A team under the banner of revolutionaries overthrew the Tsar's rule, quickly entered the hinterland of Kazakhstan, and defended Orenburg. This incident was as earth-shaking as a thunderbolt, and quickly spread from Orenburg to all directions. Even now, the Tsar could not completely control the countries of Central Asia, especially huge areas like Kazakhstan, because of the decline in his dominance. However, no one dared to challenge this authority. Could it be that the sky has changed?

For the nobles of Central Asia, Russia is an absolutely remote place in Central Asia. Russia only needs to give enough manpower and part of the taxes here. However, since 1911, there have been changes. Russia and China's battle near Chita were almost completely defeated, and a large number of children could not return. After that, the Tsar made a comeback and wanted to take revenge, but there was still not much change. This time Russia still returned, and even lost the entire Siberia because of this failure.

Siberia has little to do with Kazakhstan, but Siberia is occupied, which has caused the current situation of Kazakhstan being surrounded by shape. At that time, the aristocrats in Kazakhstan were very shocked. China's greed for land was simply shocking. Kazakhstan's land of about 1.5 million square kilometers should be a piece of fat for China.

What they could do was rely on the barren land, and most of the areas bordering China's Xinjiang were deserts and deserts. However, it seemed that after China took over Siberia, it began to cross the border, but it stopped after walking far, which made these nobles at a loss. Later, they carefully analyzed the territory occupied by China. Some people who were well-informed and well-understood and understood history immediately understood that this was clearly the territory occupied by Russia once with the help of an unequal treaty, and now it was taken back by the Chinese.

Now the nobles were relieved that China's strength was obvious to all. Even Russia is no match for the Chinese. Let alone local forces like them, since the Chinese are just to get the original land, the barren land will not fall into his eyes. Now Russia has been weakened a lot. It was originally controlled by the Siberian Railway, and there was even a branch line in the plan, preparing to pass through Kazakhstan, Persia, and enter Turkey. However, this plan has always been on paper, and it is even worse now. Without the Siberian Railway, Russia's control over Kazakhstan must pass through the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea. It is the focus of Russia's competition with its allies. Suddenly, the opportunity seemed to be in front of the Kazakhstan.

The already extinguished ambition began to move. First, it was to isolate Orenburg and let the Russian rulers' intentions be difficult to leave Orenburg within 50 kilometers of the range, and then to fight for power and profit. They all wanted to become a unified Kazakhstan and establish a real Kazakhstan state.

However, local forces are local forces. Without external forces entering, they can only obtain weapons from the defenders of Orenburg through smuggling and bribery. In just a few years, the three major forces each have about 20,000 armed forces, but they are far inferior to the regular army. In this case, there is actually a Russian who surrounded Orenburg under the banner of revolution. What do they want to do?

Where did these people come from? This is the object of doubt among the nobles. They have thought that it would be the Chinese who used the revolution as an excuse to occupy Kazakhstan's land. However, according to the intelligence, these are all standard white people, and some even have obvious Cossack and Eastern European ancestry.

The Chinese are yellow people, and some are very similar to the races in Kazakhstan. If you use the banner of these races, it is possible for Chinese people to do so, but they are obviously Cossacks and Eastern Europe. These are Russians. Why do they want to revolution?

It is precisely this kind of doubt that these local nobles dare not act rashly. The other party is dealing with the Russian government forces, not local forces. It seems that the Russians themselves are fighting against themselves. Why should they have to be muddy waters? Let's see the situation before talking.

In this way, Stalin's adventure was achieved. Although it was 300 kilometers and almost no road, he brought heavy weapons, including the First Bolshevik Division, which had at least 30% of the heavy weapons. However, the artillery concentrated above 100 mm under Orenburg City reached more than 150. These were enough for Orenburg, which was only the largest city in Kazakhstan.

Stalin stood on a hill in the west of the city. It was a small mountain less than 280 meters high. Stalin didn't even know this mountain. Stalin didn't even know the name. This was not important to him, but he could observe Orenburg 8 kilometers away. There were some artillery fires in Orenburg, but at most they were only 75 artillery. Among the several participating countries in World War I, Russia's equipment was not even comparable to the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Austro-Hungarian Empire had a Skoda factory that could produce 14-inch-level naval guns. What does Russia have? Although they had built battleships, they did not produce artillery, and most of the artillery of the army were imported.

At the top of the mountain, 150 artillery above 100 mm were arranged separately, and the strongest was arranged at the peak, 8 kilometers, which was enough to allow artillery above 100 mm to have sufficient range and lethality. Because of the cavalry siege, the civilians of Orenburg had already run away. The cavalry did not stop these people, but they had checked to prevent the weapons from leaving. Even ordinary soldiers would let them go if they put down their weapons.

This is also a way to reduce casualties and reduce resistance. In just 10 days, Orenburg dropped from 120,000 people to less than 40,000, most of them were soldiers, and a few were family members and some others who were lucky enough to choose to stay.

There were less than 40,000 people, which was nothing to the Bolsheviks. More than half of them were soldiers, so they could attack. This time, not only would they use 150 artillery more than 100 mm, but they would also use nearly 700 artillery less than 100 mm and a large number of mortars, a total of 150,000 vanguards. Here, 100,000 people were not much different from the population of Orenburg. They were neatly blocked in four aspects of the city gate, and their power was quite amazing.

The Russian defenders were a little regretful because they did not wait for reinforcements and the other side's cavalry did not attack the city. Instead, they waited until the two infantry divisions arrived and then set off. Judging from the opponent's equipment, they were really strong and had a large number of machine guns and artillery. He could not guarantee that he would be able to defend the city.

However, it was not his style to escape without fighting. He graduated from the Army School and even though he had always been a garrison officer, Chekhov still insisted that he had to defend this battle well.

Three signal flares hit the sky, and the red signal flares were quite eye-catching even during the day. Chekhov knew very well that the attack had begun and ordered most people to be in the bunker. He wanted to see how these so-called revolutionary parties attacked. He expected that the scene of thousands of people rushing wildly did not appear, and instead was a scream.

Chekhov was stunned for a moment, and he suddenly thought of a possibility. Although this possibility was very absurd, nothing else could explain all this. The other party actually had heavy artillery, and it was definitely 100 mm or even more than 150 mm. The troops equipped with such artillery were still first-class even in the Russian army. Unexpectedly, he encountered it in the border area of ​​Central Asia.

If he had the confidence to defend this city at his feet, Orenburg was just a small city on the border. The circumference of the entire city was less than 3 kilometers, and even the city wall would not exceed 3.5 meters high. In this way, the city wall could at most block cavalry and infantry could turn over on the ladder, and it was impossible to withstand heavy artillery at all.

Chekhov also hoped that the opponent would not have too many heavy artillery, but things went against their wishes. 150 artillery pieces, plus nearly 700 ordinary infantry cannons of varying sizes, and 1,500 mortars poured a lot of artillery fire into the city wall every minute. About 15 minutes later, a section of the city wall collapsed, but Stalin never attacked. He ordered the preparation of artillery fire for as long as an hour and a half.

An hour and a half later, nearly 2,200 artillery pieces were fired, and a total of 5 base guns were fired. A small city like Orenburg could not withstand such an intense attack. There were almost not many 17,000 guards on the front line of the city walls. The city wall was completely demolished, and even more than 2,000 houses near the city walls were destroyed.

It was a small town of several square kilometers, and it was hit by such a fierce attack, so of course it could not continue. Before the Bolsheviks continued to attack, the survivors inside came out with white flags. After an hour and a half of artillery fire, Kazakhstan's largest city was also a symbol of Russian rule. The fall of Orenburg also marked the fate of Kazakhstan and embarked on another road.

Among the defenders, Chekhov was seriously injured in the shelling, but survived. In the end, only more than 7,000 people survived from the 22,000 defenders, and even 7,000 people were injured and killed or killed. After this battle, Orenburg almost became a ruin. It was not until five years later that he recovered his vitality, but he had no chance with the capital of Kazakhstan.
Chapter completed!