Chapter 167

The role of wisdom in modern warfare is getting smaller and smaller, and the trend of war can only be a contest between comprehensive national strength. This was the case in the War of Resistance in history, the Japanese army's tactics could be described as rigid, but it still occupied a large part of China's territory.

It seems that war is getting simpler and simpler, but in fact it is becoming more and more complex, and the division of labor is becoming more and more detailed. The role of the individual can play a very small role on the battlefield, and the preparations before a battle are numerous and trivial, but without these pre-war preparations, the battle plans drawn up by the staff officers are often divorced from the actual situation on the battlefield.

The fact that the Soviet Union took the lead can be regarded as a wake-up call for Fang Jianxiong. If it had not been for the long-term defense in Central Asia that had been prepared long before the war, the sudden attack of the Soviet army would have dealt a heavy blow to the Chinese side. Intelligence work is lagging behind, but this does not control the intelligence departments, and the Soviet political system is a system tailored for the war, and this kind of system will make it difficult to carry out intelligence work.

"The intelligence services of all theaters must increase their investment. Similar mistakes are only allowed to be made once. Fang Jianxiong said that this matter is conclusive, and the military will only implement it without hesitation. If you change to someone else, it's not so easy.

In his bones, Fang Jianxiong doesn't like the country of Britain very much, but sitting on the president, he can't do things according to his personal preferences many times. The national interest always comes first.

"The battle on the battlefield is basically a foregone conclusion, and it doesn't make much sense for me to stay. There are hundreds of ministers in the Far East, and there are no major problems. On the eve of Fang Jianxiong's departure from Dihua, he met with a number of local leaders. confidently revealed some of the direction of the war. This makes the feelings of the locals more stable. Compared with the Qing Dynasty and Beiyang, during the Republic of China dominated by Fang Jianxiong, the living conditions of various local ethnic groups have been greatly improved. The first thing to improve is social status. Compulsory education, participation in politics, and the decentralization of these rights have played a fundamental role in stabilizing the shape of the region. Of course, there is a more important change in the population comparison, and the Han population is not much behind in today's Dihua and the surrounding area.

The end of the appreciation party. There were still a few twists and turns. The speaker of the Dihua Assembly, Casileni, proposed that the girls in the other courtyard were all selected by the clan as gifts to be given to the living president of the gods. I hope that President Fang Da will bring it with him when he leaves, and even if he doesn't bring it, he will give them an explanation. This episode surprised President Fang Da deeply, how did he become a god in the world.

Whether to accept this gift or not, when I was hesitating. Wang Zijiu, director of the Dihua Police Department, said: "If you don't accept it." These girls won't be able to survive when they go back. President Fang Da was stunned for a while, so he had to nod and agree to accept it. After bringing it back, let's make another arrangement, anyway, these girls won't touch it, and they don't have that much energy. That's twenty! The harem of three thousand is really not fun, and a short life is a must.

Lukin was in a desperate situation, and he was caught off guard by the direction and changes of the war. After giving the order to retreat, Lukin personally led two infantry divisions to reinforce Sarkhand. The purpose was to meet the counterattacking forces and build a line of defense. Block the attack of the squadron.

But soon came the bad news that Chinese paratroopers appeared in Ucharal and lost contact with Ucharal in a very short time, which can only show that his back road was cut off, and Ucharal only had a small number of logistics personnel and police armament, and it was impossible for the Chinese paratroopers to be an opponent at all.

Lukin could only report truthfully, and kept gathering his troops and holding out in Salkand. At this time, the hundreds of thousands of troops in his book were left with only three infantry divisions and an armored brigade that fled relatively quickly. The counterattack troops, which had hoped to retreat, were constantly losing contact with the Chinese Air Force under the bombardment of the Chinese Air Force day and night, and under the fierce pursuit of the ground mechanized troops.

When the news reached Moscow, Stalin woke up from a dream, and only then did he realize the correctness of Zhukov, but it was too late. As the commander of the Central Asian Front, Pavlov did not take many effective countermeasures after the launch of the Central Asian counterattack. The stubborn Pavlov simply gave an order to intensify the attack on the Bishkek and Ferghana regions. Pavlov believed that as long as Bishkek was taken, the outcome of the war would still be the victory of the Soviet Union.

This decision reached Moscow, and the Pavlov Fly tragedy laid the groundwork.

At this time, there were tremendous changes in the situation between China and the Soviet Union, on the one hand, the war situation in East Kazakhstan was basically doomed, and Stalin had to face the problem of how to adjust the Central Asian campaign. On the other hand, the Far East's squadron is approaching Novosibirsk, a strategic location in Siberia.

Stalin convened an emergency meeting, and Zhukov was called into Stalin's office before the meeting and asked him: "If you were Pavlov, what would you do now?" Zhukov did not hesitate to tell Stalin: "Give up the offensive, give up East Kazakhstan." Strategically, it turned to the defense in an all-round way, and urgently transferred elite troops from Europe to the east. The Central Asian and Siberian sides are urged to hold out until winter comes. ”

Stalin looked uncertain and said: "Why not fight back?" Could it be that the great Soviet Red Army was frightened by Chinese imperialism? I want a counterattack! ”

"With the existing forces of the Central Asian and Siberian fronts, a counterattack would bring even greater defeat. If you want to fight back, you have to gather more strength, and this qiē takes time. In all the wars, our army was already in a backward position in terms of weapons and equipment, especially fighters. The most critical part of the Chinese counterattack in East Kazakhstan is that they have mastered air supremacy with new aircraft. Without air supremacy, our mechanized units are a live target. In addition, according to Lukin's report, in the course of the battle, our 76-mm anti-tank guns could not penetrate the armor of Chinese tanks head-on. Comrade Stalin, I think the time has come to face up to the forces of Chinese imperialism. Zhukov still insisted on his point of view, without the slightest intention of compromise.

"But Comrade Pavlov insisted on continuing the offensive, and as long as he captured Bishkek and Ferghana, he would be able to turn the tide of the war." The bearded man muttered to himself, but Zhukov did not answer this, but pursed his lips and stopped talking.

"Why don't you say that?" The bearded man did not intend to let Zhukov go. "The key problem now is that we have lost air supremacy, and how to solve the logistical problem if we insist on attacking at this time? Chinese planes are running amok in the skies over Central Asia, and railways, roads, warehouses, villages and towns are all targets for bombing. Because of the loss of air supremacy, the campaign of our army on the outskirts of Bishkek has not yet completely cleared the enemy's strongholds. Doesn't that tell the story? We are going to face a strong opponent that exceeds our expectations, and I even think that the combat effectiveness of the squadron is not below that of the Germans. ”

Whether to stick to the offensive or switch to the defensive, when the top of the Soviet army was still debating, the second phase of the East Kazakhstan campaign entered a new **. After clearing the Soviet forces on the outskirts of Baldikurgan, the main task of the three mechanized corps was to pursue Lukin's counterattack forces so that they could retreat and regroup. Liu Mingzhao's instructions were very clear, the three mechanized corps could ignore the defense of the Soviet army's strong frontal positions, quickly assault deep behind the enemy, and receive the paratroopers airdropped behind the enemy.

As for the enemy dropped along the way, it was the infantry who lived. So no matter what changes occur in the mode of warfare, it is the infantry that will solve the problem in the end. The mechanized army, which was mainly equipped with the Great Wall-5 tank (Type 59 copycat version), in the face of Lukin's porous defense line, completed the breakthrough lightly, and quickly advanced towards Ucharal, and the villages and towns along the way did not care at all, shrunk into a ball when the night came, and when the day came, called for air supplies, DC-3 staggered and dropped a bunch of parachutes, with diesel barrels, ammunition and dry food. After a short resupply, move on.

The work of the infantry was tiring, especially since Sun Liren commanded a three-regiment B division. After the end of the Battle of Baldikurgan, Sunbe was ordered to advance towards Salkand, and when he reached Zhansugurov, he found that the town, which had previously been occupied by the 11th Mechanized Army, had changed owners. A Soviet infantry division that was originally engaged in a counterattack could not retreat when it received the order to retreat, and boldly entered the almost undefended Zhansugurov. A Wehrmacht infantry company that stayed behind, saw the black pressure of the Soviet army coming, directly got on the side three-wheeled and wheeled armored vehicles, turned around and ran.

The running machine company encountered Sun Liren's vanguard, and after some telling, the company commander was brought to Sun Liren.

"There are tens of thousands of Soviet troops?" Sun Liren couldn't believe that at this time, he could still encounter such a large force of Soviet troops in Zhansugurov. As the vanguard division of the infantry advancing in the entire theater, Sun Liren did not dare to be careless.

"That's right, it's definitely a formed infantry division, and our scouts saw the 122 howitzers of the Soviet army." The 122 howitzer is definitely the standard for Soviet infantry divisions, and as long as this thing is found, it is certain that at least one infantry division will be encountered.

"Why don't you call in Air Force support and stick to the spot?" Sun Liren asked very dissatisfied, and the company commander said: "There's no need for that, this should be the unit that the Soviet army originally used to counterattack, and after the main force was scattered, it was too late to withdraw." We have a total of about a hundred people, and the heavy firepower is only 60 mortars, so there is no point in holding on. ”

"If you were one of my men, you would have been shot." Sun Liren snorted twice, there was nothing he could do about this kid. The mechanized corps is synonymous with the proud and fierce general in the Wehrmacht Army, and the commander of a division B really has no authority to deal with him.

The vanguard regiment in front soon discovered the Soviet position, and after being strafed by Soviet machine gun fire, the vanguard quickly stopped and retreated. After receiving the report from the front, Sun Liren ordered the troops to set up an offensive formation and called for aerial reconnaissance.

One of the most important things that senior officers of the Wehrmacht learned in military schools was pre-war reconnaissance. Although the troops behind were rolling forward at this time, Sun Liren did not mean anything careless.

Half an hour later, a biplane reconnaissance plane appeared, walked around the air several times, and radioed to inform Sun Liren's department that the city was indeed occupied by a unit of the Soviet army, the specific number of which was unknown, and judging from the size of the position, there should be no less than one infantry division. (To be continued......)