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"Your Excellency, there is news of the 7th Cavalry Army!" The adjutant of the Grand Duke Nicholas reported to him! On the evening of May 5, a handful of Cossack cavalry who had escaped from the Kamensk battlefield returned to Yekaterinburg, and the news of the defeat of the 7th Cavalry Corps reached here! It's just that this news was blocked by the generals of the Russian army. Everyone knows that if this news spreads among the Russian army, it will have a great impact on the morale of the current Russian army!

"Oh? And what about Sergey? Where are the others? Grand Duke Nikolai asked. He was very keen to get the news of Lieutenant General Sergei's victory! Now the situation of the war is beginning to be unfavorable to the Russian army, the Chinese army has adopted steady tactics in several cities on the border, and under the absolute strength, the casualties paid by the Russian army have become larger and larger! If this continues, if there is no incentive for victory, the morale of the Russian army will be greatly affected!

"Your Excellency, the 7th Cavalry Corps has been defeated, only a handful of the more than 25,000 people have fled, and all the others have died! Lieutenant General Sergei was also killed! The adjutant whispered. The crushing defeat of the 7th Cavalry Army was undoubtedly a heavy blow to the Russian army. This is the only mobile force in the hands of Grand Duke Nicholas. Now, the Russian army no longer has the strength to stop the cavalry of the five Central Asian tribes from ravaging the Siberian plain.

"This? How is this possible? How could the brave Cossack cavalry be defeated by those lowly betrayers? Grand Duke Nikolai shook his body and almost fell to the ground, and he was completely shocked by the news. If it weren't for the fact that the news came from the mouth of his most trusted adjutant. He would never believe it!

"Your Excellency. The five tribes of Central Asia gathered almost 100,000 cavalry and fought with the 7th Cavalry Army! The strength is 4 times that of the 7th Cavalry Corps! Moreover. The cavalry of the five tribes of Central Asia was equipped with Chinese weapons, and there were quite a few cannons! At the beginning of the battle, the 7th Cavalry Corps had the upper hand, but as more and more Central Asian cavalry units arrived, the 7th Cavalry Corps gradually lost its advantage in an absolute disadvantage of its forces. As a last resort, Lieutenant General Sergei had to order the retreat of the 7th Cavalry Army, which had suffered heavy losses. But on the way to retreat, it was intercepted by the new forces of the five Central Asian tribes! The 7th Cavalry Army, which had suffered heavy losses, was no longer able to break through the encirclement of the cavalry units of the five Central Asian tribes. The last absolute part of the Cossack cavalry fought to the death, including Lieutenant General Sergei! The adjutant explained! There is no doubt that the 7th Cavalry Army lost this time in terms of strength, and the 7th Cavalry Corps of the Russian Army, which was at an absolute disadvantage in strength, could not make up for this disadvantage in strength even if the Cossack cavalry fought bravely!

Grand Duke Nikolai sat down in his chair in a gloomy manner, his eyes full of sadness, and he did not know whether he was grieving for the warriors of the 7th Cavalry Corps who had died in battle, or for the future orders of Russia! Telegrams from the front for help were already piling up on the table of Grand Duke Nicholas, and the commanders of various cities were complaining. With a large number of squadrons joining the city street fighting, the casualties of the Russian army have begun to increase. And the losses of anti-tank guns are also growing, and after not having enough weapons to resist the armored forces of the Chinese, the Russian army simply does not want to resist the attack of the armored forces of the Chinese. In such a situation, Grand Duke Nikolai's plan to use these border cities to consume the squadron will inevitably be aborted. And once the Russian army on the Siberian plain is wiped out by the Chinese, the end of Russia can be imagined!

"Your Excellency, what should we do now? The cavalry of the five Central Asian tribes is raging on the Siberian plains, and our people are being ravaged by them! The adjutant said with red eyes. Once upon a time, Russia was also one of the world's great powers, but now, even those ethnic minorities in Central Asia dare to wantonly ravage the Russians.

"Order the garrisons everywhere and hold the line! Also, prepare to draw troops to reinforce the front line! "Grand Duke Nikolai hesitated, and then gave the order! It is no longer useful to gather a large army in Yekaterinburg, once several cities on the front line are lost, only these 500,000 people in Yekaterinburg will not want to resist the attack of the squadron. As long as the Chinese are dragged on the border cities, Russia will have any hope of continuing the war! Otherwise, there will be no hope for Russia at all!

"Yes, Your Excellency!" The adjutant nodded, and left quickly, conveying the order of Grand Duke Nikolai to the troops below!

For the cavalry of the five tribes of Central Asia, which was raging on the Siberian plains, Grand Duke Nicholas was already helpless. After the 7th Cavalry Army was wiped out, he only had a small number of cavalry troops in his hands, and it would be a dead end to use such a small amount of cavalry to fight against the cavalry of the five Central Asian tribes with a strength of nearly 100,000 people. Therefore, they can only ignore the cavalry of the five Central Asian tribes who ravaged the Russians on the Siberian plain!

On the orders of Grand Duke Nikolai, a large number of Russian troops set out from Yekaterinburg along the railway line, ready to reinforce the front. However, it will not be so easy for these Russian troops to reach the front line from Yekaterinburg! Along the way, they were attacked by cavalry units of the five Central Asian tribes, and they were also strafed and bombed by the Chinese air force from the sky, and an infantry division set out from Yekaterinburg, and by the time they arrived at the front line, at most half of them remained. The rest, with the exception of some who were killed, became deserters. With no hope in sight, these Russians did not want to stay in the army and wait for death, so they dropped their weapons, took off their uniforms, and fled back to continue to be serfs!

As time passed, the situation on the Siberian plains began to develop in favor of the squadron! Although the resistance of the Russian army is still tenacious, the advance of the squadron often requires the life of the soldier as a price! But in general, the resistance of the Russian army has begun to weaken. If it continues like this, I'm afraid it won't be long before the squadron will be able to exterminate the Russian troops in these cities, thus completely opening up the situation!

While the Chinese Army was fighting a fierce battle with the Russian army on the Siberian Plain, the Chinese Navy also began to prepare for war! After the Battle of the Bahamas, the Chinese Navy has become a veritable number one in the world. The captured capital ships of the combined fleet of the United States and the United Kingdom, the intact battleships have been taken over by the navy, and after the soldiers are familiar with the performance of these warships, they will be able to form combat power! And those damaged warships have also returned to the country, and the major shipyards have vacated their docks and begun to repair these damaged warships. Once these warships are repaired, the strength of the Chinese Navy will inevitably be improved again!

On 8 May, China's Minister of the Navy, Zhang Cheng, convened a naval meeting at the Admiralty, and the commanders of the three fleets had already returned to the Admiralty to attend the meeting. Last night, Emperor Wang Yuze personally held a banquet at the Xinhua Palace to celebrate the victory of the navy. Although the war is not over yet, everyone knows very well that the main enemy of the navy has been eliminated, even if there will be naval battles in the future, but it is already harmless, and the position of the Chinese navy in the world has been consolidated!

In addition to Marshal Zhang Cheng, Minister of the Navy, Marshal Zhang Cheng, also Marshal Deng Shichang, vice minister of the Navy and president of the Naval University, who was already not too concerned about the specific affairs of the Navy and devoted himself to teaching at the Naval University, Marshal Li Dingxin, commander of the Home Fleet, Admiral Li Haitao, commander of the Indian Fleet, and Admiral Gao Yihai, commander of the Pacific Fleet, who had just returned to China!

"Ladies and gentlemen, after years of hard work, under the leadership of the wise Majesty, the Imperial Navy has finally become the most powerful navy in the world, and this is inseparable from the efforts of the officers and men of the Navy to achieve today's results! Thank you all for all your hard work over the years! Minister of the Navy Zhang Cheng said affectionately. At the beginning, he was just the commander of the Manchu Fujian Naval Division, but after the Battle of Mawei, he became the scapegoat for the defeat of the Fujian Naval Division. Fortunately, Wang Xiao took him in and let him go to Europe to study, and at the same time prepare for the construction of the Chinese Navy. After decades of struggle, we are here today!

Several other senior admirals also had red eyes. The Chinese Navy started from scratch and went through one fierce battle after another to achieve its current achievements, and even the former maritime hegemon suffered heavy losses under the blows of the Chinese Navy. The Chinese Navy has become a well-deserved maritime hegemon!

"However, the war is not over yet, the army and air force are still fighting the enemy on the battlefield, so the mission of our navy is not over yet!" Marshal Zhang Cheng continued!

Everyone looked to Marshal Zhang Cheng, and after the Battle of the Bahamas, the Chinese Navy began a long rest. They have nothing to do until a combat mission is issued!

"Ladies and gentlemen, now the Pacific Ocean has become our inland sea, the Indian Ocean is basically under our control, the western part of the Atlantic Ocean is also under our sphere of influence, and the eastern Mediterranean Sea is also under our control! However, the eastern Atlantic and the western Mediterranean are still under the control of the enemy, and strategic points such as Gibraltar are still under the control of the British, and we need to continue to attack these strategic points in our hands and ensure our superiority after the war! In this case, even if the Germans want to compete with us for world hegemony after the war, they will have to pay a heavy price! Marshal Zhang Cheng said loudly. His goal, in addition to the Chinese Navy becoming the world's first, is also to control the world's strategic points, and when the time comes, China will be the real maritime hegemon! (To be continued......)