Chapter 488: The Dawn of Victory in a Difficult Situation
Donkeys develop much faster than horses, even large donkeys only need less than two years to fully grow, roughage tolerance and disease resistance are far better than horses, the cost of feeding is much lower than horses, and it is not as difficult to cultivate quantitatively as mules, and the pull of large donkeys is actually not weak, and the carrying capacity is stronger than pack horses, with its excellent endurance, it seems to be a perfect pack animal. Pen & fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but the armies of various countries have always used military horses instead of military donkeys, naturally there is a reason for him, the donkey's temper is much more stubborn than the horse, and not as smart as the horse, the transport will pick from time to time, and when the strike is difficult to predict, so it is very difficult to transport on time, it doesn't matter if it is civilian, it is a big problem for the military......
Therefore, although the requisition of a large number of "military donkeys" by Soviet Russia solved the urgent need, it did not completely solve the problem of logistics supply, and also added many unpredictable variables. In addition, after Soviet Russia lost air supremacy, the convoy was frequently bombed by the coalition forces, which made it even more unstable, resulting in the offensive of the Soviet Russian Red Army inevitably being affected by it, and there was often an embarrassing situation of anticlimactic. Before the start of the battle, you must save up enough supplies, so the offensive was fierce at the beginning, but because the logistics could not keep up, after the material consumption reserved before the campaign was almost used, whether the offensive could continue depends on luck......
And after entering 1912, the Soviet Russian Red Army was not only increasingly tight in the logistics supply of the southern front battlefield, but also had problems in the northern front battlefield, which mainly relied on railway transportation, no way, the target of the railway locomotive was too big, and the northern front battlefield was purely a plain area, and if it encountered an air attack, it was impossible to find a place to hide, and the loss of the railway locomotive was not small at all. You must know that the bombers used by the coalition forces at this time are not comparable in terms of performance or number in 1910, and after the Red Army Aviation Unit lost air supremacy, although the Soviet Russian Red Army can still rely on the increasingly mature ground air defense weapons to deal with air threats, but the limited heavy industrial production capacity of Soviet Russia has greatly limited the output of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, and the railway line is too long, so it is really impossible to take care of it......
In the same way, due to the lack of industrial strength and the fact that Comrade Iron and Steel did not pay enough attention to logistics (Note 1), it was impossible to make up for the logistical needs in a timely manner by increasing the production of automobiles as the coalition forces did, resulting in increasing logistical difficulties and no hope of solving them.
In the adversity of losing air superiority and extremely difficult logistics, the Russian Red Army could only retreat in 1912, but even they did not expect that the dawn of victory would appear so quickly......
But this did not surprise the mentor, and in fact, he was already surprised that the coalition forces were able to hold out until this time to sue for peace. In the past three years, the total number of allied troops killed and captured by the Soviet Russian Red Army has exceeded 7.5 million, although most of them are only cannon fodder for vassal countries or colonies, it is still enough to be compared with the Three Kingdoms War, which can be called a "quasi-world war", and even from the perspective of the number of participating countries, this Soviet Russia's "War for the Founding of the State" is even closer to a real world war than the Three Kingdoms War.
Although the lives of vassal countries and colonies are not valuable, but it costs money to arm them, and Britain, as the leader of the alliance, has to help bear some of it, which is not a small amount, even if the British Empire in this time and space is much stronger than in history, it is still inevitably difficult to feel difficult. More importantly, the series of events caused by the war created an irreparable rift within the anti-Soviet alliance......
Although the British government paid lip service, but there was no actual action, only Germany sent troops to help Austria-Hungary put down the rebellion, and the rebel army in Serbia and other places was extremely difficult with the support and cooperation of Soviet Russia, Austria-Hungary finally could not hold on after more than a year of dying struggle, and even Hungary, one of the "dualists", did not want to stay on this broken ship and declared independence, let alone other regions. The German government, seeing that it was impossible to do anything, finally figured it out, and no longer tried to maintain Austria-Hungary, but followed the surrounding countries to take advantage of the fire and loot to get the maximum benefit from it.
Soon, Austria and the Czech Republic were occupied by the German army, which are the two most elite parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which concentrates most of the heavy industry of the empire, and is a German-speaking area, most of the inhabitants are Germanic, Germany is very easy to digest, as long as it is integrated, the actual significance is greater than a complete Austro-Hungarian Empire as a helper, after all, the Austro-Hungarian Empire has serious internal friction, not so much a helper, but a burden......
This immediately aroused the anger of British Prime Minister Neville Sr., Germany's treachery is one thing, and more importantly, once Germany digests and integrates those two pieces of land, its industrial strength will exceed that of Britain itself, considering Germany's technological superiority, it will not be much inferior even compared with the entire British Empire, and the development potential is even more than a cut, the threat is too great!
However, at this time, the coalition forces were fighting with Soviet Russia, and Britain was not free to deal with Germany at all, and if it turned its face directly, no matter how strong Britain was, and with a large number of juniors, it would be impossible to fight with Germany and Russia, two army powers, at the same time.
Therefore, the old Chamberlain could only force Germany to give up the two lands through diplomatic means on the one hand, and on the other hand, he considered a truce with Soviet Russia, but he did not expect that at this time Soviet Russia actually seized air supremacy and launched a wave of counteroffensive, and the coalition forces were defeated on the battlefield.
But at this time, the situation was even more unfavorable to Britain, and after more than a year, Germany's rule over Austria and the Czech Republic had been consolidated a lot, and although Germany did not explicitly withdraw from the anti-Soviet alliance, it was actually completely unable to work, and even when Budyonny's six assaults defeated Poland, the German army also calmed down and did not go to war (the Soviet army also cooperated not to get close to the German defense area), and directly killed Poland......
Note 1: During World War II, the Soviet infantry could only be tied to the tanks to follow the advance, because there was no extra truck to transport them, and as a result, the Soviet tanks with superior performance suffered a large number of losses due to the lack of adequate infantry protection (the low level of infantry coordination further magnified this problem), and this problem was barely solved until the United States aided a large number of trucks......