Chapter 646 Qiming

West Siberian Plain.

The blades buzzed and rotated rapidly, blowing away the snow, pushing the two reconnaissance snow assault vehicles to keep moving forward. The closed machine gun tower protruding from the roof of the car kept rotating and scanning around with the cooperation of the periscope, as if facing a great enemy.

It was not until a small river appeared in the distance that the rudder at the rear of the snowmobile quickly twisted and stopped slowly.

The baked bran wrapped the cotton-padded jacket tightly, pushed the door open and walked down the snowmobile. The roaring cold wind made him excited. After shouting, he took several soldiers to the stream formed after the snow melted, and arrived at the clear and cold stream. The soldier immediately took out the iron pick and smashed the ice.

Before, several picks could not be smashed, and the ice surface that could only bring out the white spots quickly cracked this time. Along the tip of the pick, it had been radially cracked and broken around. The baked bran squatted down, took out a small ruler from the pocket, carefully measured the thickness of the ice, and a trace of expectation surged on his face.

The ice of Western Siberia is melting rapidly, and the battle season is finally coming again after several months of hardships!

After the inspection, the snow assault car continued to patrol north. Suddenly, some brown shadows on the snow in the distance attracted everyone's attention. When the car drove to the side, everyone took a breath of cold air.

These brown shadows are the bodies of dozens of Russian soldiers. Because the snow was too thick before, the ice and snow began to melt, and the bodies finally emerged.

The corpse, thin and skinny, pale and stiff, as unforgettable as the zombies in Western stories.

No one knows how many bodies were buried in the thick snow covering the whole of Western Siberia. All we know is that outside the ice wall east of the Tomusk Fortress, at least nearly 20,000 bodies have been fallen because of the continuous attempts by Russian troops to cross the border and exchange fire. If it hadn't been for the timely cleaning up after each war, say The height of the indefinite corpse mountain is about to exceed the ice wall.

After the snowmobile drove through the corpses, it began to accelerate again. Twenty minutes later, a large group of Russian soldiers suddenly appeared on the horizon in the noisy engine sound. Seeing the flying snowmobiles, they were so scared that they fled, and there was no desire to fight at all.

When the snowmobile passed through them and climbed a low slope not far away, the scene in front of them suddenly made everyone's scalp numb, including baked bran.

I only saw that in the snow forest in the distance, thousands of tents were set up. The dense Russian soldiers were clustered like ants, clusters crowded there. The high-power telescope could even be seen that they were throwing several unlucky wolves into the pot, and in front of the other pots, it even happened. It's looting.

Suddenly, several Russian soldiers pointed to the low slope where the snowmobile was located. A moment later, several cannons and Maxim heavy machine guns were pushed out of the camp. A few months later, shells roared again on the Western Siberian Plain.

Baked bran immediately ordered to leave. Although the Russian soldiers' desire to fight had been exhausted by half a year of wind and snow, he did not think that two snowmobiles could break through the large camp of at least tens of thousands of people in front of him.

Russian soldiers did not chase snowmobiles. In fact, they would have been scared by such strange vehicles. If it hadn't been for the large number of people, they would have been running around like the previous small troops.

An hour later, a crystal clear high wall appeared on the horizon. When two snowmobiles drove in front of the ice wall, a gap suddenly opened on the left side, and the baked bran took the reconnaissance team into the still silver-covered Tomusk fortress.

Compared with a few months of travel, the fortress of Tomsk was more perfect. After getting the abundant supplies left by Russia here, after the soldiers who had nothing to do continued to strengthen and improve, they not only restored most of the original appearance of the fortress, but even more powerful than before.

Several rows of long connected wooden houses have been built in the open space in the center of the fortress city. In addition to the tank vehicles of the walker and two armored regiments, there is also a snowmobile assault battalion from Lake Balkhash in winter, with a full of 60 snow assault vehicles.

Because the army used transport snowmobiles in winter, after establishing two transit points from Lake Balkashgar to here, 300 transport snowmobiles were invested by means of segmented transportation, so the small-scale supply has not been interrupted, but even the baked bran feels that this kind of supply is really a wasteful, up to 600 Even if the kilometer supply line is divided into three sections, the snow transport vehicle has enough range, but each ton of supplies has to consume the same materials.

With this difficult supply maintenance, the most urgent gasoline problem in the fortress of Tomsk was finally solved, and the ammunition was also sufficient to complete a large-scale high-intensity campaign.

And now, this battle is imminent.

Baked bran walked into the command room with reconnaissance intelligence. Unlike the hall a few months ago, which was full of exquisite Russian oil paintings and decorations, the walls now have not only maps or maps, all kinds of posture maps, troop numbers and work schedules, and the art and decorations in the fortress have been finally left. Several transport planes have been taken away, and they will become one of the collections of the Future War Museum.

"I'm back, how's it going?"

As soon as the baked bran entered the door, he was pulled to his side by the anxious Shen Hao, and several division commanders and staff officers who were bragging and farted were immediately surrounded.

Walking to the map, he pointed to the northeast of Tomsk Fortress and said, "Here, about 75 kilometers away from us, a new Russian force has been found. Judging from the number, it should be the 22nd Russian Army. According to our observation, the number is about 100,000."

"Good boy, they're all here!"

Shen Hao slapped. With the baked bran marking the third red circle in half a month on the map, the number of Russian troops gathered in the east of Tomsk Fortress has reached 400,000, including about 50,000 of the remnants of the most elite Sixth Caucasus Army Group nearby. Now there are 22 armies, that is to say One-third of the troops in the eastern theater of Western Siberia gathered in the direction of the fortress.

You don't have to guess that the Russian army wants to go home!

According to continuous small-scale investigations, nearly 3 million Russian troops surrounded in the Eastern Siberian war zone suffered from severe winter, lack of food, lack of fuel, starvation and other factors, about 600,000 people were frozen to death by the wind and snow, and 500,000 people lost their combat effectiveness after being healed. At present, the remaining troops The grain reserves have also reached the limit, so they have to break out and go home. Even if the weather starts to get warmer, I'm afraid they will run out of food if they continue to stay.

"Yesterday, three reconnaissance aircraft took off for the first time from Minusinux. Judging from the movement of the Russian army, their forward positions in the east have been abandoned, and a large number of troops are coming to our side. According to calculations, it is estimated that after half a month at most, the daytime temperature will be We can go back to zero, so we may face 1 million to 1.2 million Russian troops who are crazy and want to go home.

"1.2 million!"

"Good boy, we can finally have a big fight!"

"Yes, yes, I've been suffocating for half a year."

"It's no wonder, I said why I hear the humming in your room every night. It turns out that you are suffocated!"

"Get out!"

"Haha."

There was a burst of laughter in the command room, and the baked bran couldn't help laughing. Although the numbers were scary, the defense of Tomsk Fortress was not the same as before.

The 23rd, 24th and 56th Infantry Divisions had arrived before the winter. In addition, the 4th Infantry Division and the 1st Cavalry Division, which were damaged during the winter supply, also replenished nearly 8,000 new recruits. Using the long months of winter, they basically completed the integration of combat effectiveness, plus the 5th and Ninth Reading Armored Regiments. The total strength of the fortress has reached It's 100,000.

Because of the rapid assault last time, the weapons and ammunition received the huge reserves of the Russian army here. In addition, the truck team also rushed to transport the heavy equipment of the infantry divisions before the winter, so there are 355 tanks, 60 snowmobiles, 1,130 trucks and armored vehicles, and more than 5 cannons of all kinds. 00 doors, 1,200 light machine guns, 76 heavy machine guns, and ammunition is also very abundant. It even has the ability to carry out a large-scale field battle, not to mention a strong fortress to defend.

The Russian army dug a grave by themselves, which they had hoped to use to prevent Xinhua from marching into the Urals through Western Siberia, which cost countless funds and materials. The extremely strong fortress of Tomsk has now become the biggest obstacle for them to break out and return home.

More importantly, the blizzard that has been raging for several months has already driven the Russian army crazy, and the combat effectiveness has not only dropped to a level. As long as the first three axes are blocked and their last bit of desire is exhausted, these troops are not enough for everyone to fill their teeth.

"Report, telegram from the General Staff."

"Let's read it." Yongshan waved his hand.

"War report, the victory of the Battle of Mesopotamia!

Ten days ago, the Flying Tiger Regiment of our army and the rest of the second marine division of the navy successfully arrived in Avas, annihilitizing more than 50,000 enemy Persian fronts and re-stabilizing the Greater Kuwait area.

7 days ago, after the fifth infantry division of our army arrived in Kuwait, it immediately merged with the Ottoman army and put them into the Battle of Mesopotamia. Now a total of 230,000 enemies have been annihilated, and the Battle of Mesopotamia has been won!

In addition, three divisions of my second batch of reinforcements have departed and are expected to arrive in the Arabian Peninsula in five days.

"Great!"

"Good boy, 230,000!"

News, let the command room explode again. The command of the Northwest Army had predicted before that once the Battle of Mesopotamia was won, the army's main offensive direction would return to Russia again.

The reason is very simple. After the victory of the Battle of Mesopotamia, the only channel of the Allies to support Russia through Persia was cut off, and Germany will also see this, so it will definitely do its best to strangle the Baltic supply line, so Russia will be completely isolated.

It is not Xinhua and Germany fighting separately now. On the contrary, after the victory of Mesopotamia, a big tiger in the Allies was isolated. That's why everyone said that this was a battle that decided the surname.

It can be predicted that as long as the follow-up reinforcements arrive, they can cooperate with the Ottoman army to go out of the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus. Maybe the Russian army's defense line in Baku will be broken through in a period of time. As long as the strategic place of Baku is taken, Russia will be half abandoned!

In order to ensure the security of Baku, Russia is bound to strengthen the defense of the region and increase troops, but now Russia has no troops to mobilize. He can only mobilize the troops gathered in the defense of the Ural Mountains to the south, so that the Western Siberian counterattack that Nicholas II said before the winter will end without illness!

As long as you think of arming more than 10 million troops, Russia, which once gave Germany and Xinhua a headache, is about to face the embarrassment of having no soldiers available and tearing the east wall to make up for the west wall. Everyone trembles with excitement, and Western Siberia is about to return to the embrace of the east!

"Report, headquarters telegram."

"May 7th, enlightenment!"

(to be continued)