"Fight hard, beat the enemy back, we must hold out until reinforcements arrive, we must destroy the evil invaders." A Russian officer brandished a pistol and howled incessantly in the trenches, loudly cheering for the soldiers who held their positions, but the rumbling sound of the cannon had already deafed the ears of the soldiers, and even he himself did not know how effective his encouragement was.

The tanks of the Iraqi army lined up and rushed towards the improvised Russian positions, relying on the only light weapons, the Russian soldiers fired desperately in an attempt to stop the attack. But in order to speed up the escape, the Caucasian Front had long since thrown away all heavy weapons, and now they were quite short of even heavy machine guns, not to mention artillery.

NATO Allied tanks rumbled, and Russian soldiers shot desperately, but to no avail. Some of the red-eyed Russian soldiers jumped out of the trench with grenades and launched a desperate charge towards the tank, resisting the arrival of the tank with their flesh and blood, but under the fire of the on-board machine guns, they achieved little success.

There was a whooshing whistling, and the rocket artillery of the Chinese Empire began to cover the fire, and the Russian soldiers who were caught off guard were immediately drowned in a cloud of exploding smoke. The tanks of the Chinese Empire galloped in front, and various self-propelled guns behind the tanks were equipped with four-way stabilizers, which allowed them to carry out artillery fire on the move.

The dense artillery fire always covered the Russians' positions, so that they could not raise their heads at all, and some of the special tanks immediately stepped forward and aimed a strange little tube in the front of the car into the trench. The commander of the chariot pressed the switch, and the small tube immediately spewed out a long flame that ignited everything in the trenches, and these vehicles were specially modified Spitfire-type vehicles.

The Russian soldiers lying in the trenches wanted to wait until the tank approached and destroy the tank with grenades, but before they could attack, a flame with oil had already splashed over their heads. The Russian soldiers crawled out of the trench with flames all over them, and they didn't care about the NATO allies who had rushed up, and rolled directly on the ground in an attempt to extinguish the flames.

The flames ignited by the oil were difficult to extinguish, and the Russian soldiers could only struggle in vain, letting out screams, but they could not extinguish the flames. The NATO Allied chariots rumbled by, crushing the struggling Russian soldiers under the tracks, and the terrible screams came to an abrupt end, and when the chariots crossed the Russian line, only the shattered corpses that had been pressed into the ground were left on the ground.

Although Vasilev tried his best to consume more of the strength of NATO's allies, the huge gap in weapons could not be erased by desperate fighting. Under the suppression of all kinds of advanced weapons of the Chinese Empire, the Russian soldiers fell in pieces, and in just one day, the Caucasian Front was crippled.

In desperation, Vasilev wanted to surrender, but before he could surrender, the headquarters of the front army was covered by a volley of rocket artillery from the Chinese Empire, and Vasilev and his command members were all killed. Having lost their command, the Russian soldiers fought on their own, and they were still waiting for ethereal reinforcements, gritting their teeth and insisting on fighting.

When the last Russian soldier was killed in battle, they didn't understand that the reinforcements were a lie at all. After the Caucasian Front was annihilated, there was no longer a formed Russian army in the entire southern part of Russia, and with the efforts of the special forces brigades sent by various units, the remnants of the Russian guerrillas were quickly wiped out, and the form of southern Russia was stabilized.

Part of the Imperial Iranian army began to move north together with the Southern Route Army of the Chinese Empire, aiding the central and northern offensive clusters of the combined forces of the Chinese Empire and the Cossack Empire, while the remaining Imperial Iranian troops and a dozen Cossack infantry divisions attacked the Black Sea coast.

NATO forces soon took control of Russia's southwestern border, taking control of Ukraine, Russia's largest grain producer, while advantageously covering the flanks and rear of the central cluster and clearing out the remnants of Russian forces in the occupied areas.

In order to prevent the Boston Empire's assistance to Russia, Gao Deyu mobilized all the Kunpeng 3 bombers in the Chinese Imperial Air Force, relying on its ultra-long combat radius, to carry out non-stop attacks on supply convoys and convoys in these two directions.

For a time, the convoy of transport convoys from the Republic of Hungary and the fleet of the Boston Empire were heavily bombed by the Chinese Imperial Air Force, and a large number of trucks and transport ships were destroyed on the road by Kunpeng 3 bombers, and the damage rate of various materials transported by them even reached more than 80%.

Although the Chinese Empire's merciless attacks made the Boston Empire hate itchy, it was indeed very inauthentic for them to provide a large amount of military aid to the participating countries as a neutral country, and they had no choice but to pinch their noses and admit it to the indiscriminate bombing of the Chinese Empire.

The Imperial Chinese Air Force was attacking inside Russia, and if the Boston Empire recognized that it was its own convoy and fleet, it would not admit itself, which would be a serious violation of the Neutrality Act, and the Chinese Empire could even justifiably go to war against the Boston Empire without looking for any other reason. Such a situation was not desirable for the Boston Empire, which was not ready for war, so they had to grit their teeth, endure huge losses, and continue to send weapons and ammunition to Russia.

The Russian Air Force defended with all its might, attempting to rely on numerical superiority to dislodge the attack forces of the Chinese Empire, but the Wehrmacht dispatched a large number of Golden Eagle 4 fighters to escort the bombers. The speed of the jet fighters was super fast, and the Russian propeller planes fell one after another, and the Russian Air Force suffered heavy losses.

Subsequently, the Wehrmacht dispatched a large number of bombers to bomb all airfields in Russia, and the Russian Air Force, which had no air supremacy, had no choice but to endure the frequent bombing of the other side and did not dare to confront it at all, and the planes of the Russian Air Force were soon completely lost.

The central cluster of the coalition forces is progressing quite smoothly, because the main forces of the Russian army have all converged and assembled in the direction of Fort Paladin, and there are no more elite Russian troops in this direction, relying on the Russian militia who have just picked up their guns, they cannot stop the elite troops of the coalition army like a torrent of steel, they are quickly scattered and completely wiped out by the infantry units that followed.

Minsk was soon captured by the Allied forces, and at the same time, the land supply routes of the Hungarian Republic and the Slovak Republic to Russia were completely cut off. The fall of Minsk marked the loss of a large city at the end of the middle of the Russian army, and then the coalition forces fought until the border area of the Republic of Hungary before withdrawing their troops, and due to the joint interception of Albatross dive bombers and Vulture 1 attack aircraft, not many Russian soldiers were able to safely retreat into Hungary.

The complete fall of southern Russia put the form of the Ulyanov government in a precarious situation, and the various places were defeated one after another, and the hundreds of thousands of defenders from all over the country who had retreated also retreated into the Paladin's Fortress, and the elite troops of the coalition soon surrounded it from three sides.

Although the Russian army still has more than 1.3 million elite troops and 2 million militia here, they no longer have much heavy equipment, and they do not dare to attack the hundreds of thousands of coalition troops surrounding them, and as time goes by, more and more coalition troops arrive here, and the thickness of the encirclement begins to continue to increase. Of course, the coalition forces are not idle, every day bomber groups and heavy artillery units with a long enough range are constantly attacking various targets in the city.

Just when the battle of the Paladin Fort was in full swing, Alexander III unfortunately died of acute myocardial infarction, his funeral was held in Moscow, Fang Ruijun even came to the scene in person, Fang Xiaoyu and Princess Dalia hurried from Zhonghua Island to the scene, but Fang Xiaoyu did not stay here for long, he had a deep conversation with Fang Ruijun and Daria's younger brother Ivan, and then returned to Zhonghua Island.

After the death of Alexander III, Daria's younger brother Ivan immediately ascended the throne with the support of the Chinese Empire and became the new Ivan VI Emperor of the Cossack Empire.

As the commander-in-chief, Gauder was much calmer than his father's newly mourned Ivan VI, and the bombardment and shelling of the Paladin's Fortress continued day by day, but the coalition showed no signs of attacking. The number of the coalition forces is not superior, and if there is a street battle, with the fighting spirit of the Russian army that is not afraid of death, it is not yet known who will die.

As a result, the NATO allies simply surrounded the city that Russia controlled at the rear, while the rest of the forces began to purge the remnants of the enemy throughout the occupied Russian territory, and at the same time began to distribute the spoils. As the Iranian Empire, which has great merit, it has acquired large areas of land in the Caucasus and the Black Sea coast, which is not only Fang Ruijun's way of winning over the Iranian Empire, but also a measure to prevent the future Cossack Empire from having too much access to the sea. For Ivan VI, his cheap uncle, Fang Ruijun is also quite wary.

Although the Chinese Empire did its best, it did not have any land claims, and this time they were regarded as voluntary labor, helping the Cossack Empire to restore its territory, which made Ivan VI very moved, and his resentment against the subordination of a large number of southern territories under the name of the Istan Empire was also much thinner.

However, Ivan VI expressed his dissatisfaction with Gao Deyu's siege of the Paladin's Castle several times, but he asked Gao Deyu to push him back under the pretext that the emperor personally ordered him, and Ivan VI had to go to Beijing in person to see Fang Ruijun, hoping to persuade him to launch an attack on the Paladin's Castle as soon as possible.