"A group of fortresses cannot stop the White German armored forces. Comrade Tukhachevsky, I remember that you expounded the same point of view in your book "On Assault Operations in Great Depth". The White German armored forces could have bypassed the Poznan fortress group and left them to the infantry that followed behind. According to the report of Comrade Rashevich, Baide used hundreds of large-caliber guns of more than 280mm to bombard the first line of defense of our army, and they could have transferred these guns to the Poznan fortress. Although Vasetis is not an expert in the use of tanks, he is very familiar with Tukhachevsky's theory of large-depth battles.

Tukhachevsky explained: "Yes, the armored forces of the Germans could bypass the Poznan fortress. However, the Poznan fortress was not an isolated fortress, but a key part of a multi-layered defense-in-depth system. In front and behind it, there were a series of defensive areas, and if the German panzer group wanted to bypass the Poznan fortress, it would have to break through these defensive areas and have to fight a decisive battle with the counterattacking Red Army tank group...... And our chance to break the stalemate on the Western Front is likely to be at that time! ”

"Comrade Tukhachevsky, do you mean to break through the armored cluster of White De with a cluster of Red Army tanks?" Vasetis seemed to be a little less confident: "But the Germans have many more tanks than we do!" According to intelligence, they have 100 Panzergrenadier divisions, at least 20,000 tanks, and artillery pieces! And now we have only 40 tank corps, less than 10,000 tanks, assault artillery, and wēixié from the east. The Central Asian Front, the Baikal Front, and the Far Eastern Front also sent telegrams in the past few days. The Chinese White Army in front of them has been reported to have moved, and it is very likely that they will attack in the next few days! ”

"Comrade Vatseties, war is not a simple quantitative comparison. Otherwise, the future of our world revolution will be very bleak. Tukhachevsky looked at the map and frowned: "The question now is not whether our tank cluster can defeat the Germans' armored cluster, but whether the Germans are launching a main attack or a feint?" He lowered his voice and continued: "One of the most basic principles of military affairs is the concentration of forces, and now the Germans seem to have violated this principle by throwing only a maximum of 30% of their armoured forces up south of Poz, which gives us the opportunity to defeat them...... Of course, the premise is that we will have most of the armored forces. In particular, the SU76 strong attack guns, which were significantly superior to the Stalker tanks in terms of firepower and armor, were concentrated on the Poznan line. ”

"If most of the armored forces are concentrated in Poland, what will happen to the rest of the battlefield?" Doubts were immediately raised.

"Poland was the main battlefield, and White Germany was the main force of the imperialist camp. If we crush the offensive of White Germany in Poland, we will have a chance to take advantage of the victory to attack Germany! As long as Germany is liberated, the victory of the world revolution is just around the corner! Tukhachevsky's words paused and he looked at Trotsky, who was speechless.

Trotsky dreamed of liberating Germany. But he also knows that this is not easy to achieve. He looked at Tukhachevsky and asked, "You just said that it is still not sure whether the attack launched by Baide now is a feint?" ”

"It is not certain that although Baide's offensive is fierce, it seems that the number of troops and armored assault forces invested is a little less." Tukhachevsky replied. "So it's very likely that their current actions are in line with the offensive that the squadron is going to launch on the Eastern Front."

"Maybe they'll put in more troops and tanks soon."

Tukhachevsky nodded and said: "This is also very likely, after all, the Germans are just starting to attack now." ”

"But we can't wait until Baide's attack enters the ** before we draw troops." Trotsky whispered softly to himself. "Our tanks are scattered across the battlefield, and it can take weeks for most of them to be drawn out and sent to Poland...... So we have to make a judgment as much as we can. He looked at Tukhachevsky, as if waiting for an answer.

"Comrade Trotsky, I am ready to personally go to the Polish front." Tukhachevsky tract.

"Okay. Go and get back, we don't have much time! ”

……

"Prime Minister. Our delegation to Germany sent a telegram that the German armored group had broken through the first line of defense of the Soviet-Polish coalition army in the Poznan area! Adjutant Chen Xinrui stood behind Chang Ruiqing, looking a little excited. As a colonel-level officer who graduated from the Army University, she certainly knew how much it meant for the Germans to break through less than 12 hours after the offensive was launched!

Chang Ruiqing was meeting with Zhao Fatzitou, discussing something on the map table. However, instead of a map of Poland, the two of them were now using a 50,000-odd map of the frontier, on which the city of Komsomol, Almaty, and the area around Lake Zaisangpoala were densely marked with military symbols. Hearing Chen Xinrui's report, both of them straightened up and glanced at each other. Zhao Zhen said: "Did you say the specific situation?" ”

"That's it. The German 20 Panzergrenadier Divisions and 20 Motorized Rifle Divisions split into two routes, north and south, and advanced from the northwest and southwest directions of the city of Poznan. At present, the German armored cluster on the northern road has broken through 30 kilometers eastward along Lake Varta, and has also torn a breach in the Soviet-Polish defense line about 20 kilometers wide; The Germans on the southern route broke through 25 kilometers to the east, and also opened a gap about 20 kilometers wide in the Soviet-Polish line......"

Chang Ruiqing patted the line between Zhaisangbo and Alahu on the map, sighed and said with a smile: "Great, Hitler's work this time is still good, and now the reserve forces of the Soviets will definitely be attracted to the Western Front, and the battle between Bai Jiansheng and Xia Xucang will be much easier!" He looked at Chen Xinrui: "Is there any news from the Northwest Front?" ”

Chen Xinrui said: "Chief Bai just made a long-distance phone call, only saying that Operation Qiē will be carried out according to the original plan. Chang Ruiqing snorted, and said to Zhao Zhen, who was frowning and contemplating: "Youlin, what do you think?" ”

Zhao Zhen just crossed his arms and looked at the map, and muttered, "According to the intelligence." The total strength of the Soviet-Polish forces deployed in Poland exceeds 5 million! And there is also the Trotsky line, which has been painstakingly operated for many years. This time the Germans committed only 1 million troops, and it was impossible to really form a breakthrough with wēixié. Fortunately, now they have played with momentum, breaking through 25 to 30 kilometers in 12 hours...... It is estimated that it will be enough for the Soviet high command to have a headache for a while. However, I am still worried that their offensive will not last. So we'd better start the operation right away and launch a surprise attack on the Soviet troops on the front line of Jaisangbo and Alahu! Brother Yaoru, what do you think? ”

"Youlin, I agree with your opinion, is it the sound of the west hitting the east or the sound of the east hitting the west? Let Trotsky use his brains to guess! ”

While he was talking, Wang Junhao, chief of the General Staff of the National Defense Forces, walked in while reading a copy of the text, and he didn't know what news was on it. In short, the chief of staff of Wang Da was so engrossed in watching it that he forgot to salute when he walked up to Chang Ruiqing.

"Introspection, what are you looking at?" Chang Ruiqing asked with a smile.

"Oh. Brother Yaoru, this is what Secretary-General Chen asked me to bring in, and it is a report from the National Intelligence Agency. As he spoke, he handed the Wen Jiàn clip to Chang Ruiqing with both hands.

Chang Ruiqing took the text and opened it, and when he opened it, his eyebrows immediately furrowed. See his expression. Zhao Fatzi hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" ”

"It's from the eye of the sky." Chang Ruiqing sighed and said: "Trotsky is ready to provide 800 Il-18 fighters and 800 Il-1 attack planes to Japan, and he also intends to provide 600 excellent pilots...... That's a lot more than the original plan. And this decision was made after Trotsky learned that Japan had reached a tacit understanding with us to 'declare no war'. In addition, Trotsky was ready to join forces with Japan in the development of a nuclear fission bomb! ”

"What!? The USSR was also planning to develop a nuclear fission bomb? Zhao Zhen finally understood why Chang Ruiqing and Wang Junhao had such a reaction. He already knew exactly what a nuclear fission bomb was from a whole bunch of analysis reports. Once the Soviet Union has this kind of weapon, it will be wishful thinking for China and Germany to destroy and carve up the Soviet Union! If the Soviet Union does not die, then this war between China, Germany and the Soviet Union will continue endlessly, and in the end, it will be a lose-lose result! Thinking of this, he immediately glanced at Wang Junhao. But before he could speak, Chang Ruiqing next to him preemptively spoke: "How could Trotsky make the decision to develop a nuclear fission bomb so quickly?" There must be something hidden in this! Maybe someone deliberately released the news of the Strazh explosion and the joint development of nuclear fission bombs by Britain, Germany and China to the Soviet Union! ”

Chang Ruiqing handed the text to Zhao Zhen. With his hands behind his back, he took a few steps: "Although the Soviet spies are very powerful, it is impossible to provide Trotsky with enough information in such a short time, you must know that the development of nuclear fission bombs is a super huge project, which will pose a heavy burden to the Soviet Union...... Such intelligence is not something that one or two spies can steal in a short period of time, it seems that our British allies deliberately leaked it to Moscow! ”

"Then we must hurry up and win the war before the Soviet Union creates a nuclear fission bomb!" After Zhao Zhen finished speaking, he put down his paper and turned his head to look at Chang Ruiqing: "Yaoru, and the situation of the Soviet Union providing planes and pilots to Japan must also attract our attention, with these planes and pilots, their aircraft carriers can quickly form combat effectiveness!" Should we join forces with Britain to strike first and destroy the Japanese aircraft carriers? ”

"Hmph, I don't need to." Chang Ruiqing snorted coldly: "The Japanese don't dare to provoke us, their aircraft carriers have combat effectiveness, and they will only go to Britain and the United States for trouble!" They can't afford to go to war on two fronts...... Introspectively, the General Staff immediately made a plan to strengthen the defense of Rabaul and at the same time withdraw the main forces of the Pacific Fleet to Zhanjiang. I'd like to see if the British, who have 9 more capital ships, are no match for the Japanese!

Also, give Bai Jiansheng an order, the second phase of the Central Asian Three Frontiers Battle can start now! ”

……

I don't know when the Soviet Union's large-depth assault operations, which once made the entire capitalist world tremble, began to unwittingly become large-depth defensive operations. Even in the Central Asian theater, where the Soviet army had a clear advantage in manpower and firepower, from the winter of 1932, digging trenches and building fortresses seemed to have become the most important task of more than a million GC fighters every day.

By the spring of 1933, a huge Soviet defensive zone had appeared in the area of Zaisang Po Alla Lake on the border between northern and outer Xinjiang. The Soviet troops who built this fortified area were built on the basis of the large-scale trench warfare of the last world war. Combining the latest jīngyàn from the Russo-Korean War and the Polished battlefield, and of course the lessons they learned from last year's Battle of the Alaresa River, a set of the latest tactics for anti-tank positional warfare has finally been summed up.

Let's put it simply. It is a trench fortification tactic that integrates a large number of anti-tank trenches, anti-tank traps, and anti-tank fire strongholds into World War I. A large number of permanent and field fortifications with anti-tank combat effects were constructed, and a large number of anti-tank mines were deployed to set up anti-tank obstacles. The entire defensive zone was centered around an anti-tank stronghold made of poured reinforced concrete, with a large number of anti-tank/anti-infantry fire points of civil structures. 76.2mm anti-tank guns and 45mm anti-tank guns are deployed in anti-tank strongholds, while 37mm anti-tank guns, 12.7mm anti-tank guns and machine guns are deployed in anti-tank/anti-infantry fire points. Moreover, the depth of the entire fortified defense zone is also very broad, and the maximum point can reach tens of kilometers! It is often made up of a series of fortifications, supplemented by powerful anti-tank and anti-infantry fire!

On the frontage, which is less than 200 kilometers long from north to south on the line from Jaisangpo to Alahu, the Soviet army built more than 1,300 permanent fortifications. Various anti-tank trenches, trenches and communication trenches with a total length of more than 5,000 kilometers were excavated, and 16 infantry divisions of four army groups were deployed, which were also specially reinforced with anti-tank weapons. There are as many as 1,000 anti-tank guns of all kinds and anti-aircraft guns that can be used in anti-tank combat, and the Type 1932 anti-tank grenade launcher has been achieved by everyone! And the instructions given by the Central Asian Front Command in Karaganda to the East Turkestan cluster that is holding this fortified area are also very clear, that is, to use the layers of anti-tank fortifications to consume the living force of the Chinese army's armored clusters, and create conditions for the victory of the subsequent big counterattack!

Reinforcements and counter-attacks are the tactics that Frunze is currently executing. According to his ideas. The Central Asian Front suffered heavy losses at any time in last year's operations. However, it still achieved a strategic victory, cutting off the communication between the Chinese army's outer Xinjiang cluster and the rear areas of northern Xinjiang, encircling Almaty, an important town in outer Xinjiang, and in fact encircling the main force of the Chinese army's northern Xinjiang cluster in the city of the Communist Youth League. Although the Komsomol City and Almaty are well stocked, they belong to the kind of fortified cities that cannot be attacked and cannot be trapped. Still, Frunze was convinced that the Chinese would organize troops to relieve their outer cluster in the spring of 1933. For this reason, he spared no effort to build such a fortified area, that is, to let the Chinese relief troops fight in front of this fortified area, and then it was the turn of the Soviet tank cavalry cluster to launch a surprise attack on Dihua!

However, the attack of the squadron had not yet begun, and Frunze encountered unexpected problems.

"What? It is necessary to transfer 4 tank armies and all 300 Su76 strong attack guns of the Central Asian Front! That's not going to work. Without su76, what are we going to use against the Chinese pursuers? Do you bite with your teeth? ”

As soon as I saw the order of the Red Army High Command (International Proletarian Command) to draw SU76 from the Central Asian Front. Frunze, who had been a little grumpy lately, slapped the table in anger.

At present, the Central Asian Front has a total of 8 tank armies and more than 1,600 tanks, which is only a slight advantage in terms of numbers compared with the armored forces of China's Northwest Front. Now half of it is taken away by a telegram, and all the 300 su76s with the strongest combat effectiveness are transferred, and how can the remaining 4 tank armies fight with their opponents? Without a powerful tank cluster, wouldn't the Central Asian Front become a toothless tiger with no claws?

Seeing Frunze's reaction, Gamarnik, the political commissar of the Central Asian Army, was rather helpless and persuaded: "Comrade Frunze, our eyes cannot only focus on one aspect of Central Asia, but look at the overall situation!" The current situation is already obvious: after the end of the Anglo-German-Chinese London Conference, the imperialist military counterattack against the Soviet Union will be in full swing, and the focus of this round of military counterattack will be on Poland, and the victory or loss of the Polish battle will have a direct bearing on the success or failure of the world revolution. If we are defeated by White Germany in Poland, then the imperialist enemy will soon break into the Baltic states, Belarus and Ukraine! Then the world revolution will turn into a Great Patriotic War! Even if we achieve victory on the Central Asian battlefield, it will be meaningless because of the defeat on the Western Front. So proceeding from the overall situation, we should obey the orders of the high command and immediately transfer the four tank corps and all the Su76s to the west without the slightest delay...... The success or failure of the Polish campaign will most likely depend on when the last tank corps or the last 100 tanks will be put into battle! ”

"But the tank army was transferred, what if we can't defeat the Chinese? There are already signs of a large build-up of squadrons east of Lake Jaisang Poala. Their general offensive is also about to begin soon, and according to intelligence, they have a very powerful armored corps! It is very likely that the four tank armies will not be able to defeat each other, and the three Chinese armies in Komsomolskaya City are also likely to attack the Alaresa River again, and the next stage of the battle in Central Asia is likely to be very jīliè! ”