Chapter 556: Friendship
The Shuangchengzi fortress group was finally abandoned by the Russians the next morning, and the remaining 10,000 Russian troops completely lost the courage to hold on under the terrifying blow of the water tank artillery, of course, they had no way to defend, and the 540mm shells that fell from the sky smashed their fortress like a hammer to smash walnuts, smashing their confidence and courage.
Those Russian soldiers are not fools, these fortresses have no defensive meaning, they can only be used as graves for themselves, and before Major General Kolov gave the order, a large number of Russian soldiers had already run out of it by themselves and fled to the south, seeing this situation, their commanders also did not have the courage to hold on, and retreated to Vladivostok with a group of remnants of the defeated generals who abandoned their fortresses.
Immediately afterwards, Zhang Zhenfang, who had been on standby for a long time, led his subordinates to receive all the remaining forts and all the supplies inside almost without firing a single shot.
Then the Third Army followed the footsteps of the Russian rout like a flood to Vladivostok, along the way the Russians also abandoned all the towns, the residents who were willing to go together retreated to Vladivostok, and those who did not want to go were directly packed by Zhang Zhenfang and sent to the concentration camp in Ningguta where they waited for repatriation, in fact, at this time, the first batch of repatriated Russians had been escorted to the merchant ship to St. Petersburg, and it is said that the benevolent Emperor Yang also issued a hundred yuan in Chinese dollar bills each, which greatly improved his image in the eyes of the Allied people because of his participation in the war.
In fact, Alekseev did not welcome these refugees to crowd into Vladivostok, the amount of food he stored there was fixed, and the more people who went, the faster it was consumed, and according to normal estimates, it could last for two years, but if these refugees were crammed over, then he would be able to last for a year at most, so after finding that the number of refugees was too large, he even began to push out.
In fact, His Excellency the Governor is now very uncertain about whether he can hold it for two years, and he estimates that Shuangchengzi can hold it for at least one year. It took less than a month from the beginning of the battle to the fall, and the actual attack took only three days, although the Vladivostok fortress group is different from the twin cities, but it is difficult to say whether it can withstand that terrifying cannon.
But things have come to this point, he can only take one step at a time, how long can he last, in order to leave a way back for himself, the Governor of the Governor is very clever to give away all the Chinese in Vladivostok, as a commander whose political talent far exceeds his military talent, he is a deep and dark way to leave a line of truth to meet in the future.
And his such appearance xiàn. It has indeed won him a praise for his chivalrous demeanor in Chinese public opinion, of course, this is in the eyes of ordinary people, and the hidden meaning behind this gentlemanly demeanor in the eyes of real smart people has been revealed.
And at this time, when the Third Army was marching towards Vladivostok, Emperor Yang was also faced with a problem that needed to be solved urgently.
"Your Excellency, with regard to the question of North America, I think that Your Majesty the Emperor and the people of your country will understand my difficulties, although China has declared war on North America, the two countries do not share a border on land. There is also a neutral West America in the middle, so it is impossible to attack directly from land, and if you want to land an operation, you must have enough landing forces, and now the main task of the Chinese marines is still Luzon. Then there are India and Australia, and we don't have the ability to launch a large-scale landing operation in the Atlantic until these two battlefields are resolved. Yang Feng said to Haijing seriously.
Haijing is here to ask for help, Germany is almost unable to withstand it, and the British alone can say it. In addition, the Americans were not something that William's two patchwork armies could stop, and not long ago the American-British coalition had captured Hamburg and then begun to attack Kiel north. The U.S.-British coalition that captured Bremen turned eastward to Hanover. You must know that Hanover is only a few hundred kilometers away from Berlin, and it will not be long before the American shells will hit the Brandenburg Gate, in fact, the slogan shouted by the American troops on the battlefield is to drive into Hamburg like the Germans entered Washington back then, of course, this is an elegant statement, the Germans drove into Washington with incendiary bombs, and it is impossible for the Americans to bring flowers.
William didn't want people to burn his Charlotte Castle like Hindenburg burned down the White House, so begging Yang Feng to make a quick move on the United States became his last hope, he didn't know that his most trusted friend, now what he wanted to see most was the Americans burning Berlin.
However, what Yang Feng said is also true, although China has declared war on North America, but after all, the two countries do not border on land, China currently has only one Puerto Rico colony in the Caribbean, two divisions of garrisons, and another fleet with two battle cruisers as the core, such strength is not enough to land in North America, of course, this is just an excuse, everyone knows that Emperor Yang has never been his own people to deal with North America, the Confederacy, Spain, and Mexico add up to no less than two million land forces, and China does not border North America, But the Confederacy was bordering.
"I'm working on that, but the Confederate government doesn't want to get involved in the war, and we also need to understand that, after all, it was because of the principle of peace that West America and the Confederate states of Georgia were separated from North America, and now we can't force them to join the war, we have to do something, so we all need a little time. However, please inform your Emperor Xià that, as his most trusted friend and the German people, neither I nor the Chinese people will sit idly by and watch the danger of Germany, and in addition to our fleet in the Americas will strengthen the naval blockade of North America, we will also send a group of Chinese land forces to Europe, and this force is now being formed, and it will be able to reach the European battlefield in one month at the latest.
In addition, I will contact His Majesty Hamid II to send an army group from the Ottoman Empire to reinforce Germany first, thinking that if he is faster, he can reach the front line in ten days at most, and in addition to this, the Chinese army will also launch an offensive in Central Asia, forcing Russia to withdraw some of its forces from Eastern Europe to relieve the pressure on your country on the eastern front, so that you can have more troops back to defend. Yang Feng said.
"Thank you!" Hai Jing said with some emotion, in fact, there are not many people in Germany about Yang Feng sitting back and looking at their current danger in order to achieve the goal of weakening Germany to the greatest extent, no one is a fool these years, Yang Feng has turned the clouds and rain upside down and tossed and turned around is nothing more than to let Europe keep fighting, so many people can understand, but as long as the war starts, it will not end if you want to end, no one will like to lose, everyone wants to win, As long as there is a possibility of victory, even if you know that it is expected by others, you must fight hard.
But from his series of promises today, it seems that the heart of this emperor is not so dark, and there is nothing else to say, and the mere fact that he promised to send the first batch of Chinese troops to the European theater within a month shows that he was sincere enough to the alliance and determined to end the war quickly.
"Go and make secret contact with the North American side, tell them that as long as they ensure that the interests of the Chinese in North America are not violated, we will not really do anything to them, and let the Confederacy and West America also give them enough security commitments, in short, we must let the North Americans rest assured and boldly continue to reinforce Europe." Poor Haijing didn't know that as soon as he left, Yang Feng was studying them in the back.
"In that case, our navy will be an obstacle, and we will have the Spanish fleet." Yuan Shikai hurriedly reminded that the Chinese Navy's American Fleet has two Hongwu-class battlecruisers, the Spanish Caribbean Fleet has two Spanish-class battleships, and there is also one battleship of the Argentine fleet, which means that the Allies have three battleships and two battlecruisers in the Caribbean. The Entente only had two cruisers of the Chilean Navy, and one old battleship each from Britain and Russia, but they had an overwhelming advantage in light cruisers, because after the division of the original US Navy, North America gained a full twenty light cruisers, but even so the Allies still had enough maritime superiority in the Americas and were fully capable of blockading the ports of North America and Canada.
North America and Canada must send reinforcements to Europe by sea, and blocking their ports can completely cut off this line, and if they want to continue to reinforce Europe, then they can only release water at sea, but now it is too obvious if they release water.
"This is indeed a problem, so let's call Liu Buyun immediately." Yang Feng thought for a while and said.
"What does 陛xià mean?" Yuan Shikai asked.
"It's very simple, although we have an advantage in the Atlantic, but the advantage is not very big, especially in North America, inspired by so many years of humiliation, I think it should break out, for example, attack our blockade fleet, they have light cruisers and destroyers, it is still very possible to lose a few and sink a battleship for us." Yang Feng said with a smile.
"I understand." Yuan Shikai also said with a smile that His Majesty the Emperor was talking about battleships, and the Chinese Navy did not have battleships in the Americas.
In fact, this job is not difficult for Yang Feng to operate, the North American Navy can no longer sit back and watch the enemy blockade their own ports, they have been blockaded for many years, at that time Brian and the US government did not allow them to fight, now there is no suppression on the head, twenty light cruisers, hundreds of large and small destroyers, more than 200 torpedo boats The strength is still very considerable, in order to prevent the two battle cruisers of the Chilean Navy, the two fastest Chinese battle cruisers must stay in the port of San Juan, At that time, it will definitely be the Spanish and Argentine fleets that will blockade North America, and it will not matter to China if they lose a little. (To be continued......)