Chapter 573: The Siege of Northern Mongolia (5)

The mountainous area trapped by the Soviet army is about five kilometers long and 3 kilometers wide, and the volume of dozens of tweeters around it is enough to cover the entire area.

The Soviet political commissar and the personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were able to collect leaflets, but they could not "collect" the ears of Soviet officers and soldiers, which made the political commissars of the Soviet army and the personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs all turn blue with anger. The senior Soviet generals were silent, but they ran more often into the tents of Blyukhel.

At the strong request of the political commissar, Blyukhel had no choice but to order the Soviet artillery, which did not have many shells, to open fire and bombard the tweeters of the Fourth Route Army.

However, the Soviet firing immediately attracted the return fire of hundreds of artillery pieces of the Fourth Route Army in the surrounding positions.

Although the caliber of the artillery of the Fourth Route Army was not as large as that of the Soviet Army, it was superior in number. Moreover, against the Soviet artillery surrounded within a radius of more than ten kilometers, there is no need to have an excessively long range, and the range of the 75mm mountain artillery is enough. Under the fire of hundreds of indiscriminate artillery of the Fourth Route Army, the artillery fire lasted less than ten minutes, and the Soviet artillery lost most of its artillery, and Blyukhel had no choice but to order to stop firing.

On this day, the Fourth Route Army did not fire artillery into the encirclement again, and the planes of the Air Force Corps did not take off; it was only when Soviet planes airdropped supplies to the encircled Soviet troops that hundreds of antiaircraft machine guns on the positions of the Fourth Route Army began to fire fiercely under the strafing and bombing of Soviet planes. The purpose of anti-aircraft machine gun fire was to prevent Soviet planes from successfully airdropping supplies to the besieged Soviet troops.

Under the intensive firepower of the Fourth Route Army, the Soviet planes barely organized three airdrops in a whole day, and a total of about 8,000 catties of bread, potatoes, and beef were successfully airdropped into the encirclement, and more than half of the supplies floated to the positions of the Fourth Route Army.

It's just that these things are still too few for the besieged Soviet army, spread to nearly 200,000 people, with an average of less than half a tael per person. With such a number of airdrops, it can probably only delay the starvation of more than 200,000 Soviet troops.

The roof leak happened to rain overnight, and at night, snowflakes suddenly fell in the sky of Beimeng.

In the autumn of September and October, it will snow, and this year's snow is relatively late.

Although the snow was not very heavy, it could only be regarded as a moderate snow, but the north wind was bitterly cold, and it became more and more intense. Fortunately, the Fourth Route Army had already issued winter clothes two days ago. Moreover, because there was no threat of Soviet shelling and bombardment, except for the troops in the trenches, others could light bonfires to keep warm, and such temperatures were nothing for them.

However, even so, in order to maintain combat effectiveness, the cautious Fu Zuoyi still ordered that the front-line troops should be rotated every day.

That night, not only did the planes of the Fourth Route Army not bomb the besieged Soviet troops, but even the ground artillery did not open fire. It's just that those tweeters have not stopped, but the loudspeakers no longer persuade the Soviet troops to surrender, but play the folk songs of Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Kazakhstan and other ethnic groups, most of the songs are based on soft and soothing tunes, there are three sets of cars, Volga fiber, distant places, quiet fields, my Kiev, autumn golden, and so on.

Although this is an old routine, the power of this "Chu Ge" can definitely exert great effectiveness at this time, which will greatly disintegrate the Soviet army's will to fight and minimize the casualties of the Fourth Route Army. For these records sent by Song Zhewu, Fu Zuoyi, who has always loved nurses and soldiers, couldn't help but praise it repeatedly.

The gentle singing was carried to the positions of the Soviet army by the cold north wind, and the Soviet officers and soldiers who hid in the trenches and mountain cols and endured hunger and cold not only came from sadness, but also formed a strong contrast between homesickness and the miserable situation in front of them, which made many people leave tears of sadness.

The snow stopped at about 3 a.m., and as the snow stopped, the tweeters of the Fourth Route Army, who had been singing for most of the night, seemed to be tired of singing, and at the same time stopped broadcasting.

The hungry and sad Soviet officers and soldiers also began to slowly fall asleep in sadness, they were indeed too tired.

At six o'clock in the morning, the loudspeaker of the Fourth Route Army sounded again, and this time it did not persuade the Soviet troops to surrender or play folk songs, but brought another bad news to the besieged Soviet troops -- the Soviet troops at the airports of Ulan-Ude and Dauri were again bombed by the Fourth Route Army in the early hours of the morning, and all the Soviet planes on the airfields were blown up, a total of 84 fighters, 42 bombers, and 34 transport planes. …,

This news immediately caused confusion in the Soviet troops. They all know the meaning of the bombing of the airport, that is, they will not have any supplies in the next few days, which is undoubtedly a fatal blow to the already hungry Soviet army. Because the Soviet army has actually been without food for several days.

If this bad news caused fear among the Soviet soldiers, who were impressively junior officers, then the feeling in the hearts of Blyukhel and the senior Soviet generals was despair.

Because these high-ranking generals are well aware of the total number of aircraft owned by the entire Soviet army at present. In Northern Mongolia, the Soviet army has lost more than 600 aircraft, accounting for almost half of the total number of Soviet aircraft. Although it is now possible to imitate and even design and manufacture aircraft in China, it will take time. In the short term, their supplies have been completely cut off by the Chinese. All that awaits them is death.

Of course, these high-ranking generals knew that in fact, they had another way to go besides dying in battle and starvation......

In order to appease the morale of the army, the political commissars of the Soviet army at all levels were once again urgently mobilized and went down to various units one after another to publicize to the Soviet army that this was a scam of the Chinese, and that the plane could not take off after the snow, so do not listen to the propaganda of the Chinese.

But facts speak louder than words, and for a whole day, not a single Soviet plane came, on the contrary, there were bombers from the Fourth Route Army. In the burnt, bare-covered mountains with a layer of snow, Soviet artillery positions and various vehicles were very conspicuous, and bombers only bombed these targets.

At this time, the world's air forces had just started for more than a decade, and the large-scale use of aircraft as a means of military attack only began in the latter part of World War I, and the air force's logistical support means were still far from complete. After rain and snow, the plane could not take off at all, and the snow had to be removed and the sun came out to melt the thin layer of ice on the runway.

The Air Force Corps is equipped with a large number of snow removal equipment, such as small snow removal shovels dragged by trucks equipped with snow chains, and large wind turbines equipped with heating design for deicing. Therefore, soon after the snow stopped, the runway of the Air Force Corps was ready for take-off early.

Wu Jin took advantage of this opportunity and sent almost all the planes of the Air Force Corps to bomb the two Soviet airfields of Ulan-Ude and Dauri. When the planes of the Air Force Corps flew over the Soviet airfield, only half of the snow on the runway of the Soviet airfield was removed, and the Soviet planes parked at the two airfields could not take off at all, and the more than 100 fighters, bombers, and transport planes that the Soviets had scraped together were all blown up on the ground by the planes of the Air Force Corps.

At noon that day, the broadcast of loudspeakers on the positions of the Fourth Route Army made the hungry and cold Soviet officers and men even more panicked. The female announcer of the Fourth Route Army read a telegram in fluent Russian from Chiang Kai-shek, chairman of the Nationalist Government, to Blyukhel, the supreme commander of the besieged Soviet army.

The message was to the effect that Chiang Kai-shek regretted that Blyukhel, an old friend with whom he had fought, had led his troops to invade Northern Mongolia, and that he had missed Blyukhel very much, urged him to surrender, and that he would do everything possible to ensure the safety of Blyukhel's family.

Chiang Kai-shek told Blyukhel in a telegram that if Blyukhel led his troops to surrender, he would appoint Blyukhel as a senior senator of the Military Council of the Nationalist Government, and that he would be waiting for him in Nanjing.

The leader of the Republic of China personally plotted against the top general of the besieged Soviet army, and the panic caused by this in the Soviet army can be imagined.

Immediately afterwards, the announcer read out a letter from Pinsko, former head of the Harbin branch of the Jewish Zion Organization and current chairman of the Zion Organization in China, to all the Jewish officers and soldiers of the besieged Soviet army.

In the letter, Pinsko called on all officers and soldiers of Jewish origin to stop working for the Soviet government, which was always anti-Semitic and anti-Semitic. China is the greatest country in the world, the Chinese people are the most kind and benevolent people in the world, and they are also the only nation in the world that does not have an anti-Semitic and anti-Semitic history Chinese.

Pinsko also said that the fundamental reason why Jews are persecuted repeatedly around the world is because Jews do not have a country of their own, and the purpose of Zion's establishment is to restore the Jewish state, and this restoration plan has already begun to be implemented, and there are already plans to buy land near Jerusalem and build farms in preparation for the eventual establishment of a greater state of Israel. In order to restore the country, it is not enough to have money, but also to have a strong military force to defend it. …,

General Song Zhewu, the supreme leader of the Fourth Route Army, was extremely sympathetic to the situation of the Jewish people and extremely supportive of the Jewish people's plan to restore the country. In addition, General Song had agreed to help Zion organize an all-Jewish army in Northern Mongolia under the command of the Fourth Route Army, which would become the main force to defend the Jewish homeland if the restoration was successful.

Finally, Pinsko called on all Jewish officers and soldiers in the besieged Soviet army to immediately lay down their arms and join the Zionist movement.

In addition, the announcer read out a letter from Kasimov, the head of the Kazakhs in the Mulun region of western Mongolia, to the Kazakhs in the besieged Soviet army.

In his letter, Kasimov first announced the establishment of the Arash Autonomous Republic of Exile Government in Kazakhstan, of which he was chairman. He called on all Kazakhs to unite and fight for the overthrow of the Soviet government's brutal rule over the Kazakh people, for the realization of Kazakh independence, and for the establishment of the Kazakhs themselves as an autonomous republic of Arash. The Kazakh people hope that these brave soldiers, who have Kazakh blood in their veins, will join the Kazakh people's own army, the Kazakh People's Liberation Army.

In the evening of the same day, the announcer broadcast Song Zhewu's ultimatum to the Soviet army, demanding that the Soviet army surrender unconditionally within two days, otherwise it would be completely destroyed.

Under a series of incitements, temptations and threats, the chaos in the Soviet army intensified during the night, and eventually led to clashes between Kazakh officers and soldiers and personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The reason for this was the arrest of the commander of the Fifth Army of the Far East by members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which led to a shootout.

Then, in the early hours of the morning, more than 1,000 Kazakh, Tajik, Uzbek and a small number of Jewish officers and soldiers rushed out of their positions and ran to the positions of the Fourth Route Army to surrender.

The men then began to shout on the radio, calling for their fellow villagers and friends who were still in the encirclement to surrender.

The power of example is endless, and on the second night, under the close supervision of the personnel of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs, a large number of junior officers and soldiers of the Soviet Army killed the personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Army and ran to the positions of the Fourth Route Army to surrender.

Gunfire rang out all night in the encirclement, which prompted Blyukhel and several Soviet commanders, as well as helpless political commissars and personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, to make a decision to surrender to the Fourth Route Army.

Since then, after more than 40 days, the battle of the Fourth Route Army, which caused more than 100,000 casualties and finally won a huge victory, has finally come to an end.

In order to keep it secret and to confuse the Soviet army, after burning the Soviet army on the East Road, Song Zhewu did not transmit this good news back to China, and it was not until the main forces of the Soviet army on the Middle and West Routes were surrounded in the mountains southwest of Kulun that Song Zhewu informed the Nationalist Government of the battle situation to Chiang Kai-shek. At the same time, the news of this huge victory was only publicly released in the "Northern Morning Post".

The Chinese people, who were still immersed in the grief and indignation of the "918 Incident", burst out into excited cheers after being shocked! On this day, all the newspapers in the country, whether public or private, whether they were mainstream newspapers or tabloids with lace news, carried the news of the great victory of Beimeng on the front page.

The article signed by Shi Zhen and Shao Piaoping in the "Declaration" pointed out: ...... This is the biggest victory of the Chinese over the Western powers in more than 200 years, and it is also the only one that has won a big victory! The victory of Northern Mongolia greatly boosted the morale of the Chinese, dealt a severe blow to the arrogance of the great powers, and made the great powers dare not easily bully China again......

At the end of the article, Shi Zhen and Shao Piaoping shouted from the bottom of their hearts, "Long live the Fourth Route Army!" Long live General Song Zhewu! ”

While praising the Fourth Route Army and Song Zhewu, the article in Ta Kung Pao expressed a strong emotion, "China has only one Fourth Route Army and only one champion general, and it cannot be said that the Republic of China will no longer be bullied by the foreign powers, only the squadron has become the Fourth Route Army, and countless warriors who dare to shed their blood for the country and the nation have appeared, and many Song Zhewu have appeared for the interests of the country and the nation, regardless of personal gains and losses, and then China will become truly strong......."