I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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Chen Rui held back his tears and opened the door of the room. A Soviet colonel in a wheelchair was waiting outside the door.

The Soviet colonel's position in the Soviet army was the division commander. His legs were broken by shells during the battle, and he was recuperating in Molotov at this time.

The Soviet colonel handed over a map: "The place marked on the map is the residence of Zhukov's family. The route has also been marked, and there is also a timetable for nearby patrols!"

"Thank you!" Chen Rui took the map and handed it to eight Death Squad agents, "Look at yours!"

After watching his subordinates leave with the resolute posture of seeing death as home, Chen Rui lit a cigarette, and recalled the conversation when his boss Liu Qi gave him this task in his mind.

"Sir, will this method really work? I feel a little childish, because it's too obvious, and I'm afraid it will be self-defeating, and the Soviets can easily see that we are framing Zhukov!"

"Why doesn't it work? It doesn't matter whether the method is brilliant or simple. Sometimes, the simpler the trick, the more it can deceive people to death.

Also, don't ignore the particularity of the Soviet Union. This country is full of red terror atmosphere of mutual distrust and self-insecurity. Stalin deliberately adopted The nationwide policy of sowing dissension has made the level of trust among people in the Soviet Union extremely low. Everyone is wary of others, and everyone dare not trust others easily. It has reached an unbelievably dark level, with no humanity, no reason, no affection, no friendship, wives will denounce their husbands, sons will denounce their fathers.

In such an overall atmosphere, a clean person will become no longer clean, and those who are framed without evidence will be charged with trumped-up charges, calling a deer a horse and turning black and white.

Take Zhukov as an example, he is innocent, but so what?He still came close to being put in jail or even sent to the execution ground.

We smeared a little bit of dirt on him, enough for his comrades to find enough excuses to kill him.

For the dirty things we smeared on Zhukov, the Soviets will look at it this way. People who don’t know are afraid of becoming Zhukov’s accomplices and swear that it is true. People who are clear will deliberately pretend to be confused, because they finally Get Zhukov's justifiable excuse, they know in their hearts that this excuse is false, but they will pretend it is true, just like the emperor's new clothes.

Even if there are a few people who speak up and defend Zhukov's appeal, they will be branded as "Zhukov's accomplices", so it is hard to tell!"

Chen Rui was deeply enlightened: "So it is! So it is!"

More than half an hour later, a fierce gun battle broke out somewhere in Molotov City. The Soviet patrols and armed personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who participated in the gun battle killed eight unidentified suspicious elements and rescued the suspects who were tried by these eight suspicious elements. At the same time, a letter was found on the body of one of the suspects.

The letter was quickly sent to Beria's assistant, the head of the Soviet State Security Service Vsevolod Nikolaevich Merkulov.

After reading the contents of the letter, Merkulov forcibly held back the shock in his heart, and he calmly sent someone to invite one of the parties involved in this incident, Zhukov's wife Alexandra Kievna Zuyko Wa came to his office to "cooperate with the investigation."

After Zuykova arrived, Merkulov smiled and asked very gently, "Madam, are you and the children all right?"

Zuykova was still in shock: "No...Thank you for your concern, my children and I are fine..." She was trembling all over. Obviously, it was not the shootout that frightened her, but something else.

Merkulov was still smiling: "Madame, do you know why those bandits kidnapped you and the children?"

Zuykova lowered her head, her body trembling more and more: "I...I don't know!"

Merkulov still spoke softly: "Madam, don't you really know?"

Zuykova's face was as pale as paper, she moved her lips, made a little indistinct sound, and finally fell silent, which was an attitude that she dared neither deny nor admit.

Zuykova remembers very clearly that before the war in the Far East, her husband Zhukov was worried every time he went home. From time to time, someone would come to his door to "talk" to him, and some people even bypassed Zhukov and went to her alone to "talk" "We must take a firm stand before the issue" and "never cover up a traitor to the motherland, even if the traitor is her husband", which made Zuykova live in fear and anxiety all day long.

Fortunately, the Far East War broke out, and Zhukov was sent to fight on the front lines of the Far East, so those "black hands" who reached out to him in the dark let him go temporarily. However, Zhukov's performance in the Far East War was not good, which made those There is a faint tendency for the "black hand" to reach out again.

Although Zuykova was Zhukov's wife and the wife of a senior Soviet general, she walked on thin ice all day long and lived with no sense of security.

Zuykova was completely unclear about what had just happened. She only remembered that the eight people came uninvited and kept saying, "Madam, we are sent by General Zhukov. Please take the children and follow us. Molotov is very dangerous, you must not stay here any longer," Zuykova was confused and terrified.

At this point, Zuykova simply realized that her husband might be "in trouble".

Of course Zuykova will not "kill relatives with righteousness", she will not expose or report her husband, in fact she does not know anything, she can't say why, but she can't defend her husband, so she is completely dumbfounded.

Zuykova's speechlessness seemed to Merkulov to be a kind of "ghostly acquiescence", he smiled, and took out the blood-stained letter: "Ma'am, look Have you passed this letter?" After seeing Zuykova shaking her head in horror, Merkulov unhurriedly opened the letter and read: "My dear, please trust these people in front of you. They are here to rescue you and the children, they will take you to a safe place, you and I will be reunited soon, then we will go to China together, and burn it after watching!"

"Our handwriting identification experts will be here soon!" Merkulov looked at the already pale Zuykova, "I hope to prove that the words on this letter were not written by your husband.

Ma'am, don't worry!It's okay, you can go back, but to prevent this kind of thing from happening again, please don't go out with your children and accept our protection!"

Zuykova stood up staggeringly, she almost collapsed on the ground, and her mind went blank.

After watching Zuykova go out, Merkulov put away the programmed smile on his face and picked up a telephone at hand.

At 1941 o'clock in the morning on February 2, 28.

A series of dazzling signal bombs suddenly flew up on more than a dozen positions and defense lines of the Nanjing Army, tearing up the originally quiet and dark night in an instant. In the second large-scale bombardment, thousands of large-caliber artillery pieces and more artillery pieces of other types sprayed red flames that pierced the night sky like a volcanic eruption. The Soviet-controlled area on the opposite side was plunged into a sea of ​​flames and sandstorm-like gunpowder smoke one after another.

In order to prevent Soviet artillery suppression, the Nanjing Army's shelling only lasted more than 20 minutes, and then the artillery positions quickly shifted positions, but the strength and density exceeded the previous artillery battle between the two armies.

In just over 20 minutes, the artillery units of the Nanjing Army poured more than [-] rounds of various types of artillery shells at the Soviet Army. The violent thunderous and dense explosions made the whole earth tremble wildly, and the shells smashed their heads and covered their brains. The area under the control of the Soviet army was like boiling magma and molten iron. The trenches were blown to pieces, the fortifications were blown to pieces, and the firepower points were razed to the ground in the upheaval. Flying and decapitated, some were smashed to pieces, some were buried alive by the collapsed trench fortifications, and more Soviet troops were running and screaming in panic.

On the Nanjing Army position, the officers and soldiers waiting for the offensive order stood up from the trenches and fortifications one after another, enjoying the magnificent battle scene in front of them while moving their bodies that were somewhat numb and stiff due to the long-term concealment and cold.

Seeing the sky burning and the earth seething with artillery fire from our side, the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army cheered heartily.

This is a kind of blood-pulling excitement and passion that can only be experienced by people who completely forget life and death at the moment of battle.

"The time has come to kill the enemy and serve the country!"

"Come on! Don't be a coward!"

"Hit the fucking old man!"

After the shelling was over, the Chinese shouts of killing, which were no less loud than the artillery salvos, once again enveloped the entire battlefield. The officers and soldiers of the various units of the Nanjing Army who received the counterattack order were all excited with enthusiasm and morale. The 10,000+ Nanjing Army is like a stormy wave, rushing towards their respective targets unstoppably.

The officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army who were engaged in the counterattack were high-spirited and risked their lives. Although this army created by Jiang Weiguo was evaluated as the "yellow-skinned German army", it still maintained the hard work and fearlessness that the Chinese are best at. Adversity, perseverance and other advantages, traditional spirit and primitive and simple patriotic spirit make them extremely loyal and obedient on the battlefield. Following the orders of their chiefs, they are all loyal and march forward bravely without hesitation.

During the short period of confrontation between the two armies, the Omu River running through the Champion City became the natural dividing line between the Soviet Army and the Nanjing Army. The ice on many river sections was trampled or crushed by cars, and a large number of officers and soldiers fell into the icy water.

When Zhou Dingming, head of the 37rd Regiment of the 37th Brigade of the 373th Division, led his troops to cross the river, he found that the ice on the water surface where they were scheduled to cross the river had been fragmented, and some armored soldiers were struggling in the icy water. On the ice, the chariot immediately sank into the water. Many armored soldiers had no time to climb out of the chariot and drowned at the bottom of the river. Not only that, but the Soviet army on the opposite side had already discovered the situation here. Blow up forest-like water jets and rock-like shattered ice.

The officers and soldiers were as anxious as sparks, Zhou Dingming gritted his teeth: "Swimming also means crossing the river!" After speaking, he was the first to jump into the icy water.

Zhou Dingming, who jumped into the icy water, almost passed out. The extreme cold made him suddenly feel that his body and limbs were not in control. His hands and feet seemed to be turned into wood, and the river water on his face immediately turned into ice beads and slag. .

Despite this, Zhou Dingming still shouted with all his strength: "Soldiers are not afraid of death! Are you still afraid of the cold?" The officers swam in the river one after another, and the soldiers walked towards the river with their guns raised above their heads.

Bullets from the Soviet army on the other side kept coming, and shells flew over constantly. There was no shelter on the water surface. Some officers and soldiers strafed and shelled the Soviet army on the other side of the river to cover their comrades who were swimming across the river.

Golden snakes danced wildly on the water, thunderbolt rolled, and the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army who crossed the river were in great pain. The extremely cold ice water made them stiff and numb. Frozen into ice sculptures floating on the water, the ice layer shattered by shells made a loud sound, large pieces of ice floated and collided on the water surface, some officers and soldiers were knocked down by the ice and submerged and sank, the Soviet army The bullets and shells posed a great threat to the Nanjing Army. In the ice water, the officers and soldiers killed by the Soviet artillery shells were torn apart, and the broken bodies and bones immediately froze into red wood carvings and stone carvings. The living officers and soldiers were bombed first. The Soviet artillery shells fell again, and the bodies of the dead officers and soldiers who were frozen hard were immediately blown to pieces. The officers and soldiers who were hit by the bullets groaned and screamed, and the wounds were quickly frozen, and the blood mixed with the river water was frozen. up red ice cubes.

Luo Xiaogui, a soldier of the 2nd Company of the 2nd Battalion of the regiment, was swimming with difficulty when he saw a brother suddenly plunged into the water and then stretched out a hand from the water. The soldier whose hand was held by him emerged from the water, the icy scum on his face seemed to have been coated with white wax, and he was spitting ice cubes out of his mouth when he spoke: "Brother... help me..."

"Hold hard..." Luo Xiaogui desperately pulled the brother, "Why are you so fucking heavy?"

"I'm...I'm a Heavy...I have a machine gun in my other hand..."

"Throw it away! Or we'll be dragged into the water by machine guns!"

"How can we throw it? We are soldiers, and weapons are the lives of soldiers, so we can't throw them..." The machine gunner was very firm.

Luo Xiaogui saw a piece of ice the size of two ping-pong tables floating towards him. He hurriedly grabbed the ice to fix himself, and then dragged the machine gunner vigorously.

The machine gunner climbed onto the ice, and a swarm of Soviet bullets whizzed towards him. A soldier on the nearby water screamed and fell into the water all at once.

The machine gunner was furious, cursing and preparing to set up the machine gun on the ice.

"Come down quickly! Don't stay there!" Luo Xiaogui shouted, "You will be frozen together with the ice!"

The machine gunner turned a deaf ear, and the hands of the two were already stuck together, as if they had been coated with super glue. Both of them became anxious and tore desperately, and finally tore apart.

Luo Xiaogui felt a burning pain as if his hand had been peeled off. In fact, his hand was indeed peeled off. The two hands that he and the machine gunner held tightly just now were torn off by force. There was a piece of flesh, but the severe pain disappeared quickly, because the bloody palm and five fingers were frozen by the cold wind.

The machine gunner set up his machine gun on the ice, and fired towards the opposite place where the Soviet bullets burst out.

Luo Xiaogui was at a loss next to him. He saw that the brother suddenly stopped moving. He was soaked in ice water and completely frozen together with the ice, turning into a lifelike ice sculpture on the ice.

Some of the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army crossing the river with difficulty crossed the river on the ice, slipped and fell during the charge, then got up and continued to charge, and some fell down after being shot and frozen together with the ice, and the officers and soldiers who fell into the water The soldiers climbed onto the ice floes one after another, and the ice floes, which could not bear the weight of too many people, shattered again. The officers and soldiers fell into the river again, and some swam across the river, holding logs or ice blocks. Their bodies were soaked in the river water, and their exposed parts quickly froze with ice.

In the firepower network of the Soviet army, some officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army kept falling on the ice and sinking to the bottom of the water, but no one ran back, and the injured officers and soldiers were continuously washed away by the river.

Zhou Dingming, the head of the team swimming at the forefront, kept shouting: "Go forward! Don't retreat! Follow me!" The cold made his voice shrill and trembling.

When he was about to approach the opposite bank, a shell from the Soviet army flew over. Many officers and soldiers saw Zhou Dingming suddenly face up in the river, and then sank.

"Tuan Zuo!" The surrounding officers and soldiers shouted with pain in their hearts, and they plunged into the water to save Zhou Dingming or retrieve Zhou Dingming's body. Seven soldiers did not come up after diving into the water.

Including Zhou Dingming, a large number of Nanjing Army officers and soldiers sank to the bottom of the water while crossing the river.

The officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army who set foot on the other side of the river were clumsy and slow because their uniforms were soaked by the river and quickly frozen like stones. When they charged, they were like pieces of moving wood. The officers and soldiers who were shot fell heavily like stone monuments. , The follow-up officers and soldiers went forward one after another, the river water on the clothes and the sweat from the body froze into the armor. When fighting in blood, the blood and sweat melted the ice armor on the body again.

In the low temperature of more than 20 degrees below zero, the Nanjing Army braved the blocking firepower of the Soviet Army, crossed the Omu River and defeated the blocking line of the Soviet Army in one fell swoop, which is undoubtedly a feat in the history of war.

The battle was very fierce. Although the Nanjing Army suffered great troubles and losses, it advanced steadily.

After more than an hour of fierce fighting, the 88th Division took the lead in tearing open the Soviet encirclement of the 77th and 74th Divisions, and completed the task of rescuing these two divisions. There were deafening screams and howls in Russian, one after another, and the morale-boosting officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army immediately launched a counterattack against the Soviet army.

In the front headquarters of the enemy, Wei Lihuang was restless. The troops fought smoothly, which seemed to be a good thing, but it was very different from the original plan, because the original plan was not like this.

The 77th and 74th divisions were successfully rescued and broke through. This is not surprising, but the operation was too smooth, and the troops did not seem to surround many Soviet troops in the pre-set anti-encirclement circle. Wei Lihuang had to be surprised indefinite.

Half an hour later, Wei Lihuang received a call from Fu Zuoyi. On the phone, Fu Zuoyi said succinctly: "Something went wrong!"

Wei Lihuang's heart sank, and Fu Zuoyi's voice was very low, from which he heard the weight of a mountain.

Chapter 553 Sudden changes in the battle situation (3)

The Kizilzar Counterattack (referred to as the Kecheng Counterattack or the Kecheng Battle) was one of the most successful battles planned and implemented by Zhukov. With his mind and at the cost of his capital, Zhukov successfully achieved his fundamental combat goal in this "Avalanche" campaign.

From a macro point of view, Zhukov actually prepared the same battle plan for the two projects. At first, he really wanted to wipe out the 77th Division of the Nanjing Army on the battlefield of Champion City. After all, "killing the 77th Division of the Nanjing Army is equivalent to destroying the Chinese army." At least five divisions", but this operation with a relatively low success rate was still in vain. First, the 77th Division desperately resisted; second, the 74th Division and other departments provided strong reinforcements; Under the command of Zhukov, he made a surprise attack on Changping City (Novosibirsk), destroyed Konev’s department, which was able to greatly cooperate with Zhukov’s department, and relieved the worries of the Nanjing Army. As a result, Zhukov’s plan to annihilate the 77th Division failed. In view of this, Zhukov made a decisive decision. He "turned waste into treasure" and made full use of the unfavorable situation of the Soviet army on the battlefield of Champion City to deceive the world, paralyze and deceive the Nanjing Army. Launch a counterattack posture, lure the Nanjing army to increase troops to the Champion City, and at the same time feint a shot, boldly use cavalry and tank troops to carry out long-distance raids and large-scale detours, and finally complete this exquisite and brilliant plan.

It is very admirable that in this battle, Zhukov used the trick of false surrender that is not uncommon in the Chinese art of war to backhand the tactics against the Nanjing Army. Fu Zuoyi, the commander-in-chief of the Nanjing Army of the Champion City, mistrusted the 16th Army of the Soviet Army Commander Rokossovsky's pretended surrender led to an unfavorable situation that was almost out of control.

When he woke up like a dream, Fu Zuoyi was extremely regretful.

In the early hours of February 2, the Nanjing Army launched a full-scale counterattack on the Champion City battlefield.

According to the scheduled plan, Rokossovsky, commander of the 16th Army of the Soviet Army, who had secretly surrendered to the Nanjing Army, will closely cooperate with the Nanjing Army in this battle. After the battle starts, the Nanjing Army will use the 37th and 88th Divisions as the main force , rescued the besieged 77th and 74th divisions, but deliberately delayed, and did not rush to rescue the 77th and 74th divisions from the encirclement, thus creating a situation (and also creating excuses for Rokossovsky), forcing Zhukov dispatched more troops to block the encirclement, allowing more Soviet troops to enter the area that was about to be surrounded by the Nanjing Army. Next, Rokossovsky would issue "chaotic orders" to his troops, deliberately leaving a few The gap allowed the two besieged divisions of the Nanjing Army to quickly break through the encirclement, and then launched a counter-encirclement against the Soviet army with the two besieged divisions. At that time, the 37th Division entered defensive operations and resisted the 16st cavalry who came to rescue the 1th Army of the Soviet Army. The 99st Army and the 16th Division immediately joined the battle. The four divisions first wiped out the 16th Army of the Soviet Army, which was in chaos because the chief officer Rokossovsky "deliberately let the water go", and then acted by ear, or closed it when it was good. After defeating the Soviet 1th Army, repel the Soviet 1st Cavalry Army, or make persistent efforts to take advantage of the situation and eat the [-]st Soviet Cavalry Army that has thrown itself into the net, thus achieving an overall victory in this counterattack.

However, after the war started, Wei Lihuang quickly discovered that the actual situation was different from the planned plan.

"Where is the 88th Division now? If nothing goes wrong, the Soviet army blocking them will be the 50th Division.

Ask Master Du Yuming to report the battle situation to me immediately!"

"Has the 37th Division arrived at the scheduled area? Inform Commander Zheng Zuomin that Budyonny's cavalry unit may be arriving soon. I have replenished him with more than 200 machine guns and more than 100 million rounds of machine gun bullets in stock. He pays attention to receive!"

"Did the 77th and 74th divisions break through? Tell Zhong Song and Liao Yaoxiang, take it easy, don't worry, breaking out is very simple. Their purpose is not to break out, but to use the action of breaking out to attract more Soviet troops to the There they are!"

"Has the 99th Division arrived? Inform Commander Zheng Dongguo to speed up and penetrate to the gap between the 112th Division and the 229th Division of the Soviet Army, and then turn around to the right flank of the 229th Division of the Soviet Army. In this way, the 99th Division can take the These two divisions of the Soviet Army have pushed into our anti-encirclement circle!"

"Have the two brigades of the 201st and 202nd divisions been dispatched? Let them be quicker and make the movement louder!"

In the frontline general headquarters, Wei Lihuang dispatched troops in an orderly manner. The battle went smoothly at first. The Nanjing Army counterattacking the Soviet Army crossed the Omu River. The progress was rapid, and detours, penetrations, blocking, and attacks were carried out leisurely.