January 1, 2054, New Year's Day.

In the early morning, Qi Kaiwei rushed to the front line despite the opposition of many staff members, condolenced to the officers and soldiers of the six armies in the first echelon, and announced to the officers and soldiers that they would fight to Volgograd before the Spring Festival, so that the front line officers and soldiers would go home for the New Year, and then personally award medals to dozens of brave officers and soldiers who fought bravely.

Qi Kaiwei went to the front line, obviously to boost morale.[..com]

In fact, this is a bit redundant because the Chinese army is not lacking in morale, the officers and soldiers are optimistic, and they are very enthusiastic about seeking war.

At that time, the Chinese Army was very optimistic from top to bottom.

In the rear, the propaganda department also specially printed five million postcards with Volgograd printed on it, preparing to send them to the frontline troops before the Spring Festival, and asked the frontline officers and soldiers to send these postcards to relatives and friends, and to make a national advertisement for the major victory achieved by the army for free.

Judging from the situation at that time, it is indeed worth optimism.

Not only is the situation on the battlefield of Kazakhstan very optimistic, but also the situation in Siberia and the Far East.

For example, on December 30, the 65th Army and the 165th Army, which were fighting in Siberia, captured Omsk, opened up the railway line to Kazakhstan, and solved the logistics supply problem on the Siberian battlefield in one fell swoop. Immediately afterwards, the 54th Army on the Far East battlefield advanced to the Siberian battlefield, met with the 65th Army, and opened the second supply channel. According to the war report of the Chinese Army, by the last day of 2053, the battle between Siberia and the Far East battlefield was basically over, killing and wounding more than 14 million Russian officers and soldiers, and more than 9 million Russian officers and soldiers were sent to the prisoner-of-war camp alone.

In fact, at 11:50 on the night of December 31, 2053, Qi Kaiwei announced that the Far East War and the Siberian War ended.

After announcing the news, he boarded a special plane to the front line of Kazakhstan.

In fact, these two wars did not end. Strictly speaking, it was only the large-scale battle on the Far East battlefield. It was not until the end of 2054 that the Chinese army captured Yekaterin Arbor, that the large-scale battle on the Siberian battlefield was over. The small-scale battle against the Russian guerrillas continued until Russia was completely defeated. Even after that, some Russian guerrillas were resisting stubbornly.

At that time, Qi Kaiwei was eager to announce his victory, which was related to the Navy's victory in the Southwest Pacific: On December 30, the Marines captured the last town on New Georgia Island that was controlled by the US military, announced the occupation of the island, and achieved a major victory in the Solomon Islands.

On the Siberian battlefield, the Chinese army is still unstoppable.

On the night of January 1, the full attack began. Among the six armies in the first echelon, the 38th Army, the 38th Army, the 39th Army, and the 139th Army divided into four groups and launched a battle-level interspersed breakthrough operation to march towards the Volga River. The 42nd Army and the 142nd Army acted as a battle reserve, responsible for eliminating the US troops divided by the assault forces.

Obviously, this is Qi Kaiwei's dream of annihilation war.

In a sense, the retreat order issued by Nozirov helped Qi Kaiwei very much, which was also the main reason why the Chinese army was able to fight this annihilation war.

Under the circumstances at that time, if Nozirov had not ordered a retreat, but adopted Brushilov's suggestion and allowed the US military to hold its position, the situation of the war would definitely be completely different. At least the four armies responsible for interspersed could not quickly break through the solid frontal defense line of the US military. The result was that Nozirov only needed to lose a small number of troops deployed on the front line to gain enough time for the large troops in the rear to cross the Volga River.

Unfortunately, Nozirov was too stubborn.

In the next three days, the four armies advanced rapidly, tearing open the US defense line almost effortlessly, and then began a long-distance race with the US military to see who arrived at the Volga River first.

In fact, even Qi Kaiwei did not expect that the US military would retreat on its own initiative!

The result is that the retreating US troops caused considerable trouble to the Chinese army.

At that time, the biggest problem was that all assault troops were moving faster than expected, resulting in the logistics support troops that could follow the assault troops to advance were thrown into the rear. This resulted in a serious consequence, that is, the assault troops were unable to replenish power for the ground war platform in time.

You should know that the small fusion power supply system is in the hands of the logistics support force.

These systems are very large and require more than a dozen heavy-load trucks to transport them, that is, they have no protection capabilities and no off-road marching capabilities, and are easily attacked.

Fortunately, Wei Chenglong, who was in charge of front-line command, soon discovered the problem.

At that time, he adopted a method that had proven effective on the battlefield: directly providing fuel cell modules to the frontline assault forces.

Under his arrangement, the eight armies of the second echelon contributed the fuel cell modules of the ground war platform, and then used a transporter to the front line, and then sent the replaced fuel cell modules to the rear for charging, and replaced them with fuel cell modules with charged electricity.

In this way, the offensive troops no longer need to charge on the front line.

Later, this method was promoted, and the Army purchased an additional batch of fuel cell modules to ensure that more troops could perform offensive tasks instead of paralyzing the reserves in the rear. After the war, many excess fuel cell modules were disposed of as surplus war materials, and most of them were used on civilian vehicles, which made great contributions to the rapid popularization and promotion of fully electric civilian vehicles after the war.

Of course, this approach has created a new problem, that is, air transport volumes exceed pre-war estimates.

As a result, Wei Chenglong could only use hundreds of large electric transport aircraft to perform tactical air transport missions, and allowed the assault troops to seize the enemy's airports as much as possible. In the southern part of the battlefield, namely the Caspian coastal lowlands, because there were no airports available, the army also used engineers to build field airports.

Fortunately, Wei Chenglong's efforts were not in vain.

On January 6, the 39th Army took the lead in crossing the Kazakhstan-Russia border and entered Russia.

One day later, the vanguard of the 39th Army arrived in the east of Akhtubinsk and completed the combat plan to march towards the Volga River.

Akhtubinsk is located on the east bank of the Volga River and is the largest city between Volgograd and Astrakhan.

Because this is the narrowest part of the lowlands of the lower Volga River, it is also the main place for the US troops to cross the river and retreat to the west bank of the Volga River.

The 39th Army did not stop and immediately began to siege Akhtubinsk.

It was not until this time that the Chinese Army encountered the first fierce battle after the attack began.

The guards of Akhtubinsk were not the US troops, but the Russian troops, and the main forces were the Russian Guards 1st Tank Division, the 5th Armored Division of the Guards and the 10th Armored Division of the Guards.

You know, at that time, the Russian army had only twelve guard divisions, and four of them had been wiped out.

Among the twelve guard divisions, the first guard tank division had the strongest combat power. The division commander was Major General Julianov trained by Brushilov. Later, it was General Julianov who replaced Brushilov as the chief of staff of the Russian army.

Because the Kazakh front was completely destroyed, Julianov became the commander of the Russian army in Akhtubinsk.

Under his command, in addition to three guard divisions, there were six regular divisions, four local divisions and about one hundred thousand armed civilians.

In the Russian army, the Guard Division is the absolute main force. Only the troops with the best performance on the battlefield are eligible to obtain the title of "Guard". Then there are regular troops directly commanded by the Russian General Staff. Next, there are local troops affiliated to local and formed on the battlefield, and finally temporary armed civilians.

Julianov had a strong force, exceeding 300,000, but only three guard divisions and six regular divisions could be fought. The four local divisions were all infantry in the true sense, namely, only light weapons and not even machine guns, while only 100,000 armed civilians received rifles.

At that time, no one thought that Julianov could defend Akhtubinsk.

But, he did it!

It was not that the troops in his hands had strong combat power, but that he adopted a tactic that he had never used before: using civilians as shields.

At that time, Julianov first sent 100,000 armed civilians to the front line, or to let these people die.

Immediately afterwards, he withdrew all the main forces to the city and ordered all citizens to stay at home and not allow anyone to cross the Volga River.

This set of tactics has an immediate effect.

You should know that Chinese soldiers are not murderers. When they find that they are not soldiers fighting, but civilians wearing civilian uniforms and do not even have weapons in their hands, even if they have to take up weapons to fight, they will begin to disgust this fighting method that is entirely aimed at killing.

After invading the city, Chinese soldiers had to face innocent civilians directly.

It can be said that even if Chinese soldiers are red from their eyes, they will not shoot at women and children.

The problem is that how to fight is not up to the Chinese soldiers.

Behind the human shield, the Russian army did not give up, and even opened fire directly on the Chinese army besieged by civilians. While killing the Chinese soldiers, they also killed a large number of compatriots.

To be honest, Chinese soldiers cannot fight such wars.

As a result, the 39th Army had to withdraw from Akhtubinsk on January 10 and gave the Russian army three days to send the civilians away.

Unfortunately, the Russian army did not care about civilian casualties at all, at least Julianov did not care.

This battle allowed the Chinese army to give the defenders a few days to withdraw the civilians before besieging the city, and then launch an attack. If the defenders did not withdraw the civilians, the Chinese army would first carry out fire strikes and then allow the troops to enter the city.

This tactic also made Julianov mixed praise.

In the eyes of some, he saved Russia on the brink of despair, allowing the ancient country to withdraw from the war with decent conditions. In the eyes of others, he was an executioner with his hands covered with blood from his fellow countrymen, a devil sent by Satan to destroy Russia.

After the war, Julianov was imprisoned as a war criminal for 17 years. The day after his release, he was stabbed to death by a Russian nationalist.
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