralized rabble. The Chinese troops frightened them at the table in Nersesk. I don't have confidence, I don't think we can win......"

While Milosevic was writing letters to his wife, Chita's military governor, Lyudmila, was writing letters home to his wife from afar.

He's in a bad situation right now. Two years of fierce fighting on the battlefield in Turkey left too many hidden dangers in his body. The harsh climate in Siberia exacerbates these sufferings. And Lyudmila's fat and tall body also put a huge burden on him, of course, none of this compares to the trouble that the upcoming war will bring him.

The Mongols and natives, who accounted for half of the number of inhabitants in Chita, did not heed his call at all. These days, fewer than three hundred Mongols came to Chita with horses, swords, and guns.

So Lyudmila is completely pessimistic and disappointed about the war:

"I'll send you all your savings now, and I don't know what kind of disaster I'll encounter in the future, until the end of the day. God willing, we still have days to be reunited.

I am not in good health, and I can no longer not give up any opportunities as I did when I was younger, and I am afraid that when I face opportunities, I will not have enough mental strength, so that the hardships and traumas I have encountered will not be worth ......."

……

When the local Mongols no longer obeyed orders, and when the Chinese army approached with artillery, the fate of Chita was decided. Artillery fire and blood baptized the entire city, and the sound of resistance faded away with screams.

……

It's August.

By the end of early August, the Qin army in the northeast had already conquered many cities such as Hailanpao, Boli, Nebuchu, Chita, and Shuangchengzi, and the only one still fighting was Vladivostok.

And the Beiyang Fleet, which participated in the war at the same time. The Russian army, which swept Sakhalin Island in the same way, took Temple Street and Chumikan, and now the main force appears off Vladivostok.

Liu Xian, who was sitting in the rear, also received a telegram from Zhangjiakou that Wei Ming's cavalry had swept through Transbaikal Province. Although the Russian army deployed 10,000 troops in the Baikal region, its troops were scattered in Kyakhta, Ulan-Ude, Irkutsk, Zhigalovo and other cities. In the huge Baikal region, so many Russian towns and villages are in a situation of fighting for themselves.

The 20,000 cavalry of the Qin army is completely swept away!

"We must break through the blockade of the Chinese outside the city." The Supreme Military Governor of the Transbaikal Province, Luka. Major General Ilyashevich shouted loudly. Opposite him was the head of the Supreme Administration of Transbaikalia Province, Ilyich. Sergeev, the mayor of Ulan-Ude, Shalev.

Sergeev was an old man over sixty years old, and he looked tired. "How many enemies are there outside the city? We don't know. How many fighters are there in us? I'm well aware.

A brigade of regular troops, 4,500 militiamen, of whom 2,000 had war horses.

Can such strength really break through the defenses of the Chinese army outside the city?

You know how big the loss of a frontal collision position will be. If we don't succeed, the morale of our army will be greatly depressed and depressed. Citizens will lose faith in us. Probably, we will be trapped in Ulan-Ude forever. ”

Luca. Ilyashevich nodded solemnly. "Yes, I know."

"And do you still insist on doing that?"

"Of course!" Luca. Ilyashevich's answer was unwavering. His reasons have also been very clear. Otherwise, the empire will lose all of Baikal.

Luca. Ilyashevich won the conversation. Sergeev and Shalev's attitude finally softened. The two handed over all the militia and police forces in their hands to Luca. Ilyashevich.

Ulan-Ude's militia is not high, but no matter how bad it is, it is several thousand. And there were 2,000 precious cavalry inside. Although their identity was civilians half a month ago, although less than a third were Cossacks. Such a su zhì is really much different from a cavalry unit composed entirely of Cossack cavalry. But cavalry is cavalry!

To deal with the cavalry of the Chinese outside, you must rely on them!

Luca. Ilyashevich was not pessimistic about the prospects of the war, he was convinced of the power in his hands. Because according to his observations, the number of Chinese troops outside Ulan-Ude does not seem to be too large.

War began at dawn.

The position is on the bank of the Orkhon River outside the city, the terrain is flat, and the scenery is unremarkable.

In addition to the vast fields, there are also continuous fields. The latter was not convenient for concealing the army, and it was difficult for the cavalry to exert their combat effectiveness through guò.

The Cossacks of Transbaikalia were comparable to the elite of the Don Cossacks, the only difference between the two was that the former were too few in number. Now the main force is serving in the West, thousands of miles away, guarding Central Asia and the Near East for the Tsar.

For more than 200 years since the middle of the 17th century, the Cossacks have been synonymous with cavalry and death in this land. The Mongols, the Tunguska, in front of the Cossacks, had forgotten their splendor and dignity.

There were more than 400 cavalry in the regular army of the Russian army, plus 2,000 cavalry who were strictly controlled by five or six hundred Cossacks, which was not a small force.

The war began with the rumbling of artillery on both sides.

Luca. Ilyashevich first gave the order to attack, and groups of Russian troops appeared opposite the positions of the Qin army.

The Russian army launched its offensive under the cover of dawn and morning fog. They were scattered in formation, and there were not many troops to attack, because the Russian army did not know where the main force of their opponent was, and their attack point had to focus on the position of the Qin army in the southeast of Ulan-Ude City.

Tentative Attack! See if you can fish out the main force of the Chinese. (To be continued......)