Chapter 19: The Decision of the Ili Side
Xu Xing is right, although the Sino-Soviet border looks extremely long, but in the current situation, there are not many places for us to safely intersperse, and the most terrible problem is that we do not have enough intelligence sources, and we can't even make accurate judgments about this little space, and we can only rely on our own inferences and conjectures. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
It's a nerve-wracking question. From the Green Ridge Ancient Road to Broken Leaf City, and then to Kazakhstan, such a long road has been walked, and a Soviet general has been captured, in case it is all wiped out here at the last moment when he is about to go home, it is really a wretched to the extreme.
And our position was already dangerous, and we even encountered Soviet reconnaissance planes twice, but fortunately they ignored us as a scattered Soviet army.
In fact, there were a lot of Soviet stragglers in the vicinity, and we even made contact with one of the platoon-sized troops, but we didn't wear a gang - to put it mildly, the Soviet Union and the Ming top brass were now in a state of embarrassment that they didn't know who was going to be in a mess. Because neither China nor the Soviet Union had fought such a large-scale war in the information age, some problems occurred in the command organization, and the senior generals, who usually relied too much on modern communication equipment, instantly became in a hurry when the communication equipment in their hands had become waste, and even the dispatch of heralds appeared to be disorganized, and the troops that should have been notified did not receive orders from their superiors, and the troops that had already achieved breakthrough results were forced to abandon the salient that they had already occupied without receiving follow-up support...... The list goes on. We even learned from the mouths of Soviet soldiers that "the Ninth Mechanized Army was heavily damaged because it plunged headlong into the assembly headquarters of the Ming army...... Well, no matter how you look at it, it's a little embarrassing, and it is estimated that the Ming military is not much better.
As for the reason why we were not found to be Chinese? It's also very simple to say - the statement issued by the Soviet military only said that a small detachment of the Ming army had appeared in the rear and attacked Kyrgyzstan, but it did not inform the whole army of our characteristics, neither said that we were disguised as Turks, nor reported the model of our convoy. So both the Soviet Air Force and the fleeing infantry mistook us for the Soviet Army – the Soviets would not have any suspicion without seeing the soldiers in our trucks. Even if they saw a bunch of ragged Turks, they would only think of us as the Soviet-backed Turks. Turkic partisan ......
Ha, Russians don't have such a low IQ, right? Of course, the Russians are not stupid, but the current situation is that the scattered infantry are thinking about fleeing for their lives or returning to the team, and the air force is thinking about rushing to the front line as soon as possible to send them to death...... In the face of countless more urgent briefings, we may only account for a few lines of lace news, right? The average Soviet soldier certainly thought so! Even if we capture Rokossovsky, a general who has already been removed from his post, and make a big fuss about Bishkek, it will only be their after-dinner joke.
We also learned more interesting things, for example, the Ili commander-in-chief Lan Tianwei did not choose to strategically retreat to protect the Lanyi line, but chose to organize a counterattack and began to advance towards the hinterland of Kazakhstan in the Soviet Union.
Laying the map in the truck, Xu Xing looked at Yili's location with a thoughtful expression. We all gathered around the map, thinking about the current situation.
To be honest, I think this move is really audacious, if the Soviets really cut off the Lanyi line, then the Ili Army will not become a lamb to the slaughter? Zhu Ya also basically agrees with my opinion, but Xu Xing doesn't see it that way.
"Now retreating is a stupid move to hand over the country, if we retract to Altai or even Hami, then the Soviets will form a very huge military pressure on Dihua City after occupying Ili, but there is the center of my Ming Dynasty's rule in the Western Regions, there is no room for mistakes, once Dihua is lost, those foreign border people are likely to directly overthrow my Ming rule in the local area, and they don't even need the Soviets to do it. Moreover, the Soviet strategic air force currently stationed in Hotan will be given a very solid supply line, and then they will even be able to directly threaten Qinghai-Tibet and even the hinterland of Sichuan - this is intolerable to any Ming soldier, and the endless war will follow. On the contrary, if the Ili Army can use its superiority in personnel and equipment to launch a strategic counterattack into the Soviet Union, then not only will there be less pressure to defend the Lanyi Line, but the Soviet army in Hotan will likely be constrained by the lack of stable supplies. They would obviously not be able to rely entirely on air transport for supplies. The attack of our Ming Air Force is no joke. Even if the Ili Army had to risk being cut off from the back route, it would have to cut off the back road of the Soviets. If a situation is formed in which you have me and I have you, we will not suffer. Our industrial base is close to Xi'an, Lanzhou, while the industrial areas of Novosibirsk, Tyumen and the Urals in Russia are quite far away, and once they enter the winter, their capacity will also drop significantly, I bet that in the end it will be my Daming. Xu Xing's words were categorical.
Xu Xing's words made me impressed, and I really underestimated him all along. always thought that he was a waste of wood, and he could only become a general so quickly by relying on his family background, but obviously, even a gentleman was a bit outstanding.
The above strategic analysis is indeed true, but ......
"Have you ever considered the question of the combat effectiveness of the armies of both sides? It is true that my Ming army has always had an advantage in equipment in the face of Western barbarians, but its will to fight is far from being comparable to that of the Soviet Red Army - I think you should face up to this fact, Grandpa Xu. What's more, with the development of miscellaneous studies in the Western century, the gap between us and the West in terms of equipment level has narrowed to the lowest level of the concept. In the case of air warships, although the Soviets are still deficient in electronic equipment, they are likely to surpass us in terms of armor. ”
I am very worried about the combat effectiveness of the Ming army, if you don't blow it or black, the will to fight of the Ming army is too far from the Soviets on the other side. The Soviet soldiers who were driven by that great ideal could only be compared with the people's soldiers of Red China in another time and space.
Although Lai Yuejing armed the Chinese people's bodies, hands and even minds, he did not arm the Chinese people's minds.
A **** monarchy, a red regime, can the will to fight of the soldiers on both sides be the same?