In front of Lin Yuan, there was a map of Russia, Lin Yuan looked at the towns on the map, and silently thought about the strategy of marching.

Lin Yuan's strategic goal was to attack Moscow and St. Petersburg. At this time, the Chinese army had gathered a large number of troops in two regions, one in Siberia and the other in Central Asia.

Forces massed in Siberia could cross the Ural Mountains, cross the vast plain of Eastern Europe, and attack from the west of Moscow and St. Petersburg, and forces massed in Central Asia could cross the Ural River and attack from the south of Moscow.

The troops assembled in Siberia were the "Siberian Front", which was subordinate to the Siberian Military District. Since Siberia covers an area of more than 12 million square kilometers, which is almost as large as China, Lin Yuan specially divided the "Siberian Military Region" in Siberia, and the troops in the military region are called the "Siberian Front."

Lin Yuan divided China into three major military regions, the "Siberian Military Region" was one of them, and the other two, one was the "Central Plains Military Region" and the other was the "Southeast Asian Military Region", of which the Central Plains Military Region had jurisdiction over Central Asia, Japan, Korea, and the territory of China in Lin Yuan's era, and the Southeast Asian Military Region had jurisdiction over the Indochina Peninsula and the countries on the islands of Southeast Asia.

In the Siberian Front, there were many soldiers of ethnic Russians, all of whom were originally sent to Siberia by Russia for hard labor, and later when China took control of Siberia, they all became Chinese citizens and became Chinese.

The Siberian Front was separately organized into the 1st Division of the Front Army and the 2nd Division of the Front Army, and the serial numbers of the 1st and 2nd Divisions were no longer followed. The Siberian Front has more than 50 divisions with a total strength of about 700,000, and about 100,000 people are closest to the Ural Mountains.

The troops assembled in Central Asia are mainly the 7th and 39th Divisions, with a total strength of more than 30,000 troops, but they can be redeployed from China's western provinces, and the total strength can also be expanded to 100,000.

Lin Yuan deliberated again and again and decided to use the attack plan of "false in the north and true in the south", in which the 1st Division of the Siberian Front and the 2nd Division of the Siberian Front besieged Yekaterinburg, an important town on the Russian defense line in the Ural Mountains, which is a famous historical and cultural city in Russia and a bridgehead for Russia to defend against the westward advance of Chinese forces.

Two divisions of the Siberian Front besieged Yekaterinburg, and Nikolayevich would inevitably gather the main forces in eastern Russia to assist the defenders of Yekaterinburg, while at this time, the 7th and 39th divisions stationed in Kazakhstan were attacking Tsaritsyn, an important city in southern Russia.

The name "Tsaritsyn" was rarely known in Lin Yuan's time, but if it were to be mentioned by another name, it would be known to everyone, and that name was Stalingrad, where the Battle of Stalingrad took place was a turning point in the Soviet-German War in World War II.

Stalingrad is called "Tsaritsyn" in this era, here is the most important oil, steel, grain production area in southern Russia, when China liberated Central Asia to fight with the Russian army, the Russian tanks and military rations were supplied from here, if China took here, the whole of Russia will lose oil and one-third of the grain!

After Lin Yuan formulated this offensive strategy of "north false and south true", he conveyed this strategy, and the Siberian Front, the 7th Division and the 39th Division immediately began to prepare for the attack, during this time, the Russian army only launched some tentative attacks on the border between Russia and Kazakhstan, and the results were all defeated.

On March 15, the 1st and 2nd divisions of the Siberian Front launched a siege of Yekaterinburg as planned.

Russia has been operating Yekaterinburg for many years, Yekaterinburg is surrounded by strong fortresses and fortifications, the Siberian Front wants to take down here, it must send a large number of artillery to cooperate with the battle, but according to Lin Yuan's intentions, the two divisions of the Siberian Front are just feints, the real main attack is the 7th Division and the 39th Division, and the real main direction of attack is Tsaritsyn.

However, the Russian side did not know about this, and after receiving the report from Yekaterinburg, Nikolayevich immediately convened a meeting of his subordinates to discuss countermeasures, and his subordinates unanimously agreed that China's efforts to besiege Yekaterinburg were intended to open up the passage between the Ural Mountains and the Eastern European Plain, and to pave the way for the Chinese army to attack the Eastern European Plain and capture Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Nikolayevich did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered the Janissaries to go to Yekaterinburg to assist the defenders of Yekaterinburg in blocking the Chinese army.

On March 18, Nikolayevich's elite Praetorian Guard Corps rushed to Yekaterinburg and joined forces with the defenders, and at this time, Lin Yuan ordered the 7th and 39th Divisions, located on the border between Kazakhstan and Russia, to cross the Ural River and attack Tsaritsyn.

The flow of the Ural in March was too small to hold back the 7th and 39th Divisions, so the two armies quickly crossed the Ural and attacked Tsaritsyn on the left and right, like an open pair of pincers.

In the two divisions, there is also a special unit, this unit is the "Russian prisoner of war force", when Lin Yuan recovered the Outer Northeast, there was a war with Tsarist Russia, in this war, the Tsarist Russian army was defeated by Lin Yuan's troops, and a large number of soldiers surrendered.

Lin Yuan did not harm these prisoners of war, and let them grow food in the newly built agricultural base in the Outer Northeast, and as China grew stronger, these people became Chinese citizens one after another.

When Lin Yuan formulated a plan to attack Russia, he selected people whose hometowns were in southern Russia from among these prisoners of war and arranged them into the "prisoner of war unit" to let them publicize the benefits of China.

After the Chinese army entered Russia, these people worked wonders, and the Russian troops that had been hastily cobbled together surrendered one after another, and the Chinese army did not take much effort to rush straight to the city of Tsaritsyn.

Tsaritsyn's garrison still has a certain strength, after all, this is an important town in southern Russia, the garrison is also equipped with a lot of tanks and artillery, and the garrison commander also has ambitions to block the Chinese army here, so the garrison commander rejected Xiao Yingwu's surrender conditions and insisted on fighting to the death with the Chinese army.

Although the commander of the Tsaritsyn garrison had the strength to not admit defeat, he was ambitious and talented, and only then did his troops lack fighting spirit, and within an hour of bringing his troops to the battlefield, the troops disappeared like dewdrops in the sun.

In the evening of the same day, the Chinese army entered Tsaritsyn and completely liberated the southern regions of Russia, and the loss of the Tsaritsyn region shocked the whole of Russia.