After the surrender of the German 11th Army, plus the 80,000 German wounded soldiers captured in Zhytomyr, a total of nearly 200,000 German troops surrendered and were captured, which was the first and such a large-scale surrender of the German army since the start of the war.

This is not the worst for Germany, and more critical things are still to come, that is, the 4th Army of the German-Austrian Allied Army is currently surrounded between Kiev and Zhytomyr, both of which are Chinese troops, and the north and south are the defense areas of the southwestern front and the western side of Tsarist Russia, and now nearly 160,000 people of the 4th Army of the German-Austrian Allied Army are surrounded in the middle of the lack of food and clothing, and ammunition is at the bottom.

The north is a mountainous area, the Western Front of Tsarist Russia has heavy defense, it is difficult to break through, the south is the defense area of the Southwestern Front of Tsarist Russia, and there are heavy defenses, it is almost impossible to break through from the south, and it is even more impossible to break through to the east, before the German 11th Army surrendered in Kiev, where there is a heavy defense of the Chinese army, Zhytomyr and Korostviv in the west are occupied by the Chinese army, and the senior generals of the German-Austrian 4th Army know that the Chinese army is a sneak attack on Zhytomyr without knowing it, Then they captured Korostviv with lightning speed, thus cutting off their back road, since it was a sneak attack, and it could be done so top-secret, then the troops of the sneak attack must not be very strong, otherwise it would be difficult to keep it secret, thinking of this, the commander of the German-Austrian Fourth Army, General Erich, decided to wave his troops to launch a fierce attack on Zhytomyr and Kolosteviv.

Now the German-Austrian 4th Army is a trapped beast, and the only way to escape from Ascension is to desperately break through. Surrounded on all sides, they ran out of food. Only a desperate onslaught on Zhytomyr and Korostviv had a chance.

On 21 August, the German-Austrian 4th Army was divided into two parts under the orders of Erich. Launching a fierce attack on Zhytomyr and Korostviv respectively, Wu Peifu immediately organized his troops to defend with all his might, and blocked the escape passage of the German and Austro-Hungarian troops.

After getting the news, Zhang Xiaozhun knew that now was the time to compete with the German-Austrian army, so he immediately ordered Xu Shuzheng to lead more than 60,000 North Korean troops to come out of the Xicheng District of Kiev to attack the back of the German-Austrian 4th Army, and at the same time contacted the Tsarist Russian Southwest Front, saying that the troops of a corps of the Tsarist Russia's Southwest Front Army would move northward and cause oppression to the German-Austrian 4th Group.

The German-Austrian 4th Army was disheartened after a day of fruitless attack, and it was already running out of ammunition and food, plus it was blocked at the front. The rear was attacked again, and the Tsarist Russian troops in the north and south pressed again, making their room for maneuver even narrower.

Under these circumstances, General Erich had to lead the remaining 150,000 men to surrender, and the battle was over, with a total of 500,000 German 11th Army and German and Austrian 4th Army, with 180,000 casualties, most of which were inflicted by Nepalese and Bhutanese Corps, and nearly 300,000 prisoners. More than 20,000 people are missing.

The Second Chinese Army won the battle, but it also suffered extremely heavy casualties, of which more than 50,000 Japanese soldiers were killed and more than 20,000 others were wounded. The death rate was over 70 per cent and the injury rate was 100 per cent, while the casualties rate in the Nepalese and Bhutanese Corps was also over 50 per cent. At the end of the campaign, less than half of the Nepalese and Bhutanese regiments were alive.

In the battle of catching turtles in urns in the western city of Kyiv, closing the door and beating dogs. 30,000 Germans were killed and wounded, and the remaining 70,000 Germans surrendered. And the North Korean army itself suffered more than 60,000 casualties, and the number of casualties among the victors was greater than the number of the losers.

The casualties rate of 20,000 Vietnamese soldiers, 3,000 Gurkha soldiers, and a regiment of the Chinese National Defense Army led by Wu Peifu exceeded 60 percent in the raid battles and blocking battles, and the losses in the two raids were not large, mainly in the blocking battles between the two places, the unfatal charge of the German and Austrian 4th Army caused Wu Peifu's troops to suffer heavy losses, and in the end, if it was not for a regiment of Wehrmacht that he brought to the top, it is estimated that the German-Austrian 4th Army would have rushed out of the encirclement.

In total, the 2nd Chinese Army suffered 120,000 casualties and more than 80,000 wounded. In addition, in this battle, the Tsarist side lost the strength of the two armies, more than 30,000 dead and more than 20,000 wounded, and all the rest of the battle were captured by the Germans, but later Wu Peifu led his troops to raid Zhytomyr and rescued all those Tsarist Russian prisoners.

In the Eastern European battlefield, the summer offensive launched by the Russian army basically made the expected progress, and the results of the Second Army of China exceeded everyone's imagination, before the start of this battle, both the high-level of Tsarist Russia and the high-level of China basically believed that as long as they could hold Kyiv and not be occupied by the German army, they would be considered to have completed the task, but what the high-level of the two countries did not expect was that Zhang Xiaozhun and others not only held Kyiv, Moreover, with a rabble of 300,000 troops, he defeated the elite German 11th Army and the German-Austrian 4th Army, a total of 50 armies.

Although the summer offensive planned by the Russian army has not been completely stopped, but this summer offensive has been overfulfilled to this point, and the expected strategic task has been overachieved, and now the German army has realized the crisis of the Eastern Front battlefield and began to mobilize troops from the Western Front, but for the time being, there is no information that the German army is preparing to reopen the Eastern Front campaign, it seems that the current focus of the German army is still on the British, and the Tsarist Russian side has reached the limit to this point, not only the mobilized forces are too large, And it consumed too many supplies, and I couldn't fight anymore. Although the Second Army of China participated in this battle, the overloaded operations in the past two months also made the officers and soldiers of the Second Army too tired, and the casualties were too large, a large number of wounded soldiers needed to recuperate, other soldiers also needed to rest, and soldiers and war materials also needed to be replenished.

On August 28, Zhang Xiaozhun officially ordered the Triple Army, the Korean Army, and the Vietnamese Army composed of Japan, Nepal, and Bhutan to enter a state of rest, and the Lao, Cambodian, and Burmese armies, which had arrived in Poltava, had a total of 300,000 people carrying weapons, equipment, ammunition, and combat military supplies by special train to Kyiv to take over the defense.

Now these soldiers have only undergone simple training, they can shoot guns, and after driving to the front line, they have to be stationed and trained at the same time, so that they can be put to use. The reason why the casualties in this battle of Kiev were fewer than those of the German army was mainly because it was a defensive war, using a large number of trenches, hidden bunkers and other defensive facilities inside the mountain, as well as a series of defensive tactics that had never been used, and the German army had never encountered these defensive means to suffer such heavy losses.

From this time on, the offensive and defensive posture between the Entente and the Allies will gradually change, the same door used to be the attacking side, and the Entente is the defending side, but now it will slowly transform into the Entente to become the attacking side and the Central Powers to become the defender, all the battles to be fought by the Second Army in the future are basically offensive, and there are very few battles that need to be defended, and the casualties in offensive battles will increase exponentially.

Therefore, formal military training is very important for those Southeast Asian soldiers who basically have not received much military training, and Zhang Xiaozhun attaches great importance to this work, and at the military conference of the generals at and above the division level of the Second Army Corps, he specially and emphatically proposed that it should take at least four to five months to conduct special military training for these Southeast Asian soldiers, and only after completing the training can they be allowed to go to the battlefield.

On August 29, a top-secret telegram was sent from China to the headquarters of the Second Army Corps, and after reading the telegram, Zhang Xiaozhun summoned Wu Peifu, Yang Jie, Xu Shuzheng, Wang Zhanyuan, Chen Shufan, and other major generals for a meeting.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is a telegram just sent from China, Shangfeng ordered us to complete the change of guard with the Southwest Front of Tsarist Russia within a month!"

The generals didn't know what they meant when they heard it, and Xu Shuzheng was surprised: "Commander, this, what does it mean to go to the peak?" Changing guards? ”

"Yes, it is to change the defense, that is to say, let our second army go to the defense area of the southwestern front of Tsarist Russia, and the southwest front of Tsarist Russia to the defense area on our side, it is as simple as that, but it is not simple, such a large-scale change of defense can not be completed in a day or two, and if the movement is too big, it may attract the attention of the German and Austrian army, if they seize the opportunity to come for a while, the consequences are not easy to say, the matter of the change, Shangfeng has reached an agreement with the Tsarist side, So we don't need to think about the Russian side, we just need to negotiate with the other side on how to change the defense."

At this time, Yang Jie said: "I speculate that Shangfeng means to connect our Second Army Corps and the First Army Corps in the south, after all, now the First Army has invaded the Asia Minor Peninsula and will soon occupy the entire territory of the Ottoman Empire, if we can attack Romania, and the First Army can attack the Balkan Peninsula, when the time comes, our two Army Corps will meet in Romania, then it will be a victory strategically, even if the Tsarist side cannot withstand the German attack and affect our Second Army Corps, Our Second Army can also calmly withdraw to the defense zone of the First Army! ”

All the generals nodded when they heard this, thinking that Yang Jie's speculation should be correct, in fact, Xiao Zhenlei's intentions were not just this, he also had deeper intentions, but they were all to protect the Second Legion.

On August 31, in response to the requirements of dignitaries and domestic countries, the Foreign Affairs Section of the Second Army Corps Command held a press conference in Kiev, announcing to the media of various countries the casualties of the Second Army Corps in the battle, the loss of weapons, ammunition and materials, and the capture of German troops, captures and other news, Zhang Xiaozhun, Wu Peifu and Yang Jie and other senior generals of the Second Army Corps also appeared in this press conference and delivered speeches, two days after the press conference, Zhang Xiaozhun and several people were immediately known to the world, It has become a world-class celebrity who has attracted worldwide attention, and his reputation has shocked the world. (To be continued......)