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General Galen had been able to hold on to the attack and kept explaining his plan to Stalin, who, though reluctantly, finally agreed to Gallen's request after Gallen had shot down the Tsar's bomber.

Galen's plan is to wait for the snow to melt, the traffic will be fully restored, and then mobilize troops, in one fell swoop, first capture Zima, with Jima as the forward base, and then after capturing Usolije and the port of Angara, he can use the transportation capacity of the Angara River, which is equivalent to directly narrowing the distance with Irkutsk, and there will be no such thing as in the previous months, and the supply of materials will not be cut off by the air force of the tsarist army, even if it is a protracted war and a siege war, the Soviet army will not fall into a desperate situation, and will have the absolute initiative.

However, after the two most important railway bridges were blown up, Stalin's anger was no longer something that Galen could soothe, and Stalin did not listen to his explanation at all, only told him that if he did not attack, he would be replaced, and Galen had no choice but to make plans to attack in advance when the conditions were not yet available.

Fortunately, although there is still ice floe on the river, it is already broken ice, and the transportation of the Angara River can already be carried out, and it will take some time to fight after all, and after the occupation of Usoliye, the Angara River will basically be unimpeded.

But Galen forgot, he spent more than a month to strengthen the defense of the communication line along the way, and built Novosibirsk into an underground fortress, but Yang Chao was not idle, Galen withdrew from Jima, lengthened the attack line of the tsarist army, let Yang Chao stop the attack, bought him time, and gave Yang Chao time.

In this month, Yang Chao also carried out active preparations in Jima, he had a large number of airships, and did not rely much on railways and rivers, this month, Yang Chao not only built the airport in Jima, but also restored the defense of Jima. A large number of fortifications were built, and more than 5,000 artillery pieces of various types were transferred, and the firepower here was so strong that it was put in the First World War. It's enough for a big battle.

At the same time, with complete air supremacy, the Soviet offensive had to be carried out in the face of constant bombardment by the defenders. The Soviets had replenished enough tanks, and there were more tanks than before, and Staling sent them 3,000 T26 tanks, but these tanks were ahead of the fortified positions. There really isn't much to do other than being blown into scrap metal by intensive firepower.

After several days of continuous attacks and more than 10,000 casualties, General Galen suspended the attack.

If it were Tukhachevsky, he would definitely choose the tactic of great depth, but General Galen had not studied this tactic, and in the case of tanks and planes, his tactics were completely mired in trench warfare and charge of the World War I era. They could only fall under the enemy's machine guns one by one.

In World War I, the means of suppressing machine-gun trenches was to use tanks and poison gas in the late stage, and to get up early had to rely on the constant impact of people, and to fill the enemy's trenches with human lives, but tanks could not be used, so Gallen found that he could only use the tactics of getting up early in World War I, and he had to pay huge casualties before it was possible to defeat the opponent.

But he underestimated his opponents too much, and Yang Chao deployed 200,000 troops in Jima. The First and Second Armies, composed of Chinese and Japanese, guarded here, the habits of the Eastern peoples were tenacious, perhaps not brave enough, not active enough. However, they are more able to endure trench warfare, a way of fighting that is extremely mentally torturous, and the volunteers can lie on their stomachs in the snow all night and wait for fighters, which is not only inspired by faith, but also has a great relationship with national temperament.

As a result, the Soviet army's repeated charges could not shake the Chinese and Japanese soldiers in the trenches at all.

At this time, Yang Chao formed another group army. The Sixth Army, which consisted mainly of Chinese soldiers, made up the total strength to 500,000 men. There are also a large number of Chinese volunteers assembled in the Ryukyus for training, and with Yang Chao's appeal, it is not too much to recruit 1 million people in China.

If time drags on, it will only become more and more unfavorable to Soviet Russia, but it is really difficult for Galen to conquer Jima for a while, and the meaningless casualties are not what Galen is willing to accept, so the fighting stops and starts, as if it has reached the era of trench warfare again, and the signs of attrition and protracted war are beginning to become clear.

Stalin's more and more dissatisfaction, the purpose of launching this war, the first is to seize the interests of the Tyumen oil fields, the second is to completely eliminate the threat of the rear, the tsarist regime is entrenched in Siberia, always make Soviet Russia have a feeling of being attacked on the back, once the enemy in Europe invades, they do not want to see the tsar from behind their back, let them fall into the embarrassment of fighting on two fronts.

But Galen dragged on and on, but fortunately, Litvinov always fed back optimistic information to Stalin, always saying that China was not prepared to substantially intervene in the Siberian civil war, which made Stahlin tolerate it so far, but this time he really couldn't bear it, and there was a faint worry in his heart, General Galen's side was repeatedly unwilling to attack, and Litvinov's side kept saying that China would not interfere, is there some kind of collusion between the two?

Therefore, Stalin's attitude immediately changed and he strictly ordered Galen to achieve a decisive victory immediately, otherwise he would be recalled.

In this case, Galen only chose to attack a few times, but when there was no hope of winning, he began to sit back and see, trying to find a more reasonable way to attack.

Gallen slowed down his attack again, once again angering, or rather worried, Starling.

A general, with an army of 3 million, but always disobeys the yang and the yin, how can this not make people worry, this kind of worry can make Song Gaozong kill Yue Fei and cut off his arm, and can also let Han Gaozu kill Han Xin's treachery, and finally let Shi Dalin make a great purge.

But the Great Purge has not yet begun, and Stalin's iron blood at this time is not yet the same Stalin's iron blood a few years later, and it is okay to recall General Galen, but who to replace him?

Budyonny has been proven to be inadequate, Budyonny, who was born in cavalry, seems to be unable to adapt to the war of the tank age, and has already been defeated once, and was withdrawn by Stalin, if he is asked to make a comeback, wouldn't it be a slap in the face of Stalin, which is greatly detrimental to his political authority, Tukhachevsky is also suitable, but he was removed from his post by Stalin, like Budyonny, and then let him come back, it is impossible.

In addition to Budyonny and Tukhachevsky, the prestige in the Soviet army was Voroshilov, and there was also Yegorov, among the two, Voroshilov was a close confidant of Stalin, and Yegorov was a new school officer like Tukhachevsky, who actively advocated the transformation of military technology in the army.

Stalin's dismissal of Tukhachevsky was not because Tukhachevsky lost his troops at all, the dead man Stalin's last care, what he cared about most was that Tukhachevsky's prestige was too high, which made him feel threatened. Since you can't use Tukhachevsky, you can't use Egorov like Tukhachevsky, because the two are clearly of the same faction.

Voroshilov can be trusted, but this person is from the same cavalry background as Budyonny, their worldview is limited to the steppes of the Don River, Budyonny does not understand the war of the tank age, and Voroshilov does not understand either, so Stalin finds that he really has no suitable candidate to replace General Galen.

Just when the front line was stalemate and there was no one at hand, suddenly Litvinov sent back a message from China that the Chinese hoped that Soviet Russia could maintain peace with the Russian Empire, and China was willing to mediate. (To be continued.) )