Chapter 822: Far East Fighting

In late September, even in broad daylight, the wind blowing in the ancient steppe of Méng outside also carries a slight chill, the pasture grass has completely withered yellow, only on the sunny slope, there is still a little green, the extreme eye sees, a piece of withered yellow, dotted with a few touches of dark green, sè colorful and monotonous, the geese flying south from Siberia, lined up in a queue of "people", flying across the clear blue sky, a chirp, empty and lofty, can not help but evoke the homesickness of the soldiers who are fighting abroad.

Tang Qiuli was the same, he missed his parents' two wives in Dingbian very much, and the last batch of equipment and materials for Soviet compensation arrived in Kulun, and since then, all the compensation listed in the article has been in place, and Zhang Quan, the logistics minister of the independent division, reported the receipt to the division commander Tang Qiuli.

"Division commander, all the things that the Soviets compensated us for, it's really a good thing, it's hot to look at, especially those cars, brand new and shiny, the logistics department followed the last batch of convoys back, do you have any instructions?" Zhang Quan's voice was surprisingly loud, and in his voice, there was irrepressible excitement, which was a kind of excitement of making a fortune and making a lot of money.

Tang Qiuli was speechless for a while, the old housekeeper of the independent division, as long as he entered something, he was happy no matter what it was, and it was more uncomfortable to take things out than to cut him, and fortunately thanks to Zhang Quan, the family tiger, the independent division had accumulated a rich family foundation, frankly, how much family background the independent division has now, Tang Qiuli himself didn't know.

"Minister Zhang, it seems that the people in your logistics department can't be withdrawn for the time being, and there is still a big fortune waiting for you to send it" Tang Qiuli deliberately said lightly, sure enough, as soon as Zhang Quan heard it, he immediately came to the head of the god, and asked eagerly: "Commander, where is it?" If our independent division enters things like this every day, I Zhang Quan, this old bone will be left outside the ancient capital."

According to Tang Qiuli's conditions, all Soviet soldiers must leave with their bare hands, and in the encirclement, there is a large amount of equipment, and when Tang Qiuli came to negotiate the repatriation time on behalf of Zhukov, he had already asked him to warn Zhukov that he must not destroy a piece of equipment, otherwise, he will bear the consequences.

When Zhang Quan heard it, he made a sound of music, the equipment of more than 100,000 people, it was a piece of oily féiròu, the Soviet soldiers had not been repatriated, he had already rushed to the periphery of the encirclement with a large number of men and cars, and the equipment was completely swept away, and his eyes were like starving for seven or eight days, as if he suddenly saw a large number of white-flour steamed buns.

The Soviet soldiers lined up in several columns, and under the supervision of the soldiers of the independent division, left the place where they had been confined for more than 20 days, and staggered in the direction of the Kazadeu Pass.

After fighting for such a long time, Tang Qiuli saw Zhukov for the first time, in the face of failure, and after more than 20 days of encirclement, Zhukov's face looked haggard, but in those blue and gray eyes, there was still a firm light, the soldier's character and temperament were not damaged in the slightest, during this time of being surrounded and possibly losing his life at any time, perhaps what he thought about the most was the reason for his failure, and his will and determination to fight with his opponent again.

Tang Qiuli stood on a high post, Zhukov seemed to have a sense, set his eyes on him, the two eyes jiāo weaving, bursting out of a string of sparks, this is the look between the soldiers, and with the complexity of hatred and appreciation, Zhukov looked at Tang Qiuli deeply, as if to imprint this Chinese general who caused him defeat and humiliation forever in his mind.

Then, turning away, the back was lonely, lonely and strong, without the slightest malaise of the defeated soldiers, at this moment, Tang Qiuli saw the gray hair on Zhukov's head, and his heart added infinite emotion, if it were not for Stalin's ambitions, without the fact that the Soviet Union forcibly occupied the ancient region of Méng, without this sword and soldier meeting, he and this famous Soviet general he admired very much, maybe they would become confidants who appreciate each other.

It's just that Zhukov unfortunately chose himself as his opponent, the fate of defeat is inevitable, the back of a generation of famous generals is gone, and with him is accompanied by decades of Soviet rule in the ancient region of Méng, Tang Qiu left his eyes Zhukov's figure, disappeared at the end of a dry yellow steppe, until he disappeared on the horizon.

With the end of the war in the ancient area of Waiméng, Tang Qiuli ordered the directly subordinate corps, Tang Qiusheng's Sulu Mobile Corps, and Feng Jiwu's Niangziguan Garrison Corps troops, all of which withdrew from the ancient area of Waiméng and returned to Pingjin, the 2nd Cavalry Brigade of the Independent Division, and the 6th Cavalry Brigade of the Bagena Division, which remained in the Waiméng Ancient Region.

This is to strengthen the stability of the ancient area of Wai Méng, both brigades are based on the ancient people of Méng, which is convenient for management, and ordered the troops of Sun Zhenbang's Yellow River Defense Headquarters on the Jinzhou front line to immediately enter the ancient area of Wai Méng and form the troops of the Outer Méng Ancient Frontier Army.

With Sun Zhenbang as the commander of the Outer Méng Ancient Frontier Army, Tong Batu and Bagena as deputy commanders, Sun Zhenbang's troops and two Méng Ancient Cavalry Brigades as the main body of the border guard troops, responsible for all the defense of the Outer Méng Ancient Region, and at the same time, Sun Zhenbang also served as the first vice chairman of the Provisional Military and Political Committee of the Outer Méng Ancient Region.

In this way, Sun Zhenbang became the highest military and political leader in the ancient region of Waiméng, representing Tang Qiuli to exercise the function of managing the ancient region of Waiméng, and Tang Qiuli did not hesitate to put a corps commander in the ancient region of Waiméng and hoarded heavy troops, which shows that he attached great importance to this piece of land that had just been recovered.

Tang Qiuli had to defend against the Soviets, and the ancient area of Outer Méng was connected to the border with the Soviet Union, with more than 67,000 troops of Sun Zhenbang, plus more than 10,000 people in two cavalry brigades, and nearly 80,000 infantry and cavalry, even if the Soviets had any bad intentions again, and where to deter this force, Stalin had to weigh it.

The main force of the independent division in the ancient area of Waiméng gradually withdrew, from August 2 to August 3, to set foot on the ancient land of Waiméng, to the end of September from the ancient area of Waiméng, which lasted more than 50 days, Tang Qiuli decided to launch the campaign to recover the ancient area of Waiméng, and ended this great war that attracted the attention of the world with a perfect ending.

After returning to the Pingjin area, in addition to ordering Tang Qiusheng's Sulu Mobile Corps to continue to garrison Xuzhou in order to deal with all sides, he also ordered Wang Xu, director of the Special Equipment Research Institute, to step up the research and imitation of the Soviet-made BM13 rocket launcher, and strive to equip the troops in batches before May 1939.

Tang Qiuli led the troops back to Pingjin, and the Jinzhou front line was also very quiet, he set his eyes on the Far East, with the mood of watching the excitement, paying attention to the war in the region.

At this time, the Far East had already been bombarded with artillery fire and blood, the Soviets and the Japanese were killed, and more than 400,000 Kwantung troops surrounded the Far Eastern Second Army of Timoshenko, which was entrenched in the area of Arseniev.

Thanks to the strategic vision of General Timoshenko, the fortifications in the Arsenyev area played a great role, and the Second Army was able to support it until now, blocking the troops of the Kwantung Army along the central line and not being annihilated.

Since the end of September, there has been no peace on the positions of the Soviet troops in the Arsenyev area, countless shells have fallen every day, and Timoshenko has to pay tens of thousands of casualties every day to stop the fierce attack of the Kwantung Army, and the Kwantung Army troops, seeing that victory is in sight, attack more and more fiercely.

The commander of the Kwantung Army, General Kenkichi Ueda, moved his headquarters to the Arsenyev front and personally commanded the attack on Timoshenko's troops.

Ueda Kenkichi realized that if Timoshenko's troops were not dealt with, once the Transcaucasian reinforcements arrived in the Far East, the battle would be a long-lasting war of attrition, and the final victory would still belong to the Kwantung Army, but it would lose a large part of its troops.

On 26 September, the Kwantung Army concentrated all its air fleets, totaling more than 600 combat planes, to carry out fierce air raids on the positions of the Second Army in the Far East.

At the same time, Timoshenko also coordinated with the air force units of the Far Eastern Military District and dispatched all the combat planes, totaling more than 560 planes, to fight to the death with the air force of the Kwantung Army in the skies over the Arsenyev area, and in a four-day air battle, the Japanese and Soviet sides each lost more than 300 combat planes, a total of more than 600 planes, which turned into a cloud of black smoke in the sky or a cloud of fire on the ground.

On the fifth day of the air battle, the air force of the Japanese Kwantung Army and the air force of the Soviet Far East Military District were both out of strength; the advantage of the Kwantung Army Air Force was that the number of planes and the proximity to the airfield were very convenient, and it was very convenient to take off and rush to the operational airspace, and the air force of the Soviet Far East Military District was superior in terms of the ability of the planes to be excellent, the pilots had a high combat standard, and they could rush to the combat airspace for a long time, and they were also at a disadvantage in terms of numbers.

In the past few days, the air force units of the Soviet Far Eastern Military District suffered a slight loss, and the Kwantung Army Air Force was unable to fight again, and the air forces of the two sides lasted five days of fierce air fighting, ending with a small victory for the Kwantung Army Air Force.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the ground forces of the Kwantung Army to slow down the offensive momentum in the past five days, the troops of the Second Army of the Soviet Far Eastern Military District were able to take a little respite, and Timoshenko adjusted his deployment, stepped up the repair of fortifications, and deployed his troops to prepare for another fierce attack by the Kwantung Army.

For being able to bring the group army troops out of the encirclement of the Japanese army, Timoshenko is still very confident, on the one hand, the reinforcements of the Transcaucasian Front will soon arrive, and the main thing is that he still has a fist in his hand that he has not been willing to use, four brigades of tank troops, which he is ready to use at the most critical time to deal a heavy blow to the Kwantung Army.