Chapter 599: Ankara

"Attack, attack on all fronts, attack without stopping!" After learning that the railway bridge over the Ishim River had been blown up, Wang Shizhen immediately gave an order.

"In addition, the bombers of the army aviation are ordered to act in batches and continue to bomb Petropavre, unless it is impossible to aim at night, otherwise the explosions in the city are not allowed to stop, so that not a single Russian truck can drive the Ishim River, what is this called in the words of our saints?" He then said.

"Strangulation, strangulation in the air!" The staff officer next to him hurriedly said very interestingly.

"Yes, strangulation, like a noose to strangle our enemies." Wang Shizhen said with a cruel smile.

Immediately after the long front from Omsk in the east to Petropavl in the west, the million-strong army of the four Chinese armies launched an attack on the Russian army in front of them at the same time, on the empty Siberian steppe, countless cannons were roaring, the flames of the explosion were endless, the chariots roared, and the enemy in the soldier's shout began an unprecedented decisive battle, in the face of the tide of the enemy, those Russian soldiers desperately blocked with dense firepower, and soon the report of the ammunition shortage on the position was sent to the general headquarters of the Russian army.

At this time, on the airfields of Omsk and Pavlodar, those bombers and fighter-bombers were constantly taking off and landing, while providing air support to the front line, and in accordance with the strangulation orders of their commanders, they kept dropping bombs and coagulation shells on Petropavl, completely bombing the city into ruins. At the same time, bombers with sufficient endurance even cruising on the Ishim River, any attempt to erect pontoon bridges or build temporary docks will attract bombs to rain down, and after the loss of rail supplies, the already small number of road supplies will be completely cut off.

Without the supply of ammunition, there is no possibility of this campaign going on, and the consumption of millions of Russian troops alone will be tens of millions of rounds of ammunition every day, and there is often a shortage of supply at normal times, not to mention that all roads are now cut off. Not a single bullet could be transported, they had no reserves on the front line, and as a result, in the face of the attack of the Siberian Front, the Russian army could not hold out after only one day of fighting.

In charge of the Siberian battlefield is Nicholas's uncle, Grand Duke Nicholas, as the only general of the Russian royal family who can handle it, he naturally understands that it is impossible to continue to hold on here in this situation. The fighting Russian troops began to retreat from the battlefield from east to west to the west bank of the Ishim River, and they destroyed almost all the railways in their retreat, and Wang Shizhen, whose transportation was also restricted, chased them to the Ishim River. Also because of the lengthened transportation distance, the attack power was greatly weakened, and finally the two sides formed a stalemate again on the Ishim River.

At this time, the 15th Army of the Chinese Army, which was reinforcing the Middle East, had also arrived in Kuwait and quickly reinforced Basra, while the 10th Army moving south from Ashgabat was also approaching Tehran, and Brusilov, who was attacking Basra, was immediately faced with a dilemma. Retreat to Baghdad and join forces with Denikin to defend Baghdad, or retreat to Tehran to protect the back of the Russian army that is attacking Ankara. If the former was chosen, the Chinese Tenth Army would be killed in the Caucasus, but the poor traffic conditions in Persia limited the speed of the heavy Chinese advance. It is difficult to really threaten the Russian army on the northern front in two months. If the latter is chosen, then the Chinese 15th Army will attack Baghdad, and if Denikin cannot hold Baghdad, then the transport line to Europe will be restored again, but if the northern line can be hit along the Lì to Istanbul. The line can still be locked, and it is completely locked.

After some hesitation, this guy chose to return to Tehran, after all, Tehran is closer to Russia. Even if you retreat, there will be places to retreat, but if you go to Baghdad, it is estimated that you will only succeed in the end.

The Russian army retreated very quickly. Before the arrival of the 15th Army, it had completely withdrawn from the battlefield, Ma Biao was now exhausted, and he had no ability to pursue at all, so he could only watch the Russians leave, Isfahan and later the Battle of Basra was by far the heaviest battle of the Chinese Army, totaling more than 15,000 casualties, while the Russian casualties were 60,000.

Ankara, the capital of the historical Turkish Republic, has ushered in the day of destruction, the artillery position of the Russian 21st Army attacking the city, a full forty 280 mm heavy guns lined up, huge muzzles held high, next to each cannon there is a special loading car holding more than 200 kilograms of shells waiting, in order to be able to capture this railway junction as quickly as possible, Kuropatkin, who was in charge of the Middle East theater, gave all the 280 heavy guns and shells that Denikin sent him to this army group.

"Enemy planes!" However, before the shelling began, the air defense siren first sounded in the Russian position, and the black pressure bomber group in the distant sky roared in, these bombers were actually the main enemy of the Russian army on the Ottoman battlefield, and every time they arrived it was like a nightmare, but this time the Russian army was very confident, because Denikin captured not only heavy artillery in Baghdad, but also a large number of anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, especially those double three-seven-millimeter anti-aircraft guns, compared with this kind of anti-aircraft artillery, the products of the British are a piece of.

In fact, what they didn't know was that Emperor Yang was mainly because he despised the air power of the Entente too much, so he didn't give the European legions radio proximity, which is also a blessing in the no, otherwise it would be really troublesome for them to get a bunch of radio proximity.

Forty Thunder bombers were not protected by Hawk fighter-bombers, so they directly killed them violently, and before they could fly above the Russian army, the double 37 anti-aircraft guns on the ground opened fire one after another, and the shells that set the time according to the distance from the height exploded one by one near the group, and the shrapnel scattered in all directions in the explosion fire, and the two bombers were immediately hit by the bullets and dragged up black smoke, and fled in a hurry amid the cheers of the Russian army.

"Base, base, enemy ground fire is extremely ferocious, repeated, enemy fire is extremely ferocious, they have a large number of double three-seven anti-aircraft guns, damn where did these guys get the proximity fuse, our army has suffered heavy casualties." On the pilot plane in the sky, Qin Yu, the leader of the bomber wing, shouted anxiously with a smile on his face.

The remaining Thunder bombers around him kept circling and tried to break through the Russian anti-aircraft artillery blockade, but unfortunately they returned one after another in front of the three or seven millimeter shells that exploded, and soon ten of them had to return with black smoke.

In the headquarters in Istanbul, the generals of the Chinese and Austrian armies were listening to Qin Yu's voice on the radio with the same anxiousness, and Han Fei, the commander of the European Legion, grabbed the microphone impatiently and shouted: "No matter what difficulties, no matter how many casualties you suffer, you must destroy the enemy's heavy artillery, even if you use your plane to collide, you must complete this task." ”

"Yes, my subordinates understand, please transfer my suicide note to my wife!" Qin Yu's absolute voice came from the radio.

"Colonel Qin, please!" Hamid II, who was personally in charge of the headquarters, was moved to tears.

"Your Majesty, rest assured, I will never... Ah, what's going on, quickly control the plane..."

Then all that was left of the radio was clutter.

Han Fei sat down in his chair with a gloomy expression.

Of course, Colonel Qin did not die, but his plane was seriously injured, so he had to lead the crew to parachute, and finally landed in a nearby Ottoman defense line, and then was sent to Istanbul by military vehicles, and the bombers he led lost a full fifteen in the bombing of Russian heavy artillery, but fortunately, they all had to parachute after being injured, so the pilot casualties were not large, only four pilots were injured. But their bombing results were very frustrating, under the fierce anti-aircraft fire of the Russian army, only a small number of bombers were able to fly to drop bombs, but because of the dense anti-aircraft machine gun fire on the ground, they had to use high-altitude horizontal bombing, such bombing accuracy is tearful, in fact, only one 280 heavy gun was blown up.

After the disastrous defeat in the air strike, the defenders of Ankara were wiped out, thirty-nine 280 heavy guns kept pouring huge shells towards the city, the sharp whistling sound fell from the sky like a demon's grin, the heavy cannonballs with gravitational acceleration smashed on the ground like meteors, and then dozens of kilograms of antimony and antimony exploded inside, and the shock wave of the explosion instantly bulldozed a qiē within a range of tens of meters around. The Ottoman soldiers, who were already not very combative, huddled in their hideouts one by one, screaming and waiting for Allah's call, waiting for their pile of unchanging maidens and gardens of milk and honey, and of course it was not known how their bodies would end up enjoying these things.

The Russians didn't feel sorry for the shells they picked up for nothing anyway, plus by this time they had already learned that Brusilov had retreated from Basra, and then Denikin and his actually only one and a half divisions were going to face the attack of a whole Chinese army, and once Denikin couldn't hold it, then the Allied transport lines would be opened again, so they had to capture Ankara and cut the railway again here. Under the orders of Kuropatkin, the Russian army continued to ravage the city with 280 heavy artillery for the next two whole days, and finally bombed Ankara to the point that there was hardly a complete building in sight, and then more than 200,000 Russian troops launched a general attack. (To be continued......)