"Target locked, request attack!" Zhang Tianfang's wingman, Lin Tianlei, reported to him.

"Lock on to the target and attack! No need to ask for instructions," Zhang Tianfang ordered to the entire flight formation.

Lin Tianlei quickly pressed the missile launch button with the thumb of his right hand, and a PL-9C air-to-air missile roared out from the bomb rack of the "Falcon" J-1 fighter plane, and the blue-white tail flame pierced the dark night sky of the Mongolian Plateau, and another Soviet MiG-19 exploded in volley.

Zhang Tianfang looked at the fire balls that kept flashing in the night sky, he aimed at the last Soviet MiG-19 that was eager to escape and flew at a low altitude, and fired a PL-9C air-to-air missile again. The missile burrowed into the tail vent of the engine of the MiG-19 fighter, which emitted huge thermal energy, and the low-flying and constantly maneuvering aircraft instantly turned into a huge firework cluster.

It was Lieutenant Colonel Paslovsky who made the right decision to bury himself and his five comrades-in-arms in the desert steppe of the Mongolian Plateau. They have fulfilled the responsibilities and obligations of a soldier to the motherland.

After the battle, Zhang Tianfang ordered all the fighters to return to Ulaanbaatar Airport for refueling and replenishing preparations for another battle, except for the two J10s that served as "early warning aircraft" missions.

At the same time as the large-scale advance from the air to Ulaanbaatar, the ground units of the Far East Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army have also begun operations, and all the ground troops exercising sovereignty over Mongolia and performing national defense tasks have entered the predetermined areas. Under the command of Commander Deng Feng, the 1st Army had 1 armored division, 2 mechanized infantry divisions, and an army aviation brigade, the 5th Army's 1st mechanized infantry division and an army aviation brigade, 3 army reclamation divisions, and the 1st and 2nd public security divisions of the Inner Mongolia Armed Police. A total of 9 divisions, nearly 180,000 people, divided into three routes: eastern, central, and western, advanced to Outer Mongolia.

On the west road, the 1st Mechanized Infantry Division of the 5th Group Army and the 1st Reserve Division of the Xinjiang Provincial Production and Construction Corps entered the western part of Outer Mongolia from the area north of Ayutai in two ways, and occupied Chagan Ur through Ulegi to cut off the highway between the Aktash region of the Soviet Union and Outer Mongolia, and the other road started from the north of Hami in Xinjiang Province and entered the western part of Outer Mongolia, and after passing through Altai, occupied Uriyasu to the north, it went straight to Mulun, and then stationed in the Khanhe area north of Kusuguyi Lake and the Chaganur region east of it to perform defense tasks, cutting off the road between the Soviet Union and Outer Mongolia. Alert the Soviet troops in the Irkutsk region of the USSR, put the knife on the lifeblood of the entire Far East of the USSR, and be ready to cut off the Trans-Siberian Railway south of Lake Baikal at any time.

In the middle route, the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division of the 1st Group Army, the 3rd Mechanized Infantry Division and the 1st Public Security Division of the Inner Mongolia Armed Police set out from the Erenhot, Baiyun Obo, and Ceke areas of Inner Mongolia to take over the important towns of Outer Mongolia, and after the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division and the 3rd Mechanized Infantry Division arrived in Ulaanbaatar, the 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division passed through Bulgan, occupied Hutag, and then turned upward, and went straight to the city of Sukhbagir, which was separated from the wall of Kyakhta by the Soviet Union, to encircle the 9th Mechanized Division of the 57th Group Army of the Red Banner Far Eastern Military Region of the Soviet Army in Outer Mongolia. The 3rd Mechanized Infantry Division advanced from the north of Ulaanbaatar in the direction of Sukhbagir, and the 9th Mechanized Division of the 57th Soviet Army in the encirclement was disarmed if it could be disarmed, and destroyed if it could not be disarmed.

East Road, the 1st Armored Division of the First Group Army, the 1st Public Security Division of the Inner Mongolia Armed Police, and the 1st Division of the Inner Mongolia Army Reclamation. The task was to take over the eastern part of Outer Mongolia, to carry out the defense of the northeastern border of Outer Mongolia, and to establish a second line of defense from west to east from Ulaanbaatar-Öndörhan-Choibalsan with the defending forces in Ulaanbaatar. The first route was to occupy the Chulun Haohute area and the Bayan-Ula area, to guard the Soviet garrison in the Chita direction along the Soviet-Mongolian border, to cut off the Soviet Union from the northeastern border road with Outer Mongolia, and to build a new northeastern Chinese border defense line with the 2nd Group Army stationed in Heilongjiang.

On May 13, when the last afterglow of the fiery sun disappeared on the edge of the western part of the vast Hulunbuir prairie, a huge roar suddenly came from the silent grassland, and a powerful armored assault group composed of "destroyer" tanks and "raider" wheeled armored vehicles followed by it suddenly started, and the heroic posture of the golden iron horse galloping appeared in the vast grassland night.

On the eastern front, the tank regiment of the 1st Armored Division of the First Group Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the 3rd Regiment of the 1st Armored Police Division of the Armed Police and the Logistics Support Regiment of the 1st Division of the Inner Mongolia Army Reclamation Division penetrated from the Hulunbuir steppe at the western foot of the Daxing'an Mountains, along the Krulun River, directly into eastern Outer Mongolia. After the tank regiment crossed the border between Inner and Outer Mongolia, in the face of such a strong formation of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the border posts in Outer Mongolia basically gave up resistance. Stationed on the border between Inner and Inner Mongolia, Londobar, commander of the 15th Reading Battalion of the Mongolian Frontier Guard, took the initiative to lead the entire battalion to surrender to the Chinese People's Liberation Army and explained to Wang Meng, deputy political commissar of the 1st Armored Division operating with the tank regiment, that he belonged to the "returnee faction" and had received instructions from the "Party Central Committee" headed by Danba to greet his team. He took the initiative to go to Choibalsan City to persuade the Mongolian 5th Cavalry Division stationed in Choibalsan City to surrender.

No matter how big the difference in strength between the two warring sides is, a soldier who surrenders without a fight is certainly the highest state in war, and it is of course the best to solve it without using force. Wang Meng, deputy political commissar of the 1st Armored Division, decided to go with the battalion commander of the "returning" Mongolian People's Revolutionary Army to the headquarters of the 5th Mongolian Cavalry Division in Choibalsan City to persuade him to lay down his arms.

Wang Meng, deputy political commissar of the 1st Armored Division, under the leadership of Londobar, rode a domestically made "blue sky" off-road military jeep to the headquarters of the 5th Cavalry Division of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Army.

The entire headquarters of the 5th Cavalry Division was immediately silent.

The division commander, Lieutenant General Sabizhaosr, shot a fierce gaze in his eyes, staring at Wang Meng and Londobar with hostility. For a long time, Sabizhaosr pointed the whip in his hand at the face of Deputy Political Commissar Wang Meng, and said very arrogantly: "I heard that you Chinese are not very capable of fighting?" If you sneak up on the United States in North Korea, you're going to be a big cow. Now it's hitting his brother in the head, okay. Let's just take it off here. ”

The atmosphere in the division headquarters immediately became tense, and all the Outer Mongolians were silent.

A native of the Dulbert ethnic group in Outer Mongolia, Sabisserr was born in Chechnya, Soviet Union, in 1917. At the age of 20, he graduated from the Irkutsk Military Academy of the Soviet Union and went to the 1st Cavalry Regiment of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Army, where he participated not only in the Battle of the Harakha River in 1939, but also directly participated in the Battle of Moscow in 1942, in which one of his ears was cut off in hand-to-hand combat with the Germans. On August 9, 1945, the Soviet Union and Mongolia declared war on Yue, and Sabizhaosl and his 5th Cavalry Division were incorporated into the 17th Army of the Post-Baikal Front of the Soviet Army. In all battles, he fought bravely and made outstanding achievements, coupled with the background of being born in the Soviet Union and studying in the Soviet Union, he wore medals on his chest. After withdrawing from China, he remained stationed in the city of Choibalsan until he became one of the top Mongol generals.

Wang Meng looked up and down at the lieutenant general of Outer Mongolia who was coaxing in front of him, and said, "It's up to you, you still want to compete with us." ”

"Ha, ha, ha" Sabi Zhaosir, who had one of his ears cut off by the saber, stood up, laughed wildly, patted the shining military medal on his chest, and looked at Wang Meng with a fierce momentum and said, "It's up to me." Do you think you Chinese are amazing? If it were not for our Mongolian People's Revolutionary Army and the heroic Soviet Red Army, you poor Chinese would probably still be the slaves of Ben now! ”

"Lieutenant General Sabizhaosir, how can you talk to Comrade Wang Meng like this." Lieutenant Colonel Londobar, who came with Wang Meng, loudly rebuked Lieutenant General Sabizhaosr, saying: "It is also the duty of every Chinese to resist imperialism, and we are part of the Chinese nation after all. ”

The battle-hardened Sabizhaosir's head burst out, and he raised his hand to Lieutenant Colonel Rondobar with a horsewhip, and screamed hoarsely: "Come on, pull this scum of the Mongolian nation out of me and shoot him!" ”

Of course, Wang Meng, a Mongolian red imp in the Yan'an period, didn't eat this, and stood up: "I see that any of you dare to touch a single hair of Comrade Rondobar, I guarantee with my party surname that he will die without a place to be buried!" ”

The officers of the Outer Mongolian generals and colonels in the division headquarters were all stunned.

The political commissar of the 5th Cavalry Division of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Army, who was the first to come out of the astonishment, stood up and waved his hand to the stunned guards and said, "You go out first." Then he walked up to Wang Meng and said, "Let's all calm down, we have not received an order from the Ministry of People's Army Affairs on the issue of disarming." Please give us a time to discuss."

"Comrade Political Commissar, we are all descendants of Genghis Khan, and we share the same [***] ideals, I am here just to hope that you can put the interests of the nation first, consciously safeguard the unity of the country, and avoid our comrades from killing each other. I'll give you two hours to think about it. After two hours, we didn't wait a minute. You can see what to do. ”

Wang Meng and the commander of the 15th Reading Battalion of the Outer Mongolian Frontier Guard, Londobar, returned to the headquarters of the tank regiment of the 1st Armored Division, and immediately ordered the tank regiment to march towards Choibalsan City.

After Wang Meng and Londobar left, the 5th Cavalry Division of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Army held a meeting of cadres above the regimental level at the division headquarters. He said impassionedly: "What is there to be afraid of in the Chinese [***] team, our comrades who have been to China have seen it, those Chinese soldiers who wear tattered clothes, have two earthen grenades pinned to their waists, and no more than 10 bullets, although they have developed in recent years, how good can they be?" ”

"Lieutenant General Sabizhaosir, the Chinese People's Volunteers defeated the American [***] team in Korea." One of the regimental commanders asked.

Yes, Lieutenant General Sabishosil could not understand how the Americans could lose to such an army in Korea. This cannot be blamed on him, because in order to win over Outer Mongolia, the godson, the Soviet Union has never carried out positive propaganda against China in Outer Mongolia, saying that all the victories achieved by China are the result of the support and participation of the Soviet Union. For people of Soviet background like him, there is no greater strength in their hearts than the Soviet Union for the full acceptance of the words of the Soviets without analysis. More than 70% of the officers in the 5th Cavalry Division knew nothing about the situation of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, but they despised their opponents for no reason.

"It's a joke that just by virtue of China's hanging, it can still defeat the United States. That's because the Americans were afraid of the great Soviet Union attacking them, so they didn't dare to fight anymore, saying that the Chinese defeated the American [***] team in Korea, that was to strengthen the momentum of the socialist camp, you know? ”

He then waved his horsewhip and said: "We are a heroic army, at the beginning of the revolution, a few hundred of us defeated more than 10,000 Chinese [***] valves, we defeated Germany and the fascists together with the Soviet Red Army, and now we have powerful Soviet artillery here, are we still afraid of those Chinese who only know how to kneel and beg for mercy?" ”

His speech left the officers who had participated in the attack on Northeast China in 1945 in a kind of morbid euphoria, "Kill, kill these ungrateful Chinese." ”

The Mongolian nation is a nation on horseback, and the nomadic life of thousands of years has not only cultivated the ability to ride and fight, gallop and gallop; It has also cultivated their strong character and indomitable spirit, coupled with the inculcation of [***] revolutionary will and iron discipline in Outer Mongolia for more than 30 years, as well as the endless clean-up campaign of unstrong-willed elements in their ranks. It is almost impossible to disarm and surrender as a formation without an order from above. This is the case with no exception in the history of the international communist movement.

When the vanguard of the tank regiment of the 1st Armored Division of the 1st Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army marched 15 km east of the city of Choibalsan, the 5th Cavalry Division of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Army, under the cover of Soviet artillery, launched a counterattack. In this half-steppe, half-desert wasteland on the east bank of the Krulun River, a life-and-death struggle between two armies led by the same [***] will be staged.

The 9th Mechanized Infantry Division of the 57th Soviet Army and the Heavy Artillery Battalion of the Artillery Regiment stationed on the outskirts of Choibalsan faithfully carried out their "proletarian internationalist obligations" and participated in the counterattack against the Chinese "aggressors" without hesitation. Several 152 cannons and 122 howitzers began to test fire at the 1st Armored Division of the 1st Armored Division of the 1st Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and the shells exploded a column of smoke in front of the tank regiment's "destroyer" tank marching column.

(To be continued)