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West Siberian Plain. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

The blades buzzed and spun rapidly, blowing the snow away, pushing the two reconnaissance snow assault vehicles to move forward, and the enclosed machine gun tower protruding from the roof of the vehicle, with the cooperation of the periscope, constantly rotated and scanned the surroundings, as if facing a great enemy.

Until a small river appeared in the distance, the rudder at the rear of the snowmobile quickly twisted and slowly stopped.

The roasted bran wrapped his cotton jacket tightly, pushed the car door and stepped off the snowmobile, the howling cold wind made him violently excited, shouted and led several warriors towards the stream formed by the melting snow, and arrived at the clear and cold stream, and the warriors immediately took out their iron pickaxes and smashed the ice.

The ice surface that could only bring out white spots quickly cracked this time, and cracked and shattered radially along the tip of the pickaxe, and the roasted bran squatted down, took out a small ruler from his pocket, and carefully measured the thickness of the ice, and his face couldn't help but have a trace of anticipation.

The ice of Western Siberia is rapidly melting, and the season of battle is finally here again after months of hard work!

After completing the inspection, the snow assault vehicle continued to patrol north, and suddenly, some brown shadows on the snow in the distance seemed to be tangled and piled up to attract everyone's attention, and when the car drove to the side, everyone gasped.

These brown shadows were the corpses of dozens of Russian soldiers, who had been buried by the snow that had been so thick before, but now the ice and snow began to melt, and the corpses finally gradually emerged.

The corpses, emaciated and skeletal, pale and stiff, are as memorable as zombies in Western stories.

No one knows how many corpses were buried in the thick snow that covered the whole of Western Siberia, but everyone only knew that outside the ice wall east of the Tomsk fortress, at least nearly 20,000 corpses had fallen because of the constant attempts of Russian troops to cross the border and engage in firefights.

After the snowmobile drove over the pile of corpses, it began to accelerate again, and after twenty minutes, a large group of Russian soldiers suddenly appeared on the horizon with the noisy engine sound, and when they saw the flying snowmobile, they were so frightened that they scattered and fled, and there was no combat at all.

When the snowmobile passed between them and climbed a low slope not far away, the scene in front of them suddenly made everyone's scalps tingle, including the roasted bran.

I saw that in the snow forest in the distance, thousands of tents had been set up at some point, and the dense Russian soldiers were crowded there like ant colonies, clusters and clusters, and the high-powered binoculars could even see that they were peeling and throwing a few unlucky wild wolves into the pot, and in front of the other pots, there was even a robbery.

Suddenly, several Russian soldiers pointed towards the low slope where the snowmobile was, and a few moments later several cannons and Maxim heavy machine guns were pushed out of the camp, and after a few months, the roar of shells resounded again on the Western Siberian plain. (Full text reading, all in. (.i. Want. Wen. Learning Network)

Roasted bran immediately ordered to leave, although the Russian soldiers' combat ** had already been exhausted by half a year of wind and snow, he did not think that two snowmobiles could break through the large camp of at least tens of thousands of people in front of him.

The Russian soldiers did not chase the snowmobile, in fact they had long been frightened by this strange vehicle, and if it weren't for the large number of people, they would have scattered in all directions like the small force before.

An hour later, a crystal clear wall appeared on the horizon, and as the two snowmobiles drove up to the ice wall, a gap suddenly opened on the left side, and Roasted Bran led the scout party into the still snow-clad fortress of Tomsk.

After a few months of travel, the Tomsk fortress was improved, and after receiving the abundant supplies left here by the Russians, after the soldiers who had nothing to do in their spare time continued to strengthen and improve, not only did most of the fortress recover its original appearance, but even strengthened it more than before.

In the open space in the center of the fortress were lined up with long rows of conjoined wooden huts, in addition to the tank vehicles of the infantry division and two armored regiments, there was also a snowmobile assault battalion that came from Lake Balkhash in winter, a total of 60 snow assault vehicles.

Because the army used transport snowmobiles in winter, after establishing two transit points from Lake Balkhash to here, and using the method of segmented transportation, 300 transport snowmobiles were put in, so the small-scale supply has never been interrupted, but even the roasted bran feels that this kind of supply is really a bit of a fee, and the supply line of 600 kilometers long, even if it is divided into three sections, the snow transport vehicle has enough range, but every ton of supply has to consume the same materials.

With this difficult supply maintenance, the problem of gasoline in the Tomsk fortress was finally solved, and the ammunition was very sufficient, enough to complete a large-scale and high-intensity campaign.

And now, the battle is imminent.

Roasted bran walked into the command room with reconnaissance information, unlike a few months ago when this hall was filled with beautiful Russian paintings and decorations, now the walls are not only maps but also maps, all kinds of situation maps, troop numbers and work plans, and the art and decorations in the fortress have been taken away by several transport planes that have left behind, and they will become one of the collections of the future war museum.

"How's it going?"

As soon as the roasted bran entered the door, he was pulled to his side by the anxious Shen Hao, and several division commanders and staff officers who had nothing to bragging about and farting also immediately surrounded him.

Walking to the map, he pointed to the northeast of the Tomsk fortress and said: "Here, about 75 kilometers away from us, a Russian unit was found, judging from the number, it should be the Russian 22nd Army, according to our observation, the number is about 100,000. ”

"Good guys, they're all here!"

Shen Hao slapped his face, and as the roasted bran marked the third red circle in the past half a month on the map, the number of Russian troops gathered in the east of the Tomsk fortress has reached 400,000, including about 50,000 remnants of the elite Sixth Caucasus Army itself nearby, and now there is the 22nd Army, which means that one-third of the troops in the Eastern West Siberian Theater have gathered in the direction of the fortress.

You don't have to guess that everyone knows that the Russian army wants to go home!

According to continuous small-scale reconnaissance, nearly 3 million Russian troops surrounded in the East Siberian theater suffered from severe winters, lack of food, lack of fuel, starvation and other factors, about 600,000 people were frozen to death by the wind and snow, and 500,000 were not treated after being sick and lost their combat effectiveness, and the remaining food reserves of the troops have also reached the limit, so they must break through and go home, even if the weather begins to get warmer, but if they continue to stay, I am afraid that they will really run out of food.

"Yesterday Minusinks took off three reconnaissance planes for the first time, judging from the movements of the Russian army that were detected, their forward positions in the east have all been abandoned, and a large number of troops are coming to our side, according to calculations, after more than half a month, the temperature may return to above zero during the day, so we will probably face 1 million to 1.2 million Russian troops who are crazy and want to go home to break through from here.

"1.2 million!"

"Good boy, we can finally do a big job!"

"Yes, yes, I've been suffocated for half a year."

"No wonder, I said why do I hear the humming sound in your room every night, it turns out that Lao Hu is suffocating!"

"Get out!"

"Haha."

There was a burst of laughter in the command room, and the roasted bran could not help but laugh, although the numbers were scary, but the defense of the Tomsk fortress was not what it used to be.

The 23rd, 24th and 56th Infantry Divisions have arrived before the winter, plus the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division and the 1st Cavalry Division, which were damaged during the winter supply, have also been re-replenished with nearly 8,000 troops, and the integration of combat effectiveness has been basically completed by taking advantage of the long months of winter, plus the 5th and 9th ** armored regiments, the total strength of the fortress has reached 100,000.

Because of the rapid last assault, the huge reserves of the Russian army here were obtained, and the truck team also transported the heavy equipment of each infantry division before the winter, so there are currently 355 tanks, 60 snowmobiles, 1130 trucks and armored vehicles, more than 500 cannons of all kinds, 1200 light machine guns, 76 heavy machine guns, and the ammunition is also very abundant, and even has the ability to conduct a large-scale field battle, not to mention that there is a strong fortress to hold.

The Russians dug their own grave and used their hopes to block China's advance into the Urals through Western Siberia, spending countless funds and materials, and the immensely strong fortress of Tomsk has now become a big obstacle for them to break through and return home.

The important thing is that the blizzard that has been raging for several months has already destroyed the Russian army crazy, and the combat effectiveness has dropped a notch, as long as the first three axes are blocked and the latter little ** is exhausted, these troops are not enough for everyone to fill the gaps.

"Report, telegram from the General Staff."

"Read it." Nagayama waved his hand.

"Battle briefing, a great victory in the battle of Mesopotamia!

The remainder of the 2nd Marine Division successfully reached Ahvaz and completely annihilated more than 50,000 enemy troops of the Bōs Front, re-consolidating the Greater Kuwait area.

After the 5th Mechanized Infantry Division arrived in Kuwait, it immediately joined the Ottoman army and threw itself into the Mesopotamian Campaign, now a total of 230,000 enemies have been annihilated, and the Mesopotamian Campaign is victorious!

In addition, our second batch of reinforcements, three divisions, has already departed and is expected to arrive in the Arabian Peninsula in five days. ”

"Great!"

"Good boy, 230,000!"

The news made the command room explode again, and the command of the Northwest Army had predicted that once the battle of Mesopotamia was won, the main direction of the army's attack would return to the Russian side again.

The reason is simple: after the victory in the Battle of Mesopotamia, the only way for the Allies to support Russia through Bōs was cut off, and Germany would also see this, so it would definitely do everything to strangle Bōlo's sea supply lines, so Russia would be completely isolated.

Now it was not Hua and Germany who fought separately, but after the victory in Mesopotamia, a big tiger in the Entente was isolated, which is why everyone said that it was a decisive battle.

It is foreseeable that as long as the follow-up reinforcements arrive, they can cooperate with the Ottoman army to go out of the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus, maybe the Russian army's defense line in Baku will be broken through after a while, as long as this strategic place of Baku is taken, then Russia will be half of it!

In order to ensure the security of Baku, Russia is bound to strengthen the defense of the region and increase its troops, but now Russia has no troops to mobilize, so he can only mobilize the troops gathered in the Ural Mountains to the south, so that the great West Siberian counteroffensive that Nicholas II boasted before the winter will be tantamount to a failure!

As long as they think of arming more than 10 million troops, Russia, which has given Germany and China a headache, is about to face the embarrassment of having no troops to use and tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall, everyone is trembling with excitement, and Western Siberia will return to the embrace of the East!

"Report, command telegram."

"May 7th, Qiming!"