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Inside the underground headquarters of Novosibirsk, the flickering lights flickered and darkened the headquarters, and the occasional explosion overhead, and dust fell on the map.

In less than a week, Russia's millions of army forces were routed for thousands of kilometers, and the battlefield stretched from central Siberia to western Siberia, and even the city of Novosibirsk became an isolated city.

Nikolayevich's inner anguish can be imagined.

What angered him the most was the rout along the way, millions of armies were wiped out and surrendered by the formations, and most of the troops directly threw away their weapons and waited to surrender.

The fact that millions of armies were swept away by hundreds of thousands of enemy troops was a great humiliation unprecedented for the Russian Empire.

He really wanted to change something, but by now, he didn't have the strength to turn things around.

Having held out in Novosibirsk, he has learned that the enemy has advanced to Omsk, and the enemy's paratroopers have already landed in Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg, and perhaps the next war will break out in Moscow.

This is a war that can be called a super nest, the enemy's means have never been seen before, the war from the very beginning, completely beyond the control of Nikolayevich, never seen such a ferocious attack, such a crazy speed of advancement.

In just one week, thousands of kilometers of front were broken through, the enemy's air force was extremely sharp, able to airdrop a large number of soldiers to their rear, and it was also heard that tanks could be transported to the rear together, coupled with the endless offensive of a large number of tanks in front, which led to the collapse of the entire Russian army.

Because there were enemies everywhere in front and back, and some soldiers were fighting and retreating, but they found that their rear had been occupied by the enemy, and a large number of their comrades had become prisoners.

This war cannot be fought at all, and it is not fought like this.

At this time, Nikolayevich had to admit that the enemy was very terrible, not to mention the advanced weapons and equipment, and the tactical level was simply appalling.

The Russian army is not without combat effectiveness, but it is powerless, sometimes it cannot find an enemy to fight with, and the war on the battlefield before and after the war has ended.

"General, the Chinese Empire is going on again, their tanks have appeared in the neighborhoods on the east and west, our soldiers are almost overwhelmed, we are compressing our defensive line and forcing our soldiers to surrender."

A major general got into this underground command post and reported loudly to Nikolayevich.

Another major general, who came in together, shook the dirt off his body, and wrapped around his body. Around a lot of gauze, the military uniform that covered the loess, there were blood stains everywhere, and he also said to Nikolayevich:

"General, the news from the 3rd Siberian Army that their breakthrough operation has failed and that they are divided and surrounded by enemy tank forces, and the 3rd Army has sent a final telegram claiming that they will choose to surrender."

"The 1st Army Corps in the Far East managed to break through to the west, and they did not cover the 3rd Army Corps, nor our troops on the Southern Front, which resulted in the 3rd Army being completely surrounded, and the troops of the Southern Front, two corps, already an hour ago, surrendered to the enemy."

When Nikolayevich heard this, his whole person was like an angry lion, and he slammed the table and scolded: "Those damn bastards, dogs. The most hateful thing is that the idiots of the entire First Army Corps didn't see that the enemy deliberately let them go, and then used them to completely annihilate the main forces of the north and south wings? Without the help of the Third Army and the two corps, did the First Army think they would be able to escape? ”

If the First Army could really escape, perhaps Nikolayevich would not have been so furious, but the Third Army Corps, regardless of the actions of the left and right flanks, not only buried the main forces on both sides, but seemed to have successfully broken through, but the result was a very stupid plunge headlong into the area where the enemy's heavy forces were concentrated.

At this moment, Novosibirsk was already an isolated city, with enemies in front and behind, and it was not possible to break through to the west.

Originally, Nikolayevich intended for the 3rd Army Corps to cover the main forces on the left and right flanks and break through to the south or north, but the result was completely opposite.

Everyone in the command was silent, and Nikolayevich finally sighed and ordered: "Let the commander of the Second Army come to me, I will personally deploy the defense of Novosibirsk, there are no cowards in the Slavic nation, there are warriors who fight to the death, I will be like a nail, rooted in this place, so that the enemy cannot use this railway." ”

However, the response to Nikolayevich was a helpless voice: "The Second Army has been disbanded, the commander of the Second Army has been killed by enemy snipers in battle, and almost half of the troops of the Second Army have surrendered. ”

Another officer bowed his head and said: "At present, the total number of troops we can command may not even be 10,000, most of them are remnants, lack of weapons, ammunition and food, and the available artillery is only a 75-mm field gun, which cannot threaten the enemy's tanks at all, and the morale of the officers and men is very low." ”

"This force is currently under my command, please rest assured that we will never surrender and will fight to the last soldier." The officer who had spoken earlier continued.

Nikolayevich glanced at everyone in the command and said: "After all, there are still bloody people in our army, as long as we can hold here, the hundreds of thousands of troops dispatched by the enemy will lead to the inability of the follow-up, and our army will be able to block the enemy's attack in Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg, and France is about to enter the war." Everyone, victory will be ours, don't give up. ”

"Yes, General!"

Everyone in the command shouted in unison.

The major general wrapped in gauze immediately continued: "According to the enemy's mode of operation, under the field defense, we have no ability to resist at all, they can call for artillery support very quickly, infantry can call in tanks and armored vehicles, our defense line will be quickly destroyed by the enemy's superior firepower, and we have no way to deal with the enemy's tanks at present, even if it is a 75-mm field gun, it cannot destroy the enemy's tanks in direct fire at close range." ”

"And according to what we found, the enemy's combat units are very elite, and we will even send the communication radio to the infantry squad, which makes an infantry squad of the enemy can call for support at any time, and the most terrible thing is the snipers hidden in the shadows, most of our soldiers died at the hands of these snipers."

"Therefore, if we continue to fight in the field, our troops will not be able to afford losses at all, and our enemies will probably only have a thousand men."

Nikolayevich thought for a moment, and then ordered: "Then order the troops, abandon all street defenses, and all move into houses and alleys to fight, the enemy's front is offensive, it is impossible to stay here with a large number of troops, this may be our opportunity." ”

"Yes, sir."

The two officers saluted at the same time, and then withdrew from the headquarters, and calm was restored again in this underground headquarters.

There was only Nikolayevich's heavy gasps, and he knew full well that his final moment was coming.

Looking back on the past week, he fully felt that the enemy was too strong, much stronger than his own side.

Millions of elite Russian troops, these are elite troops mobilized from the Western Front to the Eastern Front, and they are Russia's powerful corps to shock Europe.

In a week's time, Russia's strongest army is finished.

This is not only the last hour of itself, but also the last hour of the Russian Empire.

In the face of the enemy, Nikolayevich did not have the idea of despair, because his heart was dead.

From the moment the enemy showed his hideousness, Nikolayevich did not have any confidence in victory.

It was a very unfair war, and the soldiers with the bolts of their guns faced a group of armored clusters on the ground, fighters and bombers in the sky, and the result was naturally a massacre.

Nikolayevich was not worried about his fate, what he was really worried about was the fate of the Russian Empire.

Once the two cities of Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg were breached, the enemy's front would be only about a thousand kilometers away from Moscow.

And in these thousand kilometers, Russia simply cannot find decent troops to withstand the enemy's offensive.

Nikolayevich knew this, and the enemy's generals must have understood it, otherwise the enemy would not have stormed thousands of kilometers in depth.

This tactic, which is dominated by the enemy's powerful weaponry, encircles and annihilates millions of elite Russian troops, while opening the door to Russia's European defense line.

Several years have passed since the beginning of the war, and Russia has lost thousands of kilometers of territory from the Far East to here, and how long will it be able to hold out on to the remaining more than a thousand kilometers?

No one could comprehend the burning torment in Nikolayevich's heart at this moment, nor could he comprehend what he saw in his eyes at this moment, which was the scene of the destruction of a supracontinental power.

"If Russia had those advanced weapons and equipment, would the war be what it is today?" Nikolaevich thought about it, but he could not answer this question in his heart.

Or maybe he already has the answer in his heart, but he can't answer it.

For the past seven days, Nikolaevich has been analyzing the rhythm of the enemy's offensive.

A very terrible conclusion was reached, that is, this army can sweep the army of any country in the world.

Not to mention the advanced weapons and equipment, not to mention the enemy's brave soldiers, just to say that the enemy's logistical capability is enough to make any country in the world ashamed.

This can be glimpsed from the fact that the enemy tanks have barely stopped assaulting, and the artillery has barely stopped along the way.

Tanks, this kind of thing Nikolayevich already knew quite well, and it took a lot of fuel to be able to support tank operations.

After the opponent advanced thousands of kilometers, there was no pause in the process of tank assault, which means that the enemy's logistics supply is perfect, and the fuel consumed by the tank can be replenished at any time.

On the other hand, Russia's logistics are difficult to guarantee even hundreds of tanks, while the enemy's support for thousands of tanks and more armored vehicles and trucks is unprecedentedly powerful.

The same is true for the supply of artillery, which can be supported by artillery at any time, which also shows that the enemy's artillery advance and supply speed are all very fast.

The main point is that the enemy is supplying from the Far East to central Siberia, and the long supply lines are often desperate, but the other side seems to be unaffected.

Based on the logistical point, Nikolayevich already knew that his defeat was not wronged at all, and the responsibility was not on those officers who were greedy for life and afraid of death, but on the fact that the enemy was really strong.

Even Russian units, with the same equipment, will find it difficult to deal with such a terrible enemy.

"After accumulating for almost two years, after the whole world thought that the Chinese Empire was nothing more than that, he brazenly made a move to annihilate all the main forces of our Russian Empire, Fan Yize, what a terrible person you are, the war is really as you once said, even if we are not peaceful, it will end soon, your self-confidence, I can't understand it."

Nikolayevich muttered to himself.

Tall and burly, despite his age, he is still dignified, and from an objective point of view, he is very witty and very resourceful.

As the supreme commander of Russia in World War I in history, Nikolayevich's performance on the battlefield is indeed worthy of the name in historical time and space, and his efficient command has given the Germans a headache.

The Grand Duke of Tsarist Russia, a member of the imperial family, and the Russian Emperor Nicholas II wanted to call him uncle, at this moment, he slowly pulled out his command knife, which was engraved with the gift of his brother, the former Tsar Alexander III, this sword was his pride, and it was the honor of his heroic performance in the Russo-Turkish War.

Drawing this sword, Nikolai walked out of the headquarters, with a dozen guards by his side, and began to patrol the defense line in the city of Novosibirsk at this moment.

He wanted to tell every soldier that he was with them, that the Russian royal family was with them.

During the inspection, he saw the enemy positions at a distance of less than two hundred meters, and he saw that under the cover of the enemy's machine guns, a flag was planted on the commanding heights of a building.

The fluttering bright red flag pierced Nikolayevich's heart like a sharp blade.

After a short respite, the sound of machine guns roared again, and a large number of machine gun fire covered the enemy's infantry and tanks, and the Russian soldiers who were dead in a church relied on various obstacles to resist the attack step by step.

Russia's 10,000 remnants of the army were efficiently used to combat effectiveness, often fighting over and over again for a building, and the battle lasted a whole day.

The city is already in ruins, and the focus of contention in the center of the city has been reduced to ruins.

After a day of fighting, to the despair of the Russians, their last reserves were also exhausted, there were no forces for a counteroffensive, and the enemy attacks were endless.

By the next morning, the fighting in Novosibirsk had completely subsided, and the soldiers found Nikolayevich's body, who had chosen to commit suicide.

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