Chapter 689: Soviet-German Armistice

The German army encircled in the Transylwasinian Plateau is now competing with the attacking Chinese army to hold out for a long time, and whoever can't hold it first will lose, and the besieged German army has received an order to hold on even if the casualties are large, and wait for the German army in the north to go south to rescue.

Until the night of March 17, after four days of high-intensity offensive and bombing, although the encirclement of the besieged German army was greatly reduced, it was not realistic to force the remaining German troops to surrender, Cai Guodong also understood that if he wanted to make the remaining besieged German troops desperate, they had to cut off their hope, so he ordered Zhang Xiaozhun's Second Army of 800,000 people to take the initiative to attack the German army on the eastern front in western Ukraine and Belarus, occupy as much territory as possible, and try to occupy some of the main passages for the German army on the eastern front of the eastern front. Especially railways, roads, bridges.

Cai Guodong's move was indeed beyond the expectations of the Germans, and the German high-level troops, including Kaiser Wilhelm II and Hindenburg, had to admire Cai Guodong's boldness, and in terms of the current situation of the Chinese army, the German army on the eastern front did not take the initiative to launch an attack in the south, but he did not expect that the Chinese army would attack the German army in the north first.

On the morning of March 18, Secretary Xiao Gao reported to Xiao Zhenlei: "President, Mr. Bosankov, Minister of Soviet Russia, asks to see you!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei thought for a while and said, "Invite him to the reception hall to rest, I'll come over immediately!" ”

"Okay, President!"

Xiao Zhenlei knew that Bosankov would have come a long time ago if he was going to come, and he would not have waited for four full days to come to see him, and he estimated that the Soviet and Russian sides were already determined to stop the war with Germany. In fact, Xiao Zhenlei also knows very well that Soviet Russia is also forced to have no choice. All the peasants, workers, and soldiers in Russia did not want to go to war with Germany anymore, this was the will of the people. Vladimi could not go against the wishes of all these people who supported his ascension. Otherwise, he would not be able to sit in the position of head for long, so he could only risk offending the Entente to sign an armistice with Germany, and in addition, he also wanted to take revenge on China for taking away the revenge of Siberia.

Xiao Zhenlei came to the reception hall to see Bosankov, and the Russian got up to salute when he saw Xiao Zhenlei coming: "I have seen His Excellency the President!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei nodded and pointed to the chair: "Please sit!" ”

"Thank you, Your Excellency!"

Xiao Zhenlei asked: "Sir, I came to see me today, presumably your government has a detailed explanation of what I said last time, right?" ”

"No, my government has no explanation, and our head of state, Vladimi, asked me to relay his words to His Excellency," Bosankov said. At present, all the people of our country have suffered from war for the past few years, so they do not want war with Germany now, and our Government cannot go to war with Germany again against the will of all the people, so our Government can only sign an armistice with Germany, and just an hour ago, my Government has signed an armistice with the representatives of Germany, and I hope that Your Excellency the President will understand the distress of my Government, and although we have signed an armistice with Germany, we will not join the hostility between the Central Powers and the Entente. Please also rest assured that Your Excellency the President and your Government will be able to do so. ”

Xiao Zhenlei's face changed several times after listening to Bosankov's words, and finally sighed: "It's really a pity that the head of your country, Vladimi, only relies on the interests of Russia, but does not consider the interests of all the Entente countries. In doing so, your country has caused great trouble to all the members of the Entente, and the two million German troops on the Eastern Front have been able to withdraw from it, and it can attack all the troops of our expeditionary force in the south. and can be transferred to the Western Front to bring a devastating blow to the armies of Britain, France and the United States. We'll take note of it, and it's come to this. Do you think there is still diplomacy between us, sir? ”

"This ??????" Bosankov had nothing to say.

Xiao Zhenlei picked up the teacup and sent the guests off: "Mr. Bosankov, your embassy has three days to evacuate, and our government will also notify all the staff of our embassy in St. Petersburg to evacuate within three days!" In the future, our country will not recognize the legitimacy of your current government, and I believe that other countries will not recognize it, and we will unite to carry out an all-round blockade of your country, even if it is a non-governmental country, and it is forbidden to interact with your country! Please go back, sir."

In history, after the end of World War I, European and American countries united to deal with Soviet Russia, in addition to ideological differences, I am afraid that Soviet Russia signed an armistice agreement with Germany alone before the end of the war, which caused most of the German troops on the Eastern Front to be transferred to the Western Front, causing huge casualties to Britain, France, the United States and other countries on the Western Front. Treachery is also an excuse to provoke disputes between countries, and as long as there is an opportunity, Britain, France, the United States and other countries will of course fall into the well and even step on a few feet.

The most fundamental reason why Soviet Russia was able to smash all the actions of Britain, France, the United States, and other countries was in several aspects: First, it unified the thinking of all people in the whole country and united all forces. Second, Soviet Russia has vast strategic depth and abundant war resources.

But now it is different, now the Chinese army occupies and completely controls the Ural Mountains and all the Siberian regions east of it, and Soviet Russia has lost most of its territory, most of its territory, and of course most of its strategic resources, and after the end of the war, all countries will take action against Soviet Russia, and Soviet Russia will face attacks from both sides in the east and west, even if Soviet Russia can unite the whole country, it is not easy not to fail.

After sending Bostankov away, Xiao Zhenlei called his secretary Xiao Gao and asked him to inform the cabinet to withdraw all the staff of the embassy in St. Petersburg, and at the same time asked him to send a report to Cai Guodong that Soviet Russia had signed an armistice agreement with Germany.

Then Xiao Zhenlei personally called Ma Hanlong, commander of the Air Force, and asked how many fighters could be transferred from China to Europe for support. It is impossible to transfer the army to support the western theater now, it will take too long to solve the problem in a short time, and the only way is to send enough air force fighters to support, bomb the German army with a large number of air force, and help the Second Army to withstand the German attack on the eastern front south.

Ma Hanlong told Xiao Zhenlei that after the disbandment of the Eastern Theater, six air divisions have been vacated, but they certainly cannot all be transferred, and at most five air force divisions can be transferred, with a total of 1,500 fighters.

Xiao Zhenlei estimated that it should be enough, and he ordered Ma Hanlong to immediately order these five air divisions to fly to the western battlefield immediately to obey the command of the Air Force Command of the Expeditionary Force, and at the same time sent a telegram to Cai Guodong, informing him that five air force divisions had been transferred from China again to support, so that he could do a good job of receiving them.

The Expeditionary Force originally had three air divisions and about 1,000 fighters in the Western Theater, and there were also three air force divisions supporting Britain, France, and the United States on the west coast of France in the Atlantic, and there were also 1,000 fighters, that is, there were 2,000 in the past, and now 1,500 have been transferred, bringing the total number of fighters to more than 3,500.

It took only two days for the 2,500 fighters to run rampant in the skies in southeastern Europe, and after the arrival of these 1,500 fighters in Romania, the German air force was completely suppressed, and the air supremacy was in the hands of the Chinese army overnight.

For a time, the Chinese Air Force and the Luftwaffe were engaged in air battles over Romania every day, sometimes in skirmishes between more than a dozen fighters on both sides, and sometimes in large-scale air battles with hundreds of fighters on both sides.

The news of the unilateral signing of the armistice agreement between Soviet Russia and Germany was exposed on the same day, which aroused great indignation on the part of the Entente countries, and various countries accused Soviet Russia of sabotaging the overall situation and stabbing them in the back.

On March 24, the Luftwaffe and the Chinese Air Force conducted an unprecedented large-scale air battle, the total number of fighters put into the two sides exceeded 1,000, the Chinese Air Force had the upper hand at the beginning by virtue of its numerical superiority and performance superiority, the Luftwaffe had to send more planes to participate in the war, and China also kept sending more planes to the warring airspace for engagement.

The air battle lasted a whole day, from 9:05 a.m. to 5:33 p.m., and the fighters ran out of fuel, flew back to the airport to refuel and refill ammunition, and then took off again and rushed back to the airspace to continue the battle. Many pilots flew back and forth several times.

After the end of this air battle, more than 400 warplanes were destroyed under the combat airspace, of which more than 100 were Chinese troops, and the remaining more than 300 were German troops.

The German army on the eastern front received an order to go south to attack the Chinese army's second army at the northern foot of the Carpathian mountain range where the Chinese army was stationed, and the difference between the strength of Zhang Xiaozhun's second army and the German army's one million people in the south was 200,000, this gap was not very large, but in terms of equipment, the equipment of the second army was worse than that of the German army, but the second group of military defenders, using the terrain and defense can offset the gap in equipment and numbers.

On March 25, the German army carried out a large-scale offensive against the Chinese Second Army in southwestern Ukraine and southern Belarus, and the Second Army put up stubborn resistance under the command of Zhang Xiaozhun, holding the passage of the German army to the south.

On March 28, a million German troops in the south were completely blocked at the northern foot of the Carpathian mountain range, and the German commander had to order to increase the intensity of the offensive, but at this time the Chinese army sent a large number of fighters to provide air attack support, and the German army's many attacks were destroyed by the Chinese air force, which not only failed the operation of the Chinese positions attacked by the German army, but also caused a large number of casualties to the German attacking troops. (To be continued......)