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Chapter 1542 The wind is high and the waves are urgent

An Yi stayed in Mongolia for three days, and on the afternoon of the day when Luo Shaodong's marriage was arranged, he set off to inspect coal bases, power plants, smelters, iron and steel plants, and also participated in an hour's railway construction work, leaving Kulen on the morning of 18 April and arriving in Ust-Kamenn in the afternoon. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

During the flight, An Yi received an urgent report, and the Soviet army gathered heavy forces and launched a fierce attack on the Ural defense line operated by the Far Eastern Army. The Soviet army dispatched 3,000 aircraft, more than 18,000 artillery pieces, and more than 3,000 tanks in one go, with a total strength of an astonishing 2 million.

The focus of the Soviet offensive was Perm, west of the Ural Mountains.

Perm chokes the Ural Pass, the Kama River runs through the whole territory from north to south, and is the gateway to Sverdnovsk (now Yekaterinburg), the most important city in Siberia and the Ural region, and the initial point of the Far Eastern Army's first-line defense in the Urals.

On the map, the Ural Mountains are vast, and there are roads into Siberia everywhere, but this is not the case. The Ural Mountains region is densely forested, the rivers are vertical and horizontal, and the swamps that are tens or even hundreds of meters deep are everywhere, especially in April, the ice and snow melt, the mud is difficult to walk, from the Eastern European Plain to the Western Siberian Plain, there are only a few roads convenient for the large army to pass, and Perm, which is the main road, is a key to opening the Ural Mountains, and is the top priority of the Soviet offensive.

After four months of emergency repairs, overcoming the bitter cold of Siberia, the Far Eastern Army turned the defense line on the Kama River and the Ural Mountains into a dense area of fortresses and fortresses.

Of the more than 14,800 cannons captured in previous operations and newly produced, with the exception of some heavy cannons with a caliber of more than 200 mm that are difficult to move and used as fortress guns, the rest of the artillery pieces form several large strategic clusters that can be used to respond to operations at any time.

At the same time, the Far Eastern Army also built more than 10 air bases at the eastern foot of the Ural Mountains, where more than 3,000 fighters were assembled with all its might to gain the strategic initiative.

In view of the airfield arranged by the Far Eastern Army in Siberia, the Soviet Army dispatched at 5 o'clock in the morning under the cover of night in an attempt to take the Far Eastern Army by surprise and destroy the main force of the Far Eastern Army's air force in one fell swoop.

Facing the rising sun, the Soviet aircraft group crashed headlong into the encirclement set up by the Far Eastern Army Air Force in a daze, and several new fighters installed by the Far Eastern Army were all in unison, and the Soviet Army still took the Iraq-15 and Yi-16 fighters as the absolute main force in air combat, and suffered a crushing defeat, and in the first wave of contact, the Far East Army shot down 224 Soviet fighters, 128 SB3 bombers, and only lost 42 of its own.

In the following hours of head-to-head air confrontation, the Far Eastern Army Air Force still firmly occupied the initiative on the field.

During the battle, the Y-1 fighter that imitated the Falcon fighter, the Y-2 fighter that imitated the A27, and the PE-1 interceptor produced by the Petlyakov design office that had been moved to Syria shone brightly, and the Soviet Army's I-15 and I-16 fighters, although the pilots worked extremely hard, the fighters were not opponents of the Far Eastern Army in terms of speed, flexibility, circling, and combativeness, and they burst into beautiful fireworks in the air, and in just half a day, the Soviet Air Force lost 428 fighters. One hundred and fourteen bombers, and in the end the Soviet air force commander had to urgently order a retreat, giving up air supremacy to the Far Eastern Army.

The SB-2 bombers and the newly developed Tu-1 bombers equipped by the Far Eastern Army carried out a large-scale bombardment of the Soviet ground troops that had lost the right to brake, and the artillery and armored units of the Soviet Army suffered a catastrophe, and the attacking troops lacked the means to cross the river, and the attack was fruitless for a day, but there were countless casualties, and they had to retreat back to the west bank of the Kama River and placed under the heavy protection of the anti-aircraft artillery, and the first day of the battle ended in a complete victory for the Far Eastern Army.

In the dead of night, Ust-Kamen, the former city hall converted into the Central Asian Theater Command, is brightly lit.

In the war room, An Yi sat on a stool casually, accompanied by Hu Jiyang, former commander-in-chief of the enemy in the theater and commander of the Western Front, and Liu Yu, chief of staff of the Western Front.

Liu Yu briefly introduced the situation of the Soviet army's battle with the Far Eastern Army today, and analyzed it with a solemn expression: "The Soviet army's actions were very sudden and resolute! While the ground was still dark, their fleet took off and flew to the east against the rising sun, preparing to destroy the air force of the Far Eastern Military District in one fell swoop. We all know that attacking airfields to destroy the opponent's fighters parked on the tarmac is the best means of striking at the opponent's air force, so the actions of the Soviet Air Force were very targeted. Fortunately, our radar detected the movements of the Soviet troops in advance, otherwise let their bombers approach the airfield in the eastern foothills of the Urals, and the Air Force of the Far Eastern Army would have suffered heavy losses! ”

"In this way, the Soviet army should have a fairly good understanding of the situation in the Far Eastern Army, and it would not have been possible to arrange such an operation if it had not been for the information in advance...... There are spies of the Soviets in the Far Eastern Army! Hu Jiyang, commander of the Western Front, was thoughtful.

An Yi nodded: "It's already obvious!" If it weren't for the fact that the Soviet army didn't understand our situation and didn't know about our high-altitude radar, a classified weapon, this air battle would not have been so easy! Liu Yu, let's not be busy discussing the situation of the battle between the Soviet Army and the Far Eastern Army, you can analyze how likely it is that the Soviet Army will launch an offensive against my Guryev and Uralsk? ”

"At least eighty percent!"

Liu Yu groaned slightly, and reported a thrilling number for An Yi: "The Far Eastern Army is guarding the city of Chkalov in the South Urals, which is mountainous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, if I am a general of the Soviet Army, I will inevitably choose the flatter Uralsk line." In accordance with your instructions, we pressed the front line to the area of the Orsisel hills, and set up blocking positions layer by layer, but the time for us to take over the defense line was too short, and the permanent fortification group was still under construction, and we could not count on it for a while. Once the war begins in advance, it is only possible to retreat to the Urals and rely on air superiority to comprehensively suppress the Soviet offensive, and I suggest that it is better to leave the two army groups that have just arrived in Guriev behind. I estimate that if the Soviet army suffers a loss in Perm, it will hit us with the idea, and I shudder when I think that nearly 100 divisions have pressed to Uralsk. ”

An Yi came to the large map hanging on the wall during the battle, looked at the long Ural Mountains, and thought for a long time before shaking his head:

"The Soviets did not dare to send so many troops over at once, after all, they were also afraid of being taken out by the Far Eastern Army. The Urals are 1,400 kilometers from Moscow, and the entire Eastern European Plain is almost undefendable, and once it is broken through by the Far Eastern Army, the consequences will be unimaginable. For Stalin, we were nothing more than a plague of scabies, and if the Far Eastern Army, which was of the same nation and with the same ideology, won successive victories on the battlefield, Stalin and others would really be destroyed. Therefore, it is reasonable that he can only devote his main energy to dealing with the Far Eastern Army, at least on the Western Front, the Soviet Army can only take a defensive position against our army, and the Soviet top level should still want to rely on the Central Asian Red Army on the Eastern Front to deal a heavy blow to our army. ”

"Chairman, it's not necessarily that simple!"

Hu Jiyang also came to the map and drew a circle in the Ural Mountains: "As a result of our horizontal insertion, the important energy and metallurgical production of the Soviet army on the front line of the Ural has almost come to a standstill. In addition to the Guryev oil field, which was directly occupied by our army, more than 10 oil fields, iron mines, and coal mines in the Urals region were threatened by the Far Eastern Army and our army.

"As long as we break through our defenses, the Soviets can drive along the railway, cross the Turkige Plateau, go around the rear of the Ural Mountains, and cut off the connection between the Urals and the Far East. Now even the top brass of the Far Eastern republics are not optimistic about themselves, and it is impossible for Moscow not to see the weaknesses of the Far Eastern republics. With a population of less than 30 million and 20% of the industrial base, against the entire Soviet Union, the national strength of the Far Eastern Army has reached its limit! Once the Soviets win one or two crucial battles, the Far Eastern Republic will have a domino effect and quickly fall apart! ”

An Yi frowned, staring at the map without blinking.

On the map, the current locations of the various units of the Anjia Army that entered the Central Asian operations are marked.

Xiao Wu's mechanized corps had already marched south along the railway to Brubaital, west of Lake Balkhash, and together with the Central Route Army of the Far Eastern Army, it occupied the Gertau Mountains and threatened the Chuyili Mountains (now Aitau Mountains), the capital of Kazakhstan, Almaty, and the capital of Kyrgyzstan, Frunze, were close at hand.

Ye Cheng's tank army group and Li Jinlong's motorized infantry army group, after rushing from Semypaldinsk to Karaganda at high speed, also took a train south, to Zarek all the way to the west, and got off at Zhezkazgan, that is, along the Saresu River south, is currently crossing the salt marshes, the Gobi, and the desert, and is expected to arrive in Kyzylorda in two days to join the Soviet army's left flank army.

He Yifei of the Western Front Army, the Seventh Army, and the Tangwen Eighth Army, took a train to Shemipaldinsk, then went north along the Irtysh River all the way to Baprolodar, and again took a train directly to Guriev, where they joined Xia Yuling's Ninth Army and the 1st and 2nd Engineer Divisions directly under the Military Region, which were rushing to repair fortifications.

Originally, He Yifei and Tang Wenhui led their troops south this afternoon to seize the cities on the Caspian coast, but with the outbreak of the first-line battle in the Urals today, the two divisions were forced to stay and wait for the situation to become clear.

In order to coordinate with the Central Asian operation, the Southern Front and the Central Front of the Mongolian Military Region have each sent a group army to the Tangnu-Ulianghai to ensure absolute security in and out of Mongolia in Ust-Kamenn and the surrounding areas.

An Yi gritted his teeth: "We can't manage so much for the time being, the coast of the Caspian Sea must be in our hands, and the local government must be established as soon as possible." As the weather gradually warms up, a large-scale offensive on the Moscow side begins, the Japanese offensive on the Far East may also start at any time, and the armored clusters of the Far Eastern Army may retreat at any time.

"Now that the war in Shanxi is basically over in China, I will transfer two more flying regiments to Guriev to form an absolute superiority over Soviet fighters! In any case, an army group must be sent south until the Iranian border is allowed to stop. ”

Hu Jiqin saw that An Yi had made up his mind, so he suggested: "Then the Eighth Group Army that transferred Tang Wen should go south, his strategy and adaptability are slightly stronger than He Yifei, and I believe that he can complete the task." ”

An Yi immediately promised: "Okay, just do what you want!" In order to coordinate with the southward movement, I will transfer officers and men of the armed police force and the democracy movement corps from South China to Guriev, and Tang Wen will immediately let the armed police force and the democracy movement corps take over the work whenever he takes over the work, so as not to occupy the strength of the southbound troops as much as possible.

"Today, the recruitment of recruits in Nanhua has basically ended, and we have recruited 400,000 recruits from among the 2 million young people of the Chinese and Jing ethnic groups and are receiving training, while western Yunnan, western Qianxi, and Yunnan have each been organized into two group armies, and once the matter is urgent, we can seconded the three group armies to Xiangxi, Qianxi, and Yunnan to go north. If I lose such a good chance to recover Central Asia, I will regret it for the rest of my life. ”

Hu Jiyang and Liu Yu glanced at each other and nodded silently.