At this time, the Caucasus battlefield had actually been silent for a long time, although there were two Ottoman armies and a Persian army, but they were never able to break through the defense line composed of only a Russian army and about 100,000 Armenian militia, especially in Baku, the Ottomans attacked this world-class oil field with a group army, and not only did not capture it for three months, but lost nearly 100,000 people, and suddenly broke up the morale of the Ottoman army, which was originally a patchwork of various ethnic groups.

At present, the main battlefield of confrontation between the two sides is still in this area, and the Russian army, with the help of the Armenian militia, has firmly held the two major cities of Baku and Tbilisi, and firmly blocked the Austro-Polish forces in the Transcaucasus. Hamid II, who has no hope of breaking through and knows that his army's attack ability is still far behind, is not interested in continuing to attack in the Caucasus, as long as he blocks and doesn't let the Russians fight, at present, his main energy is on the Balkan battlefield, and cooperates with the Chinese Army to break through the defense line of the United States and British forces in the Balkans, as for the Caucasus, as long as Russia is defeated, it will be his after all.

So the emperor, His Majesty, threw half of the army of eight armies in his hands into the Balkans, another in Egypt, where the resistance has not subsided, then two in the Caucasus, and one in Istanbul to prevent the Russian army from crossing the sea to attack as it did against the Romanians.

As for the Persian army, although nominally a group army, in fact there were only 150,000 men, after all, Persia was only a small country with a population of 7 million, and they were so poor that they wept before the discovery of the oil fields, and they got the least in terms of the distribution of wealth in the oil fields, and even if these were mostly squandered by their king, it was already rare to maintain a modern army of 150,000 men in this case.

In this way, the two combined, there are only six or seven hundred thousand people on the Caucasus battlefield, and they can naturally stalemate if the Russians are not strong enough, but the Russian army on the opposite side has suddenly increased to almost three times, and it is a joke that the Austro-Polish coalition can still hold it at this time. Just as Brusilov was setting off from Tehran, the Russian army also broke the Persian defense line in Azerbaijan, and then hit the Ottoman army rear with a right hook, and the Ottoman army, which was maintaining the offensive against Tbilisi, hurriedly retreated.

Because the Orthodox Christians in an army left as the rear guard fled without a fight, causing the direct rout of this army, and showing the back of the entire Ottoman army, the result was that the Russian Ninth Army used a chariot to open the way and forcibly cut off the retreating Ottoman army from the middle, and at this time, the Russian army that landed from Trabzon was killed again, and the retreating Ottoman Second Army was directly surrounded in western Armenia, and the entire Caucasus war situation was reversed in an instant.

And this time. Brusilov's army was blocked by Isfahan.

After learning that the Russian army had landed in Persia, Ma Biao, the governor of Kuwait, who knew well what kind of goods Muzaffar al-Din was, loaded one of his divisions onto the train and went north to rescue as fast as possible.

Brusilov is also a ruthless character who makes quick decisions, and this battle is a matter of life and death for Russia, so naturally there is no room for hesitation. The first to arrive was the chariot brigade and an infantry division, taking advantage of the unstable foothold of the Sino-Austrian coalition army, and directly launched a ferocious attack. A desert oasis city like Isfahan is simply not safe, and although the Zaindai River runs through the city, the small ditch in the desert doesn't make much sense to defend. So Ma Biao played very hard.

His division is not a field army, it is specially used to defend Kuwait, and by the way, he occasionally goes out to crush the disobedient Arab tribes, and at this time there is no disobedient one on the Arabian Peninsula. Those small tribes of hundreds, thousands of people, go and do whatever they want. To put it bluntly, this is just like those colonial garrisons of Britain and France, the emperor is used to it, and his combat effectiveness is not at all a grade compared to the domestic field troops, and he doesn't even have heavy artillery.

The only good thing is that the supplies are sufficient, not only sufficient, it can be said that it is the same as guarding the ammunition depot to fight, as a transit point for the supply of the entire European legion and the Ottoman army, Basra hoarded countless munitions, and asked for anything, although many of them were heavy weapons that his soldiers who fought on camels could not play, but light weapons alone were luxurious enough, especially a large number of individual bazookas and recoilless guns gave Brusilov, who was originally preparing to raid at high speed with chariots, a head start.

More than a hundred Bobcat fighting vehicles imported by the Russian army from China, under the cover of infantry, attacked the positions hastily constructed by the Sino-Austrian coalition forces with the most classic infantry and tank coordination tactics, and Brusilov behind even heard the cheers of victory, in his opinion, these Chinese soldiers without war defense guns on the opposite side could not stop his steel torrent at all, but at this time, suddenly a series of fires flew out of the Chinese trenches with a long trail, and then crashed straight into the Russian tanks, and then there was a series of crashing sounds, The next moment more than half of the chariots stopped with burning flames and turned their heads in the midst of the explosion.

Brusilov almost clubbed the telescope into his eye socket.

"Retreat, immediately order the chariot troops to retreat." He yelled without hesitation.

The Russian tanks in front immediately retreated, and at this time, the bazooka fighters who had reloaded had once again carried the 60 bazooka and began to aim, fortunately, this time the Russian army had already taken precautions, and then the vehicle-mounted machine guns fired wildly, and at the same time, the weapons in the hands of the accompanying infantry were also firing non-stop, after all, the bazooka was a dangerous job, and most of this round of attacks failed under the suppression of the Russian firepower, but even so, the Russian army lost more than a dozen combat vehicles again, and before those bazookas began the third round of attacks, The Russians began to cover the artillery fire, and the remnants of the tank escaped under the cover of heavy artillery.

This battle caused an armored brigade to lose more than three-fifths of its tanks, which made Brusilov so distressed that he was about to shed tears, you must know that Russia cannot produce this thing, all tanks are still imported from China, and there is one less tank.

After understanding that the chariot rushed up was equivalent to death, Brusilov simply threw the chariot aside, and directly relied on the infantry artillery to play the barrage Xu Jin, the dense shells hit an exploding wall of fire on the Russian offensive route, and the Russian soldiers with bayonets on the water bead rifles bowed their waists and shouted forward under the cover of this wall of fire, and when they approached the explosion zone, the artillery cover extended forward, and another wall of fire was created at a distance ahead, and the infantry continued to advance, gradually approaching the Chinese soldiers' defense line in this way.

And Ma Biao's way of dealing with this tactic is simple and rude, a large number of his soldiers are equipped with machine guns, light machine guns, heavy machine guns, large-caliber machine guns and even anti-aircraft machine guns, everything in Basra's material transit warehouse is pulled here, and the Persians in Isfahan are paid to transport ammunition from the railway station to the front line, Basra hoards hundreds of millions of rounds of various guns and bullets, he can afford to play with a heavy machine gun, no matter how good the Russians' barrage is, after all, there will be times when the infantry is exposed to the muzzle of the machine gun, Hundreds of machine guns of all kinds opened fire in an instant, even if the Russians rushed to their noses, they still knelt.

And this is the case, when the barrage sent the Russian infantry to the defense line of the Chinese soldiers, which was only a few tens of meters away from the Chinese soldiers' defense line, it was enough to throw grenades into the trenches, as soon as the shelling stopped, those Russian soldiers were running wildly with bayonets, and suddenly the opposite side was like a volcanic eruption, and the density of machine gun fire made Brusilov dumbfounded, and the Russian troops who charged in an instant were like a cake that had been stepped on, and a large piece was missing at once.

Fortunately, these Russian veterans reacted quickly enough, and then they all fell to the ground, but at this time, the same dense mortar shells and grenade launcher grenades fell down, blowing up the Russian troops lying on the ground.

Russian heavy artillery shells whistled again, but this time not to cover the attack, but to cover the retreat.

Just when the two sides were fighting in Isfahan, the Chinese and Austrian armies on the Balkan battlefield also began to quickly return to help, the two Chinese armies and the two Ottoman armies were all withdrawn and transferred to Ottoman territory, of which the former directly reinforced Basra, and the latter went to reinforce Armenia, as for the American and British coalition forces opposite them, they don't need to worry too much, these guys can't have the courage to kill out of the mountains and forests of Serbia, not to mention that the Italians are retreating in Hungary, and the American and British coalition forces have to be careful behind themselves.

The first to arrive in Isfahan for reinforcements was a brigade airlifted by airship, and when they arrived, it was the most dangerous time for Ma Biao, and after understanding that a frontal attack was difficult, Brusilov immediately thought of copying Ma Biao's logistics line, and he organized the remnants of the tanks and added a batch of new trucks directly from Tehran, and once again formed a mechanized detachment, relying on the speed advantage to bypass Isfahan and attack Zalinshahr in the south.

Although Ma Biao knew, he had no troops in his hands, and when he saw that the Russian army was about to cut off his logistics supply, the airship transporting troops arrived, and this brigade landed directly in Zalinshahr, and the Russian army's raided chariot once again collided with a single bazooka, this support army is not a second-line garrison like Ma Biao, it is the elite honed in the Balkan battlefield, and the remaining Russian tanks were all packed up in one face, and then launched a counterattack against the Russian infantry. (To be continued......)