After reading the reply from Liu Hongzhang, the commander of the First Brigade, Zhao Yuhe's heart was filled with a churning spirit and blood, and he fully believed that Liu Hongzhang and all the officers and men of the First Brigade could do this, and before all the soldiers were killed, it would be difficult for the Soviet troops going south to move an inch!

Putting down Liu Hongzhang's telegram, Zhao Yuhe picked up the reply from Ouyang Yishan, the commander of the Second Brigade, this is a commander with a completely different personality from Liu Hongzhang, whether it is the art of command or the fighting style of the troops, the two brigades have nothing in common, but this does not prevent the Second Brigade from becoming the number one main brigade of the whole team.

The reply from Ouyang Yishan, the commander of the Second Brigade, was in a different style, decent, "Chief of Staff, the call has been received, and the battle situation has been understood, the Second Brigade will rush to Kulen overnight, replenish fuel and supplies there, and the damaged equipment and the wounded who have not been attrition in combat will stay in Kulen, and then, advance lightly, according to the order of the chief of staff, reach the Seguge River area, and block the southward movement of the Soviet army." ”

After receiving the reply from the two brigade commanders, Zhao Yuhe felt a little more relaxed, and originally wanted to report the situation to the division commander immediately, so that the division commander's anxious mood could be alleviated, but when he thought that the night was so late, it was inconvenient to disturb, so he had to hold back the impulse, didn't even take off his clothes, lay on the kang, and fell asleep deeply.

On the morning of September 19, just at dawn, Tang Qiuli, who had slept for more than three hours on Mei Xue's legs, turned over, and after last night's catharsis, his feelings had basically returned to normal.

Mei Xue thoughtfully served Tang Qiuli a bowl of porridge. put it in front of him and said softly: "Eat, your body is important, many things are still waiting for you to deal with!" ”

In order not to worry Mei Xue, Tang Qiuli, who had no appetite, forced himself to swallow a bowl of porridge, Mei Xue hurriedly served another bowl, Tang Qiuli smiled bitterly and said, "Snow." I really can't eat it! ”

Mei Xue pretended to be rude and glared, crossed her waist and said: "Eat, who doesn't know that your Master Tang has a long appetite, you can eat half of the cow, the last bowl!" ”

Just put down the rice bowl. Zhao Yuhe came, and he reported on the 1st and 2nd Brigades. It will be a day in advance. arrived at the situation of the Sejingge River, and showed the return calls of Liu Hongzhang and Ouyang Yishan to the division commander.

Tang Qiuli took the telegram and didn't read it immediately, put it on the kang table, and looked at Zhao Yuhe, whose face was a little pale. He said with some dissatisfaction: "Yuhe, last night, I didn't sleep all night, my body is important." The 1st Brigade and the 2nd Brigade can move so quickly, very good, you and they have worked hard, I will order the Logistics Department of the Outer Mongolia Frontier Army to provide the two brigades with the oil and materials needed for one qiē, come, this is Mei Xue's porridge, hurry up and eat it! ”

Seeing the division commander's complexion and expression, it was much more normal, Zhao Yuhe let go of most of his heart, and he was not polite, when he was in Yangon on the Indochina Peninsula, he ate at the division commander's house, and he was used to it, and during this period, Wang Jun, chief of staff of the Outer Mongolian Border Army, came in.

Wang Jun took a telegram and said: "Division commander, Chief of Staff Zhao, Commander Sun just called, my reconnaissance troops, deep into the direction of the north bank of the Sejingge River, about 30 kilometers, at present, it is normal, no Soviet troops have been found, the reconnaissance troops continue to reconnoiter in the direction of Irkutsk and Ulan-Ude, and if they find an abnormal situation, report it immediately!" ”

Tang Qiuli's face was obviously relaxed, nodded again and again, and said: "Okay, the Soviets have not moved for the time being, for us, it is a great thing, tell Sù Zhenbang, closely monitor the movements of the Soviet army, find out the situation, no matter when, report it immediately, and you must not be careless!" ”

"In addition, Chief of Staff Wang, you go to the logistics department of the border defense army to convey my order, the first and second brigades of the directly subordinate corps will immediately replenish fuel and supplies in Kulun, and some wounded and damaged equipment should also stay in Kulun, tell the logistics department, their current task is to ensure the operation of all brigades directly under the corps, the division logistics department will make unified arrangements, and the deputy minister, Major General Zhou Yushan, will lead the logistics system of all troops in the Outer Mongolia region."

Wang Jun understood that the entire Outer Mongolia region would be transferred to a wartime state, that the logistics department of the frontier defense forces would be incorporated into a unified logistics command system, and that the first deputy director of the division's logistics department would personally go into battle to be responsible for the logistical supply of the combat troops.

Tang Qiuli and Zhao Yuhe arrived at the temporary headquarters and had just sat down, when Zhao Yuhe was about to report on the advance of the other brigades except for the first and second brigades, Liu Cuigang, commander of the Northern Flight Group of the Air Force, hurriedly broke in.

Looking at Liu Cuigang, who was usually very smug and didn't care about anything, his face was nervous, Tang Qiuli's heart "chuckled", he had a bad premonition, could it be that Liu Cuigang sent out a reconnaissance plane according to his own orders and discovered the abnormal situation of the Soviet army? The biggest possibility is that the Soviet army has begun to attack, but the telegram from Sun Zhenbang just now is not abnormal, what is going on?

As soon as Liu Cui entered the door, he said loudly: "Division commander, the situation is strict, I sent two reconnaissance aircraft brigades to carry out dragnet reconnaissance in the area around Lake Baikal, especially the reconnaissance of Barnaol, Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude, Chita and other places, and found that the Soviet army went to the Baikal area to increase its troops on a large scale, including tank troops, artillery units and mechanized units. ”

"The pilots of the reconnaissance planes reported that on all roads leading to the Baikal region, Soviet troops were found in marching columns, and preliminary estimates were made that the Soviet troops assembled in the Baikal region would reach the strength of 11 infantry divisions, most of which were mechanized infantry divisions, and in addition, the Soviet aviation forces had also increased their strength, and Soviet fighters and bombers were landed at all field airfields along the Baikal line."

"My two reconnaissance aircraft groups, when they were conducting in-depth reconnaissance, were intercepted and pursued by Soviet fighters, and lost a squadron of reconnaissance planes, according to the returning pilots, these Soviet fighters were another unfamiliar number, not the fighters of the Air Force of the Transcaucasian Military District of the Soviet Union!"

Tang Qiuli sat heavily on the chair, his hunch became a reality, two days, the Soviet army did not launch a southward offensive, the reason is here, is in the continuous increase of troops, adjust the deployment, according to Liu Cuigang said, eleven infantry divisions, most of them are still mechanized troops, then the total strength of the Soviet army, will reach 160,000 to 180,000, the number of tank and artillery units is unknown, but it will not be less.

The increase in the Soviet fighter unit shows that Stalin mobilized all the forces at his disposal and spared no expense in his determination to reoccupy Outer Mongolia.

Still Stalin believed that Hitler's German army was busy occupying the LinkedIn homeland, and had no time to look east at the Soviet Union, and its main corps were all in the Indochina Peninsula and western Liaoning, and in a short period of time, they could not quickly reinforce it, and this was a rare opportunity to use troops in Outer Mongolia.

Tang Qiuli came to his senses from the shock, and hurriedly said to Zhao Yuhe: "Yuhe, you immediately rendezvous with the first and second brigades, master the marching speed of the troops, without my orders, you can't engage in any kind of battle, be fast!" ”

Zhao Yuhe hesitated for a moment, and asked tentatively: "Division commander, do we still need to hold on to the defense line of the Gege River?" ”

Tang Qiuli had a gloomy face and said: "According to the situation, Yu and you remember, you must not take risks, if the Soviet army launches a southward attack today, whether the first brigade and the second brigade will reach the line of the Sejingge River as scheduled will become meaningless, and the two brigades will not be able to stop the Soviet army from moving south no matter what." ”

Zhao Yuhe left in a hurry, Tang Qiuli called a staff officer, and said: "Record the order, Sun Zhenbang's department of the Outer Mongolian border defense army on the front line of the Sejingge River, your department's original mission to hold the defense line has changed, and when the Soviet army attacks, there is no need to stick to the blocking line, you can adopt a flexible combat method, block the attack step by step, and gradually withdraw to the direction of Kulun, mainly to delay the speed of the Soviet army's southward march, and report the battlefield situation to me every hour." ”

The Soviet army has almost doubled its strength, as well as a large number of heavy equipment and aircraft, and the originally planned encirclement and annihilation plan is obviously insufficient, and he said to another staff officer: Record the order, "The 3rd Brigade of the Corps directly under Kulen was originally scheduled to assemble in the Segtun River area, and the 8th and 9th Brigades, which were originally scheduled to be assembled in Uriya Sutai, were changed to the Segdang River area, and the 7th Brigade originally scheduled to be assembled in Kobdo was to go to the Uriya Sutai area." ”

"Yang Ketian, chief of staff of the eastern commander, after receiving the telegram, transferred your troops in the southeastern region of Outer Mongolia, two mechanized brigades, and a mechanized brigade stationed in Saiyin Shanda, from their current place of residence to the Sejingge River area, and the combat sequence will be placed under the command of the directly subordinate corps."

Taking a breath, Tang Qiuli said to Liu Cuigang: "Cuigang, your troops are in the western Liaoning region, only two fighter regiments and one bomber regiment can be left, and the other troops are all transferred to the Outer Mongolia region, whether in the air or on the ground, what we are facing will be a vicious battle, the strength of the Soviet army's air force, the increase in the number is unknown, we can't help but prepare, there is no air supremacy, for us, it will be a ruining disaster!" ”

Liu Cui was stunned for a moment, and immediately said with great joy: "It's the division commander, except for the left-behind troops, the Northern Flying Group is all going to the battlefield in Outer Mongolia!" ”

Tang Qiuli turned to Mei Xue and said, "Mei Xue, call Yu Deshui and Shen Jun, the leader of the special operations detachment, Chu Tian, and order them to come to the headquarters immediately!" ”

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