By the morning of 8 March, Minusinsk had basically become an empty city, with two brigades of less than 40,000 troops, and they did not even have the ability to form a weak defensive line around the city.

The four million Soviet troops are divided into troops to attack, with several major cities as the target of the attack, and launch an attack at the same time, or a line of horizontal pushing, all the Soviet troops are gathered together, pressed from west to east, this qiē, Tang Qiuli does not know anything, so only by exposing the position of the independent division can we see clearly the specific mode of action of the Soviet army, this empty city, is the bait.

Then, according to the Soviet army's offensive mode, the corresponding method of fighting, however, Tang Qiuli did not plan to fight a regular war with the Soviet army, and the twelve brigades directly under the corps have been dispersed, and each brigade has its own task, mainly to flank and delay the Soviet army.

Of course, Tang Qiuli was not arrogant enough to fight a large-scale ambush battle in a certain area that could be used along the way from the Ural Mountains to Minusinsk, although there were many terrain conditions that could be used.

Such an approach is not only dangerous but also stupid, once the ambush force fails to solve the Soviet army in the ambush circle before the follow-up Soviet army arrives, and cannot get out of the battle, it will fall into the counter-encirclement of the Soviet army.

Tang Qiuli is not unthinking about taking history. During the civil war between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, General Su Yu, a well-known general of the Communist Party of China, adopted the tactic of "black tiger digging out the heart" in Shandong, and surrounded the 74th Division, the main force of the ace of the national army, in Menglianggu, from the formation of hundreds of thousands of national troops advancing in unison, and then completely annihilated the classic battle example. It will be amazing and full of praise!

At this time, the war situation in Outer Mongolia was very similar to that time, and the enemy was outnumbered, and the Soviet army was one or two group armies. It should be very possible to eat it by encircling it first and then gathering and annihilating it. Not only to the four million menacing Soviet troops. A head-on blow can also dampen the morale and sharpness of the Soviet army, and in the next month or so, his life will be much better, he was secretly moved by this tempting idea. Even the preparation of a battle plan has already begun.

But after thinking about it calmly, I was shocked into a cold sweat, this time and that time, the opponent and the environment are different. Once a part of the Soviet army is surrounded by itself, the periphery of the battlefield will be like a hornet's nest, attracting all the Soviet troops, and when the time comes, their own troops, fighting, and unable to solve the encirclement of the Soviet army, withdraw, will be entangled by the Soviet army.

I'm afraid, in the end, it is himself who is surrounded, the most important point is that the difference in strength is too great, and there are no troops to send reinforcements, if Tang Qiuli has three million troops in his hands, he doesn't mind repeating General Su Yu's classic battle example in Outer Mongolia many times, and using it on the Soviets who don't know the military wisdom of the East, now, I have to dispel this tempting idea, according to Mao Weiren's routine, in the vast land of Outer Mongolia, with four million Soviet troops, fight a large-scale guerrilla war.

In the afternoon, the sky fluttered snowflakes, at first, or gently shake the basket powder, after a while, the baby's palm-sized snowflakes, from the gloomy sky, collapsed and fell, the wind rolled up dense snowflakes, in the empty streets and alleys of the city, wanton whistling and shuttling, the whole city, shrouded in a vast white muddy nightmare, between heaven and earth, completely became a vast white snow world.

Tang Qiuli opened the window and stretched out his hand, the cold snowflakes fell on his hands, and they didn't spend for a long time, he couldn't help shouting: "Good snow knows the season, understand me is happening!" ”

Behind him, there was a burst of laughter, "Teacher, you are tampering with the verses of famous artists, I remember that it was 'good rain knows the season, when spring happens!'" 'Aren't you a poet! ”

Tang Qiuli turned around and saw Chief of Staff Zhao Yuhe and Chief of Staff Ge Zhenzhuang. Chen Feng, the director of the communications office, and the three of them, covered in snowflakes, came in from outside, and happened to hear Tang Qiuli changing the poems there, so Zhao Yuhe said jokingly.

Tang Qiuli laughed and said: "Poetry is a work of the situation, I feel it, I said that it is good snow to know the season, there is a reason, this heavy snow, if it is the next day and night, can top millions of male soldiers, heavy snow covers the mountains, the Ural Mountains are covered by heavy snow, the roads are impassable, just two roads, I'm afraid there is no one or two weeks, the Soviet army can not act, even if it is a snowy march, four million troops, after the Ural Mountains, not more than a month, this snow is beneficial to me, probably God sees our weak troops, I'm here to help! ”

"By the way, Yuhe, Zhenzhuang, Chen Feng, you guys are here, is there any situation?" He asked again.

Zhao Yuhe handed the telegram in his hand to Tang Qiuli and said: "Director Chen has just received a secret telegram from the head of the Chutian detachment of the special operations detachment, reporting the latest developments of the Soviet army, we dare not delay, so we are in a hurry to send it over!" ”

Chu Tian led the special operations detachment all the way to the territory of the Soviet Union west of the Ural Mountains to conduct in-depth reconnaissance of the Soviet army's assembly areas and field airfields in various places, which was tantamount to Tang Qiuli's eyes in the hinterland of the Soviet army.

After reading the telegram, Tang Qiuli couldn't help frowning slightly, and said to Zhao Yuhe: "There is some trouble, the first batch of troops of the Soviet army to participate in the offensive has 1.6 million troops, and the number is the Outer Mongolian Front. ”

In history, this person won the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union, and the most brilliant battle was to command millions of troops of the Soviet Far Eastern Front and launch the final blow to the million Kwantung Army entrenched in the northeast.

In addition, on the Soviet-German battlefield in World War II, Vasilevsky did not have a good appearance, compared with Marshal Zhukov, who dedicated the Great Patriotic War and the War against Germany for the Soviet Union, and won two victories, this person can be described as mediocre, but after receiving Chutian's information, Tang Qiuli's slight contempt for Vasilevsky disappeared.

Zhao Yuhe said: "The division commander, in the intelligence of the commander of the Chu detachment, there is also an important situation, those field airfields that the Soviet army has completed, in recent days, a large number of combat planes have been landed, and according to statistics, it has reached more than 3,000, can this be considered as a precursor to the imminent start of the Soviet army's offensive?" ”

Tang Qiuli nodded, acquiescing to Zhao Yuhe's judgment, this is also his biggest headache, if there is no large number of combat aircraft of the Soviet army, just the Soviet ground troops, he has absolute confidence, with the minimum cost of casualties, after more than a month, he can still let more than four million Soviet troops not take much advantage.

However, the threat posed by the Soviet army, which had mastered air supremacy, to its own troops, was too great, not to mention anything else, that is, overhead, there were thousands of combat planes all day long, fighting on their heels, and the casualties of the troops would be an astonishing number, and in more than a month, I am afraid that more than half of the casualties of the directly subordinate corps would be able to carry out the task of delaying the Soviet troops.

Zhao Yuhe put forward another proposal, "Division commander, can we order the troops of the commander of the Chutian detachment to make some fuss on the road of the Soviet army's march in the Ural Mountains, for example, we can carry out large-scale blasting, or simply blow up the road, which can also achieve the purpose of delaying the Soviet army's action!" ”

Tang Qiuli shook his head and said: "It's not feasible, since the Soviet army has the ability to build new roads, and also has the ability to clear the obstacles on the road, it can't block the Soviet army for a few days, not to mention, the special operations detachment goes deep into the Soviet army's communication line to sabotage, the danger is too great, if it is too late to evacuate, it will be the end of the entire army, what I am most worried about is the Soviet army's combat aircraft!" ”

"Yuhe, Chutian, can you determine the specific time of the Soviet army's attack" Tang Qiuli suddenly asked.

Zhao Yuhe shook his head and replied: "No, the leader of the Chutian detachment mentioned this issue in the previous two telegrams, and also caught a few tongues, but there is no information in this regard, and the actions of the special operations detachment do not dare to be too intense, so as not to arouse the vigilance of the Soviet army, otherwise, it will be impossible to hide!" ”

Tang Qiuli shook his head slightly disappointed, pondered for a while, and said: "Director Chen, record, order, all detachments of the Chutian Special Operations Detachment, on the night of March 9, will attack all the target field airfields of the Soviet Army, mainly to destroy the use function of the airfield, and not to force the destruction of the Soviet Army's combat aircraft, the specific combat plan, the head of the special operations detachment Chutian will determine by himself, and there is no need to report to the division headquarters!" ”

"In addition, Meng Qingpeng of the Outer Mongolia Patrol Area of the Northern Flying Group was ordered to dispatch all the bomber units to carry out a large-scale bombing of all the passages of the Soviet army in the Ural Mountains on the night of the 9th, and the effect of the bombing should be to prevent the Soviet troops from moving for more than three days."

Chen Feng, director of the Communications Department, after recording the order and repeating it, was just about to leave, but was stopped by Tang Qiuli again, "Director Chen, wait!" ”

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