The sound of airplane engines was heard in the sky behind him, and the Far Eastern soldiers in the trenches let out thunderous cheers into the sky. ▲∴▲∴, fierce air battles took place almost every day over the Yenisei River, and one Wehrmacht fighter could withstand three or four Soviet I-16 fighters, and for a few days almost the sky became the world of the Far Eastern Wehrmacht.

The Soviet army brought in a large number of reinforcements, and some new MiG-3 fighters also began to participate in air battles, and the Far Eastern Army could not replenish it in time due to losses, and the two sides returned to a state of parity, but, in general, the Far Eastern Defense Forces still maintained a certain advantage.

A huge spiral-shaped column of smoke rose in the distance, and the skyrocketing fire caused by the bombers dropped on the enemy's positions could be seen in the telescope, and there were fluctuations in the ground, which seemed to have detonated the Soviet ammunition depot.

The Far Eastern Wehrmacht continued to face off on the Yenisei River, but on the southern front, the Soviets crossed the Xisayan Ridge, crossed the Kmuzik River, and entered the territory of the Tangnu-Ulianghai in China.

China has only one frontier cavalry brigade in Tangnu-Ulianghai, which is simply unable to stop the attack of the 200,000-strong Soviet army, and now, the only thing that can delay the Soviet attack here is the rugged mountainous terrain of Tangnu-Ulianghai.

The invasion of the Soviet army immediately involved China in the war, and the Beiyang government made diplomatic representations with Soviet Russia on the one hand, and mobilized military forces on the other hand, preparing to expel the invading Soviet army.

In terms of history and administrative jurisdiction, Tangnu Ulianghai and Kobdo themselves have never been subordinate to the Khalkha Mongols of Kulen, and since the Qing Dynasty established General Uriya Sutai, they have been under the administration of Kobdo's ministers. After the Kulen authorities abolished their autonomy, the Beijing government ordered that Khovdor and Tangnu Ulianghai be separated from Outer Mongolia and merged with Altai to form Khovdor Province, with the provincial capital in the city of Khobdo.

The construction of the Northwest Railway made the transportation between Kobdo and Suiyuan easier. In addition, the Suike Railway leads to the ancient city of Xinjiang and Dihua on the south side of the Altai Mountains, becoming another railway artery connecting the mainland to Xinjiang. With the completion of the Suiyuan-Kulen and Verkhniy Uginsk railways, Suiyuan City has become the most important railway hub in the northwest and has rapidly developed into a large central city with a population of one million.

Now, however, almost all civilian trains from Suiyuan to the northwest have been suspended, and the Beiyang government is making every effort to increase troops in Xinjiang, Kobdo and Kulun. The entire station is full of military trains loaded with soldiers or military supplies, and all the stations along the way are under martial law and will be taken over by the military, and ordinary people will not be able to enter the station at all without a special letter of introduction.

The large civilian airport outside Kobdo was also completely taken over by the military, and hundreds of trucks rushed from the railway station overnight to deliver the military supplies that had just arrived.

"Quick! Hurry up and assemble the plane! ”

The wooden box was opened, revealing the dismantled metal aircraft, and parts such as the wings, nose, fuselage and tail, and engines were packed into different boxes. Nearly 1,000 mechanics and ground crews were busy nervously and began to assemble the fighters directly on the concrete runway of the airport. Under the command of the mechanics, the officers and men of these army aviation officers and men carried the large structural parts of the aircraft to the ground and placed them in order. Looking down from the control tower of the airport, you can distinguish the outlines of disintegrated fighter planes.

With the strong support of Austria-Hungary, the army and navy aviation of the Beiyang Army have been greatly strengthened since 1934, and all the old biplanes have been eliminated and used as training aircraft for aviation schools. 650 of the latest fighters and bombers were imported from Austria-Hungary, and then about 1100 were copied themselves. At present, the army air force in Beiyang has a total of more than 2,500 combat aircraft, and the naval aviation has nearly 800 combat aircraft.

Army aviation was reorganized into 12 mixed army aviation divisions, each with 2 fighter aviation regiments and 1-2 bomber aviation regiments. The establishment of naval aviation is a flying wing, and its establishment is basically equivalent to that of army aviation divisions. Now the Beiyang government has deployed about half of its air power to Mongolia, Kobdo and Xinjiang provinces. Two aviation divisions were deployed in each province. In order to resist the invasion of the Soviet army, the government did almost everything it could, sending the only three armored divisions in the country to the north.

The operational arrangements formulated by the General Staff Headquarters are: On the Xinjiang front line on the western route, there will be a total of 12 divisions, including one armored division and two aviation divisions. The total strength is 260,000, with Wang Xiaozhen as the commander-in-chief of the West Road Group and Li Jingrong as the chief of staff. The middle road Kobdo line, a total of 10 infantry divisions, 210,000 people, including two aviation divisions, commander-in-chief Wu Guangxin, chief of staff Wang Jianming. On the Kulen line on the east road, there are 13 divisions with a total strength of 280,000, including two armored divisions and two aviation divisions, with Jiang Yanxing as commander-in-chief and Zhang Chengli as chief of staff.

The 6th Division of Army Air Force, which includes two fighter regiments and two bomber regiments, has a total of 296 combat aircraft, of which the 20th Fighter Aviation Regiment is preparing to be reequipped with 72 of the latest F-5 "Thunderbirds" fighters aided by Austria-Hungary. Due to the urgency of the situation, after these new fighters landed at the port of Tianjin, they were transported directly to Kobdo by rail without opening their boxes.

"Oh, it's the latest 'Thunderbird'!" Colonel Robeck, the Austro-Hungarian military adviser of the 6th Army Aviation Division, could not help but cry out in surprise when he saw the fighters being assembled.

"Oh, Colonel, what's there to be surprised about?" Yang Hongding, commander of the 20th Fighter Aviation Regiment, who accompanied Colonel Robeck to supervise the installation and commissioning of the aircraft, asked, "The fighters manufactured by the Austro-Hungarian Standard Airlines are similar in appearance, and the first fighter on the airport to complete assembly is preparing to start commissioning.

"No, it's different, this is the world's first aircraft with a speed of more than 600 kilometers, equipped with a 1070-horsepower 12-cylinder in-line liquid-cooled engine, which reached 627 km / h at the time of testing, and at present the aviation forces of the empire are only equipped with a small part, and I did not expect to be given priority to China." "The Thunderbird is powerful, armed with two 20mm guns and two 12.7mm machine guns, which is much more powerful than previous fighters, and the Soviet fighters are no match for it," Robeck said. ”

"Haha, when you say that, I'm going to go up and experience it for myself." Yang Hongding said with a smile, "According to the battle plan, we will attack tomorrow." ”

"I'd like to give it a try, too." Robeck said.

"No, the order of the General Staff is that technical experts are strictly forbidden to board the plane unless you can apply for the qualification of a volunteer pilot." Yang Hongding said that the technical skills of the military advisers of Germany and Austria have nothing to say, but they always want to fly the plane to test it themselves, which is an old headache.

"Alright, well, I wish you all the best if you can build such an airplane yourself sooner rather than later."

"Is it difficult?"

"Of course, apart from Germany and Austria, you have heard of which country can make an aero engine with more than 1000 horsepower?!" Robbeck raised his head and said proudly,

"But I've heard that the British PV12 engines are already more than 1,200 horsepower." Mr. Yang said he was deliberately striking at Robbeck's arrogance.

“#…… ¥&¥*......%, damn British! Luo Beck couldn't help but burst into foul language, but his next sentence made Yang Hongding have nothing to say, "Yang, at least if you want to imitate it, you will definitely not be able to do it in two or three years!" (To be continued......) uR1071