On October 13, 1951, more than two months had passed since the local war between China and the Soviet Union and Mongolia, and the situation between the two sides had changed at this time, and the Tang Empire sent a powerful air force and army to directly participate in the war, which once made the nerves of the whole world tense, for fear that a full-scale war would break out between the Tang and Soviet Unions, or even trigger a nuclear war, destroying the world.

This fear was quickly denied by the diplomats of the Tang and Soviet Unions, who claimed that it was only a small-scale local war and conflict, and that the Tang and Soviet sides were determined to conduct a military exercise with real troops and live ammunition, which became the most ridiculous and deceitful diplomatic justification in the world in the fifties.

The Tang Army carried out aerial minelaying operations in a large area of Mongolia, which gave the Tang Army valuable strategic preparation time, and by the 15th, 30 armored divisions and six self-propelled artillery divisions of the Tang Army were deployed in place.

At this time, the Royal Army of the Tang Empire has carried out the third reorganization, and a number of high-tech new equipment such as armed helicopters have been installed.

As the supreme commander of the Tang Emperor's first team, Zhang Meng timely proposed new combat systems such as sea and air integration, land and air integration, and sea, land, air and space integration, which made great changes in the organization and combat mode of the Tang Emperor's first team.

Among them, land operations emphasize the integration of land and air, and air-ground coordinated operations have become the focus; under this new command concept, all units of the Datang Army have been reorganized for the third time.

Taking the 1st Panzer Division, one of the main forces of the Tang Army, as an example, the 1st Panzer Division had a total strength of 17,000 people. It has jurisdiction over 1 division headquarters and division headquarters company, 2 armored brigade headquarters and brigade headquarters company (under the jurisdiction of 6 heavy tank battalions), 1 infantry brigade headquarters and brigade headquarters company (under the jurisdiction of 4 infantry battalions), 1 engineer brigade, 1 anti-aircraft artillery battalion, 1 military intelligence battalion, 1 communications battalion, and 1 division artillery regiment (under the jurisdiction of 3 155mm self-propelled howitzer battalions. 1 120 mm anti-tank artillery company), 1 divisional support headquarters, 1 divisional aviation brigade (under the jurisdiction of 2 attack helicopter battalions, 1 air assault company, 1 aviation command company, 1 cavalry squadron), 1 chemical company, 1 gendarmerie company and 1 divisional band.

The division is mainly equipped with 350 'Tiger' 2A8M full-track main battle tanks, and the light tanks have been eliminated and replaced by 220 TW50 infantry fighting vehicles and 100 TW42 cavalry fighting vehicles. There are 308 full-tracked armored personnel carriers, 167 tracked command post carriers, 60 Sharpbow armed attack helicopters, 40 Camel multipurpose transport helicopters, 24 pigeon reconnaissance helicopters, 72 155-mm self-propelled howitzers, and 24 120-mm anti-tank guns. The 24-door ships were re-landed with an eight-by-eight-wheeled "Vulcan" air defense phalanx, etc.

The Tang Army's new armored division requires integrated ground and air operations, and its armed helicopter units have a powerful ground attack capability, while the original Vulcan Phalanx system has been converted into wheeled combat vehicles equipped with Vulcan anti-aircraft guns. The air defense capabilities of the ground forces have been greatly improved, both of which are advanced weapons that the Soviet ground forces do not have.

The only thing the Soviets are proud of is that their armored forces are equipped with IS-3 heavy main battle tanks, which are almost five times more numerous than the Don Army's Tiger 2A8M main battle tanks. In firepower. The IS3 is equipped with a 122mm main gun, while the Tang Army's Tiger 2A8M still uses the 120mm main gun of the A7+. In terms of armor, the IS3 is 220 mm at its thickest point, and the Tiger 2 is only 210 mm at its thickest point. In terms of speed, the IS3 is 45 kilometers per hour off-road, which is about the same as the Tiger 2A8M.

On the surface, the IS3 heavy tanks of the Soviet army had a big advantage, but as long as you look at the weight, it is different. The total combat weight of the IS3 is only 45 tons. The Tiger 2A8M combat weight is as high as 62 tons.

The crux of the problem is that the Tiger 2A8M uses a new type of composite armor, and the key parts use high-density depleted uranium armor. During the battle, a large amount of reactive armor is added to the outside, which increases the total combat weight and has a strong protection ability, but does not affect mobility.

At the same time, the ammunition used by the tanks of the Tang Army is mainly a new type of stabilized tail shelling armor-piercing projectile, which uses depleted uranium alloy technology and has a stronger armor-piercing ability. In contrast, the armor-piercing shells of Soviet tanks remained at the level of tungsten steel.

This gap was unknown to the Soviet army and was doomed to suffer great losses.

On October 18, after paying a huge amount of energy and price, the Soviet army finally cleared all kinds of mines in front of them and continued to attack the area controlled by the Tang and Chinese armies.

This time, Stalin personally supervised the battle in the rear, mobilizing 14,000 main battle tanks, 5,000 aircraft and 9,000 artillery pieces, including the Katyusha rocket artillery weapons that were feared by the Tang and Chinese armies.

Stalin swore that everything seemed to be in his hands, and even called Zhang Meng again to confirm that Zhang Meng would not get angry if he failed, let alone repay his debts, and would obediently withdraw from Mongolia.

Zhang Meng sneered and responded to Stalin with the same words, while persuading him to give up earlier, otherwise he would lose his pants.

The Tang Army deployed 4,000 main battle tanks, 3,000 aircraft and 6 self-propelled artillery divisions in the front, and another 4,500 main battle tanks, 1,000 aircraft and 3,000 artillery pieces.

In terms of the number of main battle weapons, the Tang-Zhong coalition army added up to much less than the Soviet army, which worried some ** generals, but the Tang army said that the quality was enough to defeat the quantity, so they didn't have to worry.

From dawn on the 18th, the Soviet army took the lead in ordering 5,000 planes to be dispatched, and the black pressure filled the sky. On the ground, the Soviet army's 14,000 main battle tanks launched an assault on a 1,000-kilometer-long front from the desert area of Uriya Sutai in the west to the grasslands of Ulaanbaatar in the east, rolling up a storm of sand and dust.

The artillery of the Soviet army opened fire fiercely, and 9,000 cannons fired a salvo, and the momentum was shattering, especially those Katyusha rocket artillery regiments, which had super firepower, and carried out saturation artillery bombardment on the Tangzhong army on the opposite side.

At the same time, the Tang-Chinese coalition forces also quickly returned to color. 4,000 warplanes took to the skies, filling the sky for tens of thousands of miles. Fight with Soviet fighters.

The massive battle between 9,000 jets on both sides was spectacular, with the entire sky filled with fire. The sound of explosions and the smoke of gunpowder covered the sky and the sun, as if the end was coming.

Since World War I, there have been few such large-scale air engagements, and even in World War II, they have been rare. The air forces of all countries are taking the elite route, and in the jet age, the competition between fighters requires more room for maneuver. There are few times when there is a scuffle.

In fact, 9,000 fighter jets from both sides spread over hundreds of thousands of square kilometers of airspace, but it just gave the impression that the entire sky was fought by planes of both sides, and it looked like a big melee.

There is not much difference in the performance of the fighters of the two sides, and the Tang and Chinese armies use improved models of the second-generation Raptor series. The Soviets dispatched a large number of MiG-15 fighters. There is not much difference in the caliber and speed of the cannon.

However, most of the Raptor fighters sent by the Tang Army this time have been equipped with Exocet air-to-air missiles, although they are still the most primitive infrared guided missiles, they are weapons that are enough to change the entire battle situation.

The Soviet Union received information and only thought that the Tang Army aircraft were equipped with rockets, so the Soviet MiG-15 was also equipped with a rocket system.

In fact, the MiG-15 is not very useful after it is equipped with rockets. Because it is a temporary installation, the rocket, like the cannon, needs to be fired head-on and at close range. For jet fighters, the speed of the rocket is still slow, and it is difficult to hit the target. On the contrary, because of high-speed maneuvering and evasion, most of the aircraft itself is overloaded by more than 3 to 4g, and at this time, the temporary rocket attached to the MiG-15 will suddenly be unable to withstand the overload and explode by itself.

In this regard, the Tang Army is much more experienced, although this is all Zhang Meng suddenly remembered when talking to a senior pilot during an inspection of the Air Force, which reminded the Tang Air Force to pay attention to the overload problem of the air-to-air missiles carried, which made the Tang Army postpone the service of the air-to-air missiles, and the overload problem was solved two years later.

The reason why the Tang army wanted to solve the overload problem as soon as possible was that the Exocet air-to-air missiles were infrared-guided, and they could only track the tail jet flow of the enemy planes and launch an attack within 2 to 3 kilometers, and they needed to stay for a period of time and could not change their movements to prevent the Exocet missiles from flying out and then flying back to hit themselves.

In this way, the pilots of the Don Army could launch Exocet missiles only if they pursued the enemy from behind. Obviously, the enemy plane will not let you chase and fight honestly, and will change various actions to avoid it, which requires the Tang Army fighters to constantly change their actions, so they must first solve the problem of their own continuous overload.

At this moment, on the Mongolian battlefield, the pilots of the Tang Army were not afraid that the missile would explode due to the overload of the aircraft, and they were constantly changing various tactical movements, and they were at ease. On the contrary, the Soviet troops continued to self-detonate due to overload in the mutual pursuit with the Tang army, and at the same time they were attacked by the Tang army's Exocet missiles, and the Soviet pilots had never seen this kind of air-to-air missiles that had been trailing them, and they were hit and exploded one after another, causing heavy losses.

In a large-scale air battle of just one hour, the Soviet army lost more than 3,400 aircraft, while the Tang army only lost more than 900 aircraft, and only about 1,000 in total, resulting in more than half of the losses.

The jet fighters of both sides did not stay in the air for a long time, and from the beginning they were all engaged in the battle, intending to destroy the opponent in one fell swoop, and there was no follow-up second wave, so after more than an hour of fierce fighting, the sky suddenly cleared, and the planes of both sides all returned to their respective airfields.

Fierce battles were also taking place simultaneously on the ground. ** The only 3,000 cannons were used for fire support, firing at the 9,000 cannons of the Soviet army, and the entire army was wiped out in just one hour.

However, the artillery units of the Don Army survived, and the six self-propelled artillery divisions maneuvered at high speed, quickly changing places after firing a round of shells, so that the Soviet artillery could not lock on to attack them.

During this hour, all 8,500 main battle tanks of the Tang-China coalition army were dispatched to meet the Soviet tank cluster head-on.

The Tang Army's main battle tank has advanced and sophisticated electrical equipment, has a small fire control computer system, and has a very high accuracy of artillery fire. However, although the Soviet tanks had backward electrical equipment and relied on mechanical manuals, the Soviet army trained a large number of excellent tank gunners in World War II, and the design accuracy was not low, and the gap between the two sides in this regard was not large.

However, the second-generation stabilized tail shell fired by the 120-mm main gun of the Tang Army is extremely powerful, and one shot can penetrate the armor of the Soviet IS3 main battle tank up to 220 mm and destroy it. On the other hand, although the 122-mm armor-piercing shell fired by the Soviet army's 122-mm main gun was also very powerful, when it hit the Tang Army's 'Tiger' 2A8M main battle tank, half of the kinetic energy was blocked and dissolved by the explosive reactive armor draped on the outside of the tank, and the remaining half of the kinetic energy could not tear through the tank's own 210-mm thick composite armor, and even the outermost layer of depleted uranium armor could not be broken.

As a result, not long after the two tank groups first engaged, all they saw was that the Soviet tanks were destroyed.

The Soviet troops were dumbfounded, this situation was something they did not expect at all, and they could not imagine that the tanks of the Don Army would be so advanced.

What made them even more sad was that the Tang army still had hundreds of armed helicopters coming, and these armed helicopters fired a large number of anti-tank rockets, causing huge damage to the Soviet tanks, and the anti-helicopter guns prepared by the Soviet army were difficult to lock onto the other side, and it would be good to shoot down one in half a day.

It's just that the Soviet army is difficult to ride a tiger, this is a decisive battle, if you take the initiative to retreat, not to mention Stalin's face, it will inevitably be covered up and killed by the Tangzhong coalition forces, and the result will be even more tragic.

Therefore, the commanders of the Soviet army gave orders to continue the battle, while emphasizing the faith of the Soviet army and boosting morale.

In this way, the million-strong armies of the two sides fought for three days and three nights in the desert and steppe of tens of thousands of square kilometers in Mongolia, and finally the Soviet army lost air supremacy, and then the Tang army planes began to bomb the Soviet artillery units, and the self-propelled artillery division of the Tang army has been maneuvering to preserve its strength, and at this time it is also counterattacking, and soon the Soviet artillery group is eliminated one by one.

Without the support of air and ground artillery, the Soviet tank group was attacked by the Tang Army's land and air forces, and the number of tanks lost surged, but the supply of the Soviet Army was also cut off at this time, causing the combat effectiveness of most of the Soviet tanks to plummet, and was finally wiped out by the Tang Army one by one.

In the end, the Soviet army invested 14,000 tanks, 5,000 aircraft, 9,000 artillery, as well as a total of 800,000 troops and more than 20 million tons of materials, but failed to win the local war in Mongolia, and finally fled back to the Soviet Union with less than 300,000 people and 200 tanks, and all the others were lost or captured.

The Tang-Zhong coalition army won a big victory, and then recaptured Outer Mongolia in one fell swoop, and Stalin and Zhang Meng had a word first, he has always been the happiest he called, but the result was the worst, at this time there was no face to mobilize more Soviet troops to attack Mongolia, but was shocked by the strength of the Tang army's conventional forces, nuclear war can not be beaten, conventional troops can not be beaten, Stalin was silent, fell ill in a fit of anger, the old disease recurred, woo-hoo, the Soviet Union faced a change of leaders, eager to reconcile with the Tang Empire, and took the initiative to give up interfering in Mongolian affairs.

Eventually, some pro-Soviet elements in Mongolia withdrew, and the federal Chinese government established the Mongolian Autonomous Region and resumed the exercise of sovereignty. (To be continued......)