Chapter 387: Consolidation of the Occupied Zone
After the capture of Tamsui Port, the Nantes were even more frightened, they knew very well that the next target of the Southern Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Empire could only be them, and once the other party attacked, they could not resist it at all. Just when both fronts in the north had achieved great victories, the Southern Ocean Fleet, which had completed the replenishment of the battlefield, attacked again.
This time, the offensive routes were more diversified, with the main force of the Southern Ocean Fleet covering one Wehrmacht Army starting from Bangka Island and attacking Palembang, the naval base of the Nantes Army, and the other two Wehrmacht forces attacking from the Mentawai Islands and Java Island under the cover of some warships, landing on Suman Island from the other two directions.
The Marines, on the other hand, did not rely on any navy and set out from the port of Tamsui to attack the port of Medan directly. The ports of Tamsui and Medan are separated by only one strait, covered by bombers taking off from Changi Airport, and their landing operations are very easy.
In the face of attacks from four directions, the Nantes were already understaffed, they took care of the loss of the other and the defense in a mess, several strongholds fell one after another, some remnants of the army were forced into the rainforest to continue guerrilla warfare, most of them were killed by the Wehrmacht special operations brigade or the local Siamese natives, the remnants of Nantes also put up stubborn resistance, so that the sporadic fighting here continued for many years, when the last Nantes guerrilla came out of the rainforest and surrendered, it was already decades later, At that time, it was already approaching the next World War.
In just a few months, the Chinese Empire struck hard, defeated the Cossack Empire in a row, annexed the Kokand State, and occupied the last two colonies of the Saar Empire and the Nantes Empire in the Eastern Continent.
As soon as the Chinese Empire declared war, it amazed the whole world, and the powerful attack ability they displayed greatly shocked the Boston Empire, which was preparing to join the Entente side, and the Boston Emperor Washington III had to issue an edict asking Prime Minister Wiedman and senior government officials to reassess the form and carefully plan whether the Boston Empire should join the Entente side in the war.
When fighting against the Entente, Fang Xiaoyu did not relax his vigilance against the Boston Empire, so the Eastern Ocean Fleet has been stationed in the Ohu Kingdom, monitoring the movements of the other party, and the two armies of the Marine Corps and the coalition forces on the border of the Moss Kingdom are also ready to fight at any time, so the Chinese Empire did not send the fleet to fight in the Storm Ocean, which made the Saar Empire less stressed.
After the initial chaos, the Cossack army gradually stabilized its position, after all, the Cossack Empire was huge, and the Chinese army could not directly occupy the whole country as it did against the Japanese state, so after the initial advance, the Chinese army also slowed down the pace of the offensive due to the extension of the logistics supply line, which gave the Cossack Empire a chance to breathe.
The land of the former Stanya Alliance was basically occupied by the Chinese Empire, and the battle line of the Chinese army had completely advanced to the territory of the Cossack Empire, while on the Eastern Continental Front, the Chinese army, which was like a bamboo, took advantage of the fact that the Cossack Empire's military strength had not yet been assembled in place, and the Far East Railway Transportation Capacity was limited, and launched another attack on the Monte Empire.
Marshal Bayanga's army never had a chance to breathe, and the Cossack Empire was too focused on stabilizing the Far Eastern battlefield to support the Monte Empire, so the Monte army was becoming weaker and weaker.
After the Cossack Empire cut off arms aid, the Monte Empire, which had no industrial base at all, could not get any weapons replenishment, and the ammunition reserves were drastically reduced, and by the time the Chinese Empire troops approached its capital, the Monte soldiers defending there had no more than five bullets in their hands.
In the face of the attacking Chinese Defense Forces, the Monte Army was no opponent at all, they could only rely on the sabers in their hands to resist desperately, and under the blows of various advanced weapons of the National Defense Army, they could only be slaughtered one-sidedly. Marshal Bayang committed suicide, and by the time the Monte Empire surrendered, there were only 30,000 defenders left in the city.
It is very easy to deal with the Wumeng people of the Monte Empire, just recruit a large number of propagandists from Dongmeng County to the interior of the Monte Empire to publicize the livelihood policies of the Chinese Empire, and I believe that the people there will soon fall to the Chinese Empire. After all, they are all Wumeng people, and their words are more convincing, and when the resistance there is calmed down, it will not be long before the Wumeng will become an ethnic minority in the Chinese Empire.
At this time, the form of war between the Chinese Empire and the Cossack Empire was much stronger than the German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II.
The current Chinese Empire has surpassed the Cossack Empire in terms of economic strength and scale, as well as military strength and military technology, and the Chinese Empire has invaded part of the desolate territory of the Eastern Continent from the Cossack Empire, resulting in the Cossack Empire needing to rely on the long Far East Railway to transport materials, and the length of the logistics supply lines between the two countries is simply reversed compared with Germany and the Soviet Union, and the supply efficiency is far from the same.
Although the strategic railways that began to be built a few years ago have not yet been fully completed, especially the two leading to the Central Continent have not been completed, but the Chinese Empire has a developed road network, and the railways are built in sections, and most of the sections can still be run, but they just need to be reversed.
The problem of unfinished construction of the railway also aroused Fang Xiaoyu's great attention, and after the start of the war, he issued an order to several major consortia to speed up the construction of the railway, and later sent most of the captured prisoners to the railway construction site. Railway construction is a heavy workload and high risk work, and if safety and the necessary rest of migrant workers are to be ensured, construction will naturally be slow.
Now that there are a large number of prisoners of war who can work overtime, without any rights and interests, and even without the need to protect their lives too much, the construction of railways by various consortia has been greatly accelerated, and even the most dangerous sections of the road can be repaired quickly, of course, at the cost of a large number of prisoners of war dying on construction sites, but now that it is wartime, who cares about the fate of these prisoners of war.
Unlike the Chinese Empire, the main industrial body of the Cossack Empire was in the western continent, and it was necessary to pass through more than 6,000 kilometers of railway lines to transport supplies to the distant eastern continent, and in order to save money, the Cossacks built a single-track railway, which greatly reduced its transportation efficiency, and was really a bit beyond the reach of the poor logistics supply of the Cossack Empire to support the war in the far east.
But even then, the Chinese army soon ran into difficulties. The Chinese Empire's domestic mobilization order was not carried out thoroughly, after all, Fang Xiaoyu did not want to cause too much damage to the newly prosperous industrial system in the country, so only two million reservists (basically veterans who had retired in recent years) were conscripted into the army for training, and such a number was simply pitiful for the Chinese Empire, which had a total population of 800 million.
The troops that were now placed on the front line to attack the Cossack Empire, even with the Wehrmacht in the Monte direction, were only more than 1.5 million people, which seemed to be a lot, but scattered on the vast territory of the Cossack Empire seemed to be few.
Because of this situation, Su Zhizhen and Lin Yangchun, the two front-line commanders, did not divide their troops to guard, but concentrated on assault, but as the occupied territory became larger and larger, the Chinese army had more and more troubles, mainly because the logistics supply line was often harassed by the defeated Cossack stragglers, which caused a lot of trouble.
The encroachment tactic is definitely an old tactic for Fang Xiaoyu, but this set of tactics is very effective in war, and it is difficult to crack, and this set of tactics has been used extremely well in the Chinese army. Soon Fang Xiaoyu transferred a large number of reserve troops into the area he had just occupied and began the task of building settlements, and the special operations army, which had not had many opportunities to show their faces, began to show their unique skills.
The entire special operations army was divided into three parts, the first division was sent in the direction of the Stanya Union, and the other two divisions went to the Cossack and Monte empires, and their task was simple, to use the means of special operations to eliminate the partisans there and provide a safe environment for the reserve units of the Chinese army that were building settlements.
The special operations army was very effective, the Cossack partisans in the occupied areas were wiped out in large numbers, and the local Cossack residents were guarded by the reserve army to build settlements, and the guerrillas lost their mass base and supplies, and these guerrillas were quickly wiped out, and the new Chinese residents were moved into the occupied areas to settle down, and they quickly assimilated the local people with numerical superiority, and the situation in the occupied areas quickly stabilized.
The Cossack army, which was originally holding the defensive line and waiting for the fire at the rear gate of the Chinese army, was stunned to find that the rear of the other side was becoming more and more stable, and the supply was becoming more and more smooth, which was difficult for the commander-in-chief of the Cossack army, Marshal Kolchak, the minister of war, so he had to draw troops from the western battlefield again, preparing to use superior forces to force the Chinese army to retreat with a little breakthrough.
Marshal Kolchak was not in vain, and he immediately began frequent troop movements and strategic deception. The aerial reconnaissance of the Chinese army soon discovered that something was wrong, a large number of trains were coming from the west, and then the soldiers from the Far East were transported to the west by train, and the same supply trains were rapidly transporting supplies and soldiers in the direction of the Stanya Alliance.
This action of the Cossack Empire made the United Command very puzzled, and then everyone agreed that this was the Cossack Army's preparation to abandon the Far Eastern battlefield, exchange space for time in the Far East, and concentrate on attacking the Chinese army in the Stanya Alliance area, hoping to defeat the Chinese army all the way with superior forces, attack the Monte Front from the rear, and concentrate the main force to fight a decisive battle with the Chinese army in the rear.