Tang Qiuli's judgment was very accurate, half an hour after the telegram was sent, Chen Feng, director of the Communications Division, came to the headquarters, "Division commander, chief of staff, the Germans have sent us a telegram in the name of Hitler, thanking us for what we have done in the Outer Mongolia battlefield and the Far East battlefield!" He said in a deep voice.

Tang Qiuli took the telegram from Chen Feng's hand on the one hand, and on the other hand, he smiled at Zhao Yuhe as if he was victorious, and a telegram full of Hitler's style was displayed in front of him, "My old friend, for what you have done, I and every German soldier will always remember it in our hearts, old friend, you have taken the initiative to attack millions of Russian troops with more than 200,000 troops, and you are fighting bravely and fearlessly, which is worth learning from our German soldiers!" ”

"For the old friends for the great cause of Germany, I am inexplicably grateful, in the post-war world pattern arrangement, there will be unexpected returns, in addition, to inform the old friends of a good news, just ten hours ago, Germany's third army group on the battlefield of the British Isles has successfully ended the campaign to occupy LinkedIn, the British and American coalition forces of more than 500,000 people, all annihilated, the British royal family and cabinet, have fled to the United States, the big London liar Churchill, also got out!"

"The Third Army Group, which ended the British campaign, is about to be thrown into the war against Russia, and at the current pace of the German army's advance, by the end of April, the Barbarossa Plan will be completed in its entirety, old friend, looking forward to meeting you and your brave and skilled army in the Ural Mountains, that exciting moment, good health old friend!"

Tang Qiuli's heart moved, and there were two points in Hitler's callback. First, Hitler already made a promise on the issue of the division of the post-war world pattern, although this promise was still too early, but it was what he wanted to see, and since Hitler took the initiative to speak, there was no need for him to be hypocritical, so he pretended to be high. What kind of food comes to you, the one who gets your hand is the most real, and the rest is all!

The second point. It was a rendezvous with the Germans and independent divisions in the Ural Mountains, which was a signal from Hitler. War against the USSR. Hitler was confident that the Germans would not cross the Ural Mountains, that is, Hitler would not touch the Asian part of the territory of the USSR, of course, and this would have to be done with such strength. Again, there is the fact that Hitler did not take into account the interests of the Japanese at all.

In other words, in Hitler's mind, the Japanese were no longer worthy of being allies. Regardless of that, it is beneficial to itself, even if the war is carried out to the end, Germany has not been able to completely occupy the territory of the Soviet Union in the European part, the Soviet Union has not destroyed the country, Hitler will not put his hand, to the eastern part of the Ural Mountains, the strategic pattern of the Far East has been divided in advance, although the Soviet-German war has just begun, it is still going on, it is difficult to say who will win or lose, but basically, he can get the territory of the Asian part of the Soviet Union!

"Hitler was such a wonderful man, so understanding! Take the initiative to attack this move, no loss - absolutely no loss! Tang Qiuli smiled happily, shook his head and sighed and said, "Director Chen, call back to Hitler, our independent division troops will do everything possible, at the cost of heavy casualties, drag down millions of Soviet troops, and create the greatest opportunity for the German army on the battlefield of the Soviet Union in about a month!" ”

Of course, this is purely Tang Qiuli fooling Hitler, but he is dragging the Soviet army, and he is still sure that he will be able to do so for about a month, but the troops of the independent division will not pay the heavy price of casualties, and they even have no intention of confronting the Soviet army head-on, and they are not fools, and they will have a hard time with millions of Soviet troops!

After listening to Tang Qiuli's words, even Zhao Yuhe and Chen Feng laughed, and Zhao Yuhe said with a smile: "Division commander, you don't hesitate to pay the price of heavy casualties, you are willing to do it!" ”

Tang Qiuli laughed, "Of course I can't bear it!" The matter of making wedding clothes for others, this teacher will not do! In the midst of laughter, there was a lot of pride.

Just when Tang Qiuli was in the headquarters of Saiyinshanda and was overjoyed by Hitler's telegram, the attack of the Outer Mongolian Field Corps on the 37th Group Army of the Soviet Army had reached the stage of infantry assault.

After an hour's rapid artillery attack, the eight artillery brigades of the independent division and thousands of large-caliber howitzers poured more than 100,000 shells onto the Soviet positions.

It has already been expected that the independent division will definitely be heavy on the main forces of the front army, and the opportunity to withdraw from the battlefield will pounce on it and take a bite, and the 37th Group Army of the Soviet Army, from top to bottom, is ready for a fierce battle, leaving to serve as a rearguard and covering the withdrawal of the main forces of the front army, which is itself a task of life and death, and it is very likely that it will not be able to get out of the independent division troops, and if the independent division troops from other directions surround it, the 37th Group Army will be in danger of being annihilated.

However, in the sequence of the Soviet Army's Outer Mongolian Front, the 37th Group Army, which has experienced the test of the Soviet-Finnish and Soviet-Polish battlefields, can be called the most elite troops, of course, it has its own arrogance, with 1670,000 troops, with more than 700 tanks belonging to a tank army, well-equipped, even if they can't win the battle and want to leave, the Chinese are not able to stay, after approaching Kulen, and the 35th Group Army are horns for each other, and the Chinese are helpless!

Therefore, the commander of the 37th Army, Lieutenant General Hippoliv, gave the order to the various units to act, "to repel all the enemy who dares to attack, and to inflict maximum casualties on the enemy, hold the position for twelve hours!" In his opinion, there is no problem at all in guarding until more than nine o'clock tomorrow morning, and after completing the task of guarding and blocking the attack, according to the actual situation on the battlefield, you can fight and leave as much as you want, and the main force of the front army will leave the battlefield smoothly, and the 37th Group Army will not have any pressure!

As for the 43rd Army, which was surrounded by the troops of the Independent Division in Minusinsk and the entire army was destroyed, it can only be said that it was unlucky, unlucky, and stood out alone, falling into the trap of Tang Qiuli, but Lieutenant General Hippoliv was not worried about this, behind his back, there was the 35th Group Army, face to face in a tough battle, and the Chinese had not yet eaten their appetite.

The Soviet Army's 37th Group Army's more than 100,000 troops built two defensive positions in the direction of Seyinshanda, stretching for dozens of kilometers, to block all the passages in the direction of the main force of the pursuit of the front army.

The offensive deployment of the Outer Mongolia Field Corps of the Independent Division was led by the armored troops of Batel and the two tank brigades, and on the frontal battlefield, it was divided into two main assault directions, and in the two assault directions, Major General Sun Zhenbang, commander of the corps, each invested more than 50,000 troops in three brigades, which was only about half of the total strength of the Outer Mongolia Field Corps.

Sun Zhenbang's style of fighting was deeply influenced by the division commander Tang Qiuli, and he was the most taboo to push the first line, and he also understood that the division commander handed over the northern battlefield of Seyin Shanda to himself and Batel with full command, and the division pointed to the meaning of non-interference, therefore, when formulating the battle plan, Sun Zhenbang made up his mind, if he didn't fight, it would be a complete annihilation, and he would get off to a good start!

Sun Zhenbang talked about his thoughts with Battle, but Battle had no opinion at all, the two commanders agreed on the same opinion, and the campaign plan was quickly implemented, with half of the troops, for frontal assault, and the other half of the strength of six infantry brigades, divided into left and right roads, respectively, to the Soviet 37th Army flanks in a roundabout way, frontal attacking troops, more use of artillery fire, maintain the rhythm of the offensive, do not put too much pressure on the Soviet army.

Sun Zhenbang and Battle have their own calculations, the frontal attack is too fierce, the pressure is too great, the Soviet army that cannot support it will retreat, the planned encirclement battle, will be a pursuit battle, the effect of destroying the enemy, greatly discounted, give full play to the power of artillery fire, on the one hand, in order to kill a large number of Soviet troops, the main point, is to drag down the Soviet army, for the two flanks to outflank the troops, to buy enough time.

The overwhelming artillery fire overturned the forward positions of the 37th Soviet Army, and shrouded the Soviet soldiers, hastily constructed simple fortifications, in a sea of gunsmoke and fire, never imagined that the Chinese would have such dense and fierce artillery fire of Soviet soldiers, crying bitterly, there were no anti-artillery holes, no shelters, the positions were full of whistling shrapnel, and the Soviet soldiers who were bombed were full of flesh and blood and had nowhere to hide.

Lieutenant General Hippolyv, commander of the 37th Soviet Army, was taken aback by the ferocious artillery fire of the Outer Mongolian Field Corps, and in his telescopic lens, the first line of attack was blown into a sea of fire by shells like flying locusts, and the corpses of the soldiers were shattered in the smoke and flames from the explosion.

"Army group artillery group! ――What are you waiting for? - Huh? Didn't you see the forward positions being shelled by the Chinese! -- Counterattack, immediately counterattack, suppress the artillery fire of the troops of the independent division, destroy the artillery positions of the Chinese, quickly! Lieutenant General Hippoliv angrily dropped the phone and gasped for breath, "Slow response, such an artillery commander is not competent at all!" He thought hatefully.

The 37th Group Army also has two artillery divisions equipped with large-caliber howitzers, plus the artillery divisions of various corps, the number of artillery combined, may not be less than the independent division troops opposite, but the hateful thing is that the artillery commander of the group army behaved unexpectedly, or was afraid, the artillery of the independent division began shelling for more than 30 minutes, and did not return fire, seeing that the first line of blocking positions was blown to pieces by Chinese shells.

"After withdrawing to Kulen, we must send that bastard of the artillery commander of the Front Army to a military court and disgrace the 37th Army!" Lieutenant General Hippoliv, whose anger has not subsided, is viciously intended.

(To be continued)(To be continued......