The Third Reich: The Return of the King

After the coup in Kazan, the German army, which had just finished its military parade in Moscow, began to move the next day.

The first to launch the attack was the German Army Group South, which crossed the Volga River and entered the north of the Caspian Sea.

With the First Armored Army withdrawn, the Southern Army Group was mainly composed of the Third and Fourth Armored Armies, starting from Astrakhan.

The Third Armored Army went north along the Volga River and successively captured Saratov, Syzran and Ulyanovsk, only one step away from Kazan.

The Fourth Armored Army took a longer route. They set out along the northern part of the Caspian Sea and successively captured cities such as Atyrau, Orenburg and Atobek.

Although from a geographical point of view, the Fourth Armored Army was getting farther and farther away from Kazan.

However, they formed a barrier to the south of the bear, cutting off the possibility of the Soviet army in the Kazan area retreating southward and entering Central Asia.

At the same time, the Central Army Group in the Moscow area also began to move.

Manstein personally led the Third Army to cross the Volga River and approach Kazan.

In the north, General Bock, who finally arrived after a long delay, also brought his three armies to complete the encirclement of the Soviet army in the north.

So far, the Soviet army in the Kazan area was surrounded by more than six German armies and nearly 2 million troops.

If they continue to stay here, then as long as the German army completes the encirclement of them, they will surely die.

If they retreat, there will be no German troops in the east at this time, so they have a chance to jump out of the German encirclement.

However, in this case, Starling will not have enough time to complete the integration of the Kazan area, and it will be impossible for him to stay in Kazan.

“Damn it, the Hans must have done it on purpose!”

Starling was so angry after receiving the news that he cursed!

He knew that Mainz must have heard the news of the coup, so it hurriedly sent out troops, with the purpose of not giving himself the opportunity to integrate the Kazan area!

Kazan and the surrounding Ural Industrial Zone are currently the largest industrial and population gathering areas in the Russian Bear, with thousands of factories and more than 20 million soldiers and civilians.

If he is given enough time, he will definitely pack up all these people and the factories here and take them away!

Starling has already thought about it. If he can’t stay in Europe, then he will take his men to the Far East!

As long as they destroy the Trans-Siberian Railway on the way, the large number of German mechanized troops can only sigh in despair and will definitely not be able to pursue them!

In this case, before the German army repairs the Trans-Siberian Railway, they will have a chance in the Far East. A period of breathing space!

As long as he can make good use of this period of time to develop well, consolidate his own strength, and then expand southward, while the Celestial Empire and the Foot Basin are fighting each other, he can find a breakthrough from the Celestial Empire or the Foot Basin, and eat away at their land and population.

If there is a chance, he feels that he can even eat up the entire Celestial Empire. Anyway, the Celestial Empire is now weak and poor, and may not be able to defeat him!

And if the Celestial Empire is swallowed up, the Russian bear will suddenly have hundreds of millions of people. At that time, they may not be able to rise again!

However, ideals are full, and reality is very skinny!

The German army did not give them such an opportunity at all. Before he had time to integrate the spoils he had just won, the German army was already at the gates of the city!

Now, there are only two choices before him: retreat to the east or wait to die on the spot! In the Kazan area Although the coup ended with Starlin’s victory, his army also suffered heavy casualties in the coup. Although he annexed the original army and workers’ armed forces in the Kazan area afterwards, the loyalty of these people is questionable.

Before the integration and reorganization of these people was completely completed, Starlin did not dare to trust these people.

Therefore, it was impossible to count on these people to fight, especially when Liuanov defected to the Third Reich. If this guy used his influence in the Kazan area to recruit the Soviet army to surrender on the battlefield, the Soviet army in the Kazan area might turn against him on the battlefield.

Moreover, even if all these troops were loyal to him, they could not beat the German army!

If they could, they would have won long ago. Why would they run away all the way? Come here?

Therefore, Starling knew the reality very well. They did not have the strength to fight the German army head-on.

After hesitating for a few minutes between the two options of staying and waiting to die and running away again, Starling finally chose to run away!

Once you do something for the first time, it will become very easy the second time, and it will be logical afterwards without any psychological burden.

Therefore, for the armies of various countries, when facing deserters, they are often shot on the spot or sent to military courts. Unless the army is extremely short of manpower, they will never want these deserters!

The reason is very simple. If they run away for the first time, they will run away the second and third time!

Moreover, if they are not dealt with seriously, it will only encourage other soldiers in the army to follow suit and run away together.

If all soldiers are like this, then the army will not be able to fight at all!

Starling’s situation at this time is also the same. After escaping from Moscow for the first time, he has lost the courage to fight the German army.

Since he has already been cursed, it doesn’t seem to matter if he is scolded a few more times.

So, he gritted his teeth and ordered:”Pass the order, let the army collect supplies immediately, abandon the baggage, take everything they can, and take the railway to the Far East!”

Since the German army has blocked their possibility of going south to Central Asia, then they can only go to the Far East.

Although this journey is very long, and they have to cross the uninhabited Siberian wilderness.

But it is better than staying where they are and waiting to die!

Moreover, the vast Siberian wilderness is now their obstacle, and it will become an obstacle for the German army in the future. It will protect them and prevent the German army from easily chasing them!

Thinking of this, I felt better.

Starlin had limited troops, so he did not send troops to stop the German army.

The German army surrounded them from three directions, and there were too many troops. They had no way to stop them. Instead of wasting time, they might as well pack more things and take them away.

Now these things are common in Kazan, but in the barren land of the Far East, these things are treasures. Once they are used up, they may not be replenished at all!