As the Russian cavalry reconnaissance squads returned to the camp one after another, several cavalry reconnaissance squads in different directions found that the Tatar brigade of cavalry was rushing towards the Tyumen fortress.

In this way, the information that the main forces of the Tatars were massing near the Tyumen fortress was further confirmed. This also made Shain, who had always been a little nervous, finally relax in his heart.

In fact, his greatest fear was that he could not find the main force of the Tatars. With the rapid mobility of the Tatars, if the Russian expeditionary forces in Siberia played hide-and-seek, the battle would be difficult.

It's like having a bright blade, always hanging above your head, and you don't know when it will be cut down, which is the most uncomfortable situation for the Russian army.

After all, the Russian expeditionary force had more than 30,000 regular troops equipped with new arquebuses and hundreds of artillery pieces, as well as 40,000 or 50,000 fierce Cossack cavalry. In the event of a face-to-face battle with the Tatars, no matter how large the number of opponents is, Schein is confident that he can easily defeat them.

Shain had a very clear vision of the future situation of the war, and as soon as the main forces of the Tatars were routed in the Tyumen region, they would order tens of thousands of Cossack cavalry to launch a fierce pursuit of the Tatar army.

The traditional nomadic people are composed of various tribes, and once the main force is defeated, each tribe is bound to flee with the herdsmen of the tribe in order to protect themselves.

Tens of thousands of fierce and fierce Cossacks faced a plate of Sasha's Tatar army, and even fought all the way to the steppes of the Irtysh River valley, where the water and grass were abundant, and the traditional nomadic land of the Tatars.

It was only when Russia was blocked by the Tatars in the Irtysh River valley that it did not go south. If the main Tatar forces in the Irtysh River basin are defeated, the Russian army can take advantage of the developed waterway transportation in this area and build a large number of fortresses along the main tributaries of the Irtysh River, such as the Irtysh River and the Tobol River, and completely control this area.

It was getting dark, and the camp of the Russian expeditionary force was completed. The Russian army has learned the lessons of last year. After listening to Ostrov's advice, a large number of wagons were arranged around the camp, and between the wagons a gate of artillery was erected. A large number of improvised wooden horses were built on the perimeter of the camp to prevent a large number of Tatar cavalry from carrying out a large-scale sneak attack.

The Russian army also set up a number of open and dark posts about 200 meters away from the camp, and piled up bonfires at the posts of the open posts. Prevent the Tatars from sneaking up on the cover of night.

Such a camp arrangement can be said to be impregnable, even if more Tatar cavalry launched a night attack, the Russian expeditionary force could rely on strong camp fortifications to defeat the attack of the Tatar iron cavalry.

Although the work during the camp every night was enormous, both the commander of the expeditionary force, Schein, and Ostov thought it was worth it, after all, the Russian army was killed by the Tatars' non-stop sneak attacks last year, and finally drove thousands of Russians almost crazy.

Just as the Russian expeditionary force was waiting for a decisive battle with the Tatars. The Siberian Corps of the Far Eastern Army is intensively deploying troops. Under the guidance of the airboat detachment, cavalry units slowly approached the Russian camp from all directions, forming an encirclement of the Russian Siberian Expeditionary Force.

In fact, the Mongol tribes assembled in the Tyumen fortress area were various nomadic detachments from the Far East, and they began to assemble in the Tyumen region from all over the country a few days earlier, so that the Russian army mistakenly thought that the main forces of the Tatars were gathering in the Tyumen fortress and preparing for a decisive battle with the Russian army.

In order to prevent the Tatars from attacking at night, the Russian army chose to camp in a flat area. But the Siberian corps of the Far Eastern Army, individual units. Slowly advancing towards the starting point of the attack in the dark of night will also face great difficulties.

Fortunately, there is an airship unit in the air to guide it. Flares and fluorescent bombs were dropped, and although the process of assembling in the dark environment was very difficult, they finally arrived at the designated position on time, and deployed their troops at the starting position of the attack, ready for the attack.

All the combat support units of this campaign also rushed to the designated area in time.

The Military Commission transferred a large number of artillery units. Strong support was given to the Siberian Corps. Hundreds of artillery pieces, including 75-mm mountain guns, 107-mm artillery guns, new 120-mm mortar guns, 70-mm infantry guns, and 82-mm mortar guns, formed dozens of artillery positions.

The engineering units of the Siberian Corps also arranged a large number of minefields around the Russian camp, including the newly developed directional mines of the Far Eastern Arsenal, although the power is not comparable with the directional mines equipped by the Russian army in modern society. But I can't hold this thing, and now it's going to be as much as there are.

In addition, the Air Force Department also dispatched an airship wing composed of more than 100 airships to provide all-round air support to the Siberian Corps.

The units of the Siberian Corps that participated in the encirclement of the Russian army included four main cavalry divisions of the Outer Northeast Indigenous Army in the Eastern Field, four newly built cavalry divisions of the Northwest Field Army, and several Mongolian reserve militia brigades.

The Siberian Corps also mobilized a large number of young and strong herdsmen from the nomadic detachment to serve as a reserve for the campaign in the rear of the main cavalry units and reserve militia brigades, mainly to check and fill in the gaps, and to capture the Russian Maozi who escaped from the encirclement.

The headquarters of the Siberian Corps of the Far Eastern Army issued a death order to all the units participating in the war, that is, not a single hairy man should be missing. This is a determination to keep these 100,000 elite Russian troops in Tyumen.

At midnight, an airship slowly landed in the open field next to the headquarters of the Siberian Corps. Li Ming, Qiang Quansheng and the others just got off the airship.

Wang Yaowu, who had been waiting here, and everyone from the corps headquarters greeted him and saluted him.

They came to a high ground, Li Ming picked up the night vision binoculars, and looked at the faint firelight in the distance. It was the camp of the Russian army.

The Russian army learned the lesson of last year, and in order to prevent a night attack by the Tatars, the 100,000 Siberian expeditionary force did not dare to divide its troops, but gathered in impregnable camps. Although he could block the Tatar attack, he also put himself in a cage.

Li Ming put down the binoculars, turned his head to Wang Yaowu behind him and said, "How are the troops prepared?" ”

"At present, all units have entered the starting positions of the attack and are ready to attack at any time. After studying, the corps headquarters set the time for the general attack at five o'clock in the morning. ”

After listening to Wang Yaowu's words, Li Ming nodded and said with a smile: "It doesn't matter how you beat me, we just sit on the side and watch the play." It's still the same sentence, don't let him run away with a hairy man. ”

"Please rest assured, commander, that all the commanders and fighters of the Siberian Corps are ready for battle and will never let go of a single hair." (To be continued.) )