East of the beautiful Lake Baikal, the main railway artery that runs through the whole of Siberia passes through Chita and divides into two routes, one directly through northeastern China to Vladivostok, known as the Middle East Road, and the other along the Chinese border to Vladivostok for three to four thousand kilometers. As the core of the Far Eastern Front and a railway hub, it rightly became the headquarters of Marshal Blyukhel and the center of the logistics and material storage of the entire Far Eastern Front.

In order to ensure the safety of the main Siberian artery, Chita has a complete defense facility comparable to that of Vladivostok fortress, a continuous system of trench defense zones and small fortresses, which can hardly insert a needle into the protection here, plus the two large fortresses of Irkutsk and Angarsk on the coast of Lake Baikal west of Chita, and a 2,000-kilometer defense line on the Amur River, the defense of the entire East Siberia and the Far East seems to be impregnable.

However, this Eastern Siberian defense system, which was considered extremely stable by all the officers of the Red Army and known as the "Maginot of the East", now always made Marshal Blyukhel feel that something was wrong. When he stood on the platform of the fortress where the headquarters of the Front Army was located, looking at the rolling hills, wide river valleys, and endless forests around the Chita Fortress, his eyelids were jumping vigorously, and he didn't even seem to hear the report of the communications staff officer behind him.

Blyukhel's fears were not unfounded, and while the Chita Fortress was impregnable, the Amur Line was far less impregnable than it had been advertised. After all, this is a defense line more than 2,000 kilometers long, and the current Soviet Union does not have the financial and material resources to build every part of the defense line as strong as the Maginot Line. Only in important places there was a well-developed defense system, and reinforced concrete fortresses were built only in places like Borja, Nebuchu, Hailanpao, Belogorsk, Reichsinsk, Birobidzhan and other places southeast of Chita. Most of the rest of the area is nothing more than simple trenches, artillery holes, barbed wire and minefields. In the area that can be relied on by the Heilongjiang River (Amur River), it is okay, and there is finally a risk to follow. But at the westernmost end of the Amur River defense line, on the line of Borja and Krasnokamensk, it can only be defended by a continuous trench strip and a Borja fortress, and God knows how much of a defense this defense will have in front of the tank sea of the squadron? During this time, as soon as Blyukhel closes his eyes, the scene of the Battle of Zalainoor in 1927 will appear! Back then, there were just over a hundred old Renault FT-17 light tanks! And now the squadron is said to have the world's first armored force, as well as a 30-ton "heavy tank"! What is even more disturbing is the fact that there are now thirty-five corps (including the Baikal Military District) scattered on a front of several thousand kilometers, and there is only one railway line close to the enemy's border to serve as a route for logistics, reinforcement and retreat of the army. You also have to face enemies with strong air superiority!

Marshal Blyukhel can completely imagine that once the squadron is determined to attack, the overwhelming planes will definitely pounce on various transportation hubs, railways and highways at the first time! His nearly 2 million troops will be blown up and unable to move, and will be directly "divided and surrounded" by the enemy's air force in dozens of border fortresses and defensive positions that are not connected to each other, and it is estimated that they will not even be able to escape! Once the Trans-Siberian Railway is blown up, who will be able to walk back to Europe on two feet? Although the reports sent by the intelligence services vowed that the squadron would not be able to complete preparations for war before the spring of 1938, the offensive could not be launched before the spring of 38...... But who ever said that the Chinese must be completely ready to attack? Didn't the USSR also start a war against Bolan without being ready?

"Report!"

At this moment, a cry that was clearly about to burst his throat woke Marshal Blyukhel from his thoughts, and the marshal turned back to see Major Antonov, a communications staff officer, standing there with a suspicious expression on his face, holding a copy of the telegram.

"What's the matter?" The marshal asked.

"Comrade Marshal, the 205th Independent Garrison of the Internal Guard Army reported that at noon on October 10, fighters saw about 20 large aircraft intruding into Soviet airspace from the direction of Méng Gu, China, and flying in a northwesterly direction."

"What?" Blyukhel was stunned, 20 large Chinese planes invaded Soviet airspace!? What are you doing? Bombing? But today is already the 11th, and the front army command has not received the relevant report? Blyukhel couldn't figure out what was going on. And I don't know what's going on...... That means it must be serious! The marshal didn't have the heart to look at the scenery anymore, and hurriedly ran downstairs.

But as soon as he walked into the war room, he saw the chief of staff, General Lyuschenkov, who ran in almost at the same time.

Seeing Blyukher, the chief of staff, Lyuschenkov, seemed to see the backbone of the main body, and he shouted: "Comrade Marshal! The command of the 21st Army in Borja sent an urgent telegram! Two Chinese comrades crossed the border in the early hours of this morning, and they reported that Chulun Haorao had been occupied by the cavalry units of the Chinese White Army! There the Chinese Red Army (referring to the border guards) they ...... They were ordered to retreat westward! And did not engage the Chinese White Army! ”

"What!" Blyukhel screamed, almost not getting angry! The area south of Borgia bordering the ancient province of Méng in eastern China is a vast grassland! And because that area was adjacent to the Soviet Union's "friendly forces", the fortifications there were not strong. There were only a few ordinary infantry trenches, minefields and barbed wire, and there were no anti-tank trenches. And the deployed defenders are only a mere division! But now that the Méng area on the opposite side has suddenly become the domain of the Kuomintang, does that mean that they are about to attack? Moreover, the Chinese and the G withdrew without exchanging fire with the Kuomintang and without notifying the Soviet Union......

"Betrayal! Treachery! Blyukhel scolded twice, and then loosened the button around his neck to make his breathing easier, but he didn't pay attention to this inconspicuous action, which made the atmosphere in the entire war room even more tense, and everyone wondered: "Is the offensive of the Chinese White Army about to begin?" Are the bombers already taking off? ”

……

At this time, Wuhan time, October 11, 1937, 6:50 a.m.

Hailar Airport is already full of people, on the eight long runways, various types of fighters, bombers, and dive bombers have been in place, and the ground crew pushes the 20 kg, 50 kg, 100 kg, 200 kg, and 500 kg aerial bombs that have just been pulled out of the warehouse, trotting all the way to the belly of the plane, and then pressing them into place one by one, and finally installing the fuse.

This is a division-level airfield of the Chinese National Defense Air Force, stationed here is the Third Aviation Division commanded by Lieutenant General Ye Qiu, under the jurisdiction of a combat aviation regiment equipped with BF-109, a bomber aviation regiment equipped with A-4A Thunderhawk dive bombers, and a bomber aviation regiment equipped with HE-111, in addition to an escort group equipped with F-3A, three reconnaissance aircraft groups equipped with F-3D combat reconnaissance aircraft, with a total of about 500 aircraft of various types!

Since the air force's reconnaissance planes had not seen their Soviet counterparts for several days, and intelligence showed that all the Soviet air forces in the Far East had been transferred to the western theater to participate in the war. So all 450 planes on mission today, whether they are BF-109s or F-3As, are all hanging with 20 kg and 50 kg light bombs, and they are carrying out bombing missions together. In fact, with the Xing energy of the BF-109 currently equipped with a 1,200 horsepower in-line engine, even if it is hung with bombs, it is enough to deal with the I-16 of the Soviet Air Force! Similarly, the Thunderhawk dive bomber that dropped the bomb can also compete with the I-15 and I-16! Now the aircraft of the Chinese and German Air Force are almost eight to ten years ahead of the Soviet Union, and they are not opponents at all at all.

Seeing so many advanced planes, the lieutenant general had already paid homage to the lieutenant general, and the commander Liu Yongyao and Liu Dajun, who were not qualified to participate in the war, could only honestly come to see off the pilots.

Looking at Ye Qiu, a Huangpu junior who was a few years younger than him, Liu Yongyao looked envious and asked, "Yifeng, what plane are you flying today?" ”

"Report to the military seat, the headquarters will fly a BF-109 fighter jet into battle today."

"Oh, BF-109, and there are no Soviet fighters to fight you, it's still very lonely to say." Liu Yongyao sighed, "It's still Sun Yang's luck that he was sent to Europe, and he must have had a great time in Brest in the past two days!" ”

Ye Qiu grinned: "Junzao, compared to Senior Commander Sun, our task is not easy. The nearly 2 million troops of the entire Soviet Far Eastern Front actually had to rely on more than 5,000 planes of our two air armies, half of the naval air force, and one bombing aviation division to blow up and paralyze...... Their army is a supporting role this time! This will be the first war ever won from the air in the history of mankind! ”

Liu Yongyao looked at the huge fleet of planes on the airport and nodded his head. Due to the special topography of the Far East, the role of the Air Force is indeed extremely crucial. Although the war cannot be won by the army alone, as long as the air interdiction task is perfectly completed, the entire Soviet Far Eastern Front really has no other way out except to surrender! However, it is necessary to paralyze the 2 million enemy troops with air strikes, and obediently wait for the Wehrmacht Army to divide and encircle...... Persuasion is really an unprecedented tactic!

Thinking of this, Liu Yongyao moved his mouth, and wanted to ask a few more nonsense, but at this time, the engine of the first HE-111 medium bomber had begun to roar, the propeller rotated rapidly, and the plane began to glide quickly on the runway, and finally jumped up and flew straight into the sky. And Ye Qiu also rushed to his BF-109 fighter at this time......

The airfield began to release bombers at a rate of one bo per minute, and soon 120 He-111s were in a neat formation in the sky, followed by dive bombers, and finally escort fighters.

Liu Yongyao knew that of all these planes, there was only one target for today's attack, and that was Chita, the headquarters of the Soviet Far Eastern Front, which was more than 500 kilometers away from Hailar Airport! According to intelligence, Chita was also the location of the General Reserve of the entire Far Eastern Front, where about seven or eight corps were stationed, ready to at any time reinforce the defenders of the Far Eastern fronts through the Trans-Siberian Railway. Therefore, this most important strategic stronghold of the Far Eastern Front must be attacked at the first time, and if it can be limited to paralysis, then the war will be half won! The other half depends on whether the top-secret "Heavenly Soldier Project" can succeed.

……

Is it possible to seize the largest city in Eastern Siberia in the USSR with 500 people?

To this question, Lieutenant General Yan Wu, Chief of Operations of the General Staff of the National Defense Forces, replied: "Unthinkable! ”

And the answer of Lieutenant General Sun Liren, who was specifically responsible for commanding this task, was: "If you don't succeed, you will become benevolent!" ”

Of course, it was not he who became a benevolent, but Rosovsky, who jumped down from a good end of the plane, and his 500 brothers and sisters became benevolent! The reason why there is a "sister" is because the proposer of this adventurous plan, Natalie. Major General Leshinskaya jumped with them from an FW-200 plane! Even if Luo Yaoguo swore to promise that he would never see Empress Anastasia again, and only loving her and Xiaobei in the future would not change the mind of this crazy woman!

And the madwoman Natalie's reply was, "My dear, I won't die because of your huā heart!" I'm doing this for my Bolan country! She was being invaded by the Soviet Union...... And I firmly believe that this Heavenly Soldier Project will definitely succeed! Because no Soviet man could have kept his composure when he heard the words, 'You were arrested.' ”

You're under arrest? When Luo Yaoguo heard these Russian words, he felt that he was about to lose this stunner that brought him a lot of joy and enjoyment! Although she is already a and has given birth to two children, she is still very attractive...... It's still very distressing to lose her!

And when Comrade Martinov, First Secretary of the Party Committee of the Krasnoyarsk Territory of the USSR, heard a hoarse voice say to him: "You are arrested!" At this time, he only felt that the heavens and the earth had collapsed.

The brains of this veteran GCD fighter who has participated in the revolution since 1917 are completely confused, and he never thought that the few housekeeping personnel in front of him with swarm faces may be fake! At this moment, the old GCD man can only squeeze out one sentence from his entire life experience: "I?? For what?!? Again, there will be a lot of people asking this morning.

Rosovsky, of course, will not answer this question, but it does not matter, because all the internal affairs personnel of the whole Soviet Union do not answer such questions when they arrest people, they just watch their prey go limp in an instant! Just like Rosovsky is doing now.

The same situation is repeated throughout Krasnoyarsk in the classified departments or in the homes of the main responsible persons. Including the head of the Krai, the mayor, the secretary of the municipal party committee, the head of the public security bureau, the head of the armed forces, and even the head of the internal affairs department of the Krasnoyarsk Territory...... The shrill doorbell or the rough knocking of the door rang in the early hours of the morning. Then there was a group of vicious operatives, uniformed and ununiformed, who stepped through the door in a majestic manner. Behind them was a frightened Witness. Then in the presence of this witness, who was presumably dragged out of the bed, the arrest warrant was announced! Of course, the arrest warrant was fake, it was forged by the Russian Imperial Secret Service, and it was certainly flawed, but none of the unlucky people who were arrested had the heart to distinguish the authenticity from the fake.

At the same time, the disguised housekeepers would act like a real defender of the Soviet Union and act as a threat to the victim's house for a long time. Tear things off the walls, throw things in cabinets and tables to the floor, break good things, and break things that are already broken...... And then take some of the so-called "criminal evidence" and walk away.

And the head of this raid, Natalie. Major General Lesinskaya, of course, did not become a beneficiary at this time, and she happened to be sitting in the terminal of Krasnoyarsk Airport listening to the reports of her subordinates.

"Comrade General, of the 500 officers and soldiers who participated in the operation this time, 489 have been found, and 11 have not been contacted for the time being, probably from the landing site far from the city of Krasnoyarsk. At present, the airport, railway station, telegraph office, party committee and government buildings, military sub-district compounds, internal affairs department stations, and other key departments in Krasnoyarsk have been completely controlled. Bombs have also been planted on the bridge over the Yeseni River, ready to cut off the connection between Eastern Siberia and Western Siberia!

And we have also made contact with the sleepers in Krasnoyarsk, according to their reports, the regular army of the Soviet Red Army in Krasnoyarsk has long been transferred, and now there is an independent garrison of the internal guard unit, about 200 to 300 people, and the guard unit of the military sub-district, which also looks like two or three hundred people, and Major Monov and Major Rykov have already brought 100 people to deal with them. In addition, the nearest garrison was only a few nearby garrisons of labor camps, totaling about 3,000 men, but they were all scattered in dozens of camps, and they could not be concentrated in a short period of time. ”

The corners of Natalie's mouth hooked slightly, and Lu smiled a little smugly, this surprise Heavenly Soldier Project now seemed to have been a great success. Now wait for more than 10,000 people of the 1st Division of the Wehrmacht Airborne Forces to be airlifted here, and then the gates of Eastern Siberia will be closed!。