Episode 151 The wolf pack battle begins

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The Ming army engineers built several "barrages" on the Raztorinaya River one after another. Within a few days of these "barrages" being built, a large number of floating corpses had accumulated on the Raztorinaa River, dozens or hundreds of corpses soaked there and rotted, and the river water was stinking and stinking and full of maggots and maggots when they went downstream to the sea, and a large number of fish floated up and died with their stomachs turned up.

However, in the middle and upper reaches of the Ming army-controlled area, the river water is not polluted, and the water quality is still very clear. There is nothing wrong with the Ming army taking water from the river to purify it.

But on the contrary, in the Soviet-controlled zone downstream near the mouth of the sea, the epidemic spread again. Cholera, E. coli poisoning, parasites...... Soviet soldiers began to vomit and diarrhea on a large scale, and even the Soviet citizens of Vladivostok suffered with it.

At the same time, the Ming army's bombardment of Vladivostok continued day and night. During the day, precision bombing is carried out, and at night bombing is carried out using the sea of fire bombed during the day as a marker, and bombs continue to be dropped into the sea of fire. Vladivostok became a sea of fire.

Since the beginning of October, the Soviet army has taken advantage of the opportunity of the Ming army's transfer of all the elite main forces to Northeast Asia, gathered the forces of the Central Asian border military districts, and seized the opportunity to launch a fierce offensive in the Central Asian theater, hoping to regain its superiority in another battlefield. However, the Ming army still left the elite strength of ten armored divisions of the People's Guard on the Western Front, with these ten armored divisions as the backbone, and the Ming army still has about 500,000 troops here. Now the front line in Central Asia has reached the west of Gansu, and it is more than 1,600 kilometers from Almaty, the stronghold of the Soviet army's offensive. These 1,600 kilometers have no railway, the climate is harsh, the water source is scarce, the wind and sand cover the sky and the sun, and it is difficult to replenish the sun.

What's more, the 1,600 kilometers along the route are all Muslim-populated areas, and are a land full of hatred for the Soviet army. The locals did everything possible to attack the supply lines of the Soviet army, and the guerrilla forces rose one after another. Moreover, the locals hated the Soviet army on the one hand, and fanatical about their religious beliefs on the other, and they were not at all like sheep in the Northern Qing Dynasty. These Muslims are fierce and resistant, and they are not afraid of death. The Soviet army wanted to suppress the situation and ensure that its supply line of more than 1,000 kilometers was basically not a major incident, and the troops and costs spent were unimaginably high.

Under these circumstances, with this 1,600-kilometer long supply line full of hatred and resistance, it is no longer possible for anyone with superior forces to prevail. Although the Ming army drained the elite forces, the Central Asian front still did not change much. The Soviets are still at the end of their crossbow fight. The difference is that it was a tug-of-war between the two sides before, the Soviet army fought from eastern Xinjiang to western Henan, and then the Ming army fought from western Henan to eastern Xinjiang......

Now, it's just that the front is stable in western Henan. It was almost in the Dunhuang-Yumen area where things swayed slightly, and the battle line was tug-of-war on a small scale.

But on the contrary, the Ming army has been advancing in the Northeast Asian battlefield. The victory pattern in the early stage of the Unification War seems to have been replicated again: the two flanks of the Ming Army's mechanized corps break through - the central encirclement - annihilate a large number of captured Soviet troops - continue to break through - the central encirclement - annihilate a large number of captured Soviet troops......

Only on October 16, just 20 days after the start of the Eastern Front campaign, the Ming Army's Eastern Army Group had basically controlled all the land east of the Ussuri River except Vladivostok, and the Northern Army Group also controlled almost all the land north of Heilongjiang and east of the Jieya River.

But the two army groups had not yet joined together. What prevented them from joining together was the Heilongjiang River, to be precise, the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River, which flowed through the Soviet Union, and was called the Amur River in Russian. The second is the area of the Khabarovsk-Komsomolsk line, which the Soviet troops are still holding onto. This narrow Soviet-controlled area was juxtaposed with the Amur River and gathered most of the main forces of the Soviet Red Banner Corps in the Far East. The headquarters of the Red Banner Corps in the Far East was located in the city of Khabarovsk. When the two army groups of the Ming army hit here, they encountered the fiercest resistance and were unable to meet for a while.

However, excluding the two small Soviet-controlled areas of Vladivostok and Khabarovsk-Komsomolsk, the area that the Ming army has taken is already very vast, and it can be said that it is as big as a northern Xinjiang, or even more. The Ming army's offensive plan before the winter of 37 has now been almost a quarter completed in terms of area.

Although the area of the Khabarovsk-Komsomolsk line was much larger than the Soviet-controlled area in Vladivostok, the Ming army was confident in this narrow strip. The main reason is that it is not a large fortress that has been in operation for decades like Vladivostok. The length of the Khabarovsk-Komsomolsk line is more than 300 kilometers, but the width is very small, at its widest point it is only more than 50 kilometers. The narrowest point was only a few kilometers, and the Ming army could hit it with a single shell.

Moreover, this control area is basically on both sides of the Amur River, and the two sides of the river are flat and can be defended. Now the reason why the Soviet army can barely withstand it is purely relying on human lives. Nearly half of the troops, artillery, and tanks of the Soviet Far Eastern Red Banner Army are now besieged in this narrow strip. And if the Ming army wanted to push in, it would be more difficult.

The Ming Cabinet has made a preliminary decision to set up the "Free Russia" government here after the capture of Khabarovsk. First, the team was set up, the brand was played, and then it began to fulfill its mission: to recruit troops internally, and to buy weapons and equipment from all over the world.

The war on land was in full swing, and the war at sea was also intensifying. In this half month, the "wolf pack battle" expected by Xiang Xiaoqiang came ahead of schedule.

Because the Ming army fought a large-scale war against the Soviet Union in the northeast and besieged Vladivostok, Japan, as the Ming Dynasty thought, began to rely on its maritime superiority and the absolute sea supremacy of the honor guard in the Sea of Japan to send supplies to the Soviet army by sea. Of course, Japan is not a fool, and apart from the current situation in which the Soviet Union and Japan are "dependent on each other" in Northeast Asia, the things it has provided are not in vain. At this time, the Soviet Union showed unprecedented generosity - every shipload of supplies was paid in cash, and not in rubles, but in "high-quality currencies" such as gold, dollars, and pounds.

The stronger the Ming army's offensive, the more prosperous the business between the two countries became. Japan shipped cargo ships to Vladivostok one by one, and the Soviet Union also sent money to Japan in Swiss banks one by one. Because the air supremacy on the Northeast Asian continent was in the hands of the Ming army, the Japanese cargo ships did not dare to go any further when they were transported dozens of nautical miles from the coastline, but gathered and formed a fleet, and at night they increased their horsepower together, and sailed the last few dozen nautical miles in one night and drove into Vladivostok.

The Ming army planned to use it immediately after taking Vladivostok, so they very much did not want all the cargo ships to sink in the port. In this way, for a long time, the port was abandoned. The Ming planes were ordered not to attack the ships anchored in the harbor as much as possible, but only to attack the cargo ships at sea, close to the Vladivostok area. In this way, the Japanese cargo ships entered the port at night, and the planes of the Ming army immediately lost a lot of targets during the day.

At this time, submarines came in handy. At night, it is also the right time for submarines to show their skills. The behavior of the Japanese cargo ships in "assembling a fleet" is also in line with Xiang Xiaoqiang's "wolf pack tactics" -- cluster to cluster, and "submarine groups" to deal with "cargo ship groups".

Just in mid-October, the large-scale submarine "wolf pack war" kicked off in the Sea of Japan.