Chapter 922: Retreat to Moscow

At the emergency meeting of the 21 European member states of the League of Nations held in Berlin, Germany, in addition to Germany, Britain and France, which have said that they will increase their troops in Russia, other countries have also done their best to prepare to send reinforcements to Russia. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The other 4 countries of the Central Powers, Austria-Hungary is ready to send 500,000 army troops and 400 new fighters to support the Russian battlefield, Italy is also ready to send 300,000 army troops and 500 new fighters, Spain is ready to send 200,000 army troops and 300 new fighters, the Ottoman Turkish Empire is really unable to send troops to support Russia because it is being invaded by the Chinese Imperial Army, and even one army group of the Russian Army is still in the territory of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, Help the Ottoman Turkish Empire's army resist the Chinese Empire's army.

In addition to Britain and France, Belgium will send 100,000 additional army troops and 300 new fighters into Russia, and the Kingdom of Serbia will send 150,000 army troops into Russia.

The Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Greece, Albania, Romania and Bulgaria, the nine new European countries that joined the League of Nations, are preparing to send a total of 1.4 million army troops into Russia to help resist the attack of the Chinese Imperial Army. Therefore, this time, the nine countries did not send additional air forces to the territory of Russia.

At this emergency meeting of the 21 European member states of the League of Nations, in addition to Russia's own army, each country will send Russia with about 6.15 million army troops and 6,400 new warplanes.

In this way, the 6.15 million European coalition troops, including the remaining armies of the Entente and the Central Powers in Russia before, as well as Russia's own army, the overall strength is not much worse than before the fiasco east of the Ural Mountains, as long as the armies supported by various countries are in place, let alone blocking the magic hand of the Chinese Imperial Army reaching out to the European continent, it is not impossible to counterattack the east of the Ural Mountains again.

On October 4, 1914, just three days after the end of the siege and annihilation battle east of the Ural Mountains, more than 3 million troops of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire crossed the Ural Mountains and entered the European region of Russia under the cover of thousands of fighters of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire. There were only more than 1 million troops left, and in the face of more than 3 million army units of the Chinese Empire with absolute air supremacy, they were quickly defeated, and the defense line that Russia had carefully built for many years on the front line of the Ural Mountains only blocked for 2 days before it completely collapsed, and a large number of European coalition troops abandoned their positions and fled to the west, and there were many European coalition troops who simply raised the white flag and surrendered directly to the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire.

The defense line west of the Russian Ural Mountains was quickly broken by the army of the Chinese Empire, which made the European countries of the entire League of Nations feel a little afraid, and the reinforcements sent by various countries to Russia also accelerated the speed of transportation, but the defeat was like a mountain, and Russia then mobilized 2 group armies in Ufa City to prepare to defend to the death, to buy time for the entire European coalition army, and the rout of the first line of the Ural Mountains also had more than 100,000 troops into Ufa City, but unfortunately the Russian 2 group armies and more than 100,000 defeated troops only held in Ufa City for less than 3 days, The city of Ufa was breached by the 3rd Field Army and the 4th Field Army of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire.

Almost 400,000 of the Russian armies and more than 100,000 European coalition troops were killed, and the remaining 300,000 or so chose to surrender.

On October 15, 1914, the troops of the Imperial Chinese Army advanced to the east bank of the Volga River, at this time, the European coalition forces in the area east of the Volga River, there was no formed army, and on the defense line west of the Volga River, the Russian Army mobilized 6 full army groups, ready to rely on the natural danger of the Volga River to block the pace of the Chinese Imperial Army's attack.

Russia was formed and formed west of the Volga River and was eliminated by 4 army groups, so that the entire Russian army was left with only 8 army groups, and there was still 1 army group in the territory of the Ottoman Turkish Empire, and it was already the limit of Russia to be able to gather 6 army groups on the defense line west of the Volga River.

The armies of the other European countries east of the Volga were basically lost, either annihilated or surrendered to the armies of the Chinese Empire, but the armies of the other European countries that reinforced Russia arrived at the line west of the Volga, but the number was less than 400,000.

The Royal Army of the Chinese Empire invaded the European continent, a total of 1 Guards Army and 5 field armies, the commander of the Third Guards Army, Ni Fan, still served as the commander-in-chief of the 6 armies, Ni Fan saw that the current strength of the coalition forces in the Volga River was not much, so he decided not to rest, immediately seize the crossing of the Volga River, and continue to attack west of the Volga River.

Originally, Ni Fan and the Ministry of Defense of the Chinese Empire were ready to capture the east of the Volga River, so they let the troops rest for a while and then continue to attack west of the Volga River, but the battlefield situation changed rapidly, Ni Fan learned that only a small part of the coalition forces of other European countries arrived west of the Volga River, and decided to seize the opportunity to attack immediately, and Ni Fan chose Tsaritsyn City as the ferry for the attack.

Tsaritsyn, which is the historical Stalingrad, is nourished by the Volga River, and the Tsaritsyn region has beautiful scenery, pleasant climate and abundant products, and has always been known as the southern granary of Russia.

There are many ferries suitable for large troops to pass through the entire Volga River, so the Russian army and the combined forces of other countries have to scatter more than 2 million troops at various crossings west of the Volga River, and in Tsaritsyn, the entire European coalition army is less than 400,000, of which the Russian army has a group army, and this is because of the important strategic location of Tsaritsyn, the European coalition army has deployed nearly 400,000 troops.

Tsaritsyn was divided into two by the Volga River, at this time in the Tsaritsyn city east of the Volga River, has been controlled in the hands of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire, after Ni Fan gave the order to attack, the 8th Guards Army under the jurisdiction of the Third Guards Army immediately used the collected ships and military rubber boats, under the cover of nearly 3,000 fighters of the Royal Air Force of the Chinese Empire, launched a river-crossing offensive against the European coalition forces on the west bank of the Volga River.

Thanks to the strong air support of the Imperial Chinese Air Force, the 8th Guards Army soon opened up a landing zone on the west bank of the Volga, and then a steady stream of Royal Chinese Army units landed on the west bank of the Volga River on various ships.

On October 17, 1914, the entire Xicheng District of Tsaritsyn fell into the hands of the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire, and nearly 400,000 European troops guarding Tsaritsyn were annihilated except for a small number of troops to break through.

At this time, the Russian Tsar Nicholas II issued an order to retreat to the other five armies west of the Volga River, and directly ordered the five armies to retreat to Moscow, the second largest city in Russia, and at the same time, Tsar Nicholas II also asked reinforcements from other European countries to assemble in Moscow as soon as possible.

In the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, the capital of Russia, the new Minister of War Eduardovich said hoarsely to the gloomy Russian Tsar Nicholas II: "After the Chinese Imperial army occupies the city of Tsaritsyn, we have no ability to stop the footsteps of the Chinese Imperial Army, concentrate all the troops in Moscow, and can rely on Moscow's fortifications to fight to the death with the Chinese Imperial Army, and Moscow is also closer to the rest of Europe, before the Chinese Imperial Army attacks Moscow, Reinforcements from other European countries can also gather enough troops to Moscow, and relying on the strength of our Russian army alone can no longer stop the army of the Chinese Empire! ”

Tsar Nicholas II said unwillingly: "West of the Volga River to Moscow, there are millions of square kilometers of land, is it just given to the Chinese Empire for nothing?" ”

Eduardovich smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty the Tsar, if we continue to defend these places, the remaining land forces of our Russian Empire will probably be exhausted, in that case, let alone Moscow, even St. Petersburg, we will not have the strength to hold on!" Retreating to Moscow for a decisive battle would also buy us time for the Russian Empire, which is currently in the area west of Moscow and is currently forming more than a dozen more army groups. ”

Russia had reached the point of its demise, and now the Russians began to recruit the regions west of Moscow, all Russian men over the age of 14 and under the age of 65 joined the army, and even some Russian women were forcibly asked to take up rudimentary weapons and join the Russian army.

Tsar Nicholas II said viciously at this time: "Our Russian Empire has reached the moment of life and death, the intensity of conscription must be increased, the Tsar Ben wants to form an army of 10 million to fight to the death with the Chinese Empire in Moscow, you must know that in the area west of Moscow, our Russian Empire still has at least 50 million people, as long as it costs nothing, it is completely possible to form an army force of 10 million!" ”

Eduardovich hesitated for a moment and said: "Your Majesty the Tsar, people are easy to do, if there are not enough men, women can also take up arms, but there are very few weapons left in our Russian Empire's reserves, and now the newly formed group army, most of the soldiers do not have guns, about a dozen people can only get a rifle, and it is a single-shot rifle, and the rest of the people can only be temporarily equipped with cold weapons, and many people only have a kitchen knife or sharpened wooden stick in their hands." ”

Tsar Nicholas II waved his hand and said: "At this time, there are not so many things to care about, if we want to block the army of the Chinese Empire and turn defeat into victory, we can only fill it with human lives!" ”

Eduardovich couldn't help but smile bitterly again, Tsar Nicholas II's heart was big enough, and he was still thinking about turning defeat into victory at this time, but Eduardovich thought that it would not be easy to block the army of the Chinese Empire in Moscow, even if other European countries gathered millions of reinforcements in Moscow, Eduardovich did not have the confidence to turn defeat into victory in Moscow, after all, the performance of the Chinese Imperial Army in the previous offensive was too frightening.

Eduardovich hesitated for a moment and said: "Your Majesty the Tsar, now that our Russian Empire has reached this point, can we consider ending the war with the Chinese Empire?" ”

"Nope! The war must not end at this time, otherwise the area east of the Volga River will definitely be annexed by the Chinese Empire this time, and even more of the lands of our Russian Empire will be lost again, you must know that Lin Daxin, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, is a very, very greedy monarch, and he will definitely not let go of our Russian Empire easily this time! Tsar Nicholas II said, shaking his head.

The rest of Europe expressed their support when they learned that the Russians were ready to abandon a large number of areas east of Moscow and make Moscow the final site of the decisive battle, so that the land forces supported by the countries could travel a long distance and gather enough European coalition army units in Moscow as soon as possible.

In addition, the new fighters supported by several European air powers have not yet entered the territory of Russia, and if they choose to conduct a decisive battle in Moscow, the new fighters of these air powers supporting the Russian battlefield only need to be arranged in various temporary military airports in the Belarusian region, and they can provide air support to the army units of various European countries in Moscow.

You must know that since the Imperial Chinese Army crossed the Ural Mountains, the land forces of the European coalition forces have not been able to get the support of the air force, and the army units of European countries can only withstand the bombs of the Royal Air Force of the Imperial Chinese Air Force while fighting against the Royal Army of the Chinese Empire. (To be continued.) )