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Chapter 1822: The Idea of a Counteroffensive in the Far East

On 26 June, after receiving the clear photos taken by the "Clairvoyant" No. 1 satellite, An Yi was so relieved that he immediately took a train overnight to Anxin City to negotiate behind closed doors with Lao Shoudao, Jiang Yunshan, Dong Fuchuan, Ma Junwu, and other think tanks. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

On 28 July, An Yi returned to Xinjing by train and immediately issued an order to convene the generals of all armies, group armies, divisions, air forces, and navies of the whole army to Xinjing to hold an enlarged meeting of the Military Committee.

On the first day of the meeting, in accordance with Hu Jialin's own wishes, he was dismissed from his post as commander of the Central Asian Military Region and returned to Xinjing to formally assume the post of defense minister of South China. Lieutenant General Huang Zhi, former chief of staff of the Central Asian Military Region, was transferred to the General Staff and re-appointed deputy chief of the general staff, and at the same time promoted to the rank of general.

The next day, the Military Commission issued an order to commend 362 generals and colonels who had distinguished themselves in training and combat in various theaters.

On the third day, the General Political Department made public the performance of the 436 demobilized military officers and schools who had participated in local work during their duties at the grassroots level, and 362 of them performed an outstanding performance, successfully fulfilled the tasks assigned by the organization, and made outstanding contributions to the development of the local economy, communications, education, and so on.

According to their own wishes, 212 generals and colonels chose to return to their original units and be promoted to the first level. The remaining 150 were given promotions and will remain in the local area thereafter.

Among the other 72 generals, 51 of them were average, had a feeling of resistance to being transferred to work in a local area, were relatively passive in their work, and did not give full play to their subjective initiative, but they did not commit any mistakes of principle during their tenure. In accordance with the regulations of the General Political Department, these 51 generals will be criticized and demoted, and if they neglect their duties again in their new posts, they will be severely punished by dismissal from military and public posts.

The last 21 generals and colonels were either in a hurry to make progress and made huge mistakes while holding leading posts in the localities, or they were passive in dealing with things, retreating in the face of difficulties, and tarnishing the image of the party and the army.

During their tenure as principal local leaders, the economic aggregate of their counties and cities rose rapidly, but they accepted bribes in their work, sought personal interests for their families, relatives and friends, and embezzled more than 5,000 Chinese yuan.

Because of the clear distinction between rewards and punishments, the atmosphere of the entire military and political circles has been suppressed, and the new batch of demobilized generals and colonels who have received orders from the General Political Department will not dare to slack off and will devote themselves wholeheartedly to their new work in the future, striving to serve as officials for one term and benefit one party.

A week later, at the end of the enlarged meeting of the whole army, An Yi issued an order of the chairman of the Military Committee: From now on, the army sequence will be re-planned, and the various armies, group armies, and divisions will be adjusted, and the adjustment period will be one month. I hope that all the generals can stick to their posts and stand on the last shift.

In addition to the exchange of commanders of the troops, the most striking change in this readjustment is that the role of the front army has been continuously strengthened.

The original front army was only under the jurisdiction of three group armies and the guard army directly under its command, and it was impossible to really take charge of the army on its own; if other front armies were mobilized to provide assistance, military orders would not be effectively unified because everyone was at the same level, and it would be easy to form a situation in which each side fought its own battle.

According to the new establishment, the front army will have at least four or more group armies under its jurisdiction, usually eight group armies, and each group army will have three divisions under its jurisdiction and such units as tank brigades, armored brigades, and engineer brigades. In addition, the mobilization of troops to help in the war across borders is basically based on group armies and their subordinate units, which will no longer interfere with the unified command of the leading bodies of various theaters, and it is easy to pinch all military forces into one fist and unite against the enemy.

According to the meeting plan, the Gu Changfeng cluster and the Yang Guan cluster were officially merged into the Central and Southern Front Army.

The main operational direction of this front army is Malaya and Burma, and General Gu Changfeng is the commander of the front army, Lieutenant General Yang Guan is the political commissar, and Lieutenant General Xie Chi is the deputy commander. Except for some generals at and above the division level, most of them were transferred to other front armies, and then the other front armies were transferred to perform their duties with equal generals, thus formally opening up a large-scale rotation of military cadres and eliminating the hidden danger of mountaineering.

The Xia Jian cluster and the mountain cluster led by An Jin were combined into the Northern Burma Front, with General Xia Jian as the commander of the front army, Lieutenant General Yan Yaohuan as the political commissar of the front army, Lieutenant General Sun Zhuming as the deputy commander, and Lieutenant General Jiao Guangxu as the chief of staff.

According to the order of the General Staff Headquarters, Lieutenant General An Jin, the former commander of the mountain cluster, was transferred to the commander of the capital garrison, which was formed by the elite of the special forces and elites of various armies, and Liang Zhenyu, chief of staff, was transferred to the political commissar of the garrison. The garrison has three guards armies under its jurisdiction, all of which are composed of officers and men of special forces, veterans of wounded and recovered wounds, or meritorious officers and soldiers.

The garrison will strive to build the most elite mobile combat units and form an all-weather rapid reaction capability as soon as possible to cope with the operations of various armies.

The Indian Front was composed of Li Jinlong's cluster and Zhang Chengzhu's cluster transferred to West India, and An Yi's two brothers-in-law held major positions in the front, of which General Zhang Chengzhu served as the commander of the front, General Li Jinlong served as the political commissar, and Lieutenant General Wu Xianwei served as the deputy commander.

The Ye Cheng Cluster and the Yang Jiuxiao Cluster formed the Middle East Front, with General Ye Cheng, former commander of the tank cluster, as the commander of the front, General Yang Jiuxiao as the political commissar, Lieutenant General Ma Yuanjiang as the deputy commander, and Lieutenant General Huang Hanqian as the chief of staff.

In order to strengthen its establishment, the front army has 12 tank divisions, 8 armored infantry divisions, and 12 motorized infantry divisions, as well as a number of independent heavy tank brigades, tank destroyer brigades, howitzer brigades, and army aviation units, which are mainly used to guard against the German army and to guard against future coveting by the United States, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union in the Persian Gulf region.

General Zhao Rui, deputy chief of the General Staff, is the commander of the front army, Lieutenant General Huang Yingwu, former political commissar of the Central Asian Military Region, is the political commissar of the front army, Xiao Wu, former commander of the tank group, is the deputy commander of the front army, and Lieutenant General Shen Ziling, former director of the Operations Department of the General Staff Department, is the chief of staff.

According to the plan, the front army is fully organized into four tank armies (currently only two mechanized armies and units directly under the cluster), four motorized infantry armies (currently only two motorized infantry armies), mainly used to guard the areas bordering the Far Eastern Republic and the Soviet Union, and at the same time undertake the heavy task of supporting operations in the Far East.

In addition, since the basic establishment has not changed since the Japanese army threat in East Siberia, the Far East, the Northeast China, Rehe, Chahar, and other places has been dealt with at the same time, the commander of the Military Region, Yin Jinan, will continue to coordinate the operations against the Japanese forces in the Far East and Northeast China. According to the plan, in the next three months, the establishment of the Northern Army, which was originally independent of the overall establishment of the Anjia Army, will be reincorporated into the overall establishment of the Anjia Army, and the new battle sequence will be formulated by the General Staff and implemented by Yin Jinan and the Military Committee of the Military Region of the First Military Region.

Finally, in order to avoid an overreaction on the part of Nanjing, the establishment of some domestic armies, group armies, and divisions will not be changed for the time being, and the restructuring will be carried out after the unified planning in the future.

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Lake Baikal, known as the "North Sea" in ancient China, was the territory of China during the Han, Tang, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties and the early Qing Dynasty, and was seized by the Russian Empire during the Kangxi and Yongzheng periods.

With such a good place to settle, the towns around the lake, such as Irkutsk, Ulan-Uda, Petrovsk, etc., soon evolved into the frontier bases of the Russian Empire's annexation of China's Far East, Northeast China and other places, and the industry and economy of the areas along the lake have also developed to a certain extent.

After the establishment of the Soviet Union, Lake Baikal has de facto become an inland part of the Soviet Union, and unless China takes it back, it may threaten the security and ownership of Lake Baikal. This is also the main intention of the Soviet Union to insist on supporting and separating it from China's territory and ensuring the absolute security of the Baikal region and the Trans-Siberian Railway.

In the autumn of 38, the Japanese army that invaded Western Siberia was driven back to the eastern shore of Lake Baikalga by the Anjia army, and Hu Jiyang was ordered to lead the army and maintain the battle line on the line of the Hamar Daban Mountains on the south shore of Lake Baikal. According to the "Secret Treaty of Peace" signed between the South China government and the Soviet Union in 39 years, including Kemirovo, Lake Baikal, the Far East and other places, all of which were included in the territory of South China, so in a sense, the current Baikal is already China's territory, just waiting for the expulsion of *** people.

The city of Irkutsk, located at the confluence of the Angara River and the Irkutsk River in the southwest of Lake Belga, has a continental climate and a long cold period, and enjoys the reputation of "the heart of Siberia", "Paris of the East", "Pearl of Siberia", etc., and the city center is connected by natural birch forests in the residential area. Due to the regulation of Lake Baikal, the average temperature in January is -15 degrees Celsius, and in summer and July is 19 degrees Celsius.

Today's Irkutsk has become the forward base of the Anjia Army's counteroffensive in the Far East and the Northeast, with the opening of the railway connecting Erdenet to Gorodok and Slyudenka, the capital of Kulen has been closely linked with Irkutsk, and timely transported grain, ammunition, oil, heavy artillery, and replenishment for the forward troops.

From early in the morning, the military airport in the north of the city was heavily guarded with three steps and one post, five steps and one sentry.

At nine o'clock in the morning, a convoy drove into the airport one after another, and it seemed that a big man was coming.

A large AN6 passenger plane descended from the sky, taxied on the airport runway for some distance and then slowly stopped, and when Yin Jinan was closing his eyes and thinking about the purpose of the sporadic shooting incident that the Japanese army suddenly launched on the border line a few days ago, a loud voice was already ringing in his ears.

"Commander, it's time to get off the plane."

Adjutant Lieutenant Colonel Zhu Ziyu's reminder interrupted Yin Jinan's thoughts, he turned his head to look at the scene outside the porthole, nodded slightly, slowly stood up, put on the windbreaker handed by the attendant, took the lead, and strode towards the open hatch.

Walking down the gangway, you will be greeted by a column of generals who salute mechanically.

Yin Jinan returned the salute, looked around, and saw that the three leading lieutenant generals were Hu Jiyang, commander of the Baikal cluster, He Yifei, political commissar, and Tang Honglei, political commissar of the Central Front Army.

"Commander, hard work." Hu Jiyang took the lead in extending his hand to Yin Jinan.

"The brethren have worked hard—"

After Yin Jinan finished speaking, he suddenly felt that the temperature was a little low, and subconsciously looked up at the sun in the sky, and found that the sun was shining, and then he realized that this was Irkutsk, a famous summer resort, and took off his gloves at the moment and shook hands with the generals one by one.

"Let's go, go to Cluster Command. By the way, let Major General Liu Yu accompany me, he has been appointed by the chairman as the head of the General Staff Operations Department, I will take him back to Kulen by the way, and then send a special plane to send him to Xinjing. ”

After Yin Jinan finished speaking, he glanced around, only to see a young man in his early twenties, striding up to Yin Jinan and saluting respectfully.

"What a young man!"

Yin Jinan couldn't help but praise and said: "The so-called times create heroes, when I was as old as you, I was at least a general, but that was a special historical period." I didn't expect that under the strict promotion system formulated by our army, you can still be promoted to the chief of staff of the front army so quickly, which shows your ability! Come on, let's have a good chat. ”

After speaking, Yin Jinan took Liu Yu's hand, walked to one of the cars, and after the adjutant opened the car door, he lowered his head and got in. Hu Jiyang and the others had already received orders from the General Staff Headquarters, so they were not surprised by Yin Jinan's words, glanced at each other, and consciously walked towards the other cars, and soon the convoy started and drove out of the airport.

In the car, under Yin Jinan's inquiry, Liu Yu talked about his situation when he was assigned to the General Staff and followed An Yi during the Anti-Japanese War in North China and the Battle of Songhu.

"It can be seen that my brother values you very much, and it should be of great use to transfer you back this time. Generally according to the promotion habits of our army, if you go back and work for a year or two, then you will at least be the chief of staff of the lieutenant general, and by the end of the war, you may be able to be promoted to general, and the future is immeasurable! I hope you can do a good job and don't embarrass our *** military region! ”

Seeing that Liu Yu was still a little shy, Yin Jinan asked again: "What do you think about the Japanese invaders who shoot cold shots every day, but do not launch regular attacks?" ”

"It's supposed to test our reaction!"

Liu Yu replied confidently: "Now, the Japanese army is constantly sending troops from its country to fight in Australia, and in this case, they are worried that we will take the initiative to fight, so they use this way to test our bottom line of patience." If what I expected is right, as long as we ignore them, in a day or two they will take the initiative to stop the harassment and then transfer troops from the Far East to Australia for reinforcements! ”

"Oh!?"

Yin Jinan's eyes lit up: "You mean, *** people even dare to mobilize troops in the Far East...... Why do you think so? ”

Liu Yu patiently explained: "For the current ***, due to the emergence of the army and air force with the advantage of our Anjia army, there is a sense of crisis up and down the military and political circles. Compared with the Northeast and North China under the threat of our army's front, there is also a precedent of our army's fighter bombing, Australia, which hangs alone overseas, is surrounded by the vast sea, and the area is large enough, and the resources are also very rich, it is a good place to recuperate!

"Over the years, the Japanese army has not won against us, and perhaps even the *** people themselves have not realized that they have an inexplicable fear of us from the heart, so they are eager to find a way out, and Australia is considered to be a treasure given to the Yamato nation. I even suspect now that the unprecedented plague in Australia two years ago was initiated by *** people, in order to have fewer obstacles in the military conquest of Australia! “

Yin Jinan saw that some of Liu Yu's thoughts coincided with his own, and said appreciatively: "I suddenly understand now, why does the eldest brother value you so much, you are indeed very talented." ”

Speaking of this, Yin Jinan stroked his chin and thought thoughtfully: "Speaking of which, at least there won't be a big battle this year...... In this case, there is still nearly a year of development, during which in addition to vigorously building roads, you can also try to stock up on ammunition and food and grass, so that if you launch a counterattack next spring, you will be more sure! ”

Liu Yu knew the intimate relationship between Yin Jinan and An Yi, and looked at the No. 3 person in the army in front of him with a little awe. is about to leave the *** military region, whether Yin Jinan wants to or not, he decided to give Yin Jinan a wake-up call: "Commander, I don't know where you plan to start with the counterattack against the Japanese army entrenched in Eastern Siberia, the Far East and the Northeast?" ”

Yin Jinan was stunned: "Didn't the General Staff let us go from Irkutsk to the first place, through the main artery of the Trans-Siberian Railway, and gradually force the Japanese army into the sea?" Is there something wrong? ”

"This strategy is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the attrition of soldiers will be very large!"

Liu Yu said bluntly: "Ulan-Uda, Petrovsk, Chita and other places east of Lake Berga were entrenched by the Russian compass in the early years and built extremely strong fortresses, and later the Soviet Union reinforced them many times, if you choose to attack, the losses will be great!" If this is so difficult, why not change your mindset?

Speaking of this, Liu Yu raised his voice: "Commander, as far as I know, the industrial development of the Northeast is almost comparable to that of the local area. After the Russo-Japanese War, the first investment in the Northeast to build a factory, after the 918 incident, this trend is more obvious, with the development of rich iron ore and coal resources in the Northeast, coupled with the construction of perfect railway and highway transportation, from Shenyang to Dalian on both sides of the Shenyang-Dalian line, factory chimneys are lined up, the city is connected together, becoming a world-famous 'long industrial zone', Shenyang Tiexi District is known as the 'Oriental Ruhr'.

"If, after the war, these areas fall intact under our control, then our industrial level will be greatly improved, which will be of great benefit to our future development of Siberia and the Far East! Therefore, instead of launching a counteroffensive by the Trans-Siberian Railway, he looked for a quick way to southern Liaoning in the southeastern region of *** and decisively chose to attack. As long as we can successfully take the whole territory of Liaoning, we will grasp the initiative in the campaign, and then slowly move from the south to the north, recovering Jilin, Heilongjiang and the Far East, the Japanese army is afraid that the rear road will be cut off, no matter how strong the fortresses it has built in Ulan Uda, Chita, Hailanpao and other places, we must also choose to retreat, so that we can freely choose the time and place of the decisive battle, and give the Japanese army a fatal blow! ”

Yin Jinan glanced at Liu Yu with some surprise, and then fell into deep thought.

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