"The tank of the Chinese devil is in range, quick, fire quickly!" Zadov, an instructor of the anti-tank artillery battalion, shouted loudly and gave the order to open fire. He and the battalion commander Batov each commanded six ZIS-2 57mm anti-tank guns to ambush in the woods for a whole day, and also moved their positions in time to avoid the Chinese artillery bombardment. Now it's finally time to raise your eyebrows! Six anti-tank guns had already been aimed at the target, and the shells were also pushed into the chambers, and when they heard his order, the gunners pulled the fire rope one after another, and spat out the armor-piercing shells at a muzzle velocity of 1000 m/s.

"Boom, boom, boom...... three shells hit the target, and three C-type tanks suddenly rose black smoke. Although the caliber of this 57mm anti-tank gun is not large, it is quite powerful due to its extremely high muzzle velocity. Not to mention the side of the thinly armored C-type tank, even the 60mm armor steel on the front of the Stalker can't resist it!

Seeing the successful blow, Zadov was so excited that he was hot: "Quickly reload, aim at the target, fire!" Wipe out all your enemies! ”

Boom Boom! Six more 57mm tungsten steel armor-piercing shells flew quickly towards the target, this time because of some hasty aiming, only hitting one Type C tank. And at this time, six more ZIS-2 anti-tank guns under the command of the battalion commander Badov also hit five C-type tanks. And in the woods at the other end of the Soviet position, 12 76.2mm anti-tank guns were also making a contribution, and a total of 8 C-type tanks were smashed to pieces!

"Self-propelled guns, bombarding the forests on both flanks of the Soviet army!" More than a dozen C-type tanks that caught fire quickly caught Hu Zongnan's attention. The 72 self-propelled guns that followed behind the pursuer's butt turned their muzzles one after another after receiving the order. A heavy bombardment blew up two Soviet anti-tank artillery battalions, even the artillery and the people were blown to pieces! Immediately afterwards, the self-propelled guns moved forward. Arrived in front of the first Soviet trench, aimed the muzzle at the second Soviet trench less than 500 meters away, and smashed the 105mm and 150mm shells hard. Turning the second trench of the Soviet army into a sea of fire again! At the same time, the Chaser tank destroyers that broke through the first line of Soviet trenches also began to engage in artillery battles with dozens of Su-75s behind the second line of Soviet trenches, while the Stuka and J-3E Dragon Eagles in the air also repeated their old tricks, cooperating with ground armored forces to flank Soviet vehicles.

Seeing that the second trench would also be lost, Pavlov was not willing to lose. Gritting their teeth, they launched a counterattack, and a full four infantry regiments were sent to flank the flanks of the Chinese armored cluster. 11,000 Soviet officers and men rushed out of the forest and fought the Chinese armored grenadiers armed to the teeth with rudimentary weapons such as rifles, machine guns, mortars, anti-tank rifles, anti-tank grenades and anti-tank grenade launchers. Meantime. On the front, Pavlov also mobilized a large number of reinforcements to reinforce it. Although the Soviet tanks (referring to the Su-75) were completely inferior under the combined air-ground fire of the Chinese army, the Soviet infantry was still extremely tenacious, and the two armies commanded by Pavlov were also old units that had been formed for many years. The majority of the team is veterans who have fought for 2 years. The style of work is extremely tenacious, and the combat experience is also extremely rich. In order to deal with the pursuers of the Chinese army, the Soviet infantry organized countless death squads, at first charging with a Type 1932 anti-tank grenade launcher, trying to get close to the tank to launch grenades, and later, the red-eyed Soviet infantry simply rushed up with cluster grenades on their backs and died with the pursuers! The Chinese Panzergrenadiers used the dense rain of bullets fired by the Type 31 automatic rifle to kill the Soviet infantry who tried to approach in rows, and finally the elite corpses of the Soviet army were piled higher than the body of the Chaser tank destroyer!

The bloody battle continued until the morning of July 15. Relying on powerful armored assault forces and overwhelming air superiority, the 6th Panzer Army of the Chinese Army continued to break through the Soviet trenches. Finally, before the arrival of noon on the 15th, the last trench deployed by the Pavlov cluster of Soviet troops west of the Yakovlevich railway station was broken! Pavlov's last line of defense, the Yakovlevich railway station, and the surrounding town, which had long been in ruins, finally appeared under the guns of the Chinese tanks.

Blowing up the Yakovlevich railway station was handed over to the Chinese Air Force three Stuka dive bombers, all of which were the latest JU.87C type, which was a carrier-based version produced specifically for the Navy. They are certainly not produced for the German Navy, their aircraft carriers are still on paper, and this model of Stuka was originally ordered by the Chinese Navy to replace the old Attack 2 in the event that the J-3E Dragon Eagle is delayed from production. However, the first batch of JU87C has only arrived in China, and the J-3E Dragon Eagle has been officially put into production. So these JU.87C went to the Air Force. Unlike the JU.87B equipped by the Air Force, the JU.87C is equipped with a more powerful JU.211J-1 engine, which can provide a maximum of 1,300 horsepower, so the bomb load of the JU.87C has also been increased to 1,000 kg! Now these 16 Ju.87C dive bombers are equipped with a 1000-kilogram bomb to deal with battleships! Their target was the reinforced concrete Yakovlevich railway station building.

"Thor 1 Squad! Attention Thor 1 Squad! Target, the railway station building! Target, the railway station building! Drop all the bombshells! Drop all the bombs! ”

"Thor received, Thor received. All note, raise the altitude to 4000 meters, dive bombing, the third plane goes first, then the second plane, I attack last! Target, the railway station building! Train station building! ”

After circling twice over the Yakovlevich railway station, the three Ju.87Cs were raised to an altitude of 4,000 meters, and then they formed a formation in the air, and one after the other began to dive and drop bombs. However, the anti-aircraft fire of the Soviet army did not react, and after more than thirty hours of bloody fighting, the anti-aircraft guns of the Pavlov cluster were either blown up or had run out of ammunition. So this dive bombing is simply easier than the usual bombing training. Three 1000-kilogram bombshells hit the target without missing a shot! This kind of bomb is no joke, and even the most powerful battleship in the world today cannot carry a few. Not to mention a reinforced concrete railway station? Three huge mushroom clouds rose into the sky one after another, and the tall building completely collapsed in the explosion, and the Soviet troops who relied on the stubborn resistance of the railway station were all buried under the rubble of the building. The whole town shuddered three times from distance. Even Pavlov and Bagramyan, who had just retreated into the forest, felt the ground tremble under their feet. Looking at the towering mushroom clouds, they knew that the blocking battle at the Yakovlevich railway station had been completely defeated!

By 4 p.m. on July 15, the five trenches east of the Yakovlevich railway station had completely collapsed under the attack of the Chinese Sixth Panzer Army and the Tulum cluster. At least 40,000 of the 200,000 officers and soldiers of the Pavlov cluster have been killed in the last two days of fighting, about 60,000 have been taken prisoner, half of them were taken prisoner with serious injuries and abandonment, and most of them did not survive the first winter of being captives! The remaining 100,000 or so retreated into the vast Siberian forest, where there were almost no edges, and all heavy weapons and baggage were discarded. Transfer on foot to Krasnoyarsk, hundreds of kilometers away. In the end, less than 50,000 people retreated to the last Soviet stronghold in Eastern Siberia, and the rest either became guerrillas or starved to death in the vast forest.

After the defeat of the Pavlov cluster. The 6th Panzer Army did not care about cleaning up the battlefield at all, so it turned around and returned to Nizhne-Udinsk. After receiving the good news, Li Zongren immediately ordered the 1st Panzer Army and the 4th Panzer Army to launch a fierce attack on the Soviet troops in front of him. The first armoured assault involved 600 Stalkers, 250 Type C tanks, 200 self-propelled guns, and 100,000 attacking troops. Air Force 2 also flew more than 3,000 sorties to provide air support. And the main force of the Soviet army in front of them was just started two days ago when the blocking battle at the Yakovlevich railway station had just begun. began to slowly withdraw from the army. Only 2 army groups were left to confront the Chinese army under the support of Udinsk and the Uda River. However, Tukhachevsky never dreamed that the 200,000 Soviet Red Army blocking the Yakovlevich railway station would be defeated by the Chinese army so quickly, let alone that the Chinese army's Li Zongren cluster would smash the Pavlov cluster together with the Tulum cluster with only one-third of its armored forces! Therefore, the two Soviet army groups left by him on the west bank of the Wuda River were not elite at all, and they were all new units that were only expanded this year. In the face of the overwhelming armored assault of the Chinese army, it only lasted less than half a day before the entire line retreated.

After defeating the rear forces of the Soviet army, Li Zongren was of course unwilling to give up the opportunity to inflict heavy losses on the main force of the Soviet army. Immediately ordered the 1st Panzer Army to be used as the arrow, and a total of three corps were dispatched to follow the Soviet army in fierce pursuit. Meanwhile. He also ordered the 2nd Air Force to send all attack aircraft and bombers to indiscriminately bomb the Soviet troops retreating along the Trans-Siberian Railway, day and night (now it was already a white night). Under this low-altitude joint strangulation pursuit, Tukhachevsky was forced to order his troops to abandon most of their heavy weapons and equipment, and the whole army retreated lightly to Krasnoyarsk. At the same time, troops were also sent to rely on the Siberian forests to block the attack, but these demoralized infantry, lacking the necessary anti-tank weapons, could not stop the Chinese pursuit for too long, and Tukhachevsky had to repeatedly send new troops behind the palace. It was not until July 17, when Tukhachevsky's main force retreated across the Teschet River, that the Chinese pursuers temporarily stayed on the east bank of the Teschet River because the logistical supplies could not keep up. But Tukhachevsky did not slack off in the slightest, and after hastily deploying a defensive line on the west bank of the Teschet River, he drove the army to the west. Just 12 hours after his main force left the west bank of the Teschet River, the Chinese army, which had received supplies and reinforcements, broke through the newly established defensive line of the Soviet rearguard in three hours with a forced attack.

The Chinese pursuers, who did not cross the Tyshet River, suffered a minor setback near a small town called Biryushinsk. While resting on the road outside the town, the Chinese armored unit was attacked by a very strange anti-tank weapon, the anti-tank suicide dog! Hundreds of dogs carrying explosive bags rushed out of the forest next to the highway and got under the territory of the tank armored vehicles before the Chinese infantry could react, and then a series of explosions caused 27 pursuers, 12 C-type tanks, 8 self-propelled guns, 16 C-type tracked armored vehicles and 4 C-type armored repair vehicles, and caused more than 200 casualties! And the dozens of armored vehicles that were damaged also blocked the only Soviet national highway that could be used to pursue Soviet troops. Since the armoured vehicles of the entire force could not move, in the end, the armored repair vehicles had to be transferred from the follow-up units to push all the damaged vehicles away. The whole process took more than 4 hours!

In addition, fearing that they would be attacked by suicide dogs again, the Chinese army had to slow down the pace of pursuit and dispatched a large number of Panzergrenadiers into the forests on both sides of the road to "fight dogs". As a result, the dog did not hit, but Tukhachevsky's army managed to distance itself from the pursuers. However, the Soviet army's number one general still suffered what may be the worst defeat in the history of the Soviet Red Army, and the number of troops was reduced from more than 1.6 million to less than 900,000, leaving only a little more than half.

Of course, not all of the more than 700,000 troops reduced were wiped out by the Chinese army. According to the report submitted to the Ministry of Defense by the Siberian Front of the Chinese Defense Forces after the Battle of Nizhne-Udinsk, their results were about 154,000 killed and about 41,000 captured. The total is less than 200,000. The remaining 500,000 or so missing people plunged headlong into the boundless Siberian forest. The fate of these men also varied, and about a third of them managed to cross the forest and return to Krasnoyarsk before the onset of winter 1934. The remaining 300,000 or so became part of the "Red Forest guerrillas", although most of them did not survive their first winter in the Great Siberian Forest.

But the struggle of the "Red Forest partisans" did not stop. Taking advantage of their relative familiarity with the Siberian terrain and their relative adaptation to the cold climate, they opened up hundreds of base areas in the great forests of the far north, and constantly attacked the Chinese troops occupying Siberia and the Chinese immigrants who arrived one after another.

Even after Moscow was captured by the Germans, Comrade Trotsky committed suicide in the Kremlin bunker. They also established the mysterious Red Capital in the depths of the Central Siberian Plateau within the Arctic Circle, the Fortress of GCISM. The Central Committee of the GCD and the International Executive Committee of the GC of the USSR were also re-established, as well as the government of the USSR, which continued to raise the banner of GCISM and the world revolution. In the hundreds of years since the end of the Second World War, the Red Capital of Siberia has become the center of a new world revolution, leading and inspiring generations of GCISTS in a desperate struggle against bourgeois governments and the White Terror.

From this point of view, the victory of the Chinese army in the Battle of Nizhne-Uginsk inadvertently helped the international communist movement to preserve the flame of revolution......

Tukhachevsky, however, did not have the heart to consider whether the Red Flag of the Soviet Union would survive for many more years because of his defeat. In the Nizhne-Uginsk counterattack, he lost not only hundreds of thousands of Soviet officers and soldiers, but also tens of thousands of artillery pieces of various calibers, more than 5,000 tanks and armored vehicles, tens of thousands of vehicles of various purposes, thousands of aircraft, hundreds of thousands of firearms, and more than 100,000 tons of supplies and ammunition. More than 900,000 Soviet troops who successfully returned to Krasnoyarsk were almost bare-handed, even if they looted the entire inventory of weapons of the Eastern Front. There is also no way to rearm them.

Now the entire Eastern Front of the Soviet Union has been irretrievably eroded, and even a great military strategist of Tukhachevsky's level does not know how to clean up the mess.

July 28th. It was when Tukhachevsky was in his office in Krasnoyarsk with tears in his eyes that he was drafting a petition for guilt. A TB-3 transport plane in which the NKVD of the Soviet Union flew secretly landed at Krasnoyarsk airport, but Yue Fei did not come to arrest Tukhachevsky or any other high-ranking Soviet general, Trotsky was mentally prepared for the defeat of the Nizhne-Uginsk counterattack, and he could not find a better military strategist to assist him now.

"Comrade Tukhachevsky, what the Supreme Commander-in-Chief needs is not your petition for guilt, and the defeat in Nizhny Udinsk is not anyone's fault, but ...... The strength of the Soviet Red Army in the East was inferior to that of Chinese imperialism! At an emergency meeting of the Eastern Front Headquarters, Yue Fei did not even look at the petition sent by Tukhachevsky, but directly read out a letter from Trotsky in his own handwriting, the content of which naturally encouraged all the officers and men of the Eastern Front to wage a desperate struggle against the invading Chinese imperialist enemy. After handing over the letter to the commander of the Eastern Front, Kamenev, he turned to the difficult problem of how to clean up the mess, which was a headache for everyone.

"Comrade Yue Fei, please tell Comrade Trotsky that our Eastern Front still has seven well-organized and well-equipped group armies." It was Kamenev, the commander of the Eastern Front, who spoke out, a veteran left over from the Tsarist era, who could not fight mechanized warfare, but that did not mean that he was a mediocre talent. "Krasnoyarsk has been completely fortified, and it is enough to hold out for a considerable time under the siege of superior enemy forces with 3 army groups with the garrison of the fortress. The remaining 4 armies were supposed to be deployed to the large cities of the Siberian region, such as Tomsk, Novokunetsk, Barnaul and Novosibirsk. Because in the present situation, we no longer have enough strength to build a tight defensive line, nor do we have the strength to fight the invading Chinese army in the field, and the only viable option is to defend the city. As long as they can hold a few important cities in Siberia, they can hold back the main force of the Chinese army and create a relatively stable rear for the decisive battle on the Western Front. (To be continued......)