Of course, the United States is very happy to see a war between China and the Soviet Union, two great socialist powers, and the two tigers will fight each other and both will lose, and at least one will be injured. But only if it is a war under conventional conditions. If the Soviet Union were to take the risk of launching a nuclear strike against China, it would inevitably invite China's full-scale nuclear retaliation. At that time, nuclear contamination will directly threaten the safety of hundreds of thousands of US troops stationed in Europe. What is even more terrifying is that once the Soviets are allowed to open this precedent for the use of nuclear weapons, then the whole world will be destroyed by the stupid behavior of this polar bear.

"Mr. President," Gordon. "Then we in the United States must send an extremely stern warning to the Soviet Union to let the decision-makers in Moscow know that the United States will not tolerate their use of nuclear weapons in the Sino-Soviet war and provoke a nuclear war between China and the Soviet Union," Gray said. At the same time, it must also be made clear to China that we do not approve of the use of nuclear weapons by either side in the Sino-Soviet war, and at least that China will guarantee that it will not use nuclear weapons against the Soviet Union in Europe.

Eisenhower nodded and said: "As a country with great responsibility to the whole world, the United States will not turn a blind eye if the Sino-Soviet conflict turns into a great damage to international peace and security, and the United States will never allow any of their sides to use thermonuclear weapons in a war, otherwise the United States will break its neutral position and stop this with all possible actions." You go and explain this to them. China would certainly not make such a commitment to give China a pledge not to use nuclear weapons against the Soviet Union in Europe, if China, as a responsible power, could commit not to be the first to use nuclear weapons in the Sino-Soviet war. ”

Immediately U.S. National Security Advisor Gordon Brown. Gray was instructed to urgently meet with the Soviet ambassador to the United States and the Chinese ambassador to the United States to inform them of the decision of the American political axe, and to send it to the Chinese and Soviet embassies in the United States in the form of a diplomatic memorandum.

At the same time, in order to further unite the whole world against the possibility of the Soviet Union jumping over the wall and endangering global security by being the first to use nuclear weapons in the Sino-Soviet war, the US political axe instigated the world's major media to criticize the Soviet Union's irresponsible behavior.

But when a war is going on, there are some things that politicians are not completely able to control. Many fortuitous factors may change the original nature and direction of the whole thing.

The Soviet counterattack began, and the USSR mobilized 8 motorized infantry divisions and 1 tank division of the Central Asian Military District and 2 motorized infantry divisions and 1 tank division of the Turkestan Military District. Summing up the strength of the 12 divisions, from the No. 1 boundary pillar on the north side of the Khan Tengri peak to the northernmost point of Altai, the border line of 1,200 kilometers long was heavily pressed.

The Soviet counterattack on the Western Front was expected by the Far Eastern Commissariat. Due to China's insufficient troops, the "Bear Hunt" plan was not in a hurry to recover the 440,000 square kilometers of territory lost by the "Treaty on the Survey and Demarcation of the Northwest Boundary" on the Western Front, but to use the border troops of the Xinjiang Provincial Military District to stick to the original Sino-Soviet border and maintain vigilance against the Soviet Army's Siberian Military Region and Central Asian Military District. Units of the Tibet Provincial Military Region, which belongs to the Lanzhou Military Region, are the combat reserve units of the Xinjiang Provincial Military Region and have set out for the Tumshuk and Aksu regions of Xinjiang Province.

The focus of the Western Front was to carry out strategic bombing of the area west of Lake Baikal of the Soviet Union, mainly to prevent the Soviet Siberian Military District from massing in the area west of Lake Baikal and to provide support to the Far East of the Soviet Union, and to completely cut off the connection between the interior of the Soviet Union and the Far East.

After the settlement of the Soviet Far East, we are making every effort to deal with these three military districts on the Western Front.

The command of the Far East Corps was aware of the Soviet Union's heavy forces on the Western Front and promptly transferred the relevant situation to the Xinjiang Provincial Military District. In this regard, the supreme leader in Yanjing also sent a telegram to the Xinjiang Provincial Military Region instructing: There may be problems in the northwest. Since Long Sujin knew that China's western front was a defensive formation with a heavy front and a heavy rear, these troops of the Xinjiang Provincial Military Region could not reach the attack of the Soviet armored assault group even if they were deployed. The telegram from the Supreme Chief was only a smile, initialed a name, sealed it in a filing cabinet, and refused to be conveyed to the next person.

Wang Huzi, the former acting commander of the Xinjiang Provincial Military Region, personally led the team to the newly liberated Tangnu Ulianghai area, and the central authorities transferred Long Sujin from Guangzhou to Urumqi as the acting commander of the Xinjiang Provincial Military Region. He was not happy with the move. Long Sujin believes that he joined the Peasant Red Guards in 1929, was incorporated into the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army in 1930, joined the Chinese Youth League in the same year, and became a member of the Chinese Communist Party in 1932. It is Mr. Lin's old subordinate. During the Agrarian Revolutionary War, he successively served as squad leader, platoon commander, company commander and other positions, participated in the first to fifth anti-"encirclement and suppression" struggles and the 25,000-mile Long March in the Central Soviet Region, and was one of the 18 warriors who forcibly crossed the Dadu River; During the Anti-Japanese War, he successively served as a battalion commander and regiment commander, and participated in important battles such as Pingxingguan; During the War of Liberation, he served as the deputy commander of the 7th Division of the Northeast Mingzhu Allied Army, the commander of the 17th Division of the 6th Column, the commander of the 128th Division of the 43rd Army, and the deputy commander of the 128th Division. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he participated in and commanded the campaign to liberate Hainan Island. After the liberation of Hainan Island, the deputy commander of the Hainan Military Region, the commander of the 43rd Army, the commander of the Ministry of Public Security of the Guangzhou Military Region, and since 1955, he has served as the commander of the Guangdong Military Region and the commander of the Guangzhou Garrison District.

For some very complicated things in Xinjiang Province, he also felt that it was really troublesome and boring, so he issued an order without authorization: "Boundary disputes with ordinary surnames can be reported level by level, and those that can be handled at this level do not need to be reported to the superiors." After this order was reached, the things that made him feel "troublesome and boring" suddenly decreased sharply, and Long Sujin felt a lot clearer. He didn't know how many commanders and fighters would have to pay with their lives at a time when China and the Soviet Union were fighting each other.

On 14 February, Wang Xinguang, commander of the Tacheng Military Division, reported to Ren Sutian, deputy commander of the Northern Xinjiang Military Region, that the Soviet troops on the opposite side were moving frequently, and the roar of tanks could be heard at night. Whether the Soviets were going to carry out a full-scale offensive on the Western Front, requesting reconnaissance of the Soviet troops.

Deputy Commander Ren Sutian immediately reported the situation to the Xinjiang Provincial Military Region Command.

On 15 February, Yu Xianwu, director of the Operations Department of the Xinjiang Provincial Military Region, received a telegram from Wang Xinguang, commander of the Tacheng Military Sub-district, who had "crossed the ranks" and a report from the Far East Corps about the deployment of the Soviet troops, believing that the Soviet troops were acting abnormally and were likely to launch a large-scale attack on Xinjiang Province. He immediately reported to the commander of the dragon su jindai. Long Sujin threw it aside and didn't make any reply.

That night, Commander Wang Xinguang of the Tacheng Military Sub-district once again made a direct phone call to the operations duty room of the Xinjiang Provincial Military Region, reporting that the Soviet troops on the opposite side must have taken major actions. Please indicate whether to cancel routine patrols and bring the troops into combat mode.

The staff officer on duty replied: The head of the military region has received your report, but he has not given clear instructions on the cancellation of routine patrols.

At 8 a.m. on 16 August, in accordance with regulations, Yang Zhenglin, deputy company commander of the 3rd Company of the Tacheng Military Sub-district Frontier Defense Regiment, led 69 commanders and fighters of the 3rd Company and two reporters to carry out routine border patrol duties as originally arranged.

Commander Wang Xinguang stood on a high ground and watched the patrol gradually disappear into the vast Gobi Desert. At this time, Wang Xinguang's heart was shrouded in a thick cloud that could not be dispersed. He had a strong premonition that something big was going to happen today. He returned to the command headquarters and felt restless, and once again called the war room of the provincial military district, again asking the troops to withdraw the patrol and the troops to enter the front-line positions.

The staff officer on duty replied: "Commander Wang, I know you are in a hurry, but the chief has not gotten up yet. Who dares to have the temper of the chief

"Smack" Commander Wang Xinguang put down the phone angrily and scolded secretly in his heart. "Fuck you, the chief has more than jb, this is a matter of national security, the big thing is important or the chief sleeps, if something really happens, I think you are still fucking pretending to be b?"

Commander Wang Xinguang let him go, and he ordered the posts belonging to the Tacheng Military Sub-district to enter the position and prepare for battle. Let the chief of staff sit in the command headquarters. He personally took more than 130 people from the guard company, took 6 military off-road trucks, carried 2 82 recoilless guns, and two 12,7 mm high-level dual-purpose machine guns to pick up the 69 commanders and fighters and two reporters of the 3rd Frontier Company led by Yang Zhenglin.

At this time, Yang Zhenglin led 69 commanders and fighters of the 3rd Company and two reporters to be ignorant of the impending danger, and they walked forward along the routine patrol route, with a six-person reconnaissance detachment in front and a 16-person covering detachment behind, and the patrol team walking in the middle. Because it was patrolling the deserted Gobi, the formation was not very tight. A few recruits who have just been assigned to the 3rd company of the border defense. Gather around his deputy company commander and listen to him tell the story of the thrilling battle he participated in the war against India three years ago. From time to time, he also combined with the terrain and features on the patrol road to explain to you how to use the terrain and features to destroy the enemy, protect their own squad and platoon level organization and coordination and other tactical knowledge.

Suddenly, Yang Zhenglin stopped and stopped talking, he seemed to feel that the terrain around him was a little strange and a little weird. He's walked this road hundreds of times. He knew every grass and tree, every hill, and every ravine along the way. He carefully observed the surrounding terrain and landforms, he had rested here last time, and he was sitting on that rock, what was going on today, why was it so awkward. He looked into the distance, how could there be more small mounds in this endless Gobi, right! It's weird that it's weird that those small stone piles in these distances, how can so many small mounds come out at once? He held up his binoculars.

"Not good! Lie down! Yang Zhenglin was ordering loudly. Almost simultaneously, several shells fell in the middle of the patrol of more than 71 people, with a sharp whistle.

"Boom, boom, boom" There was a loud bang, and in this deafening explosion, six or seven soldiers were blown to pieces, and the dust and smoke were blown around.

The 18 Soviet T55 tanks seemed to come out of hell, and Yang Zhenglin saw that the small stone piles that suddenly increased in the distance were these Soviet tanks hidden in the stone piles. At this time, these steel beasts rushed out of the bunker and shook, shaking off the floating soil on their bodies and surrounding them from three sides in a fan shape. More than 600 Soviet officers and soldiers, who also crawled out of the mound, followed behind the tanks, and under the cover of tank fire, began to storm.

Yang Zhenglin immediately realized that this was a well-planned and long-planned action of the Soviet army. The patrol was surrounded on all sides by the empty Gobi Desert, and although the soldiers of the patrol were lying on the ground, they had no terrain to rely on, and they were so beaten by the intensive artillery fire of the Soviet army that they could not raise their heads, and there was no way to survive. The only thing that can be done now is to desperately resist the Soviet army, and to kill and injure the Soviet army to the greatest extent.

He immediately commanded this patrol, and according to the pre-arranged tasks, the various combat detachments began to launch a counterattack against the Soviet troops.

The 13 officers and men of the reconnaissance detachment and the covering detachment resolutely rushed to the southwest from both sides to launch a desperate counterattack against the enemy when our patrol detachment was suppressed by Soviet firepower.

Three 40 rocket launchers also fired at the Soviet tanks that were constantly rushing up, and three Soviet T55 tanks were destroyed in an instant.

Lin Xiaohu, a new soldier who participated in the patrol for the first time, snuggled up to Yang Zhenglin's side, and was so frightened that he only cried.

Yang Zhenglin can understand the fear of going to the battlefield for the first time before he is 18 years old. He patted Lin Xiaohu, who was snuggling, and said: "Xiaohu, don't be afraid, I was the same as you when I first participated in the battle in North Korea, just wait for you to shoot at the enemy, don't be afraid, just shoot at the target in normal training." You look at me first. Okay, stop crying, give me one of the rockets you're carrying. ”

With a trembling hand, Lin Xiaohu pulled out a rocket from his back and handed it to the deputy company commander in a trembling manner.

Yang Zhenglin took the rocket, quickly crawled to the side of a sacrificed rocketeer, picked up the 40 rocket launcher sprinkled with the blood and brains of the martyrs, leaned on the body of this comrade-in-arms, and skillfully loaded a 70.5 mm armor-piercing rocket. Aiming at the T55 tank that the Soviet troops rushed to the front, with a "whoosh", the rocket flew towards the Soviet tank at a distance of 200 meters with a bright flash. "Boom" At the sound of rocket explosions, the Soviet T55 tank fell backwards, and then the hatch on the turret of the tank flew into the sky, and billowing smoke and fire rose from the hatch of the turret. Yang Zhenglin, who fired the rocket, rolled in the thick smoke and flying dust, and returned to Lin Xiaohu's side. Immediately after that, he loaded another rocket and fired a high-explosive grenade at the Soviet infantry who were constantly howling and rushing up.

(To be continued)