A long winter has passed, and the situation on the Russian battlefield has not changed significantly.

The morale of the European coalition is very sufficient, Pius VII, who is already in his seventies, was pulled to the front line of the war by the British, Tsaritsyn, plus King George III, who is four years older than Pius VII, and Alexander I, who accompanied the two, this is the 'pope' of the Eastern Church.

In 1700, Tsar Peter I abolished the position of 'Patriarch' and established the Eastern Council within the Russian government, which essentially belonged to the successive Russian Tsars.

Together, these three are the leaders of the three major schools of monotheism.

George III does not have the title of Protestant leader on his head, but with the power of England, who would not think that he could compete with Pius VII and Alexander I? To be fair, George III was more powerful than Pius VII and Alexander I, because of the power of the British state.

Alexander I defeated Napoleon and was revered as the Savior throughout Europe. Then compared to the exploits of Alexander I, George III should be followed by the whole of Europe. If it weren't for the fact that the British were enemies of Napoleon again and again, how could it be so easy for Russia to defeat Napoleon?

Russia and Alexander I are more like a knife, and England is the one who holds the handle of the knife.

The gathering of the three people, as well as the ***** and the Yellow Peril theory that the whole of Europe began to preach, all indicate that the mode of getting along between the East and the West is about to enter a new stage.

Inspired by the great spirit, the European coalition forces did not launch an attack on the Chinese Tulinsk defense line in the ice and snow, but Chen Han's several counterattacks failed to pry the coalition forces' position. In this winter, the battle was really fierce for the two cavalry teams on the land of the North Caucasus.

Dong Wei has completely taken a back seat, although he has told Chen Ming more than once that he is nearly seventy years old and healthy. But over the years, there have been rising stars in the Wehrmacht cavalry units, and not one or two.

The tragic battle was from the beginning of the Chen and Han cavalry against the Cossack cavalry, and later the Chinese cavalry against the European cavalry.

China, the Seven Khanates, Persia, Cossacks, Russia, England, Prussia, Poland, and many more.

It was a great war with a total strength of nearly 100,000 troops, and the vast land of the North Caucasus was littered with the corpses of soldiers from both sides. Whether it was the cavalry soldiers of the Wehrmacht, the elite regular cavalry of Britain, Russia, Poland, and Prussia, or the warriors of the Cossacks, the corpses were buried in the land of the North Caucasus.

But this will be of little use except to make the land of the North Caucasus more fertile in the coming year.

The repeated battles of the cavalry groups on both sides were just 'small fights' on the flank battlefield. On the main battlefield, the collision of four or five hundred thousand armies on both sides was like two giant beasts wrestling, and it was impossible to tell the winner without a long-term violent collision. And the cold of the Russian winter limits the frequency of collisions between the two sides, so one winter is far from enough for the four or five hundred thousand troops on both sides to divide the victory and defeat.

But for the besieged New Astrakhan, this cold and harsh winter was very difficult. As mentioned before, Bagration did make full preparations when building New Astrakhan, but now that the siege has lasted for a year, Bagration's original preparations are no longer sufficient, and now the encircled Russian army has also reached the dilemma of running out of ammunition.

When the cold winter gradually faded, the plight of the Russian army in New Astrakhan had truly come. They didn't have a few days left in their stockpiles, and the ammunition stocks were already dry, and the fuel was still there.

Fuel is very important for the Russian army, and now in this weather, it is very unwarm to have a bunker without charcoal and wood. What's more, tens of thousands of people also need a huge amount of fuel to eat and drink.

Bagration does not see the possibility of breaking through the encirclement, and in another ten days and eight years, not to mention whether there is food or not, the Russian army in Novoastrakhan does not even have wood to boil water.

Bagration he is depressed now, a year, New Astrakhan has been surrounded by Chinese for a whole year. They have survived the rain of bullets and fierce attacks of the Chinese, will they fall in the face of hunger? According to Bagration's original idea, the Sino-Russian war should have ended in the middle of last year.

It was difficult for Russia to fight any further, and the Sixth Anti-French Coalition in Europe was not going very well, and the war started by Napoleon did not end in sight. The British were held back by Napoleon, and it was impossible for them to support Russia again and again, so Russia could only beg China for negotiations. And he led his troops to guard the gates of Astrakhan, which is a move that can win a lot of benefits for Russia at the negotiating table.

But where did Bagration think that Britain and France, who were far away in Europe, would have an adultery. The European War set off by Napoleon seemed to end at once, and peace was restored to Europe after more than 20 years of turmoil. This is far beyond Bagration's 'vision'.

His political and military gaze made him 'blind' to the future changes in Europe, and he made a decision based on a wrong inference, which also put Bagration and his new Astrakhan in a desperate situation.

The three armies did not move grain and grass first, and the importance of grain to war is beyond doubt. The so-called counting poison is like running out of food, and these few words summed up in China's thousands of years of war history can explain the importance of grain in one sentence.

The Russian army is now facing a great danger of running out of food, and with their reinforcements unlikely to appear for a while, it seems that Bagration can only wait for death. He could also have the option of surrendering, but he would rather die than surrender.

Then Bagration's decision was unexpected, but it was reasonable.

"Your Majesty, the Northwest Urgent News, at eight o'clock in the evening of the fifth day of February, Russian generals Yermolov and Raevsky led more than 30,000 Russian troops to surrender to our 10th and 19th divisions respectively."

"The Russian army's commander-in-chief Bagration led more than 20,000 of his men to the north to break through." To the north of the New Astrakhan encirclement is the Volga River, where Chen Han has deployed a lot of troops, because from November to the end of March of the following year in the Western calendar, these four or five months are the ice period at the mouth of the Volga River.

The battle took place on the ice-covered Volga River, "............, fierce fighting until about 10 o'clock in the morning of the next day, and the 1st Praetorian Guard Division completely annihilated the Russian breakout troops. Bagration was not obtained, and according to Russian prisoners, Bagration had sunk to the bottom of the river. ”

Chen Ming still remembers his surprise when he heard the news. It is clear that in the face of a desperate situation, Bagration did not sit still. He made a choice between the 60,000 Russian troops under his command, whether to surrender or to follow him to shed the last drop of blood for Russia. As a result, more than half of the people chose to surrender, and Bagration used them as a shield, and then rushed the Volga himself desperately.

Apparently, Bagration failed.

No matter how hard the ice is, it can't stop the bombardment of shells + rockets, more than 20,000 Russian troops were killed by guns and artillery 7,800 people, and no less than 5,000 people were swallowed by the broken ice, and the rest were taken prisoner after trying their best to resist on the shore.

But the leaders turned out to be Raevsky's old subordinates Dokhturov and Nevorovsky, two Russian generals who were willing to follow Bagration's generosity to death at the crossroads of fate yesterday rather than surrender in humiliation like Yermolov and Raevsky, and by the time the sun rose on the sixth day of February, they had given up their useless struggle.

The two of them are not afraid of death, but watching the thousands of soldiers they led fall in front of them one by one senselessly, this is a pressure that is more unbearable for the two of them than death.

Blood stained the ice red, and corpses clogged the Volga.

As the rockets exploded on the ice, the dark red flames engulfed one soldier after another; When the hard ice surface was cracked and collapsed by the cannon of the Chinese, the icy drinking water devoured the endless people like a giant monster......

Dokhturov and Nevorovsky could only surrender!

No matter how strong the courage is, it will tremble in the face of death, especially this 'death' is not given to oneself, but to thousands of 'compatriots'. Compared with Yermolov, Raevsky, and the more than 30,000 Russian soldiers who chose to surrender on the road of life, the more than 20,000 Russian troops led by Bagration are undoubtedly 'real' loyalists. So how can Dokhturov and Nevorovsky, who are equally loyal to Russia, watch them go to their deaths senselessly?

It can be said that after this winter, the losses of the Europeans on the Russian battlefield were very large. The fall of Bagration was several times more valuable than the cavalry fighting in the North Caucasus.

Of course, the war situation in the Americas cannot be completely ignored.

Because this war came suddenly, Spain and Portugal can say that their strength is weak, and there are many wars at home, and they can't make big waves by relying on their colonies alone.

Let's not forget how many people there are in Brazil and Argentina now. The two places together are not as large as half the population of the Lighthouse State, and the war potential is obvious.

Therefore, it was not Portuguese Brazil and Spanish Argentina that made the military garrison in the Americas angry at the beginning, but the lighthouse countries of North America.

Whether it's Alabama and Georgia in the south or the Great Lakes region in the north, the Americans' offensive in the first two months has been thundering.

In the north, they reached Lake Michigan from south Erie Lake to the new city of Michigan, which Chen Han had built on the site of the former Dearborn Fortress;

In the south, they recaptured almost all of Georgia.

It's just that the U.S. Southern Route Army, which hit the border of Connectivity in Florida in one go, also ran out of strength. Just like the Northern Route Army, which could not be defeated in New Michigan, the exhausted Americans and the mobilized Chen Han vassal state and the American garrison began a real tug-of-war in the following winter.

And as soon as the tug-of-war began, the Americans felt that it was not a taste.

Don't look at Georgia and the Great Lakes region as the original land of the Americans, but there are no more Americans there, only a small number of Chinese immigrants, who can run away when the American troops come in. The area of this large area is quite small, but as a no-man's land, Lao Mei is not like a fish in water, on the contrary, it has also lengthened their transportation distance.

This makes Americans very uncomfortable.

Obviously, these territories were still theirs a few years ago, but now it is like entering a neighboring country, and their food and food need to be transported from the rear, and the battle line has been stretched for hundreds of miles in a flash. Fortunately, the old US navy is powerful enough, and with the support of Britain and France behind it, the US naval strength has increased dramatically over the years, which has made the US military on the offensive feel better.

And in the winter of last year, Chen Ming had already dispatched a large army to the Americas. It can be said that this year is the key moment in this big battle!

Chen Ming started a war between the east and the west, and the Ottoman Empire could not be said to have no force, and they now contained the Austrians to a certain extent, but the fight with Russia only stayed on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia has also interestingly halted its forces in the northwestern part of the Black Sea, and their biggest enemy now is China, the East.

Even Austria and the Ottoman Empire, these two countries began to have a tacit understanding of paddling.

No one wants to die.

Austria was because of European control, and Ottomans were because of internal strife. The turmoil caused by a military coup was not so easy to quell, the conservative aristocracy and elders were not unique to Istanbul, and although the main force of the Janissaries was defeated, their families were sold to China by the Ottoman authorities. But there are also quite a few Janissaries outside Istanbul.

If the main force arrives in Istanbul, it is impossible to leave no one in his hometown, these people are all hidden dangers in the Ottoman political arena.

So no one on either side wants to fight anymore.

The only strength of the Ottomans now is on the Crimean Peninsula, hurry up and take the fortress of Servvatopol, this damn fortress has been resisting them for more than two years, and no matter how much material reserves there are, it should be consumed, right?

The Russians really didn't want to go to war with the Ottomans. If the Ottomans were willing to return to the original line of demarcation, that is, to cede the eastern part of the Crimean Peninsula to Russia, and the two countries returned to their original positions, then Russia would immediately be able to cease war with the Ottomans.

But now in this war, the only thing that the Ottomans can count on is the Crimean Peninsula. At this point, they will not back down even a single step. In this way, the fighting on the Crimean Peninsula can only continue. Everything depends on China!

If China wins, the Ottomans will really win; And if China loses, even if the Ottoman Empire completely takes the Crimean Peninsula and seizes a large part of Ukraine, it will have to spit out all the food it has eaten.

Today's heavenly world is so sad.

This is no longer the era when the Celestial Empire is fighting in the east and west.