In the early morning of March 28, a strong northwest wind blew in the Kulun area, and in the sky, there were rolling lead-gray clouds, howling winds, rolling up all that could be carried by the Qiē, dancing and rolling unrestrainedly on the empty field, turning the city of Kulun upside down, shrouded in a state of chaos, and becoming more and more mysterious.

The wind blew so hard that people couldn't open their eyes, and the hard snow particles hit their faces, making them scorching pain, and this kind of weather was not conducive to the offensive, but General Gregariv, who had already made preparations for an attack, could not wait any longer, and had already reported the offensive plan to the General Staff, and, in order to highlight the combat effectiveness of the Baikal Front, he also skipped the General Staff and sent a campaign plan to the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

At five o'clock in the morning, countless red signal flares rose in the sky around Kulen, accompanied by a strong wind that blew people's eyes open, the Soviet Baikal Front, with more than 600,000 troops, launched a comprehensive attack on Kulen from four directions.

The morale of the Soviet troops was like a rainbow, all the way unimpeded into the city of Kulen, the whole battle process, did not even release a single shot, and not a single soldier of the independent division appeared in the field of vision of the Soviet soldiers, let alone a resident, showing in front of the Soviet soldiers, Kulen is an empty city!

However, after all, there was a battle, and it was the only battle in the battle of Kulen, and the two sides of the battle were the troops of the Baikal Front, and the fighting was very fierce.

The darkness before dawn. The wind was howling, the visibility was extremely low, and the nerves of the Soviet soldiers were nervous, and all their spirits were nervous, for fear that in the houses and corners on both sides, the soldiers of the independent division would suddenly be killed, and the fatal bullets would be poured down, and they didn't know the Soviet soldier. Suddenly, I vaguely saw a large number of figures suddenly appearing on the ground, so I subconsciously raised my gun to shoot.

"Smack!" The dull sound of gunfire broke the frozen atmosphere, and subsequently. Both sides began to fire, and light and heavy machine guns roared. Smoke and dust were everywhere. These were two regiments of the Soviet army attacking from different directions, both thinking that the other side was an independent division.

There was a crackling and lively fight, not only light and heavy machine guns were put into battle, but even tanks and artillery joined the battle, taking this area into action. The fighting was full of smoke and smoke, and when the situation was clearer, two regiments of Soviet troops. Hundreds of casualties were lost each.

General Gregarif, who received the report, was so angry that his face turned blue, originally, he had exhausted all his strength, and was ready to fight with the guard troops of the Chinese Tang Qiuli in the city of Kulun, perhaps, to achieve the record of annihilating tens of thousands of troops of the independent division, it may not be known!

But as the various units continued to advance into the city, the report sent back was almost identical, "No soldiers of the independent division were found to resist, and our troops have advanced smoothly and have advanced to the central part of the city!" ”

An hour later, with the same report, more and more, General Gregarif understood that the Chinese had abandoned Kulen, and the people did not plan to defend Kulen at all, but the funny thing was that he was still cautious, for fear of being deceived, a million troops were outside Kulen, wasting four days in vain, the feeling of punching in the air, very bad, depressed to vomit blood.

Moreover, such a victory is not what he hoped, it came too easily, without much effort, obviously he had already occupied Kulun, but how could he have the feeling of being in the hands of that Chinese Tang Qiu?

At this time, I received a report that there were fireworks between two different troops, and General Gregarif was going crazy, and the soldiers of the independent division did not see a single one, but their own people fought, and nearly a thousand people were killed and wounded.

General Gregarif immediately ordered, "Shoot the commanders of those two units immediately, keep the news tightly sealed, and if that one dares to leak it, don't mix up with the Baikal Front, Lao Tzu will send him to God!" ”

Sitting in Tang Qiuli's office at the headquarters of the Outer Mongolian Front of the former Independent Division, General Gregarif did not experience the slightest pleasure of a victor, and the telegram originally prepared by him was useless, no matter how brazen he was, he could not say that after a fierce battle, our troops annihilated a number of troops of the Independent Division and captured a number of people, so the telegram sent to the General Staff contained only a few dry words, "I, the Baikal Front, will occupy Kulen in the early morning of March 28!" "That's all.

A few years later, Kulen again changed hands and fell into the hands of the Soviet army, and regardless of the actual fighting situation, it was a real victory for Stalin, enough to make him so excited that he could not sleep, for which Stalin convened a special meeting of the political bureau of the CPSU.

Stalin looked very happy, "Comrades, what does it mean to take Kulen?" It means that we have regained what belongs to us, this is a great victory, the Chinese have been defeated, lost Kulun, and announced that the rule of the Chinese Tang Qiuli in the Outer Mongolia region is completely over, which is good news worth celebrating! ”

"Comrade Gregariv is good, all the Red Army soldiers of the Baikal Front, are good, therefore, in the name of the Political Bureau, I will inform the people of the whole Soviet Union about this great victory, and what should we do next?"

"It's very simple, occupy every inch of Outer Mongolia until all the Chinese forces are expelled, moreover, we can use the name of eliminating the invaders to go deep into the Inner Mongolia region and pursue Tang Qiuli's troops, so as to eradicate future troubles and completely eliminate all the ambitions of the Chinese to get involved in the Outer Mongolia region.

In front of all the members of the CPSU Political Bureau, Stalin said that these words were enough to shock the members of the CPSU Political Bureau and go crazy, Comrade Stalin was crazy, this is to attack the Chinese mainland, will provoke an all-out war against China!

However, Stalin's following words made these members of the Political Bureau, who were almost about to jump up to oppose it, sit down honestly and continue to listen to the leader's arguments, "Comrades, you may think that my idea is very unrealistic, yes, at least for the time being, we do not yet have the conditions to attack the Inner Mongolia region, please pay attention to comrades, it is the condition, not the strength!" ”

"Why? Because we still have another enemy that needs to be solved, that is, the Japanese Kwantung Army, which has invaded and occupied more than one million square kilometers of land in the Far East of the Soviet Union, I will not attack Inner Mongolia until the Kwantung Army is resolved. ”

The hearts of the members of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union were like a roller coaster, up and down, dizzy, and Stalin, apparently very satisfied with the results he was trying to achieve, and even more satisfied with fiddling with these high-ranking members of the Political Bureau, and following his own thinking.

Stalin walked slowly on the red carpet and continued: "The occupation of Kulen does not mean that the end of the war in Outer Mongolia, the troops of the Chinese Tang Qiuli must be hiding in a certain area and are unwilling to withdraw from Outer Mongolia like this, so our deployment should be adjusted in some aspects, Comrade Petroshilov, your General Staff, you must implement the resolution of today's meeting of the Political Bureau!" ”

Marshal Petroshilov, Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Army, stood up and replied: "Comrade Stalin, the General Staff fully implements the orders of the meeting of the Political Bureau, and I ask you to assign specific tasks so that we can carry them out!" ”

Petroshilov's words were very level, reaching the level of perfection, and he knew that the so-called resolution of the Political Bureau should be the decision of Comrade Stalin, but in the name of the Political Bureau.

Stalin felt Petroshilov's sincerity, his face became more and more soft, he took a puff of pipe, light blue smoke, and hid his face in a haze, "The specific deployment is this, Comrade Vasilevsky's Outer Mongolian Front undertakes all the tasks of fighting against the troops of the independent division, until all the Chinese forces in Outer Mongolia are eliminated, and this stage will take about a month." ”

"Comrade Gregariv's Baikal Front, immediately advancing eastward from Kulen, will carry out combat missions against the Japanese Kwantung Army in a thorough and clean manner with Comrade Kilganin's Trans-Khinganling Front and Comrade Zhukov's Far Eastern Front. Destroy the Japanese Kwantung Army and cut off the Japanese attempt to infiltrate the Far East. ”

"The four million troops we have entered the East will be used to deal with the Japanese Kwantung Army, and if we add Comrade Zhukov's Far Eastern Front troops, the Soviet Red Army fighting in the Far East will reach a huge strength of more than four million people.

"So, after defeating or annihilating the Japanese Kwantung Army, what is the next task, it is very simple, continue to attack and go straight to Manchuria, the nest of the Japanese! That's a rich and vast land that should be part of our USSR! ”

"Ahh All the members of the Political Bureau of the CPSU are messy in the wind, Comrade Stalin, what is wrong with this, the Inner Mongolia region that has just dropped the Chinese, and thinking about the idea of fighting Manchuria under Japanese occupation, these two ideas, that one is crazy enough, means that either a war with the Chinese, or a war with the Japanese, or Comrade Stalin wants to go to war with the Chinese and the Japanese at the same time!

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