Chapter 327: The Battle of the Fortress of Gozów VI
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In fact, both the German side and the Entente side were ready to completely defeat each other and win the strategic initiative at the beginning, but although the Germans built convenient railway communication lines, their transportation capacity was about the same as that of the French army, that is to say, the German army's mobility was not much faster than that of the French army, which also determined that the German army could not launch an offensive before the Entente side was properly prepared in effective practice, and crush the main army force on the Entente side. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
However, the strategic forces of the two sides in the Vosol area have been almost balanced, whether it is the German side or the Entente side, neither side wants to take the lead in the attack, because the trenches are full of barbed wire, and the mine-covered Vossul is full of machine-gun fire points, and almost every inch of land is within the effective range of the artillery of both sides, whether the side takes the lead in attacking, it will undoubtedly bear heavy casualties, and under the layers of heavy artillery and field artillery, machine guns and trench barbed wire, the attack will become long and painful. Often, the battle for a trench requires a lot of lives and repeated tug-of-war.
The Entente actually wanted to put huge pressure on the Germans strategically, so that the Germans did not dare to start a war lightly, because the Entente knew that the Russians' nearly 2 million troops had already moved into Germany proper, and if the fortress of Gozów was overcome, then Berlin would be directly exposed to the attack of the Russians, so that the Germans would inevitably draw troops from the Western Front, and if the Germans drew a large number of troops from the Western Front, then the opportunity for the Entente side would really come, and before that, On the Entente side, whether it was French Field Marshal Siem or British Field Marshal Williamston, the Entente bloc had long reached a consensus that they would never take the lead in launching an attack until the Russians had divided the Germans.
Wilhelm I, who had already arrived at the front of Vossule, now felt the deepest feeling of riding a tiger, if the German army launched a general offensive in Vossule, how many lines of defense would the Entente be able to break through? If the German offensive had been contained, the fortress of Gozów on the Eastern Front would have been in jeopardy, and if the Russians were bold enough, they could even have made a long drive to attack Berlin!
But if you have been so inactive on the Western Front, just every consumption is a huge burden on Germany, you must know that Germany at this moment is like a machine with full horsepower, if the boiler continues to rise without depressurization, then the final result may be an explosion, and a decisive victory is the only way to decompress, the expeditionary force of the Chinese Empire is holding on to the fortress of Gozów, and all the bets of Wilhelm I are now pressed on the fortress of Gozów, That is, the Chinese Imperial Expeditionary Force can hold on for at least a year, effectively maneuver to contain the strength of the Russian army, so that the Eastern Front of the German Empire has no worries, of course, the best idea is that the Chinese Empire will also launch an attack on the Russian Empire in Siberia, forcing the Russian army to return to the division, so that even if the Western Front falls into a quagmire battlefield, then Germany and the Entente are at least a tie.
At this moment, Wilhelm I no longer had the ambitions he had before the war, and he began to realize that he seemed to overestimate the strength of the German Empire, because the Chinese Empire successively defeated Britain and France in the East, so he formed an illusion that Britain and France were vulnerable, and now this delusion has been effectively corrected, that is, Britain and France are not so vulnerable, and France, which quickly regained from the Franco-Prussian War, still exudes the flavor of the first army power in Europe, The size of the 600,000-strong British expeditionary force was also greatly beyond William I's expectations.
Originally, when William I analyzed with the General Staff, he believed that Britain and France would invest a considerable part of their forces in the Far East, India, and Indochina to compete with the Chinese Empire, but in fact, Britain and France concentrated the forces of all the Entente countries in Europe to deal with Germany, and Austria-Hungary was pinned down by the shameless and cowardly Italians, so Germany was equivalent to dealing with the entire Entente bloc with the strength of one country, so that from Wilhelm I to Bismarck and Moltke felt very difficult.
On April 11, 1869, Marshal Chekov, commander-in-chief of the New Russian Liberation Army, issued the slogan of overthrowing the decadent and declining tsarist rule, establishing the Republic of New Russia with equality, freedom and fraternity for all, and launching the last battle against the tsarist system. Because there were still 30 divisions of the Chinese Imperial Army in Beihai, because of the embarrassing situation of the German army on the Western Front, Lin Haijiang had to take the initiative to attack to relieve the huge pressure of the Imperial Expeditionary Force in the fortress of Gozów.
Lin Haijiang is very aware that although from a strategic or tactical point of view, this operation is not a rational sortie, waiting for the Russian army to be weakened to a certain extent in the fortress of Gozów, or waiting for the fortress of Gozów to be captured by the Russian army and invade the German mainland, and the German army will dispatch elite counterattacks against the Russian army, such a fighter can be said to be the best time for the Chinese Empire to intervene, but Lin Haijiang cannot do it to the point of ignoring the life and death of more than 200,000 of his most elite troops!
Lin Haijiang also knows where his weaknesses lie, those who can really achieve great things must know how to sacrifice, the greater the sacrifice, the higher the price, but Lin Haijiang can't do it, so the army of the Chinese Empire began to march into the hinterland of Russia with Chekov's New Russian Liberation Army as the lead.
In order to let the Chinese Empire support his offensive, Chekov can also be said to rack his brains, in addition to not continuing to cede land, he even bet the next 30 years of Russia's customs jurisdiction as a bargaining chip to Lin Haijiang, Lin Haijiang, who was originally actively preparing to send troops, also dug off another piece of meat from the Russians, according to Lin Haijiang's estimate, although Chekov proposed the so-called state free distribution of land and many other reforms, but this is just a slogan, war and reform both take time, Therefore, in a short period of time, the results of Chekov's slogans could not reach a single response, but the 20,000 political trainers trained by the Chinese Empire for Chekov played an unusually powerful role, so that Chekov's stragglers and recruited peasants soon had the so-called centripetal force of the goal, and in addition to the demonization of Tsar Nicholas I, the combat effectiveness of the Chekov New Russian Liberation Army was increasing with each other, and this increase even made Zhang Zheng, the commander of the Northern Military District, who had been at the front line, feel terrible. So he sorted out a document and reported it to the General Staff Headquarters, which stopped the training of political trainers of the New Russian People's Liberation Army.
However, the New Russian Liberation Army has developed a set of theories and so-called lines that seem to be their own, and although Chekov can no longer be emperor, Chekov has set his future goal in the position of a talent reader! Chekov is now shouting about overthrowing the tsarist rule and establishing a republic, so he naturally can't be the emperor, but in Chekov's eyes, even Nicholas I does not have as much absolute power as Lin Haijiang, the head of the Chinese Empire, and is not constrained by any party, and the temptation of absolute power belonging to his own person makes Chekov sleepless at night.
Chekov's New Russian Liberation Army is slowly advancing in depth under the pressure of the Chinese Imperial Army, and it can be said that the main forces of Tsarist Russia are all assembled near Moscow, which is the implementation of the strategic decisive battle plan of the Supreme Chief of Staff of Tsarist Russia Milodelov, because Milodelov has already considered that the weaponry and quality of the Russian army will be far from being comparable to the invading Chekov bandit army and the subsequent Chinese Imperial Army, unless the main force of the Russian army returns from the Eastern Front, so Milodelov decided to abandon all the previous cities of Moscow at that time, Concentrate forces to hold Moscow, and then the main forces of the Russian army will use Moscow as a counterattack point to start a large-scale counterattack.
However, when Milodelov formulated this plan, he did not take into account the specific situation of the abandoned city, which led to a large part of the population falling directly to Chekov, so that Chekov's New Russian Liberation Army received rapid progress everywhere, and more importantly, a large number of refugees began to pour into Moscow, and millions of refugees came to the periphery of Moscow under the deliberate drive of the New Russian Liberation Army.
At the beginning, General Molomijesky, who served as the commander of the Moscow garrison, also allowed refugees to enter the city, but when millions of refugees entered Moscow, Molomievsky realized that it was not good this time, because the refugees aggravated the deterioration of the security environment in Moscow, and Moscow did not have enough food to supply these refugees, and there was a steady stream of refugees from all over the city who came to Moscow, because they were told that only when they arrived in Moscow would they have a way to live and have food!
The Ural Mountains have become the first natural barrier of the Chinese Imperial Army, and the country roads in extremely poor condition can only pass through the light infantry, and the heavy artillery units and mountain artillery units that the Chinese Empire is proud of are all in trouble, and some artillery units can not advance five kilometers in a day, so the multi-road army of the Chinese Empire can only choose Chelyabinsk as the meeting point, and along the entire Ural Mountains, only Chelyabinsk can pass through the heavy artillery units.
Chelyabinsk has been occupied by the New Russian Liberation Army, Chekov's troops are busy paving the roads for the Chinese Imperial Army, although the scolding continues, but no one in the whole Chekov army dares to make a mistake in front of their godfather Chinese Empire, especially in front of the elite SS divisions of the well-equipped Northern Military District, Zhang submitted an application to the General Staff for various considerations, and also at the request of the SS, requesting the transfer of two or three SS divisions with rich combat experience to participate in the operation.
(To be continued)