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"Your Excellency, Chelyabinsk is occupied by the Chinese! Lieutenant General Nikita died in battle! "The adjutant of the Grand Duke Nicholas reported to the Grand Duke Nicholas. Although he tried his best to show that ordinary god, he still couldn't hide the deep despair in his eyes! The 6 fortresses painstakingly built by the Russian army were occupied by the Chinese, and the capture of Chelyabinsk means that the Chinese are about to launch an attack on Yekaterinburg! The six fortresses of the front line did not hold out even for a month, so how long was Yekaterinburg able to hold out?

"Hmmm! I know, you go out, I want to be alone for a while! Grand Duke Nikolai said.

"Yes, Your Excellency!" The adjutant of Grand Duke Nicholas nodded, turned around and left Grand Duke Nicholas's office!

Grand Duke Nikolai, named Nikolai. Nikolayevich, the uncle of Tsar Nicholas II, has been developing in the army, and after the start of the world war, he became the commander of the Russian army! His voice is also a legendary voice. But this time, he knew that he was facing the biggest crisis of his life! Although he was also captured by China more than ten years ago, at that time, although Russia was defeated, its strength still existed, and it still had a chance to make a comeback. But now, Russia's national strength has been basically consumed in the world war, and the two million Russian troops in the Siberian Plain are the sharpest troops in the Russian army! And now, the war in the Siberian Plain is about to be decided. No matter how you look at it, the Russian army has already lost! After the defeat on the battlefield of the Siberian Plain. Russia is not far from defeat!

Although Russia still has nearly 3 million troops in Europe, these troops are almost new units, almost all of them are farmers who have just laid down their arms, they lack professional training, lack weapons and equipment, and lack a large number of middle and lower-level officers! If such a unit is sent to the battlefield, it is almost no different from sending it to death. In fact, this was also the case, in the midst of the resistance to the coalition of Austria-Hungary, the Kingdom of Bulgaria and the Kingdom of Romania. The Russian army has been repeatedly repulsed, almost completely withstanding the enemy's attack with their lives! The war has reached this point, and the Russian army has no possibility of victory at all!

"Is there any hope for Russia?" Grand Duke Nikolai muttered, as if in a low voice, as if asking himself. This question is not difficult to answer, and the results are very obvious. After now, Russia has no hope of winning at all!

Though. The 6 border cities of the Russian army caused huge casualties to the squadron, although Grand Duke Nikolai did not know how many specific casualties there were, but he was sure that the squadron paid at least 600,000 casualties in order to capture these six border cities. It's just that how much the real Chinese have lost. He doesn't know! Those despicable and shameless Chinese are so shameless, every time they fight, they use those mercenaries as cannon fodder, although the Russian army kills and wounds a large number of enemies. But there must not be many real Chinese! However, the Russian army paid the price for this with a full 1.2 million jīng sharp troops! Right now. There are only more than 500,000 people left in the entire Siberian Plain, and Grand Duke Nikolai is completely unsure of holding Yekaterinburg with these fifty people!

On the evening of May 26, on the very night of the fall of Yekaterinburg, Grand Duke Nikolai convened an emergency meeting in the conference room of the command. In addition to him, there were only fourteen lieutenant generals attending the meeting, and these were the commanders of the fourteen infantry corps of the Russian army in Yekaterinburg, but many of the infantry corps had suffered heavy losses and were already dissatisfied!

"Guys, Chelyabinsk has been captured by the Chinese, and soon the Chinese will march to Yekaterinburg, and we have to prepare for the worst, that is, with the current strength of more than 500,000 troops, resist the attack of millions of Chinese!" Grand Duke Nikolai said.

The generals below, one by one, were expressionless. However, the old and spicy Grand Duke Nicholas was still light, and he could see the worry or fear in the eyes of these generals, and there were even expressions of despair in the eyes of some people. Grand Duke Nicholas did not repounce these people, he knew that in the current situation, it was understandable that these generals had such concerns. Actually, isn't that the same in his own heart?

"So, do you have any opinions on the future of the war?" Grand Duke Nikolai asked.

So the generals didn't squint, and at the same time kept their mouths shut. They all know that the current war situation is terrible, and the Russian army has no hope of victory. Even if Marshal Kutuzov is reborn, I'm afraid it won't be able to solve the current problem!

"General Maxim, come on!" Seeing that no one spoke, Grand Duke Nikolai had to be named!

"Your Excellency, I don't have any good way! Now we can only hold out in Yekaterinburg! Outside the city were the cavalry of the five Central Asian tribes, and our small troops would be attacked by them. Thanks to Yekaterinburg's well-developed city defenses, we may be able to hold out until reinforcements arrive or winter comes! "Lieutenant General Maxim Russian troops, commander of the 5th Infantry Corps. Now that he is facing such a predicament, what can he do, but when he is named by Grand Duke Nikolai, he has to bite the bullet. Even he himself knows that holding Yekaterinburg is waiting for death, waiting until the squadron attacks Yekaterinburg, and then breaks through Yekaterinburg and kills them all! As for how long they will live, it may depend on whether God will bless them!

Grand Duke Nikolai frowned, but did not say anything more, but looked at Lieutenant General Boris, commander of the 6th Army next to Lieutenant General Maxim.

Lieutenant General Boris saw Grand Duke Nikolai looking at himself and knew that he was going to speak on his own, so he took the initiative to stand up and said: "Your Excellency, the Chinese still have more than three million troops, even if they attack Yekaterinburg with only half of their troops, we will not be able to resist their attack!" Now, Yekaterinburg has been surrounded by those traitors of the five tribes of Central Asia, and we get any supplies, even if we also store a large number of strategic materials in Yekaterinburg, but we can't withstand the consumption of hundreds of thousands of people for long! Therefore, I think we should abandon Yekaterinburg at once and retreat westward! Over the Ural Mountains and back to the Eastern European Plain! ”

Grand Duke Nikolai sighed in his heart, if Yekaterinburg had been evacuated, he would have ordered the retreat long ago! The railway from Yekaterinburg to Russia has been destroyed, and it is almost impossible for the Russian army to cross the Ural Mountains on foot! In addition, there are those obstructions of the Central Asian cavalry, as well as the bombing of Chinese aircraft, and if the Russian army wants to retreat, I am afraid that it will not be able to advance even ten kilometers a day. Once the squadron catches up, in the field battle, hundreds of thousands of Russian troops will only become the target of wanton massacre by the Chinese. Whether it is the cavalry of the Chinese or the armored troops, they can easily defeat the Russian army in the field!

"What about the others? What else do you guys think? Grand Duke Nikolai asked.

The other generals seem to have split into two factions, one side supporting Lieutenant General Maxim's view that Yekaterinburg should be held to the death. The other side supported the opinion of Lieutenant General Boris that Yekaterinburg should be abandoned and retreated to the west!

In fact, these generals are not fools, they naturally know that neither of these aspects can avoid the defeat of the Russian army. However, they themselves can't think of any way, since Lieutenant General Maxim and Lieutenant General Boris are the first birds, then naturally they will not go to death themselves!

Seeing this, Grand Duke Nicholas had no choice but to adjourn the meeting. The generals left the conference room with a sense of relief. Grand Duke Nikolai knew that the best thing these generals thought of was probably to simply surrender to the Chinese! Anyway, now that Russia has lost, it is better to surrender directly to the Chinese, so that there may be a glimmer of life. It's just that no one dares to say it first. For fear of angering Grand Duke Nicholas and thus suffering an unwarranted disaster!

On June 2, the 1st, 4th, and 5th armies of the Chinese Army, as well as the 10th Army, 400,000 mercenaries and 100,000 Korean mercenaries, descended on the city of Yekaterinburg. A total of more than 1.2 million troops, the whole of Yekaterinburg was completely surrounded. On the periphery are nearly 100,000 cavalry of the five Central Asian tribes, who are scattered around Yekaterinburg to prevent the Russian army from escaping through the defense line of the squadron!

On June 3, the squadron's attack on Yekaterinburg began, and the squadron gathered nearly 2,000 heavy artillery pieces to fire on Yekaterinburg, and at the same time, the air force also dispatched hundreds of warplanes to bomb Yekaterinburg.

Although Yekaterinburg's defensive strength was also very perverted, under the indiscriminate bombardment, various fortifications suffered great losses. In addition, being surrounded by the Russian army, the morale of the Russian army is declining very quickly!

After the shelling and bombardment, the squadron dispatched nearly 500 tanks and armored vehicles to cover the infantry and launched an attack on Yekaterinburg. In less than half a day, the defenses of Yekaterinburg's perimeter were swept away. In the afternoon of the same day, the squadron stormed Yekaterinburg!

The Russian army lacked weapons to counter the armored forces, and was defeated under the attack of the armored forces of the squadron.

On June 5, seeing that the defeat of the Russian army was imminent, the commander of the Russian army, Grand Duke Nikolai, sent another telegram to Moscow, ordering the Russian army in Yekaterinburg to lay down their arms and surrender to the squadron! Since defeat is inevitable, there is no need to send the soldiers to their deaths! rt！。