The dazzling sunlight woke up Tan Renhao, and when he opened his eyes, he found that his wife was sitting next to him. He didn't go back to his bedroom last night, he spent the night on the couch in the study.

"Big lazy worm, the sun is drying your buttocks, and you can't get up yet?"

"Wife, didn't I get up?" Tan Renhao immediately turned over and sat up, "What time is it?" ”

"Anyway, it's not early, I wanted to call you earlier, but seeing that you slept so soundly, I couldn't bear it."

Tan Renhao glanced at the sun that had risen outside the window, it was indeed not early. "It's rare, it's hard to get a good night's sleep, how about it, what do you want to do today?"

Liao Yingyu glanced at the pile of papers on the desk, then turned her head. "I'm going to take Xiaobao to the city for a walk, but last night many shops were closed, and there were still some things I didn't buy."

"Then I'll go with you." Tan Renhao stood up and stretched his waist, the biggest pain after sleeping on the sofa was the soreness after getting up.

"No, I'll just ask Qinglian to come with me." Liao Yingyu also stood up, "You go wash up first, Mom has prepared several dishes you like to eat, and lunch will be opened half an hour earlier today." ”

Tan Renhao nodded, then grabbed his wife's arm and held her in his arms. "Yingyu, I've worked hard for you this time, and we haven't been intimate for a long time."

Liao Yingyu was startled and immediately struggled. "What time is it? And everyone got up and went to bed early in the evening. ”

Tan Renhao immediately laughed. "Yes, I will definitely carry out my wife's orders this time."

Seeing her husband run out with a jump, Liao Yingyu shook her head with a smile. She didn't sleep well all night, and several times she wanted to come to the study and ask her husband to rest, but she couldn't help it. Now that she sees so many documents on her desk, she knows that her husband has a lot to do, and she doesn't let him accompany her to the city shopping. Before marrying Tan Renhao, Liao Yingyu thought that it was not easy to be the daughter of a general, but now she feels that . It's even harder to be a general's wife.

The lunch was very hearty, and there were several dishes that Tan Renhao liked to eat. Liao Hongpeng was also full of praise, he spent the night outside, and only rushed back half an hour before the meal. After lunch, Liao Hongpeng was going out to run errands again, just in time to send Liao Yingyu and Tan Qinglian to the city. Tan Renhao went to sit in the garden for a while, accompanied his father for a while, and took a nap when his parents went to take a nap. He returned to his study.

Seeing the pile of documents, Tan Renhao really wanted to light a fire. After cursing Gan Yongxing a few times in his heart, he sat down helplessly. During the war, there are no statutory holidays for soldiers, but soldiers also need to rest and live a normal life. Tan Renhao felt like he was turning into a cow and a horse, and he also had a tireless superior like Gan Yongxing, who also had to be tireless under his subordinates. He could only complain, and when faced with the documents, he felt like a prisoner with a life sentence. I can only continue to endure this torment that I don't know when it will end.

This time, Tan Renhao picked up a battle report. It is not a naval battle report, but an army war report, a battle report of the army on the Russian battlefield in the past few months.

The war against Russia is in addition to the Pacific War. Another major battlefield in the Empire. Since the last war, the Imperial Army has always regarded Russia as its greatest enemy, and after the war, more than seventy percent of the Imperial Army's preset battle plans were aimed at Russia. It can be said that before the United States officially became the greatest enemy of the Empire, Japan was the number one enemy of the Imperial Navy, and Russia was the number one enemy of the Imperial Army.

The final phase of the Russian war was, to a greater extent, a race against allies than with enemies. led to the Don Empire, Germany. The main reason why the Persian Empire was seriously ill on the Russian battlefield was that the three countries signed a secret agreement to divide Russia before launching a final attack, and the focus of the agreement was that after defeating Russia, Russia would be dismembered along the Line of Actual Control of the armies of the three countries, so as to prevent Russia from becoming a land power again.

From a third party's point of view, this is a veritable "bandit agreement". But history is written by the victors, and the losers lose everything. If you want to blame, you can only blame Russia for its miserable life, and the location is too bad. Russia was the only one that simultaneously opposed the Don Empire. Germany, as well as the Persian Empire, constituted a land threat to the states. On this basis alone, it is unlikely that the Allied triumvirate will allow Russia to remain a threat after the war. Perhaps, when dealing with such defeated countries as Japan, France, and Great Britain, the victors will not dismember them, but will try to control them alone. However, for Russia, in order to make it no longer a threat and at the same time to ensure the interests of the three major victorious powers, whoever controls Russia after the war will pose a threat to the other victorious powers, and it can only be dismembered to form a buffer zone of great powers, as in the case of the Indian subcontinent, so as to avoid direct confrontation between the great powers.

This "bandit agreement" also became the basic agreement for the settlement of the Russian problem after the war, and it was because of this agreement that Russia was first directly divided into four parts, and after the war, a joint management committee was formed, and each of the four countries of Don de Bofen sent representatives to manage Russia's affairs. Finally, the Russian National Republic was established in the occupied territories of the Tang and Persian Empires, and the Russian Democratic Republic in the occupied territories of Germany and Finland. Since then, Russia has been divided into two states, and until decades later, the two "Russias" have not been able to unite into a unified nation-state.

Leaving aside the discussion of what Russia will become after the war, at that time, because of this agreement, Russia became the main ground battlefield of the three countries. For the Tang Imperial Army, the most important task was to take Moscow as soon as possible, and then expand the area of control and plunder more interests. And the real assault on Moscow began in April.

With the arrival of spring, the bitter cold of Russia ceased to be the worst enemy of the Imperial Army, and the natural allies of the Russian army were gone. It can be said that in the winter of 26 to 27, the Russian army caused a lot of trouble to the attacking corps with its strong combat effectiveness in cold climate conditions, or rather, the severe cold became the biggest enemy of all the attacking corps. Judging from the statistical results of the Tang Imperial Army, in the coldest four months, more than 30 percent of the Tang Imperial Army's heavy equipment could not be used, and the logistical support capacity was reduced by half. At its worst, even the bolts of the rifles froze together. And during these four months, more than 5,000 officers and soldiers of the Imperial Army suffered severe frostbite!

Comparatively speaking, there were not many frostbitten people in the Imperial Army. As a result of the inadequate preparation of the German army, more than 30,000 officers and soldiers suffered severe frostbite, and a large number of them were even crippled as a result. The worst was the Persian Army, and the Persians, accustomed to living in the hot desert, had difficulty even normal activities in the face of the bitter cold of Russia. Among the more than 50,000 frostbitten soldiers in the Persian Army. More than 200 people were frostbitten while urinating!

It was also because the armies of the three countries were not accustomed to fighting in severe cold conditions that the advance of the armies of the three countries was quite slow during the four months of winter. The attack of the Tang Imperial Army was the sharpest, but as a result, at the beginning of spring, it was still not able to encircle Moscow. The Persian Army, on the other hand, had been fighting on the Ukrainian plains to the south, but by the beginning of spring, it had not advanced outside Kyiv. The Germans were the worst, their main task was to storm St. Petersburg, and the Germans advanced the front to Pskov, less than 250 km from St. Petersburg, before the onset of winter, as a result. At the end of the winter season. Not only did the Germans not be able to advance, but they also retreated to the vicinity of Riga, relying on seaborne supply lines to withstand the fierce counterattack of the Russian army in winter!

From this point of view. It is not to blame that the German army did not cooperate with the Tang Imperial Army in the operation, after all, the German army's own fronts are retreating. The cold is a natural ally of the Russian military, and after the cold passes, this polar bear that can only exert its combat effectiveness in winter should be finished.

The army's encirclement of Moscow took only ten days. Although the ground became more muddy after the beginning of spring, and the light rain that fell for several days caused great trouble for the offensive, the vanguard of the Imperial Army still captured Klin, northeast of Moscow, about three days ahead of schedule, and successfully joined the Germans here by 20 April. Three days later, another vanguard captured Vyazma, east of Moscow, cutting off the line of communication between Moscow and Smolensk. Cut off the two Russian forces and join the Germans here. At this point, the encirclement of Moscow was completed, and the Central Front of the Russian Army, which was responsible for the defense of Moscow, was cut into three parts. At that time, there were about 1.25 million Russian troops trapped in Moscow, 750,000 in Smolensk, and 600,000 in Vladimir, northwest of Moscow.

By 30 April, the Imperial Army had committed at least 55 infantry divisions to the encirclement to strengthen it. During the same period, the Imperial Army amassed at least 75 divisions on the front. Ready to be used to attack Moscow. These 75 divisions include 25 armored and motorized infantry divisions, as well as 18 artillery divisions. In addition to this, the army has concentrated at least 20 aviation divisions around Moscow, as well as 15 separate heavy artillery regiments, 10 rocket artillery regiments. The preparation of heavy weapons includes 3,500 tanks and self-propelled guns, 3,000 armored vehicles, 12,000 artillery pieces, mortars and rocket launchers, and 4,500 aircraft, including more than 3,000 combat aircraft. Excluding the logistics support troops, the total number of troops invested reached 1.25 million.

The campaign codenamed "Destruction" began on 3 May, with tens of thousands of artillery pieces and thousands of warplanes simultaneously preparing for three hours at 5 a.m., and the heavy artillery fire directly opened up several breakthrough points on the Russian defense line. At eight o'clock, the eight tank divisions tasked with the assault first launched an assault from the north, east, southeast, and south, followed by 12 motorized infantry divisions, which were responsible for expanding the breakthrough.

The first line of defense of the Russian army collapsed at noon, and the battle continued into the night, with armored units assaulting 25 to 20 kilometers. The resistance of the Russian army was much more tenacious than expected, and the muddy roads, as well as the swamps formed by the melting of the snow and ice, also caused many problems for the ground forces.

The first phase of the offensive lasted five days, and the Russian army basically abandoned the outlying positions east and southeast of Moscow and retreated to the vicinity of the city. The Russian forces in the north and south resisted more stubbornly, and these two directions were not the main direction of attack of the Imperial Army, so the assault did not achieve the desired results.

Beginning on May 9, the army engaged the second echelon, inserted from the southeast, first divided the Russian positions in the north, and it took four days to encircle and suppress the 150,000 Russian troops in this area. On 14 May, the tank units again divided the Russian positions in the south, and nearly 200,000 Russian troops blocked the outside of Moscow, and the battle of annihilation here did not end until 20 May. By the end of May, when Tan Renhao returned to Zhoushan, the army had advanced outside the city of Moscow and was launching a final offensive.

In order to expand the gains of the war, or to snatch the fruits of victory, the army attacked Moscow and advanced to the north and west. On May 23, the Army Corps of the Western Front, consisting of 25 divisions, surrounded Smolensk. Two days later, the Northern Army, consisting of nearly 30 divisions, advanced to Cherepotsvi, stopping only before reaching German positions. Almost all of these two assault forces entered the occupied zone previously assigned to Germany, which caused a lot of diplomatic strife.

The battle in Moscow was still going on, and the Army's war report highlighted the heroism of the Russian army, and also highlighted that the Russian army had begun to recruit children under the age of 15 to fight, and the Imperial Army had already captured a large number of young soldiers on the battlefield.

Tan Renhao doesn't know much about Russia, but he knows that Russia is a tenacious country and a tenacious nation. Since the founding of this country, it has grown up in blood and fire. Russia will not give in easily, and the Russian army will not easily lay down its arms. This can be seen from the situation of the captured Russian officers and soldiers, most of the Russian prisoners laid down their arms after being wounded, and there were even many Russian wounded who shot at the Imperial soldiers who came to help them! This also led to a lot of sacrifices on the battlefield that should not have happened, and many troops even explicitly did not accept prisoners, the reason is that the prisoners of the Russian army directly threatened the safety of the imperial soldiers!

War is war, and since the Russian servicemen are unwilling to surrender, what awaits them is destruction. The army also turned a blind eye to the "killing and surrendering" incidents that occurred on the battlefield, and even Marshal Yan Dingyu did not attach much importance to this issue. In order to ensure the defeat of Russia in the middle of the year, I am afraid that Yan Dingyu will not be able to ask too much of the officers and men of the army. As for whether the imperial government will pay attention to these issues, Tan Renhao doesn't know, he only knows one thing, there are only two endings waiting for the Russian soldiers, one is to die in battle, and the other is to surrender!