Chapter 1286: German Surprise Attack

In Asia, the Siberian region, the war between China and Russia, under the impetus of China, began to become more and more intense, in fact, the initial plan, China was not ready to Yekaterinburg congratulations, the beginning of the control near Eastern Siberia, to now, reached out to the vicinity of Yekaterinburg, this is the opportunity given by Russia, they only pursue the present, and do not think about the problem of the back road, perhaps for Russia, in the long years, no longer know the taste of failure, Napoleon, who attacked them from the European side, returned with a feather, and from the Asian side, it was even longer.

For China, this is an excellent opportunity Obviously, once Yekaterinburg is laid, the entire Siberian strategy will be completed for the most part, and next, it is the gradual immigration and construction, which is the best for China, and under the consolidation of two or three years, the entire Siberia 7 million square kilometers of land will become part of China's territory, and at that time, China's territory will reach an astonishing 22 million square kilometers, absolutely occupying a large degree of Asia, A huge country will not only generate massive resources, but also China's largest strategic depth.

The most critical thing is that after Siberia was occupied, the border between Russia and China not only did not increase, but decreased a lot, from more than 10,000 kilometers before, it will decrease by a few thousand kilometers, especially the Yekaterinburg line, as long as you defend a few cities around, the Arctic Circle in the north, there is no need to defend at all, it is a forbidden area of life, and it is not easy to even survive, let alone use troops on a large scale.

The Germans, for their part, have always been very concerned about the war situation in the Far East, and as an ally, China has generously opened China's plans to them, knowing that there are at least millions of troops. The imminent attack on Yekaterinburg, the Russian troops coming to the Far East, are almost all controlled on such a line as the Trans-Siberian Railway, and it can be said unceremoniously that they cannot leave, Russia's combat capabilities and the Chinese side's goals. So that these millions will not be able to return to Russia at least in 1915.

This was very important for Germany, which was preparing to attack Russia in its plan in 1915, and since the war situation on the Western Front had formed an obvious stalemate stage, even if it increased investment, it was impossible to eliminate the other side, and in the current situation of trench warfare getting deeper and deeper, the attacking side would definitely have to pay more than the defensive side. Instead of putting the troops here in vain, it is better to pinch the soft persimmons.

After the outbreak of the European War, the appearance of a small part of Russia in the war completely leaked the foundation, Russia has declined, far from the European steamroller that once made Napoleon hate and even perished, in the European War. Except for the losses at the beginning, with Germany. Most of Russia's forces are lost to China, last year's millions, plus this year, a large part of Russia's conventional forces have been exhausted in the confrontation with China, even if there is still the ability to recruit. However, in a short period of time, it will definitely not be able to form combat effectiveness.

For Germany, victory in this war is certain, the key is to see how much time it takes, it is really too long. If Russia and the Entente reacted and provided the necessary support to Russia, then they would return to the original mode of warfare, and the trench warfare might be even more tragic.

The eastern front of Germany is East Prussia, which seems to be a large part of the territory, which is based on the original East Prussia, obtained from the partition of Poland, compared to the Russian territory, the unstable Warsaw area, this area under the strength of Germany, has become relatively stable, relative to the Russian-controlled Poland, from East Prussia, to the shore of the Black Sea, drawn in a straight line, more than the current German land, but whether it is the former Poland, or the city on the Black Sea, It was not so easy to capture, especially in the time limit, but Germany was fearless, and the strong German army gave them strong confidence.

Preparations were actually carried out as early as the end of last year, with the help of Christmas, from the Bordeaux front, almost 1.2 million troops were replaced, replaced by newly formed troops, such an exchange was unknowing, with some experienced second-line troops, replacing the experienced first-line troops, plus in 1915, the strategy of the Bordeaux front was mainly defensive, and Germany had contracted the strategy, to a certain extent, The war against Bordeaux will not be rashly launched, attacking the weak and defending the strong, which is the characteristic of trench warfare, when it is completely defensive, only a small number of personnel can block the attack.

Of course, the emergence of tanks completely ended trench warfare, whether it was the British nomad and Mark, or the French Renault, they were all primary, only machine guns, no main gun tanks, but such new weapons, but caused the collapse of trench warfare, this is not the main reason for Germany's defeat, but it is an inducement, in the war with tanks, it ended with the large-scale retreat of the Germans.

However, now Britain, France and the United States have not yet set their sights on tanks, at least when the losses have not yet reached a certain level, perhaps in the British and American studies, there are similar studies, but they have not advanced to the battlefield.

China will not let Germany repeat the mistakes of the past, China's armored forces, under the excellent performance of the engine, have entered the second generation, or even the third generation, there is already a prototype of T32, such a tank, under China's huge production capacity, at a rate of 350 units per month, rapid growth is expected to be by the end of 1915, the monthly production volume will exceed 500 units, which is a huge number, 6000 tanks a year, will make the armored group a reality.

China reported the news in time, and Germany was also ready to attack Russia, especially knowing that the Chinese army was ahead of the rear and trapped 9 percent of Russia's troops in the Far East, Germany immediately began to act, more than 1.2 million troops, in a short period of time, entered East Prussia, which is more dense than in history, under the railway network, and the time spent to mobilize these troops was at least 3 days than before, under the premise that the Entente and Russia did not react, the army was mobilized.

On May 20, 1915, it was a total of days, 1.2 million troops, divided into almost 50 divisions, they launched a comprehensive attack on Russia from three directions, in just one day, it broke through 70 kilometers, Russia did not expect at all, Germany would suddenly attack at this moment, the soldiers on the front line did not make the necessary preparations, in the face of Germany's carefully prepared heavy artillery and machine guns, Russia's resistance was in vain, and the three lines of defense guarded by heavy troops were broken through one by one, At least 120,000 people were defeated and captured.

The Entente thought that Germany would launch a wave of attacks, launched in Russia, which was never expected, Russia has gone through several troop transfers, although there are still 1.2 million troops in the European part, but the quantity is enough, it is not good in terms of quality, after several draws, the combat effectiveness of these forces has been greatly weakened, not to mention that compared with the German army that is now armed to the teeth, even compared with Russia before, it is not an opponent, and the most important thing is that these troops, Most of them were distributed close to the German border, and now, after Germany penetrated a point of the battle line directly from East Prussia, it immediately began a large-scale intersperse, and in three days, the German army from both Austria-Hungary and East Prussia broke through three cities in a row, and advanced about 100 kilometers, and the two formed a giant dragon and outflanked the Russian salient in East Prussia.

A week later, the German troops on the Western Front arrived under the city of Warsaw, and even though Poland was partitioned, Warsaw was a very important large city, the place where Russia had the largest number of troops in the European part.

At this moment, the Russians reacted, it turned out that unconsciously, Germany had launched a full-scale attack on Russia, and at this moment, most of Russia's forces were involved in the Far East, which was in the weakest state.

No matter what Russia says, it is also a huge empire, even if it is weak now, it will not give in casually, even if it is facing a powerful Germany, it is the same, although Russia has no strength to resist the German army, but still began a national mobilization, and the huge Russia began to use all the strength to eat milk in order to avoid the danger of annihilation.

With a huge country like Russia with a population of more than 100 million, the ability to mobilize the whole people is relatively strong, even if the previous two large-scale blood draws, there are still 3 million people, but the equipment is a little difficult, at this moment, relying on Russia's ability, it is not enough to buy such a huge amount of arms, especially in the winter under the premise that millions have been prepared, the money has not been given.

The United States is strong, and its industrial production capacity is the first except for China, but it is impossible to let Russia come like this endlessly, and besides, in order to support the war situation in Europe, the United States still has a very heavy task of arms production. Still in the mediation of Britain and France, from their arms orders, 1.2 million people were prepared for arms, and the direct result was that the Nordic front, which was originally going to be opened in Sweden, was finally stopped, fortunately, the direction of Germany's attack was not Sweden's, and if so, I am afraid that Sweden will suffer a big loss

Germany will not look at Northern Europe, although Sweden has joined the Entente, it is considered an enemy of Germany, and Germany also has the ability to attack them, but Northern Europe is a traditional alpine region, the population has always been small, and there are no dazzling resources and wealth, it can barely be said that it has entered the modern Sweden, there is nothing to make Germany take a fancy to, rather than attacking anywhere, it is better to concentrate on taking Russia down completely. (To be continued.) )