Chapter 701 Kazan must not be lost

Nanjing Ministry of National Defense Building

Mén in the "touch" office was pushed away, and a communications staff officer ran in panting, waving a telegram in his hand, "Sir, sir, Kazan, Kazan has attacked"

As the staff officer's loud voice rang out in the office, all eyes in the office turned to the staff officer.

The reckless guy then noticed that more than a dozen people in the office with golden gleaming on their shoulders were staring at him intently. In the middle of them stood a young man of about thirty years old in a tunic with a somewhat delicate face but a non-angry and arrogant expression, and the staff officer only felt an invisible aura that almost suffocated him rush towards him, and he was almost out of breath.

A major general with two stars on his shoulders asked with a calm face, "What the hell is going on?"

This major general is Xu Li, director of the Operations Division of the General Staff of the Ministry of National Defense, and the staff officer who recklessly broke in was one of his direct subordinates. Today was the day when Su Tong came to the Ministry of National Defense to listen to the report, and even Premier Li Zongren, Minister of National Defense Jiang Baili, Chief of Staff Bai Chongxi, and other senior officials were present to listen to the report. Seeing that his subordinates had lost face in front of so many bosses, Xu Li was very unhappy in his heart, so his tone was also very bad.

It was only then that the reckless staff officer realized his recklessness, and that his rash rush into the office must have left an impression on his superiors as frivolous and unstable, something a staff officer would have tried to avoid.

"Sir, I, I, I," the staff officer who realized that he had disturbed the chief's deliberations stood on the spot at a loss, his face flushed.

Seeing the appearance of the staff officer, Su Tong, who was standing in the middle of the crowd, couldn't help but smile lightly and said gently: "Okay, don't be there, what is the good thing that makes you so excited." ”

"Uh" Seeing that the president was asking himself, the staff officer was a little stunned.

"You idiot, don't hurry up and answer the president's question." Xu Li, who was on the side, saw the stunned appearance of the staff officer, and scolded with hatred on the side.

"Oh" The staff officer who finally came back to his senses hurriedly stood upright, saluted everyone and said loudly, "Report to the commanders, the commander of the Second Army Group, Commander Sun, has come to report that the Second Army Group has successively conquered the Soviet army's outlying positions in Kazan yesterday afternoon, annihilating nearly 70,000 Soviet troops, and is now organizing forces to start street battles with the Soviet troops defending the urban area of Kazan." ”

"Hmm" Su Tong nodded noncommittally after listening to the staff officer's words, turned his head to Jiang Baili beside him and said: "Gong Ning, now that the periphery of Kazan has been breached, do you think it is better to continue to order the troops to capture Kazan in one go, or use Kazan as a bait to come over and send reinforcements to some Soviet troops?" ”

Jiang Baili mō his own white hair sank for a while before he said: "According to the intelligence, the strength of the Soviet army in Kazan has reached 600,000, although we have annihilated nearly 70,000 of them on the periphery, but it can also be seen from here that the commander of the Soviet army did not have the idea of conducting a large-scale field battle with us on the plain, but shrank his troops in the urban area and fought with us in the street with the complicated terrain. This is also one of the main reasons why they were able to stop the German army on the outskirts of Moscow, jīng sharp as the Germans have already suffered more than 400,000 casualties under the city of Moscow, we must guard against Kazan is a big city, and Moscow and Umiyanovgrad belong to one of the three major cities of Soviet Russia, to capture Kazan I am afraid that our casualties will be very large. ”

Su Tong sneered when he heard this: "Hmph, the old man wants to use the means of dealing with the Germans to deal with us and consume our troops, but they miscalculated this time, we don't have anything else, but there are many soldiers." Our soldiers recruited from Korea and Vietnam are not sitting there and consuming food, a million people, eat us and drink us every day, now it is their turn to fight a war of attrition with us, Lao Tzu is as you wish"

Speaking of this, a cold glint flashed in Su Tong's eyes and then he said sharply to Bai Chongxi: "Telegraph Sun Liren, from today onwards, all the men and horses of the Korean Group Army and the Vietnamese Group Army will take turns to attack Kazan day and night, and another 500,000 troops will be recruited from Vietnam and North Korea.

Bai Chongxi's heart tightened, knowing that this little fellow was going to play the trick of borrowing a knife to kill people again, but he didn't have any opinion on Su Tong's way of doing this, after all, it was not his own compatriots who died, so he immediately replied solemnly: "Yes, I will give the order immediately."

With the issuance of Su Tong's order, the historic city of Kazan immediately fell into a bloody storm

Commander-in-Chief of the Kazan Front, Chernyakhovsky. Ivan. General Danilovich was standing in front of a sand table with his hands behind his back, thinking about the battle situation of the recent days.

General Chernyashovsky, a brave and resourceful general on the Russian side, concluded long before the start of the war that if the Soviet army had been preparing for more than a year on the plain outside Kazan and had been preparing for more than a year, the Chinese army, which had long been armed to the teeth, would have no chance of winning at all. The only way to hold Kazan is to turn Kazan into a strong fortress like Moscow and Umiyanovgrad, and use the complex terrain of the city to build countless fortresses to stop the attack of the Chinese, so that Kazan will become their grave, and when they can no longer bear such heavy casualties, maybe the Soviet army will have a chance to keep Kazan.

Some time ago, the Chinese side transferred a group of army groups back to China, and their troops in Soviet Russia have been reduced to more than 3.5 million, and there are still many places to be garrisoned. They're going to do it quickly

The fact did not surprise General Chernyakhovsky, the Chinese side immediately launched an attack on the outskirts of Kazan after capturing the outer defense line of Kazan, and after receiving the report, General Chernyakhovsky immediately ordered the troops to launch a counterattack according to the plan, and so far the guns on the outskirts of Kazan have been resounding for three days, during which the Soviet Russian army has repelled dozens of attacks by the Chinese side, and the battle situation is very tragic, in order to build fortifications, The command ordered all the citizens of Kazan to take to the streets to help the army build pillboxes, bunkers and other fortifications, and in short, more than 900,000 citizens of Kazan, young and old, were mobilized, turning Kazan into a huge military fortress.

After three days of fighting, the casualties on both sides were not small, but on the whole, as the attacker, the casualties on the Huaxia side were still larger than those on the Soviet and Russian sides.

"Hmph, aren't the Chinese people very brave? Then let me drain your blood here. Chernyakhovsky secretly thought that he still had more than 500,000 troops in his hands, and even if the Chinese army could capture Kazan according to such a casualty ratio, then their casualties would be at least about 780,000.

Just as Chernyakhovsky was considering the transfer of that unit to replace the troops in a certain area with heavy casualties, an officer came to report: "Report to Comrade Commander, that our men have captured several prisoners this morning, and after interrogation they have received some new information. ”

"What's the situation?" Chernyakhovsky did not look back and asked somewhat nonchalantly.

"After our interrogation, those prisoners were not the regular Chinese army, but the servant army composed of Vietnam and Korea."

"What servant army?" Chernyakhovsky turned back in disbelief and asked sharply, "Did you ask clearly?" All the servants who have participated in the attack for the past three days? ”

"Yes," the officer's voice carried a hint of helplessness, "after interrogating the prisoners, we ordered the various defense areas to inspect the corpses left by the enemy, and the documents they carried also showed that they were all Korean and Vietnamese soldiers, but they were just wearing the uniforms of the Chinese National Defense Force. ”

"Hún eggs, these hún eggs, how can they do this, how can they be" In the end, Chernyakhovsky's voice gradually lowered, yes, why can't they? Now the Chinese people obviously want to let these servant armies consume the strength of the Soviet Russian army, and then think that behind these Chinese servant armies, there are even more hateful Chinese number one lackeys Alexei's Russian protector ** and the Chinese Wehrmacht are eyeing each other, and Chernyakhovsky's heart is cold.

"It turns out that the Chinese people are the same as themselves, and they are fighting the same doctrine, I still underestimate those Chinese people too much."

Chernyakhovsky muttered, and then sharply ordered: "You immediately send a telegram to Moscow, tell Comrade Stalin about the situation here, and ask Moscow to immediately send reinforcements, as well as planes and artillery, the more the better, I have a hunch that the situation in Kazan will soon deteriorate." ”

"Yes, Comrade Commander," the officer saluted, and immediately strode out.

When Chernyakhovsky's telegram arrived in Stalin's hand, it was already midnight in Moscow at this time, and looking at the telegram for help in his hand, Stalin's beard couldn't help but shake a few times.

I originally thought that there was General Chernyakhovsky and 600,000 troops guarding Kazan, at least for more than half a year, but I didn't expect the Chinese to use despicable tactics of crowds, and what was worse was that they just drove their servant army to take turns to fight, while they were watching the excitement from behind, which also made Stalin feel entangled in his heart.

After thinking about it for a long time, Stalin finally made a decision, and he picked up a red phone on the table: "General Staff?" I order you to immediately send at least one army group or more to support Kazan, and it must be done quickly, and Kazan must not be lost."