Chapter 392: A Million Defeated Soldiers

At seven o'clock in the morning, He Ning got up and made breakfast and personally sent it to Zhang Shusheng's office, her office was not far from Lu Yun, after all, sometimes she needed to take care of Zhang Shusheng. As the secretary general of the base camp, Mao Yunxian often needs the help of the two ladies.

Lu Yunyan is in charge of part of the work of the head of state's office, as well as the poverty alleviation fund. He Ning is mainly responsible for education, culture and sports, and student nutrition planning.

"Be careful, although you are in good health, you can't work all night, so even if you can afford it, it will not be good if others follow and work overtime."

He Ning came early in the morning and saw that the people in the office had arrived, so she said to her husband, she thought that her husband was working overtime and staying up late, and others followed.

"You, you always think of your husband like that. Except for the staff related to Project Ironhoof, I forced them to leave work last night, and they came too early this morning. ”

Under normal circumstances, Zhang Shusheng would also be hungry, so he took breakfast and ate it. A small dish of fried peanuts, a small pot of porridge, a little pickled cowpeas, and pickled cabbage and red pepper.

Speaking of the big red pepper is still the republic of the concentrated promotion of the variety, the old pepper in the past is too spicy, not to mention, the taste is not good enough, Zhang Shusheng specially promoted this thick meat and not too spicy red pepper, now every household can also eat this new style of pepper.

"Okay, blame me for speaking nonsense without investigating clearly, hehe." He Ning blamed him for a while, then accompanied him, and began to eat, Zhang Shusheng's habit, eating alone is not fragrant, and the two ladies or Tantai always have to accompany him to eat. Lu Yunyan was too busy, so she went to the grassroots early in the morning after coming to see her husband.

"I heard that the son of the Sun family went to Xinjiang Province?"

Zhang Shusheng asked, he also just heard Mao Yunxian say that his godfather Sun Changqing's grandson Sun Yiren asked for orders to go to Xinjiang Province to be a township cadre.

"Yes, you don't care about being an uncle, everyone has been gone for half a month. Originally, I wanted to transfer him to the base camp for a period of time to cultivate a sense of the overall situation, but the old man objected and said that Yiren would choose by himself. He Ning ate very slowly, and the Zhang family did not have the habit of eating and sleeping silently, and said, "Yiren said that he was going to Xinjiang Province, where the girls were beautiful, the wind blew the grass and saw the cattle and sheep, and the scenery was not bad, he wanted to go to see the Daxue Mountain and the prairie." ”

"This kid is romantic, handsome, and his family conditions are good enough, so it's good to be a township cadre. If you have the ability, you will climb up for me, and it can be regarded as inheriting the political life of some old men, if you don't have the ability, you can be a foot valley Weng, there is a day of the Zhang family and a day of his grandson's family, this life is good. Zhang Shusheng said with a smile, Sun Changqing and Sun Laixi's father and son suffered losses because of their low culture, and they couldn't talk about any talent for the great strategy of the country, and this Sun Yiren was just the opposite, very capable, very smart, a little bit of a backbone, but he was still loyal and filial.

"How's the war going in the Far East? When I first arrived, I saw that the officers were all trotting and smiling, and it seemed that they had won the battle. He Ning said.

"What a victory."

Speaking of the war in the Far East, Zhang Shusheng happily put down the bowl for the time being, and said, "The defense line of Komsomolsk has been fully broken through, and the number of Soviet troops directly eliminated is about 150,000. The number of Soviet troops captured in the defensive line and nearby also amounted to more than 100,000 people. At present, the Soviet army has received a plan for a full-scale retreat, is in disarray, and is staging a major rout in the Far East.

Our troops are pursuing these fleeing Soviet troops, and if all goes well, we will have hundreds of thousands more prisoners.

The army is now too busy to take care of itself, and we are attacking Vanino from both the direction of Nizhneinsk and Komsomolsk, and the army of nearly two million people has already fallen into our encirclement. Next, in addition to pursuing the Soviet army and trying to encircle and capture more Soviet troops, we will concentrate our efforts on dealing with these two million Japanese troops.

This is a tough battle, and these besieged devils must not be allowed to run away from the sea. ”

The Soviet army has been crippled, and the more prisoners they can take, the better, but the real goal next is to fight the army. The 1,900,000-strong army, due to the original tripartite agreement of the Allied forces, was bound to the coastal area of the Far East, close to the Tatar Strait, surrounded on three sides, and the sea on one side.

The whole plan was to concentrate 2.5 million to 3 million troops to launch an all-out attack on the narrow circle of the Japanese army, after leaving enough troops to defend the US army and a small number of troops occupying and garrisoning.

He said that he didn't save the Soviets before, and he still wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob, but now he will soon taste the vicious situation of having no way to escape from heaven and no way out.

"I heard that the forces of the Americans in the Far East are not small, and we don't deal with them?" He Ning asked.

"Of course you have to clean them up. With more than 500,000 U.S. troops and two small army air units, this is a very strong force. Our armored clusters will run out of use in the next offensive against us, and a large part of the armored clusters and infantry will be used to pursue the attacking American troops.

The scale of our attack is evenly matched with theirs, depending on how we play in front of us. ”

Zhang Shusheng really wanted to swallow these hundreds of thousands of US troops in one bite, but the combat effectiveness of the US army was stronger than that of the Soviet army and the Yue army, and the air counterattack capability was also greater.

According to the plan, Zhang Shusheng predicted that after a multi-pronged approach, the Wehrmacht's attack on the US army was likely to be a pursuit battle. And the sooner the offensive is over, the sooner we can concentrate our forces against the US forces.

As for the Siberian theater of operations, it was necessary to guard against the Soviets' Northern Military District, where the Soviet Army's strong supply from the Americans in the direction of the Arctic Ocean already posed a considerable threat, and the Wehrmacht was confronting them.

"It would be nice to take more prisoners, last time you said that a new province would be established in the Far East, and then a large number of people would be needed to build roads, houses, fields, water conservancy and transportation."

He Ning said with a smile, she didn't know much about war, but she knew that war could be exchanged for new national territories, huge amounts of land, resources, and prisoners.

In particular, if you let your own citizens do the work of clearing the ruins and rebuilding after the war, it will be a waste of labor, not to mention the special hardship and danger, and the labor pay is not high, it is better to use prisoners of war, take care of the meal, do a lot of work, and do not have to pay wages.

For example, the coastal area of the Far East, which is close to the original and was once occupied by the Japanese people, the city is in ruins, and there are many minefields, but now the prisoners of war are cleaning up the ruins with their own hands, and sometimes the bombs and other explosives left in the ruins at the end of the day will kill more than a dozen people. Of course, compared to when they used the Soviets and Chinese to do chemical experiments and prisoners of war to make killing games, this is simply a civilized home.

However, the attitude of the Wehrmacht towards prisoners of war is different from that of other prisoners of war, and other prisoners of war have a prisoner of war policy, while the prisoners of war of the Japanese army do not have any prisoner of war policy, at least for the time being, there is only one rule, not to massacre you, not to starve you to death, but to be free, not to be beaten, scolded and abused, that is a fantasy.

"Well, we're going to have more POWs soon, haha. The Americans set up a line of defense in the town of Berezovi, and the American air force held the sky over it desperately, and several American and Soviet divisions also held out here relying on the terrain. But our two divisions have already circled in front of this line to defeat the Soviet army, and will soon form a big hole and surround more than 300,000 Soviet troops under the noses of the Americans.

Millions of Soviet troops have become routs, and hundreds of thousands of prisoners can be captured, which will be our largest capture since the beginning of the war. ”

Zhang Shusheng was in a really good mood, thinking that after the Iron Hoof Plan was over, he must go to the Far East to see the miserable conditions of the hundreds of thousands of Soviet prisoners of war who were imprisoned.

...... "Report! The vanguard of our army had already reached Mount Heiro, only 5 kilometers from the town of Bereozovy, the Allied blocking line. ”

On the armored vehicle of the communication command, a staff officer ran to Zhang Jing, commander of the 22nd Division, and Hou Xiaoshan, commander of the 166th Division, who were looking at the map, and reported loudly.

"Great! General Zhang, it's still your tank troops running fast. We infantrymen don't have cars and trucks, and we can't keep up with you if we break our legs. ”

Hou Xiaoshan said happily, hurrying slowly, and even temporarily left a lot of tanks and armored vehicles on the road, just to rush to the front of the fleeing army as quickly as possible. He turned to the staff officer and asked, "What is the situation of the fleeing Soviet troops?" ”

"At present, only a small part of the Soviet troops has fled into the Allied blocking line, but, according to the report of our armored reconnaissance company and reconnaissance from the air, this part of the Soviet army has only more than 2,000 people, and the rest are still on the way.

The confrontation in the air is now very fierce, and according to the Air Force's report, the latest aerial combat has been expanded to a total of 1,000 planes on both sides. ”

The staff officer replied fluently.

At this moment, several planes buzzed in the distant sky, and soon someone reported that it was a Wehrmacht A-45 ground attack aircraft.

Hou Xiaoshan raised his binoculars and saw that there were about 100 Soviet trucks crawling on the road in the valley at the foot of the mountain. But now that the A-45 attack plane has arrived, the credit has been snatched away again.

"The one-horned rhino is going crazy again."

Zhang Jing looked down and said, just a dozen seconds later, the Soviet convoy below had just been in chaos, and some Soviet troops even tried to get out of the car and escape, and a few hideous big guys flying in the air were too scary. The hideous appearance, the roaring of the engines, the two cannons that had already begun to fire from a long distance.

The A-45 attack aircraft was heavily armoured and loaded with few bombs, with loads of up to two tons being used to load bullets and artillery shells, which made it almost a fast-moving air battery with thick armor. In particular, after the enemy lost air supremacy and a large number of anti-aircraft guns were destroyed, it was almost a human tragedy to face this new type of attack aircraft with only anti-aircraft machine guns.

Rumble! Rumble! Boom...... "Dadada......"

As expected, the A-45 attack planes and several Soviet vehicle-mounted anti-aircraft guns and machine guns all opened fire quickly, and the slightly frightened A-45s quickly adjusted their flight attitudes, aimed at several anti-aircraft fire points, and pressed the launch button of the airborne rocket.

"Woo Woo Woo ......"

Four of the eight A-45 one-horned rhinos are equipped with airborne rockets, and this weapon is specially designed to deal with long-range anti-aircraft fire, and under intensive fire, the lethal effect and the destruction of the enemy's anti-aircraft fire are very good.

Sure enough, after more than two dozen rockets wreaked havoc around several anti-aircraft vehicles, only a few anti-aircraft machine guns remained of the regiment-sized Soviet army.

The bombed anti-aircraft guns and vehicles were also overturned, and they were about to be baptized by the A-45s.

"Woo ......"

Eight A-45s lowered their altitude and flew through the field, and the machine guns and machine guns under the belly and wings of the planes continued to fire, sweeping all the way over the road, and it was difficult for the Soviet troops to escape even if they ran into the small jungle on the side of the road.

In more than two minutes, dozens of vehicles of various kinds that were blown into fireballs or overturned on their sides on the originally orderly retreat road were on the originally orderly retreat road.

This kind of accurate attack from the top of the head is actually more fatal than the shelling of long-range artillery fire, people cannot outrun the plane and the shells, but the pilot can see the situation on the ground, and the place where the attack aircraft bully the infantry, armored vehicles, and cars can be seen.

Several Soviet tanks were even opened, rockets or cannons drilled into the tank from the top, and the weak top armor of the Soviet tank could not be stopped at all, and the bottle was directly corked.

"Let's go, it's our turn. It's up to you for our composite line of defense next, General Liu. Hou Xiaoshan said with a smile.

"Where, our 22nd Division is a mobile force, and your 166th Division is the backbone of holding your position."

Zhang Jing also said with a smile.

The two men then boarded the armored car, and a little more than a kilometer ahead was their blocking position.

The town of Belyozovy is located in a mountainous area with many valleys, so the Allies chose this place as a place to defend, and what the Allies did not expect was that the Chinese army would dare to make a blocking position under their noses to prevent the Soviet troops from escaping.

Although the two Wehrmacht divisions were at risk of being flanked from the front and rear, the more than 300,000 Soviet troops that were blocked at the other end were even worse.

Of course, without the Allied line in Berezovi, they had no hope of escaping, but with it, the Soviets had an extra glimmer of hope.

And for the 300,000 veterans, the allies naturally attach great importance to them, and these are all veterans who can be rearmed with weapons. The retreat from Dunkirk failed that year, and the British and French troops lost only about 300,000 people.

Soon, the 2 divisions arrived at the selected position of the blocking line, which was a mountainous area, except in the direction of the entrance, with an open strip on one side on three sides, a hill on both sides, and a ridge in the middle.

The 166th Division's position consisted of two hills and a ridge, while the 22nd Division was deployed in an open area as a mobile force assault to turn the defense into an active one.

"I command! Dig! ”

Hou Xiaoshan waved his hand, raised the marching shovel in his hand, and dug under his feet, they wanted to dig out some simple trenches and offensive as quickly as possible.

You know, there will be endless Soviet troops rushing over next.

(To be continued)