Chapter 253: Far Eastern Kingdom
The silence of Siberia was broken by the rumbling of artillery, and the Soviet Red Army and the Grand Alliance Army in the Far East had been in a tacit truce compared to the Soviet-German battlefields in Europe that had been fighting all winter.
Most of Stalin's attention was in Europe, and he could no longer bear the humiliation of being forced to move his capital. In the spring battle, Stalin's eldest son Yakov was captured in Smolensk with the tank division of the XVI Army, but this did not in any way weaken the bearded man's determination to resist to the end, and resolutely rejected the decision of the German side to exchange it for Paulus: "I don't need to meet a marshal of the enemy, just exchange a soldier!" ”
And in the Far East, he did not fight back as strongly as he did on the European battlefield. The strength of the Soviet Red Army did not allow him to be so strong on both fronts, and most of the T-34/76s produced in a hurry were sent to the Smolensk front to fight against German Leopard tanks.
The veterans of the armored forces who remained in the Far East were also almost emptied, and a large number of tractor drivers were sent to the Transbaikal Military District, which made the commander of the military district, Lieutenant General Kovalev, cry and laugh, even if the operating system of the T-34 is extremely simple, the tractor drivers can also drive smoothly, but the battle of the armored forces is not to start the tank?
The bearded man did not seek merit in the combat mission of the Far East, but sought no fault. As long as the Han army can be held back, it will even allow the two fronts of the Far East and Transbaikal Military Districts to take advantage of the huge depth of Siberia to drag down the Allied forces, wait for the European side, and after defeating the German army, the main forces of the Red Army will turn around and attack the "Grand Alliance Army that is taking advantage of the fire." ”
It is clear that the Soviet strategy was to put Europe first and then Asia. Coincidentally, Stalin and the Han Emperor adopted the same strategy, and everyone thought that the war in Europe should be solved first! It is precisely because of His Majesty's order not to allow the Far Eastern Theater to advance easily that the more than 1 million Great Alliance troops commanded by Ye Weixun have been fighting a little restrained.
In winter, the Far Eastern Front of the Grand Alliance built a number of factories in the three eastern provinces, which significantly shortened the supply lines of the troops.
Because of the collapse of the Soviet Pacific Fleet, the Royal Navy of the Han Dynasty went south to the Indian Ocean, and the Japanese fleet led by the Yamato became the most powerful fleet in the Far East. The commander of the fleet, Golden Kamen Ugaki, even asked Ye Weixun several times to capture Sakhalin.
In Ye Weixun's view, the island country consciousness of the Japanese determines that their strategic vision is always a little short-sighted, and even Ishihara Waner, who was praised by His Majesty as a commander-in-chief, is nothing more than that!
Perhaps in the eyes of the Japanese, the capture of Sakhalin, which is almost larger than Hokkaido, is quite remarkable.
"The Bird's Ambition?" Before returning to Chang'an, he ordered the Japanese fleet to go north to the Sea of Okhotsk, sent the six divisions led by Seishiro Sakagaki and the Japanese coalition army to Kamchatka, and established an air base in Parana, aiming directly at Magadan.
In the entire Eastern Siberian mountain region, there are no large resource producing areas, so the defense of the Soviet Red Army here is also the weakest!
Seishiro Sakagaki easily landed on Kamchatka, bypassing the Sherekhov Bay, and forming a north-south flank attack with Ishihara's Right Army against Magadan Oblast and Khabarovsk Krai on the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk.
Due to the fact that the Air Force of the Far Eastern Military District suffered excessive losses in the operations of the previous year, it was not replenished in a timely manner. For the operations of the Eastern Ying Army in Eastern Siberia, the Soviet Red Army was beyond the reach of the whip and could not effectively support the area east of the Lena River.
Without sea supremacy and absolute air supremacy, Stalin lamented that the Red Army's ability to deliver to the Eastern Siberian region was inferior to that of the Grand Alliance, and the Soviets had lost control over most of the east bank of the Lena River.
"That's what I want!" The General Headquarters of the Harbin Far Eastern Front, Ye Weixun, was quite satisfied with the fact that the Dongying Army was still advancing so quickly under the extremely difficult situation in terms of roads.
Ye Weixun and Chen Shukang returned to Chang'an this time to report on their work, and finally got the order that "they can attack the Far East with all their might", which made all the officers and men of the Far Eastern Front very excited, and at the end of April, the arrival of the second batch of Korean and Japanese troops in the East brought the total strength of the Grand Alliance in the Far East to 1.7 million, almost double that of the Soviet Red Army.
Ishihara and Sakagaki also won successive victories in the East Siberian region, pushing the battle line to the line of the Lena River, if you calculate the area alone, the Toei Army captured almost one-fifth of the territory of the Soviet Union, although it was almost all barren land dominated by frozen soil, but it was enough for the Far East to establish a state!
In 1918, the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family were shot by the Bolsheviks, but legend has it that only the bones of the Tsar and his wife and their three children were at the scene, and the bones of the little princess Anastasia were not found. As a result, rumors about the little princess escaping death are boiling, and over the years, countless women have claimed to be Princess Anna, and there are indeed several that make people feel confusing and difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood. Among them was a woman named Anna Madson, who emigrated to the United States around the time of the October Revolution and later came to South China with the tide of Jewish immigrants and settled in Melbourne.
Subsequently, she claimed to be the real Princess Anastasia and was approached by the Military Intelligence Agency, and she finally met the Han Emperor of her dreams!
As the most powerful emperor in the world, Emperor Han also fulfilled Princess Anna's wishes, he promised to help her restore the country at the right time, in the eyes of the outside world, His Majesty is the most powerful defender of imperial power, otherwise there would not be so many royal families in the Pacific Ocean!
In this regard, Mu Yu once expressed doubts, he thought that with the ability of the Bolsheviks of the Soviet government, the Tsar descendants had no chance to escape during the Revolution, and even some evil people believed that the real Princess Anna was only 17 years old when she disappeared, which was the age of Ruhua, and if she didn't get it, she was taken in by an adult like Lao Maozi!
And this self-proclaimed princess Anna, after escaping from Moscow, did not go to the White Army that was everywhere at that time, at least Kolchak and those people shouted on the surface that they were loyal to the royal family! Anna did not go to them, but fled to the United States, which in itself is the biggest doubt!
But His Majesty didn't explain much, just smiled like a tongue twister and said: "We need a member of the Russian royal family, and she says she is!" At least yes or no, does it matter? We say she's what she is! ”
Using Anna's status as a member of the Russian Orthodox royal family to establish the Russian Far Eastern Kingdom in the Far East will surely have an incomparable appeal to the former Russian aristocracy. Although the Bolsheviks carried out a bloody and complete destruction of Tsarist power thirty years before the establishment of the Soviets, it did not mean that there was no soil for the Tsarist nobility to survive in this vast land. At least, within two months of the establishment of the Far Eastern Kingdom, the establishment of a royal army of up to hundreds of thousands with the help of the Allies is enough to prove that in the minds of the old Maozi, the bearded man is not as beloved as he seems, and once a banner against him is erected, the people who have been temporarily subjugated by the Soviet ******** will be submissive.
This is Zhong Yi's ultimate strategy for the Soviet Union, and defeating the Soviet Red Army is not the ultimate goal! It is not very realistic for such a large country to be enslaved and ruled by foreigners, and the best thing to do is to disintegrate it and break it up!
On this point, the mustache and Zhong Yi's views are surprisingly consistent. It's just that the strength of the German army in the early days of the war overwhelmed the mustache's head, and he blindly wanted to completely solve the Soviet Union militarily!
And Zhong Yi's method is to use a two-pronged approach, first in the name of the tsar to help Princess Anna restore the country, and then the military intervention is obvious. Otherwise, "such a big Siberia, such a long supply line, and such a cold place all depend on us Han people to occupy and rule, how much effort do we have to make?" Get an old hairy girl, the old hairy people are happy, and they are willing to cooperate with us, this battle will be much easier again! ”
Ye Weixun couldn't help but think about what His Majesty had said in the Weiqing Pavilion...... Originally, he was going to resolutely despise Jiang Yunzhi's mantra, but now that I think about it, this sentence is still appropriate, "Your Majesty's strategy is high, it is really high!" ”
After the establishment of the Far Eastern Kingdom, during the "Heavenly Song" operation, the captured Soviet Red Army was screened, and the determined Bolshevik political commissars were eliminated, and most of them joined the newly formed royal army. Although it is difficult to reassure people to let these people go to the front line to fight, it is much easier to let him maintain order in the occupied areas and engage in some transportation or something, which is much better than the North Koreans!
"Don't be picky, there's more to do! These gray animals are much stronger than those North Korean sticks that are taken from heaven and earth! ”
The Left Route Army under the command of Chen Shukang had already conquered Chita and Ulan-Ude, pushed the Soviet troops of the Transbaikal Military District to the edge of Lake Baikal, and completed the encirclement of the Outer Mongolian Military District.
The Jingzhou army set out from Hailar, bypassed Hulun Lake and followed the Krulun River, and captured the newly renamed Mongolian historical city of Choibalsan.
It is home to the largest flour mill, wool washing mill and meat processing plant in Outer Mongolia, and controls the city of Choibalsan, which means the eastern part of Outer Mongolia.
On the Soviet-Mongolian border, the three Dongying Divisions and the Guards Panzer Division were also approaching Darkhan, and the two armies were less than 200 kilometers away from Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Outer Mongolia. The 35th and 16th armies of the Transbaikal Military District led by Lieutenant General Kovalev were forced by the Youzhou Army and the 1st Guards Panzer Army to support themselves on the shores of Lake Baikal and were unable to rescue at all.
Even when the three main army corps and two Dongying divisions led by the left guard of the Central Route Army of the Grand Alliance joined the main force of the Dongying Army of Ishihara with the Lehe River with nearly 500,000 troops in the Yakutia Republic, Kovalev believed that not to mention the Lena River, even the Yenisei River might not be able to stop the momentum of the Allied forces.
Unless...... That's impossible.
Smolensk has become a pure meat grinder, where both the Germans and the Soviets are red-eyed, and even a steady general like Zhukov can throw several divisions into the line of defense in a single day, without taking a single step back, to know how fierce the fighting there has been.
Counting on the fact that at this time Comrade Stalin could transfer more forces to the East, Kovalev was well aware that it was absolutely impossible!