Chapter 211: Moscow's Reaction

The 20 special forces detachments led by Tu Su knocked out the command organs of the Soviet army, making the Soviet army's blocking force lose its command and dispatch function; destroyed the artillery positions of the Soviet army, so that it lost the ability of the Soviet artillery to support the first-line blocking troops and suppress the fire of the Chinese attacking forces; The units that had eliminated the reserves of the Soviet blocking forces and made their frontal defense without the support and replenishment of the mobile units. These fundamentally shook the foundation of the Soviet army's frontal defense line, and then launched an attack from behind the Soviet army's defense line, causing the Soviet army's defensive position to suffer from the enemy's back, and the frontal attack with the 1st regiment, 3rd battalion, 6 companies, and 7 companies that caught up from behind, flanking back and forth, and completely wiped out the defenders of the Soviet army's frontal position in only 1 hour and 40 minutes.

In this battle, a reorganized infantry company and an artillery company of the Soviet army were eliminated, 265 people, including Lieutenant Colonel Robsovich, deputy commander of the border regiment of the 200th division of the Soviet army, were killed, and 97 people were captured. More than 70 tons of various combat materials were seized, 28 cars were seized, and 6 Soviet artillery pieces were destroyed. During the battle, the 6th and 7th companies of the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Division of the 5th Army of the People's Liberation Army also paid nearly 60 casualties; The special forces squad also had 2 fighters killed and 4 wounded.

To sum up, in this campaign, when the forces and weapons and equipment invested by both sides were about the same, China's ability to achieve the final victory at a relatively small cost and in a relatively short period of time was mainly due to the proper tactics, the surprise and the unpreparedness of the attack, which completely disrupted the deployment of the Soviet army and made the entire campaign completely follow our predetermined plan. Although the scale of this battle is not large, it is very classic. After the war, it was listed as an intermediate textbook by the military academies of the People's Liberation Army, and with the declassification, it was successively listed as a compulsory textbook for the army and special forces by the military academies of many countries around the world.

After completing the mission, the special forces detachment and the 6th and 7th companies of the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Regiment had a day's rest in the village of Holelas, and then followed the 1st Regiment of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Division along Highway 163 to the city of Nogar and Shagonar, 100 kilometers away. On the afternoon of the second day, he joined forces with the 1st Airborne Division, which occupied the city of Buzil, the capital of Tangnu-Ulianghai. Subsequently, the 1st Regiment of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Division advanced along Highway 54 to the town of Shywilig, which borders the Soviet Union, disarmed a company of the road construction unit of a construction brigade of the Soviet Army in Sylvelig, occupied the only road connecting with the Soviet Union, cut off the connection between the Soviet Union and Tangnu-Ulianghai, imposed a warning in the direction of the Soviet Union, and fulfilled the statement of the Republic of China that the political axe of the Republic of China mentioned in its serious protest to the Soviet Union on May 7, 1948, that it "reserves all rights" against Tangnu-Ulianghai.

The 1st Mechanized Engineering Division of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, a particularly capable fighting unit that fought on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the desert of Xinjiang Province, once again showed the heroic nature of this iron army; in just three days, it built a simple road more than 10 kilometers long from the border road of China's Far Eastern Province to the town of Khandagail in Tangnu Ulianghai, enabling the tank regiment of the 1st Mechanized Infantry Division of the 5th Group Army to smoothly advance into the Tangnu-Ulianghai area and comprehensively fulfill the sovereignty and defense of this sacred territory of the People's Republic of China.

Commander Wang of the Xinjiang Provincial Production Corps personally led a peasant division into the Tangnu-Ulianghai area, dissolved all political power and party organizations in the "Tuva People's Republic," and carried out comprehensive military control over the entire Tangnu-Ulianghai area, and subsequently established the Tangnu Province of the People's Republic of China. At this point, the territory that has been forgotten by descendants for 14 years - Tangnu Ulianghai has finally returned to the embrace of the great motherland.

In Moscow in May, the sun is shining and spring is in full swing. The air was filled with the fragrance of lilacs, and on the grassy lawn, the flowers on the clumps of lilac trees were blooming. Some Moscow citizens have taken advantage of their leisure time to enjoy the bright spring sunshine in parks, squares and other outdoor places. On the Moskva River, there are some young Russian men and women, both sitting on white pleasure boats, swinging their oars in the blue waves, and what happened in the "Mongolian People's Republic and Tuva People's Republic", thousands of kilometers away, has not changed the lives of the people here. The five red stars on the Kremlin tower still shimmer as red in the sun, but the mood of the owners of this splendid palace is not as relaxed as that of the citizens of Moscow.

The Kremlin has always dominated the fate of Russia, it has always been a symbol of power and majesty like the White House in the United States, 10 Downing Street in the United Kingdom and Zhongnanhai in China, since 1922, the Kremlin, the palace of successive tsars, has become the seat of the Soviet party and government organs, and people pay more attention to the Kremlin is more concerned about the politics, economy, and military of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet leaders are more unattainable in it.

The Chinese People's Liberation Army Far East Corps lightning-quickly occupied Outer Mongolia and at the same time regained sovereignty by air and land in a powerful air and land attack on the Tangnu-Ulianghai region. It caused a great shock in the world. The world is watching on Moscow and how the Kremlin will face the momentous event of China's "invasion".

In the Vladimir Hall of the Kremlin, Khrushchev sat on a chair with a gilded and carved head-backed chair under a statue of Lenin pinching his waist and waving his whole body, surrounded by members of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union.

Molotov, First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, who is said to be the most adept at using diplomatic means to safeguard the interests of the Soviet Union and can speak eloquently, is speaking: "After Chairman Khrushchev returned from his visit to China last year, the Soviet Union and China held two talks on the border issue between the two countries. Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai said that China and the Soviet Union are fraternal socialist countries, and the two sides should, in accordance with the principle of consultation on an equal footing and mutual understanding and mutual accommodation, give full consideration to the historical and current situation and the interests of both sides, make necessary adjustments to some places on the current Soviet-Chinese border, and conscientiously resolve these border issues left over from history. First of all, it is necessary to distinguish between right and wrong in history, affirm that the treaties on the border between the two countries signed by the Chinese Qing Dynasty and the Russian Tsarist are unequal, and deal with the problems left over from the history of our two countries in accordance with the two "Galahan Declarations on China" announced by Comrade Lenin. He said that China is willing to demarcate the eastern and middle sections of the border between the two countries on the basis of the first border treaty signed by the Sino-Russian political axe in 1689, the Treaty of Nebuchu, and the middle boundary between the two countries stipulated in the "Treaty of Brenschi" signed by the Chinese and Russian political axes in 1727. Through friendly consultations between the two countries, the course of the western section of the border between the two countries was redetermined. Comrades, look at how great China's territorial ambitions are!

China's unreasonable demands have naturally met with my rejection. In my opinion, there is no problem at all with the border between China and the Soviet Union, and some sections may be a little unclear due to the disrepair of the boundary markers, but it is okay to check it. The "Treaty of Nebuchu" signed by the Chinese Qing Dynasty and the Tsarist Russian political axe in 1689 was an unequal treaty, in which the Chinese Qing Dynasty political axe at that time ceded the territory of Russia at that time, and the Tsarist Russian political axe through the later "Sino-Russian Aihui Treaty" and "Sino-Russian Yenjing Treaty" was just to get back the original lost territory. ā€

Molotov was a close comrade-in-arms and staunch supporter of Stalin, and he completely inherited Stalin's set.

Khrushchev was somewhat dismissive of Molotov's nonsense, because as a high-ranking party cadre, as a high-ranking party cadre, he knew very well what was going on with the border issue between the Soviet Union and China, and it was obviously inappropriate for these words to fool the common people to be brought to the presidium of the Central Committee.

Khrushchev gently flicked the conference table with the very short fingers of his very characteristic little fat hand and said: "Comrade Molotov, today's meeting is mainly to discuss how we should face a series of military actions by China against the Soviet Union, and in the face of these practices of the Chinese, we must not be like at 3 a.m. on June 22, 1941, when millions of German armored troops, tens of thousands of tanks, and thousands of planes launched a fierce all-out attack on the Soviet Union from north to south in the same second, and the whole country was overwhelmed. But Stalin did not see anyone, did not take a council, did not express his position, and did not publish a letter to the people for a few days. We should always do something, don't we? Everyone knows the stubborn attitude of the Chinese towards the land. ā€

During the negotiations with the Chinese, Molotov's heart was ravaged by Li Dawei's sharp teeth, and he was very excited at this time, "We will no longer, we are not going to endure and endure the stubbornness and stubbornness of these Chinese peasants!" If these bastards continue to be stubborn and stubborn, we will twist them into ashes! We will completely destroy their ambitions, on the territory of the USSR! No, don't think that I—I'm simple-minded! We know that they are the same as Hitler before World War II! If they want to fight and fight, they will do so! No force can and can withstand the iron fist of the great Soviet Red Army! Molotov stumbled for a long time and finally made his words clear. Although he is known for his eloquence, he has a problem, that is, when he is excited, he stumbles when he speaks, and the more excited he is, the more he stumbles. Molotov took a sip of water to calm himself down.

"That's right! We must make these Chinese donkeys regret their stupid and stubborn actions in Mongolia and the Tuvan People's Republic. We'll take care of them. Malinovsky, First Deputy Minister of Defense and Commander-in-Chief of the Army, was in high spirits, stood up, danced and made big gestures and shouted: "We must eliminate the threat of China once and for all, carry out a preemptive strike on China's nuclear bases, and use nuclear weapons to destroy these peasant adventurers in China!" ā€

Zhukov frowned and looked at this [***] element, who had visited China as a military expert of the Soviet Army when he was young, but did not have the slightest affection for China, and did not look down on the Chinese from his bones: "Marshal Malinovsky, do you know what you are talking about? U.S. President Harry S. Truman and U.S. Far East Force Commander MacArthur also thought about using atomic bombs against China in 1951. At that time they did not have atomic bombs, now they already have hydrogen bombs and intercontinental missiles, and they are much more powerful than ours, will he be afraid of you using atomic bombs? ā€

"Of course I know what I'm talking about, I know more about the Chinese than you do." Marshal Malinovsky, who often regarded himself as the liberator of the Chinese, pouted and said: "Chiang Kai-shek is a big straw bale, Mao Zd is a peasant, they are not afraid, are we afraid of the gang of sorghum flowers he led, bandits who came out of the ravine?" He pointed with the pipe in his right hand, pointing at Marshal Zhukov, the hero who had been overshadowed by the limelight of Stalin, and said: "I remind you that I just said a preemptive strike!" Do you understand the preemptive strike? ā€

In 1945, when Malinovsky was the commander of the Soviet Transbaikal Front, he presided over the Soviet Army's Manchurian Far East Campaign against the Kwantung Army, and he led the Transbaikal Front: skillfully selected the main direction of the assault, boldly used the tank army in the first echelon of the Front, and he commanded the 6th Guards Tank Army to cross the Great Khingan Mountains and penetrate the heart of the Kwantung Army at lightning speed. During the battle, the 6th Guards Tank Army set a record of advancing 160 kilometers in one day. To make the tank army climb that terrain and reach that speed at the same time, he thought that only he could do it. What he did not expect was that the Chinese did more beautifully than him in Mongolia this time, occupying the entire Outer Mongolia at a higher offensive speed in three directions, which made him, a Soviet tank warfare expert who was coaxed, feel very indignant.

Khrushchev looked at this somewhat arrogant Malinowsky, and secretly scolded in his heart: "Malinovsky, you fucking took the wrong medicine, or your head was kicked by a donkey, and you can make such a damn suggestion." ā€

Although Malinowski was a good personal friend, it was also Malinowski who quickly promoted him to commander-in-chief of the Soviet Army and replaced Zhukov as deputy minister of defense of the Soviet Union, and drew him into the Presidium of the Central Committee of the USSR [***], making him a full-fledged member, thereby confirming his position as the center of power in the Soviet Union. However, Khrushchev was still extremely dissatisfied with Malinowski's crazy proposal to use nuclear weapons against China. International jokes! Is this just a joke? He closed his eyes and leaned his bare head on the back of his chair, and the grand scene of China's hydrogen bomb test kept flashing in his mind, and the sky instantly appeared with a strong flash, followed by a rumbling explosion resounding in the sky, and a huge mushroom cloud rose in the air with flames and kept rolling in the air, rolling bigger and bigger

(To be continued)