October 11, 1937 at 12 noon Moscow time. By this time, it was already dark in the Far East, and most of the military operations had been suspended. The Chinese, with overwhelming air superiority, were reluctant to fight at night, while the Soviet Red Army was somewhat frightened, so a large-scale counterattack was not organized on this night. At the same time, a summary of the situation in the war, signed by the commander of the Far Eastern Front, Blyukhel, and the political commissar Malenkov, was also sent to the Kremlin by airwaves.

At 12:30, the new People's Commissar of Defense Marshal Voroshilov, General Shaporanikov, Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army, was ordered to come to the Kremlin. Two military commanders were invited to the office. The entire Politburo in Moscow had arrived, and Stalin sat at his table with a tired face, a pipe full of tobacco in his hand. Then the GCIST dictator spoke slowly: "I think we should send someone to Berlin at once, and the key now is the attitude of Germany." We could, after defeating Poland, hand over all of Poland, including Western Ukraine and Western Belarus, to the Germans. So that we can concentrate on dealing with the invasion of the Chinese. ”

There was an unbearable silence in the room, Molotov and Voroshilov were silent, and how could Hitler possibly reach a compromise with the Soviet Union when things got to this point? Stalin's fantasies were a little too unrealistic.

In the end, it was Voroshilov who broke the silence. He looked up at the somewhat languishing GCIST leader, and then said thoughtfully: "Comrade Stalin. It is necessary to halt military operations against White Poland, withdraw our troops to the Stalin Line to defend against a possible German offensive, and at the same time reinforce the Eastern Front. ”

Stalin did not make a decision right away, but silently smoked his pipe, and slowly puffed a thick puff of smoke from his mouth. "The Soviet-Polish war was not something that could be stopped with a random order. What if, while we are retreating, Poland takes the opportunity to counterattack? At that time, if Germany also attacks together, then the western front will be destroyed! ”

As he spoke, he picked up the Far Eastern War Report that had just been sent to him on his desk and said: "The situation in the east is not so bad. The Far Eastern Front reported that the Chinese offensive did not make a breakthrough in most areas, and the entire Amur defense line was held. Except for the westernmost part of the Bolja region, which was broken through due to a sneak attack. But the fortress of Borja is still firmly in our hands! In addition, the report of the Central Asian Front also says that the entire line of defense is held. Then he asked Voroshilov: "What do you think, Kliment?" Are the Far Eastern Front and the Central Asian Front winning? ”

Voroshilov, who was standing on the sidelines, immediately spoke: "I have carefully studied the situation in the Far East and Eastern Siberia with General Shaporanikov. We believe that it is impossible for the squadron to annihilate the Far Eastern Front before the cold winter of 1937, and their aim should be to cut off the ties between the Far Eastern Front and the western region of our country. Their surprise attack on Krasnoyarsk was aimed at this, and the raid on the Borja region with armored forces was also supposed to open the passage to Chita. If they could advance the front around Chita before the onset of winter, then the main forces of the Far Eastern Front would be trapped in the Far East. As for the Central Asian side, I believe that the attack of the Chinese ** team is only containment. ”

After Voroshilov finished speaking, Shaporanikov further added: "I think that the offensive of the Chinese White Army is not an isolated incident, and it is clear that their purpose is to trap the nearly 2 million troops in the Far East and Eastern Siberia and prevent them from returning to the west...... There is only one reason why they are doing this, they are cooperating with the upcoming German military operation! So we should immediately stop the offensive against Poland. ”

Stalin hesitated. Then he asked, "What is the situation in Brest?" Did the Germans react there? ”

Voroshilov replied: "At 11:30 I spoke on the phone with Comrade Ubolevich. He reported to me with certainty: 'Luftwaffe fighters did not appear today, and the Polish line of defense had been shaken on all fronts for five days at most. The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army would have won a decisive victory. At 12:10, the Leningrad Front reported that all German military attacks had been halted and that all defensive lines were intact. I have instructed the Leningrad Front to cease shelling German targets, and not to cross the border to attack military targets in Germany. In short, try to keep the Soviet-German border calm. ”

"That's right! You're doing the right thing, we can't fight on three sides. "Comrade Stalin spoke, pausing for a moment. He went on to say: "We have to break one side first, and then drag the other side. Then concentrate on the last enemy. Comrade Voroshilov, how is the mobilization of our reservists? Can you go to war? ”

"Twenty-two corps have already been formed. It was also equipped with basic artillery, one artillery regiment per corps and one artillery battalion per division, in addition to a number of 57mm and 37mm anti-tank guns. ”

Hearing that he still had so many troops in his hands, Stalin nodded, his mood seemed to rise a little, and he ordered: "Ten armies each for the Western Front and the Leningrad Front, so that forty armies and nearly 2 million men for the defense of Germany should be foolproof." The remaining two corps were sent to Siberia and handed over to Chuikov, who promoted him to the post of commander of the army group. Again I ordered him to take back the city of Krasnoyarsk for me within a week! Tell Blyukhel again that he must hold the Far East and not take a step back! Winter is just around the corner, and the cold weather will help us defeat the Chinese invaders! ”

The dictator of GCISM thought for a moment and said: "Comrade Molotov, in the name of the Council of People's Commissars, issued an order that, from October 12, the scope of conscription mobilization should be expanded to all eligible male citizens born in 1902-1914, and military control should be imposed throughout the Soviet Union. In areas under military control, all functions of the organs of state power in the areas of national defense, the maintenance of social order, and the guarantee of national security are entrusted to the military authorities. The military authorities have the right to deploy the population and all means of transport. to complete defense projects and defend the most important military and economic objectives.

In addition, in the name of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union and the International Executive Committee of the GC, a circular was issued to the people of the whole country and the proletariat of the whole world, telling them that the great Soviet Red Army had thwarted the all-out offensive of Chinese imperialism in the battle of October 11 and annihilated more than 100,000 Chinese White Army! It is also necessary to call on the proletarians of the whole world to unite and wage all possible struggles for the defense of the Soviet Union against all the evil imperialist countries such as China, Germany, Poland, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan! ”

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At this time, a few miles away at the airport in the Baotou Special Economic Zone of Suiyuan Province, China, an FW-200 transport plane flying from Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province, was slowly taxiing on the runway -- Zhou Elai, the leader of the Chinese Communist Party, had finished his short-term vacation in Lushan and hurried back to Baotou to preside over the overall situation, which was undergoing drastic changes!

"Borja's Soviet 21st Army is already surrounded by the Kuomintang! Krasnoyarsk was also captured by their raids. ”

Zhou Elai walked down the gangway of the plane with a gloomy face, perhaps because of the weather approaching late autumn, the cold outside the plug had exceeded the early winter in Jiangnan. Zhou Elai was also wearing a Western-style thin coat. As soon as I stepped off the plane. Mao Zd, vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party of China, who came to greet him at the airport, stepped forward and firmly held the hands of his old comrades-in-arms. He was briefed on the latest battle situation.

After a few pleasantries, the two got into a BMW limousine and galloped all the way back to the Central Headquarters of China G in the center of Baotou Special Economic Zone. After getting out of the car, the two leaders of the Central Revolution went straight to the war room of the Central Revolutionary Military Commission. At this time, in this spacious combat command center. There were already more than a dozen officers around the map platform talking in low voices, and of course the senior generals of the Central and G were also extremely concerned about this war, which was related to the future and fate of the world revolution.

Among the officers here are Zhu D, commander-in-chief of the border defense forces, Zhang Xueliang, chief of staff of the border defense forces, Liu Bcheng and Ye Jying, deputy chiefs of staff, and Su Y, director of the operations department of the general staff of the border defense forces. Baotou Garrison Commander Chen G and others. They are all the core elites of the Chinese and G officer corps. The eldest Zhu D is only forty-one years old, and he is full of energy and ambition. For this ongoing world war, they also vaguely feel the opportunities and challenges involved...... Perhaps this is the perfect opportunity to bring about a world revolution! It may also be a good opportunity to realize the national interests of the Chinese nation! In short, there must be one or the other. and as an important leading force in the Chinese revolution and the world revolution. Of course, the Chinese GCD will be able to achieve their goal of reviving the country or revolution in this war.

On the map table was a huge map of the Far East. It's already densely marked. Several large attack arrows of the Chinese and Russian forces were carefully depicted on the map. The organization of the troops was also basically accurate, and the "Red Plan" provided by the Kuomintang was only a deception in the timing and route of the attack, and there was no problem with the organization of the troops. The Borja region and Krasnoyarsk on the map are circled with striking red lines, which are apparently the key to the outcome of the war in the Far East.

Seeing Zhou E come and walk in, the officers all stood up and saluted. Zhou Elai nodded slightly to return the salute, and after a few days of recuperation in Lushan, the leader of the Chinese G looked very good, and his eyes were full of confidence. The inside of the war room is heated. Zhou Elai smiled while taking off his coat: "Comrades. It must have been a sleepless night last night, right? In order to shoulder the heavy responsibility of the world revolution, you must take good care of your health! ”

Mao ZD was stunned when he heard this. Slightly twisted his eyebrows, Zhou Elai's words seemed to have a deep meaning. The burden of the world revolution is to be borne by the people in this room, so what are the princes in the Kremlin going to do? He smiled quietly: "Comrade E-Lai, today at noon the Chairman of the People's Commissars of the USSR Molotov made a speech calling on the proletarians and the Soviet people of the whole world to unite and fight for the defense of the USSR and the defense of the proletarian Motherland!" Do you think our party should issue a statement in response? ”

A mocking smile appeared at the corner of Zhou Elai's mouth, "The Soviet Union just likes to play this game and let the proletariat of other countries use it as cannon fodder!" He shook his head and said, "I went to Lushan for a vacation with all the top-secret texts of the German "Barbarossa Plan" provided by Luo Yaoguo, and I have already studied the various possible endings of this war on Lushan...... Although the final victory must belong to the proletariat, to the people. However, this did not mean that the Soviet Union could win. Because the Bolshevik Party of the Soviet Union had long since deviated from Lenin's ideas and embarked on the road of imperialism, this great war between China, the Soviet Union, Germany, and Poland was actually an imperialist war for hegemony! The Soviet Union did not represent the side of justice, and Chinese imperialism was by no means an aggressor! As he spoke, he raised his eyes and looked at Zhu D. Comrade Zhu D, what is the current situation in the Sino-Soviet war? ”

Zhu D, the red commander of the Central G, who was beside him, threw down the pencil in his hand at this time and replied: "At present, a large-scale campaign is being fiercely carried out in the three strategic directions of Central Asia, the Far East and Eastern Siberia. The main direction of attack of Chinese imperialism was the Far East, and the Northeast Front under the command of General Bai Chongxi spread out nearly 3,000 kilometers from Borja to Amursk. According to our intelligence (provided in the Red Plan), the Northeast Front was the most powerful of all three fronts that took part in the attack on the USSR. This force includes 29 infantry corps (21 Wehrmacht infantry corps. 2 Wehrmacht Reserve Infantry Corps. 6 White Russian Infantry Corps), 3 Cavalry Corps, 7 Armored Divisions, 10 Independent Artillery Brigades, a total of 103 divisions, about 1.7 million army field troops.

In addition, this front army also has a huge number of technical equipment, including more than 5,600 tanks and assault artillery with seven armored divisions and twenty-one army-affiliated tank regiments! More than 3,000 of them are advanced tanks of the II and III series and assembled from the turf of these two tanks. Self-propelled gun No. 2 of 105mm caliber. A self-propelled gun No. 3 of 150mm caliber and a weapon called an assault gun No. 3 of 88mm caliber...... The air support mission for this front is provided with 3,500 aircraft and a large number of antiaircraft artillery battalions of the seven air divisions of the Northeast Command of the Air Force under the personal command of Senior General Lee Soon-en. (The 1st and 2nd Anti-aircraft Artillery Corps of the Air Force of the Chinese National Defense Forces have a total of about 1,500 anti-aircraft guns)

According to the information provided by the Volunteer Army, it was the Soviet Far Eastern Front that fought against the Northeast Front. This front now has 30 front armies and 3 cavalry corps, in addition to an 80,000-strong Chinese volunteer army. In total, there were 107 divisions with about 1.65 million people, and in addition, in the rear of the Far Eastern Front, there was a Baikal Front with 5 corps (the commander of the Front, General Vasily). Thus, on the Eastern Front, the Soviet Red Army had almost as much strength as the attacking Chinese imperialist army! It's just that in order to concentrate tank forces and air forces for the Soviet-Polish war, the Far Eastern Front and the Baikal Front did not have a single tank and not a single aircraft. However, they also have a killer feature, that is, the cold winter climate of the Soviet Far East and Siberia, as long as the war drags on until winter. The Chinese can't help him.

Comparing the battle reports released by the Kuomintang and the war reports provided by the Volunteers, after the start of the war on the 11th, the Northeast Front Army deployed two clusters along the entire Heilongjiang-Amur River to launch a diversionary attack on the enemy in front of them. The direction of the main attack was placed on the line from Manchuria to Borja, the westernmost part of the entire front. The frontal attack from Manchuria was launched by the Western Cluster under the command of General Xia Wei (3 armies with a total of 8 infantry corps and 4 separate artillery brigades). Breaking through the weak Soviet defense line from the south of Borja through the eastern Mongolian detour to launch a rapid assault on the Onen River and the Middle East Road, in order to cut off the rear of the Soviet 21st Army in the Borja area, there was an armored group with seven armored divisions, three cavalry corps and one motorized infantry corps.

Under the command of three lieutenant generals, Huang Guyu, Chen Mingren, and Xu Yunlong, the cluster was divided into three routes. One route was directed by Huang Guyu to command four armored divisions to assault the Middle Road; On the first route, Xu Yunlong commanded three armored divisions to assault in the direction of the Onen River; On the last route, Chen Mingren commanded three cavalry corps and one infantry corps to launch a fierce attack from the collapsed flank of the Soviet 21st Army, and cooperated with the Western Cluster to drive the Soviet army into the Bolja fortress and encircle it. Although in the process of implementing this plan, the armored forces did not strike as fast as expected. However, the Soviet 21st Army also seized the last chance to escape, but used the night of the 11th to shrink the remnants of about 120,000 people around the Borja fortress. Formed a sit and wait formation to surround the iron barrel.

Therefore, the Northeast Front's operational objective for the first phase was completely achieved by noon on the 12th. The first gate to Chita has been surrounded by the Chinese Defense Forces! If the Wehrmacht could capture Borja and advance the front around Chita before winter, the Soviet Far Eastern Front would lose its freedom of movement.

At the same time, on October 10 and 11, the Wehrmacht and the White Russian Army also carried out an airborne landing in Krasnoyarsk, the gateway to Eastern Siberia! And already occupied this important city, cutting off railway traffic in the eastern and western parts of the USSR. Without the recapture of Krasnoyarsk, the USSR would not have been able to deploy technical equipment, weapons and ammunition to the Far East and Eastern Siberia...... The Far Eastern Front and the Baikal Front would be isolated. ”

Zhu D's answer was very detailed, and it was obvious that the Wehrmacht had informed the Central G of all the progress they had made. Zhou Elai walked to the map table and pointed to the map: "That is, the gains and losses of Krasnoyarsk and Borja are directly related to the survival of the Soviet Union!" Then let's wait for these two divisions to determine the winner, and then decide whether to take over the class of the Soviet revolution! Speaking of this, Zhou Elai glanced around the war room again, and took in everyone's expressions, except for Zhang Xueliang with a smile on his face, the other comrades all looked a little sad. He also sighed softly, "Give an order to Comrade Peng Dhuai, the Volunteer Army is ready to cross the Amur River and develop behind enemy lines." In addition, the backbone troops were transferred to prepare for the march to Boli through the northeast...... I have already reached an agreement with Luo Yaoguo, and there will be the National Defense Force to facilitate us at that time! (To be continued)