Central Siberia, the huge Soviet Union as if one. In the middle of the night, they were routed, and on the plains of Siberia were full of routed Soviet units.

There were also a large number of Soviet soldiers, who simply put down their weapons and fled to the mountains and forests to avoid the war.

A large number of Soviet troops, retreating all the way west along the Far Eastern Railway, were in disarray, and the railways were full of defeated troops.

Stalin, who did not give up, urgently went to the Eastern Front from the battlefield of the Western Front, Field Marshal Rokossovsky, and assumed the post of Supreme Commander of the Eastern Front, responsible for combat operations against the Red Alert Empire.

Too late to reach the Far East, Rokossovsky's train stopped at Bratsk.

The millions of Soviet troops on the front line were defeated, and Rokossovsky, who had just stopped, heard the unfortunate news that the 31st, 36th, and 37th armies of the Far Eastern Front were surrounded by the Red Guard Corps in Irkutsk and were holding out in place.

Moreover, the vanguard unit of the Red Guard Corps has almost arrived on the edge of Bratsk.

That night, the air force of the Red Guard Corps bombed two transit airports on the edge of Bratsk, destroying the railway station.

And on the same night, two paratrooper regiments of the 3rd theater of operations completed their parachute near Bratsk and launched a fierce attack on Bratsk.

Under the protection of the Guards, Rokossovsky, who had just taken office, had to take advantage of the darkness and retreat to Krasnoyarsk, which was to avoid being beheaded.

However, all kinds of bad news followed, and the speed of the Red Alert Empire's offensive frightened the Soviet marshal.

After all, from the time he accepted the letter of appointment and set off, the latest news he got was that the troops of the Third Theater of Operations of the Red Alert Empire had just left Komsomolsk, but as a result, in less than two days, the Third Theater had already routed one million troops in Central Siberia and advanced the battlefield to Bratsk.

Rokossovsky had never seen this method of warfare, and could not even understand how the enemy launched such a sharp offensive.

After all, in Central Siberia, there were a million Soviet troops, and most of them were excellent troops who had been baptized by war.

With tens of thousands of tanks of various types, more than 20,000 artillery pieces of various calibers, and sufficient supplies, in two days, let alone a million people, even if it is a million pigs, 500,000 people in the third theater of operations, it will not be able to catch them in two days.

However, even if he is unwilling to believe and admit the results, Rokossovsky can only accept this helpless fact.

On the night of the withdrawal to Krasnoyarsk, Rokossovsky also learned why he was defeated so quickly.

According to the reports of the troops below, the troops have not yet seen the enemy, and the enemy's fire has already destroyed a large number of tanks.

A large number of helicopter gunships were dispatched in the third theater of operations, and the hundreds of Soviet troops in Central Siberia did not even touch the face of the enemy soldiers, nor did they see the enemy's tanks.

A large number of headquarters in the troops were also destroyed under the air raids, making a large number of troops a mess for a while, and they had no idea what was going on.

Thousands of artillery pieces, before they could get off the tractor, were destroyed along with the trucks.

And Rokossovsky even learned that tens of thousands of fighter planes were dispatched to the Third Theater of Operations, and there were at least tens of thousands of new helicopter gunships. It was routed in the night, and there was no need to send infantry.

Of course, there must be a lot of moisture in these figures, after all, it is only the news from the report of the rout below, which Rokossovsky is also quite aware of.

But then there is moisture, but not necessarily fake, if there is really to be able one. The means of defeating a million troops in the night can only be done with the kind of attack that has never been encountered.

In just one day, under a short contact, tens of thousands of tanks were destroyed, and all the airfields and railway stations and logistics points along the way were spared.

The command headquarters of several group armies were not spared, and even those division-level and regiment-level headquarters were not spared.

As soon as he arrived, he took over a mess, and in front of Rokossovsky, there was another problem, that is, he now did not have many troops in his hands.

From the Western Front, although he brought three army groups, it was also to strengthen the strength of the Far Eastern Front, and now, the million troops that were supposed to be on the front line have been routed, and the number of defeated troops that can be collected is not even 300,000.

Another 500,000 troops were surrounded by the Third Theater of Operations, which, with the help of its powerful air transport capabilities, launched a multi-stage jump attack, encircled in batches and cut off the retreat of the Soviet troops.

Moreover, Rokossovsky's current army does not have enough weapons and equipment, less than a thousand tanks, and only a thousand artillery pieces.

There is a serious lack of heavy weapons, which is simply not enough to threaten the enemy, and it is impossible to even defend.

As the marshal of the Soviet Union, he was one of the troika of the Soviet Army along with Zhukov and Konev, even if he was calm and calm, and he was not alarmed in the face of chaos, in the confrontation with the Germans, he achieved good results in adversity many times.

But in the face of a new enemy, an enemy he didn't know very well, and his own strength was not enough, and he was very difficult.

In the headquarters of the Far Eastern Front, which had just stabilized, Rokossovsky asked the people sitting around the headquarters: "In the current situation, how should we encircle our country and people, and how should we repay Comrade Stalin's trust in us?" ”

"Comrade Marshal, our current strength can only choose to defend, and we are not capable of attacking at all." A staff officer at the bottom said.

With such an answer, Rokossovsky shook his head directly and looked at the others.

"Comrade Marshal, my suggestion is to avoid the enemy's edge for the time being, we should retreat to the periphery of Yabinsk, rely on the big cities to carry out defensive operations, and our troops will also be able to get supplies nearby, exchanging space for enough strategic time." Another staff officer said.

When Rokossovsky heard this, he glared and said: "Our original goal is the Far East, not to retreat, and then to retreat to Moscow, do we want to watch the Red Alert Empire and Germany join Moscow?" ”

Seeing this, Rokossovsky said helplessly: "Our top priority now is to counterattack, take advantage of the enemy's unstable foothold in our hinterland, launch a comprehensive counteroffensive, and even rescue the three army groups that were surrounded in Irkutsk, only in this way can we turn the situation around and seize the initiative on the battlefield." ”