"Huh?" Akarev stood on the spot, and the Cossack officers and soldiers behind him gasped, not thinking that the enemy had already arrived at Katerinburg. This happened in many parts of the city, where the Cossack soldiers, even with their weapons, were in the barracks, and they were defenseless and could only be captured.

Two hours later, without firing a single shot, the Predators took control of all of Katerinburg. The paratroopers locked the captives in a dozen empty warehouses and put them on guard, while the rest began to fortify their positions, build new firing points, and house their weapons. The whole of Katerinburg soon became the domain of the Iron Army, and some soldiers began to intensify the construction of large field airfields in the open space of the city.

With the sound of a long whistle, a train full of military supplies slowly pulled into Katerinburg, and the captain who escorted the train stepped off the train, rubbed his already sore arms, and walked directly to the duty room of the station, where a duty officer with a big hat and a low brim was sitting at the table reading the newspaper.

The captain walked into the room, knocked on the table and said, "Hey, according to the old rules, we will add coal and water to our trains, and we will have to rush to the Far Eastern front." ”

The attendant put down the newspaper and smiled, "That's not good, now you have to follow the new rules." ”

The captain said angrily: "What are the new rules, when did the rules change, do you know that you will be shot if you delay the military aircraft?" ”

The attendant took out a pistol and pointed it at him: "I just changed it, because this place has been occupied by the Chinese army." ”

The captain looked at the yellow face under his hat in surprise, and stammered, "What...... How...... How can it be? You guys...... How can it be...... Occupy this place so quickly. ”

The attendant smiled: "I'm sorry Mr. Captain, you are now a prisoner, please come with me, we also laughed at the military supplies on your train." When the captain was escorted out of the duty room, he found that the Cossack soldiers of the company who were following him had all been disarmed, and at this moment they were squatting on the platform of the station with their heads in their hands, and they looked listless with their heads hanging down.

When the three supply trains disappeared in Katerinburg, this incident quickly aroused the suspicion of the logistics department of the Cossack Army, and they immediately sent people to Katerinburg to find out the situation, but the people who went were gone, and the telephone and cable telegraph there were also no work, because it was the only connection between the territory of the Western Continent of the Cossack Empire and the territory of the Central Continent, so the occupation of this place by the Predators was equivalent to cutting off the message transmission and transportation channel between the Western Continent of the Cossack Empire and the Central Continent.

It was already a day before the logistics department, which found out that the problem was serious, reported the situation to the Ministry of Defense, and the cumbersome and slow military system of the Cossacks did not report the matter to Marshal Kolchak until three days later. When Marshal Kolchak learned of this, he immediately sensed that the matter was very serious, and he ordered the Eighty-third Army, which was closest to there, to send troops to investigate.

When the bombers returned from bombing their targets, they continued to go deep into the hinterland of the other side to transport personnel and equipment to the newly built airfield in Katerinburg, where they refueled and filled the planes with bombs converted from Cossack artillery shells, and bombed the Cossack targets again, and some planes returned some prisoners.

With the buffer of these few days, another division of the Third Army of the Iron Blood Army had arrived at Katerinburg with a large amount of weapons and ammunition, and the fortifications of Katerinburg were quickly built, deep trenches were dug outside the city, and the Cossacks hoarded cement were used to build fortresses on a large scale, to strengthen the positions outside the city, and to increase the depth of defense as much as possible.

While the Iron and Blood Army was making solid defensive preparations, the Cossack 83rd Army did not take the orders of their superiors seriously at all, and they only sent a regiment to Katerinburg to see the situation, but when this regiment arrived at the outlying positions of Katerinburg, they were greeted by a rain of bullets, and the regiment was taken by surprise, and nearly half of the dead and wounded returned to the station in disarray.

Lieutenant General Kuzonev, commander of the 83rd Cossack Army, who received the report, was taken aback, he could not believe that in his rear, there was such a strong enemy force, and it had already occupied Katerinburg, so he reported it while mobilizing his troops to Katerinburg, hoping to recapture it as soon as possible.

Marshal Kolchak was furious when he received the report, he never thought that the Imperial Chinese Army would occupy Katerinburg unknowingly, and he ordered the commander of the Central Continent to be removed from his post and investigated, and on the other hand, he ordered the nearby troops to immediately assemble and retake Katerinburg.

"What? The Chinese army suddenly appeared and occupied Katerinburg? Admiral Kulkin was also shocked when he received the news, he couldn't figure out how this army appeared in that place, he suddenly thought of his secret arrangement, and couldn't help but shiver.

"The troops must be notified as soon as possible." Admiral Kurkin was in a hurry, once his arrangement was wrong, the Cossack army in the Central Continent might suffer heavy losses, but the Cossack Empire did not have radio technology, and once the troops set out on a mission, it would be difficult to find their exact location, thinking of this, he immediately shouted: "Herald, herald." ”

The door to the headquarters opened with a thud, but instead of a herald, a brightly dressed gendarmerie brought by an officer entered. Seeing Admiral Kulkin, the officer first saluted, then took out a document and said: "Admiral Kulkin, I am ordered to arrest you, this is an order personally signed by the commander-in-chief of the army, Field Marshal Kolchak. ”

Admiral Kulkin was sweating profusely and shouted: "I want to see Lord Marshal, I have an urgent military situation, hurry up, I want to see Lord Marshal." ”

Looking at Admiral Kulkin, who looked eager, the officer waved his hand contemptuously and said, "You'll see you at the court-martial, take it." Admiral Kurkin, who was howling, was taken away, and the officer did not know how much damage his actions would cause to the Cossacks.

At this time in Katerinburg, the 83rd Army of the Cossack Corps arrived first, and a large number of Cossack soldiers gathered outside the city, and without any recuperation, they quickly launched a group charge, but the dense fire on the opposite side proved that it was not a small force that was stationed in the position.

A large number of Cossack soldiers were killed, which made Kuzonev feel a little careless, originally he thought it was a small force of the Chinese Empire that had infiltrated it, but he did not expect that the number of people on the opposite side was not small.

Kuzonev ordered to stop the charge and bombard the Predator positions with heavy artillery first, but he did not know that there were far more heavy artillery in Katerinburg than he had brought, and that the Predators would definitely have enough men to use them.

When dozens of artillery pieces of the 83rd Army began to bombard the forward positions of the Iron and Blood Army, the artillery positions in the city suddenly emitted a dense muffled sound, and hundreds of shells covered the artillery positions of the 83rd Army in an instant. Before the Cossack artillerymen could react to what was going on, they were blown to pieces, and after two rounds of shelling, Kuzonev found that his artillery had been destroyed, and he immediately ordered the whole army to press and continue the attack.

Covered by the dense artillery fire of the Iron Army, the Cossack Corps suffered heavy losses, and the 83rd Army was quickly defeated, and Kuzonev immediately sent a telegram to Kolchak asking for help.

The Cossacks, also in the western continental direction, also noticed the abnormality, and upon hearing the news of the cut-off of Katerinburg, Alexander III was furious, and he immediately ordered the two most elite army groups to attack and retake Katerinburg.

Both of these armies were the absolute elite of the Cossack Imperial reserves, which were used by Alexander III as a reserve force for counterattacks, and each division had a chariot battalion with twenty-four tanks, which was quite well-equipped.

A division of the vanguard launched an attack on the western defense line of Katerinburg, and the heavy artillery covered twenty-four chariots rushed towards the position of the Iron Army, and as soon as it entered a range of 1,000 meters, it was met with a powerful counterattack by the 1st Division of the 3rd Army of the Iron Army.

Six 37-mm anti-tank guns opened fire one after another, sparks flew from the impact of the extremely high rate of warhead on the front armor of the Jazz tank, and the hard tungsten alloy bullet drilled a small hole in the tank's not-so-thick armor. The warhead that penetrated the inside of the vehicle shattered due to the change in stress, and the shrapnel fired in all directions turned the various facilities inside the vehicle into a hornet's nest, along with its members.

With the operation of the elite artillery of the Iron Blood Army, five tanks were destroyed with the first fire, and only one tank suddenly plunged into a crater, making the body of the vehicle a little shorter out of thin air, which escaped the doom. Seeing that the Iron Warriors on the opposite side were so powerful, they destroyed five of their own ace weapons in one look, and they were so frightened that they immediately turned their muzzles and fired at the anti-tank guns.

Dense bullets crackled on the artillery shield, and soon the shells followed, and the explosion sounded, the explosive power of the shells was not something that the artillery shield could resist, and after two rounds of fire, these anti-tank guns were blown up one after another.

The Chinese Empire now has a lot of anti-tank weapons, the loss of six anti-tank guns is nothing, and soon a few more recoilless guns fired, only ten minutes later, the Chariots of a division of the Cossack Army were all reimbursed, the angry Cossack division commander jumped straight to his feet, he was in a hurry and couldn't do anything, the Jazz Chariot was not advanced, the Chinese Empire had more than a dozen weapons that could destroy it, and these weapons that were regarded as killer weapons by the Cossacks could not play their due role at all.

However, the number of the Predator Army is too small, and the weapons and equipment that can be operated at the same time are also few, and it is easy to be consumed by the opponent's superior firepower in battle. Although the personnel were well trained and could retreat in time, the weapons were left there to be destroyed.

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