Yes, Prime Minister of Japan

These units were among the few remaining combat-experienced units of the Southern Command of Ukraine. After the war, due to lack of wages, they gradually turned into local gangs near their posts, becoming entangled with local political forces.

"Those ahead are units with a certain combat capability and that have fought major battles against Russia. In these areas, there is also the '11th Army Aviation Brigade without aircraft' in Kherson; and the 'air assault brigades without aircraft,' namely the 45th, 79th, and 81st Air Assault Brigades. There are two in Nikolayev and one in Kherson. In addition, there is the 36th Independent Naval Infantry Brigade without ships, and the 406th Coastal Artillery Brigade without coastal defense artillery, both in Nikolayev. There are also five homeland defense brigades: the 120th, 121st, 122nd, 123rd, and 124th."

Apart from a few air assault brigades that have been repeatedly crippled and reorganized, the other units are basically cannon fodder used as filler. These units still exist today and have not been reduced in size, but like coastal artillery brigades without coastal defense guns, these troops also do not receive salaries. Calling them troops is more like calling them a gang of old veterans sticking together for warmth.

An advisor asked:

"In other words, among the hostile states we are facing, the eastern Nikolayev Oblast has the strongest military force, with four combat brigades with regular combat experience, as well as a naval infantry brigade, a coastal artillery brigade, and two homeland defense brigades, totaling eight brigades?"

There was actually another air defense missile brigade, but just like a coastal artillery brigade without coastal defense artillery, their air defense missiles had long since disappeared.

"Yes."

Some people also raised the following questions:

"That's not right. Odessa was the former headquarters of the Southern Command, so why is there nothing here?"

It's not that there weren't any, for example, the 45th Air Assault Brigade, but after the coalition forces landed, they withdrew to the Nikolayev region.

"Yes. The Southern Command's radio intelligence center, signal center, and three local intelligence centers are all in Odessa."

The radio and electronic intelligence center was difficult to move and no one cared about it. Therefore, the coalition forces easily acquired this department.

Speechless, everyone picked up the phone and listened in tacit agreement to the jumbled sounds of radio intelligence. In the hazy distance, they could even hear several hostile leaders shouting loudly over the radio.

However, the intelligence gathered here is incomplete.

Because the remnants of the Ukrainian army no longer engage in high-level military activities; now everyone is openly communicating by phone using mobile phones.

Confidential?

Protect my ass.

Many newly arrived mid- to low-ranking officers looked at the screen and sighed:

"Wow, these numbers look familiar. They seem to have appeared in the First Russo-Ukrainian War."

"That's right. Of these, the 28th Mechanized Brigade has been fighting on the southern front. The 56th Mechanized Brigade was driven back from the Mariupol front and stationed in the Zaporizhzhia region. The 57th Motorized Brigade participated in the Kherson counteroffensive and even received Zelensky's medal."

These veteran units were all famous line-filling brigades during the Ukrainian War.

Meanwhile, the European Command is also undergoing internal reorganization.

A large number of new recruits were brought in and assigned according to their previous positions, forming a tank division, three infantry brigades, and several drone and artillery brigades.

After explaining the specific situation, Hu Zhantian made the decision to attack the Nikolayev region first.

"We can't let them gain the upper hand. We must take the initiative and defeat them one by one. Our first target is Nikolayev!"

"Let me reiterate: the Ukrainian Investment Group, as an organization directly under the United Nations and receiving benefits from the US-Ukraine Minerals Agreement signed by Trump, has a legitimate and justifiable presence in Ukraine and enjoys indisputable privileges. We own 50% of Ukraine's mineral resources, and we also exclusively enjoy numerous rights in Ukraine controlled by asset management groups such as BlackRock, including ports, farmland, energy, minerals, transmission, power grids, railways, and airports. If the Ukrainians want to take these things back, they either have to raise the money to redeem them themselves, or they can come and fight."

In reality, Ukraine is relinquishing 'natural resource assets,' meaning that Ukraine must share 50% of the revenue from all its natural resources, including land, forests, and minerals, with the United States. This clause has now fallen into Li Xinghe's hands.

This decision was made after Li Xinghe contacted Hu Zhantian. (The rest of the text appears to be nonsensical and unrelated to the initial statement.)

If we push up natural gas prices and then cut off the hard-won restored oil and gas pipelines between Russia and Europe, Europeans will experience a surge in both oil and natural gas prices. International oil and natural gas prices will return to the high levels seen just two years after the start of the Russia-Ukraine war.

The United States is naturally happy to see this happen. As an exporter of oil and natural gas, how can it better build feudal capitalism if the prices of oil and natural gas don't rise?

It's important to understand that in the pursuit of economic growth, a large number of shale oil extraction companies in the US are barely surviving, relying on loans to stay afloat. With low oil prices, how can these shale oil companies be protected? Traditional energy companies in the US are a stronghold of the Republican Party, and in order to survive, they also supported Vance's inauguration.

Russia's economy returned to a state of near collapse after the war; the overheated war economy led to economic stagnation. Now it's time to make a fortune by selling resources.

Meanwhile, East Asian countries are investing heavily in natural gas extraction in Australia and Southeast Asia.

Only Europe, only this region that enjoys affluent lifestyles and centuries of colonial benefits, relies on external sources for both its natural gas and oil supplies, and its best supplier, Russia, is no longer willing to accept its terms.

Everyone's thinking about raising prices and ripping off Europe to compensate for their own economic slump in recent years.

……

morning.

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The intelligence agency showed Hu Zhantian a photograph:

"This man is Vitaly Kim, 49 years old. He is a wealthy Korean businessman in the Nikolayev region and Zelensky's financial backer. His family controls the region's shipbuilding, light industry, and other economic sectors."

This man is probably the Elon Musk of the Nikolayev region, attracting a following with his often outspokenness and enigmatic smile, and considered one of the spiritual leaders of the local populist movement. He is very wealthy and a major local internet celebrity.

"He organized 10 men to fight against us."

"How many? One hundred thousand?"

Yes, 100,000 people.

Vitaly King, a well-known internet celebrity and major financial backer in the region, used the Kyiv religious community and his own money to organize a jihadist army of 100,000 people, raising their crosses high to fight against the heretics and Easterners who occupied Odessa. Due to hunger and cold, the poor people gathered together, making up a force of 100,000.

But they were completely unaware that Vitaly Kim, this Korean, was actually of East Asian descent.

In Nikolayev, Vitaly King's jihadist convoy, resembling an African refugee camp, drove all sorts of dilapidated vehicles and trucks, carrying a large cross, as they launched an attack on Odessa.

They also felt that they should act in advance to prevent Li Xinghe from sending his troops to Odessa.

Interestingly, since the tanks were no longer operational, the mechanized brigade didn't even have tanks; all the regular troops rode in infantry fighting vehicles, trucks, and cars. They also didn't have many artillery pieces, mainly because they had run out of ammunition.

Therefore, apart from the small machine guns on a few infantry fighting vehicles, the best firepower for the remaining troops was suicide drones and heavy machine guns.

They were a bunch of thugs.

The two sides clashed in close combat at the village of Fedorivka, in the southwest of Nikolayev Oblast.

When they saw the troops across the way, which looked like African refugee camps, the European Command was stunned.

What the hell is this unit?

The Mujahideen Army of Nikolayev Oblast was stunned to see that the other side had deployed more than a hundred main battle tanks and hundreds of infantry fighting vehicles in one go.

Damn, what level of troops is this?

Are these the opponents I should be matched with at my skill level?

"fire!"

The suicide drone had barely taken off when it was shot down by machine guns. Hu Zhantian commanded a large tank force to launch an attack on the Ukrainian Mujahideen on the flat Ukrainian plains.

Boom!

The shells from the 120mm and 105mm smoothbore cannons exploded with huge sparks.

rub rub!

The heavy machine gun fired continuously, and the soldiers on the vehicle only needed to hold the trigger tightly; the bullets would do the rest.

There was no time to organize a formation, so Hu Zhantian could only order everyone to fight independently and launch random attacks:

"Fire! Fire! The coaxial machine gun must not stop for a moment, kill them first and then talk!"

The new recruits followed. They jumped off the vehicle, carrying heavy machine guns and pushing artillery forward.

"Charge!"

Several soldiers simply put the heavy machine gun on a small cart and started firing as they pushed it.

This may also be a strange scene in the history of war: several Chinese soldiers pushed heavy machine guns and charged forward, firing bullets to kill row after row of enemies. The bodies of the Ukrainians fell in rows on the freshly harvested farmland, like cut wheat.

The artillerymen behind them also closed their eyes, firing randomly based on the drone's guidance signals, killing wherever there were many people.

Nikolayev's troops could be described as collapsing at the first touch.

Seeing that things were going badly, the veterans immediately turned tail and ran, leaving a large group of fools who had been lured there by the internet celebrity governor to be shot.

The Ukrainians, who had been pursued from the village of Fedorivka all the way to the banks of the Sosyk River, encountered a problem in their attempt to escape.

The narrow ES8 highway was simply not enough for tens of thousands of people to escape, and the icy river water in winter seemed so merciless.

Tens of thousands of people crowded along the riverbank, those in front shouting, "Don't go any further!" and those behind yelling, "Run!"

As people pushed and shoved, a horrific stampede ensued, killing thousands and pushing thousands more into the river. Unable to leave or reach the shore, they became corpses, submerged in the cold winter waters.

After the tank and infantry fighting vehicle units caught up, the tank guns in front killed dozens of people with a single shot, while the heavy machine guns behind fired wildly, reaping the Ukrainian cannon fodder layer by layer on the riverbank like a harvester.

From dusk until midnight, apart from a few thousand veterans who secretly slipped away from the north, the so-called '100,000-strong holy war army' was completely wiped out on the banks of the Sosik River.

In a single day, eight brigades—the so-called Ukrainian mechanized brigade, motorized brigade, naval infantry brigade, homeland defense brigade, air assault brigade, coastal artillery brigade, and air defense missile brigade—were wiped out.

It sounds like a lot of people, but in reality there were only a little over 10,000 regular soldiers. The other 90,000 were either tricked or forcibly conscripted cannon fodder.

Hu Zhantian got off the bus.

The heavy leather boots trod on the blue and yellow Ukrainian military flag, leaving deep black marks.

Looking at the corpses scattered everywhere, he waved his hand and said, "Keep chasing! Chase them all the way to Nikolayev! Take over their 10-ton shipyard. We'll build a Black Sea aircraft carrier for ourselves later."

The army continued its pursuit, leaving behind countless mangled corpses.

The leader of the jihadist army, Vitaly Kim, a famous internet celebrity from Ukraine of Korean descent, is frantically fleeing eastward in a small Toyota, attempting to return to his stronghold in Nikolayev.

He shouted from the only bridge spanning the river:

"Blow up the bridge! Blow up the bridge!"

If the bridge is blown up, the Chinese troops won't be able to catch up.

But nobody listened to him.

The veterans, fleeing eastward, were adept at running around, focusing only on looting, finding money, and then escaping to safety.

Blow up the bridge?

That's easy to say, but where are we going to find explosives?

In an instant, the troops behind caught up. In order to avoid alerting Romania, the vanguard was still the T-72M tank.

Hu Zhantian's assault troops quickly captured Vitaly, a man with a Korean appearance, near the Nikolayev shipyard.

Hu Zhantian grabbed his hair and asked:

"So you're Vitaly King? So you're a Ukrainian of Korean descent? So you speak English, French, Russian, and Korean? Now tell me, who's your father?"

The internet-famous governor looked stiff and didn't even know how to answer.

"Kill him," Hu Zhantian said.

At this moment, Vitaly hurriedly grabbed Hu Zhantian's leg:

"Huh? I have money, I have money..."

money?

Sorry, the coalition doesn't need your little bit of money.

And so, Vitaly King was executed live at the Nikolayev shipyard. A nobody from a tiny region of Ukraine, he was executed just like that.

His eldest daughter, Yevgenia Kim, a young mixed-race girl, was dragged out of her family's company and sat tremblingly at the desk.

To her left lay her father's skull, while to her right stood the furious Hu Zhantian, who, with tears streaming down his face, announced to the people of Nikolayev Oblast: "Nikolayev Oblast declares its allegiance to the Church of the Eastern Peoples of Ukraine. People of the Oblast, please note that I am now temporarily assuming the position of governor..."

Once the show is over, Yevgenia's usefulness ends. If she can find a good husband in the coalition forces, she might have some real power. If not, she's just a rubber toilet.

The staff officers stood in Nikolayev's governor's office discussing:

“Once the war begins, we estimate that at least 100 to 200 million people will die. And mainly young adults, so Ukraine will be completely depleted of its young adults.”

"By the way, if natural gas prices continue to rise like this, Ukraine's large population of poor people who can't afford it will likely continue to decline... We estimate that if natural gas prices rise by another 30%, Ukraine will lose about 200 million people this winter, and the number of people who freeze to death is estimated to be no less than 30..."

Hu Zhantian's eyes widened:

"Freeze them to death!"

This is all Ukrainians' own doing.

It's good that he's dead. His death will free up the land so that the European Command can recruit more farm workers to do the work.

……

When news of the Battle of Fedorivka reached Europe, the European media, which had been jubilant about the Ukrainian civil war and the Ukrainians' attack on the Chinese "colonial company," instantly deflated like chicks being strangled.

Oh no, the Chinese have won!

The Financial Times, being the fastest-moving lackey, immediately began making unfounded predictions: "Once they occupy Nikolayev, they will definitely head north to Kyiv and then cut off the oil and gas pipelines."

Our natural gas pipeline!

Sure enough, when Europeans suddenly became nervous, their worst fears came true.

The Friendship and Alliance oil and gas pipelines were decisively shut down by Russia amid public outcry in Ukraine.