Chapter 469: The Desperate Encirclement (Part II)
The Allied forces in the Caucasus were numerous, but they faced the Ming Army Group South which was also extremely powerful. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoThey are not as well prepared as the Ming army, not to mention how fast they can be in a large-scale field march in the cold winter, just under the onslaught of the Ming army behind them, it may cause a large-scale collapse.
It was only at this time that the Allies suddenly realized that the real intention of the Ming army was the millions of Allied main forces in the Caucasus. The previous attack on Romania was only to divert the Allied reserves. In a panic, the Allies even sent reinforcements from within the country to reinforce them, but unfortunately it was too late.
By the 15th of January, the Ming army had completely occupied the Tsaritsyn region and opened the road to the Don River. In this half a month, the Ming army paid the price of more than 100,000 casualties. Nearly half of that was due to weather-related injuries. Zhang Cheng paid such a big price in order to be able to quickly encircle and annihilate the main Allied forces in the Caucasus, so as to lay a solid foundation for being able to end the fighting on the European battlefield within 1943.
After the occupation of Tsaritsyn, the battlefield situation of the Ming army became unprecedentedly better. They pushed west along the Don River, and their final goal was Azov at the mouth of the Don River.
As long as the Ming army completely blocked the banks of the Don River, then with the Ming Mediterranean Fleet holding the control of the Black Sea, the main forces of the Allied forces in the Caucasus will become the turtle in the urn. In this cold season, the supply lines have been cut off, and these Allied forces have either surrendered or been wiped out!
When many Ming officers and soldiers wore sunglasses to prevent snow blindness and drove various modified vehicles to Azov, the desperate allies had no power to stop them.
For the Ming army, the only thing that can slow them down now is bad weather and bad roads. However, although the weather is very cold, there has not been much snow in recent times. After all, compared to the biting cold of Moscow in the north, St. Petersburg. Temperatures along the Don River in the south, near the Caucasus, are comparatively acceptable.
Dozens of divisions of Ming officers and men advanced westward from the Tsaritsyn area, leaving troops behind for defense along the way, which were used to build a defensive line against the Allied forces in the south to break through north.
In the path of the Ming army's attack, there was simply no army that could stop them. The Russians had long since lost their souls and could not afford to fight again, and the main forces of the Allied forces were in the Caucasus south of the Don River. Their strategic reserves are now entangled in Romania. As for the reinforcements sent from distant Western Europe, where were they able to reach the battlefield in a short time?
What's more, the powerful Mediterranean fleet of the Ming army had already covered the marines through the Strait of Azov and entered the Sea of Azov after Tsaritsyn was taken, and successfully landed in the Azov region and took the mouth of the Don River. And a few days later it occupied Rostov-on-Don, a logistical supply transit station with several bridges across the river, extremely important.
After the loss of Rostov-on-Don, a logistical transit center, the huge Allied forces in the Caucasus were suddenly in a situation of unfavorable supply. With so many troops to eat, drink, and resupply, after losing the Black Sea supremacy, the Allies could only transport them by land. Unfortunately, almost all land transportation lines are now within the attack range of the Ming army's Don River Army, and the allies can only watch as supply depots fall one after another.
The time soon came on January 22, and by the time the Allied reinforcements from Western Europe arrived in Kiev, the Ming Army of the Don Army had already successfully joined forces with the Marines in Rostov-on-Don. More than 2.3 million men and heavily equipped Allied forces were thus encircled in a vast area north of the Caucasus Mountains, south of the Don River, east of the Black Sea, and west of the Caspian Sea.
When the news came out, the world was shocked.
In order to reverse the unfavorable situation, the Allies have not been able to transfer the heavy military groups in the Caucasus. After all, if the Caucasus is lost, it means that Ukraine will be exposed under the nose of the Ming army. Behind the Great Plains of Ukraine is the heart of Europe. Central Europe is a vast area of flat plains, not mountainous southern Europe. Once the powerful armored corps of the Ming army let go of the charge on the plain, no one could think of resisting their attack.
Originally, the Allies believed that the Ming army would not be able to launch a large-scale attack in the cold winter. Moreover, along the Don River, which served as a back road, the passage was firmly held by Tsaritsyn, so the troops in the Caucasus were very safe, at least until the end of winter. It's a pity that Zhang Cheng's attack at any cost completely disrupted the rhythm of the Allied forces.
In less than a month, the situation has changed dramatically. Now the heavy group is encircled, and there are no troops around that can save them. Where logistical supply lines are cut off, there is no breakthrough in all directions, and now it is still a very cold winter. The allied forces with numb scalps did not know how long the troops in the encirclement would be able to hold out. One month? Or two months?
After sealing the encirclement, Zhang Cheng, who was relieved, began to strengthen the defense of the encirclement line in various places to prevent the Allied forces from breaking through. As for the allies in the encirclement, there is no need to care, there is no need for the Ming army to spend troops to encircle and suppress. In such bitterly cold weather conditions, it would not be long before the Allied forces, without supplies, would collapse on their own.
As Zhang Cheng had predicted, the Allied forces in the encirclement soon fell into chaos after losing supplies. For example, the armies of Germany, France, and the United States are better, their military quality is a little higher than that of other countries, and they still have some reserves in their hands. But the armies of other small countries will not work.
This time, the war against the Ming Dynasty in all countries of the world mobilized almost all countries to join it. Even some countries that were unwilling to be enemies of the Ming had to join the anti-Ming alliance under the coercion of the surrounding powers after the Ming forces were expelled from Europa at the beginning of the war. These countries have contributed a lot of cannon fodder to the battlefield, and they have long complained because of the heavy losses. And now that so many main forces are besieged, many countries are immediately panicking.
Many small countries have small land areas, small population resources, and even worse economic conditions. Once the regular army that was pushed out through gritted teeth was lost, then these countries would not be much different from the loss of the country.
Many countries began to secretly contact the Ming in an attempt to get out of the war with dignity. But Zhang Cheng had no such intention at all. This rare opportunity for world war is something that Zhang Cheng must not miss. Gathering all your strength and setting your eyes on the far reaches of space is the only way out for the creatures on this planet. Staying on the surface of the earth and continuing to fight can only play to your own rhythm.
The armies of these small countries quickly ran out of supplies after being caught in the encirclement. With nothing to eat and no fuel to keep warm, the soldiers soon began to use their weapons in order to survive. They certainly didn't dare to grab the supplies in the hands of the Allies for the time being, but the Russian civilians everywhere suffered.
Groups of soldiers rushed into the settlements with weapons in hand, stealing everything they saw. At first, it was just robbery, but as many Russians were unwilling to be robbed of their food rations for the cold winter and were starved to death and began to resist, the guns naturally rang out.
There is a demon living inside of everyone. Normally, it's suppressed for various reasons.,It's not able to come out.,But once there's a chance to abandon everything.,It's going to run out and turn the whole person into a demon in the eyes of others.。 At this moment, this moment of no supplies in the cold and freezing is an opportunity to abandon everything.
Robbery began to evolve into murder, silver theft, arson, and other crimes. Many Allied officers and soldiers thought that they had come to fight for the Russians, so what's wrong with eating something from you? What happened to the demolition of your wooden house and the fire? Is it worth it for you to resist with your swords and guns?
This trend began with the Polish army and then quickly spread throughout the Allied forces in the Caucasus theater of operations. Even the armies of Germany, France, and other countries, which were barely able to maintain military discipline, began to fall into great turmoil.
The soldiers are not stupid, and they know very well what the situation on the battlefield is now. Either he was frozen to death and starved to death, or he didn't know when he was killed by the Ming army, or he became a prisoner of the Ming army, and was sent to Siberia to cut wood, and he never wanted to return to his hometown for the rest of his life.
In this case, the officers and the gendarmerie were already unable to control the army.
By the beginning of February, almost all of the Allied forces had lost their reserves. With the exception of a few elite troops, even the movement of the rest of the troops has become extremely difficult. Looking at the heavy snow fluttering in the sky and the officers and soldiers who were wrapped in tattered clothes that they had collected from somewhere to keep warm, shivering in the cold winter. The Allied senior commanders in the encirclement knew that their mighty army would collapse on its own if nothing was done. There was no need for the Ming army to even waste ammunition.
The Allies knew they had to break through, but where was it so easy to break out? The Caucasus is left and right with the sea, and all of them are in the hands of the Ming army. The Caspian Sea is not the same, there is really no way to go. Although the Russian Black Sea Fleet is still on the Black Sea side, it is impossible for them to regain sea supremacy in the hands of the powerful Ming Mediterranean Fleet in any case. Without the right to control the sea, no one dared to escape on the ship under the guns of the black hole hole of the Ming warship, after all, no one wanted to feed the fish. (To be continued.) )