"On November 15, 1946, we left the barracks in the city of Mutu with great excitement, greatly encouraged by the attack on the Soviet Union. My unit is subordinate to the 17th Group Army of the Central Asian Front, numbered 473rd Division, and the division commander is Major General Yang Huai.

Lieutenant General Li Jiajue, commander of the 17th Group Army, personally mobilized us before the war when we were marching out.

General Li is a native of Sichuan, and he told us in a strong Sichuan dialect that we should not be afraid of death when we fight, and that the country has made good arrangements for us in the past and after our deaths. He also said his motto, which touched all the officers and soldiers of the 473rd Division present -- a man wants to repay the country's kindness, and dying on the battlefield is a good death.

We were born in the greatest era, when our parents were able to live out their old age in peace, our wives and children were able to provide for us, and we could safely charge into battle on the battlefield. Our casualty rate is also very low, because we have a powerful army armed with technology, and death is just a word with a low probability, and once encountered, it can only be said to be our own life.

It was said that the Southern Cluster of the Western Expeditionary Army under the command of General Zhang Zizhong was officially launched, and the 17th Group Army, because it was a semi-mechanized group army, set off as the vanguard together with the Third Armored Group Army.

The division commander said that it might be published as a battlefield diary in the future, and they all praised my writing for being good, although modesty is a virtue, but I was also very happy in my heart, and the memorization can help me remember all this better in the future......

"On November 26, 1946, after 11 days of marching, we arrived at the westernmost city of the province of Khogo, which was originally an important city of ethnic Kazakhstan, Astana, and now our city, Tana. Because all the way was on our territory, the marching speed was very fast, and we did not encounter the enemy, not even the legendary rebel guerrillas, perhaps they were all wiped out by the garrison, or they were too frightened by our emperor [***] team to come out and move.

Further west from the city of Tana is the Tyumen region of the Soviets.

However, we will not go to Tyumen, because it is said that General Zhang Zizhong will march to the north, and we will be to the south of Tyumen.

Tyumen, judging by the map, is 1700 kilometers from Moscow.

The division commander said that when Moscow is defeated, the territory of our empire can be advanced to the doorstep of Europe. It would be a very great feat, and just by looking at the map, we would know that our territory would be the first in the world. ”

"December 5, 1946.

The farther north and west we went, the worse the weather conditions became, and last night there was another heavy snowfall.

Luckily, we have the latest airships, which can always keep up with our marches and provide us with military supplies from food, medicine, fuel, and everything.

Although I don't know the specific battle plan, I suspect that it may take 1 million or more troops to take Moscow, and I really hope that there will be more and more such airships, which can fly in ice and snow, and this is the benefit of technology, I heard that they are the latest achievements of the Science and Technology Committee.

Hopefully tomorrow the snow will be a little less. ”

December 7, 1946.

There was another heavy snowfall last night, this blizzard has been going on for three nights, and when the temperature drops in the evening, the heavy snow comes, and it is never late.

The 1st Regiment of the 473rd Division, which I was part of, was attacked by a Soviet partisan force at dawn because of its rotation at the front, but the Soviets' sneak attack failed, and we were caught alive. From the captives we learned that there was a Soviet line of defense more than 50 kilometers ahead, where several divisions of the Red Army were stationed.

I think it's going to be a tough battle, because when the enemy comes, my comrades and I will defend our country. This line of defense will be the first barrier to Moscow and will also be the first real battle. ”

December 9, 1946.

Yesterday's battle came as a big surprise. The Soviets really had 4 divisions of the Red Army on the defensive line, and they were in charge of this 15-kilometer-long line.

However, when the battle began, our tanks and self-propelled guns had just concentrated their forces on a salvo, and the enemy actually surrendered.

The battle, which was expected to last a day, ended in three hours, with one Red Army division surrendering, and the remaining three holding out for more than an hour also surrendered.

When we cleaned up the battlefield afterwards and counted the results of the battle, we found that these Soviet Red Army divisions were seriously dissatisfied with their personnel, and the sum of the four divisions was less than the size of one of our integrated divisions. It is said that their troops were transferred to Moscow in large numbers, and what remained here was only for pretense. In addition to the lack of soldiers, they also seriously lack weapons, ammunition and food, when we cleaned the battlefield, we found a lot of wanton discarded corpses, in the winter, there are many soldiers who starved to death without food, they are different from themselves, they do not eat people, but they also do not have the strength to bury those soldiers who froze to death, the frozen ground is too hard, and the Soviet soldiers who starved to death were discarded in place at will.

Some Soviet soldiers had been freezing to death and starving to death for a long time, but they squatted there or lay there, lying there like living people, and the ice and snow allowed them to retain their last moments before they died.

Comrade Yang Huai, the division commander, ordered us to blow up artillery pits and bury the bodies in accordance with the requirements of the group army. So the sappers drilled many holes with drills, and then blew up many large pits with explosives packs, and finally buried them.

The battle lasted only three hours, but it took six hours to bury the bodies, and the final count was that the number of Soviet officers and soldiers who lost more than 600 non-combat losses was probably the day before yesterday, which was the sudden heavy snowfall that killed them.

After the victory in the battle, we moved on, and here it was handed over to the follow-up troops, perhaps the 14th Army, perhaps the 10th Army, and our task was to continue until they came to rotate our vanguard offensive mission. ”

-- The above is an excerpt from the battlefield account of Hua Jingou, a soldier of a certain southern cluster of the emperor [***] attacking the Soviet Union.

…… The total strength of the Wehrmacht's Western Expeditionary Army is planned to be more than 1.4 million people, including the Third Armored Army, the Fifth Armored Army, and the Fourth Armored Army, which can be regarded as the strongest armored force in the concentrated empire.

The 3rd Panzer Army was under the direct command of Senior General Chen Jun and served as the main force for the attack on the Soviet Southern Group. The Fifth Panzer Army was commanded by Dai Anlan, and at the same time was responsible for commanding the Northern Cluster, which fought all the way west as the fist force of the North Sea Theater in the direction of Siberia. The central group attacked Tyumen in a straight line in the direction of Moscow under the command of Zhang Zizhong.

Of the three offensive clusters, the fastest will be the southern cluster, which has the powerful Third Panzer Army and many fist field army units of the Central Asian Front, and has better logistical supplies, and at the same time, the southern region is not a key defensive zone for the Soviets, and the southern cluster encounters very weak resistance, and the speed of the breakthrough is very fast.

The three-way army, with a total size of 1.4 million people, and many field armies to participate in the follow-up battle, it can be said that as the first wave of troops, 1.4 million people is already a very large number, and it also includes two and a half imperial armored armies.

They were almost invincible on the battlefield of the USSR at this time.

The forces on land are like that, and in addition to that, there are propeller fighter units that follow all the way in the manner of field airfields, and these aircraft, which have very low requirements for take-off, can even take off directly from the road, on the lawn.

Once an airship or a large strategic transport plane transports ammunition, supplies, and even fuel to one place, the swarming propeller fighter units can quickly and murderously take off from the humble field and escort the troops all the way to the front. In fact, because Moscow is just over 2,000 kilometers away from China's Line of Actual Control in Central Asia and Siberia, Chinese planes taking off from Central Asia's Hoo-Sick Province can generally easily escort them halfway.

"There are two days left, and the real line of defense of the Soviets is left."

Looking at the heavy snow falling outside the armored car, Chen Jun frowned slightly. The vanguard of the Southern Cluster, composed of the Third Panzer Army and the 17th Army, swept away the leaves all the way by the autumn wind, and captured nearly 1,000 kilometers long and hundreds of kilometers wide of Soviet land, about 400,000 square kilometers of land.

In addition to the few Soviet villages, which are speechless, very few small cities occasionally appear on the marching route, and the whole of the Soviet Union west of the province of Khogno, the Chelyabinsk region, Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, ...... With a vast area, a small and outrageous population, desolate villages and dilapidated cities, the emperor team did not even have to do anything more, arrived at a place and directly used tanks to overthrow the political axe apparatus that symbolized the Soviet regime, and the dazed Soviet civilians had absolutely no courage to resist.

They were a group of civilians who could not even eat enough to eat, and the whole situation had deteriorated to the extreme, but they were faced with a position that was armed to the teeth, and the tanks could be lined up directly from the front of the eyes to the col at the end of the line of sight, leaving a huge area, maybe tens of thousands of square kilometers, and leaving a mechanized company only equipped with some armed cars, which was enough to deter the Soviets.

However, the smoother the march in the early stage, the heavier the anxiety in Chen Jun's heart, others may not know, but as a commander, he knows very well that although there is no problem in logistics and supply for this attack on the Soviet Union, it is enough to defeat the Soviet army in terms of troops and weapons and equipment.

You must know that although the Soviets claimed to have gathered more than 5 million Red Army near Moscow, the actual combat effectiveness was very poor, especially in the direction of Central Asia and Siberia, the unprecedented pressure on its strategic space, the military-industrial base was bombed again and again, and now it is difficult to maintain such a large scale of troops in the military-industrial production and a part of the narrowly escaped troops, if it were not for the Americans, the Soviet Union would have collapsed in this situation.

However, after all, it was more than 5 million Soviet troops, and the weaker the resistance encountered now, the more obvious the intention of the other side to shrink its forces was proven, and the stronger the resistance encountered at that time.

Therefore, at the beginning of the formulation of the campaign, Chen Jun repeatedly expressed his views to the base camp that the fall of the Soviet Union could be achieved in 1947, but it should not be rushed, the reason is very simple, first, the casualties are too large, and the second is insufficient preparation, and the rapid advance will eat more land of the Soviet Union, further weakening him, until the army is approaching the Moscow defense circle.

He estimates that the process will take about six months or more. These six hours include allowing the second- and third-line troops to consolidate their occupation of the newly conquered Soviet areas, as well as the construction of front-line airfields and the stockpiling of supplies. At that time, in addition to airships, there will also be cars, part of railways, airplanes, all together to support the attack on the Moscow defensive circle.

In addition to worrying that he would encounter stronger resistance at that time, Chen Jun was also worried that the Germans would not be able to stop the landing of the Allied forces, and they would retreat step by step and eventually fail, which was very unfavorable to the Empire. Therefore, in order to cope with the war in Europe for the Germans, the Soviet side must not drag on too much, and the war must advance at at least a moderate speed.

"The Soviet Union in winter is really cold enough."

After cleaning up his mood, Chen Jun looked at the military map, made a simple calculation, and found that there was only a few tens of kilometers away from the real defense line of the Soviet army in front, the Samara defensive line, which means that the battle will start tomorrow at the latest. It is taboo to march at night in the ice and snow, and the Soviet army does not need to make a surprise attack to deal with this, so he is ready to let the troops be stationed overnight after advancing a certain distance, and take the Samara line of defense in one go early tomorrow morning.

Seven divisions of the Red Army were scattered in a fan pattern, and according to the results of aerial fire reconnaissance, the strength of the defense was extremely limited, and behind the line was the small city of Samara in the Samara region. Further on is Ulyanovsk, which is only more than 800 kilometers away from Moscow in a straight line.

"Order, continue 20 kilometers and camp on the spot for the night......"

A series of orders were quickly transmitted, the vanguard moved rapidly, the reconnaissance units began to lurk in all directions, and the support and reconnaissance in the air were to be carried out more intensively.

"Samara has a military airfield, two field airfields, and it is only 800 kilometers from the Moscow defense circle, and if you take it, the fighters of the Air Force will be able to participate in the battles in the Moscow battle circle here."

Looking at the white earth, Chen Jun had already thought about expanding the airport, and the attack on the Soviet Union was a major battle, and it could not be effective in a day or two, just because the Soviet Union was too big and the climatic conditions were not good.

The next day, when the sky had just dawned, it was actually only four or five o'clock, and a little glimmer of light allowed people to be seen clearly in the snow a few meters away.

Hua Jingou turned over and touched his comrade-in-arms Xiao Luo next to him, only then did he see a glimmer of light coming in from a translucent corner of the military double tent.

"It's dawn."

He subconsciously got up, this kind of military tent is very insulated, it is said that it is cheap, and the effect of field use is naturally very good, people sleep in it, keep warm and keep warm, two people live in one just right, and they will not feel cold.

"Didi ......"

"Assemble! Gather! ……”

The loud assembly whistle sounded, Hua Jingou's originally slow movements, and quickly sorted out his clothes, and the comrades next to him also bounced up and quickly got dressed in the small tent.

"Meal time 10 minutes, start!"

Dozens of cauldrons were boiling in the snow, and the soldiers lined up to quickly pick up food.

It was Hua Jingou's turn, and he quickly took the breakfast with the marching lunch box, and then looked at it.

"A box of lean egg porridge, two steamed buns, a small spoonful of pickles, and a hot ham."

Looking at this sumptuous breakfast, Hua Jingou was slightly excited, which meant that there might be a war soon.

Sure enough, just after ten minutes of breakfast, the soldiers scrubbed the marching lunch boxes with water or snow slag, and the sound of assembly sounded again.

Sitting on tanks, self-propelled guns and armored vehicles, as well as a large number of military cards, Hua Jingou roughly estimated that there were about one and a half divisions of troops, the 473rd Division was all there, the 474th Division had the appearance of a regiment, and the rest were the troops of the Third Armored Army.

It took less than 40 minutes for the huge offensive convoy to reach the periphery of the Soviet defensive line, killing many small groups of Soviets along the way, and people and cars naturally could not outrun tanks and artillery shells, but the exposure of troops was also natural, and it was really difficult to hide such a large scale of enemy troops in the vast space of the Soviet territory along the way.

When this unit, which consisted of a tank armored division and a semi-infantry division, came up, the battle alarm had just sounded on the Soviets' position, and the telescope could see through the faint morning light that the Soviet troops on the opposite position were in chaos, and the machine guns in some pillboxes were even strafing the shadow areas in the distance, for fear of being touched by the enemy.

Although he is not the commander of the armored forces, the 17th Army also has tank troops, and as a senior general, he naturally knows what to do now.

"According to the report, the fighter and bomber combat units of the Air Force have arrived over the battlefield and can provide air support to our army at any time to suppress the enemy."

"Excellent! All artillery fire, target A4~A6 section, feint A1~A3 section, concentrate fire, fire in three minutes! Ask the air force to pay attention to the Soviet air force while concentrating firepower to attack the positions of the A4~A6 section. ”

Lieutenant General Li Jiajue looked at his watch, checked the time, and simply gave an order, such a line of defense, in front of an armored tank division, choose an inconspicuous position section to break through, is the easiest way, the Germans also do this, and a hundred attempts have not been successful, the solution is very simple, the Soviets just can't prevent it, in the final analysis, there is a lack of large-scale artillery groups, a lack of effective air support, a lack of positional anti-tank weapons, and even a lack of tanks.

In order to prevent the attacking forces from being suppressed by the Soviet air force, the Imperial Air Force has always followed the army forward, once it occupies a place, the military airfield or field airfield there will be quickly cleared, and even a few roads or temporarily leveled training grounds will also be cleared, and then the air force will move forward by leaps and bounds. If the flight is small, it will be able to make a few more turns, and the one with a large range will be able to support the front line.

However, the Soviet army concentrated its planes in the Moscow theater and the triangle in the north near the provinces of Hogko's disease and Beihai provinces, and the planes in other places were only a few tatters.

At this time, the Soviet position on the opposite side was still in extreme panic, originally one or two thousand kilometers away from the Chinese, but did not expect to be beaten to the door this time.

"Fire!!"

Li Jiajue ordered loudly that he would take the Soviet army's Samara defense line as quickly as possible to prevent the other side from destroying the three important airfields here.

(To be continued)