I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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"Down with Choibalsan's tyranny! Long live the friendship between Han and Mongolia!"

In order to stabilize people's hearts and win people's hearts, the logistics personnel of the army gave a little daily necessities such as grain, dried meat, salt, tea, cloth, etc., to the herdsmen of Outer Mongolia along the way, although they were just "small favors" , but it is very effective for two reasons. First, the Nanjing Army is not a "foreign army" that "invades" Outer Mongolia. The benefits that the Outer Mongolians take from the Nanjing Army are naturally not "to seek refuge with foreign enemies as a traitor"; The Mongolian people were living in heavy poverty at this time.

Due to many reasons, such as being inland, the traffic is closed, and the development is very late, the economy of Outer Mongolia has always been sluggish, and the people live in poverty. After the "Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party" in Choibalshan came to power, it completely copied the Soviet Union in terms of economic construction. Regardless of the fact that Outer Mongolia’s economy is dominated by scattered animal husbandry and is very backward (although Outer Mongolia’s mineral resources are very rich, they have not yet been systematically developed on a large scale at this time, the animal husbandry is basically out Mongolia’s only source of income at this time), brutally carried out the “overall collectivization of animal husbandry”, established collective pastures by means of coercion, suppressed private industry, commerce, handicrafts, and transportation by imposing heavy taxes, forced lamas to return to vulgarity, and confiscated those with certain assets. The private property of the residents caused great consequences, the economy almost collapsed, the commodity was scarce, the herdsmen slaughtered a large number of livestock, lost 700 million livestock in a few years, and more than 900 temples and monasteries were destroyed. In addition, the puppet Mongolian government It also forcibly confiscated the property of feudal princes, feudal lords, and foreigners. Not only that, when the Soviet Union was carrying out a large-scale purge, Qiao Bashan also carried out a similar large-scale purge in Outer Mongolia, killing the number of members of the pseudo-Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party from more than 4. More than 7000 people, at the same time, brutally persecuted religious personnel in the name of anti-feudalism, and more than 3 monks and lamas were killed or imprisoned. Internal carnage.

After "collectivization" and "great cleansing", complaints abounded in Outer Mongolia, and people's livelihoods declined. The princes and nobles in Outer Mongolia were killed by the Qiaobashan gang, and the poverty of the herdsmen in Outer Mongolia became worse. In addition, Qiao In the name of anti-feudalism, the Bashan gang suppressed the Buddhist beliefs of the people of Outer Mongolia. The political system of Outer Mongolia was originally "the unity of politics and religion" like Tibet. Jebtsundamba Hutuktu of Outer Mongolia and Zhang Jiahu of Inner Mongolia Tuktu is also known as the "two major living Buddhas" of Mongolia, and together with the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama of Tibet, the "four major living Buddhas of Tibetan Buddhism".

When Outer Mongolia became independent for the first time, a so-called "constitutional monarchy" was established. The living Buddha was the supreme leader, equal to the king/emperor. or assassinated by Choibalsan), the Puppet Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party immediately abolished the living Buddha reincarnation system in Outer Mongolia, and directly established a "republic in which the people are the masters of the country."

All the perverse actions of the Choibalsan gang made the people of Outer Mongolia resentful. If it weren't for the support of the Soviets in Choibalsan, Choibalsan's rule would have been overthrown by the people of Outer Mongolia long ago.

In fact, for the grassroots people in Outer Mongolia, national independence is not important, what matters is whether they can live a prosperous life, but what the Qiaobashan gang gave the people of Outer Mongolia is just a boastful but useless independence. Banner, but let them live more impoverished.

A few necessities of life, coupled with the easy-to-understand and sincere "Hanmeng family" simple truth, made the Nanjing Army not very popular with the people of Outer Mongolia, but it was not very popular with foreigners. The resistance of the grassroots people in Mongolia has initially won the favor and hearts of the people in Outer Mongolia.

At three o'clock in the afternoon that day, the 77th Brigade, the vanguard of the 77th Division, arrived at the outskirts of Kulun, the core of Outer Mongolia.

Looking at Kulun City, which is close at hand, Hu Lian, the commander of the 77th Brigade, smiled. He put down his binoculars and ordered: "Everyone rests and defends on the spot. The engineering unit immediately builds a field airport!"

The reason why Hu Lian issued these three orders was firstly because the troops were exhausted after the high-intensity rapid march, and secondly because the 77th Brigade had difficulty in taking Kulun City and had to wait for the follow-up troops. The local defense was to prevent Kulun City from The Soviet Army and the Puppet Mongolian Army took the initiative to attack. As for the third point, the importance of the airport is needless to say.

In fact, one of the major tasks of the subsequent 88th and 99th Divisions is to build field airports along the way.

It is relatively convenient to build a field airport on the flat and flat Mongolian plateau (especially the Gobi desert in southern Outer Mongolia). As long as a large open space is cleared and tanks are lined up to run a few times, the aircraft can basically Take off and land.

The Nanjing army approached the city, causing Kulun's Soviet and puppet Mongolian troops to panic.

Kulun’s Soviet Army is the 55th Army of the Far Eastern Front, and its commander is Major General Ka Kolochiyev, but more than half of the army’s main force is already on the Black West battlefield, and the core of the Soviet Army in the Far East is the 57th Army, and the 55th Army is only a "second-rate army" The replenishment of ordnance, materials, and personnel is not as good as that of the 57th Army. At present, among the troops of the 55th Army in Kulun, there are two relatively intact and combat-effective ones, one is the 11th Tank Brigade, and the other is the 36th Tank Brigade. The motorized infantry division, these two units went into battle immediately after the outbreak of the Far East Campaign, but they were paralyzed by the Japanese army and had to retreat to Kulun for a rest. In addition, at this time, 200% to 4% of the combat effectiveness has been restored. They were going to go to the Black West battlefield again. The two troops have more than 1 troops and have more than [-] tanks. [-] cavalry division, more than [-] troops, and the commander-in-chief was Gonchikin Bumanzendi, a confidant of Choibalsan, director of the Equipment Bureau of the Puppet Mongolian Army, and alternate member of the Central Committee of the Puppet Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party.

Due to the speed of the Nanjing Army, both Kolochiyev and Bumanzendi were caught off guard. The panicked two contacted Moscow and the other contacted Qiaobashan who led the main force of the puppet Mongolian army on the Black West battlefield.

In fact, Moscow and Choibalsan were even more caught off guard, and they didn't recover at all.

After learning that his old nest was in danger, Qiaobashan contacted Moscow with the same urgency, but Moscow itself was caught off guard by this huge emergency and was unable to respond and countermeasures for a while.

In Wuhan, Lu Ganzi rushed to see Chiang Kai-shek, hoping to ask "what's going on." Chiang Kai-shek replied with a sly expression on his face: "Mr. Something the government, the Chinese military can only dream of!"

Lu Ganzi woke up like a dream, and he suddenly realized that what Chiang Kai-shek said last time was only "recovering the lost ground", and did not clearly state that what he recovered was "the lost ground occupied by the Japanese".

Inside the city of Kulun, Kolochiyev and Bumanzendi were in a state of disarray. They had already determined that the army outside the city was the "Chinese army", which made the problem complicated.

Kolochiev’s troops are Soviet troops. Whether he can take the initiative to attack the Chinese army has not been authorized by Moscow, so he is in a dilemma. He does not know whether he should take the initiative to attack. He judges that the Chinese army outside the city is only the vanguard. Both the Soviet army and the puppet Mongolian army stood still, and more and more Chinese troops were approaching the city. At that time, I would just sit and wait for death. Therefore, it is inevitable to take the initiative to attack. Defeating the vanguard of the Chinese army can not only attack the enemy, but also deter the enemy. , It can also prevent the enemy from launching a full-scale attack after fully accumulating strength, but the Soviet army is "inconvenient to shoot", so it can only be the pseudo-Mongolian army.

Kolochiyev then went to Bumanzendi, requesting or ordering the puppet Mongolian army with Kulun to attack immediately.

Buman Zengdi's face was ashen-colored. He looked at the Chinese army outside the city through a telescope and saw that the opponent had a large number of cars, artillery and tanks. He knew that the opponent was an elite army armed to the teeth. Knowing that the puppet Mongolian army took the initiative to attack, it was more ominous, so I did not agree.

Kolochiyev was furious immediately: "This is Kulun! It is the capital of your Mongolian country! Now, the Chinese invade your homeland and approach the city of your capital, but you are afraid to move forward? You are simply trash!"

Buman Zengdi gritted his teeth in anxiety and anger, and ordered Kulun's puppet Mongolian army to launch a large-scale active attack on the Nanjing army outside the city.

The puppet Mongolian army attacked first with cavalry units, followed by infantry units. Thousands of horses and tens of thousands of people swarmed out amidst the shouts and footsteps, with the momentum of oxen and horses, the dust was soaring, and the momentum was not small, but It's as chaotic and disorderly as chasing ducks.

At the position of the 77th Brigade, Hu Lian laughed: "What's wrong? These frogs think that today's battlefield is the era when Genghis Khan's cavalry was invincible?" He shouted, "Brothers! Set up machine guns! Let these people sit in the well and watch the sky Zhao Zhihua!" He ordered the deputy brigade commander, Zhao Zhihua, "Take all the light medium tanks and armored vehicles, and after the battle begins, the troops will be divided into two ways to outflank the puppet Mongolian army's two wings, It's making a triangular siege! I don't want to just repel or defeat them!" He was full of pride, "I want to make their dumplings and eat them all in one go!"

On the grasslands in the southern suburbs of Kulun City, the capital of Outer Mongolia, wind and thunder rolled, sandstorms flew, and a fierce battle broke out.

More than 77 puppet Mongolian troops roared towards the [-]th Brigade of the Nanjing Army outside the city like a herd of bison out of control, rolling up dust that covered the sky and the sun. Machine guns, thousands of rifles, submachine guns, and hundreds of mortars, infantry guns, and light artillery are on the line, and behind the position, teams of tanks, armored vehicles, and cars are also starting their engines and are ready to go.

Seeing the crowds of the puppet Mongolian army rushing to less than 200 meters away from the position, Hu Lian, who personally supervised the battle, gave an order almost calmly: "All fire!"

"Kill!" The Chinese yelled to kill, and in an instant, thunder and lightning rang out from the wind and sand on the Kulun Grassland.

Thousands of arrows were fired at the Nanjing Army's position, and there was a burst of bullets like a rainstorm. Countless tongues of flames flashed like golden snakes dancing wildly like arcs of welding arcs. It couldn't be heard at all, the huge roar was deafening, almost shaking the entire Kulun City, and the torrential rain-like bullets were strafed with thunder-like shells exploding.

Originally, there were only four colors in the fighting area, the turquoise of the prairie ground, the grayish yellow of the Nanjing Army uniform, the grayish brown of the Puppet Mongolian Army uniform, and the grayish white of the dust. The Nanjing Army's position roared out overwhelmingly, and countless dazzling bright reds bloomed densely everywhere like red rain falling on rice paper.

This battle is extremely similar to the Battle of Baliqiao that broke out between the Qing army and the British and French allied forces in 1860. More than 5 Qing troops rushed towards the more than 47 British and French allied forces equipped with a large number of machine guns. More than half of the casualties were killed in the net, while the British and French allied forces only paid the casualty price of [-] deaths and [-] injuries, which was so slight that it was negligible and the disparity was astonishing.

At this time, the situation on the Cullen battlefield was exactly the same.

In the stormy firepower net of the Nanjing Army, the attacking puppet Mongolian army seemed to have fallen into the hell of the knife mountain collectively, and were strangled to pieces.

In the lightning-like rain of locust bullets, the puppet Mongolian army was engulfed one by one in a sea of ​​flames in an instant. In the explosion fireball of the shells, the puppet Mongolian army charged intensively with flesh and blood. The flesh and blood around the explosion point was muddy, and human body fragments were all over the sky. Flying, the crowd of puppet Mongolian soldiers hit by shells turned into meat sauce and pieces of meat flying across the ground. Remnants of limbs and arms, human skulls and bones fluttered like fallen leaves in the wind, blood, water, and mud splashed all over the sky. The fireballs and black smoke set off countless pieces of crushed meat. The puppet Mongolian army rushing to the front was killed before they had time to react. The machine gun group was very lethal to dense crowds. They were beaten into human hornet's nests and even into a pile of rotten flesh, blood gushing like a fountain, and more puppet Mongolian soldiers were shot and killed by the same bullet fire.

Hundreds of bullets from the Nanjing Army crossed and swept across the sky amidst the raging sound that resounded through the sky. The crowd of puppet Mongolian soldiers fell down in unison like a crop field blown by a strong wind. Blood spurts from the neck cavity, turning into headless corpses and falling down. Those who are hit by bullets on their arms or thighs are immediately cut off like mud. The bullets flying at high speed cut off the limbs of the human body as quickly as a sharp knife cuts tofu. Scattered everywhere, those who were hit by bullets in the chest Hattori immediately burst into bloody holes the size of a bowl or even a washbasin, and their internal organs flowed horizontally.

In the tornado-like firepower net of death, the charging puppet Mongolian army seemed to be driving into a meat grinder. The rows of people in front turned into fragments in the blink of an eye, and the rows of people behind followed them into fragments. Fragments, between the Nanjing Army and the Puppet Mongolian Army, the bombs were soaring into the sky, the blood mist was like clouds, and the puppet Mongolian Army was killed to a pile of corpses and blood flowed like rivers. The battle situation was completely one-sided, which can be called a one-sided massacre.

Incomplete corpses, various messy human body fragments, bloody and hot internal organs, blood-stained broken military uniforms, bloody water accumulated into red ponds and red streams...flooded most of the fighting area .

The puppet Mongolian army is not as good as the Qing army in the Battle of Baliqiao, and that is the spirit of seeing death as home.

After the thousands of people at the front were beaten into rotten flesh by the Nanjing Army, the nearly ten thousand puppet Mongolian troops in the back immediately lost their souls, and then turned around and fled in a swarm of nervous breakdowns. However, the two armored convoys of the Nanjing Army Already like two iron pincers, they outflanked the puppet Mongolian army. At the same time, the Nanjing army on the ground also launched an overwhelming counterattack. Amidst the sound of killing, countless white bayonets were shining all over the mountains and fields. The Xinghe dots are led by a group of German No. [-] and No. [-] tanks. The No. [-], No. [-], No. [-] tanks are faster, so they are used to outflank the puppet Manchukuo army.

The Nanjing army engaged in a counterattack formed a triangle like three rows of bulldozers, completely encircling the puppet Mongolian army who had left the city to fight on the field outside the city.

An hour later, Kulun's puppet Mongolian army was basically wiped out. The more than [-] puppet Mongolian troops who left the city were killed by the Nanjing army. More than [-] were killed and more than [-] were captured.

The reason why the death rate of the puppet Mongolian army is so high is not that the Nanjing army deliberately killed them all, let alone that the puppet Mongolian army was as stubborn as the Japanese army and would rather die than surrender, but that most of the Han officers and soldiers of the Nanjing army could not understand the Mongolian language begging for mercy , and the war was raging, the red-eyed officers and soldiers didn't have the leisure to catch the prisoners, they directly killed the killers, and the puppet Mongolian soldiers who raised their hands and did not raise their hands were all killed.

The Nanjing Army's own casualties were only one-twentieth of that of the Puppet Mongolian Army, with more than 700 officers and soldiers casualties.

When the 77th Brigade won a complete victory, the follow-up brothers, the 78th and 79th Brigades, had also arrived. The two brigade commanders, Sun Tianfang and Wang Geng, saw the densely packed corpses of the puppet Mongolian soldiers on the battlefield, and they were all greedy for Hu Lian. Incessantly: "You fox, eat alone!"

Hu Lian laughed and said, "Why eat alone? It's just an appetizer! The big meal hasn't touched the chopsticks yet!" He pointed to Kulun City not far away.

"Yes! Yes! Yes!" Both Sun Tianfang and Wang Geng were gearing up, "The feast is still here!"

Wang Geng looked at the time, and then at his watch: "It's 04:30! How long does it take to capture Cullen?"

Hu Lian said proudly, "Don't you take it before dark?"

Sun Tianfang was surprised and said: "Although you have killed the puppet Mongolian army in the city, there are still Soviet troops! Although we did not start a war with the Soviet Union, what if the Soviet army in the city resists?"

Hu Lian was high-spirited: "What I'm talking about is when the Soviet army is resisting! Little Japan can beat the old man until his nose is bruised and his face is swollen, let alone us! Take Kulun before dark!"

Chapter 429 September Storm (3)

"Soviet soldiers in Kulun! Kulun and the whole of Outer Mongolia are Chinese territory! You are already invaders when you enter our territory! As Chinese soldiers, we have the natural responsibility to attack you, drive you away or destroy you! However, Because our government and the Soviet government have signed the "Sino-Soviet Non-Aggression Treaty", China and the Soviet Union are friendly countries, so we can give you a certain grace period! Please leave Kulun before [-]:[-] today, and we can send you out of China as a gift The border, the two sides will carry out a peaceful handover of Kulun, and there will be no fighting, otherwise you will be regarded as invaders who violate our territory!  …”

On the Nanjing Army position outside Kulun City, loudspeakers shouted to the Soviet army in the city in Russian, and dozens of loudspeakers shouted in Mongolian to the personnel of the Mongolian puppet regime inside and outside the city. Both are ultimatums, but the latter are much harsher in wording and tone:

"Kulun Outer Mongolian compatriots! Please don't be afraid! Don't be deceived! Han and Mongolian are one family! We are all Chinese! We are here to save you! Outer Mongolia is Chinese territory, and we are here to eliminate the separatist Outer Mongolia The traitors, will never hurt you! After Outer Mongolia returns to China, you will be able to live a better life! Please believe us! Please support us! In addition, the personnel of the puppet regime in Outer Mongolia listen! Especially the puppet Mongolian people Members of the Revolutionary Party! You have forgotten your ancestors, recognized your thieves as your fathers, betrayed your country for glory, and divided your country. You have long been heinous traitors! Now, we will give you one last chance to get back from the precipice! Leave the city and surrender before five o’clock in the evening. Those who abandon the dark and turn to the bright will be dealt with leniently! Those who have not left the city to surrender after five o'clock in the evening will be punished as treason and will be shot to death!..."

The overwhelming psychological battle immediately caused turmoil in the hearts of Kulun City.

After hearing the Nanjing Army's shouting, the general civilians felt a little more at ease, and even breathed a sigh of relief quietly, because the Nanjing Army said that they were destroying the "Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party", not the Mongolians in Outer Mongolia, and Many civilians are secretly looking forward to it, because the Qiaobashan gang has been rampant and perverse in Outer Mongolia these years, and has long lost popular support. Most of the Outer Mongolians whose vital interests have been damaged hate it, so they look forward to the Nanjing army coming in. The Choibalsan gang was settled after the fall; as for the members of the "Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party" in the city, they were basically terrified and terrified. Choibalsan and his loyal followers also massacred members of their party during the "big purge" in the past few years , purge the members of the pseudo-party from more than 4 to only 7000 (some of the more than 3 people were killed, some were imprisoned, some were deported, and some were exiled to the border), making the pseudo-party Internally, it is also centrifugal and unethical, falling apart.

As the Nanjing Army issued an ultimatum, the members of the pseudo-party in Kulun City immediately collapsed and dispersed. At first, they left the city to surrender in a few groups, in twos and threes, and soon turned into groups and groups. Deputy Secretary and alternate member of the Central Committee of the Puppet Party Youmujia Zedenbaer.

Zedenbal has always been regarded as Choibalsan's confidant. He is loyal and loyal to Choibalsan. During the purge of Outer Mongolia, he executed Choibalsan's orders without hesitation and mercilessly. Whom Choibalsan asked him to kill? , Whoever he punishes, he kills and punishes whomever he punishes, earning the high trust of Choibalsan, and being deliberately trained by Choibalsan to be his "revolutionary successor".

Seeing that the doomsday was coming, Zedenbal immediately tore off the masks of "Comrade Choibalsan's close assistant", "young and promising people's revolutionist" and "proven loyal party member" like a Sichuan opera, and simply chose Go out of the city and surrender to the Nanjing Army (in the original history, Zedenbaer was called "Khrushchev of Outer Mongolia". When Stalin was alive, Khrushchev was loyal to him. After Stalin died, Khrushchev immediately Launched a nationwide criticism of Stalin, and Zedenbal did the same. When Choibalsan was alive, he was loyal to him. After Choibalsan died, he immediately scolded Choibalsan and shook all the scandals about Choibalsan. In addition, Zedenbal was very pro-Soviet, and Stalin admired and was very satisfied with him, and specially told Beria not to "touch" him.

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According to the instructions of the Nanjing Army, Zeddenbar, who ran to the Nanjing Army's position, picked up a tweeter and shouted. However, his wording was much more vicious, and because he was a high-ranking figure in the puppet party, he knew There are many secrets and high-level scandals, so when you talk about it, it can be said that the tongue is like a knife, and the knife is bloody:

"Comrades of the whole party! All my compatriots in Outer Mongolia! Wake up! You have been deceived! You don't even know Choibalsan's true face! Choibalsan is the number one scum in the history of the Mongols! This villain is not at all The liberator of Mongolia! He is not a revolutionary! He is just a power-hungry careerist! His purpose is not to liberate the Mongols, nor to let the Mongols gain national independence. Those are all the rhetoric he used to deceive people. It was the big lie he told to hide his real purpose! Choibalsan's real purpose was to become the so-called Mongolian king! He just wanted to be the king and emperor himself! In order to realize his despicable ambition, he like A shameless mangy dog ​​begged for mercy towards the Soviet Union and Stalin, saying in a disgusting letter that Stalin was his father! Such a spineless scandal is simply a disgrace to the Mongolians! Disgrace to the ancestors of the Mongols The face of Genghis Khan will be ashamed even in the sky! Shame on the Mongols for producing such a scum! As a Mongol and Chinese, Qiao Basan recognized a Soviet Russian as his father. What is this not naked rape? More than that In this way, he is still in Outer Mongolia under the banner of revolution to expropriate and expropriate the Outer Mongolian compatriots. Half of the wealth he extracted was used by him to honor his Stalin father, and half was used by him for his own pleasure! He also used it in various places in Outer Mongolia. There are more than a dozen villas and mansions built in the Soviet Union, the interiors are resplendently decorated, and there are more than a dozen Mongolian beauties or Russian beauties in each of them for his indulgence! Choibalsan said that he is a member of the proletariat of Outer Mongolia, and in front of outsiders Pretend to be frugal and simple, but in fact, he is living a decadent life of drunkenness and dreaming! What kind of revolution? It’s all bullshit! Choibalsan’s revolution is a complete lie! He uses revolution to confuse people and incite people , so that he climbed to the head of the people, and then let him domineering, let him live like an emperor! His revolution did not bring any benefits to the people of Outer Mongolia, only to him and his party members It has brought benefits! The people of Outer Mongolia are living worse than before! Look at what his revolution has brought to Outer Mongolia? Only suffering, blood, and darkness! Choibalsan is not only shameless, hypocritical, licentious, but also cruel! He fought for Consolidate his power and massacre the whole party and the country! Sukh Bator was poisoned to death by him! Gelekdorji Demid was murdered by him! Even Jebtsundamba Hutuktu Living Buddha was also killed by him! His hands were stained with the blood of the people of Outer Mongolia! He committed countless crimes! He is a demon who dressed himself as the savior! He should be cut into pieces! ..."

On the Nanjing Army's ground, Hu Lian, Sun Tianfang, Wang Geng and other high-ranking officers looked at Zedenbal who was shouting hard and looked "extremely indignant", and they all wanted to laugh secretly, and felt contemptuous in their hearts.

Although Zedenbal's behavior is disgusting, and some of the contents of his propaganda were fabricated by him out of thin air, there is no doubt that the effect of his propaganda is even higher than that of the Nanjing Army, and it completely makes the fakes in the city. The spirit of the party members was disillusioned, and a large number of pseudo-party members fled the city in a swarm, scrambling to surrender. However, there were still a group of diehard elements, and the leader was Gonchikin Bumanzendi.

Hearing Zedenbal's shout, Bumanzendi almost exploded his lungs. He gritted his teeth with hatred, wishing to kill Zedenbal alive: "This bastard who eats inside and outside!" Bumanzendi did not intend to surrender because he did not want to surrender. He believed that China was the opponent of the Soviet Union. He believed that even if Outer Mongolia was temporarily taken away by the Chinese army, he, Choibalsan and other key personnel could still escape to the territory of the Soviet Union and make a comeback under the protection and support of the Soviet Union.

"General!" Bumanzendi anxiously asked Kolochiyev beside him, "What should we do now?"

Kolochiyev was equally distraught. He planned to retreat. First of all, he did not dare to provoke a war between the Soviet Union and China by himself. Secondly, through the battle just outside the city, the puppet Mongolian army was overwhelmingly killed by the Nanjing army. Clean and tidy, he has already realized that the Nanjing Army outside the city is an army stronger than his own, and there are follow-up troops, the total strength of which is three times that of his own. But the reinforcements were still in the Transbaikal or Black West battlefields, and they couldn't come for a while. The Nanjing army was very smart and only gave less than half an hour, so Kolochiev couldn't do anything to slow down the troops.

"Get ready to retreat!" After thinking about it, Kolochiev resignedly ordered Colonel Yakovlev, commander of the 11th Tank Brigade, and Colonel Suminov, commander of the 36th Motorized Infantry Division.

"How can we retreat?" Bumanzendi panicked, "How can we give up Kulun?"

Kolodiyev didn't bother to pay attention to Boumanzendi, but at this moment, a communications officer rushed over: "A telegram from Moscow!"

"What?" Kolochiyev was taken aback, and hurriedly took the telegram, which ordered him to "stick to Kulun and not take the initiative to attack. If the Chinese army fires the first shot, fight back with all their strength, and fight for the interests of the Soviets and the Mongolian people until the end." Last minute!"

Moscow has already figured out what the war in Outer Mongolia is all about at this time. It is needless to say that Stalin, who realized that the Chinese army was playing with the strategy of "building plank roads openly and keeping warehouses in the dark", was furious. Abandoning Outer Mongolia made him do nothing at all. He could not come out, but he knew very calmly that at this time, the Soviet Union and Japan were at war, and the Soviet Union and China could not also start a war, so he ordered Kolochiev to "not take the initiative to attack", but if the Chinese army took the initiative to attack the Soviet army, the Soviet army would naturally launch a war. Fighting back, the Sino-Soviet armies officially went to war.

In fact, Stalin's decision was an indirect warning, an "opportunity" for the Chinese government and the Chinese army. He estimated that the Chinese side might not dare to fire the first shot at the Soviet army. He hoped that the Chinese side could "know that Difficult to retreat", as if this had never happened.

Stalin guessed Chiang Kai-shek's thoughts, but not Jiang Weiguo's thoughts. The Nanjing Army actually obeyed Jiang Weiguo, and Jiang Weiguo's will was the Nanjing Army's will.

On the Kulun front line, Zhong Song, who had already arrived, looked at his watch with Hu Lian, Sun Tianfang, and Wang Geng, and the time slowly moved toward [-]:[-] pm.

Zhong Song looked at the sun, the sun had already set in the west, and it would be dark in less than an hour. He looked at Hu Lian and other officers: "Has the old man retreated?"

Hu Lian shook his head: "There is no movement!" There was not much regret in his expression and tone, but a bit of joy.

Zhong Song laughed: "Since the old men don't drink the toast, we can only let them eat the toast!" He put on a solemn look, "Artillery regiment! Prepare to cover Kulun with artillery fire!"

On the field behind the 77th Division, more than 100 large-caliber heavy guns raised their muzzles and glared at Kulun City. Half of these heavy guns were made in Germany and half were made in the Soviet Union.

At five o'clock, Cai Zhonghu, the head of the 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment, slammed his arm and shouted a very meaningful order: "Let go!"

Eleven years ago, in 11, the Chinese army had a small-scale battle with the Soviet army occupying Outer Mongolia on the eastern border of Outer Mongolia. After that, the Chinese army never entered Outer Mongolia, and there was no armed conflict or battle between the Chinese and Soviet armies. Today, the Chinese army entered Outer Mongolia again and battles broke out with the Soviet army.

Cullen's Soviet army was waiting for "the Chinese army to fire the first shot", and it did come, and the "first shot" was a storm of artillery fire formed by more than 100 heavy artillery firing together at full strength.

In an instant, the originally small city of Kulun was submerged in the raging flames like the sky collapsing.

Thunder and lightning flashed on the Nanjing Army's position, gods of war roared with flames like dragons, and the sound of huge shells ejected shook the dust on the grassland. The shells fell to the ground like meteors, whistling towards Kulun with a breathtaking sound, the bullets fell into flames, the ground in the city shook, balls of fireballs shot up from the ground, black smoke billowed into the air, and buildings burst into flames. Collapsed, the hurricane-like explosion shock wave was wrapped in a fire-like air wave and swept in all directions centered on the explosion point. Wherever it went, the houses collapsed, the ashes flew into smoke, and the dust like a sandstorm was raised, covering the whole world like a black cloud. city.

The sky collapsed and the earth was shattered, countless casualties, countless Soviet and puppet Mongolian soldiers and residents who were blown to pieces by shells, were torn apart, decapitated, or were killed by shock waves or were crushed to death by collapsed buildings. After the pot was over, the terrified residents cried loudly, some ran around like headless chickens, and some desperately fled the city to surrender, trampling on each other with corpses like hemp.

"Comrade Commander!" Yakovlev, Suminov and other Soviet officers were in disbelief and panic. "The Chinese fired at us! They attacked us!"

Kolochiyev was stunned, and then roared: "Counterattack! Immediately launch a counterattack!"

There are about 1 Soviet troops defending the city, equipped with many tanks, but few artillery (the artillery of the Soviet army in the Far East is basically in the Black West battlefield), and the Nanjing army that is besieging the city is about 3 people, with a complete range of tanks and artillery. According to common sense , It was very difficult for the Soviet army to defend the city. The purpose of the battle should be to delay the time, wait for the follow-up troops to arrive, but Kolochiyev did not do this. He ordered the troops out of the city to fight back in panic and anger.