Chen Feng didn't know Zhukov's intentions, but in Chen Feng's opinion, the hundreds of thousands of Soviet Red Army troops gathered in the direction of Ulaanbaatar were originally a naked provocation to China.

This is completely understandable, after all, for the Japanese, whether they are Soviets or Chinese, this is Japan's enemy, and they are all the kind of mortal enemies who will not die once they see them on the battlefield, and Japan has only one idea for such an enemy, that is, to get rid of it quickly.

Now that China and the Soviet Union are pinching each other, this is a rare opportunity for Japan, and one of the two tigers will be injured when they fight, and now the Japanese not only hope that the two tigers will be injured, but the best outcome is that the two sides will be killed and injured, or even all of them will die, which is in the interests of the Great Japanese Empire.

The atmosphere in the direction of Ulaanbaatar is becoming more and more tense, and the three countries of China, Mongolia and the Soviet Union are now paying far more attention to this battle than to other battlefields, after all, this battle is related to the direction of relations between the three countries. If Chen Feng's troops are defeated, then the Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces may propose peace talks or carry out a large-scale counteroffensive.

First of all, Chen Feng has clearly stated his position in newspapers and magazines, and he himself does not recognize this so-called Mongolian Republic at all, which means that once Chen Feng's department wins the battle of Ulaanbaatar, then the Mongolian Republic that has been established less than 20 years ago is likely to be directly destroyed. Mongolia's 1.5 million square kilometers will return to China's territory.

Even Chen Feng's troops would continue to attack northward until they penetrated deep into the hinterland of the Soviet Far East. Obviously, there are not a few people who hold this viewpoint, after all, China is an oil-poor country, and it is a universally recognized fact that it does not produce oil, but Chen Feng's department has a large number of mechanized troops, and how to obtain oil is the most important issue facing Chen Feng's department.

Looking at the internal and external environment of Chen Feng's department, the only one that could continuously provide oil to the Eighth Theater was the Soviet Union, and whether it was for the sake of national dignity or for the oil necessary for the war, Chen Feng's department had a reason to attack northward. Once the assault unit crosses the Soviet-Mongolian border, the war will develop in an uncontrollable direction.

You must know that no matter how you fight now. The battlefield was firmly controlled within the territory of Mongolia. What is Mongolia? To put it bluntly, this is still the territory of the Chinese, and no matter how much it is fought, it is only the Soviet Union that intervened in the civil war between the Chinese, not the Soviet Union and China at war. However, once Chen Feng's troops penetrated deep into the hinterland of the Soviet Union. That was China's invasion of Soviet territory. The war was bound to escalate into an immortal war between China and the Soviet Union.

In this situation. Neither the Chinese nor the Soviets were too happy, happy only Germany and Japan. Not to mention Japan, Germany's ideas can also be imagined. After all, the mustachioed Hitler was already well known to passers-by about his ambitions for the Soviet Union, and if Chen Feng's troops could contain the Soviet Union in Siberia and the Far East, it would undoubtedly be very beneficial to Germany's next actions.

What others think of Chen Feng doesn't know what to say, of course, with Commander Chen's temper, even if he knows the way, he won't care. Chen Feng knew what he was doing, and he also knew that his ultimate goal, that going to war with the Soviet Union was just a means, and now that his goals had all been realized, it was time to negotiate with the Soviets.

Chen Feng has always known that the truth is only within the range of artillery, no matter what the Soviet-Mongolian coalition Chen Bing Ulaanbaatar thinks, but Chen Feng believes that no matter when it is negotiating, it is most necessary to completely defeat the Soviet-Mongolian army in Ulaanbaatar first, and only in this way will the Soviet Union be honest at the negotiating table.

On June 29, Chen Feng moved the headquarters of the former enemy to Zonmod, and personally commanded the decisive battle of Ulaanbaatar in Zonmod, where he wanted to see with his own eyes how the invincible Soviet Red Army was defeated step by step, and then evacuated from Chinese territory in embarrassment.

For the battle of Ulaanbaatar, Zhukov did not have any bottom in his heart. Although the Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces far surpassed the opposing Chinese troops in terms of strength, after this period of war, Zhukov and others have already learned the gap between the Soviet Red Army and Chen Feng's unit, which is not only the gap in weapons and equipment, but also the biggest gap from the operational ideology and tactical level.

Although he did not want to admit it, Zhukov still had to admit one thing in the face of ironclad facts, that is, the current Soviet Red Army was not the opponent of Chen Feng's troops at all, at least not these units under the jurisdiction of the Far Eastern Front. As for whether the armies of the European part could compete with Chen Feng's troops, although Zhukov did not say it explicitly, he was not optimistic about the Red Army in his heart.

Due to the lack of heavy weapons, Zhukov did not think about counterattacking at all, and it was already very good to be able to keep Ulaanbaatar. In order to prevent a large number of troops from being stranded in the city of Ulaanbaatar and being killed and injured by Chen Feng's air force, Zhukov ordered half of his troops to retreat to a small town 12 kilometers north of Ulaanbaatar and deploy defenses along the mountain.

On the one hand, because the town is so close to Ulaanbaatar that reinforcements from the south can be sent south at any time. On the other hand, this is the only way from Ulaanbaatar to the Soviet Union, and there is another intention to deploy defenses here, that is, to block Chen Feng's troops from going north here when necessary.

The remaining 120,000 troops were deployed along Ulaanbaatar with almost all the heavy weapons, Ulaanbaatar was a city at the foot of a mountain, and the north and west of the city were high mountains, and it was difficult to attack the city from these two places, where it was easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Zhukov only deployed 2 infantry divisions here.

The east and south of the city are a flat river, which is very suitable for the advance of large-scale mechanized corps, so Zhukov arranged 4 lines of defense outside the city, and with the assistance of the Mongolian government, nearly 200,000 citizens of Ulaanbaatar were mobilized in a short period of time to assist the army in building fortifications, so these four lines of defense are very strong, according to the report of the Soviet Red Army inspection team, even if the most powerful mechanized corps of the Soviet Union 100,000 elite soldiers to attack, these four lines of defense can hold out for at least 2 months, of course, the premise is that the weapons and ammunition are sufficient.

Zhukov did not take the inspection team's report seriously, but if these four lines of defense can support more than half a month, then the negative impact of Chen Feng's department due to the long front can be fully reflected. It is important to know that the center of gravity of Chen Feng's rule is in the area of Guisui and Baotou, which is thousands of miles away from Ulaanbaatar, and it is difficult to transport ammunition and supplies to the battlefield in a short time, and the Sino-Soviet Railway is only a hastily built railway, and the transportation volume is very limited, so it cannot meet the supply of more than 100,000 troops on the front line.

However, at the beginning of the war, Zhukov was stunned, Chen Feng's attack was too sharp, and on the night of June 30, Chen Feng's troops took advantage of the night to launch a full-scale attack on the positions of the Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces, and they thought that the strong fortifications were like paper paste in front of Chen Feng's heavy artillery.

And Zhukov specially cobbled together an anti-tank regiment to prepare to deal with the armored troops that Chen Feng's subordinates would appear, but on the battlefield Zhukov realized how ridiculous his idea was, and the anti-tank regiment was wiped out by the infantry following behind the Chinese armored forces less than half an hour after it was put into the battlefield.

Although the battle on the night of the 30th, Chen Feng's troops did not achieve much success, let alone win the first line of defense. However, Chen Feng's troops rushed into the Soviet-Mongolian positions three times in a row during the four-hour offensive, forcing Zhukov to increase his troops to the first line of defense again and again.

Although it is not clear how many troops Chen Feng's troops invested in last night's attack, Zhukov knew that in just half a night's battle, the Soviet-Mongolian coalition army on the first line of defense had reached 45,000 men, far exceeding his pre-war estimate of 20,000, which cast a shadow on Zhukov for the battle of Ulaanbaatar that had just broken out.

On the morning of 1 July, Chen Feng's division continued to attack the southern position, and after a morning of fighting, Chen Feng's division still did not break through the first line of defense of the Soviet-Mongolian coalition army.

Chen Feng was very dissatisfied with such a result, so he transferred the 1st Army Aviation Brigade to the front line and attacked with the armored troops in the afternoon. With the addition of the army aviation unit, Chen Feng's armored unit had divine help, and it only took two hours in the afternoon to enter the position of the Soviet-Mongolian coalition army. Although the Soviet-Mongolian coalition army behaved extremely bravely at this time and did not retreat, under the combined attack of the infantry that arrived later under Chen Feng's headquarters, the Soviet-Mongolian coalition army quickly retreated.

Chen Feng's troops continued to make persistent efforts to pursue the retreating Soviet-Mongolian forces, and by the evening of July 1, they were approaching the second line of defense.

After receiving the report of the enemy situation on the front line, Zhukov was furious, more than 40,000 troops did not hold out for even a day, and the furious Zhukov executed 3 generals and 12 middle and lower-ranking officers in a row, and also executed 351 timid and cowardly soldiers, in order to save the decadent fighting spirit of the Soviet-Mongolian coalition army and the military morale on the verge of collapse.

Perhaps it was the pre-war rectification that had taken effect, but since July 2, the Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces have never retreated, even though they have suffered extremely heavy losses, until July 5.

On July 6, Chen Feng's unit, which had been unable to attack the southern position for a long time, opened a second battlefield in the east, so far the troops invested by both sides in the frontal battlefield of Ulaanbaatar have reached more than 200,000.

On the afternoon of July 6, a heavy artillery division of Chen Feng's division arrived in Ulaanbaatar and joined the offensive sequence in the south. (To be continued......)