The Fourth Calamity never believed in the steel torrent!

Chapter 327 The army group needs to have its own production capacity!
"...This is truly a regrettable matter!"

When Andrei learned that Colonel Belyak, who had come to support him with a special armored brigade, had actually died on the battlefield, a slight look of confusion appeared on his face.

Little did he expect that just before he launched this military operation, the other man brought a new type of tank to test with him. As a result, their parting became their last.

To say he was extremely sad would be a lie, since this colonel was practically a stranger to Andrei; he didn't even know the colonel's full name.

But he always felt that the colonel's death was somewhat too sudden.

Thinking that this officer, with whom he had recently interacted and even discussed battle plans, had died on the battlefield, Andrei couldn't help but feel that this war was truly cruel!

Although the colonel died, his special armored brigade successfully completed the mission assigned to him by Andrei.

His troops held firm at that transportation hub, firmly blocking the enemy's attack from the flank, and also thwarting Graeme Army Group's plan to launch a breakthrough from the western front.

Andrei's reinforcements had arrived at the important transportation hub and taken over the positions there, and then reinforced the positions that had been almost destroyed by heavy artillery.

As of now, Army Group Graham's plan to break out to the west has completely failed.

If the current pattern continues, the only way this army group can possibly break out to the south is to make a slightly more reliable move.

"Sigh, that colonel is dead. I thought he was a pretty nice guy!"

Katyusha was also upset when she heard the news.

Although she didn't have much contact with that colonel, compared to other aristocratic officers from Moscow, she felt that this colonel was quite easy to get along with.

This guy didn't have the pretentious attitude of other noble officers, nor did he have a bunch of scheming ideas in his head, and he didn't spend his days thinking about all sorts of messy infighting.

He was a pure soldier; he would carry out any order given by Andrei.

Compared to Colonel Belyak, Major General Spiridovich didn't make much of a good impression on either of them.

"Speaking of which, Andreosha, that Spiridovich is still busy asking around on our turf."

Suddenly, Katyusha asked Andrei, as if she had thought of something.

"Yeah, I don't know what secret mission that guy is carrying out. It feels like he's almost completely turned into a gossipmonger, spending all his time researching a bunch of unfounded rumors."

"I even heard that this guy went crazy and inexplicably attacked a public toilet in the city. Who knows what he was thinking?"

Andrei shrugged, not taking this guy who usually acted strangely seriously.

Although he claimed he didn't know what this guy was up to, based on his investigation over the past period, he felt that this guy was most likely looking for some evidence or trying to find some secrets that Andrei had hidden.

Because he would always send his soldiers to inquire about all sorts of random information, especially focusing on which places the Vorontsov family valued most.

Judging from the major general's posture, if Andrei still couldn't see that this man was coming for him and was planning some underhanded tricks, then he was really doing a disservice to his intelligence.

However, the fact that this guy spends all his time asking the soldier played by the player for information only shows that he's overthinking things.

Players come here to play games, and most of them don't even know as much about the battlefield as an ordinary soldier.

For most players, their situation is generally like this:
Who am I? Where am I? What am I supposed to do?
I know nothing about any of these things!
All I knew was that I was about to go on a killing spree; I saw red dots appear on the map!
That's why one day he inexplicably went to lead people to dig toilets, and ended up getting himself covered in stench.

He must have been tricked by some player while trying to gather information, and then inexplicably became misled, even believing that there was something good hidden under the toilet.

After the war ended, Major General Spiridovich returned to Moscow with an infantry division and the remnants of a special armored brigade that he had brought with him.

Because in the previous war, both his infantry divisions and special armored brigades had been basically decimated, and these two forces were originally reinforcements transferred from Moscow, so they naturally had to return to Moscow to be replenished.

It must be said that the defensive battle was incredibly fierce.

Afterwards, a count revealed that of the approximately 3000 soldiers in the entire special armored brigade, fewer than 1200 survived. Furthermore, the infantry division led by Major General Spiridovich also suffered losses exceeding one-third.

Clearly, these troops were no longer capable of fighting, and even if they did not return to the rear for reinforcements, they could not play any role on the front lines.

Therefore, Andrei naturally let them go back.

It's a good thing to have them bring some news from the front lines to Moscow. At the very least, with this wave of armored forces' combat experience, I believe the Cambrian Empire should be able to produce more tanks.

Of course, Andrei still hoped that the Cambrian Empire could produce some smaller tanks, such as the T-34, which would be quite good.

To this end, he wrote a special letter to Moscow, describing in detail that the most important aspects of tanks are balance and mass production capabilities. He also indicated to Moscow that if they needed them, he could immediately send two T-34s as prototypes.

Since Andrei already had better tanks at his disposal, there was absolutely no need for him to cling to the T-34.

If the Cambrian Empire were truly willing to mass-produce this vehicle, that would be a good thing, since it had already proven its capabilities during World War II.

At least in Andrei's view, this thing is far superior to the mechs that the Cambrian Empire is currently producing. Instead of wasting industrial resources on a bunch of useless mechs, it would be better to use that productivity on the T-34.

Of course, Andrei didn't expect that writing a letter would cause any major changes in the Cambrian Empire's design bureau.

After seeing a bunch of outrageous designs produced by the previous design bureau, Andrei had already given up hope of the Cambrian Empire's military design capabilities.

Both the moose mech and the newly developed Mendeleev tank greatly shocked Andrei.

All I can say is that compared to the thinking of the designers in the Cambrian Empire, the Maus tank that Sanders created was too conservative!
"By the way, Andreosha, I heard that some Black Hawk troops at the front have given up resistance and surrendered to us. What are your plans for dealing with these Black Hawk soldiers?"

Upon hearing Katyusha's words, Andrei raised an eyebrow.

"Yelena, is there such a thing at the front? How come I didn't know about it?"

He asked Yelena, who was standing beside him helping to organize the documents, and upon reflection, he realized he had no recollection of this.

"Andryosha, didn't I hand you the documents last night?"

Yelena rolled her eyes in annoyance, casually pulled a report from the files, and tossed it to Andrei, saying:
“I saw you were busy making phone calls, and I don’t know what you were talking about, so I put the documents on the table so you could take a look later.”

"I never expected that you would forget about it so easily!"

Uh……

This is a bit embarrassing!
Andrei chuckled twice. He had been busy calling his father yesterday, mainly describing the specific battle situation here, and also asking him to help urge Moscow on the issue of tank production.

As the conversation went on, he completely forgot about the document from before. There was nothing he could do; his mind was preoccupied with the issue of tank production.

After glancing at the document, Andrei roughly understood the situation.

There's nothing surprising about it. The Black Hawk Empire's army groups have been divided and encircled by Andrei. Some of their troops, running out of ammunition and food, couldn't hold out any longer and began to surrender en masse.

Especially before this, Andrei had specifically asked players to distribute leaflets to them, launching a propaganda offensive that further dampened their morale.

"So what are your plans regarding these prisoners of war?"

Katyusha asked the question while making a hand gesture, her eyes filled with murderous intent.

In her view, keeping these Black Hawk soldiers was pointless; these guys would only consume the Volkhov Front's meager food reserves and might cause trouble from time to time.

Especially since there were too many of them. Even after the losses in the war, more than 20,000 soldiers had surrendered to Andrei. He simply didn't have enough manpower to guard them.

After pondering this question for a while, Andrei suddenly came up with a good idea.

"Let's lock them up and keep them under centralized surveillance for now. Later, I'll see if I can launch a psychological offensive against these people."

“Killing them won’t help. If we kill them all, the other Black Hawk soldiers will be pushed to the limit and will only rekindle their will to resist. It’s better to find a way to divide and weaken them.”

As the war progressed, Andrei's mindset had changed somewhat from what it was at the beginning.

At first, he showed no mercy to the Black Hawk soldiers, partly because he hated the brutality of the Black Hawk army, and partly because he didn't even have a base of operations and was constantly running away with his soldiers.

He was busy retreating, so how could he have time to take these prisoners with him?
If you just dump the prisoners anywhere, these guys will pick up their guns again and immediately become elite Black Hawk soldiers once more.

Now, however, he has the ability to prevent these prisoners from returning to the Black Hawk Empire for the time being, and as the commander of the army group, he also has to consider the overall situation.

By keeping these prisoners, they can exchange them for captured Cambrian soldiers. Then, Moscow can try to negotiate a better deal and get a group of elite veterans back from the enemy.

Moreover, as the war progressed, Andrei discovered something:

He felt that the war that the Black Hawk Empire was currently waging was becoming increasingly abstract, and these low-ranking soldiers were not enjoying very good treatment.

According to his latest intelligence, the Black Hawk Empire has made necromancy public and has officially established factories with undead as their entire workforce.

Where did these spirits come from?
There's no need to ask. Just look at the Black Hawk Empire's autopsy law and learn that their ordinary citizens must donate their physical bodies for medical purposes, and you'll know where these undead came from.

For Black Hawk soldiers, they risk their lives for the Empire, but when their families die, they can't even bury their bodies and are instead sent to the Empire to work overtime in factories.

If they die on the battlefield, they will not find peace either. They will be transported back to their homeland and transformed into ghouls by necromancers to continue fighting as the undead army.

Furthermore, when the necromancers of the Black Hawk Empire are driven to desperation, they do not hesitate to use the corpses of their own people as casting materials.

After all this fuss, the Black Hawk soldiers have truly sacrificed themselves for the Empire, but what have they gained from the war?
Andrei didn't know how high the military pay they received was, nor whether it would reach his family in time.

However, he knew that the Black Hawk Empire was currently experiencing a massive wave of unemployment, with countless workers being laid off and then mobilized to join the army.

After the war is won, the big nobles and capitalists of the Black Hawk Empire will be the ones to profit, but it is these ordinary soldiers who are the ones who actually shed blood on the battlefield!

With this in mind, Andrei immediately created a long-term quest for some players.

The mission is simple: players must disguise themselves as Black Hawk soldiers, infiltrate their prisoner-of-war ranks, and don the skin of a Black Hawk soldier.

Whether it's spreading rumors or using any form of preaching, as long as it's a non-violent means and can break the will of these Black Hawk soldiers, that would be ideal.

He wanted to ensure that even if these Black Hawk soldiers had the chance to be released, they would never want to pick up a gun and go back to the battlefield.

More importantly, the Black Hawk soldiers' aversion to war is very likely to spread to others, thus stirring up an anti-war sentiment within the Black Hawk Empire.

However, Andrei didn't explain much to Yelena and Katyusha. He simply said that the Empire might need to use these prisoners to exchange for prisoners of war and important figures who had fallen into enemy hands, and the two of them had no objections.

Of course, Andrei couldn't possibly let these Black Hawk soldiers find a place to stay obediently and then waste food recklessly.

During their time as prisoners of war, these guys had to perform various kinds of forced labor.

According to Andrei, this is called labor reform, this is called toiling their muscles and bones, starving their bodies!
These Black Hawk soldiers must be punished. Their punishment is to repent through labor, and they need to be educated in the process!
However, not long after Moscow learned of this news, it sent a telegram to Andrei's side.

The Tsar stated that these prisoners of war needed to be handed over to Moscow, where they would be properly resettled and dealt with, including undergoing various forms of labor reform.

After reading the telegram, Andrei was too lazy to argue with Moscow.

Thinking about it, handing over the prisoners of war to Moscow was the best option.

It saves him the trouble of providing food and setting up prisoner-of-war camps, not to mention that he will have to send soldiers to guard these prisoners of war.

However, the player's undercover plan will not end there. The most important thing is for the player to give these prisoners of war a good talking-to and change their minds.

Stop constantly shouting about the emperor's authority. Look at the reality before you, look at yourselves, and see what their emperor has actually brought them.
Andrei didn't know how their daily brainwashing work was carried out, but to be honest, he really hadn't seen what benefits the Emperor of the Black Hawk soldiers had actually brought to the soldiers.

As the war has progressed, the Black Hawk Empire has actually entered a quagmire, but they themselves are unaware of it yet.

Besides the prisoners, Andrei also received some good news.

With the production lines in the factories he had reclaimed restored, these factories were now able to resume normal industrial production.

With Moscow as a transportation hub, large quantities of raw materials will be continuously transported to these factories, which will then produce metals, machinery, and all sorts of other miscellaneous items.

Having an industrial base is very important, especially since Andrei's logistical conditions are not very good, and the supplies provided by Moscow are always intermittent.

If it weren't for the fact that he had players on his side, and players have very low logistical needs, his battle line would probably have collapsed long ago.

Thinking of this, Andrei suddenly checked his system list.

Because he wanted to investigate whether players like himself had the ability to switch to industrial production.
After careful study, Andrei discovered that his players could actually do this.

If these players are given a pickaxe, they will have the ability to mine. When players take the corresponding ore into the corresponding factory, they can produce the corresponding metal.

Once players have the metal materials, they can go to factories with other production lines and use these metals and other raw materials to produce even more items.

Of course, all this trouble does seem very complicated and perhaps unnecessary.

The key issue is that if weapons and equipment are produced in this way, they will not only be usable by players, but also by ordinary soldiers!

Prior to this, Andrei had the option to exchange production lines from the system.

By exchanging for a production line, this thing can be manually operated to produce corresponding equipment. However, this kind of production line is actually no different from a real-world production line. Andrei had exchanged for several sets before, but he just handed them over to his cheap old man, asking him to take these production lines to Moscow to complete the task, and also to correct the world's off-track technological development.

However, since his system allows players to mine, refine, and produce equipment, he can naturally develop a group of players and let them go and do some farming.

When he returns, he can also fill the gaps in his armored forces.

"Heh, I suddenly realized that it seems like nobody is even aware of the armored unit shortage on my side!"

Suddenly remembering something, Andrei couldn't help but sneer twice.

There was no way around it; the combat power of the players on his side was too formidable, and the players never lacked armored units. Therefore, in the eyes of other Cambrian armies, Andrei's armored forces were undoubtedly the strongest!
Countless people, including the Tsar, believed that the Vorontsov family secretly owned a large number of factories capable of producing heavy equipment, which was why they possessed so many armored vehicles.

The Tsar was extremely wary of this, while the other generals were naturally incredibly envious.

They also hope that one day they will not be held back by Moscow in terms of equipment, especially since the mechs from Moscow are not very effective in combat and their production is only so-so, which has led to a persistent shortage of armored forces on their side!

But in fact, Andrei's armored forces were indeed lacking.

Because Andrei always had access to various armored vehicles, when the Tsar provided support to Andrei, he mainly sent pure infantry divisions.

This resulted in most of Andrei's ordinary Cambrian soldiers serving as cannon fodder, with a severe shortage of armored forces.

When armored warfare is required, he must give the player orders to quickly organize armored forces before they can begin operations.

If he could provide armored units for his ordinary soldiers, Andrei wouldn't have to go through all this trouble every time.

Especially considering the cost, these players have a particularly high rate of tank destruction. They always manage to lose their tanks in all sorts of inexplicable situations, and they often just leave their tanks aside and never drive them again.

In comparison, providing ordinary soldiers with tanks produced in this way would not only make the vehicles themselves extremely cheap, but would also greatly reduce the tank attrition rate on Andrei's side.

So he immediately made this feature available to players and issued a long mining mission, urging players to start mining as soon as possible.

Although there aren't many mines around Volkhov, Andrei has faith in the player's abilities!

With this pickaxe that can dig out high-quality ore with just two taps, even if there aren't any large mines around, players should be able to dig out a lot of good stuff!
Because this thing doesn't make any scientific sense, who knows how the ore that's mined out of this thing even came out?

Before long, a group of players, caught up in the novelty, went to work as miners and started mining.

Meanwhile, several aluminum, copper, and iron smelting plants in Andrei also started operating, refining the ores to produce more metal ingots.

With these metal ingots, and by having players operate the prepared production lines, they can produce all sorts of equipment at an astonishing speed.

In addition, Andrei also specially exchanged for a set of oil refining equipment from the system, and then asked the players to help build some buildings, so that an extra oil refinery was built in Volkhov.

In fact, Volkhov already had a sizable oil refinery at this time, but it was not enough to meet Andrei's needs.

He can't wait for Moscow to slowly deliver fuel to him anymore; he just wants crude crude oil right now!
Bringing the crude oil over and processing it at the local refinery in Volkhov is far more efficient than slowly refining it in Moscow and then sending the ready-made fuel over.

Otherwise, if his armored forces expand further, there simply won't be enough fuel.

Even without the players producing armored units usable by ordinary soldiers, the extra 20,000 players he had were enough to quickly put Andrei in a fuel crisis.

Andrei is ramping up production, which makes many unemployed workers very happy.

Because the factories where they used to work were either occupied or destroyed by the Black Hawk Army, they are now unemployed.

Being unemployed indefinitely is not a solution, but if they were to be given a gun and sent to the battlefield as conscripts, they might not be willing, especially since a large number of these workers are women.

Andrei's factory is currently busy recruiting on a large scale, which is perfect for them to get another job.

As for how the salary should be paid?
While making a phone call, Andrei urged his father to quickly allocate funds to him, since his father was a powerful feudal lord with plenty of money.

Meanwhile, he also began secretly selling weapons to some friendly forces to earn money to pay his workers' wages.

Anyway, his production line is up and running, and he can produce more and more weapons and equipment. So why doesn't he provide these weapons and equipment to friendly forces?
Of course, it's impossible to get them for free; he has to pay for these factories and workers!
In times of war, one should be grateful if there are any channels to obtain additional weapons; what more could one expect?

The Tsar and many central nobles were naturally very dissatisfied with Andrei's behavior. Moscow even sent a telegram to subtly remind Andrei that such a thing was not something a front commander should do.

However, Andrei simply ignored such reminders.

Instead of wasting your time whining, why don't you fill in the gaps in my equipment?

They don't have the ability to make up for the equipment shortage, and they're even stingy when it comes to transporting food. Can't we let them do whatever they want now?

In any case, the Vorontsov family didn't leave a good impression on the Tsar, so it's like having too many lice and not being bothered by the itch.

Given the current state of war, even if the Tsar is dissatisfied with the Vorontsov family's actions, what can they do?

After the war was over, the Tsar wanted to overturn the table, and Andrei wanted to overturn the table too!
While Andrei was busy preparing his own industrial zone, he also began to conduct some transactions with Petrograd through the railway in the Schlüsselburg region.

After the players collect enough minerals, some of them are transported to Schlüsselburg to serve as raw materials to support the Petrograd industry.

Then, Petrograd would transfer some of its industrial products to Andrei to ensure that the industrial system could function.

Otherwise, Petrograd has been in a state of long-term lack of raw materials. Even though it is the largest industrial city in the northern part of the Cambrian Empire, it has no power to carry out production.

Such a good industrial base cannot be wasted.

Especially since the transportation lines in Andrei are still open, we can't afford to waste them!

The news that Petrograd had acquired raw material resources from Volkhov and restarted many of its factories quickly reached the ears of the Black Hawk forces.

The Black Hawk Empire was naturally furious about this, as they did not want Petrograd to resume normal production.

"...Marshal, your performance recently has greatly disappointed me. Is there really no way for us to capture Schlüsselburg and cut off Petrograd's supply lines?"

At the Northern Army headquarters, Field Marshal Schweigen, the Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Army, was being reprimanded by the Emperor.

Although the marshal was full of complaints and had a thousand words to say, he could only lower his head and act submissively in the face of the emperor, who seemed equally unhappy.

There's no way around it; after all, he's been fighting a really bad war here. He hasn't been able to capture a transportation hub yet, and it's even led to an army group being surrounded and being annihilated by the enemy!

To put it bluntly, the fact that His Majesty the Emperor hasn't dismissed him as Commander-in-Chief yet is already quite a show of respect.

Of course, this is also because His Majesty the Emperor is looking for a new Commander-in-Chief and is also studying the handover of affairs in the Northern Army.

"...Next, I need the Imperial Air Force to launch a large-scale operation. I need you to conduct a massive bombing raid on Petrograd to completely destroy the city's main industries!"

On the phone, the Emperor spoke to Marshal Schweigen in an unquestionable tone.

The marshal's eyes widened slightly, his expression somewhat embarrassed.

"But Your Majesty, if I may be so bold, the Northern Army has suffered great losses recently. Not only the army has suffered losses, but our air force has also suffered considerable losses."

"Furthermore, we currently lack any special means to counter the enemy's mechanical birds, which makes us quite powerless when facing large-scale enemy air raids. Our airships are outdated in many ways."

Upon hearing Marshal Schweigen's words, the Emperor on the other side chuckled twice.

"Marshal, you don't need to worry about that. I will provide you with a brand new batch of air force support!"

"Recently, the Imperial Air Force has made a series of new breakthroughs based on the wreckage of enemy aircraft it has captured. We now also possess those so-called Cambrian mechanical birds!"

"Our air force has officially named this aircraft 'Aircraft,' and I will provide you with 220 aircraft of different models, as well as three large airship formations as support. All I hope for is that you can achieve a brilliant bombing victory!"

Upon hearing this, Marshal Schweigen, who had been somewhat worried, suddenly brightened up.

He snapped to attention, gave a half-hearted salute to the person on the other end of the phone, and said excitedly:

"Rest assured, Your Majesty, I guarantee that Petrograd will suffer a terrible blow, and their factories will be reduced to ashes by the Empire's bombing!"

"Under your glorious light, we will use this bombing to avenge our previous defeat, and we will never allow the enemy to continue to run rampant!"

"Long live victory!"

Hearing the sounds of washing up on the other end of the phone, the emperor nodded in satisfaction and then hung up.

In fact, he didn't really value this air force operation that much. He mainly wanted to use a large-scale military operation to test the effectiveness of the aircraft in actual combat.

Besides that, he was also curious about something else:

"How exactly did the Cambrian Empire manage to make those biplanes? Why did the Empire attempt to copy more than ten different models, yet none of them could match that speed and agility?"

Emperor Black Hawk muttered to himself, recalling the problem that had been troubling the designers for some time, and he was also somewhat perplexed by it.

"Did the Cambrian Empire equip their aircraft with some kind of new engine, or do their aircraft have some peculiar design?"

"But none of that matters. We'll discover this secret in actual combat!"

In the distance, at a large airport located in Warsaw, more than a dozen oddly shaped heavy aircraft are taking off.

If Andrei had seen these planes, he would surely have exclaimed in surprise immediately:

Isn't this the American P-38 Lightning fighter jet, also known as the Twin Demon?

Of course, this thing in front of us only resembles the P-38 Lightning fighter in appearance; it is much larger than the P-38.

The aircraft in front of us has been officially named the Griffin Bomber by the Black Hawk Empire. The wingspan of the entire bomber reaches an astonishing 40 meters, and even the fuselage length is a full 30 meters!
The Black Hawk Empire developed such a large bomber for two reasons. First, they wanted to have the strategic bombing capability to strike enemies at long range. Second, they couldn't develop a suitable engine.

The engines they developed before were only barely usable for fighter jets, and were quite unsuitable for use in larger bombers.

In order to speed up the process, some designers from the Black Hawk team directly removed a more powerful engine from the mech's walking machine and installed it on the aircraft from a large walking machine chassis.

There was no other way; in order to accommodate those two massive heavy engines, they had to scale up the aircraft proportionally, which resulted in a behemoth like the Griffin.

If you make a comparison, the size of this aircraft is even close to that of the US Air Force's Flying Fortress during World War II!

To put it bluntly, the Black Hawk Empire's confidence in bombing Petrograd stems from its possession of this brand-new aircraft.

After all, this thing flies much faster than an airship when carrying out bombing missions, and when combined with the cover of other aircraft, the success rate of bombing is definitely much higher than that of an airship.

Of course, without sufficient fighter escort, this thing would just be a giant sitting duck in the sky.

Even though this thing was equipped with a large number of machine guns and cannons, and even had laser crystals installed on top, its survivability was still far inferior to that of an airship.

More importantly, this thing cannot carry a large deflection shield generator, so its own shield level is very average. It can only be considered a faster but also more fragile bombing unit.

Andrei had no idea that the Black Hawk Army had quietly pulled off another series of extremely outrageous and brutal actions.

At this moment, after testing the players' aircraft, Andrei finally confirmed that the aircraft's operational range had exceeded 1000 kilometers.

This means that as long as he returns to Petrograd, the player's air force can directly launch airstrikes into the territory of the Black Hawk Empire in East Prussia, or bomb areas located within Warsaw.

This is truly wonderful news!

In return for the Black Hawk Empire's actions, Andrei planned to make an emergency return to Petrograd to use it as his airbase before launching a large-scale bombing campaign against the enemy.

This time, Andrei chose East Prussia as his target for bombing the enemy, selecting Königsberg, the local capital.

Königsberg not only boasts a highly developed transportation network, serving as a crucial transportation hub for the Black Hawk Empire's Northern Army's offensive, but it also houses several heavy factories, making it an important armored vehicle repair base for the Black Hawk Empire.

If this place is destroyed, the Northern Army armored units that are being repaired here will inevitably suffer heavy damage, and the Northern Army's armored combat capability will also be greatly reduced.

At the same time, this place is also an important forward fleet base of the Black Hawk Empire in the Baltic Sea, and an important base for the Black Hawk Empire to conduct maritime transport to the Northern Army via the Baltic Sea.

If this place can be bombed, the Black Hawk Empire's Northern Army will inevitably be greatly affected.

After handing over all the combat tasks that needed to be dealt with, Andrei immediately boarded an armored train and secretly arrived in Petrograd.

Along with Andrei, a large aerial squadron composed of players also arrived. This massive fleet of over 100 aircraft will be the main force for bombing the enemy.

When General Constantine suddenly received news that Andrei had secretly returned to Petrograd, his expression was quite surprised.

When Andrei walked back into the familiar castle and saw him in the familiar office, General Constantine raised an eyebrow and asked with a puzzled look:

"You brat, what's going on with you? You suddenly got promoted to general, and now you want to show off in front of me?"

"The battle was going so well, how did we suddenly end up back in Petrograd?"

(End of this chapter)