Chapter 618: Stabbing the Knife
Comrade Vladimir was a little hesitant, in fact, now their great cause is at a low ebb, the main thing is the lack of external assistance, in the past their number one supporter was William, Yang Feng only occasionally provided them with a little, but now after the fall of Berlin, William ran to Braunschweig to play rather die than surrender, that day has been too busy to take care of himself, how can there be spare strength to support them, coupled with the insidious Stolypin, many small-bourgeois elements who are not firm in their will have betrayed their lives, Their betrayal and the bloody repression of the tsarist lackeys also caused heavy casualties to those who were determined to kill and die, so the future of Russia's life cause was bleak.
And at this time, a powerful external help can undoubtedly be said to be a relief in the snow.
But the problem is that this is Russia's biggest enemy at present, occupying more than 10 million square kilometers of Russian territory, killing countless Russians, destroying countless cities of invaders, the Chinese want to help them is nothing more than to further weaken Russia's combat effectiveness, and then grab more benefits, especially in the current fierce fighting in the Ural Mountains, a war of millions of people, once there is a problem behind the back, then the Russian army has only one way to rout, and accepting the help of the Chinese to make trouble for Nikolai is equivalent to helping the enemy.
But if they don't accept it, they really have no chance of overthrowing Nicholas's rule.
"Comrade Vladimir, you should know very well that without you we can get what we want, it is nothing more than paying more casualties, China has a population of nearly 600 million, more than a dozen dead and wounded, hundreds of thousands of soldiers are nothing, so far we have only more than 300,000 dead and wounded, for the sake of Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk, even if there are 300,000 more dead and wounded, it is nothing.
But what you want will never be able to get it, I know that this is not easy for you to accept psychologically, but if you don't want to continue to live under the tyranny of the Tsar, this is your only chance, and besides, the land you lost is nothing more than what you grabbed from others back then, and you can take it back again if you have the ability in the future! Lin Zhongying said with a sneer.
"Mr. Lin. How do we make sure you keep your promises? Vladimir said lightly.
"Guaranteed? There is no guarantee, how can there be any guarantee for this kind of thing, His Majesty the Emperor can only give you a verbal promise, we can't sign a secret treaty between China and Russia or something, but with His Majesty's honorable status, there is no need to lie to you at all, just like a strong Russia, but a weak Russia we don't like either. Lin Zhongying said with a smile.
Comrade Vladimir understood this very well, and after the end of this war, the strongest in Europe would definitely be Germany. If Yang Feng didn't want to clash with his old friend William in the future, then the easiest way was to leave a strong enough Russia in the middle. And at present, he really has nothing to choose, accepting Germany's help is to help the enemy, accepting China's help is nothing more than one thing, as for the country and the nation, such great people generally don't think too much, what they need is to realize their great ideals, even if they need to make a deal with the devil, then it is inevitable to do it.
In this way, the two sides reached an agreement verbally. China helped the Russian Social Workers Party to overthrow the Tsarist rule and establish a republic, and in return, the Russian Social Workers needed to cede all the territory east of the Ural River and the Caspian Sea to China after the founding of the Russian Social Workers' Party. If it is not worth continuing to invest, the Chinese will certainly not help again.
"In the first batch, we can provide you with 50,000 rifles, another 100,000 grenades, and artillery will definitely not work. I can provide you with up to 500 grenadiers, plus 10 million Chinese dollars, which can be transported to Finland by Swedish merchant ships. But we don't care how to transport the rest to the place you need, this is the first batch, and it is also the initial investment, but whether you are worth it in the second batch depends on your table. Lin Zhongying said.
Vladimir nodded.
"Then we're happy to work together." Lin Zhongying said with a smile, and after discussing some details and sending him away, one of his subordinates asked Lin Zhongying: "Earl, can these guys make it?" I don't look reliable, it's all some mouth cannons fooling others to die, and picking up fruit in the back. ”
"You don't understand this, the more people like this in this world, the more successful they are, but they will never succeed, because we will help His Majesty the Tsar when needed." Lin Zhongying said sinisterly.
Comrade Vladimir, of course, would not have known about the conversation between the two men behind him, and this incident caused some twists and turns within the Russian Social Workers' Party, but in the end the internal differences were resolved at the insistence of him and a group of cronies, and the next thing was the transportation of weapons, because of the need for secrecy, this work was certainly not something that could be completed in a short period of time, but fortunately everyone had a trustworthy transportation channel, at most it was just a matter of taking some time, and in addition, there was the mobilization of the masses, which was what they were best at.
Moreover, at this time, because of the successive defeats in the war, coupled with the lack of materials, especially food, the contradictions have been suppressed to the limit, and the tide of life in the front time has been brutally suppressed, but the fanciful rhetoric put forward by the Social Workers Party has also been widely publicized, if they were still unknown before, at this time the more than 100 million people in Russia already know that there is such an organization that can bring them happiness, as long as the time comes, it will definitely respond.
In particular, the Russians who were driven back from China from the East have become the most solid backing of the Socialist Workers' Party, and the millions of refugees who are struggling and moaning in the rudimentary slums of the cold cities are simply huo kegs that can explode with a casual cigarette butt, so Comrade Vladimir and his comrades-in-arms have no worries about mobilizing the masses.
And just when Emperor Yang sharpened the knife on Nikolai's back, the fierce battle on the frontal battlefield was still going on, adhering to the style of His Majesty the Emperor, Wang Shizhen and his generals completely regarded the three cities of Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, and Kamensk as their weapons testing grounds. Countless bombers and artillery poured down on the Russians day and night, and the mother of bombs could not be delivered for a short time due to transportation problems, but those one-and-a-half-ton bombs alone dropped more than 200 on these three cities in the first three days.
Poor Grand Duke Nicholas was about to cry in Chelyabinsk, he now admires very much that Kalyagin can hold out for four days under such ferocious firepower, up to now, the bombing of this place by Chinese planes has lasted for half a month, and in half a month, the 150,000 Russian troops guarding Chelyabinsk have been killed and wounded by a third, and most of them have been killed by bombs, and these killed have not even been seen in front of the enemy.
And the ground offensive of the Chinese is also desperate, and because of time, the water tank cannon cannot be used for the time being, but the overwhelming rocket artillery is enough to make the Russian army cracked, not to mention the heavy rockets, especially the Spitfire Chariot, the slow but unstoppable Spitfire Chariot is raging on the battlefield everywhere, and the fire dragon sweeps a scorched earth.
Of course, as a member of the Romanov family, the tsar's own uncle, he could not surrender under any circumstances, even if he died in battle.
But the problem is that he had to fight to the death for the Romanovs, not necessarily for others, on the fourth day after the start of the general offensive, the Russian army in Kamensk could not fight, they only had two dissatisfied corps in total, with a total strength of more than 80,000 people, and the last sortie lost more than 10,000 people, and the remaining more than 60,000 people were surrounded by 25 people of the Seventh Army in this small city, and it was also a small city with little ammunition reserves. There is the Trans-Siberian Railway behind Chelyabinsk, and there is also a railway behind Yekaterinburg, and these two places can get rear supplies, but Kamensk, which is stuck in the middle of the two places, cannot get any supplies, and after four days of fighting, 80 percent of the ammunition was consumed, and one-third of the personnel were lost.
In the afternoon, after a local Swedish merchant persuaded Emperor Yang to surrender on behalf of Emperor Yang, and promised them in his name that they would never be sent back to Russia if they did not want to, and that they would be given Chinese citizenship, the remaining 40,000 Russian troops in Kamensk surrendered to the Chinese Seventh Army under the command of their army commander.
However, the surrender of the Russian army in Kamensk did not have much impact on the entire battlefield, their usefulness was to serve as a barrier to Yekaterinburg, but at this time, the Ninth Army's attack on Yekaterinburg had already begun, and their current use was nothing more than to contain the Seventh Army, for the Russians in Yekaterinburg, it was not a big deal for the Russians in Yekaterinburg to have one more army group to fight them, anyway, their current situation was like that, no matter how bad it was, what could it be?
Fortunately, neither Chelyabinsk nor Yekaterinburg have to worry about being cut off from the supply lines, the former is backed by a series of rivers in the upper reaches of the Ural River, as long as the last thing does not happen, these criss-crossing rivers are well protected by the Trans-Siberian Railway that stretches from the east bank of the Ural River, Yekaterinburg is backed by the Ural Mountains, and the railway from Moscow to the city passes through the mountains, these high mountains and dense forests are also their strong backing, as long as they do not cross Yekaterinburg, There will be no one to threaten their logistical line.
But they forgot that people can't, but those bombers can. (To be continued......)