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Text Chapter 1,238 The Grand Duke Surrenders

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    "Your Excellency the Grand Duke, Chelyabinsk has been occupied by the Chinese! Lieutenant General Nikita died in battle!" Grand Duke Nikolai's adjutant reported to Grand Duke Nikolai.  Although he tried his best to show that normal look, he still couldn't hide the deep despair in his eyes!  The six fortresses that the Russian army painstakingly built were all occupied by the Chinese. Moreover, the capture of Chelyabinsk means that the Chinese are about to launch an attack on Yekaterinburg!  The six fortresses on the front line were not able to hold on for even a month. So how long can Yekaterinburg hold on?

    "Well! I understand, go out, I want to be alone!" Grand Duke Nicholas said.

    "Okay, Your Excellency the Grand Duke!" Grand Duke Nicholas' adjutant nodded, turned and left Grand Duke Nicholas' office!

    Grand Duke Nicholas, named Nikolai Nikolayevich, is the uncle of Tsar Nicholas II. He has been developing in the military. After the start of the world war, he became the commander-in-chief of the Russian army!  His voice is also a legendary voice.  But this time, he knew that he was facing the biggest crisis in his life!  Although he was captured by China more than ten years ago, at that time, although Russia was defeated, it still had strength and had a chance to make a comeback.  But now, Russia's national power has been basically exhausted in the world war. The two million Russian troops in the Siberian Plain are the most elite troops in the Russian army!  And now, the war in the Siberian Plain is about to decide the winner. No matter how you look at it, the Russian army has already lost!  After the failure on the battlefield in the Siberian Plain, Russia was not far away from defeat!

    Although Russia still has nearly three million troops in Europe, these troops are almost new troops that have just been formed. Almost all the soldiers are just farmers who have just laid down their weapons. They lack professional training, weapons and equipment, and  There is a lack of a large number of middle and lower-level officers!  If such troops were sent to the battlefield, it would be almost the same as sending them to death.  In fact, this is indeed the case. Among the coalition forces resisting the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Kingdom of Bulgaria and the Kingdom of Romania, the Russian army has been repelled repeatedly, almost completely using their lives to resist the enemy's attack!  The war has reached this point, and the Russian army has no chance of victory at all!

    "Is there still hope for Russia?" Grand Duke Nicholas murmured, as if he was whispering, and as if he was asking himself.  This question is not difficult to answer, and the results are very obvious.  After now, Russia has no hope of winning at all!

    Although the six border cities of the Russian army caused huge casualties to the Chinese army, and although Grand Duke Nicholas did not know the specific number of casualties, he was certain that the Chinese army spent at least six months in order to capture these six border cities.  More than 100,000 casualties.  It's just that he doesn't know how much the real Chinese people have suffered!  Those despicable and shameless Chinese are so shameless. They use those mercenaries as cannon fodder in every battle. Although the Russian army killed and wounded a large number of enemies, there must not be many real Chinese.  !  However, the Russian army paid a price of 1.2 million elite troops for this!  Now, there are only more than 500,000 people left in the entire Siberian Plain. Grand Duke Nicholas has no confidence that he will use these 50 or so people to hold Yekaterinburg!

    On the evening of May 26, the same night that Yekaterinburg fell, Grand Duke Nicholas held an emergency meeting in the conference room of the headquarters.  Apart from him, there were only fourteen lieutenant generals attending the meeting. These were the commanders of the fourteenth infantry corps of the Russian army in Yekaterinburg. However, many of the infantry corps had suffered heavy losses and were no longer full!

    "Everyone, Chelyabinsk has been captured by the Chinese. Soon the Chinese will march towards Yekaterinburg, and we have to prepare for the worst, which is to resist with the current strength of more than 500,000 troops.  Attack by millions of Chinese!" Grand Duke Nicholas said.

    The generals below all had expressionless faces.  However, the sophisticated Grand Duke Nicholas could easily see the worry or fear in the eyes of these generals, and some even showed expressions of despair in their eyes.  Grand Duke Nicholas did not blame these people. He knew that under the current circumstances, it was understandable for these generals to have such concerns.  In fact, doesn't he feel the same way in his heart?

    "So, do you have any opinions on the future war situation?" Grand Duke Nicholas asked.

    All the generals looked intently and kept silent.  They all know that the current war situation is extremely bad, and the Russian army has no hope of winning.  Even if Marshal Kutuzov is reborn, he may not be able to solve the current problem!

    "General Maxim, tell me!" Seeing that no one spoke, Grand Duke Nicholas had to name him!

    "Your Majesty, I don't have any good ideas! Now, we can only hold on in Yekaterinburg.Down!  There are cavalry activities from the five Central Asian tribes outside the city, and our small troops will be attacked by them.  Relying on Yekaterinburg's complete city defense facilities, we may be able to hold on until reinforcements arrive or winter comes!  "Lieutenant General Maxim is the commander of the 5th Infantry Corps of the Russian Army. Now that we are facing such a dilemma, what good solution can he have, but when Grand Duke Nicholas named him, he had to bite the bullet and say  Even he himself knows that to hold on to Yekaterinburg is to wait for death, wait until the Chinese army attacks Yekaterinburg, and then break through Yekaterinburg and kill them all! As for how long they can survive, it may depend on whether God will bless them!

    Grand Duke Nicholas frowned, but said nothing more. Instead, he looked at Lieutenant General Boris, commander of the 6th Army next to Lieutenant General Maxim.

    Lieutenant General Boris saw Grand Duke Nicholas looking at him and knew that he had to speak, so he stood up and said: "Your Excellency, the Chinese still have more than three million troops. Even if they only have  Even if we attack Yekaterinburg with half the troops, we will not be able to withstand their attack! Now, Yekaterinburg has been surrounded by the traitors from the five Central Asian ethnic groups. We cannot get any supplies, even if we also store a large amount of strategic materials in Yekaterinburg, but  It cannot withstand the consumption of hundreds of thousands of people for a long time! Therefore, I think we should abandon Yekaterinburg immediately and retreat westward! Climb the Ural Mountains and return to the Eastern European plains!"

    Grand Duke Nicholas sighed inwardly. If Yekaterinburg could be evacuated, he would have ordered the retreat long ago!  The railway from Yekaterinburg to Russia has been destroyed. It is almost impossible for the Russian army to cross the Ural Mountains on foot!  In addition, with the obstruction of the Central Asian cavalry and the bombing by Chinese aircraft, the Russian army may not be able to advance even ten kilometers a day if it wants to retreat.  Once the Chinese army catches up, hundreds of thousands of Russian troops will only become the targets of wanton massacre by the Chinese in the field.  Whether it is Chinese cavalry or armored troops, they can easily defeat the Russian army in the field!

    "Where are the others? What else do you think?" Grand Duke Nicholas asked.

    The other generals seemed to be divided into two groups. One side supported Lieutenant General Maxim¡¯s view and believed that Yekaterinburg should be defended.  The other side supports Lieutenant General Boris's view and believes that Yekaterinburg should be abandoned and retreat westward!

    In fact, these generals are not fools. They naturally know that neither of these two aspects can avoid the failure of the Russian army.  However, they themselves couldn't think of any way. Since Lieutenant General Maxim and Lieutenant General Boris were the leaders, they naturally wouldn't go looking for death on their own!

    After seeing this situation, Grand Duke Nicholas had no choice but to adjourn the meeting.  The generals left the meeting room feeling relieved this time.  Grand Duke Nicholas knew that the best solution these generals had in mind was probably to simply surrender to the Chinese!  Anyway, Russia has lost now, so it is better to surrender directly to the Chinese. In this case, there may be a glimmer of hope.  It's just that no one dared to say it first.  I was afraid that I would offend Grand Duke Nicholas and suffer unreasonable disaster!

    On June 2, the Chinese Army¡¯s 1st Group Army, 4th Group Army, 5th Group Army and 10th Group Army, together with 400,000 Japanese mercenaries and 100,000 North Korean mercenaries, arrived at Yekaterinburg.  A total of more than 1.2 million troops surrounded the entire Yekaterinburg.  On the periphery are nearly 100,000 cavalry from the five Central Asian tribes. They are scattered around Yekaterinburg to prevent the Russian army from escaping through the Chinese army's defense line!

    On June 3, the Chinese army¡¯s attack on Yekaterinburg began. The Chinese army assembled nearly two thousand heavy artillery pieces to fire on Yekaterinburg. At the same time, the Air Force also dispatched hundreds of fighter planes to drop bombs on Yekaterinburg.

    Although Yekaterinburg¡¯s defense strength is also very abnormal, various fortifications suffered heavy losses due to indiscriminate bombing.  Coupled with being surrounded, the morale of the Russian army dropped very quickly!

    After the shelling and bombing, the Chinese army dispatched nearly 500 tanks and armored vehicles to cover the infantry and launched an attack on Yekaterinburg.  In less than half a day, the defenses outside Yekaterinburg were cleared.  That afternoon, the Chinese army invaded Yekaterinburg!

    The Russian army lacked the weapons to counter the armored forces and was retreating steadily under the attacks of the Chinese armored forces.

    On June 5, seeing that the defeat of the Russian army was imminent, the Russian commander-in-chief, Grand Duke Nicholas, sent another telegram to Moscow and ordered the Russian army in Yekaterinburg to lay down their weapons and surrender to the Chinese army!  Since failure is inevitable, there is no need to let the soldiers die!  (To be continued. Please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!)
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