"Get all your might to seize the Siberian plain?" Chen Xiaode was shocked at this time, his eyes bulged, as if he couldn't believe it.

In the past three years, the Siberian pioneers have indeed fought a few battles with the Cossacks of Tsarist Russia, stole several of their strongholds, occupied the eastern part of the Siberian pioneers, and established strongholds in the central part. However, further west, the number of Cossacks and Tsarist Russian farmers increased. Given that the supply line was too long and it was not easy to start a war, the Siberian pioneers led by Chen Xiaode did not continue to advance to the west, but instead focused on exploring the areas they had already controlled. After all, the Siberian plain was too big.

"Yes, this is an order from the capital. I can recognize the handwriting of the military leader and it is irreversible." Yang Tai said.

Yang Tai, who is not very literate, has a deep impression of Chu Yun’s calligraphy of his teeth and claws...

"But the Siberian Plain is too vast, and our pioneer regiment can fight only more than a thousand soldiers. It's not that we have considered expanding, but that the military pay is limited, and the second is that the front line is too long. The more soldiers we go to fight, the more our logistics troops will be, which is too much consumption!" Chen Xiaode showed his bitter face.

The barren geographical environment of the Siberian plains determines that they can only take the elite route, and large-scale troops are difficult to expand during the period. Just like the pioneer regiment of the Jiuzhou Army, Tsarist Russia could only send a small number of Cossack cavalry to the east to open up the wilderness.

"The military leader has considered this reason. This battle spanning thousands of miles is the main force of the Seventh Corps that left Yumen Pass. They will join forces with Mongolians in the south of the desert and Mongolians in the north of the desert to conduct a thousand-mile raid. The goal of the pioneer regiment is to join forces to enter the Western Regions after the beginning of spring, attracting Tsarist Russia's troops to the Western Regions. After the pioneer regiment takes the opportunity to seize Tsarist Russia's stronghold on the southern line in the north and open up the supply line from Liaodong to the west." Yang Tai said.

"If the road from Liaodong to the West is opened, wouldn't our cavalry and supplies come and go freely? This is indeed a good opportunity to completely control Siberia. But more than a thousand people from our pioneering regiment went deep alone, and they would probably be attacked by the main force of Tsarist Russia." Chen Xiaode asked, "How can the First Corps help us?"

"We will select more than 1,000 cold-resistant soldiers from the First Corps to temporarily join the pioneer regiment, and at the same time, our First Corps assists in logistics supply. In this way, we can concentrate as many troops as possible to advance westward without increasing military pay." Yang Tai said.

"Will the First Corps' strength be short of this? Liaodong and Liaonan are the most important areas of our Jiuzhou Army, so there can be no mistakes." Chen Xiaode said.

"Don't worry, there will be no mistakes. The only one that can pose a threat to us is the Koryo Kingdom in the east, and it is our allies. Besides, even if their army dares to attack our Liaodong, we have an ordnance factory here, and we can arm tens of thousands of people at the first time, are we afraid of them?" Yang Tai said indifferently, "What you should worry more about is to strengthen training this winter and build the pioneering regiment into an army that is enough to compete with the Tsarist Russian army."

"Yes!" Chen Xiaode saw that Chu Yun, who was the military leader, or Yang Tai, the commander of the First Corps, supported the pioneering regiment. What else could he say? He could only conquer the central and western parts of Siberia and fulfill the military leader's long-cherished wish.

"It's a pity that the military commander strictly ordered me not to intervene in the more than a thousand people who supported your pioneer regiment, which means I would not be able to fight in the beginning of next spring. Sometimes when I become the so-called commander of the army, I will be left alone. It is better to be a middle- and lower-level officer in the past." Seeing that Chen Xiaode was cautious, Yang Tai wanted to replace Chen Xiaode and fight all the way to the West.

"You are so light-hearted that even if three thousand people embark on the Western Expedition, you are not sure to fight to the West. I heard that the Western countries have united together with hundreds of thousands of troops. If we make them angry..." Chen Xiaode said.

"If you are 60% sure of everything, you can do it. You can see what this is first?"

Mr. Yang handed a drawing attached to Chu Yun’s letter to Chen Xiaode. Chen Xiaode took the drawing curiously and looked carefully. His expression changed drastically: "This thing... we can say we are 90% sure."

The Pioneer Regiment stationed nearly a thousand people in the strongholds in the Siberian Plain area that had been controlled, while the headquarters had only a few hundred soldiers, more than a logistics staff. The First Corps sent more than a thousand people to build a new force of two thousand people with hundreds of people from the Pioneer Regiment headquarters. This elite force that will be used to completely conquer the Siberian Plain in the future will have to go through rigorous training throughout the winter, advance to the Siberian Plain after the beginning of spring, and join the defenders stationed in the stronghold.

The Tsarist Russia invaded the Junggar tribe, which completely alarmed the Jiuzhou army in the north. The Seventh Corps in Xi'an City was urgently mobilized for combat preparation training. Several infantry corps stationed in Xiangyang, Taiyuan and Chengdu dispatched a small number of reinforcements to Xi'an City to join the Seventh Corps to alleviate the problem of insufficient corps strength of the Seventh Corps. The Second Artillery Corps sent an elite artillery brigade to Xi'an City.

At the same time, in addition to the Seventh Corps, the two main forces of the Siberian Pioneer Regiment, Mongolia in the South and Mongolia in the North, were also mobilized.

The Mongolian tribes serve the people in normal times and soldiers in wartime may have a lower cost than the ordinary infantry of the Jiuzhou Army. After being reorganized, the Jiuzhou Army has three major cavalry corps. One is the Liaodong Dragon Cavalry Corps, which is mainly composed of Han people and Jurchen people from Liaodong and southern Liaoning, the other is the Monan Cavalry Corps, which is mainly composed of warriors from Mongolian tribes such as the Chahar tribe, the Ordos tribe, the Korqin tribe, and the other is the Mobei Cavalry Corps, which is mainly composed of warriors from the three major parts of Mobei.

After the Jiuzhou Army took over the jurisdiction of the grassland, it unified the pastures on the grassland, exchanged salt and grain for war horses and prey, allowing the endless war to return to peace, and indirectly alleviated the problem of food shortage in the cold winter.

In return, the grassland was secretly training troops. The commanders of the two cavalry corps in the north and south of the Mohe received orders from the military headquarters to raise troops, prepare food and grass, and train soldiers. However, they had not received the exact news yet, who was the target this time?

A large amount of supplies were transported to Xi'an City through horse and donkey carts, and then transferred to Liangzhou and Yumen Pass through Xi'an City.
Chapter completed!