Chapter 714: The End of the Crossbow

In total, the battle of Kyiv lasted less than twenty days and was fought as a crush, not a war of annihilation. There are still 400,000 defeated Russian troops who ran to Zhytomyr, and a large number of remnants of the army are also scattered in the heart of Ukraine.

However, at this time, a team of the Republic Army in Eastern Ukraine appeared in the servant sequence of the Chinese Defense Force. This is a Ukrainian army. The manifestation of the decision made by Liu Xian after gaining a certain understanding of Ukraine's history - to divide Ukraine into East and West Ukraine.

Liu Xian never knew that Ukraine in this era was still divided into things. He had the impression that Ukraine had always been a country, and at this time, even Ukraine as a nation had only been born for less than a century.

In the middle of the 17th century, most of Ukraine was under the rule of the Polish aristocracy, and the Cossack leader Khmelnitsky, who left a significant mark in Ukrainian history, participated in the Polish army and fought against the Turks many times. There was also an internal struggle between monotheism in Ukraine at that time, God and Orthodoxy. In January 1648, Khmelnitsky's wife was robbed by Polish nobles, and after a long time without a way to complain, he angrily led 8,000 Cossacks to revolt in the lower reaches of the Dnieper River, and the uprising quickly swept through the entire territory of Ukraine.

At the end of the same year, the rebels captured the city of Kiev, and Khmelnitsky became the commander of all Ukraine. And in August of the following year, the Treaty of Zborov was signed with Poland, in which Poland recognized Ukraine as an independent administrative region, essentially agreeing to Khmelnytsky to establish an independent Cossack principality.

Two years later, Poland reneged on its promise, the war resumed, and the Ukrainian army was defeated. In September, the Treaty of Whitechapel was signed. Polish troops reoccupied Kyiv and regained control of Ukraine. Khmelnitsky asked Russia to send troops to fight against Poland. In January 1654, Khmelnitsky signed a treaty on the annexation of Ukraine with Russia with Russian delegates in Pereyaslav, a small town outside Kiev, and adopted and announced the decision at the Ukrainian Cossack Congress (Grand Rada). From this time until 1991, Ukraine was part of the Russian Empire. But Khmelnitsky recognized that the tsar's dominion over Ukraine did not include the western part of Ukraine, that is, Western Ukraine.

By the 18th century, Russia had incorporated Western Ukraine and large areas of the northern Black Sea into its territory. By 1795, the rest of Ukraine, with the exception of Galicia (which belonged to Austria), was under Tsarist Russia.

In Liu Xian's view, the Eastern and Western Ukraine should be because of the difference between the war and the time of being attacked by the Russian government. And there is a divide.

After 1795, the Hetman government was outlawed, and all autonomy owned by Ukrainians was completely abolished. Tsarist Russia abolished Polish language schools in Ukraine, introduced Russian language education, and adopted a policy of strict prohibition of the Ukrainian national language and its education.

Russia wants to completely melt Ukraine, but in fact it has done so that it has given birth to the nation of 'Ukraine'. In previous centuries, Ukraine was more of a geographical term like India than an ethnic one.

Early 19th century. Nationalist Enlightenment poet Taras emerged in Ukraine. Shevchenko. He created a large number of works that awakened national consciousness and criticized Tsarist Russia. The foundation was laid for the birth of the nation of 'Ukraine'.

In 1798, Ivan. Kotlyarevsky wrote his first work in Ukrainian, the long poem "Aeneas".

In the 30s of the century, the Ukrainian scholar Maksimovich passed by contrasting with Russian poetry. It is officially proposed that Ukrainians and Russians are two peoples, in a letter to a friend. He began to use the inscription of "an old Ukrainian". The banner of "cultural studies" was raised in the circle of high-ranking Ukrainian intellectuals, and the Tsarist government did not pay attention to it.

The flame of nationalism was sown in eastern Ukraine. And then it burned in the west. This was due to the fact that the Austro-Hungarian Empire was more respectful of ethnic pluralism and allowed Ukrainians in Galicia to develop Ukrainian language education. They were also allowed to establish their own societies and parties.

It is interesting to note that the nationalism and doctrine of eastern Ukraine had anti-Russian overtones, while the original nationalism of western Ukraine (Galicia) had pro-Russian overtones -- is it easy to feel close when it is far away?

Anyway, Liu Xian already knew at this time that the Ukraine in Russia's sphere of influence was not the Ukraine of later generations, it was only Eastern Ukraine plus part of Western Ukraine. And there is no sign of the slightest fusion of East and West Ukraine today.

The new Qin emperor, who was prosperous in the world, did not know that the integration of East and West Ukraine in history began with the iron uncle who hated the abnormality of Ukrainians. The latter's exploitation of Ukrainian agriculture has flattened the dividing line between East and West.

Ukrainians are saddened by the Holodomor that year, and the tragedy of 7 million people starving to death reduced the number of Ukrainians by a quarter. And this inextricable national pathos has also given birth to more national feelings.

Now that the Chinese servant army sequence is in the Middle East, the Ukrainian Republican Army is available, and more banners will appear soon. The Zhou army commanded the army of the southern route to continue to pursue the defeated Russian troops to the west, and the matter of clearing the defeated troops of the Russian army was handed over to the Eastern Ukrainian Republican Army, and the Wehrmacht was only used as a pressure and supervision.

The battle in St. Petersburg in the Northern Theater of Operations was the most intense at this time.

Both armies were fighting around a railway, without which the Wehrmacht would not have been able to supply enough military supplies. Similarly, the Russian army does not have this railway, and there is no way to transport countless tons of ammunition and food and medicine to the front line.

In the skies here, the Chinese airship unit has also ushered in a strong challenge. And the result was similar to the Battle of Kiev, the Chinese airship troops, relying on the superiority in security and numbers, firmly controlled the vast sky after losing a quarter of the airships of various types.

With the defeat of the Russian airship troops, Chudovo was lost, and the Russian defense line retreated to Kolpino, which was only a stone's throw away from St. Petersburg. It is a city founded on the banks of the Irola, a tributary of the Neva River, 26 km southeast of St. Petersburg.

Chudovo became the command of Qilin, and the Wehrmacht's offensive seemed to be unabated, but only the people in Chudovo's general command understood how difficult it was to supply the Wehrmacht's military supplies today.

The Russians did not leave the Wehrmacht with an arsenal, a steel mill, or a large machine-building plant, and the factory owners who are still active in the Russian hinterland are all British and French businessmen. The Wehrmacht's supply lines are already in a state of flux.

It is transported from the inland and Xinjiang to Central Asia, and then transported from Central Asia across the Volga River, and then into the hinterland of Russia, and then to the westernmost tip of Russia, which is like a 'Eurasian land bridge'. The straight-line distance is more than 5,000 kilometers!

It is the most inconspicuous bullet, which is produced from Xinjiang, not to mention inland production, and if it is to be transported to the front line of the war, it will take at least half a month on the train. Fortunately, in the previous two or three months, the country was constantly transporting ammunition and materials to the front-line troops, otherwise the Northern Theater would never have had the energy to penetrate thousands of miles from Moscow to St. Petersburg in one go.

The great wedding of poor Nicholas II had just taken place, and the honeymoon had not yet passed, and His Majesty the Tsar was preparing to go into exile.

Although he is still in St. Petersburg, who can hide those actions of packing up his finances and transferring treasures and wealth. No magnate can hide it, only civilians and soldiers are hidden.

So, as it turns out, it's better for the inferior to fool. They will always be the pawns of the superiors, whatever is played with in their hands. And being sold and helping to count the money, in many times and in a substantive sense, it is talking about these subordinates.

Even on China's side, it is civilians who are more injured in the war, and it is the powerful and Liu Xian who benefit the most. Even Liu Xian himself has unconsciously become what he is now. Personally, his family has taken too much equity and wealth, and too little has been given to every soldier and civilian.

But in any case, what the Wehrmacht and the new Qin Dynasty can still say is that they want to do the same thing. In this respect, the soldiers of the Wehrmacht are much stronger than the soldiers of the Russian army.

Because the greed of the inferior can never be compared with the beauty of the superior. Even if Liu Xian only gave a small benefit, he would have satisfied them. But their opponents, their enemies, have always been the luxury and desire for even 'food and clothing'.

There is an old Chinese saying: the one who wants the same wins.

This phrase was expressed during the siege of Moscow, and at the final stage of the Battle of St. Petersburg. So the Wehrmacht finally won the battle, which lasted 43 days.

At a time when tanks and armored vehicles were lying on their stomachs due to lack of fuel, when bullets, grenades, and artillery shells had to be carefully calculated, the Wehrmacht won the final blow to the Russian Empire with its tenacity and strength. They captured St. Petersburg and kicked down the last pillar of the Russian Empire.

Behind the complete collapse of the entire Russian Empire was the 100,000 casualties paid by the Chinese defense forces in this battle. In the final stage of the Battle of St. Petersburg, the sea of corpses and blood is not enough to describe the fierceness of the battle.

A brigade directly hit the air, and a battalion pulled up in the morning, and by noon it could not move.

In the face of the strong fortresses and defenses of the Russian army, the Wehrmacht opened the way with explosives bags one by one. At the end of the war, the reserves were depleted, and the ammunition delivered to the rear became less and less. The focus was also on bullets and grenades, and there was a serious shortage of heavy shells, and Qi Lin ordered the airship troops to transport ammunition instead of bombing indiscriminately.

A mangled corpse, blood-colored muscles, whitish fat, pale stubble, and even pale yellow brains. The Russian army, which has the support of Britain and France behind it, has never needed to estimate the cost of ammunition.

When the Battle of St. Petersburg was on the thirtieth day, when Qi Lin reported to Liu Xian for the first time, saying that he wanted to retreat, it was only at this time that Liu Xian realized that one of the two fists he had hit in Europe was already a bit of a strong crossbow.

Then the Wehrmacht, under Liu Xian's absolute strict orders, fought a 'PLA-style' hard battle. (To be continued......)