ff37;ww.ff35;ff18;xff33;.ff23;om u85c0f;8bf4;66f4;65b0;6700;5feb;5c0f;8bf4;9605;8bfb;7f51;     The United Nations forces crushed Nazi Germany's Atlantic barriers, liberated Paris and surrounded 200,000 German troops. The coalition's actions in France were unstoppable, and people all over the world cheered and mocked the end of Nazi Germany.

But before a few days of happiness, the Allied Army surrounded 1.9 million Soviet troops in Ukraine. It once again cast a shadow on the European battlefield that was a little clear, diluting the joy of victory of the United Nations.

More than 1.9 million Soviet troops, on the surface, looked much stronger than the 200,000 German troops trapped in Rouen and Amiens. They will definitely be able to persist for a longer time and wait for the coalition's reinforcements to arrive.

In fact, it is the opposite. Although the German army in Rouen and Amiens had only 200,000, the German army was guarded by important military cities and had sufficient ammunition and materials. It was a very difficult bone for the United Nations army. However, although the Soviet army in Minsk had more than 1.9 million troops, tanks, cannons and other heavy weapons, the fatal thing was that the Soviet army's excessive arrogance caused its logistics supply line to fail to keep up in time, and there was no food to fight on the ground when fighting on hunger. No matter how strong the troops were, it was useless.

One million and nine hundred million Soviet troops were surrounded, and the eyes of the whole world were immediately attracted to the battlefield on the Eastern Front.

After learning that the German army had besieged the Soviet army of six armies in Minsk, Stalin was furious and wished he could go to the front line to kill Zhukov immediately.

For the Soviet army, after winning the Second Battle of Stalingrad, the Soviet army was indeed several times stronger than before. It was reflected in the fact that the Soviet army's troops increased to as many as 6 million, and tens of thousands of aircraft and tanks, and its combat effectiveness also returned to the level before the Soviet Union's Great Purge.

But the most fatal thing for the Soviet army was the logistics support capabilities. Previously, the Soviet army had been attacked by the German and American troops, and had been in passive defense operations, and the logistics system lacked mobile supply capabilities. At this time, the Soviet command made a wrong judgment. Millions of Soviet troops counterattacked the entire line, and the shortcomings of logistics supply were immediately exposed, and they gave the Soviet army a fatal blow in the Battle of Minsk.

It was not that Stalin didn't want to save Zhukov, but that it was too late. Zhukov's 1.9 million Soviet supplies could only last for two days, which was the result of the Soviet army's on-site sweep of the Soviet people and getting a batch of food supplements. It would take at least one week for Soviet logistics supplies to be transported. If the German army ambushed or blocked halfway, it would take longer.

Stalin was so anxious that he had blisters on the corner of his mouth within an hour, but he didn't care about the doctor's application of medicine to him, so he hurriedly made an appointment with Sir Luo Xian, the ambassador of the Chinese Empire to Moscow.

"This battle is of great importance, please help your country!"

Stalin looked pitiful and pleading. This was something he had never taken others seriously before. He was determined not to imagine.

Luo Xian immediately assured Stalin seriously: "Please rest assured, Chairman, your country is one of our most important allies, and we are deeply worried about the besiege of your army Minsk. Before I come to see you, His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire has entrusted me and expressed his deep concern for the situation on the Soviet battlefield to His Majesty the Chairman through me. At the same time, His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire specifically reminded me to do my best to help your country and your army solve the current problems."

Stalin was immediately grateful when he heard this, thanking the Emperor of the Chinese Empire, Chen Hao, for his care and praising the friendship between China and the Soviet Union.

However, when Stalin mentioned the issue of asking the United Nations forces to urgently reinforce Minsk and provide a large number of aid materials to the Soviet Union, Rosin immediately changed his expression and said that he was negotiating with relevant departments.

Stalin believed Luo Xian's words, and then talked about other topics about Sino-Soviet friendship, and hurriedly ended the talks.

As a result, the next day, the Soviet intelligence department reported that the Armenian army had no movement and Stalin had to talk to Luo Xian again.

"The Chinese Empire has always advocated that the United Nations forces send troops to reinforce Minsk as soon as possible, but the Armenian military said that they have been fighting at high intensity for three months. Their front line is too long. Recharge has become difficult. The tracks of their armored combat vehicles have been patched, and their soldiers are exhausted and cannot reinforce Minsk in time."

Stalin frowned immediately and said anxiously: "The Soviet army in Minsk must receive reinforcements immediately, otherwise there will be a danger of being wiped out. Please mediate to Armenia, and the Soviet government and people will be grateful."

Luo Xian comforted: "Your Excellency, Chairman, don't be impatient, we are already coordinating. We urge the Armenian military to send troops to Kiev as soon as possible to break the Minsk siege. As long as your army can hold on for a week, reinforcements will arrive soon."

Stalin suddenly had a bitter face and said, "A week is too long. At that time, the 1.9 million Soviet troops would not die in the battlefield, but would be starved to death."

Stalin said earnestly: "I think even if your country successfully lands on the Western Front, we need our Soviet army to restrain the main force of the German army on the Eastern Front."

Luo Xian smiled and said, "Of course we understand this! Your country is our most important ally, and we are very clear about this."

"In two days, reinforcements must arrive within two days."

Stalin said this and ended the meeting.

Luo Xian could see that Stalin was burning, so he conveyed his views to the General Staff of the Empire.

Soon, the Armenian army was dispatched, and the troops were directed to the 11th mechanized army of the German SS in Kiev. However, the Armenian army walked very slowly. They were originally equipped with Chinese equipment and should have marched at a speed of 300 kilometers a day, but now they traveled 120 kilometers a day like a ox cart. The reason was that the muddy roads were not suitable for mechanized troops to march, and they were worried that the German army would be ambushed.

When Stalin was asking for help from the Chinese Empire, the German Command was very clear that it had to be besieged the Soviet army for at least three days, and wait for the last ration of the Soviet army to run out of its last ration. Before that, the German army had to stop the Soviet army from breaking out.

To this end, the German army mobilized the elite troops of six of Germany's most elite SS's armored divisions to block the Mogilev area where the Soviet army focused on breaking through.

However, Zhukov made another fatal mistake, that is, he believed that the Armenian army would come to reinforce as soon as possible, and the Soviet army in the rear would also come to reinforce as soon as possible and bring supplies. Therefore, Zhukov did not transfer his seven elite armored troops to Mogilev to open up the retreat, but instead concentrated all the elite troops on the front battlefield in Minsk.

According to Zhukov's idea, the Soviet army and the Allied forces soon came to reinforce. If Minsk could be conquered, the situation on the battlefield would be opened up at once. Not only would the German plan to surround the Soviet army go bankrupt, but in turn, three million German troops would be trapped in the anti-encirclement of millions of Soviet troops and Armenian troops. If Zhukov could win this battle, then there would be no main force of the Allied Army on the entire Eastern Front battlefield, and the Soviet army would be unimpeded and approach the city of Berlin.

At the same time, Zhukov valued the most the astronomical German supply supplies in Minsk. Once the Soviet army conquered Minsk, not only would one million and nine million Soviet troops receive supplies, but it would instead cause three million German troops to go hungry to fight.

Therefore, Zhukov concentrated 700,000 elite troops in Minsk to attack Minsk day and night, while more than one million Soviet troops focused on defense to cover the attacks of frontal troops.

However, Zhukov forgot the situation at this time. The battlefield was no longer Stalingrad, and the Soviet army did not have the kind of ruthlessness of the city being in the city being destroyed. The Soviet army and the German army attacked and defended in different positions, and the German army defended Minsk to the death. The Soviet army launched an attack on the plains outside the city.

In this way, the German army only needed a small number of armored troops, cooperated with a large number of infantry fortifications, and resisted step by step based on urban buildings, which made the Soviet army's attack progress very slow and extremely expensive.

On the other hand, when Manstein saw the Soviet army posing a defensive posture, he used the tactics and asked the German infantry to conduct feint attacks to restrain and confuse the Soviet army. His elite 4th Panzer Army was under the jurisdiction of the 52nd Infantry Army, the 48th Panzer Army and the 2nd SS Panzer Army, a total of 224,000 people, 1,125 main battle tanks such as Tiger King and Leopard, 1,404 artillery, 1,421 Fokk Wolf 190a and Hankel 129 combat aircraft. He concentrated his superior forces and launched a fierce attack on the Ek area controlled by the 19th Army of the Soviet Army.

Most of the Soviet fighter jets and tanks were concentrated in Minsk for battle head-on. In the Ek area on the rear wing, there were less than 110,000 troops, 240 tanks and 40 artillery pieces, and less than 40 support aircraft.

When the German fighter jets and armored clusters rushed over like a sea of ​​rushing, the Soviet army fought to the death. Unfortunately, there was no natural danger to defend, and the flesh and blood of the infantry could not shake the impact of the German steel torrent. In less than half a day, more than half of the Soviet army was killed or injured, and the battlefield was full of Soviet corpses, blood flowing into a river.

At around 9 p.m. on the 29th, the German tank cluster crushed the bones of the 19th Soviet Army. The German army captured Ek Town by stepping on the Soviet corpse and tore open the defense line on the rear wing of the Soviet army.

At this time, Zhukov was commanding the elite Soviet troops to attack Minsk. After paying a huge price for casualties, he had already captured one-quarter of the city.

When Zhukov learned that the German armored troops had broken through the Ek defense line, he did not dare to stop anymore and immediately mobilized the elite main force to rush for reinforcements. As a result, Minsk's German army soon recovered its strength and drove the Soviet army out again.

At dawn on the 30th, the Soviet army and the elite German troops fought fiercely in Ek Town. Zhukov issued a death order to take Ek Town back. The Soviet army was forced to fight desperately with the German army. After more than twenty rounds of fighting, the German army was forced to abandon Ek Town and retreat to its original defense line.

The Soviet army wanted to break through the German encirclement in one go, but unfortunately the fuel of the Soviet armored troops was in urgent need of fuel, and Zhukov was forced to give up the attack and ordered the Soviet army to move into a defensive posture again.

By July 1, the Soviet army was exhausted and there was a serious shortage of ammunition and fuel. More than one-third of the troops lost their combat effectiveness due to lack of ammunition or weapons damaged or parts repaired.

The situation was urgent, and Zhukov asked Stalin again for trouble. However, the Armenian reinforcements that Stalin had expected were still on the way, but the Armenian army was blocked by the German army and could not arrive on time.

"Please ask your air force to provide air supply to the Soviet army in Minsk!"

Stalin almost knelt down to ask for help for Luo Xian. But Luo Xian always had a smiling diplomat expression, and said with candied fruit in his mouth, which was to delay the time to rescue the Soviet army.

"Please rest assured that our Air Force transport plane is flying to Minsk with supplies!"

Have you really gone?

Stalin had a big question mark in his heart. It was obvious that he seemed to have guessed some attitudes from the Chinese Empire at this time. The strength of the Soviet army was something the Chinese Empire was unhappy to see, but Stalin never expected that before the war ended, the Chinese Empire began to plot against the Soviet Union.

But Stalin had no evidence to accuse the Chinese Empire. At this point, he had no choice but to believe it.

The Imperial Chinese Air Force Transportation Team fulfilled its promise and sent more than 1,000 transport planes to airdrop more than 2,000 tons of food into Minsk on the same day. However, most of the food was not airdropped onto the Soviet positions, but onto the German positions.

When the Germans ate the canned beef and biscuits airdropped by the Chinese Empire, the Soviet army opposite was too hungry to walk.

Stalin completely collapsed. At this time, he finally understood that the Chinese Empire deliberately buried more than 1.9 million Soviet troops under the German butcher knife, but the Chinese Empire did nothing and there was no evidence to accuse them. Stalin could only break his teeth and swallow his stomach.

On July 3, an hour before the German army launched the general attack, General Zhukov, who was too hungry to stand up, was forced to order all Soviet troops to surrender to the German army.

In this way, the German army followed a huge mistake by the Soviet army and eliminated 1.9 million elite Soviet troops without any effort. The situation on the battlefield of the Soviet-German army suddenly reversed, and the Soviet army's finally counterattack was strangled by the German army again, and the Soviet army was no longer able to attack the German army.

Similarly, the German army did not take advantage of the situation to counterattack the Soviet army. Because the battlefield on the Western Front deteriorated rapidly, the United Nations forces led by the Chinese Empire landed in France. In just half a month, most of France had been liberated and approaching the German mainland.

The German army was forced to move into a defensive position on the Eastern Front, and the main force was quickly transferred to the Western Front to block the attack of the United Nations.

In this way, the Chinese Empire not only severely hit the vitality of the huge potential enemy of the Soviet Union, but also controlled the situation on the battlefield on the Eastern Front, and was the biggest winner.

After that, the battlefield on the Eastern Front became calm, and the Soviet army was seriously injured and lost its ability to attack. With the support of the Chinese Empire, the Armenian army continued to maintain a high-pressure offensive against the German army, and soon captured the important town of Kiev, forcing the German army to abandon Ukraine, and withdraw troops from Minsk, Belarus.

When the Armenian army entered Minsk, they did not receive warm applause because the Soviet army deliberately claimed that the disastrous defeat of the Minsk Battle was because the Armenian army did not arrive on time. Armenia has always been the pawn of the Chinese Empire in Eastern Europe, so the Soviets secretly accused the Chinese Empire of being the mastermind behind the scenes.

This time, the Chinese Empire severely tricked the Soviet Union, which made the Soviet Union hold a grudge against the Chinese Empire from then on. Until many years later, the Soviets were resentful of this matter and were even willing to be slaves to the Germans and oppose the Chinese Empire.
Chapter completed!