Four days later, the fortress of Alcarek fell. More than 200,000 Russian troops were completely defeated, and the Wehrmacht captured and killed more than 150,000 Russian troops. The first line of defense of the Russian army was broken through it, and it was accompanied by a rout of millions of Russian troops on the defensive line all day.

The Wehrmacht on the Central Asian battlefield relied on the indiscriminate bombardment of airships and the 'jumping' attack of paratrooper units, and the Russian army was defeated and retreated one after another. Their artillery positions were threatened by airships, their logistics lines and weak points were threatened by paratroopers, and the Russian army had no choice but to increase the guard force on the logistics line and disperse the artillery. This is like turning a big tree into countless chopsticks and toothpicks, facing the Wehrmacht like an iron grinding plate, a big tree can still hold the iron grinding plate, and the chopsticks and toothpicks can only be crushed into pieces by the rolling iron grinding plate.

The Wehrmacht, which was advancing rapidly in the middle, did not leave the Russian army with a chance at all, and it was killed in Aktobe in less than half a month. Then, by using the railway, it urgently transported troops to the Caspian Sea region to the south, and then relied on its powerful air power to slow down the retreat of the Russian troops in the Aral Sea region along the way, and when the Russian troops in the Aral Sea region had not yet been able to complete the retreat, they blocked the northern end of the Caspian Sea in one fell swoop, and blocked the more than 300,000 Russian troops in the Aral Sea part in the pocket of the Southern Military District of the Wehrmacht.

In less than a month, the entire situation in Central Asia has become very different. Millions of Russian troops suffered heavy losses, and the main forces of the Russian army within the southern theater of operations faced the fate of being completely annihilated. The Wehrmacht did not even show the armored vehicles and tanks a face. Everything depends on the power of the airship army.

These days, the airship army has naturally suffered losses of varying degrees. A total of three Magpie airships and one Egret airship were destroyed by Russian machine guns, and they dropped the altitude too low. Then there were five airships that crashed or were grounded for various reasons. But these losses were compared to the large number of airships that were supplied to the front line in the rear. Too much less.

The battlefield on the Western Front was mainly concentrated in the Southern Theater of Operations. There were originally only one hundred and fifteen airships, after the loss of nine. Today, however, the number has grown to 152. In particular, the Hongyan-class airships have grown from the initial one detachment to the current twenty-six. Far from weakening, the air strike power of the Wehrmacht has become stronger.

The 500-kilogram bombshells, even the strongest defensive fortresses of the Russian army, could not withstand the bombardment one after another. Therefore, during this period of time, the Wehrmacht was able to go all the way to the west and be invincible.

For the time being, there is no large-scale airship in the northern theater of operations on the Western Front, and at the same time, they have always been holding their troops still, just pinning down the hundreds of thousands of Russian troops on the opposite side. Qi Lin was not at all jealous of the southern theater that the Zhou army was responsible for. Everybody knows. When the annihilation battle in the southern theater is completed, and the large forces continue to cross the Caspian Sea and sweep the Ural River, then they will be able to flank and threaten the Russian troops in the northern theater and cut off the latter's supply routes and retreats. When the airship troops can slow down, it will be their turn to make a fortune in the northern theater of operations.

The battle in Nanyang is now completely clear, and China has not used many troops, as long as it is two light infantry divisions and two divisions of marines, after the Taiping army has killed the Malay Peninsula. Liu Xian let them return to the army. Siam's previous territory in the Malay Peninsula was also given to them.

The only enemy that the Taiping army now had to face was the Burmese Anglo-Indian colonial army to the west. The latter also had a hard time under the attack of the Burmese anti-British army and the Yunnan garrison.

The Spaniards in Manila were destroyed in the Combined Fleet, and soon after the fall of Singapore, they submitted a surrender to Liu Mingchuan. They are interesting. Liu Xian did not embarrass them, and promised to protect the lives and property of Spaniards in the Philippines.

The Dutch in Java and Sumatra were desperately resisting, but their total Dutch and Indian troops were less than 50,000. The combat effectiveness was weak, and even the vanguard battalion of the Wehrmacht that had landed on Jawa Island before could not be eliminated. How could he be the opponent of Liu Mingchuan's elite soldiers and horses? Now only one Batavia is still under the control of the Dutch, and the whole of Sumatra and the rest of the island of Java are planted with bright five-star red flags.

The shipyards, shipyards and ship repair yards in the port of Singapore did not suffer any damage. The airship unit was careful when bombing, Liu Xian wanted to bomb only a warship, but not the shipbuilding and repair industry with huge amounts of money. Singapore fell to the Wehrmacht a day before Fort Al Carek, and now that a month has passed, the Wehrmacht personnel here have been doing just one thing – salvaging the sunken and self-sinking Combined Fleet warships. If it is valuable, it will be sent to the dock for repair, and if it is worthless, it will be towed to the beach and stranded, and then it will be dismantled in detail when there is time later.

This included the battleship USS Revenge, 1st Rank. Although its deck superstructure was almost completely destroyed, the British also filled the large floating coffin tube with a belly full of water before surrendering, and sank it to the deepest part of Singapore Harbour. But the coffin remains a long-cherished treasure of China's shipbuilding industry and design experts.

It's just that it's too big and it's not easy to salvage. Singapore alone will not be able to do so with its current strength. Domestic shipyards are urgently producing a batch of large-tonnage salvage ships and salvage platforms.

On the west coast of the United States, the Beiyang Fleet has clashed with the US West Coast Fleet several times, and with the cooperation of submarines, it is of course invincible. The strength of the West Coast Fleet simply cannot compete with the Beiyang Fleet, especially after sinking two capital ships. So the Americans changed their tactics, and the West Coast Fleet was served by the Admiralty Vice-Admiral Theodore. Under Roosevelt's direct intervention, he changed "confronting Chinese warships and protecting ports" to "preserving strength and sneaking up on Chinese fleet supply ships."

Many cities on the west coast were shelled by the Chinese Beiyang Fleet during this time, but when Liu Xian established the Chinese Navy, a large number of graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy and retired officers joined to help. At that time, the relationship between China and the United States was still very good, but now they are directly fighting each other. Even Maxim, which had always maintained close ties with Mr. Liu, closed the doors of their business in China.

Liu Xian continued to sit in Songhu, ordered Jiao Wenbin to secretly assemble the Marine Corps, ordered the collection of seagoing ships and transport ships from all over the country, and many seagoing ships captured in the Nanyang area also drove back one by one, and at the same time returned a part of the naval fleet.

The offensive and threat of the European powers on the sea ceased to exist for a short time. After the Batavia attack, Liu Xian would also send a force across the Strait of Malacca, seize the Andaman Islands, and attack Ceylon [Sri Lanka] and the coast of India for a few rounds, and openly announce that he was interested in Australia and would send troops to land in Australia.

It was also an excuse for his massive build-up of sea-going steamers.

It is estimated that in the world at the moment, except for a few figures at the top of China, no one would have thought that Liu Xian would dare to enter the United States. Separated by a huge Pacific Ocean, the distance between the two countries is too big and too big. Although the military strength of the United States is very weak, it has a population of more than 60 million, and it still has the largest industrial manufacturing power on the earth, which is a strong and powerful country.

The scale of the battle between China and the United States is far from large, and as long as both sides have the will, a peace agreement can be concluded soon. No one would think that China will not make peace with the United States, but will land on the United States soil and provoke the United States to go all out.

In order to further confuse the United States, after the Beiyang Fleet bombarded the port of Los Angeles again, China officially sent a special envoy to the United States. It's just that now this man has not yet arrived in the United States. This is regarded by the Western world as the starting point for China and the United States to ease the contradictions, so in the past few days, Britain, France and other countries have been unable to sit still, and have sent special envoys to Washington. They must be pulling the United States and not letting the old United States not get off the boat.

China unveiled a new weapon, the airship, which changed the trend of the entire war. Britain and Russia have suffered heavy setbacks in the South Seas and in Central Asia, and it is foreseeable that this setback will continue to a certain extent for some time. Britain, France, Russia, West and the Netherlands need the support and strength of the United States. France has now sent 200,000 troops to reinforce Russia, and Spain, the Netherlands, and Britain have also sent varying numbers of troops to Russia. Nicholas II quickly reached a marriage contract with the daughter of Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt in Germany, in order to appease Germany and prevent Germany from jumping around during this time, and Germany is divided, Austria-Hungary will be stable, the whole of Europe will be safe, and the five countries of Britain, France, Russia, West and the Netherlands can go all out to deal with the Chinese.

China also took the opportunity to announce an agreement on the transaction of shares in South Africa's Deland gold mine, in which China transferred part of the ownership of South Africa's Deland gold mine to Germany, which must ensure the safety of the lives and property of Chinese citizens in South Africa, where Chinese troops will give up heavy weapons but have the right to gun support. Germany paid 100 million marks [worth five million pounds] to the Chinese New Qin Empire.

A 50% interest in the Deland gold mine, a mere five million pounds, the Germans took advantage of it. Britain can't say anything. Europe needs peace and stability now, and Germany needs connivance and tolerance now.

So everything about the war satisfied Liu Xian. The Americans believe in the 'confusion' given by the Chinese side, and they are very confident and confident in their own strength. And because of the state system, when the citizens of the United States on the West Coast cry out in horror, Washington must think about it. Even though the Beiyang Fleet repeatedly shelled cities on the west coast, there were no casualties among the Americans.

The major shipyards on the east coast of the United States are producing warships at full capacity, and the Americans also understand that only warships are the real reliance at this time, but there is a distance of tens of thousands of kilometers between the two sides of North and South America, and the Panama Canal has not yet been opened.

So, the Americans are not in the slightest aware of the large number of transport ships and troops assembled on the southeast coast of China, which is for them! That's Washington's stupidity.

China continues to expand its armed forces, and the sale of military bonds is setting new records across the country...... (To be continued......)