CXnovel #573 - I'm keeping an eye on you
#573 - I'm keeping an eye on you
Unlike the situation within China, the eastern troops from the island nation, coming from Siberia as expected, were unable to arrive in time.
Yes, they just couldn't arrive in time~
Due to the obstruction of Liang Yue and the forces from China, Japan's 500,000 to 600,000-strong expeditionary army was completely annihilated, naturally eliminating the original strategic plan to sandwich the Tsarist regime from the east and west, confronting the domestic rebellion in Tsarist Russia.
This made the war situation within Tsarist Russia still appear very unclear.
In the southwestern theater, the offensive from the Allied nations had already begun to show a clear decline.
In addition, countries such as Germany, Austria, and Turkey also successively experienced insufficient supplies of various logistical materials internally, with frontline soldiers facing a shortage of ammunition.
This indicated that the victory in the European war was already within reach, clearly visible.
However, in contrast, the resistance force within Tsarist Russia erupted with shocking tenacity.
Whether it was their combat capability or their will to resist, it exceeded the expectations of the Tsar and the Allied forces.
Especially when they stormed into the city, they encountered resistance in almost every alley, every house, and every shop, all of which required the Allied forces to contend with caution and intensity.
A stray shot would emerge from some inconspicuous corner if they weren't careful.
This kind of combat intensity and desperate spirit made the Allied forces very uncomfortable, repeatedly suffering setbacks, and the number of casualties continued to rise.
Therefore, the current Tsar and the resistance force were still in a fierce stalemate, and on the front lines, a small city or town would change hands several times a day.
The flames of war still showed no signs of stopping, and at its fiercest, the daily casualties of the army could reach tens of thousands.
This made the Tsar, who had originally planned to recover the country in a year, take World War I in half a year, and then advance into the Far East, couldn't help but feel annoyed.
Because of this, he smashed dozens of wine glasses in his hand, and countless secret insults and curses were uttered.
In addition, due to the continuous years of war, Tsarist Russia's domestic reserves had long been exhausted.
Various industrial products, guns, bullets, etc., were okay.
Within the Tsar's jurisdiction, there were actually many production bases and raw material origins that could continuously provide operational guarantees for the army.
However, basic materials such as food had already reached the extreme of shortage.
Not only was there a lack of supply within the army, but even the rations in the hands of ordinary people had little left.
If it hadn't been for some military observers and combat generals from the Allied countries, who had noticed the horror and threat of the northern forces, and wanted to nip them in the bud as soon as possible.
In order to prevent the spread of the situation, they took the initiative to provide a large amount of food to the Allied forces, the Tsar's current jurisdiction and the internal army would have been difficult to sustain.
Of course, if things were not going well for the Tsar, the same was true within the northern regime.
The supply of various materials, food supplies, and other situations were estimated to be even worse.
Moreover, in order to prevent this regime from obtaining foreign aid through overseas orders, Britain, France, and other countries had sent fleets to patrol far along the coastline of the northern regime.
Even some civilian groups fishing at sea were subject to strict control, and in some sensitive areas, they would even directly order the sinking of any unfamiliar ships upon discovery.
Now, what both sides were competing in was willpower, and whoever could persevere to the end would own Tsarist Russia.
In addition, don't think that the island nation had just suffered a great loss at the hands of Liang Yue, with 500,000 to 600,000 troops completely annihilated, but at this time, they still had not given up on continuing to reinforce the Tsar.
It is said that a new round of expeditionary force plans has been launched and is currently in the preparatory stage.
At that time, this part of the force will take various merchant ships, warships, etc., across the ocean and advance towards Western Europe…
Regardless of whether they were doing this for their country's strategic intentions and were willing to take risks for it, or to fulfill their country's original promises to the European powers in exchange for preferential conditions in other aspects.
In short, these little devils didn't seem to intend to give up.
Continuing to wave their little family fortune in front of Liang Yue's eyes, they were really going to work hard in order to get ahead…
However, Liang Yue certainly wouldn't let them have an easy time.
When he communicated with Yuan Datou before, he had already told him to pay attention to the movements of this troop transport fleet, and once the expeditionary force officially set sail, he should notify him as soon as possible~
No matter what the islanders were planning, Liang Yue would not let them succeed anyway~
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Taking advantage of this free time in between, Liang Yue and the others returned to Zhenbei City, located on the shores of Lake Baikal.
They redecorated and adjusted this small city that was built on a whim, and then everyone temporarily settled down here, while Liang Yue began to quietly sort out the gains he had made recently.
Soon, another three months passed, and Liang Yue's research on his cultivation method had already taken initial shape.
With the increasingly proficient application of the Green Lantern Ring, he had now begun to more deeply contact and understand the essence of the so-called Earth's life energy.
This undoubtedly provided quite valuable experience for Liang Yue's path of creating methods and cultivation.
In addition, the shape and structure of Lei Huo Mu itself, as well as its natural ability to absorb energy from the earth and the heavens, almost instinctive, also gave him a lot of inspiration.
Strictly speaking, Liang Yue's process of creating methods can be declared successful so far.
At least, he had explored the creation of cultivation methods from the Foundation Establishment stage to the condensation of the Golden Core, and achieved a step-by-step, gradual, and orderly advancement model.
But even so, Liang Yue still felt that it was not enough, and he was still trying his best to polish and examine some of the omissions and areas for improvement in this stage.
Not to mention perfection, at least~ to improve the purity, power, and understanding of energy as much as possible on the original basis, and to increase a possibility, were all goals he was striving for!
This was not Liang Yue being self-demanding, it was really because the next stage of cultivation was too important.
Think about those great powers of heaven and earth in myths and legends, almost every existence that shook the past and shone on the present would regard the Golden Core stage as an important node in a cultivator's life.
The so-called swallowing a golden core into the abdomen, only then do I know that my life is not up to heaven!
The Golden Core is almost the common realm in all immortal cultivation systems.
According to Liang Yue's understanding, the realm after this is not that all cultivation paths will choose to break the core and form an infant.
In fact, cultivating a golden core from beginning to end is the mainstream route in the classical immortal chivalry system.
What is pinned on it is all the power, good fortune, and life of a cultivator.
Therefore, the early preparation and accumulation work for condensing a golden core is naturally extremely important, and Liang Yue cannot be careless in the slightest!