Chapter 60: Russia in Turmoil

Perhaps as a result of the shelling, the burning positions were scorched, the wreckage blocked every corner, and a terrifying hoarse sound roamed the ground. If you look closely, you can still see a pile of dusty people crushed under the building.

After only twenty minutes of bombing, the place became shocking, and at the same time I felt sad and had to admire the sophistication of modern weapons.

But now there is a problem, that is, the bombed ruins make it difficult for the army to move an inch, and it is simply not possible to deploy troops on a large scale and organize an offensive.

And it takes a long time to clean up these ruins, so it is better to just let the infantry go up and kill the Russians.

Kuster could only keep the fire as low as possible, and then let a small group of sappers try to rub out the obstacle and clear a road in front of him that was enough for the tank to move.

The large forces controlled the situation in the rear, calling in tractors to clear the obstacles, and at the same time preparing the logistics for the next battle.

It has to be said that the vitality of these buildings is much more tenacious than that of the Russians, and the 80,000 troops only opened a road until noon, and they are so narrow that tractors can't get in at all, let alone tanks.

But there is also good news, the Russians in the entire position are all dead, the command is also crushed by the eaves, the radio inside is silent, it can be seen that the Russians have not sent any information, it seems that nothing has alarmed the Russian high-level, they do not know what is happening here.

It was still too late, but without the mobility of the armor, the infantry had to rely on their own strong combat effectiveness to fight alone.

But that doesn't matter, no one believes that this elite group of Germans can't even beat those reckless people.

What's more, without the cover of the mountains, it is easy to break through the Russian defense line, and there is no need to worry about the problems later.

While the infantry was attacking, Kuster also sent a telegram to all the Allied member states, informing them that the Russian Caucasus defense line had been reduced to dust and was now advancing into enemy depth.

Everyone was excited, but none was happier than Kaiser Wilhelm, who thought that Kust should be allowed to attack Tsaritsyn and seize control of the Volga, so that he could cross the river and attack the Russian hinterland at any time.

The German Chief of the General Staff, Falkingham, was noncommittal about this, and even suggested to the Kaiser that Kuster should be allowed to take Petersburg directly, and the Tsar's family should be captured alive to end the war directly.

The Kaiser was still the same Kaiser, but the situation on the battlefield had already changed dramatically, and with the breakthrough of the Caucasus, coupled with the complete lack of reaction from the top, the Caucasus was destined to fall soon.

Russia's offensive in Eastern Europe would inevitably be slowed down, and he would have to return most of his forces to the Caucasus, and his allies would have to support him with all their might, thus turning him to a disadvantage on the Western Front. Once again, the pressure came to the side of the Entente.

This is undoubtedly a huge warplane, and the head of the Austro-Hungarian General Staff, Conrad, wants to take this opportunity to reverse the decline in Ukraine.

Unfortunately, he was only a little greater than his men, and it was too bold to rely solely on the Austro-Hungarian army to lay the breadbasket of Europe.

Unlike Conrad, who was on paper, Falkingham of Germany was very professional, and instead of increasing the offensive on the Eastern Front, he concentrated his main forces on the Western Front.

This was done to pretend to be a pretense, to scare the British and French forces, so that they would not dare to move to support Russia, and there was no intention of attacking.

But this trick was really useful, hundreds of thousands of troops were stuck and didn't dare to move.

It was not that the British and French were playing their traditional arts, but that they really did not dare to retreat, and the Germans were only less than 7 kilometers from Paris, and they would have stabbed them in if they gave way any more.

They would rather lose the reckless Russian man than Paris, the world cultural center, and they had been frightened by the advanced weapons of the Germans, and now they did not dare to launch an offensive to relieve the pressure on their allies as much as possible, but dared to huddle in the trenches and be bombarded.

Russia is like an orphan of Europe, and no European country will stand up to help him at this moment.

Although Japan also participated in the war, no one would expect a country with a lot of debts to come to their aid, especially since they had recently broken out a major war with Russia and accumulated a lot of grievances.

The Tsar was very upset when he learned that there was no aid, and that the existing army was completely insufficient to withstand the onslaught of the Central Powers, and they seemed to be doomed.

In the end, the Tsar decided to break the net and recruit troops on a large scale all over the country, regardless of whether there was a supply of guns or not, as long as it was an individual, he was obliged to go to the battlefield to die for His Majesty the Tsar.

Russia's explosive ability is extremely terrifying, under the pressure of all levels of government, only the next day after the Caucasus was breached, 120,000 people were conjured out of thin air, and what is even more shocking is that this number has been multiplying.

But these people are nothing, they don't even have a well-fitting military uniform, they are ragged, and they are soldiers with a stick, worse than those peasant soldiers.

And these people were recruited from all over the place, which means that they have not yet reached the front.

Russia's transportation capacity is extremely poor, and how many soldiers it can send is completely casual, and it is impossible to assemble to the front line without ten days and half a month. Some of these soldiers from Siberia were even more miserable, and they might not be able to reach the front line until the end of the war.

Russia sending so many incapable men into battle may have brought some improvement to the war situation, but it is still not worth mentioning compared to the harm to the internal political arena.

The Tsarist government was recruiting people everywhere, and anyone who was in good shape went to war, and even if you were not disabled, you would be mobilized to the front.

It didn't take long for such a mass conscription to be spurned by the people, and a large number of people living in Russia scattered and fled from the rotten Tsarist government.

As a result, many factories in the country have been shut down, nationalized enterprises have gradually turned to privatization, the monopoly of capital has been gradually established, the gap between the rich and the poor has widened rapidly, and domestic prices have become even more out of control.

Even a blind person can see that the tsarist government will not last long, and even the whole of Russia will not last long.

The major political parties took this as an opportunity to recruit people everywhere and stir up turmoil in Russian politics.

The bourgeoisie also saw that the time had come and were ready to unite with some experienced generals in a rebellion.

As for the progress of the Russian Communist Party, which Kuster was most concerned about, they have not yet sent out a single message, and apart from the fact that Marxism is still being preached in the newspapers, no intelligence officer working in Russia can give feedback on their movements.

It seems that the Russian Communist Party has been honest lately, but the current turmoil in Russia will not allow them to endure it.

The tsarist central government was no longer able to concentrate any more forces, and a vigorous party had to lead them through this difficult situation.