Comrade Frunze, commander of the Central Asian Front of the USSR and chairman of the Central Asian Revolutionary Military Committee, felt a blow to his head! It's still a very stuffy stick!

His 500,000 troops only lasted 3 days (including the skirmish on the first day) under the attack of more than 400,000 squadrons, and they were about to be defeated? The defensive line of 6 army groups was cut from the middle by the armored assault of the Chinese, and hundreds of thousands of Soviet Red Army troops were now divided into two isolated clusters more than 30 kilometers apart, and surrounded by opponents!

There was also a lot of noise in the Karaganda Front headquarters, and some people thought that the original plan should be carried out, because the besieged six Soviet army groups would definitely not be so easily destroyed by the enemy, and they would hold out for at least 10 to 15 days, as long as Budyonny's cavalry clusters could take Dihua, and the southern and western road clusters could take Almaty. Then even if the main force of the Northwest Front of China annihilated Khapayev's 500,000 troops, it would not be able to escape the end of the annihilation of the whole army, and the Soviet Red Army could still liberate the outer and northern regions in one fell swoop, and it was completely worth it to exchange for such a victory at the cost of 500,000 people! And they were all convinced that Khapaev's 500,000 Soviet Red Army, even in the most isolated and depleted situation, could create a miracle of defensive operations with the conviction of liberating all mankind.

However, Malikinov, chief of staff of the Front, believed that the encirclement of the Khapayev cluster was an opportunity for the Soviet Central Asian Front to start a general decisive battle with the Northwest Chinese Front. The Budyonny, South, and West clusters should be ordered to immediately abandon the enemy in front of them and consider at full speed to the front line of the Komsomolskaya city on the Alaresa River. As long as they can get there before the Khapaev cluster is completely annihilated. Then the tide of the battle will be turned in an instant, and the Soviets will win a big victory! Because the more than 400,000 Chinese Wehrmacht is no match for the 1 million Soviet Red Army in any case, as long as the main force of the Northwest Front of China is eliminated. Territory in the north and outside is not yet at your fingertips?

Truth be told, there is some truth in both of these opinions. The Soviet Red Army in this time and space did not experience a great purge, and countless outstanding military commanders who experienced the First World War, the Soviet Russian Revolutionary War, the Four-Power War, the Polish War and the Persian War formed the backbone of the Red Army, and tens of millions of Soviet youths who had received red brainwashing education since childhood constituted the flesh and blood of the Red Army. If we do not take into account the factor of weapons and equipment, no one can deny that the current Soviet army is the most powerful army in the world, and there is no one.

So even in a situation like the present. The high command of the Soviet Red Army in Karaganda also did not consider the Great Battle of Central Asia to have been lost, and did not give up its efforts to win it.

"Comrades!" Frunze stood up suddenly, his face calming down. With a slight annoyance, he strode to the map table, looked at the battlefield of the Aloresa River on the map, and sneered: "It seems that the revisionist army is a little more powerful than we imagined...... But. The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army is invincible! The defeat on the Alaresa River was only temporary. And the enemy has already suffered heavy losses in 3 days of rampant offensive, and now is our chance to annihilate them! He paused, then raised his voice and said, "However, the opportunity to raid the northern frontier should not be given up either, the main force of the Northwest Front of China has been concentrated north of the Alaresa River. Their northern region is very empty, with only a small number of regular troops and a hundred thousand militiamen, and they are definitely no match for Budyonny! ”

"Comrade commander, do you mean to simultaneously implement two plans: a raid on the northern frontier and a decisive battle on the Alelesa River?" Malikinov looked at his boss with his mouth open, hesitated for a moment before saying, "It's too risky. Comrade Commander, this is too risky...... Budyonny's cavalry regiment took only three or four days to reach the Alaresa. The South Road and West Road clusters take at least 8 days to reach the Komsomol City...... I fear that Comrade Khapayev will not hold out for that long. ”

"No, Budyonny won't be able to reach the Alelesa River for 10 days." Frunze shook his head and said: "Chinese will block his cavalry on the front line of Tacheng Alahu, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese armored forces is obvious, in the Kuwait campaign, Pavlov's 8 tank corps suffered a big loss in front of 1 Chinese armored cavalry corps, and in the Aloresa River, Khapayev's 6 armies could not stop the assault of 1,000 Chinese tanks...... And with Bai Chongxi's wisdom, he would definitely think that we would mobilize Budyonny's cavalry to return to help, so there will definitely be Chinese armored troops waiting for Budyonny on the front line of Tacheng Alahu, no matter how powerful Budyonny's cavalry is, it is flesh and blood, and they can't beat steel, so let them disturb the enemy's rear as much as possible. ”

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"Brother Yaoru, the telegram of Brother Jiansheng, his troops have divided and surrounded the Soviet troops of the 6 army groups on the north bank of the Alaresa River!"

After listening to Wang Junhao's report, Chang Ruiqing suddenly felt relaxed, leaned back on the back of the chair with a long sigh, and took the telegram with a smile: "Great, great victory!" With this great victory, the situation in the northwest can be regarded as stable......" As he spoke, he had already read Bai Chongxi's call at a glance, and his expression that had just relaxed became solemn again.

"Bai Jiansheng only plans to eat 3 Soviet army groups? Obviously surrounded 6 of them, why did they only destroy half of them? Isn't this a return to the mountains? He put down the telegram and looked at Wang Junhao and Zhao Zhen in front of him: "Introspection, Youlin, what do you think?" ”

Wang Junhao just smiled: "After all, it's 500,000 to 1.5 million, if you can eat 3 complete Soviet armies and then severely damage the other 3, how can you destroy 300,000 enemies!" It is not easy to defeat the strong with the weak, and it is not easy to achieve such a big victory. ”

"I agree with the opinion of introspection, Brother Jiansheng's capital is thin, and he doesn't dare to fight with Lao Maozi. As the saying goes, if you kill 10,000 enemies and lose 3,000 yourself, the battle of the Alaresa River is not a skillful battle, but a hard-fought battle...... 470,000 attacked 500,000, fought hard for 48 hours, and the Soviet army was not a tofu scum, the 2nd Panzer Army fought 8 times in armored assault alone! It's been a bitter battle like never before! ”

Probably because the wives of the two White Russian nobles ate too much Russian dairy products for Zhao Zhen, this once handsome young man has become a middle-aged uncle, and his round figure is excited to walk around the room: "Such a hard battle can only be won by Brother Jiansheng." 300,000 Soviet troops were defeated in the First World War, and if you count the results of the Northern Front, the whole of October. Trotsky lost 500,000 men on the Eastern Front alone! Even if the Soviet GCD had a super mobilization capacity, it couldn't help such a rate of loss, right? I think that after this war, it will be difficult for the Soviet Central Asian Front to recover. Brother Yaoru, shouldn't we prepare for a general battle against the Soviet Union in Central Asia and Eastern Siberia this winter? ”

Chang Ruiqing's expression had calmed down, and when he heard Zhao Zhen's last proposal, he just smiled faintly, waved his hand and said, "Don't be busy grabbing the land first." Now is not the time...... By the way, introspection and introspection, from now on, the number of enemies we announce to the public should be as rigorous as possible. Well, fold the numbers reported by the military from all sides and divide them by two. ”

"Huh!?" Wang Junhao and Zhao Zhen were stunned when they heard this, looked at each other, and the fat man Zhao Zhen said: "Brother Yaoru." It doesn't have to be that way, right? The soldiers at the front may report more merits. Ask for more rewards, but after all, they are fighting a bloody battle with the enemy......"

Chang Ruiqing waved his hand and interrupted: "Youlin, you misunderstood. What I mean is that the number of enemies destroyed announced to the outside world should be reported less, and we will reward how we should do it internally, and we will judge it as we should do it. ”

Zhao Fatzi still didn't quite understand, Wang Junhao seemed to have thought of something, and said tentatively: "Brother Yaoru, you mean to make others underestimate our combat effectiveness." How about relaxing your vigilance against us? ”

Chang Ruiqing nodded with a smile and said, "Not only that, but I want them to underestimate the losses of the Soviet Union." In their eyes, the USSR should collapse overnight, and not gradually go to defeat! ”

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At 6:30 a.m. on October 11, 1932, the battle to encircle and annihilate the eastern flank cluster of Soviet troops on the Alaresa River began. The artillery fire of the Chinese army swept through the Soviet positions in the encirclement like an endless meteor shower falling from the sky. In an instant, high and low columns of smoke and mushroom clouds soared into the sky at the same time above the Soviet front. Although the scale of the shelling did not increase, the firepower became more intensive. About 180,000 Soviet troops have been compressed into a territory of more than a dozen square kilometers by Chinese armored forces. Eight corps-level artillery regiments, 15 divisional artillery regiments, and three artillery groups directly under the headquarters of the group army, as well as more than 100 regimental artillery batteries and heavy mortar batteries opened fire at the same time. Suddenly turned the Soviet positions into a sea of fire!

The trapped Soviet troops did not give up their dying throes either. Their artillery group began to counterattack almost immediately, but their artillery had already suffered heavy losses, and with a lack of ammunition, it was no match for the Chinese artillery group at all. What made them even more desperate was that as soon as their artillery fired, a black and oppressive Chinese army cluster appeared in the air, overwhelmingly pressing towards the Soviet artillery positions that were firing! Shells and bombs fell in droves, and the Soviet front was constantly trembling! The fireballs of smoke and fire had already been connected, and hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops seemed to be in the boundless fire purgatory.

In the midst of the rain of bullets, all the communication lines of the Soviet army are shouting wildly, the general attack of the Chinese army is just around the corner, and the time has come to dedicate the whole life to the cause of human liberation! As soon as the shelling stopped, the surviving GCIST fighters poured into the trenches, and some brave sappers even risked their lives to lay anti-tank mines under Chinese artillery fire. Mosin. A Nagant rifle or a Tokarev submachine gun was mounted. The M1910 heavy machine gun also entered the firing wèizhì. Red Army commandos, armed with 1932 anti-tank grenade launchers and anti-tank grenades, also began to take a solemn oath under the bright red party flag. The Soviets quickly put up a posture of resistance, and although they were trapped, they still showed their elite colors. No matter how strong the armored forces of the Chinese army are, relying on the flesh and blood of the GC fighters, they will definitely be able to repel them!

The tanks still rushed up, hundreds of Hunter tank destroyers, Type 31 tanks and Type C self-propelled guns mixed together, guiding the same number of tracked armored vehicles, as well as thousands of Chinese infantry armed with automatic firearms, all the way to the kill. The GCIST fighters also launched a counter-charge without fear, Ula! Ulla! The slogans almost covered the roar of tank motors and the loud explosion of shells. But such a counterattack was finally repelled by the fire of Chinese tanks and automatic firearms. At the end of the day, the Soviet troops were dumped in front of their positions, and a large number of technical weapons were destroyed. In the process of firing, the positions of several artillery regiments were bombed by the Chinese army's Attack 2 planes, and hundreds of artillery pieces were blown into twisted scrap metal. Dead GC fighters and mutilated and broken artillery were piled up all over the Soviet line. It seems to prove their fiasco!

Under the onslaught of the Chinese armored clusters and superior infantry in turn, the almost frantic resistance of the Soviet troops did not receive any effect, but only brought more than 15000 casualties to themselves! There are also thousands of numb expressions. Soviet officers and soldiers, who seemed to have completely collapsed, were captured.

The besieged Soviet troops were shaken on all fronts. After a day of hard fighting, they finally understood that it was a completely impossible luxury to hold out until reinforcements arrived. Now the only option is to die for the liberation of mankind! But under the blow of the Chinese army's strong superior forces and firepower, how much significance did their sacrifice have? The morale, which had been extremely high, began to decline rapidly, and defeatist and even capitulationist sentiments began to spread rapidly within the encirclement.

But outside these two encirclements on the north bank of the Alaresa River, the advantage seemed to be entirely on the side of the Soviet Union. The cavalry cluster commanded by Budyonny was overwhelmed in the northern frontier where the squadron was empty. Within a few days, Yumin County, Wusu County, Tuoli County, Emin County and other county seats were successively attacked. It also smashed the Karamay oil field (Dushanzi, Wusu County), which had just begun construction, and the advance troops had even rushed to the city of Jinghua, the gateway to Dihua, and cut off the railway line from Dihua to Yining. It also caused panic in Dihua City, the capital of Northern Xinjiang Province.

In Almaty, the capital of Outer Xinjiang Province, Wu Peifu, then commander-in-chief of the Outer Xinjiang Garrison, let out a long sigh, and the six Soviet army group armies that had been violently attacking Almaty suddenly turned around and headed north, looking at the important town of the Communist Youth League in the central part of Northern Xinjiang Province. It was one of the two major logistical storage sites of the North-Western Front (the other being Almaty). Now the supply of the main forces of the North-Western Front on the north bank of the Alaresa River is counting on the stocks of the Komsomolskaya!

It's obvious. The Central Asian Front of the Soviet Union has already begun to fight for its life. Trotsky's supreme directives also flew like snowflakes from the Kremlin to Karaganda. Dozens of political prisoners in the territories of the five Central Asian republics have been given a chance to be reborn, and the world revolution has reached the most critical moment, and all those who are willing to take up arms and take part in the revolution are our comrades! The slogans of Long Live Trotsky and Long Live the World Revolution sounded in the concentration camps, and every young and middle-aged male prisoner in prison lined up in front of the enlistment office, lest he lose his only chance to save himself. Reinforcements from the three armies were also sent to Central Asia by train from West Siberia and the Caucasus, the newly developed 76.2mm anti-tank guns were also given priority to the Central Asian front, and Trotsky even transferred 300 Su76 guns that were still on the drawing board to rebuild the mechanized troops in Frunze.

But. The revolutionary prophets in the Kremlin also knew that their efforts were far away, and they could not quench the thirst of the hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops besieged on the north bank of the Alaresa River. The Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army, Tukhachevsky, the People's Commissar of Labor and Defense Vatsettis, the Deputy People's Commissar of Labor and Defense Shaposhnikov, and others were recruited to Trotsky's office.

"Comrade Vatsettis, Comrade Tukhachevsky, Comrade Shaposhnikov...... We may well suffer a defeat in Central Asia! Trotsky said to the three with a gloomy face: "The more than 100,000 soldiers in the encirclement on the eastern flank of the Alaresa River are in a difficult situation. They are short of supplies, their ammunition will be exhausted, and it may be difficult to maintain themselves under the onslaught of the enemy's superior forces and firepower! ”

The three people present looked at each other, the Red Army has lost almost 400,000 this month! If three more group armies are completely annihilated, this number may exceed 600,000, and how many people does the Soviet Union have? However, 155 million, of which 20 million can be mobilized, and 600,000 are lost every month, and in less than 3 years, there will be no one in the Soviet Union who can be a soldier......

Trotsky's gloomy gaze swept over the three of them, and finally looked at Tukhachevsky, his most effective military assistant, and said: "Is there any room for redemption in the situation of the Central Asian battle?" ”

"Comrade Chairman, the key now is how long the encircled 6 armies can hold out, especially the 3 armies on the eastern flank." Tukhachevsky pondered: "Now there are 6 army groups heading towards the Komsomolskaya City, so the battle of the main forces of the Northwest Front of the Chinese Army on the north bank of the Alelesa River will not last long, at most...... Not more than 6 days. ”

"And then? Will they do it? Trotsky asked in a deep voice.

"They may retreat to the city of Komsomolskaya, where there are ample reserves and strong defensive positions." Vasetis replied: "But we can still defeat them, even if we lose 3 group armies, we still have 9 group armies available, as long as these 9 group armies besiege Komsomol City, we will definitely be able to save the war situation in Central Asia!" ”

As soon as this proposal was proposed, it was immediately supported by Tukhachevsky and Shaposhnikov. "Comrade Trotsky, we also support the siege of the Komsomolskaya City, the 9 Red Army armies have 700,000 troops, and the Chinese troops in the Komsomolsk City have a maximum of 42 or 430,000 troops, and after days of hard fighting, they are already exhausted divisions, so we should not miss this opportunity, we must destroy the enemy while they are at their weakest!"