Dominate the Country

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

The morale of the European coalition forces was very high. King Pius VII, who was already in his seventies, was dragged to the war front Tsaritsyn by the British. In addition, King George III of England, who was four years older than Pius VII, and the two accompanying him Alexander I, the 'Pope' of the Eastern Church.

In 1700, Tsar Peter I abolished the position of 'Patriarch' and established the Eastern Church Council within the Russian government. In essence, the position of the Patriarch belonged to all previous Russian tsars.

When these three are together, the most important leaders of the three major schools of monotheism are gathered together.

George III did not have the title of Protestant leader, but with the strong national power of Britain, who would not think that he could stand shoulder to shoulder with Pius VII and Alexander I? To be more fair, George III was more powerful than Pius VII and Alexander I, just because of the strength of British national power.

Alexander I defeated Napoleon and was hailed as the savior throughout Europe. So compared to the achievements of Alexander I, George III should be followed by the entire Europe. If the British had not repeatedly turned against Napoleon, how could it have been so easy for Russia to defeat Napoleon?

Russia and Alexander I are more like a knife, and Britain is the one holding the handle.

The gathering of the three people, as well as the theories of ****, yellow peril, etc. that have begun to be promoted throughout Europe, all indicate that the relationship between the East and the West is about to enter a new stage.

Inspired by great spirits, the European coalition forces did not launch an attack on China's Turinsk defense line in the ice and snow, but Chen Han's several counterattacks failed to move the coalition's position. In this winter, the really fierce fighting was between the two cavalry in the North Caucasus.

Dong Wei has completely retreated to the second line, although he has told Chen Ming more than once that he is still in good health at the age of nearly seventy. But in recent years, there have been many rising stars among the cavalry units of the National Defense Forces, and not just one or two.

The fierce fighting started from the Chen and Han cavalry against the Cossack cavalry, and later developed into the Chinese cavalry against the European cavalry.

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

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

But this will do nothing but make the land in the North Caucasus more fertile in the coming year.

The battles fought by the cavalry groups on both sides were just small fights on the side battlefield. On the main battlefield, the collision of 4 to 50,000 troops on both sides was like two giant beasts wrestling with each other. There would be no winner without a long and violent collision. The cold winter in Russia limits the frequency of collisions between the two sides, so one winter is far from enough for the four to five million troops on both sides to decide the winner.

But for New Astrakhan, which is surrounded, this cold winter is very difficult to endure. As I said before, Bagration was indeed fully prepared when he was building New Astrakhan, but now that the siege has lasted for a year, Bagration's original preparations could not be more complete. , and now the surrounded Russian army has reached the predicament of running out of ammunition and reinforcements.

When the cold winter gradually subsided, the plight of the Russian army in New Astrakhan had truly arrived. They only had a few days of food left in their hands, and the ammunition reserves were already dry, as well as the fuel.

Fuel is very important to the Russian army. In today's weather, a bunker without charcoal fire and wood is very unwarm. More importantly, eating and drinking water for tens of thousands of people also requires a huge amount of fuel.

Bagration could not see the possibility of breaking through, and in another ten days or eight years, not to mention whether there would be food, the Russian army in New Astrakhan would not even have wood to boil water.

Bagration is very depressed now. It has been a year since New Astrakhan was surrounded by the Chinese. They have withstood the Chinese bullets and fierce attacks, will they collapse in the face of hunger? According to Bagration's initial thoughts, the Sino-Russian war should have ended by the middle of last year.

It is difficult for Russia to continue fighting, and the sixth anti-French alliance in Europe is not progressing very smoothly. The war started by Napoleon makes it impossible to see the end. The British were mainly distracted by Napoleon. It was impossible for them to support Russia generously again and again. Then Russia could only beg China for negotiations. And he led troops to guard the door of Astrakhan, which was a move that could win Russia considerable benefits at the negotiation table.

But Bagration never expected that Britain and France, far away in Europe, would actually get along. The Continental War started by Napoleon seemed to be over in one fell swoop. Europe, which had been at war for more than twenty years, suddenly returned to peace. This was far beyond Bagration's 'vision'.

His political and military vision prevented him from "seeing" the future changes in Europe, and his decision based on a wrong inference also put Bagration and his new Astrakhan into a trap now. The desperate situation of destruction.

The three armies went ahead without using food and grass. There is no doubt about the importance of food to the war. It is said that there is no better way to plan poison than to run out of food. These few words summarized from China's thousands of years of war history can sum up the importance of food in one sentence.

The Russian army is now facing a huge danger of running out of food, and their reinforcements are unlikely to appear in the near future. Bagration seems to have no choice but to wait for death. He could also choose to surrender, but he would rather die than surrender.

So Bagration's decision was beyond everyone's expectations, but it was also reasonable.

"Your Majesty, urgent report from the northwest. At 8 o'clock in the evening on the fifth day of February, Russian generals Yermolov and Laevsky led more than 30,000 Russian troops to surrender to our 10th and 19th divisions respectively."

"The Russian general Bagration led more than 20,000 men to break through to the north." The northern part of the New Astrakhan encirclement is the Volga River, where Chen Han deployed a lot of troops, because from November to the following year in the Western calendar At the end of March, the Volga Estuary was frozen for four to five months.

The battle took place on the ice-covered Volga River, "..." The fierce fighting lasted until around 10 a.m. the next day, when the 1st Guards Division completely wiped out the Russian breakout troops. Bagration was not captured, according to Russian prisoners of war. Report, Bagration has sunk to the bottom of the river."

Chen Ming still remembers his surprise when he heard the news. Obviously, when faced with a desperate situation, Bagration did not sit still and wait for death. He asked his 60,000 Russian troops to make a choice, whether to surrender or to follow him and shed the last drop of blood for Russia. As a result, more than half of the people chose to surrender. Bagration used them as a shield, and then rushed into the Volga River desperately.

Obviously, Bagration failed.

No matter how hard the ice is, it can't stop the bombardment of artillery shells and rockets. Of the more than 20,000 Russian troops, seven or eight thousand were killed by gunfire, and no less than five thousand were swallowed by the broken ice. The rest are in After struggling hard on the shore, he was taken prisoner.

But the leaders turned out to be Laevsky's old subordinates Dohturov and Nevolovsky. These two were willing to follow Bagration and die generously at yesterday's fateful intersection. The Russian generals who were unwilling to surrender in humiliation like Yermolov and Raevsky had already given up their useless struggle when the sun rose on February 6th.

The two of them were not afraid of death, but watching the thousands of soldiers they led fall needlessly in front of them one by one was a pressure that was even more unbearable for them than death.

Blood dyed the ice red, and corpses filled the Volga River.

When the rockets exploded on the ice, the dark red flames swallowed up one soldier after another; when the hard ice was cracked and collapsed by the Chinese cannons, the cold drinking water was swallowed up like a huge monster. Endless people...

Dokhturov and Nevolovsky can only surrender!

No matter how strong the courage is, it will tremble in the face of death, especially when 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 soldiers led by Bagration are undoubtedly the 'real' loyal people. . So how can Dokhturov and Nevrovsky, who are equally loyal to Russia, watch them die needlessly?

It can be said that after this winter, the Europeans suffered heavy losses on the Russian battlefield. The destruction of Bagration's troops was worth several times as much as the cavalry fighting in the North Caucasus.

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

Because this war came suddenly, Spain and Portugal were lucky to say that they were weak and had wars in their homeland. They could not make a big splash relying only on their colonies.

Don’t forget how few people there are in Brazil and Argentina right now. The two places together do not have half the population of the Lighthouse Country, and the high potential for war is obvious.

Therefore, it was not Portuguese Brazil and Spanish Argentina that made the troops stationed in the Americas furious at the very beginning, but the lighthouse countries of North America.

Whether it was Alabama and Georgia in the south or the Great Lakes region in the north, the American offensive in the first two months was as fast as thunder.

In the north, they reached Lake Michigan from the south of Lake Erie, and fought to the foot of the New Michigan City built by Chen Han on the site of the original Dearborn Fortress;

In the South, they recaptured nearly all of Georgia.

However, the U.S. Southern Route Army, which reached the Kangguo border in Florida in one breath, also exhausted its strength. Just like the Northern Route Army, which was unable to attack Xinmizhou, the exhausted Americans and the mobilized Chen-Han vassal state and the US garrison began a real tug-of-war in the following winter.

As soon as the tug-of-war began, Americans felt uncomfortable.

Even though Georgia and the Great Lakes region were the original lands of the Americans, there are no Americans left there, and there are only a small number of Chinese immigrants. When the US military invaded, all those who could escape were gone. This large area is quite large, but as a no-man's land, the United States and the United States are not as comfortable as a duck in water. On the contrary, it has lengthened their transportation distance.

This makes Americans very uncomfortable.

It was clear that these territories belonged to their family a few years ago, but now it was as if they had entered a neighboring country. All their food and supplies needed to be transported from the rear, and the front line suddenly stretched for hundreds of miles. Fortunately, the navy of the United States is powerful enough. With the support of Britain and France, the naval power of the United States has increased dramatically in recent years, which makes the attacking US military have an easier time.

In the winter of last year, Chen Ming had already dispatched an army to the Americas. It can be said that this year is the critical moment of this war!

Chen Ming The Ottoman Empire played a role in the East-West War. They have now restrained the Austrians to a certain extent, but the fight with Russia has only stopped in the Crimean Peninsula. Russia has also wisely withdrawn its troops in the northwest of the Black Sea. Their biggest enemy now is China and the East.

Even Austria and the Ottoman Empire have begun to tacitly slack off.

No one wants to fight to the death.

Austria is because of the European containment, and the Ottoman Empire is because of internal disputes. The great storm caused by a military coup is not so easy to calm down. Conservative nobles and elders are not only in Istanbul, and although the main force of the Janissary Corps was defeated, their families were also sold to China by the Ottoman authorities. But there are also many Janissary Corps outside Istanbul.

Even if the main force rushes to Istanbul, it is impossible that there will be no one left in the hometown. These people are hidden dangers in the Ottoman political arena.

So neither side wants to fight again.

The only thing the Ottomans are focusing on now is the Crimean Peninsula. They need to quickly take over the Salvatopol Fortress. This damn fortress has resisted them for more than two years. No matter how much material reserves there are, they should have been used up, right?

The Russians really don't want to fight the Ottomans. If the Ottomans are willing to restore the original demarcation line, that is, to give the eastern part of the Crimean Peninsula to Russia, and the two countries return to their original positions, then Russia can immediately cease fire with the Ottomans.

But now in this war, the only thing the Ottomans can count on is the Crimean Peninsula, which is very expensive. They will not give up on this point. In this way, the battle on the Crimean Peninsula can only continue. Everything depends on China!

If China wins, the Ottomans will be considered a real winner; and if China loses, even if the Ottoman Empire completely takes over the Crimean Peninsula and seizes a large area of ​​land in Ukraine, it will have to spit out everything it has eaten.

The world of the Arabs is so sad now.

This is no longer the era when the Arab Empire conquered the east and the west and was invincible.