On September 16, after a week of fighting, the German army finally completed the encirclement of Warsaw.

The whole of Warsaw has now become a fortress. Every street and every house is guarded by men with guns.

Although everyone knew that the people at the top had escaped, they had no way to escape. If they didn't want the Germans to come in, they had to take up arms and resist.

A colonel named Ressard Kachurovski became the top leader in Warsaw.

There was no other way. His superiors ran away, and almost all of his colleagues also ran away. Many of his subordinates also ran away!

He did not run away. Therefore, he became the supreme commander of Warsaw, commanding the people of Warsaw to resist German aggression.

The German army attacked very patiently. After clearing all the peripheral strongholds, they launched an attack into the city.

The German army learned a lot from the Ming army on the battlefield, and one of the most useful tactics was to use artillery to clear the ground.

Any house with a resisting character will be bombarded with shells.

Looking at this, after this battle is over, there won't be many houses left in Warsaw. Naturally, there won't be many people left either.

Li Xiao has been mobilizing troops these days!

The Battle of Bryansk went very smoothly. Except for Cao Bianjiao's troops of the Second Tank Division, they killed a tank company and half an armored infantry company because they underestimated the enemy's advance.

For this reason, the leader of the vanguard group was dismissed from his post.

Li Xiao didn't feel bad about those tanks. If the tanks were destroyed, they could be rebuilt. What he felt bad about were those soldiers, who were all good men of the Ming Dynasty, but died on the battlefield under the command of a mediocre man.

It seems that promoting officers will be a major issue in the future, and we need to carefully study the response plan.

It is necessary to develop a mechanism to allow truly capable people to direct operations.

Another consequence of the Bryansk battle was the loss of a lot of motorcycle hours.

The Ming Dynasty's armored forces can actually only maintain an attack distance of about five hundred kilometers!

Converted into motorcycle hours, that’s about thirty hours.

There is no way, the armored force was created by Li Xiao by forcefully uprooting the technology tree.

Tank engines and various technologies are not very mature.

After more than thirty motorized hours, if these tanks are not maintained or repaired, various failures will occur.

At this time, the repair camps of each army will be in a collapse stage.

This is why, after every battle, the armored forces of the Ming Army would rest for a long time.

Most of this time is wasted on repair and maintenance of machinery.

Many motorized hours were wasted in the Battle of Bryansk. The final result was that the Ming Dynasty had to let a cavalry division and the infantry alone attack Smolensk.

It could not be delayed any longer, and ships from Riga and Norgrove were ferrying Nordic soldiers back to Scandinavia every day.

The Nordic people are stubborn, and Northern Europe is a place with dense forests. It is not that difficult to attack Northern Europe.

Especially attacking Northern Europe in winter is simply a nightmare for all armies.

The Soviet army had such a tragic experience that year, when 200,000 Soviet soldiers froze to death in the ice and snow of Finland.

Winter is coming soon, and Li Xiao doesn’t want to make the same mistake as the Soviet army did.

Therefore, it is necessary to annihilate as many Nordic coalition forces as possible in Smolensk.

"The most important thing about this battle is the penetration. The Russian army and our infantry are responsible for the siege of Smolensk. Just trap them and don't actually launch an attack.

Mr. Man, you lead a cavalry division and make repeated penetrations behind enemy lines.

The most important thing is to destroy the logistics supply points, various military stations, and command posts at all levels, especially the communication troops.

After doing this, don't get entangled with the enemy's main force and go straight to Riga!" Li Xiao kept poking at the map with instructions to make Master Man understand that there would be no cooperation from Master Ao in this battle.

"What about Norgrove?"

"The port terminal of Norgrove is relatively far from the city. We can send the air force to bomb the port of Norgrove.

Now we have more than 20 Kunpengs in hand, which can undertake strategic bombing missions.

As long as the port is bombarded into a sea of ​​fire, the port facilities are destroyed, and the ships in the port are sunk, Norgrove's Nordic coalition forces can be prevented from retreating.

In addition, the Russian army will also cooperate in attacking Norgrove.

Norgrove is not easy, we need a lot of patience to win it!"

Yuan Hao pointed at Norgrove on the map and said!

"Okay, I will try my best to capture Riga, but the air force must support me. According to intelligence, there are currently 200,000 Nordic coalition troops stationed in Riga.

The number is more than seven times that of our army. Moreover, if we want to attack Riga, we have to engage in urban street fighting.

But urban street fighting is not our strong point."

"That's true!" Li Xiao frowned, and he did let the armored troops attack the city. This is not the strength of the armored troops.

The elite 1st Cavalry Division should annihilate those enemies who stubbornly resist in field battles, instead of being wasted in street battles.

"Commander, is this okay? We can use the tactic of encircling the point and attacking for reinforcements!

First, we mobilized naval aviation units from the Mediterranean and came to Moscow to participate in the war.

Taking off from St. Petersburg Airport, the flight range can include Riga.

As long as we sink the ships in the port of Riga, Riga will become a turtle in the urn!

At this time, we will besiege Norgrove again and completely abandon Smolensk.

It's just that in Smolensk, a few Russian divisions were used for defense.

In this way, we have pinned down the enemies in Norgrove. If the enemy in Riga has no hope of breaking through, they will come to Norgrove.

In this way, our army can take advantage of the field combat advantage of the First Cavalry Division and directly kill Riga's 200,000 troops in the field."

Stewie pointed to Riga and Logrov on the map and said!

Li Xiao thought for a while and shook his head.

"The chief of general staff's idea is right, but the goal is the opposite.

First of all, Riga is close to the port. It is not easy for us to separate Riga from the port.

On the contrary, the distance between Norgrove City and Norgrove Port is a full thirty kilometers.

We can directly connect between Norgrove Port and Norgrove City through the shuttle.

This cuts off Norgrove's escape route. What will happen to the 300,000 defenders of Norgrove?"

Man Ye's eyes lit up: "Since we can't escape, we can only leave the city and move closer to Riga. We can kill them in the field."

"Yes, we are going to kill Norgrove's 300,000 defenders in the field.

The battle lasted about a week, and when the first cavalry division's motorized hours were basically exhausted, I thought the first, second, and third tank divisions would also be freed up.

At that time, three tank divisions directly surrounded Riga. They continued bombing from the air, and then mobilized large-caliber artillery to bombard the port.

The defenders of Riga who did not withdraw will also become turtles in the urn.

Both ports have fallen, and there is no other way out for Smolensk's 100,000 troops but to surrender."

Li Xiao used a red pen and drew a big cross on Smolensk.

"Yes! The commander-in-chief's plan is more rigorous and more practical than mine." Shi Dewei nodded, and he also agreed with Yuan Hao's tactics.

"There is no need to redeploy naval aviation. The navy is preparing for the Battle of Gibraltar.

Secondly, the naval aviation force was suddenly transferred to the northern theater, and they were not used to it for a while.

It would be bad if things don't suit the climate and something unexpected happens.

We will fight with the troops we have on hand. Moscow also has an 800mm train gun and the two 530mm mortars, which have also been transferred to Riga.

Move over and bombard the Port of Riga hard so that they cannot retreat smoothly.

We used it and sold it directly to the Germans so they could use it to attack Warsaw!

They are struggling to attack Warsaw now! The Poles are really going to fight to the death, and the Germans will not succeed so easily."

Li Xiao smiled and nodded.

Now that the war has reached this point, it has become a matter of how we fight and how we win.

Even if a small number of the Nordic coalition forces escape back, there will be no qualitative change. Even if they cannot be killed now, once the Ming navy arrives in the Baltic Sea in the future, it will be impossible for the Nordic coalition forces to confront the Ming Dynasty.

"Promise!" Mr. Man promised solemnly.

He knew that there were not many opportunities to fight in the future. If he wanted to gain military glory, this was almost the last good opportunity.

In the early morning of September 21, the Ming army began to attack. Contrary to the expectations of the Nordic coalition, the Ming army did not go through Smolensk, but went upstream of Smolensk, crossing the Dnieper River.

The fierce First Division of Ming Army Cavalry directly killed Norgrove!

The defenders of Norgrove underestimated the Ming army's attack. At noon on the day of the war, the road from Norgrove to Norgrove Port was cut off.

Ming tanks were ambushing on both sides of the road, constantly shooting at the coalition soldiers who wanted to rush to Norgrove Harbor.

They were beaten until the corpses of allied soldiers were strewn across the field, and an unknown number of horse-drawn carriages and bullock carts were blown up.
To be continued...