Chapter 377: Doomed Tactics
On the vast East Siberian Plain, Zhan Fuchun, who was riding on an air command plane, looked at the magnificent picture of the advance of the corps below, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart that the land of Siberia was too vast.
On the Pacific Theater, hundreds of tanks together, it is already remarkable, and that scene is absolutely shocking.
Even in the back city of Australia, the picture of a heavy loader in action is quite shocking.
But in Siberia, let alone a heavy division, even if all the tanks and vehicles in the third theater of operations were to move together, and the 500,000 army moved together, it would still not be enough to fill this boundless land.
The main thing is that it is too barren here, most of the places have no people, and the world seems to be stretched far away.
In this endless plain, the troops were small in the sky, and the open roads seemed to be difficult to find once they were scattered.
The Third Theater completed the capture of Ussuriysk in a week, and also successfully occupied Vladivostok, so it immediately moved its army north.
Ran to Boli and Komsomolsk.
Hurrying has always been a frustrating thing, but fortunately there is no need for soldiers to advance on foot, all the soldiers are moving forward in trucks and armored vehicles, and the speed is extremely fast.
From Ussuriysk, there is a straight line distance of 600 kilometers to Boli and a straight line distance of 800 kilometers to Komsomolsk.
The marching route required more than 800 kilometers to Boli and more than 1,100 kilometers to Komsomolsk.
Along the way, all Soviet troops were evacuated to Boli and Komsomolsk, and Khrushchev arrived in time for Komsomolsk, and the next day presided over an inspection of the defensive front of Boli.
Khrushchev could not give up these two cities, otherwise he would be greeted by the execution team sent by Stalin.
The loss of these two cities means that the battlefield will cover Central Siberia, and the bombers of the Red Alert Empire will also directly threaten the battlefield on the Western Front.
It will also be difficult for the Soviet Union to continue to maintain the demand for the battlefield.
The defense of the two cities is directly related to the key to the victory or defeat of the Soviet Union in this war.
Defeat, the Soviet Union will be divided between Germany and the Red Alert Empire, maintaining an invincible and undefeated situation, more or less able to hold on.
If one of them could be won, the USSR still had a chance to win the war.
How could Khrushchev give up such a crucial place.
The Soviets, who had no choice, could only send more troops for defense.
And the third theater of operations, also concentrated all its forces and approached Boli and Komsomolsk.
The front-line combat units of the Red Police Corps are not garrison areas, and the main execution is operations, and after the garrison troops take over, they will liberate all their forces and go to a new battlefield.
At present, the main forces of the Third Theater have all entered Eastern Siberia, and it only takes one day to reach Boli and Komsomolsk.
This war is fought against time.
Zhan Fuchun did not have time to rest and recuperate for the troops, and a large number of Soviet soldiers around him were all withdrawn, and he had to take advantage of the opponent's unstable foothold to deliver a fatal blow.
What Khrushchev was calculating, Zhan Fuchun knew very well.
In the eyes of the Soviets, the Red Alert Empire came to fight in Eastern Siberia, and the long supply lines would make it difficult for the Red Alert Empire to maintain a long-term war.
It was only necessary to hold off the enemy's offensive and wait for the onset of winter, when the fighting in Siberia would have to be postponed and buy more time for the Soviet Union.
However, Khrushchev did not know that the Red Guard Corps did not need long-distance supplies at all.
Three days after the occupation of Ussuriysk, a large number of military factories were built in Ussuriysk, and the troops' weapons and ammunition consumption and warm clothing could be replenished to the nearest troops.
The only thing that needed to be replenished was three meals a day, but this was not a difficult task for the Red Guard, which had a strong air transport capacity and could build an airfield at any time.
What's more, there is also the port transportation and supply in Vladivostok, not to mention the daily food supply of 500,000 combat troops, even if the third theater has a party every day, the resources are more than enough.
In addition, when it comes to cold winter operations, it is originally a subject that the Red Police Corps must pass, and in the underground space of the base vehicles, there are many extreme cold winter weather, and both weapons and equipment and soldiers can adapt to operations under severe cold conditions.
Even if winter comes, as long as the temperature does not exceed minus thirty or forty degrees, the Red Guard Corps still has the strength to fight.
Moreover, the Third Theater was responsible for the main attack on the Soviet Union this time, and it was also equipped with a large number of machinery and equipment for defrosting and shoveling snow, and the cold winter could not stop the attack of the Red Guard Corps at all, and only the cold snap could temporarily slow down the advance of the Red Guard Corps.
Behind the third theater of operations, there is also an engineering unit of the logistics center, which is a construction team of army scale.
In addition to the necessary protection troops, most of them were engineers of the Red Guard, whose task was to lay railways, build logistics supply stations, ensure that roads were clear, and build airstrips in the field.
In the same way that Vasilevsky made the same mistakes, Khrushchev also used the same means against the Germans, which he used against the Red Guard.
And Khrushchev also forgot that in Stalingrad, he was not fighting alone, on the side, there were millions of Soviet troops in response, and there was a marshal like Zhukov in command, delaying a large number of the main forces of Germany.
Of course, perhaps Khrushchev also understood this, but the 500,000 troops of the Red Guard Corps are really too deceptive.
Khrushchev, who was accustomed to millions of Germans, thought that an enemy of 500,000 might be really formidable, but not so much that he would not even have the slightest strength to parry.
The war began long before the departure of the main forces of the 3rd theater of operations, when Khrushchev gave the order to hasten the defense of the strongholds of the troops.
The Air Cavalry Division of the Red Guard Corps has also cast a wide net in Eastern Siberia.
Many Soviet troops defending villages and isolated small cities were attacked before they had even left for Boli.
Especially those farmsteads and the Soviet troops on the march, were not calm at all.
Although the main forces on the ground have not yet moved, the Air Force has not rested.
Many Soviet troops, not long after leaving the defensive area, were bombed by bombers, and often lost part of their combat strength without going a few kilometers.
Some of the troops who returned to Boli were also riddled with holes and scars, and when they traveled, there were thousands of men, and when they arrived, there were not even half of them left.