After completing the construction of the fortifications surrounding the city, the National Defense Forces sent an ultimatum to the city, requiring them to surrender within twenty-four hours, otherwise the army would launch a full-scale attack.
The royal family and nobles of the Kokand Kingdom were already furious. Seeing that the Cossacks, whom they regarded as their only hope, had not yet appeared, their confidence was also shaken. But just like gamblers in a casino who were losing their minds, they would not lose.
They would not stop until the last penny was lost, so they decided to hold on and wait for reinforcements from the Cossacks.
Naturally, the National Defense Forces would not pin their hopes of victory on an ultimatum. After issuing the ultimatum, they began to prepare nervously for battle. After all, 100,000 people wanted to annihilate 600,000, and they could not let the other side escape. The difficulty of such a battle can be imagined
Therefore, regardless of whether the opponent surrenders or not, the preparations must be meticulous and in place.
Twenty-four hours have passed, and the National Defense Forces have not made any further attempts to persuade them to surrender. Artillery guns of various calibers from various units have raised their muzzles. Artillery commanders at all levels looked at their watches and silently counted every minute.
every second.
"Fire." Following the orders from the artillery commanders at all levels, hundreds of artillery roared loudly at the same time, and the muzzle flashes turned the night sky into a bright red.
Raindrops of artillery shells fell into the city of Kriush. The Kokand Army, which had been waiting nervously in the city, suffered heavy casualties. Their artillery soon began to fight back. However, the artillery of the Kokand Army were all eliminated by the Cossack Army.
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Compared with the artillery equipped by the empire, it is not at the same level. Shortly after they opened fire, the artillery of the National Defense Force found their location. After a concentrated firing, those few artillery were reduced to parts together with the artillery of the Kokand Army.
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The National Defense Forces did not attack, they just let the artillery take turns to bombard the city. A large number of artillery shells fell into the city one after another, destroying the houses built of adobe one by one. The soldiers and civilians of the Haokand Kingdom who had nowhere to hide could only hide at the base of the city wall.
down to avoid being hit by howitzers with curved trajectories.
The losses in the city are increasing. Building after building has been completely razed to the ground. Even the palace was not spared. The National Defense Force artillery completely destroyed the palace at the first opportunity. Now, the whereabouts of the royal family of Kokand are unknown and they have lost their command.
The Haohan Army simply didn’t know what to do.
Some Kokand officers and soldiers really couldn't stand the shelling in the city. They opened the city gate, waved their rifles and rushed out. Unfortunately, they were still 800 meters away from the opponent's defense line. There was a sound like tearing apart the defense line of the defense force on the opposite side.
The sound of machine gun fire over cloth.
Hundreds of machine guns fired cross-fire from their two wings. In just ten minutes, all the Kokand soldiers who tried to break out turned into corpses lying on the ground, and the blood stained the entire yellow sand.
In such a situation, no one in the city dared to break through.
The National Defense Forces were not in a hurry. They just kept bombarding the city with artillery fire. They did not need too much firepower density. After experiencing the intensive shelling in the initial stage, the National Defense Forces just fired one shot after another, challenging Kokand.
The bottom line of human spirit.
This grueling bombardment came to an end in just three days. Members of the royal family of the Kokand Kingdom were buried under the rubble and no one was in charge. The remaining top official, the left prime minister of the Kokand Kingdom, Gudayaliben
They were unwilling to bear the responsibility of surrender, but the National Defense Forces shelled day and night, and everyone was on tenterhooks, fearing that the shells would fall on their heads at the next moment. This situation finally made everyone collapse. In the end, the officials agreed that
, should surrender unconditionally in the name of all officials.
Gudayali breathed a sigh of relief, and he couldn't bear it if he continued like this. Now everyone unanimously agreed to surrender, which was a step down for him. Officials of the Kokand Kingdom who usually always blame each other for the first time
The position is consistent, but unfortunately it is from a position of surrender.
A white flag was first hung on the city head of Kriwusi. Then, headed by Zuo Prime Minister Gudayali, a group of Kokand officials jointly opened the city gate and left the city, went to the position of the National Defense Forces to ask for surrender. Wang Mian and Chen Junhe served as the National Defense Forces
The top commander here accepted their surrender and received the seal and royal emblem representing the supreme power of Kokand. Kokand surrendered unconditionally.
Wang Mian and Chen Junhe first asked Gudayali to send officials to all parts of the country to issue orders for the country to surrender and give up resistance. Then the two commanders of the National Defense Force went even further. After the unconditional surrender of Kokand, they ordered the entire Kriu to be surrendered.
The more than 500,000 defenders and more than one million civilians remaining in Xicheng were all counted as prisoners of war and transported back to the country.
When Lin Feng sent people to collect these free workers, he found that there were more than 100,000 elderly people and many children among them, with no ability to work at all. He was so angry that he cursed Wang Mian and Chen Junhe for their perfunctory work, and submitted a report on this matter to
Joint Command.
The final outcome of this matter was naturally that Wang Mian and Chen Junhe were scolded by Tobur, asking them to go down and not allow such things to embarrass the army. However, since they were able to pacify the entire Kokand Kingdom so quickly, the number of
Although many prisoners of war were lost and captured, the Joint Command awarded them the National Hero Medal.
The capital of the Kokand Kingdom, Kriusi, gathered an army of 600,000 people, but did not fight a single battle. It surrendered in just three days. This disparity shocked military strategists from all over the world. The Cossack Empire supported the Kokand Kingdom with a large number of weapons and ammunition.
It was even more distressing. It is said that the Emperor of the Cossack Empire, Alexander III, cursed loudly after receiving the news of Kokand's surrender, claiming that he could not catch all 600,000 pigs in three days.
No matter what, the Kokand Kingdom surrendered anyway, and the territory of the former Stania Union occupied by the Cossack Empire was completely exposed to the Chinese Empire.
Subsequently, the Wehrmacht took advantage of the victory to attack, and broke into the territory of the former Stania Union in three directions, driving the local Cossack garrison back into the country like chasing ducks. The Cossacks paid hundreds of thousands of casualties. After several months of occupying the territory, the Wehrmacht
It only took a month and very little cost to get it back.
If the surrender of the Kokand Kingdom can still be explained by fish belly, then the Cossack Army suffered a series of defeats within a few months, with the loss of hundreds of thousands of people, which made all countries pay more attention to it.
Fortunately, after successive victories in the Far East and Central Continent, the armies of the Chinese Empire stopped attacking, which greatly relieved the Cossack Empire.
The reason why the army stopped attacking was mainly because the logistics supplies could not keep up. Before the war, the logistics department had already stored enough supplies for a major battle at various material storage points along the national border. However, the logistics department did not expect that.
, the army's attack speed will be so fast, and the ammunition consumption will be so large.
With the use of various new weapons and new tactics, the Cossack Army and the Kokand Army were defeated one after another. The logistics supply line was stretched a lot, and the huge consumption of ammunition also caused the inventory to bottom out in an instant. The current front-line army can only wait.
The logistics department had to urgently transport supplies from the country before they could continue to attack the Cossack Empire.
In addition to the lack of supplies, another reason is the casualties. The losses on the battlefield in the Central Continent were not large. The troops attacking Kokand suffered only more than 5,000 casualties, while the troops attacking Barnaul of the Cossack Empire suffered greater losses, with only one person.
More than ten thousand people.
The greatest losses were in the Far East battlefield. Although the Chinese Imperial Army won a complete victory, the number of casualties was as high as more than 50,000. Especially in the blocking battle to capture the city of Yakutsk, the 12th Army alone suffered 60% casualties.
It can be said that the vitality is severely damaged, and it is impossible to fight anymore without replenishment.
Although offensives in both directions on land were postponed, the offensive launched by the Chinese Empire was not directed against one direction or one country, nor was it limited to the army.
The Southern Ocean Fleet, with the cooperation of the First Marine Corps and the National Defense Force, launched an attack on the eastern and mid-continent colonies of the Saar Empire and the Nantes Empire. The colonies of the Saar Empire and the Nantes Empire in the east
There are only two places, one is Tamsui Port and Sumatra Island ceded from Siam, and the other is in the Kingdom of Jhansi.
The colony of the Kingdom of Jhansi has been taken back by Xiao Cheng's Twelfth Army secretly sent by the Chinese Empire. They also captured the main force of the Saar Empire's Eastern Continent Fleet, reshuffling the naval strength of the entire Southern Ocean. At this time, the Chinese Empire
Declaring war on the Allies put their naval strength in the Southern Ocean at a further disadvantage. The colonial armies of the Saar Empire and the Nantes Empire lost support from the sea, so they could only be on high alert and strengthen their defenses.
The navy's dispatch is different from that of the army. As long as the logistics supplies are sufficient, the army can dispatch immediately and launch an attack quickly. However, the navy's preparation work is very cumbersome. Many main ships are still in the dock for maintenance, and they have to wait for them to rejoin the battle order.
Only then could the battle begin. Therefore, in the month after the war was declared, the sea was very quiet. There were only some minor frictions between a few light warships used for patrols on both sides, but no major battles occurred.
Although the sea is very calm, the Allied forces dare not take it lightly. At this time, they are already riding a tiger and it is impossible to even withdraw into the country. They can only step up patrols every day to prevent being attacked by the Chinese Empire, but what is coming will eventually come.
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One morning in June, the sea was still shrouded in mist. Several old gunboats in Tamsui Port were docked at the berths, slowly swaying with the waves. After occupying Tamsui Port, the Sal people not only built
A modern port was built, and a strong fortress was built on the headland at the strategic point of the strait to guard the harbor.
At this time, on the observation deck on the top floor of the fortress, two Sal soldiers were walking back and forth, observing the sea with telescopes from time to time, and distinguishing passing ships.
"Mike, do you think it's strange today? From morning until now, we haven't seen a single merchant ship." One of the sentries held a cigarette in his mouth and scanned the sea with a telescope.