Talas?

Zhuo Fan took over the hundred-page plan for the battle of Central Asia from Yue Peng, and before he could open it, he was stunned by the name on the cover. I want to remind you that the battle of Talas was a war of aggression, and it was lost in the end.

Seeing his gaze lingering on the cover, Yue Peng became serious: "Remember! There is no such thing as aggression and being invaded in war, and no matter how big or small, war should serve the interests of each country and nation! Expand your territory, fight potential threats, compete for markets, plunder resources, and more! If there is no interest, there is no point in the war chapter of the novel. The history books are vague about covering up the defeat, but it cannot be said that there was a mistake in this battle! The defeat of Talas made the Tang Dynasty lose Central Asia, and since then there has been no peace in the northwest of our country! Soldiers must know how to face history and failure with integrity. We don't care who it is, we just need to know how the Tang Army withdrew from Central Asia back then, and how we should go back!! ”

"Yes!"

Zhuo Fan saluted.

It is true that there is no need for soldiers to speak so much grandiose rhetoric, and fighting a war is for the benefit of the country. What about the defeat of Talus? Since the country wants to return to Central Asia, it should face history head-on, and if it is ashamed to mention even the defeat, how can it face stronger opponents in the future?

"Good. Give you a day to read the plan and then go to the Admiralty. I have already taken care of it, and Commander Chen will send someone to Jiujiang, Wuhan and other places with you to receive landing craft. The specific quantity and model plan are available, as for how to modify, you look at it. This is your order, and from now on, you are already the operational staff officer of the First Army, and you are fully responsible for the landing plan. Yue Peng put an appointment on the table.

"I'm solely responsible? Chief of the General Staff, me. Zhuo Fan was taken aback, but he didn't expect Yue Peng to directly put him in charge of the plan to cross Lake Balkhash, and also transferred him to the First Army. You know, he is only a lieutenant colonel, and he has not even reached the level of division commander. But he is responsible for the landing coordination of nearly 100,000 troops, and if there is no pressure, it is a lie.

Yue Peng glared: "The plan was proposed by you, who will go if you don't go?" Young people should have the courage to take responsibility. Remember! A real soldier must not only be able to convince the public, but also have good connections! Only in this way will you come up with a new battle plan in the future, and the soldiers will obey the orders to carry it out! Don't worry, Commander Chu Nan and the First Army have rich combat experience, and they will cooperate with you. ”

After Yue Peng finished speaking, he picked up his hat and prepared to go to the meeting. After getting up, he also took care of it emphatically: "That's right." Yang Tianlei, commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Armored Division, is your junior brother and the president's eldest son. ”

Looking at his back, Zhuo Fan suddenly felt a little sour in his nose. When his father died early, he remarried with his mother since he was a child, so he was introverted and silent, but now he felt his father's love for the first time from Yue Peng.

"We must make the crossing!" Zhuo Fan took a deep breath and began to seriously study the "Talas" battle plan. As his flipping through became slower, he was drawn to the huge plan. I was also curious about the people who made and deduced the plan.

The whole plan is divided into three parts, namely the main battlefield in Kazakhstan and the secondary battlefield in Afghanistan and Iran. A total of 20 corps will be deployed, including 8 armored divisions, 4 mechanized infantry divisions, 15 motorized infantry divisions, 2 airborne divisions and 3 mountain infantry divisions. For the first time, two infantry divisions of the Indian Muslim League and three infantry divisions of Afghanistan will be mobilized, and the Air Force will also dispatch 5,500 aircraft to cooperate. The total number of troops invested is as high as 2.57 million! The number of troops used. The scale is the first in the history of the Wehrmacht's operations.

It can be said that in addition to the harsh geographical conditions that had to wait for Siberia in the summer, from Kazakhstan to Iran. Almost all of them are included! This was not a decisive battle plan, and the people who made the plan were level-headed and knew that a country like the Soviet Union, with its vast depth and huge population, could not be defeated in one sitting. Therefore, the goal is very clear, that is, to lay the victory of the Republic of China in Central Asia before the outbreak of the European ground war.

"Talus!"

After sleeping for twenty-one hours, after carving the entire battle plan into his mind, Zhuo Fan closed the cover. Silently chanting these three words, he shoved the battle plan into the document shredder.

Throughout the second half of September, the volume of radio communications in the northwest region increased fivefold, military vehicles could be seen on all roads along the border, the number of military trains and the number of transport planes taking off and landing increased dramatically, and the frequency of air force reconnaissance planes also increased sharply from more than 10 per day to more than 50 sorties per day.

Even people who don't understand military affairs, in the face of these two surge data, I am afraid they can guess that this is a precursor to an offensive. The sudden increase in the volume of radio signals and the high-altitude and high-speed reconnaissance planes that were frequented dozens of times a day made the Soviet General Staff immediately realize that war was about to break out, and even Beria mobilized his fifth column and strictly ordered to immediately obtain detailed information on the direction and quantity of movements.

From Siberia to Iran, Stalin and the Soviet General Staff faced a thorny difficulty in the face of a long front that was a headache and fear for military strategists all over the world.

After this transfer, what are the targets of the first round of attacks?

Iran that is already at war?

Herat, Afghanistan?

Kazakh?

Or Krasnoyarsk, which was split in half?

The Soviets lacked intelligence! Lack of evidence to accurately predict the direction of attack! You must know that in addition to the Caucasus and the Persian Gulf, which are close at hand, both Siberia and Central Asia are far away, and the capacity of the railway is limited, so it is impossible to disperse troops to every border, so judging the direction of the offensive in advance is the only way to ensure the concentration of forces.

So the General Staff of the Soviet Army immediately divided into two factions, one of which believed that it was Iran. The reason is that 70 percent of the Chinese soldiers come from south of the Great Wall, and that a wise general will not choose to attack in the harsh winter of Central Asia and Siberia as it is about to begin. Moreover, after the passage is opened, China has sent at least 7 additional divisions to the Persian Gulf, and it is already capable of fighting a full-scale Caucasus campaign.

The other group thinks that Kazakhstan is the core of the whole of Central Asia, and whether it is terrain or logistics, it can only accommodate the battle of a million troops. Moreover, the Chinese defense forces have the advantage of tanks and aircraft, and this fast branch of the army needs open terrain to play a role.

Just when neither faction could convince the other, a "top secret" piece of information from Japan made the situation seem open-minded.

"Do you think that's true?" In the Kremlin's war room, Stalin stood in front of the map with a pipe in his mouth, and looked at it intently for a while before turning to Voroshilov and the others present. The defeat in the Battle of Ahvaz made the red godfather a lot more cautious, realizing that there was a big gap in weapons and tactics. That's why he swallowed his anger at Hitler. The Nazis, who risked being fed oil and were likely to become more dangerous, also had to exchange for more advanced weaponry.

"I think it's true." Voroshilov hurriedly walked to the front, pointed to the map and analyzed: "The Japanese are planning to attack the Philippines, and they need to face not only pressure from China, but also from the United States, so there is no need to deceive us." Moreover, intelligence also showed that Yang Qiu was transferring reserves from Xinjiang and Kashgar to Almaty and Tokmak (Broken Leaves), and Red Army scouts also found the number of the First Army, known as the trump card, at Aksuyek, at the southern end of Lake Balkhash.

In the plan given to us by Japan, this is exactly the starting point of the attack of the "Hanfeng Plan". The plan also came to use the ace army as an assault force, and then the reserves quickly followed up to open up the situation. So I think they're going to break through from here. Then attack South Kazakhstan, thus encircling Turkestan and Tashkent, release all the garrisons in Andijan, Tajikistan and Afghanistan, and attack the South Caspian Sea to achieve the goal of pinning Iran. ”

Stalin nodded, and the Han-style plan provided by Japan did describe in detail that the southern front of Central Asia would be the main point of attack. And Voroshilov's inference is also tenable, after all, as long as this line is opened, Tehran can be attacked from both the north and the south. Tehran is the only strategic point where Yang Qiu can threaten the Caucasus and the Black Sea coast at close range.

But from this alone, he did not dare to make a rash decision. Because the troops in Tashkent cannot be withdrawn. Andijan has nearly 100,000 Wehrmacht troops here, as well as a large number of aircraft and tanks, and the 103rd Division, one of the nine aces, has been eyeing here since last year. East Kazakhstan is even more unable to move, then want to strengthen the defense of South Kazakhstan. Only the Uzbek and Turkmen fronts can be transferred, but will the transfer lead to a reduction in pressure on Afghanistan and allow the 10th Army, which is trapped in western Afghanistan, to rush out?

To make accurate judgments, you need more intelligence. So he looked at Beria: "Comrade Beria. Do you have any news there? ”

Beria has worked hard, but the restoration of the Soviet intelligence network, which had been damaged by the Great Purge, will not be done in a year or two. Fortunately, there are many ethnic minorities in the northwest who can take advantage of it, so they immediately replied: "Comrade General Secretary. The intelligence officer told me. Since last week, the reserves in Urumqi have been ordered to move, the railway from Ili to Almaty has been blocked by the army, three times more trains pass through each day than in the previous period, and a large number of flatbed cars covered with canvas, so they see this as a sign of a massive increase in troops in Almaty.

General Kulik also believes that the transfer from Almaty to East Kazakhstan is more than 300 kilometers, and even with a railway, it will take several days to move back and forth. If this is an illusion, then the transfer distance is too far. It is very difficult to transfer so many reserve troops hundreds of kilometers away and then back after the war. What's more, now that there is only a month left before the snowfall, time no longer allows for a feint of this scale.

There is one more thing that is also worth paying attention to. I have received definite information that Qin Zhangshu, commander of the Chinese Army, has arrived in Riyadh for a visit, and will review the troops in Ahvaz tomorrow, and there is also a US ** observation group among the accompanying personnel! I think that the fact that the Americans chose to go to Iran at this time shows that they also got some intelligence! ”

The right hand man said that the main attack point was in South Kazakhstan, which made Stalin also begin to believe that the "Han Feng plan" sent by Japan was real, so he slowly turned his attention to the Zhambyl Prefecture theater at the southern end of Lake Balkhash. Seeing this, Voroshilov immediately said: "General Secretary, this is a good opportunity!" After they moved the reserves to the south, the reserves of the East Kazakhstans would be much smaller. We can draw from ten to twenty divisions from the Turkmen and Uzbek Fronts and let them join Kulik's South Kazakh Army Group, so that two heavy punches can be formed at the same time at both ends of Lake Balkhash!

Now they are not ready, so as long as Kulik preemptively attacks East Kazakhstan first, and gives full play to the ability of our artillery and large army groups to attack continuously, they can disrupt their deployment and force Yang Qiu to transfer the reserves back to the north. When the reserves return to the north, the South Kazakh Army Group can move from defense to offensive and seize the important city of Almaty, thus cutting off the connection between East Kazakhstan and Tajikistan!

There are four strategic cities in China's territory, Semiy, Karakum, Almaty, and Andijan, of which Almaty, Karakum, and Andijan all have very good heavy industrial bases, and after the occupation, they can be used as advance bases to lay a good foundation for the next attack on Xinjiang, the northwestern industrial center. ”…………)