Said the one who asked for a guaranteed monthly pass

"The units of the Middle East Road Campaign Cluster immediately completed the deployment on the front line of Sao Gang Town, urgently established a circular defensive position, and prepared to meet the enemy on the east and west roads at the same time. With the greatest determination, you must carry forward the revolutionary army's fearless spirit of sacrifice and resolutely block the Japanese troops fleeing east to the west of Saoka Town. The Revolutionary Military Committee of the Eastern Front Army has the highest expectations for your unit! ”

An urgent and resolute order was sent to Voroshilov, who was leading his troops to flee westward. The remaining troops of his Middle East Road campaign cluster had just retreated to the small town of Sao Gang along the Middle East Road, and this battle group, which once had an army of 130,000 troops, had been replenished with at least 40,000 men, and now had less than 50,000 troops that could effectively control it. However, the senior commanders of the Middle East Road Battle Cluster, including Voroshilov and Bujon's 299th Battle of the Trapped Beast, had reached a critical moment, and Ni and Yaquir had no intention of sparing the 50,000 remnants of their troops. Because they still want to live, and they want to live well, some people can only die!

On the way to retreat to the town of Sagagang, it was already known that the Japanese army in Manchuria had also broken through the blocking line of Zhalainor and was running towards them. So a plan to make meritorious contributions was thought up by these three GCIST military strategists. They were ready to sacrifice the lives of most of the remaining 50,000 people under their command to block the main force of the Japanese army retreating eastward at the Sagagang, it would not take too long, as long as it was blocked for twenty-four hours, it would win the opportunity for the main force of the front army to annihilate them, because this Japanese army was also at the end of its strength.

After this plan was submitted to the Revolutionary Military Committee of the Eastern Front, it was urgently discussed by the three-member committee. It was quickly approved. The original order to arrest Voroshilov, Budyonny and Yakir was also temporarily suppressed, after all, Voroshilov and Budyonny are both figures on Stalin's line, if they can make meritorious contributions, Stalin is naturally willing to keep them, if the 299th Battle of the Trapped Beast is not completed, the thirteenth has reached the critical moment task, then Stalin can only lose the car to protect the commander, and use them as scapegoats. As for the lives of the remaining 50,000 remnants of the defeated generals in the Middle Road Battle Cluster, in the eyes of this great leader of GCISM in history. It is of little value, at least not as good as his own political future.

As the head of the Eastern Front and a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of Russia, Stalin, of course, knew what defeat meant for him! At present, there are signs of a line struggle in the Central Committee of Russia. Although Lenin was sufficiently sure of his victory over Trotsky at an enlarged meeting of the Central Political Bureau, the premise was that the line proposed by Lenin was possible.

If the main force of the Japanese army escaped from the palm of the Eastern Front, and the Eastern Front was beaten out of Manchuria by the Sino-Japanese coalition. It will be very difficult to realize the strategy of uniting Japan to contain China, at least in the eyes of the comrades attending the enlarged meeting of the Political Bureau. In this way, Trotsky's erroneous line of peaceful coexistence with revisionism will prevail over Lenin's correct line, and the defeat of the Eastern Front will also be attributed to Lenin's erroneous line! At that time, Lenin, in order to protect himself, could only throw himself out as a scapegoat!

Therefore, the Eastern Front must completely crush the main force of the Japanese Army, beat Japan painfully, and force them to sit down at the negotiating table! Only in this way will it be possible for Lenin's correct line to be carried out and the accomplices of revisionism (referring to Trotsky) will be able to get the fate they deserve. Thinking of this, Stalin showed a fanatical expression on his face, and shouted to Skryansky beside him: "Tell Comrade Sù Frunze, I will strictly order the Middle East Road Battle Cluster to hold out in the town of Sagagang for forty-eight hours. He must completely defeat the Japanese invading army fleeing east during this time! ”

Driven by Stalin's iron will. The Battle of Manchuria, which was already nearing the end, once again entered the battle of Harigantusumu. The 50,000 Red Army, exhausted and terrified to the extreme, brought out their last potential under the high pressure of political commissars and security personnel at all levels. The soldiers of the Red Cavalry Corps, under the personal command of Budyonny, launched a decisive counterattack against the pursuing Japanese cavalry, temporarily forcing the opponent, who was also extremely exhausted, to retreat, and buying the Red infantry time to build field fortifications on the snowfields around the town of Sagagang.

And in Hailar, the headquarters of China's Middle East Route Group Army, the original jubilant atmosphere was also swept away by this news. The staff officers who were already preparing to celebrate the victory. All in and out with a straight face.

In the war room of the headquarters, the senior officers of the Chinese and Japanese armies, who had just been drinking and talking, had already begun to argue around the map. On the map, the blue arrows representing the squadron are hovering over the first line of the revisionist army in Harigan Tusumu, and after a long march and fierce fighting, they are already planning to stop and rest for a few days.

In this regard, Japan's General Akiyama Yoshiko didn't take it too seriously. Because the main force of their Xianbeilian army has also successfully broken through. Moreover, the Red Army, which retreated from Harigan Tusumu, was almost on the verge of collapse under the pursuit of the Japanese cavalry. Now is the time to establish meritorious service, since the Chinese want to take a break, then the Japanese cavalry can not just make great achievements? As the father of the Japanese cavalry, Akiyama knew that the Japanese military was now thinking about dismantling the cavalry. At this time, the Japanese cavalry could only win their future with tangible results! Therefore, Akiyama did not urge Bai Chongxi to take advantage of the victory to pursue.

However, he never expected that the Red Army's will to fight would be restored in a very short time. Moreover, the army of tens of thousands of people blocked the nearest road from the main force of the Xianbeilian Dispatch Army to Hailar, which also made the remnants of the hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops who had just escaped once again face the danger of annihilation. China's Middle East Road Army, the only one that could save them, is now insisting on fighting steadily

"Commander White! Now it is like fighting a fire, and a minute late may cause a reversal of the situation on the whole front, so I implore Your Excellency to immediately send troops to rush to help! ”

Akiyama slapped the map table with a heavy slap, his old face was full of anxiety, and his tone of voice was almost pleading.

Bai Chongxi frowned, listening to the words of Akiyama Yoshikoku relayed by the translator. He pointed to a huge red arrow representing the Soviet Russian Red Army to the west of Sagagang and said: "The Soviet Russia did not hesitate to sacrifice the vital strength of the two group armies to prevent the main force of the Xianbeilian Army from retreating eastward, and they are obviously preparing to carry out a decisive battle with our army around the town of Sagagang!" This is likely to be a key battle that will determine the outcome of this war, and we must not act hastily, but must make arrangements for the main battle. I am preparing to march westward with the main force of the Middle East Road Group Army carrying all the heavy firearms to the front line of Sagagang, which may require more than 24 hours of marching and deployment time.

I hope that your Xianbeilian Dispatch Army will launch a defensive posture west of Sagagang and hold out for 72 hours no matter what, and in addition, your cavalry group can also bypass the Red Army's defense line at Sagagang Town and establish contact with the Xianbeilian Dispatch Army. ”

Still going to hold out for 72 hours? The troops sent by Cimberia are running out of ammunition and food. Do you have to fight bayonets to sustain yourself for three days? I wonder if there will be 100,000 people left? These 15 divisions are all in full strength and are heading to Chita! There were almost 350,000 imperial officers and soldiers, but I didn't expect to lose more than 250,000 in just two or three months. This war is really tragic to the extreme! And the Cimberian Republic did not hold on either, it seems that the empire has already lost the war.

Bai Chongxi looked at Akiyama, whose face was pale, and continued to say: "Senior General Akiyama, I also know what kind of price it will cost to let your country's Xianbeilian dispatch army hold out for another three days. But compared to losing the war. No matter how high the price is, it is worth it, and now the main force of the Eastern Front of Soviet Russia is also gathered on the front line of Sao Gang Town, the total number may be as high as more than 200,000, and they are already at the end of the crossbow, which is our chance to annihilate them in one fell swoop! Only by exhausting the main forces of Soviet Russia on the Eastern Front can our two countries win this war in a short period of time, after all, our two countries' family foundations are not as strong as Soviet Russia, which was once the world's first-class power, and if the war drags on endlessly, we will only exhaust our national strength! ”

After listening to Bai Chongxi's words relayed by the translator, Qiu Shan bowed his head silently, and said after a while: "Now it can only be like this." The next 72 hours will be very cruel, I wonder how many Japanese young people have to leave their lives in a foreign land, is such a price really worth it? ”

Bai Chongxi did not answer Akiyama's question. Because he doesn't know the answer either. Although Japan paid heavy casualties for this war, their gains were also huge! After the complete defeat of Manchuria by Soviet Russia - after the Battle of Harigantu Sumu, it is estimated that it will not have the strength to recover the Far Eastern State. This rich land of nearly 400,000 square kilometers on the East Asian continent can be regarded as completely swallowed by them, and this country has always been a strong enemy of China!

A burst of thunderous artillery fire swept across the snowfields northwest of Sagagang Town. The Middle Eastern Railway is back in a mess. Looking west from a Newport 28C1 fighter jet circling over the town of Saga. There was smoke and smoke from the fire, and it seemed that the battle was at its worst. Heart-rending shouts can be faintly heard even in the sky.

The planes of the reconnaissance detachment of the Air Force Corps of the Chinese National Defense Forces carried out reconnaissance missions in the air. The pilot who flew it was Captain Luo Yaoguo, the nephew of Lieutenant General Luo Yiqun, now director of the Central Security Bureau, who was educated in the United States since he was a child. After graduating from high school, he returned to China and was admitted to the Air Force Branch of the Whampoa Military Academy to learn aircraft piloting with the first place.

Different from the crash course of the Army Branch, the Whampoa Air Force Branch has a two-year study period and the most formal and rigorous training. And this 20-year-old elegant and handsome young man is the best among the 200 cadets of the first phase of the Whampoa Air Force, and the assessment of all subjects is the first in the school! And almost all of them were perfect marks, and even the White Russian instructors of the Huangpu Air Force Branch called him a "genius pilot" and a "red baron of China".

However, due to the weather, this talented pilot has not achieved any results in this war, and even the opportunity to attack is pitiful. Today is finally an eye-opener, the wind and snow that have been raging for many days have finally passed, and Luo Yaoguo has finally waited for the opportunity to attack. Although the order given to him from above was only reconnaissance, he hoped to compete with the pilots of the Soviet and Russian Red Army, if he could shoot down a plane, it would be ideal, otherwise when would this captain have to work before he can be promoted? Our talented pilots have long positioned their goal in life as the future chief of China's air force operations!

After circling a few times over the town of Sagagang, he had little patience to observe the fortifications built by the Red Army below as if they were child's play. With red eyes, he flew towards the battle line that was fighting fiercely in the northwest of Sagagang Town. He vaguely saw a few Russian balloons floating in the air, it should be the balloon that commanded the artillery to kill the Japanese, but Luo Yaoguo didn't have a good impression of the Japanese, and he didn't plan to waste the limited bullets on such a boring thing as saving the lives of the Japanese, so he just didn't see it, and continued to look for the shadow of the Red Army plane in the air.

Soon his search yielded results, and three FE2B propulsion fighters, also made in France and belonging to the Russian Air Force, came into his sight. The propellers of such aircraft were mounted behind the fuselage before the summer of 1916. The product before the Entente obtained the machine-gun fire coordination device must have been given to Tsarist Russia by the French government before the Russian Revolution, right?

Three Red Army FE2B planes were flying in a V-shaped formation towards the Newport 28C1 fighter piloted by Luo Yaoguo. It seems that they also found this fighter belonging to the Chinese. However, these Russian pilots who had participated in the European war did not take their Chinese opponents seriously in the slightest, even though the planes they flew were far more advanced than theirs. But they have a threefold advantage! Moreover, the opponent should be a Chinese or Japanese pilot who has never been on the battlefield, and he cannot play the excellent performance of the Newport 28C1 at all.

And the reaction of this Newport 28C1 seems to prove their judgment. When the distance between the two sides was shortened to about three or four thousand meters, the other party seemed to notice them, and immediately turned a corner in the air, and then flew high into the air, as if trying to escape! Such a move immediately aroused the fighting spirit of the Red Army pilots, and all three FE2B planes also increased their horsepower to catch up, one of which clung to the butt of the Newport 28C1, and the other two were outflanked from both wings.

Just when the distance between the FE2B plane chasing in the middle and Luo Yaoguo's Newport plane was shortened to less than 400 meters, I saw the Newport plane suddenly roll in the air with a high difficulty, and before the Russian pilot could react, Luo Yaoguo's Newport dived down from a high altitude. When the distance between the two sides was reduced to seventy or eighty meters, the Lewis machine gun in the nose fired a series of deadly tongues of fire, opening a series of holes in the wing fuselage of the FE2B aircraft, and one of the bullets even knocked out half of the skull of the Red Army pilot who had participated in World War I and fought against German pilots face-to-face. The FE2B plane was loaded at one end.

Luo Yaoguo, who had completed his first killing, which was also a young Chinese aviation force, did not delay in the slightest and pushed the lever again. The FE2B plane on the left wing pounced. The Red Army pilot on the plane had just witnessed the opponent's skilled piloting and killing skills, and he already knew that he was invincible, so he turned the nose of the plane and fled to a low altitude, but the speed of the FE2B plane was not as fast as the newer Newport, and the distance between the two sides became closer and closer, and finally the killing was almost completed on the head of the warring Japanese and Russian troops. More than two dozen rounds entered the fuselage of the FE2B aircraft, and several of them pierced the fuel tanks, setting the plane on fire in the air! The Japanese and Russian soldiers who were fighting below all let out a burst of exclamation, but the Japanese were surprised, and the Russians were frightened.

This wonderful aerial killing was also filmed by the Japanese military reporters below, and it made the headlines of Japanese newspapers two weeks later, and also made the young pilot Luo Yaoguo into the eyes of Chang Ruiqing, and since then he has embarked on the road of soaring. At the same time, this air battle and the subsequent performance of the Chinese air force also made the Japanese military realize that their air force development seems to have lagged behind China.

After Captain Luo Yaoguo completed the first battle of the Wehrmacht Air Force, Chinese fighter jets marked with blue sky and white sun began to appear frequently over the battlefield, including the fighters of the Soviet and Russian Red Army, observation balloons, as well as their artillery positions and logistics convoys, which became targets for Chinese aircraft. And Captain Luo Yaoguo's battle results quickly changed from two to seven!

At the same time, the three armies of the Wehrmacht Army also advanced to the front line of Sao Gang Town, and another brutal offensive and defensive battle began.

The entire town of Sagagang was as if it was on fire, the air was full of flying ballistics, and black and blue pillars of smoke continued to rise on the ground. The sound of gunfire and killing came like angry waves. Let Voroshilov and them, as well as the officers and men of the 1st Cavalry Army and the 5th Army of the Red Army, be frightened. Now the entire front has become a mess. The two armies of the Red Army were in danger of total annihilation in the town of Sagagang, and more than 100,000 Japanese troops were facing the same crisis just a dozen kilometers northwest of Sagagang. Now it depends on who can't hold on first, it's the GC fighters under Voroshilov, but the hundreds of thousands of militarists in the Japanese Xianbeilian Army. The small Sagagang seems to have become a key point in determining the outcome of this war involving China, Japan and Russia. On the evening of 12 November, Lenin, the great mentor of Soviet Russia, sent an enthusiastic telegram to the Red Army soldiers who were still holding out in the town of Sagagang, encouraging them to fight to the end for the cause of GCISM. Almost at the same time, planes of the Air Force Corps of the Chinese National Defense Force also airdropped their edict from Emperor Taisho to the Japanese troops of Xianbeilia, who were fighting bitterly northwest of Saoka!!