gnaw off the best bones, and the next war will not be so simple.

This is true both in the North and in the East.

In Siberia, the most difficult factor was the logistical factor, and of course this was also true on the part of the Russian Empire.

This area is a certain distance from both the Yongguo Kingdom and the core area of the Russian Empire.

Fortunately, the railway of Yongguo has long been built to Yonghui, so that it can occupy a certain advantage in the battle next to Lake Baikal.

Far away, about the vicinity of Novosibirsk, about the same distance from the core areas of the two countries, that is the time for a competition of internal strength and management.

It is precisely because of the lack of reach that North Asia became the home of nomadic peoples before the 17th century.

With the sortie of the Northwest Military District, it quickly conquered Ulan-Ude, joined up with the Northeast Front Army that had conquered Chita, and set off westward.

Because in winter, Siberia is full of snow and ice.

So the lightly armed troops set off first.

Unexpectedly, he met the prepared Tsarist Russian army and fought a difficult encounter.

The main reason is that there is no railway supply for the time being, and the Tsarist army is constantly hoarding troops in Irkutsk to wait for work, and Irkutsk is the largest city of Tsarist Russia in Eastern Siberia, with a certain industrial capacity, and the Yongguo army is beaten back.

At this time, no one on either side can help anyone here, and the confrontation is here.

Wang Yong ordered the group armies of the two military regions not to move aggressively and to wait for backup.

This is a wonderful point, the Tsarist Russia can repel the Yong army here, but it is absolutely incapable of launching a large-scale counterattack, which is too much for them to logistically compete.

The two sides are like people who are far apart, and they can only touch each other with the front of their fists.

Tsarist Russia was not vegetarian either, and their southeastern part began to march towards Han Xinjiang.

Fortunately, since the establishment of the Yongguo, the highway to Hanjiang has been repaired non-stop, the railway, and the logistics supply is sufficient, coupled with geographical reasons, the attack here is a back-up attack for Tsarist Russia, and there are only a few key checkpoints, as long as they are guarded, it is even more difficult to get in.

The two armies of the Northwest Military District have fulfilled this task very well.

At this time, there was a lot of internal situation in Tsarist Russia.

In an absolute monarchy, strange things appear on a regular basis, and as long as they affect the royal family, they can condone the whole country.

At this time, it was already the 15th year of the Taiping period, which was the coldest season in Siberia.

The famous demon Rasputin relied on his special influence on the prince Alexei, the prince with hemophilia was able to get healthier under his influence, his magical prophetic ability was doubtful, and there was a 28c large hanging cholera court in the low-tech world museum, and it was said that he would only be effective for women.

Because of the tension of the war on the Eastern Front, the Tsar went to the expedition in person.

Rasputin began to do whatever he wanted, manipulating the court with his extraordinary influence on the empress, and in just two years from 14 to 16 years in history, the chairman of the Russian Council of Ministers changed 4, the Minister of Internal Affairs changed 6, the Minister of War changed 4, the Minister of Foreign Affairs changed 3, and the Minister of Justice changed 4. Rasputin's appointment of officials is said to be unprincipled and based solely on spur of the moment. He made the eighty-year-old Goromygin chairman of the Council of Ministers, even simply because he loved to eat potatoes made by his wife. In addition, many officials and nobles were removed for offending Rasputin.

is also because of the existence of Rasputin, so Wang Yong has no interest in the Tsarist Russian royal family, otherwise he is not particularly opposed to choosing one of the daughters of Nicholas II to support the Grand Duke of Russia, but the relationship between Nicholas II's four daughters and Rasputin is a bit suspicious, so forget it.

And the commander of Tsarist Russia on the Eastern Front actually commanded well, repelling the vanguard of Yongguo's attack.

But Rasputin, the "peasant saint", was not happy and replaced the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Front.

In fact, it doesn't matter if it is replaced or not, there is no difficulty in defeating Tsarist Russia here with the strength of the Yongjun army.

In the wind and snow, the army of Tsarist Russia lacked food and clothing, and it was difficult to guarantee warmth, many soldiers froze their toes and ears during the march, and they were miserable, and the food they ate, even black bread, was difficult to guarantee, and only one railway guaranteed the supply of materials in Irkutsk, which was very fragile.

Beside the frozen Selenga River, the snow here is compacted and shiny, and it is a slightly better weather in the north at this time, the snow is not so heavy, the wind has paused a little, and you can see a new propeller plane here.

As the propellers turned, the planes rose into the sky in order.

At this time, Tsarist Russia had almost no aircraft, and its air supremacy was equal to zero.

They crossed the Eastern Sayan Ridge and blew up the Siberian section of Tulum to Irkutsk.

Another legion, crossing the Baikal ice in the ice and snow, directly captured the weakly defended Tulum.

Irkutsk has become a dead city in the middle of the ice.

The bombing of aircraft has become a daily training task, and every day it preys on Irkutsk like vultures.

Boris was hiding under the walls of a ruined church with his gun in his hand, and next to him sat his friend Yegor.

"Are we abandoned?" Boris said gloomily, some of his toes were no longer numerous, and he was afraid that he was about to freeze off.

Yegor's face was also very gloomy, he had just picked two pieces of clothing from the body killed by the Yongjun plane, barely keeping warm, and the wood in the church was almost burned.

The Yong army, which had absolute superiority, surrounded and did not attack, but kept bombing every day, trying to trap them alive in this city.

"Damn Yongguo, fighting this ghost battle in this damn weather, I don't know how many people freeze to death."

"If I can return to St. Petersburg alive, I will strangle Nikolai, the, with my own hands, and kill Feodorovna and this alive!"

At this time, the curse of the tsar had become a daily routine in their lives, and they had long forgotten about the "little father", cold and hungry, facing the threat of death.

The aristocrats lived a happy life, and they, the peasants, came to their deaths and had nothing.

I didn't even have a good gun, and I lost the battle.

Boris glanced at Yegor indifferently, the emotions in his heart were about to dry up: "How about you say we surrender?" ”

"Kill the general and surrender? The people of Yongguo are all livestock, and if they surrender, they will all be arrested and do hard labor, and they will not survive. ”

"It's Heavenly Father who has given up on us."

The lonely city in the snow and ice is the most desperate.

In this way, the five major army corps were used as training troops, and the isolated city of Irkutsk was besieged for three whole months, and many Tsarist Russian troops wanted to break through, but they were directly killed by a burst of bombardment.

It wasn't until April, when the temperature warmed up, that the Yongjun attacked, and the soldiers and residents in the city were all human beings and ghosts, and there had already been cannibalism, and they did not encounter the slightest decent resistance.

If it weren't for the bad reputation of the Yongjun, I'm afraid that the city would have surrendered in about two months.