Chapter 631: Contraction
Warsaw.
This ancient city has long been reduced to pure ruins, and the five-year war has turned not only Warsaw, but also the whole of Poland into ruins, the Germans are coming, the Russians are gone, the Russians are coming, the Germans are gone, you come and go, and the artillery fire ravages this tragic land over and over again. By this time the population of Poland had plummeted to less than half of its pre-war level, and although in reality they were innocent, they were the most unlucky people to rule the land, regardless of who ruled the land. In the countryside where the last grain of grain has been scavenged, wild dogs gnaw on starved corpses, and in the cold winter, in the cities razed by artillery fire, old and weak women and children can be seen frozen to death in the wind and snow.
Today, the city has a new owner.
In a headquarters under the ruins of central Warsaw, the commander of the British Seventh Army, General Robinson, looked at the corpses in front of him and couldn't help but sigh, this is the headquarters of the German Eleventh Army guarding Warsaw, and when his soldiers attacked here, the commander of the army, Lieutenant General Seckert, and his staff officers fought until they ran out of bullets, because they did not want to be prisoners, they all drank bullets and killed themselves.
"Hatred, hatred that can never be unraveled, why should we fight this war, we have lost a qiē, but we have gained a hatred that cannot be untied for a century." Admiral Robinson said with a wry smile that the Germans would rather die than surrender, so that he could see not only the spirit of the soldiers, but also the hatred of the Germans for the British, who would rather die than be a prisoner of the British.
"General, the Russians are coming." His adjutant said cautiously from the side.
On the third day after the New Year's bell rang in 1909, the Entente Group won a heavy victory in Poland, and the British Seventh Army conquered Warsaw, achieving a historic rendezvous with the Russian Northwestern Front.
The outcome of the Battle of Warsaw had a decisive impact on the entire European war situation, and although this victory came too late, the German Eastern Front, which had lasted for five years, completely collapsed, and a full 1.5 million Russian troops poured in from the Warsaw gap. Coupled with 500,000 American and British allied troops, the whole of Poland was wiped out in a very short period of time, and after the remnants of 50,000 German troops in East Prussia were completely annihilated, they rushed straight to Prague like Mount Tai.
Their goal was obvious, to bomb the base in Prague, and after taking Prague, they would continue to attack south, Vienna, Budapest, and 300,000 American and British troops from the Balkans to the north, and completely eliminate the 400,000 or so Chinese and Austrian troops in Hungary. Then they would fight with the Russian Southwestern Front to destroy the 700,000 Austro-Hungarian Army in the Carpathians, provided that they had not surrendered at that time.
"It's about leveling the pace of Europe." Emperor Yang looked at the map with great interest and said, but this situation was expected by him, since he put the bomber base in Budapest, he was already waiting for this day, before this the Entente was bent on forcing William to surrender, but the German army's combat power and the terrain of the southern mountains of Germany made it impossible for them to achieve this goal, so when the bombers at Budapest and Prague airports ravaged Europe, solving these two bombing bases became their main goal. Even if it is for the sake of their loved ones in their homeland not to be bombed, they must do so.
"Go, find Haijing." Looking at the map, he said to Chamberlain Yuan.
His Majesty the Emperor personally summoned the German ambassador to China, so naturally he must be concerned about the changes in the war situation in Europe.
"Your Excellency, we must hold Prague. You should understand the significance of this city, so I advised the Germans to abandon the defenses of Leipzig and Dresden and concentrate all their efforts on the Czech border, the line south of Thuringia and north of Hesse. Hold on to the advantage of the terrain. The defenses of the Netherlands and Belgium were all abandoned, and even Düsseldorf and Cologne were simply abandoned, shrinking to the eastern Rhineland. The southern part of the country continued to defend the Franco-German border, which allowed for the maximum concentration of forces and the formation of a closed line of defense. In the middle, relying on the industrial centers of Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Nuremberg, Vienna, and Prague, as long as we can support the establishment of supply points along the African coast for another two months, and then we will put enough troops into Western Europe, before which the Spanish Army will intensify its attack on France to relieve your pressure. Yang Feng pointed to the map and said.
"This is the last battle, and although it is also the most difficult moment, but like the darkness before the dawn, the dawn is already beckoning to us." He then added.
How many more people will die for your rays of light? Hai Jing thought to himself, but the current Germany has no choice, and Yang Feng's strategy is indeed the most effective, of course, the price is that a large area of German territory will be affected by the war again, it is conceivable that the soldiers of the Entente who have killed the red eyes will definitely not speak of any gentlemanly demeanor in those German cities that have been voluntarily abandoned.
"Your Majesty, now we have another problem in Europe that we must solve as much as possible, and that is food." Hai Jing said very sincerely, Yang Feng's strategy is indeed good, but the food problem cannot be solved, and Germany was able to scavenge from the occupied areas to meet the supply before, but according to Yang Feng's strategy, all the major grain producing areas were abandoned. Especially Belgium, western Rhineland, plus Leipzig, which were the main sources of food for Germany before, Bavaria, Hesse These places are indeed conducive to defense, but the mountain forests have always been insufficient for food production, it is conceivable that the German army retreated to these places and waited to tighten their belts to live.
"I've already thought of a solution to this for you, after the naval battle we have actually regained control of the Mediterranean, although because the Suez Canal cannot be opened, it is still impossible to support the operations of the large corps, but there is no problem in defending some small areas with strategic locations, such as the area of Lake Skadar. I have asked the Montenegrins to build a series of large airfields there, enough for hundreds of transport planes to take off and land, and then send a fleet of bombers and transport planes there to transport food through the water transport of Lake Skadar, which will then transport it or drop it directly. The voyage to Vienna is only a few hundred kilometers, and it can be carried out under the escort of fighter jets, and even aircraft carriers can be sent to the Adriatic Sea if necessary, without worrying about safety. Yang Feng said.
The Entente navy was almost completely wiped out, and the biggest benefit to him was that the Mediterranean route was unblocked, and the two fast battleships of the Greek Navy cruised this vast sea area like two lions, and the Entente warships that escaped back could only hide in the Toulon military port to survive, and did not dare to cross Sicily at all, so that there would be no danger in his shipping from the Ottoman port to Thessaloniki, if it were not for the insufficient number of Ottoman merchant ships, he would have no problem transporting the two armies directly to the Balkans, But there is really no way to do this due to insufficient capacity, the Suez Canal cannot be opened, and it is impossible for him to drive the ship over the land.
With the current capacity, he can guarantee the defense of Thessaloniki, and send two more armies to Montenegro, or even one corps, is enough to hold this small country, and as long as there is one army in the mountains, the Entente will not have any hope of getting a group army to enter it. The hundreds of square kilometers of plains around Podgorica on the east bank of Lake Shkodra are enough to build a bunch of airfields, the Buena River, and the water transport channel of Lake Skadra can fully meet the supply of materials, and then take off from here Those transport planes and Thunder bombers can throw food directly at Vienna, and they don't even need to land, and the distance of returning after the airdrop is enough.
After studying it against the map, Haijing immediately understood that this was a very effective way of transportation, the lack of grain was not a lack of food, but only a lack of food supply, no more, Yang Feng stationed 500 bombers and transport planes in this area, one can transport 500 tons of grain at a time, at least 10,000 tons a month, and these are basically enough as supplements.
After confirming this, Hai Jing immediately went back and sent a telegram to William, although William felt that this would damage his image, after all, this was his own abandonment of half of Germany and the whole of Belgium and the Netherlands, but in the current situation it was indeed the best choice. After struggling for a long time, he had no choice but to hesitate after the Anglo-Russian coalition captured Wroclaw, the 200,000 German troops who originally followed him to hold on to Dresden and Leipzig all withdrew to Prague, and nearly 500,000 German-Dutch troops on the western front, including the Dutch army, all shrank to the east of the Rhineland, and the developed railway system in Germany made the whole contraction process extremely rapid, when the Anglo-Russian coalition began to attack the Czech Republic, the German army and 100,000 Austrian troops had formed a dense defensive line in the mountains north of Prague.
The effect of the reduction was immediately apparent, and the most fatal problem of the German-Austrian shortage of troops was quickly remedied in these greatly reduced mountainous areas, but the exhausted Anglo-Russian forces began to run into blood.
With this strong defensive line, Prague Airport immediately turned into a nightmare for the Allies, and the eighty Liberator bombers that took off from here kept dropping bombs on British cities, and even distant Northern Ireland did not escape their clutches, and the air defense methods studied by the British during this period were of no use except that the balloons did cause a lot of trouble to the Liberators. This is completely understandable, even the Japanese anti-aircraft firepower in World War II was helpless against this thing, not to mention the level of technology at this time, the thirty-year gap between anti-aircraft artillery and anti-aircraft artillery is very terrifying.
And while the British people were groaning under the ramps of the liberators, their allies finally had no escape, because it was at this time that Yang Feng's airfield in Georgia was built. (To be continued......)