Chapter 802 Trapped and Delayed

China's newly rising dazzling star, the second person in the national capital, Tang Qiuli, the veritable king of the north, and the Soviet Red Army's later famous general, Zhukov, who dedicated the victory of the Soviet-German war to the Soviet Union, met in the steppes and Gobi in the ancient west.

The motives and starting points of the two sides are different, Tang Qiuli is to recover the country and eliminate the separatist forces, Zhukov is to safeguard the strategic interests of the Soviet Union, faithfully implement Stalin's policy, and refuse to spit out the féiròu in his mouth, the two sides are destined to have a war.

Both sides invested all their strength, more than 400,000 soldiers, fought a bloody battle all night, the vast outer méng ancient western steppe and the Gobi, bullets rained down, artillery rumbled, chariots were bleak, corpses were everywhere, blood flowed like a river, until dawn, the main force of the Soviet Far East First Army commanded by Lieutenant General Zhukov was surrounded by the corps directly under the command of Tang Qiuli in the area of Uriya Sutai, the Soviet army repeatedly desperately failed to break through the encirclement, and the encirclement was initially formed.

The commander of the Soviet army, Lieutenant General Zhukov, realized the grim shape of the battle situation, he wanted to make another breakthrough for the last time, although there was little hope, he still had to work hard to do it, this is an extremely tenacious general, maybe it was calmness before facing death, he wrote everything he didn't dare to say on paper, life could be lost at any time, what scruples?

Without the order of the General Staff, the troops of the army group would not have been in a desperate situation, at least most of their strength would have been preserved, and after the encirclement of the Vuchkov troops, ordering the main forces of the army group to come to the rescue with all their might was in itself a wrong order, and no matter whose order it was, even the order of the great leader Comrade Stalin, could not change the essence of the mistake.

He still wanted to write something, but he couldn't put pen to paper, wrapped it in an envelope, called over a young staff officer, and commanded softly: "This is a letter from me to the General Staff, when I break through in a while, I will send a force to protect your breakthrough, remember, this is more important than your life, be sure to send it." ”

The young staff officer, for the first time in front of the supreme commander, blushed with emotion, and said loudly: "Comrade commander, please rest assured, I will send this letter to Moscow with my party and my life," Zhukov patted him on the shoulder wordlessly, looking at his young figure and disappearing in front of him.

It's already afternoon... Around the clock, the scheduled time for a breakthrough was approaching, and Zhukov said in a steady tone to all the staff officers in the tent: "I order, immediately prepare for a breakthrough" The staff officers grabbed the telephone, looked at the commander nervously, and waited for his final order.

Outside, there was a hurried and panicked footsteps, there should be a lot of people coming to him, from the footsteps, Zhukov heard an ominous sign, he stopped talking, and looked out of the tent with an unchanged expression, at this time, there will be no good news.

A group of people ran in, and among them, a senior staff officer said in a panic: "Comrade commander, the forward troops report that they have found a large number of squadrons that have driven to the periphery of Uriya Sutai and joined the defense line of the squadron that surrounded us. ”

The air in the tent suddenly froze, and the news of the thunderbolt on a sunny day made all the Soviet generals turn pale, and Zhukov said softly to the staff officers: "The breakout order has been canceled, and the troops have moved to the defense. ”

The Chinese have increased their troops, and breaking through at this time is tantamount to looking for death, Zhukov made the wisest choice, did not push the remaining more than 100,000 Soviet soldiers to the road of death, nor did he do the battle of trapped beasts, but there is one thing he does not understand, where did this squadron **** come from?

The vanguard of the Sulu Mobile Corps, at the moment before the Soviet army was about to break through the encirclement, finally rushed to the battlefield of Uriya Sutai, with a strength of nearly 70,000 people, immediately thickened the encirclement, and two hours later, the main force of Tang Qiusheng's corps of nearly 170,000 people all arrived and immediately joined the encirclement.

In this way, on the battlefield of Uriya and Sutai, the troops commanded by Tang Qiuli had reached nearly 450,000 troops, and there were still firepower several times more than that of the Soviet army, and the ironclad encirclement was finally completely formed, and Zhukov, commander and political commissar of the First Army in the Far East, and his remaining 100,000 Soviet soldiers, had no possibility of breaking through the encirclement.

The fate of the collapse of a powerful force of the Soviet Red Army in the Far East is irreversible, and a campaign that will change the relations between China and the Soviet Union and rewrite the strategic pattern of Central Asia will come to an end with Tang Qiuli's complete victory.

Tang Qiuli was in front of the command car in the field, greeting Tang Qiusheng, commander of the Sulu Mobile Corps, and Yu Guanghan, chief of staff, as well as more than a dozen infantry and artillery brigade commanders.

Since Tang Qiuli led the troops to go abroad, hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers from the top and bottom of the independence are concerned about the division commander of the expedition, and the victory and good news again and again not only boost their morale, but also be particularly worried.

After greetings, Tang Qiusheng frowned, looked at the large and small craters around Tang Qiuli's command vehicle, turned his head to Fu Qiang, the deputy captain of the special guards, and said: "Fu Qiang, you special guards, how can you let the division commander be in the field like this, if the target is captured by the Soviet artillery, the consequences are unimaginable, at least you should build a solid bunker for the division commander, at the plenary meeting of the division headquarters, a decision has been made, the safety of the division commander will always come first, have you special guards forgotten?" ”

Fu Qiang's face was so aggrieved that his face turned red, and he was criticized by the No. 3 person of the independent division in person, for Fu Qiang, but for the first time, the special brigade has never been criticized for the personal safety of the division commander, and this deputy division commander Tang is not a person who gets angry lightly, and his temper is very gentle.

Fu Qiang was very aggrieved, it was not that there was no concealment department, but our lord, he had never been in once at all, and when he heard the sound of gunfire, he came here shouting, Fu Qiang and dozens of personal guards were so worried that they were going to die, and they persuaded them a few times, but it was useless.

Tang Qiuli saw Brother Qiusheng go crazy, he felt that it was a bit of a fuss, it was still far away from the battlefield, why was it so accidental, and he was even more moved by his cousin's deep concern, seeing that Fu Qiang couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into, he hurriedly said: "Brother Qiusheng, it's not that Fu Qiang and the Special Guards are not fulfilling their responsibilities, that side is the Concealment Department, I am here to better observe the battle situation." ”

Tang Qiusheng glanced at Tang Qiuli meaningfully, this matter was finally over, and immediately, Tang Qiuli called all the brigade commanders of the two corps, and officers above the director level of the corps headquarters, to hold a military meeting.

At the meeting, Tang Qiuli determined the strategic policy to be adopted against the Soviet army under Zhukov's command, and in terms of two words, "trapping and dragging", besieged, according to the natural conditions of the place where Zhukov and more than 100,000 Soviet troops were surrounded, there was no food and grass inside, and there was no rescue outside, and the Soviet army would naturally collapse if it was trapped for seven or eight days, and there was no need to fight.

Delay time, see what the Soviets do next, Zhukov and these Soviet soldiers are hostages, the initiative is in their own hands, and strive to negotiate under the most favorable conditions, Tang Qiuli does not want to kill these Soviet soldiers, together with Zhukov, hurt the Soviets, provoked Stalin to raise half of the country's troops to retaliate, with the current strength of the independent division, it is still unbearable, not to mention, there are also the Japanese who are eyeing the tiger.

The main opponent of the independent division at present is still the Japanese, in order to promote negotiations in their favor, this is the purpose of Tang Qiuli's siege and delay tactics, it will not be long before the Soviets will take the initiative to find mén, according to Tang Qiuli's thoughts, why not want to wave his troops to the north in one fell swoop, dàng Ping Siberia, drink the Maural Mountains, take the Asian part of the Soviets, all in his hands, and take the territory south of Sakhalin Island with him.

But this requires military strength to speak, Tang Qiuli can only come step by step, and the military important place of Waiméng Gu that he occupied has successfully taken the first step, so he ordered all the troops participating in the battle to retreat beyond the artillery fire of the Soviet army and build siege fortifications.

At this time, the strength of the independent division in the outer Méng Gu had reached three corps, more than 550,000 people, accounting for more than three-fifths of the total strength of the independent division, and Tang Qiuli transferred his troops to the outer Méng Gu area in a big way to fight a decisive battle with the Soviets, which was undoubtedly great news for the Japanese Kwantung Army.

The new commander of the Kwantung Army, General Ueda Kenkichi, believed that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so he mobilized troops in various parts of the northeast to prepare to attack Liu Tiehan's troops on the front line of Jinzhou to recover the western Liaoning region, and the war in the northeast was about to break out.

The main force of Zhukov's First Army in the Far East, surrounded by the squadron under the command of Tang Qiuli, in the Uriya Sutai area, was good news for the Japanese, and another great shock for the Soviets.

Members of the Soviet Moscow, the Kremlin, Stalin's office, and the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU gathered again to discuss the issue of the ancient war in Waiméng, which has not received good news since the war with the Chinese in Waiméng.

First the Far Eastern Special Army was lost, then the Vucchikov troops were annihilated, and now, Zhukov, who was pinned on high hopes by the great leader Comrade Stalin, together with his troops, surrounded the Chinese, and the result will not be better there, what happened to the great Soviet Red Army? All the senior leaders of the Soviet party, government, and military who attended the meeting were full of question marks.

A few not very bright chandeliers set off the conference room more and more dark, the atmosphere seemed depressed and dull, Stalin did not speak, as usual no one spoke, the senior leaders of the Soviet party, government and army, thinking about their own thoughts, how to figure out the leader's intentions for a while, some people, already in their hearts to judge Zhukov's fate.