At the end of September 1939, the first autumn wind swept across the Siberian steppes, and the temperature suddenly cooled down a lot. Now the Trans-Siberian Railway, which reaches the Pacific Ocean in the east and the Ural Mountains in the west, is completely under the control of the Ming army. Thanks to the opening of this
"Continental Artery", the logistical supply pressure has been relieved a lot.
On October 3, the "Opening Ceremony of the Asian Continental Railway" was held at the Vladivostok Station on the Pacific Ocean and the Chelyabinsk Station at the foot of the Ural Mountains. With the sound of a gong, the locomotive was hung with colorful silk, sprayed steam, and dragged
The long truck slowly drove out of the Vladivostok platform. The first train after the line was opened was fully loaded with winter clothes for the troops. In the carriage, there were bundles of cotton coats, woolen coats, big leather boots, leather boots, etc.
Gloves, leather hats, cold-proof sleeping bags, winter tents, ski gear, skin antifreeze cream, and even anti-slip covers for war horses... everything is available.
At this time, both Hitler's German army and Stalin's Soviet army were still wearing summer clothes in June.
In the past month or so, the Free Russian Army has been considered "promoting". It turns out that the White Russian Army is far smaller in number than the Muslim Army. The Muslim Army has nearly one million, while the White Russian Army has never been more than 200,000 to 300,000. Now, thanks to Hitler's military expansion in Eastern Europe
With the policy of "annihilating the Slavs", the Soviet army either resisted desperately, or if they wanted to surrender, they also considered "running eastward and surrendering to the White Russian army" as their first choice. Anyway, as long as they had no other choice, no one
No longer willing to surrender to the German army. In just one month, the Soviet army in Ukraine retreated one after another. They were chased by the German army all the way across the Volga River and entered Kazakhstan, where they surrendered to the White Russian army.
Therefore, under the instruction of the Ming Army Headquarters, the White Russian army fought out from the western border of Kazakhstan and rushed into the "sphere of influence" designated for Germany. The fierce cavalry advanced all the way to the west, and finally stepped on the banks of the Volga River. This is a distance from behind
The border with Kazakhstan is only 150 kilometers.
Behind them is the vast prairie, and in front is the broad, rolling Volga River. The Cossack cavalry stood on the east bank of the Volga River, looking excitedly at the west bank. On the other side of the river was a city, with vaguely standing chimneys and factory buildings.
——That is Stalingrad, an important ferry on the Volga River, a water transportation hub, an industrial city, and a city named after Stalin.
This city was originally called "Tsaritsyn". During the civil war, Stalin led the Red Army to fight a victory here, which is the famous "Defense of Tsaritsyn". Therefore, in order to reward Stalin, Lenin named Tsaritsyn "Stalin"
"Grad". In later generations, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Stalingrad was renamed "Volgograd".
However, at this time, Stalin no longer cared about "defending Tsaritsyn", and the Soviet army did not care about "defending Stalingrad" either. Under the cover of bombing by Ming army aircraft in the sky, the Russian army directly jumped from the train
They unloaded the rubber boats and assault boats, pushed them into the river, and quickly paddled to the other side. The landing battle only lasted less than two hours, and the beachhead of Stalingrad was captured. The Ming army boats followed.
The bridge troops began to quickly build the pontoon bridge. At the same time, more and more Russian troops arrived on the other side in rubber boats and began to control Stalingrad.
The Soviet defenders of Stalingrad were all Ukrainians. At this time, they no longer wanted to resist. The officers and soldiers mutinied and killed the commander. The entire Stalingrad was controlled by the White Russian army.
A few hours later, the news reached Berlin. Hitler was very surprised. He asked the ambassador to Ming Dynasty to see He Ziguang and asked what was going on. Because Stalingrad was obviously east of the Ural Mountains and within the German sphere of influence. Now
The Ming army also got involved.
He Ziguang looked confused, expressed ignorance, and asked the German ambassador to go back first. He wanted to ask the military. In fact, He Ziguang not only knew about it, but was also one of the people involved in the planning. The purpose of this was to get through to Stalinger as soon as possible.
This important crossing on the Volga River allowed more Soviet troops to cross the river and surrender to the Russian army before the German army occupied Ukraine. Considering the upcoming confrontation between Russia and Germany, the Russian army needed to seize the opportunity and fight as quickly as possible
Expand the army.
The Ming Army's pontoon bridge troops fought all night and built three pontoon bridges in Stalingrad in one night. Under the surveillance of the Russian army, densely packed Soviet prisoners lined up and trotted across the Volga River to defect to Belarus.
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He Ziguang summoned the German ambassador and said that he asked the military, but the military did not know anything about it. This should be the Belarusian side's own initiative. Now our government is negotiating with the Russian government, and I believe this incident will be resolved as soon as possible.
When the telegram was sent back to Berlin, Hitler had no choice but to sulk. He also knew that with the collapse of the Soviet regime, Nazi Germany would collide head-on with Free Russia, and the Ural Mountains and the Volga River would definitely not be stable in the future. The Russians would not
Those who are willing to lose their part of Europe will surely become the Third Reich's biggest enemy.
But Hitler knew that he could not fall out with Russia, especially the Ming Dynasty. Now Russia was a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. If he offended Russia, he would offend the Ming Dynasty. And the Ming Dynasty was a military ally with Britain and France. Once there was a war with the Ming Dynasty,
If we meet, the Third Reich will face the danger of fighting on two fronts. At that point, the Ming Dynasty, Russia, Central Asian countries, Britain, and France will all become the enemies of the Third Reich, from the east, west, and south.
This direction formed a strategic encirclement of the Third Reich.
Of course, Hitler was very confident that Britain and France would not really go to war for this military alliance. Although the Ming Dynasty was very powerful, it was far away on the other side of the Eurasian continent and beyond reach. And the two vassal groups of the Ming Dynasty-Freedom
Russia and several Central Asian countries were weak in their own strength and were no match for the Third Reich.
The German Army Group South is the fastest advancing among the three army groups. The main battlefield of Army Group South is Ukraine, where they have not encountered much decent resistance. Kiev has already captured it, and now it has penetrated deep into Ukraine.
The grassland covers 700 to 800 kilometers, and two-thirds of Ukraine has been occupied by the German army. And because the Volga River crossing is controlled by the Russian army, the Ukrainian Soviet army can advance eastward unimpeded. At least two-thirds of the Ukrainian army has crossed the Volga River and surrendered to Free Russia.
.Now the army of Free Russia has absorbed the surrendered Soviet army and expanded rapidly in a short period of time, with its strength exceeding one million.
At the rear, the Ming Dynasty continuously transported military uniforms, helmets, rifles, machine guns, grenades, mortars, and other basic equipment through the Trans-Siberian Railway. Compared with aircraft and cannons, these are not worth much, but with these
, can arm a minimum army. Although the equipment is simple, it is absolutely guaranteed to be equipped for everyone. The Russian army's equipment was backward in World War I, and several people shared a rifle. This situation will never happen again.
Appear.
With the huge number of troops, coupled with the absolute air supremacy provided by the Ming army, the White Russian army has now become one of the most formidable armies in Eurasia. Not only does it compare favorably with the Muslim troops, but it also vaguely challenges the German army.