Chapter 803 can't be given up

Because Zhukov's First Army in the Far East was tightly besieged by the squadron under the command of Tang Qiuli in the Sutai area of Uriya, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU once again held an emergency meeting to discuss the grim situation faced by the Soviet Far East Red Army. Starting

Stalin did not speak, which means that the meeting did not set the tone, and the members of the Political Bureau of the CPSU had their own ideas, and the most of them still speculated about the fate that Zhukov would face, and among them, there were many people who gloated.

Stalin smoked his pipe silently, and he knew best in his heart that the fundamental reason for Zhukov's encirclement today was the order of the General Staff to rescue the Vuckikov troops, which pushed the First Army in the Far East into a desperate situation.

Before convening the meeting, he had carefully read Zhukov's telegram from the battlefield of Uriya and Sutai, the telegram of thousands of words, Zhukov explained in detail all the battles and the context of the development of the situation, and Stalin had a clear grasp of what happened on the ancient battlefield of Outer Méng.

Zhukov was right, including the operational deployment he gave to the Far Eastern Military District before, which was in line with the reality of the battlefield, but it is a pity that no one in the Far Eastern Military District and the General Staff could understand Zhukov's intentions, and those people in the General Staff were all mediocre people, of course, the great leader Comrade Stalin could not be wrong, and the mistakes were made by those people below.

Stalin put down his pipe and said in a calm tone: "Well, comrades members of the Political Bureau, let's discuss the issue of the First Army in the Far East, Comrade Zhukov is a rare excellent general in the Red Army, and we will not allow such an excellent general to disappear on the battlefield fighting the Chinese." ”

"The military actions taken by Comrade Zhukov are undoubtedly correct, but some high-ranking generals in our General Staff do not have strategic acumen and command art, Comrade Zhukov is different from Mikovsky, he and his fighters are still fighting, we must find a way to rescue, everyone will talk about their own views, how to form a new unit as quickly as possible, go to Ménggu, and who will command this army."

Stalin spoke, that is, he set the tone for the meeting, although Zhukov was defeated, in the minds of Comrade Stalin, he still had a very high evaluation, and the members of the Political Bureau already knew how to say it, only a few high-ranking generals of the General Staff of the Soviet Army looked at each other with a "bang" of their heads.

It seems that the responsibility for the defeat of the First Army in the Far East lies with the General Staff to bear this black pot, and several senior generals of the General Staff present here do not know that they are going to be unlucky, and they are also aggrieved, and it is because of Comrade Stalin's opinion that they have that order, but they dare to say this, they can only fight with a nervous mood, force the god of Jīng, and study the problem of how to send troops to rescue Zhukov.

In the end, the meeting of the Political Bureau of the CPSU made a decision to immediately form the Second Army of the Soviet Far Eastern Military District, with a total strength of 270,000 troops and a large number of tanks and aircraft.

In order to speed up the formation, the three mechanized infantry corps of the Transcaucasian Military District were transferred to the Far Eastern Military District in formation, and the object of the Second Army's operation was the Tang Qiuli Corps in the ancient region of Outer Méng.

Timoshenko, another member of the Soviet Red Army, during World War II, on the battlefield of the Soviet Union, Zhukov's best partner, a Tang Qiuli, mobilized two famous generals of the Soviet Red Army, Stalin can be regarded as Tang Qiuli, and regarded him as the opponent who was the most threatening to the interests of the Soviet Union in Siberia.

In addition, according to the intelligence of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Far Eastern Military District, a squadron of about six divisions passed through the Kazadeu Pass in the ancient western part of the Outer Méng, crossed the Tangnu Mountains, entered the area of the Tangnu-Ulianghai and Kobdo in the Western Siberian region, and continued to advance to the area north of Lake Baikal.

Along the way, there were several battles with the local troops of the Transcaucasian Military District, and the Soviet army was defeated, so the First Transcaucasian Front was formed, and the first and second armies of the Transcaucasian were annihilated or expelled back to Transménggu in the area of Lake Baikal, and annihilated by the First and Second Armies of the Far East.

Tang Qiuli sent Sun Zhenbang's corps to penetrate deep into the Baikal area, which increased Stalin's jealousy of Tang Qiuli, and in a broad sense, the area north of Tangnu-Ulianghai, Kobdo, and Lake Baikal were all the original territories belonging to the six ancient tribes of Khalkha, plus the existing territory of Wai Méng, with a total area of more than 2.6 million square kilometers.

Tang Qiuli sent Sun Zhenbang's corps to recover the original territory north of Lake Baikal, in a sense, he was still optimistic about the region's oil and coal and iron ore resources, as well as rich freshwater resources, this is a rare natural cornucopia, the fresh water in Lake Baikal alone accounts for more than one-tenth of the world's freshwater resources, and must not fall into the hands of the Soviets, otherwise, Tang Qiuli will be so distressed that he can't sleep.

If the Soviet government had increased its forces in the Baikal area because of its defeat in the ancient area of Wai Méng, in order to prevent itself from continuing to advance northward, without a few vicious battles, it would not have been able to take it, although Sun Zhenbang's corps was a bit of a danger of going deep alone, but since the Sulu mobile corps joined the ancient battlefield of Wai Méng, Tang Qiuli's hands could at least use six to nine brigades of mobile troops to reinforce Sun Zhenbang's troops.

It's a big deal to let Qiushengge command the troops, fight a few more battles with the Soviet army on Lake Baikal, provoke Lao Tzu, and then have a Uriya Sutai style encirclement battle, sweep away the Soviet army in Transcaucasia, and beat Stalin to the point that he has no temper at all, he will not dare to transfer the troops in the European part to Siberia after all, Tang Qiuli thought viciously.

On the second day of the Uriya Sutai encirclement, Zhukov had already received a telegram from Stalin himself about the formation of the Second Army in the Far East, and asked the troops of the First Army to hold out for seven to ten days.

This is a kind of kindness, perhaps Zhukov's initial motivation for the Soviet Union and Stalin's conquest of the European battlefield in the future, but the situation faced by the troops made him worry that food and drinking water were insurmountable practical problems for the Soviet army.

The food was well arranged, and all the troops, including himself, implemented the food ration system, changing the original three meals a day to one meal a day, and it was not a problem for more than 10 days; for this reason, he also specially appointed the chief of staff of the group army as the temporary supply director to make unified plans for the food rationing of the troops.

But the problem of drinking water is really difficult to solve, coupled with the dry sun of early autumn in ancient méng, the damn ghost weather, and the hot sun during the day, like a big fireball hanging overhead, roasting the throats and eyes of the Soviet soldiers, and their eyes are straight, and at night, they are shivering with cold.

Zhukov had no choice but to order the troops, digging a well on the spot, it was really good, the water came out after digging not deep, and waited for the Soviet soldiers to drink a cow and drink happily, and then it was a bad thing at night, the water may be too alkaline, or it may be too many minerals, more than half of the Soviet soldiers, collectively diarrhea, more than a dozen times a night.

If you don't drink this water, you will die of thirst, and after drinking this water and diarrhea, Zhukov will be so worried that his hair will turn white, helplessly, the lesser of two evils, diarrhea can not die for the time being, only a limited amount, less than two days of effort, more than 100,000 Soviet soldiers lie down in a large area, and the combat effectiveness has lost more than two-thirds, not to mention breaking through, that is, getting up and walking are shaking.

Zhukov did not think that Tang Qiuli was besieged and did not attack, he was absolutely humanitarian, he vaguely guessed Tang Qiuli's intentions, he and hundreds of thousands of Red Army soldiers, had become hostages or yòu bait, encircled and sent reinforcements, or to blackmail the Soviet government, he did not know, but the kind of military self-esteem in his bones made him unable to bear that he was like a clown, at the mercy of the Chinese, and he suffered himself, and did not let Tang Qiuli stop.

On the fourth day of the encirclement, Zhukov coordinated the air force units of the Far Eastern Military District and suddenly summoned a large group of 230 Soviet fighters, 63 bombers, and nearly 300 planes.

Tang Qiuli, who had long been guarding against the Soviets, commanded all 187 fighters of the independent division's air force, coordinated with ground anti-aircraft firepower, six air defense brigades, and more than 1,000 high-altitude guns equipped with the "Sky Eye" gun-aiming radar, more than 2,000 high-altitude machine guns, plus several thousand high-duty machine guns, forming a tight anti-aircraft fire network.

Nearly 500 planes covered the sky, the blue sky was covered by black bullet clouds, and the ground anti-aircraft artillery fire was formed into an impermeable fire net, and the Soviet planes that collided with them were all shattered without exception.

From then on, the sky of Uriya Sutai was no longer calm, the sky was full of the roar of airplanes, and the pilots of the two sides chased each other, sending scorching bullets into the bodies of each other's planes.

The air battle lasted for two days, and the Soviet Far East Air Force was shocked to stop, they had already lost more than 100 fighters and all the bombers, and the Soviet Air Force was about to run out of money in the Far East.

And Le Yiqin's aviation unit, also lost twenty-one fighters, this is an independent division of aviation, another country's regional air force, Tang Qiuli is proud enough, after several years of training, Le Yiqin handed him a satisfactory answer.

With the crushing defeat of the Soviet Far East Air Force, Zhukov stopped, and after that, he did not make any more moves, only bitterly next to each other, and Timoshenko's Second Army was his only hope.