Yankov handed over Makashev's nineteen army divisions and seven aviation divisions faster than Makashev thought, and even Yankov directly organized these troops. When the Siberian and Far Eastern armies were reorganized, although Qi Yiming picked out some soldiers who did not seem to be very reliable, he still organized them into a complete formation and did not give up training them, so when these soldiers and horses were handed over to Makashev, these troops could be quickly put into battle.

With these troops, Makashev's strength increased greatly, and the confrontation with the Russian army on the battlefield became fierce.

Although Makashev is not a good person, his military achievements are stronger than that of Russian Defense Minister Grachev, who has been sloppy and sloppy, and after he got the new forces, he divided his troops into two routes, the northern route crossed the Volga River, the goal was directly aimed at Moscow, and the southern road followed the Volga River to the south, in order to seize the most plastered land in Western Russia.

At first, the Russian army launched an attack on Makashev, but when Makashev calmed down the civil strife on his side and borrowed troops from Yankov, the Russian army, which had low combat effectiveness, was immediately no opponent. With the 34th Guards Motorized Infantry Division and the 43rd Guards Motorized Infantry Division as the main force, Makashev concentrated superior forces to carry out the tactics of dividing and encircling the Russian army.

In the minds of some grassroots commanders of the Russian army, orders from superiors do not work, and saving their lives is the most important thing. Therefore, although the orders of the Russian army are coherent from top to bottom, their implementation is quite unfavorable, and it is difficult for the army to complete the set combat objectives, which makes it difficult to implement the operational plan formulated above.

The first large-scale battle of 100,000 Russian and Malaysian troops broke out in Saratov, the capital of Saratov Oblast. This was originally the territory controlled by Makashev's military district, but Makashev was mutined by junior officers, and there was chaos here, and the Russian army invaded Saratov Oblast from the southeast and occupied the city of Saratov.

Saratov is a strategic point of contention between the two sides, with a good industrial base and a route to Moscow's oil and gas pipelines. The railway runs from north to south, and if you get here, you can march to Moscow, or you can march to Samara and the East, and neither Yeltsin nor Makhashev can sit idly by and watch the other side get here.

If Yeltsin wanted to strike at Makashev, he would squeeze out Makashev's living space, so every inch of land was contested. This is also a matter of great publicity for his great achievements, the more land he takes, the more secure Yeltsin feels that his position will be, and he wants to prove his strength to those who have different intentions through his military exploits, and to deter them from any bad thoughts.

The battle for Saratov began with an air battle when a Russian reconnaissance plane was patrolling over Saratov Oblast and trying to approach an area closer to Samara, but was detected by the Malaysian army's ground-based air defense radar. Makashev had just gotten a batch of MiG-29s from Siberia, and wanted to test whether these borrowed troops were good or not, so he immediately sent two MiG-29 fighters into the air to intercept them.

Although the MiG-29, nicknamed the "airport defender", is indeed a bit incredibly short in range, it is still very easy to be competent at a distance of more than 100 kilometers. In fact, when Qi Yiming made the decision to exchange fourth-generation fighters such as the MiG-29 to Makashev, he did not have a good impression of the MiG-29. In the early days, the production level of the MiG-29 was relatively low, not only because of the short range, but also because the flight control system used was still very primitive, and the electronic equipment was even worse. The Su-27 he accepted was generally close to the combat level of the J-16 after some modification, but the MiG-29 made him not interested in changing it, so he simply threw it to Makashev.

Qi Yiming can't look down on it, but Makashev is a treasure. The number of Su-27s in his hands was not large, and after getting a large number of MiG fighters, he immediately became the main force of his air force.

The Russian army's inattentive and sloppy combat level made it impossible for their reconnaissance aircraft to get support quickly, so when two MiG-29s appeared, the reconnaissance plane could not run away at all, and was shot down by two MiG-29s cleanly. The Russian army naturally did not give up, and immediately sent several MiG-23 and MiG-25 to counterattack, but due to the limited time of the two MiG-29s, they returned immediately after the mission was completed, so the Russian military aircraft did not intercept the enemy.

Instead, it entered the range area of the anti-aircraft missile positions set up by the Ma army. The wilted Qi Yiming not only gave Makashev some old-fashioned Soviet-made missiles, but even gave him anti-aircraft missiles like the S-300 with great kindness. Immediately after receiving it, Makashev deployed around the war zone to defend his capital, Samara.

After the Russian military plane was locked by the S-300, it wanted to escape, but it still did not outspeed the missile, and two MiG-21 and MiG-25 were shot down by the missile, and then the Makashev Air Force, which found a large number of Russian military aircraft approaching, also dispatched several fighters to engage in the battle. The end result of this engagement was an overwhelming victory for the Makashev Air Force.

In fact, this is not difficult to understand, a large number of military aircraft in the Makashev Air Force come from Siberia, these pilots have always maintained adequate training, at least 10-12 hours a month, but the Russian army because of lack of money, normal flight training can not be guaranteed, even the best pilots will have a sense of tension after being born, plus the number of Makashev Air Force is larger, leading to the rout of the Russian army.

Makashev was furious at the approach reconnaissance of the Russian army, and immediately dispatched the 43rd Guards Motorized Infantry Division, the 96th Motorized Infantry Division, and the two motorized infantry divisions that had just arrived from Yankov, and launched a fierce attack on Saratov, which was controlled by the Russian army. Tens of thousands of horsemen marched down the Volga River under the high-speed assault of tanks.

Here you can see the sloppiness and incompetence of the Russian army, they simply have no intention of fighting well. After the capture of the city of Saratov, the Russian army did not build a defensive line well, and a large area of land connecting Samara Oblast to the north was practically undefended. So the Ma army advanced wildly, but the Russian army couldn't stop it at all, and let the Ma army hit Saratov all the time.

In the end, the two armies fought a decisive battle on the east bank of the Volga River, and the Russian army had only one mechanized division and one independent brigade, while the Ma army concentrated the strength of four divisions to launch a fierce attack. After the battle was unfavorable, the Russian army intended to withdraw to the city and defend the city, but Makashev's ace force, the 43rd Guards Division, gave full play to its mobile advantage, inserted from the flank, and cut off the rear road of the Russian army back to Saratov, so that the Russian army had no way to escape.

In the end, more than 9,000 Russian troops laid down their arms and surrendered to the Ma army.

The Russian front-line commander found that the Saratov defenders had been routed so easily, and feared that Yeltsin and Grachev would hold him accountable, so he could only grit his teeth and attack Saratov, hoping that the Malaysian army would not be able to hold on when it was not firmly established, and finally had to withdraw from this place.

The Russian army mobilized more than 40,000 ground troops to launch a general offensive against the Malaysian army. In terms of scale, the two sides are about the same, and there is no obvious gap even in terms of weapons and equipment, both are Soviet-made weapons, but there is still a big difference in real fighting.

After grasping the movements of the Russian army, the Ma army immediately launched with artillery and launched a fierce artillery bombardment on the advancing Russian army, and even the Ma army dispatched a certain scale of attack aircraft to attack the armored forces of the Russian army under the protection of fighters. In fact, the scale of this firepower is less than a fraction of that of the Chinese and US Army attacks, but it still puts a lot of pressure on the Russian army locally.

The grassroots commanders of the Russian army who did not listen to the call at the critical moment made a mistake again, and it was clear that as long as they went over, the attack on the Ma army, which had not yet stabilized, would have a chance of victory, but a part of the Russian army withdrew from the battlefield under the orders of the grassroots commanders to avoid suffering heavy losses. It doesn't matter if the wings are broken and withdrawn, but it makes the Russian army's marching formation chaotic, there are deserters on the battlefield, and there are also attackers, and the flaws are immediately exposed. In fact, the Ma army does not have to be strong in the Russian army, but it can lock in the victory with just a little bit of reliability.

The 43rd Guards Division, which had previously cut off the retreat of the Russian army, was once again powerful at this time, and the division commander even personally followed the headquarters to assault forward, which also inspired the morale of all the soldiers in the division, and the 43rd Guards Division broke through the Russian army like a sharp knife, beating the already chaotic Russian army even more chaotically, and also divided the Russian army into two parts.

The remaining troops of the Ma army will be surrounded by the divided Russian army in two parts, and in the face of huge pressure to be eliminated, because the opponent is their own compatriots, there is no psychological pressure on the Russian army to surrender.

In this way, in the battle of Saratov, the Ma army won a complete victory, not only recapturing Saratov, but also absorbing the strength of 30,000 or 40,000 Russian troops. After Qi Yiming learned of this situation in China, he couldn't help but be a little speechless, "How is this the same as the Liberation War, Makhashev is beating more and more people, I thought this civil war was quite interesting before, but I didn't expect Yeltsin to be so ineffective, is it because the forces supporting Makashev are too strong?" ”

Staff member Mo Xiantong said: "The main thing is the mentality of the Russian army, their state of chaos is too serious, they don't know why they are fighting, and some troops can't even pay salaries, they are confused ideologically, and there is no effective control system." Analyzing the Russian army's engagements, many of the defeats began when some grassroots commanders who did not follow orders did not follow the operational instructions of their superiors. However, Makashev's strength still cannot be compared with the official government of the Russian Federation, and if it reaches a certain point, Yeltsin will definitely be ruthless, mobilize more forces, and will also be very critical of the army. ”

Qi Yiming said with a smile: "No matter who wins, we will all take advantage of the fisherman, we will get a complete North Asia, and if West Russia is too weak in the end, we can also take advantage of the weakness and let Yankov enter." ”

Moxian Channel: "Occupying Western Russia is actually not a good choice, our control is actually limited, and merging into a strong country is actually not good for our development, the best way is to divide it into three parts, Russia, Siberia and the Far East." ”