Just when the Scrape Army and the Outer Mongolian cavalry really entered the combat state, an extremely important figure was ushered in in Ulaanbaatar Konev. To say that this person is important, it is not that he is a bigwig of the party, government, and military, but in fact this bigwig is not even a member of the Central Committee.

In fact, it was precisely in order to wait for this big man that Konev stayed in Ulaanbaatar, otherwise with his temper, he would have rushed to Baotou to personally direct the battle. So who exactly makes Konev so important?

Yakov, that is, Li Xiaofeng's secretary general. Yakov had no influence in the party, and he served as the secretary general of a certain immortal from 1920 until 1942, when he was the secretary general for twenty-two years, which can really be described as the old secretary general.

To tell the truth, it is not common for such an old qualified secretary general to be in the party, and the general big leaders, the secretaries and secretaries around them are all cultivated as tomorrow's stars, and when a certain time comes, they will naturally be released, whether it is alone or gilded, this is an established procedure.

This is not only a way for the bigwigs to develop their power, but also a means for young talents to get ahead. No one ever likes to be a secretary or secretary general for life, but Yakov is anything but ordinary.

He knew very well that it was not impossible to be alone, but he really did not have that interest. If possible, what he wants to do most is to get rid of his current life and find a quiet place to live the rest of his life quietly. As for what power and position, he really didn't have any interest.

It's a pity that because of the existence of a certain immortal, his dream of hanging up the crown and leaving the crown is impossible to come true, so he can only be the secretary general for ten thousand years. Anyway, this arrangement is the best choice for him and Li Xiaofeng.

Konev did not despise Yakov for the fact that he had been secretary general for 22 years. Whatever the reason, the Secretary-General was not promoted. But one thing Konev can be sure of. That is, this Comrade Yakov is definitely not unpopular with Comrade Andrei, and if Comrade Andrei had been tired of this secretary general, he would have sent someone out ten years earlier.

Konev speculated that there may be a deeper reason why Yakov has been the secretary general of Comrade Andrei, although he does not know what the reason is, but he is sure that he must not offend this Comrade Yakov.

So Konev personally went to the airport to meet Yakov. The attitude is quite correct. Of course, there are also advantages to having a good attitude, because soon he found out that this Comrade Yakov is not simple!

First of all, this Comrade Yakov came by special plane, specifically Comrade Andrei's plane.

What does this mean? It shows that Comrade Andrei trusts this Comrade Yakov quite a lot, and even gives the other party a special plane to use casually, and even this is not just trust, but a deep friendship.

Now Konev somewhat understands why this Comrade Yakov has been the secretary general for 22 years, I am afraid that he is a close friend and senior staff member of Comrade Andrei. Belong to the inseparable henchmen!

Unbelief? Believe it or not, the new Soviet ambassador to Mongolia who has just left for Mongolia (Outer Mongolia) to take up his post. The former director of a certain department can only fly to Ulaanbaatar. Compared with a certain secretary general, this person is really aggrieved enough.

This "discovery" made Konev very excited, which shows that he has come to the right place this time, if he can leave a good impression on this secretary general, and even if he can have a good relationship with this secretary general, will he still be afraid that no one will cover him in the future?

Therefore, Konev was 120,000 points enthusiastic about Yakov, and Yakov was a little inexplicable in his enthusiasm, and he really didn't understand what kind of medicine this lieutenant general comrade was selling in his gourd.

Then again, what did Li Xiaofeng suddenly send Yakov to Konev for at this time? Yakov's task was very simple, that is, to serve Konev as an adviser on the Chinese issue. Yes, Li Xiaofeng attaches great importance to the layout of China in the future, and it is a pity that the Soviet Union has made one mistake after another on the China issue in history, and finally caused its allies to turn against each other.

Li Xiaofeng naturally couldn't fall into the same pit, so after making the decision to fully support the Turkish Communist Party to resist Japan, open up the communication route from Mongolia to Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia, and teach the scraping army a lesson, he thought it was necessary to send a person who knew his plan to supervise the implementation of Konev, and not let Konev's momentary negligence lead to irreparable mistakes.

When Konev learned of Yakov's intention, he was surprised and happy at the same time. I was surprised that I didn't expect a certain immortal to attach so much importance to Huaxia, and I was happy that since this military operation was so valued, if he performed well, wouldn't his future be very secure. Therefore, he immediately said: "Absolutely fully cooperate with Comrade Andrei and do our best to ensure the complete success of this operation!" ”

When he first learned that he was going to come to Ulaanbaatar to cooperate with Konev, Yakov was still a little worried, and Konev was obviously unwilling to take on this drudgery before, and he was afraid that he had a stomach of opinions. Anyway, before coming, he was ready to do the Tonkonev work first, and then start the official work.

Who would have thought that his preparation would be of no use at all, and Konev would be a little like a pug if he had a little complaint. Of course, why Konev was so enthusiastic, Yakov could also guess a thing or two.

Before he came, Li Xiaofeng told him that Konev was very talented and ambitious, and hoped that he could take a good look at Konev and see if he could take it for his own use. Now it seems that the prediction of a certain immortal is really unfounded, this Konev is not simple, and he is by no means a reckless man who can only fight.

For Yakov, this is fine, since Konev is so on the road, then his job is much simpler. So immediately after the end of the "welcome banquet" held by Konev, he said to the somewhat discouraged commander:

"Ivan. Comrade Spantenovich, Comrade Andrei wants me to inform you that the problem of China is extremely complex and must be treated with caution. Although the Military Commission requires you to open up the lines of communication in the simplest and fastest way, you must not just focus on the fast aspect. You must be very careful and careful in dealing with all issues, both military and political, without the slightest mistake, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable! ”

Yakov's words made Konev immediately nervous, to be honest. After learning more about the intelligence of the scraping army. Konev looked down on this army. I felt that completing this task was just a piece of cake. But now the Grand Elder of the Politburo has sent a special secretary general to warn him, and he has also pointed out that he cannot patronize Kuai, which means something, I am afraid that the problem is not so easy to solve.

Konev asked very humbly: "Then Comrade Andrei has any explanation?" ”

Yakov nodded and explained in detail: "Comrade Andrei said that you must first downplay the influence of the Red Army's direct involvement in the Chinese issue, which is very important. If this issue is not handled well, I am afraid that the Politburo will be very unhappy! ”

Konev shuddered. He was most afraid of this kind of political problem, and it was really difficult to grasp the proportion, but he secretly glanced at Yakov and felt that a certain immortal had sent him to focus on political issues. Thinking of this, he was a little more relieved, and then Yakov continued:

"On the issue of cracking down on the People's Party army, you should also pay special attention to the fact that the People's Party military is a complex ensemble, so to speak. It's a hodgepodge. You have to distinguish between the Central Army and the local forces, and both Comrade Andrei and the Politburo want you to focus on the forces of the Central Army. As for the local factions, they can be hammered ......"

It's a hard hammer tap, in fact, this is to tell Konev again that the focus of this operation is Jiang someone's descendants, and the other miscellaneous cards can be meaningful.

Konev did not understand this, and he humbly asked the reason, and Yakov patiently explained: "Now Chiang is using the War of Resistance to exclude dissidents and preserve and strengthen his own power, and his fundamental purpose is to lay the foundation for the implementation of a reactionary dictatorship in a civil war after the victory over Japan." And if you want this person to obediently go to resist the Japanese, and if you want him not to dare to act rashly, you must hurt him and give other forces in China a certain breathing space. Therefore, Comrade Andrei believes that in this operation, it is necessary to annihilate one or two armies of Chiang's central lineage, and it is best to annihilate the so-called First Army of the Imperial Forest Army! ”

Konev knew it in his heart, and what he was most afraid of was that the higher authorities would not give him clear instructions, vaguely saying that he would achieve the goal of teaching a lesson to the Kuomintang but also pay attention to political influence, and this kind of nonsense covered by clouds and mountains would make it difficult for him to perform.

And now, Li Xiaofeng has set all the goals for him, that is, to attack Jiang's descendants is to annihilate the First Army. So Konev had the bottom in his heart. However, there is a bottom, but how easy is it to eliminate Hu Zongnan's First Army?

Of course, it doesn't mean that the combat effectiveness of this first army is very strong, as mentioned earlier, Hu Zongnan and the first army are just ringing signs, and the real combat effectiveness is just like that. What made Konev difficult was that the First Army was still cowering in Xi'an, hundreds of kilometers away from the intended battlefield. He can't go straight to Xi'an to destroy this first army, right?

Even, Konev thinks Hu Zongnan is very annoying, how can you let a group of miscellaneous little shrimp play as a striker? How good it is for you to honestly send the First Army over to die, you die early and overlive, I can also complete the task quickly here, hello and I'm good!

Of course, this is what Konev complained in his heart, the battlefield is never what you want to do, the difference between a famous general and an ordinary soy sauce party is that a famous general can achieve a campaign mission in an unfavorable situation through clever layout and transformation means, while the soy sauce party can really follow the script and stare dryly.

Obviously, Konev is not a soy sauce party, and as the leading general in the Red Army, he has more than just two brushes. After figuring out the ultimate mission goal, Konev immediately adjusted the deployment of troops.

The 13th Cavalry Division and the 150th Regiment of the 15th Division of the Outer Mongolian Cavalry continued to garrison Baotou to resist the siege of the 36th Army and the 80th Army of the Scraping Army, while the 151st and 152nd Regiments of the 15th Cavalry Division were stationed in Tuoketo to guard against a Japanese attack. In addition to leaving the 141st Regiment and the 142nd Regiment to garrison Guyang, the 141st Cavalry Division cooperated with the 107th Infantry Division of the Red Army to move to Wuyuan and fight Dong Zhao's 16th Army!

Konev's idea is very simple, since Hu Zongnan and Jiang someone's Central Army like to borrow knives to kill people, then there is no point in playing miscellaneous cards, the harder you fight, the happier they are! Only if the descendants of the Central Army are hurt, these goods will be in a hurry, and the First Army left in Xi'an will go north like a burning ass, so that Konev can complete the task as soon as possible!

Konev's judgment is quite correct, there is no point in playing miscellaneous cards, and it is useful to play the Central Army. Especially the current one. Fighting Dong Zhao of Wuyuan is a good way. Why? Because Dong Zhao was happily sitting in Wuyuan at this time watching Zhao Xiguang and Kong Lingsui die. For him. That's a good thing.

The more serious the casualties of Zhao Xiguang and Kong Lingxi, the harder they worked, at this time Hu Zongnan had nothing to say, and the old man also had an explanation. This fully shows that he, Dong Zhao, has successfully completed the work of supervising the war and weakened the power of the miscellaneous armies in these places! Isn't that a big deal? Even if it's not a big achievement, you can explain the past.

What's more, Dong Zhao also thinks that there is a cheap advantage, and in his opinion, Baotou only has one or two divisions of the "Communist Party" when it is full, and it will attack with the strength of five divisions of the 36th Army and the 80th Army. It is estimated that you can consume seven, seven, eight or eight for the other party. At that time, his 16th Army appeared on the stage to reap the benefits of the fisherman, hehe, this is a great achievement!

Therefore, Dong Zhao was very relaxed, stepped up the time to let the troops rest and recuperate, and waited for the day when Huang Que was behind. However, what Dong Zhao didn't expect was that the yellow bird did not take it, but encountered a tiger. Unprepared, he was attacked by the 107th Infantry Division of the Red Army, and he was in chaos!

"Where's the **? Where did the enemy come from? ”

"Throne. The enemy is coming from Guyang! Xie Fusan, commander of the Reserve 1st Division, rushed to the military headquarters out of breath and shouted.

Dong Zhao glanced at Xie Fusan, but he didn't trust Xie Fusan very much. The reason is very simple, Xie Fusan has a resume in the First Army and has a relationship with Hu Zongnan. For a long time, Dong Zhao thought that this Xie Fusan was the nail that Hu Zongnan planted beside him, so he naturally wanted to look at it differently.

"Nonsense," Dong Zhao snorted, "Guyang only has more than one division of enemy soldiers, where is there any extra troops to attack us?" ”

I have to say that the intelligence ability of the scraping army is really quite limited, first of all, there are two divisions in Guyang, and secondly, the firepower of the two divisions is stronger than the two armies of your scraping army, do you think that the more people are the boss? Wake up, go through Clausewitz's theory of war, and see how much firepower is admired.

So as soon as the battle was engaged, the reserve 1st Division was rushed to pieces, and at the critical moment, it was Zhou Kaixun of the 3rd Reserve Division who led reinforcements to pick up the 1st Reserve Division. Otherwise, this encounter will turn into a war of annihilation, and the reserve 1st Division will be dumplings by the 107th Division of the Red Army.

Rao is here, the losses of the reserve 1st Division are not small, and a considerable part of the division's artillery has been lost, and its strength is greatly reduced. However, Dong Zhao was happy to watch the jokes, he always felt that Xie Fusan was Hu Zongnan's person, and Hu Zongnan's troops were lost, of course he had to be happy and happy.

It's just that Dong Zhao was a little too happy, he miscalculated the situation, thinking that the Red Army was only here for a sneak attack, and it would soon retreat back to Guyang after winning in one fell swoop. But how could Konev retract back to Guyang? He's here to make dumplings!

So in the next two days, when Dong Zhao was still carelessly preparing to grind foreign workers and wait for the enemy to retreat and clean up Xie Fusan, this military lord suddenly found that things seemed to be a little wrong, why was Lao Tzu surrounded?

Yes, there is no need to be surprised, comrades, Dong Zhao, who has the advantage of troops, was indeed surrounded, and all the troops, including the 1st Reserve Division, the 3rd Reserve Division, and the 28th Division, were surrounded in Wuyuan.

It is not a joke at all, in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, it is not uncommon for the army to be surrounded by opponents with much fewer troops, and in the words of the Japanese army, it is not surprising that a group army can only withstand a division of the Japanese army, and an army cannot do a reinforced division of the Red Army.

After discovering that he was surrounded, Dong Zhao was not particularly anxious, and even began to laugh at his opponent, in his words: "I just don't know how thick the sky is, thinking that if you succeed in a sneak attack, you can do whatever you want?" Is it really Lao Tzu's 16th military tofu scum? ”

Don't say it, Konev really thinks he is tofu scum, not even as good as tofu scum, Konev doesn't take him seriously. After encircling the 16th Army, the 107th Division soon began to intersperse and divide operations, and Dong Zhao quickly learned the Konev-style infantry and artillery coordination.

Unlike Zhukov's combat style, Konev's artillery fire cover pursued precision and delicacy. And Zhukov is a cannon fire, after drowning the opponent with firepower, and then using the wind of the armored force to sweep the fallen leaves. This style of play is very good-looking, very imposing and spectacular, in line with the unique aesthetic taste of polar bears.

But Zhukov's style of playing like biting gold is problematic, if the three-board axe cuts down the opponent, everyone will naturally be happy, but if the opponent can't be killed, then he will fall. Look at the Mars operation, Zhukov's majestic counterattack hit the German army's iron wall, and then he was made a disgraced face, if it were not for the victory in the defense of Stalingrad behind, this hole would really be difficult to fill.

Konev, on the other hand, was not in this style, he was particularly meticulous in his combat preparations, and did not require Zhukov's kind of firepower to destroy the enemy three times, he believed that accuracy was more important than pyrotechnic effects, and he valued the perfect consistency of fire cover and infantry coordination. And by no means as adventurous as Zhukov and Vasilevsky, he can strangle his opponent little by little like a noose.

This time, Dong Zhao enjoyed the greeting of Konev's signature tactics, and just when the military lord was still thinking about how to teach the opponent a lesson, the so-called superiority in strength that he was proud of was crushed little by little by Konev's infantry and artillery coordination...... (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank the Xuanyuan Extreme Holy Emperor, the sweet potatoes in the melon field, the long journey into the night, the spirit of Jinling and Comrade Juventus!