Crimean

In September, it has been more than a month since the end of the war in Western Ukraine, and the scenery of Yalta is beautiful, like a paradise on an oil painting.

Early in the morning

In a house facing the sea

Major Yu Hongyun yawned and pushed open the door and walked out, wearing a loose and comfortable light-colored Tang coat, walked to the chair under the porch and sat down, breathed in the fresh sea breeze, looked at the blue sea in front of him through the small courtyard full of flowers, and sighed contentedly.

Then he took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took out one and lit it, and enjoyed it happily like a fairy.

He was the commander of the tank battalion of the 4th Kalimantan Division under the 2nd Army, and in the recently concluded Western Ukraine Campaign, Major Yu Hongyun led his tank battalion as the vanguard of the whole division.

The division reported him for first-class merit, If it is approved by the above, a proper one will be promoted from a baron nobleman for life, and his identity is that of a carp jumping into the dragon gate, and he will be promoted to the ranks of military nobles.

This kind of lifelong aristocracy is not hereditary, there is no fiefdom of the fiefdom, but there is a record of the aristocratic archives in the aristocratic heraldic court, there are no material benefits, and it is purely honorary.

Nowadays, it is not much more difficult than the group of fathers in the early days of the founding of the country to get the hereditary title, and there are no more than three in the entire Kalimantan 4th Division, and they are all barons.

Now that the fighting on the Eastern Front has stopped, the Second Army has retired a large number of officers and soldiers who were wounded in the war, and basically they are all recuperating in the beautiful Crimea.

It is said that the battlefield on the Eastern Front could not be fought.

By the end of the year

At least one-third of the officers and men of the 2nd Army should be discharged, and the White Russian vassal army should be reclaimed in regiments and battalions, and the number should be reduced by half, and the number of farms, sheep and cattle should be raised, and agricultural grain and oil processing plants should be established to reduce the pressure on the rear to transport materials.

This method is called Juntun.

After so many years of brutal war, peace was finally ushered in, and this policy was unanimously supported by all the officers and men, and there was a joyful atmosphere from top to bottom.

Comply with the personal wishes of officers and soldiers;

Those who are willing to stay in the fields and territories in Europe and want to return to the mainland of Australia will wait for the end of the war and the army will arrange the return journey.

Major Yu Hongyun didn't want to leave, the house he lived in now was the residence of the Tatar nobles, and the stone bungalow was quite solid, covering an area of more than one acre.

Facing the sea and located on a gently landscaped hillside, the house has 6 bedrooms with a fireplace and study, a maid's room on either side, a stable and a hay shed in the backyard.

As part of the military merit reward, this house was rewarded to him, although the deed paperwork has not been obtained, but it does not affect him to move in and enjoy life.

The island of Crimea was originally home to more than 170,000 Tatars, a Turkic branch of the steppes who were known for their captivity during the Ottoman Empire.

Adhering to the predatory nature of the steppe peoples, the number of white slaves sold by them to all parts of Europe and Asia was as high as more than one million.

When the imperial army arrived, they expelled all these Tatars and settled them in eastern Ukraine, leaving behind an entire Crimean peninsula.

As a result of the war on the Eastern Front, too many civilian populations were killed and a large number of villages were deserted, and these Tatars, who had been forced to relocate to eastern Ukraine, quickly adapted to local village life.

They do not know that the miserable life belonging to the Tatars has just begun.

Historically

The Ukrainian region, Russia, Poland and other places were ravaged by Tatar cavalry, which once followed the Grand Duke of Lithuania to Moscow, burning and looting along the way, capturing more than 150,000 Russian prisoners, and forming a blood feud.

Now that the Tatars of Crimea have been deported to Eastern Ukraine, they are helpless, living under the hostile gaze around them, and everyone has to sweat for them.

But this is not something that Major Yu Hongyun should worry about, he has already written a letter to let his wives and concubines and children who are far away in Australia come to Europe for reunion, and in the future, the Yu family will spread out in Crimea, and it will be supported by him.

According to the military merit award, Major Yu Hongyun can also get a 27-acre field, and he can take out all his savings and buy some commercial fields, which can make up 40 acres of land, which is about the size of a small farm.

"Honey, are you up so early?"

Between words

A fair-skinned and beautiful Ukrainian girl walked out yawning, walked to Yu Hongyun's side with a pout, and sat down snuggled.

Immediately after the sound of the voice, a beautiful blonde girl came out of the room, obediently snuggled on the other side.

Yu Hongyun looked satisfied with one arm and one arm, no wonder he was happy here, most of the officers and soldiers of the 2nd Army were like him, with beautiful wives and concubines, and land and shops in Crimea and the surrounding areas of Odessa.

After the outbreak of the world war

Poland and Ukraine are the main battlefields on the Eastern Front, and the war-torn regions of Eastern Europe are devastated by life, industry and agriculture are barren, tens of millions of people are hungry, and the number of starvation deaths is unknown.

The cities and villages are full of refugees, and they don't need money at all, as long as there is a piece of bread, the big girl is willing to follow.

A few full meals to eat, all of them are watery.

"Morning, Brother Yu, I sat on the porch early this morning and smoked."

A tall man walked over at the gate of the courtyard, Yu Hongyun smiled as soon as he saw people, this is Major Zheng Xiaowu, the deputy commander of the third battalion of the first regiment, a neighbor not far from the next door.

His hand slapped lightly, and the two Ukrainian girls got up and left in a hurry, busy boiling water to make tea, taking out dried fruit preserves, and preparing to entertain the guests.

"Little Wu, you're also early, are you going to enter the city?" Yu Hongyun stood up with a smile and walked a few steps towards him.

Not far from the city of Yalta, that is, one or two kilometers away, there are more than 230 households, all of whom are middle-level officers above the rank of company and below the rank of deputy regiment.

Zheng Xiaowu pushed open the courtyard door, strode over, handed over a newspaper in his hand and said; "You don't know yet, the war on the Western Front has begun."

Yu Hongyun's surprise was not trivial, and he hurriedly grabbed the newspaper and read it.

This period of time was so comfortable and enjoyable that he almost forgot that he was in war-torn Europe, and the world war was not over.

A moment later

Yu Hongyun put down the newspaper in his hand and said with emotion; "Tut-tut, it's really a big deal, more than 4 million troops launched a general offensive on the whole front, thinking about the scale of this sea of people makes people's scalps numb, don't say it, these Westerners are really ruthless in fighting."

"But no, the newspaper said that on the first day alone, it is estimated that the casualties of the enemy and us will exceed 120,000, and the scale of our group army will be wiped out in three days, which is really an evil act."

"This kind of fist-to-flesh battle, our expeditionary force is not good at it."

"Brother Yu, I'll send you a message early in the morning, you can't let me stand at the gate of the courtyard and talk to you, right?"

"Oh...... Look at me...... Come on, sit inside. Major Yu Hongyun slapped his head with a smile, and hurriedly let the guests go to the door of the house.

After the two sides sat down, the Ukrainian girl served tea and dried fruit pastries retreated, and the two smoked cigarettes and chatted while drinking.

The war on the Western Front was the focus of everyone's attention, and the officers of the 2nd Army were certainly no exception.

If the war is unfavorable

The possibility that the 2nd Army may be transferred to the Western Front for reinforcements is a major matter that concerns everyone's vital interests, and who can turn a deaf ear?

Today, on the Western Front, the 1st, 3rd and 4th armies of the Imperial Expeditionary Force are all second-line reserve corps, and it is the French and British who charge the first line.

It is said that it was to compete for the high honor of being the first to enter Germany.

This Rausch sub-name, Major Yu Hongyun, who is a middle- and low-level officer in the expeditionary force, is not cold anyway.

Everyone knows that the Germans are not easy to fight, and the heavily defended German Hindenburg defense line is not so easy to break, it is a tragic battle that requires human lives to pile up.

Although the planes bombed for a month and a half, and the artillery bombed day and night for seven days, the Germans of the 2nd Army fought each other until the other side was extremely adaptable to the enemy and would not always suffer losses.

As a world-class industrial power, Germany's military industrial capacity is not covered, and after realizing the huge threat in the air, the Germans have been working overtime to produce anti-aircraft weapons and improve air defense measures, and have achieved remarkable results.

For example;

The mere addition of air defense camouflage nets and the addition of false targets will reduce the effectiveness of air strikes exponentially.

If you want to dive and strafe and drop bombs, as at the beginning, you will bomb the corpses of the German trenches all over the field, and it is no longer possible to have corpses full of pits and valleys.

One way or another

The Germans would leave enough anti-aircraft firepower to focus on low-flying bombers, forcing them to drop bombs at medium and high altitudes, and hastily carry out bombing missions to finish.

In the era when there were no precision sights, medium-altitude bombing and low-altitude precision bombing were not the same thing at all.

It can be said that more than 90% of the bombs were dropped outside the trenches, and they were blown up in vain, but in fact there was no damage at all.

"Xiao Wu, we all know that the Germans are fighting ghosts, plus this time they are attacking the German mainland, and they know that they will definitely play with their lives when they are closed, this battle is not easy to fight!"

"I went to the division in the morning, and there was no news from it. But I met Lord Tuanza, and he asked me what to do, don't mess with that heart, if you really want to mobilize our 2nd Army, then this battle will be confused. ”

"Hehehe...... This makes sense, we still have more than 900,000 people in the three armies on the Western Front, and the French and British also have more than 1.4 million reserves, so we can't take our turn. Let's eat, drink, relax and wait. ”

"Brother Yu, what you said makes sense, oh...... By the way, have you heard, there is a famine in that part of eastern Ukraine, and many people have fled to us with their families. ”

"What's going on?"

"Hey, Brother Yu, your vacation is really a vacation, you don't hear anything outside the window!" Zheng Xiaowu is a lively and cheerful person, seeing that Yu Hongyun didn't understand the situation, he immediately came to his senses, took a sip of the teacup and took a leisurely sip, and ate two more pastries, looking like I was not in a hurry.

It wasn't until he saw Yu Hongyun's blaming eyes that he smiled and said;

"Don't worry, Brother Yu, listen to me slowly.

Everyone knows that the Ukrainian plain is a big granary, and after our expeditionary force arrived here, it took control of the western Ukrainian region centered on Kyiv.

This year was full of wind and rain, and the grain warehouse was full, and the army not only did not need to transfer grain from abroad, but could also supply a part of the supply to the Western Front, and life was very nourishing.

The eastern Ukrainian region under the control of the new Russian government is different, because there are many white army rebellions throughout the country, and the big cities controlled by the new government have no food, and there is a huge shortage of food, so a large amount of money is transferred from Ukraine.

I heard that after the grain harvest, even the peasants' rations were all taken away.

It's only September, and there is a great famine in the entire eastern Ukrainian region, and if you don't flee, you won't be able to survive this winter anyway! ”

"I see, that's miserable!" Yu Hongyun frowned and sighed.

A small person like him can only help a few big girls at most, and to be honest, it's really a bit of a cost, and there is nothing else to do.

Russia had a population of 160 million before the war, of which only about 70 million belonged to ethnic Russians, and the other 90 million or so were affiliated ethnic groups of the Russian Empire, including Ukrainians, Tatars, Caucasus and Central Asian minorities.

In the fifth year of a brutal world war, more than 15 million Russian soldiers and civilians were killed and wounded, and after the signing of the Brest Treaty, the population of the divided European region was more than 50 million.

Other words

The population of the area under the actual control of the new Russian workers' government was only about 95 million, and now a large-scale civil war has broken out, local warlords have been numerous, cities and villages have been fragmented one after another, and agricultural and animal husbandry production has suffered a great blow.

Under these circumstances, a nationwide famine inevitably broke out, and people lived in hardship, with internal and external troubles emerging one after another.

The new workers' government of Tsarist Russia was faced with a multiple-choice question: in the face of unprecedented international isolation, food was just like this, to whom to eat, and to whom not to eat?

"Brother Yu, I still heard about something......" Zheng Xiaowu said this, looked around mysteriously, and then leaned into Yu Hongyun's ear and whispered a few words.

Yu Hongyun originally looked casual, but as soon as he said these words, his eyes widened, and he looked at Zheng Xiaowu who looked like a gossip in surprise.

Zheng Xiaowu nodded affirmatively, and said in a low voice; "This is the grapevine, you must not reveal it, I heard that they are willing to give a lot of gold and jewelry in exchange for food. Our division will definitely not dare to do it, this is a big crime to lose our heads.

Then you have to ask the superiors, if you don't want the local command to speak, you have to hide it from the British and French, otherwise the allies will make trouble, and no one can afford this crime of the enemy. ”

"Xiao Wu, your ability to inquire about the news is really ......" Yu Hongyun was really convinced, opened his mouth, and didn't say the appropriate metaphor, so he patted him on the shoulder and said; Brother Yu has no hard relationship at the top, otherwise, no matter what, I would recommend you to serve in the staff of the group army and become the deputy battalion commander of an infantry division, which is really too condescending. ”

"That's ...... I also think I can do it, is this news worth your contribution to a big bar? ”

"I didn't say it, slaughter a sheep at night, let's call a few old brothers to have fun, the wine pipe is enough!"

"Hahaha...... It's still Brother Yu who is bright. ”

The matter of drinking was settled, and the two looked at each other and laughed.

No matter how the Western Front is fought, or what kind of disaster and famine there is in Eastern Ukraine, this is all a matter that cannot be fought with the little people.

should eat, drink, with the ability of Yu Hongyun and Zheng Xiaowu, they will die, and they will help a few more white-skinned and beautiful White Russian girls, and spread out for the family, no matter how much waist they have, they can't stand it.