Chapter 396: Inspecting the Far East

In July of the Republic, it was very lively, and after the surging public opinion gradually subsided, the war in the Far East once again entered a new **.

In mid-July, a commander of the Fifth Panzer Army commanded by Dai Anlan drove straight into the attack from Yakutsk, west of the Allied forces.

After urgently mobilizing the Eighth Air Force to provide air support and cover, and paying the heavy price of a tank division being completely annihilated, most of which surrendered directly, the US forces began to withdraw from the Far East as quickly as possible.

The American political axe, which had been vacillating, finally made up its mind to withdraw its troops from the Far East.

Admiral Bradley was appointed as the person in charge of the withdrawal plan, and the erosion of the Far Eastern theater was not attributed to him, and the decisive battle that broke out just after taking office was one of the important reasons, and the most important reason was that the Soviet army suffered heavy losses, and the American army was called "good decision-making" when the army was surrounded by regiments, thus avoiding the situation that even the American army was encircled.

Although the armored offensive commanded by Dai Anlan was only a false shot, it finally made the Americans roll up their covers and prepare to withdraw to their hometown.

On the other hand, for the first time, the Wehrmacht regained more than one million square kilometres of territory in the Far East, which, together with the previously occupied territories in the Far East, had already met the conditions necessary for the establishment of a province.

More importantly, the Far Allied army was defeated, and the Soviet army was able to escape no more than 300,000 troops, which can be said to be annihilated, and the army was surrounded by regiments, and the entire Far East will be connected with Siberia in the near future, turning the original rooster map into a bigger crown and carrying a huge grinding plate.

As a result, the territory of the entire republic will be expanded by more than half, and if it can finally occupy the entire area from Siberia to the Far East and further north near the Bering Strait, it will be tantamount to overthrowing half of the Soviet Union in one fell swoop.

This will be an unattainable height that can impress the emperors of the ages.

In late July, the Wehrmacht bombarded the sea and the northern port of Rangben day and night to prevent the withdrawal of the Syrian troops, and at the same time, a large-scale airborne plan behind enemy lines was also being discussed.

The Japanese army, which lacked sufficient air power, failed in the struggle for air supremacy, and it was difficult to effectively organize a huge strategic retreat even at night.

The order from the top of the country was to hold on and wait for the effective retreat of the fleet to be organized in the country.

The only straw that he desperately wanted to grasp was the Eighth Air Force and the Ninth Air Force after the US military withdrew, and the Yue Army hoped that the two major air forces of the US military would be able to stay in the US Army and participate in the air war between China and China.

For this proposal, which is full of ****, the US political axe did not agree as generously as usual, the reason is very simple, the second European theater plan, which was forced to be postponed due to the iron hoof plan of the Chinese, has reached the time when it must be implemented, and the air power in the plan is not only insufficient, but there is a big gap, and the retreat of the US forces in the Far East has made the Allied top brass see a large number of vacant troops and air and sea forces.

For a time, he had no choice but to huddle in a ball of Vaninos in the coastal area of the Far East and block the attack of the [***] team with a line of defense.

It was against this background that Zhang Shusheng set off for Boli in the Far East to inspect the battlefield in the Far East.

On 23 July, the Boli airfield was already heavily guarded, and troops began to set up posts more than 10 kilometers outside the airport, and the most loyal troops entered the Far Eastern Theater from the Northeast Theater and joined the temporary defense plan.

Zhang Shusheng's plane flew from Harbin to Boli, took off from Harbin early in the morning, and arrived at Boli Airport in less than two hours at the flight speed of Air Force One.

"Stand upright, salute!!"

When Air Force One slowly stopped and Zhang Shusheng walked down the gangway, some senior officers led by General Huo Weiguo, commander of the Far East Theater, took the lead in saluting and greeting them.

Zhang Shusheng walked down the gangway, looked at the sky in the Far East, which was completely different from the scenery in his mouth, and sniffed the smell in the air slightly, as if he could smell the smell of gunpowder from the entire Far East battlefield.

This is the feeling of the Far East battlefield, although Boli is far from the front line, and will hardly even be bombed by the Japanese army, even when the Allies are at their strongest, Boli will receive relatively limited air raids, with advanced radar, early warning aircraft, and the Wehrmacht Air Force has made great efforts.

"Welcome Chairman to visit the Far East!"

Huo Weiguo stepped forward and welcomed Zhang Shushengdao.

"Yes, the war was not delayed because of the arrival of an idler."

At this time, Boli Airport was more like an important field airport in Zhang Shusheng's impression, even when Air Force One landed, the take-off and landing of the Wehrmacht Air Force did not stop, but just vacated a runway.

After Air Force One landed, this redundant runway was immediately utilized, frequently taking off and landing fighters, ammunition trucks and fuel trucks, and maintenance vehicles were busy at the airport.

"Long live the chairman!!"

I don't know who took the lead in shouting, followed by a heaven-shattering shout.

Zhang Shusheng made a brief speech at the airport and went to the Iron Hoof Campaign Headquarters in the Far Eastern Theater in Boli.

At the headquarters, he listened to a report on the second phase of the Far Eastern War, as well as the latest developments in the Allied forces, and then Zhang Shusheng made a brief speech.

"Comrades, at this stage, the escape of the US military has made us feel aggrieved. I have heard many comrades say that if we concentrate our forces in Siberia and attack the American troops from the Yakutsk direction as soon as possible, we will be able to encircle all the enemy even in the Far East.

This idea is wrong.

At this stage, our pace of victory is not slow, but fast. We've won one by one. And behind these victories is not won in a vacuum, it is won by the soldiers who charge into battle.

We must not take the army lightly, and only by concentrating the most superior forces and defeating them with the most absolute attack can we achieve a real victory. The result of eating too much and not chewing it is for the soldiers to die in vain, paying huge sacrifices in exchange for victory that could have been achieved at the lowest cost. ”

Zhang Shusheng paused slightly, and continued, "The problem of the United States and Britain, we will have to solve it sooner or later, but not now. Looking to the future, we are the inevitable adversary, but at present, our first enemy is Yue himself, the second is the Soviet Union, and the third is Britain and the United States.

Now that the situation in Europe is extremely tense, and the Allies are about to open a second battlefield, this is a golden opportunity for us. The Nazi legions in Europe were so strong that the Soviets could no longer resist them, which was why the Allies were eager to open up a second theater of war in Europe.

Under such circumstances, the strength of Britain and the United States will be stronger, and the war in Europe will be more intense, and this will be of great benefit to us calming down and digesting the Far East, Central Asia and Siberia, and even dealing with the current issue and further warfare against the Soviet Union......

Zhang Shusheng's speech at this military conference was very simple: although the Americans seemed to have succeeded in withdrawing hundreds of thousands of American troops and three or four hundred thousand Soviet troops, and adding a small number of soldiers to fight, in fact, these troops will soon be transformed and thrown into the European theater.

And the more intense the fight in Europe, the more okay Asia will be.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for China, and there is a time period for the Soviet Union, the overall occupation of the Far East, the Japanese issue, the Southeast Asian question, and so on.

Even, Zhang Shusheng guessed that if he was a high-ranking Allied force, or Washington's political axe, he would definitely choose some sacrifices, obviously, Asia and the Far East, which are beyond the reach of the whip, are not as urgent as Europe. Although China is strong, it is far less devastation and crisis than the Nazi legions.

After the military meeting, Zhang Shusheng inspected some military bases, and the army near Boli was also inspected, and that night, he refused Huo Weiguo's invitation and lived in the barracks.

Early the next morning, Zhang Shusheng continued his secret inspection tour, this time, in addition to going to the army, he also had to go to the prisoner of war camp to see.

An armored brigade of the Guards Army, which drove from the northeast, was responsible for Zhang Shusheng's safety, and along the way, Zhang Shusheng rode on a tank and felt the July in the Far East.

Completely different from the mouth, July in the Far East is not hot, even cool, Boli is a very early liberated area, the countryside is already a piece of fertile land, you can see some Chinese farmers working in the fields, and you can even see the figure of crawler agricultural machinery, which is suitable for large-scale planting.

While passing by a field near a river, Zhang Shusheng saw dozens of people lined up on both sides of the field to let the army pass by.

"Stop!"

The armored brigade stopped, and Zhang Shusheng stepped out of the armored car under the escort of the central special guard.

When he walked not far from these people, he found that they were all Soviets.

"What do these people do?"

Zhang Shusheng asked casually, and Chief of Staff Gao Feng, who accompanied him, immediately explained, "Chairman, these Soviets are hired workers on our farms, and our civilian policy towards the Soviets has not yet been implemented, and they cannot obtain land. ”

"Are they resistant?"

Zhang Shusheng looked at the dozens of frightened Soviets, in front of these armored combat vehicles, Soviet civilians could only bend their heads deeply.

"There's definitely resistance, but it's not strong. During the reign of the Soviet political axe, they also had no land in their hands, worked for the collective, and did not even have enough to eat. Now, they're just working for our migrant farms. ”

Gao Feng explained.

Zhang Shusheng couldn't help but feel relieved, yes, the commune work method during the Soviet Union, Soviet civilians were also landless, and all large and small farms were national assets. After the 'liberation', these Soviets, although they no longer worked on collective farms, became hired hands on migrant farms.

Although the wages are small and the food is not as good as that of the immigrants, it is still much better than in the Soviet Union.

Of course, the most important point, Gao Feng continued, "our immigrants all have armed militias, and they have enough weapons in their hands to make any Soviet opposition disappear." Our garrisons were also on high alert for relations between emigrants and Soviets. ”

There have been no particularly bad incidents in the Far East, after all, it is too far from Moscow, and the brilliance of a certain doctrine does not shine so brightly.

In Siberia, there were some rather egregious things that happened when brutal Soviet civilians tried to resist or harm the migrants, and the result was naturally bloody repression.

The emigration policy in the Far East and the policy towards Soviet civilians were nothing more than a copy of the well-established Siberian formula.

Zhang Shusheng stood not far away and looked at the dozens of Soviet civilians, looking at their uneasy and even panicked looks, but he felt a little emotion in his heart, when the Chinese were like this, standing on the land of their ancestors for generations, looking in horror at those Westerners, Tsarist Russians, and Orientals who came from afar across the ocean, suffering from their killing and plundering.

Therefore, he doesn't have much pity for these people in his heart, and since the race fight, he has to bear certain consequences if he fails.

At least until the policy toward Soviet civilians begins to move further, the situation of the Soviets will not improve greatly, and it will take decades to become a new minority in the Chinese civilization.

"Kid!"

Zhang Shusheng's eyes swept over a group of adult Soviets, and saw two six or seven-year-old little guys standing in the team, hungry with yellow muscles and thin faces, with mud on their faces, thinking that they were working in the field with the adults.

"In the future, these children will not have to do heavy work, open some Chinese schools, let them go to school."

A few years old children can have a strong plastic surname, let them accept the broad and profound Chinese civilization, let them learn Chinese, and gradually move away from the characteristics of the Soviet period, and when they grow up, it will be twenty or thirty years later, when everything is already a foregone conclusion, and these newly grown up Soviet and Russian young people can integrate well into Greater China.

This policy has already begun to be promoted in Siberia and Central Asia, and the Far East is lagging behind.

"Yes, Chairman."

Subsequently, the armored brigade continued its advance, eventually reaching a huge prisoner of war camp located in a valley on the outskirts of the city.

This huge prisoner-of-war camp was built from the entire valley, and the surrounding valley was built with high walls, electric grids, and heavily guarded areas.

There were also many workshops built on one side of the valley, and the Soviet prisoners of war would receive the first period of prisoner labor in the camp, such as cleaning the shells, some simple maintenance and repair work, and even sack weaving, in a variety of ways, in short, the prisoners of war would not be allowed to be idle every day.

For safety reasons, Zhang Shusheng did not enter the prisoner of war camp, but used a telescope to look inside on the hill outside the prisoner of war camp.

About 100,000 Soviet prisoners were held in this huge valley, and the telescopes could clearly see the Soviet prisoners of war who were actively working at gunpoint.

Of course, once in a while a gunshot or two rang out, and for any prisoner of war who dared to resist, the end was death.

"It's spectacular!!"

Zhang Shusheng looked around, and the entire prisoner of war camp was full of Soviets, who were relatively tall, but now they became prisoners of war one by one.

Looking at these 100,000 prisoners of war, he thought a lot, but the most pleasing thing was about the next work that these prisoners of war would be involved in.

Looking at the countless prisoners of war, Zhang Shusheng said with a smile, "It seems that there is no shortage of manpower for the next expansion and repair project of the Far Eastern Railway." ”

(To be continued)