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Chapter 1614 The results of the battle are very different

Fifty kilometers west of the city of Kirov, on the defensive position of the 11th Army of the Far Eastern Army blocking Soviet reinforcements from the west, Lieutenant General Mikhail stood on the top of a trench and carefully searched the vast plain ahead through the telescope in his hand. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

According to the feedback from the high-altitude reconnaissance planes, the Soviet troops dispatched an astonishing force of more than 20 kilometers, and the attacking team had a large number of tanks, artillery, and cavalry. There is no doubt that this is a formidable army armed to the teeth, and how effective it is not asked.

Looking at these soldiers on their own defensive lines, since the mutiny of the West Siberian army, the death of military and political commanders such as Blyukher, Bukharin and other military and political commanders in the riot, and then the bloodless occupation of Eastern Siberia by the Japanese army, the morale of the troops has dropped sharply. At this time, Soviet bombers flew into the sky and dropped a large number of propaganda leaflets, accusing the soldiers of being even more confused and unaware of what they were fighting for.

Although the Far Eastern Army collected the leaflets in a timely manner, and at the same time dispatched political cadres to carry out rigorous and meticulous political and ideological work, and proved that the Japanese army's attack on the Far East and Siberia was actually caused by collusion with Moscow, this still could not dispel the doubts in the hearts of the officers and men.

Due to the impact of the rebellion, the train moving westward was sabotaged by the rebels and Soviet partisans, and the logistical supply of the troops was already seriously problematic, and the limited supply of food and ammunition deepened the worries of the officers and soldiers. In particular, after the National Congress of Soviets held in Moscow in late July made a decision to "pardon the people and soldiers involved in the rebellion and hold only the military commanders and the most culprit accountable," with the launch of a new round of leaflet offensives, the morale of the Far Eastern Army was falling even faster, and many grassroots soldiers were ready to surrender.

The Soviet army was recuperated and menacing, in stark contrast to the low morale of his own troops, Mikhail was very confused, and the only good news at the moment was that the Far Eastern Army had occupied most of the entire city of Kirov, and the Soviets controlled only eleven blocks near the Chepcha River. But Mikhail knew very well that because the water transportation of the Chepcha River was not completely blocked, in fact, the Soviet troops in these eleven blocks were still continuously replenished by the east bank of the Chepcha River, and victory was far away.

"Bang-"

Just as Mikhail was pondering, a brilliant cloud of colorful smoke erupted over the front of the defensive line, which was the signal for the appearance of the enemy. There is no doubt that the main forces assembled by the Soviet army have come over.

Quickly raising the telescope in his hand, Mikhail looked towards the meeting of heaven and earth in the vast plain, and what he saw in the telescope made him gasp. I saw that in the place where the telescope could be reached, a fine black dot was speeding towards this side in the sky - it was the Soviet army's fleet, and in terms of number, it was at least no less than four or five hundred.

Damn it! When did the Soviet Air Force have so many aircraft? You must know that on the front line of the Chepu River, hundreds of fighters are entangled with the Far Eastern Army Air Force, and this new fighter is undoubtedly another wave of new forces of the Soviet Army into the battlefield!

"This is the concrete manifestation of the industrial gap between the two sides!" Mikhail thought sadly.

"Comrade Mikhail, what should we do now?" Lieutenant General Susanino, the military commissar who followed Mikhail, looked a little panicked, his face was pale, and his language trembled slightly.

"Ordered the anti-aircraft artillery units to be on full alert, and told the comrades that the time for a decisive battle had come, and that they should not be stingy and fire all the anti-aircraft shells. Order the comrades of the anti-aircraft machine gun regiment that the time has come to test them, and they must withstand the bombing of the Soviet dive bombers and beat them down! ”

"Okay, Comrade Mikhail, I'll go now!"

Seeing that Mikhail's expression was quite calm, Susanino finally felt a little relieved and walked away quickly.

"Boom-"

With the roar of anti-aircraft artillery sounded, the first wave of battles in which the Soviet troops switched from defense to offensive began, and compared with the air attacks of the Soviet troops, the air defense forces of the 11th Army of the Far Eastern Army were somewhat inadequate.

The first to press up was the Soviet SB-RK dive bomber. This bomber was developed based on the B2 dive bomber purchased by the Far Eastern Army from South China, and was equipped with three 7.62mm SHKAS machine guns with a bomb load of 1,600 kg, of which 600 kg was carried in the bomb bay and 1,000 kg was attached externally. As soon as the new aircraft was unveiled, it was used on the Far Eastern Army.

In a deafening whistling, dark green SB-RK bombers swooped down from the sky, and the high-range anti-aircraft guns of the 11th Army of the Far Eastern Army posed little threat to the high-speed moving SB-RK dive bombers, but the machine gun positions achieved good results.

During the dive, three 7.62-mm SHKAS machine guns in front of the fuselage of the Soviet bomber sang all the way, sowing the seeds of the ravages of death on the air defense positions of the Far Eastern Army without scruples.

The anti-aircraft machine guns on the ground were not to be outdone, and the sound of "da-da" shooting continued to sound, tearing apart one SB-RK dive bomber after another, pulling them into the embrace of the earth, and from time to time SB-RK dive bombers whimpered and dragged a long black smoke to the ground.

In the contest with the high-speed SB-RK dive bomber, although the anti-aircraft machine gun position has strong firepower, but because of its fixed position, it has become the priority object of Soviet fighters, and the bombs thrown under the body of the SB-RK dive bomber exploded on the machine gun position, and in the rising of a ball of fire and the roar of the explosion, the anti-aircraft machine gun was blown into the sky together with the owner who controlled it, and the scattered parts were mixed with more scattered stumps and broken arms, breaking through the air and flying.

After paying the price of more than 40 SB-RK dive bombers being destroyed by ground fire, the 58 anti-aircraft machine gun positions carefully arranged by the Far Eastern Army also collapsed and collapsed, and later the antiaircraft artillery positions that had no deterrent ability against the SB-RK dive bombers became the targets of attack, and the air defense forces of the Far Eastern Army were rapidly collapsing.

In just half an hour of bombing and strafing, the entire air defense position of the Far Eastern Army was in shambles, and the broken barrels, overturned gun carriages, scattered corpses, and thick smoke billowing positions meant that the Far Eastern Army had completely lost its air defense capability.

With the destruction of anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft artillery positions, followed by the overwhelming cross-strike of Soviet SB2 horizontal bombers and long-range intensive artillery fire, bombs poured down on the positions of the Far Eastern Army like a torrential rain, and the bomb fragments fired everywhere, the raging fire, mercilessly devoured the lives of the officers and men of the Far East.

This almost perfect operational layout fully demonstrated the talent of the Soviet commander-in-chief Zhukov in commanding operations, he first used the city of Kirov to entangle the main force of the Far Eastern Army, and then silently accumulated troops on the Western Front, and waited until the Far Eastern soldiers were tired before suddenly launching a fatal blow.

When his troops raided the enemy's positions, he first let the air force launch an extremely fast air attack to destroy the opponent's air defense and long-range artillery strike capability at the first time, and then destroyed the opponent's forward positions with intensive artillery fire, and finally broke through the opponent's defensive depth with the coordinated operation of tanks and infantry, and finally encircled and annihilated him. This is Zhukov's original "grinding plate" large corps advance tactics, bloody but very practical, when he has absolute superiority in troops, once launched, it is tantamount to a nightmare for the opponent.

The whole battle began at 9 o'clock in the morning of the 8th and ended at 5 o'clock in the afternoon of the next day, and in the face of the attack coordinated by the Soviet army, which had armored units and an air force that occupied absolute air supremacy, the Far Eastern Army put up a heroic resistance, but still did not avoid the fate of total annihilation.

After perceiving the strategic intentions of the Soviet army, Yegorov immediately gave the order:

The various units that entered the city of Kirov were evacuated in turn, with the city of Zuyevka in the east of the city of Kirov as a rallying point, and the ultimate goal was to retreat to Yar and use the Udmurt hills in the western part of the Eastern European Plain to confront the Soviet army. At the same time, Yegorov mobilized two army groups and one tank corps as reserves, and set up three blocking positions southwest and south of Kirov to prevent the retreating troops from being pursued by the Soviet ranks.

For the current Far Eastern Army, the hard attack on Kirov City has not stopped, the strength of the troops has been lost, and it is the best policy to preserve the strength and wait for the coming Japanese side. As far as strategic purposes are concerned, since the launch of the war on the Western Front, the Far Eastern Army has harvested all the oil fields and industrial bases in the Urals, and as long as they are properly managed, they may not have a chance to recover.

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Diametrically opposed to the defeat suffered by the allies of the Far Eastern Army in the Kirov region, on the morning of the 9th, after a day and a night of fierce fighting, Li Jinlong gathered at Uriyanvono, broke the defense of the Soviet Second Army, and joined forces with Ye and Xiao Corps in the city of Ursatsye. The small city, which had served as a supply center for the Soviet army, had been reduced to rubble in the missile attack a few days earlier and the subsequent bombing of ammunition and oil, and the Soviets abandoned the almost razed city to the ground and shrank to Begovat, ready to put up a stubborn resistance.

From the confessions of the captives, Ye Cheng and Li Jinlong had learned that the main force of the Soviet army marched eastward from the mountains of Turkestan to join up with the Tianshan Corps, and now Begovat only had three incomplete group armies, with a total strength of no more than 100,000 troops, and the Soviet troops in the encirclement no longer posed a threat to the Anjia army, which now has 300,000 troops after the convergence of troops, occupies air supremacy, and has absolute equipment superiority.

Under these circumstances, in order to reduce the casualties of the troops and at the same time save the consumption of ammunition, Ye Cheng, Li Jinlong, and Xiao Wu drafted the "Letter of Urging the Soviet Army to Surrender," demanding that the Soviet Army lay down its arms and surrender unconditionally, and that the Anjia Army would ensure the safety of the lives and property of officers and soldiers, and properly treat the wounded and sick.

In order to fulfill the promise of two to three days, the Soviets demanded 48 hours to consider, but asked An Jiajun to receive the wounded and sick for treatment first.

Ye Cheng, Li Jinlong, and Xiao Wuluo agreed to each other's request after discussion, and on the 11th, the Soviet troops in the Begovat area, which had run out of food again, felt the sincerity shown by the An Jiajun and announced their unconditional surrender, and the southern front campaign, which had been thought to be a fierce battle, came to an abrupt end in such an atmosphere.