Chapter 46: Handing over command

"Comrades, for the sake of the Soviets, for the cause of the emancipation of mankind,......。"

The avenue was full of people, standing on the high place on the side of the road, and the political workers were hoarse. At any cost, rush to Novosibirsk and eliminate a reactionary! This was an order given by the top leader of the group army headed by Frunze.

Of course, Frunze would not be stupid enough to rush forward blindly against the air raids, and the telegram reporting to Moscow and requesting air support has already been filmed. There is no doubt that the phenomenon of the air strike on Frunze's unit has attracted the attention of the top brass in Moscow. The battalion has decided to send a large number of aviation units to reinforce Siberia.

"Air raid, cover up!" The loudspeaker in the hands of the political worker gave the order, and the people and horses on the road immediately scattered on both sides, and soon there was no one in sight. The roar of the engines was getting closer, but instead of launching an air attack on the advancing group, it flew farther away. When the plane was far away and there was no shadow to be seen, the team continued to move forward.

Bombing more valuable targets, this was a decision made by Air Force Commander Feng Hua. The reason is that the ammunition reserve is consumed too quickly, and the supply is a little too much, and there is the consumption of the aircraft itself, there are more than 200 aircraft, and after a three-day mission, there are already more than 50 lying in the nest, and the ground crew is rushing to repair them. Seeing that it could not stop the resolute advance of the Soviet troops, the Air Force changed its mode, and the main forces were used to bomb the Trans-Siberian Railway. If it weren't for the bomber's range not enough, Feng Hua would have thought about bombing Omsk.

Despite the continuous air raids, the Soviet army still stubbornly pushed forward, and the plan was to block the air raids for a week, but after only five days, the Soviet vanguard was already approaching Novosibirsk. For this, the Soviet army paid a considerable price. More than 10,000 casualties, more than 200 artillery pieces and a small half of the materiel were destroyed by the air raids.

The Ob River is in sight, and the river is frozen until the end of April, which is why Frunze will launch an attack at this time at any cost, otherwise the Ob River will not be frozen again until November.

Night, barbed wire, searchlights. Tower. The field airfield where the 1st Air Force Wing is located has always been the focus of defense since it was stationed. An entire infantry regiment was guarded here, and mines were laid around the barbed wire fence.

Searchlights on the six towers sweep the barbed wire from all angles, and the snow does not melt at night. It's hard to hide.

"Comrades, the enemy's planes have caused great trouble to our army, and the headquarters of the Red Army has asked us, at all costs, to rush in and blow up these planes." Krolev was making the final mobilization of the partisans, and Barakov, who opposed the operation, stood silent. It was a suicide attack. The cavalry of the Red Army, which had no source of supply in the rear of the enemy, had already slaughtered all the horses. Barakov's horses were not spared.

Looking at the remnants of more than 800 people, after a simple mobilization, the commando team of more than 200 people crawled forward. Slowly crawling towards the airfield more than 2,000 meters away, they were all wearing white cloaks, which Barakov had brought with him when he had set off earlier.

The Warlord's machine guns have been erected, and not everyone has the will to die. In the eyes of the Red Army, setting up a team of superintendents was already a necessary trick in the eyes of the Red Army. When the assault team approached the airfield about three hundred meters. The troops of the second echelon began to slowly rush forward, holding their rifles, and the only few Maxim machine guns were also following.

"Boom!" A burst of fire flickered in the darkness, and when a muffled sound came, the commandos who were originally on the ground stood up one after another and let out a hoarse cry: "Ula" mines exploded continuously, and these people did not take it seriously at all, and continued to rush forward. What to do? It's also death on the top, and death is death when you retreat, so it's better to play a game.

Barakov watched his subordinates rush forward frantically with a hideous face, and in the faint light of the fire, their faces were hideous. Several political workers behind him all had short guns in their hands, and as long as Barakov had the slightest loosening of will, they would not hesitate to kill Barakov and take over the command.

Balakov closed his eyes in pain, after the failure of the last attack on the transit point, he had been resolutely opposed to attacking solid targets, and was considered by the political workers in the partisan units to be that his revolutionary will was not firm enough, and that he was suspected of right-leaning defeat and capitulationism. These people kill the enemy ruthlessly, and they kill their own people even more ruthlessly, and the military cadres know this. For the officers of the Soviet army, the enemy's bullets were far less terrible than the internal affairs personnel.

Tata Tower, the sound of the Makqin machine gun sounded behind the barbed wire, more than a dozen fire dragons swayed in the dark, and the commandos who rushed forward desperately kept falling, but no one stopped, and the subsequent reinforcements did not mean to stop, going forward one after another, like a madman.

Knock knock, the familiar rhythm of mortars sounded, and the dense shells easily cut off the reinforcements. Each explosion sets off one or two human bodies, and there seems to be a line five hundred meters from the airport, an uninterrupted line of death constructed by the explosion.

This sneak attack was undoubtedly a failure, and the enemy was well prepared, especially when the dozen or so searchlights suddenly lit up, showing the charging team in full view, bullets rained down and corpses were scattered all over the field. When the white ground was quickly covered with blood, Barakov took out his pistol, put it on his head and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

The sound of the engine sounded, and when the twelve tanks appeared, the frenzied partisans stopped committing suicide. There are those who raise their hands to surrender, and there are those who turn around and run, in short, the will collapses.

The infantrymen who followed behind the tank, without the slightest pity, fell on the butt of a rifle that knelt down and surrendered, and stabbed to death the bayonet of the wounded who were still dead on the ground. Those who escaped fell to the ground one after another in the pursuit of machine guns, and in the end the guerrillas left behind more than 500 corpses and more than 100 prisoners.

At dawn, Zhang Bo, who was woken up in the middle of the night, was not annoyed, and was locked up for a day when he got out of the long plane last time and came back. This is still because he shot down two enemy planes, and the credit is overdue, otherwise it will be locked up for at least three days.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!" The urging sounded, and he hurriedly wiped his mouth, left the table, and rushed towards the airport.

"The vanguard of the Soviet army has appeared on the other side of the Ob River, and the General Command has asked us to intensify the bombardment of the Soviet railway line and completely paralyze it. ……。 After the routine combat mobilization, Zhang Bo got on his plane, and the long plane Liao Haibo made a gesture on the plane on the left, and the two planes started at the same time and took off almost at the same time.

The task of blocking the Soviet army has been abandoned, so he returned to his original work, and did not dispatch a wing to bomb railways and highways.

"The loss is too great!" With a solemn expression, Frunze handed the report in his hand to the envoy Stalin.

"Yes, we underestimate the madness of Chinese imperialism, it seems that they are going to defend the Kolchak gang to the death, this is a conspiracy of Chinese imperialism to split the Soviet Motherland. We must be firm and unhesitating to crush their plots. Stalin held his pipe in his hand and shook his fist vigorously, looking very imposing.

"The existing supplies are only enough for us to fight for ten days, and the Chinese imperialist planes are bombing the railways and roads indiscriminately every day, and the supplies cannot be transported, so we must rush into Novosibirsk as much as possible to destroy the enemy. Otherwise, when the Ob River thaws, it will be much more difficult. After Stalin's statement, Frunze expressed his attitude very resolutely.

Novosibirsk is not a battlefield on the southern front, there is no possibility of any detour, and it is necessary to prepare for the battle as much as possible and launch the most fierce offensive. The delay in time was very bad for the Soviet army. At this time, it is even more impossible to retreat, and you have to go hard, otherwise even if it is Frunze, you will have to be invited by the Cheka to a symposium when you go back.

"Comrade Commander, give orders. The Ob defense line was twenty-five kilometers long, and the enemy did not have so many forces. ”

"Comrades, according to intelligence, the defense line of the Ob River is divided into two sections in the south, the northern section of 10 kilometers is defended by the White Russian bandits, and the southern section is 15 kilometers defended by the White Army of the Chinese Empire. We need to make the most of this ....... ”

When the Soviet army was in a meeting, in the headquarters of the Volunteer Army, Kolchak's White Army and the top of the Volunteer Army were also in a meeting.

"Frunze brought all the mobile troops he could draw, at least 400,000, and no less than 500 cannons. For the sake of Russia, I am not going to take a step back. Now, I would like to ask our Chinese friends to deploy this campaign. Kolchak's remarks at the meeting were undoubtedly a huge compromise. In other words, Kolchak had little confidence in this battle and was ready to die. In fact, in history, Kolchak retreated all the way to Irkutsk, and then he was caught and killed without much trial. There is a version that during the trial, Kolchak's subordinates were going to rescue him, and the Red Army hastily executed him. The reason for this compromise in time and space is that Kolchak saw the Chinese's ambitions for the Far East, and his mood was confused and complicated, and he did not know whether it was right or wrong.

"General Kolchak said just now that the Red Army is very strong, but we are not bad. Combined, there are nearly 400,000 troops. There are more than a thousand artillery pieces of all kinds, as well as tanks and airplanes. ……。 ”

Three days is not a long time to prepare, but it is not too short. In the early morning of April 25, it was still freezing in Novosibirsk. There was silence on both sides of the Ob River, and when the pointer reached 4:50, when the sky was white, suddenly the whole earth shook slightly, and the sky on the west bank of the Ob River was instantly flashed like a bolt of lightning.

Nearly 800 artillery pieces of the Soviet army, with more than 300 122 howitzers as the main force, simultaneously bombarded the positions on the other side of the river. The Soviet artillery did not have much time, and it was necessary to complete an hour's preparation for artillery fire before dawn, otherwise the planes on the opposite side would have to bomb.

When the Soviet army began to prepare for artillery fire, Qi Zhenghong did not sleep, or did not sleep all night. The tense nerves relaxed at this moment, and he said to himself, "Did you start so soon?" ”