Chapter 595: Baghdad

Although the concessions are not much, it can still be said that this time the Entente is very sincere, even the Germans obviously feel it, but Emperor Yang will definitely not agree, the whole world is looking forward to peace, but he has no interest in peace.

"Your Excellency, the war in the Middle East is only a small partial and temporary defeat, there is no need to worry too much about it, even if the Russian army occupies Basra in the future, our supplies to Europe can be sent by the Hejaz Railway, and I have ordered the Tenth Army to return to Turkmenistan, and then enter Persia from Turkmenistan. In addition, two more armies will be shipped to the Middle East, even three will do, and the first batch will be able to leave within half a month, and the Russians' superiority in the Middle East will be maintained for another month at most, and after a month I will drive them directly back to the Caucasus. His Majesty the Emperor said with a reserved and confident smile.

Alas, still fighting? At this time, even Haijing couldn't help but sigh in his heart, to be honest, Germany at this time was really going to be unable to fight, Berlin had been completely destroyed, and it was almost impossible to find a complete building, and other German cities occupied by the United States and Britain were also destroyed by them out of anger. Moreover, with the loss of Sweden as a major source of transit, and the blockade of the Adriatic passage, grain from Germany and Austria had to be transported to Basra by Chinese merchant ships, and then to Bulgaria by road north to Budapest in the mountains of Guò Transylvania, Romania. Such a long and complex mode of transport has severely limited the supply of food, and both countries have begun to experience food shortages that are not even sufficient for front-line soldiers, and this problem will inevitably be even more severe once the Russians seize Basra.

Even if it was only one month, it was extremely difficult for Germany, and by now the casualties of German soldiers and civilians have approached 9 million, most of them are young and middle-aged, and the blood has been drained.

"Your Excellency, Ambassador. You've been doing it for five years, can't you just hold it out for another month? As for the food supply, please rest assured, I will never sit idly by, and I will send all the airships in the country, including your airships, to not only air arms but also food in the future. Yang Feng patted his chest and said, as for whether it is enough or not, it is none of his business.

Hai Jing thanked him somewhat helplessly and left, now as long as Yang Feng does not nod, the terms of the negotiation will definitely not be changed. What's more, the Entente put forward and there were many other objections within the Allies, such as the Ottoman Empire, Spain, and Montenegro, which were all counting on expanding their territory, and they would certainly not accept terms that did not have enough benefits for them.

At the same time, the Entente bloc, humiliated in the negotiations, launched a more aggressive offensive with anger, although in the end they finally waited for reinforcements. But it is not surprising that Ma Biao, under Brusilov's frenzied attack, eventually lost his defensive line in the Zagros mountains, and his reinforcements came from the Balkans for thousands of kilometers. Those soldiers who were locked in stuffy tankers were already exhausted, and they were pushed directly to the battlefield without any rest, how could they stop the Russian army attacking with anger?

In fact, in this battle, both the Central Powers and the Entente Powers admired the small army he led. After all, he used one and a half divisions and a lagging Ottoman division to block the Russian army's number one general and 200,000 elites under his subordinates for more than half a month, and caused nearly 40,000 casualties to the Russian army.

After the loss of the defensive line in the Zagros mountains, the road for the Russian army to advance to Basra again was clear. Ma Biao led his subordinates and the newly arrived army to retreat directly to Basra, preparing to fight the Russian army here to the death, while waiting for domestic reinforcements, by this time their first reinforcements had already arrived in Singapore, and it would not take long to arrive. In fact, at this time, it seemed that the danger of the Middle East battlefield had been lifted, because the reinforcements had arrived, and it was clear that Basra could be held, and Brusilov's offensive was also exhausted, and in half a month at most, the Chinese domestic reinforcements arrived, and the situation could be stabilized.

Just when the Allied forces finally breathed a sigh of relief, the situation of the war suddenly deteriorated again, and a mechanized detachment led by the Russian hero Lieutenant General Denikin, who was the first to use the tactics of armored raids, set off from Tabriz in chariots, and when all the Allied armies were attracted to the northern front and Basra, it suddenly came out of the gap in the middle, and it took three days to rush all the way at a lightning speed, so to speak, and it can be said that it entered Baghdad unimpeded.

The lifeline of the entire European Allied bloc was cut off in an instant.

"Ma, it's very hidden, even I didn't notice it, these Russians are getting better and better at fighting." Emperor Yang was shocked and said that he had indeed neglected the middle route, but this was exactly what he wanted, and what he wanted was for this transportation line to be cut off.

"But the arms we transferred to Baghdad are all in the hands of the Russians." Attendant Yuan said with some distress. Previously, the arms hoarded in Basra were mainly transferred to Kuwait and Baghdad, especially Baghdad, although a lot of them were transported to the northern route, but because of capacity constraints, most of them were still waiting in the city of Baghdad, and all of them were received by Denikin at once.

You must know that these arms are all good things, like recoilless guns, bazookas, flamethrowers, and even 280 heavy guns, rocket artillery, all cheap for the Russians.

"It doesn't matter, give them something nice to boost their attacking capabilities, if they can hit Istanbul, it's definitely worth the money." Emperor Yang said sinisterly.

"What about Basra?" Attendant Yuan asked.

"Then let's hold it, it will be more convenient to land in the future, and besides, if the Russians take Basra and then they will definitely attack Kuwait, our place cannot be affected by the flames of war." Emperor Yang said very casually.

At this time in the city of Baghdad, Denikin was about to cry when he looked at the mountains of all kinds of weapons in front of him, especially when the soldiers dragged out a recoilless gun from the warehouse, carried out a rocket launcher, and even drove directly out of the trucks towing 107mm rocket launchers, this veteran who has been in the battlefield for a long time has a feeling of joy and tears.

"General, general, look!" A staff officer ran to him with a red face, pulled his sleeve very out of shape to the door of a large warehouse, and after pushing the door open, Dunny King's legs were weak, and forty 280 mm howitzers were placed in front of him, this kind of heavy artillery with crawler walking gear was the most important weapon of the Russian army against the Allies, but unfortunately with the war consumption is not much now, it is all supplied by the General Staff as a strategic-level treasure, and these are equivalent to having a strategic-level heavy artillery division, which can be pulled to any battlefield casually, can scare the enemy's legs trembling.

"Quick, collect trucks at once, and transport all these things to the north!" The guy said excitedly.

"General, what will we do here once the Chinese attack?" The staff officer was surprised to say that, in fact, in his opinion, these things were undoubtedly the best weapons for defending Baghdad, especially these 280 heavy guns, if you find a place in the city, any attacker will be torn to pieces by the shells weighing more than 200 kilograms, and there are so many such shells in Baghdad's arsenal.

"It's impossible for the enemy to keep these things, although they can't come from the ground, but those bombers can, in front of the bombers, these arsenals are completely targets, any bomb can cause a big explosion, staying in Baghdad is a scourge for us, besides, as long as we can open the Ottoman defense line and hit the Bosphorus, it doesn't matter if we defend it here or not." Denikin said with a sneer.

It's not easy to find trucks, there is no shortage of this thing in the city of Baghdad, those super-large trucks used for high-speed kilometers remove the heavy artillery with tracks towed by the body, and there is no pressure to run on ordinary sandy roads, and even other weapons and ammunition can be directly loaded on these trucks with a load of dozens of tons, although there is no highway to go, but there is still no pressure to load a dozen tons to walk on sandy roads, and Baghdad has at least thousands of such trucks, For Denikin, this ancient city in the desert is simply a treasure trove.

He picked up treasure here, Hamid II almost fainted after learning the bad news, but he knew what it meant to him that the arms hoarded in Baghdad fell into the hands of the Russians, and this guy couldn't care about the people under his command anymore, and directly asked Han Fei, the commander of the European legion, to bomb Baghdad.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid that this will bring Yan Zhan's accidental injury, you also know that those arsenals are near the railway station for convenient transportation, and there are at least more than 100,000 residents of your country around, once they are detonated, it is easy to accidentally injure these civilians." Han Fei kindly reminded him.

"Count, at this time there is no need to take care of these things, these weapons must be destroyed, and they must not be allowed to fall into the hands of the Russians." Hamid II said firmly.

Well, since he doesn't care about the lives of his people, then Han Fei naturally has no interest in it, his subordinates have two hundred Thunder bombers and two hundred Eagle fighter-bombers, half of which are currently used in the Ottoman battlefield, and they were originally providing air support on the northern front, but now they are all transferred back and then loaded with bombs to kill Baghdad.

I have to say that Denikin is still very smart, but even so, he still didn't expect the enemy's bombing to come so quickly, he has just shipped less than a tenth of the arms in Baghdad, and the huge bomber group in the sky has arrived, although there are also some anti-aircraft machine guns in these arsenals, but the Russian army does not have the courage to sit on the ammunition depot and confront these bombers, and after discovering that the bombers arrived, Denikin's mind only flashed the idea of protecting the arms, Immediately after that, without hesitation, the order to evacuate was given to those Russian soldiers.

His choice was very wise, those 14.5 mm anti-aircraft machine guns did not play any real role against these bombers who directly played high-altitude horizontal bombing, but the bombs dropped by these bombers could easily hit the arsenal and then instantly amplify the power of their own explosions hundreds or thousands of times.

In the sound of explosions that seemed to be shattering the sky, looking at the rising mushroom clouds, Denikin was simply distressed and bleeding in the trembling of the ground under his feet. (To be continued......)