Chapter 607: Arrival in the Arabian Sea

As the city of Chelyabinsk was conquered by the Imperial Army of the Chinese Empire, the area east of the Russian Ural Mountains was already completely controlled by the Chinese Empire, and while the battle of Chelyabinsk was underway, the 19th Field Army and the 20th Field Army of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire on the front line of the Ural Mountains, as well as the garrison of Andong Province and Anxi Province, were not idle, and these troops launched attacks on the towns occupied by other coalition forces east of the Russian Ural Mountains.

It is said that it is a coalition army, in fact, the defenders of these towns are only the Russian army, and the armies of the other 6 countries of the coalition army are concentrated in the city of Chelyabinsk, and they want to fight a decisive battle with the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire there, and they do not support other Russian towns east of the Ural Mountains, so that only the Russian army can defend those towns, which is somewhat inadequate, after all, the Russian army resisted the attack of the Chinese Imperial Army alone before, and the losses are too great, and now it has to gather heavy troops in the city of Chelyabinsk, To the east of the Ural Mountains, these towns were not well armed.

By the end of the Battle of Chelyabinsk, all of these towns had fallen into the hands of the Chinese Empire, and Russia had lost all of its Asian territory.

After the end of the battle in Chelyabinsk, the Allies and the Allies were stunned, they all did not believe in the final result of the battle, although the coalition forces also because of the problem of transportation capacity, did not transport the original prepared troops to the city of Chelyabinsk, but the coalition forces still gathered 2.6 million troops, hundreds of warplanes, thousands of combat vehicles and tens of thousands of large-caliber artillery pieces in the city of Chelyabinsk, such a powerful force, but how could it be so miserable in the end! It's really the people who made the Entente and the Allies. My heart is going to break!

A total of 2.3 million elite land forces of the Allies and Allies were lost in Chelyabinsk, hundreds of warplanes, thousands of combat vehicles, and tens of thousands of large-caliber artillery pieces were lost. The point is that the losses of the Chinese Empire are really insignificant compared to the losses of the coalition forces. According to the information obtained by the coalition forces, the losses of the Chinese Imperial Army were only more than 100,000, and some of them were wounded, which could be completely recovered after medical treatment, and the number of dead in the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire was between 7 and 80,000, and the loss of other equipment was not much.

This battle of Chelyabinsk was tantamount to giving the Entente and the Central Powers a blow to the head, let them know, don't look at their union this time. But the final victor of the war does not yet know who it is! The Chinese Empire is definitely not a soft persimmon, but a big stone, very hard!

The domestic rulers of the Entente and the Central Powers, from the commanders of the front-line countries, learned about the beginning and end of the Battle of Chelyabinsk, and only then did they know that the performance of the fighters of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire was so against the sky, that the data obtained by the intelligence departments of the Entente and the Central Powers were much stronger, so that the fighters of the Allied forces could not fight against them. Even the air defense weapons of various countries could do nothing, so they could only let the fighters of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire wreak havoc in the sky all the time, so that the large-caliber artillery of the coalition forces was bombed indiscriminately by the other side in the air. As a result, the losses of large-caliber artillery of the coalition forces were serious, not to mention the bombardment of coalition positions.

Anyway, so to speak, the combined forces of the Entente and the Central Powers. The reason why the city of Chelyabinsk was lost in such a short period of time. The reason why the fighters of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire had to occupy 70 percent.

The other 30 percent of the reasons include the insufficient stockpiles of large-caliber artillery shells of the coalition forces, the blowing up of the railway lines of the coalition forces' logistics, and the backwardness of the equipment of the coalition army compared to the equipment of the imperial Chinese army. In short, the most important reason for the failure of the Battle of Chelyabinsk was that the skies of the coalition forces were completely dominated by the warplanes of the Chinese Empire.

The Entente and Allied powers immediately ordered their arsenals to begin developing higher-range anti-aircraft weapons in preparation for the formidable fighters of the Imperial Chinese Air Force.

At the same time, the Entente and the Central Powers decided to regroup their large armies in the Russian city of Ufa, build complete fortifications inside and outside the city, and prepare for another major battle with the army of the Chinese Empire here in the city of Ufa, block the iron hooves of the Chinese Imperial army, and continue to advance into the hinterland of the European region of Russia.

Now that the war has reached the land of Russia and Europe, Nicholas II, as the Russian Tsar, suddenly became anxious, and transferred as many troops as possible to the city of Ufa, and even the newly formed Russian army was also transferred to the city of Ufa, Nicholas II ordered the Russian War Department to block the advance of the Chinese Imperial Army in the city of Ufa, otherwise the essence of Russia's European region will be destroyed by the war, then it will take many years for Russia to recover, An absolute nightmare for Russia.

The Entente powers of Britain and France, and the Allied powers of Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Turks, also prepared to concentrate the land forces that had been to be transported to the city of Chelyabinsk to resist the Chinese Empire's troops.

The German Army eventually lost 580,000 troops in Chelyabinsk, the French Army lost 590,000, the British Army lost 130,000, the Italian Army lost 90,000, the Austro-Hungarian Army 110,000, and the Ottoman Imperial Turkish Army 120,000.

In this way, according to the number of armies of the six countries that are preparing to send the first batch to the Russian battlefield, 420,000 German Army, 410,000 French Army, 170,000 British Army, 210,000 Italian Army, 240,000 Austro-Hungarian Army, and 230,000 Ottoman Turkish Army can be gathered in Ufa City, and the Russian Army can at least mobilize more than one million troops to Ufa City.

While focusing on the Russian battlefield, the rulers of the Entente and Central Powers set their sights on the combined expeditionary fleet.

On October 22, the combined expeditionary fleet of the Entente and the Central Powers left the port of Herakrion on the Greek island of Crete.

With more than 1,000 warships, including 72 dreadnoughts and 72 all-steel battleships, and a total displacement of more than 5.44 million tons, this coalition expeditionary fleet can be said to be the largest fleet ever built in the world.

The land war was already in disadvantage, and the Allied and Allied rulers were now pinning their hopes on a naval battle that would turn back the game and boost the morale of the people in their respective countries, and that the warplanes of the Chinese Empire would be able to indiscriminately bombard the Allied forces on land. But on the sea, the fighters of the Chinese Empire should not think about wreaking havoc anymore.

The sea can be said to be very vast. The fighters of the Chinese Empire may not even be able to fly to the head of the Joint Expeditionary Fleet, and the commanders of the Combined Expeditionary Fleet have already taken note of this. It will not let the fleet get close to the coastline of the Chinese Empire, so that the fighters of the Chinese Empire will have a chance.

It is the fighters of the Chinese Empire that can fly to the head of the United Expeditionary Fleet, but all the warships of the coalition forces are equipped with a large number of anti-aircraft weapons, although the air defense weapons on these warships are the same as those of the army, the range is limited, but they can also force the fighters of the Chinese Empire to an altitude of 6,000 meters, so that the aerial bombs dropped by the fighters will not hit the warships of the coalition forces so easily. You must know that warships are aerial bombs dropped at an altitude of 6,000 meters in constant high-speed movement, and if you want to hit a warship on the sea, you can only rely on luck, and you have to be lucky.

The fleet, which had been pinned upon by the Entente and Allied rulers, had entered the Arabian Sea after a dozen days of sea voyage and was heading for the British Indian colony for a short stop at the Indian port of Mumbai. Let the officers and men of the entire fleet rest and prepare for the coming big battle.

Inside the bridge of the British Navy's Giant-class dreadnought battleship HMS Giant, Bridget, commander-in-chief of the entire Combined Expeditionary Fleet and commander of the British Navy's fleet. With a gloomy face, he said to the commander of the French naval fleet François, the commander of the German naval fleet, the commander of the German naval fleet, the commander of the Italian naval fleet, Erebet, the commander of the Russian naval fleet, Vladienovich, the commander of the Austro-Hungarian naval fleet, Rusdit, and the commander of the Ottoman Turkish Imperial naval fleet, Ismael, said: "The radio station on our British warship has received a telegram from the British Consulate in Yemen forwarding the British country, We, the Entente and the Allies, suffered a crushing defeat in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk. At present, the city of Chelyabinsk has been occupied by the Chinese Empire, and the troops of our coalition forces have retreated to the area west of the Russian Ural Mountains. ”

Bridget's words just fell. The commander of the Russian naval fleet, Vladilenovich, almost jumped up and shouted: "Impossible! When pigs fly! How could we, the Entente and the Central Powers, have not gathered an army of more than 2.5 million in the city of Chelyabinsk to be defeated by the troops of the Chinese Empire in such a short time! Didn't we say before we left Europe that the army of the Chinese Empire did not gather many troops there in the city of Chelyabinsk! ”

Vladienovich has his reasons for excitement. He knew what it meant to lose the city of Chelyabinsk, that is, the flames of war were about to burn into Russia's European regions, and that would be a very bad thing for Russia.

Bridget smiled bitterly and said: "General Vladishenovich, I don't want this to be true, but the telegram also said that the combined forces of our Entente and Central Powers have lost no less than 2.3 million troops in the city of Chelyabinsk, and now all countries are pinning their hopes on our fleet to turn the tide of the war, and as for the armies of our coalition forces, they are currently preparing to gather a large army in the city of Ufa, west of the Ural Mountains in Russia, to resist the advance of the Chinese Imperial Army." ”

The other fleet commanders, including the commander of the Russian naval fleet, Vladzilenovich, gasped when they heard that the coalition forces had lost 2.3 million troops in the city of Chelyabinsk at once.

The commander of the French naval fleet, François, frowned and asked: "Did the telegram say anything about the losses of the Chinese Imperial Army?" ”

Bridget continued to smile bitterly and said: "The specific number is not said, but the telegram said that the reason why the army of the Chinese Empire was able to achieve such a victory was entirely because the fighters possessed by the Chinese Empire had extremely excellent performance and could fly to an altitude of more than 6,000 meters, and our air force and air defense weapons had no way to take the fighters of the Chinese Empire, so they could only let the fighters of the Chinese Empire wreak havoc in the sky, which eventually led to the crushing defeat of the city of Chelyabinsk!" The telegram also reminded us to be on guard against the fighters of the Chinese Empire! ”

Hearing that the fighters of the Chinese Empire could fly up to 6,000 meters, several fleet commanders frowned, but they did not keep frowning, and it was not so easy for the Chinese Empire to use fighters against the joint expeditionary fleet.

The commander of the German naval fleet, Tessim, said: "As long as we do not get close to the coastline of the Chinese Empire, then it is impossible for the Chinese Empire's fighters to fly above the heads of our fleet, and even if there are really Chinese Imperial fighters flying 6,000 meters above our fleet to drop bombs, it is not so easy to hit the warships sailing at high speed." ”

The commanders of the other fleets, including Commander-in-Chief Bridget, nodded in agreement.

Bridget then continued: "Now that the allied forces of our allies and the Allies have suffered a great defeat on the Russian battlefield, all countries have put their hopes on our joint expeditionary fleet. ”

Speaking of this, Bridget looked at the dense warships on the sea through the observation window of the bridge, and immediately continued with great pride: "Our joint expeditionary fleet also has the strength to turn the entire war around, after all, we are the most powerful fleet the world has ever seen!" ”

The other six fleet commanders nodded one after another, they have absolute confidence in the strength of the joint expeditionary fleet, if the joint expeditionary fleet arrives in the waters of Asia, the navy of the Chinese Empire will be all assembled, and it will be much weaker than this joint expeditionary fleet, they will look for opportunities to fight a decisive battle with the navy of the Chinese Empire, and seize the sea supremacy of the entire sea area of Asia, and then the balance of war will be tilted in favor of the Entente and the Central Powers.

Bridget added: "Although we expect to encounter the main forces of the Chinese Imperial Navy in the Strait of Malacca, the Andaman Sea, and the Indian Ocean, but now that we have reached the Arabian Sea, there is no doubt that the Chinese Imperial Navy will not play its cards according to common sense and will not stay at our own doorstep to meet the enemy, so we will join the expeditionary fleet during the voyage, and sail in accordance with the formation of the war, ready to engage the main force of the Chinese Imperial Navy at any time." ”

The commanders of this joint expeditionary fleet have divided the entire fleet into several warbands, including several dreadnought battleship fleets, all-steel battleship fleets, ironclad battleship fleets, large fast armored cruiser fleets, fast protection cruiser fleets, destroyer fleets, torpedo boat fleets, and submarine fleets. (To be continued......)