Song Zhewu nodded, looked at Zhang Tao and Pang Bingxun and said, "The Soviet army has mobilized more than 400,000 troops, which is completely an inevitable posture. In terms of firepower, the planes and tanks of the Soviet army needless to say, everyone knows that although we also have planes and tanks, except for the Newburgh squadron sent by Zhang Xueliang and a few planes newly developed by the research institute that are still flying tests, the others are all old planes from the First World War. ”

"Our Renault tanks are all antiques from World War I, and compared with the T-16 and T-18 tanks of the Soviet Army, there is a big gap in technology. Even in the artillery that our Fourth Route Army has always been proud of, the Soviet army is far stronger than our army. The Soviet army adhered to the Russian army's artillery ideology and attached great importance to artillery, and each corps of the Soviet army had an artillery division, each division had an artillery regiment, and each regiment had an artillery battalion or company. ”

"Especially the artillery of the Soviet army."

Speaking of this, Song Zhewu's voice was not only a little low.

"The artillery of the artillery units above the division level of the Soviet Army is 122mm and 152mm caliber howitzers, and these two calibers of artillery are produced by the Soviet Union itself. Think about it, how many casualties will such a powerful firepower cause to our army? After this war, the casualties of our army will be very huge. ”

"Therefore, this war can only be a quick one for us. However, in order to achieve a quick victory, we can only concentrate our forces to annihilate the enemy in one or two ways. Just now, neither Yafei nor Commander Li objected to the annihilation of the enemy forces on the Western Front first, including all of you, there should be no objection to the annihilation of the Soviet troops on the Western Front first, and everyone should agree with this idea. ”

"It's just that everyone has different opinions on the location and strength of our annihilation of the Soviet army, isn't that true?"

As soon as Song Zhewu's voice fell, in addition to Xiao Guodong, Tao Rong, Mengxi, Zhang Yafei, Li Sichi, Zhang Tao, Pang Bingxun, including Wu Jin, Han Guangdi, Ye Changgui and others all nodded one after another.

Song Zhewu smiled and nodded, explaining: "Encircling and annihilating the Soviet army in the mountains, although we will have certain favorable conditions, but the Soviet army can also use the mountains to hold on, if we want to completely annihilate the Soviet army, not to mention paying greater casualties, the time will be extended accordingly." Under the superior fire attack of the Soviet army, every day of delay will be more dangerous for Kulen and the Eastern Front. This is the first downside. ”

"Second, the Soviet army on the Western Front is only a partial division, and if we annihilate the Soviet army on the Western Front, we may not be able to make the Soviet army attacking Kulen retreat, and they may even be desperate to storm Kulen in an attempt to turn defeat into victory. If Kulen is lost, our army in North Mongolia will have to retreat to the south of North Mongolia, where the terrain is open and flat, which is more suitable for the Soviet tank forces to fight, and it will be difficult for our army to hold out under the attack of a large number of Soviet tanks. ”

"Therefore, we must be prepared with both hands, that is, after we annihilate the Soviet army on the Western Front, in case the Soviet army does not retreat, our troops on the Western Front must quickly advance eastward, and turn to threaten to strike at the Soviet army in the Krulun River Valley on the Eastern Front, if the Soviet army does not retreat, then he will be in danger of losing the Soviet army on the eastern route again, and the Soviet army on the middle route will inevitably retreat. Since this is the case, then the place where we encircled and annihilated the Soviet troops on the Western Front could not be too far from Kulen. ”

"West of the Orkhon River, only more than 50 miles away from Kulen, there is an impassable mountain barrier between the Soviet army on the western front and the main force of the Soviet army attacking Kulen from the north, although the space distance is very close, but they can not achieve practical support, after our army annihilates the Soviet army on the western front, we can rush to Darkhan on the eastern front as soon as possible."

"As for the troops, relying only on the mountain division and Fu Zuoyi, Sun Weiru and other departments, the troops are indeed insufficient, and we still need to increase the troops."

As soon as they heard that they were going to increase their troops, Zhang Yafei, Zhang Tao, and Li Sichi were all eager to try.

Zhang Yafei preemptively said: "Commander, the other units have just been reorganized, and our 38th Army has not participated in this reorganization, and its combat effectiveness has not been affected, so send our army to Northern Mongolia." ”

Without waiting for Zhang Tao to speak, Li Sichi also rushed to say: "Commander, Sichi has not made an inch of merit since he was put into service, and it is difficult to sleep and eat. ”

Pang Bingxun is very satisfied with the current situation, although he can no longer do what he wants as before, but he no longer has to think about the troubles of food and salary, and it is paid in full every month, which saves him a lot of worry.

Let's take it as an example, although he has accumulated hundreds of thousands of oceans over the years, but it is all the military salary he saved during the time when Sun Yue and Tou Jiang were invested, and even in the most difficult time of the Northwest Army, he was not willing to use it.

After arriving at the Fourth Route Army, these salaries were naturally at his disposal, and after Pang Bingxun distributed them to the main officers, there were some left.

I thought that with this money and his own high and terrifying military commander's salary, he would be very satisfied with settling his home well, but he didn't expect that he could still get the dividends of Xinghua Company rewarded by Song Zhewu to the senior officers of the Fourth Route Army, which was more than 100,000 at a time, according to the prosperous situation of Xinghua this year, it would be easy to get hundreds of thousands at the end of the year, such a good thing was something that Pang Bingxun never dreamed of.

Originally, he didn't want to go to Beimeng, although Pang Bingxun was very confident in his training methods and the combat effectiveness of the 50th Army, he even thought that his 50th Army could let go and make enough moves with any unit in the country, but this time he went to Beimeng to fight Lao Maozi, which was not comparable to these domestic troops. If you fight well, it's okay to say, if you don't fight well, you won't be able to stay in the Fourth Route Army in the future.

Although Pang Bingxun has his own thoughts, but seeing that Zhang Yafei and Li Sichi both took the initiative to ask for battle, Zhang Tao also had a longing look, if he didn't make a statement, it wouldn't work.

Thinking of this, Pang Bingxun stepped forward and said loudly: "Commander, my old Pang has been under the command of the commander for more than half a year, and I haven't made any contribution to the Fourth Route Army, I eat and drink well all day long, my body is getting stronger and stronger, this time let me lead the 50th Army to Beimeng, if I don't destroy Lao Maozi, my old Pang will not come back to see the commander." ”

Song Zhewu waved his hand and smiled to signal everyone to be quiet.

"I understand everyone's feelings, however, this battle is the most serious test for us since the founding of the Fourth Route Army, we must win the first battle, and we must not allow the slightest mistake, the troops going to Northern Mongolia must have combat experience against the Soviet army, Yafei has experience in fighting with the Soviet army in Manchuria, this time it is better for Yafei to go."

Regarding Song Zhewu's decision, although Li Sichi is not good at fighting, he still has a glimmer of hope......

(To be continued)