In the past few days since October 5, 1941, the life of Stalin, the supreme leader of the Soviet Union, has been quite depressed, and it can be said that he has been a little anxious.

Originally, Stalin thought that Tang Qiuli had gained the upper hand in the Second Outer Mongolian War, killing more than 500,000 of his troops, and that he had captured a large number Chinese Chinese of generals and lieutenant generals alone.

Unexpectedly, for many days, the reports received from various places were all bad news that constantly attacked them: "On 9 October, the western military town of Minusinsk was lost and occupied by the troops of the Independent Division, and on 12 October, Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude, and Barnaor were lost, and the army of the Independent Division swept away and took control of the area around Lake Baikal, and all the military strongholds of the Transcaucasian Military District in this area were uprooted. ”

In a certain sense, the Transcaucasian Military District has been completely wiped out, not only have more than 300,000 troops gone, but even the old nest has been swept away, and the number can be canceled, and Stalin has not yet come to his senses from Tang Qiuli's continuous heavy blows, and has received a report from the General Staff: "On 15 October, the independent division was directed to Liu Tiehan's headquarters in the east, and the strategic layout of the Soviet Union in the eastern part of the Outer Mongolian border was smashed. ”

"On 18 October, the main force of the independent division was more than 200,000 troops, and Chen soldiers were on the front line of Nebuchu, and it seemed that they had the intention of attacking our Far Eastern Front."

Stalin looked at these telegrams helplessly, powerlessly, and even with some fear, Tang Qiuli's troops went out of the border of Outer Mongolia like crazy, attacked from three directions, fought hard, and occupied. But it's all the territory of the Soviet Union!

If we look at the battlefield situation from the military map, the attacks of the independent divisions are distributed in a fan-shape, stretching from Minusinsk in the west to the vicinity of Chita in the east, with Lake Baikal as the center, drawing a complete arc, and all the local Soviet garrisons within the attack range, as well as various military points, have been uprooted without exception.

And Stalin was most worried. That is, the more than 200,000 independent divisions that advanced to the front line of Nebuchu, the Soviet Union was in the east, and there was only one military group of Zhukov's Far Eastern Front, if Tang Qiuli's troops really had the intention of attacking them. The cunning but powerful Japanese Kwantung Army would not let go of such a good opportunity. Will definitely take advantage of the opportunity. Under the attack from both sides, it will undoubtedly be a catastrophe for the Far Eastern Front.

Thinking of this, Stalin couldn't help but be angry at Tang Qiuli's greed and persecution, but he forgot about it. The two wars in Outer Mongolia before and after were provoked by themselves first, and if at this time, Tang Qiuli defeated Outer Mongolia. Driven back to the interior, Stalin would not have thought of anything too forced, or would have made inches of progress, but ridiculed the incompetence of the Chinese, the poverty and weakness of China, and then, the separatist forces in Outer Mongolia under the support of the Soviet Union had the possibility of troops entering Inner Mongolia.

Therefore, what Stalin is most worried about at the moment is that Zhukov's Far Eastern Front will be annihilated by Tang Qiuli and the Japanese Kwantung Army on both sides, and the Soviet Union will lose its last military group in the East.

It was at this time that Zhukov's telegram on the judgment of the military situation in the Far East was sent to his desk by Marshal Petroshilov, Chief of the General Staff.

After reading Zhukov's telegram, Stalin's face turned blue with anger, he slapped the table angrily, and roared angrily: "Confused, a martial artist, Zhukov doesn't understand politics, what he sees is only military problems, but he doesn't take into account that in the face of interests, there are no eternal enemies!" That's more than a million square kilometers, rich and vast land, who doesn't blush? ”

It is true that in Stalin's eyes, there are only eternal interests, no eternal friends, when Hitler's Germany entered Poland, Stalin hurriedly ordered the Soviet army to cross the Soviet-Polish border, taking advantage of the opportunity of Poland to be destroyed by the Germans, from the dying Poland, fiercely cut off a piece of meat, the Soviet army and the German army, when the division in Poland, the scene was quite enthusiastic!

Therefore, in the face of the seizure of more than one million square kilometers of land from China in the Asian part of the Soviet Union, Stalin absolutely believed that Tang Qiuli would be able to temporarily form an alliance with the feuding Japanese, kill Zhukov's Far Eastern Front, and carve up the territory in the hands of the Soviet Union.

After losing his temper, Stalin sat weakly in his chair, his eyes straightened, and there was no effective way to solve the imminent crisis, but there was one thing that Stalin knew very well that the Far East must not fall into the hands of Tang Qiuli or the Japanese, even if it was ......, even if the Soviet Union did not hesitate to fight a national war for this!

After a long time, Stalin said to Marshal Petroshilov with a gloomy gaze: "Comrade Petroshilov, call back to Zhukov immediately and tell that simple-minded guy, whether it is against the Chinese or the Japanese, do not have any illusions, be ready to face the battle, as long as he persists for four to six months under the joint attack of the Chinese and the Japanese, we will have a way to turn the tide of the war!" ”

In view of the situation in the Far East, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union held an emergency meeting in Moscow on 20 October, at which the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union made an important decision that would affect the outcome of the subsequent Soviet-German war: "In view of the stalemate in the European theater and the struggle between Germany and the British and American forces on the British Isles, there is no possibility of ending the war in a short period of time, at least, the war will not end until July and August 1942." ”

"For this reason, the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU decided that starting in November 1941, more than 4 million troops, as well as a large number of armored troops and air force, should be mobilized from the European direction and in several fronts originally used to guard the German army, so as to strengthen military control over the eastern region, and that all the troops mobilized must arrive at their designated positions by March 1942, and the targets of the battle are the troops of Tang Qiuli's Independent Division and the troops of the Japanese Kwantung Army."

Stalin gritted his teeth and made a ruthless determination, he would definitely wipe out all the Chinese and Japanese who coveted the territory of the Soviet Union in the East, solve the problem once and for all, and even enter Japan mainland and northeast China, it is not impossible, as for the Outer Mongolia region, it is not a problem, for this reason, Stalin did not hesitate to use his supreme authority, force to override public opinion, or rather, to go his own way, to pass this almost crazy resolution.

Under the order of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the huge military aircraft of the Soviet Union began to operate intensively, which was a fundamental change in the strategic direction of the Soviet Union, and even affected the final pattern of the Soviet-German war in the future.

Tang Qiuli did not expect, and never expected, that the limited military operation he carried out would be like stabbing a hornet's nest, and would cause such a fierce reaction from Stalin, who did not hesitate to change his strategic direction and take out more than 4 million elite army forces and a large number of aviation troops to deal with himself and the Japanese Kwantung Army.

As long as the Germans do not take action against the Soviets, he will not engage in a full-scale war with the Soviets, and the existing strength of the independent division is not enough to confront the Soviet Union's entire military strength, not to mention that the real mortal enemy is the Japanese, and it does not conform to his strategic concept of deterring the Soviet Union in the north and occupying Japan in the east.

However, because the tentacles of the intelligence system of the independent division have not yet touched too deep into the territory of the Soviet Union for the time being, we are still at a loss to know about Stalin's gambling resolution, let alone that more than 4 million elite Soviet troops have begun to assemble.

And then there are the Japanese, if they knew that because Tang Qiuli hurt Stalin and recruited more than 4 million Soviet troops, they would definitely hate Tang Qiuli to the core, and they would feel quite aggrieved and depressed to death. The Kwantung Army has more than one million troops, which is not enough for more than four million Soviet troops! There is also the scheming Tang Qiuli, who pressed the remaining troops of the Kwantung Army in western Liaoning, and the more than 200,000 elite troops in the east who could not raise their heads.

Seeing that the troops of the three routes had progressed smoothly and achieved the intended purpose of the campaign, on 21 October, Tang Qiuli issued an order that the troops should stay in their current positions and concentrate their main energies on the work of establishing local political power and controlling the occupied areas.

On 22 October, Major General Battle, commander of the armored corps of the Independent Division, commanded two tank brigades and began to withdraw to China, but according to the order of the division commander Tang Qiuli, instead of returning to the Indochina Peninsula, he stayed in the Pingjin area.

On 23 October, Major General Le Yiqin, commander of the Southern Flight Group of the Independent Division's Air Force, commanded his fighter and bomber units to return to the Indochina Peninsula.

No one knows what the purpose of such a deployment by the division commander is?

On October 24, Liu Tiehan, deputy division commander, took a special plane from Chita to Kulen, met with Tang Qiuli, closed the door with the two of them, and ordered Shanhu not to disturb anyone.

When Liu Tiehan came out, his face was full of red light, his spirit was flying, and he walked with the wind, and the staff officers of the division headquarters saw it and unanimously agreed that Deputy Division Commander Liu was not like this because he drank with the division commander, and there must be a greater good thing to be so excited!

(To be continued)(To be continued......