Chapter Seventy-Six: Preparing for War

Like Zhukov, Zhang Chun was looking at the Soviet side with a telescope.

Unlike Zhukov standing in the office, all the people around Zhang Chun were disguised, and even Niuniu's little face was painted.

The telescope used by Zhang Chun is newly developed, and a film is pasted on the mirror to prevent reflection, which is to solve the chance that the sniper scope will be easily discovered by snipers.

Ji Hongchang whispered: "We have accurate information, Zhukov's military headquarters is in that building. The Soviets gathered heavy forces here, artillery groups of more than a thousand guns, more than a thousand heavy tanks. At least two hundred warplanes. With such forces, it may not play a role in the direction of the Japanese army. But if in our small battlefield, the destructive power is staggering. Because Chita doesn't have much room for strategic manoeuvre. The fighters have already asked for a blow to them several times. Moreover, the Soviet army is also increasing its troops on the west bank of the Lena River. If they take Japan, we will be the next to deal with. ”

"How's it going over there in Japan?"

"The Japanese army's transportation is not closer than that of the Soviet army, and the construction of the Japanese army in the Far East and Aldan regions has only begun, although the speed is also very fast, but I think he can't stop the Soviet army from fighting with all its might." Ji Hongchang retreated behind the rocks.

Zhang Chun didn't speak.

On the opposite side, there was more than one large and wide trench, and it was filled with water. There are trenches and bunkers in the middle. A well-concealed artillery group was in the back. Further away is the airport. The Soviets are doing flight training. However, heavy tanks were gathering and heading east. The war machine of the Soviet army was already in motion. Could it be that the USSR was confident in dealing with the Japanese army?

"Do you think they have enough troops to defeat the Japanese now?"

"The current forces are definitely not enough, and the defense line of the Lena River is too long. They can only do a partial counterattack, and their forces are still too small. ”

"How often do they increase their troops?"

"Almost a regiment or so a month, because the Soviets only have this line of communication. Therefore, it is unlikely that the number will be exceeded, otherwise Zhukov would not have been in a hurry to repair this railway. They are mainly mechanized corps and cannot do without roads. ”

"What about military supplies?"

"This, it's still not enough, if they really fight, I think they may not be able to break through 200 kilometers, and there will inevitably be problems. Even food supplies are difficult in this area. What we're worried about is Chita. 200 km is very dangerous for us. ”

Zhang Chun smiled: "I know your style of play, you can't fight hard with him, you will choose to break into their rear." The Soviet army, which lost its supplies, was a toothless tiger. ”

"Our airport location was a problem. That's what we're really worried about. If I were Zhukov. Will definitely take the airport at all costs. All will have the idea of knocking out his armor and artillery group first. ”

"You have to do a good job of statistics and intelligence gathering, my personal opinion, I think the Soviet army does not want to counterattack, but wants to give the Japanese army a sufficient deterrent. Of course, if the situation changes. It is necessary to knock out their assault forces. I don't want you to put your lives on the muzzle of the Soviets. ”

Zhang Chun also retreated.

Ji Hongchang smiled. The muscular body is full of strength. On the shady side of the hillside, soldiers of a division lay in ambush in the forest. It was a covert assault exercise. They were almost covered with rockets of all kinds. Although this rocket is much smaller, it is not small at all, and it can easily penetrate the armor of Soviet tanks.

This is something that Zhukov would never have imagined, he did not know that right under his nose, three kilometers away, a division was thinking about how to deal with his armored forces in one fell swoop.

"The Luftwaffe and the Italian Air Force completely destroyed the Spanish town of Guernica with 22 tons of bombs. Don't underestimate this incident, this is a rehearsal for the Air Force to carry out saturation bombing. Two hundred aircraft. Whenever an attack is launched, it is an extremely dangerous thing to do. So we have to have enough air power. Our Air Force has a longer range and faster than theirs. So you can't just rely on the Army to do this, you have to make good use of your Air Force and Army Air Force. Preemptively, and then preemptively, this truth must be understood. What can be solved by the air force should not be solved by the rocket troops, and what can be solved by the rocket forces should not be solved by soldiers, and those that can be interspersed in a roundabout way will never be fought head-on. ”

"The alliance between Germany, Italy and Japan was for the sake of anti-Sovietism. Do you say that the USSR wanted to look to the east, or to the west first? ”

"Do you think Germany will strike the east first, or the west first?"

"Huh?" Ji Hongchang was stunned for a moment: "I really don't know this." ”

Zhang Chun smiled: "Do you think Germany owes Britain, the United States and France more money, or the Soviet Union?" ”

Ji Hongchang was taken aback: "Do you think that the main direction of Germany's attack is not in the east. ”

"Who would do such a boring thing. Of course, it is to settle the debts first and rebuild a new order in Europe. Otherwise, doesn't it owe more money? ”

Ji Hongchang touched his head and said, "What about anti-communism? ”

Zhang Chun smiled but did not speak.

The Soviet Union, which had been heavily fortified since 1935, had very little news of it, and few refugees had fled from the border areas. However, in general, there are very few cases of Soviet troops directly shooting people who cross the border, and they are generally persuaded to go back. But when July comes. There were several shootings as a direct result.

Later, some of the scouts who were lurking on the Soviet side brought back a document from the NKVD "On the Punishment of Former Kulaks, Criminal Criminals and Other Anti-Soviet Elements". According to this order, the Soviet Union punished former rich peasants, religious figures with criminal records, active participants in anti-Soviet armed actions in the past, members of anti-Soviet political parties in the past, participants in the "bandit riots" in the past, White Guards, "crusade members", "repatriated personnel", and criminal offenders. All those punishable fall into two categories: those who are "the most hostile", who should be immediately arrested, tried by a three-member panel, and sentenced to death; The other category is "less active, but still hostile", which should be arrested and sentenced to eight to ten years' imprisonment through labour or imprisonment. The order also provides for the punishment of the families of sentenced persons. It also ordered the establishment of a three-member team at the republics and state levels of the USSR with the head of the local internal affairs department, the chief prosecutor and the first secretary of the party committee to deal with various cases in order to simplify the procedure and speed up the processing.

The Soviet purge began.

Zhang Zizhong frowned when he saw this document.

"The power of life and death is in the hands of three people, and the family members are also punished, involving so many people. I'm afraid it will expand soon. ”

Zhang Chun sighed: "The Soviet Union is fighting on two fronts, although we have maintained neutrality, but it is indeed under siege, and it is inevitable to purge, but if it is so hasty, many problems will occur." Moreover, the implementation of the policy is from the top down, that is, the adjudication power is placed in the hands of a few people in power, rather than handed over to the people, which will inevitably ignore the interests of the people and cause power struggles. Pass the document to Wu Hao Mao Shishan and them, and take it as a warning. ”

"Did the Soviet Union have any plans to build a second Far Eastern Railway?" Zhang Chun asked.

"Not at the moment, the direction of their main construction is still in the European part, and the core part should be west of the Volga and the Ural Mountains. But they are ready to build a large aircraft building industry with a very large annual output. I think that our fighter J1 and helicopter Z1 have been finalized and are very mature, and we should expand our production capacity. At least 1,000 units of each type should be produced annually. Now the Soviet army also has more than two thousand aircraft built per year. If in a few years, their production will double. Then there are anti-aircraft missiles and air-to-air missiles, they all need to have a certain scale, otherwise the situation will be very dangerous. ”

Zhang Chun affirmed Zhang Zizhong's judgment.

The first few models of the Eagle were all experimental models, and by the advent of full-lift short-distance take-off and landing fighters, the improvement of this model has reached a limit. Jingmen Aircraft Design Institute believes that all that remains is the optimization of materials and electronic equipment, and flight control systems. This is not only for aircraft carriers, but now the airfields in the jurisdiction are all in the forest, the length of the airfields is not large, some hangars are not allowed to occupy farmland, and most of them are built in mountains and mountains. Therefore, this aircraft has become a common model for the Navy and Air Force.

After finalization, the Air Force was in great demand for such aircraft.

The Air Force still has the promotion of helicopters, but the Navy and the Army are very anxious about such aircraft. Therefore, it is inevitable that the two types of aircraft will be expanded.

In addition to the aircraft factory built in Yinchuan, Henan, which was originally a national reserve resource, is also building a new aircraft factory. Qianjiang, Bohai, Yanchang and Karamay oilfields are all in the reserve of aviation fuel. These reserves are built in the mountains. The aircraft factory in Jingmen is divided into two parts, one for large-scale manufacturing and the other for research institutes. So both Jingmen and Lianyun have expanded their production capacity. (To be continued......)