Chapter 383: Lake Belga
Due to the defeat of their own tank and armored forces, the Russian army was unable to stop Li Yifeng's roundabout assault force, and the defense line was lost.
The 50,000 Russian troops were routed on all fronts, and Li Yifeng commanded the troops to pursue while dividing his troops to capture Vladivostok.
On the third day after Qiao's army fought with the Russian Far Eastern Front, that is, on May 8, the 6.5 million German troops who had completed the final preparations brazenly launched a lightning attack on Poland.
In less than a day, the 6.5 million German army defeated Poland's weak resistance.
Hundreds of thousands of German armored units divided into routes to carry out a roundabout attack on the depth of the Soviet defense line, and thousands of German warplanes attacked nearly 100 airfields on the border of the Russian army, dozens of important cities in the west, transportation hubs, railway crane factories, army, navy and air bases, and a large number of Russian troops marching towards the national border.
Due to the lack of effective preparations, in just half a day, the Russian side lost more than 1,200 fighters.
Millions of elite German army units divided into three lines and launched a simultaneous onslaught on the Soviet Union.
A large number of dive bomber groups of air force units accompanied the cover and defeated a large number of Russian armored units that rushed to meet them, inflicting incalculable losses on the Russian army.
At the same time, because the German army was equipped with the two most advanced tank fighting vehicles, the Tiger and the Leopard, earlier than in history, the German armored division had an absolute advantage in the face of the advanced tank fighting vehicle T34 of the Russian army.
Considered by the Russians to be the most advanced of the art, the T34 was vulnerable to the Tiger and Leopard tanks, and its direct-aim gun was simply unable to inflict substantial damage on the heavy defensive armor of the Tiger tank.
The Tiger tank's 88mm caliber direct-aim tank gun T34 is almost one shot.
The huge gap between the two sides in terms of strength and equipment, coupled with the preemptive strike of the German army and the lack of preparation of the Russian army, doomed the Russian army to a rout on all fronts.
In less than three days of fierce fighting, more than 2 million Russian troops deployed on the border were wiped out, and more than 1.6 million Russian troops were routed on all fronts.
…………………… At the same time, 500,000 Qiao's troops, under the cover of armored assault troops, drove the remnants of Zhukov and Vasilevsky all the way to the Lake Belga area.
However, when Zhukov and Vasilevsky were even more desperate, an army of the Qiao family had cut off their back road like a divine soldier.
The railway on Lake Berga was destroyed, and a large number of fortifications were built.
In desperation, Zhukov and Vasilevsky ordered the remnants to immediately launch a fierce attack, and the other way to open up the cut off retreat.
However, they were facing the most elite troops of Qiao's army, Qiao Anbang's henchman special operations division, and 20,000 soldiers of the special operations division were under the command and leadership of division commander Liang Yiyu.
The fight to the death did not retreat, and it simply blocked the onslaught of more than 100,000 Russian troops in turn, and bought time for the arrival of the main force to gather and annihilate the Russian army.
On 10 May, the main force of Qiao's army pursued to Lake Belga, and immediately launched a fierce attack on the remnants of the hundreds of thousands of Russian troops who were almost desperate, disheartened, and demoralized.
The special operations division also took advantage of the situation to counterattack, and under the attack from both sides, more than 100,000 Russian troops were suddenly defeated.
Vasilevsky was killed in battle, Zhukov was killed, and several guards fled to the shore of Lake Belga, where they were rescued by a local fisherman.
At this point, the area east of Lake Berga was completely recovered by Qiao's army, and the 500,000 Russian Far Eastern Army was completely annihilated.
Due to the lack of troops, a large amount of territory was occupied in a short period of time, and the various units fought continuously for many days, so they urgently needed to rest and recuperate, and the occupied territory also needed to be digested.
Joan Bang ordered his troops to halt their westward advance, and began to seize the time to replenish their troops, and prepare winter clothes for the troops in advance.
Although it is only March now, Qiao Anbang, as a person who has come over, still has to make some preparations in advance, after all, once the hinterland of Russia is winter, the severe cold is really not something that ordinary people can bear.
In addition, there is another purpose to stop the westward expansion of Qiao Anbang, that is, to let the German army, which has been accumulating strength for a long time at this time, go to fight with the Russian army, and when the Russian army loses its territory and is on the verge of collapse, and the German army is about to be overwhelmed, he will lead the army into Siberia and regain China's inherent territory, so as to share the fruits of victory with Germany equally.
Otherwise, if the German army did not take Russia with great effort, then after the strength was extremely inflated, who knows if the mustache would cross the river and tear down the bridge to open the knife against China?
Although it is said that this may be a very small surname, it is extremely beneficial to the Qiao family's army to fight in the future.
………………………… In the next two months, the German army was overwhelmed, occupying Ukraine, the Caucasus and other places one after another, directly threatening the Russian capital Moscow and Leningrad.
In the past two months, Qiao's army has also completed a new round of expansion and reorganization.
Another 200,000 troops were recruited in the Northeast and Usuyaritai and other regions, bringing the strength of the Northeast Front to 1 million.
At the same time, the remnants of the Kwantung Army had withdrawn from the direction of Sakhalin a month earlier, and Li Yifeng commanded the First Army to take advantage of the situation to capture the entire territory of Sakhalin.
So far, Qiao's army has covered a vast area from the Korean Peninsula in the east, Sakhalin Island and Vladivostok in the north, Tangnu-Uliang Sea in the south, and Lake Belga in the west.
Nearly 3 million square kilometers of lost territory were recovered for China.
After completing the re-expansion, Qiao Anbang began to set his sights on the Guannei, there was no way, the Jin Sui army and the central army of Jincha, Jisui and other provinces ordered Qiao Anbang to be like a fish in the throat, and these potential threats must be solved, so that he could concentrate on the use of troops abroad without worries.
On June 1, the 38th year of the Republic of China, under the instruction of Qiao Anbang, a division of the Ping Ping Group Army marched from Beiping to Suiyuan, in an attempt to force the 35th Army of the Jin Sui Army stationed in Suiyuan to retreat.
However, Fu Zuoyi was unwilling to give up Suiyuan, and opened the battle-for-tat, preparing to compete with Li Pinxian.
At the same time, Wei Lihuang and Yan Xishan also sent reinforcements to Baoding, intending to force Li Pinxian to withdraw his troops from Suiyuan.
In view of this, Qiao Anbang immediately ordered more than 170,000 troops from the two group armies of the Northeast Front Army to enter the pass, and united with Li Pinxian's Pingjin Group Army to advance to Baoding and Cangzhou.
At the same time, Qiao Anbang ordered Qiao Anguo to command the 100,000 troops of the East China Front Army to cross the Yellow River north and threaten Shanxi.
When the war was about to break out, Qiao Anbang sent a secret telegram to Yan Xishan and Wei Lihuang at the right time.
"Brother Baichuan, as handsome as Brother Junjian, Anbang now has millions of elite soldiers, and has achieved a preliminary victory in the war against Russia, the army is greatly boosted, and he is about to sweep the world with his heroes and establish a strong country where a free nation is rich.
Urgently need the help of the two brothers, I hope that the two brothers will focus on the overall situation, and do not make mistakes, otherwise millions of troops will enter the customs, and the lives will be ruined, and the blood will flow like a river, which is undesirable for Anbang, if the two brothers can focus on the great cause of the nation, the troops under the jurisdiction of the two will remain unchanged, and they will still be commanded by you, and all the supplies of weapons, ammunition, military uniforms, and food will be supplied by Qiao, and I hope the two of you will think twice. ”
After receiving this threatening telegram from Qiao Anbang, Yan Laoxi and Wei Lihuang, who were already desperate, hesitated for a long time, and reluctantly agreed to Qiao Anbang's suggestion to surrender.
The more than 300,000 people of the headquarters were all placed under the unified command of Qiao Anbang, and they were combined with the Pingjin Group Army to form the North China Front Army, with Li Pinxian as commander-in-chief, Wei Lihuang as chief of staff, and Yan Xishan as deputy commander-in-chief.
(To be continued)