Chapter 673: The Siege
Next, not only Lao Tuo, but some relatively high-level figures who defected from the Social Workers Party some time ago were re-arrested and interrogated, of course, mainly to expose each other, in short, in the process of rebellion, the more heinous crimes were severely punished, don't think that surrender can get away with it, the sentence should be sentenced, the execution should be executed, and finally a few people with hands stained with the blood of aristocratic capitalists, and even one who concealed his identity and actually participated in the battle of Peter and Paul Fortress.
Of course, such a person cannot be kept, otherwise how can the souls of the Tsar and his wife rest in heaven? After the public interrogation, he was directly pulled to the execution ground and shot, and then the whole process was broadcast live to the world by the People's Radio, so that the people of the world could see the fate of the monarch killer.
Of course, the consequence of this is that it is difficult for the members of the Social Workers on the other side to make up their minds when they want to defect again, especially those who have participated in the battle of Peter and Paul's Fortress know that they must fight no matter what, and some of the more prominent expressions in the process of fighting local tyrants also begin to regret it.
Yang Feng's approach made Comrade Vladimir ecstatic, in his opinion, this guy was obviously dizzy, and he was worried about how to stabilize people's hearts, after all, the impact of the defection of a character like Lao Tuo can be said to be very bad, and those of Lao Tuo's family are inevitably ready to move, but now that even he has been sentenced to life imprisonment, then these people dare not take this road. Referring to the current situation in Russian prisons, life imprisonment is not as comfortable as death, of course, they don't know that Lao Tuo is locked up in the Qincheng Imperial Prison, which specializes in the detention of noble prisoners, and he lives like recuperation when he reads books and newspapers, and even watches TV.
Since Emperor Yang didn't give them a way to live, then these people had to fight to the end with one heart, and for a while, the originally stormy Red Russian side had a little bit of a return to the light, but that's just it, as the weather turned cold, the originally muddy land froze. The UN forces on all fronts began to attack again, and the hungry Red Russian soldiers stubbornly held back the enemy in the wind and snow, but by these times they were not only short of food, but also not enough ammunition.
Russia's original arms industry has long been wiped out under the bombing of the Liberator bombers day after day, and there were Germans to supply it before, and now even Germany's supply has been cut off, not to mention that those hungry workers can hardly produce enough ammunition for the front line even if they have factories, and it is too unbelievable to win the enemy without bullets and relying on mental strength alone.
After nearly half a year of hard fighting, the Red Russians finally lost the fortresses of Kazan and Simbirsk, which were vital to them, and the vast territory on the west bank of the Volga opened its doors to the United Nations forces. At this time, the Don Front also captured Tula and began to attack the outer defense line of Moscow, in which two Chinese armored divisions drove straight into the capture of Ryazan in a blizzard, and the Russian army, which was routing along the Trans-Siberian Railway, had to retreat north to Nizhny Novgorod.
"According to intelligence, the bandit army still has at least 600,000 troops in the Moscow defense circle, and this is one of their old nests, and most of those residents are closely related to the rebels, and with their mobilization ability, I am afraid it will not be a problem to raise more than one million. And with the snowstorm falling. Our material supply is very limited, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to support a large-scale operation of more than one million, which means that the offensive is likely to be risky, for the sake of safety. I built yƬ to adopt a strategy of besieging but not attacking to trap them. Wang Shizhen pointed to the huge sand table in the headquarters of the United Nations Army in Beijing, and said in a matter-of-fact manner.
"And what do you mean?" Emperor Yang, who was sitting on the side, asked the Russian emperor who was sitting next to him, as well as the representatives of various countries to the United Nations.
Since Wang Shizhen said so, it must have been instructed by him, and any of these people could have any objections. In addition, in view of the recent display of combat effectiveness by the Social Workers' Party, it is indeed a bit unwise to storm Moscow in the bitter cold of winter, and the losses of the armies of the countries that have gathered together so far are not small. In particular, the casualties of the Ottoman army, which has been rushing to the front, are close to 100,000, and no one wants to suffer more casualties in this situation, after all, to put it bluntly, they have no direct benefits in this war.
In this way, the battle plan for Moscow was determined, which was very simple, that is, to drive the Red Russian army on the periphery to Moscow as much as possible, and then cut off the connection between the city and St. Petersburg and completely encircle it, and at the same time try to compress the middle as much as possible, compress the activity space of the Red Russian army, simply put, make the encirclement as small as possible, let the Red Russia in the encirclement be as dense as possible, and then dig a circle of trenches around it to trap it, and then the bombers will be responsible. As long as the weather permits, I will keep throwing coagulated qiyou bombs and bombs into this encirclement, and I will be trapped for half a year first, and then go directly to collect the corpses in the spring of the next year.
Anyway, even if you can't be blown up, you will starve to death, at this time Moscow has begun to eat the dead, and it is estimated that even the living will be eaten up in the first half of the starvation, and they will not even have a place to find food after shrinking the encirclement, but this will definitely cause the death of a large number of Russian civilians, but even the tsarist government does not care about this, Grand Duke Nicholas publicly declared that those rebels and the people should go to hell, and it is best to die, which can be regarded as purifying Russia, and he even proposed that the armies on the front line after completing the encirclement of Moscow, Just stop accepting those who ran out of Moscow and surrendered.
Since he had asked for this, Emperor Yang, as the commander-in-chief of the United Nations forces, naturally did not mind meeting his request, and this order basically sentenced millions of Russians in the Moscow encirclement to death.
In fact, the tsarist government has calculated this account very clearly, and those who are still insisting on resistance must be the diehards of the Social Workers' Party, even if there are innocent civilians in it, the proportion will not exceed half, if they are extremely hungry, even the diehards of the Social Workers will definitely come out and surrender, but after the war, these people will become a great factor of instability, and it is difficult to guarantee that they will not regenerate their rebellious hearts after a long time. Since this is the case, it is better to take the opportunity of the war to completely and cleanly cut the grass and eradicate the roots, otherwise it will be too bloody after the war, and it will not be good on the face, as for the civilian deaths caused by it, in the eyes of the politicians, it is not a matter at all, and the dead are just a number.
So immediately after that, the Volga and Don two major fronts began to squeeze the Red Russian army towards Moscow little by little like two steel walls, and at this time, the Red Russian army on the periphery had also been beaten to the ground, and they also hoped to run to Moscow to form a group, so it didn't take long for a huge encirclement with Moscow as the center and a radius of 40 kilometers gradually formed. Then all the nearly 2 million United Nations troops stopped, began to dig trenches on the spot, poured gasoline on the hard frozen soil and burned them, brought in large excavators and even breakers to smash them, in short, in a short time, quickly dug a ring trench to encircle Moscow.
Although he knew that the United Nations army was going to trap the Red Russian army in Moscow, Vladimir in St. Petersburg and the top brass of the Social Workers Party had nothing to do, they had no ability to go to relieve the siege, you must know that there were more than 200,000 German troops 100 kilometers away from them, although William was not very interested in St. Petersburg, but if the Social Workers took away all the defenders, he would definitely not mind taking a bargain. What's more, Vladimir also knows very well that even if he really transfers troops over, I'm afraid he will send sheep into the tiger's mouth, since this is the case, he simply doesn't care, and the propaganda is strengthened, calling on the Russian people to defend Moscow to the death, so that Moscow will become the grave of the invaders.
It's a pity that at this time it is useless to make bold statements, millions of defeated soldiers and hungry refugees are trapped in the ruins of Moscow, there is no food, there is no place to live, there is still snow in the sky, all external connections are cut off, you can only wait for death, every day one person drinks some gruel and hangs for his life, in the morning the streets are full of frozen corpses, so hungry that he can only run to cut the flesh of the dead to eat, and the whole city is no different from hell.
In fact, if the United Nations forces launched an attack at this time, there would not be many Red Russian soldiers who had the strength to take up arms to resist, all of them were like walking corpses, and there was only a shell left, at the beginning under the command of their commander Voroshilov, they also launched two breakout battles, but unfortunately they were crushed by the artillery fire on the opposite side, and when the encirclement was formed, it was no different from suicide if they wanted to break through.
The desperate Red Russian soldiers began to sneak out to find the enemy to surrender, but unfortunately even if they held a white flag, they were greeted only by dense machine gun bullets, at first they thought that the other party could not see clearly in the wind and snow, a Red Russian division commander simply led thousands of subordinates to line up with white flags, shouting surrender while walking towards the United Nations defense line, but unfortunately the opposite side was still greeted by dense bullets, and now they understood that they did not accept their surrender at all.
At this moment, even Voroshilov was dumbfounded, he actually acquiesced in the surrender of his subordinates, after all, it was all up to this, what victory and what future became, let the soldiers go out and surrender piecemeal, see the reaction of the other side, if he accepts it, he will be ready to surrender after a while, even if he is imprisoned for life or even shot, it is better than starving to death and freezing to death here, but what is the situation if he does not accept surrender?
Since the surrender of soldiers is not accepted, it is always okay for civilians to go out and surrender, right? If they accept the surrender of civilians, it is nothing more than everyone taking off their military uniforms and changing into civilian clothes to go out, as for what people do after they go out, it is up to fate, even if they are shot, they admit it, as long as they have a full meal, it is worth shooting.
Then Voroshilov simply drove out all those civilians, tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of people braved the wind and snow to shout surrender and walked to the opposite UN position, but what made them desperate was that the opposite side simply turned a deaf ear, as long as they entered the range of machine guns, it was immediately a storm of bullets, and even seemed to be so large that even rocket artillery was used, and the overwhelming shells instantly flooded those unlucky Russian civilians. (To be continued......)