It is not unreasonable for Stalin to be worried, where is the future of the Soviet Air Force, the question has been bothering Stalin for a long time. The post-1936 purge widened, with the main leaders of the Air Force purged and aircraft designers imprisoned. The Air Force's operational guiding ideology has changed from the Air Force's independent operations to the main focus on supporting ground troops' operations, and there are no new models of heavy bombers to replace those old fighters, which is also because there are so many old fighters in the Far East.

Weapons and equipment are different from fine wine, which is more mellow and fragrant the older it gets, while weapons and equipment are more rubbish and on the verge of obsolescence the older it is. In recent years, due to the busy internal struggle, the development of new fighters in the Soviet Union has come to a complete standstill, and only the MiG-3 is a new fighter.

Now it seems that this new type of fighter, which Stalin had high hopes for, was not as perfect as imagined, and it was killed by one and a half aviation divisions in the first battle, which is simply rubbish. Stalin now doubted that these junk fighters would be able to defend the great Soviet Union.

The current trend of the development of the war situation in the Far East has far exceeded the expectations of Stalin and others, and it is absolutely not a good thing for the Soviet Union to continue in this way. But how to deal with the current situation, Stalin did not have a very good solution. He was unwilling to make peace, and even if he wanted to, the people in the Soviet Union would not be willing. It is important to know that the national self-esteem of the people in the Soviet Union has risen unprecedentedly, and in the past few years they have made brilliant achievements both militarily and economically, and the most direct benefit of these achievements is that the Soviets have become more self-confident.

In particular, the continuous military victories made the Soviets unwilling to submit to others. After all, in the past few years, the Soviet Union has not only consolidated its own power, but also carved up Poland with Germany, defeated its eastern neighbor Japan, and defeated Finland at the beginning of this year, gaining one-tenth of Finland's territory, all of which made the Soviet people think that the Soviet Union was strong and that no one and no country could defeat the Soviet Union.

However, according to the judgment of the top brass at the front, the strength of the Chinese air force has far surpassed that of the Soviet Union, and even if the Soviet Union transfers all the fighters in Europe to the Far East, it may not be able to win the air battle. And with the strong combat power of China's new fighters. Even if it is won. The losses of the USSR were also definitely not something that the USSR could afford. Therefore, Stalin could only put the West on the offensive of the ground forces, hoping that the ground forces would save the lost face.

In order to ensure the limited air supremacy of the ground forces, Stalin ordered the urgent transfer of three anti-aircraft artillery brigades deployed in the Caucasus to the Far East, and at the same time authorized Zhukov to mobilize all Soviet-Mongolian forces east of Central Siberia.

That is. Zhukov also had no bottom in his heart. After two days of contact. Zhukov was well aware of the strength of Chen Feng's department. The strength was awe-inspiring, and the army, though unremarkable, was startling in battle. Immovable as a mountain. Moving is like a rabbit, and once it moves, it is devastating. When there was air force support, it was still like that, but now without air force support, it is really hard to say whether this war can be fought or not.

Zonmod. Joint Command of the Soviet-Mongolian Army.

Zong Mode, who had just experienced the bombing of the Chinese Air Force, was full of smoke, but fortunately, Chen Feng's troops took care of the civilians in the city and did not drop aerial bombs in civilian areas.

The atmosphere in the joint command was extremely solemn, and this time not only Zhukov and others came, but even Choibalshan, chairman of the Mongolian Joint Conference and commander-in-chief of the People's Army.

"Shayer, let's talk about your Air Force losses, we lost this battle, but if we lose, we will be familiar, even if we lose, we will lose with dignity!" Zhukov said loudly.

The commander of the Ninth Army of the Soviet Air Force, Colonel-General Chaile, stood up and said: "Comrade Zhukov, according to the results just counted, the number of fighters left in the Ninth Army and the Sixth Aviation Division of the Tenth Army and the Ninth Air Division is now less than three hundred and forty, of which 162 are seriously damaged. In this battle, our army lost a total of 1,478 fighters, including 928 fighters, 412 bombers, 104 transport planes, and 34 reconnaissance planes. 4,865 pilots and machine gunners were lost, another 864 were wounded, the Ninth Army was completely annihilated, and the Sixth and Ninth Air Divisions of the Tenth Army suffered heavy casualties and lost their combat effectiveness. ”

Although Zhukov had already prepared, he still did not expect that the Soviet Air Force would suffer such heavy losses, even in the last battle with Japan, the Soviet Union only lost three or four hundred fighters, but did not expect to lose thousands of fighters in the fight against the Chinese.

Although the Soviet Union now has more than 9,000 warplanes in total, Comrade Stalin can mobilize thousands of warplanes from all over the country at any time as long as he speaks. However, as the most trusted high-ranking general of the Soviet Union, Comrade Stalin, Zhukov knew that this was not in the interests of the Soviet Union and would only bring greater disaster to the Soviet Union.

"And how many casualties are there in the Chinese Air Force?" Zhukov asked again.

Shayl thought for a while and said: "The Chinese Air Force is not too big, at least 120 fighters of the Chinese Air Force were shot down in the air battle of Sainshanda, and the Chinese Air Force was besieging and killing our Air Force in the air battle of Ergen and Zonmod, according to the results of the army's search out of the city after the war, a total of 7 wreckage of Chinese fighters were found near Ergen, and the wreckage of 58 Chinese fighters was found outside Zonmod City, plus the air battle a few days ago, it is expected that the Chinese Air Force lost a total of about 200 fighters this time, or even less. ”

At this moment, the entire combat command was silent, and this fighter plane really made everyone's faces dark. Although it was the air force that suffered this disaster, after all, it was the Soviet Union's national defense strength that was lost, and there was a feeling of death in the south, not to mention that just a few days ago, the army lost nearly 80,000 people at once.

"Hey, this time it's a big heel, Comrade Stalin has just sent a telegram that he will not mobilize a new air force for us, and before the new fighters of the Chinese Air Force are restrained, Comrade Stalin strictly forbids our air force to fight with the Chinese Air Force, so the next battle will depend on the army itself!" Zhukov said.

Chief of Staff И. Lieutenant General P. Apanashchenko said loudly: "Comrade Zhukov, please rest assured, our army staff has prepared a counterattack plan and is ready to listen to your orders at any time!" ”

Zhukov asked in a deep voice: "Before looking at your counterattack plan, I want to know how many troops we can use now?" ”

Apanashchenko had obviously put great effort into this, and as soon as Zhukov's words fell, he replied loudly: "Comrade Zhukov, although the air force has suffered heavy casualties, they have bought our army time to transfer troops, and now the Soviet Red Army assembled near Ulaanbaatar has a total of 5 corps, 14 infantry divisions, 2 cavalry divisions, 3 tank divisions, 4 artillery divisions, 6 artillery brigades, and a large number of technical arms, with a total strength of more than 188,000 people. ”

"Is this just our Soviet army," Zhukov asked again.

"Of course, these are only the total number of our Soviet Red Army, not counting the Mongolian People's Army!" Apanashchenko replied.

Zhukov turned to Choibalshan and asked, "Mr. President, how many troops can your Mongolian People's Army participate in?" ”

The cavalry division quickly replied: "The total strength of our Mongolian People's Army is only about 140,000, excluding the troops lost some time ago, there are less than 100,000 available troops now, and now there are only about 40,000 people near Ulaanbaatar, a total of 2 infantry divisions and two cavalry divisions and some garrison strength, half of which have now reached the front line of Saiyin Shanda." ”

"Apanashchenko, how many heavy weapons, ammunition and food do we have now, how long can we last?" Zhukov continued to ask.

"Comrade Zhukov, we now have a total of 160,000 rifles, 12,000 light and heavy machine guns, 20,000 pistols, 5,000 anti-tank guns, 3,000 sniper rifles, 500 anti-aircraft machine guns. In addition, there are 1780 mortars, 800 small-caliber mountain and field guns and infantry guns, 500 large-caliber guns, 200 anti-aircraft guns, and 36 heavy guns with a caliber of 230mm! ”

"What about the armor?"

"Our army is now equipped with a total of 5 tank divisions, a total of 1,388 tanks, 380 armored vehicles, 80 self-propelled guns, 1,700 vehicles, of which two tank divisions and 560 tanks are new tanks." Apanashchenko replied.

Zhukov said slowly: "Very good, according to the information I have received, the Chinese have deployed a total of 4 infantry divisions, 1 armored division and a large number of air forces on the border!" They have now built an airfield in Zamyn-Uud as a springboard for attacking any province of Mongolia, and even into the heart of the Soviet Union in Siberia! In order to effectively deter the Chinese and those countries hostile to the great Soviet Union, Comrade Stalin was determined to defeat the Chinese from the ground, and for this reason Comrade Stalin mobilized an anti-aircraft artillery brigade for our army, and Comrade Stalin demanded that we must defeat this warlord army. ”

Then Zhukov said loudly: "Comrades, although the combat effectiveness of Chen Feng's troops is not weak, they have unavoidable weaknesses, that is, their industrial production capacity is extremely weak, especially oil and aviation gasoline, which cannot be produced by Chen Feng's troops. According to the predictions of the comrades in the intelligence department, the oil stock of Chen Feng's department can support a war for four months at most, that is to say, as long as our army lasts for four months, the powerful weapons and equipment of Chen Feng's department will become scrap metal due to lack of fuel, so I think we should make good use of this force in our hands and completely drag Chen Feng's department to death!"

I have to say that Zhukov did find the weakness of Chen Feng's department, oil is indeed a big problem, due to the large-scale immigration like Nanyang during this time, so the consumption of aviation fuel is huge, according to the consumption rate of the front line, the oil hoarded in the Eighth War Zone can indeed not support a few months, will Chen Feng's department fail because of fuel problems? (To be continued......)