All the troops that broke into the territory of the Russian army withdrew, which made the bearded man scratch his head and couldn't contact Zhukov, which made his heart fall to the bottom, but at this time he didn't care about anything else, the country's war machine was activated, and he wanted to fight to the death with the advance army to define the victory or defeat of this war.

The army, marching quickly in an urgent order, converged on the Ural Military District and the Central Asian Military District. People on both sides of the highway are weaving, and there is a constant flow of traffic on the road. The railway, a stream of fog connects the heavens and the earth, and the trains are connected end to end.

The actions of the Russian army have made the surrounding countries nervous, how can the movement of the army be covered?

While all countries were nervous, they also smelled that the Russian army was going to make a big move, and they knew that they were going to have a fierce collision with the advance army.

Many well-intentioned people began to approach the advance army and Mongolia in various ways, trying to get first-hand information about the battle between the advance army and the Russian army.

However, these people are now unable to enter Heilongjiang and Mongolia, which are currently under military control, and personnel from any country are not allowed to enter, they can leave, but refuse to enter again.

As a result, many people who are already in the territory are afraid to leave, but they are unable to collect information in the territory, and their movement is restricted. Although beautiful and grounded, you can't go anywhere.

As a result, these people in the territory, whether it is Heilongjiang or Mongolia, began to turn their attention to the people, digging out those who could help gather information.

After nearly a year of Mongol administration, those princes and nobles who wanted to establish themselves as kings, under the strong pressure of the advance army, all acquiesced in the fact that the advance army controlled Mongolia. During the year, their cattle and sheep sold very well, although the grazing area was limited and nomadic herding was not allowed. The policy of rotational grazing was adopted, but they settled down, and they also had arable land, and they never had to worry about food.

For the common people, no matter which country or which nationality. It is enough to be fed, not to be war-torn, and the situation to be stable, and the people take food as the sky, which is fully reflected at this moment. Therefore, there are fewer and fewer people who have ideas, except for some who have faith, and are still doing espionage work. But it could not pass on the news out of the country, so that the movements in Mongolia and Heilongjiang were little known.

Of course, Dong Ku knew the importance of information warfare and spy warfare, and he had already arranged for Liu Hai to start security work in the territory, and in addition to air defense, he was more trained in plainclothes and hid in the civilian population to collect traces of hidden spies. It also makes the internal environment of Heilongjiang and Mongolia extremely stable.

More crucially, he gave the electronics scientists a research plan for instrumental tracking of messages, which had been developed several months earlier. And after testing and improvement, it has been put into production and use.

In this way, those non-registered radio stations in the private sector will be found in a very short period of time, as long as they send a message, and a large number of hidden people will be arrested. Countries lose contact with these people for no reason, but they can't find a reason.

Coupled with the improvement of the quality of life and the stability of life, the people also have a sense of belonging. Especially in Heilongjiang, those aborigines were ravaged by the Japanese. Now that there is plenty of food and clothing, they are extremely repulsive to those who want to destroy the life here, so it is difficult for those who infiltrate to find targets and opportunities to attack.

Because of this, the bearded man had no news at all at this time, so he could only arrange his troops and prepare for the attack according to the plan he had formulated.

He could not contact Zhukov here, the army was urgently transferred, tanks and artillery were flowing on the road, and when he was preparing for a decisive battle, although Zhukov was camped, the vanguard marched to Bratsk overnight, and in the middle of the night, arrived in Bratsk.

When the vanguard arrived at Bratsk, they learned that the enemy had withdrawn, so they found a radio station in the town, and the cavalry hurried to the ground, sending it to Zhukov before dawn.

With the radio, although it was only a fifteen-watt low-power radio, Zhukov was already ecstatic, urgently sent a telegram, understood the situation, and hoped to be able to contact a certain radio station and relay the message to Lu.

His luck was not bad, there was more than one radio station in the Baikal region, which allowed him to learn that the army was gone, but the enemy was withdrawing.

The enemy withdraws from the city?

Zhukov was equally puzzled by this news, and he did not know why this was the case, but one thing was certain, the enemy had withdrawn from the territory on all fronts, except for Novosibirsk, and along the Sayan Ridge.

After the telegram was repeated, he contacted Musk, and although it was a forwarded message, he could already see that the bearded man had murderous intentions against him.

The bearded man's wording was very tactful, telling him to gather his troops quickly, gather along the line to Bejirhu, and prepare for a big battle, but he did not explain how to fight and what the plan was, which was absolutely abnormal, after all, he was the general of the unified army, even if it was a telegram, he should not say a word, at least tell him what he should do, even if it is based on confidentiality considerations.

And if you don't say anything, you undoubtedly let yourself explain and don't understand, and when you are about to attack, you just need to obey the order to attack, and if you don't attack, you will definitely die, and if you attack, you will not escape death. That's how Zhukov felt.

But he had no choice, hundreds of thousands of troops, countless baggage, were lost in his own hands, but he was defeated and retreated, defeated again and again, and achieved nothing.

He clutched the telegram, let out a long breath of turbidity, and ordered the herald to ride to Brask, with an elite escort regiment, to several villages and towns around there to collect food. He must prepare food for the army, or they will all starve to death in the snow.

When the herald left and the grain collection team began, his depressed mood was also relieved at this time.

For no other reason, yesterday the troops returned and brought back more than 10,000 people, as well as a lot of ammunition and food. After the enemy left the battlefield, they boldly returned to the battlefield, finding discarded food and ammunition in the snow along the way. It's not much, but it's better than nothing.

"Command, march to Belgaske!"

Zhukov shouted loudly.

Following his order, one by one, the soldiers, who had been frozen all night in the snow, stiffened their hands and feet, and their bodies were cold, and they drove towards Belgaske.

Zhukov marched very slowly, reaching Tulum only after dark, a hundred and ten kilometers from the nearest town.

The soldiers, one by one, were hungry and cold, and they were told that they could only eat half of their food. All the rest are centralized and distributed in a unified manner.

There are no goods in the stomach, and the soldiers can still walk in the cold snow? They didn't know that the rest of the road had been attacked and sacked by the advance army, otherwise. Panic will be uncontrollable.

Lao Maozi's tenacity is also fully reflected at this moment. Although the soldiers were hungry, they did not fall down in the cold, but the speed of the march was only fifty or sixty kilometers a day.

Zhukov was very worried that this situation would appear, and as soon as panic appeared, the army would immediately collapse and could no longer be controlled.

He summoned party members and let them take the lead. Eat less, and lead by example, walking in the middle of the team, eating and living with the soldiers, to avoid dissatisfaction.

But this also cannot avoid complaining, fortunately, the management of the Soviet and Russian troops has been on the right track, just a whisper, a small range of discussions. without causing a big uproar.

The moment he camped, he knew it. After dinner tonight, tomorrow is only enough food for one day. But there are still 100 kilometers, that is, he must have the grain ready tomorrow night.

He called in the lieutenant colonel who knew the roots. Dulevsky, let him lead two regiments to set off overnight, rush to Cheremkhovo on a hasty march, collect food in advance, and return to meet the army.

It would be nice if the food collected behind them would catch up with the army tomorrow night. And he didn't know how many roads there were, so he had to be prepared.

Dulev's driver, with specially allocated rations, with two regiments, without camping, left the army first and rushed to the destination.

At this time, Bratsk was in a mess. The troops who collected food did not have money, although after the help of the original managers here, saying that the country needs food, the troops need food, and the grain paid by everyone can be deducted from taxes next year or can receive relief in the spring, and the promise of receiving money did not make the people who are not rich buy it, they also have to spend the winter, and there is a long winter of four or five months, and they have to spend the spring famine, more than half a year before and after, so that they have no reserves at all, aren't they waiting to starve to death?

Each household took out a very small part of it, and did not dare to hand over all the small amount of grain in reserve.

In one day, in Bratsk, the grain collection team failed to raise even 3,000 catties of grain. This bit of food is placed in an army of hundreds of thousands, and it is like a drizzle, and it is difficult to drink porridge.

There are party members and public officials with political axes, their families do not farm, and they have less grain in stock, although they have not been searched by the advance army, but it is obviously not easy to survive the winter. So they told the people who were going to starve together about the fact that the households still had grain in stock and bags of potatoes.

None of these soldiers are doing it. They are desperately working on the front line, isn't it just to protect their families and defend the country? Who is in their own interest? When the army is in difficulty, the common people still have selfishness, how can they stand it?

The contradictions, at first, were suppressed by the officers of the troops, and did not cause much commotion. As it gets dark and there is very little food to collect, this mood becomes more and more uncontrollable.

"Isn't it that they don't give them money, and the political axe gives them tax-free, and they still hide it, so that we can defend them with hunger?"

"Could it be that we are starving to death, and when the enemy comes, their food will be saved?!"

This sentiment spread rapidly, and the captain who collected the food also felt that the common people were not doing the right thing. You are starving, and you can still look for food near your home, but they have to go to the battlefield desperately, where can they find food?

But he still controlled the local officials in Calais, and after consultation, they finally decided on a plan to beat the white strips, forcibly expropriate them from house to house, leave the white strips, and take away most of the grain, leaving only a small amount for them to survive the cold winter.

As a result, chickens and dogs jumped in the villages and towns, and the soldiers began to forcibly recruit from house to house, and the local officials kept explaining that for the sake of the country, the troops could not fight with a hungry stomach, and that they should not let the troops go to the ice to find a way to solve the problem of food while enjoying peace at home.

The common people understand, but it is difficult to accept. After all, it's about whether you can survive until the beginning of spring and whether you can survive the long winter. But no one resisted excessively, and the soldiers turned over the potatoes, grain, and wine from the house, leaving a small bare of the rest, and the rest of the records were made and laid white.

There will definitely be quarrels, but most of them choose to believe that the white strip will be honored, and they are powerless to resist, so they can only be submissive.

The same was true of several other villages and towns, which began to be forcibly requisitioned after the signal corps conveyed the order to forcibly requisition. Fortunately, there are local officials, and it is inevitable for the people to complain, but there is nothing to be done. Anyway, there's still a white stripe, isn't it?

There are even officials who take out their own savings to pay for the requisition, so that the common people have nothing to say, knowing that the troops are in difficulty, they endured this breath, cursed in their hearts, and thought about the way to survive the winter.

There were only a few large villages and towns near Bratsk, but the troops were able to collect seven or eight tons of grain, a large amount of potatoes, wine, and, of course, salt.

The troops collecting grain did not stay long, pulling the climbing plough and driving the horses to climb the plow overnight, chasing the army. They all belong to the lineage, and the army of Zhilu Dao has no food, and it would be good to be able to stay up until dark tomorrow. Therefore, they did not dare to stay and hurried away.

Their departure left behind a lot of complaints in the villages and towns, and it was left to the officials how to explain it, although it was not out of control, but it was also emotional.

Zhukov didn't know about the situation, in fact, even if he did, he would acquiesce.

The army, without food, that's a joke, how can you fight? Without the enemy's attack, he starved to death.

But he was able to foresee the troubles in the collection, and he sent all the descendants, and did not let the local officials collect the grain first, because he was afraid that if the wind blew, the civilians would hide the grain, and the army would really not be able to hold out until the war, or that it would not be able to fight.

Fortunately, today's communications are not developed, and the telephone lines have been cut by the advance army, so there is no news from these villages and towns that have been forcibly requisitioned and full of gloom, otherwise, the hidden grain all over the mountains will become the most urgent thing at present.

At this time, in the mountains and forests near these villages and towns, a pair of eyes were staring at the marching grain army and the horses climbing the plows.

The message, with it, flew out and flew into the night sky.

Charlan, after reading the message, the dog said with a smile: "Xing Yuan should be happy." ”

Dong Ku took the telegram and looked at it and smiled, handed the telegram to Zuo Boyang casually and said, "Do you want to rob it?" ”

"Of course I robbed it!"

Zuo Boyang didn't feel a little guilty or uneasy, he smiled and said: "There is not much time, we estimate that there are three days at most, so the Russian army's collection will reach the maximum tomorrow, and the team that set off overnight should be the front station to collect food, and we must help them enter the play as soon as possible!" (To be continued......)