The million-strong army of Novosibirsk was taken, and when the news was radioed to Yan Xishan, his worst worries were completely solved, and his only worry was gone, and the situation of the Chinese army in Russia basically fell. There was only one Yekaterinburg left, but under the premise that the Chinese army was cut off from communications, they could only rely on the strong Yekaterinburg to resist, without any offensive ability.

According to the intelligence, this is the base camp of Russia's Eastern Crusade, think about it, there will be no shortage of food and weapons or anything, but what they lack is morale, yes, Russia's several defeats in the Far East, the defeat of millions, millions of people, now, simply lost a lot of territory, according to the current situation, since the Chinese army appeared in Yekaterinburg, then it is very likely, starting from Yekaterinburg, the fall of the entire Trans-Siberian Railway.

Although they also want to believe that there is still a strong resistance of the Russian army, in Novosibirsk, in Irkutsk, in Vladivostok, but Vladivostok is still a little possible, where after all, Russia spent a huge price to build a fortress city, with Yekaterinburg, one east and one west, to hold the entire Trans-Siberian Railway, but there has been no news there for too long, and there is no supply, and it is still a question whether there is enough for what was transported last winter.

As for the other cities, they are the same as Chita, and some are even inferior to Chita, and if the Chinese army can capture Chita, it will definitely be able to capture these cities, it is only a matter of time.

But the only thing that made them firm was the weather on this side of Siberia, for them. It is the only savior, as long as it can last until winter comes. At that time, the Chinese army will not have to push down, otherwise. Even if China has down jackets and cotton clothes, the low temperature of Siberia is often below minus 40 degrees, which will make any troops who have been inactive for a long time and guard the field become popsicles, Siberia in ice and snow. In itself, it is a forbidden area for life.

Through the intelligence department, China understands the thoughts of the defenders of Yekaterinburg, and from the bottom of their hearts, they also hope that the defenders of Yekaterinburg can come out of the shell of the turtle, and such a perfect defense will be a nightmare if it does not completely demolish the morale of the Russian army. But now, the other party will definitely not dare to come out like a turtle with a shrunken head, so for the Chinese army, let alone not being able to defeat it at all. Even if it is defeated, the cost is too great to accept, and it is unacceptable to the Chinese army.

Fortunately. In the strategic plan of the Great Benmei, there is no plan to position Yekaterinburg as a must. The reason is very simple, the city is too close to the Ural Mountains. China has not done a good job, and the battle with the Russian army on the Ural Mountains as the boundary, in this sense, Yekaterinburg will not have much benefit, but will cost the people and money, a huge, fortressed strategic base, even if it has a big killer weapon such as train artillery, it is not particularly easy to take it down, not to mention, now, Yekaterinburg is a little too far from the base camp of the general over.

The distance is far away, which means logistics, personnel support, and even the contact with the country is a little lagging behind, the transport team is OK, land transportation plus air transportation, but the railway and construction team can't come up, let alone train artillery, similar to Vladivostok, the results can not be completed once or twice, this time, the purpose is only to weaken Russia's control over Western Siberia and Central Siberia to the maximum, and completely eat East Siberia.

7 million square kilometers of Siberia, divided into three times is acceptable, and this time can not take Yekaterinburg, does not mean that the next time can not be taken, once this time to eat East Siberia, if the follow-up troops come in time, and the Russian side does not counterattack, can continue to eat Central Siberia and a part of West Siberia, at most a year, a railway between them, and China's railway network interconnected, will appear on the plains of Siberia.

China still has great confidence in the construction of the railway, whether it is on the snowy fields of Siberia or in the desert of the Middle East, as long as there are enough manpower and resources, it can be built quickly, even if the Siberian railway is a huge, unimaginable plan, it can also be completed quickly, with the support of the railway, when the time comes, what kind of weapons can be transported, there is no problem at all.

The war situation in Siberia gradually stopped, Russia is powerless to carry on, Germany suddenly launched an attack, took Warsaw and Kiev, two important cities, occupied 700,000 square kilometers of land, the most important thing is that the border between the two sides has been pushed forward by hundreds of kilometers, although there is no want to continue to move forward, but this distance, has threatened Russia's Forte, Russia is in danger of annihilation, no matter what, the European part is always more important than the Asian part, they can not let the Asian part go.

China, on the contrary, has gained huge benefits, occupying a huge Siberia, even if it is as strong as China, swallowing East Siberia, Central Siberia and part of West Siberia in one bite, such a huge land, even China can bear it, before the arrival of winter, make some preparations that should be done, and do it in the bitter cold, which is almost a race against time for China.

On the Chinese side, they have made great gains, gained huge occupied territories, and in Europe, the Germans are also nervously preparing. There are few seas around Germany, but fortunately there is a Baltic land, which is not regarded by the British as a place by the sea, and there is no experience in landing operations at all, but fortunately, China has, and most of Lanfang's operations are landing operations, and how to transport from one place to another with the help of the sea, and the large-scale movement of the army are completely two concepts.

The biggest preparation work is placed in the shipyard on the Black Sea, which is the largest shipyard built by China on the Black Sea, with four 6,000-ton docks, the dock engineer, is magical, looking at the Chinese, from scratch, caused the miracle of this dock, the Chinese are really good at creating miracles.

At this time, among the four 6,000-ton docks, a strange warship was being built, 6,000 tons, which should be regarded as a relatively heavy model among the light cruisers, but here, the overall construction is very strange, the hull is still like a light cruiser, but there are no depth charge projectors, no torpedoes, no secondary guns and main guns, only a few groups of air defense.

In the end, what is this ship for, because the real dockyard is operated by Chinese, and the German manager does not have much to do, and he thinks about it every day, what is this thing for, and what kind of warship is used to arbitrage, which is not particularly suitable, which is also a pleasure in leisure work.

But today, this mystery is officially solved, today with a train, pulled a batch of things, the manager is responsible for receiving, saw the things, he was stunned, 15-inch battleship main gun, twin loaded, what is this thing transported here for, how can this dock make a battleship, but looking at the size of the entire ship gun battery, the manager suddenly understood a little, which boat this thing was loaded on.

It's no wonder he didn't expect it, who would have thought that a 6,000-ton boat would actually hit such a big guy, what is this, is the boat pulling a cannon? That's too unreliable, isn't it?

In 1895, during the Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese made a strange Mikasa ship in order to deal with the three major distances in the Beiyang, with a main gun, which can threaten the main guns of the three major distances, which is used to compete with the three major distances, which is the idea given to them by the French, in fact, such an unbalanced warship, on the battlefield, the role achieved is very limited, the slow rate of fire of the main gun, can not play a concentrated and powerful effect at all, but a fast fleet, Equipped with new gunpowder, the secondary cannon established a meritorious service, and in the Beiyang, the vast majority of casualties were caused by these secondary guns.

Now, is it going to repeat the mistakes of the past, is this a kind of regression in history? The manager is a person who understands the Navy, especially the modern Navy, otherwise he would not have been sent to the side of the Black Sea Shipyard. But if you think about it carefully, you can't say it completely, he can be regarded as a person who knows something about naval warfare and naval ships, he actually saw something from this thing, this is not the rough North Sea, nor the unpredictable Mediterranean, they came here to escort and transport the army, cross the Black Sea of 1000 kilometers, and reach the other end of the Black Sea, maybe there will be a siege, but there is no naval battle, and the Russian navy is fixed in the Kerch Strait, Until they find a way to deal with the two Turkish dreadnoughts, they do not dare to come out easily, in this case, defense and seaworthiness are not a problem, but ground support is a big problem.

I don't know which target is on the opposite side, coastal cities, the necessary coastal defense will be there, with destroyers, ordinary gunboats, and even submarines, their support for the land is very small, sometimes, even inferior to the strategic support firepower of the army, in this case, a small enough, but powerful firepower warship, has been for the inevitable choice, the only thing that makes the manager a little puzzled is, such a ship, is it really good?

In fact, the shallow water heavy gunboat is already a mature product, in the new shipyard, it took less than 40 days to complete the construction of the main body, and as soon as the gun arrived, the final assembly began, which was very fast, that is, it was completed in a few days, and the mystery could be revealed soon. (To be continued.) )