Dominate the Country

In Nanjing, by Xuanwu Lake.

Chen Ming walked along the quiet lakeside. The evening breeze did not make him feel cool, and the setting sun did not make him feel sad.

Yes, he was already quite old, just like the setting sun, but so what? His achievements had been clearly engraved on the monument of Chinese history, so Chen Ming did not need to feel sad at all. He could stand at the top of the world for the rest of his life, overlooking the long river of time on the entire earth.

Chen Ming, who was walking by the lake in the last bit of afterglow of the setting sun, had a frown on his face, which was always pregnant with a group of inexplicable dark things. It was not a domestic matter. There had been a lot of things happening in the country recently, but a 10,000-ton ship would not be overturned by a small wind and waves. Chen Ming was in the process of transferring power. It would be strange if nothing happened in the country.

The only thing that could make him worry was the war in the northwest. Although the front had just spread a good news that the North Caucasus detachment had just recaptured Milerovo, a small town more than 100 kilometers south of Rostov. The only thing that could attract Chen Han's attention in terms of economy, agriculture, or strategy was that it had a road that could go directly from Milerovo to Rostov.

Since the "volunteers" from European countries began to pour into Europe on a large scale, the North Caucasus region has been the most disruptive. Of course, the Europeans did not completely regain control of this place, but one of their armies captured Rostov, a very important city on the east coast of the Black Sea. This is the node of the Russian Black Sea route on the east coast. A large amount of Ukrainian arms and food materials were transported from here to Tsaritsyn, and a group of Russian civilians even ran back with them.

In the past spring, the second group of the Arab countries led by Persia [the first group was the Arab countries led by Ottoman] organized an infantry and cavalry army of more than 20,000 people, joined more than 10,000 Chen Han infantry and cavalry, a total of more than 40,000 troops, with the goal of completely driving out the Russians in the North Caucasus.

Now this army is at the moment of producing results. If Tsaritsyn does not send troops to reinforce Rostov, or if there is no time to send reinforcements.

In theory, this is good news.

But along with this news came an urgent notice from the European Office. Napoleon once again organized a second army group to the United States, and accordingly, the British, Prussians, and Swedes also organized a new batch of volunteers against Russia. The number of this batch of volunteers is at least 70,000, and may even be as high as 100,000. This is of course a bad thing for Chen Han.

Chen Ming is not afraid of the reinforcements of a mere 100,000 troops. What he is "afraid" of is the resolute fighting spirit shown by the Europeans.

This support army is the support of the European world to Russia, so, isn't this also the resistance of the European world to Chen Han?

As the saying goes: Those who have the same desire will win.

On the Russian battlefield, Europeans showed such a belief.

As an aggressor, China has seriously damaged the interests of the Russian people, and the Chinese are particularly cruel, expelling all Russians, which is equivalent to depriving them of most of their wealth - houses, land/wood yards.

China's invasion has also seriously damaged the interests of the Russian nobles and the interests of the European ruling class - because the interests of Europe are the interests of their ruling class.

In this way, such a war will not be a good thing.

Tens of thousands of people throughout Russia and Europe have been incited by their propaganda.

Although many dignitaries in Tsaritsyn itself had fled Tsaritsyn as early as last year or even the year before, and even many Russian nobles in the area west of Tsaritsyn had already packed up their finances and transferred their property and wealth, who could hide such a move? No dignitary could hide it, only civilians and soldiers were hidden.

As long as there is no "comrade" leaking the news, civilians and soldiers will never know. At most, they know individual cases or spread some unconfirmed gossip.

So, it turns out that the lower-level people are the easiest to fool. They are always the pawns of the upper-level people. As long as the public opinion is well controlled, they can be played with at will. And countless civilians are sold and help count the money. In many cases and in a substantive sense, this sentence is about these lower-level people.

Even in China, the war hurts more civilians, and the most benefited are the powerful and the royal family. Even Chen Ming himself cannot violate this standard, and he has become what he is now without knowing it.

No matter how lofty the ultimate goal of the war is, the rights and wealth that the Chen Han royal family has gained in the war, he personally, and his family have too much, and too little is given to each soldier and civilian.

The only difference is that Chen Ming has expanded the cake countless times, and this small piece is also not small.

Just like the Russians from all walks of life worked together to resist Chen Han, Chen Han was now united.

The reason why the empire started the war was to fight for more land for future generations, and the empire was also weakening the enemy in the north.

Under the guidance of newspapers, everyone knew the benefits of the war against Russia, and everyone thought that this war was "correct".

But no matter what, the National Defense Army and the Chen Han Dynasty can be said to have the same desire. In this regard, the fierce fighting between the soldiers on both sides is not a pity.

Because the greed of the lower class can never be compared with that of the upper class, their vision can't see too far. Even if Chen Ming only gave them a small amount of benefits, they were satisfied.

The specific manifestation of this "satisfaction" on the battlefield is heroic fighting, whether it is attacking or defending, whether it is on the shore of the Caspian Sea or on the Volga River, whether it is the Wehrmacht or the Russian army, they all performed very well.

When the Russian army was in a chaotic logistics situation and had to carefully calculate food, medicine, bullets, grenades, artillery shells, etc., they used their tenacity and strength to win the defensive battle. Regardless of whether they had an advantage in terms of manpower loss, they always withstood Chen Han's fierce kick.

And what about the Wehrmacht? Or the army of the Seven Khanates? Their logistics supply is much better than that of the Russian army, but their fighting spirit to fight to the death on the battlefield has never been closely related to logistics.

The war against Russia has lasted for nearly three years. The cost is tens of thousands of casualties in the National Defense Army and the Seven Khanates. Several offensive and defensive battles were fought on both sides. The fierceness of the battles is not enough to describe the "sea of ​​blood and corpses".

A team/company went up and was directly shot in one or two hours. A battalion was pulled up in the morning and could not fight by noon.

Facing each other's solid fortresses and defenses, rockets were almost ineffective. The siege relied on the sustained bombardment of hexagonal cannons, and the commandos got close and used explosive packs to clear the way.

Before the arrival of the cold winter last year, the war was fought to the end, and all the reserve materials were consumed. Whether it was gunpowder or artillery shells, there was a serious shortage. Even the paper bombs were no longer standard, but became one-and-a-half-inch paper, gunpowder and large lead ingots. The logistics transportation capacity was too tight. The same large space was loaded with paper, gunpowder and lead ingots, which obviously had more than the standard paper bombs.

At that time, the battlefield between the two armies was covered with broken corpses, bloody muscles, whitish fat, pale broken bones, and even yellowish brains.

Both the Wehrmacht and the Russian army were at the end of their strength.

Fortunately, a long winter followed. Although the two sides fought on the snowy battlefield, the number of times and the scale were limited. Except for the cavalry battle in the North Caucasus.

Both sides took advantage of the cold weather to stockpile supplies on the front line as much as possible.

Chen Ming would not underestimate Russia. He knew the resilience of the old Russians. Thinking about Hitler's tragedy on the Soviet-German battlefield made Chen Ming extremely frightened. For a country like Russia, it must be killed with one blow. It must not be given a chance to breathe!

When Hitler committed suicide in the basement, he must have regretted his strategic mistakes. But Chen Ming felt that the biggest strategic mistake of the German army was not the Battle of Stalingrad, nor was it about "war strategy", but a miscalculation on the spiritual level. Uncle Steel is Titanium Steel!

The Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of the Soviet-German War, and the Battle of Moscow was the precursor to the defeat of the German army. But in the final analysis, the two battles were won by the Red Russian army and civilians' steel-like tenacity. If they didn't have that indomitable tenacity, like the Peanuts regime, the Red Russians would have collapsed into a pile of ruins. The direction of World War II would have been another result.

Just as Chen Ming was strolling along the shore of Xuanwu Lake, the Russian flag had fallen on the top of Rostov.

After capturing Milerovo, more than 40,000 troops continued to attack Rostov.

It was a very difficult battle. The Russian army now has enough troops to open up the North Caucasus region. The Russian army is unwilling to give up Rostov, an important city they have taken back. So the battle was fierce.

The Wehrmacht fought without hesitation. The Persian-led Tianfang army did call for a retreat halfway through the battle, but the Wehrmacht refused to allow it. In the end, the two sides paid a price of 10,000 casualties in the Battle of Rostov before completely destroying the Russian defenders in the city.

In the battle to capture Rostov, Chen Han and the Persian side had a disagreement and a certain gap because of the huge casualties, but after the battle, the latter Tianfang army admired the Wehrmacht even more. The latter's performance in the siege of Rostov shocked all of them.

The essence of the army is still people. The Chinese army has logistical supplies and relatively generous treatment that the Persian army does not have. The weapons and equipment of the Wehrmacht made the Persian-led Tianfang army salivate, but after putting aside all these external factors and external conditions, the extremely tenacious fighting spirit possessed by Chen Han's army is something that all soldiers must admire.

Therefore, the Battle of Rostov is not Russia's "Moscow Battle", nor is it Tsarist Russia's "Stalingrad Battle". The "myth" of Chen Han's National Defense Army continued to shine brightly. The Tsarist Russian army failed to win, and failed to inspire the Russian people and the entire Western people's confidence in the victory of the war against China.

A large number of troops entered Rostov, and the soldiers held their heads high, with the pride of victory.

The last thousand Russian remnants in the city, led by a colonel named Georgiev, threw away their rifles. They had been escorted to the prisoner-of-war camp outside the city. As for the civilians in Rostov, a Russian city, who had no time to escape, they all looked at the National Defense Army and the Tianfang Army soldiers who looked completely different from them with timid and hateful eyes.

When Rostov fell for the first time, a large number of Russians were driven to the land in the north. However, as the Russian army fought back, many Russians who lived as refugees in the north returned to Rostov.

Yes, there is no endless food here, but at least there are houses to stay in. In the cold winter in Russia, without a warm house, it will cost lives.

As for food, after the Russian army regained its advantage in the Black Sea region, the Ukrainian region, as Russia's granary, began to restore the Black Sea route. A large number of ships transported a large amount of food to Rostov under the protection of Russia's Black Sea Fleet. This is also one of the important reasons why the Russians want to restore Rostov. A considerable part of the winter rations of millions of Russian civilians who were driven out in the North Caucasus and the Volga River region depend on Rostov for supply. Know that the cold winter is completely coming.

And with such a great "significance", it is no wonder that Rostov can "accommodate" tens of thousands of Russian refugees, and it is no wonder that the Russian government allows them to go south to Rostov. All this has a reason.

More than 30,000 Russian civilians were confined to residential areas and were notified by Chen Han to leave Rostov within ten days. A large number of soldiers began to gather and clear the Rostov neighborhoods where sporadic gunfire was heard.

Although the uniforms were ragged and the spirits were exhausted, many troops entering the city were reduced to half or even one-third of the original number, but Chen Han and the Persian soldiers still entered St. Petersburg in neat rows. Especially the Wehrmacht at the forefront, this is a mighty army that can still fight hard under difficult conditions and is not afraid of sacrifice.

Chen Ming spent fifty years organizing and tempering an iron army.

In this era, apart from all external factors, it is also a world-class army. In the Battle of Rostov, they defeated the dense firepower and bunkers of the Russian army with their lives and flesh and blood, and inspired the fighting spirit of friendly forces, and also hit the will and fighting spirit of the Russian army.

The Wehrmacht and Persian troops that entered Rostov one after another did not know that among the more than 30,000 civilians in Rostov today, more than one European reporter was writing about them with his own pen.

These reporters were not worried about their own safety. In the three years of the Sino-Russian War, Chen Han had proved with facts that they still respected reporters.

"This is not Napoleon's army. The Tsar will never come back."

A reporter from Austria looked at the Chinese Wehrmacht outside the hotel where he was staying, which was arrogant but strictly disciplined. There was no looting or killing outside. He was disappointed and extremely complicated.

He was an Austrian with Slavic ancestry. If possible, he hoped that the winner of this war would be Russia, not China. But the scene he saw now told him that Russia really had no chance of winning.