Chapter 797: A Bigger Plan

The main force of Zhukov's First Army, when the passage was still cleared at the Kazadeu Pass, Tang Qiuli commanded the corps directly under the independent division, in the early morning, the general attack on the 120,000 Soviet troops who entered the preset position of Hadassan had begun, and the battle went very smoothly, it took only 30 minutes of artillery bombardment, the tank group began to attack, the Soviet army was almost immediately defeated, and in three hours, after annihilating more than 20,000 Soviet troops, most of the Soviet troops were compressed to a narrow area with a radius of only a few tens of kilometers, and an encirclement was formed.

Another round of attacks, these Soviet troops will be completely wiped out, before the evening, the battle will definitely be over, just when the brigade commanders are gearing up and preparing to swallow this big féiròu, the division commander Tang Qiuli gave the order to stop the offensive on the whole line.

Everyone didn't understand, including Chang Feng, chief of staff of the division and chief of staff of the corps, and even more incomprehensible, Lieutenant General Vuchkov, commander of the First Army of the Soviet Far East Red Banner and commander of the Central Route Army in the encirclement.

Lieutenant General Vuchkov was in a daze at that time, there were no field fortifications at all, the troops could not even enter the position, and the dozen or so telephones on the table rang like crazy, all of which were requested by the units to deal with them.

Lieutenant General Vuchkov had no choice but to give an order, the troops dispersed to break through, and the assembly place after the breakthrough was Ulan-Ude, and the Soviet troops who tried to break through were all hit fiercely, and had to turn around and break through from other directions.

Lieutenant General Vuchikov, whose heart was about to pop out, leaned on a stone, closed his eyes in despair, and resigned himself to fate, the Chinese were a premeditated ambush, and at this time, he also understood that when he commanded the troops to rush to Hada Sangzi, the Chinese soldiers were outflanking his two wings.

Zhukov's troops, there are still three days to go to their own, rescue is too late, will the Chinese not let go of themselves, be prisoners or lead the team to break through, and die in glory on the way to break through? Lieutenant General Vuchkov could not make up his mind, he knew very well that a breakthrough was just another glorious way to die.

"Comrade commander, look, the squadron has stopped attacking" A staff officer's cry of surprise interrupted Comrade Commander, full of sad thoughts, "What" Lieutenant General Vuchkov asked in disbelief, grabbed the telescope and looked carefully, this staff officer did not lie, he couldn't see the shells flying like meteors in the sky, and he couldn't see the terrifying figure of the Chinese tank.

What do the Chinese want to do? Do you want to surrender yourself and more than 80,000 Soviet Red Army soldiers? This could never be done, and the Bolshevik party members would rather die on the battlefield than surrender to the aggressor, and Vuchkov was able to do this, although his military command skills were extremely average, his loyalty to the Soviet state was 100 percent.

When he found out about this situation, a little flame of hope burned in his heart, and remembering Commander Zhukov's telegram, he immediately said to the chief of staff: "Order all units to place tanks, armored vehicles, trucks, etc., on the periphery, and fill the gaps between the vehicles with earth, build a ring of fortifications, and wait for reinforcements." ”

Looking at the surrounded Soviet army busy for a while, all kinds of vehicles drove to the front, all the troops thought that the Soviet army was going to desperately break through, nervously watching, these tanks and trucks stopped on the spot, and they were still very neatly placed, groups of Soviet soldiers, hurriedly digging the soil, and I didn't understand, what is the old man going to do?

Only Tang Qiuli was very happy to see it, this was Zhukov's idea again, he turned to a defensive posture during the hasty evacuation, and there was no time to build field fortifications, so he used some existing resources to build a temporary defense line to resist the fierce attack of the other side, which was tactically correct, and it was very practical and practical.

Tang Qiuli was not at all worried about the Soviet army's construction of fortifications on the spot, in this narrow area with a radius of more than ten kilometers, his six artillery brigades, and thousands of mén artillery shelled intensively, it would take less than two hours, even if it was a reinforced concrete fortification, it could be blown to pieces, and the surrounded Soviet troops adopted such a stubborn posture, and they were not worried that they would break through.

Tang Qiuli had a new plan, using the more than 80,000 Soviet soldiers who were surrounded as bait to gather and annihilate all of Zhukov's First Army in the Far East in one fell swoop, so as to end the war in the Outer Méng Ancient Region cleanly, and also lay a good foundation for sticking to the Outer Méng Ancient Region in the future.

There is another reason, these equipment he fancies, the things of the Soviets, are much better than the Japanese, if they can be surrendered, it is not cheap for nothing, if the encircled Soviet army is annihilated, Zhukov will not have to enter Kulen in the east, maybe in order to avoid being hit hard again, he will have to retreat, and his own corps cannot stay in the ancient area of Waiméng for a long time, leaving the First Army in the Far East, it is always a scourge, and he may not know when he will attack Waiméng Gu again, It also affected the operation of Feng Jiwu's troops into the area around Tangnu Uliangsuhai and Lake Baikal.

This was the new decision made by Tang Qiuli after encircling the 120,000 Soviet troops in accordance with the favorable battlefield situation.

Chief of Staff Chang Feng and more than a dozen brigade commanders were dumbfounded, they did not expect that the division commander's appetite was so big, not only to eat the 120,000 Soviet troops in front of him, but also to fight Zhukov's main force.

Tang Qiuli ordered all units to actively surrender and prepare for total annihilation, especially Zheng Yong's artillery unit, to determine the specific target of each cannon, and once the order was given, to end the battle within five hours, at least to prepare 24 hours of ample time to meet Zhukov's main force.

Subsequently, Tang Qiuli issued an order to the Tang Qiusheng Corps stationed in Xuzhou: "Urgent order, Commander Tang Qiusheng of the Sulu Mobile Corps, after receiving the telegram, your unit will immediately move north along the Jinpu Road, and the assembly place is the Uriya Sutai area in the ancient west of the outer Méng, and arrive at the designated place within five days and nights. ”

If you want to eat Zhukov's main force, it is not enough to rely on your own troops, if you can do it well, it will be a situation where the fish is dead and the net is broken, and if the confrontation continues for a long time, it will be even more disadvantageous to yourself, the Kwantung Army is stupid, and you have no time to spend on Zhukov, so it is the best way to concentrate superior forces and firepower and attack quickly and ferociously.

Tang Qiuli also knew that his order was not easy for Brother Qiusheng, with thousands of miles of long-distance maneuvers and a lot of heavy equipment, but he didn't expect that the battle situation would be such a development trend, and there was the only chance to gather and annihilate the First Army in the Far East, so they could figure it out by themselves.

Tang Qiuli didn't want to mobilize Tang Qiusheng's corps to go north, but in his own hands, there were no other troops, Liu Tiehan and Sun Zhenbang were guarding the Kwantung Army in Jinzhou, and they couldn't get out of it at all, Li Honggang and Han Tie were on the Shandong Peninsula, and there were not many troops, and Yuan Jinghao was in Tianjin, and he was also shouldering the heavy task of defending the Pingjin region.

Only Tang Qiusheng's corps, which is the strategic reserve of an independent division, can join the ancient battlefield of Waiméng, and there is no situation in the Songhu direction for the time being, not to mention, the main force of Zhukov to gather and annihilate Zhukov, only Qiushengge's troops, have such strength.

Tang Qiusheng, who received the order, had a great headache, Xiaoqiu's order, a little reluctantly, from Xuzhou to Wai Méng Gu, what a distance, Tang Qiusheng at the military meeting, he said his worries again, the brigade commanders who participated in the meeting, also made difficulties, there were no more than ten days, the troops could not reach the designated assembly place.

Yu Guanghan, chief of staff of the Corps, thought for a while and came up with a plan, "Commander, we can do this, from Xuzhou to Beiping, mobilize a special train, and all the troops and equipment will get on the train, so that we can grab two days, and ask Commander Yuan Jinghao in Pingjin and Commander Zhang Quanquan of Huangya Dòng to prepare enough trucks immediately, and we will become a mechanized march, won't we be able to arrive on time, and we can also avoid the fatigue of the soldiers in the troops." ”

Tang Qiusheng's eyes lit up, this is a good way, the meeting will end immediately, fortunately, the Sulu Mobile Corps, as a strategic reserve, is ready to be pulled out at any time, plus the corps commander Tang Qiusheng is extremely strict in governing the army, and with an order, the whole corps will be drawn immediately, and there is basically no delay.

That night, 10 infantry brigades, four artillery brigades, and two air defense brigades of the Sulu Mobile Corps, totaling more than 160,000 troops and 8,000 troops, boarded more than a dozen special trains heading north and galloped toward the Pingjin area.

The support work of the logistics department of the independent division was really home, and there was no delay along the way, and it only took two days and two nights to replenish supplies and ammunition in Erenhot, and Tang Qiusheng's Sulu Mobile Corps had already entered the ancient area of Waimung from Erenhot, which can be described as a god speed.

Receiving Tang Qiusheng's telegram, Tang Qiuli hummed happily, Brother Qiusheng is really powerful, more than 100,000 troops, let him enter the outer Méng Gu in two days, and he will be more sure to fight this battle, this time, there is Zhukov good-looking.

At this time, Zhukov, commanding the troops, had just marched to the area of Hadasan west of Kulen, and for more than a day, the damned Chinese, the mountain bag that was blown up before retreating, delayed the troops for more than a day, fortunately Vuchkov's troops had not been annihilated.

Zhukov was also puzzled and extremely worried that the squadron would not immediately launch a general attack on the encircled Vochkov troops, worried that this was another trick of Tang Qiuli, but the General Staff telegraphed that he had to rescue the encircled Vuchkov troops, and Zhukov could only rush in the direction of Hadassan.