The sound of cannons roaring over Erkou City, and the smoke filled the sky and the sun.

Since the Tsarist Russian Imperial Army came from the east, Nicholas II personally took charge and commanded more than one million troops to launch dozens of fierce attacks towards the Chinese Imperial Guards in the direction of Erkou City.

The total number of artillery on both sides added up to 10,000, and they shot at each other, and were getting hot every moment.

The shells continued to explode, the mountains shook, and the whole earth was trembling violently.

The front lines of both sides were scorched earth, the trees were burned into black toothpicks, the river channel was cut off, and the river water was evaporated by the high temperature of the shell explosion, exuding a strong smell of grilled fish and shrimp.

However, with each charge of the Tsarist Russian Imperial Army, countless corpses were piled up between the positions of both sides, and corpses were piled up like mountains and blood flowed into rivers.

The smell of blood and fishy smell gradually replaced the charred fish and shrimp, which was disgusting.

Both the Chinese and Russian armies were red in their eyes, but each battle was no more than an hour. Because there were too many people dead and they were piled up like mountains, hindering the Russian army's offensive route and hindering the heavy machine gun shooting world of the Chinese Empire defenders. For either side, the bodies must be cleaned up in time.

Therefore, the two sides quickly became tacit understanding. After each battle, the Russian army would send soldiers who did not take weapons to the center of the battlefield to clean up the bodies. The defenders of the Chinese Empire would not fire at this time, but seized the time to carry away the bodies of comrades who died in their positions, treat the injured comrades, and then reinforcing the positions and resupplying ammunition.

But this tacit understanding soon changed due to the weather in November.

You should know that this battle area is the lake area between the mountainous areas on both sides, and it is particularly cold in winter.

Especially Baihaier Lake, this lake belongs to the Chinese Empire, but it was once a territory of the Tsarist Russian Empire in history. The Tsarist Russian Empire gave Baihaier Lake a new name, Lake Baikal.

If people in the 21st century often look at weather forecasts, they will often hear a term, that is, the cold air from Lake Baikal goes south, which will bring strong winds and cooling weather to the area north of the Yangtze River in China.

For Lake Baikal, which is now the Baihaier Lake of the Chinese Empire, is in the northern hemisphere, which is still a long distance from the Arctic, but it is one of the birthplaces of cold air in the northern hemisphere.

If you have to make a more appropriate analogy, it is like the origin of a tropical storm in the Pacific Ocean. However, the tropical storm is strong winds and heavy rainfall, while the Bohaier Lake is strong winds and cold snowfall.

The cold air from Baihaier Lake is not ordinary cold. The cold air below 40 degrees Celsius is just the starting price. In the record of the 19th century, the coldest time reached minus 70 degrees Celsius.

This is not the most critical. In November, the daytime time in the Baihaier Lake area was sharply shortened, less than six hours.

In other words, the Chinese and Russian armies usually only have fierce battles three times a day. At night, the temperature suddenly cooled down and was tens of degrees below zero, and no one was willing to fight.

But the problem is that the defenders of the Chinese Empire live in Erkou City at night, and there is a stove that can keep the kang warm.

However, the Russian Empire's army camped in the wild. The temporary wooden houses and tents were not warm and cold. At night, once they lived, they were living targets in the dark, which would attract violent shelling from the Chinese Empire artillery. The tents and wooden houses were easily destroyed and even fired, causing the Russian Empire's army to be frozen all night, making them scream.

The strong defensive capabilities of the Chinese Empire defenders prevented the Tsarist Russian Empire from moving forward.

Tsar Nicholas II dreamed of opening up Erkou City in three days, and was instantly ruined.

Instead, it was heavy snowfall caused by the cold air in Baihaier Lake and the severe cold weather that followed.

The Tsarist Russian Imperial Army's winter clothes were not warm at all, and they are still fighting in the wild, eating and sleeping in the wind and snow. In just a few days, a large number of soldiers were frostbitten, causing serious non-combat attrition.

The mountains were blocked with heavy snow, and either they would capture Erkou City in one go, or they would have to retreat and return to Irkutsk City 100 kilometers away.

Nicholas II came with murderous intent, of course he would not give up easily, and immediately issued a general attack order.

As a result, the Tsarist Russian Empire's army had to launch a large-scale attack on the cold night.

The day of the decisive battle came early, and Li Weiguo personally took charge and commanded the army to lose to Erkou City.

The Russian army's charge was very fierce, and it broke through the outer defense line of the Chinese Empire's defenders one after another and rushed to the city of Erkou City...

This was a bit incredible for the Chinese Empire defenders, but the reason was quickly found out.

It is because of the weather that the bloody heavy machine gun used by the defenders of the Chinese Empire did not have antifreeze measures (lack of antifreeze) in the water-cooling system, which was frozen in severe cold weather, resulting in the heated barrel of the bloody heavy machine gun being too high and exploded during the violent firefighting.

Losing the fire cover of heavy machine guns, facing the overwhelming crazy rush of the Russian army, the Chinese Empire defenders had limited firepower with only rifles, grenades and other weapons. Although they had a 1:10 loss ratio, they still lost.

The defenders of the Chinese Empire were forced to retreat into Erkou City and rely on the city wall to conduct defensive operations.

The offensive of the Tsarist Russian Empire's army was still fierce, but facing the tall and strong city walls, the Tsarist Russian Empire's army was unable to break through and could only wait for the rear to transport the siege artillery and then launch an attack.

Taking advantage of this time, the Chinese Empire defenders reorganized their troops and dispatched special forces and airships.

The special forces took advantage of the night and adopted a small formation method to penetrate into the rear of the Tsarist Russian army, and carried out beheading operations on the command system of the Tsarist Russian army, and sneak attacked and exploded targets such as the Tsarist Russian army's weapons and ammunition depots, grain warehouses, etc.

In the air, the airships of the Imperial Chinese Air Force participated in the war and released gasoline incendiary bombs for the first time.

The entire Tsarist Russian Empire's army suddenly had a sea of ​​fire, which was particularly eye-catching in the darkness.

The fire gave the Chinese Empire artillery a reference target and fired fires in a volley. The siege artillery that had just been transported by the Tsarist Russian army was blown up by shells.

When the Tsarist Russian army fell into chaos, Li Weiguo ordered the Chinese Empire army in Erkou City to quickly leave the city and launch a counterattack.

For a time, the armies of China and Russia fought fiercely, and many positions even broke out in tragic hand-to-hand combat.

Originally, the Russian Empire's army had a large number of troops, and even if they were found to attack the Chinese Empire, they would not be easily defeated.

But Tsar Nicholas II was arrogant and thought that he could capture Erkou City with one move, so he personally arrived at the front line to show off, but was discovered by a special team of the Chinese Empire that infiltrated.

After all, Tsar Nicholas II's guards were not decorations, and they still had strong alertness and combat effectiveness. They almost also discovered this small army of the Chinese Empire, and fierce battles broke out between the two sides.

During the melee, Nicholas II was more back-dressed, dressed too conspicuously, and deliberately stood near the fire, but was shot by a sniper and fell to the ground with two bombs.

The Tsar's guards suddenly went crazy and attacked the Chinese Empire's special war team like crazy.

The commander of this Chinese Empire Special Warfare Team did not know that he had hit Nicholas II, and he did not expect that Nicholas II would go to the front line to show off, otherwise he would have rushed up at any cost to see if the opponent was killed.

Something happened to Nicholas II. I don’t know which Russian officer went crazy and actually shouted out, which soon shocked the generals of the Russian troops.

If Nicholas II died, then the next step would be the replacement of the Tsarist Russian Empire. At this time, every Russian general was anxious, especially a few royal generals who held hundreds of thousands of troops. They had no intention of fighting and hurriedly ordered the withdrawal of their troops.

One retreats, the others retreat as well.

Of course, the cannon fodder that was cut off must be left. In this regard, the Tsarist Russians have always been the darkest, leaving some officers without a backstage with their troops.

As a result, when the Chinese Empire troops launched a counterattack, these Tsarist Russian troops, which were cannon fodder, were quickly defeated.

The Chinese Empire army took advantage of the victory and pursued the battle chariots of the Dragoon regiment, with the fastest maneuvering speed. This was also a plan formulated by Li Weiguo in advance to fight a defensive counterattack. When the Tsarist Russian army retreated, the enemy who had to kill in one go was blood flowing and could no longer attack the Chinese Empire.

However, at this time, the blizzard came early, and the road to Irkutzk was blocked, blocking the ferocious Chinese Empire Dragoon Regiment.

So, the Chinese Empire Dragon Cavalry Regiment, which had been prepared for a long time, went on a large-scale battle for the first time, but was destroyed by the ghost weather and returned in disappointment.

However, this battle in Siberia ended with the victory of the Chinese Empire.

In this battle, the Tsarist Russian Imperial Army killed more than 130,000 people, injured more than 220,000 people, disappeared more than 40,000 people, lost 755 artillery pieces, 180 heavy machine guns, and suffered countless losses of various military supplies.

The Chinese Empire defenders only sacrificed 1,222 people, injured more than 13,000 people, lost 12 artillery pieces and 210 heavy machine guns.

The only loss exceeds that of the Tsarist Russian army is the heavy machine gun, which is why the Chinese Empire's military failed to correctly evaluate the adaptability of the bloody heavy machine gun in extreme cold conditions. After that, the Chinese Empire's military industry department will improve the bloody heavy machine gun based on this defect.

Of course, in Li Weiguo's view, the improvement of the bloody heavy machine gun is optional, because the Chinese Empire has already produced new heavy machine guns on a large scale and will soon equip the front-line army on a large scale to replace the bloody heavy machine gun.

The Battle of Siberia ended with the victory of the Chinese Empire and the Tsarist Russian Empire losing and fleeing.

Li Weiguo still had no plan to attack the Tsarist Russian Empire. He did not want to stimulate the Tsarist Russian Empire to invest more troops in the Far East, but hoped that the Tsarist Russian Empire would concentrate all its troops on the European battlefield, consume the vitality of the German Empire and the vitality of the entire Europe.

As for the German Emperor William II's repeated calls to Li Weiguo to send troops to attack the eastern front of the Tsarist Russian Empire, Li Weiguo refused, and the excuse was that the mountains were blocked by heavy snow and the road was blocked.

The Western Front battlefield of the Chinese Empire entered winter. After this defeat, the Tsarist Russian Empire had no energy to organize such a large-scale offensive again in a short period of time.

So Li Weiguo withdrew his army back to his respective theaters for rest, and only the necessary guards were retained on the front line.

Afterwards, Li Weiguo left Beidu and returned to Wuhan, Greater Kyoto.

"Isn't there any movement there yet?"

When he returned to Greater Kyoto, Li Weiguo immediately asked about Japan's situation.

After Mingyue handled all the information about Japan, she told Li Weiguo that Prince Nengju had no intention of rebelling.

"This can last for a long time, what is he thinking? Why haven't he rebelled?"

Mingyue was also confused about this matter. After all, the Japanese Navy is now wiped out. Japan knows that the emperor's dominance is shaken, which is a good opportunity for Prince Nengju to rebel and force the palace. However, Nengjue has not moved, and I don't know why.

"This one looks very patriotic if you can last for a long time!"

Li Weiguo suddenly smiled and said, "He has seen through Neng Long's thoughts."

"Looking at this matter from a long standpoint, it is not difficult to find that if he can rebel for a long time, although he will have the greatest chance of seizing the throne, what he will destroy is the popularity of the people who have been working hard for a long time, and it will also make the Japanese Empire worse. He will not want the Japanese Empire to be too weak because he does not want to become a puppet of our Chinese Empire in the future, so he is preserving Japan's vitality."

After hearing Li Weiguo's words, Mingyue suddenly realized and said angrily: "This is really unaware of the current affairs if you can last for a long time. Your Majesty can send troops to attack and destroy the little Japanese."

Li Weiguo smiled slightly and said, "That's right, there is no longer any maritime power in the Pacific Ocean. The warship factories on the east coast of the United States have also been destroyed. It's okay for two or three years. It's time to deal with Japan!"

So, Li Weiguo convened a meeting of imperial fronts and asked the military to recommend a capable general to expedition Japan in the east.

"Your Majesty, I have a candidate. Liu Changshuai, the commander of the 78th town of the Eastern Theater Command, can be a great task!"

"How can the commander of a town be in charge? The level is too low, at least it should be reasonable if it is a lieutenant general or above!"

"Your Majesty, Zhu Xiangguang, deputy commander of the Central Theater Command, can take charge of the eastern expedition to Japan!"

"Your Majesty, the Northeast War Zone..."

As soon as this comes, there are many people who recommend it, just like the vegetable market.

Li Weiguo was not angry, but on the contrary, he was happy that the Chinese Empire was full of talents, and the more they became more prosperous.

He looked at Zhang Xiaoliu and asked, "Zhang Xiaoliu, where are you? Who is the candidate?"

Zhang Xiaoliu smiled and said, "I want to recommend myself first!"

Puff, a group of people almost squirted!

The dignified Minister of War, in addition to the honorary top leader of the emperor, is also the highest military official. He actually wants to take charge of the battle himself. What is going to do?

Everyone was surprised and looked at Zhang Xiaoliu with a strange look on his face.

Seeing Li Weiguo shook his head, Zhang Xiaoliu smiled and said, "Your Majesty, I am just kidding me. I recommend Nie Shicheng, the commander of the 49th town in the Northeast War Zone, to serve as the leader of Nie Shicheng!"

As soon as he finished speaking, another group of people opposed it, believing that Nie Shicheng's level was too low and he was not visible. Who knows what his ability is?

Li Weiguo nodded instead. He was very pleased that there were some information about outstanding military generals in modern history. He had never disclosed it, and he hoped that his subordinates could find them by themselves.

Today, Zhang Xiaoliu recommended Nie Shicheng, which obviously satisfied Li Weiguo very much.

Zhang Xiaoliudao: "Your Majesty, this Nie Shicheng is not good at socializing, so he has always been a teacher, but he is capable."

Without waiting for the others to interrupt, Li Weiguo waved his hand to stop them and said, "It's accurate! Let Nie Shicheng be the commander of the Japanese in the Eastern Expedition! I will see what your vision is. I am always worried about handing over the Ministry of War to you. Now it's time for you to prove yourself!"

Zhang Xiaoliu knew that Li Weiguo was helping him block the other people's mouths. After all, Zhang Xiaoliu was born in a humble background and has always been criticized by many civil and military officials in the court. This time it was an opportunity to prove himself.
Chapter completed!