After receiving the news that the Poles had collapsed and Warsaw was in danger, Napoleon decided to withdraw the last 200,000 French troops from Ukraine at all costs.

The Ukrainian battlefield was finished, at least that's how Napoleon saw it.

No matter how you look at it, the Ming army has actually won the war. And the damn Germans have become a group with the Ming people. No matter what, the French army must be withdrawn from there.

But it is not easy to withdraw troops now. Everyone is hanging out in Europe, no one is stupid, and no one is slow to get news.

Although the Germans have not yet announced it, everyone already knows that Germany has formed an alliance with the Ming people and begun to attack the original coalition forces.

Under such circumstances, no one is willing to throw their own troops into a hellish place like Ukraine as cannon fodder.

Originally, we could still use the Italian railway transportation capacity, but now it is over. The Italians themselves are also working hard to transport people back, and every train leaving Kiev is full of people.

It was just like when the war started, except that at that time, Europe was transporting people to Kiev. But this time, it was transporting people out from Kiev.

The railway line is very busy. It takes almost ten minutes for a train to leave.

The airships in the sky are also extremely busy. When railway transportation is overwhelmed, airships become a life-saving straw.

Anyway, saving one person will give you more strength.

Every train leaving Kiev Railway Station was packed with people, and the carriages were packed like sardine cans.

Before the weather even got cold, many people were sitting on the roof of the train, and some even tied themselves with ropes to the railing at the rear of the train.

The coalition soldiers were fleeing like a doomsday exodus. Even the Ukrainians sent to the front line were in panic all day long.

Those Ukrainian soldiers who were temporarily recruited would flee in groups every night.

Sometimes, at night, the coalition forces had to form a line of defense to prevent Ukrainian soldiers from escaping.

We can't let them run away. If they run away, whoever will stand in front will be used as cannon fodder.

The Ming people and the Russians could attack us at any time.

Now everyone is busy retreating. If the Ming army really attacks, it will be a catastrophe.

The Ukrainians want to run away, but the coalition forces won't let them go. No one wants to be cannon fodder on the front line!

Therefore, the conflict between the two parties is irreconcilable.

Since the contradiction is irreconcilable, armed conflict is inevitable.

As a result, there were fighting every night. The Ukrainian People's Army and the coalition soldiers fought together. At the beginning, they only exchanged light weapons fire.

Later, it was simply a matter of heavy artillery bombardment.

The natural result was that the coalition forces, which had superior equipment and ammunition reserves, completely overwhelmed the civilian army composed of Ukrainian farmers.

The Ukrainian People's Army, which was defeated in the end, thought that they would die anyway, so they might as well risk their lives.

He simply took his gun and defected to the Russians on the opposite side, saying that as long as he gave them support, he would beat up those French and Italian sons of bitches.

Li Xiao ordered the troops not to move, the southern front troops not to pursue, and not to approach Kiev. If there was a fight, let the surrendered Ukrainian civilian army go and fight.

Anyway, they fought for several days and developed hatred for each other.

All Li Xiao's energy is now focused on the northern line.

The Nordic people are not stupid either. They know that the Germans and the Ming Dynasty are in alliance, and now the 600,000 Nordic coalition troops are actually surrounded.

The surrounded Nordic coalition forces reacted very quickly. They abandoned their original positions and concentrated on Riga and Norgrove.

There are ports in these two cities, and the Nordic Allied Forces are sending ships around the clock to pick up their soldiers on the Baltic Sea.

According to the aerial reconnaissance of the Ming army, large ships left the port of Riga every day.

The Ming Army Air Force had organized several air raids. Although they achieved certain results, the bombs were not very capable of damaging ships.

Many freighters were damaged, but none were sunk.

Moreover, during the air raid, Ming Dynasty also lost more than a dozen aircraft.

Li Xiao immediately called a halt to the air force's operations. Aircrafts are nothing. They can be rebuilt after they are lost. With Ming's current production capacity, it is enough to make up for the loss of aircraft on the front line.

But the same cannot be said for pilots. It takes at least one year to train a qualified pilot.

Even after many procedures have been simplified now, it still takes at least three months.

And pilots are not that easy to find. Not only do they need to have excellent physical fitness, but they also need to have a certain culture.

The best thing is to graduate from college, and the worst thing is to graduate from a serious high school.

Only such people can fly airplanes better.

Therefore, these pilots are precious and cannot afford to be lost. The longer the pilots fly, the more they cannot afford to lose.

Now, Ming’s monthly production of aircraft has seriously exceeded the production of pilots.

So many times on the front line, there are planes waiting for pilots.

When the pilot comes back from the mission, he will immediately jump on the fully fueled and bombed aircraft ready next to the runway and continue the mission.

The Air Force calls this stopping aircraft without stopping people!

This has the same effect as the original cavalry with one person and two horses.

After calling a halt to the air force's operations, Li Xiao began to prepare for an early attack.

Because launching an attack in advance will result in insufficient preparation.

Smolensk was once occupied by the Ming Dynasty for a long time. But now, it is in the hands of the Nordic Allied Forces.

After the coalition forces tightened their defense lines, the city of Smolensk became a forward position.

During the last Battle of Smolensk, 96% of the buildings in the city had been turned into ruins and rubble.

Although the Germans built some buildings during their occupation in the past two years, most of those buildings are permanent reinforced concrete fortifications!

Moreover, within two years, the German and Nordic armies had built countless open and dark fortresses, as well as underground bunkers and firepower points.

There are so many that even the German army admitted that their information was incomplete.

Because many of the fortifications were actually not built by them.

Based on the special relationship with the Nordic countries, the German army was unwilling to attack the Nordic coalition forces.

They spent all their energy on occupying Polish territory.

According to the agreement with the Ming Dynasty, the German army left thirty divisions on the movement line.

Three operational tactical groups were organized respectively. The commander of Army Group A was Rundstedt.

This is a very smart general, and he still did not fall behind when fighting against the Ming Dynasty.

The commander of Army Group B is Guderian!

As a representative of the German nobility, he represents the power of Bavaria. And the place where the head of state started is Bavaria.

The commander of Army Group C is Manstein!

This is an officer who grew up in the army. Moltke once said that he is the most suitable person to succeed him.

Although the German troops withdrew, what they left behind were elite soldiers and generals. For no other reason than to better occupy Poland.

Asch, like all heads of state, hopes to expand territory for his country. This coincides with his original theory of expanding living space.

Germany needs living space and a larger living space.

The combination of famous generals and powerful troops was far more than the Polish army, which had been beaten dizzy, could resist.

The timetable for the German army's attack on Poland was actually not much different from the marching timetable.

Their attack was overwhelming, and within ten days, they had already reached the walls of Warsaw.

But their good luck ended here.

Especially the main attacker, Rundstedt!

After he captured Minsk without any bloodshed, he immediately handed Minsk, a hot potato, to the Ming army.

Rundstedt took his army group and began to advance towards Warsaw.

They encountered many snipers along the way. The German army could not defeat the Ming army. That was because the German army was not as equipped as the Ming army and its tactics were not as flexible as the Ming army.

But the current battlefield situation is reversed. It is obvious that the Polish army's equipment is not as good as the German army's, and its tactics are not as flexible and effective as the German army's.

Even in pre-ambushed sniper battles, the German army's excellent tactical ability would sometimes reverse the disadvantage.

As a result, those troops responsible for sniping were completely wiped out.

Either surrender and be taken prisoner, or be beaten to death directly.

After only ten days of marching, Rundstedt arrived at the gates of Warsaw.

The troops only rested for one day before starting the battle for the outer positions of Warsaw.

The advantage of the Poles is that they can fight on their own territory. They have excellent defenses and convenient logistical supplies.

However, Poland's industry cannot produce many artillery shells. Many factories in Warsaw can only produce gun shells, not artillery shells.

However, urban street fighting does not place high demands on artillery. Especially large-caliber artillery. Although one shell can collapse a building, the collapsed building has become a natural fortification.

Many Polish snipers were waiting there, waiting for the German soldiers to attack. As soon as they entered the city, they could kill them with their rifles.
To be continued...