I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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In addition to using family members as hostages to force the Soviet army to fight desperately, the Soviet authorities also sent countless Soviet civilians to the battlefield to fill in the loopholes, from sixty-seventy-year-olds to ten-year-olds. Children under the age of 70 are all forced to "give up their lives to defend the motherland."

Millions or even tens of millions of Soviet civilians were added to the Soviet army. Most of them did not even have military uniforms, and they were rushed directly to the battlefield with almost no training.

In fact, up to this point in the war, the boundaries between the Soviets' "military and civilian" have been very blurred. The army is the people, and the people are the army. Treated as cannon fodder and consumables.

In the military reports of the German army, the word "Soviet army" appeared less and less, and was replaced by a very vague word "Soviet people". In the words of General Bock, "We can no longer distinguish between Soviet soldiers and Soviet civilians." In fact, there is no need to distinguish. On the battlefield, the Soviets in military uniforms, the Soviets in civilian clothes, the Soviets with guns, and the Soviets without guns, mixed together, kept rushing towards us, It seems that in Stalin's heart, as long as he is a Soviet, he is a member of the Soviet army.

No training, no weapons, no uniforms, it doesn't matter, as long as there is the title of "Soviet Red Army", those Soviet civilians are Soviet soldiers." "Although the real Soviet army and those civilians who are temporarily used as soldiers are Soviet , but there is still a certain difference, the real Soviet army has uniforms, and each person has a gun, and those civilians who are temporarily used as soldiers have no uniforms, and two or even three people have a gun.”

... Various insane tactics began to be used more and more by the Soviet army. For example, a certain division of the Soviet army attacked a certain regiment of the German army at night, and the two sides fought together. As a result, the Soviet army's rear artillery group was divided Indiscriminately covered the Soviet army and the German army with artillery fire, blowing up their own people and the enemy together, and then achieved the "victory" of "killing three thousand enemies and self-defeating [-]"; The division commander was ordered to attack a stronghold of the German army. He first mobilized tens of thousands of Soviet civilians (these Soviet civilians had no uniforms, no training, and serious shortage of weapons, but they were declared to be soldiers of the Soviet Red Army) to attack the German stronghold and were killed by the German army. Across the field, the Soviet commander used this cold-blooded method to consume German ammunition and test the distribution of German firepower. When the Soviet civilians were all dead, he led the troops to attack and took down the unfavorable enemy due to insufficient ammunition. He was rewarded by Stalin for being a stronghold of the German army, thinking that he was "intelligent and brave", because Stalin didn't care about human life at all, he only cared about victory at this time.

"Don't tell me 'how many people we died', I just want to hear 'how many people died by the Germans'!" This cold and cruel sentence was uttered naked by Stalin at a high-level meeting.

To put it bluntly, the tactics of the Soviet army were to fill with human lives. On the battlefield outside the city and on the side of the road in the residential area of ​​the city, there were hanged Soviets everywhere. Dare to fight for the Soviet people, so I deserve to die" "I am a scum who betrayed the motherland, this is my end".

The bloody battle in the three cities of Lemos lasted for more than a month. The German army and its friendly forces accumulated more than 300 casualties (about 300 dead), while the Soviet army suffered more than [-] million casualties. Strictly speaking, they are "Soviet people" More than [-] million people were killed or injured (most of them died, because the injured basically did not receive timely and effective medical treatment), because two-thirds of the dead and wounded Soviet troops were temporarily filled into the army and pushed to the Soviet civilians at the front.

Field Marshal Loeb, Admiral Bock, and Field Marshal Rundstedt were deeply troubled by this, and they reported to Hitler in great pain: "Stalin has gone crazy, he doesn't care how many people died in his army and people, Anyway, how much can be added after death, human life is a cold number in his eyes, do we want to be like him, and don’t care about the precious lives of our own German soldiers? We have 100 casualties, we will hate it, but the Soviets Even if [-] million people died, Stalin would not even bat an eyelid!"

In this regard, Hitler also felt the difficult pressure, so he began to transfer troops from the Leningrad and Moscow battlefields to the Stalingrad battlefield. In his opinion, "Stalingrad must be won, and Moscow can win." Just take it, if you can't take it, you can take it easy, Leningrad just needs to be completely blocked."

Hitler believed that "Stalingrad is first, Moscow is second, and Leningrad is third", which is obviously different from the opinion of "Stalingrad is first, Leningrad is second, and Moscow is third" that the high-level officials of the Nanjing Army and many German military leaders think. Yes, but Jiang Weiguo knew that Hitler had "corrected when he knew his mistakes". Although the corrections were not complete, he could not force him too much. After all, he was the head of state of Germany, and it would be embarrassing to accuse him too much.

With Hitler's deployment of troops, among the three major cities of the Soviet Union, Leningrad's situation has improved the best. Although it is still under the siege of the German, Polish and Finnish troops, it is no longer under strong attacks.

As the situation in Leningrad has regained a certain degree of stability, Murmansk, which was blocked by Leningrad, is also in a relatively safe state.

Murmansk is the only year-round ice-free port in northern Russia and the largest city along the Arctic Ocean. It is located in the northeast of the Kola Peninsula. Although the city is about 68° within the Arctic Circle, due to the influence of the North Atlantic warm current, the nearby sea surface is always cold It does not freeze and is navigable all year round. There is no doubt that this ice-free port in the Arctic Ocean is extremely valuable to the Soviet Union, and it is also the only external channel for the Soviet Union at this time.

After the outbreak of the Soviet War, Stalin immediately contacted the top leaders of the United States, Britain and France, hoping to provide assistance to the Soviet Union. The attitude of the top leaders has changed a lot. They were shocked to find that Germany is so powerful that not only will it not lose both sides with the Soviet Union, but it may also destroy the Soviet Union with the help of China, Italy, Japan and other German allies. At that time, Germany, which swallowed the Soviet Union, would inevitably double its national strength.

Therefore, a new voice began to appear among the top leaders of the United States, Britain and France, "Help the Soviet Union not openly, but help the Soviet Union secretly. On the one hand, it will not cause enemies with Germany. Germany suffered even more losses in the Soviet war. In this way, the Soviet Union can either not be destroyed and continue to be a pawn of Western countries to contain Germany in the future, or Germany will be severely damaged after the successful destruction of the Soviet Union, and it will be difficult to recover for several years.” .

Neither British Prime Minister Chamberlain nor French President Le Brun dared to help the Soviet Union. They had already developed a fear of Germany. American President Roosevelt was very supportive of this proposal. According to common sense, any major decision made by Roosevelt would have to go through the U.S. Congress However, as the president of the United States, he still has certain privileges, and as long as he adopts "clever and roundabout countermeasures", he can avoid relevant restrictions. After all, the president of the United States is not a puppet, but a powerful figure.

When secretly meeting the Soviet envoy in his office, Roosevelt asked: "What is the most urgent need of the Soviet Union at this time?"

The Soviet envoy said eagerly: "We need a lot of things..."

Roosevelt interrupted the other party: "I can't give you all the things you want, especially the things with the American logo. Please talk about the things you need most that will not have the American logo!"

The Soviet envoy thought for a while and replied: "We need the plane most!"

Roosevelt shook his head: "I can't give you planes for the American army!"

The Soviet envoy said: "Then please give us the most urgently needed refined aluminum for aircraft manufacturing!"

Roosevelt nodded: "Well, this is the best of both worlds. I will give you the raw materials for making your planes, and you will use them to make your Soviet planes, and Germany will not see any flaws.

But..." He changed the subject, "I can't help you in the name of the country, I plan to secretly let several consortiums in the United States carry out this matter instead of the US government, so as to avoid related troubles.

However, you must pay enough!” His tone was meaningful, “The U.S. government does not need to pay you for things, but the U.S. private companies must pay you for things, and they will not do this without profit. , and I personally have no way to pay with the US treasury.

You have to pay money, and it is a high price.

Also, don't want the ruble, those entrepreneurs are not optimistic about the ruble now, they only want gold!"

The Soviet special envoy knew well that with the precariousness of the Soviet Union, the ruble, the legal currency of the Soviet Union, was becoming less and less valuable internationally. Once the Soviet Union collapsed, no amount of ruble would be worthless paper. of gold.

After learning of Roosevelt's attitude, although Stalin was very dissatisfied and felt that Roosevelt was deliberately finding an excuse to take advantage of the fire to rob, but he had no choice.

Fortunately, the Soviet government has a lot of gold at this time. There are more than 800 tons of gold in the Soviet treasury at this time. At the current international exchange rate of gold, the value of more than 800 tons of gold is [-] billion US dollars. However, due to the current world situation In chaos and turmoil, the paper banknotes of various countries are affected by fluctuations, and gold is an absolute hard currency, so the actual value of gold exceeds the international gold exchange rate.

In fact, more than half of the batch of gold in the hands of the Soviet government was obtained by "smugglers" and did not originally belong to the Soviet Union. Spain was the one who was taken advantage of by the Soviet Union.

More than four years ago, the Spanish Civil War broke out between the Spanish Republican Army and Franco's National Army on the other.

At that time, Germany, Italy and other countries supported Franco, and the Soviet Union supported the Republican government army. Since the Republican government army was the central government of Spain at that time, it controlled the Spanish treasury and controlled Spain's fourth largest country in the world, with more than 700 people. tons of gold reserves.

On the one hand, in order to obtain the aid of the Soviet Union, on the other hand, in order to pave the way, coupled with the coercion and temptation of the Soviet Union, the Spanish Republican government divided more than 700 tons of gold into two, a small part of 50 tons was sent to France, and most of it was about 560 tons. Tons were sent to the Soviet Union. After the end of the Spanish Civil War, the republican government army was destroyed and Franco came to power. France returned 50 tons of gold to the Franco government. The gold was sent over, thus swallowing up the 560 tons of gold that originally belonged to Spain.

At this time, even if Stalin was extremely reluctant, he had to use most of the gold that originally belonged to Spain to exchange strategic materials and arms with the United States.

According to the secret agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union, Roosevelt, through several U.S. non-governmental chaebol companies, secretly and continuously provided assistance to the Soviet Union for things that the Soviet Union needed most at this time but that did not have the American logo, such as refined aluminum most needed for aircraft manufacturing, which could be used by the Soviet Union. Anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, smokeless gunpowder, refined fuel oil, chemicals and other ordnance materials used by the military to protect the rear industrial area.

Although it was a drop in the bucket, it was indeed the first time that the Soviet Union received aid after the outbreak of the Soviet War. Of course, the Soviet government had to pay for these ordnance supplies in gold at a price three times the international market price.

During the Sino-Japanese War, the Soviet Union "vigorously aided" China in this way. Now, the Soviet government has tasted the bitter taste of the Chinese government.

On December 12, the situation on the battlefield in Eastern Europe changed significantly. More than 13 reinforcements from the Leningrad and Moscow battlefields successively arrived at the Stalingrad battlefield, and 30 Ukrainian troops joined the battle.

These Ukrainian troops were urgently formed by Shang Zhen in Ukraine (before the Kiev battle, western Ukraine had been occupied by the German army, and most of these Ukrainian soldiers came from western Ukraine, so there was time for the formation work), and they were immediately transferred to Stalin’s battlefield to assist in the battle .

Shang Zhen said to Hitler: "Although the Ukrainian army was built hastily and lacked training, they must be extremely brave on the Soviet battlefield, because the Ukrainians hate the Russians, the Soviet Union, and the Stalin regime. The source of combat power, please give them the same equipment and treatment as the German army. I believe that they will never let you down on the battlefield.

This has two advantages. One is that the German army can deploy more troops, and the other is that it can reduce the casualties of the German army.

In addition, the Soviets have no rules at all when fighting wars, and they rely purely on human lives, so the Ukrainian army does not need too perfect training. As long as they are given enough guns and ammunition, they will help the German army kill people on the battlefield.

Not only that, there are still many remnants of the Soviet army and pro-Soviet and pro-Russian rebels in the German-occupied area. Please use the Ukrainians to form a sweeping force. Rape is cruel and merciless!"

Hitler greatly appreciated Shang Zhen, and Shang Zhen said with a smile: "This is just a means of 'using barbarians to control barbarians' in our country's art of war!"

Facts quickly proved that Shang Zhen’s method was very correct. The Ukrainian army (Ukrainian army) hated the Russians, the Soviet Union, and the Stalin regime. The Ukrainian army is extremely brave, tenacious, and extremely cruel.

On the battlefield of Stalin, there was a bloody battle between a battalion of the Ukrainian army and a brigade of the Soviet army for three days and three nights without surrender, and even the entire army was wiped out. The surviving Ukrainian soldiers of that battalion said, "We came here to kill the Soviets. We didn’t surrender because we knew what would happen if we fell into the hands of the Soviets.” In Ukraine, when the Ukrainian army swept up the Soviet guerrillas, they were as hard-hearted as they were and murdered like hemp, leaving almost no survivors. When the Soviet guerrillas captured prisoners, they were brutally killed. The method can be called extermination, which greatly improved the "public order" in the occupied area behind the German army.

With the arrival of follow-up reinforcements from the German army (including 20 Ukrainian troops), the strength and morale of the German army on Stalin's battlefield soared. , launched a series of fierce attacks, which made it difficult for Marshal Timoshenko, the commander-in-chief of the Soviet army, to send a telegram to Stalin: "Comrade Stalin! The German army has strengthened its strength, and I need reinforcements!"

Stalin said angrily: "Where did I get the troops! Moscow is also very tight!" He immediately called the new chief of staff of the Soviet Army's Moscow Military District, Lieutenant General Alexander Mikhailovich Vasilevsky, "Is there any army in the Moscow Military District?" Troops to reinforce Timoshenko?"

Vasilevsky said in embarrassment: "Comrade Stalin, it can be judged that the focus of the German army's attack is gradually moving south. The German army has transferred many troops to Stalingrad. Moscow can breathe a sigh of relief. As for the reinforcements of Comrade Timoshenko, I'm afraid Difficult, we have troops, but...the main force is very attrition, if you use recruit troops..." The "recruit troops" in his mouth refer to civilians who are temporarily forced into the army.

"Since Moscow is kept, Stalingrad must also be kept!" Stalin clenched his fists tightly, "Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad, none of them can be lost! If one is lost, the Soviet Union will be over! Especially Stalingrad!" The temporary victory of the Soviet army in Moscow gave Stalin a glimmer of self-delusional hope in his almost desperate state of mind, "The German army is at the end of its blow! We should fight back! Pursue the German army! This can also indirectly help Stalingrad! "

Under Stalin's stern order, Vasilevsky and other high-ranking Soviet troops in Moscow had no choice but to bite the bullet and organize a counterattack. The result can be imagined.

Admiral Bock was keenly aware that the Soviet army might counterattack, so he ordered the troops to move while waiting in full force. The Soviet army who came out of the city to pursue them was completely defeated, with corpses strewn across the field, and won the "Southern Moscow Counterattack".

This victory weakened the strength of the Soviet Army in Moscow to a certain extent, and as a result, it almost caused Hitler to re-emerge the idea of ​​​​"taking the opportunity to capture Moscow". After many high-ranking German soldiers talked about it, Hitler reluctantly gave up this idea.

Since reinforcements from Moscow and Leningrad were unable to arrive, Timoshenko, who was struggling on the Stalingrad battlefield, had to ask Stalin to order reinforcements from the Transcaucasus Military District and the North Caucasus Military District to the Stalingrad battlefield.

Stalin agreed to this.

Lieutenant General Kozilov, Commander of the Transcaucasus Military District and Lieutenant General Ivan Yefimovich Petrov, Commander of the North Caucasus Military District, who received Stalin's order, hastily mobilized more than half of their troops to reinforce Stalingrad.

After learning that the Soviet Transcaucasus Military District and the North Caucasus Military District had mobilized more than half of their troops to Stalingrad, the senior officials of the Nanjing Army were overjoyed. As a result, according to accurate information, the Transcaucasian Soviet Army had less than 5 troops, excluding militias and recruits. People, the Soviet Army in the North Caucasus Military Region is less than 3 people. For the Nanjing Army, the time to take advantage of the Caucasus has finally arrived.

Jiang Weiguo asked Yang Jie: "After the Caucasus Soviet army reinforces Stalingrad, can the German army still capture Stalingrad?"

Yang Jie is very confident: "There is absolutely no problem.

Although the German army and the Soviet army also received reinforcements, the scale and strength of the German reinforcements greatly exceeded the Soviet army, and it is still inevitable for the German army to take Stalingrad!"

Jiang Weiguo suddenly became proud: "Then what are we waiting for?"

On December 12, the "Battle of Baku" of the Nanjing Army officially started.

Chapter 510 Surprise attack across the lake (3)

The Battle of Baku was a major battle in the first stage of the Allies' war against the Soviet Union. This battle was very special. According to the original plan, this battle should be started by the German army, but it was the Chinese army (Nanjing Army) that really started the battle. , and the first batch of Chinese troops to go into battle after the Battle of Baku started was the Iranian army.

On December 1940, 12, the Battle of Baku broke out.

In the early morning of that day, more than 15 Iranian troops who had gathered in the northwestern region of Iran crossed the border and attacked the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic of the Soviet Union on a large scale.

In the Persian shouts of "Allah is great", 10,000+ Iranian troops violently charged towards the Soviet army.

Regarding the attack of the Iranian army, the Soviet army in the Transcaucasus region was not caught off guard, because it was no secret that the Iranian army had previously assembled troops on the border of Iran-Azerbaijan in a mighty manner. What kind of cover-up activities are completely aboveboard to carry out army assembly activities, so the Soviet army in the Transcaucasus region has long been prepared, and the front line has not been easily broken by the Iranian army.

The Caucasus region is the area between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea, with a total area of ​​about 44 square kilometers. The Greater Caucasus Mountains here are the boundary between Asia and Europe. The region is divided into North Caucasus (former Caucasus) and Transcaucasus (South Caucasus) ), the North Caucasus belongs to Europe, administratively it is the territory of Russia, and the Transcaucasus belongs to Asia, that is, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia. The three countries are all members of the Soviet Union. Baku, which the alliance states urgently need to occupy, is the capital of Azerbaijan .

In terms of military division, the North Caucasus region is the North Caucasus Military Region of the Soviet Army, and the three Transcaucasus countries are the Transcaucasus Military Region of the Soviet Army.

At this time, the commander-in-chief of the Soviet army who led the troops to resist the Iranian army was Lieutenant General Kozilov, the commander of the Transcaucasus Military Region of the Soviet Army. Kozilov was not surprised by the invasion of the Iranian army. It was an open matter for Iran to join the Allied Powers. Well, Iran borders both the Central Asian region that originally belonged to the Soviet Union and the Transcaucasus region that belonged to the Soviet Union. During the Central Asian campaign, the Iranian army assisted the Nanjing army in fighting. Now, the Iranian army can naturally also assist the German army in fighting.

The German army was storming Stalingrad, the gate of the Caucasus region, and the Iranian army attacked behind the Soviet army. It was undoubtedly a matter of course to raid the rear of the Caucasus region. The wall and the wide accumulation of grain allowed the Soviet army to build multiple lines of defense in the southern Transcaucasus region bordering Iran and Turkey. These lines of defense are actually not strong. It is not very difficult to attack the Nanjing Army with heavy firepower and attacking capabilities that are not as good as the German Army, but for the Iranian Army (and the Turkish Army), these lines of defense are no less difficult than the Great Wall lying in front of the Huns. Pass over.

The Nanjing Army in Central Asia is the 31st Army and the 37th Army. The division of labor between the two armies is clear. The 31st Army is responsible for the south, and the 37th Army is responsible for the north. As a result, the center of gravity shifted to the north. Central Asia was basically in charge of the 37st Army. The commander of the army, Chen Mingren, became the frontier official in Central Asia, and was also responsible for the "military guidance" to Iran. This made Chen Mingren the Iran's "Emperor".

Chen Mingren sent Chen Jihuan, chief of staff of the army, to Iran, so the actual commander of the Iranian army's attack on the Transcaucasus region was Chen Jihuan.

Before the war, Chen Jihuan met the Iranian King Reza Khan and proposed the idea of ​​"Battle of Baku", but Reza Khan was not very enthusiastic. Although he could not say that he was passively avoiding the war, he was indeed not active.

Chen Jihuan realized that when they fought in Central Asia, China promised to give Turkmenistan to Iran, so Iran worked very hard. Now that they are fighting Transcaucasus, China did not promise to give Iran any benefits, so Iran is naturally slow.

Chen Jihuan immediately sent a telegram to ask Jiang Weiguo for instructions. Jiang Weiguo scolded: "These Iranians! It's just a lazy donkey who grinds a lot of shit and piss! Don't give benefits and don't work! How unreasonable!"

"What should we do?" Chen Jihuan was a little anxious.

Jiang Weiguo thought for a while, and replied to Chen Jihuan: "I immediately asked Gu Weijun to see Reza Khan, and solemnly promised that as long as the Iranian army defeated Baku, the three countries of Transcaucasus (Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Armenia) would be distributed to Iran!"

Chen Jihuan was surprised: "Is it too much?"

Jiang Weiguo sneered: "Let's see if the Iranians have the ability to hit Baku!"

Reza Khan was overjoyed when he received Jiang Weiguo's promise. When he helped the Nanjing Army attack Central Asia, the Chinese government kept its word and distributed Turkmenistan to Iran, which greatly increased Iran's territory and Reza Khan's own prestige. It stimulated Reza Khan to be "highly ambitious", and Reza Khan made up his mind that Iran will unswervingly fight the world war with China and Germany, and get a large area of ​​territory, so that Iran can become a "second-rate empire" after the war (in In Reza Khan's heart, the first-class empire is naturally the "big brother country" in the camp of the four allied countries of Germany, China, Italy, and Japan), and to reproduce the glory of the Persian Empire, he himself will become the "contemporary Cyrus the Great" ( The founder of the Persian Empire), it was precisely because of this idea that Reza Khan deliberately procrastinated, waiting for Jiang Weiguo to promise him benefits.

If the Transcaucasus region can be obtained, Iran’s territory will increase again by about 20 square kilometers (after the war in Central Asia, Iran acquired Turkmenistan, and its territory has increased by about 50 square kilometers), and the Transcaucasus region is fertile and resource-rich. Economically developed and more valuable than Turkmenistan.

Reza Khan and the top Iranian leaders had to be tempted, so they made great efforts to join the war.

About 18 Iranian troops were sent to the Battle of Baku successively, all of which were the main force in the Iranian army, all equipped with Soviet weapons (provided by China and Germany), and many troops were equipped with military advisers from the Nanjing Army.

Despite this, the Iranian army was not in a hurry. Although it entered Azerbaijan, it was struggling and suffered a lot. After fighting for three days and three nights, the troops that made the best progress only entered Azerbaijan for more than 50 kilometers, with more than 3 casualties. , Soviet casualties are only a quarter of the Iranian army.

There are three reasons for this. First, the Soviet army’s weapons and equipment are obviously superior to the Iranian army, especially heavy weapons such as tanks and artillery, which are much more than the Iranian army. It is very difficult for the Nanjing army to fight against the Soviet army, let alone the The Iranian army, in addition, the Soviet army also has the air supremacy on the Transcaucasus battlefield. Although the Soviet army has only two to three hundred aircraft here, and the models are old and the performance is backward, they can also deal a great blow to the Iranian army; the second is the Soviet army Waiting for work at leisure and with a solid defense line, the Iranian army is on the offensive side. It lacks heavy weapons, so naturally it can't take advantage of it; third, the Iranian army itself is not strong, and it doesn't pay attention to tactics when fighting.

On the whole, the Iranian army has no advantage except for its large number of people.

Chen Jihuan described it in the report sent to the Nanjing Army Headquarters: "...the Iranians don't seem to know how to fight at all. We have taught them so much, but they haven't learned it at all. Maybe the time is really limited, but it's not good to grind your guns in battle. Yes, but the Iranians are still rotten wood.

The Iranian army fought in four words, bulls kicked horses, and after the order to attack was issued, the Iranian army shouted "Allah is great" together, with amazing momentum, but without any rules, they rushed towards the Soviet army's position in a swarm. The mighty, huge crowds of people, once they are attacked head-on by the Soviet army, they immediately seem helpless. They don’t know how to attack in a roundabout way, lure the enemy to go deep, or attack east and west. After some people were killed and wounded, they turned into a swarm It was a complete defeat, and when we went there, there were huge crowds, and when we came back, it was still huge and crowded, which is really dumbfounding, but even more so, it makes people feel anxious!"

"The battle between the mob and the mob!" Chen Jihuan commented on the battle between the Iranian army and the Soviet army with a mentality of hatred, "It's just that the mob on the opposite side is more powerful in terms of weapons and equipment!"

Some units of the Nanjing Army quickly nicknamed the Iranian Army "Our Italian Army", because the Italian Army on the German side also had this virtue that mud can't support the wall when fighting.

After learning of such a shameful performance of his army, King Reza Khan was "furious" and dismissed three division commanders and brigade commanders in one breath, and shot four brigade commanders, but to no avail, so he sent another Crown Prince Mohammad Reza Pahlavi went to the front line with the rank of lieutenant general to represent the king himself in the "royal conquest", but the Iranian army still hesitated.

Chen Jihuan felt deeply dereliction of duty. He sent a telegram to the Nanjing Army Headquarters requesting punishment. Jiang Weiguo replied: "Don't blame yourself, your task has been completed!" Chen Jihuan was very surprised: "The Iranian army did not successfully invade Azerbaijan and capture Baku?" Jiang Weiguo replied: "The Iranian army is just a tool we use to contain, deceive, and paralyze the Soviet army. How can such an important place in Baku really fall into the hands of the Iranians?"

Xiao Yao sent a telegram to Chen Jihuan: "If you want to make the enemy paralyzed, you must pay a lot of blood. Since the Iranians shed blood for our Chinese soldiers, wouldn't it be beautiful?"

Chen Jihuan suddenly realized.