"Prime Minister, the phone call of the Commander-in-Chief of the Northern Front Army, Wu." Chang Ruiqing, who was still reviewing official documents in the office, put down the brush in his hand and took the hotline handed over by Chen Cheng. He glanced at the time, and it was 8:30 p.m. on September 29, 1932. In the early hours of tomorrow morning, it will be the time when the Northern Front Army launched the Battle of Chita, I don't know what Wu Shi wants to say to himself at this time? He smiled and lifted the phone: "Yu Xun, is there any important news?" ”

Wu Shi's voice came from the other end of the phone, calm and soft, with the demeanor of a Confucian general: "Brother Yaoru, the offensive operation of the 7th Group Army has begun. This morning's aerial reconnaissance found that the Soviet Red Army units in northeastern Mongolia were showing signs of shrinking northward, and Li Delin ordered his troops to launch a tentative attack, with the result that the small Soviet troops remaining in the first line of defense were about to collapse at the first touch...... Now the first line of defense of the Soviet army has been completely occupied by the 7th Army...... As of 8 p.m. today, the 3rd and 4th Panzer Corps had advanced 20 kilometers to the north and still had not encountered the main forces of the Soviet Red Army. It seems that they are shrinking very quickly, and they will shrink all the way to the north bank of the Onen River. ”

Chang Ruiqing just said lightly that he knew, and put down the phone. When he raised his head, he saw that Wang Junhao, the chief of the General Staff, didn't know when he had entered the office, so he asked: "Introspection, you already know the changes in Eastern Mongolia, right?" What do you think? ”

Wang Junhao just smiled: "Brother Yaoru, this is all expected...... The Red Army of the Soviet Union was no more stupid than us, Tukhachevsky, Vatsettis, Frunze, Blyukhel, and Garmanik and Khalepsky of the Far Eastern Front were all battle-hardened elites. Moreover, we have made full preparations for this world revolution, and it is not a day or two to calculate that we have not been able to do so. If you are beaten by us, you will be defeated. Then we're really amazing...... For this war, my opinion is still to reduce the Soviet Union by one force, relying on our heavy industrial strength and strong military strength to defeat the Soviet Union! Down! Now it looks. We are still ahead of the Soviet Union in the construction of heavy industry. ”

As he spoke, he took out a blue telegram from his pocket and handed it to Chang Ruiqing: "This is a telegram from the Navy's Pacific Fleet, and the 45 transport ships departing from the west coast of the United States, escorted by the 11th Task Force, have arrived safely at the port of Labauer!" Next, as long as we safely transport these 45 ships of machinery and equipment back to China, in less than three years, the output of our main heavy industrial products will be able to surpass that of Germany, leaving the Soviet Union far behind! With such an industrial foundation. Coupled with a population of more than 50,000, are we still afraid that we will not be able to defeat the Soviet Union? ”

Chang Ruiqing listened quietly, and large factories rose up in his mind. Countless pursuers, countless planes, and countless cannons came down from the assembly line of the factory and were continuously transported to the battlefield. China and the Soviet Union are both big countries with strong national strength, vast territory and large populations, and it is true that they cannot be defeated by one or two so-called great victories. Come to think of it. His regret that the golden cicada, the main force of the Soviet army in Eastern Mongolia, had come out of his shell and disappeared without a trace. He asked with a smile: "The Soviet army has begun to shrink in the direction of Eastern Mongolia, will it abandon Chita and retreat in the direction of Baikal together?" ”

Wang Junhao smiled confidently: "Definitely not, at least not until they pay a heavy price." Brother Yaoru, have you forgotten Trotsky's request for reinforcements from Japan? Now the Japanese Red Army, numbering up to several hundred thousand people, was stationed on the Amur River defense line. This shows that Trotsky still wanted to defend the Far Eastern Republic...... After all, there are 3.8 million square kilometers, how can you say that you don't want it, you really don't want it? Moreover, the connection between Japan and the Soviet Union must also be carried out by the Far Eastern Republic. Therefore, the contraction of the Soviet Far Eastern Front was only to make its own line of defense closer and more conducive to defense. The battle in the Far East still has to be fought. ”

Chang Ruiqing nodded. Finally relieved, he said to Wang Junhao: "Introspect, send a telegram to Wu Yuxun in the name of the General Staff, the 1st Army inherited by Jian Yì Chen will attack Zabaikalsk, and the 2nd Army of Xia Wei will attack in the direction of Darkhan and Maicheng!" I'd rather see how Trotsky lined up his troops, and where his army of more than a million men was going to retreat. ”

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Chita, the command of the Far Eastern Front of the Soviet Red Army. It was only after sunset on September 29 that Garmanik and Khalepsky returned to their headquarters in Chita at night on a TB3 transport plane. As soon as I walked into the war room, I almost immediately received a large amount of battlefield information from the Eastern Mongolia cluster and the Zabaikalsk cluster. The Eastern Mongolian cluster reports that the Chinese 7th Army has begun a brand new offensive! With 2 armored armies as sharp knives, it easily broke through the first line of defense of the sparsely defended Soviet army, and has now broken through at least 25 kilometers forward. The Zabaikalsk cluster reported that their front-line positions were being shelled by squadrons, but the intensity of the shelling was far less intense than expected. At most, only 300 cannons took part in the shelling, and many of them were 75mm caliber light guns. It is estimated that it was only a tentative shelling...... However, the Red officers and soldiers stationed on the front line reported hearing the roar of the internal combustion engine motor, and it seemed that the Chinese Type 31 tank and Type C tank destroyers were about to go on the offensive in formation!

After reporting on the latest battle situation as the chief of staff of the Front, Chuikov, who had just taken office, immediately put forward the proposal: "Comrade commander, comrade political commissar, if Northeast Mongolia completely falls, then the flank and rear of the Zabaikalsk cluster will be exposed, so the group should be immediately ordered to retreat to the north bank of the Onen River and rebuild the defensive line on the favorable terrain there. ”

Khalepsky looked at Garmanik, who walked around the map table with his hands behind his back, seemed to hesitate, and after a while he replied with a heavy face: "Is it too early to retreat?" Now the main line of defense of the Zabaikalsk cluster is spread along the Erguna River, and it is still dangerous to defend. If retreat to the Onen, then Nerchensk (Nebuchu) will be under the wēixié of Chinese artillery fire, and the railway line to Nikolaevsk will be cut off. Will our Japanese friends ...... Will there be doubts about the future of the world revolution? Comrade Chuikov, you have only been back from Japan for a short time. Let's just analyze it. ”

Chuikov pressed his temples, thought for a while, and nodded with a wry smile: "Comrade Political Commissar." You're right. After the end of the Korean Campaign, the Japanese Red Army's Sinophobia became even greater than before, and the call for compromise with China became louder and louder......"

"How did the political and ideological work of the Japanese Red Army work?" Halepsky asked in a low voice.

Chuikov sighed: "The Japanese Red Army was originally the product of a compromise between the Japanese and some Japanese warlords, and it was not a real revolutionary army, and Japan's domestic resources were very poor, and it was simply unable to support a long-term war, once the Trans-Siberian Railway was cut off by the squadron." Their channels for the import of resources will be completely cut off, and the war will be difficult to sustain, so it is normal for Sinophobia and compromise to appear......"

"What a mistake!" Garmanik shook his head inwardly. Originally, the top brass of the Soviet Red Army thought that although the Japanese Red Army was not good, the Red Navy was always strong, as long as the Red Navy could defeat the Chinese Navy and the British Far East Fleet, and take the Dutch East Indies and British Malaya. Japan would be able to obtain enough resources for the war. But no one expected it. The powerful Japanese Red Navy actually lost the battle, and now it is still shrinking in Kure Jungang to add wounds.

Thinking of this, Garmanik ordered with a gloomy face: "Give an order to the commander of the Zabaikalsk cluster, Comrade Rashevich, and ask him to do his best to organize the defense." ”

Pointing to the flat terrain of Manchuria and Zabaikalsk on the map, Khalepsky said: "I am not worried about the defense along the Erguna River, with the wide river and the Abahaitu Mountains as support, the Red Army soldiers can defeat 10 times the enemy." However, the terrain in Zabaikalsk is too flat, and once it is broken through by the armored cluster of the squadron, the entire defense line is in jeopardy! Comrade Political Commissar. After I built the Baikalsk cluster, I was ready to retreat to the north of the Onon River at any time. ”

Garmanik stared at the map with his waist in his back, as a battle-hardened political commissar. Of course, he knew that military orders were the most taboo of ambiguity, and orders were the embodiment of the commander's determination and will, and ambiguous orders showed that the commander's own confidence had been shaken, so where could the comrades below have the confidence to defeat the enemy? However, in the current situation, it is understandable that Khalepsky would propose such an idea, because the Far Eastern Front faced an enemy that was too strong, not only in terms of numbers, but also in terms of weapons and equipment. Even he himself felt bottomless in his heart, could it be that the Far Eastern Front really had to suffer the humiliation of defeat? He pointed to Chuikov: "Comrade Chuikov, go and send a telegram to the General Command (referring to the International Proletarian Command), report the situation here truthfully, and ask for instructions." At the same time, another order was given to the Zabaikalsk cluster, asking them to hold on resolutely and not take a step back! ”

Similar to the situation in the Far East of the Red Army, the Chinese Army also faced a dilemma. General Chen Jiji, commander of the 1st Group Army of the Chinese Army, and Chang Ruiqing are fellow villagers in Jiangsu and classmates in Baoding, and they are the most confidant generals, and they are entrusted with important tasks this time. Command a large army group consisting of two armored corps, three infantry corps, one air division, and a separate artillery group tasked with attacking Chita, the capital of the Soviet Far Eastern Republic, along the Eastern Railway. However, the specific instructions issued by the Northern Front Command demanded that the 1st Army "not take the rapid capture of Chita or the division of the Red Army as the main objective of the campaign" and that the 1st Army "should try to maintain the front line in Manchuria and Transbaikalsk, where the terrain is relatively open, in order to deplete the enemy's vital forces to the maximum."

After receiving such an order, Chen Jiji convened a military conference for several days to study the enemy's situation and adjust his deployment, and it was easy to change the operational plan that imitated the Soviet Union's large-depth assault into a "static war" type of combat plan of World War I. But on September 29, the day before the scheduled attack. The 7th Army on the Eastern Mongolian side suddenly reported that it found that the Soviet Eastern Mongolian cluster was retreating northward, and there seemed to be signs of retreating north of the Onon River! Subsequently, the 1st Army also received an order from the Front Command to immediately attack, and if it found that the Soviet army showed signs of retreating north, it should decisively throw itself into the armored group to carry out the pursuit! The beginning of this battle is really a bit confusing!

After receiving the order, Admiral Chen Jiji did not dare to delay, and immediately issued an order to the troops to carry out a tentative attack, oppressing the Soviet troops, pinning them down on the position, and at the same time not being scared away, which was really well-intentioned. At the same time, he also personally led his staff to the front-line position to observe the face-to-face situation. The command of this battle is not low, so he must grasp the situation on the front line. In order to adjust the offensive plan in time.

The command post of the former enemy inherited by Chen was set up in the fortress of Manchuria, and a cannon mirror placed in the shelter of the fortress was placed in Tongguo, and the open plain was under the eyes. north on the territory of the USSR. It is clear that there is a fairly well-developed defense system. Anti-tank trenches, deer barrages, barbed wire, and trenches were layered on top of each other, and behind the trenches were countless "mounds" of different sizes.

By the time he arrived, the first wave of the squadron's tentative assault had already been repulsed by the Soviets. It is clear that the main forces of the Soviet Red Army, which were entrenched in Zabaikalsk, did not slip away.

A small exchange of fire was going on on the battlefield, and flares were slowly rising on the plain. Illuminated the battlefield, illuminated the Soviet lines, and illuminated a squad of Chaser tank destroyers. This weapon is actually quite practical. It is not only the highest tank killer, but also can be used as an assault gun to cover infantry attacks. The only drawback is probably that it is less mobile and cannot be used for blitzkrieg. However, it will still be very useful when attacking Soviet positions. A company of 14 pursuers was lined up about 1,500 meters from the forward positions of the Soviet troops. Use their 75mm run to flatten the exposed firing points of the Soviet troops. Well-trained Chinese armored troops are unlikely to miss a fixed target at this distance. I saw that there were constantly fire balls rising on the Soviet positions, and I could faintly see fragments of weapons and unlucky GC fighters being thrown into the air. Anti-tank fire on Soviet positions was also firing desperately, with 37mm anti-tank guns, 12.7mm anti-tank guns, and even regimental 76.2mm field guns. However, in front of the pursuers' 60mm armor plates arranged at 60 degrees, this anti-tank fire was nothing more than tickling, and although the deafening sound of metal crashing was constantly resounding, none of the pursuers stopped firing.

At this time, several red flags were suddenly raised on the positions of the Soviet troops. This was followed by a barrage of hundreds of Red Army fighters who climbed out of their positions and shouted the slogan "Ula" and launched a charge at the Chaser tanks. About half of them were carrying an "Iron Fist" anti-tank grenade launcher. Others, armed with rifles or submachine guns, braved the hail of bullets from the Chinese infantry, and from time to time some people were shot and fell to the ground, but no one took a step back. The firepower on the Soviet position also burst out at this time, and all kinds of shells came at the same time as if they didn't want money, drowning the 14 pursuers in the continuous rising smoke columns. Although these steel-armored tank destroyers were not afraid of Soviet shells, the Chinese infantry covering them suffered heavy losses immediately. As a last resort, the officer in command of this armored company had to give the order to fight and retreat to his own position.

Chen Jiji turned his head: "What do you think?" The senior officers of the Manmasked Division all set their eyes on Lieutenant General Xu Haoyu, commander of the 1st Panzergrenadier Division, whose unit was forced back by the Red Army infantry just now. He smiled a little awkwardly: "The Soviets are very quick learners and have already imitated the 'Iron Fist', and it is said that they also fire 76.2mm anti-aircraft guns against tanks...... Chief Chen, we must be cautious in using the armored forces in our hands to avoid excessive losses. He fell silent, and these words also reached the hearts of the officers present, and everyone nodded silently. Although China is developing rapidly and the level of heavy industry is on par with the Soviet Union, it is still a poor country after all, and the cost of a Hunter tank destroyer is about 50,000 Chinese yuan! It is equivalent to the salary income of an ordinary Chinese worker for 100 years!

Gu Zhutong, commander of the First Armored Army, said with a wry smile: "If you use the method of large-depth assault, it is enough to lose more, concentrate hundreds of tanks to open a bloody road for the follow-up troops, as long as you can defeat Lao Maozi, even if you lose 50%, it is worth it." But now that tanks are used to fight positional warfare and a war of attrition, we have to think more about the cost. ”

There was a chorus of echoing voices in the shelter department, in fact, these Wehrmacht officers were not trying to save money for Chang Ruiqing, but were dissatisfied with the "Harvester Plan". With the strength of the Northern Front, it is clear that it is possible to take down millions of square kilometers of land east of Lake Baikal with a large-scale and large-depth assault. At most, the price paid was more than 100,000 casualties and the destruction of 1 or 2,000 tanks and artillery pieces. If we follow the idea of the "reaper plan" and fight a protracted war of attrition with the Soviet Far Eastern Front, not only will the casualties be greatly increased, but the results will not be outstanding enough, and it can only be said to be a thankless fight.

Chen Jiji also knew the thoughts of these generals under him, in fact, he felt the same way as these generals, but since the above had such an order, as a soldier, he naturally had to carry it out. He frowned and muttered, "I believe you have already seen the harvester plan, and the analysis on it is very qīngchu." The Soviet Union was a great power with great war potential, and it could not be expected to be wiped out by a few successful surprise attacks...... Such a great power will not perish without completely exhausting its strength. Moreover, the Soviet generals were some of the best soldiers in the world and knew how to use their military power, so we can't expect them to make any fatal mistakes. There are no shortcuts in this war, and steady and steady and the Soviets are the only way. So we can't divide the Soviet troops in the Far East by two, and as soon as they run, they will lose a wound that is constantly bleeding. The Far East is tens of thousands of kilometers away from the western part of the Soviet Union, and their logistical support is difficult, so it is more beneficial for us to fight a war of attrition here, if we can consume millions of Soviets in a year, even if we can't fight the Far East for a while, it will be a huge strategic victory! ”

He paused slightly, and then said to Gu Zhutong: "You don't have to worry about the loss of the pursuer, when the prime minister proposed the concept of the hunter tank destroyer, he fully considered the issue of the war of attrition...... Although the cost of 50,000 yuan is not low, it is less than 40% of the Soviet T28 tank, which is comparable to their T26. And with the expansion of production, there is still room for the cost of hunters to be reduced, and it is possible to finally reduce it to 40,000 or even 30,000 yuan. And the Prime Minister also said that it only takes 3,000 man-hours for us to build a Stalker, and it will take at least 20 years for them to build a Soviet GC fighter! If the Soviet Red Army were to exchange human lives for equipment, it would definitely be a loss-making deal.

Now that the Soviet Far Eastern Front is holding on to it, it is exactly what we want. Mo San, now I order your First Panzer Army to start attacking on all fronts, and remember not to attack too hard...... Once you've laid a trench, fix it up and meet the enemy's counterattack. In due circumstances, the captured trenches could also be returned to them. I want the post-Baikalsk front line to become a meat grinder that constantly devours the lives of the Soviet army, just like Verdun in World War I! ”

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