In any case, the anomaly in the Far East was exposed, even under the spitting stars of Nicholas II, which endured about half an hour of anger, and finally passed, because the responsibility for this matter was in the Far East, to be exact, on Brusinov's head.

After Nicholas II poured out his anger from the Minister of War, he was a little calmer, inclined to anger, but it was just a mouthful, but the next problem needed to be solved, thinking that the situation on the front line was unknown, with Chita as the center, there was no news at all for fifty or sixty kilometers around, how to solve this matter, at present, almost all the existing high-ranking officers in Russia have been recruited to study this problem together.

Russia's generals gathered together, as an old European power, Russia also has a complete military academy system, although it focuses on the aristocracy, but in the Russian system, you can still find some famous generals, such as the previous Brusinov, and those who are present now, the basic judgment ability is there.

Nicholas II also knew that this was a very critical moment, he looked around at the crowd, and then asked the Minister of War: "We need to know now, how many cities have fallen!"

When Nicholas II summoned all the generals, he returned to the War Department and got all the information that could be found, and even the War Department and the General Staff sent thousands of telegrams without stopping, contacted all the military stations that could be contacted, and had first-hand information, which had been scolded by Nicholas II, and he didn't want to be scolded again, especially on the occasion of heavy generals.

The Secretary of War produced a report. Slowly, he introduced the information he had and followed the military map. A little bit of certainty, and then said with certainty: "According to the information we have so far." Combined with the report of the Far East and Western Siberia, only those within a radius of 70 kilometers around Chita did not respond, and the rest are in our hands. ”

The 70 kilometers around Chita, which adds up to a radius of 70 kilometers, does not seem to be big, and in Siberia, only the Siberian Railway is densely populated by cities, and it just so happens that this section. There are only 2 small towns, and there is no central hub city like Chita.

This is a good thing for officers who don't know much about military affairs, or even if they don't have strong military sensitivity, although the middle line of Siberia is erosive, but only a small part of it is eroded, but it is just a Chita that has fallen, and it is good to take it back, but in some professional strength is stronger. The more sensitive generals were like a thunderbolt, especially in the General Staff, where the Chief of Staff, Petwich, had already frowned.

Nicholas II noticed Petervich's expression. In his opinion, this should be a good thing, why is Petrovich so worried. A little curious, he asked, "Bi, do you have any questions?" ”

"Of course there's a problem? Your Excellency, Chancellor. Are you sure about your message? Petwich did not directly answer Nicholas II's words, but turned back to the Minister of War.

The Minister of War was stunned. He was still immersed in the joy just now, only one Chita had fallen, that is, there was still room for redemption, and after a simple calculation, the difficulty of conquering one city was easier than conquering two or three, or even three or four cities, if the whole of Siberia was erosive, it would not be a good thing for him, although it was the Far East that was responsible, but it was up to him to clean up the mess.

Seeing that the Minister of War did not speak, Petwich asked again, which made the Minister of War a little angry, and said loudly: "I have confirmed all this information, if the chief of staff does not believe it, you can investigate it yourself!" ”

The Minister of War said this, Petvich smiled bitterly, and hurriedly appeased the Minister of War, so that he could say something wrong, and then turned back to Nicholas II and said: "Your Majesty, the current situation is very bad! ”

Nicholas II still had a lot of trust in Petervich, and his professionalism was commendable, although he felt that his words were a little unstoppable, but he still asked: "Why do you say that, isn't it just the fall of Chita?" ”

The atmosphere of Nicholas II made Petvich cry and laugh, isn't it a red tower, red tower is an ordinary place, if Vladivostok is the head, the Ural Mountains are the feet, the red tower can be regarded as the waist of the entire Asian part of Russia, a person's waist is broken, can he still live, even if he can live, he will suffer a big loss.

But seeing a small number of senior generals, some understand what he means, and most of the rest are still confused, he also knows, if he doesn't explain it, I'm afraid it can't be said, even the Minister of War looked at him with fierce eyes, sorted it out a little, and said: "Our Russia has the broadest territory in the world, even Napoleon fell in front of Russia, this is the glory of our Russia!" ”

Petervich's words made the Tsar a little complacent, although this was not what he did, but what his ancestors did still made him a little proud, Napoleon, but across the whole of Europe, throughout the century, he was the focus of the unavoidable, and even now, some of his famous words and words have also starred the whole of Europe.

The Tsar didn't understand, but he understood the literal meaning of Petervich, which was definitely boasting of the glory of Great Russia, and some other high-ranking officers, who might not see this, but in the case that others had already pointed it out, they quickly saw it from this thing.

That's right, the Siberian front is long, if the Chinese do not break through Chita a little, along the Siberian Railway, it can wreak havoc for thousands of miles, so it seems, the momentum is menacing, but it implies a huge crisis, any point of a thousand miles of problems, it will collapse for thousands of miles, especially logistics, in a place like Siberia covered with ice and snow, logistics is the biggest problem.

But the other party didn't do this, fought steadily, just chose a point in Chita, there was no greed, as long as they stuck to Chita, plus the original Mongolian trading city, the two points would be horns of each other, and the defense would immediately be three-dimensional, and the flaws they might reveal would be very small, so that the difficulty of the counterattack would be much more difficult.

The most critical point is that it is already mid-October, and it will be November soon, Siberia is the coldest place in the whole of Russia, and it is also the place that affects the cold air of the whole Asia.

The Tsar and the Minister of War didn't understand, but under Petwich's calm narration, their faces suddenly became ugly, especially the Minister of War, he thought it was good before, and after listening to Petwich's words, he suddenly felt that it was tricky.

It is not tricky and impossible, it is possible to keep it secret for a month, to be able to defeat Brusinov's million-strong army, to be able to make Russia so passive, such a force, how can it be simple.

If, before the meeting, the tsar was more just to solve the problem, now it is found that this problem may be a thorny, even more difficult problem, so he had to hand over the problem, a group of high-ranking officers discussed for a long time, but there was no systematic solution, and finally Nicholas named it and let Petvich think about it.

Petevich smiled bitterly, but he knew that it would not work if he didn't find a solution at this time, but it was too difficult, he hesitated a little, and said tentatively: "Or, you can give it a try, let the Far East and Yekaterinburg directions, tentative attacks, see the other side's defenses, and then!" ”

Petwich did not continue to say, but the meaning of the words, everyone understands, this is a difficult thing to choose, this attempt, is likely to end in failure, and then, there is only to wait for next year, just discussed, if the other party is really premeditated, with the strength shown by the Chinese, a winter time, enough to make the northwest Chita guard impenetrable, the short war in 1911, has shown the strong defense capability of the northwest, there is a buffer of half a year, The Northwest may have completely stood on its feet.

The tsar is also very helpless, no matter how angry he is, no matter how much he wants to seek justice, he will not march to Siberia in winter, that is suicide, Russia is located in a high latitude area, very well aware of the lethality of temperatures of minus 40 degrees, or even below, if you don't do a good job of keeping warm, it is common for a soldier of a group army to freeze to death overnight.

This is also the fundamental reason why Russia can save in terms of weapons in the conscription, but it will not save on warmth and cold, even if it does a good job of keeping warm and cold, fighting on the ice and snow in winter, it is also extremely dangerous.

At this juncture, at most, you can only try on a small scale, that is, at the million-level level, if the northwest does not make mistakes, if you want to win Chita, the possibility is very small, then you can only wait until the spring of the bright side.

Russia has the mobilization capacity of 10 million, but after the Chita is separated, it is equivalent to the actual loss of 2 million, and the mobilization of 10 million, plus the losses in the early stage of the European war, is 3 million, and it cannot afford to lose another 3 million, and the pressure next spring is also quite large.

"To contact the Americans, we need more supplies from them to spread the news of China's occupation of Chita, and by the way, there may be massacres, but the Orientals have a tradition of massacres." The basic plan has been reached, and next,

One by one, the tactics were made out like this, and the Russians' ability to perform intrigues and tricks was not low, and they soon thought of one poison plan after another, these strategies that would work in their opinion, had very little effect on the northwest, even if it was a conspiracy that went off the rails, it had to be built on strength, and it could not be too far behind, once it was too far away, it would be directly crushed, and under absolute power, the role of any conspiracy and trickery would be almost infinitely equal to zero. (To be continued.) )