In the city of Nanjing, on the shore of Xuanwu Lake.

Chen Ming walked on the shore of the silent lake, the evening breeze could not make him feel cold, and the sunset that was about to set could not make him feel sad.

Yes, he is not young anymore, like the sun that is about to set, but so what? His exploits have been clearly portrayed on the monument of Chinese history, so Chen Ming doesn't have to feel sad at all. He could have spent the rest of his life standing on the top of the world, looking down on the entire earth.

Let Chen Ming, who is pacing by the lake in the last little afterglow of the sunset, always have a dark thing on his brow that is difficult to understand, and it is not a domestic thing, there are a lot of things in the country this time, but the 10,000-ton giant ship will not be overturned by small winds and waves, Chen Ming is transitioning rights, if there is no accident in the country, it will be strange.

The only thing that can make him worry is the war in the Great Northwest, although the good news has just spread from the front, the North Caucasus detachment has just recaptured Milerovo, a small city located more than a hundred kilometers directly south of Rostov-on-Don. The only thing that can attract Chen Han's attention economically, agriculturally, and strategically is that it has a direct road from Milerovo to Rostov-on-Don.

Since the influx of European 'volunteers' into Europe on a large scale, the most subversive form was in the North Caucasus, which of course did not completely regain control of the Europeans, but one of their armies seized Rostov-on-Don, a very important city on the eastern shore of the Black Sea. This is the node of the Russian Black Sea route on the east coast, from where a large amount of Ukrainian arms and food materials were transported to Tsaritsyn, and a group of Russian civilians even ran back.

In the past spring, the second group of the Celestial side led by Persia [the first group is the Celestial state led by the Ottomans] organized an infantry army of more than 20,000 people, and gathered more than 10,000 Chen Han infantry cavalry, a total of more than 40,000 troops, with the aim of completely driving out the Russians in the North Caucasus.

Now this army is coming to fruition, if Tsaritsyn does not send troops to reinforce Rostov, or if it is too late to send reinforcements.

It stands to reason that this is good news.

But along with this news, there was also an urgent notice from the Office in Europe, Napoleon once again formed a second army group to the United States, and correspondingly, the British, Prussians, and Swedes also organized a new batch of volunteers against Russia. The number of this group of volunteers is at least 70,000, and even as high as 100,000, which is of course a bad thing for Chen Han.

Chen Ming was not afraid of reinforcements from a mere 100,000 troops, but he was 'afraid' of the momentum of the resolute struggle shown by the Europeans.

This support army is the European world's support for Russia, so isn't this the European world's resistance to Chen Han?

The so-called: the one who wants the same wins.

On the battlefield in Russia, the Europeans showed such faith.

China, as an aggressor country, has seriously damaged the interests of the Russian people, and the Chinese have been particularly ruthless in expelling all Russians, which is equivalent to depriving them of most of their wealth - houses, land/woodyards.

The Chinese invasion also seriously harmed the interests of the Russian aristocracy, and the interests of the European ruling class, because the interests of Europe are the interests of their ruling class.

In this way, such a war is not a good taste.

All of Russia, all of Europe, tens of thousands of people have already been stirred up by their propaganda.

Although many of Tsaritsyn's own magnates had fled Tsaritsyn as early as last year, or even the year before last, even many Russian nobles in the area west of Tsaritsyn had already packed up their finances and transferred their property and wealth, who could hide such a move. No magnate can hide it, only civilians and soldiers are hidden.

As long as there is no leak from a 'colleague', civilians and soldiers will never know, and at most they will know about individual cases or spread some unverifiable gossip.

So, as it turns out, it's better for the inferior to fool. They will always be the pawns of the superiors, and as long as public opinion is well controlled, they can be played with in the palm of their hands. And countless ordinary people were sold and helped count the money. In a lot of times and in a substantive sense, this sentence is about these subordinates.

Even on China's side, it is civilians who suffer more from war, and it is the powerful and the royal family who benefit the most. Even Chen Ming himself couldn't go against this specification, and he unknowingly became what he is now.

No matter how lofty the ultimate goal of the war is, in the war, the Chen Han royal family has taken too many rights and interests and wealth for him and his family, and too little is distributed to every soldier and civilian.

The difference is only that Chen Ming has expanded the cake countless times, and this very small piece is not small.

Just as all strata of the upper and lower strata in Russia worked together to resist Chen Han, Chen Han's side is now also united in the same mind.

The reason why the empire started the war was to fight for more land for future generations, and the empire was also to weaken the great enemy of the north.

Under the guidance of the newspapers, everyone was clear about the benefits of the war against Russia, and everyone believed that the war was 'right'.

But in any case, the Wehrmacht and the Chen Han Dynasty can also say that they are both up and down. In this regard, it is not a pity that the soldiers on both sides fought fiercely.

Because the greed of the inferior can never be compared with the beauty of the superior, and their vision cannot see too far. Even if Chen Ming only gave a small benefit, he would already satisfy them.

The concrete manifestation of this 'satisfaction' on the battlefield is heroic combat, whether it is offensive or defensive, whether it is on the shores of the Caspian Sea or on the Volga River, whether it is the Wehrmacht or the Russian army, it is very prominent.

The Russian army won the victory in the defensive battle with its tenacity and strength when the logistics were chaotic and when food, medicine, bullets, grenades, artillery shells, etc. had to be carefully calculated. Regardless of whether they had the advantage in the loss of troops, they always withstood Chen Han's kick.

And what about the Wehrmacht? Or the army of the Seven Khanates? Their logistical supply is much better than that of the Russian army, but their fighting spirit on the battlefield has never been closely related to logistics.

The war against Russia has lasted for nearly three years now, and behind it is tens of thousands of casualties of the Wehrmacht and the army of the Seven Khanates.

A squadron/company will go up and be empty in an hour or two, and a battalion will pull up in the morning and will not be able to move by noon.

In the face of each other's strong fortresses and defenses, the rockets almost did not work, and the siege relied on the prolonged bombardment of hexagonal guns, and the other was that the assault team approached and used explosives to clear the way.

Before the cold winter of last year, the war was fought to the end, and all kinds of reserves were depleted, whether it was gunpowder or artillery shells, there was a serious shortage. Even paper bullets are no longer standard, but have become one-inch five paper, gunpowder and large lead ingots, the logistics of transportation capacity is too tight, the same large space to load paper, gunpowder and lead ingots, obviously more than the standard paper bullets.

At that time, on the position between the two armies, there were mangled corpses, blood-colored muscles, whitish fat, miserable white broken bone stubble, and even pale yellow brains.

Whether it is the Wehrmacht or the Russian army, there is a bit of a taste of the end of the crossbow.

Fortunately, a long cold winter followed, and although the two sides also fought each other on the snowy battlefield, the number of times was limited and the scale was limited. Except for cavalry battles in the North Caucasus.

Both sides are taking advantage of the bitterly cold weather to stock up on the front line as much as possible.

Chen Ming will not underestimate Russia. Lao Maozi's toughness, he knows. Thinking about Hitler's tragedy on the Soviet-German battlefield frightened Chen Ming. For a country like Russia, it must be killed with a stick. It must not be given a chance to breathe!

When Hitler committed suicide in the basement, he must have regretted his strategic mistake. However, Chen Ming felt that the biggest strategic mistake of the German army was not the Battle of Stalingrad, nor was it any 'war strategy', but a miscalculation at the spiritual level. Uncle Steel, titanium steel!

The Battle of Stalingrad was a turning point in the Soviet-German war, and the Battle of Moscow was a precursor to the defeat of the German army. But in the final analysis, these two battles were won by the tenacity of the Red Army and the Russian army. It is better not to have that indomitable tenacity, just like the peanut regime, Red Russia would have collapsed into a pile of ruins. The course of World War II will be a different outcome.

Just as Chen Ming was strolling on the shores of Xuanwu Lake, the Russian flag had fallen on the head of Rostov-on-Don.

More than 40,000 troops, having captured Mirerovo, continued their offensive towards Rostov.

It was a very hard battle, and now the Russian army has enough troops to open up the North Caucasus, and the Russian army is unwilling to give up Rostov, an important city that they have reclaimed. So the battle was fierce.

The Wehrmacht had nothing to say about the war, and the Persian army shouted to retreat halfway through the battle, but the Wehrmacht resolutely did not allow it, and in the end, in the battle of Rostov-on-Don, both sides paid the price of 10,000 casualties before completely destroying the Russian defenders in the city.

In the battle to capture Rostov, because the casualties were too huge, Chen Han and the Persian side had a disagreement for a while, and there was a certain estrangement, but after the battle, the latter army admired the Wehrmacht even more. The performance of the latter in the siege of Rostov-on-Don, shook them all.

The essence of the army is still people, the Chinese army has the logistical supply and relatively favorable treatment that the Persian army does not have, and the weapons and equipment of the national defense force make the Persian Tianfang army salivate, but after putting aside all the external factors and external conditions, the kind of tenacious combat spirit that the Chen Han army has is something that all soldiers must respect.

Therefore, the Battle of Rostov is not the 'Battle of Moscow' of Russia, let alone the 'Battle of Stalingrad' of Tsarist Russia. The 'myth' of the Tran Han National Defense Force continues to shine brightly. The Tsarist army failed to win the victory, and failed to inspire the confidence of the Russian people and the people of the whole West in winning the war against China and China.

A large number of troops marched into Rostov-on-Don, and the soldiers held their heads high and carried the pride of victory.

The last surviving remnants of the 1,000 Russian soldiers in the city, led by a colonel named Georgiev, lost their rifles. They had already been taken to a prisoner of war camp outside the city. As for the civilians in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, who had no time to flee, they all looked at the Wehrmacht and the Celestial Army soldiers with timid and hateful eyes.

At the time of the first fall of Rostov, large numbers of Russians were driven to the northern lands. It's just that with the re-entry of the Russian army, many Russians who lived a refugee life in the north have returned to Rostov-on-Don.

Yes, there is no endless amount of food here, but there are houses here that can be sheltered. In the cold winter of Russia, there is not a warm house, it is fatal.

As for food, after the Russian army regained its advantage in the Black Sea region, the Ukrainian region, which is the breadbasket of Russia, began to regain the Black Sea route, and a large number of ships transported a large amount of grain to Rostov under the protection of Russia's Black Sea Fleet. This is one of the important reasons why the Russians want to restore Rostov, on which a considerable part of the winter rations of millions of expelled Russian civilians in the North Caucasus and the Volga region depend. I know that winter is coming.

And with such a great 'significance', it is no wonder that Rostov can 'shelter' tens of thousands of Russian refugees, and it is no wonder that the Russian government allows them to go south to Rostov-on-Don. There's a reason for all this.

More than 30,000 Russian civilians were confined to residential areas and told by Chen Han to leave Rostov within 10 days. A large number of soldiers began to close to clear the Rostov neighborhood, where there were still sporadic gunshots.

Despite the ragged uniforms and mental exhaustion, and the number of troops entering the city was reduced to half or even one-third of the original number, Chen Han and the Persian soldiers still entered St. Petersburg in a neat procession. In particular, the Wehrmacht, which is at the forefront, is a mighty division that can still fight hard under difficult conditions and is not afraid of sacrifice.

Chen Ming spent fifty years organizing and refining an iron army.

In the current era, apart from all external factors, it is also a world-class army. In the battle of Rostov-on-Don, they defeated the dense firepower of the Russian army and one pillbox group after another with their lives and flesh, which by the way boosted the fighting spirit of the friendly troops and also hit the will and fighting spirit of the Russian army.

Unbeknownst to the Wehrmacht and Persian armies who were entering Rostov-on-Don today, more than one European journalist was writing about them in his own notes, among the more than 30,000 civilians in Rostov today.

These journalists are not worried about their lives, and in the previous three years of the Sino-Russian war, Chen Han has proved that they still respect journalists.

"This is not Napoleon's army, and the tsar will never return."

A reporter from Austria looked at the Chinese National Defense Forces outside the hotel where he was staying, a team of high-spirited, but strictly disciplined, no robbery, looting, and no murder.

He was an Austrian of Slavic ancestry, and if he could, he would like the winner of this war to be Russia, not China. But what he saw now told him that there was no chance of victory for Russia.