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At 8 a.m. on 17 September, following the capture of the town of Pabia east of Dan Nyu Ridge in the early morning, the 7th Motorized Infantry Division, which had made an attack on southern Burma, drove straight into the vicinity of the fishing port of Garobi along the Bowa Railway (from Bago to Dawei). Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Garrobi was originally a small town of just over 1,000 people, but after the Kiro moved in, the population swelled to 5,000, mainly engaged in fishing and agriculture, and the Kira army deployed a garrison here. [bp; Before the ground offensive was launched, the artillery regiment directly under the 7th Motor Infantry Division easily leveled several trenches that the garrison had spent a night building with a single bombardment of artillery of various calibers.

As the artillery fire extended, several buildings at the entrance of the town were blown up, and the fire burned, and the loud trumpet of the charge sounded at the right time, and a small number of tanks and armored vehicles covered a large number of infantry and rushed towards the town.

The army panicked, abandoned the buildings and fortifications they were holding, and fled for their lives.

The fleeing army discarded their guns and ammunition, as well as cumbersome grenades, water bottles, quilts, and all other items that hindered their escape, and fled to the city of Mawlamyine to the north. As for what will happen after running to Mawlamyine, no one thinks about it carefully.

There are also some Luo soldiers, tired of this kind of fugitive life, and they don't run away, so they kneel on the ground with interest and raise their hands to surrender to An Jiajun.

For these captives, the DPA has long arranged that they will become free laborers.

During this period, southern Myanmar was almost not effectively developed, and agriculture, fishery, and mining all had great potential for development.

After the 7th Motorized Infantry Division easily occupied the town of Garrobi, it cut off the Bowa Railway and divided the area into two parts, the north and the south...... "The 7th Motorized Infantry Division left a regiment to assist the B Division that followed the large army to set up a fence to guard against the southern army from attacking northward, while the main force went north, rumbling towards Mawlamyine.

At the same time, the 8th Tank Division and the 9th Motorized Infantry Division had captured the town of Dakun and were advancing along the Zami River towards Jaimalao and Tambyingon, striving to solve the enemy blocking the area south of Mawlamyine within two days, and joining forces with the 7th Motorized Infantry Division under the city of Mawlamyine.

The main force of the Luo Army was deployed in Mawlamyine and the surrounding area, and a large-scale strategic decisive battle was inevitable.

Beijing, Konanhai East Fence Garden.

At half past eight in the morning, An Yi, who returned home after practicing boxing with Lao Shen Lake, also had breakfast with Ou Chuer and Feng Jieyun, and Chen Yu, director of the CIA, hurriedly visited.

An Yi put down the dishes and chopsticks, and came to the study with Chen Yu, after the guest and host sat down, Chen Yu handed over a telegram, and after An Yi finished reading it, he said: "Wang Jingwei arrived in Beiping yesterday morning, and there was a spy agency established by Li Shiqun, Ding Moyou and other minions who had defected to the Japanese, and a guard of 500 people was added, and he trembled all of a sudden!"

"Yesterday afternoon, Wang Jingwei, the official residence of the commander of the Japanese Army's Chinese Dispatch Army, Tenant Junliu, met with Wang Kemin, chairman of the Administrative Committee of the Provisional Government, and the two sides broke up unhappily. In the evening, Wang Jingwei set up a banquet in his apartment to entertain Liang Hongzhi, the minister of the provisional government, but the result did not seem to be ideal.

According to the analysis of colleagues at North China Station, Wang Kemin and Liang Hongzhi are unwilling to let people share their power, and Wang Jingwei, the great bodhisattva invited by the Japanese, if he cannot integrate these political forces, he will not be able to display his traitorous ideas, and he will not be able to achieve a certain political influence and influence the Nanjing government. It is expected that in the future, the Japanese will forcefully intervene in the internal affairs of these traitors, so that Wang Jingwei can come to power smoothly. ”

An Yi pondered for a moment and said: "Everything Wang Jingwei is doing now is done secretly, and the evil deeds have not been revealed, so let's wait and see what happens!" The principal doesn't want us to meddle in the affairs of the mainland, so we will settle our own affairs first! As long as we don't make mistakes ourselves, all intrigues and tricks can only bow our heads in front of absolute strength! ”

Chen Yu saw that An Yi did not blame the North China Intelligence Station for not immediately executing the assassination order against Wang Jingwei and other traitors, Chen Yu was sure in his heart and said goodbye and left.

After breakfast, An Yi came to the General Staff Headquarters and found that the combat command center was filled with a relaxed atmosphere.

It turned out that although last night's battle was very arduous, and there were dangerous situations in many places, on the whole, the progress was relatively smooth, and good news came from the preparation front, especially the worrying Mandalay battlefield, although the Japanese army drove more than 100,000 natives to launch a surprise attack last night, bringing more than 5,000 casualties to the First Mountain Army, but the Japanese army had no intention of breaking through the defense line held by the three mountain divisions, and about 4,000 devils fell to the front, the Burmese army lost more than 20,000 casualties, and the natives were 120,000 dead and wounded. The area around Mandalay was almost empty of natives that could be gathered, and the Japanese army was powerless to launch a similar attack.

The war was going well, An Yi thought that the Far Eastern Republic had been emigrating to South China for almost a month, and it was expected that the Far Eastern Army would not be far away from the Soviet-German battlefield, so he called Liu Qing, director of the intelligence department of the General Staff, to inquire about the situation on the Soviet-German battlefield.

Liu Qing did not dare to slack off, and immediately asked the staff officers to bring the archives of the Soviet-German battlefield during this time. In order not to interfere with the normal work of the General Staff Headquarters, An Yi and Liu Qing came to the small conference hall again, and it happened that Hu Jialin, Deng Bin and Yang Jie also wanted to know about the relevant information and also came to the small conference room to observe.

A large map of the Soviet Union in Europe was hung on the wall of the small conference room of several staff officers, and Liu Qing stood next to the map with a thumb baton, sorted out his thoughts a little, and began to explain the war situation.

"The four fronts of the Soviet-German battlefield are currently easy on the Gauga battlefield and the situation on the southern front is dangerous, and the large-scale encirclement and annihilation battle on the Soviet-German battlefield after the Battle of Minsk is very likely to occur in the next 10 days...... "In mid-August, the 2nd German Tank Group and the 2nd Army began to develop an offensive in the direction of Starodub and Konotop and Gomel and Chernihiv, at this time, the Soviet Army had apparently seen through the German army's intentions, and on August 19 ordered the Southwestern Front Armament Group to withdraw to the other side of the Dnieper River and organize a defense along the eastern bank, On the west bank, Soviet troops held only positions in the Kiev region.

"In order to cover the right flank of the Front, the corps withdrawn from other sections was reorganized into the 40th Army of the Soviet Red Army, which spread along the Desna River north of Konotop. The Soviet base camp instructed the Bryansk cluster in the south of the Central Front to prevent the Germans from breaking through to the rear of the Southwestern Front from the north, but unfortunately the operational group failed to complete the task assigned to it and prevent the flank movement of the German army.

"At the beginning of this month, the Germans managed to reach the Desna River and force their way through the areas of Shostka, Koropp, and Wibley, and on the 10th, the rear of the Southwestern Front, the advance force of the 2nd Tank Group, seized the city of Romne. On the 11th, the commander-in-chief of the southwestern direction of the Soviet army, Marshal Budyonny of the Soviet Union, aware of the danger, asked Stalin to withdraw from Kiev and the Dnieper River in a big way, jump out of the encirclement of the German army, and build a defensive front in another area, but, like Zhukov, Stalin resolutely refused him and ordered to hold Kiev and the Dnieper River.

After that, Budyonny called three times to ask for a leave of office, and Stalin, in a fit of rage, dismissed Budyonny from his post on the 13th, and replaced him with Marshal Timoshenko, who had made a mistake in the Battle of Minsk. Two days earlier, on the southern flank of the Soviet Southwestern Front, the Germans had forcibly crossed the Dnieper River and seized a landing ground in the Kremenchuk area, which the 38th Army of the Soviet Red Army operating here failed to clear.

On the 12th, the first group of German tanks launched an attack from the landing ground in the general direction of Lubne, and the Soviet army was facing the danger of being encircled, and the commander of the Soviet Southwestern Front, General Kirponos, preserved the vital strength of the Soviet Red Army, and regardless of the danger of being sent to a military court, he ordered the troops to retreat on all fronts, but this order was quickly revoked by the Soviet High Command, which instead demanded that the Southwestern Front implement more active tactics and launch a counteroffensive against the German army.

"The day before yesterday, because Yeremenko of the Bryansk cluster failed to fulfill his promise to Stalin to 'crush Guderian' cluster, Guderian and Kleist's armored cluster Lokhvica successfully joined forces, and the Southwestern Front of the Soviet Red Army was completely surrounded by German troops. At this point, the four armies of the Southwestern Front of the Soviet Red Army, namely the 21st, 5th, 37th, and 26th armies, were encircled by the Germans.

"Yesterday, the German army's war of annihilation of the encircled Soviet army has begun, and the fate of more than 700,000 Soviet troops will be decided in the next few days, and the final collapse of the Soviet Southwestern Front is almost inevitable!"

Liu Qing's report made the small conference room silent.

Hu Jialin, Deng Bin and Yang Jie frowned, they didn't expect that the German and Soviet sides, which seemed to be evenly matched, would have such a strange one-sided situation.

An Yi vaguely knew that in the original history, the Soviet army should have lost this battle, otherwise why would the German army come to Moscow?

At this time and space, because Stalin reequipped his troops in advance and equipped them with a large number of weapons and equipment in accordance with the needs of actual combat, many commanders have been tempered in actual combat with the Far Eastern Army, and the strength of the army should be stronger than the original history.

However, Stalin transferred a large number of veterans from the Western Front to the Eastern Front to participate in the offensive against the Far Eastern Republic, and a large number of troops filled the original troops, which was countered by the progress of weapons and equipment and the command level of the commanders.

"What is the situation on the other three fronts?" Hu Jialin observed on the map for a while and asked.

"Yes, that's exactly what I'm going to talk about next." Liu Q nodded, took the command camphor and continued to tell:

"There is nothing to say about the battlefield in the Gauga region, because the terrain of the Gauga region is complex, the mountains are high and the forests are dense, and the only plain passage is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so far this battlefield has been in a stalemate on the 1st, and on the battlefield of the northern front, in late August, from Marshal Voroshilov's several telegrams requesting the withdrawal of the whole army from Leningrad, Stalin smelled the crisis, immediately made a decision, formed the Leningrad Front, and appointed Marshal Zhukov, the commander of the reserve front that he had previously broken into Leng Fu, as the commander of the Leningrad Front.

"On the morning of the 10th of this month, Marshal Zhukov flew to Leningrad with his assistants, Lieutenant General Khozin, Major General Fedyuninsky, and Major General Kokopev. It is said that at that time, Voroshilov and others were in a meeting to discuss the direction in which they should break through once Leningrad could not be held.

Zhukov, who presented the order of the base camp after observing the meeting, pointed out the need to resolutely defend Leningrad until the last person in the battle, and then Zhukov, in the capacity of commander of the front, reorganized the army, with Fedyuninsky as deputy commander and Khotzin as chief of staff, and removed the commander of the 42nd Army, Major General Ivanov, and the commander of the Eighth Army, Major General Shcherbakov, from their posts on the spot.

Later, Zhukov, together with his staff officers, worked out a plan for the defense of the city overnight, including the withdrawal of part of the anti-aircraft artillery from the air defense units in the city on the basis of the combat experience with the Far Eastern Army, the deployment of them in the dangerous area of Leningrad, the blind fire of German tanks, and the use of all the naval guns of the Baltic Fleet to support the 42nd Army in the Uritsk-Pulkovo Heights, and the establishment of in-depth echelon defense in the main directions, the laying of mines, the installation of power grids, and the transfer of part of the forces of the 23rd Army from the Karelian Isthmus, to support the 42nd Army, strengthen the defense of the Uritsk region, and later form five to six infantry brigades with Baltic Fleet sailors and students of military academies as a mobile fighting force.

"On the morning of the 9th of this month, the Germans began a frontal assault on Leningrad from the south, with the main directions of attack being Uritsk in the southwest of the city and the Pulkovo Heights due south. On the 10th, a gap was torn in the defensive ground of the 3rd Guards Militia Division of the German Soviet Army. On the 11th, the Germans occupied Dudegov, and the next day occupied the Red Village, advancing towards Uritsk. On the 13th, the Germans broke through the Soviet defenses, occupied Snovka, Keyelovo in Finland, and forced into Uritzk.

Zhukov realized that the defense of Leningrad had reached a critical juncture, and decided to put the 10th Infantry Division of the Front Army ~ Reserve into battle, and on the 14th, with the support of the artillery and aviation of the 10th Infantry Division, a rapid assault was carried out on the German army, and the Germans did not expect that the Soviet Army would suddenly launch a counterattack, and for a moment the situation was in chaos, and was forced to abandon Snovka and Kholovo Finland, and the Soviet Army returned to its original position.

"It can be said that the battle has reached this point, the German northern road cluster has been at the end of the crossbow, and it is impossible to take Leningrad in a short time, and if the central cluster cannot quickly break through the Smolensk defense line, then before the winter comes, Hitler's plan to meet under the city of Moscow may be frustrated!"

"Minister Liu, I am interested in Yegorov's command, did he take advantage of the lack of strength of the German army in the middle of the road to launch a counterattack?"

As the president of the National Defense University, Deng Bin wanted to know what the performance of Yegorov, who had co-created the Great Depth Strategy with Tukhachevsky, who was known as the Red God of War, in such an unfavorable situation.

Liu Qing nodded, and continued:

"The middle was the road leading the German army to Moscow, so after the main German forces were spread to the left and right flanks, Marshal Yegorov decided to thwart the central cluster of the German army with active actions and break its offensive to the south against the rear of the Southwestern Front. Unfortunately, Yegorov's plan was very thorough, but the attempts of the Bryansk battle group to stop the German advance with a flank assault did not have a positive effect.

"In the area under the responsibility of the Bryansk combat group, Yegorov mobilized nearly 600 fighters to participate in the battle, severely damaged the second group of German tanks, but failed to break the German offensive to the south. At the same time, on the right flank of the Central Front, the Germans carried out a powerful tank assault on the Soviet 22nd Army, broke through the defenses of the army group and captured Torropets on August 29. The 22nd Army and its 29th Army, which was defending to the south, were forced to retreat to the east bank of the Western Dvina.

"On the 1st of this month, Yegorov decided to make a desperate bet and mobilized the 30th, 19th, 16th and 20th armies to launch an offensive near Smolensk, recaptured the city of Smolensk in one fell swoop, and on the 13th successfully advanced the front to the lines of Mogilev, Orsha and Vitebsk. The 24th Army of the Reserve Front, on the other hand, continued its offensive operations in the south in order to attract fire from the Germans attacking Kiev. This series of attacks wiped out more than 50,000 German troops in one fell swoop and captured more than 400 artillery pieces, more than 200 tanks and armored vehicles, which was a rare victory for the Soviet army since the Soviet-German war!

"However, all these efforts have become pale with the Soviet Southwestern Front's Kiev being surrounded by the Germans, and once the Germans eat the Soviet troops in Kiev and quickly move north, the four armies under the command of Yegorov in the salient position will once again fall into the encirclement of the German army, and I think now Yegorov may be thinking about how to preserve his vital forces!"

"Egorov is really remarkable, in such an extremely difficult situation, to achieve such a victory on the 1st!"

Yang Jie was amazed, and after a while, he analyzed:

In fact, from the beginning to the end, it was Stalin who lightly advanced the enemy, and in this situation, what the Soviet army needed was to preserve its vital forces and buy time for the two million elite Far Eastern Army to enter the battle on the Western Front. Now the Germans may also have a headache, their expectation that the Soviet Union will be caught in a war on the eastern and western fronts has not appeared, and once the Far Eastern Army joins the living force, the Germans will be in trouble!

"The Mid-Autumn Festival has passed, and it won't be long before winter begins, if I were Hitler, I would definitely not choose this time to risk attacking Moscow, but quickly connect the prepared fronts, strive to take Leningrad, enter and occupy the White Sea railway hub in the northwest region of the Soviet Union, block the Soviet Union's foreign aid road, and at the same time consolidate the existing areas, so that the rich resources such as coal in the Donbass, oil in Canada, and grain in Ukraine will serve Germany's huge war machine!" If Germany wants to win the war against the Soviet Union, it should not care about the gains and losses of one city and one place, and it is very likely that the elimination of the living forces of the Soviet army is the key, if there are a few more battles of Kiev, the Soviet Union will not be able to find troops that can fight! On the contrary, if you occupy too much territory, you will have indigestion for a while, but you may be used by the opponent as a stage for guerrilla warfare and sabotage warfare, and then it will be really bad! ”

An Yi and Hu Jialin glanced at each other and nodded again and again, but Deng Bin had a different view: "The two million Far East Army is definitely not a force to be reckoned with, with Hitler's long-term arrogance, what he is happy to see is a strong collision in the style of a strategic decisive battle." The territory of the USSR was funnel-shaped, and the more you went to the interior of the USSR, the more open the terrain was, the more difficult it was to defend, but on the contrary, it was constantly attacking, which was in line with the characteristics of the German army. Therefore, I estimate that the Germans will not stop their advance, and will continue to approach Moscow by attacking instead of defending on the 1st. "If that's the case, the Germans will be defeated!"

An Yi asserted without hesitation: "Even if the Far Eastern Army cannot deliver a fatal blow to the Germans, the severe cold will become the last straw that overwhelms the Germans, and once the losses under the city of Moscow are too heavy, then Germany may turn from prosperity to decline, lose control of the situation, and there will be dangers in North Africa, the Middle East and other places!"

"However, it is not appropriate for us to get too involved in the Soviet-German war now, and for us, the key is to take Burma and the East Indies quickly! I still say the same thing, as long as we don't have problems, the initiative will always be in our hands, and we have the confidence to face all challenges! ”