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Volume 1 On the Songhua River Chapter 816 Timoshenko¡¯s Situation

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    Chapter 816 Timoshenko¡¯s situation

    Faced with the severe situation in the Far East of the Soviet Union, Stalin, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the Council of Ministers, could only choose one direction in Outer Mongolia and the Far East. After painful thinking and weighing the pros and cons, he handed it over to the Soviet People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Mollot  Tov had an important task, leading a team to Outer Mongolia to negotiate with Tang Qiuli who surrounded Zhukov and hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops.  {}

    This was Stalin's last resort. The bottom line he gave to Molotov was, "Give that damn Chinese what he wants." This was the result of a forced compromise, whether it was Stalin himself or the senior Soviet generals.  No matter how reluctant they were, they all had to face this reality. If they continued to delay with Tang Qiuli, not only would they lose Outer Mongolia, but the Far East would also fall into the hands of the Japanese.

    Therefore, negotiating with Tang Qiuli was Stalin's helpless choice and undoubtedly the most correct choice. Although there was a corresponding price to pay for this choice, perhaps this was the cost that Stalin had to pay for occupying Outer Mongolia.

    After Molotov left, Stalin convened a meeting of the Politburo members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to study the increasingly critical situation in the Far East. Timoshenko sent several telegrams a day asking for help, and the Second Far East Army could no longer hold on.

    The situation in the Far East dealt Stalin a heavy blow one after another. The Kwantung Army was overwhelmingly conquering cities and territories. Haishanwei, the largest military port of the Soviet Union in the Far East, also fell into the hands of the Japanese army. Admiral Bernizov, commander of the Soviet Pacific Fleet, and political commissar Ko  Vice Admiral Liu Jin shot himself when the Japanese army captured Haishanwei.

    Before they died, the two men jointly sent a farewell telegram to the General Staff and Stalin. The contents of the telegram made Stalin sad every time he read it.

    "The General Staff transferred to Comrade Stalin. On September 10, the Japanese Kwantung Army launched a large-scale attack on our Haishanwei. The fighting was fierce. By noon, our Red Army guarding troops were defeated and most of the soldiers were killed. All officers and soldiers of the Pacific Fleet were  On the way to the emergency boarding, they were intercepted by the Japanese troops and fought fiercely with the Japanese troops in the city, causing most of the casualties. "

    "The Japanese Navy's First and Second Fleets and most of the Fourth Fleet have already approached Haishanwei Military Port. From the location of the fleet headquarters, looking at Haishanwei Military Port, Japanese warships have blocked the waterway out of the port. At this point, the Pacific Fleet has lost  Without the ability to resist, it is almost a foregone conclusion that all warships will fall into the hands of the enemy. As the highest military and political commanders of the fleet, the two of us have an unshirkable responsibility and have failed the great trust of the motherland and Comrade Stalin. The only choice is to die and vow not to become a Japanese  The Prisoner of Man, a masterpiece by Bernizov and Koryugin.¡±

    Stalin read this telegram with tears in his eyes. The suicide of two senior navy admirals certainly made him sad. The fall of the Pacific Fleet into the hands of the Japanese made Stalin almost faint with heartache. This was a sign of great devotion to his efforts.  All the capital it had built to compete with the Americans and British for hegemony in the Pacific was lost overnight.

    Is the Soviet Union¡¯s dream of moving towards the Pacific terminated?  Stalin kept asking himself, who is to blame for the Soviet Union's heavy losses in the Far East?  The instigator must be Tang Qiuli, and the one who carried out the attack was a Japanese. Stalin was so cruel to these two robbers that he must avenge them in his lifetime.

    There is no point in gritting one's teeth. The urgent problem that needs to be solved now is to rescue Timoshenko and his Second Army troops from the siege of the Kwantung Army.

    The Politburo meeting of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, based on Stalin's opinions, quickly formed the combat deployment of the Soviet army in the Far East. First, Timoshenko's Second Far East Army troops were to hold on to the Arsenyev area for at least two weeks.  It will take about a while before the troops transferred to the Far East can go to the battlefield.

    Second, the troops of the Far East Military Region in the Kamchatka Peninsula currently have six infantry divisions, three motorized brigades, one tank brigade, and two air force fighter regiments, totaling about 72,000 troops. They were immediately organized into  The First Kamchatka Army, headed by Major General Sirnenko, deputy director of the Operations Bureau of the Red Army General Staff Headquarters, served as commander and political commissar. After repelling the Kwantung Army troops attacking the Kamchatka Peninsula, they immediately moved south to reinforce Timoshenko.  Second Army.

    Third, the Transcaucasian Front troops gave up their mission of fighting the Chinese Army and immediately moved eastward via Lake Baikal to join the battlefield in the Far East. In this way, in the Far East, they will have three armies in hand, about forty-three  With a force of about 10,000 people, although it is still at a disadvantage in terms of strength, it can still be dealt with for a while.

    In addition, Stalin also made a top-secret deployment. Once the negotiations with Tang Qiuli were successful, Zhukov's troops would immediately rearm in the Transcaucasus Military Region and head to the Far East battlefield. All Soviet troops in the Far East would be reorganized into the Far East Front.  Unified under the command of Zhukov.

    This is not the main task. The main task Stalin gave to the future Far East Front Army is to completely push back the Kwantung Army to Northeast China and immediatelyThat is to say, a comprehensive counterattack was launched from all directions in the eastern part of Outer Mongolia against the Chinese army commanded by Tang Qiuli and the area of ??Outer Mongolia was recovered.

    Stalin also emphasized one point: "Comrades, this plan is classified as top secret. Even for Comrade Zhukov, the Far East Front must send someone from the General Staff to issue a special order after the battle with the Japanese Kwantung Army ends and a complete victory is achieved.  Before this, anyone who leaks secrets will be punished with treason." When Stalin said these words, there was an obvious murderous intention in his tone, which made the members of the Politburo feel nervous.

    However, they looked with admiration at this Georgian who could decide the fate of the Soviets. Their great leader, the leader of the Soviets. Before the large-scale decisive battle with the Japanese began, Comrade Stalin had already considered the next battle plan.  , the opponent is the Chinese Tang Qiuli who caused great trouble to the great Soviet Union.

    The members of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union present here ask themselves that they have never imagined this. Perhaps this is the thinking of great people that is different from ordinary people?  It can also be seen from this that Tang Qiuli was listed as a target that must be eliminated in Stalin's mind. His hatred was so deep that he wanted to get rid of him quickly. Stalin could not sleep and was always thinking about him. Tang Qiuli was proud of him.  .

    In fact, in Arsenyev in the Far East, Timoshenko's Far East Second Army was unable to withdraw even if it wanted to. The Kwantung Army's Second Army could not defeat Timoshenko's troops.  A fierce battle began in the Spassk Dalny area. On September 11, Timoshenko led a large-scale armored force and launched a large-scale counterattack against the Second Army of the Kwantung Army.

    By September 12, the Third Army of the Kwantung Army was pushed back to the Paspan line west of Spaske Dalini. The Kwantung Army retreated for more than 80 kilometers and suffered more than 40,000 casualties.  On the Soviet border, the Second Far East Army of the Soviet Union regained Ussuriisk, but it also paid a considerable price, with more than 35,000 casualties. The situation on the battlefield was favorable to the Second Far East Army.

    However, the geographical environment of the eastern section of the Soviet Far East meant that Timoshenko's victory could only be of a tactical nature. It was bordered by the Sea of ??Japan to the east and the Sino-Soviet border to the west. The widest point was only over 200 kilometers.  , the narrowest is no more than a hundred kilometers, and there is no strategic room for maneuver.

    According to Timoshenko's idea, after the Second Army is formed, it will immediately move to the Khabarovsk area. Breaking away from such a small battlefield environment can gain the largest battlefield maneuver space. To move westward, it can start from eastern Outer Mongolia.  The area is approaching Kulun, saving Zhukov's First Army from being surrounded. Going south can attack the Kwantung Army troops who dare to invade the Haishanwei area. It has achieved an extremely favorable situation in terms of geographical location and strategic layout.

    After Timoshenko submitted his suggestion to the General Staff, the reply he received was: "Comrade Timoshenko of the Second Far East Army, new changes will occur on the battlefield in Outer Mongolia, and rescuing the First Far East Army is no longer an urgent task.  "The main task of your department at the moment is to stay at the original station and pay close attention to the movements of the Kwantung Army."

    After Timoshenko saw the order from the General Staff, he was furious. The high-ranking men in Moscow who were out of touch with reality and commanded blindly placed more than 200,000 troops on such a narrow battlefield to put the Second Army in danger.  In such a situation, if the Japanese really attack the Far East, they will definitely not push it all the way.

    There are at least four to six attack points to choose from, and Khabarovsk will definitely be one of them. Judging from the geographical environment here, if the Kwantung Army captures Khabarovsk, the Second Army will be cut off from its retreat and fall into a situation of being surrounded.  Timoshenko did not understand why the General Staff did not listen to the opinions of frontline commanders?

    The General Staff in Moscow did not understand the situation here. Timoshenko, who was here, saw the murderous intent contained in the dense war clouds from the frequent mobilizations of the Kwantung Army and the large armies gathering on the Sino-Soviet border. In fact,  , he still misunderstood the orders of the General Staff.

    Keeping the Second Far East Army here can act as a deterrent to the Kwantung Army, so that the Japanese dare not act rashly and buy time to resolve the war in Outer Mongolia. Who knows, but the Japanese are red-eyed bandits, daring and greedy.  Combining sex with arrogance, Tang Qiuli simply ignored these and ignited the restlessness in the Japanese's bones.

    The development of the war situation was unfortunately predicted by Timoshenko. On September 23, the Kwantung Army troops, which had successfully attacked the other three routes, immediately turned their attention to Timoshenko after clearing out other Soviet troops in the Far East.  Brother's Second Far East Army.

    The commander of the Kwantung Army, Kenkichi Ueda, adjusted his strategic deployment. Except for the Second Army, which continued to attack Sakhalin Island and the Kamchatka Peninsula according to the original plan, the other three forces immediately surrounded Timoshin after completing their established combat tasks.  Troops.

    On September 24, the First Army of the Kwantung Army moved south from Khabarovsk, and the Fourth Army moved from Haishan to the north.??, together with the Third Army, pressed forward across the board, tightly surrounding Timoshenko's Soviet Second Far East Army troops in the Arsenyev area, and Timoshenko was in for a catastrophe.

    (To be continued)
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