I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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"If you can hold it, of course you can hold it!" Jiang Weiguo is very confident.

"Next, we will start a counterattack, but not a full-scale counterattack. We must drive the Soviet army to Anbei!" Xiao Yao said in the artillery.

Jiang Weiguo remembered that Anbei was still in the hands of the Soviet army.

The Soviet Army was completely blocked by the Nanjing Army in the field. For the Nanjing Army, "things will be easy to handle."

The Nanjing Army's sky furnace tactics began to be put into action. In the raging furnace, the Soviet army suffered unspeakably.

The principle of Tianlu tactics is not responsible. According to Xue Yue's original description, it is: "Construct a deep network of stronghold positions in the predetermined combat area, deploy the necessary garrison troops, use ambushes, decoys, interceptions, side attacks, tail attacks, etc. Use various methods to gradually consume the enemy's strength to dampen his enthusiasm, and then use superior forces in the decisive battle position to carry out counterattacks and anti-encirclement to deal annihilation blows to the enemy. Furnace of molten iron".

This tactic is easier said than done, because it tests the training level and endurance of the troops, as well as the commander's ability to control and coordinate the troops.

In the original history, Xue Yue's Tianlu tactics were not tried and tested. Apart from the strength of the Japanese army and the lack of strength of the national army, the biggest reason was that the national army lacked real well-trained troops.

In a decisive retreat, you have to retreat first, and then the decisive battle. You cannot retreat in an orderly manner, otherwise the enemy will see that it is tricky, so you have to pretend to be defeated. When a battle is defeated (the commander of the national army must not tell the grassroots officers and soldiers "don't panic, we are actually luring the Japanese army to take the bait", that is equivalent to telling the Japanese army), people have a group effect, three people become tigers, once they see the people around them When panic occurs, no matter how calm he is, he has to panic along with him, thus driving more people to panic uncontrollably.

In the words of the veterans of the national army, "The soldiers after the defeat are very miserable. Many people only knew to run for their lives in the opposite direction of the gunshots, and everyone panicked, and it was almost impossible not to panic in the midst of it, so everyone lost their fighting spirit together.”

In many battles, such as a certain side's [-] troops, some of them were defeated and ran for their lives in a panic. Even if the remaining tens of thousands of troops were not defeated, they would be driven into panic.

This is the reason why the Soviet army surrendered and was captured in units of hundreds of millions during the war.

However, there is almost no such problem for Xue Yue to use the Nanjing Army to implement the Tianlu method of warfare. The Nanjing Army is well-trained and has a strong psychological quality.

Xue Yue used the Nanjing Army to implement the Tianlu method of warfare, which can be said to be handy, like his arms and fingers, so that on the Huxi battlefield at this time, the various departments of the Nanjing Army are in order, running with high efficiency and low error like a machine, slowly but firmly He quickly put the noose around the neck of the Soviet army.

Deeply aware of the impending disaster, Kuznetsov no longer had the ambition and courage he had before. He panicked and kept sending telegrams to Konev (because the Nanjing army captured Qiecheng, the Soviet army's telephone line was closed. cut off), pleaded for assistance, for "guidance" by Konev.

For this, Konev was extremely annoyed. Although he wanted to get rid of the previous feud with Kuznetsov, after all, the situation had completely turned to the Nanjing Army.

Faced with this situation where the general situation is over and the army is defeated, Konev is helpless.

Waves of fighter jets, bombers, and attack aircraft of the Nanjing Army roared on the battlefield in the west of the lake. There were not many of them, and they could not bombard the Soviet army indiscriminately. Therefore, they launched concentrated and focused strikes, first bombing the artillery positions of the Soviet army, and then bombing the Soviet army. Army supplies.

After the explosive bombs fell, there was thunder and lightning, and a heavy Soviet artillery that was difficult to move and hide in the field was blown up into scrap iron, and a raging fire ignited everywhere where the Soviet army's luggage was hoarded, and a large amount of supplies were burned in the fire. .

The Nanjing army knew very well that the people who killed the Soviet army were not very important. They destroyed the Soviet army's heavy artillery and made them lose their heavy firepower, making it difficult to continue to resist. Then they destroyed the Soviet army's supplies and made 30 people fight hungry. , even if he is still alive, he will be tormented by hunger and will be unable to fight.

At this point in the war situation, it is the Nanjing Army that is calm and calm, and it is the Nanjing Army that is willing to procrastinate and consume it. Although the time of the Nanjing Army is also very tight, it is still possible to spend ten and a half months to starve the Soviet Army to death. .

Desperate Kuznetsov commanded the Soviet army to launch two counterattacks against the city of Qiecheng, intending to recapture the city and open up the channel for the Soviet army to retreat. However, the Soviet army's offensive has been greatly reduced at this time. Heavy weapons such as artillery, on the one hand, more than half of the troops were attacked and restrained by the encircled Nanjing Army.

More than 77 Soviet troops rushed to Qiecheng day and night. The [-]th Division of the Nanjing Army defending the city is worthy of the glory of the First Division of the Nanjing Army. Although it lacks heavy weapons and insufficient ammunition, it is still extremely tenacious and flexible The changeable, brave and courageous fighting style killed the siege Soviet army's corpse mountain and blood sea.

The siege Soviet army fought hard for four days and four nights, half of them were killed or injured. They spent countless ammunition but got nothing, so they had to give up the siege.

Kuznetsov, who was completely desperate, kept gathering his troops to Anbei at the last moment. After all, it is better to have a city that can stick to it than to fight in the wild. About 20 Soviet troops fled into Anbei City. In the atmosphere of arrival, prepare for the final battle of trapped beasts.

The reason why Kuznetsov is so "tenacious" is because he is greedy for life and afraid of death but dare not surrender. Stalin has issued a stern and murderous order a long time ago, strictly prohibiting the Soviet army from surrendering or retreating, especially senior generals, surrendering or fleeing. , the latter is a dead end. Although the former can linger in the enemy's prisoner-of-war camp, his family members in the Soviet Union will be sent to Siberia.

"What an idiot!" The generals of the Nanjing Army all clicked their tongues.

Since the Nanjing Army deliberately abandoned Anbei, they naturally removed all the supplies in the city long before they evacuated. Just build a defense line outside, and then calmly wait for the Soviet army to starve to death or rush out to die.

The dust has settled on the Huxi battlefield, but it can add fuel to the flames.

Several transport planes of the Nanjing Army leisurely hovered over Anbei, dropping more than a dozen tons of leaflets, and countless leaflets fell all over the city like snowflakes.

The Soviet officers and soldiers in the city picked it up with confusion and curiosity, and saw that there were only a few Russian words on the leaflet:

You continue to resist, we will accompany you to the end, you will all die here; you surrender, we welcome you, you can live, but we will kill the last [-] Soviet officers and soldiers who surrendered.

The officers and soldiers of the Soviet Army who were not slow-minded quickly realized the "ruthlessness" of the Nanjing Army's cruel words: if the Soviet Army continued to resist, the Nanjing Army would starve to death without fighting, and the Soviet Army would die. The other is surrender, but the Soviet army is not allowed to surrender or surrender after shooting out all the bullets, because the Nanjing army "will kill the last [-] Soviet officers and soldiers who surrendered." If the army wants to surrender, it must surrender in front of its accomplices. If it is delayed until the end and falls into the death list, even if it surrenders, it will still be a dead end.

This quota is "17", 3 people in front have surrendered, and even if the [-] people in the back also surrender, it is still a dead end. If you want to survive, you have to surrender, and you have to rush to surrender before your companions surrender.

Distributing leaflets is a method that the Nanjing Army must use. Originally, the leaflets written by Yang Jie and others were quite satisfactory. Survive", but Xiao Yao is more able to grasp the weakness of people's hearts. At the very beginning, he has subconsciously produced the concept of "we will definitely surrender" in the Soviet army officers and soldiers, and then stimulated the Soviet army officers and soldiers to "grab in Surrender before your companions surrender", which further promoted the Soviet army's "scrambling to surrender".

Xiao Yao’s move reminded Jiang Weiguo of a very meaningful joke in later generations: Two robbers robbed a bus with more than 20 passengers on it. Logically, if more than 20 passengers united as one, they would surely defeat Two robbers, but the robber announced "we have a rule for robbery, the first person only needs to pay 100 yuan, the second person needs to pay 200 yuan, the third person needs to pay 300 yuan, and so on", As a result, the people in the car immediately gave up their unity to deal with the robbers, and rushed to pay the robbers, all wanting to pay before others, so as to reduce their own losses.

Xiao Yao's play is similar to that of the later generations.

Surrenderers appeared immediately in the Soviet army in Anbei, and after the first batch of surrenderers appeared, the trend of surrender suddenly developed out of control.

The Soviet army was indeed "scrambling to be the first" to surrender, and "scrambling to be the first" to describe the surrender of the Soviet army could not be more appropriate. The Soviet army must "scramble to be the first", because those who surrender first can live, and those who surrender later will still die after surrender , They had to "compete first" and "fear the rear".

Although Kuznetsov and other Soviet generals and senior officers tried their best to prevent the surrender trend of the troops, they were unable to recover. On the contrary, the Soviet troops who prevented their accomplices from surrendering and the Soviet troops who wanted to surrender fought in the city. .

The Nanjing army outside the city was busy receiving a steady stream of prisoners while laughing at the Soviet army in the city biting dogs.

On the first day, more than [-] Soviet troops surrendered to the Nanjing Army;

The next day, more than [-] Soviet troops surrendered to the Nanjing Army;

On the third day, more than [-] Soviet troops surrendered to the Nanjing Army;

On the fourth day, Kuznetsov secretly sent someone to contact the Nanjing Army and sent a secret letter, humbly requesting the Nanjing Army to "cooperate with him in acting." , heavy artillery, and tanks will also be handed over to the Nanjing Army intact, but the Nanjing Army is requested to announce that he (Kuznetsov) was killed in the final resistance.

Xue Yue, Yang Jie, Guo Jiqiao, Jiang Weiguo and others all laughed dumbfounded. They understood what Kuznetsov was thinking. Exiled to Siberia.

"No problem!" Xue Yue ordered bluntly, "Tell him that we will announce to the outside world that Lieutenant General Odor Isidorovich Kuznetsov, commander of the 17th Army of the Soviet Army, died in a bloody battle.

We will also build a grave for the heroic and unyielding General Kuznetsov outside Anbei City, and hold a small funeral for him, after all, this General Kuznetsov is an amazing and real soldier!"

After saying these words, including Xue Yue himself, everyone present couldn't help laughing.

After receiving Xue Yue's reply, Kuznetsov was relieved, and then in a dejected state of mind, he gave the order of collective surrender.

On September 9, the Soviet troops trapped in Anbei City surrendered collectively, and the Soviet troops on the periphery of the battlefield were either defeated or surrendered.

"Long live! Long live! Long live!" The Chinese cheers resounded like thunder in Anbei and on the battlefield in the west of the lake, mixed with the sound of shooting one after another. The extremely excited officers and soldiers couldn't help shouting to the sky The gun is used to vent the great joy in the heart. In normal times, these officers and soldiers who are over excited will be kicked by the officer even if they don't squat tightly. He happily joined the ranks of those officers and soldiers.

All the units of the Nanjing Army participating in the war were ecstatic and excited. In front of them, a large number of disgraced and panicked Soviet prisoners were queuing up in a long queue.

The Battle of Huxi between the Sino-Soviet armies lasted for more than 8 days from August 1 to the middle and late September. In the end, China won. The Nanjing Army was killed, injured, missing, captured, and sick in total about 9 people. The Soviet Army lost more than 40 people. Among them, about 60 people were killed, about 40 people were injured, and the total number of captured and surrendered More than 13 people.

After this battle, three-quarters of the Soviet Army's Eastern Military Region was destroyed by the Nanjing Army.

Section 491 Interception Operations (1)

When the 31st Army of the Nanjing Army met the counterattack of the Central Asian Soviet Army on the battlefields of Lake East and Almaty, the 77th, 10th, and 100th Army of the Nanjing Army fought against the North on the battlefields of Cheremhovo and Anton. The Asian-Soviet Army launched a large-scale battle. At the same time, the 37th Army of the Nanjing Army was also engaged in intensive battles. The combat area spanned the two major battlefields, because the army was attacking from Central Asia to North Asia.

Launching three large-scale battles at the same time will undoubtedly bring great pressure to the Nanjing Army, which has insufficient military strength due to its weak national strength, but the Nanjing Army has no choice but to do so.

At the beginning of the war, the Nanjing Army had to make a major breakthrough that would allow it to take the initiative, so that it would not be defeated in the ensuing protracted war, war of attrition, and Soviet counterattacks. However, there were more than one places where major breakthroughs were required. Nanjing On the one hand, the stamina is insufficient and on the other hand, the time is not enough, so they have to start at the same time.

In the final analysis, this is still a helpless fact determined by the objective factors of China and the Chinese army, which are not strong in national strength and military, but will become the offensive side.

It's like a person who only has a knife in his hand (this person is Chinese, if he is an American, he is not holding a knife, but a machine gun), but wants to kill a bear. Next, the first wave of sneak attacks can be launched. Since it is a sneak attack, it can only be done once, and it cannot be done for the second time. It is impossible for the bear to give the second sneak attack a chance, so the first wave of human attacks must hit the bear. Although it is impossible to kill it all at once, it is also necessary for people to lay the foundation for victory in this battle. People must chop off the bear's limbs, at least three or two of them. Limbs, so that the bear will not be able to make a threatening resistance or escape. Once it misses, people will be backlashed by the bear.

The Nanjing Army is like this. According to the pre-war plan of the Nanjing Army Headquarters, the Nanjing Army participating in the war established a total of three armies. The first and second routes attacked Central Asia, and the third route attacked the tail of North Asia (eastern North Asia). Start; after the first and second routes have completed the first step, the first route consolidates its control over Central Asia, turns from offense to defense, digests the results of the battle, and the second route attacks from Central Asia, targeting North Asia ( West) to start, cooperate with the third line, attack head to tail, and take North Asia together; in this way, the Nanjing Army can be considered to have completed the strategic goal of the initial war, and there is a great possibility that it will remain invincible from now on.

At the beginning of the war, the Nanjing Army had to be exhausted, but as long as the strategic goals at the beginning of the war were completed, the Nanjing Army would be able to "take a breather" and continue the next battle with ease, basically no need to be exhausted .

Obviously, the first army of the Nanjing Army is the 31st Army, the second army is the 37th Army, and the third army is the 77th Army, the 10th Army, and the 100th Army.

The Nanjing Army had to do this, because they had to take North Asia. If they went west from the east of North Asia along the main line of the Siberian Railway, all the way would be tough battles. The effect of drawing salary from the bottom of the pot, however, the Soviet Army is not blind or foolish, relying on the 37th Army alone is far from enough. Once the 37th Army takes action, the Soviet Army will immediately deploy troops tit for tat. Therefore, the 77th Army and the 10th Army , The 100th Army is going to fight the Soviet Army in eastern North Asia. The first purpose is to contain the main force of the Soviet Army and cover the 37th Army. The second purpose is to find an opportunity to severely damage or eliminate the main force of the Soviet Army. All the way from the west to the east, the 37th Army, the 77th Army, and the 10th Army went all the way west from the eastern part of North Asia. When the two sides met on the main line of the Siberian Railway, it was the day of victory for the Nanjing Army to control most of North Asia.

Feng Zhian, the commander of the 37th Army, is very aware of the responsibilities on his shoulders. After taking the three big cities of Oskmen, Semey, and Kulik in the northeast of Kazakhstan lightly through careful planning and surprise attacks, the subordinates of the 37th Army One step is to go northward from the three cities and hit the "head" of the Soviet Eastern Military Region with all its strength.

第37军下辖4个师：第111、第37、第38、第39师，总兵力约12万。

Feng Zhi'an's current opponent is an "old friend of the Chinese people", who can speak fluent Chinese and understands China's national conditions and culture very well. He once stayed in China for a long time as a diplomatic attache and military adviser. , this person's full name is Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov, and his position at this time is the commander of the 9th Army of the Soviet Army, responsible for the defense of Novosibirsk.

Obviously, Cuikov can be said to be one of the few "China hands" among the senior generals of the Soviet army, and Stalin sent him to the Soviet front against China to make the best of his talents.

Cuikov's 9th Army now has 8 divisions, 4 of which are regular army divisions and 4 of which are militia divisions newly built after the war. In the war of aggression against Finland, as a result, the two main divisions of the group army were defeated by the Finnish army, and Cuikov lost his official title because of this. In addition, Cuikov also led the 9th Army of the Soviet Army to participate in the war of aggression against Poland.

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Cuikov is a subordinate of Konev, the commander of the Eastern Military Region, but he also received strong support from Lieutenant General Fa Yershakov, the commander of the Ural Military Region, because the Eastern Military Region and the Ural Military Region are close together. If the Nanjing Army defeats the Eastern Military Region, the next It is the Ural Military Region, and the two military regions are closely related.

Lieutenant General Ershakov, like Lieutenant General Tolofemenko, the commander of the Central Asian Military District of the Soviet Army, was born as a political officer with ordinary abilities. The jurisdiction of the Ural Military District is the east and west of the Ural Mountains. North Asia (also connected to Central Asia) is equivalent to the largest rear of the Soviet Union (the second largest rear of the Soviet Union is North Asia, and the third largest rear is Central Asia). If Eastern Europe collapses, the Soviet army and the Soviet party and government institutions We can only retreat to the Ural region and continue to resist. Therefore, the Ural region is very important, but it is also very safe, because there are several military districts in the west of the Ural region that are responsible for resisting the Germans, and there are also Eastern and Central Asian military districts in the east that are responsible for resisting the Chinese. It is the hinterland of the Soviet Union. There is no need to station heavy troops. There are not many troops, but there are many factories. The responsibility of the military region is not so much fighting wars as "grabbing production". Naturally, Ershakov who is in charge here is definitely nothing Strong and wise generals who are good at fighting, because the Ural Military Region is currently responsible for producing tanks rather than fighting wars, there is no need for generals who can fight, and generals who can fight have already been sent to the front line.

Unlike Tolofemenko, although Ershakov is also mediocre, he is very self-aware and knows that he is not suitable for fighting, so he does not want the Ural Military Region to become the front line, so he does his best to support the Eastern Military Region. Blocking the Nanjing Army, so if Cuikov needs help from the Ural Military Region, Ershakov is very cooperative.

The 37th Army of the Nanjing Army officially marched northward from Central Asia (three cities in the northeast of Kazakhstan) on August 8. Feng Zhian deployed the troops in a satisfactory manner. The division was stationed in the three cities in the rear, two regiments were stationed in Kleku, which was the most forward and most dangerous in the three cities, and the other two regiments were placed in Semey and Oskmen in the back, and then the 15th and 111th regiments were mobilized. 37. The 38-strong army of the 39th Division attacked from Semey and Oskmen, followed the main railway line all the way north, and the soldiers pointed directly at Novosibirsk, the "first important town in Siberia" [-] kilometers away.

Feng Zhi'an's personality is generous and honest, neither hasty nor impatient, and his fighting style is also "warm swallowing water", not aggressive, but calm. Since the main force of the Eastern Military Region of the Soviet Army was attracted by Xue Yue to the Huxi battlefield more than 1000 kilometers away, he was "not too anxious." ", the troops did not march in a hurry or forcibly, and advanced while repairing the railway (the Soviet army severely damaged the railway).

Zhang Zizhong, the deputy commander of the army, Zhang Yueting, the chief of staff, and Zhang Kexia, the deputy chief of staff, were all very anxious about this, but Feng Zhian didn't take it seriously. It needs to be transported thousands of miles from North China. If the troops advance too fast, they will fall into logistical exhaustion. The troops advance slowly, which is safe and safe, and can wait for more follow-up supplies to arrive.

It is Feng Zhi'an's philosophy not to fight an ill-prepared battle.

In this regard, Zhang Yueting joked: "If Junzuo (Feng Zhi'an) were to go to the Huxi battlefield to deal with Konev, it is estimated that the two will fight for half a year, because both of them are cautious and steady people, and neither of them will take it easy. adventure!"

On August 8, the 22th Army traveled more than 37 kilometers north and arrived at Barnaul. Barnaul is the southern gate of Novosibirsk, because Novosibirsk is about 300 kilometers north of Barnaul.

Cuikov assembled two-thirds of the Soviet 9th Army and fought against the 37th Army of the Nanjing Army in Barnaul.

The artillery force of the Soviet Army greatly surpassed that of the Nanjing Army, so the Nanjing Army was progressing slowly, and Cuikov was also better at defensive warfare. As a result, the Nanjing Army and the Soviet Army were unable to enter Barnaul after nearly ten days of fierce fighting, but fortunately, due to Feng Zhi'an's "slowness", so the Nanjing Army was well prepared in terms of logistics and was able to engage in a war of attrition with the Soviet Army. However, Zhang Zizhong also tactfully criticized Feng Zhi'an. It was precisely because of the slowness of the troops that the Soviet Army in Barnaul With enough time to prepare for the battle, a large number of fortifications were built inside and outside the city of Barnaul, which made the Nanjing army unable to attack for a long time.

尽管第37军没能攻下巴尔瑙尔，但该军上下官兵跟同期在作战的第31、第77、第10、第100军一样顽强苦战，杀伤大批苏军。

Although the Soviet Army was fighting urban defense and had more than twice the number of artillery as the Nanjing Army, the casualty ratio between the Soviet Army and the Nanjing Army was two to one. The high-quality, flexible and changeable combat methods made up for and reversed the Soviet army's artillery superiority to a certain extent.

However, the Nanjing Army also suffered heavy losses. The 38th Division with the most serious losses had to withdraw from the front line of Barnaul and retreat to the three rear cities to rest.

"It's true that Lao Maozi's cannons are many and powerful, but as long as we use our strengths and avoid weaknesses, we can beat them to the point of crying!"