I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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This bad news made the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army participating in the war extremely sad and angry, and rushed forward to the Soviet army one after another.

He Jifeng couldn't help but burst into tears, and then he was in pain because of extreme remorse. He raised his head and glared at the major.

"I'm so stupid!" He Jifeng gritted his teeth, "I suddenly woke up like a dream. No matter how sweet your words are, what you are doing is a naked act of admitting a thief as your father and betraying the country for glory? I really want to listen to you, no? What is a traitor?" He drew his pistol and shot the major until his brains were blown out.

"Brothers! Listen to my orders!" He Jifeng hissed, "Go back to the raft! Land on the east bank! Rescue the brothers in front!"

The officers and soldiers of the 32nd Brigade who had landed on the west bank did not know why the brigade commander let them land on the east bank again, but they quickly returned to the river, crossed the river on rafts, landed from the east bank, and then moved forward bravely. Rescue the 31st Brigade ahead.

He Jifeng looked at this scene, and hated it in his heart: "Why do I feel like I have been possessed by an evil spirit? I almost did something utterly devoid of conscience!" The reason why the troops crossed the river made him hard to say, and he was so ashamed that he wanted to commit suicide: The army is laying in ambush and setting up a net to wait.

The 32nd Brigade, which launched an attack on the east bank of the Katong River, soon joined forces with the 31st Brigade, which was fighting hard.

He Jifeng immediately sent a telegram to Feng Zhi'an: "There is about one division of the Soviet army ambushing in the depths of the west bank of the Katong River. It can be judged that the Soviet army in the city of Barnaul is very empty!"

Feng Zhi'an, who received He Jifeng's telegram, was surprised at first, and then he seemed to understand something, and his face showed joy: "Okay! Very good!" He realized that on the one hand, the Soviet Army mobilized troops to prepare to face Zhang Zizhong's 38th Division. On the one hand, troops were secretly assembled to ambush Wang Zhibang's 37th Division. It can be seen that the Soviet army, which was almost exhausted, must not have many troops still holding on to the city of Barnaul.

"I thought I was pretending to deceive Cui Kefu, but I didn't expect Cui Kefu to deceive me by playing empty tricks!" Feng Zhi'an shook his head, revealing a wry smile with complicated meanings, "Fortunately, I woke up in time!"

Feng Zhi'an immediately called Pang Bingxun, the commander of the 39th Division: "Geng Chen (Pang Bingxun's name), according to reliable information, there are not many Soviet troops in the Barnaul city. I order your division to attack Barnaul immediately! Hurry up! The Soviet army will return to defense immediately!"

Pang Bingxun was taken aback, he seemed to lack confidence: "Military seat, my teacher may not be able to take on this important task..." Pang Bingxun was 61 years old at this time, and his early vigor had been worn out for most of his life as a soldier. A little comfortable and lazy, to participate in the Soviet war, his 39th division was responsible for the rear defense, mainly helping the three divisions fighting in the front to escort supplies, protect the rear, repair the railway, etc. Pang Bingxun was also very happy about this.

"Geng Chen!" Feng Zhi'an's tone was a little harsh, "The opportunity is fleeting! Don't hesitate! You can do it, you are enough to complete the task! To put it bluntly, you don't want to make meritorious service, and so many brothers in your army also want to make meritorious service What! This battle is related to the rise and fall of China, the responsibility is unprecedented, the mission is lofty, and all ministries are fighting the enemy bravely, how can you shrink back?"

Pang Bingxun was a little ashamed: "The military seat taught me that!"

The 39th Division immediately launched a full-scale attack on the city of Barnaul.

Just as Feng Zhian judged, even if Pang Bingxun "wanted to get by", the officers and soldiers under him were unwilling to lag behind. Seeing the fraternal troops fighting in full swing, most of the officers and soldiers of the 39th Division were jealous and excited, so they ordered the attack. All of a sudden, the 39th Division burst into cheers and began to attack the city with all their strength.

Stepping on the ruined walls and corpses and blood stains everywhere, the tide of Nanjing army officers and soldiers was unstoppable. Some people fell down continuously in the bloody storm, and more people still charged forward fearlessly.

The Soviet defense line was quickly shaken, overwhelmed, and broken, and a large number of Nanjing Army officers and soldiers swarmed into the city and began more intense street fighting with the Soviet army.

Insufficient troops led to the continuous collapse of the Soviet army, and one city after another was captured by the Nanjing army.

After learning of this sudden accident, Cui Kefu had to be surprised.

"Countermeasures?" Cui Kefu was restless. He had no time to think more deeply, so he was forced to give up the interception and killing of the 37th Division of the Nanjing Army, and dispatched troops into the loopholes in the city. Constantly pouring into the city, the 39th Division also chased the retreating Soviet army and rushed into the city of Barnaul from another direction.

Because Cuikov placed too many troops on both sides of Barnaul City to block and intercept, the city itself fell into a large emptiness of troops. The Nanjing Army took advantage of the emptiness and took about half of the city.

Barnaul was caught in a melee between the two armies.

"I must have been deceived by Feng Zhi'an!" Cuikov was startled and angry, and he tried his best to think, "Could it be that that person... is actually a counter-espionage? Feng Zhi'an's target is still Barnaul instead of Novosibirsk? I No! No! Comrade Vatutin's 64th Army is coming soon. Once the 64th Army arrives, it will be even more difficult for Feng Zhian to take Novosibirsk. He will definitely cross Barnaul first. It is logical to attack Novosibirsk, but why am I now passive? Even if Feng Zhian takes Barnaul, he will have no troops and no time to attack Novosibirsk! No! This is not logical! What is going on? What's going on?" He froze.

However, a worse news was sent soon, and Chuikov could no longer care about Barnaul.

Section 493 Interception Operations (3)

Before the war, the Nanjing Army Headquarters had seriously studied the plan to capture Novosibirsk, "the most important place in Siberia", but after repeated studies, Yang Jie and other senior officials of the Nanjing Army had to give up this plan because it was not feasible.

The benefits of Novosibirsk being captured are self-evident. This place can be called the "Wuhan of the Soviet Union". It is firmly controlled by the Nanjing Army, and at the same time, it can also be connected to the occupied areas of Central Asia. This is undoubtedly of great strategic value, and Novosibirsk is also a large city (the third largest city in Russia) and an industrial center. , The value in itself is great, but the difficulty of capturing this city can be said to be quite high, which has completely exceeded the tolerance of the Nanjing Army.

First of all, the Nanjing Army's method at the beginning of the war could only be a surprise attack, but there were too many places that needed raids, and the Nanjing Army was unable to carry out multiple large-scale raids at the same time; secondly, Novosibirsk was neither on the border of Central Asia nor on the border of North Asia. The distance is too far, which means that it is doomed to be difficult to obtain this place by surprise means. After all, Novosibirsk is a railway hub city. There are many towns around the place, and the city is guarded by stars. Once the nearby satellite cities are attacked, the intention of the Nanjing Army will be suddenly It will be exposed that the Soviet army has sufficient time to gather troops for defense; if it cannot make a surprise attack, it can only attack by force, and the consequences of the attack are unimaginable.

Novosibirsk is a large city with a population of 100 million, buildings like clouds, and factories. For the Nanjing Army, which lacks heavy firepower and has insufficient troops, the price of capturing this city by storm is simply unbearable.

After all, the war resources of the Nanjing Army are limited. If too many resources are invested or consumed in Novosibirsk, the Nanjing Army will inevitably lose its vitality after the initial stage of the war, unable to consolidate its control over the occupied areas, and unable to cope with the full-scale counterattack of the Soviet Army in the future. Therefore, the Nanjing Army Headquarters gave up its plan to capture Novosibirsk in the early stages of the war.

In the end, the senior officials of the Nanjing Army continued to move westward from Novosibirsk, and settled on Omsk, about [-] kilometers west of Novosibirsk.

Omsk is the fourth largest city in Siberia (the top three cities are Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, and Chelyabinsk), which is equivalent to a slightly smaller Novosibirsk. The strategic value of the city is not as good as Novosibirsk, but it won In the end, it can roughly have an effect similar to that after taking Novosibirsk.

About 500 kilometers west from Novosibirsk is Omsk, where the main railway line is divided into two, forming a three-way intersection. The two main railway lines extend westward together. The northern one goes westward for more than 500 kilometers and then Yekaterinburg. More than [-] kilometers to the west is Chelyabinsk. These two cities are located at the eastern foot of the Ural Mountains. If you continue westward, you will cross the Ural Mountains and enter Eastern Europe and Europe.

It was difficult for the Nanjing Army to take Novosibirsk, so they had to retreat and set their goal at Omsk.

It is still very difficult to capture Omsk. Not only that, how to defend after taking it is also very difficult, because Omsk is too far away from the three cities in the northeast of Kazakhstan, and it is completely protruding. grams) are about [-] kilometers apart. Within the range of [-] kilometers, whether it is Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Novokuznetsk, or Krasnoyarsk, several big cities Not captured by the Nanjing Army, the above-mentioned large area has a combined area of ​​hundreds of thousands of square kilometers and a population of several million. Even if one end is cut off, it can still be "self-reliant and self-sufficient". It will become a "state within a state" in the area occupied by the Nanjing Army, and it will also become an enclave under the orders of the Soviet government.

Obviously, the Nanjing army kept such a large Soviet enclave in the rear occupied area, and the hidden dangers were very huge. The attack was very laborious, and the siege and blockade were also very laborious.

Regarding this, Jiang Weiguo asked Yang Jie: "What shall we do with this enclave in the end?"

Yang Jie thought for a while and replied: "The best result is that the Soviet government surrendered, and they followed suit. We won this enclave without bloodshed. The worst result is that we gnaw it down inch by inch!"

This is the "jumping city tactic" thought out by Yang Jie, which means that there are too many cities along the main line of the Siberian Railway in the Soviet Union, and it is time-consuming and laborious to fight one by one. Yes, hit the important one.

In this regard, Jiang Weiguo couldn't help thinking of the "island hopping tactic" invented by MacArthur in the past, and the principles of the two are also similar.

It's just that Novosibirsk is a city that cannot be "jumped". It must be fought, but it cannot be defeated, so I have to jump another step.

Capturing Omsk will create such a weird situation. What's more troublesome is that it's not easy to capture Omsk, and it's not easy to start a defense after it is captured, because Omsk's position is too far forward, completely extending to the Soviet army In the control area, and there is no railway connection between Omsk and other occupied areas of the Nanjing Army, it is easy to fall into the anti-siege of the Soviet Army.

To use a sentence from later generations to describe it, the Nanjing Army "steps too far, and it is easy to pull the egg."

Although there are many disadvantages and hidden dangers, the Nanjing Army has no choice.

The Nanjing Army's only natural advantage in fighting Omsk was that after the 111th Division of the Nanjing Army attacked from northern Xinjiang, it took the waterway when it successively captured the three cities in the northeast of Kazakhstan. That waterway was the Irtysh River, and the Ertysh River After passing through the three cities in the northeast of Kazakhstan, the Qisi River continued to flow northwestward, and then flowed through Omsk after more than 300 kilometers.

Feng Zhian’s means of capturing Omsk remained unchanged, but he painstakingly launched an attack on Barnaul for more than ten days. The biggest purpose was to paralyze the Soviet army and make Cuikov make a major miscalculation. Also put on a "sluggish look".

Novosibirsk was not the goal of the Nanjing Army from the very beginning, but a smoke bomb. The Nanjing Army took pains to deceive the Soviet Army with the city in the hands of the Soviet Army, just to achieve "surprise after the raid."

The reason why Feng Zhian wanted to "slowly" was to give Cuikov more time to start combat preparations and deployments in Barnaul or Novosibirsk. The blood shed was just to confuse the enemy. In this case, he certainly couldn't bear to let the officers and soldiers shed more blood. Slowing down the pace could make the logistics work more solid and reduce casualties.

When Pang Bingxun led the 39th Division to launch a strong attack on the city of Barnaul, Zhang Zizhong and Wu Shimin led the 38th and 111th Divisions to attack from Kreku, and rushed to Omsk more than 300 kilometers away without stopping.

The 38th Division did not actually return to the Barnaul battlefield by train from Keleku, but took a raft down the Irtysh River.

Because of some "special reason", the deception work of the Nanjing Army achieved great success.

Feng Zhian transferred the 38th Division and the 111th Division to raid Omsk, so only the 37th Division and the 39th Division remained on the front line of Barnaul, and the 64th Army, the follow-up force of the Soviet Army, was about to arrive. In other words, the strength of the Nanjing Army is about to fall, but this is not a problem, because the Nanjing Army on the Barnaul front will soon turn from offense to defense, and naturally the troops needed for defensive warfare are much less than for offensive warfare.

At midnight on September 9, Feng Zhian received a telegram from Zhang Zizhong: "It's less than 1 kilometers!"

Seeing this telegram, Feng Zhi'an heaved a sigh of relief. What Zhang Zizhong meant was that he and Samurai Min's troops were currently on the Irtysh River, less than a hundred kilometers away from Omsk, and Zhang Zizhong was not in the telegram. Speaking of other things, it is certain that the troops have not been strongly intercepted by the Soviet army, and the Soviet army has basically not discovered it.

Feng Zhian stalked Barnaul for more than ten days, forcing Chuikov to be short of troops. He not only transferred one of the two divisions from Novosibirsk to Barnaul, but also transferred one of the two divisions from Omsk to the In Barnaul, the former makes Cuikov deeply vigilant, but Feng Zhian is basically Xiang Zhuang's sword dance, aiming at Pei Gong, and his goal is the latter. Currently, there is only one of the two Soviet divisions in Omsk.

The Nanjing Army’s surprise attack on Omsk took two layers. First, the Battle of Huxi broke out, attracting the main force of the Soviet army commanded by Konev to the battlefield of the West of Lake more than 1000 kilometers away, and then the Battle of Barnaul broke out. The main force of the remaining Soviet troops was attracted at Barnaul, and finally, they went straight to Huanglong.

Feng Zhi'an immediately called Ji Xingwen, the acting commander of the 37th Division, and Pang Bingxun, the commander of the 39th Division, and issued new orders: "Stop the attack, launch defenses, and prepare to withdraw in an orderly manner to the three cities of E, Serbia, and Ke in the northeast of Kazakhstan!"

The two division commanders were very surprised: "Sir, are we going to give up the attack?"

Feng Zhian replied with certainty: "Yes.

Stop attacking, the next thing you need is to retreat, retreat to the three cities of E, Sai, and Ke, and fight a defensive battle.

Remember, the troops must be orderly and unhurried, the retreat cannot be turned into a defeat, the Soviet army must be confused, and after the retreat, all the railways along the way will be destroyed, and all bridges and tunnels will also be blown up!"

Although the two teachers didn't know why, they both accepted the order solemnly: "Got it!"

Feng Zhi'an finally added: "By the way, try to bring back the remains of the brothers who died in battle, don't leave them behind.

The coffin takes up too much space, so after cremation, put it in an urn and bring it back!"

Cuikov didn't realize the true intentions of the Nanjing Army until early this morning. It was not the Nanjing Army in front of him that began to switch from offensive to defensive and quietly retreated in batches, but that Omsk, more than 300 kilometers away, was attacked by surprise.

The Omsk Soviet Army has only one division, and it is a new militia division after the war. The division commander was previously a battalion commander in the regular Soviet army. Obviously, the battalion commander who has become the division commander is completely at a loss.

"Comrade Commander! A large number of enemy troops are attacking Omsk!"

"Don't panic!" Cui Kefu's heart sank, "Maybe it's just the harassment of a small group of Chinese troops!"

"Absolutely not!" The other party's tone was very sure, and at the same time full of panic, "their rafts are all over the river! Tens of thousands of Chinese are going ashore! They are attacking the city! There is still a huge fleet of their aircraft in the sky!" There are dense gunfire, explosions and the roar of the fleet.

"Is it a bomber fleet?" Cuikov became more and more surprised.

"No! It's a transport fleet! Paratroopers are being airdropped!" The opponent was completely confused.

"Calm down! Don't panic! You are the division commander, and all the Red Army soldiers in the division need your calm command!"

"But... Comrade Commander, I... I don't know what to do..." The other party's voice couldn't contain the strong despair.

The phone in Chuikov's hand fell out of his hand, and he was heartbroken and regretful at the same time: "I was fooled!"

The airborne troops of the Chinese Air Force, which had not been on the battlefield since the start of the war against the Soviet Union, made their first appearance in the Battle of Omsk.

After being occupied by the Nanjing Army, the three cities in the northeast of Kazakhstan built several field airfields. Since Keleku is the closest to Omsk, the planes dispatched from Oskmen and Semey refueled at Keleku first. After enough fuel, it took off again and flew to Omsk, more than 300 kilometers away.

More than 150 Junkers transport planes were put into this large-scale airborne operation, flying two waves successively, with a total of more than 300 sorties. At the field airports in the three cities, thousands of paratroopers of the Chinese Air Force who were armed to the teeth were full of ambition and methodical He boarded the transport plane without hesitation, flew over Omsk, jumped into the blue sky, and then fell to the foreign land on the ground.

In the sky of Omsk, the fleet roared, and paratroopers scattered like fairies scattered all over the sky. The paratroopers who fell from the sky fell into the city and entered the streets and alleys under the terrified eyes of the surrounding residents;

On the river in Omsk, hundreds of boats competed, and the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army on rafts roared and jumped into the waist-deep river, waved their weapons and rushed to the land on the bank, and poured into the urban area continuously.

Zhang Zizhong and Wu Shimin, who were watching the battle, quickly let go of their hanging hearts, because the battle process was relatively smooth. The Soviet army was completely confused and confused. The commander panicked and did not organize a more effective resistance. , The Soviet army was in a state of disunity, and was beaten helplessly by the Nanjing Army that was "advancing by sea and air".

The airborne troops in the sky fell into the urban area, tearing up the integrity of the Soviet army's defense at once, forcing the Soviet army to search and suppress the paratroopers of the Chinese Air Force all over the city, causing the Soviet army to be stretched. The thunderous impact of the 38th Division easily broke through the Soviet defense line, and the city was full of Nanjing troops chasing and killing the fleeing Soviet troops.

"It's great that you didn't shed too much blood!" A smile appeared on Wu Shimin's face.

"Because we have shed enough blood in other places in order not to shed too much blood here!" Zhang Zizhong was full of emotion, and his words were very meaningful.

On September 9, the 2th and 38th Divisions of the Nanjing Army and the paratroopers of the Air Force took Omsk lightly. Occupying half of the Barnaul city, withdrew at full speed to the three cities in the northeast of Kazakhstan.

The frontline headquarters of the 37th Army was in a carriage of a retreating train at this time, and the atmosphere in the carriage was strange.

"I am very angry, very sad, and even more disappointed!" Feng Zhian looked at the map hanging on the wall of the carriage, as if talking to himself, but it was obvious that he was talking to someone or several people in the carriage.