Chapter 920: A devastating siege and annihilation battle
After more than a dozen European countries joined the League of Nations one after another, the morale of the entire League of Nations was greatly boosted, and the victory or defeat of this war has become more and more biased in favor of the League of Nations in public opinion. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
However, in the early morning of September 22, 1914, Yunmeng City, Yebao City and Daning City, which were occupied by the European coalition forces, were suddenly attacked by the Chinese Imperial Army, and the Chinese Imperial Army's offensive was fierce, coupled with the defenders of the European Coalition Army in 3 cities, I did not expect that the Chinese Imperial Army would appear in Yunmeng City, Yebao City and Daning City at this time, so that the preparation was insufficient, and in just one day, Yunmeng City was lost, and Yebao City and Daning City were also in danger.
"Boom-boom-boom-" At the headquarters of the International Alliance's Eurasian Theater in Yebao City, Ural Province, the sound of artillery outside was getting closer and closer.
Schlieffen, commander of the Eurasian Theater of Operations of the League of Nations, said with a wry smile to the military representatives of the armies of other countries: "Yekaterinburg is no longer possible to hold, the troops west of the Ural Mountains have been blocked by the sudden appearance of the Chinese Imperial Army, and the reinforcements east of Yekaterinburg have been bombed by the Chinese Imperial Air Force in turns, and the losses are extremely heavy, and it is impossible to form a strong support for Yekaterinburg in a short time, and the command of our Eurasian Theater must immediately evacuate Yekaterinburg, The defenders of several of our countries in Yekaterinburg have lost about half of the city to the west, and in a few hours the troops of the Chinese Empire will enter the headquarters here. ”
French War Minister Jeannon Tro said in frustration: "How could the troops of the Chinese Empire suddenly appear outside the three cities of Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Tagil and Magnitogersk? Didn't the armies of the Chinese Empire all concentrate on the line of the Tobol River? ”
Yekaterinburg is Yebao City, Nizhny Tagil is Yunmeng City, Magnitogorsk is Daning City, originally the European coalition army had nearly 400,000 troops in Yebao City, mainly the German Army and the French Army, the army troops of the two countries exceeded 380,000 people, and the remaining more than 10,000 people were army troops of other countries, basically the military representatives of various countries took their guards to protect themselves.
The Chinese Imperial Army that suddenly appeared outside Yunmeng City, Yebao City and Daning City was the troops of the 9th Field Army and the 10th Field Army of the Royal Army of the Chinese Imperial Army, and the 4 field armies under the jurisdiction of the 9th Field Army were all engaged in the battle of attacking Yebao City at this time, so that nearly 400,000 coalition troops could not resist.
The 9th Field Army and the 10th Field Army of the Imperial Chinese Army entered Ural Province directly from Anxi Province, taking advantage of the vast and sparsely populated characteristics of Ural Province, coupled with the guidance of the Air Force, so they avoided the troops of the coalition countries and secretly came to the vicinity of Yunmeng City, Yebao City and Daning City, and then launched a fierce attack.
Russian War Minister Korrosky said anxiously: "The three cities of Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Tagil and Magnitogersk are the logistics bases of millions of army units of our coalition forces east of the Ural Mountains. And once these three cities are lost, the army of the Chinese Empire will be equivalent to cutting off the Ural Mountains, and the millions of land forces of our coalition forces east of the Ural Mountains will face the danger of being surrounded and annihilated! ”
You must know that 16 of the 18 group armies of the Russian Army that joined the League of Nations have already entered the east of the Ural Mountains, and if the Ural Mountains are cut off by the troops of the Chinese Empire, then the situation will be very bad for the 16 group armies of the Russian Army, and they are likely to face the danger of being completely annihilated by the Chinese Imperial Army.
British War Secretary Henry Wiley sighed and said: "The problem now is that the command of our Eurasian theater must be transferred immediately, otherwise the armies of millions of countries east of the Ural Mountains will be in chaos, and other issues should be discussed when we get to a safe place!" ”
Henry Willy's words were immediately approved by the military representatives of most countries, so the commander of the Eurasian theater of operations, Schlieffen, immediately ordered the headquarters of the entire Eurasian theater to withdraw from Yebao City.
Two days later, in a town about 150 kilometers east of Yebao, the military representatives of the armies of the European coalition of the League of Nations temporarily set up the headquarters of the Eurasian theater here.
Schlieffen, commander of the Eurasian Theater of the League of Nations, said to the military representatives of the armies of other countries with a solemn face: "The command of our Eurasian Theater finally escaped safely, but the war in the entire Ural region has taken a sharp turn for the worse, and at present, the three cities of Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Tagil and Magnitogorsk have fallen into the hands of the Chinese Imperial Army, and our European coalition forces of the League of Nations have been used by the army of the Chinese Empire, using everything in the Ural Mountains, especially the millions of troops east of the Ural Mountains, It can be said that it was surrounded by the troops of the Chinese Empire. ”
Military representatives of the armies of the European coalition countries, British War Secretary Henry Wiley, French War Minister Jeannontro, Russian Army Minister Gorrosky, Belgian War Minister Steven? Defour, Austro-Hungarian War Minister Zoltan? Sile, Italian War Minister Moussa? Dembele, Minister of Defense of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, Enver Pasha, Minister of War of Spain Anthony? Bray was here at this time, and he didn't encounter any accidents in the breakthrough from Yebao City, but the faces of these military representatives were all very ugly.
At this time, the commanders of these armies finally understood that the entire European coalition army had entered a trap carefully arranged by the Chinese Empire, and that the current European coalition army units east of the Ural Mountains had at least 8 million troops, but these 8 million army units were cut off from logistical supplies by the Chinese Imperial Army.
Originally, when the European coalition forces captured the Ural defense line of the Chinese Empire, the total strength of the European coalition forces still reached more than 12 million, but in the fierce attack on the Tobol River line of the Chinese Empire in these days, the combined land forces of the European coalition countries lost almost 2 million, and the remaining 10 million troops, in addition to the more than 8 million army units of various countries surrounded east of the Ural Mountains, in the territory of the former Russia west of the Ural Mountains, there are only less than 2 million coalition troops left.
"Let's talk about it! What should we do next? Schlieffen sighed and asked, to be honest, although Schlieffen still has tens of millions of coalition troops in his hands now, he has a feeling of being at the end of the road, Schlieffen knows that the more than 8 million coalition troops cut off east of the Ural Mountains are in danger.
Russian War Minister Korrosky coughed and said: "Ahem! Now there is no other way but to reopen the passage of the Ural Mountains at any cost, otherwise the millions of coalition forces east of the Ural Mountains will be in danger of being wiped out! And the speed must be even faster, our coalition troops east of the Ural Mountains don't have much to eat! ”
In addition to storming Yunmeng City, Yebao City and Daning City in the Ural Mountains, the commanders of the Eurasian Theater Command had no other way for the time being, but they could only mobilize troops from various countries to launch a strong attack on the above three cities, but the Chinese Imperial Air Force dispatched a large number of fighters to provide strong air support for the two field army units guarding Yunmeng City, Yebao City and Daning City, so that the siege troops of the European coalition forces suffered extremely heavy losses.
In order to prevent the Chinese Imperial Army on the front line of the Tobol River from taking the opportunity to counterattack, the European coalition forces still sent heavy troops to continue to attack the Chinese Imperial defense line on the front line of the Tobol River, hoping to replace defense with attack.
In the underground headquarters of the Ural Theater in Tyumen City, an important town in the Ural Province of the Chinese Empire, Ni Fan, the commander-in-chief of the Ural Theater, said to the commanders of the five field armies with a relaxed face: "Now that the 9th Field Army and the 10th Field Army have completely cut off the retreat of millions of coalition troops east of the Ural Mountains, and our opportunity to counterattack has finally come, I have decided that at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning, that is, at 8 o'clock in the morning on September 26, 1914, the troops of our group armies on the front line of the Tobol River, There will be an all-out counteroffensive against the European coalition forces, and strive to eat the main force of the European coalition forces in one bite! ”
Zhang Limin, commander of the Second Field Army, nodded and said: "The time is ripe, and the Air Force is ready, the 4th Guards Army, as a strategic reserve, has also arrived in the eastern part of Ural Province, and I think it can launch a counterattack!" ”
The four commanders of the field army, Deng Zichao, Hu Desheng, Wang Peng, and Duan Qirui, also agreed to launch a counterattack, so an unusually large-scale war of annihilation was staged in the western part of Ural Province.
At 8 a.m. on September 26, 1914, nearly 8,000 fighters of the Royal Air Force of the Imperial Chinese Air Force were dispatched at the same time to bomb the 8 million European coalition troops encircled east of the Ural Mountains.
While nearly 8,000 warplanes of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire bombed, millions of officers and soldiers of the 3rd Guards Army, the 2nd Field Army, the 3rd Field Army, the 4th Field Army, the 5th Field Army, and the 6th Field Army of the Royal Chinese Army shouted slogans and launched a large-scale counteroffensive against the European coalition forces.
Many European coalition forces trapped east of the Ural Mountains have reached the point of running out of ammunition and food at this time, and in the face of the joint attack of the Royal Air Force and the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire, they are simply unable to resist, and many formed European coalition forces have chosen to lay down their arms and surrender to the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire, like the Russian Army, and even one group army after another, choosing to surrender to the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire.
The 9th Field Army and the 10th Field Army of the Imperial Chinese Army, which had cut off the Ural Mountains, also took the opportunity to send hundreds of thousands of troops to join the attack, which made matters worse for the European coalition forces.
When the whole of Europe learned that 8 million European coalition troops were trapped in the east of the Ural Mountains, they immediately rushed to the west of the Ural Mountains nearly 2 million army units of European countries to storm Yunmeng City, Yebao City and Daning City, which were occupied by the surprise attack of the Chinese Imperial Army, in an attempt to open up the life passage of the 8 million European coalition troops, and various European countries began to do their best to transfer army troops to the front line of the Ural Mountains.
It's a pity that the traps carefully laid by the Chinese Empire can't be destroyed so easily, and after the land forces of various countries west of the Ural Mountains have paid a heavy price, Yunmeng City, Yebao City and Daning City are still firmly controlled by the 9th Field Army and the 10th Field Army of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire.
On October 1, 1914, Ni Fan, commander-in-chief of the Ural Theater, sent a telegram to Lin Daxin, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, and the Ministry of Defense of the Chinese Empire, that the 8 million coalition troops that had been cut off east of the Ural Mountains had basically been wiped out, and the commander of the Eurasian Theater of the European Coalition Army, Schlieffin, was captured, and the army commanders of other countries did not run away, and all of them became prisoners of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire. More than 6 million of the 8 million allied troops became prisoners of war in the Imperial Chinese Army.
In this super-large-scale encirclement and annihilation battle, the total losses of the various units of the Imperial Chinese Army were only less than 300,000, which can be said to be an unprecedented victory.
Lin Daxin, who got the good news of this great victory, immediately laughed and said to Defense Minister Wu Peifu: "Hahaha! Ziyu, if you solve the 8 million European coalition forces, the final winner of this war must belong to our Chinese Empire! Next, the troops of the Ural theater of operations can be transferred and start a full-scale offensive on other battlefields, but the troops of the Ural theater cannot be drawn too much, and this is also the time for us to launch a counterattack on the European continent! ”
Defense Minister Wu Peifu said excitedly: "I think we can first transfer one Guards Army and two Field Army from the Eurasian Theater to come back, and the other troops will continue to advance west of the Ural Mountains." ”
Lin Daxin nodded and said: "Then the Fourth Guards Army, the 9th Field Army and the 10th Field Army will be transferred back, and then the Middle East, Africa and Canada will all need to increase their troops." ”
At present, the armies of the Chinese Empire in the Middle East are in a fierce battle with the European coalition forces, and the African region and Canada, according to the operational plan of the Ministry of Defense of the Chinese Empire, are about to launch a large-scale offensive.
It can be said that after encircling and annihilating the 8 million European coalition troops east of the Ural Mountains, the Chinese Empire has entered the stage of strategic counteroffensive in this war. (To be continued.) )