Just when the four mechanized groups of the Chinese Army were rushing towards Sakarya at a speed of hundreds of kilometers a day on the Anatolian plateau, the distant South African battlefield also came to an end, Cape Town, the last stronghold of the British, was conquered by the South African army, and the remaining 20,000 British troops surrendered, and the last obstacle for the Chinese Navy to detour through the Cape of Good Hope and advance into Europe was kicked away.

Of course, the road is still not very smooth, and it is still far away, more than a little farther than the Suez Canal route, but the problem is that the mines in the Red Sea are almost desperate, and the Chinese Navy's minesweeping fleet that clears mines there estimates that it will be at least a year before the British can clear the mines. In addition, the Suez Canal channel also needs to be cleaned up, there are dozens of sunken ships in it, and these sunken ships are not as simple as chiseling, all of them are filled with sand and even concrete and then chiseled, which also causes great difficulties to the salvage, and even the personnel in charge of salvage feel that it is easier to bypass these wrecks and dig more pieces of the channel to the side.

In that case, no one would have counted on the canal until the end of the war.

From Cape Town to the north, you also need to solve a series of supply ports on the way, such as Luanda, Lagos, Freetown, Dakar, and then to Spain, using Spain as an offensive base to attack Britain and France, everything else is easy to say, although there are also some garrisons but the number is pitiful, just a division can be pushed, but Dakar is different, there is also a French fleet and a naval base, of course, these are completely scum in front of the powerful Chinese aircraft carrier formation, At this time, Emperor Yang finally found the domineering spirit of the Americans in later generations, and asked where the aircraft carrier formation was when there was a problem.

Moreover, he now has two aircraft carrier formations, and both are twin aircraft carriers, and the fifth and sixth aircraft carriers are estimated to be able to serve near the end of the war. After completing the South African operation, the Jingzhi formation will go directly north to Europe, and the Huaxia and Yanhuang ships will also lead an expeditionary fleet to set sail for reinforcements. The Chinese Navy will reign in Europe as a king with the most powerful lineup, showing off to the Europeans the majesty of the new maritime hegemon.

In Yekaterinburg, the first snow of the winter finally fell, but the violent storm did not bring any psychological comfort to the Russian troops defending the city, because the city was also about to fall, for the simple reason that there was nothing to eat.

In order to supply for a series of battles from Omsk to Kurgan some time ago, Grand Duke Nicholas scavenged almost all the grain in this area, and there was practically no surplus in either Yekaterinburg or Chelyabinsk. But the latter, despite the constant bombardment and the cutting off of the supply of the Trans-Siberian Railway, had the problem that they still had a small but barely sustainable supply from the water and roads of the Ural River, and a certain amount of it was stored there as a major transit point to Kurgan.

But Yekaterinburg can't do it, after the railway to Perm was blown up, the supply here was completely cut off, and even soldiers and civilians in the city rushed to 300,000, and a lot of food needed to be consumed every day. Now the hungry Russian people are beginning to catch rats and eat them. And the continuous bombardment has destroyed most of the city's buildings, and although the bombardment has been temporarily interrupted by the blizzard, the Chinese soldiers who are not well adapted to the environment are wrapped in fur coats looted from all over the world. Hiding in their eiderdown sleeping bags and tents to escape the cold, but the problem is that the Russians do not have their good conditions, and it is not uncommon for the Russian people squatting in the ruins and the soldiers hiding in the cold fortifications to cry and freeze to death in the wind and snow.

Suffering from hunger and cold. The lack of guns and ammunition in the battle, the despair of not seeing the future, made the morale of the Russian troops defending the city fall to the bottom. The courage to defend the country has long been gone, and now the most I think about is how to survive, and the Chinese have been persuading them to surrender during this time, and there is the example of the Russian army in Kamensk, where the Russian army is also swaying like a dogtail in the wind.

In the headquarters where a corner of the city was missing, and all the glass was blown up, and it could only be blocked with rags, the commander of the Russian Seventh Army, General Dukhov, was sitting at his desk with a group of generals.

"Your Excellency Commander, we can't go on like this, last night there were two hundred and fifty people in the city who died of freezing and starvation, including thirty soldiers, and the situation will definitely worsen if it continues." One of the officers said earnestly.

"What do you say over there in Perm?" Dukhov asked with a blank face.

"The railway is impossible to repair, after this snowfall, the road is completely blocked, even the trucks are difficult to drive, and their railway to the rear is also bombed and difficult to repair in a short time, it used to rely on the Kama River water transportation, but after the Kama River freezes, no one can guarantee how many materials can be transported to Perm, besides, the Chinese bombers will definitely go out again after the snow, and even if the transportation is no problem, the grain collection in the rear is becoming more and more difficult, it is said that even Moscow has starved to death, In other words, even in the best case, our food shortages will definitely continue. The officer said with a wry smile.

"Your Excellency Commander, surrender, I have been fighting for five years, two of my three sons have died, and one of my two sons-in-law is left, I know that I have to fight for the country and for the Tsar, but now that it has reached this point, I really don't want to fight anymore, if you still want to persevere, then I would rather commit suicide." A major general cried.

"Commander, yesterday in one day six officers and fifteen soldiers committed suicide." The officer just now stimulated Dukhov again.

Poor General Dukhov looked up at the roof cracked by the bomb, entangled in honor and life, but at this moment there was a sudden burst of fierce gunfire outside, and the generals all subconsciously stood up, with a nervous expression, but Dukhov said expressionlessly: "Will it be gunfire if the Chinese want to attack?" ”

A group of generals were immediately relieved, and their expressions were slightly relaxed, indeed if the Chinese want to attack, the first must be a bomber that covers the sky, and the last must be a whistling rocket artillery, how can it be a submachine gun.

But soon a lieutenant colonel ran into the headquarters in a panic and said: "Commander, the workers in the city are stealing grain and fighting with our warehouse guards. ”

"These bastards, don't they know when this is?" Dukhov yelled angrily.

"They say that Russia is tsarist Russia, not a chanless class." The officer said weakly, and as he spoke, the gunfire seemed to grow more intense, and not just one shot.

"Commander, what else is this fighting?" One of the generals shouted angrily.

The muscles on Dukhov's face twitched a few times, and he suddenly said, "Go, bring Mr. Larson." ”

Half an hour later, the Swedish merchant Larsson was invited to the headquarters of the defenders of Yekaterinburg, and after another half an hour, the smiling businessman returned to his home escorted by a group of soldiers, first sent a telegram, then drove his car and an officer out of the city, and then disappeared into the Chinese soldiers' control area, and the next morning, the remaining nearly 100,000 Russian troops in Yekaterinburg, led by their commander, walked out of their own lines and surrendered to the Chinese Ninth Army opposite.

At the same time, in Stockholm, Sweden, Comrade Vladimir said to Lin Zhongying with a smile: "Your Excellency, I don't know if our first gift, His Majesty the Emperor, has received it?" ”

The surrender of Yekaterinburg caused a great shock in Russia, and the city named after the empress in their history was the first gate to the real core of the empire, from here to the west through the forests of the Ural mountains, the Chinese would be directly on the banks of the Volga, and the flames of war would burn into the heart of Russia, and Nikolai really felt fear.

"What are you kidding, just a telegram from her that told me to ask for a few million square kilometers of land, how is this possible, I said that if you want to use the Volga River as the boundary, then you have to use the Volga River as the boundary, our friendship is one thing, this kind of national affairs is another." Emperor Yang said with a sneer.

Nicholas asked Emperor Yang's old Qing man to send him a letter from the Swedish ambassador to China, in which he proposed that the two sides could divide the Tobol River and the Irtysh River, and all the east could be divided into China, so that in fact, on the basis of the original conditions, it was reduced back by 500 kilometers, and Russia still retained a sufficient buffer zone east of the Ural Mountains, of course, it was only a buffer zone, but even then Yang Feng resolutely disagreed.

Although his psychological bottom line is the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea line of the Ural River, of course, it would be better if he could advance to the Volga River, but he could accept this line if it didn't work, but the key is that he is still thinking about bombing Russia, how can the bombing end before it has started, and besides, Comrade Vladimir, they haven't started yet. If you want to pit it naturally, you have to go to death, at least you have to bomb the major industrial cities of Russia first, and then Comrade Vladimir will kill Nikolai, and then he will interfere under the banner of avenging Nikolai, and it is best to get one of Nikolai's sons and daughters at that time, and then put this prince or princess in the position of tsar when Vladimir is destroyed, so that it can be regarded as real perfection.

This is also the main reason why he has suddenly and kindly persuaded the Russian army on the battlefield to surrender recently, he has to reserve enough manpower for his future White Army, and so far he has surrendered almost 300,000, and another 200,000 is basically about the same. (To be continued......)