I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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Yang Jie continued: "Everyone, there are some differences in our army's next focus.

On the one hand, the German side invited us to gather heavy troops in the northwestern part of Central Asia, posing as an attack on the Ural region of the Soviet Union, but did not require our army to actually launch operations. The German side’s request meant that we could help the German army contain a large number of Soviet troops. Army, thus indirectly supporting the German army on the Eastern European battlefield; on the one hand, should our army solve the problem of the four cities in North Asia?This Soviet enclave is like a wedge inserted in the hinterland of our military-controlled area. If it is not resolved as soon as possible, it may cause future troubles.

After analysis, the first method seems to be more beneficial, but it is more dangerous, because the troops are placed too far forward, resulting in too long logistical supply lines, and once they are violently counterattacked by the Soviet army, they will definitely suffer great losses!"

Jiang Weiguo knew well that the Nanjing Army was actively preparing for the second phase of the battle. Although it had not yet fought, the troops must have been deployed. This resulted in two solutions. One was to gather the main force to the front line, so that There are two advantages, one is that it can assist the German army to the maximum extent, which is naturally equal to assisting the Nanjing Army itself; Forces participated in the final strike against the Soviet Union, so as to maximize the benefits (for example, to seize the Soviet factory machinery, the greater the Nanjing Army's contribution, the more confident it will be when the Soviet Union is divided up after the war); but the disadvantages are also very obvious. If the situation worsens and the Soviet army launches a major counterattack, the Nanjing army will not be able to transfer or retreat in time. Because of the lack of maneuvering space, it is easy to suffer a big loss; the second plan is to deploy the troops in echelons, mainly In three places, one is the hinterland of Central Asia, the other is the northwestern part of Central Asia (the front line), and the third is North Asia. In this way, no matter how the situation changes, the Nanjing Army can easily deal with it. If Eastern Europe falls into a stalemate, the Nanjing Army You can also free up your hands to eliminate the Soviet army in the four cities in North Asia, but the disadvantages of this plan are also obvious, and it seems a little conservative and slow.

For these two plans, each with its own strengths and weaknesses, there was a fierce debate among the senior officials of the Nanjing Army.

Yang Jie brought up this topic at the meeting, naturally for the purpose of re-discussing.

The generals who had different opinions immediately started arguing and discussing each other.

Jiang Weiguo did not always attend the meeting. He is the "commander" and does not need to do it himself. He just needs to put the final opinion in front of him and let him make a decision. As for how to come up with the best final opinion, it is up to Yang Jie and others Responsibility.

After Jiang Weiguo listened for a while, he left the meeting room. Xiao Yao, who had attended the meeting together, also left together, and the two went directly to the next room.

"According to the analysis of the battle situation in Eastern Europe, the three battlefields of Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad are all very tense!" Xiao Yao said, "Hitler has already ordered to abandon the attack on Leningrad and change the capture of the city into a blockade." The city saved about 15 troops and put them into the Stalingrad battlefield.

To use a metaphor, the three important towns are three fruits. It is more than enough for Hitler to pick one with all his strength, but it is not enough to pick two, but at this time he wants to pick three at the same time.

However, according to the current trend, Hitler can still weigh the disadvantages.

We have adjusted our plans accordingly!"

Jiang Weiguo could hear something in Xiao Yao's words: "Tell me specifically!"

Xiao Yao said: "If Hitler gave up his plan to capture Leningrad and Moscow, and transferred all the troops he could mobilize to Stalingrad, the German army's goal of breaking through Stalingrad and seizing the Caucasus would be very likely to be realized. up.

For us, it's 90.00% good and [-]% bad!"

Jiang Weiguo was surprised: "Why do you say that?"

Xiao Yao analyzed: "Do you think, if the German army can break through Stalingrad and seize the Caucasus alone, can we still carry out the plan of 'strike Baku across the lake'? The answer is no.

Because our move is not to send charcoal to the German army, but to icing on the cake, and there may even be a suspicious motive!"

"What do you mean?" Jiang Weiguo was confused.

Xiao Yao explained: "Baku is a mouth-watering fruit. Originally, Hitler made amends in time, readjusted the German troops, and brought back hundreds of thousands of precious troops from the battlefields of Leningrad and Moscow to supplement Stalin's There is no doubt that the German army on the battlefield of Stalingrad received hundreds of thousands of rescues, and their morale and strength must have greatly increased. The capture of Stalingrad, the Caucasus, and the Baku oil fields are all things that the German army can do alone. You know, it seems that our motives are not pure if we still engage in "crossing the lake to fight Baku" under such circumstances.

The logic is very simple. Hitler could have completely owned the Baku oil field, but we stepped in. Doesn't it appear that we deliberately snatched the results that belonged to Germany?Although Hitler will not hate us at that time, he will also feel unhappy, because according to the original plan, Baku belongs to Germany completely, but we rushed to divide it in a hurry. A subtle 'betrayal'!"

Jiang Weiguo suddenly realized: "That's right!" He was secretly ashamed that he didn't think so deeply.

"Military teacher, what should we do? Shall we abolish that plan directly?" Jiang Weiguo hurriedly asked Xiao Yao.

Xiao Yao smiled: "Of course not.

First, we want the Germans to win the Battle of Stalingrad, and second, watching the Germans win the Battle of Stalingrad is not going to make us a lot of money.

Therefore, on the basis of the victory of the German army, we can make a fuss.

We still have to consider the attack, if the timing is right, we can not only get a piece of the pie, but also let Germany thank us!"

"What time?" Jiang Weiguo asked eagerly.

Xiao Yao smiled: "When the German reinforcements are about to arrive at the Stalingrad battlefield!"

After hearing Xiao Yao's plan, Jiang Weiguo couldn't help feeling: This is the wisdom of strategizing!China and Germany are now "as close as one family". Jiang Weiguo will definitely not use Germany purely as he plans to turn Japan into a stepping stone for China. China must not betray Germany at the moment and must respect Germany's interests. It really requires wisdom to allow China to share the interests that originally belonged to Germany while affecting Sino-German relations.

"However, just in case, we still have to tell Hitler!" Jiang Weiguo said, "We shouldn't hide it from Hitler, otherwise it will affect Sino-German relations!"

"You can't tell Hitler!" Xiao Yao immediately persuaded Jiang Weiguo, "Tell him, the consequences will be serious, and it will be counterproductive!"

"Why?" Jiang Weiguo was taken aback.

Xiao Yao explained: "Think about it, Hitler is finally planning to change his mind, but he is still reluctant to part with him. If he knows that we plan to 'strike Baku across the lake', he will be overjoyed, and he will think that our army is about to follow us. The German army participated in the Battle of Stalingrad together. If that is the case, why did he transfer the troops from the Leningrad and Moscow battlefields to Stalingrad? He would not mobilize enough troops to the Stalingrad battlefield. Anyway, there are Chinese troops participating in the battle Well, why should he waste his military strength? At that time, we will be in bad luck. We planned to dispatch division and brigade-level troops to get a share of the pie, but by accident, we need to dispatch army-level troops to join the German army in Stalingrad. Isn't it counterproductive?"

Jiang Weiguo suddenly realized: "That's right! That's right!"

In Central Asia, in the vast desert, a train is roaring and galloping.

The five countries in Central Asia (strictly speaking, there are four countries at this time, and Turkmenistan is already a part of Iran) are all landlocked countries. Although there are Caspian Sea and Aral Sea, these two "seas" are not worthy of their names.

The National Government has supported the four countries of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan to form a new government that is completely pro-China. The Nanjing Army has also helped the four countries to establish new armies. The army aviation unit is enough, let alone the navy, and the reason does not need to be explained at all.

At this time, the train was loaded with ordinary items such as apples, rice, and flour, and the passengers in the train were all wearing casual clothes, but it was not difficult to see from their appearance and temperament that these passengers were actually soldiers of the Nanjing Army. Ouyang Sihai, who led the team, looked at the vast desert outside the window. The more he looked at it, the more he thought about it, the more ridiculous he felt. He was a navy, but he went to fight in the inland desert. No one believed him when he said it.

This task was personally ordered by Jiang Weiguo to Ouyang Sihai. After the two met, they had a conversation like this:

"Hey! Farewell for three days, what a surprise! You are now a lieutenant general, and I am a major general. When we first met, you were a lieutenant and I was a captain!"

"What's wrong? Are you blaming me for your slow crawl?"

"Comparing people to people, it's so annoying! The army and air force are in full swing, and the military ranks are rising one by one. Our dry navy, after the Sino-Japanese armistice, has nothing to do! It's really useless for heroes!"

"Okay, okay, don't pour acid water on me! Your hero is here!"

"Ah? The navy is going to fight? Who is it going to fight? Is it landing in Japan?"

"Only those torpedo boats of yours can still land in Japan? Go to Central Asia!"

Through Jiang Weiguo's explanation, Ouyang Sihai understood that he would take his torpedo boats to the Caspian Sea to attack the Soviet Army's Caspian Sea Fleet and seize the command of the Caspian Sea. Of course, the word "control of the sea" is a bit funny, it should be " control of the waters of the Caspian Sea".

Jiang Weiguo told Ouyang Sihai that the army may launch operations across the Caspian Sea, and the navy must control the Caspian Sea. Cruisers and destroyers cannot go there, so they can only transfer torpedo boats.

In addition, although Air Force aircraft can also attack the Soviet Caspian Sea Fleet, the supply of Air Force aircraft is in short supply, and deploying too many aircraft in advance will also scare the enemy on the east coast of the Caspian Sea. Therefore, the best way is to mobilize the Navy’s torpedo boats. The Caspian Sea is a big lake. , was originally an ideal battlefield for torpedo boats galloping freely.

The overjoyed Ouyang Sihai hastily and complacently embarked on this special sea battle journey.

How to send enough torpedo boats to the Caspian Sea?this is a big problem.

The Caspian Sea is more than 20 kilometers away from the eastern coast of China. The air route is definitely not feasible, so it can only be transported by train. However, a torpedo boat is about [-] meters long, and the flatbed of the train is more than ten meters long. Can the torpedo boat be loaded on the train? Whether it can be transported, and whether it can be unloaded and launched into the water are all problems.

For this reason, Ouyang Sihai racked his brains and worked out a plan to transport two torpedo boats with three flatbed trains: put the two boats head-to-head and put them on the flatbed in the middle. Come on, when the train turns, the raised bow can swing back and forth on the middle section of the flatbed for free adjustment.

Ouyang Sihai specially flew to Turkmenbashi Port, which belongs to Iran at this time, on the east coast of the Caspian Sea ahead of time. He "contracted" this small port with the Iranian military, temporarily built dozens of kilometers of emergency railways, and dispatched a huge crane. Department, to ensure that the torpedo boat weighing more than 30 tons can be hoisted into the lake smoothly after arriving from thousands of miles away.

In order to further confuse the enemy and disturb the enemy's audiovisual, all torpedo boats were covered with thick canvas, and the carriages were filled with ordinary supplies, completely covering up the inner world of the train.

Jiang Weiguo provided "privileges" to Ouyang Sihai. The number of the train that Ouyang Sihai transported the torpedo boat was notified in advance to Chen Mingren, Feng Zhian and other senior generals of the Nanjing Army in Central Asia. After the train arrived at a transit station, no inspection was allowed. All green lights.

A total of [-] Hornets torpedo boats were sent to the Caspian Sea to participate in the war. The torpedo boats driving these sea light cavalry were all elites honed with blood and fire in the Sino-Japanese War.

The reason why there are only [-] torpedo boats is because it is enough. The Soviet Caspian Sea Fleet is the weakest of the five Soviet Red Army fleets, and the largest warships are just two old-fashioned destroyers.

Soviet Russia has absolutely controlled the Caspian Sea for hundreds of years, and there are no strong potential opponents here, so the naval force is very weak, and if the Chinese Navy transports too many torpedo boats, it will be wasteful and easily exposed.

Ouyang Sihai is very proud of this: "I can control the world's largest lake with only 37 torpedo boats!" The Caspian Sea is the world's largest lake, with a total area of ​​about [-] square kilometers, which is about the same size as the four mainland Japanese islands.

When the navy is ready, the army is also ready. The Nanjing Army is the 180th Brigade that performs the mission of "fighting Baku across the lake".

Since the Soviet army could not be alarmed with great fanfare, the Nanjing Army only planned to invest in division-level troops to participate in the battle (but it would mobilize hundreds of thousands of Iranian troops to participate in the battle). Although the brigade was completely annihilated, it was a glorious defeat, so it was quickly rebuilt. The new brigade commander was Lu Xinrong, the former commander of the honorary 180st brigade.

Lu Xinrong led his troops stationed in Sakhalin Island for a long time. In his words, "the whole body is almost rusted from idleness", so he asked Jiang Weiguo many times to return to the front line.

The identities of Lu Xinrong and his old subordinates are very special. They are defected Taiwanese Japanese soldiers. Naturally, they can flex their muscles on the Sino-Japanese battlefield and have brilliant records. But now that China and Japan are no longer fighting, they are naturally "heroes" Useless", mainly as a special Chinese soldier stationed in Sakhalin Island, which belongs to Japanese territory (to a certain extent, to wash away the shame of Taiwan being ceded), and also helped to form and train the Yellow Russian Army, but has never been on the Soviet battlefield.

Jiang Weiguo once proposed to Lu Xinrong to "transfer to a spy agency". Although China and Japan were no longer at war, the open and secret struggles did not stop. I think I have that ability, but I still hope to lead troops to fight on the battlefield.

"Now we are fighting the Soviet Union, not Japan!" Jiang Weiguo asked Lu Xinrong with a smile.

Lu Xinrong replied solemnly: "Am I not a Chinese soldier now? What is the difference between the Soviet Union and Japan? For the motherland, it is worth shedding blood, sweating and dying on any battlefield!"

Admired by Jiang Weiguo, he transferred Lu Xinrong as the new brigade commander of the 180th brigade, and transferred Lu Xinrong's old subordinates together.

In fact, Lu Xinrong's old subordinates at this time are not many, and there are only a hundred people left at this time. Because of the Sino-Japanese armistice, the 417th Special Forces cannot obtain Taiwanese Japanese soldiers, but these one hundred people They have all grown into experienced middle and low-level military officers.

It is also a very ingenious arrangement to use the 180th Brigade to "strike Baku across the lake", because the key to winning this battle is to keep it secret. If you want to catch the Soviet army by surprise, the 180th Brigade has been completely wiped out. Army", using this "non-existent army" to fight will naturally surprise the enemy.

When Ouyang Sihai arrived in the Caspian Sea with the torpedo boat unit, Lu Xinrong also arrived in the Caspian Sea with the secretly rebuilt 180th Brigade.

In late November, Hitler, who initially changed his mind, ordered to "temporarily abandon" the occupation of Leningrad. The troops were divided into two parts, one part was put into the Moscow battlefield and the other into the Stalingrad battlefield.

Hitler, who could not pick all three fruits at the same time, planned to "abandon one and pick two".

In early December, the Germans were still making slow progress on the Moscow and Stalingrad battlefields.

In this regard, Hitler was furious and severely reprimanded General Bock, who was in charge of attacking Moscow, and Marshal Rundstedt, who was in charge of attacking Stalingrad. Both generals were deeply dissatisfied. We are unprepared, but have very complete city defenses. If we continue to wear down, not only will it be difficult for us to capture Moscow, but we may repeat the mistakes of Napoleon." Rundstedt resigned to protest Hitler's arbitrariness.

At this point in the war, more and more high-ranking German soldiers realized that "picking two fruits" was already difficult to achieve, not only because of the loss of soldiers and materials, but also because time was becoming more and more urgent, so they supported "concentrating forces to lay down the "Stalingrad" has more and more high-ranking German troops.

Field Marshal Blomberg warned Hitler earnestly and anxiously: "If this continues, we will get nothing!"

Hitler was finally persuaded. On December 12, he reluctantly gave up his plan to capture Moscow and ordered to "concentrate the greatest force on the attack on Stalingrad."

"Our time has come!" Inside the Nanjing Army Headquarters, Yang Jie, Xiao Yao and other high-level officials fell into tension and excitement.

Chapter 509 Surprise attack across the lake (2)

The three battles of Leningrad, Moscow, and Stalingrad can be said to be directly related to the survival of the Soviet Union. Leningrad is the last external channel of the Soviet Union, Moscow is the capital of the Soviet Union, and Stalingrad is the last barrier of the Soviet Caucasus oil-producing region. , if all three of these important towns are lost, the Soviet Union will undoubtedly perish. If two of them are lost, although the Soviet Union can still struggle to its death, the general trend is over, and it is almost impossible to make a comeback. If only one is lost, the situation of the Soviet Union will definitely deteriorate further. However, The Soviet Union will still have the opportunity to continue to struggle.

Both warring parties are very clear that time is running out, and winter in Russia has arrived. As long as they survive this winter, the Soviet Union will be able to get two or three months of respite.

There was nothing the Soviet Union desperately needed more than time.

In order to fight these three wars well, the Soviet army can be described as "the best soldiers and fierce generals come together", and by all means, Stalin, who was red-eyed and crazy, adopted a series of extreme measures that almost wiped out humanity.

In the first battle of Kiev, the Soviet army surrendered all over the field, but in the third battle of Lemos, the Soviet army surrendered very little. The German army was very puzzled by this.

Through the confessions of the prisoners, the German army learned that in order to prevent another large-scale surrender of the Soviet army, Stalin ordered the spy chief Beria to set up several internal guards and detain all the families of the Soviet generals and officers and soldiers who participated in the war. Or surrender and shoot his family members directly.

Take Moscow as an example. Hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops were desperately resisting the Germans outside the city. Behind them, in Moscow and a series of towns near Moscow, their families were detained. On the one hand, these military families served as workers in factories in the town Work, on the one hand, was taken hostage. If a certain Soviet army did not fight well, the entire family of this Soviet army, from the general to the soldier, would be executed.

The "bad fight" in Stalin's order mainly refers to two situations: one is the event of large-scale surrender or all surrender, and the other is that after participating in the war, they will collapse at a touch of a touch, and move or retreat without order. The so-called "fight well" There are mainly two situations: one is to defeat the opposite German army, and the other is to fight to the end until the entire army is wiped out.

"Victory! Or sacrifice!" "No surrender! No retreat!" "There are no prisoners in the Soviet Red Army! They are missing, whether they are captured or surrendered, they are all considered captured! They are all traitors! All family members will be executed!" A series of murderous orders forced the Soviet officers and soldiers who had no fighting spirit and low morale to fight desperately.

The German army quickly felt the effects of Stalin's series of iron fist methods: the opposite Soviet army either defeated itself, or retreated or moved after receiving orders, or continued to charge in a collective suicide manner until they were all dead. , There were indeed fewer surrenderers, and not many Soviet troops were defeated.

There was such a typical example on the Moscow battlefield: a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Army led a brigade from his headquarters to attack a German brigade, and the whole brigade collapsed after more than half of the casualties. More than 800 family members of officers and soldiers were all executed.