As chief of staff, his main responsibility is to assist the division commander in commanding the troops, implement and carry out the orders of the division commander, and there is almost no opportunity to lead the troops to fight alone.

For Tang Qiuli's words with emotion, there was no deeper feeling, more was the excitement of the upcoming battle, what appeared in front of him was the battlefield situation of Jin Ge Iron Horse and artillery fire, Tang Qiuli smiled slightly, and took in Zhao Yuhe's expression.

"Yuhe, call Sun Zhenbang and inform him of the appointment of the division commander, and let him set off directly from Kulen and rush to the battlefield of Uriya Sutai, so that he doesn't have to come here and delay time! Yuwa! Yuwa! Tang Qiuli shouted twice in a row, and Zhao Yuhe woke up from his reverie.

Zhao Yuhe was a little embarrassed and said, "Division Commander, I'm sorry, I'm too excited, I'll go and inform Commander Sun immediately!" ”

Looking at Zhao Yuhe's back and disappearing in front of him, Tang Qiuli smiled knowingly, he did this because of a deeper consideration, every chief of staff around him must have the experience of leading troops alone, commanding and commanding operations, and exercise his ability to be alone in the future, and he hopes that the chief of staff who goes out from his side can have a broader vision and overall concept, in short, he is a talent in both military and political aspects who can independently defend one side.

Feng Jiwu is like this, Li Honggang is also like this, and Zhao Yuhe should be like this, including Chang Feng, who sits on a cold bench on the side, are all such talents, but unfortunately, Chang Feng, who has outstanding comprehensive ability, originally had such an opportunity, however, the creation makes people, Chang Feng's personality makes the opportunity missed, and Chang Feng thinks of it. Tang Qiuli's heart couldn't help but feel a little regretful and melancholy.

When Tang Qiuli was in the northern part of Outer Mongolia, planning the war situation, and preparing to march into Mobei on a large scale, the General Staff of the Soviet Army was already in chaos because the Far Eastern Front Army reinforced the battlefield troops of Outer Mongolia and fell into the encirclement of Liu Tiehan's troops on the west bank of the Onen River in eastern Outer Mongolia.

The troops of Lieutenant General Yemenchenko were bitten by Liu Tiehandong's troops. Marshal Petroshilov, Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Army, had a premonition that the prospects for the troops of the Far Eastern Front were not good, and he was already mentally prepared, but after this bad premonition became a reality. It's another story.

The telegram of the commander of the encirclement, Lieutenant General Yemenchenko, was like a bombshell. The bombing made Marshal Petroshilov dizzy. "The high command was transferred to Comrade Stalin, and in the process of retreating for seven days and nights, although all the officers and men fought hard with their lives, they were never able to get rid of the entanglement of the troops of the independent division until 5 October. In the area on the west bank of the Onon River, they were attacked by the pre-ambush troops of the independent division, all of which were cavalry, after several hours of fierce fighting. The troops suffered heavy casualties and were no longer able to break through the encirclement of the independent division. ”

"By the time of the telegram, there were only more than 70,000 troops left, and they had lost all their heavy equipment, tanks, and trucks, and they could control the area, but they were more than 100 miles in radius, and they were still compressed step by step by the troops of the independent division.

It was this last implicit threatening sentence that made Marshal Petroshilov's heart tremble, "What do you mean?" Could it be that Yemenchenko wants to follow the old path of Kurygin and surrender to Tang Qiuli's troops? "First there was Kulygin, then Yemenchenko, plus more than 500,000 troops, and let himself be the chief of the General Staff alive?

Marshal Petroshilov wandered around the office for a long time, but he still went to Stalin's office, and he couldn't hide it, and after listening to the report, Stalin's face was as gloomy as the weather in Moscow in October, and the clouds were thick, and Yemenchenko's telegram was slapped heavily on the desk.

Marshal Petroshilov froze tremblingly in front of his wide desk, not daring to come out, and the successive crushing defeats on the battlefield of Outer Mongolia put more than 300,000 troops of the Transcaucasian Military District, the only mobile corps of the Soviet Union in the East, into it, and nearly 200,000 troops of the Far Eastern Front.

After a long time, Stalin spat out the stuffiness in his chest, suppressed his anger, and asked: "Comrade Petroshilov, is there no other way?" ”

Marshal Petroshilov, who is in chaos, has a confused head, how can he do anything, not to mention that more than 70,000 troops of the Far Eastern Front are surrounded by more than 200,000 independent divisions, and the annihilation of the whole army is a matter of an instant, just want to rescue, where to transfer troops?

Zhukov's troops, it is impossible to draw out a single soldier, the Japanese are ready to move, transfer troops from other places, in the east, there are no troops to adjust, transfer troops from the direction of Europe, it is too late, that Tang Qiuli will not wait for the reinforcements to arrive, and then start the attack, racking his brains and boiling his heart, Marshal Petroshilov has no choice.

"Comrade Stalin, we have nothing to do to relieve the troops of the Far Eastern Front from the current crisis, you know, we have no forces to adjust, and we ......," said Marshal Petroshilov, the last sentence of which was a bit slurred and stopped.

Stalin asked impatiently: "And what?" Slurry and spit out, make it clear! ”

Marshal Petroshilov mustered up his courage and said: "Moreover, according to the characteristics of Tang Qiuli's use of troops, he is good at encircling points and sending reinforcements, will the troops that we have barely assembled be fooled again in the process of rescue?" I have to guard against it! ”

The implication is that when the troops of the Far Eastern Front were mobilized to rescue the troops of the Transcaucasian Military District, Comrade Stalin made an arbitrary and decision-making decision, and instead of saving people, he put himself in it, and Yemenchenko's troops were a living example.

Of course, Stalin understood his words, and couldn't help but be gloomy for a while, he heard the hidden deep meaning in Petroshilov's tone, blamed himself to the point of not daring, reminded the elements, silent for a long time, Stalin said in a gloomy tone: "In the name of your General Staff, send a telegram to Yemenchenko, remind him not to have other thoughts, only for the Soviet to die in battle, this road can be taken, even if the whole army is destroyed, do not think about surrendering to the Chinese, but also tell him, the relatives and families of all officers, The country will take good care of it! ”

Marshal Petroshilov's heart was filled with a chill, how could he not understand what Comrade Stalin meant, this was not a reminder, but a warning, before surrendering, you should think about your parents, as well as your wife and children, if you don't want them to be locked up in concentration camps for the rest of your life, or simply disappear from the world, you must fight to the end with the troops of the independent division.

Of course, Marshal Petroshilov would not have broken these words, "Comrade Stalin, I will do it immediately, do you have any other instructions?" He asked respectfully.

Stalin waved his hand wordlessly, like a fly, and after Petroshilov withdrew from the office, he collapsed in his chair weakly, and his heart was at a loss.

Disturbed thoughts disturbed Stalin's mind at a loss, until the sky darkened, he shut himself in an empty office, not even a light was turned on, perhaps, the darkness gave him a greater sense of security, in the corridor covered with red carpets, high-ranking officials and important party figures who came to report on their work, anxiously looking at their watches, but no one dared to disturb.

At 5 o'clock in the morning of 6 October, the general offensive of the Eastern Command troops to encircle and annihilate the troops of the Soviet Far Eastern Front officially began, and the eruption-like artillery fire of the volcano lit up the night sky in advance, and the area within a radius of less than 100 miles on the west bank of the Onon River was turned into a sea of fire, and the sound of a huge explosion echoed in the empty grassland.

For this general offensive, Liu Tiehan concentrated all the artillery on the front line in the east, more than 2,400 artillery pieces of various calibers, and within an hour, poured more than 100,000 shells into the encirclement, and on the heads of more than 70,000 Soviet soldiers, the shells roared, and the explosion points were blown up one after another, hitting the temporary positions of the Soviet troops, like a furnace of boiling molten iron.

At six o'clock on 6 October, the shelling stopped, and the Dongzhi troops launched an attack, accompanied by the dawn of dawn, the shouts of more than 100,000 infantrymen, like rolling heavy thunder, Yemenchenko faithfully carried out the order of the General Staff, ordering more than 70,000 Soviet soldiers to fight to the death, but after more than 100,000 shells, the Soviet troops no longer had the slightest ability to fight back.

By 9 o'clock on the morning of 6 October, after four hours of fighting, more than 70,000 Soviet soldiers in the encirclement were completely annihilated, and only more than 9,000 were captured, and the rest were all buried on the battlefield.

Subsequently, Liu Tiehan commanded the main force of the East Finger, crossed the Onen River, and slaughtered the Chita area, whether it was the General Staff of the Soviet Army or Tang Qiuli, there was no surprise about the outcome of the battle.

On the morning of 7 October, Sun Zhenbang arrived in the Sutai area of Uriya by plane, and under the unified command of the sixth, seventh, ninth, and tenth brigades of the Corps directly under his command, as well as the Fifth Cavalry Brigade of Li Changjiang of the Outer Mongolian Frontier Army, plus eight regiments of the local garrison unit in western Outer Mongolia, launched an attack on Sergeyev's headquarters of the Third Army of the Soviet Transcaucasian Military District, which was stalled in the Sutai area of Uriya at about 5 o'clock in the evening of the same day.

By about 6 o'clock in the morning of 8 October, two infantry divisions and one armored brigade of the Third Army of the Soviet Army, more than 28,000 people, and the commander of the army, Major General Sergeyev, was wounded and captured, the Third Army of the Soviet Army was completely annihilated, and the Battle of Uriya Sutai ended victoriously.

On 9 October, Sun Zhenbang commanded the troops participating in the Battle of Uriya Sutai to form a westward marching corps, passing through Ulan Guben, crossing the Tangnu Mountains, and marching into Minusinsk, an important Soviet military town outside the western part of Outer Mongolia.

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