While Britain was still stunned by the "excessive" demands of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Army had already entered a new stage of war under the leadership of Hu Fakui. After the all-out bombing campaign in Europe, www.biquge.info Tang launched a large-scale ground offensive in Europe for the first time at the end of April 1816, and this time the target was a bit off, in the southern regions of Russia, the Volga River and the Don River basin.

Datang occupied Ukraine at the beginning of the war, and the Russian army's poor preparation for war made it basically impossible for the Russians to do anything for a long time except to be beaten passively. Russia's industrial base itself is weak, and in the previous Istanbul incident, Datang had already bombed a round of Russian industrial facilities, and after the start of this world war, Russia's industry naturally had no chance of being spared.

The remnants of the feudal bureaucracy, redundancy and complex state administration made it very difficult for Russia to prepare forces to deal with the Tang Dynasty. External unfavorable factors include that with the end of the Battle of Jutland, the European navy has been completely unable to supply Russia, and although it has a long border with Poland on land, Poland itself is a poor ghost, and it has been bombed by the Tang Dynasty, and it will not give anything to Russia. So Russia is once again faced with the embarrassing situation of three soldiers making one gun.

Fortunately, in addition to occupying Ukraine in the early stage, the Tang Army had no troops to continue to advance, so the two sides generally maintained a state of stalemate.

As the war situation became clearer, Datang also continued to tilt war resources to Europe, and Datang became more and more cards in its hands. In March, the Don Army on the Ukrainian side as a whole had expanded to 7 army groups, amounting to more than 300,000 people. The Southern Russian Front of the Great Tang Dynasty, which had been assembled from Iran and the Caucasus, also completed the formation of 180,000 troops in three army groups. Both the Ukrainian Front and the South Russian Front are equipped with a large number of heavy vehicles, with an extremely high degree of mechanization, and even some fist units have a certain ability to conduct information-based operations.

The Tang army moved frequently and moved very much, and Russia also judged that the next goal of the Tang Dynasty was to cut off the connection between Russia and the important economic regions in the south, the strategic node was Tsaritsyn, and the other was Stalingrad or Volgograd. Although Tsarist Russia was less dependent on the Volga and Don River valleys than on the other side, after all, the Russians did not know that there was oil in Mykop and Grozny, and there were no strong industries built there. Even if there were, they must have been blown up in the previous bombing of the Tang Army. More importantly for Russia, South Russia is the main grain producing area of this country, and Russia has been plagued by food shortages.

In terms of overall strategy, no matter how big the country is after Bai Nan, Datang does not have a strategist who can see the overall situation and not lose details, after all, such a role is not so easy to play. However, Datang's foundation is thick enough, no matter how much you toss, it is a winner. Now Datang's overall strategy is to wipe out Europe one by one after basically destroying Europe's industrial and economic base. Diplomatically, Datang does not accept conditional surrender and must achieve occupation and control.

Although Russia is a large country, in fact, the foundation of Tsarist Russia's rule is already very weak. Especially in some remote areas, even if the Tang army did not fight, the rule was shaky. In the Volga River basin, a large number of Kalmyks lived. These Mongol West Asian races are actually the Turkut Mongols who stayed on the banks of the Volga River back then. Obviously, this group of Mongolian-speaking nomads hated the oppression and discrimination of Tsarist Russia, and the Tang Dynasty sent Turks to incite and provide the Kalmyks with a lot of weapons, and these Kalmyks themselves rose up against the Tsarist Russia.

The same method was also used by the Tang Dynasty on the Tatars and other ethnic groups. Although these nomads were not particularly close to the Chinese who were also of the race, at least the Tang gave them a chance to take revenge, and gave them some respect and economic benefits. The peoples on horseback actually have some characteristics of bullying the weak and fearing the hard, and those who are weaker than them, they will rob and slaughter; Those who are stronger than them, they bend down and bow their heads. In the past, Tsarist Russia was strong, so they succumbed, and now that the Tang Dynasty is strong, they will not stubbornly resist to the end.

On the other hand, the Battle of Stalingrad, at least the Soviets had the support of the local population, but now that the battle had not yet begun, the Tang had already rebelled against half of the people living in the basin. The Kalmyk cavalry fought in the upper reaches of the Great Plains, they were unscrupulous, with the weapons given to them by the Tangs, constantly harassing small groups of Russian troops, and even directly breaking into the villages and estates of the Russians, killing people like horse thieves.

Although the act was despicable, Tang Jun still admitted that it was a very effective move. Large tracts of land are already missing out on farming time because they can't be cultivated safely. Originally, the heat in southern Russia was limited, and the production period of crops was relatively short, and missing the agricultural season meant that there was nothing to be gained this year. Not only will the locals go hungry, but the whole of Tsarist Russia will be unlucky.

While trembling and guarding for the arrival of the Don army, the Russian army had to be dispatched to deal with the Kalmyk rangers who were raging everywhere. Against cavalry, the best is still cavalry. The tanks of the Russian army are too expensive, and there is a shortage of fuel to be used to pursue Kalmykia. The Russian army dispatched Cossacks, and near the Don River was an important Cossack group, and the relationship between the Cossacks and Kalmykistans and other ethnic groups was not very good.

However, the imaginary collision did not happen, and Kalmykia was also very brave, especially the weapons obtained from the Tang, which improved their combat power a lot, and Kalmykistan made the Cossacks suffer several losses. What's even more ridiculous is that the Tang Dynasty agents immediately found the Cossack nobles, and then used money to buy off these guys who have no shame at all. The next day, the Russians were shocked to find that his Cossack cavalry had run out overnight, betraying the Tsar.

The Russians have found that there are more and more people who were originally their own people and are now enemies, and although neither the Cossacks nor the Kalmyks are capable of engaging head-on, they have the ability to make the Russians very uncomfortable. Constant Rangers began to harass the rear supply lines of the Russian army, and hundreds of thousands of improvised Russian troops became struggling in southern Russia. (To be continued.) )