In the three days after the People's Army launched an attack, more than 10 battles occurred on the cavalry units of both sides. Each battle was not large in scale. The People's Army participated in the battle at battalion level, and the enemy troops were Russian and Mongolian, with a number ranging from 200 to 500. All the 1st cavalry brigades of the People's Army, responsible for protecting the railway line, participated in the battle, with a total of 327 soldiers killed and 253 injured, while more than a thousand enemies were annihilated and more than 400 prisoners were captured.

Although it was not done without any leakage, there were not many opportunities for the Russian army to attack the railway line, only two times in total, but the train transporting materials was guarded by soldiers and installed certain self-defense weapons. In addition, the People's Army's cavalry also arrived quickly, so the Russian army's harassment did not cause much trouble to the People's Army. Overall, under the protection of the First Cavalry Army, the People's Army's transportation line was basically safe.

During these three days, the People's Army had sent trains 21 times, assembled 3 divisions, 2 regiments and 50,000 labor-service logistics personnel in Yakeshi to transport the largest artillery, ammunition, and materials, and built a complete defensive position in the Yakeshi area. Although the Russian army launched a tentative attack on the People's Army's positions, the People's Army's defense was tight and impeccable. Therefore, the Russian army did not attack and quickly withdrew its troops.

The Russian general Linevich was also worried and rushed at this time. Originally, after the fall of Harbin, some people in Russia advocated the removal of Linevich's position as governor and commander-in-chief of the Far East, and chose others from Russia or the Far East army. But everyone in Russia knew that the Far East was a mess, and there would definitely be no good results when taking over. And the Russian army in the Far East could not find a candidate who was qualified to replace Linevich, because they were either killed or captured by the People's Army. After searching for a circle, they could not find a suitable person, and in the end they could only let Linevich remain in office. In addition, a few people still had a slight fantasy about Linevich, hoping that he could create another miracle of regaining Shenyang.

Although he was lucky enough to hide from the result of being dismissed, Linevich did not feel much joy in his heart, because he also knew that the longer he stayed in this position, the deeper he would fall. Now that he was dismissed, he could still find a position in the idle department and get a salary. He might find the opportunity to be activated again in the future. If he really couldn't do it, he would retire. He could rely on the wealth he had accumulated in the Far East in recent years and his pension to live a peaceful life. But now he is still in this position. If he experiences another big defeat, then what is waiting for him is not to be dismissed, but to be imprisoned.

Britain and France decided to send troops, which brought a glimmer of hope to Linevich. It seemed that they might be able to operate in time, but the People's Army launched an attack on Manzhouli at this time.

Although the Russian army has now gathered about 120,000 troops in the Far East, since neither Manzhouli nor Hulunbuir was previously not a key area for Russia to operate, the foundation was weak, and the Russian army set Chita as the rear of Manzhouli. In the end, the Russian army deployed less than 80,000 troops on the Manchu-Hua line, and the artillery was seriously insufficient, and the entire army had less than 200 artillery pieces.

The reason for this situation is, in addition to the frozen areas of Siberia and the inefficient organizational capabilities in Russia, another important reason is economy. Modern warfare is to some extent, and fighting for logistics is essentially economic. After the "Bloody Sunday", Russia's economic situation was very bad. Although France continued to transfusion blood to Russia later, it only allowed Russia to avoid force and survive, and insisted on not letting Russia return to normal. Therefore, under such an economic situation, Russia naturally could not reinforce the Far East on a large scale.

After the breakdown of the Putzmouth negotiations, Britain and France decided to send troops to join the war, which strengthened economic assistance to Russia, and the Russian government also had enough ability to reinforce the Far East. But the time was too short, so this was the situation now. If Russia was given another month, Russia could send at least 100,000 troops and 300 artillery to the Far East, so that the Russian army would have the capital to confront the People's Army. Unfortunately, the People's Army did not leave enough time for Russia.

Although Linevich also sent an emergency telegram to the country, he also knew that far away water would not quench his near thirst. At least in a short period of time, he could only rely on his existing forces to block the attack of the People's Army. However, Linevich also knew that if the People's Army was allowed to gather troops, he could not defend Manzhouli at all. The only way was to use the People's Army's front line to lengthen and attack the People's Army's logistics and supplementary line to delay time and delay the People's Army's attack.

Such tactics are also relatively beneficial to the Russian army, because the number and quality of the Russian cavalry are higher than that of the People's Army. In previous battles, although a group-level Russian cavalry was defeated by the People's Army in the Battle of Musso River, overall, the Russian cavalry still had a certain advantage in the competition with the People's Army. However, in the battle between the Russian army and the People's Army, the proportion of the cavalry was very low, so such an advantage was really insignificant in the entire war situation.

Now the Russian army has a complete cavalry division, which has just been transferred from the country. In the early battles, the remaining Russian cavalry were reorganized into three cavalry corps by Linevich. The Russian army has been in Mongolia for many years, either tempted by support or bribed with money. Therefore, it has attracted a considerable number of Mongolian powerful people and dissatisfied with the Qing court. It can also mobilize a Mongolian cavalry to participate in the war. The People's Army's cavalry has only 2 brigades, and the Russian army has a clear advantage in military strength. In addition, from the front lines of Yakeshi to Boktu, they are basically grasslands and plains, which is also conducive to cavalry operations.

So Linevic ordered the dispatch of a cavalry army and mobilized more than 10 troops of Mongolian nobles who had defected to Russia, totaling about 5,000 people, divided into small groups of troops to attack the logistics line of the People's Army.

However, the results of the past few days show that the Russian army's tactics were not successful, because the People's Army also organized a large number of cavalry to protect the railway line. In addition, the People's Army not only had armored trains, but also installed machine guns, small-caliber rapid-fire cannons and other weapons on the freight trains. In addition, the domestic ban on destroying the railways also made the Russian army's attacks somewhat frustrated. As a result, the cavalry troops sent out to attack were seriously injured and suffered heavy casualties, but basically did not cause much damage to the People's Army's logistics line. Instead, the People's Army gathered a large number of troops and materials in Yakeshi. If the People's Army was allowed to accumulate strength in this way, it would be quite unfavorable to the Russian army.

The only way now is to increase the attacking army, preferably the cavalry unit of the People's Army. So Linevic decided to put the only cavalry division of the Russian army into battle.

The commander of the cavalry advisor was Major General Zelensky. Because he had just been transferred from the country, he had never fought with the People's Army. Although he also knew that in the early battles, the Russian army was basically completely defeated, but Zelensky had never experienced these wars personally, so he had no psychological burden on the People's Army in his heart. Moreover, like other Russians, Zelensky was Asian to the Chinese and had a natural sense of superiority in his bones, believing that they were all inferior people, and the Slavs were superior people, so how could the superior people lose to inferior people? Therefore, in Zelensky's subconscious, he still thought that the early failure was that the Russian army in the Far East was too incompetent. If he was leading the army, he would never make the yellow-skinned monkey arrogant to this point.

After receiving the order from Linevich, Zelensky was more excited than worried. He finally had the opportunity to go out to fight and teach these arrogant yellow-skinned monkeys a lesson.

The Cavalry Division had already prepared everything to go to war, so the day after receiving the order, Zelensky took the Cavalry Division away from Hulunbuir's camp and entered the prairie.

On the way, Zelensky's army merged with several Mongolian cavalry. Although he had surrendered to Mongolia in Russian history, Zelensky also looked down on the Mongols. First, the Mongols have long lost the courage and blood of the Genghis Khan era. First, they were subordinate to the Qing court, and now they surrendered to Russia. There was still a little bit of Genghis Khan's great spirit. Russia is now recognized as a fighting nation. Second, Russia is not a homeless tribe that was conquered by the Mongols back then, but a powerful industrial civilization country. However, the Mongols have almost no change in the past 600 years. They are still a primitive tribal nation. Compared with the Genghis Khan era, the only difference is that there is an additional sect leader.

And look at the Mongols riding horses, they are thin and small, not much bigger than donkeys, while the Russian army's war horses are tall and mighty, with extraordinary virtuous horses. They are indeed inferior nations and are only worthy of riding inferior war horses.

However, the Mongols were the owners of this land after all, familiar with the environment and terrain. This time they went to fight, they wanted to find the main cavalry of the People's Army to fight to the decisive battle, so they still needed the help of these Mongolians. So Zelensky ordered the Mongolian army to disperse all parties and search for the whereabouts of the People's Army.

Just one day later, a Mongolian army returned to him and found traces of the People's Army, and there were a large number, with about 3,400 cavalry, and they were still gathering.

Zelensky was also very happy after receiving the report, because even if the 3,400 cavalry is not the whole of the People's Army, it is at least the main force. His division has more than 8,500 cavalry, and the merged Mongolian army has a total of more than 9,000 cavalry, so he has an absolute advantage in military strength. Moreover, his current position is on the Hulunbuir grassland, and the terrain is flat, so the People's Army cannot set up any ambush. This is a cavalry that annihilated the People's Army.

The great opportunity for the army was also the battle that I had been waiting for for a long time, but I didn't expect it to come so soon.
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