Chapter 622 Strategic Bombing
However, before that, Emperor Yang needed to get one of Nikolai's children out of St. Petersburg, and although it is not certain that Comrade Vladimir will succeed, it is always right to be prepared. Moreover, in the current shape of St. Petersburg, even he felt that Comrade Vladimir had a great deal of certainty of success, where so far there were as many as 500,000 Russians who had been sent back by him alone, and the hatred of the Tsar by these refugees in hunger and cold was almost to the limit, and basically a spark could detonate it.
"How's our little Alexei doing?" He asked Ye Guifei that His Royal Highness the Russian Crown Prince is still under the care of the Yang Medical Center, and although the two countries have started a war, the expert team of the Yang Medical Center will definitely not give up performing their duties.
"I don't know." Ye Guifei said angrily.
Emperor Yang smiled and said, "Send a telegram to the expert group there, so that they can find an opportunity to try to get Alexei to Sweden, and it is better to bring his mother with him to take care of him." ”
Since the Germans bombed London, the Young Medical Center has been relocated from London to Jönköping, Sweden for safety reasons, after all, this medical center can be said to be the life shelter of the entire European giants, and it can't be in a place where bombs are often heard, right? In case those German airship crews who dropped bombs at a height of several kilometers fell there one day, then William would be in trouble, in order to make his bombing without scruples, so Yang Feng moved the Yang Medical Center early.
"What do you want to do?" Ye Guifei asked inexplicably, she hated Alexandra's Majesty.
"Nothing, in case Comrade Vladimir and his men kill Nikolai, we must prepare a new tsar for the Russian Empire, right?" Emperor Yang said somewhat proudly.
This question is very easy to operate, and the Nikolai couple did not have the slightest sloppiness in the matter of their son, as long as it was the expert group, they were absolutely unconditionally obedient, and let those doctors casually seize the opportunity of Alexei's headache and brain fever, and then alarm them. It was suggested that it would be better to stay in a medical center for a while, and anyway, Sweden was only a day's voyage from St. Petersburg, and the Nikolai couple would not refuse.
However, this problem is easy to operate, and the other problem is not so easy to solve.
"You say it's difficult to maintain a large airfield in Yekaterinburg or Chelyabinsk for the Liberators to bomb Russia?" Emperor Yang asked his Chief of Army Staff with some surprise.
"Yes, your majesty, everything else is easy to say, but the problem of material transportation cannot be solved, the consumption of the Trans-Siberian Railway alone to maintain the front line has reached the limit, in Pavlodar or Omsk we can add the Irtysh River water transport and the military highway from Taldikurgan to Semipalatinsk, as well as the transport plane at the Dihua airport to supply materials, but from Omsk to the west we can only pass the Guò Trans-Siberian Railway. In normal times, we can add road transport, but this season when heavy snow closes the roads, it is difficult for our trucks to drive on those easy roads. Li Yuncong said.
Including Emperor Yang, they actually ignored this problem, the lack of capacity of the Trans-Siberian Railway has been reflected before, but China's huge automobile industry and strong mechanized road construction capacity have solved this problem well, but the wind and snow in Siberia in winter have been ignored by everyone, the road is not a railway, not to mention the simple road of sand, it is difficult to maintain road transportation after the snow, just a monorail. Under no circumstances can it satisfy the consumption of a million troops and at the same time meet the needs of large-scale strategic bombing.
In fact, road transportation to Tyumen is already very difficult, and the logistics department of the Siberian Front has used almost all the forces at its disposal, and even sent wreckers to barely ensure the smooth passage of the 200-kilometer section, and the distance from Omsk to Chelyabinsk is four times longer. In the final analysis, there is still a lack of mental preparation for the hellish place of Siberia.
"This will not work, the strategic bombing of Russia is absolutely necessary, especially the bombing of the industrial areas around Moscow and in the Volga River basin, Budapest is definitely not going to work. Airlift alone could not meet the requirements of real strategic bombing, at most, let those sixty liberators bomb London, Lyon and other key cities in Western Europe. It is impossible to reach the level of real strategic bombing, what is strategic bombing? Strategic bombing is the use of hundreds or thousands of bombers to bomb a country, and all cities, all factories, and all qiē have to go through the bombs, and this is the real strategic bombing, and dozens of bombers are nothing without pain. Emperor Yang said very dissatisfied.
"Your Majesty, if we still follow the original plan, it will be difficult for us to do this, even if it is too late to repair another double line, but the minister has an alternative." Li Yuncong said, this guy should have studied it a long time ago.
"Say!" Emperor Yang said.
"It's simple, change places, seize Georgia and then build airfields in the north, from where the Liberators have a combat radius sufficient to cover these places you are talking about, the Trans-Caspian railway can go to Turkmenbashi, and then we will seize Baku and build a sea transport line, which is a supply line for supplies. The railway from Basra to Tehran and Kirkuk has also been largely restored, so that there are two supply lines again, and the remaining part of the road to the north is solved by road transport, and the Hejaz railway can also be transferred to Kirkuk, so that three ports and three railways are enough to ensure our supplies, even if you really want to bomb more than 1,000 planes. Li Yuncong said.
This solution is completely in line with Emperor Yang's requirements, and this can also form an area overlap with the bombers taking off from Omsk, otherwise there is always a feeling of unfinished content just from one place to bomb, so that with Budapest, it can basically cover almost the entire Russia from three directions, and after the war, you can learn from the Americans to continue to retain these air bases, so that the shadow of the liberators will always hang high over Europe.
"Very good, order the Central Asian Front to transfer an army group to take Transcaucasia first, and then seize the time to repair the airfield, and before the end of this year I must see bombers taking off from there drop bombs on Moscow." Emperor Yang said contentedly.
Since his holy decree has been issued, the Central Asian Front that is advancing westward day and night naturally does not dare to slack off, anyway, they and the Middle East Front combined six army groups to crush the three dissatisfied Russian army group army is completely wasted, not to mention that there is Kemal's department on the opposite side who is resisting to the death, so that the two army groups under the entire Central Asian Front army all turn their heads to the north, the tenth army goes straight to Tbilisi, the eighth army quickly encircles Baku, and at the same time, the twenty-third army, which reinforces them domestically, also arrives in Andijan, Take the train straight to Turkmenbashi, the starting point of the Trans-Caspian Railway.
At this time, the 8th Armored Division of the Chinese 16th Army and the accompanying 190th Infantry Division of the Chinese 16th Army, which reinforced Sakarya, also arrived in Ankara, which was already the periphery of the Russian-controlled area. The Russian army, which was originally going all out to attack the Sakarya defense line, had to draw two elite troops back to defend this torrent of steel, but the Russians also knew that they had no hope in the field, so they could only stick to Ankara while continuing to attack Sakarya desperately.
At this time, even the US-British coalition forces had already crossed the Bosphorus, and together with a North American army that landed in Hillae, they frantically attacked Sakaria's defense line from the southern coast and all the way from the mountains in the northwest. He led the Ottoman army, which was less than 200,000 at this time, stuck on this choke point, and with the two points of Sakarya and Izmit, stubbornly resisted the surging enemies from four directions, standing like a reef in the stormy waves, even Emperor Yang was impressed by the tenacity of this guy, of course, this also had something to do with the fact that Hamid II invited his parents, wife and children to the palace.
But when he played a heroic role there, and when he was praised by People's Radio all over the world, Kuropatkin opposite him was about to cry, the vanguard of the Russian army's attack was actually less than 50 kilometers away from the US-British coalition forces in the west, but the problem was that this less than 50 kilometers was all mountains and forests except for the passage of Sakarya, and there was a river that was not too narrow in the middle, so he couldn't take hundreds of thousands of troops over the 50-kilometer mountains and mountains to bypass this ghost place, right? What's more, there are also Ottoman military-controlled fortresses in this lofty mountain.
He had even begun to regret why he had not withdrawn north from Transcaucasia as soon as possible, and of course he would not have had any good results in that case, because his huge army would not have to go to Georgia, and the Chinese 15th and 16th armies would have been able to break through Tabriz and block his retreat, and in the end he would still be in the same situation.
Just after the second armored group to reinforce Sakarya arrived, this old guy finally couldn't hold on, he knew very well that his only choice after the next four Chinese armies were all killed was to be a prisoner, although he had a personal relationship with Emperor Yang, but it was too embarrassing to meet as a prisoner, so His Excellency the commander of the front army simply took his headquarters to retreat to Port Ereli on the Black Sea, and at the same time issued an order to the remaining 350,000 Russian troops to retreat to Port Ereli and then return by boat. (To be continued......)