Of course, the order of the Supreme Command of the Soviet Red Army was not something that Frunze, the commander of the Front, dared to resist, and the day after Frunze complained, the Soviet tank cluster assembled at Akdouka was reduced by half of its troops and tanks, and all the Su76s of the four tank armies and the Central Asian Front were loaded onto the train and rumbled west along the makeshift railroad that had just been laid. A day later, another order from the Soviet High Command transferred most of the air force under the Central Asian Front to the Polish battlefield...... Now that the Polish campaign is being fought to an insoluble point, the German army has broken through one after another and is approaching the Poznan fortress, and the eyes of the whole world are on Poland, and there are really not many people who still have the heart to pay attention to the Central Asian battlefield.

And when millions of German-Polish soldiers were strangled in the heart of the Great Polish Plain, which was full of fortifications of all kinds. In the headquarters of the Northern Xinjiang Group Army of the Northwest Front Army of China in Dihua, the capital of Beijiang Province, there was already a scene of extreme tension. Each staff officer was on the phone and doing his work around the map. A large-scale offensive was soon to begin, with nearly 400,000 IDF troops and an equal number of National Guard troops already in the designated locations and starting positions. More than 750 tanks, artillery pieces, more than 600 aircraft and more than 3,000 artillery pieces are ready! Astronomical quantities of weapons, ammunition, and supplies were being built like flowing water, and roads and temporary railways were being built to transport them to the Tacheng military station in front. And this qiē is all prepared for the battle of Jaisang Po Alla Lake, which will officially start tomorrow, that is, at 0:00 a.m. on April 5, 1933! It was also the place where the Soviet Red Army was heavily assembled. Both sides have concentrated huge forces and are ready to decide the initiative in the entire Central Asian theater in the spring of 1933 with a hard-fought battle!

If the squadron wins this battle, the deadlock in the outer frontier can be broken immediately! Because the main force of the Central Asian Front of the Soviet Red Army was in fact divided into two major groups, the north and the south, by the main force of the Chinese Outer Xinjiang Army Group in the Komsomol City. Therefore, once the Soviet army's northern front group is defeated and retreats, then its southern front group is likely to face the main force of China's Northwest Front Army alone. The final outcome will inevitably be the collapse of the whole army, when the Central Asian Soviet army will not be able to produce a fighting force, while the Western Front of China will be able to take advantage of the victory to attack Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan at the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains and northwest of the Pamirs, thus opening up communication between China and Afghanistan and India.

Of course, in the event of an unfortunate defeat of the squadron, the consequences will be extremely severe. First of all, hundreds of thousands of troops on the outer frontier side will face the dilemma of being besieged for a long time. Secondly, most of the northern Xinjiang may also be occupied by the Soviet army that takes the opportunity to counterattack, and finally even the Chang Ruiqing government will face doubts and opposition from all sides......

It is precisely because of the importance of this battle that Bai Chongxi deliberately placed himself under the command of the first fierce general. Xia Wei, the former commander of the Northwest Front, was transferred back to Dihua from Mongolia and served as the commander of the Northern Xinjiang Army Group. Now the new officer's army general was holding a straight face, holding in his hand a copy of the telegram he had just received indicating the beginning of the campaign, and he did not speak for a long time. Everyone looked at him with bated breath. At this time, the night was thick. Outside, the dark clouds cover the sun, and it is a dark and windy night of murder!

General Xia finally spoke: "What is the 5th Armored Army in now?" ”

His chief of staff, Pan Wenzhao, quickly pointed to the red mark on the map: "The 5th Armored Army has spread out from north to south about 15 kilometers west of Tacheng, forming an assault front of about 20 kilometers, and the 14th Motorized Rifle Corps, which belongs to the 5th Armored Army, is fighting in coordination with it. ”

Xia Wei did not say anything about his fluent answer, and the entire battle plan was originally formulated by the staff officers of the Northern Xinjiang Army Group Headquarters led by Pan Wenzhao. Although Xia Wei is a general in the Baoding department, after all, he has not attended an armored army school, and he has not even studied at the Army University. In the past, there was no difficulty in commanding artillery and infantry to coordinate operations, but now we are fighting this kind of three-dimensional operation in which infantry and infantry cooperate with air-ground coordination. It's a bit overwhelming. Fortunately, the National Defense Forces now practice the command mode in which the chief general is in charge and the staff officer is in charge. According to Bai Chongxi's words: "As long as you can scold people and write your own name, you can be a good commander-in-chief!" "And Xia Wei is quite good at both, so he is a good candidate for commander-in-chief.

Commander-in-Chief Xia continued to ask: "Are the heavy artillery clusters and the air force ready?" The weather in Dihua doesn't seem to be good tomorrow, and there is nothing wrong with the Tacheng front, right? Also, the enemy's defensive positions on the line of Lake Jaisangpoara are very strong, and there will be no problem in relying on infantry to take the lead, right? ”

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Since the beginning of the art of military command, night raid operations have probably been a tactic that every military commander must master. Because night is the best cover for military operations, even in the 21st century, when military reconnaissance technology is quite developed, the ground forces of the US imperialists are very fond of fighting at night (because they have night vision devices). Since the beginning of World War II, the tactic of night attack seems to have been ignored by all military strategists. In particular, as the main force of the land war, the three ** teams of the Chinese Soviet Union and Germany are all artillery and planes to open the way, and the tank infantry is based, as if they will not fight without tanks and planes!

But for the officers and men of the 18th Army of the Chinese National Defense Forces, the night was a mixture of nervousness, excitement and, of course, fear. Because they are finally going to officially enter the battlefield, and they are still the main offensive force in the lead! In this era of armored clusters rampaging the battlefield, it was a real honor and a little ...... for them to take on the task of opening the way for the tanks to attack Panic!

The 9 infantry regiments of the 52nd, 53rd, and 54th Divisions under the 18th Army and a combat engineer regiment directly under the Northern Xinjiang Army Group were composed of a total of only 10 regiments of assault troops. Spread out on a frontal battlefield about 20 kilometers wide to the west of Tacheng, preparing for an infiltration attack under the cover of night. Their frontal assault, which had been a battlefield to be stormed by more than 700 tanks and 100,000 attacking troops, now relied on their mixed assault force of less than 30,000 infantry and engineers. One can imagine how difficult their combat mission was.

Fortunately, the 18th Army is also the leading elite of the infantry of the Wehrmacht, and in order to carry out tonight's assault mission, intensive training began as early as 2 months ago. The armament of ordinary infantry has also been comprehensively improved, the old Type 38 rifle has been replaced by the powerful Type 31 automatic rifle, and the regimental 75mm mountain gun has been replaced by the more light and flexible Type 32 75mm recoilless gun. As for the tactics they are now employing with small group troops, they are not actually a completely new method of warfare, but a copy of the tactics of the German commandos at the end of World War I. If it weren't for the emergence of armored cluster assault tactics, I believe that the armies of all countries in the world would use it as a magic weapon to break the stalemate in positional warfare.

The commander of the 155th Infantry Regiment, Colonel Yu Chengwan, led his regiment through the zigzag communication trenches and entered the position where their offensive was launched. This famous Kuomintang general in history has a slightly worse official fortune in this time and space. Although he has the qualifications of the third phase of the Central Military Academy and the second phase of the Army University, he has not caught up with the upsurge of the great development of armored forces, so he is still the colonel commander of an infantry regiment until now. Moreover, it was only after the great expansion of the army during the war that it was promoted to this wèizhì.

However, Master Yu Da didn't believe that his infantry was destined to fall forever, the attack power of the armored troops was very strong, but their weaknesses were also obvious, not to mention the complex terrain that tanks and armored vehicles could not get on. Let's just say that their huge consumption is enough to make all the logistics officers big. The consumption of one armored corps is worth the consumption of 5 or 6 infantry corps. Otherwise, how could there be only one armored army under the Northern Frontier Army Group now? If there were a few more armored armies, wouldn't the Soviet fortified area in front of you be the same as a paper paste? But how many armored troops can a logistics line of thousands of kilometers be able to afford? In the future, the front will definitely have to advance to the west, and the difficulties in logistics and supply will form a greater constraint on the use of armored forces, and the infantry may become the real main force on the Sino-Soviet battlefield.

Thinking of this, Yu Chengwan, who was at the forefront of the team, couldn't help but glance back at his troops, the crooked traffic trenches were full of sturdy Guanzhong men, and the weapons and equipment they carried were all hung full, moving forward silently and quickly in the night. The 18th Army was replenished in Shaanxi. The soldiers of the 155th Regiment are all children of Guanzhong, and there has been a saying that Qin soldiers endure hard fighting since ancient times. Tonight is the time for these "Qin soldiers" to make contributions! A staff officer of the headquarters of the 52nd Division appeared at the end of the communication trench with a few soldiers, and behind him was the trench that served as a launching position for the offensive!

"Head Yu, why did you come! It's already 11:45 p.m., and there's still a quarter of an hour to go! "This young staff officer has just graduated from the Army University, and today is the first time he has been on the battlefield as a representative of the division headquarters, and it is inevitable that he will be a little nervous and excited, and he will be lying in this trench about two or three hours early. Most of the platoon commanders of the 155th Regiment were also on the battlefield for the first time, but Yu Chengwan and several battalion commanders below had all experienced the Sino-Japanese War in 1923, which can be described as jīngyàn. The troops were quickly seated under their restraint, and the officers and men were all leaning against the walls of the trenches, and there was no superfluous sound except for the low wheezing sound.

Yu Chengwan and the staff officer lay on the front of the trench together to observe the terrain, he and his officers had been here more than once, and they had long known the surrounding terrain, and now it was just a form of walking.

"Is the offensive line cleared? What about the situation on the other side? Yu Chengwan used a six-fold Nikon telescope (produced by Japanese optics belonging to the Japanese chaebol) to take a few glances at the Soviet positions opposite by the faint moonlight. The divisional staff officer replied, "Our artillery has already plowed their front several times, and the sappers have been smearing and probing for several nights in a row. Maozi buried anti-tank mines outside the anti-tank trench, and there were no anti-infantry mines, and even anti-tank mines were destroyed by artillery fire.

And according to the confessions of the captured Soviet prisoners, the main role of the Soviet defense line in front of us is also anti-tank, and it seems that these hairy men were scared by our armored troops in the battle of the Alaresa River last year...... Captain Yu, do you see those bulging mounds on the other side? That's their anti-tank fire, each with at least one 37mm or 45mm anti-tank gun in it, and an M1910 Maxim machine gun. However, the protection of these anti-tank fire points is not very good, not the concrete outer walls. Instead, it was made of sandbags and wood, only the top layer of soil was thicker, and our 75mm recoilless gun should be able to destroy it lightly. If you get within 100 meters, you can knock them out with the latest Iron Fist 100.

In addition to these anti-tank fire points, the anti-tank trench on the opposite side was also a big problem, three meters deep and five meters wide, and both sides of the trench were cut into steep slopes of 6 or 70 degrees, and it took some effort to break through. Beyond this anti-tank trench is the anti-infantry obstacle, with barbed wire and deer. There should also be anti-infantry mines, although they have been bombarded with artillery, but the Soviet sappers always recover the obstacles there in time. Later, it will depend on the ability of the sappers, if it doesn't work, it can only be changed to a strong attack, and I will contact the artillery here at any time.

Behind those obstacles were their infantry trenches, which were probably garrisoned by a regiment of Soviet infantry. It is equipped with machine guns, mortars and 76.2mm field guns. Those anti-tank fire points were yītǐ with their trench companies. Behind the trench was a reinforced concrete anti-tank stronghold, equipped with a 76.2mm anti-tank gun, which also served as an artillery observation headquarters, which was supposed to be the core of the entire Soviet defense system. The task of your regiment is to capture or destroy this anti-tank stronghold by surprise and open the way for the subsequent troops to attack! ”

Yu Chengwan sighed softly, in the battle plan formulated by the staff officers, the casualties of his own officers and soldiers were just a string of cold numbers, but for a regimental-level officer like Yu Chengwan. It was all the fall of a life that I was once familiar with. After the battle, he and several battalion commanders in the regiment were also responsible for writing death notices to the families of the fallen officers and soldiers! Then. There was a slight noise in the surrounding trenches, which was the brother troops entering the battle line. According to the plan, on this main breakthrough 20 km wide, the first wave of the offensive of the 18th Army will throw 3 infantry regiments and 1 combat engineer battalion, totaling tens of thousands of infantry!

He glanced at the Citizen watch on his wrist, which was a product of the factory opened in China by the Japanese Shokosha Chronology Research Institute, which had been exiled to China in 1924, and it was already 11:58 p.m., and the time for the attack to start was approaching!

The staff officer of the division headquarters had already put his ear to the earphone of the telephone, listening intently to the brief command coming from the telephone line. He half-turned around and nodded at Yu Cheng Wanzhong: "You can start!" “

Yu Chengwan took a deep breath, squatted in the trench and raised his right hand high, and waved it down again. The officers and men of the 155th Regiment and the attached Combat Engineer Company stood up under the command of their respective officers and began to check the equipment on their bodies. Their military uniforms are all yellow and green camouflage uniforms, and the steel helmets have to be covered with a layer of camouflage covers, which is really not easy to be discovered by the opponent on this starry night, even if the Soviet flares are shot out as if they don't need money!

Seeing that his subordinates were ready, Yu Chengwan gave an order in a low tone: "Go!" Surprise infiltration is achieved first, and if it is not achieved, it will be changed to a strong attack, and each unit will attack in the original order! After saying that, he beckoned, and the three battalion commanders under his command took the lead in turning out the trenches, followed by more than 3,000 officers and soldiers of the 155th Regiment, Yu Chengwan and his regimental headquarters, as well as the mortar company and recoilless artillery company directly under the regimental headquarters, were the last to jump out of the trenches and crawl towards the front line of the Soviet army.

On the Zuoyou flanks of the 155th Regiment, the officers and men of the 154th and 156th Regiments also jumped out of position at the same time, each regiment was accompanied by a combat engineer company, carrying sufficient ammunition and equipment, and squirmed forward in the middle of the confrontation between the two armies, under the cover of the darkest night before dawn. More attacking units were also ready to go, waiting for orders to attack in their respective starting positions. Behind the starting positions of the Chinese army, an armored assault group consisting of 750 tanks and assault artillery was also ready, just waiting for the signal that the raid would succeed or that the assault would begin!

On the artillery position of the Chinese army, more than 2,000 cannons of various calibers are also ready, piles of ammunition have been placed near the gun position, everyone is holding their breath and looking at the sky in the distance, the palms of their hands are a handful of cold sweat, once the sneak attack fails, it is necessary to rely on a strong attack to tear open the opponent's defense, and the losses at that time are unimaginable!

And even if the sneak attack is successful, it is only to break through the first line of defense of the Soviet army, and then there is at least a dozen kilometers of in-depth defense system that needs to be captured inch by inch by the first person with flesh and blood! Even if the battle of Jaisan Po Ala is won, it will only open the first door to victory, and on the road to victory over the GC Soviet Union, it is not known how many more difficult battles than the battle of Jaisan Po Ala Lake are waiting for the ** people!

Let's turn our minds back to the front line of Lake Jaisangpoara on April 5, 1933. The offensive had begun in silence, no overwhelming shelling, no whistling planes dropping bombs, no roaring tanks rumbling forward, only those Chinese warriors who slowly squirmed forward!