The loss of Thermosense Pass and the surrender of the German troops stationed in the country made the German and Austrian high-level leaders realize that Greece was only afraid that it would not be able to hold it, Greece had a very long coastline, and the German-Austrian coalition forces could not be deployed on every beach, and the Chinese expeditionary fleet could transport the army troops to any place for landing, and there were many islands, and the Chinese army could land in the rear of the German army at any time to cut off the rear route of the German troops stationed there.

After urgent discussions between the German and Austrian high-level attackers, it was decided to abandon Greece and retreat to Bulgaria, Thrace, and Macedonia.

However, the 18th and 19th divisions of the other Chinese army landed in Burgas, Bulgaria, from the Black Sea, which greatly alarmed the Bulgarian authorities, and the German-Austrian forces in the north went north to defend against the attack of the Chinese Second Army and the Fifth Army on Romania, and the German-Austrian troops in the south had to defend against the Chinese army attacking from Greece.

However, the 18th and 19th divisions of the Chinese army have a total of more than 50,000 people, with the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army, and the naval and air force to provide fire support, which is definitely not what Bulgaria can resist now, when Burgas was occupied by the Chinese army, the Bulgarian side prepared an infantry division to pounce on Burgas on the one hand, and on the other hand, sent a note to the German and Austrian high-level officials, asking them to immediately send reinforcements, Germany and Austria immediately stabilized Bulgaria, and let the Bulgarian power send troops to block the invading Chinese army 18th and 19th divisions, They have also tried to draw troops from various places, but how can they be solved in a moment and a half by sending troops for reinforcements? Even if reinforcements are dispatched, it will take time to arrive.

It was learned that Bulgaria had sent three infantry divisions to pounce. The 18th Division of the Chinese Army was ordered to intercept the attack, and the 19th Division immediately pounced south on Edirne in the Thracian region of Turkey.

At the same time. On the eastern side of the Turkish Strait, the 22nd and 23rd Divisions of the Chinese Army also launched a sea-crossing operational attack on Istanbul on the western side of the strait. Istanbul is a famous city with a rich history and culture. However, this is not a problem for the Chinese army at all, it is not their own place anyway, and if it is broken, it will be broken, so there is no need to worry about it.

A large number of shells fell on the defensive positions of the German-Austrian forces in the strait, and the coastal defense wall by the sea was knocked down for a long time by the artillery fire of the Chinese army, and many German-Austrian troops on the city wall were buried under the city wall.

Huaguo, Presidential Palace.

Xiao Zhenlei and others sat in the comprehensive combat command hall and listened to the battle report, while Jiang Zuobin stood in front and pointed a baton on the map, constantly explaining the current battle situation. “?????? At present, the 22nd and 23rd divisions of our army have entered the city of Istanbul, the remnants of the German-Austrian army are currently retreating westward, and the 19th division of our army is blocking Edirne, the German-Austrian army wants to escape the pursuit of our army, either storm our 18th division, or retreat to the southwest through the Rhodope Mountains back to Bulgaria, but at present our army has occupied all of Greece, and the three divisions of the German-Austrian army must pass through our army's defense zone in Greece! ”

Xiao Zhenlei touched his chin and said, "Then give Wu Shiyou an order." Block their retreat to the west to the only way, and destroy the living forces that can destroy the enemy, and don't give them a chance to escape back! ”

"Yes!" Jiang Zuobin nodded, and an officer next to him immediately wrote it down.

Xiao Zhenlei asked, "How is the situation over there?" ”

"The West Malay Army of the 2nd Army has attacked to Bacwu in Romania. The East Malay Army advanced to Vaslui, the Bengal Army advanced to Keusheni, and the German-Austrian forces had fully retreated to the west of the Eastern Carpathians in the face of the powerful offensive of our two corps. But they occupied the passes of the Eastern Carpathians, which our troops had to take at great cost. In view of the current situation, General Cai considered the first priority to be to join forces with the First Army Corps. As long as the two theaters of operations are trained in one line, then the crisis of our army's Second and Fifth Army Corps will be lifted, and then we will concentrate our forces to attack the mountain passes in the Eastern Carpathians and advance our troops to the west."

Xiao Zhenlei frowned when he heard this, the speed of the advance was too slow, he knew that Cai Yi wanted to preserve the strength of the National Defense Force, and let those monkeys in Southeast Asia of the Second Army go to the front, anyway, no matter how many people died, they would not feel distressed. Cai's strategic thinking was correct, he drove the German-Austrian army to the west of the Eastern Carpathians, and the main force quickly moved south to open a passage to join the First Army Corps, and easily swept away all the remnants of the German-Austrian army in the area east of the Eastern Carpathians. But Cai Ye was too distressed by the Fifth Legion, worried that the loss of using the Fifth Legion to fight the forward would be too large, but how could there be immortals in the war? The key now is to seize the time and let the 2nd Army, the 5th Army and the 1st Army complete the division before major changes occur in Russia, so as to contain the German and Austrian armies and resolve the crisis of the 2nd and 5th Army Corps.

After smoking a few puffs of cigarettes, Xiao Zhenlei instructed: "The speed of advance is too slow, immediately send a power to Cai Yi, don't worry about the loss of the Fifth Army Corps, don't be reluctant to let the children trap the wolf, let the Fifth Army play the vanguard, sweep the obstacles to the south as quickly as possible, it is best to force the German and Austrian troops to surrender, if they can't be forced to surrender, they will all be wiped out, time waits for no one, now our transportation and supply pressure in Siberia is getting bigger and bigger, and if it is delayed, they will run out of food and ammunition, Ordered them to collect grain and grass as much as possible in the process of going south, and if they found an arsenal or something, they must quickly organize the production of the original workers, and we can only think of this way to solve the supply problem now! ”

"Yes, President!"

Xiao Zhenlei asked again: "What is the situation on the battlefield on the Western Front?" ”

"The speed of advance is average, the German army has drawn more than 2,000 planes from the country, and more than a dozen secret airfields have been built in France, the complete control of air supremacy on the part of the Entente is already a thing of the past, and now the air forces of the two sides are not much different, they contain each other, there is no one-sided situation, on the whole, Britain and France have the upper hand.

At present, the British army has advanced to the front line of Evre, Le Mans, and Nantes, although the German side is somewhat declining, but the losses are not large, in my opinion, after the momentum of the British and French attack has passed, the Germans are estimated to launch a counterattack! ”

It seems that it is basically difficult to rely on Britain and France to defeat the German army in France in a short period of time, and it may not be possible to make the Germans submit within two years, so it is necessary to make long-term plans, and if you want to make long-term plans, the first thing is to ensure sufficient logistics and transportation capacity and sufficient logistics materials.

Xiao Zhenlei decided to personally sit in charge and supervise the production of domestic war materials, Song Shijie is currently busy with government affairs and has no extra energy to manage the logistics of the army, so he can only take care of it himself.

On that day, he brought Chen Huizu, governor of the State Bank, and Ma Jitao, minister of finance, and Bao Yuzhen, deputy director of the army's logistics department, to inquire about the situation.

Xiao Zhenlei asked: "Vice Minister Bao, can the army's logistics still keep up?" ”

Bao Yuzhen shook his head and said: "President, it is very difficult now, this is because the Third Army Corps and the Fourth Army Corps are in a state of rest, and there is not much demand for ammunition, only the ammunition for the first, second, fifth, and sixth four corps in the European part is just right, and if our third and fourth army corps also go to war at the same time, the ammunition will only last for three months and will be exhausted!" This is not the most critical thing, the most critical thing is that due to the problems of the transportation lines in Russia, we can only use ships to take the sea route in the future, and at present, China's shipping capacity is still far behind that of European and American countries, and it is still quite difficult to supply more than 2 million people with combat materials and ammunition at the same time! ”

Xiao Zhenlei thought for a while and asked, "Is the budget for sea freight insufficient, or is there no money in the first place?" Or is it that China's shipping industry does not have such a large transportation capacity? ”

Bao Yuzhen spread his hands: "I have no money, and I don't have that much transportation capacity, that is to say, I don't have enough money and not enough transportation ships!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei waved his hand: "Then solve the problem of money first, Minister Ma, how much money can the Ministry of Finance come up with?" ”

Ma Jitao couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this: "President, there is still some money, but it is the budget for the remaining months of this year, so many officials and civil servants of the state have to be supported, disabled soldiers have to be pensioned, and education funds are all impossible, and some of the reserved funds have also been spent!" ”

Xiao Zhenlei frowned, looked at Chen Huizu, and asked, "How much money can the National Bank come up with?" ”

Chen Huizu said: "There is money, but it is all from the common people!" President, it stands to reason that although we have been fighting in the past two years, we have made a lot of money from the war, and the country should not be very short ??????of money, guess right."

Ma Jitao said: "President Chen has also worked in finance before, and he should know that now my country not only has to fight foreign wars, but also to carry out domestic construction, not to mention anything else, just to build roads, the money spent in recent years is an astronomical amount, in addition to a large number of infrastructure construction, these all need money!" If it weren't for the fact that the cabinet would not have been able to make a little money selling arms in the past few years, it would have been impossible for the cabinet to hold on! ”

Xiao Zhenlei knows that what Ma Jitao said is right, in recent years, the domestic steps have been a bit big, although he has made a lot of money from abroad, but he still can't fundamentally solve the problem of national poverty, but the situation has been much better, at least through the hard work of the past few years, the domestic traffic situation and electricity problems have been greatly improved.

As far as the hydropower station is concerned, the second phase of the three hydropower stations has been completed so far, and most of the identities in East China, South China, Central China and North China have solved the problem of electricity consumption, but the power supply needs to be improved, which requires the third and fourth phases of the hydropower station, and dozens of thermal power stations have been completed, and most of the industrial electricity has been satisfied. (To be continued......)