Chapter 288: The Wilderness
"Well, the Russians have a really big land, and we keep marching, marching, and every morning we get up in a new forest or wilderness." Cha Xiuwen answered, and he also looked at Cha Nei Lake, which was surrounded by a comfortable and warm atmosphere in May.
"It's so comfortable." Wan Shaohui put down the gun and lay down on the grass that was green again.
Cha Xiuwen also sat down.
The two looked together at the clear blue sky, and a white plane slowly flew past.
It was a beautiful and calm afternoon in May.
Yongguo and Tsarist Russia have been at war for several months.
Only occasionally a few brief shelling can be heard in the distance.
Every day, the land of Yongguo continues to expand in this Siberian wilderness.
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This peaceful day lasted for several months, and it relieved the Yongguo Chang who was attacking everywhere.
Yongguo is like a boxer who defeats the enemies of the Quartet in a short period of time, closing his eyes a little and trimming, and in the blink of an eye, it is another set of killing moves.
During these months, the railway and road through Yunzhong Province to Novosibirsk were finally built.
After repairing in the country, several front armies re-recruited a large number of new soldiers and made a comeback.
Six army groups were hoarded near Omsk, four in the North-Western Military District and two in the North-Eastern Military District.
Seven army groups were hoarded in Hanjiang Province, including three in the Northwest Military Region and four in the Eastern Military District. One group army of the Northwest Military Region is in Kashgar, two group armies are in Yining, two group armies of the Eastern Military Region are in Yining, one group army is in Alashankou, and two group armies are near the Irtysh River.
Almost half of the troops in the whole country of Yongguo came.
In June, it is the hot season in Hanjiang.
Fourteen armies were launched suddenly.
Four armies suddenly began to attack Omsk to attract forces from the eastern line of defense of Tsarist Russia.
The two armies went directly south and galloped on the Kazakh steppes with armored units.
The three armies marched south along the Ili River to Almaty, when the Turkestan-Siberian railway had not yet been built, and although the Tsarist Russia also had troops stationed here, the defense was relatively weak for the Yong Kingdom.
The two armies advanced west along the Irtysh River and joined up with the two northwestern armies heading south.
An army group also crossed the undefended Alashan Pass and marched south.
This advance into Tsarist Russia in Central Asia can be said to be both expected and unexpected.
It is expected that everyone can see the pace of Yongguo's westward expansion, but the top level of Tsarist Russia is now unwilling to face the facts, they bury their heads in the sand like ostriches, and some things will not happen if they don't happen.
This advance was very smooth, because the grassland was originally vast and sparsely populated, and the forces distributed by Tsarist Russia here were relatively weak, and the logistics were relatively sufficient this time.
The soldiers sat in the trucks, looking at the dry and clear blue sky overhead, and followed the large army to the west, surrounded by grasslands, and felt very comfortable. This is the land that our ancestors of the Tang Dynasty once set foot on for more than 1,000 years.
More than a thousand years ago, it seems that even this westward journey has become romantic.
More than 1,000 years of clouds and moons, more than 1,000 years of swords and wine Li Bai was born here, and more than 1,000 years later, we finally set foot on this land.
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The Russian army encountered was crushed at the first touch, and even if there was stubborn resistance, they were forced to flee north by the powerful firepower.
Marching and slaughtering in this vast land, the history of more than a thousand years ago has never been so close as this moment.
Although the tank troops of Yongguo are immature, they are invincible in this narrow grassland.
Tsarist Russia has not controlled some areas here for more than twenty years, and its control is not strong.
The Yongguo troops chased the north here.
All the men were slaughtered, their heads hung high on poles, or cast into tasteful Kyoto temples.
The people living on the grassland were extremely frightened, and some of the green cultists who fled here from Yongguo ten years ago had already been frightened by the ferocity of the Yongguo soldiers, and desperately fled southward, forming torrents on the grassland.
Three armies descended the Tien Shan Mountains and headed straight for the Ferghana Basin, and the other army finally crossed the Tien Shan Mountains with difficulty and slowly to join them.
After gaining a foothold, continue to the south and attack Samarkand, a 2,500-year-old city where the Tang Dynasty established the Kangju Protectorate during the Yonghui period, and after the Battle of Hengrus, the Han people lost this land.
The isolated Tsarist Russian army put up a brave resistance here, and they had no way out.
But after leaving 150,000 corpses, the remaining 200,000 hungry Russian soldiers had to surrender to Yong.
Strangely, Yongguo did not slaughter them this time, but left them to work as coolies in the local area and build railways.
In the course of this march into Central Asia, in addition to the natives of the steppe, Yongguo slaughtered all their men, and for the captives of Tsarist Russia, the Yongguo army accepted their surrender, but they had to do coolies.
Such a rapid entry into Central Asia attracted the attention of the British, and both sides reaffirmed their respect for each other's interests in the south, and the British recognized that the Yong would receive all the land of Tsarist Russia in this region, and that the Yong State also recognized the British rights and interests in this region.
The state of Yong made good progress in this area, advancing to the Caspian Sea in October, causing more than a million Russian casualties.
At this time, the total number of casualties in the war between Tsarist Russia and Germany, Yongguo, and Ottoman Turkey reached nearly 8 million, and even the gray cattle felt the piercing pain at this time.
In November, the original February Revolution was brought four months ahead of schedule, and the tsarist regime collapsed.
In the middle of winter, the soldiers of Yongguo are sharper.
Four armies successfully captured Omsk and marched towards the Tyumen oil fields, which they had coveted for a long time.
Three armies attacked to the north, approaching the cities of Chelyabinsk, Kurgan and Yekaterinburg, Tyumen from the south.
The defeat of the newly formed bourgeois Provisional Government of the Russian bourgeoisie continued.
In the cold winter and spring, east of the Ural Mountains, Russian soldiers dropped another 800,000 corpses.
They almost returned to the territory of three hundred years ago, and under the pressure of hunger and cold, they could only continue to flee westward.
In April of the ninth year of Taiping (17), Yongguo stood firm, no longer continued to advance, and then entered the core area of Tsarist Russia, and it was necessary to further consolidate the logistics force.
In August, the bourgeois government, which had been defeated on all fronts, collapsed. The October Revolution broke out three months earlier.
At this time, Yongguo's frenzied westward expansion attracted the attention of the countries in the European war, and they felt fear, and the fear of the Yellow Peril for more than a thousand years hit their hearts again, but what could they do?