In the evening, in the Xinhua Palace of the Beijing Division, the No. 1 real-time situation demonstration hall of the base camp, in front of the railing of the accusation platform overlooking the sand table in the hall, Lieutenant General Su Sanling, chief of the operations division of the General Staff Headquarters, who was holding his hands on the control panel, was introducing the progress of the entire first day of the "bear slaughter" operation to the empress and veteran ministers beside him in the form of sound and light.

“…… With the support of special smoke bombs and aviation firepower, the clusters of the Northern Front advanced from three to nine kilometers on a 100-kilometer front, seizing or breaking through to key points of the enemy's front. ”

With the introduction of Su Sanling, the lanterns in the corresponding places on the sand table were lit up one after another.

Among them: Chu Qing's northern flank cluster seized the enemy's left flank forward stronghold - Karabashi in only one morning; Before dark, Zhao Minhe's central cluster captured two of the enemy's three central forward strongholds, Turgoak in the north and Heixi Town in the south, and formed a three-sided attack on Mias in the center; Zhao Feixue's southern flank cluster made the slowest progress, failing to capture the enemy's right flank forward stronghold - Ustinovo before nightfall, but part of the attacking force had already penetrated the enemy's defensive line three to five kilometers deep and was holding out in place for reinforcements......"

“…… The clusters of the Central Asian Front opened two gaps on the 120-kilometer front and built two huge bridgeheads on the north bank of the Ural River, of which: Qian Lan's left flank cluster advanced three to seven kilometers to the north bank on the nine-kilometer front of the river crossing, and the attached engineering units were constructing a large pontoon bridge and five false pontoon bridges according to the plan; Lu Kaiping's right-wing cluster advanced five to nine kilometers on the twelve-kilometer front of the river crossing and was building six large pontoon bridges overnight......"

"The advance detachment of the Caspian Front, with the 16th Cavalry Brigade and the 17th Armored Brigade as the backbone, and with the support of the aviation forces and local pro-Chinese tribes, crossed the Persian border this morning from the Bajgilan Pass south of Ashgabat, marched 70 kilometers continuously in the steep mountains at an altitude of 1,500 to 2,000 meters, and successfully occupied the Guchang ......, a key transportation point in the Atrak River Valley."

"After tonight, the detachment will march non-stop towards the gateway to Tehran, Sabu Zewar, 140 kilometers southwest of Kuchang. At the same time, the main clusters of the front army, with the 24th Army and the 7th Cavalry Army as the backbone, will enter Persia through the Bajgilan Pass one after another, and under the guidance of the advance detachment, steadily advance towards Tehran, the capital of Persia. ”

"In addition, after the South and North Khorasan detachments, each consisting of one cavalry battalion and one infantry battalion as the backbone, will march to Mashhad, the capital of South Khorasan Province, 130 kilometers southeast of Kuchang, and the latter will go to occupy Botinurd, the capital of North Khorasan Province, 120 kilometers northwest of Kuchang, in order to stabilize the rear of the advance detachment and the main group......"

"The first day went well."

Su Sanling's introduction has not yet come to an end, and Prime Minister Yang Zhengjin impatiently commented.

Empress Liu Qianhua smiled faintly: "It's very smooth, I hope the next six days will be just as smooth." ”

Minister of the Interior Zhang Zhi sneered with his head high: "Weekly offensive...... When did the dignified emperor ** fall to this point. ”

"A lot can happen in a day, let alone a whole week." Defense Secretary Hooke, who had thick eyebrows, clearly had something to say.

"That's really exciting." Justice Chancellor Mo Ning rubbed his hands together insincerely.

"Su Sanling, you step back first." Liu Qianhua waved his hand and commanded.

After a while, together with Gu Yingyang, the chief of the general staff who had been standing silently behind Liu Qianhua before, the six people in the accusation stage sat around a small square table, which was already full of tea and all kinds of rare snacks, but everyone had no intention of doing anything.

Liu Qianhua narrowed his eyes slightly, and his face could not hide the tiredness: "The empire has shown enough sincerity, and the next thing is to see the performance of the Germans." ”

Gu Yingyang took the opportunity to report: "I have just received a report from the German General Staff Headquarters that the summer offensive on the Eastern European front, which was originally planned to be launched at the same time as the Imperial 'Bear Slaughter' operation, has been postponed to the 25th, and it is expected that 45 divisions of the German Army and the Austrian Army and 20 divisions of the Romanian Army will be invested, a total of 110 divisions, of which 70 divisions will be concentrated on the Ukrainian side......"

"Around this time, the German army will also launch a counteroffensive from the Arras area of the Western Front with 12 divisions, intending to outflank the British and French heavy army groups in the Somme area from the flank and reverse the unfavorable situation on the Western Front since the beginning of spring this year."

Liu Qianhua blinked: "It seems that our Germanic allies are still obsessed." ”

Yang Zhengjin cleared his throat, put his hands on his knees and said, "If you want me to say, everyone has their own troubles." The ongoing Battle of the Somme in this time and space is completely different from the battle of the same name in another time and space - without the famous 'Verdun meat grinder' in that time and space, Britain and France were able to launch the campaign half a year in advance, and the length of the troops, weapons, and offensive positions invested was more than twice that of that time and space; However, because the German army in front of them put more troops into the Eastern European and Balkan fronts, the strength of the troops left on the Western Front was less than eighty percent of the same period in another time and space, and the available reserves were only half of those in the same period. ”

"The Allied tank forces, which had only emerged in the Battle of Cambrai in September 1916, began to be used on a large scale in 1915, and in the Somme Offensive that began in February of this year, thousands of troops were invested at one time. And the attitude of the German top brass towards tanks is not fundamentally different from that of the original time and space......"

"Since last year, the Germans, after comparing the performance of our tank forces on the Western Front and the Eastern Front, have become more convinced that tanks are useless on the Western Front; As for the Eastern Front, in the face of the Russian army, which is of low quality and lacks equipment, the existing forces and weapons are enough to deal with it, and a small number of expensive tank units are just icing on the cake...... Under the influence of this thinking, the German army was obviously ill-prepared for this 'tank offensive' of unprecedented scale by the Entente and was bound to pay a huge price. ”

"In light of the above, I believe that the German argument for the transfer of troops from the Eastern Front, that the Somme campaign had exhausted its reserves, is credible, and that the urgency to reverse the crisis on the Western Front is understandable...... Compared with the total strength of the Allies on the Eastern European Front, the dozen or so divisions transferred by the German army to the Western Front should have little impact on the entire war situation......"

Gu Yingyang sneered: "It seems that my consciousness is not high enough to understand the feelings of the German commanders, but in my opinion, the combat effectiveness of the 110 Allied divisions on the current Eastern European front may not be compared with the same number of Chinese divisions or pure German divisions." ”

"The 20 Romanian divisions were poorly equipped, had backward command and logistics systems, and were the main forces in Romania, and there were serious differences of opinion on participating in the Allied side of the battle, which would inevitably affect the Romanian army's will to fight. Looking at the history of alternate time and space, the trouble they cause to friendly forces is far greater than the threat they pose to the enemy, and their combat effectiveness is largely close to zero, if not negative. ”

"Although the Austrian army's losses in the Galician Campaign in 1914 were much smaller than the fiasco of the same name in another time and space, and there should not be another 'Brusilov Breakthrough' that killed 1.5 million Austrians in one go, but the early participation of Italy and Greece in the war still held back a considerable part of the Austrian army, and the number of troops that could be put into the Eastern Front at this time was only five divisions more than in the same period in another time and space."

"The Austro-Hungarian Empire had a large number of nationalities, mixed languages, and a low proportion of the main ethnic groups, so in peacetime it had to mix officers and soldiers of various nationalities, resulting in low command efficiency and combat effectiveness. With the expansion of the war, many conscripted rural soldiers did not know anything about languages other than their own native languages, and under the tremendous pressure from the front, they indiscriminately filled these soldiers into the troops, and even the platoon commanders at the grassroots level could not make all their subordinates understand the orders, and the entire combat command at the grassroots level tended to disintegrate......

"Another more serious consequence is that a large number of conscripted officers and soldiers of non-Juche nationalities, including a large number of soldiers from areas with strong ethnic separatist sentiments, have drowned out the ranks of aristocratic officers and standing non-commissioned officers who have been cultivated for a long time and are loyal to the royal family and the empire, resulting in the rapid loss of combat effectiveness of many troops, and refusal, surrender, and uproar have become commonplace, and only a small number of troops composed purely of officers and soldiers of Juche nationalities are still worthy of a war."

"From this point of view, even if the Austrian army of the forty-five divisions was not hit by the 'Brusilov' offensive, it was only barely able to survive, and it was already a high opinion to be able to withstand the fifteen elite German divisions."

"In other words, the transfer of fifteen elite German divisions that can be used for the offensive is actually equivalent to the transfer of all the Romanian and Austrian armies on the Eastern Front, and the total combat strength has dropped from the equivalent of seventy-five German divisions to only sixty German divisions, a full one-fifth reduction, and it can be said that it has little impact on the entire war situation?"

"Also, the seventy divisions scheduled to be used to attack Ukraine seem to be a lot, but only twenty German divisions can be called the core combat strength, and the remaining fifty divisions of the Romanian army and the Austrian army can basically be regarded as playing soy sauce - you can figure out with your ass how important the fifteen German divisions that were temporarily transferred before the war were to the Ukrainian campaign."

Before Gu Yingyang's words fell, Zhang Zhigao also came to fan the wind: "I can understand the Germans' mood of forcing peace with war. ”

Yang Zhengjin frowned slightly, but just let out an "oh" without pain.

Zhang Zhigao tilted his head: "Although the temptation of peace has been issued, if you can't even stabilize the Western Front, you will inevitably be despised by the other party, not to mention the sky-high asking price, and you may not even be qualified to negotiate on an equal footing." Therefore, in any case, it is not important to show the determination to stabilize the Western Front, but the important thing is that this will can be conveyed to the other side. ”

Liu Qianhua closed her eyes slightly, thoughtful.

"Will...... The self-righteous decency that has to be won at the expense of the blood of tens of millions of people, this kind of imperial will, has been conveyed to each other, and then, it depends on how the receiving side will interpret it. ”

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