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Volume 1: On the Songhua River Chapter 2133: The Dilemma of the Outer Mongolia Front (Part 1)

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    Liu Hongzhang's tone contained a meaning of discussion, but also an unquestionable order. The commander of the guard battalion, who had not been with him for a long time, did not understand his temper. He did not blame too much. His predecessor  The commander of the guard battalion was transferred to the fourth regiment as chief of staff. If that kid was still here, his eyes would light up when he heard this, and he would be gearing up, hoping to catch a battle or something.

    The commander of the guard battalion hesitated for a while, and it would not work if he stopped him. The chief of staff personally gave the order to the guard battalion. Just then, the chief of staff Liu Chenglin came back after conveying the order. The guard battalion commander hurried over and whispered to the brigade just now.  He repeated the long story, and at the end, he looked at Liu Chenglin in embarrassment.

    Liu Chenglin was happy and said: "Then follow the brigade commander's order. By the way, send more soldiers and a few armored command vehicles to follow. If you feel danger, you can force the brigade commander to the armored command vehicle.  , If the brigade commander blames me, you come to me!"

    After receiving the instruction from the chief of staff, the guard battalion commander looked relaxed and went to prepare happily. Liu Chenglin knew the brigade commander's temper too well. The battle had already begun. It would be better for him to stay in the armored command vehicle.  If you kill him, you can't stop him. If you forcefully stop him, he will curse!

    Under the protection of two companies of soldiers and several armored command vehicles, Liu Hongzhang climbed to a highland about seven or eight kilometers away from the brigade's temporary headquarters. The altitude of the highland is not high, but the location is very good.  On the high ground, the situation on the battlefield can be seen at a glance.

    On the twilight grassland, the blast points of the artillery shells exploded into bursts of fire. The bullets dragged dark red trajectories, flying chaotically in the night sky. A huge roar came towards the face. How could Wu Luan look at it?  It was a messy night battle scene, but in Liu Hongzhang's mind, it was as clear as a three-dimensional picture. The first regiment and the fourth regiment, side by side, were fighting against the two half-crippled Soviet troops.  division position and launched a ferocious attack.

    The second and third regiments, after breaking through the weakly defended flanks of the Soviet army, were like two sharp knives, piercing into the marching queue of the main Soviet army. Fierce fighting was taking place everywhere within a radius of dozens of kilometers.  , the gunfire was as dense as a summer rainstorm hitting the leaves. In one area, red smoke flashed from time to time. It was its own large-caliber howitzer regiment, violently shelling the Soviet positions.

    Liu Hongzhang turned his telescope to look farther to the right. On the deserted wilderness, strings of car lights formed a strip of light, twisting and twisting, running toward the Ural Mountains. They were retreating at full speed.  The location of the main force of the Soviet army was only more than 20 kilometers away from the battlefield where the fierce fighting was taking place. However, the light belt had no intention of turning towards the battlefield and kept flowing forward. The situation on the battlefield was like that of Tang Qiuli and  As Liu Hongzhang judged, the main force of the Soviet army never wanted to get entangled with the pursuing force-reading division troops.

    There was a sarcastic smile on the corner of Liu Hongzhang's mouth, "That Vasilevsky, facing this situation, must be exhausted. The pursuit troops of the five brigades are tearing apart the Soviet troops every day.  A few pieces of meat, but what can he do? The division commander only used the five brigades directly under the corps to pursue the retreating Soviet army of more than one million people. This move is really wonderful!" He observed the battlefield situation.  While secretly praising in his heart.

    At this moment, General Vasilevsky, the commander of the Soviet Outer Mongolia Front, who was commanding the troops to retreat towards the Ural Mountains as quickly as possible, felt extremely fed up. To use a vivid metaphor, it felt like there was a mouthful of phlegm in his throat.  , even if he coughed violently, he couldn't spit it out, and he couldn't swallow it. The force-reading division unit that chased the troops of the Outer Mongolia Front for days and nights was the phlegm in General Vasilevsky's throat.

    Based on the reports of various units under attack, General Vasilevsky and the front army¡¯s chief of staff, Lieutenant General Bozhenev, came to the unanimous conclusion that the number of reading division troops pursuing them was, at best, five divisions with less than 90,000 men.  The troops were divided into five groups, and they followed the troops in a stalking manner, like a mad dog, chasing and biting them all the way. It was not just General Vasilevsky who was extremely upset.

    The Soviet commanders at all levels of the Outer Mongolia Front were extremely annoyed, especially the reading division unit on the left wing. They went too far. They cut into the depths of the retreating troops out of desperation, biting two divisions and beating them hard.  , General Vasilevsky, who received the report, was so angry that he was happy.

    According to common sense, for the Outer Mongolia Front Army with more than one million troops, the strength of the readers is not a threat at all. Sending out a group army unit at will can drive the Chinese people everywhere. If  Before the launch of the attack on Seinshanda, General Vasilevsky would have ordered his troops to devour tens of thousands of Chinese troops without hesitation, without even burping.

    But now and then, the situation is different, the only task of the Outer Mongolia Front Army now is not to eliminate the force reading divisions, but to rush to the European battlefield as quickly as possible. Just this afternoon, General Vasilevsky received another call from Comrade Stalin  The emergency telegram had been in the mountains for six or seven days since the evacuation of Saiyinsanda battlefield. He himself couldn't remember clearly. This was the first telegram sent by the leader himself.

    The content of the telegram made General Vasilevsky anxious and helpless. Stalin emphasized in the telegram, "The speed of the withdrawal of the Outer Mongolian Front troops has disappointed him. For more than a week, they are still lingering in the Outer Mongolia area. At this speed,  It may take several months to reach the European battlefield, but the situation in the European battlefield does not allow the Outer Mongolian Front to withdraw so slowly! "

    General Vasilevsky felt very aggrieved and aggrieved. He had tried his best to get the Outer Mongolia Front Army to leave the battlefield as soon as possible. To this end, he racked his brains and tried his best, even at the cost of losing soldiers to save his carriages.  made a cruel but necessary decision,

    On the northern battlefield of Saiyin Shanda, the 37th Army was left behind by that hateful and cunning Chinese Tang Qiuli. Around Kulun, the 35th Army was left behind, with nearly 300,000 people in both armies.  The big bait is to make the troops of the Reading Division busy fighting the two armies and not paying attention to chasing and entangling the retreating main force of the front army. It is said that the 37th Army is covering the retreat of the main force, and the 35th Army  He stayed behind in Cullen, waiting for a comeback, but he knew in his heart that there was no chance of the two armies surviving.

    So what if the more than 1.5 million troops of the Outer Mongolian Front have been rampaging in Outer Mongolia for nearly a month. It has not hurt a single hair of Tang Qiuli. It does not matter whether a strong man cuts off his wrist or whether he loses his soldiers to save his chariot. This cruel decision is  What had to be done, Vasilevsky knew very well. Without giving the Chinese Tang Qiuli some sweetness, he would not be able to leave the land of Outer Mongolia as soon as possible.

    Including the previous group army that was deployed outside Minusinsk, the Outer Mongolia Front Army has already deployed three army groups. Although huge sacrifices were made, the development of the battlefield situation was not satisfactory.  , Putting aside the pursuit troops of the readers who were stalking like crazy dogs, all the roads leading from Outer Mongolia to the Ural Mountains left General Vasilevsky helpless and helpless.

    All the bridges on the main rivers, without exception, were bombed to the point where not even the bridge piers were left. The key areas of all roads were destroyed and riddled with holes. The Outer Mongolian Front Army adopted a mechanized marching method.  , leave the roads and bridges, and let the soldiers walk back to the European battlefield on their feet?

    I'm afraid it will take more than half a year, but can Comrade Stalin afford to wait? There is no good news in the war situation report from the General Staff. The situation in the Soviet Union is not optimistic. The German army is invincible in the Soviet Union and is advancing at a fast pace.  Astonishingly, as if they were in an uninhabited country, the Soviet Red Army's troops in Europe were beaten to a pulp. It had only been a few days since the war started. The troops in various military districts in the west were almost completely defeated in the face of the German attack.

    After the fall of Kiev, the Soviet Red Army had lost more than 1.7 million troops in the western battlefield. Among them, more than 800,000 were captured by the Germans. Seeing this number, Vasilevs  General Ji, you can't believe that a force larger than one front army was gone in just twenty days?

    Of course, in a similar situation, the general staff's battle situation, according to Comrade Stalin's order, was only communicated to the level of the commander of the front army, and even the chief of staff of the front army was not allowed to know. In other words, in the Eastern region, only four people knew about the current situation.  In addition to himself, there are also General Zhukov, the commander and political commissar of the Far Eastern Front, General Kilganin, the commander and political commissar of the Outer Khinggan Mountains Front, and General Gregaliev, the commander and political commissar of the Baikal Front.

    What shocked Vasilevsky even more was that the General Staff's war report also mentioned a situation in particular. Comrade Stalin was very annoyed by the unfavorable combat conditions in several military regions in the west. In order to stop the rout, he took  Severe measures were taken and mass killings were carried out.

    On April 23, an order was issued to form a Supreme Military Tribunal, which included the Commander of the Northwest Military District, General Pavlov, the Chief of Staff of the Northwest Military District, Major General Klimovsky, and the Director of Communications of the Northwest Military District, Major General Grigoryav.  Four people, Lieutenant General Korobkov, commander of the Fourth Army, were sentenced to death in court and executed immediately.

    As for the charges, of course they were related to the unfavorable battle and the collapse of the Soviet Red Army. "Afraid of death, making mistakes in commanding operations, panicking in the face of the German attack, and mishandling, resulting in heavy losses to the troops of the Northwest Military Region!" No matter what the charges,  One sentence is enough to be shot.

    ((To be continued.)
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