Chapter 700: Learning War in War
"This is a showdown between the East and the West, not a showdown between China and Britain, France, Russia and the United States!"
When the Russian Army's Xianhai Regiment was completely annihilated by the Wehrmacht, and when hundreds of freighters and transport ships passed through Hawaii and were known to the Western world, the whole world was about to explode.
Previously, Europe had been worried about Australia, worried about the possible launch of a war by the United States, and now the whole of Europe is worried about the United States! The Chinese have no intention of persuading the United States to end the country, on the contrary, they want to use the military to make the United States bow its head.
The headlines of all the influential newspapers throughout Europe -- this is a showdown between East and West, between Eastern and Western civilizations. It's not just a struggle between a few countries!
If Britain, France, Russia, and the United States lose this war, it means that the Western world has lost its hegemony and the world hegemony that Europe has held in its hands since the Renaissance! Naturally, Western civilization will bow its noble head in front of Eastern civilization.
Even after the great reversal of the war situation, the official or private newspapers such as the "North German Allgemeine Zeitung", "Post", "Germanine Zeitung", "Berlin Zeitung", and other official or private newspapers with strong influence in Germany, such as "Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung", "Post", "Germanine Zeitung", and "Berliner Zeitung", which sometimes talked about British, French, and Russian jokes and gloating, also changed their tone and seemed to stand on the side of Britain, France and Russia.
A large number of British, French, Spanish, and Dutch troops poured into Russia, and although Spain and the Netherlands were largely ignored by the European press, both countries were actively contributing their forces.
In mid-August, the Battle of the Urals, which affected the course of world history, broke out.
The Russian army amassed 1.5 million troops to deploy to the battlefield, of which 300,000 were elite British and French troops, behind them. There are still 500,000 new troops, or recruits, who are seizing the time to train and recuperate.
Nicholas II ordered the Russian grouping in Western Siberia to retreat. Reserve forces in the Volga valley were mobilized, and more than half of the forces of the whole of Russia were mobilized. The defenders of Moscow and the surrounding areas were evacuated, and the army was allowed to recruit new recruits on the spot and to encourage reservists and ex-nationals to join the army.
Russia has used all of its strength to transport these troops, weapons and supplies.
Before the Wehrmacht attacked again, a magnificent line of defense was formed in the Ural River valley, a distance of thousands of miles from Atyrau to the Urals. And Russia has mobilized the entire western part of the empire and is seizing all the time to send reinforcements to the Urals.
In late August, half a million troops in the Volga valley entered the Urals, bringing the total strength of the Russian army to 1.8 million.
Half a month. They faced heavy losses in the face of indiscriminate bombardment by the Wehrmacht. In particular, artillery and logistics trains, just like the strangulation war of the old United States during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, airships carried out unlimited air raids, blowing up trains, blowing up bridges, blowing up railways, and transporting every grain to the Ural front line with blood. At the same time, the complete loss of air supremacy has made the already powerful artillery of the Russian army only hiding.
Airships from all over Europe are converging on Russia. The Europeans hoped that the same weapons would be used to restrain the rampant Chinese airship forces. It's a pity that it's not an opponent at all.
The airbags of similar European airships are mostly filled with hydrogen, and the load-bearing capacity and speed are not as good as those of their Chinese counterparts. When the heavy machine guns and light machine guns were laid flat on the airship hanging blue, the European airships turned into large turkeys. Blooming sparks bloom in the air.
Of course, their sacrifice was not without merit. European airships used their presence to delay the bombing of the Wehrmacht airship units many times. In a short period of time, of course, Russia's technical conditions could not study anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns. But Britain and France have the technology, and Germany even has ready-made balloon guns.
In 1870 the Franco-Prussian War broke out. In September, Prussia sent heavy troops to besiege the French capital, Paris. It has cut it off from all contact with the outside world. In order to break through the siege, the French government decided to send people to fly out of the city in balloons to contact the outside of the city. At the beginning of October, the Minister of the Interior, Gambida, flew over the Prussian defense line in a manned balloon, carried out propaganda and agitation in the city of Tours, soon organized new combat units, and constantly maintained contact with the Paris government through balloons. When the Prussian army found out about this, they immediately studied countermeasures and decided to destroy the balloons of these people first. Moltke, Chief of the General Staff of the Prussian Army, ordered the development of a balloon cannon to cut off the link between Paris and Tours.
Soon, such balloon guns were made. It was converted from a cannon with a caliber of 37 mm and mounted on a four-wheeled vehicle that could be moved. In order to track and shoot the balloons that were drifting, several Prussian soldiers operated the artillery, changed the gun position and firing direction, and shot down a lot of balloons, which was named "balloon cannon". It was exactly the prototype of an anti-aircraft gun.
It is the fastest way to learn about war in the midst of war.
With the help of Britain, France and Germany, and with the help of the whole of Europe, anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns of the Russian army were quickly baked. At the same time, Britain, France, the United States, Germany, Italy, and other European and American naval powers also installed these anti-aircraft weapons on their warships, and even did not hesitate to occupy some auxiliary gun positions.
The mistake of the Combined Fleet can be said to have put the entire Western world, all the naval powers, and even all the countries with modern warships, on alarm.
A mere airship, no matter how high the cost is, is not worth mentioning in front of a warship. There is no need to exchange an airship for a warship, just need to load some more bombs on the airship, some large 'tonnage' bombshells, and let those steel giants that crisscross the sea obediently sink to the bottom of the sea. Even when the current airship drops bombshells, there is still a certain danger. For example, the heaviest bomb weighing 500 kilograms. Its total amount stands at one-tenth of the load-bearing capacity of the magpie airship, if the magpie airship carries this bombshell, at the next moment when the bomb is dropped, the abruptly reduced weighing reacts to the airbag, which can make the whole magpie become a hen!
The 500-kilogram bombshell could only be dropped by a Hongyan-type airship. The Egret-type airship can throw 300 kg to 350 kg, while the Magpie-type airship can only throw 100 kg to 150 kg. Smaller bombs are not aimed at warships and defensive fortresses, but at people and buildings, and with those 50-kilogram 'submunitions', the lethality is amazingly great.
In the face of the Russians' all-out anti-Japanese war, Liu Xian still did not use the killer weapon of armored vehicles and tanks. He knew very well that the Russians would definitely pile up more and more troops on the battlefield in the Urals, and by using armored and mechanized troops every night and one day, Nicholas II would be able to send more people to the battlefield to die, and Russia's military strength would be weakened. Nicholas II and the rest of Europe hoped to defeat the Chinese army as quickly as possible and push the battlefield back to Chinese soil.
Liu Xian was able to endure for another ten days to half a month, and launched an attack in mid-to-late September. It will take half a month or less to destroy the Russian army and the British, French, Spanish and Dutch forces in the entire Ural region. Then use mechanized troops and armored forces to advance westward along the vast land of Russia, until the engines are completely frozen by the cold Russian winter.
Of course, Liu Siam will order his troops to sweep the Caucasus south, and then advance along the Sea of Azov towards Ukraine. Before this year's cold snap swept through northern Europe, it swept away Russia's breadbasket.
Ukraine, Russia's granary, was more important than Moscow in Liu's eyes, and the order to march to Moscow could be given to the cavalry troops.
The domestic army has crossed three million to four million, and the weapons that China has produced and stored over the years have a master. China's total military strength is also making great strides towards the astronomical figure of 5 million.
In the future European and American theaters, the number of troops required will be in the millions. The troops who landed in the United States had occupied the whole of California, and the Americans had a good idea of the well-developed railroad communications. The Wehrmacht crossed the Rocky Mountains with ease.
The Marines also landed in Seattle and Vancouver with ships and warships. The British Empire had also declared war on China, so Canada, the British woodlands, was also in the category of attackable.
Many people in later generations of Seattle knew that it was the largest city in the Pacific Northwest, but Seattle was still a small city with a population of less than 50,000.
Seattle was founded in 1869 and was previously a small town. In 1889, Seattle was quickly rebuilt after the fire caused by a painter's plastic pot that burned down the entire wooden city, and more stone, iron, and cement were used for building materials, and by 1893, the first railroad across the American continent was connected to Seattle, and sea traffic was also connected to major ports in Asia and the eastern seaports of the United States. Seattle is really on the fast track to development. If the trajectory continues, three years later, Seattle's population will grow sixfold in just a few years, following the rise of the Klondike Gold Rush in the Yukon Territory of northwestern Canada. But now the Chinese are coming, the Chinese army is coming.
Oh yes. It is also a shipbuilding center on the West Coast of the United States.
After two days of fighting, a brigade of Marines crushed the resistance of the local National Guard, raising a red red flag on the Seattle City government office building.
Don't think that the US Army is small, the US military strength is really so weak, and the Army is only 20,000 or 30,000 people. They also have the militia units of the states, which are the National Guard.
The number of these National Guards is really not much, and it is seriously inconsistent with the size and national strength of the United States, but the total number is definitely stronger than the current size of the US Army. Just like Seattle is the shipbuilding center of the West Coast of the United States, it is definitely a top-level existence in China, but it is just as good as those shipyards on the East Coast of the United States.
The biggest problem for China entering the United States is its people. The United States is a country where guns and branches are rampant, and most of the Americans have guns in their hands, and the US army is easy to defeat, but it is very difficult to stabilize the place and make the Americans honest and obedient. Therefore, Liu Xian will keep sending reinforcements to the United States. Anyway, there was a lot of industry there, and once California was occupied, everything the army could collect and acquire on the spot, except for the necessary arms...... (To be continued......)