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Chapter 1585 Mountain rain is coming

At nine o'clock on the night of June 21, the Far Eastern Army suddenly launched a massive artillery bombardment on the west bank of the Kama River. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoDue to the large number of smoke bombs added to the shells of the Far Eastern Army, the entire Kama River was soon covered in a thick smoke, and the vision from five steps away was seriously restricted. But now that the artillery is rumbling, how easy is it to hear the movement of the opposing troops?

The commanders of the front-line units of the Soviet army, who had long been warned by their superiors, tensed their nerves, and when they saw that the artillery shells of the Far Eastern Army were very dense, they immediately organized their troops to return fire, concentrated light and heavy machine guns, rapid-fire guns, and howitzers of various calibers, and aimed at the river to carry out a fire blockade, so as to strictly prevent the Far Eastern Army from taking the opportunity to launch a river-crossing campaign.

After half an hour, the artillerymen finished the shells around them, and the machine gunners ran out of bullets, only to find that there was no movement on the other side at all. It turned out that the Far Eastern Army stopped abruptly after firing shells for five minutes, but the Soviet Army did not know what was going on, and squandered several times more ammunition than the other side.

As the smoke slowly cleared and the flares lit up, there was not even a ghost on the river, and the Soviet officers and men finally put their minds at ease, replenished the ammunition and hurriedly packed up, and then returned to the bunkers, fortifications, and anti-artillery holes and fell asleep.

Unfortunately, before the Soviet soldiers could lie down for five minutes, the sound of shelling sounded again on the opposite bank, and one shell after another fell on the forward positions of the Soviet troops, exploding fierce fire and thick gunsmoke, and the sound was earth-shattering. As the smoke bombs exploded, the entire Soviet army's riverbank positions and the surface of the Kama River were immediately covered in smoke again.

The commanders and political cadres of the Soviet army immediately commanded the troops to take positions, and then again fired blindly at the river. This time, the Far Eastern Army took a little longer than the last shelling, and in about ten minutes, the artillerymen and machine gunners, who had just finished replenishing their ammunition, ran out of ammunition again, and when they stopped, they found that the other side had long since stopped moving.

After that, almost every hour that passed, the Far Eastern Army launched a round of artillery bombardment, and by four o'clock in the morning, six rounds of shelling had been launched, and the Soviet troops were numb from top to bottom. The last time the Far Eastern Army shelled for half an hour, the Soviets barely responded, and almost everyone had one thought - this was the Far Eastern Army on the other side of the river, and they had no intention of launching a river crossing operation.

As the smoke on the position and the river dispersed, the sentries on the front-line positions, seeing that there was still no movement on the other side, immediately reported the situation, so they deepened the judgment of the Soviet generals and instructed the subordinates to ignore the harassment of the Far Eastern Army and seize the time to rest.

In fact, the Soviets were very wrong, no, as a round of artillery bombardment unfolded, a dense crowd of Far Eastern officers and soldiers, carrying wooden boats, rubber rafts and assault boats, rushed towards the Kama River, and behind the position, there was a gathering of troops with no end in sight.

On the east side of the railway bridge, about a regiment of infantry, under the cover of artillery fire, charged. These infantrymen, all of whom were burly men, blocked the huge steel shield with a thickness of 20, advanced silently, and soon rushed across the railway bridge, and after killing the Soviet troops at the bridgehead, they rushed into the fortifications three hundred meters away, threw away the steel shields in their hands, and spread out to both sides of the trenches. The follow-up troops, in a steady stream, rushed across the railway bridge, and then fanned out with the bridgehead as the center.

The Far Eastern Army's strategy to exhaust the enemy was very successful, and in just one hour, the Soviet army's front-line position on the west side of the river bank was completely lost, and the Soviet army did not know anything.

There was almost no suspense in the ensuing battle, when the soldiers of the Far Eastern Army rushed into the second line of Soviet trenches and followed the tunnels to the bunkers, fortifications and anti-artillery holes where the Soviet troops rested, the Soviet soldiers from officers to soldiers still covered their ears with their hands and muttered "Don't make noise, we have to fight tomorrow", and then they were killed with a knife.

By dawn, the entire Soviet line west of Perm had broken through ten kilometers, the railway bridge was firmly controlled, and fifty pontoon bridges for tanks, armored vehicles and trucks had crossed the Kama River.

It was not until it was confirmed that the river-crossing offensive was successfully completed that the Far Eastern Army gave an urgent order to the mechanized corps stationed in the Petropavlovsk and Omsk regions of Western Siberia to immediately move westward, and dozens of trains that had already been prepared quickly pulled the troops to the front, and the entire Siberian artery was boiling, and the roar of the locomotives "whined" sounded in the wilderness.

An unprecedented violent collision will unfold on the Eastern European Plain, and no matter who kills the deer, it will leave a strong mark on history.

National Defense University, Beijing, South China.

In the circular lecture hall, An Yi stood on the podium, facing a room full of military division students who were standing in the aisles, and said solemnly:

"Students, the military principle I am going to talk about today is an organic whole, and its core is to emphasize the concentration of superior forces to destroy the enemy. Focusing on this core, I will discuss such issues as operational principles, targets to be attacked, operational forms, operational methods, operational preparations, combat style, and supplementary rest, and so on. ”

The classroom was silent, the generals who had seats were taking notes, and those who did not have seats were thinking carefully, deepening their memories, and trying to understand the meaning of An Yi's words.

"I would like to talk about the first proposition: the relationship between fighting a weak enemy and fighting a strong enemy. In my opinion, in fact, a strong enemy and a weak enemy can be interdependent and can be transformed into each other. First of all, the enemy who is isolated and scattered, weakly defended, and who is well defended in small and medium-sized cities will be annihilated, and those who are concentrated and strong, and who are well defended and fortified in large cities will correspondingly become weak, and this will create favorable conditions for the next step of encircling and annihilating them.

"On the contrary, if we are unrealistic and fight a strong enemy first, not only will it be difficult for the strong enemy to be quickly resolved, but the weak enemy will also become a strong enemy because of the decline of our own strength, which will make our side fall into great passivity and even suffer defeat. Of course, sometimes when we are really sure, our commanders can also see the opportunity to attack a strong enemy first, and things are not absolute, and the way of the art of war is to change and win. Generally speaking, however, it is the basic operational principle to strike first at a weak enemy and then against a strong enemy, from small to large and from weak to strong, and the development of the war situation is in this constant transformation and evolution, firmly in control of the hands until victory is won.

"As for today's large-scale corps operations, I would like to make the following generalizations: In the early stage of the war, we should fight small, concentrate 10 times or 8 times the number of troops, first destroy the enemy's two battalions, two regiments, and two divisions, and then gradually expand when we have experience and certainty, force the enemy to gradually increase our troops, eat them one by one, and then change the balance of forces between the enemy and us, and decide the final victory or defeat of the war."

An Yi talked about this, taking the Jiang Gui War and the Central Plains War as examples, expounding why Li Zongren and Feng Yuxiang, who had the superior forces, would fail, and then took the first four anti-encirclement and suppression of the Communist Red Army as examples to illustrate that this relationship between strength and weakness greatly promoted the weaker side and deepened the understanding of the students.

After everyone discussed freely for ten minutes, An Yi began to talk about the content:

"I will move on to the second proposition: the relationship between the annihilation of the enemy's vital forces and the seizure of places. Under the conditions that the enemy is big and we are small, and the enemy is strong and we are weak, it is generally impossible to achieve the two goals of annihilating the enemy and seizing localities at the same time. Only after annihilating the enemy's living forces can we seize the places later, especially in the strategic defense stage, even if some places are occupied by the enemy for a while, as long as we save ourselves and destroy the enemy, the lost territory can be recovered in the end. This is what I have been emphasizing before: 'Saving land and losing people, people and land, losing land and saving people, people and land'. Therefore, it seems to me that the seizure of places is in fact the inevitable result of the annihilation of the enemy

"Judging from the historical experience of the various operations in which we have participated since the founding of the army, the initial stage of the war is generally dominated by the annihilation of the enemy's vital forces, but in the middle and late stages of the war, with the transformation of the overall strength of the enemy's military strength into a weaker or weaker one, it will gradually change to equal emphasis on annihilating the enemy and seizing localities. As far as the annihilation of the enemy's vital forces is concerned, in some cases, due to changes in the enemy's situation or the needs of the overall situation, the policy of semi-annihilation and half-defeat may also be practiced

"Third, the relationship between concentrating and dispersing troops. Concentrating superior forces is the universal law for defeating the enemy in all wars in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, and we can see from the wars we have fought again and again since the founding of our army that the concentration of troops is of particular significance in defeating an enemy who is stronger than ours. Only by concentrating forces and carrying out a campaign and combat war of annihilation can we gradually improve the strategic situation, smash the enemy's strategic offensive, and turn ourselves into a strategic counteroffensive or offensive. However, the concentration of forces is not absolute. Under normal circumstances, it is often necessary to use forces through necessary and active detachments to create conditions for the time and place of decisive battles to achieve a concentration of superior forces. For example, in order to ensure a war of annihilation, it is necessary to contain other parts of the enemy with a small force so that a large part of the enemy can concentrate on one main target

"Fourth: the relationship between movement warfare and positional warfare. These two are the two main forms of regular warfare, and they penetrate and interact with each other. Since the founding of the army, our main form of warfare has been mobile warfare, supplemented by necessary and possible positional warfare and guerrilla warfare. With our entry into South China, our own strength has been continuously enhanced, especially after entering the Central Asian region to fight, according to the actual needs of the task of seizing the enemy's strongholds and cities, the status of the positional offensive has been markedly raised. At this time, only by increasing the proportion of positional warfare can we annihilate the enemy in large numbers, so as to speed up the process of victory in the national liberation war we are engaged in and lay the cornerstone for the rise of our Chinese nation. Of course, to this day, large-scale mobile warfare is still an important form of combat to annihilate the enemy, and we must combine large-scale mobile warfare with large-scale positional warfare, so that the results will be good

"Fifth, the relationship between careful planning and preparation and not fighting an uncertain battle. Without careful planning and preparation, it is impossible to fight a battle with certainty. Our armed forces absolutely cannot fight a war for which we are unprepared, nor can we fight a war for which we are only prepared but not sure. Therefore, all combat operations commanded by our commanders must be carefully planned in advance and may be fully prepared. At the same time, difficult and complex situations must be anticipated and taken as the starting point for all deployments. Sometimes, when there is no certainty, it is better to postpone the operation than to blindly launch the operation. However, I absolutely do not allow preparations to be used as an excuse to passively avoid war

"Sixth: the relationship between supplemental rest and continuous operations. The purpose of replenishment and recuperation is to recuperate and sum up experience so that we can fight well and continuously. Under the circumstances of the rapid development of the war situation, frequent operations, and the necessity of continuous operations, the replenishment and recuperation of manpower and material resources of our troops must be commensurate with the requirements of this objective situation. The replenishment of our army's manpower and material resources is mainly to emphasize taking from the enemy and relying on the support of southern Sichuan, southern Yunnan, and South China. Taking advantage of the interval between campaigns to reorganize and train the troops, improve the quality of military and political affairs, and enhance the combat effectiveness of the troops is a necessary condition for the resumption of war. However, in order not to give the enemy a chance to breathe and to give the enemy a continuous attack, sometimes even if we have not been replenished and recuperated, we must carry forward the style of not fearing sacrifice and fatigue and achieve continuous combat."

Before you know it, two hours of lecture time have passed.

What An Yi said is just something that everyone consciously or unconsciously uses on weekdays, but such a systematic induction and summary, and illustration with actual combat examples, are simple and easy to understand, but they have never been seen before.

An Yi announced that at the end of today's course, the students stood up together, and the lecture hall that can accommodate 1,000 people resounded with warm applause. You must know that the lecturers of the National Defense University and the generals who came to receive training originally had a certain foundation, and listening to An Yi's eloquent talk at this moment, all of them were summaries and deepened things that they were thinking about on a daily basis, as if opening a skylight in their heads, and what was plausible in the past has never been as clear and clear as it is today! After listening to the class, almost all the generals were excited, and they could only applaud for a long time to vent their excitement.

An Yi solemnly saluted the teachers and students in the audience, did not stop long, and turned to leave.

As soon as he walked out of the lecture hall, Shen Fengdao hurriedly greeted him and said in a low voice: "The Far Eastern Army has broken through on the western front, the Soviet army in the Central Asian Theater is ready to move, and the Japanese army in the Far East has already entered the Boli General Staff and called and urged it several times. ”

An Yi nodded, and walked out of the teaching building side by side with Shen Fengdao, and at this moment the convoy was already waiting at the door.

Ten minutes later, An Yi's special car arrived at the compound of the General Staff Headquarters, located five kilometers south of Baizhu Lake and next to the Duzhu Temple in the northwest of Beijing, where Yang Fei, Liu Qing, Shen Ziling, Li Yufu, Qin Shanyue, and other generals were already waiting in front of the War Department building. An Yi got out of the car and exchanged pleasantries, and the group quickly came to the combat command center.

"By 4 p.m., with the cooperation of the superior air force of the Far Eastern Army, the entire line of defense was more than 700 kilometers from Perm in the north to Chkalov (now Orenburg) in the south, and the Far Eastern Army had won the victory against the Soviet army. In particular, in the Perm region, the Far Eastern side has concentrated all the tank units of the Ural front line in this direction, and so far the forward has advanced more than 30 kilometers to the city of Maisky, the headquarters of the Soviet front. The commander of the Soviet Ural Front, Marshal Timoshenko, in desperation, had already ordered the headquarters to be withdrawn to the city of Glazov. The entire situation in the Urals has changed dramatically. ”

Liu Qing stood in front of the map, the baton in his hand was beating back and forth between various cities on the map, and his face was full of surprise.

An Yi turned his head and asked, "Where did the Far Eastern Army on the Chkalov line break through?" ”

Liu Qing glanced at the document in his hand, and pointed his baton at Perevolotsky: "Although the Chkalov region is not blocked by a large river like the Kama River, it has the natural terrain advantage of the Obshisert hills, coupled with the permanent fortifications built by the Far Eastern Army, the Soviet army's attack on this line cannot be carried out, and it has always been a small fight." In the early hours of this morning, the Far Eastern Army mobilized heavy troops and suddenly launched a counteroffensive, and the Soviet troops were caught off guard and retreated dozens of kilometers in a row, and Perevolotsky had already been occupied by the Far Eastern Army, and if nothing else, in the next two to three days, the cities of Rochinsk, Buzuluk, and Kuibyshev along the railway line would be occupied by the Far Eastern Army.

"According to our analysis, the purpose of the Far Eastern Army should be to control the oil in the Urals, so Kuibyshev, located on the east bank of the Volga, will not be the end of the offensive on the Southern Front, and the Far Eastern Army will inevitably go all the way to the west and firmly control the oil fields such as Buguruslan and Sezran. Our intelligence services speculate that the best defensive site on the southern front is the hills on the left bank of the Volga, the core of which is the cities of Saratov, Penza, and Saransk. The strategy that the Far Eastern Army may adopt in this offensive on the Western Front is to hold on to the southern front, assault on the northern front, and approach Moscow with an indomitable momentum, and once the Far Eastern Army is allowed to come to Moscow, Stalin, who is mainly responsible for splitting the Soviets, will inevitably step down. ”

An Yi looked at the map carefully and bowed slightly: "Very good, in this way, our Ural River line will be completely stable!" However, we must not be careless, the fortifications that are being built still have to be repaired, the fortifications that should be strengthened must continue to be reinforced, and the minefields that should be laid out cannot be saved. In addition, in the northern front area where Kazakhstan borders with the Urals and Siberia, we must set up several strategic points, and we must fight a war of movement, but we will not give up without principle, and we still have to nail there like a nail in the places that should be held, so as to gain enough time for mobilizing superior forces to annihilate the enemy.

"I want to pour cold water on everyone: although the current situation of the Far Eastern Army is good, it can only be said that it has caught the Soviet army by surprise, Stalin has sent Zhukov as the commander of the reserve front, once Timoshenko cannot quickly turn the tide of the war, Zhukov, who is highly regarded by Stalin, will inevitably replace Timoshenko as the commander of the Soviet army. Although Zhukov is not well known, I know that his talent may be outstanding among the Soviet generals, and we cannot but be wary of the possible defeat of the Far Eastern Army. ”

Li Yufu was puzzled: "Won't we cooperate with the Far Eastern Army to fight westward?" ”

An Yi waved his hand decisively: "It is impossible for us to divide our troops anymore!" In addition to solving the large lump of Soviet troops in Central Asia, the Japanese army has pressed over from the Far East, and the Mongolian region is full of mountains and rains, and Yin Jinan, Mu Zhaiyi, and Li Fuqiang have already felt tremendous pressure.

"Brothers, Mongolia already has a certain foundation for the development of industry and agriculture, and I am really not willing to fall into the hands of the Japanese. Therefore, I have an idea that if necessary, the two group armies of the Northeast Military Region should throw away their bottles and cans and resolutely enter Mongolia to fight, leaving only a small number of troops to fight guerrilla attacks in the northeast. At that time, the Northeast Military Region and the Mongolian Military Region will form the Northern Military Region, which will be under the command of the Northern Bureau. As long as Mongolia does not lose, we can enter the Northeast at any time, on the contrary, if Mongolia falls, the Northeast battlefield will also lose support, there is a priority problem in the middle, we must grasp it! ”

All the generals nodded silently, and An Yi continued:

"In the past few days, I have been pondering the issue of strategic choices in the Far East, judging from the current situation, it is an inevitable choice for the Far East Army to abandon Boli, and after the Japanese army occupies Jiamusi, Tongjiang and other places, the entire Far East coastal area has actually been closely integrated with the northeast controlled by the Japanese Kwantung Army, and through the Middle East Railway and the North Manchurian Railway, the Japanese army has mobilized its forces very quickly, and the flank of the Far East Army has been greatly threatened. Because of this, the commander of the Coastal Cluster of the Far Eastern Army, General Hahanyan, fearing that the rear road would be cut off, had to direct his troops to retreat to the city of Oblucciye, southeast of Hailanpao, and use the fortifications in the area of the Briingn Mountains to hold on.

"After a month and a half of rushing to transport, almost all the industrial facilities in the entire Far East have been relocated, the people have also been transferred, and the rest have taken refuge in the mountains and forests, preparing to fight guerrilla attacks with the Japanese army. If the Japanese army stops at the Breying Mountains, then the Far Eastern Army can rest assured that it will pass through the western front, saying that it may not be possible to reach Moscow and realize its dream of turning the tables. However, if the Japanese army is desperate to attack with all its might, it is very promising to open the gap by virtue of its advantages in supply, troops, morale and other aspects. For now, we can only wait and see what happens, and make further responses according to the changes in the Japanese army. ”

Yang Fei proposed: "Regardless of whether it is possible for the Japanese army to break through the defense line that the Far Eastern Army has painstakingly managed, I think it is necessary for us to build complete defense fortifications in northern Mongolia." A strong fortress and a well-established defense system can buy us enough time to mobilize our troops, and at the same time can give our people a sense of security and stabilize their hearts. ”

An Yi waved his hand vigorously: "Build, must build!" Now that the Soviet Union, the Far East, and Japan are fighting with us in all directions, it is not yet known who will kill the deer in Siberia and the Far East in the future, and it is always good to be prepared! We must not only send engineering units for construction, but also infantry and reserve units to participate, but also fully mobilize the people, and we must mobilize the whole people to launch this construction campaign to consolidate the border defense of the motherland. ”

Shen Ziling said: "Then we must quickly reach an agreement with the General Political Department and the General Logistics Department and come up with a construction plan!" But I don't know if we've just started construction now, is there still time to do it? ”

An Yi's face was grim: "Little Japan may not be staring at us!" The Far East, however, had moved all its industrial bases to Siberia, and nothing was more important to Japan than to acquire machinery and equipment, and if there was a real opportunity to move westward, they would have gone west desperately and then transported the spoils to Northeast China or Korea in order to enrich Japan's industrial strength. Although the Far East accounted for only one-fifth of the Soviet Union's share of the industrial sector, its appeal to Japan was unparalleled. It shuddes to think about how much Japan's war potential is stimulated by the complete replication of an industrial country in the Tohoku and Korea regions, on which Japan relies on its lifeline! ”

"In that case, we should end the war in Central Asia! If the Japanese army really rushes into Siberia, the border between Mongolia and Central Asia will become a weak link in our defense. When the time comes, our eastern, western, and southern fronts will be pinned down everywhere, and this battle will not be easy to fight! Yang Fei said thoughtfully.

An Yi nodded, and then asked, "What is the position of all the departments of our army in the southern front of Central Asia?" ”

Liu Qing raised his baton again: "On the Eastern Front, with the Soviet army in Xinjiang moving south to Almaty, our Mongolian-Kazakh land passage has been completely safe, Hu Jiyang has led his troops from Ust-Kamento to the south, successively occupied Ayaguz and Burlyutobe, and the forward has entered the city of Talda Kurgan under the Golatau Mountains, ready to attack at any time!"

"On the central front, our army has no corps, firmly occupies the city of Burlik, and builds fortifications at Saukpal in the east and the Chu River on the western front. Saukpal is located in the Chuili Mountain Pass, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, even if the Soviet Chuikov Corps has the advantage of troops, it can only be divided into forces to attack. Xiao Wu also foresaw this situation, and a tank brigade was deployed in the Aksuyek area between the northern foot of the Chuyili Mountains and Lake Balkhash, and if the Soviet army wanted to divide its forces to attack across the desert, it would have enough time to respond. The only thing to worry about now is the Chu River defense line, the central cluster of the Soviet army is between Frunze and Churaktau (now Karatau), if it is desperate to attack the Chu River defense line, Xiao Wu may not be able to resist!

"The western front is divided into two wings, north and south, the north is General Ye Cheng's tank cluster, the force is arranged between Ares and Shymkent, Lengar, the Soviet army occupies the favorable terrain of Kalatau Mountain and Talas Mountain, our army attacks from the bottom up, it is extremely difficult, and the Soviet army occupies a favorable position, can attack and retreat, and the initiative is completely in the hands of the Soviet army, so Commander Ye is determined to lure the enemy out to fight, and does not build fortifications. In the south, General Li Jinlong's motorized infantry cluster was deployed, and only three divisions were deployed in the Leninabad (now Bekabad) area, and only three divisions were deployed in the basin areas of Andijan, Namangan, and Ferghana that confronted the Soviet army. Commander Li believes that by placing the main force in a place with convenient transportation, it can make a strategic maneuver at any time, and it can respond as soon as possible to the northward and eastward advances, and our General Staff Department also believes that this is a better choice. ”

After listening to the report, An Yi smiled slightly: "Our banquet has been set up, now it depends on the reaction of the commander of the Soviet army, Kulik!" I believe that at Stalin's urging, Kulik will make the first move, and we will see the move and dismantle the move, and then strike first, and the situation in Central Asia will soon be clear and clear! ”