Chapter 1114: Over the Ural Mountains
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The original plan of the Military Council was to sweep the Kazakh Khanate with the Western Advance Corps, and then divide the troops to the north to sweep the South Russian steppe. However, the Kazakh Khanate adopted the strategy of clearing the wilderness and dispersing the guerrillas, which also disrupted the plan of the Far Eastern Army's westward march.
Fortunately, the Siberian campaign has also changed, and the situation is so smooth that it is difficult to be confident. There are quite a few rushes in the east that do not shine in the west, which also made the Military Commission quickly change its plan.
Gao Jianguo and Li Ming convened the Dongye and Xiye Commands, as well as the main responsible persons of each unit, and urgently convened a military meeting. In view of the suddenness of the Westward Advance Corps' inability to achieve the battle, the previously formulated plan of penetrating in a large area and depth from several directions, and then encircling and annihilating the elite main forces of the Kazakh Khanate, may have been difficult to realize.
Therefore, Gao Jianguo, Li Ming and others quickly changed their previous plan and decided to let the main force of the Siberian Corps quickly cross the Ural Mountains and sweep through the territory of Russia, and the troops were directed at Moscow. If the war goes well, the Siberian Corps will divide its forces south and sweep away the many tribes that have migrated to western Kazakhstan.
The Westward Advance Corps changed the previous tactics of quick battles and quick solutions, and each unit swept the vast area west of Lake Balkhash with brigades and with the cooperation of the airboat troops, and strived to annihilate the elite main forces of the Kazakh Khanate that were scattered in this area in the shortest possible time.
After the next battle plan was finalized, the two corps of the Far Eastern Army immediately began to move. First of all, the four main cavalry divisions of the Outer Northeast Indigenous Peoples of the Siberian Corps, the four newly built cavalry divisions of the Western Field and a number of Mongolian reserve cavalry brigades quickly crossed the Ural Mountains and advanced into the Russian territory.
The six main Mongolian cavalry divisions, two newly created cavalry divisions, and a number of Mongolian reserve militia brigades of the Westward Advance Corps also began to advance westward. The next phase of the battle will be very tough, although it will be supported by airboat units. But during this time, running around every day, getting up early and marching in the dark must be inevitable.
The units of the Siberian Corps have been resting, and there are basically no combat missions during the campaign, and all kinds of materials are also very complete, so they are quickly ready to set off.
With the order of the commander of the Siberian Corps, Wang Yaowu. More than 100,000 troops began to advance westward, and behind them there were a large number of nomadic detachments, driving cattle, sheep and horses, escorting logistics materials, and rolling forward closely behind the rear of the main force.
The Tyumen region is only more than 200 kilometers away from the Urals, and the main cavalry units of the Far Eastern Army crossed the Urals in just a few days and quickly captured the Uralsk fortress.
Uralsk is the logistics base of the Russian Siberian Expeditionary Force, and the Far Eastern Army came very suddenly. The Russian troops defending here did not have time to react at all, and they were rushed into the fortress by the vanguard of the Far Eastern Army.
The Russian supplies for the Siberian Expeditionary Force piled up, and all of them fell into the hands of the Far Eastern Army. Including a large number of flour, bacon, gunpowder, horse material, cloth, grease, spirits, leather, cloth, etc., as well as a large number of carriages and war horses, solved a major problem for the vanguard of the Far East.
After a brief rest, the vanguard of the Far Eastern Army restocked itself with supplies from Uralsk, and then quickly slaughtered the Russians.
West of the Ural Mountains and east of the Kara River. Last year, he was disguised as a Tatar by the Far Eastern Army, and he was choked with the scourge. It has not been restored until now. It's still full of desolation. Villages and towns were reduced to ruins, and there were ruins everywhere, like a ghost domain.
On the road leading to Uralsk in Russia, there were constantly large groups of wagons carrying large quantities of supplies to the east, all of which were brought from Russia to support the Siberian expeditionary force. Not surprisingly, they were all intercepted by the Far Eastern Army.
The vanguard of the Far Eastern Siberian Corps went very smoothly and did not encounter decent resistance along the way. Because at this time, Russia could not have imagined that the 100,000-strong Siberian expeditionary force would be defeated so quickly.
Not to mention that the Russians could not have imagined, even the Far Eastern Army did not expect that the annihilation of this Russian army of 100,000 people would be so smooth. So when the vanguard of the Far Eastern Army appeared in Russia, many towns thought they were Russian troops.
Many towns and cities were rushed directly by the Far Eastern Army. The Russian army does not even have decent means of defense. There is now a winning mentality prevailing in Russia.
In the eyes of the Russians, the well-armed and well-trained 100,000 Siberian Expeditionary Force was definitely a sure prospect of victory against the primitive, traditional Tatars. Moreover, the other side has no firearms, and the Russian army is also equipped with tens of thousands of brave and combative Cossack cavalry, and the recovery of Siberia is just around the corner.
According to the reconnaissance of the airboat unit, the Russian army has built a distribution center for the materials of the Russian expeditionary force in more than a dozen towns on the east bank of the Kama River, and a large number of ships loaded with supplies will dock there.
He rode at the front of the battalion, and the dock on the shore in the distance was already close in sight, several ships were loading and unloading goods on the dock, dozens of carriages were parked on the shore, and a large number of Russians were busy on the dock.
Several Russian troops guarding the shore sentry saw a group of cavalry rushing over, and they thought it was their own people, and they didn't pay much attention to it, until Hikten rushed in front of their eyes, and several Russian troops realized that something was wrong.
Several Russian soldiers hurriedly loaded the arquebus, but they took out the gunpowder jug, and before they could pour it into the barrel, Hikten had already rushed up on a war horse, waved the saber in his hand and slashed at the neck of a Russian soldier.
With a "poof", blood spurted out.
Slashed a Russian soldier, Hikten's war horse knocked another Russian soldier into the air, and then the war horse stepped on his body. The comrades-in-arms around him also rushed up and killed several other Russian soldiers.
Hikten rode past the sentry post and rushed directly to the dock, taking advantage of the speed of the war horse, he slashed several people one after another with a knife. The whole wharf was in chaos, and a battalion of cavalry of the Far Eastern Army galloped back and forth on the shore, sabers, revolvers, double-barreled hunting guns, forty-millimeter grenade launchers, and grenades attacked in turn.
Several ships on the shore wanted to leave, but a group of Far Eastern soldiers jumped off their horses and rushed onto the ship, killing Maozi's crew. At the same time, other forces successively occupied several piers along the Kara River. A number of boats were seized along the shore and several crossings on the east bank of the Kara River were completely controlled.
The next day, the main forces of the Siberian Corps of the Far Eastern Army rushed to the Kara River, and a large number of the main cavalry units of the Far Eastern Army rushed along the south bank of the Kara River towards the Volga River valley. Another group of troops collected boats along the coast and drove along the Kara River to the Volga with supplies.
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