I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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Pulkayev knew that once his heavy artillery group opened fire, the dazzling light would reveal the position of the heavy artillery group at once. The main mechanized troops came to attack and destroy them, so he had been prepared for a long time. He deployed the few tanks and anti-tank guns in his hands near the positions of the heavy artillery group, waiting for the mechanized troops of the Nanjing Army to automatically attack. In addition, some of the artillery units of the Soviet Army did not launch an attack on the positions of the Nanjing Army, but quietly ambushed near the positions of the heavy artillery group. After the mechanized troops of the Nanjing Army came to the door, this part of the Soviet artillery immediately aligned. shot coverage in an attempt to destroy its tanks.

Purkayev’s deployment in this way has two purposes. One is to protect his own heavy artillery from too much loss, so as to ensure that the Soviet army has always maintained the advantage of heavy firepower in this Lake East Battle. The troops were used as bait to lure the mechanized troops of the Nanjing Army to come to the door, so that the Soviet anti-tank troops could destroy them while waiting for work and waiting for a rabbit, severely damage the mechanized forces of the Nanjing Army, and further strengthen the chances of victory of the Soviet Army.

Objectively speaking, Purkayev's subordinates were very reasonable and correct, but he had calculated everything, except that he did not expect that there was a Yellow Russian army in the Nanjing Army.

When the tank battalion of the Nanjing Army rushed to the vicinity of the Soviet heavy artillery group with strong momentum, Valentin Antonovich Peniko, the commander of the artillery regiment of the 54th Army of the Soviet Army who was in charge of commanding the heavy artillery, Instead of being nervous, Lieutenant Colonel Fowski was in high spirits.

"Haha! They are indeed here!" With the help of the monstrous flames, Penikowski clearly saw dozens of Nanjing army tanks coming flying sand and rocks.

"Comrades! The enemy is coming! Open fire!" Penikowski shouted.

The Soviet anti-tank guns ambushing near the positions of the heavy artillery group fired one after another, and the shells flew across the thunderbolt fire, blasting clouds of yellow sand and black smoke.

As soon as the two sides fought, Penikowski found that he was a little too happy, because the Nanjing army tank group was led by more than a dozen unstoppable Leopard tanks. The thick armor of the Japanese style can be directly bounced or smashed into a small dent.

The Leopards roared and fired continuously, sending the Soviet anti-tank artillery positions to the sky one by one. The Soviet anti-tank soldiers were flying in blood and flesh in the thunder, and the Soviet tanks that drove forward to fight with them were also one after another. The ground becomes scrap iron in the fireball.

"Quickly order the defensive artillery, and immediately open fire on the Chinese tank group!" Penikowski ordered in a hurry and covered in cold sweat.

After waves of Soviet artillery shells fell, the Nanjing Army tank group, which was fearless in the face of Soviet anti-tank guns and Soviet tanks, immediately fell into a sea of ​​fire and fury.

The Leopard can still hold on, and the rest of the tanks, including the No. [-] tank second only to the Leopard, are scattered, staggering and staggering in the explosion shock wave of the shells. The fire was turned off, the armored soldiers inside were shaken to death, and some tanks were directly hit by Soviet artillery shells, and they were shattered and shattered in an instant. The blockade line, advancing angrily.

In the fierce melee, a large number of Soviet troops came to reinforce, one of them was the Yellow Russian Army disguised as a Soviet army.

The Yellow Russian Army who came for "reinforcement" did not arouse any suspicion from the Soviet Army. The Soviet Army who encountered them thought they were their own troops who had come to reinforce them. They immediately revealed their true colors.

"Kill!" Cheng Hu roared angrily.

"Kill all these Bolshevik bastards!" The officers and soldiers of the Yellow Russian Army yelled, drove to the position of the Soviet heavy artillery group in a car, and then frantically strafed and threw grenades.

The Soviet artillery and Soviet infantry who were hit were caught off guard, and they were drowned in screams and billowing blood mist.

The machine gunners of the Yellow Russian Army on the car rained bullets from the Tegarev light machine gun and the Maxim heavy machine gun on the Soviet officers and soldiers who belonged to the same race as them but had completely different beliefs. The former compatriots in Shun China were shot and killed with holes in their bodies and blood gushing like springs. The infantry of the Yellow Russian Army jumped out of the car, rushed at the Soviet artillery, and threw grenades into the muzzle. The barrel of the artillery was blown into iron twists, and the shells of the Soviet heavy artillery were detonated. In the earth-shattering explosion, countless fragments of steel and human flesh flew all over the sky.

"Stop it for me!" Cheng Hu hurriedly shouted after seeing this scene, "Seize it if you can! Don't blow it up!"

The roar of planes came from the night sky. Although it was not dense and majestic, it was enough to surprise the Soviet troops on the ground.

Even though it was at night, the Chinese Air Force's participating troops gritted their teeth and dispatched more than a dozen "Sparrow" ground attack aircraft in accordance with the Army's request.

After the sparrows flew over, they first threw airborne flares. In the brief light that was as bright as day, the sparrows could clearly see the position of the Soviet heavy artillery group on the ground, and then bombs blew them into pieces.

Relying on the Yellow Russian Army and Air Force attack aircraft, the Nanjing Army destroyed and seized most of the heavy artillery of the Soviet Army, while the tank unit, which was supposed to undertake the main offensive task, only played a role in attracting the attention and firepower of the Soviet Army during the battle.

The Nanjing Army's tactics of doing the opposite made Pulkayev's painstaking countermeasures finally go to waste.

Having basically completed the task of destroying the heavy artillery units of the Soviet Army, Cheng Hu and Luo Tingkang led the troops to continue fighting, rushed to the rear of the Soviet Army's logistics bases, successfully destroyed multiple bases, and tens of thousands of tons of Soviet military supplies were burned.

The officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army (including the officers and soldiers of the Yellow Russian Army) who had killed them wantonly set fire, causing all the logistics bases attacked by the Soviet Army to burst into flames, including thousands of tons of gasoline and diesel oil, which also turned into a sea of ​​​​flames. The earth shook and the mountains shook, because a large amount of ammunition of the Soviet army was detonated by the fire.

When the officers and soldiers evacuated triumphantly, there was a scene of volcanic eruption and lava flowing behind them.

In this night battle, the Soviet army also tried to conduct a surprise attack on the rear of the Nanjing Army, using cavalry units.

Fortunately, before the war, Sun Tongxuan and Feng Shengfa accepted the suggestion of Ji Hongru, the deputy brigade commander of the 17th Brigade, and strengthened the defense of the rear of the Nanjing Army, so that the killed Soviet cavalry returned home with heavy casualties and little harvest. .

The officers and soldiers who had been prepared for a long time wiped out thousands of Soviet cavalry with machine guns, and seized more than 300 horses and hundreds of tons of horse meat that could be used as military rations.

The fierce battle lasted for half the night. At three o'clock in the morning, Purkayev was forced to give up the attack in extreme pain and gave the order to retreat. As soon as dawn came, the planes of the Nanjing Army would fly in and the troops would regroup First of all, it will inevitably be bombed, and secondly, the Soviet army suffered heavy losses, not only casualties, but also losses in artillery, tanks, cavalry, and supplies, all of which were huge.

Purkayev was in so much pain that his troops had successfully smashed the defense line of the Nanjing Army to the point of precariousness. He was only one step away from victory. It is clear that "one bang, then decline, and three exhaustion", if the first large-scale all-out attack fails, the odds of winning the next attack will drop sharply. It can be said that without large-scale reinforcements, It was already difficult for the Soviet Army on the North Route to accomplish its original goal, but Pulkayev had to persevere. First, he could not retreat. Neither Tolofemenko nor the Moscow authorities would allow him to retreat. Second, he continued to If you persist in fighting, you can also support the Soviet Army on the South Road, which is of certain positive significance to the overall situation of the Soviet Army.

"Long live!" "We must win!" "Old Maozi has been repelled!" On the Nanjing Army's position that was riddled with holes, blood stains everywhere, and scorched earth was smoking, the officers and soldiers were exhausted but extremely excited and cheered heartily. Like a tsunami torrent, it went straight to the sky.

Sun Tongxuan let out a long sigh of relief. His body was covered with blood, most of which were splashed on him by the guards who protected him when he was killed or injured, and a small part was his own. A stray bullet and multiple pieces of shell fragments scratched, but fortunately none of them hurt the vitals.

The battle results and battle damage were quickly counted, which made Sun Tongxuan, Feng Shengfa, Cao Fulin, Huang Baitao and other senior officers feel a little relieved and suddenly heavy again. In this night battle, the 17th and 20th Divisions of the Nanjing Army accumulated Killed, wounded, and captured about 3.5 Soviet troops, destroyed about 110 large-caliber artillery pieces of the Soviet army, captured 38 large-caliber artillery pieces of the Soviet army, destroyed countless supplies of the Soviet army, destroyed the headquarters of the 54th Army of the Soviet army, and killed The army commander, Major General Ad Kuleshov, had achieved fruitful results, but the Nanjing Army also paid a huge price. More than 1.7 officers and soldiers suffered casualties, of which more than 7000 were killed. According to statistics, the Nanjing Army suffered casualties A full 60% of the officers and soldiers were caused by Soviet artillery. If the Soviet heavy artillery positions had not been destroyed in time, the Nanjing Army positions would most likely be overwhelmed by the Soviets, and the casualties would at least double.

In addition, on the surface, the number of casualties of the Nanjing Army is only half of that of the Soviet Army, but this is by no means a victory, because the total number of the Nanjing Army on the East Lake battlefield is about 6.5, and the total number of the Soviet Army is as high as more than 25. The Nanjing Army was four times that of the Soviet Army, and the Nanjing Army was "enough" if it was one to four with the Soviet Army, and it was a "loss" if it was one to two.

"You're right!" Sun Tongxuan looked at Feng Shengfa, who was also covered in blood, dust, and gunpowder smoke, "We can't fight positional warfare, otherwise, not only will we not be able to destroy or repel the Soviet army, but we may be consumed by the Soviet army!"

Feng Shengfa nodded: "We should listen more to the opinions of young officers. They are flexible and can come up with better solutions. Only by working together can we brainstorm ideas!"

Sun Tongxuan nodded again and again: "You are right!"

Chapter 473: Hundred Battles in Yellow Sand (3)

Teams of Kazakhs leading camels, horses, donkeys, or sheep walked to the vicinity of the Nanjing Army's position, and shouted loudly:

"Eggs! Fresh eggs! Fresh vegetables just picked!"

"Do I need to buy sheep? Rams are cheaper, and ewes are a little more expensive. Ewes can both lamb and milk!"

"Buy some camels! In the desert, camels are much more useful than horses!"

"Apples! Big, sweet apples! And carrots, pears, and oranges!"

The quartermasters of the Nanjing Army were just like ordinary people visiting the vegetable market, picking and choosing while bargaining, forming a peculiar scene on the battlefield.

Before participating in the Soviet War, there was a heated discussion in the Nanjing Army Headquarters about how the troops should get along with the local residents. Some generals advocated the use of iron fists, while others advocated the use of gentle methods.

Jiang Weiguo prefers the former, because he knows that in order to resist the German army, the former Soviet Union adopted the method of China resisting Japan and Japan resisting the United States, that is, all the people are soldiers, which led to the emergence of numerous and pervasive guerrillas on the Soviet battlefield, and those guerrillas Basically, they pretend to be civilians, or even civilians, farming with a hoe in their left hand and killing people with a weapon in their right hand.

Obviously, the Nanjing Army does not need to treat this kind of Soviet people as civilians. However, the Nanjing Army does not have the energy to identify real Soviet civilians and Soviet guerrillas disguised as Soviet civilians. Don't let one go." After all, Jiang Weiguo didn't want his Chinese compatriots and his Nanjing Army soldiers to pay the price in blood for the so-called benevolence, righteousness and morality.

However, after careful study, the Nanjing Army Headquarters believes that for the Russians in the Soviet Union, iron fists must be used, but for other ethnic groups in the Soviet Union, gentle means can be used.

There are two reasons. First, Russians agree with the Soviet Union, because the Soviet Union is actually a "big federation with Russia as the main body". Russians are the main nation and master of the Soviet Union, so they naturally identify with the Soviet Union. The policy of "strengthening the Russian ethnic group and suppressing other ethnic groups" is very cruel and brutal. Therefore, other ethnic groups in the Soviet Union are deeply persecuted by the Stalin regime, and their identification with the Soviet Union is not as good as that of the Russian ethnic group.

Therefore, the method used by the Nanjing Army on the ethnic issue should be to "woo other ethnic groups and suppress the Russian ethnic group", and Jiang Weiguo agreed.

After the 31st Army and 37th Army entered Central Asia, since more than half of the local residents were non-Russians, the troops took gentle measures against them and strictly enforced military discipline. As long as they did not resist, they would not kill, rob, fight, or forcibly conscript For labor, rape is strictly not allowed, and at the same time, leaflets are distributed, stating that the enemy of the Nanjing Army is the Stalinist regime of the Soviet Union, and it is to rescue the local people.

Wherever the army went, the military discipline was strict and there was no crime. The largest number of Kazakhs in Kazakhstan were Kazakhs, followed by Russians. Regarding the propaganda and actual actions of the Nanjing Army, the Kazakhs were fearful, suspicious, and nervous at first, but soon became Praise and trust, most Kazakhs also hated the Stalinist regime and Bolshevism, so they welcomed the Nanjing Army.

On the Hudong battlefield at this time, although there are no big cities in the local area, there are still many small towns and villages with hundreds of thousands of residents. These residents watched the excitement on the edge of the battlefield when the Nanjing Army and the Soviet Army fought. Stop fighting with the Soviet army, they immediately swarmed up and sold their goods to the Nanjing army.

On the one hand, the Nanjing Army was wary that there might be Soviet spies and eyeliners among these Kazakhs. On the other hand, it was also willing to buy things from them, which could not only promote the "military-civilian fish and water situation", but also alleviate the lack of supplies for the troops.

In this kind of battlefield vegetable market, the Nanjing army and the Kazakhs live in peace, and when buying and selling things, they also "mark the price clearly, and they are innocent."

"Do you want rubles or French currency?" asked a quartermaster of the Nanjing Army.

"French currency, French currency is more valuable than rubles!" The Kazakh who sold things smiled honestly.

As far as the Kazakhs are concerned, they already have a premonition that the Chinese will replace the Russians to rule Kazakhstan, so the Chinese currency, the French currency, is naturally stronger and more reliable in Kazakhstan than the Soviet currency, the ruble.

"Why are these apples so expensive? It's twice as expensive as when we bought them in Almaty!" A quartermaster of the Nanjing Army bargained dissatisfiedly.

"Sir, it costs a lot to transport these apples from Almaty, and it's so dangerous here, so of course it's more expensive!" The Kazakh selling apples seemed confident.

"Cheaper, or you won't buy it, go to the opposite side of the battlefield and sell it to the Russians!"

"Okay, okay, cheaper!" The attitude of the Kazakh selling apples softened suddenly, because the quartermaster of the Nanjing Army took out his trump card.

The trump card is: these Kazakhs dare not go to the opposite side of the battlefield to sell goods to the Soviet army.

Earlier, officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army asked these Kazakhs: "Are you going to sell them to the Soviet army?"

The Kazakh replied: "We're not going!"

The officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army were surprised: "Why?" They couldn't believe that these Kazakhs were also members of the Soviet Union, and they didn't sell their goods to their own troops but to foreign troops (even enemy troops). They were simply "Soviet traitors" Behavior.

The Kazakhs complained: "We went there once, and those Russians didn't give us money at all, they took our things for nothing, and they were full of reasoning, asking us to support the motherland against the invaders, and also asked us to pay and contribute to the motherland. Humph, only fools are going! The Soviet Union is the motherland of their Russians, not our Kazakhs! They take it for nothing, you give it money, and of course we sold it to you!"

The officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army were dumbfounded.

On the Central Asian battlefield, the Sino-Soviet armies fought a big war, and the attitude of the local Kazakhs was "no mutual help", because in their view, this war was a matter between the Chinese and the Russians (although there were many Kazakh officers and soldiers in the Soviet army ), it has nothing to do with their Kazakhs, they are outsiders, it doesn't matter who wins or loses, but they prefer the Chinese to win, because Kazakhs will either be ruled by the Russians or they will be ruled by the Chinese, but the Chinese obviously want Kinder and more polite than the Russians.

The Soviet Union is a country, but within this country, Kazakhs do not identify with the Soviet Union, and they do not regard Russians as fellow countrymen. "Russians (Russians)" and "Kazakhs" are basically people from two countries. In a sense, the Soviet Union and Russia (Russia) are fundamentally different, and Soviets and Russians are not equated.

"We thought we were fighting in the territory of an enemy country. Unexpectedly, we and the Soviet army or the Russian army were like fighting in a third country. The invaders' us!" Chen Mingren once said in a military report, and he added, "The right time and place are on our side, and I think that people and harmony can also be on our side.

As long as we use it properly, we can fight a local war in Central Asia, because we are not the Central Asian invaders, we are the liberators of Central Asia, and the Russians are the Central Asian invaders!"

On the Central Asian battlefield, there were even more locals (mainly Kazakhs) on the side of the Nanjing Army than on the side of the Soviet Army (mainly Russians). A very important reason for the growing disadvantage.

On the east of the lake battlefield, the senior officers of the Nanjing Army held an emergency meeting to conduct operational summaries and formulate new operational plans.

First of all, don't even think about large-scale assistance. The Nanjing Army Headquarters is unable to dispatch a new batch of heavy troops to Central Asia. Fortunately, the Soviet Army is the same. The Soviet Army is also unable to dispatch more troops and more ordnance to the Central Asian battlefield; Secondly, although position defense warfare can also achieve certain effects and results, for the Nanjing Army with limited capital, this tactic is not cost-effective, and another method must be found.

Therefore, we should not continue to "focus on positional warfare, supplemented by mobile warfare", but instead, "mainly focus on mobile warfare, supplemented by positional warfare."

In this regard, Sun Tongxuan conducted a self-reflection with a candid attitude at the meeting. He smiled bitterly and laughed at himself: "My tactical thinking is still stuck in the old way of fighting the Japanese. It can be said that 'one general is incompetent, and the three armies are exhausted.' , must keep pace with the times!"

The young military officers who participated in the meeting spoke enthusiastically. Few of these officers were at the brigade level, deputy brigade level, and more were at the regiment level, deputy regiment level or even battalion level. Originally, they were not qualified to participate in high-level meetings, but Sun Tongxuan He and Feng Shengfa realized that it is necessary to provide young officers with the opportunity to speak, so that they can better display their talents and abilities, so as to pool their efforts and brainstorm.

Ji Hongru said: "On the grassland or desert, a few wolves can make a group of sheep panic and exhausted. In fact, this is a natural manifestation of mobile warfare.

Our army must use more, at least two-thirds of the troops, for mobile warfare in order to hit the Soviet army to the maximum extent!"

Sun Tongxuan said worriedly: "In this way, there will be fewer troops used for position defense. Isn't it because we lose sight of the other? After all, our strength is limited, and the headquarters will no longer allocate heavy troops to us!"

Zhang Lingfu said: "That's ambush from all sides and flowers blooming on the trees!"

Feng Shengfa said in surprise: "What's 'ambush from all sides, blossoms on trees'?"

Zhang Lingfu said confidently: "Our army has air supremacy. Although it is unable to carry out high-intensity ground attacks on the Soviet army, it can ensure that the Soviet army's reconnaissance planes cannot conduct high-altitude reconnaissance on our army. At night, both sides can see each other. discredit.

To put it bluntly, we can have a better understanding of the situation of the Soviet army, but the Soviet army has no way of grasping information for us. This is a major advantage of our army.

If we use ten armored regiments to harass the Soviet army's flanks and flanks day and night, the Soviet army will be too weak to parry, how can we concentrate our forces to attack our defense line? "

Sun Tongxuan laughed dumbfoundedly: "How can we have such a powerful mechanized force as ten armored regiments!"

Zhang Lingfu smiled slightly: "If we disguise hundreds of cars as tanks with wooden boards, and hang branches behind the cars, and when they drive, flying sand and rocks, filled with smoke and dust, ten tanks will lead to a hundred cars disguised as tanks. Rushing to the Soviet army, can the Soviet army tell the truth from the fake?"

Sun Tongxuan, Feng Shengfa and others' eyes immediately brightened: "Good idea! What a tree blooming!" Feng Shengfa thought repeatedly excitedly: "Yes, the Soviet army does not have air supremacy and cannot use reconnaissance planes to scout our army's falsehood. How can the Soviet army distinguish the truth from the truth?"

"However..." Sun Tongxuan thought of a question, "Such a fake tank unit can only confuse and harass the enemy, and cannot really attack the enemy?"

Zhang Lingfu laughed: "Of ten armored regiments, eight are fake, and two are real. The real and the false, and the false and the real, isn't it enough? At that time, the ten armored regiments will be on the flanks of the Soviet army and With a large-scale move in the rear, the Soviet army must be in a panic. The other eight fake armored regiments are responsible for confusing and disturbing the enemy, and the two real armored regiments are responsible for attacking and killing the enemy. Wouldn't it be the best of both worlds to keep attacking the Soviet army?"

"Not bad! Not bad!" Feng Shengfa became more and more excited, "At that time, even if the Soviet army finds out that it is tricky, they will have nothing to do.