Although many high-ranking Allied generals were forced to escape the encirclement by plane at night when the artillery was under fire, they were lost for various reasons. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but in the end, many of them managed to escape.

Although their lives were saved, the survival of these high-ranking generals dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the Allied forces, which was already low. Officers and soldiers suffered casualties on the front line, but senior officers survived. This kind of thing is absolutely desperate for the morale of the military.

The war of unprecedented scale has come to an end, but it is only the beginning of the much larger and more brutal battles that will soon follow.

On February 19, 1943, the last formed Allied forces trapped in the encirclement surrendered after running out of ammunition and food. At this point, the entire Caucasian Battle of the Don officially came to an end. The General Headquarters of the Ming Army also issued a notice to the outside world that the Ming Army has successfully won the final victory in the Battle of the Don River in the Caucasus!

In this battle, the powerful Ming army almost completely annihilated the heavy army corps of the allies in southern Russia, which greatly dealt a blow to the strength and morale of the allies. After the fiasco, many countries that joined the anti-Ming coalition were pessimistic about this war against the Ming. The strength of the Ming army deeply shook the will of the allies to fight. In the face of an invincible enemy, compromise seems to be the only option.

After the end of the Caucasian campaign, the Allies were severely underarmed in southern Russia and Ukraine. The vast territory of Ukraine was left with only some Allied forces under Manstein's command and the local Russian defenders.

The Allied forces that had been deployed here were either lost in Manstein when they went to rescue the trapped legions, or had been sent to Romania to defend the oil fields. There is a large emptiness of forces throughout the Ukrainian region.

Russia, as one of the main forces of the Allied land war, has been drained of its strength under the continuous powerful blows of the Ming army.

The armies of the French, a powerful Western European power, and the powerful American Expeditionary Force were now busy resisting the Ming troops pressing from the direction of Iberia and the Apennines on French soil, and their own safety was in danger, and now they were powerless to look east.

The Germans, who were the land leaders of the Allied forces, had now used their forces to the fullest. They fought fierce battles on all fronts with various units of the Ming army, from the Apennine Peninsula to the Balkans to Romania and Ukraine.

No matter how strong the Germans were, they could not fight so many Ming troops in such a situation. Moreover, it was impossible for the Germans to draw all their native troops, and they could no longer draw enough troops to support the Russian battlefield.

The navy is strong, but the army strength is very average, and the British army has now reached a huge size of more than four million people after the national mobilization. But its poor industrial capacity and logistical supply capabilities are simply not enough to allow such a large army to perform its due role compared to its population.

Britain in this era is not the empire on which the sun never sets in the history of modern time and space. Their ability is to defend the British Isles empty.

And because he has challenged the maritime hegemony of the Ming Empire many times, he has been repaired many times by the Ming Dynasty, and even near his own capital is a large number of Ming colonies. At the outbreak of war, there were countless British traitors who fled from England. In this case, where did the British have any spare strength to arm the army.

Britain's only industrial capacity has basically been consumed by the gold-eating beast of the navy, and what can be distributed to the army is simply insignificant. This directly led to the low combat capability of the British Army, and the armed combat effectiveness of the militia, which was its main force, may be no different from that of the Russian militia. Britain has nothing to do at the moment, except for tens of millions of citizens and a fairly powerful naval fleet.

Relying on a large amount of American aid, the British finally reluctantly armed their own army. But the combat effectiveness of these armies, which basically had no heavy weapons, was very worrisome, especially when facing the powerful Ming army. The combat effectiveness between the two sides can almost be described as a generational difference.

Of the entire British Army, only the 300,000 or so regular troops it had before the war were truly combat-ready. This is the regular army supplied by the British with gritted teeth, their training equipment and supplies are very good, and their combat effectiveness is enough to fight with the regular army of the Ming army. However, their numbers are simply too small.

The real fighting armies of the British were now stationed in St. Petersburg, the Russian capital with which they had excellent relations. Most of the remaining armies in the country are militia-like armed forces. Even if these troops were sent to the battlefield, they were just going to increase the achievements of the Ming army in vain. They really have little use other than consuming bread.

As for other European countries, such as the Netherlands, Belgium, Poland, Bulgaria, Denmark and other countries, they also completed the general mobilization for war early. However, because of the limited national strength of these countries, the combat effectiveness of their mobilized troops is also very low.

In this era, because the Ming Dynasty opened the Age of Discovery, all the interests of all parties that were originally taken away by the Europeans were taken away from the distant eastern world, and the most direct result was that the crowded Europe was barren.

Many weak European countries are unable to solve even the most basic problems of education, and most of the people do not even know the written language, and they cannot speak their native dialect clearly. Not to mention relying on the wealth and cheap resources plundered by the colonies everywhere to develop the local economy and industry. The Ming used the resources of the machines and the colonies to almost take the last coin in the hands of these countries. The international students who have been trained by many countries have worked hard to never leave after they arrive in the Ming Dynasty, which is like a flowery world. This is also a huge loss for these small countries.

The regular armies that the small states had worked so hard to accumulate suffered heavy losses in the Caucasus campaign. Although many countries still have a large number of mobilized troops, these armies cannot compete with the powerful Ming army.

The strength of the big countries is inadequate, and the strength of the small countries is insufficient. In the face of the powerful offensive of the Ming army, the hearts of the main war factions in various countries were about to sink to the bottom of the sea. How can this battle be fought?

Zhang Cheng didn't care about the suffering of those allies, after the glorious Caucasian campaign, the confident Ming army soon received a new order to advance towards the hinterland of the European continent!

It's late February, and the coldest part of the Russian winter season is coming to an end. Although the weather is still unusually cold, the pace of spring has been unstoppable to the land of Europe. The Ming troops, who had just finished the Caucasian campaign, soon launched another attack under Zhang Cheng's orders after a short rest and replenishment. The attack was called the Spring Offensive.

Zhang Cheng reorganized the huge army in southern Russia. The large Don Army Group and Army Group South were split into several smaller battle groups. They were named after the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th Army Groups.

The massive, replenished army, with a total strength of nearly 3.5 million men, began to attack along the Don River, with a powerful front directed at the rich regions of Ukraine. Zhang Cheng's order was to occupy important resources and grain supply areas and Ukraine with good industrial capacity in as short a period of time as possible.

Ukraine is a real natural granary, here is the northeast region of the Ming Dynasty, the Mississippi region of the United States is one of the world's three black soils. The land is fertile and abundant.

The grain, coal, and other minerals produced here were vital to the entire Allies. Once Ukraine is lost, unless the Americans increase their aid, they will inevitably have a large-scale food crisis.

In order to conduct wars and produce all kinds of military supplies, the various allies transferred large numbers of agricultural people into factories and military camps. As a direct result, agricultural production, which lacks labor, becomes precarious. In the past, countries could help each other to make ends meet, but once Ukraine, a large grain producer, is lost, there will be a huge hole in this year's food supply.

When people don't have food to eat, they can really do anything. If the allies can't provide enough food for their citizens and troops, then they don't have to continue the war.

But at this moment, European countries are really unable to send more reinforcements to Ukraine. And the crisis they face is not limited to Ukraine. Zhang Cheng also deployed a large and powerful Central Army Group in the vicinity of Moscow. This large army would also launch a spring offensive after recuperation, targeting St. Petersburg in the north and Belarus in the west.

Needless to say, St. Petersburg was the capital of Russia, one of the main belligerents of the Allies. If this place is lost, it is very likely that the whole of Russia will withdraw from the war. As one of the five main members of the anti-Ming alliance, once the Russians are defeated and surrendered, it will be a huge blow to all the countries of the entire anti-Ming alliance.

In addition, to the north of St. Petersburg is the Scandinavian Peninsula, and the iron ore on the peninsula is the main source of iron ore for European countries at the moment. Once the Ming army attacks north, it is very likely that both Sweden and Norway will withdraw from the war. St. Petersburg could not be lost either in terms of political influence or in terms of important supplies during wartime.

And the strategic location of Belarus is extremely important. It was the main gateway to the land of Europe. After Belarus, there is the Central European Plain, and Poland is it! And Poland is behind Germany, and Germany is behind France. Once the armor of the Ming army poured into the Central European plain, it was very likely that the resistance of the European countries would be over within this year. (To be continued.) )