Under the gaze of anticipation, Timoshenko finally launched. Originally, if there was no person surnamed Qin who was messing around there, the Soviet Union would not have used him at all, as early as last year, Zhukov would have beaten the Kwantung Army to the ground in the Battle of Nomenkan, and then he would no longer dare to peep at the Soviet Union, and his goal of going north would have been stopped, and he turned to the mind of going south. It's a pity that the Soviet Union was unlucky, and someone deliberately mischievously not only caused the defeat of the Soviet Union, but also accidentally brought disaster to the future Soviet Union's first general. So, in desperation, Timoshenko went out.

Speaking of which, Timoshengo was also quite depressed at first. I was almost captured alive by the Japanese airborne troops. Although it has a strong armored force, it is a pity that the air force is not strong, and can only be beaten and cannot fight back. This made Timoshenko, who was accustomed to bullying the enemy with great strength, extremely uncomfortable, and the most important Japanese belonged to the yellow race, and he felt that the superiority of the white race was provoked.

In any case, Timoshenko was a good commander, and he knew how to forbear and choose the right moment. For the Soviets, winter was the perfect time for them to attack. And just like that, after waiting for a long time, he finally attacked...... He had only 200,000 men, but the enemy in front of him exceeded 400,000. However, he is not worried, because he leads a large multi-service composite corps with independent combat functions. In addition to the more than 60,000 men of the 1st Army left by Zhukov, he also had a motorized division, a brigade of mechanized troops, three brigades of armored troops, three brigades of tank troops, a brigade of airborne troops, one machine gun brigade, one artillery regiment, two battalions of anti-tank artillery units, three battalions of air defense troops, and so on, totaling more than 100,000 mechanized troops, and his logistics were actually extremely sufficient. When the Japanese army did not use the airborne troops to trick him behind his back, Moscow used the railway to transport him 23,000 tons of artillery shells, 10,000 tons of bombs, 13,000 tons of fuel, 8,000 tons of supplies, and 3,000 trucks...... Taken together, he now has more than 600 tanks, more than 400 armored vehicles, nearly 700 artillery pieces, and more than 800 aircraft...... In Asia, this can even wipe out the power of several countries.

Rolling iron streams, along the Trans-Siberian Railway. Towards Ulan-Ude, across the lake from Irkutsk (Lake Baikal). And in just one day, the Soviet army easily broke through the five lines of defense set up by the Japanese army on the front line, and the progress was extremely smooth. Almost everyone thought that the Soviets would soon be victorious. But then, Timoshengo ran into trouble...... Landmines, or snow mines! In the middle of nowhere. The Japanese did not know how many mines had been planted in the tunnel.

From the time the first soldier stepped on a landmine and was sent to heaven, one after another, Soviet soldiers were killed and injured by landmines. The Trans-Siberian Railway is lined with mountains. It is not suitable for traffic at all. So. The Soviet army could only advance along the inherent road, which also provided great convenience for the Japanese army to lay mines, and at the same time greatly slowed down the advance of Timoshenko.

Timoshenko was troubled by such a method, but he could not use armored vehicles or tanks to clear the way. Because although these mines are mainly ordinary mines that kill soldiers, they occasionally burst out of several powerful mines. This mine could not blow up his armored car or tank, but it could easily blow up tracks...... Such a "long" journey. How many tanks or armored vehicles does he need to get through to safety? Of course, he didn't think of using other means, such as horse-drawn fence climbing or something, but he was a mechanized army. How can there be any such things? Collected from the people? The Japanese were so fierce that they had burned down all the villages along the way, taken away all the grain, and left not a single hair of livestock or anything else. So, he could only move slowly, while scouting, and at the same time, and walked like this for a week in a minefield that was not very long.

But the trouble didn't stop there.

After walking through the minefield, Timoshenko was once again blocked by the Japanese army. This time the attack was different, he was facing a huge group of bunkers and mountain forts that were extremely scattered. However, Timoshenko said that he had no pressure on this, and under the bombardment of his cannons, these enemies disappeared in a few days.

But then, Temoshenge couldn't help but scold his mother.

The Japanese actually dig a hole!

And it's the most real pit! His road ahead was full of potholes. For the small ones, if the soldier accidentally steps into them, the light will be the foot of the foot, and the heavy will be pierced by the wooden cone inside; The big ones can be trapped in tanks; There are also medium, specialized pit cars, cannons...... And most importantly, these potholes are completely covered by the Siberian snow, and they cannot be detected unless they are pressed directly. And the most hateful thing is that he doesn't know how many holes the Japanese have dug in his way. Anyway, with the number of troops placed in front of him by the Kwantung Army, in such a long time, he could have dug a big hole that could bury his entire army N times!

It's more troublesome than landmines.

Because mines also require manufacturing costs, digging pits...... It really doesn't take much to get a few shovels.

But Timoshenko had no other choice but to have his soldiers holding long wooden poles in front of him and constantly "pierce the snow" in order to get most of the potholes out. However, as several soldiers were injured by mines during the "stinging snow", the movement of the troops had to be slowed down again.

And it was in this tortoise-like march that Timoshenko entered 1941 with his mechanized troops, at this time he was less than 100 miles away from Ulan-Ude, and he did not encounter any more Japanese resistance on the way. However, at this time, he also received information from the Air Force reconnaissance plane with his life: the Japanese are demolishing Ulan-Ude! Completely demolished, leaving no house, no baggage, not even a piece of wood that can be used for fire.

At the same time, Irkutsk, which was in his rear, was also attacked by the Japanese.

The enemy troops came from behind, from Krasnoyarsk, from Novosibirsk, from one labor camp after another built during the Great Purge...... His enemies were hundreds of thousands of re-education through labor prisoners who had been armed by the Japanese. And the number of these people is still increasing, and their number may exceed 200,000 or 300,000 at any time...... On top of that, these prisoners had a large number of officers, so their troops were not only highly disciplined. Most of the soldiers also have military experience, and some even fought during the "October Revolution", so they have rich combat experience, and their combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated. Of course, this is only secondary, the most important thing, under Stalin's high pressure, these prisoners of labor had no turning back the moment they were rescued from the labor camp by the Japanese, so. They will inevitably fight to the death with the help of the Japanese. And all the Japanese had to do was to promise these people autonomy, that is: to establish their own republic in Siberia!

In this way, as if in an instant, Timoshenko's enemies were already nearly a million people. And. Nearly half of these enemies are just as unafraid of the Siberian winter cold as they are.

Nine times out of ten, the troops left behind in Irkutsk could not stop this vengeful army, especially this Soviet "rebel army" could also get help from the Japanese air force when the weather was fine. It also has considerable advantages in itself. And Irkutsk was extremely important for Timoshenko. And not only because it was his place of departure, which could be considered the rear, but also because there was his fuel, airfield, ammunition depot, food...... But he was now only a few dozen miles away from Ulan-Ude, and if he didn't hurry forward and take that place, the Japanese would not even leave them with a place to keep warm. Although the Soviets were not afraid of the cold, they wanted a place to live and heat. But. Before they reached Ulan-Ude, there were still several Japanese lines in between. Originally, they had easily broken through many formal defense lines of the Japanese army, and they didn't pay much attention to these enemies, but after really trying to attack twice, they found that this time the defense line was not the same as before. In front of them, there were at least more than 100,000 Japanese troops. That is to say, even if they launch it in full force, they will not want to attack Ulan-Ude in a short time, and the Japanese will have enough time to destroy all of Ulan-Ude.

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"The Soviet side has already made demands on us, asking us to be ready to take Timoshenko."

Cullen.

Mao Zedong's entire body was shrunk under a thick woolen coat, and he lit a half-burned cigarette in his hand as usual...... His tone was a little heavy, though. No way. Now everyone can see that Timoshenko's defeat is assured...... Moving on, even if he can break the Japanese defenses, Ulan-Ude will not leave anything for him. And if Timoshenko insisted on beating Ulan-Ude and kept attacking Chita, then Irkutsk would have been lost. In that case, without the replenishment of fuel, ammunition and other heavy baggage in the rear, the so-called mechanized troops will become complete infantry. With 200,000 infantry to attack nearly a million enemies, even if the Soviet Red Army could fight again, it would definitely be a failure. Moreover, they have not yet carried a burden. And what if Timoshenko turned around and went to rescue Irkutsk? That's even more dead. Because the Japanese will definitely follow him, step by step. When the time comes, the Soviet "rebels" who came out of the labor camp will join forces to blockade Irkutsk, and all 200,000 people of Timoshenko will starve to death by starvation.

"Striding back, the wall clears...... This trick of the Japanese is not difficult to guess. I really don't know why so many people were optimistic about Temoshenge in the first place? Aren't these all common tricks? Wang Jiaxiang felt incomprehensible. Timoshenko was defeated like this, and he failed before he even had much to fight the Japanese...... This is surprising and natural.

"The defeat of the Soviet Union this time was due to the countless labor camps, to the high-pressure policies they had implemented, and to the 'Great Purge' which had preceded them with almost no distinction! Otherwise, with a stable and stable rear, how could Timoshenko fall to the point where he is today? Zhang Wentian said indignantly.

"Now is not the time to talk about this, the biggest question now is how we should respond to Temoshenge." Zhu De has not been back since he was sent to Kulun by the Kuomintang Air Force last time, but Peng Dehuai, Zuo Quan and others who were with him have already left, but this time they did not take a plane, and General Peng, who was "on a horizontal sword", rode away this time.

"It's not our philistine, I think, there is not enough price, we should not pay attention to Timoshenko. After all, when they withdraw, our pressure is not ordinary. Peng Zhen said in the back.

"The 6th and 8th Divisions of the Outer Mongolian Cavalry, which were originally led by Choibalshan, will be placed under our command. Such conditions were on the part of the USSR. Yang Shangkun said.

"No, we're not calling Huazi. If you want to receive it, at least you must hand over all their equipment to our army! Jude slapped the table. (To be continued......)