Chapter 173

When it comes to China again, these two giants are full of bitterness. China in today's world is simply unavoidable. Thirty years earlier, China was still a country where foreign powers were rampant, and China's tariffs at that time were in the hands of Britain. In order to pry open the Chinese market, the Americans chose to cooperate with Fang Jianxiong, and successfully defeated Germany, becoming the biggest winner in the Chinese fire market. Then there are other industries, which slowly penetrate and become the biggest winners in the Chinese market.

Before the Americans had time to rejoice, they had already discovered that the Republic of China dominated by Fang Jianxiong was not under control at all. The reason is that in the First World War, Fang Jianxiong took advantage of the contradictions between the great powers to fully maximize his own advantages. By the end of World War I, a series of unequal treaties were abolished, and Gengzi indemnities were no longer paid. Because the entanglement of interests was too deep, and at the same time, when the British planned to regain their strength, they found that China was already strong, and it was not the Qing Dynasty that was casually handled. In less than ten years, a miracle was born.

If this is just the case, it is nothing, because China is an agricultural country after all, and its military prominence is more based on the premise of foreign fire import. But the greater miracle is still to come, after the recovery of sovereignty, China, under the influx of foreign capital, although there is not much improvement in technology, but its industrial base has been laid. In particular, the industrial base of private enterprises and the heavy industry base are slowly and steadily advancing under the strong support of the government.

When the world economic crisis broke out, the world saw a China speeding at high speed. Because of the huge domestic market and government intervention. China and the Soviet Union are the only two great powers in the world that have not been affected by the economic crisis. If the world economic crisis hit the economies of the European and American powers hard, then it also achieved the economic miracle of China and the Soviet Union.

After studying the development trajectory of China's industry, many American experts unanimously exclaimed. The people's accumulation in this country is really too deep. Why do you say that, light industry and heavy industry are completely two different concepts, and the characteristic of heavy industry is that it burns money and produces results very slowly. For example, if you build a steel base, you don't want to see what scale and benefits you can do in three or five years. It is difficult for private capital to invest too much in this field, just look at the parallel history, during the First World War, China's private iron factories sprung up. But all that is produced is pig iron, not even crude steel. As a result, after the end of World War I, world steel prices plummeted. China's private iron factories have closed their doors. Who will do what is not profitable? But the steel industry is the backbone of a country. In many cases, the only thing that does not see the benefits is for the state to do.

Then China in this time and space is not the same thing at all, because China's heavy industry system was built at the beginning. It is under the full support of someone Fang. Those who make money and don't make money don't think much about it. Anyway, this thing must have its own system, otherwise it will have to be like the three countries in parallel history, cannons must be imported, and high-end bullets must also be imported.

That's why American experts exclaimed that China's private sector has accumulated so much that it can resist such a toss. I didn't expect that the initial industrial system was almost supported by state procurement and Fang Jianxiong's personal financial resources. After that, the state will build railways and build infrastructure or something. They all give priority to domestic iron and steel enterprises, and it is not easy to pull them up. If it weren't for the excitement of World War I. China's heavy industry is even more difficult. After the end of World War I, European and American iron and steel companies did not think of using price reduction to get China, but Chinese iron and steel companies with the full support of the state are not afraid of price wars at all.

By the time the world economic crisis broke out, China's industrial system had basically taken shape, and there was a blowout!

When the British and American leaders met secretly in Newfoundland, the biggest headache was probably the inability to bring China and the Soviet Union into the system they envisioned. Although it was not yet time to consider rebuilding the international order, Roosevelt wanted to see the United States take the lead in rebuilding the international order.

Similarly, China's President Fang Da and the Soviet Union's bearded man are not in the mood to think about the international order right now. The old order has just been broken, the new order is still far away, and the important thing is to take out the opponent first.

Bishkek! The defensive battle of the city has been going on for a week, and the brutality of the street fighting has exceeded the expectations of the warring parties. Pavlov, who let go, was fiercely happy when he broke into the city defenses, and reported the good news to the bearded telegram. Because of this good news, Stalin made a wrong judgment, believing that the strength of the squadron in Central Asia was not enough to defeat the Soviet army, otherwise how to explain the breakthrough of the city defense of Bishkek?

The problem is that no one has ever fought street fighting, and Stalin simply thought that the opponent would take the initiative to let the enemy into the city to fight street fighting. Such a ruthless trick, only Liu Mingzhao dares to think and dare to do it.

The Bishkek City Defense Command was built in a fortified underground fortress with a thick reinforced concrete structure, which was enough to withstand a direct attack from any kind of Soviet weaponry. The heaviest fighting between the two armies was to the west and north of the city.

Yang Zui, commander of the Third Mountain Division, was an absolute veteran in the National Defense Force, and the first batch of officers started as a platoon commander and later went to Wuhu Land University to study for a year, and went through the baptism of World War I. The mountain division is undoubtedly the elite of the Wehrmacht, the basic equipment is submachine guns, and the individual firepower is absolutely superior today. It is precisely because of such a trump card in his hand that Liu Mingzhao dares to gamble like this.

After abandoning the outer city defenses, Yang Zui's 3rd Division soon encountered the Soviets, and after a Soviet infantry division entered the city, it tried to advance quickly towards the center of the city. The bold Yang Zui ordered to let this Soviet army go deep into the city, defend it frontally with one regiment, and outflank it with two regiments left and right. The first battle of the mountain division was full of joy, and when the Soviet troops entered the ambush circle, all kinds of weapons were fired together, and the fire network composed of submachine guns and general-purpose machine guns multiplied the power in urban street battles. A regiment on the right flank cut off the rear route of the Soviet army with a single assault, and the surrounded Soviet troops tried to break out several times, but they were all hit back by dense firepower. If you want to stay on the spot and wait for help, the temporary firing point is simply the target of the bazooka. After a day of fierce fighting, this Soviet army was finally defeated. In the ruins of the city, the Soviet army was mainly equipped with Mosin Nagant. I have endured all the hardships. Only a few hundred Soviet troops escaped, which was almost equivalent to total annihilation.

This hit Pavlov almost knocked Pavlov unconscious, and the two Soviet troops entered the city, all the way were completely annihilated, and all the way were pressed to death in the city and could not move, no matter how you look at it, it is not a good thing. Pavlov refused to give up and increased his troops. The two armies fought back and forth in the complex terrain of the city for a week, and the huge casualties woke up the arrogant and arrogant Pavlov. In just one week, ten infantry divisions were put into force. The result of the attack from three sides was close to half of the casualties.

Stalin called Pavlov several times to ask when Bishkek would be captured, and Pavlov, who was forced to do so, threw himself into the general reserve to attack, despite the huge casualties. I didn't even think about the enormous crisis that I might face. At this time, Pavlov had no way out, and even if he retreated now, he would be purged if he returned.

Street fighting escalated again, with the Soviets first covering a part of the city with heavy artillery fire and then attacking with infantry assaults.

"What, heavy shelling by Soviet troops? The positions west of the city were broken through, and the Soviet troops advanced five hundred meters? I sue you Yang Zui, the third mountain division is considered to be gone. You're going to have to nail me to the ground, too. Zhang Zizhong was on the phone in his headquarters, and his eyes were bloodshot. Ten full days have passed, and Zhang Zizhong does not sleep more than four hours a day.

"Humble duty understands!" Yang Zui, who had a hoarse voice, dropped the phone, picked up his steel helmet, and explained to the chief of staff: "I'll organize a counterattack." ”

As soon as he left the headquarters, a shell fell about fifty meters nearby, Yang Zui didn't frown, bent over and continued to run forward, the guards behind him followed closely, ready to press him down at any time.

Rushing into the headquarters of the Fifth Brigade in the Mountains, the brigade commander Zhou Xuefeng was shouting on the phone: "After dark, you take back the position for me, otherwise Lao Tzu will shoot you." Seeing Yang drunk coming in, Zhou Xuefeng was stunned and said, "Master, why did you come up?" ”

Yang Zui said with a cold face: "If I don't come up again, the city will be broken through." I know that your Fifth Brigade has suffered huge losses, but even if it is exhausted at this time, you can't take a step back. The whole campaign reached the most critical moment, and the Third Mountain Division, as the elite, should play a role in turning the tide. ”

In fact, Zhang Zizhong's requirements were too high, and the Third Mountain Division had held out for ten days in urban street battles, with more than half of the casualties, and the number of Soviet troops destroyed was at least two or three times that of its own casualties. Interestingly, Zhang Zizhong takes it for granted that he is demanding, and Yang Zui also looks at this matter in this way, and the mountain division should have an elite appearance.

"Rest assured, after dark, the humble official personally took the reserve team up, and now Lao Maozi is storming, you go to the front position to take a look, the corpses are piled up layer after layer, they don't seem to know what death is." Zhou Xuefeng was also very annoyed, the Soviet army was too desperate, on a street defended by the Fifth Brigade, the corpses were piled up into a mountain, and the stench emitted could smoke people to death, and when the Soviet troops charged, it was as if they couldn't see it, and they rushed forward when they stepped on the corpses.

"Lao Maozi, this is the last madness, and in three more days, the front army will launch a counterattack." Yang Zui threw away a cigarette, lit one himself, and looked at the sky outside the window. At this time, there was a roar in the sky, and it was a dense crowd of Mustang fighters, and the formation swooped over the city and rushed to the Soviet artillery positions outside the city.

"What does that mean?" Yang Zui and Zhou Xuefeng looked at each other, because it was already three o'clock in the afternoon, even if they launched a counterattack, it should not be this time, there was no such example in the textbooks of the military academy.

"It's about attacking at a time and place the enemy doesn't expect!" This is what Liu Mingzhao said to Zhang Zhizhong.

The air power of the entire Central Asian theater of operations poured out of the nest in this afternoon and went to the rear of the Soviet troops. As soon as the formation of planes passed, the ground began to shake, and the dense artillery fire turned the entire area around Bishkek into a world of fireworks, and Bishkek in the fierce battle was shrouded in smoke and dust.

Six wings of Mustang fighters were responsible for clearing the Soviet fighters that appeared in the sky, followed by 200 B-17s, which were bombed anyway, and 300 outdated goods such as Eagle 3 were also driven out to do some odd things. It is said that after this battle, all the Eagle Three in Central Asia had to retire and give it to the Korean Independence Army as a small encouragement.

The Soviet army no longer has much air power in Central Asia, but in the face of an air strike of this scale, more than 300 I-16s still flew up. These I-16s went to the B-17, but even if it was a bomber, the B-17 was not afraid of the backward goods like the I-16, relying on the thick skin and thick meat, and spraying the Soviet fighters with 12 and 7 machine guns.

It was clear that the bombers did not have much to offer in this battle, and the Mustang fighter group was not an ornament, and on this afternoon an air battle of supposedly unprecedented scale was fought in the sky about eighty kilometers west of Bishkek. The battle was described by the locals, and that afternoon the sky was full of flying chickens, their buttocks smoking, falling one by one.

After a period of reconnaissance and preparation, the important locations of the Soviet army were basically figured out, and no airfields, artillery positions, military stations, and warehouses were spared.

As the sky grew darker, the bombardment finally stopped, but more than 2,000 cannons were still roaring, and the artillery fire began to extend. Under the setting sun, the all-out counterattack of the Republic of China Defense Force began, and the two mechanized armies used as arrows, tearing through the Soviet defense line like sharp blades, and then advanced to the depth.

The infantry charge was even more spectacular, and the crazy advance that stretched for thirty kilometers was simply beyond the care of the Soviet troops. After nightfall, fierce battles were raging everywhere on the battlefield within a radius of dozens of kilometers. In the headquarters of Almaty, on a huge map, red flags were constantly planted to mark the progress of the battle.

"The Soviet army was completely defeated, and the Andy railway was opened!" "Okay, the sappers immediately rush to repair, it must be repaired before 12 o'clock in the morning, inform Xu Tingyao, as soon as the 11th Mechanized Army arrives, launch a comprehensive counterattack for me, don't give the Soviet army any respite, and rush to Kuzhan in one go."

Liu Mingzhao chose to launch a full-scale counterattack at night, which was tactically unfavorable to the attacking side. However, the Wehrmacht has always attached great importance to training for night battles, and the Soviets have not been prepared for this. Coupled with the superiority in strength and firepower, the troops that were put into the counterattack were all fresh forces, and one guy would have messed up the entire front of the Soviet army. At this time, Pavlov was no longer able to return to the sky, so he could only order all troops to resist desperately. (To be continued......)