Chapter 713: Germany's Attitude
Port of Hamburg, Germany.
A steamer from Poland to Germany approached the dock with the sound of a whistle, and within twenty minutes R. Dmowski, the founder and leader of the Polish National League, was descending the ladder in the company of several bodyguards and party leaders. The personnel of the Chinese Office for Europe, who had been waiting at the pier, quickly responded, and at least 20 tall German men surrounded R. Dmowski and his comrades.
At this critical juncture, the UTO must be careful. The Russians may not have bothered to take care of this, but there are also the British and French. They have the energy to make trouble for China.
With the arrival of R. Dmowski, the leaders and some of the top leaders of the four main revolutionaries and parties in Poland: the Polish National Democratic Party, the Polish Proletarian Party, the Polish Socialist Party and the Social Democratic Party of the Kingdom of Poland all converged in Germany.
At this time, the mayor of Hamburg, Germany, was facing Sir Grant, the British consul in Hamburg, who came to the door. The indignant British jazz can be described as menacing, and when he saw Anderson. Stark loudly questioned why Germany wanted to destabilize the situation in Europe, and asked whether Germany should be on the side of the Chinese.
Anderson. Stark laughed, "Sir Grant, can you represent the entire British Empire?" Didn't your parents and teachers teach you to be a person with the most basic courtesy? You are now standing in the Hamburg City Hall, which represents the dignity and rights of the Second German Reich, and it is not your turn to be so rude and rude here. What's the difference between how you're behaving now and being a drunken hooligan on the streets of London? Is this what makes a diplomat in the British Empire? Anderson almost pointed at Grant's nose and asked him how old he was, and ran to his own turf to yell at him.
Grant was never dreaming of Anderson. Stark would say that, and he was stunned. Anderson. Stark didn't mean to pick people up. He continued to laugh and said, "Sir Grant, I will now officially inform you. I ask that your intelligence officers be completely withdrawn from Germany within three days. If you don't go. Don't blame us for taking coercive measures. ”
Looking at Sir Grant's stunned look, Anderson. Stark continued with a smile: "The German Empire welcomes any normal business action. So your people will not be harmed by any illegal acts in our land. If they encounter this kind of problem, they can go to our government and the judiciary. But Germany has only German law, and there is no possibility of any foreign extraterritoriality.
British intelligence officers should not operate on friendly German territory. On this point, I hope that you and the British Empire behind you can figure it out and think it through. ”
The Chinese want to encourage the Poles to engage in Russia, but the Chinese also said that their troops cannot be stationed in the hinterland of Russia for a long time, and as long as the war is over, they will soon return to the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea. At best, the front will stop at Ukraine, and it is impossible to make direct contact with Warsaw. In the future, Poland would be a German sphere of influence and a protectorate.
Otherwise Anderson. How could Stark, a little mayor of Hamburg, taunt the British so forcefully? More clearly aware of the activities of the British, and sent the police to monitor them openly? Behind this is the power of the German state.
Sir Grant was, after all, a diplomat, even if he was killed by Anderson. Stark's head was a little confused, he still maintained the least calm, and his lips trembled a little and asked, "You should know what the Chinese want to do." This is a heavy blow to Russia, a betrayal of Europe, do you Germans really want to join the Chinese side? ”
"Haha, Sir Grant. You're joking. We in Germany are neutral. He never intended to join the war, let alone stand opposite Britain and France. Otherwise, the railroad would not have been opened, allowing the French troops to move quickly north. ”
"We will not join either the Chinese side nor the British, French and Russian sides. We have always pursued absolute neutrality and peace. Unless, which side wants to push Germany against itself. Who is our enemy. ”
Sir Grant came to his teacher in anger, and the sudden intervention of the Germans directly caused their plan to fail completely. The Chinese gathered the Poles. It is conceivable that Poland will soon set off a monstrous wave. And Russia, where the entire empire is about to collapse. It is simply impossible to resist on your own.
"I personally think that if the British Empire really wants to help Russia. Let's gather forces in Warsaw and other places as soon as possible. Only force could maintain stability in Poland in the future. ”
During the coldest months of winter, Britain and France sent at least 200,000 troops and a large amount of ordnance to St. Petersburg, and Nicholas II gathered at least 2 million men. It's a pity that the morale of the Russian army has fallen to the extreme.
Moreover, in the research of tanks and armored vehicles, although Britain and France continue to be very developed, they do not have diesel engines, and their research progress is slow, and there is still a long way to go before the day when the research and development is successful.
At least in the first half of this year, Liu Xian does not need to worry about the emergence of a large number of British and French armored troops on the battlefield on the Western Front. And half a year was enough time for the Wehrmacht on the Western Front to bulldoze the entire Tsarist Russia.
Half a year later, when two new Russia appeared in Northern Europe, and when Finland, Poland, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and other brand-new countries appeared in Europe, Liu Xian did not think that Britain and France could form a coalition to start a war to interfere in Russia's internal affairs before Nordic Europe and China went to war.
Liu Xian will viciously purge pro-Russian nobles and leaders from all over the country, and while making Finland, Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine and other countries independent, he will also help them build up relatively independent national armies, and will let them establish an overall alliance with Russia to maintain their relative independence and interests. At the same time, some of these countries will form a relatively small alliance: such as the alliance of the three Baltic states, such as the alliance of Ukraine and Poland.
The Russian soldiers captured in the battle array, Liu Xian would not let them go home so easily. These people will be the best coolies, and the mines in Siberia and the mountains of the Urals are where many of them are buried.
The temperature in Beijing at the beginning of spring quickly warmed up.
Liu Xianlian connected to the good news, the great victory of the Navy in South America, the successive victories of the Wehrmacht on the Western, Eastern and Southern Fronts, and the smooth communication between the nobles and boilers of Poland, Finland, Ukraine and other regions by the Military Intelligence Agency, and then in mid-February he received the great news that the crown princess was pregnant.
The whole early spring Liu Siam spent in a joyful way.
In late February, the Wehrmacht's armored vehicles and tanks, which had been suspended for more than two months, were once again galloping across the land and open fields of northern Europe. The Battle of Kiev at the southern end of the Western Front and the Battle of St. Petersburg at the northern end unfolded almost simultaneously.
More than 1.3 million Wehrmacht against an enemy force of at least two million or more.
And the first to get the results was the battle of Kyiv.
The city of Kyiv is located on the eastern bank of the Dnieper, that is, in a position where the Wehrmacht can attack directly. Without the Dnieper, the Wehrmacht's armored forces would not have been stopped by a river like the German tanks in the Soviet-German war in the original time and space.
First of all, more than 100,000 Wehrmacht troops took Chernihiv from the north and cut off the railway on the Kiev North Road. It also threatens the security of Kyiv from the flank, and the Russian army mobilizes a part of its forces to defend the Desna River, a tributary of the Dnieper.
The main forces of the Wehrmacht are directed at Brovare, the eastern gate of Kiev. 400,000 Wehrmacht, relying on the cover of airships, tanks and armored vehicles, fought fiercely with twice the Russian army in Brovare for five days, and they have been crushing the Russian army for five days.
The Russians also had airships, and the British and French supported them. In this way, for the first time, there was a large-scale airship battle at the Battle of Kiev.
During the five-day struggle, the Wehrmacht airship unit felled 27 airships of different types and destroyed more than 60 Russian airships. Let the air power of the latter be almost completely lost.
The excellent record of 1 to 2 is not because of the excellent quality of the Chinese airship soldiers, but because the Chinese airship with a layer of helium on the outside surpasses those European airships that are completely filled with hydrogen from a safety point of view.
But this is also the first time that the Chinese airship unit has suffered such a large loss. When the news came, the prince was very sullen for a while, and then he focused more on leading the aircraft research team.
The latter began to prepare after the airship unit determined the model. But at the beginning, the prince didn't care. And Liu Xian's cognition of the aircraft is only limited to the engine + glider + thousands of test changes. So progress is extremely slow.
Liu Xian is not sad about the prince, and Liu Xian is not in a hurry. Sooner or later, the airship will show flaws on the battlefield, and when that happens, the prince will naturally be attentive and attentive.
Five days of fierce fighting cost the armies on both sides a lot of losses. The Wehrmacht temporarily ceased fighting, and the Wehrmacht units in Chernihiv in the north began to march southward, while Shi Donglai also led more than 100,000 troops from the lower reaches of the Dnieper River to the west bank of the Dnieper, and began to advance towards Baitomir and Fastov behind Kiev.
No matter how ever-changing war is, weapons are constantly being updated, and in the final analysis, they cannot be separated from the essence of their roots.
If you can't penetrate the front, you will come to the side, and you will come to outflank from behind.
As long as you can do it, threaten and cut off the enemy's external communication and access from the flank, no matter what era of armament, this can shake the enemy army, and this can lead to the morale of the enemy army.
If the Russian army does not want to be surrounded and cut off from the back road, they can only divide their troops to resist, or also use partial divisions to carry out large-scale intersperse, threatening the flanks and retreats of the Chinese offensive forces and even the main forces, and countering them with their own way.
This is war!
In the days before the telegraph, the distance of such large-scale intersperses and circuits would have been shorter, because to do so would have been to cut off contact with the main forces at great risk, and it would have been easy to go deep and plunge headlong into the enemy's pocket. That is, with the development of contact information, the distance between interspersed and circuitous will become farther and farther, and the scale will become larger and larger.
The Russian army in Kyiv did not dare to counter it with its own way, and Grand Duke Nikolayevich did not have the courage to conduct a counter-penetration or movement ambush war. He chose the most stable division of troops to resist, and buried all his hopes...... (To be continued......)