Chapter 208: The Road to Destruction

As July begins, the most popular battle is definitely the Battle of Volgograd that has started again.

This time, Wei Chenglong not only learned his lessons fully, but also gained a stronger offensive force. The most significant change was that the logistics problems were cured.

On June 24, when Wei Chenglong launched the second Volgograd Battle, he already had a large strategic transport aircraft group that was large enough to support all front-line troops in his hands, including 6,000 dy-1s and 4,000 dy-2s, and 8,000 electric tactical transport aircraft. Such a huge air transport force is the basic guarantee for the Chinese army to capture Volgograd and the key guarantee for winning this battle within one month.

Of course, being able to capture Volgograd within one month is also related to the army's offensive tactics.

This time, Wei Chenglong did not focus on ground advancement, but adopted the tactic of Marines attacking the Solomon Islands and landing on Guadalcanal, that is, to completely transport the frontline combat troops to support the enemy's combat forces by airborne and aircraft landing, or simply build field airports behind enemy lines, and then let the ground troops use the airport as the base to sweep away nearby towns and traffic lines.

It can be said that this is a brand new offensive tactic.

In a sense, the unprecedented defeat of the US-Russian coalition on the battlefield where glorious victories had been created was of great importance to its unfamiliarity and the new tactics of the Chinese Army. You should know that even Brushilov didn't know how to defend at that time.

In such a battle, there is no front line or rear at all.

More importantly, what determines the attack distance of ground troops is no longer the assault distance of armored troops, but the delivery radius of transport aircraft.

Of course, to be precise, it should be the combat radius of the tactical aviation force.

The reason is very simple. When crossing the enemy's defense line by air assault and fighting in the rear of the enemy, air support is essential. First, absolute air supremacy must be seized to ensure that the transport plane can fly to the enemy's rear airport safely. Secondly, air cover must be provided for ground troops throughout the journey to prevent ground troops from being bombed by the enemy. Finally, air support must be provided for ground troops during the entire combat operation, especially before the army's long-range artillery is transported to the enemy's airport behind, air support is the only hope of ground troops.

In fact, this is the main reason why the eight naval carrier-based aviation gangs are of great significance.

You should know that the eight carrier-based aviation corps had nearly 800 fighter jets, and their long-range strike capabilities were equivalent to the Army's forty artillery battalions, while the Army had only 360 artillery battalions at that time. In addition, the total number of tactical fighter jets on the mainland battlefield was only about 4,000. In other words, the help provided by Mu Haoyang accounted for 20% of the total number of tactical aviation corps on the mainland battlefield.

For the new tactics promoted by Wei Chenglong, this air force is indispensable.

Without the support of the naval aviation force, Wei Chenglong would likely postpone the attack on Volgograd by one month, because the Air Force would not be able to send 800 additional fighter jets until the end of July. From a time point of view, if it was launched at the end of July, Wei Chenglong would not be able to invade Moscow by the end of the year.

In this battle, the Chinese Army mobilized twenty-four armies, totaling one million and three million ground troops.

In addition, the Air Force and the Navy also invested about 700,000 officers and soldiers.

In other words, the total force of the Chinese army participating in the war is about two million.

Opposite, Brushilov has five fronts and thirty-six US military divisions, and the total strength of the US-Russian coalition forces exceeded 8 million.

Unfortunately, with four times the force of the opponent, the US-Russian coalition forces only lasted for one month.

By July 26, when Volgograd was fully occupied by the Chinese army and the front was advanced near Beriso Glicsk, the US-Russian coalition had lost nearly four million soldiers, of which 1.2 million were killed, 400,000 were missing, and more than 2.3 million were captured.

The fact is that on July 2, when the Chinese army captured Mikhailovka and completed the battle against Volgograd, the US-Russian coalition was defeated.

Starting from July 3, the purpose of the US-Russian coalition was not to defend Volgograd, but to allow the 4.6 million troops besieged by the Chinese army to break through.

In this siege and annihilation battle that lasted for more than 20 days, less than 700,000 US-Russian coalition forces successfully broke through.

It can be said that this is the largest encirclement and annihilation battle in human history.

Most of the 1.6 million soldiers who died and disappeared in this battle died in firefighting, especially artillery fire, when breaking through.

Starting from July 8, the Chinese Army's front-line troops consumed more than 80,000 tons of ammunition every day.

In other words, fire strikes, especially artillery strikes, are the main combat means of the Chinese army, and those airports distributed behind enemy lines are the support points for artillery strikes.

Breaking through the siege under artillery blockade almost means letting soldiers die.

Not to mention infantry fighting on foot, even tanks and chariots cannot break through under artillery blockade.

With no hope of breaking through, the morale of the US-Russian coalition quickly returned to zero, and a large number of troops chose to surrender, otherwise nearly 2.4 million prisoners of war would not have been generated.

On July 14, the 17th Army of the Volgograd Front surrendered collectively.

This was the first Russian army to surrender since the war began. You should know that even in the Battle of Kazakhstan, there was no surrender of the entire army in the surrounded Russian army. At that time, after suffering three days of artillery fire, the remaining 220,000 officers and soldiers surrendered to the Chinese army stationed near Suilafimovigo in despair. At that time, there were only two assault clusters and four fire support clusters stationed there, with only more than 10,000 troops.

On July 26, the commander-in-chief of Volgograd Front and the commander-in-chief of the Russian front line, Ulyanov, who had only obtained the rank of marshal on July 24, surrendered a colonel officer to a colonel officer in an assault cluster that surrounded the 38th Army, and immediately ordered the surrender of all the Russian troops. When the Russian colonel handed Ulyanov's sword to the Chinese Army colonel, which symbolically announced his surrender, Ulyanov ended himself with a gilded Makarov pistol in a basement of the headquarters.

At this point, the Second Battle of Volgograd was declared to end, and the Battle of Volgograd was declared to end.

After Ulyanov committed suicide by swallowing a gun, about one million Russian troops laid down their weapons and surrendered to the nearest Chinese troops.

In addition, 140,000 US troops surrendered.

At that time, the most special surrendered unit was an artillery battalion from Mexico, and this was the first time that the Mexican army surrendered to the Chinese army on the battlefield.

By this time Russia had been defeated.

At that time, the areas controlled by the Russian army were only one-sixth of Russia's land area, and the population was only one-third of Russia's pre-war period, including millions of women and children who fled the battlefield. In other words, even if Russia recruited all women of appropriate age to serve, it would have less than 10 million troops.

In fact, during the Battle of Volgograd, a large number of Russian female soldiers participated in the war.

According to the official Chinese war report, among the Russian officers and soldiers captured in the Second Battle of Volgograd alone, there were 900,000 Russian female soldiers.

In order to resettle these female prisoners of war, China has also built dozens of female prisoners of war camps.

Interestingly, Russian female prisoners of war were generally treated more than male prisoners of war during the war, less than one-fifth of them were forced to participate in labor, and they obtained relatively sufficient daily necessities. There were fewer abuses of prisoners of war, and most of them survived after the war.

Perhaps this is related to a measure made by the Chinese military, that is, the female soldiers who are guarding female prisoners of war.

At the beginning, male soldiers were guarding female prisoners of war. In less than a month, dozens of sexual assault cases occurred, resulting in hundreds of soldiers being sent to military courts. Although most of them were acquitted, mainly because there was no standard for the crime, these phenomena quickly attracted the attention of the Chinese authorities. Later, Mu Haoyang specially established a female army responsible for guarding female prisoners of war. In fact, Du Xiaolei was responsible for this. At the beginning, Mu Haoyang did not attach much importance to the matter in the prisoner-of-war camp because he had to worry too much. It was not until Du Xiaolei came to him that Mu Haoyang realized the seriousness of the problem. Du Xiaolei provided shelter for female prisoners of war, one was that she was also a woman, and the other was that sexual assault on prisoners of war was a diplomatic scandal.

Unfortunately, the Russian authorities do not believe that Russia has been defeated.

The result was that Russia not only failed to seize this opportunity to withdraw from the war, but also mobilized more civilians to join the army, even many teenagers who were only twelve years old. At that time, the Russian army's mobilization standard was very simple: as long as it was taller than the length of a bayonet-mounted rifle, it was within the mobilization range. The result was that many young men who developed earlier were forcibly recruited to serve.

After the war, many people believed that Russia was not fighting, but self-destruction.

In fact, after the end of the Battle of Volgograd, Russia had the opportunity to withdraw from the war, because on July 29, the Chinese authorities sent a diplomatic note to Russia through France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland and Sweden. As long as Russia is willing to accept the conditions proposed by China, China will allow Russia to withdraw from the war and promise to retreat its troops to the east bank of the Volga River after Russia is disarmed.

It can be said that this is a very generous armistice.

You should know that this is equivalent to returning the European region to Russia and protecting the foundation of Russia. All Russia needs to pay is the land plundered from other countries and nations in the foreign expansion of the 18th and 19th centuries, and returning to its original state.

Unfortunately, the Russian authorities believed that this was an unacceptable condition and refused to truce at this time.

Chapter 208: The Road to Destruction
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