Yekaterinburg, after a day and a night of chaos, in the early morning of the next day the city's gunfire finally calmed down, General Petrov with a full three divisions of troops quickly extinguished the riots with thunder, now those workers are trembling under the soldiers' bayonets to work hard, to refuel the train that should have left yesterday, to repair the railway damaged in the riots, at this time no matter how hard and tired no one dares to think that the wages are low, The corpses that hadn't been cleaned up next to them solved their complaints well.

"Shame on the face!" General Petrov said with a sneer as he looked at the workers who were tired and lay down and quickly got up very consciously and continued to work hard.

Then he lowered the curtain and said to a young man covered in blood and chained in front of him: "Mr. Sverdrov, I am curious, don't you understand what it means to mess up the country at such a time of invasion by a foreign enemy? I am not against the people's demand for rights, in fact I also feel that the current system in Russia is not good, it needs reforms, it needs elections, it needs a real Duma, it needs a government that is decided by votes and not by His Majesty the Tsar alone.

But not at such times, on the contrary, we must respect the authority of the tsar, even if he is a tyrannical tsar, because only in this way can we unite the whole of Russia and concentrate all our forces against the aggressor.

If we are like you, we have destroyed our own country before the enemy has defeated us, and when the Chinese invaders set foot on Russian soil and enslave the Russian people like the Mongols in those days, do you think you are worthy of your homeland? ”

"Your Excellency, General, the working class has no Motherland!" Sverdrov, the main head of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in Yekaterinburg, the leader of this uprising, said proudly.

"Huh?" General Petrov choked on and stammered, then ordered in exasperation: "Go, hang this guy on the platform." Let those bastards see what happens to the rebellion. ”

"General, this is not appropriate, is it? It is said that now that the riots have subsided, criminals like these must be tried by a judge before they can be convicted and executed. The adjutant beside him hesitated and said, killing in battle is one thing, but the captured prisoners are not qualified to do this job.

"Where are we so worried, we are just too merciful to these guys, if we had hanged all the exiled rebels in the first place, there wouldn't be so much trouble now! Didn't you hear him? The working class has no homeland, and since he no longer considers Russia his homeland, the laws of the Russian Empire no longer need to protect them. Petrov shouted with a glare.

The adjutant hurriedly asked the soldiers to escort Sverdrov out and hang him, and at that moment a staff officer ran in somewhat panicked and reported: "Report to the general." A telegram has just arrived from Omsk that the Chinese have captured Pavlodar. ”

Lieutenant General Solanov's only contribution to the campaign was to send a telegram to the defenders of Omsk on the fall of Pavlodar by wireless telegraph before he fled, but this telegram has only now reached General Petrov due to various delays. The bad news almost stunned him, and General Petrov with the telegram he was in a trance, which made it clear that Pavlodar had been raided and captured by the armored division of the Chinese Ninth Army.

After half a year of war, it is no secret that the methods and speed of the raids of the Chinese armored forces have long been no secret. An armored division of more than 300 combat vehicles and an infantry division loaded with trucks used to drive more than 200 kilometers in seven hours at the fastest speed. Since it was the Chinese armored division that captured Pavlodar, there must have been an infantry division with it, and Pavlodar was only 400 kilometers from Omsk. If the speed of their surprise attack on Almaty continues, it means that in two days at most this 30,000-strong mechanized corps will appear in Omsk, where only a brigade of Russian troops has just arrived from Yekaterinburg.

"Quick, command to speed up. You have to leave after an hour, and the saboteur will be shot directly! General Petrov's face turned green after thinking about this, and he roared without hesitation.

An hour later. The first Russian train full of soldiers finally left Yekaterinburg, but it was still a difficult task for the Russian army to reach Omsk in two days, they had to get south to Lyabinsk and then take the Trans-Siberian Railway, a journey of more than 1,000 kilometers, and had to go through many refueling and water refueling along the way, coupled with the low efficiency of the Russian railway, even General Petrov did not dare to guarantee that he could complete this task.

He didn't dare to guarantee that he would be able to complete the task, but more than a thousand kilometers away, Han Yuan and Li Tingyu, who were leading his mechanized army to gallop on the green grassland that had just recovered, were full of confidence, and the Dragon and Tiger chariots with the fastest speed of fifty had already run to more than thirty in this off-road situation, and the steel tracks were rudely crushed like green grass and flowers, whistling over the West Siberian plain, and behind them, those ten-wheeled off-road trucks loaded with high-power diesel engines were full of soldiers and supplies and followed closely at the same speed, on both sides of small military vehicles with large-caliber machine guns and recoilless guns and even grenade launchers galloped by.

In addition to these, there are a large number of special vehicles that accompany the protection, 120 mm self-propelled howitzers with long barrels, self-propelled anti-aircraft machine guns that once made a Cossack division hate the yellow sand, and even tracked bulldozers converted from combat vehicles, pontoon trucks, fuel tankers, cooking trucks, and even medical ambulances, truck-loaded 130-mm rocket launchers, and especially twelve half-tracks that can be called monsters.

Of course, the half-track is not a big deal, the real horror is the things installed on both sides of this half-track, because the mechanized corps usually lacks oversized caliber artillery for siege in order to pursue speed, and it is difficult to guarantee air support for them at any time in the open Siberian army aviation, so Yang Feng equipped his mechanized infantry with special heavy artillery. The reason why he imitated the land Stuka, a heavy vehicle-mounted rocket launcher, is not called a cannon is mainly because the range of two or three kilometers of this thing really can't be connected with the gun, but although the range is short, the caliber can be described as huge, even exceeding the main gun of the Kunlun-class battleship, and the six 320 mm heavy rocket launchers are hung diagonally on both sides of the half-track vehicle, which is loaded with heavy rockets weighing nearly 150 kilograms.

Such a fully mechanized corps of late World War II finally reached its destination in less than two days, and their rivals had just sailed out of Kurgan.

Omsk, the seat of the governor of the Russian steppe, the transportation hub where the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Irtysh River meet, but strictly speaking this is not a fortress city, after all, it is more than a thousand kilometers from China, and there was not even a garrison until the 20th Army was defeated on the battlefield of Lake Balkhash, and a brigade originally stationed in Yekaterinburg was moved here. However, this is just a local garrison used to suppress the rebellious party, both the level of equipment and combat effectiveness can be called rubbish, not even heavy artillery, only a dozen 75 infantry guns, after seeing the chariots sweeping in the distance as if sweeping all over the mountains, those poor Russian soldiers were terrified.

Fortunately, they also had a sober commander, Brigadier General Lebed, a veteran of three years in the European theater, who scoffed at His Excellency the Governor's request that he put his men outside the city to block the vital railway station, so that he could not stop a charge from the Chinese. So the general withdrew all the people into the city, ready to fight street battles with the Chinese, in his opinion such a long-range attack will definitely not carry heavy artillery, just the fire of chariot guns and mortars The strong buildings in the city can completely resist, but what he does not know is that there is also a kind of artillery in the world called self-propelled artillery, called rocket artillery.

Thirty-six 120-mm self-propelled howitzers of the self-propelled artillery regiment of the 6th Panzer Division and 36 130-mm rocket launchers of the artillery regiment of the 106th Division lined up outside the city. Of course, the balloon also carried an artillery observer with a radio on his back, and then after receiving the number of reports from another group of artillery observers on the ground, these cannons began to test fire, and then the observers in the sky reported the landing point, and the ground artillery readjusted and tried firing, and when the landing point of the shells was confirmed, the overwhelming shells smashed over.

The Russians were stunned in an instant, if they dug trenches outside, maybe they would not be so unlucky, but they could hide in the barricades and buildings in the city, and even if a heavy artillery shell hit, even if it didn't hit directly, the collapsed buildings would have to be killed in a bunch of them, especially those rocket artillery, this nineteen-barreled heavy rocket artillery salvo was nearly 700 shells.

Brigadier General Lebed looked stupidly at the dense flames that whistled overhead, and then followed the trajectory of the firelight, and watched them smash down like the raindrops of a summer rainstorm, and then the city, which was half a square kilometer, turned into a sea of fire in an instant, and when the fire disappeared and the smoke dispersed, only a few ruins were still standing abruptly, and the defenders and civilians who lived there were completely buried in the ruins. (To be continued......)