Chapter 690 Battle of Kyiv

Throughout August, not only was the financial battlefield raging, but the war in the north did not stop.

The sound of gunfire in the Urals echoes every day.

Although both Soviet Russia and China were on the defensive, both of them were on the Ural Mountains, and they were busy with their own, but after all, the Ural region was the bottom line that neither side dared to make any mistakes, and the armies of both sides continued to pile up nearby.

Since August, with the convenience of trains, the Chinese army can take the train directly north from all over the country. Except for when you get to the border between the Soviet Union and Mongolia, because the specifications of the rails are different, you need to transfer, and the others can be reached all the way. Even on the Trans-Siberian Railway, the Soviet-made armed ironclad trains built at the base were constantly running westward under the command of the vanguard army, which was far superior to Soviet Russia.

By the end of August, the number of troops had exceeded 500,000, and the Ural defense line had been turned into a great wall of steel.

After the number of Soviet and Russian troops on the opposite side broke through to 700,000, it did not rise again, but lost thousands of people in the daily friction and "exchange" with the vanguard army. The Ural Mountains, which stretch for thousands of miles, have swallowed up hundreds of thousands of Soviet Russian troops in three months, and they have not crossed a single step.

Moscow did not order them to attack to the east again, and they were busy fighting fires on the western front.

After such a long "engagement" between the two sides on the battlefield and at the negotiating table, Moscow also roughly understood the meaning of China's presence in the Ural Mountains, that is, to come for the land. But even if China's appetite is good, the land east of the Urals is enough for China to eat. This means that the war on the Eastern Front has come to an end in the Urals. The ambitions of the Chinese were limited to this, and the Russians exchanged space for time to ease the pressure on the Eastern Front.

On the Western Front, however, the Germans' intentions were even more obvious, and they were aiming to exterminate the Soviet Russian regime and occupy the core of Russia in Europe.

One is the cutting of "meat" that hurts the vitality, and the other is complete destruction, which is more important, I believe that the Soviet Russians understand it.

Therefore, on the Eastern Front, not only in the Urals, but also in Chita and other places, the main "fine" forces were really used on the Western Front. This also allowed Meng Xiang to take the opportunity to adjust the country and sit back and watch the Soviet Russians fight with the Germans on the Western Front. The Mars collision between the two sides is becoming more and more intense, which has attracted the attention of the world.

In the middle of August, the Battle of Kiev, in which the Russians had continuously invested heavy troops, had come to an end.

By the time the German offensive became more and more evident on 5 August, the old coach Budyonny had already realized that something was wrong. This was the last outstanding cavalry commander in the history of mankind, keenly aware of the imminent roundabout encirclement of Kiev by the German Army Group Center, and was ready to retreat.

"Moscow has repeatedly stressed that it is not allowed to retreat!" The commander of the Southwestern Front, General Kir Ponos, reminded in a low voice. While the Germans were advancing in the central and northern parts of Soviet Russia, a huge salient was left in the south, where the entire troops of the Southwestern Front were left to put up stubborn resistance without retreating according to Moscow's orders.

The actual supreme commander of Army Group South of the German army was Field Marshal Rundstedt, an old fox who had long had a big appetite. Therefore, when encountering the resistance of Soviet Russia, the southern army group did not have many brilliant achievements compared to the hundreds of miles of assault in the north and the central line, and it seemed that it had been blocked by the Soviet Russian army. So the reinforcements of Army Group Center, under the leadership of Marshal Bock, smoothly bypassed and supported. A wide net has been opened. By the time the German Army Group Center had already circled behind them, this salient of Soviet Russia was about to become a lamb to fall into the trap.

In fact, many people in Soviet Russia have long been uneasy about this salient, but everyone knows whose decision was the order of Moscow. Zhukov, then chief of the General Staff, proposed to Stalin to abandon Kiev and let the Southwestern Front withdraw to the other side of the Dnieper River to defend Moscow with all his might. But Stalin categorically refused, and even directly demoted Zhukov to the commander of the reserve front.

This is the direct difference between a country's leader and a general, Stalin needs to consider Kiev's status as a granary, needs to consider the increasingly unstable military and popular will, needs to consider the international impact of Soviet Russia's defeat, and how to use the greatest value of Soviet Russia to win over British and American sponsorship.

Zhukov, on the other hand, only had to think about achieving the final victory of a campaign with minimal losses, and did not need to worry about other aspects.

So Stalin, who wanted to save face, insisted that the Soviet and Russian troops at the front hold on to Kiev and constantly transfer troops, and it was at this time that Khrushchev was sent over as a political commissar to supervise the front line.

Budyonny asked Stalin to retreat, but Stalin refused, and Stalin was obviously suspicious of the old marshal who survived the purge and when he heard that Budyonny had arbitrarily ordered a retreat, he sent Budyonny to the reserve within two days, and Timoshenko, the commander-in-chief of the Western Front, took over his command.

But by this time, the Germans had already forcibly crossed the Dnieper, forming the rudiments of an encirclement.

In order to preserve the viable strength of the Soviet army, the commander of the Southwestern Front, General Kir Bonos, gave the order to retreat on all fronts, but Moscow, which had been in control, immediately withdrew the order and asked them to counterattack instead.

The previous victory of the Kiev army under the deliberate indulgence of the German army had "confused" and "confused" Stalin, and he needed to gain more initiative in Anglo-American cooperation, but it also buried the last chance for the Soviet Russian army to withdraw.

By the time Stalin also sensed that something was wrong on the 12th, it was already a little late. He asked the General Staff of the General Staff to give the order to evacuate, but as soon as the order to evacuate was issued, the last support of the Soviet Russian army was also broken. The disorderly withdrawal of nearly a million troops under the attack of the German army directly broke the last psychological defense line of the Soviet army.

The Soviet army was defeated.

But the scope of the German encirclement was beyond the imagination of the Russians. The struggling Soviets finally fell into the hunting net that the Germans had carefully woven with the "fine" lines of the motorized blitzkrieg.

On the 14th, Kiev was captured by the German 6th Army. On the 19th, the Southwestern Front was basically annihilated. As of the 21st, the curtain came down on the largest encirclement and annihilation battle in the history of the war.

In addition to the 100,000 Soviet troops who were able to flee in the end, the German army surrounded and annihilated more than 700,000 Soviet troops, of which the collapsed Soviet army had no intention of resisting, and 660,000 Soviet troops were captured, setting a record again. While making Lao Xi's psychology swell to an extreme, it also made Soviet Russia face the biggest crisis.

Without the industrial zone east of the Urals that could be used as a rear maintenance, the Russians could only defend the core of Europe and fight to the death with the Germans, and they could no longer care about China on the eastern front.

Although the Russians resolutely no longer signed a contract for land cession and compensation at the negotiation table, it did not prevent Meng Xiang from taking advantage of the fact that the Russians had no time to take care of it and sent a large number of personnel to Siberia. Just one million civilians were enough to keep the vanguard busy for a while, not to mention that with the defeat of Soviet Russia, more and more people who were optimistic about the development of the north signed up.

"It doesn't take much, one or two million is about the same, enough to squeeze the Russians into a minority." Meng Xiang said proudly, it doesn't matter if you don't sign a contract, as long as these territories are always in the hands of the Huaxia people, sooner or later it will become an established fact.

"If the Russians really don't know how to lift, they will be destroyed directly when the time comes, and there will be so many disputes in the future!" Meng Xiang even began to think about such a thought in his heart. Just a little hesitant.

Now the Germans and China are allies, but when Europe is controlled by the Germans, if the Americans compromise, the United States and Germany divide the interests of Britain and France and other old empires, and they will not be able to live in peace for more than ten years. When the time comes, as soon as the nuclear bomb comes out, the division of world power will even be determined. After all, compared with the Eastern civilization of China, the virtues and virtues are all adhering to the Western civilization and flourishing, and the differences in race, nationality and civilization will inevitably make the revived China and the West collide in the future.

At this point, the position of the Germans deserves careful consideration.

The defeat of the Germans in the two wars also aroused the sympathy of many Chinese people in later generations, but they forgot the figure of the Germans in the Eight-Nation Alliance and the colonies in Shandong and other places. There are also those who believe that the German army was far away from China, and that it was the foundations of the Western world that were stirring up in Europe first. To this end, we will "support" Germany.

But in this world, the German alliance Huaxia is here for profit, and it will also turn against Huaxia for the sake of sufficient interests.

What Meng Xiang is most worried about is what will happen if Germany and the United States finally compromise and the entire Western world will unanimously target China. And the relative Sovietism itself is first and foremost the enemy of the entire Western world, and although it will not be in alliance with China, it will at least become the enemy of the enemy.

In Mengxiang's future framework, Soviet Russia will become a catfish, which will not only stimulate the vitality of China, but also share a part of the hatred of the Western world. Therefore, Meng Xiang never took the opportunity to make a heavy deal against the Soviet Russians who made matters worse, and went directly across the Ural Mountains.

Of course, if the Russians don't know each other, Meng Xiang doesn't mind revising the plan.

"What about against the entire Western world? The revival of Chinese civilization is meant to collide with it, the soft ones are not afraid, and the hard ones are not afraid of us! When asked Xiao Hua again, there were not many restrictions on the confrontation with the entire Western world, Meng Xiang couldn't help but say with self-confidence.