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Chapter 1528 Westward Expansion Strategy

Wrapped in silver! Jade Dragon Roll!

Looking down from the sky, the mountains scattered in the central and western parts of the Mongolian Plateau are all shrouded in a dazzling white. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

As the birthplace of the main rivers of Siberia and Central Asia, such as the Irtysh, Ob, Yenisei, Angara, Tunguska, Ili and Syr Darya, the Hangai Mountains, the East and West Sayan Mountains, the Altai Mountains and the Tianshan Mountains of China have ice that does not melt for thousands of years, and the snow water that melts from these snow-capped mountains in China every year nourishes the land of Central Asia and Siberia.

Under the sunlight, the white mountains reflect a dazzling light that makes people almost unable to open their eyes. In the air above these mountains, which are five or six thousand meters above sea level, a huge fleet of eight transport airships is flying from east to west at a speed of 100 km/h.

In the middle of the flight, a sudden gust of air hit, and the airships, like a convoy driving on the wasteland, tossed rapidly.

Lieutenant Colonel Cheng Moyan, the commander of this airship unit, frowned.

Many people think that the altitude of seven or eight thousand meters is far away from the clouds, and there should be no interference such as wind, rain, thunder and lightning on the ground, in fact, in the air at such an altitude, the sudden appearance of clear sky turbulence is quite terrifying, in a very short period of time, the sudden collision of strong air currents, the airship in the center of the whirlpool of air currents, will face an extremely serious test.

While instructing the pilot to adjust the rudder, Cheng Moyan directed the airship troops to quickly cross the turbulent area through the radio. Looking out of the window of the engine room, I saw huge airships from far and near, staggering from side to side, like a flat boat in the stormy waves, but fortunately, all the airships were moving fast.

Cheng Moyan is very familiar with the performance of this airship, due to the aluminum alloy frame structure of the B4 four-engine bomber, coupled with the non-rigid multi-layer polyethylene shell, the strength of the airship far exceeds people's imagination. However, even if it is an advanced thing, if it is careless, it may still go wrong, which is emphasized in the Anjia Army Air Force manual, so Cheng Moyan did not dare to relax in the slightest.

Finally, the airship unit passed safely through the airflow area, and the enthusiastic cheers of the pilots could be heard in the cockpit interlocutor.

When large airships appeared in the sky above Ust-Kamen, tens of thousands of Kazakh people inside and outside the city were stunned, these airships larger than Islamic temples stopped in the air, almost completely blocking the sunlight, and most of the city was shrouded in the shadow of airships.

The frightened farmers and herdsmen, despite knowing through the notice of the military administration that this huge palace-like thing in the sky was a Chinese airship, still chose to kneel on the ground and muttered prayers for Allah's blessing.

After the airship landed, the officers and men of the logistics units of the armies and divisions of the Western Front Army immediately became busy, and a large amount of strategic materials such as oil, accessories, weapons, and ammunition were unloaded from the airship.

These materials included 200-liter large-capacity oil drums filled with aviation gasoline, wooden boxes containing 15-kilogram, 50-kilogram, 100-kilogram, 200-kilogram, and 500-kilogram aerial bombs, and boxes of tank accessories and ammunition.

Although the speed of unloading was not fast, after the dozen or so doors of the huge airship cabin were opened, thirty tons of supplies were still unloaded by dozens of strong soldiers in less than half an hour.

Major General Zheng Weiguo, director of logistics of the Western Front, and Colonel Lu Qijian, director of the logistics department of the mechanized cluster, signed their names on their respective cargo lists and instructed the troops to quickly transport them to the logistics warehouse.

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In the barracks on the west bank of the Irtysh River, across the Irtysh River from the city of Ust-Kamen, the Western Front Army, which had successfully joined forces with the mechanized troops, was holding a joint military-political meeting under the chairmanship of Commander Hu Jiyang.

"We have basically gained a foothold in the East Kazakhstan region. At present, the 30th Division of the 10th Group Army, with battalions and companies as units, is moving south against the Irtysh River, striving to take down all the towns on both sides of the river and around Zaisangbo within half a month, so as to thoroughly consolidate our rear.

"The East Kazakhstan region is rich in resources, according to the feedback from the Far East, there are two large copper mines with reserves of one million tons in Leninogorsk and Zlanovsk, and there are huge reserves of coal mines and oil shale deposits in the Zaisan region, especially at the confluence of the Karbao Mountains and the Irtysh River, there is a large gold mine with an annual output of 20 tons of gold, which the Soviets have systematically developed, and we must now take over immediately and resume or even expand production as soon as possible.

"As the time for the Japanese army to launch an offensive on the Far East is getting closer and closer, the government of the Far Eastern Republic has transferred a large number of machinery and equipment to Mongolia, and many relocated factories are waiting for raw materials to start.

Seeing that the cadres of the Political Department and the Military Management Committee of the *** Corps recorded their requirements, Hu Jiyang brought the topic to the next step.

"The General Headquarters ordered us to formulate the next battle plan on our own according to the actual situation. Now the war in Kazakhstan has an extremely strange scene - the Soviets have transferred all their main forces on the western and central fronts of Kazakhstan to the eastern front, and the Far Eastern Republican team has bloodlessly taken Beineu between the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea in the west and Karaganda, the most important port city on the northern shore of the Caspian Sea Guriev (now Atyrau), Koschagar and Dosodin also fell under the control of the Far Eastern Army.

"You may ask why I specifically mentioned the northern shore of the Caspian Sea, is there anything special? Yes, it is very special, it is one of the important oil producing areas in Central Asia, with an annual output of 2 million tons of oil, and it is the fourth largest oil producing area in the Soviet Union after the Baku oil field in Azerbaijan, the second Baku oil field in the Ural-Volga River in Russia and the Hazarin oil field in the Far East. Since this line is in the Caspian lowlands and there is no danger to defend, the Far Eastern Army intends to abandon this area, and the headquarters has proposed to the Far Eastern Republic that according to the agreement, this area should be handed over to our army, and in any case, we will do our utmost to ensure our oil supply.

"The Far Eastern Army promised to hold out for another week, and then it had to be evacuated, in which case we had to airlift a large number of troops and weapons to Guriev by airships and transport aircraft. At the same time, in order to ensure the smooth flow of land lines of communication, we would have to send combat troops to the west, stationed in cities along the railway and highway connecting Guryev to Ust-Kamen, which would greatly dilute our forces. Let's talk about how we deploy our troops! ”

The generals whispered, and their hearts were a little heavy for a while.

The territory of Central Asia was so vast that after three or four hundred thousand troops entered, they suddenly found themselves as small as drops in the sea. Unlike Mongolia, which is relatively closed and only needs to station troops at steep passes, a large area is impregnable, but Central Asia is different, it borders the Soviet Union proper, not only can it land on the east coast at any time through the Caspian Sea, but also has a large land area bordering Russia and the Caucasus region of the Soviet Union.

In particular, Guryev, which is only more than 600 kilometers away from Stalingrad, the most important city in the central part of the Soviet Union, is in the combat radius of ***-2 bombers, and can be killed by mechanized troops within half a month, and the geographical location is extremely dangerous. Fortunately, most of the west of Guryev is desert and Gobi land, the climate and environment are harsh, which is not conducive to the use of troops, and in the past, Tsarist Russia conquered Central Asia, but also through Suriyanovsk and Kuibyshev, bypassing the desert and lowlands.

However, Moscow will certainly not give up this important point to Kazakhstan and an important oil producing area, and the competition in the future will be extremely cruel.

Seeing the solemn atmosphere in the venue, Deputy Commander An Mingqi smiled and asked, "What?" Everyone's lost faith? You should not only look at how many troops we have now, but also how many people are standing behind us. Soviet Russia fell into internal division, the national strength was seriously damaged, but we are like the newborn sun, full of vigor, and now the land reform carried out in the liberated areas is very popular with the people of Kazakhstan, and the right time and place have gradually come to our side. As long as we work hard to win over it, with the support of the people in Central Asia, and with the huge war potential of 60,000 compatriots, there is no reason why we cannot hold on. What do you think? ”

There was still no one to speak, and An Mingqi's expression became fierce: "Don't look at the problem too complicated, this Central Asia is such a large area, but in fact, the population is mainly concentrated along the railways and highways. We have airship radar all-weather monitoring and early warning of reconnaissance aircraft, as long as the city and the railway and highway are well controlled, there will be no problems. Moreover, according to the information we have, with the fall of Semipalatinsk and Ust-Kamen, there is no sign of Soviet build-up within a radius of 500 kilometers, whether to the west or south, we just need to push all the way down. ”

Chief of Staff Liu Yu shook his head: "Although we have not found the Soviet army gathered, we can't help but take into account that the Soviet army on the Western Front and the Central Road is in a state of movement and can be forced up at any time, and the Soviet army in *** territory is also a huge hidden danger...... Three years ago, Sheng Shicai invited the Soviet army to enter Xinjiang, and the Soviet army successively had nine infantry divisions, one cavalry corps, plus three mechanized brigades stationed in Xinjiang. Once our army moves south, the Soviets can threaten the security of the Jaisan region through Chenghua (present-day Altay) and Tacheng, and then threaten Ust-Kamenn and cut off our retreat.

"When our army advances to Ayaguz, we must also constantly raise the Soviet troops in the territory of *** to suddenly kill and form an encirclement with the Soviet troops inserted at high speed in the west and south. This area is full of mountains, rivers and lakes, and our mechanized troops and heavy artillery units cannot be used, but the cavalry of the Soviet army comes and goes like the wind. ”

Major General Wang Yu, who was transferred from the commander of the First Engineer Division to the commander of the guard army directly under the Front Army, nodded: "The Central Asian issue involves *** issues, and *** issues are very complicated, Sheng Shicai, the Soviets, the Northwest Three Horses, the Nationalist Government and **, all involved, judging from the battle plan formulated by the General Staff and then abolished, the chairman means that it is better for us not to get involved." Therefore, it is not the best choice to go south along the railway line and cross the Gengistau Mountains to attack Ayaguz, we should resolutely choose to fight on the outside line while selecting the elite to stick to Ust-Kamen, and attract the Soviet troops in the *** area and annihilate them in one fell swoop through the way of backlog from the outside to the inside. ”

Inspired by Liu Yu and Wang Yu, the atmosphere suddenly became lively, and Lieutenant General He Yifei, commander of the Seventh Group Army, said: "I am also in favor of pulling the troops to the western and central lines to fight. Since the Soviet Army avoided fighting against the Far Eastern Army, we simply took advantage of the East Wind of the Far Eastern Army to kill all the way to the west, and then went south after joining the Far Eastern Army, squeezing the living space of the Soviet Army. As long as we take and consolidate the western and central regions of Kazakhstan, threaten the four countries of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan, and retreat the main forces of the Soviet army between the eastern mountains, the connection with the Soviet mainland will become more difficult, and the supply routes will be cut off, so that the whole battle will be much easier. ”

Major General Tang Wen, commander of the Eighth Army, also agreed with this idea: "The strategic intention of the Soviet army is to give full play to its cavalry expertise, crush us in the movement, drive us back to Mongolia, and then attack from east to west, and eat the troops of the Far Eastern Army deep into the Kazakhstan region in one fell swoop by means of blocking the head and cutting off the waist and cutting off the tail, so as to win the victory in the entire Central Asian war." On the one hand, we can send our elite to hold the line of Karbao Mountain and Narem Mountain south of Ust-Kamen, and on the other hand, we can quickly advance westward, join up with the Far Eastern Army, and concentrate our forces to take all the cities in central and eastern Kazakhstan first, establish local power, and implement effective rule.

"When we run these regions like iron barrels, the Soviets who have developed industry at the expense of the agricultural population will know how powerful they are, and then, not to mention Central Asia, I suspect that there will be thousands of peasants in the Caucasus and Russia who are eagerly awaiting our deliverance. We firmly grasp the hearts of the people, and then gather heavy troops, attack from west to east, once the cities of Almaty, Frunze, Kulia and other cities in the east are critical, the Soviet army in the *** region can't think of it, otherwise even the capital of the union republics will be lost, what else to talk about defending Soviet power? So many prongs, while solving the problems of Central Asia, by the way, solving the *** problem! ”

Huang Yingwu, chairman of the receiving committee, nodded repeatedly: "If the war continues like this, it will be beneficial to us!" Clausewitz expounded on offense and defense in his "On War" as follows: Offense and defense are interrelated and mutually transformed, and even if the whole is defensive, there is an attack in the part, and the offense contains a defensive factor, and the defense contains an offensive factor. Generally speaking, the defensive site should be chosen close to the place where one's troops and supplies are supplied, and one can rely on the favorable conditions of the country's own people. If we place the center of gravity of our defense in the Ust-Kamenn region, which is the hub of Mongolia and Kazakhstan, and our defense forces can be replenished by the Mongolian Military Region at any time, how easy will it be for the Soviet troops to take it? At the same time, we will carry out external operations, and by the time the Soviets react, we will already be in the city! ”

Xia Yuling, commander of the Ninth Group Army, and Li Xiao, commander of the Tenth Group Army, immediately echoed Huang Yingwu's views.

Hu Jiyang nodded again and again, and seeing that everyone's opinions were almost unanimous, he discussed a few words with Deputy Commander An Mingqi and Chief of Staff Liu Yu, and then announced the dismissal of the meeting, asking everyone to go back and prepare well, and soon the headquarters will issue the latest combat order, and everyone will be busy again.