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If the Soviet Union wanted to obtain weapons and military supplies from the Chinese Empire, it needed to go through a series of links such as bilateral negotiations, payment of deposits, and safe transportation. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ╔╗

The Soviet Union was in dire need of arms, and the Soviet military was already in a hurry, and in the face of the sky-high price of the Chinese Empire, it did not even sit on the ground and pay back. Just as Tsarist Russia had sent all 800 tons of gold from its treasury to the Chinese Empire to buy arms in response to the revolution at home, the Soviet Union re-mortgaged 350 tons of gold and 12,000 tons of silver from its treasury to the Chinese Empire, in exchange for the Chinese Empire immediately and urgently delivered the first batch of arms worth 12.2 billion dragon dollars to the Soviet Union.

Stalin was generous, and the Chinese Empire satisfied him to the greatest extent.

Due to the considerable profits from this huge arms deal, the Chinese Imperial Government took 10% of the tax on the arms transaction and immediately stamped it away. Due to the special instructions received from the Chinese Emperor Wang Chenhao, the Imperial Export Control Commission only required the Soviet Union to pay a guarantee of 400 million dragon coins as a guarantee to prevent the Soviet Union from copying the advanced weapons and equipment of the Chinese Empire through reverse engineering, and then relaxed the restrictions on high-tech exports to the Soviet Union.

The major arms dealers of the empire threw out their own high-tech weapons and equipment one after another, including more than 300 kinds of military, logistical, civilian and other aspects. The Soviet government, on the other hand, did not refuse to come, and as long as the technical level surpassed that of Germany, the Soviet side accepted all the orders and did not bargain.

It can be said that the Soviets, who burned their eyebrows, were already desperate. This was a great deal of cheapness for the arms dealers of the Chinese Empire. In just three months, China and the Soviet Union signed arms orders totaling 264 billion dragon coins, equivalent to the gross national product of the Chinese Empire in 13 months.

Of course, the USSR could not have come up with so much money at once. The gold and foreign exchange reserves of the USSR were enough to cover less than a third of the costs. The remaining funds were paid in installments, and even the only two oil fields of the Soviet Union were directly mortgaged to the Chinese Empire. And the arms dealers of the Chinese Empire were also unable to produce all the weapons and materials required by the Soviets at once, and most of them had to be produced first. Therefore, it was agreed that the Soviets would pay the deposit in advance, and the balance would be paid in a lump sum on the official transaction date.

Anyway. ╔╗The Chinese Empire has eaten up the Soviets, and this huge amount of money will definitely not be taken out again.

However, the Chinese Empire still talks about credit. Unlike when it pitted Tsarist Russia, it received 800 tons of gold from Tsarist Russia, but delayed giving Tsarist Russia arms, until the fall of Tsarist Russia, the Chinese Empire only provided less than 30 tons of gold weapons and equipment, which can be said to have pitted Tsarist Russia miserably.

But this time is different. Due to various strategic considerations, the Chinese Empire needed the Soviet Union to engage in an unprecedented war of attrition with Germany, so after receiving the gold and silver from the Soviet Union, it immediately fulfilled the contract and quickly delivered the first batch of arms worth 122 dragon coins to the Soviet Union.

The great national strength of the Chinese Empire was vividly demonstrated at this moment, and the Chinese Empire dispatched 1,200 military transport planes of various kinds, together with more than 3,000 transport planes of the major civil aviation companies of the empire, to first airlift 500,000 tons of military supplies to Moscow. It mainly includes the M28A3 main battle tank, W30 wheeled infantry fighting vehicle, and Z29 anti-tank combat vehicle, which are urgently needed by the Soviet Red Army. As well as various anti-tank rockets and anti-tank sniper rifles, which were tactics of the Soviet Red Army against the armored clusters of the German army.

The timely airlift of these military supplies to the Soviet Union by the Chinese Empire was undoubtedly a lifesaver for the Soviet Red Army, and played an immeasurable role in the Soviet Red Army in blocking the fierce offensive of the German army.

At the same time, a large number of military vehicles, artillery, ammunition, food, medicine and other materials were transported to the Soviet Union by land and rail. For the Soviet people, who were caught in a bitter war, the Chinese Empire was undoubtedly a relief in the snow. Of course, this was all because Stalin forbade the government to reveal anything about the Soviet Union's emptying of its treasury to obtain these supplies from the Chinese Empire. On the one hand, Stalin did not want the Soviets to know that the Soviet treasury was empty, and on the other hand, he declared that this was the humanitarian aid of the Chinese Empire to the Soviet Union, and his intention was already very obvious, that is, to curry favor with the Chinese Empire and prevent the Chinese Empire from taking the opportunity to invade the Soviet Union, and at the same time, he also had the purpose of inciting Germany and the Allies to be hostile to the Chinese Empire.

Stalin's move naturally irritated Hitler.

At this time, Hitler was already taking risks in order to obtain oil for the eastward invasion of the Soviet Union, because France on the Western Front had not yet been eliminated, and he could take a breather to counterattack Germany at any time. At the same time, Hitler was well aware that once Germany destroyed the Soviet Union, then it would directly confront the Chinese Empire. ╔╗

Hitler was particularly shocked by the fact that the Chinese Empire was able to airlift huge military supplies to the Soviet Union in a short period of time, highlighting the strength of the Chinese Empire.

Hitler was well aware that war with the Chinese Empire would be sooner or later, but he wanted to delay the war as long as possible, unless Germany was ready to respond to a military attack from the Chinese Empire. Therefore, when Hitler learned that the Soviet Union was negotiating an arms purchase agreement with the Chinese Empire, he gave the German army at the front line an order for the rapid destruction of the Soviet Union.

Although the Soviet Red Army received up to 300,000 tons of weapons and supplies on August 15, it would take at least a few months for the Soviet army to adapt to the advanced weapons and equipment of the Chinese Empire, and during this time, the Soviet army was forced to adopt a strategic retreat plan of exchanging space for time.

After occupying Minsk, on August 15, through fierce battles, the German army captured Smolensk, the gateway to the Soviet capital Moscow, surrounded more than a dozen Soviet divisions, cut off the Minsk-Moscow road, the most important communication artery in the western part of the Soviet Union, and set up the headquarters of the German Army Group Center here.

At this time, the Germans were only 380 kilometers from Moscow.

After a month of high-intensity mechanized warfare, the German army's oil reserves dropped sharply, Hitler was well aware of the conspiracy of the Chinese Empire, and hoped that the Soviet-German war would be a stalemate, so Hitler had to include the support of the Chinese Empire for the Soviet Union for the sake of insurance, so Hitler thought that it would take at least four months to destroy the Soviet Union. That is, the complete occupation of the USSR by the end of this year.

The German army's oil reserves simply could not support until that time, and even if it could, the Chinese Empire would definitely make a fuss about oil, once the Chinese Empire reduced supplies under the pretext that Germany had no money to pay. Then the Germans were in danger.

Therefore, in order to ensure the supply of oil, Hitler had to order the German army to give priority to attacking the Soviet oil fields. Mykop and Grozny.

Mykop and Grozny are located in Transcaucasia, sandwiched between the Black and Caspian Seas. ╔╗ is the only large oil-producing area in the Soviet Union, once the German army occupies here, then the problem of Germany's crude oil consumption will be solved immediately, and the Soviet Union will also accelerate its demise due to the lack of crude oil.

However, if the Germans wanted to capture Mykop and Grozny, they had to first occupy the Ukrainian regions and then go around the Black Sea for half a circle.

Originally, the Central Powers on the Black Sea Coast had an absolute advantage, because the main countries on the Black Sea Coast were all members of the Central Powers, including Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey.

Germany has always wanted to take control of the Mykop and Grozny oil fields. Similarly, Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey think the same way, and even Armenia, a neutral state, has long had ambitions to annex Maikop and Grozny.

When Germany sent troops to the Soviet Union, Romania, Bulgaria, and Turkey said they would capture Mykop and Grozny, and Hitler agreed, considering the alliances. However, the forces of the Triple Alliance were met with stubborn resistance from the Soviet army, so much so that more than a month after the start of the war, they still failed to land from the western part of the Black Sea.

Germany can't afford it. Turkey was asked to attack Maikop and Grozny by crossing the Caucasus Mountains through Armenia, but since the end of the Gulf War, Armenia has completely become a pawn of the Chinese Empire, and has become the most powerful nail household planted by the Chinese Empire in Transcaucasia, and no one will buy it. Turkey, which is a paramilitary alliance with the Chinese Empire, is no exception.

Since the Chinese Empire valued oil above all else, it had long promised that Armenia would support Armenia in controlling the oil fields of Mykop and Grozny in the event of a change in the Soviet Union.

At this time, Armenia, as an ally of the Chinese Empire, did not look at this small country with only 200,000 troops, but it was all Chinese-style equipment, and the level of its equipment was almost the same as that of the Chinese Emperor. In recent years, with the military help of the Chinese Empire, the Armenian army's combat effectiveness has become a West Asian power, and even the Soviet Union has to give it three points.

After the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, the Chinese Empire immediately asked the Armenian government to send troops to control the Mykop and Grozny oil regions at a critical moment. The Armenian government itself has long coveted it, and after receiving substantial guarantees from the Chinese Empire, the Armenian army has been deploying troops on the east and west sides of the foothills of the Transcaucasian Mountains, and if the Soviet army cannot withstand the attack of the Central Powers, it will immediately send troops to occupy the area. ╔╗

Under these circumstances, it was even more impossible for Turkey to attack the Soviet Union through Armenia, resulting in the delay in the completion of the combat mission by the combined forces of Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania, which greatly annoyed Hitler, and when the energy was gradually running out, Hitler had to let the German army take action himself.

The Germans diverted part of the main forces of Army Group Center to attack Moscow and instead attacked Kiev in the south in order to occupy Ukraine, the breadbasket of the Soviet Union, but the most important purpose was to cross Ukraine and attack the Transcaucasian Federation in order to capture the Mykop and Grozny oil regions as soon as possible.

The Battle of Kiev was fought from midsummer to early autumn, and the Soviet army suffered a serious defeat in the defensive battle of Kiev, not only losing forward troops, but also depleting the reserves used in this direction, and among the two front armies deployed in the Kiev area, 6 army groups were surrounded, all the commanders of the Southwestern Front were killed, and the commanders of several group armies were captured.

Subsequently, the German army announced the huge results of the German army's encirclement and annihilation of 665,000 Soviet troops, becoming the largest annihilation war in history. At the beginning of September, Army Group North had occupied all of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, reached the outskirts of Leningrad, and joined forces with Finnish troops to completely blockade Leningrad.

Stalin gave the Leningrad defenders a death order, and those who retreated were dealt with by military law, forcing the Leningrad defenders to resist desperately and launch a tragic battle for the defense of Leningrad.

In order to attack Leningrad, Field Marshal Loeb of the German Army Group North readjusted the deployment of forces: the 41st Panzer Army of Reinhardt and the 18th Army of Küsilel formed the Northern Assault Group to break through the defensive line from the lower reaches of the Luga River. attack on Leningrad via Ghattch; With Manstein's 56th Panzer Corps (lacking the 8th Panzer Division, 1 new SS police division) to form the Western Assault Group, attack Luga from the middle reaches of the Luga River, and contain the main Soviet army. then attack Leningrad along the Luga-Leningrad road; The Southern Assault Group, consisting of Boucher's 16th Army and the 57th Panzer Corps of the 3rd Armored Corps of Hotte in Army Group Center, broke through the defensive line from the upper reaches of the Luga River and then turned northeast. Attack Chudovo, cut off the October railway line from Leningrad to Moscow. Surround Leningrad from the east.

On September 8, the German army of the North Road took the lead in launching a fierce attack on the Jinisep area from the lower reaches of the Luga River, and by the 13th broke through the Jinisep defense line, occupied the Moloskowice station, and cut off the railway and road lines from Leningrad to Jinjishep; The South Route, in the south, launched an offensive from the upper reaches of the Luga River to the Shimsk region on 11 September, and by 15 September broke through the first line of Soviet defense, occupied Novgorod, and then advanced to Chudovo to the northeast. ╔╗ and prepare part of the forces to cross the Volkhov River and occupy Tikhvin; Manstein's 56th Panzer Corps launched an attack on Luga on 10 September, and although it was defeated, it held back the strength of three Soviet divisions. On 15 September, Manstein was ordered to hand over the task to the 50th Army, leading the 56th Panzer Army south to support the German army in the south. At the same time, the Finnish Army South-East to the north of Leningrad also advanced towards Lake Ladoga with the strength of three divisions. The Finnish Karelian Army launched an offensive against the Soviet 23rd Army on the Karelian Isthmus.

The Germans advanced at a rate of 2 kilometers per day. On September 21, the German army of the South Road occupied Chudovo and cut off the October railway from Leningrad to Moscow. At the end of September, the Nordic army advanced to the Slutsk-Korpino region, just 20 kilometers south of Leningrad. On 8 October, the South Road Germans reached the southern shore of Lake Ladoga, east of the city of Leningrad. The occupation of Schlüsselburg cut off Leningrad's last land line of communication with the outside world, encircled Leningrad on three sides, and only one side of Lake Ladoga could maintain water and air communication with the outside world. In the opinion of Marshal Loeb, Leningrad was within reach. And in the opinion of Marshal Voroshilov, there was no hope for Leningrad, and he even ran to the front, hoping to be killed by the Germans.

Maddened, Stalin decided to form the Leningrad Front, with the former commander of the Reserve Front of the base camp, General Zhukov, as the commander of the Leningrad Front. At the same time, Stalin demanded that the Chinese-style armament army groups be pulled to the front without waiting for them to complete their adaptive training.

In the end, Zhukov persuaded Stalin, saying that the Chinese-style army group was the last killer weapon of the Soviet Red Army, and they must wait until they have fully learned to adapt to the advanced weapons and equipment of the Chinese Empire before letting them go to the battlefield, otherwise the weapons and equipment that the Soviet Union spent a lot of money on would be meaningless.

Stalin and Zhukov, after a period of research, decided to transfer the RPG-30 anti-tank rocket regiment equipped with the Empire-made Chinese Empire and the MK-1625-mm anti-tank sniper regiment equipped with the Empire-made to Leningrad for the destruction of the German armored forces.

Zhukov thought it was feasible because he knew about these two types of weaponry, the RPG-30 individual rocket made by the Chinese Empire could effectively destroy the German No. 5 main battle tank, and the MK-16 anti-tank sniper rifle with the DK-64 armor-piercing sniper rifle ammunition was enough to severely damage the German No. 4 main battle tank and various types of light armored tanks and infantry fighting vehicles.

After Stalin actually inspected the anti-tank strength of these two weapons at the shooting range, he could not help but admire the Chinese Empire's preparations for dealing with the Germans, and thus his confidence was greatly increased.

In this way, Zhukov transferred two Soviet anti-tank infantry regiments into Leningrad, which played an inestimable role in blocking the offensive of the German armored forces (anti-tank weapons were most effective in street fighting).

In the early morning of October 10, Zhukov flew to Leningrad with his assistants, Lieutenant General Khozin, Major General Fedyuninsky, and Major General Kokopev. At this time, Voroshilov and others were in a meeting to discuss what measures should be taken if Leningrad could not be held. Zhukov immediately raised the need to resolutely defend Leningrad to the last man.

Subsequently, Zhukov reorganized the Front, with Fedyuninsky as deputy commander and Khozin as chief of staff, and removed the commander of the 42nd Army, Major General Ivanov, and the commander of the 8th Army, Major General Shcherbakov, from their posts on the spot. Zhukov and his assistants worked out a plan for the defense of the city overnight: withdraw some anti-aircraft guns from the air defense units in the city and deploy them in the most dangerous areas of Leningrad to carry out direct fire on German tanks; the 42nd Army on the Uritsk-Pulkovo Heights with all the naval guns of the Baltic Fleet; Establish in-depth echelon defenses, lay mines, and set up power grids in all major directions; Transferring part of the 23rd Army from the Karelian Isthmus to support the 42nd Army and strengthen the defense of the Uritsk region; 5-6 infantry brigades were formed with Baltic Fleet sailors and students of military academies.

On the morning of 9 October, the Germans began a frontal assault on Leningrad from the south, with the main directions of attack on Uritsk, southwest of the city, and Pulkovo Heights due south. On the 10th, the Germans tore a gap in the defensive ground of the 3rd Guards Militia Division of the Soviet Army. On the 11th, the Germans occupied Dudegov, and the next day they occupied the village of Red and advanced towards Uritsk.

On October 13, the Germans broke through the Soviet defenses, occupied Sosnovka, Kairlovo in Finland, and forced into Uritsk. Zhukov, realizing that the defense of Leningrad had reached its most critical juncture, decided to throw into battle the 10th Infantry Division, the last reserve of the Front.

On the 14th, the 10th Infantry Division, with the support of artillery and aviation, carried out a rapid assault on the enemy. At the same time, two Soviet anti-tank infantry regiments, armed with Chinese-made RPG rockets and MK16 anti-tank sniper rifles, were also put into battle.

The Germans did not expect the Soviet army to suddenly launch a counterattack, especially the two anti-tank infantry regiments of the Soviet army, relying on the cover of the ruins, to inflict a fatal attack on the tanks, combat vehicles and other heavy weapons of the German armored forces, and a large number of German tanks and combat vehicles were destroyed.

The German infantry, deprived of the cover of tanks and combat vehicles, was in a state of confusion and was forced to abandon Sosnovka and Kyolovo in Finland, and the Soviet army returned to its original position.

Time is running out for Loeb. Because Hitler shifted the focus of operations to the Moscow axis. On 6 October, Hitler issued Directive No. 35, codenamed Operation Typhoon, which determined that the Battle of Moscow would be launched on 2 November, and that Moscow must be completely occupied within a month (the Germans believed that the capture of the Soviet capital would force the Soviet Union to surrender).

Hitler demanded that Loeb quickly establish contact with the Finnish army on the Karelian Isthmus and encircle the Soviet army group in Leningrad, so as to create conditions for a German offensive in the center by October 15 at the latest, at which point Heppner's 4th Panzer Corps and part of the air force would be transferred to Field Marshal Bauck's Army Group Center, and if Leningrad could not be captured by the 15th, Loeb would be even less able to capture Leningrad.

To this end, Loeb sent a telegram to the German General Staff Headquarters, asking for permission to postpone the transfer of the Panzer Corps to Army Group Center for four or five days, and at the same time, he swore that he would occupy Leningrad in a few days. Loeb's request was granted and he was granted a four-day postponement.

At the end of the order, the Chief of the General Staff of the German Army, Halder, added a special meaningful sentence: "Many things and the future of many people will be decided by these four days." ”

Loeb understood that among these many people was himself.

On October 16, Loeb looked for weak points in the Soviet defenses, commanded the German troops to break through the Soviet defenses from the junction of the Soviet 42nd Army and the 55th Army, captured the city of Push, 18 kilometers south of Leningrad, detoured to the left to the Pulkovo Heights directly south of Leningrad, and detoured to the right to the southeast of Kolpino.

However, under the stubborn resistance of the Soviets, the German offensive was as slow as a snail's crawl, and its advance slowed from 5 kilometers per day in August to less than 2 kilometers a month in October. And it was only one day before the time set by Hitler. Loeb decided to make a last-ditch effort at all costs.

On the 19th, the German offensive reached **. The German infantry, under the cover of tanks, launched a fierce attack on the Pulkovo Heights and other places, the artillery bombarded Leningrad for 17 hours, and the air force launched nearly 30,000 sorties to carry out six waves of saturation bombing of the city.

However, Stalin was not a bully either, and on that day he used 800 J-10 fighters and 150 H6N2 heavy bombers from the Chinese Army Group to launch an air counterattack against the Germans at the risk of death. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point () to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support, is my biggest motivation. )