"Look at the newspaper, read the newspaper, the article of the special commentator of the "Central Plains Daily", the situation on the battlefield in Astrakhan has changed abruptly, and the 100,000 Russian troops are tightly surrounded by the army of our alliance......"

"Look at the newspapers, read the newspapers, the Caspian Sea Division will be decisive in a battle - the defeat of the Russian Caspian Sea Fleet, cutting off the waterway passage of the Russian army, the Russian army is already a turtle in the urn, completely surrounded by our land and water army on the left bank of the Volga River......"

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"The armies converge, and the final battle of annihilation is about to break out......"

"The prince came to the northwest in person, and he arrived in Lanzhou yesterday, and it is expected to reach the front line within ten days......"

"Foreign media advertise that Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Tsarist Russia has gathered 100,000 troops in Kazan and is about to reinforce Astrakhan ......"

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Time is always so graceful, and it doesn't change its pace because of anything.

Half a month passed quickly in the negotiations between Chen Ming's envoy and the bigwigs in the business circles, and it was like the irretrievable water of the Yangtze River going east. And when the whole negotiation came to an end, when Chen Ming was satisfied with what he had gained, what should they use to quickly divert the attention and discussion of the Chinese people?

The war in the northwest, which had not been taken into account by the two sides in the previous negotiations, became the best substitute.

And in this short period of time, the situation of the battle in Astrakhan did indeed take a decisive turn - Chen Han's Caspian division defeated the Russian Caspian fleet at the mouth of the Volga River. So much so that the remnants of the Russian army in Novo-Astrakhan are completely surrounded by the Wehrmacht, and the Russian army has already made several surprise attacks, all of which are only sending them to death.

Now that the Russian army is cut off from transportation, as long as the Chinese side continues to be surrounded for a long time, like the surrender of Bai Gaoying and Cornwallis in the original time and space, it will inevitably come. As long as the fence is tightened, the remaining Russian army is like fish on the chopping block, which can be slaughtered by the Wehrmacht!

Moreover, in the war in the Caucasus, after the Cossacks under Platov were blocked by the Wehrmacht and the all-out counterattack of the Persian led countries, the transportation tension and chaos brought to Chen Han were quickly eliminated.

More importantly, after mobilizing a large number of Wehrmacht troops, Platov concentrated 5,000 Cossacks to attack the Vladikavkaz fortress, intending to solve the Wehrmacht outside the fortress in a joint formation, but the two Russian armies inside and outside were bled under the resolute defense of the Chen Han troops outside the fortress, and the situation of the Russian army was not good all of a sudden.

The 'changes' of the Sino-Russian war quickly alarmed the whole of China.

Many eyes were once again on Astrakhan, and at the same time on Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich.

Although the 100,000 Russian military reinforcements are just a piece of fake news, many ordinary people and many foreigners in China don't know. Anyway, whether it was the Russian reinforcements in Kazan or the brutal tug-of-war at the mouth of the Volga River, they all grabbed the attention of thousands of people.

The state propaganda apparatus mobilized in full force is extremely powerful, and their greatest task now is to neutralize the impact of the previous martial law imposed on the two important cities of Shanghai and Guangzhou.

Although this effect is simply not likely to be easily eliminated in this way.

But this 'craze' that was set off by the domestic press first instigated foreign journalists. Of course, they don't know if Grand Duke Konstantin has really gathered troops in Kazan to rescue the Volga.

Is the time for the Chinese to get such information too tight?

But on the one hand, they still sent urgent communications to their own country, and on the other hand, they went deep into the great northwest, admiring the vastness and richness and power of China in an exaggerated tone, and at the same time, they interviewed the people, merchants, rich merchants, rich people, and even rich people, they interviewed soldiers, officers, they also interviewed Russian prisoners, interviewed people from all walks of life.

I don't know how many bizarre manuscripts are published in hundreds or thousands of large and small newspapers in China every day, and these foreign journalists will send their manuscripts back to China and send them to Chinese newspapers just to earn a little extra money.

In any case, a large proportion of these articles, written with the eyes and views of foreigners, praise China's invincibility, and tickle the itch of the Chinese. With the hard work of Chen Han's local media workers, the influence of the Sino-Russian War was greatly expanded in the shortest possible time.

So far in the war, the number of local soldiers sacrificed by Chen Han has exceeded 20,000, and this number can be expanded to 50,000 if you count the people of the Seven Khanates, and the casualties have exceeded 100,000.

It can be said that if it had been limited to the 200,000 troops at the beginning of the war, the Wehrmacht would have lost its combat effectiveness by now. However, the casualties were so large, but the number of soldiers captured by Chen Han was only two or three hundred, and many of them were wounded and captured by the Russian army after the withdrawal of the attacking troops. After all, most of Chen Han's large-scale attacks will take place at night, and visibility is very low. Others were simply knocked unconscious and then woke up captive.

But what is the concept of 100,000 troops [pure Wehrmacht] suffering nearly half of the casualties, and only two or three hundred prisoners of war?

The Russians were not sensitive to the number of prisoners of war at first. They finally caught the prisoners of war, and they were all very conspicuous in front of everyone's eyes. The figures were not kept secret at all, and some things had already been revealed, whether it was the captured Russian troops or the summary of the news in the newspapers and letters seized from the Russian army, which showed this number.

On the contrary, the number of captives of the Seven Khanates has exceeded 1,500, and even reached 2,000.

In the middle of this upsurge, these news were first leaked out by the "Military Daily," and then the fighting will and courage of the Chinese National Defense Forces were vividly displayed in the eyes of the whole country.

Because this is really exciting, and at the same time, the status of the Wehrmacht in Chen Han has also become higher.

However, compared with the number of soldiers captured on the Chen Han side, the Russian army has actually captured a lot of soldiers so far, adding up to more than 20,000 people. This is much higher than the number of soldiers captured on Chen Han's side.

But if we make a closer distinction, most of the 20,000 Russian prisoners of war were captured before Bagration arrived on the Eastern Front with his troops.

Guriev Fortress and Astrakhan Fortress, although the latter was dead, when the former surrendered, the Russian army alone exceeded 6,000, and a certain number of young Russians, who were also treated as prisoners of war. In other words, a considerable part of these 20,000 people are Russian civil rebels, that is, militias.

And the number of Russian troops that really belong to Bagration is not much, to be honest, it is not much, that is, two of these numbers. The Russians are really desperate this time, and they are very planted.

But foreign journalists don't know, and Chen Han's people don't need to know too clearly. Chen Ming only used prisoners of war, and he made Russia lose face.

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Yili, the rear of the Sino-Russian battlefield, is a city where hundreds of domestic and foreign media gather. Every day, every hour, on every street, you can see journalists wandering around with press cards. Many of them are foreigners with blue eyes and big noses, and they look no different from Lao Maozi.

The pigeon's nest in Ili can be said to be the busiest place in the entire city of Yili, and it is busier and more lively than the prince's line in Yili.

Chen Ding was named the crown prince by Chen Ming's eight classics a month ago, which is obviously Chen Ming's support for the Li family. Then Chen Ding's title of prince had not been worn for a few days, and he was kicked out of Nanjing by his own Lao Tzu and came to the northwest for sightseeing.

Now the others are no longer in Ili, but the dependence of the brigade and the guard units remain in Ili.

With so many reporters in Ili City sending newsletters to their own newspapers, you can imagine how busy and tense the pigeon nest is.

Even some journalists have made their home next door to the pigeon nest.

This is the second time since the last Sino-Russian war that Ili City has gathered so many domestic and foreign media.

In the vicinity of the Ili pigeon's nest, two coffee shops that had not previously appeared in the whole of Xinjiang due to the sudden increase in the number of foreigners in Yili have long been turned into local restaurants, but within a week, these two restaurants have been transformed from old-fashioned Xinjiang restaurants back into cafes. This is specially for those foreign journalists. Of course, it can also be said that it is specifically to earn money from those foreign journalists.

Just like the last time Yili was lively, the number of these foreigners is not very large, but the spending power is really strong. And some Chinese journalists also drink coffee.

Swede Albin Durmaz and Jimmy Martin, a Chinese correspondent for the British newspaper Daily News, have once again come to Ili.

They have all been living in China for twenty or thirty years. Whether it is Durmaz or Jimmy Martin, they have already brought their families to China.

Although Jimmy Martin was a little reluctant at first, he lived a very chic life alone in China. As a veteran expatriate correspondent of the "Daily News", Martin, who has worked hard and provided the newspaper with the big news about China's events in a timely manner many times, the salary and subsidies given by the "Daily News" are very expensive. Even if a significant part of his income is sent directly to his family in London, the remaining part and the extra money he earns in China are enough for him to buy a property in the suburbs of Shanghai and buy a white slave to do his daily services.

Even he can replace female slaves regularly, how chic are these days? For this reason, he ignored the possibility that his wife in London would give him a green hat.

But in the end, he brought his wife and children to China. Because it turns out that his wife and children love him, Martin refuses once, Martin refuses the second, Martin refuses the third, he can refuse the fourth and fifth ......, but he can't keep refusing.

However, Durmaz, a Swede, took the initiative to bring his wife, children and parents to China because of the chaos in Sweden.

Compared to life in Sweden, life in China is much more stable.

These are two foreigners who have been conquered by China.