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In the Siberian plain at the end of May, the weather is sunny with little precipitation. However, in the Siberian Plain, spring and summer are very short, and after a few months, the cold winter will begin again. In addition, the winter season is very long, almost more than half a year!

Millions of Chinese and Russian troops were still fighting on the Siberian Plain, and the Russian army relied on those cities on the border that were almost fortified to resist the attack of the squadron at the beginning of the war. However, as the squadron gradually occupies these cities and destroys the Russian troops entrenched in these cities, the Russian army has gradually shown a downward trend, and it is not far from complete defeat!

After more than half a month of hard fighting, the 11th Army of the Chinese Army has captured Orsk, and only a few tens of thousands of the four armies deployed by the Russian army in Orsk have escaped, and the rest have either been wiped out by the squadron in the urban siege, or have surrendered to the squadron. Moreover, of the tens of thousands of people who retreated from Orsk, not many were able to escape back to Yekaterinburg alive. They will be pursued by the cavalry of the five tribes of Central Asia. When these Russian troops retreated from Orsk, there were almost no heavy weapons left. How could they be opponents of cavalry in the field?

In addition, the Russian army advancing eastward from the Urals and Orenburg was also blocked at the foot of the Ural Mountains by the army of two infantry divisions of the 11th Army and several other infantry divisions, unable to advance. When these Russian troops learned that Orsk had been occupied by the squadron, the Russian army suffered heavy losses. After the news that even Lieutenant General Yakov was killed in battle. They didn't fight any further. Instead, they disengaged from contact with the squadron and retreated to the European part of Russia. These Russian troops are not stupid, they know that once the squadron draws troops from Orsk, then they can't leave even if they want to!

The 11th Army of the Chinese Army, dominated by this route, also suffered heavy losses in order to capture Orsk. Several infantry divisions under the 11th Army took turns attacking the Russian army and suffered heavy losses. The squadron alone suffered more than 30,000 casualties, and the Japanese mercenaries who fought with the 11th Army lost more than 70,000 people! It can be seen how tragic this battle was. The equipment of the Russian army, although backward, is on their home turf. Still fighting in a city that has almost been built into a fortress, they still have a big advantage. As the attacking side, the squadron will have to pay a huge price if it wants to defeat the Russian army! Fortunately, although the cost is large, it is not unaffordable! With Japanese mercenaries as cannon fodder, blocking the front and the most dangerous places, the losses of the squadron have been relatively reduced a lot. Otherwise, if there were no Japanese mercenaries, it would have been necessary to take Orsk. The losses of the squadron will be at least doubled!

As early as three days before the 11th Army took Orsk, the Chinese Army's 5th Army, the main army, had already taken Petrobanovsk. Now the army is attacking Kurgan and fighting with the 4th Army. The two armies, together with the infantry divisions and mercenary units, combined with more than a million troops, had almost no problem taking Kurgan.

By May 24, the squadron had taken Kurgan, and the Russian troops guarding it were almost completely annihilated, except for a small number of Russian troops who surrendered, the rest of the Russian troops were killed or wounded in the war.

Almost at the same time, the 10th Army also took Magnitogorsk, and the 3rd Army also captured Ishim. Of the six important border cities of the Russian army, only Chelyabinsk is still struggling to support it. It's just that the Russian army in Chelyabinsk has already suffered heavy losses under the attack of hundreds of thousands of troops dominated by the 4th Army of the Chinese Army, and when several other cities have been lost, it is even more difficult to support itself, and it is only a matter of time before it is overcome!

Astana, in the front command of the Chinese Army, the supreme commander, Marshal Cai Yun, chief of the General Staff, is flipping through the battle reports transmitted from the front line! The battle began on March 30, and by now, there is still a week and a month left! The strategic goal of the squadron has almost been completed, and the more than 1.2 million elite troops deployed by the Russian army on the border have either been annihilated or are about to be annihilated. Now it seems that the victory of the squadron in this war is already a sure thing!

"When will we be able to take Chelyabinsk?" Marshal Cai Yun asked.

"Marshal, the commander of the 1st Army, General Chen Wenjun, has called, within two days, they will definitely be able to take Chelyabinsk!" A staff officer reported to Marshal Cai Yun! Obviously, seeing that the other armies had already won, the commander of the 1st Army, General Chen Wenjun, also began to summon. The strength of the various group armies of the Chinese Army is not much different, and the generals of the various group armies are also competing, and no one feels that they are inferior to others. Of course, for the competition of various group armies, both the emperor Wang Yuze and the important ministers of the military are happy to see this. The premise, of course, is that this competition must be a healthy one.

"Hmmm! Let the 4th, 10th and 5th armies march towards Chelyabinsk! Capture Chelyabinsk and get ready for a march to Yekaterinburg! Marshal Cai Yun said. Chelyabinsk is one of the important Siberian towns of Russia and the most important industrial base of the Russian army, only 200 kilometers from Yekaterinburg, and there is a railway connected to Yekaterinburg, although these railways have been damaged a lot, but with a little repair, it can transport logistics supplies. This was very helpful for the assault on Yekaterinburg.

The squadron invested a large number of troops in the battle of the Siberian Plain, and there was also huge pressure on logistics! If it weren't for the fact that the squadron had begun to store various strategic materials in Central Asia a few years ago, it would not have been able to support the consumption of millions of troops. Even so, after almost a month of fierce fighting, nearly half of these strategic supplies were consumed. Therefore, in the battle for Yekaterinburg, Marshal Cai Yun only planned to devote troops mainly to the 1st, 4th, 5th, and 10th armies, and to cooperate with hundreds of thousands of Japanese and Korean mercenaries. The rest of the troops remained on the border and prepared for the capture of Yekaterinburg and their entry into Europe!

Of course, the squadron suffered considerable losses in the battle to capture these border cities. The losses of the squadron exceeded 120,000 people, while the Japanese mercenaries paid the price of nearly 300,000 people, and the Korean mercenaries also lost nearly 150,000 people. It can be seen that in order to conquer these six cities that have almost been built into fortresses, what a price the squadron has paid! This is still the result of the squadron with the support of aircraft and tanks, if there are no these sharp weapons, to take these cities, the squadron may have to pay a greater price! That's the real use of human life to fill! However, this is not what the top leaders of China want to see. Although the Chinese population is large and the source of soldiers is also large, the life of every soldier is precious, even if a hundred shells are exchanged for one enemy person, it is worth it!

At this moment, there are only more than 500,000 people left in Yekaterinburg, and the Chinese Army dispatched 4 group armies and hundreds of thousands of mercenaries, which is enough to annihilate them! In addition, there are nearly 100,000 cavalry of the five Central Asian tribes, and after the 7th Cossack Cavalry Corps of the Russian army was eliminated, the cavalry of the five Central Asian tribes was even more demoralized.

Therefore, after the border operation entered the later stage, Marshal Cai Yun had ordered the cavalry of the five Central Asian tribes to gather around Yekaterinburg to cut off the connection between Yekaterinburg and the periphery, so that the Russian army would not have the opportunity to obtain supplies, and at the same time, the Russian army would not be able to escape from here! The railway from Yekaterinburg to the west had been blown up by the Chinese Air Force fighters before, and later it was damaged by the cavalry of the five Central Asian tribes, and it was almost impossible for the Russian army to evacuate Yekaterinburg!

On May 26, the 1st Army of the Chinese Army captured Chelyabinsk and began preparations for an offensive on Yekaterinburg!

Yekaterinburg, the last stronghold of the Russian army on the Siberian Plain, where the remaining nearly half a million Russian troops were all assembled. Yekaterinburg was founded in 1723 after Empress Catherine I and was the center of the Russian Ural region. It's just that this place is now under the front of the squadron, and Russia's rule here is already a little shaky.

The commander of the Russian army, Grand Duke Nikolai, was not yet sixty years old, but less than a month after the start of the war, the constant blows from the front line had already made him seem to be much older. At the beginning, he originally thought that several cities on the border of the Russian army could hold out for at least three roads for four months, and then in Yekaterinburg, they would be able to hold out for a few months. In that case, the coldest winter on the Siberian Plain will come, and the Chinese will not be able to withstand the winter of the Siberian Plain, and they will all freeze to death like Napoleon II who invaded Russia. At that time, the Russian army will still have a chance to win. Even if Russia still can't defeat China, Russia, which is showing great strength, can at least strive for a decent peace.

However, the news from the front made Grand Duke Nikolai very desperate, the defense line that the Russian army had painstakingly built was conquered by the squadron one by one, and it is foreseeable that it will not be long before the squadron will come to Yekaterinburg! (To be continued......)