Chapter 786: The beginning of the battle

In an air battle at the Kazadeu Pass, the aviation of the Independent Division, at a very small cost, killed all the bombers of the 9th Flying Division of the Far Eastern Military District of the Soviet Army, and the First Army of the Soviet Far East lost its iron fist in the air, bringing immeasurable losses to the follow-up operations.

Lieutenant General Zhukov, commander and political commissar of the group army, was extremely angry, this is not a natural disaster or how powerful the air force of the squadron is, it is completely a heavy loss caused by **, Major General Yurychenko, the commander of the flying division, is the culprit, if it were not for this stupid and arrogant hún egg, discounting the commander's order, there would be no loss at all, and it would have caused heavy damage to the Chinese Air Force.

Major General Yurichenko, who had been relieved of his post, was sitting in front of a group of senior generals at the headquarters of the group army, his face no longer had his usual look, Zhukov looked at it coldly, and defeated Yurichenko, who was like a public servant, couldn't help but mō the gun on his waist several times, wanting to shoot this hún egg.

The management system of the Soviet army, between the various branches of the army, implements jiāo fork management, or multiple management, for example, the Ninth Hún Flying Division, although it is assigned to the battle sequence of the First Army, the direct superior of the division is Yakovsky, the commander of the Air Force Command of the Soviet Far East Military District, perhaps because of this, Yurychenko has the courage to greatly discount Zhukov's order and perfunctory.

Therefore, although Zhukov was eager to "burst" this hún egg with the Luàn gun, he could not ignore this system, deal with Yurichenko, and also need to report to the Air Force Command of the Military District, and the Air Force Commander, Lieutenant General Yakovsky, is a mortal enemy with Zhukov, and if he is the commander of the infantry division under his command, he will have been shot long ago, and he can also clear some hidden dangers for the Red Army.

Zhukov, who was busy directing troops to enter the Kazadeu Pass, did not have any extra time, and he handed over the matter to the chief of staff of the group army, and talked to the commander of the Air Force, Lieutenant General Yakovsky, which really gave Zhukov a headache.

A day later, the Air Force Command of the Far Eastern Military District sent a telegram back, asking the First Army to escort the division commander Yurychenko back to the Air Force Headquarters of the Military Region so that they could handle the matter.

Looking at the face of Comrade Commander Tie Qing, the chief of staff cautiously asked: "Comrade Commander, how should we reply to the telegram from the Air Force Command?" Zhukov said: "If you agree to the request of the Air Force Command of the Military District, you can send someone to escort Yurychenko back to the Military District." ”

The chief of staff turned to leave, but Zhukov stopped him again, and squeezed out a few words viciously from his throat: "Just say that it is my order, take off the military uniform on that hún egg, he is not worthy of wearing the military uniform of the great Soviet Red Army, find a piece of NV clothes, order him to wear it, and go to his boss like this." ”

Because Zhukov couldn't deal with it with his own hands, this hún egg who had caused huge losses to the Red Army, but he wouldn't let him go lightly, he couldn't destroy you on the ròu body, and tortured you on the jīng god, and he always had to let out this evil breath in his heart, otherwise, he was worried that he would have a heart attack, and the chief of staff was dumbfounded when he heard it, and looked at the comrade commander carefully for a while, only to realize that this was not something he said casually, but absolutely serious, and he didn't dare to say more, so he hurriedly went to do it.

A competent commander will not affect his grasp and understanding of the overall battle situation because of a single defeat, he does not expect the Air Force to do anything bigger, and the 200,000 mechanized troops in his hands are his biggest reliance and trump card.

In addition to ordering the troops to speed up the march, he also sent a telegram to the commander of the unit who was moving south to Kulen from the direction of Ulan-Ude and containing Tang Qiuli's main force, asking him to be cautious, the speed of the troops' advance should not be too fast, once the squadron is under fire, the position must be contracted, the troops must not be dispersed, and the general principle is to seek stability, with the first goal of holding back the main force of the squadron.

Zhukov has broken down and pondered a series of battles in the ancient region of Outer Méng for Tang Qiuli, and the more he studies it, the more he is more and more afraid of Tang Qiuli's military talent and the combat effectiveness of the squadron, this is not the squadron ** team in his impression, as if it is a re-tempered Chinese, he is afraid that the troops who are in charge of the task of containment will fall into Tang Qiuli's trap and repeat the mistakes of the Far Eastern Special Army in the Hujirt Mountains, and he knows too well the plain habits and mentality of the senior generals of the Red Army today.

The First Army in the Far East advanced fast enough, all mechanized marches, under normal circumstances, it can advance more than 100 kilometers a day, but the poor road conditions in the Tangnu Mountains limit the speed of the march, and there are unknown militants who appear at any time, mines that explode on the roads at any time, and bullets on the slopes on both sides of the mountains have greatly affected the marching speed of the Soviet army.

The senior officers in the headquarters of the group army are speculating about the identity of these militants who attacked the troops, and there are different opinions, and they are more focused on the sī people who were suppressed by Choibalsan, and without the help of the Red Army, Choibalshan and the Méng ancient people's ** party would not have such a big deal, and it is reasonable to hate the Soviet army.

Only Zhukov understood in his heart that it was not at all a miscellaneous armed force of the Outer Ménggu, these were small regular troops of the Chinese, and they were interference troops sent by Tang Qiuli to slow down their march, and this can be clearly judged from their combat methods and weapons used.

This is the trick of which Chinese general Tang Qiuli, the purpose is to disperse the forces of the Red Army, to reduce the pressure on the squadron defending the Kazadeu Pass, from Sinusk to the Kazadeu Pass, stretching for nearly 1,000 kilometers, according to the frequency of the infestation of small and medium-sized troops, if the troops are divided to pursue and suppress, when they reach the destination, the main force of the group army will be divided into half of the troops, not to mention, mechanized troops, not to mention that the mechanized troops are not suitable for mountain operations at all.

Zhukov deserves to be a famous general in the Soviet army, he saw through Tang Qiuli's strategy, not to be fooled, Tang Qiuli ordered the purpose of the special operations detachment to attack frequently, as Zhukov judged, to delay the Soviet army's marching speed, thin the forces attacking the Kazadeu Pass, and reduce the pressure on Feng Jiwu's troops.

The main forces of the 1st Army of the Soviet Far East, in accordance with the orders of the commander Lieutenant General Zhukov, advanced to the Kazadeu Pass regardless of a single qiē, and when they encountered a small armed attack, they simply ignored it, or concentrated tank artillery fire, carried out rapid mobile artillery bombardment, drove away, and encountered the damaged bridge, and the engineering units quickly repaired it, without affecting the speed of the march.

In front of the marching troops, there were a large number of demining tanks, and most of the mines planted by the special operations detachments along the way were cleared, so that the attack and harassment tactics of the special operations detachments soon lost their effectiveness, and the Soviet troops had too many troops, and the armored force was strong, and without mines, the lethal effect on the Soviet troops was immediately reduced to a negligible level.

The special operations detachment could not get close to the attack at all, and the detachment of only more than 200 people, once entangled, would soon disappear into the torrent of Soviet armor, and the tanks that could arrive quickly at any time were also a mortal threat to the special operations detachment, and the dozen or so special operations detachments without heavy weapons and anti-tank guns were simply helpless.

If you look along the north side of the Tangnu Mountains, in August 1938 in the ancient area of Waiméng, a large mechanized unit of the Soviet Army, like a stream of iron, along the winding Tangnu Mountains, quickly advanced to the east, and more than a dozen small units of the squadron, like small pebbles that are not afraid of death, constantly rushed towards this iron flow, were bounced back again and again, and then pounced again, this iron flow occasionally paused slightly, and then immediately began to flow rapidly.

Even so, more than a dozen special operations detachments, with their tenacious fighting spirit and flexible tactics, succeeded in delaying the main force of the First Army of the Soviet Far East for 48 hours after paying an extremely slight price of casualties.

Five days later, the sun had set, the evening breeze brought a hint of autumn coolness, on the savannah desert, the roar of the engine rang out, the lights illuminated half of the sky, and the only trace of sunset was also lost, the vanguard of the 1st Far Eastern Group, the 5th Motorized Guards Division, arrived on the periphery of the Kazadeu Pass, stopped at a distance of five kilometers from the pass, and waited for the order of the army group headquarters.

The Soviet army finally arrived at the destination, Feng Jiwu immediately ordered all the troops of the first line of blocking the defense line to enter the combat state, the equipment of the Soviet army, so that he was secretly frightened, just the day before yesterday, he also sent a telegram to the division commander Tang Qiu, asking to put the vanguard of the Soviet army in like blocking the Japanese devils in the country, and then block the front and rear passages, first eat the surrounded Soviet army, and then block its follow-up troops.

Tang Qiuli replied to the telegram and simply denied his battle plan, and sternly warned him that the equipment level of the Soviet army and the Japanese army was not at the same level, and the way of fighting the Japanese army would not work at all in the Soviet army.

Feng Jiwu, who received the order, was still a little uncomfortable at that time, but now he saw the tanks and armored vehicles parked on the grassland, and a ménmén large-caliber artillery, he understood the intention of the division commander, put the Soviet army in, with the equipment level of his own troops, the terrain conditions here, can it resist a large-scale armored cluster assault?

It must not be, the positions of the troops blocking the front and rear will be broken through all of a sudden, that is self-destruction, Feng Jiwu understood what the division commander meant by preparing to be shelled.

As he was thinking about it, there was a thunderclap in the night sky, and countless cannonballs, with dark red tail flames, fell fiercely on his position.