At this time, the Caucasus battlefield had actually been silent for a long time. Although there were two Ottoman armies and a Persian army here, they were still unable to break through the defense line composed of only one Russian army and about 100,000 Armenian militiamen. Especially in Baku, the Ottomans
A group army attacked this world-class oil field. Not only did it fail to capture it for three months, but it also lost nearly 100,000 people, which suddenly shattered the morale of the Ottoman army, which was originally composed of various ethnic groups.\\
The main battlefield of the current confrontation between the two sides is still in this area. The Russian army, with the help of the Armenian militia, is firmly entrenched in the two major cities of Baku and Tbilisi, firmly blocking the Austrian and Polish coalition forces in the Transcaucasus. There is no hope of breaking through until their own troops attack.
Hamid II, who is still far from capable, has no interest in continuing the offensive in the Caucasus. He just needs to block it and prevent the Russians from attacking. Currently, his main focus is on the Balkan battlefield, cooperating with the Chinese Army to break through.
As for the defense line of the US-British coalition forces in the Balkans, as for the Caucasus, as long as Russia is defeated, it will still be his.
Therefore, His Majesty the Emperor deployed half of his eight armies in the Balkan battlefield, and one in Egypt, where the resistance activities have not subsided so far. Then two were used in the Caucasus battlefield, and one in
Istanbul to prevent the Russian army from crossing the sea to attack like they did against the Romanians.
As for the Persian army, although it is a group army in name, it actually only has 150,000 people. After all, Persia is just a small country with a population of 7 million. Before the discovery of the oil fields, they were so poor that they would shed tears. However, in terms of the distribution of wealth in the oil fields, they got
There are at least a few, and even these are mostly squandered by their king. Under such circumstances, it is already very rare to maintain a modern army of 150,000 people.
The two combined forces together only had six or seven hundred thousand people on the battlefield in the Caucasus. Previously, the Russians were unable to maintain a stalemate due to insufficient Russian troops. However, the number of Russian troops on the opposite side suddenly increased to almost three times. At this time, the Austro-Polish coalition could still hold on.
It's a joke. Just as Brusilov set off from Tehran, the Russian army also smashed through the Persian army's defense line in Azerbaijan, followed by a right hook to the rear of the Ottoman army, and was maintaining its offensive against Tbilisi.
The Ottoman troops who were attacking in Sri Lanka retreated hurriedly.
Because the Orthodox Christians in one of the corps left as rearguard fled without fighting, the corps was directly defeated and the back of the entire Ottoman army was exposed. As a result, the Russian Ninth Army used tanks to clear the way.
The retreating Ottoman army was cut off from the middle, and at this moment the Russian army that landed from Trabzon came out again. The retreating Ottoman Second Army was directly surrounded in western Armenia, and the entire Caucasus war situation was instantly reversed.
At this time, Brusilov's army was blocked in Isfahan.
He still underestimated the reaction speed of the Chinese garrison in Kuwait. After learning that the Russian troops had landed in Persia, Ma Biao, the governor of the Kuwait territory of the Chinese royal family who knew what kind of person Muzaffar al-Din was, loaded up one of his divisions.
The train headed north for rescue at the fastest speed. When passing Basra, it also dragged out an Ottoman division here. The two divisions rushed to Isfahan ahead of Brusilov.
Brusilov was also a decisive and ruthless character. This battle was related to Russia's life and death, so naturally there was no room for hesitation. The tank brigade and an infantry division that arrived first took advantage of the unsteady foothold of the Chinese and Austrian coalition forces to launch a direct attack.
He launched a ferocious attack. A desert oasis city like Isfahan was completely undefendable. Although the Zaindai River ran through the city, the small gullies in the desert were of little significance for defense. So Ma Biao fought very hard.
difficult.
His division is not a field force, it is specially used to defend Kuwait. By the way, it occasionally goes out to crush the disobedient Arab tribes. At this time, there are no disobedient people in the Arabian Peninsula. Those hundreds or thousands of people are in groups.
A small tribe, you can just go and do whatever you want them to do. To put it bluntly, this is just like the British and French colonial garrisons. The emperor is used to it, and the combat effectiveness is not at the same level as the domestic field troops, even with heavy artillery.
None of them. This time they were chasing the ducks and bumped into the elite led by the top general of the Russian army. Naturally, it was difficult to gain the upper hand.
The only advantage is that the supplies are sufficient. Not only is it sufficient, it can be said that it is like fighting a war with an ammunition depot. As a transit point for supplying the entire European Army and the Ottoman army of millions, Basra hoards countless arms.
What's available? Although many of the heavy weapons are not used by his soldiers who ride camels to fight, the light weapons alone are luxurious enough, especially the large number of individual rocket launchers and recoilless cannons that were originally prepared for high-speed raids with tanks.
Brusilov gave him a heads-up.
More than a hundred Russian Lynx tanks imported from China, under the cover of infantry, used the most classic infantry-tank coordination tactics to attack the hastily constructed positions of the Chinese and Austrian coalition forces. Brusilov behind him even heard the victory
He cheered. In his opinion, the Chinese soldiers on the opposite side without anti-aircraft guns could not stop his torrent of steel. But at this moment, suddenly streaks of fire flew out from the Chinese trenches with long trails,
Then they crashed directly into Russian tanks, followed by a series of crashes. The next moment, more than half of the tanks stopped with burning flames, and their heads were dislocated amidst the explosions.
Brusilov almost put the telescope in his eye socket.
"Retreat, order the chariot troops to retreat immediately." He shouted without hesitation.
The Russian tank in front immediately retreated, and at this time, the bazooka operators who had reloaded had once again started aiming with the 60 rocket launcher. Fortunately, this time the Russian army was prepared, and then the vehicle-mounted machine gun fired wildly, and at the same time those accompanying them
The weapons in the hands of the infantry were also firing. After all, rocket launchers were a dangerous job. Under the suppression of Russian firepower, most of this round of attacks failed, but even so, the Russian army once again lost more than a dozen tanks.
, before those rocket launchers started their third round of attacks, the Russian artillery fire coverage began, and the remaining tanks escaped under the cover of heavy artillery.
This battle caused an armored brigade to lose more than three-fifths of its tanks, which made Brusilov feel so distressed that he almost shed tears. You must know that Russia cannot produce this thing, and all tanks were imported from China.
For imported ones, one car is less than one car.
After understanding that rushing forward with a tank would mean death, Brusilov simply threw the tank aside and relied entirely on infantry and artillery to coordinate barrages. The dense artillery shells created an explosive wall of fire along the Russian offensive route.
, the Russian soldiers carrying bayonet-mounted rifles hunched forward and shouted under the cover of this wall of fire. When approaching the explosion zone, the artillery cover extended forward, and another wall of fire was fired some distance ahead. The infantry
Continue to advance and gradually approach the Chinese soldiers' defense line in this way.
Ma Biao's approach to this tactic was simple and crude. He equipped his soldiers with a large number of machine guns, light machine guns, heavy machine guns, large-caliber machine guns and even anti-aircraft machine guns. He moved everything in Basra's material transfer warehouse here and paid for it.
The Persians in Sfahan helped him transport ammunition from the train station to the front line. Basra stockpiled hundreds of millions of rounds of various firearms and bullets. He could afford even a heavy machine gun. The Russian barrage Xu Jin cooperated again and again.
Well, after all, when some infantrymen were exposed to the muzzle of a machine gun, hundreds of machine guns of all types opened fire at once, even if the Russians rushed right in front of them, they would still kneel down.
And this is the fact. When the barrage sent the Russian infantry only a few dozen meters away from the Chinese soldiers' defense line, which was enough to throw grenades into the trenches, as soon as the bombardment stopped, those Russian soldiers were running wildly with their bayonets in hand.
Just like a volcanic eruption, the density of machine gun fire left Brusilov stunned. The Russian army charging in an instant was like a cake that had been stepped on, with a large piece missing all of a sudden.
Fortunately, these Russian veterans reacted quickly enough, and they all fell to the ground immediately. But at this moment, the same dense mortar shells and grenade launcher grenades came down, blasting the Russian troops lying on the ground into a mess.
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The Russian heavy artillery shells roared in again, but this time they were not covering the attack, but the retreat.
While the two sides were fighting in Isfahan, the Chinese and Austrian armies on the Balkan battlefield also began to quickly return reinforcements. The two Chinese armies and the two Ottoman group armies all retreated and were transferred to Ottoman territory. The former directly sent reinforcements to Basra, and the latter
The others will go to reinforce Armenia. As for the US-British coalition forces opposite them, there is no need to worry too much. It is impossible for these guys to have the courage to fight out of the mountains and forests of Serbia. What's more, the Italians are retreating in Hungary, so the US-British coalition forces have to be careful.
Behind yourself.
The first to arrive at Isfahan for reinforcements was a brigade airlifted by airship. When they arrived, it was when Mabia was at his most dangerous. After understanding that a frontal attack was difficult, Brusilov immediately thought of
Copying Ma Biao's logistics line, he organized the remaining tanks and added a new batch of trucks that came directly from Tehran to form a mechanized unit again. By virtue of his speed advantage, he bypassed Isfahan and attacked Zarinshah in the south.
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Although Ma Biao knew it, he had no troops to mobilize. Just when the Russian army was about to cut off his logistical supply, the troop transport airship arrived. The brigade landed directly at Zarinshahr, and the Russian army's surprise attack tanks
, once again ran into an individual rocket launcher. This support force was not a second-line garrison like Ma Biao. They were all elites trained on the Balkan battlefield. They took out all the remaining Russian tanks as soon as they met.
Then they launched a counterattack against the Russian infantry. (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!