More than 200,000 Russian, British, French, Spanish, and Dutch troops set up a defensive line in Irkur west of the Urals, and they dug one after another trenches three meters wide, one of the few flaws in the armoured forces of the five nations that the armies of the five nations perceived these days.

-- A trench of ordinary width cannot stop tracked armored vehicles and tanks, but if this width is enlarged by two or three times, then tracked vehicles and tanks will be destroyed.

Another is the height of the obstacle, half a meter is not enough, it is one meter, 30 degrees is not enough, 60 degrees, 90 degrees, and tanks have to lie on their stomachs.

Therefore, the coalition forces used almost half of the reserves at hand to try to build Irkur into an impregnable wall.

This is also because Song Zuo's first department has cut off the connection between the Urals and the rear, otherwise the trains would have come to the Urals with excavators, bulldozers, and forklifts. Now the situation of the besieged troops of the Russian army should be said to be very bad, and the Urals are much worse than Arauut.

After all, the latter still has a way to retreat, because of the desert, Shi Donglai cannot make a detour behind Araut and block the retreat of the Russian army. But the coalition forces of the Urals were really cut off.

Hundreds of thousands are now surrounded in the city of the Urals. They still have a lot of room to maneuver, and even in the open fields west of the city of Urals, the coalition forces are hurrying to dig trenches, pile up dirt slopes, and build defensive positions with all their manpower, so that they can defend against the many steel monsters of the Wehrmacht after the fall of the city.

But if they want to escape, they need to take the initiative to attack after all, and that is to throw themselves into a dead end. So they are passive across the board.

Therefore, the current Ural coalition army. It has been completely surrounded.

Think about it, if the city of Ural really can't hold it. Ammunition, food, fuel, tents, hundreds of thousands of troops stay in the wilderness of winter Russia. There is so much to prepare and raise. The prospect is not wonderful very much!

However, the battle of the Urals ended definitely earlier than the Battle of Araurt, which was a crushing battle.

Just after Araurt's Southern Theater Army ate the 100,000 and 200,000 troops that were divided and surrounded in the rout of the Russian army one by one, and then increased its horsepower to pursue the 200,000 and 300,000 defeated Russian troops, on the wilderness west of the Ural City, more than 200,000 surrounded coalition troops had already chosen to surrender.

They withdrew from the ruined city of the Urals, retreated to a prepared and rudimentary position more than ten miles to the west, and with their low and steep earthen slopes and wide ravines, they really temporarily blocked the attack of the Wehrmacht armoured troops.

But there were no houses or woods to cover them. More than 200,000 people are sprinkled on the open land, waiting to be bombed. From the time the coalition forces planned to build defensive positions outside the city, to the complete fall of the city of Urals, it was only a few days to close the communists? How could the coalition forces dig trenches and build positions while digging underground warehouses like marmots deep underneath?

And most importantly, where do more than 200,000 people live?! It was not summer, and there was no shelter from the wind and rain, and it was impossible for any army to hold out in the wilderness for long, even if there were now 200,000 or so coalition troops west of the Urals. 90% are Russian soldiers.

So, when a light snow came unexpectedly, when tents and warehouses that could only be used for protection and concealment were blown up by the Wehrmacht airship unit with gasoline drums and bombshells. These people have completely lost the courage and fighting spirit to fight against it. They chose to surrender.

Then the coalition forces in Irkur also chose to lay down their arms.

The widening ditches and the low, steep slopes could hold back the Wehrmacht's armoured troops, but they could not hold back the Wehrmacht's men. It has a strong artillery cover, and there are armored vehicles and tanks that can be used as mobile pillboxes. The Wehrmacht is not as large as the coalition forces, but it is also very difficult to win the coalition forces.

The fighting continued until late September. The Ural coalition troops in the northern theater of operations were either annihilated or entered the prisoner camp, and the total losses of the Russian army exceeded 800,000 [including Bazartobe]. Zilin commanded the troops to begin to pounce on the Volga River valley.

The Southern Theater also annihilated 1340,000 defeated Russian troops on the way to pursuit, and surrounded Astrakhan with the footsteps of 100,000 defeated Russian troops. At the same time, after adding two infantry divisions, Shi Donglai's division began to attack the Caucasus.

Before the coldest month of Russia's winter this year, the Southern Theater of Operations was tasked with clearing the entire Russian Caucasus and attacking Ukraine as much as possible. That Volga, the forces of the northern theater of operations alone are enough to sweep.

Entering the tenth month of the lunar calendar, the weather in Beijing has also cooled down. In Beijing, Liu Xian met with several disabled officers who had come down from the front.

The highest position here is the deputy commander of a battalion, Wang Zhongwu, a 32-year-old lieutenant colonel, if there is no less than half of the left leg, this person can at least climb to the brigade level after the war.

Although they had already prepared in their hearts, they could see that the most revered emperor in the army, and the officers were still very excited. Incoherent speech, inconsistencies, blushing and thick necks, and even being so excited that they can't speak much are all common phenomena.

Liu Xian was concerned about the treatment they received after being wounded, and asked if they had received a notice from the Ministry of National Defense that it was a time of war, and every officer with combat experience was a valuable asset of the country, and these people would not leave the army in a short period of time, and they would be arranged to recruit barracks or local garrison units as instructors and officers.

Then ask the front-line troops about their thoughts, morale, and true feelings. Liu Xian is now in contact with middle- and upper-level officers, and there are almost no major generals or below, and the ideas of these people are not the same as those of lower-level officers, low-level non-commissioned officers, and soldiers. Although Liu Xian has eyes and ears in the army, he still has to get a reflection from the mouths of these disabled officers.

The response was great. No one thinks that Liu Xian is arrogant and reckless. On the contrary, the soldiers all had an indescribable pleasure in their hearts, and they could also bully foreigners, and finally it was their turn to bully foreigners. Coupled with the fact that the battle was going smoothly and hundreds of thousands of enemies were annihilated, the Wehrmacht had an invincible momentum and a strong self-confidence from top to bottom.

The morale is high, the fighting spirit is high, the military spirit is stable, and the spirit is high. This is the portrayal of the Chinese Defense Forces at this moment!

Liu Xian smiled happily. Naturally, what these officers said was suspicious of sycophancy, but he was willing to listen to such sycophants.

Wang Zhongwu's unit was a meritorious unit in the capture of the Ural City, and he lost half of his left leg in that battle. The number of Wehrmacht troops who fell in the fierce street fighting was far greater than the casualties in the field. Bullets could be fired from behind every house, enemies could be hidden in every piece of ruin, and the coalition forces were using mines.

In the battle, Wang Zhongwu's battalion directly killed more than 300 soldiers, nearly 50 officers at the rank of second lieutenant and above, and more than 700 serious casualties. Before that, the battalion of Wang Zhongwu, who was the sharp knife unit, only lost more than 200 people, and only 57 people were killed in direct battle.

The soldiers fell one after another in front of him, and many of them were Wang Zhongwu's old subordinates, even fellow villagers.

The battle for the city, especially the street fighting, was too brutal and tragic. If the Wehrmacht compares all the casualties together, the casualties of the two towns of Araut on the Ural River will definitely account for more than half of the total Wehrmacht's casualties.

Units such as Wang Zhongwu's battalion are just ordinary and cannot be ordinary in the national defense force as a whole, even if they are the fist troops of a certain main division. The battle in the city of Ural was only a good completion of the tasks assigned by the superiors, and they did pay great sacrifices to complete the task, but there was no victory without sacrifice, and the soldiers understood this truth. On their first day in the barracks, they were instilled with a willingness to make sacrifices and dedication for the rejuvenation of their country.

Their sacrifice is destined to go down in history, but only as a whole, and must be as a whole!

……

Washington, White House.

Grover. Cleveland and Walter. Quentin. Gresham sat face to face, representing America's greatest power -- the President and Secretary of State of the United States.

Now the faces of both of them are full of bitterness and helplessness.

In the Battle of the Snake River, which had just been fought in Idaho, the more than 100,000 militias in the Pacific Northwest region had been defeated again, and only about 30,000 people boarded the train south to the Utah Highlands. That Mormon gathering place, a piece of land that was not yet a United Nations territory of the United States. In the 1848 American-Mexican War, the United States gained control of the land from Mexico, but it would take another two years for the Utah Highlands to become the new Utah state of the United States. And now, the U.S. military has direct control of Utah.

In 1869, the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific met at the northern part of the Great Salt Lake at Monterey to nail the last road spike, the Golden Road Stud. Since then, the continental United States has changed its east-west route, and the first domestic railroad system across the continental United States has been formed.

It can be said that it is the hub of east-west transportation between the United States and the United States, and it is also the important place for the next strategy of the Wehrmacht.

After the victory at the Battle of the Snake River, Idaho had fallen under the control of the Wehrmacht, but the Wehrmacht in North America was increasingly feeling underwhelmed. For example, in the just-concluded Battle of the Snake River, although the Wehrmacht won a clean and beautiful victory, the number of troops participating in the battle was only 60% of that of the US army.

Xiang Fa had already set off from Fujian, leading a new batch of reinforcements to Hawaii, and the steamers between Hawaii and the west coast of North America had never stopped these days. They are like ants, diligently transporting boatloads of Wehrmacht soldiers onto the coastline of the United States.

The navy of the United States had already set out from the east coast, and after merging the North American fleet of the British, it was advancing towards South America. In Central America they would also join up with the British West Indies Fleet, which would be another large fleet.

So, time is running out for China. (To be continued......)