Yekaterinburg, after a day and night of chaos, the gunfire in the city finally calmed down in the early morning of the next day. General Petrov used three full divisions of troops to quickly put out the chaos with thunderous force. Now those workers
They were working tremblingly under the bayonets of the soldiers, adding coal and water to the trains that were supposed to leave yesterday, and repairing the railways that were damaged in the riot. At this time, no matter how hard and tired they were, no one dared to think that the wages were low. Next to them,
The corpses that had not yet been cleared away were a good solution to their complaints.
"Shameless!" General Petrov said with a sneer from the window, looking at the workers who fell down due to fatigue and then quickly got up and continued working hard.
Then he lowered the curtains and said to the young man in front of him who was covered in blood and chained with iron chains: "Mr. Sverdrov, I'm curious, when such a foreign enemy invades, don't you understand how to make chaos?
What does the country mean? I am not opposed to the people's demand for rights. In fact, I also think that Russia's current system is not good. It needs reform, elections, a real Duma, and a government decided by votes rather than by His Majesty the Tsar alone.
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But it should not be at this time. On the contrary, at this time we must respect the authority of the Tsar, even if he is an exclusive Tsar, because only in this way can the entire Russia be united and all our strength concentrated to resist the invaders.
If we are like you, we will destroy our own country before the enemy defeats us. When the Chinese invaders set foot on Russian soil and enslaved the Russian people just like the Mongols, do you think you are right?
My own country?"
"Your Excellency, General, the working class has no motherland!" Sverdrov, the main person in charge of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party in Yekaterinburg and the leader of this uprising, said proudly.
"Huh?" General Petrov was choked and speechless for a moment, and then ordered angrily: "Go, hang this guy on the platform, and let those bastards see the consequences of rebellion."
"General, isn't this appropriate? It is said that the chaos has subsided now, and criminals like these must be tried by a judge before they can be convicted and executed." The adjutant next to him hesitated and said. Being killed in battle is one thing, but being arrested
The prisoners in the military are not qualified to do this job.
"Where do you come from so many concerns? We are just too kind to these guys. If we had hanged all the exiled rebels, there wouldn't be so much trouble now! Didn't you hear what he said? The working class has no motherland. Since he is no longer
He thinks that Russia is his motherland, so the laws of the Russian Empire no longer need to protect them." Petrov shouted with a glare.
The adjutant quickly asked the soldiers to take Sverdrov out and hang him. At this moment, a staff officer ran in in a panic and reported: "Report to the general, a telegram has just been sent from Omsk, the Chinese have captured Pavlodar.
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Lieutenant General Solanov's only contribution to this battle was to use a wireless telegraph to send a telegram to the Omsk defenders about the fall of Pavlodar before escaping. However, due to various delays, this telegram was
It was only now forwarded to General Petrov. This bad news almost stunned him. General Petrov felt as if he was holding the telegram. The telegram made it very clear that it was the armor of the Chinese Ninth Army.
The division raided and captured Pavlodar.
After half a year of war, the raid method and speed of the Chinese armored forces is no longer a secret. An armored division with more than 300 tanks and an infantry division loaded with trucks can drive two people at a maximum speed of seven hours.
More than 100 kilometers. Since it was the Chinese armored division that captured Pavlodar, it must have been accompanied by an infantry division. Pavlodar is only 400 kilometers away from Omsk. If they were to attack Almaty at the same speed,
This means that this mechanized army of 30,000 people will appear in Omsk in at most two days, and there will only be a brigade of Russian troops that just arrived from Yekaterinburg.
"Quick, order to speed up. We must set off in one hour. Anyone who sabotages will be shot!" General Petrov's face turned green after he understood this. He shouted without hesitation.
An hour later, the first Russian train full of soldiers finally drove out of Yekaterinburg. However, it was still an arduous task for the Russian army to reach Omsk within two days. They had to go south to Chelyabinsk and then leave.
The Siberian Railway covers a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers, and must add coal and water many times along the way. Coupled with the low efficiency of the Russian railway, even General Petrov could not guarantee that he could complete this task.
He could not guarantee that he could complete the mission, but more than a thousand kilometers away, Han Yuanhe and Li Tingyu, who were leading their mechanized legions on the newly revived green grassland, were full of confidence. The dragon style and the fastest speed were fifty.
The Tiger tanks have already reached more than thirty years in this off-road situation. The steel tracks roughly crushed the green grass and flowers, whizzing past the West Siberian plains. Behind them, those equipped with high-power diesel engines
Ten-wheel off-road trucks loaded with soldiers and supplies followed closely at the same speed, and small military vehicles with large-caliber machine guns, recoilless rifles and even grenade launchers sped past on both sides.
In addition to these, there are also a large number of special vehicles accompanying protection, 120mm self-propelled howitzers with long barrels, self-propelled anti-aircraft machine guns that once made a Cossack division hate the yellow sand, and even crawler bulldozers modified from tanks, and pontoons.
Vehicles, oil tankers, cooking trucks, even medical ambulances, 130mm rocket launchers mounted on trucks, and especially twelve monster-level half-tracks.
Of course, a half-track is not a big deal. What is really scary is what is installed on both sides of this half-track. Because in pursuit of speed, mechanized legions usually lack super-large-caliber artillery for sieges, and it is difficult for the army to fly in the open Siberia.
Guaranteed to provide them with air support at any time, so Yang Feng equipped his mechanized infantry with special heavy artillery. His imitation Land Stuka, a heavy vehicle-mounted rocket launcher, is not called an artillery mainly because of the two
The three-kilometer range cannot really be associated with a gun, but although the range is short, the caliber can be described as huge, even surpassing the main gun of the Kunlun-class battleship. Six 320mm heavy rocket launchers, three on each side, are hung diagonally in half.
On both sides of the tracked vehicle, there are heavy rockets weighing nearly 150 kilograms.
Such a mechanized army that was at the level of the late World War II finally reached its destination in less than two days, while their racing opponent had just sailed out of Kurgan.
Omsk is the residence of the Governor-General of the Russian Steppes and a transportation hub where the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Irtysh River meet. But strictly speaking, this is not a fortress city. After all, it is more than a thousand kilometers away from China. There was not even any garrison before.
It was not until the 20th Army suffered a disastrous defeat on the Balkhash Lake battlefield that a brigade originally stationed in Yekaterinburg moved here. However, this was just a local garrison used to suppress the rebels. It was rubbish in terms of equipment level and combat effectiveness.
There were no heavy artillery, only a dozen 75-inch infantry cannons. After seeing the chariots sweeping over the mountains and fields in the distance, the poor Russian soldiers were frightened.
Fortunately, they still have a clear-headed commander. Brigadier General Lebed is a veteran who has been fighting in the European battlefield for three years. He is very dissatisfied with the Governor's request that he place his troops outside the city to block the vital train station.
He sneered at the request. In that case, he would not be able to stop a Chinese charge. So the general withdrew all the people into the city and prepared to fight the Chinese in street fights. In his opinion, such a long-distance attack would definitely not involve heavy artillery.
, the solid buildings in this city could completely withstand the firepower of tank guns and mortars. Unfortunately, what he didn't know was that there was another type of artillery in the world called a self-propelled artillery and a rocket launcher.
Thirty-six 120mm self-propelled howitzers from the 6th Armored Division's self-propelled artillery regiment, and thirty-six 130mm rocket launchers from the 106th Division's artillery regiment were lined up outside the city. At the same time, a truck launched
The soldiers pulled out a large basket and a pile of cloth, then carried a steel cylinder filled with helium and began to inflate it. It didn't take long for a small tethered balloon to rise to an altitude of 200 meters. Of course, there were also other things on the balloon.
With an artillery observer carrying a radio on his back, and then after receiving data from another group of artillery observers on the ground, these cannons began to test fire, and then the observers in the sky reported the impact point, and the ground artillery readjusted and tried again.
, after confirming the impact point of the cannonball, an overwhelming amount of cannonballs followed.
The Russians were stunned in an instant. If they had dug trenches outside, they might not have been so unlucky. But hiding in the barricades and buildings in the city, even if a heavy artillery shell missed a direct hit, the buildings would have collapsed.
A lot of things have to be smashed to death, especially those rocket launchers. This nineteen-tube heavy rocket launcher can fire nearly 700 shells in one salvo.
Brigadier General Lebed looked at the dense fires whizzing past overhead like a fool. Then he followed the trajectory of the fires and watched helplessly as they fell like raindrops from a heavy rain in summer. The area that followed was half a square kilometer.
The city turned into a sea of fire in an instant. When the fire disappeared and the smoke dispersed, only ruins were left on the ground. Only a few broken walls were still standing abruptly. As for the defenders and civilians living there,