readx; When China's Fifth Army launched a large-scale offensive in Siberia, in Central Asia, the Fourth Army led by Li Lianyang also launched a larger-scale offensive against Ares. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

After the Fifth Army reinforced part of a division of the Fourth Army to defend the rear of the Fifth Army, it concentrated most of the main forces of the Fifth Army to attack Ares with all its might, and broke through Ares's outer defense line on November 4, after the fall of Ares's outer defense line, the Russian army tried to continue to rely on the urban area to resist stubbornly, and wanted to rely on street fighting to cause heavy casualties to the Chinese Army. It wasn't until November 7 that all of Ares was conquered.

At the same time, tens of thousands of Russian troops in the west of Turkestan carried out a large-scale counteroffensive against the 3rd Division of the Chinese Army in Turkestan, trying to reopen Turkestan and meet the remnants of the Russian army in the direction of Ares.

At that time, Li Yuting once again took advantage of the mobility and firepower of the Third Division, and did not hold on to Turkestan, but abandoned Turkestan, and then took the initiative to retreat to the east, and finally intercepted the remnants of the Russian army withdrawn from the direction of Ares about 100 kilometers east of Turkestan, and finally attached to the Fifth Army's direct reading tank regiment, that is, the Fifth Tank Regiment and the Fifth Army's temporary deployment of many trucks and half-tracked vehicles composed of fast motorized troops to encircle and annihilate the participating Russian troops.

In the end, the remaining remnants of more than 15,000 Russian troops were all annihilated.

Immediately after that, the 3rd Division and the 5th Army launched a large-scale counteroffensive against the Russian army's recaptured Turkestan, and two days later conquered Turkestan again, and the remnants of more than 20,000 Russian troops broke and fled westward.

Since the beginning of the war, China has successively invested three infantry divisions, one mechanized division, one field artillery brigade, and one reading tank regiment in the southern region of Central Asia, including the direction of Ares and Turkestan, with a total of nearly 200 tanks, dozens of self-propelled guns, and hundreds of towed artillery pieces of 105 mm caliber or more, of which nearly 100 are heavy artillery pieces of 155 mm caliber alone, with a total strength of more than 80,000 troops, and at the same time, the Air Force's Third Air Force has more than 1,000 combat aircraft.

The Russian army in front of him included three divisions of Ares and three divisions in the Turkestan direction, with a total strength of about 70,000 troops, hundreds of large and small artillery, dozens of tanks, and more than 200 combat aircraft of the Russian Defense Forces Air Force.

Although the Fourth Army did not invest much more in southern Central Asia than the Russian Defense Forces in terms of strength, it occupied an absolute advantage in heavy weapons and air support, and this advantage also allowed the Chinese Army to suppress the Russian Defense Forces after the start of the war.

After more than half a month of fierce fighting between the two sides around Ares, Turkestan and Tashkent, the Chinese Army completely broke through the Russian defense line, three of the Russian troops were completely annihilated, and the remaining three divisions were also heavily damaged, and the 33rd Division of the Chinese Russian Army retreated from Turkestan with only more than 3,000 people left. The Russian army lost almost all of its heavy equipment in this battle, and at the same time lost more than 50,000 soldiers, only more than 10,000 escaped, and more than 200 planes of the Russian Defense Forces Air Force, which supported the Russian Defense Forces in the operation, were also shot down overwhelmingly.

Compared with Russia's heavy losses, China's losses are not high, even though China's casualties in the early stage of the war were somewhat large, but after a few days the soldiers adapted to the atmosphere of the war, and after seeing the cruel war, the war experience also grew rapidly, which made the later losses of soldiers not large, and in the war in southern Central Asia, which lasted for more than half a month, the Chinese side lost about 8,000 soldiers, more than 30 tanks, more than 40 combat aircraft, and nearly 100 large and small artillery.

However, because the Chinese side is the attacking side, so many wounded can be treated in a timely manner after being injured, and the treatment system of the Chinese Army has benefited from the rapid development of the domestic antibiotic industry, and various infections have been greatly reduced, so the mortality rate of the wounded is relatively low, and at the same time, it has also lowered the overall death rate, and in the continuous operation, the dead soldiers of the Fourth Army are about 1,000 people, which is very small for a large-scale, the enemy's equipment is not weak, and the resistance is very tenacious.

The casualties on both sides are actually nothing, the most important thing is that the Fourth Army can now move westward along the Central Asian Railway, and use the Central Asian Railway to ensure the supply of the Fourth Army in the process of westward advance, after all, the overall size of the Fourth Army is as high as hundreds of thousands, and it is not comparable to a third division, at the beginning, a third division could rely on heavy trucks to maintain a supply line of up to more than 200 kilometers, but this is for a group army of hundreds of thousands of people, Relying solely on trucks is a serious inadequacy.

And along the Central Asian Railway, the resistance that the Fourth Army can encounter after it is also extremely limited, because the Russian army has invested almost all the forces that can be used in the two directions of Ares and Turkestan, and almost all of their forces in the southern region of Central Asia have been used in these two battles, if this cannot be stopped, then the follow-up Russian army will not be able to draw more troops to resist the attack of the Chinese army.

The strength of the Russian Defense Forces was already small, and more of their previous forces were also used in the direction of Astana and Barnaul, that is, in the direction of Siberia, and the troops in the southern region of Central Asia were not much.

And the smooth operation of the southern region of Central Asia after entering November also relieved the controversial Li Lianyang: no one said it now!

"I just don't know when the Siberian side will be able to take it down!"

Siberia and Central Asia were in a stalemate, although China had the advantage in both directions, but it was not able to successfully conquer, until now the Fourth Army took the lead in breaking the stalemate, conquering Ares and Turkestan and then advancing all the way to the west, and now the 3rd Division has begun to advance towards the Aral Sea. Although the Central Asian region was a little difficult in the early stage, once it conquered the important transportation strategic point of Arres. China's transportation of military supplies in Central Asia can be connected to the Central Asian Railway by using the Northwest Railway to the Xinta Line, and the Orenburg-Tashkent Railway, that is, the Ota Line, to the northwest, and can be connected along the railway line all the way to Moscow.

It can be said that after the Fourth Army took control of Arres, it was equivalent to having the capital to cut into the Central Asian Railway and the Horta Railway.

Speaking of which, the section of the Central Asian Railway controlled by China, that is, the Xinta Line, was not connected to the Ota Line and the Central Asian Railway controlled by Soviet Russia in those years.

Before China took control of this region, there was no railway in the northeastern part of Kazakhstan, and the Xinta Line was built by China in the 20s as a war readiness project in order to strengthen its control over Central Asia, and in the 30s, it was connected to the Northwest Railway, which was also built as a war readiness project, thus forming a Central Asian railway network under Chinese control. The railway controlled by China is naturally not connected to the Soviet Russian railway, but after the Russian Republic attacked Soviet Russia, although Chen Jingyun had decided to fight the Russian Republic, after all, the two countries still had a honeymoon period, and the Russian Republic also used the new tower line to transport materials, and took the initiative to connect the new tower line with the Central Asian railway.

In the vast Siberia and Central Asian regions, everyone attacked or defended along the railway line, because after breaking away from the railway, it was impossible to carry out large-scale corps operations in the vast Central Asia and Siberian region.

And if you look at the railway network of Siberia and the Central Asian Railway, you can see why the Chinese army captured Aress and Barnaul.

Barnaul is not only the most important barrier in the south of Novosibirsk, the second capital of the Russian Republic, but also one of the stations along the new tower line.

However, the Russian army has invested more troops here, but China has invested more troops, if the battle in southern Central Asia is only a division-level scale, 10,000 people in 10,000 people, then in Barnaul it is a battle of hundreds of thousands of people.

In order to take Barnaul and Novosibirsk, the Fifth Army has invested two armored divisions, four infantry divisions, sixteen infantry divisions, six field artillery brigades and three reading tank regiments, and is fighting this battle of hundreds of thousands of people around Barnaul and the Russian army.

The intensity of the fighting was far greater than that of the Ares, and the scale could only be compared with the large-scale battle that broke out between the Soviet Union and Germany.

And the larger the battle, the more advantageous it is for China, because the larger the scale, the more dependent it is on technical forces and heavy firepower, and these are the advantages of the Chinese army.

Moreover, the reason why Fang Dashan delayed the launch of the general attack on Barnaul, but kept delaying and waiting for the Russian reinforcements to arrive, was also reasonable, because Fang Dashan planned to destroy the main force of the Russian army in the Barnaul area once, so as not to have to fight again in Novosibirsk after fighting Barnaul, and in this way, he could also complete the task ordered by Chen Jingyun to a greater extent: to annihilate as many enemy living forces as possible!

In other words, Chen Jingyun doesn't want the nearly two million troops of the Russian Defense Forces to be simply defeated and then restored to civilians, he wants to eliminate them all on the battlefield, to put it mildly, Chen Jingyun is planning to exterminate all the middle-aged male surnames of the Russian Republic in the war, and there will be a genocide later.

Chen Jingyun is planning to directly annex the territory of the Russian Republic, and if it is directly annexed, it will inevitably carry out large-scale immigration to these areas, in order to avoid any trouble caused by these original Russians, Chen Jingyun is thinking about how many can be killed in the war, including soldiers and civilians, how much can be killed in this war, and the remaining old and disabled people will be sent directly to Soviet Russia, so that they can enjoy the good life of [***].

In Chen Jingyun's view, Hitler's massacre of the Jews was inefficient and incompetent, and it would only take a month to kill millions of people with one bullet per person.

To put it simply: Chen Jingyun only wants alien land, not alien population.

Chen Jingyun wanted to annihilate as many Russian soldiers as possible, and Russia wanted to keep Barnaul in every possible way, so the scale of the war in the Barnaul area was getting bigger and bigger, and the troops on both sides were increasing, and by mid-November, Barnaul had gathered nearly 700,000 troops from both sides, and a super-large-scale battle began.

And from the day this battle was planned by the [***] side, it was destined to be an all-round slaughter!