Chapter 784: Blocking the Kazadeu Pass

Tang Qiuli was ready to fight with the Soviet army again, but because of his opponent, Lieutenant General Zhukov, commander and political commissar of the First Army of the Soviet Far East, he changed the fixed fighting style of the Soviet army, and the surprise army mainly attacked Feng Jiwu's troops in the western region of the ancient country.

Not only that, Zhukov's hand also put Feng Jiwu's more than 90,000 troops into an extremely dangerous situation, and the key point of the battle fell on the main force of the Soviet army led by Zhukov, whether it could follow the Tangnu Mountains and enter the only hole in the ancient west of the outer Méng, the Kazadeu Pass, and Feng Jiwu's troops, whether they could block the main force of the Soviet army for five days.

Before the division commander gave the order, Feng Jiwu had already led the troops of two brigades to set off in advance, winning precious ten hours, and after the troops rested for a while, Feng Jiwu ordered to build fortifications overnight, dig more and dig deep anti-artillery dòng, and the blocking troops were arranged in echelons, along more than 20 kilometers of mountain roads, forming several blocking lines.

According to Feng Jiwu's prediction, on each blocking line, put a brigade of troops, can block one day, nine brigades is nine days, and then discount, seven days is very certain, moreover, he does not want to fight the troops on each blocking line, as long as they hold on for a day, the blocking troops can retreat to the next blocking position, the strength is the superimposed effect, and finally, concentrate all the troops and block the exit to death.

At dawn, several other brigades arrived one after another, and immediately joined the operation of building a blocking position, and throughout the day, the troops were busy building fortifications and establishing firing points, and at the same time, Feng Jiwu also continued to receive information about the First Army of the Soviet Far East from the division commander.

As a general with a high level of tactical literacy, Zhukov knew that the Kazadeu Pass, for the Soviet troops to enter the outer Méng ancient western region, to complete the strategic deployment of the important xìng, before the main force set off from Minusinsk, he sent a regiment of troops, ahead of the large army, the purpose is to open the way for the main force and find out the situation along the way, the main thing is to seize the Kazadeu Pass first, and ensure that the main force of the group army is smooth to Guò.

Not long after leaving Minusinsk, the Soviet troops of this mechanized regiment were suddenly attacked by the ninth detachment of the special operations detachment at a mountain pass, and the mines on the road exploded one after another, and the armored vehicles and trucks of a company of the vanguard unit turned into a raging fireball.

The Soviet vanguard regiment, which had been two days ahead of the main force of the group army, had no choice but to push aside the burning vehicles, send a few trucks to send the wounded back, and then march towards the Kazadeu Pass.

After one attack after another, this Soviet vanguard regiment has been basically disabled, and fortunately, the special operations detachment is not equipped with mortars and other artillery, otherwise, the Soviet troops of this regiment will be completely reimbursed, and by the time the main force of the First Army in the Far East set off from Minusinsk, this regiment has less than one battalion of troops and more than a dozen tanks and cars left.

Zhukov, who received the report, immediately realized that the Chinese had already realized their plan, and the sāo disturbance along the way was to delay the advance of the Red Army and buy time for them to adjust their deployment, and the Chinese had understood where their main attack direction was, and the Kazadeu Pass must be a key area for the defense of the squadron.

However, Zhukov is not worried, judging from the distance, Tang Qiuli's main force in the area of Hangai Mountain is unlikely to be in front of him in any case, occupy the Kazadeu Pass, where can the squadron ** defend the troops, there will not be many troops, even so, Zhukov will not let the Chinese calmly arrange defensive positions in the Kazadeu Pass.

He ordered the subordinate air force to immediately dispatch bombers to bomb the squadron in the vicinity of the Kazadeu Pass, and the bombing time should continue until the main force of the group army arrived in the area.

The next morning, the soldiers were working energetically, the anti-aircraft whistle fired a warning shot, the troops had just entered the half-finished anti-aircraft guns, and a large group of Soviet bombers swarmed to both sides of the pass of the Kazadeu Pass, carrying out carpet indiscriminate bombardment.

The soldiers hiding in the anti-artillery dòng looked at the Soviet bombers with gritted teeth, and the results of their hard work for a day and a night turned into piles of ruins in the blink of an eye, and the Soviet bombers flew away triumphantly, because they were discovered early, the casualties of the soldiers were not large, and the blocking positions were bombed beyond recognition.

Feng Jiwu was very troubled, the Soviets had already discovered the troops, and they would not let themselves build fortifications in peace and stability, there were no strong fortifications, and blocking the 200,000 Soviet troops was an empty word, he only hated that his troops did not have too many air defense weapons, there was only one air defense battalion in each brigade, and there were very few high-altitude guns, so he had to report the situation to the division commander Tang Qiuli.

At this time, Tang Qiuli was on the front line of Hangai Mountain, preparing a big pocket for the 120,000 Soviet troops coming from the direction of Ulan-Ude, and received a telegram from Feng Jiwu, he was really in trouble, and the current shape shì, no matter which direction he increased his troops to the Kazadeu Pass, it was impossible to catch up with Zhukov, Feng Jiwu's troops were bombed, which also shows that Zhukov was aware of the squadron in that area, and the intention was to block the passage into the western region of the outer Méng.

This Zhukov is not simple, the Soviet troops from the direction of Ulan-Ude are progressing very slowly, and they don't seem to be in a hurry to attack Kulen, which is part of Zhukov's overall plan, attracting his main army in this direction, unable to reinforce Feng Jiwu's troops, and this is indeed the case, if Tang Qiuli commands the directly subordinate corps and advances west to the area around the Kazad U Pass, the Soviet army that comes from Ulan-Ude and makes a feint attack will immediately attack Kulen, and Feng Jiwu's troops in the eastern part of the outer méng area, Soon there will be a fierce attack by the Soviet troops with superior forces.

False tricks, this hand, he seized the opportunity, Zhukov inside and outside did not suffer, Tang Qiuli can provide reinforcements to Feng Jiwu's troops, only Le Yiqin's aviation, but he has to face more than twice the air power of the Soviet army, knowing the danger, Tang Qiuli also had to give Le Yiqin an order to ensure that Feng Jiwu's troops in the area of the Kazadeu Pass, the construction of blocking positions is carried out normally.

As for how to fight, Feng Jiwu and Le Yiqin discussed it, and Feng Jiwu, who received the telegram, was very happy; with the cooperation of the planes, he was confident that he would inflict a big loss on the Soviet bomber group; that night, he ordered all the air defense battalions of each brigade to concentrate in two areas, and organized all the light and heavy machine guns of the troops into several hundred anti-air firing groups, and even the anti-tank gun detachments of each brigade were also used to attack the anti-air bombers.

In one night, the high ground on both sides of the Kazadeu Pass was turned into an anti-aircraft firepower network covering the area, and the two anti-air observation groups that were dispatched yesterday, carrying the "Sky Eye" radar, extended the early warning range to several hundred kilometers away, and they were all ready, just waiting for the Soviet bomber group to come.

In the morning, before the sun rose on the grassland, Feng Jiwu came to the highest peak, staring at the direction where the Soviet bombers came yesterday, at eight o'clock in the morning, the Soviet bombers still did not move, he was secretly anxious, 168 fighters of the Le Yiqin Air Force were already at the Erenhot field airfield, ready to go, just waiting for their news, if the Soviet bombers did not come, it would be in vain all night's hard work.

At about nine o'clock, a call sign came from the radio, and the air observation group reported, "The corps headquarters, the Soviet bomber group, has risen from the direction of Minusinsk, and the number has increased compared with yesterday, and it is suspected that there is an escort fighter group," Feng Jiwu was stunned, there were no fighter planes yesterday, and the matter has come to this point, anyway, the Soviets have to fight any planes, otherwise, the troops will not be able to carry out construction.

He immediately reported the intelligence to the commander of the air force, Le Yiqin, and reminded: "Commander Le, the Soviet bomber group has taken off, pay attention, there are an unknown number of fighters escorting the escort," Le Yiqin did not care much, fighters escort bombers, this is the practice of the air forces of various countries, what he was worried about was that the flight from the Erenhot field airfield to the Kazadeu Pass, the flight range was too long, even if he carried auxiliary fuel tanks, the time in the air could not exceed 40 minutes, and if he fought with Soviet fighters, the amount of fuel was a problem.

The fighter group took off on time, and during the flight, Le Yiqin changed its operational deployment, using more than 100 planes from nine brigades to deal with the Soviet fighters, and the rest of the fighters were responsible for attacking the Soviet bombers, and each group must end the battle within 35 minutes, and then immediately return to the plane, and must not pursue the returning Soviet planes. It's like hitting a Japanese plane.

The group of planes led by Le Yiqin was the entire force of the independent division aviation in front of them, and the Soviet fighters who had made a forced landing at Saiyinshanda had not yet formed their combat effectiveness, and they took off from the Erenhot field airfield and rushed to the combat airspace, almost diagonally through the entire territory of the outer Méng Gu, and it was also the longest-distance air combat since the formation of the air force, and the opponent was the Soviet air force that flew the air force of the independent division and the main model of the Japanese "Zero" aircraft.

When the Leyiqin group rushed to the operational airspace, more than 200 Soviet fighters and bombers were also rushing to the airspace of the Kazadeu Pass to carry out the bombing mission of the group army headquarters.