743 Raid on the Ten Guarantees Soviet Union? Defend Russia?

In the early hours of October 14, 1937. The artillery fire that had been raging over the heads of the Soviet troops in the Borja encirclement finally came to an abrupt end. The soldiers of the Soviet Red Army, who were accustomed to the shrapnel flying all over their heads and the sound of shell explosions in their ears, felt a little uncomfortable. Everyone looked at each other in confusion. The officers hurriedly took this opportunity to order the signal corps to check the line, so that the communication network, which had been completely damaged by the shelling, could be partially restored. At this time, it was already the morning light. Signal flares suddenly rose one after another on the Chinese front. Watching the signal flares shining with various colors of light slowly falling, the Soviet Red officers and soldiers who had been stunned reacted effectively and sluggishly. The infantry attack of the Chinese is about to begin!

The sound of a sharp whistle suddenly resounded throughout the entire battle line, and the signal flares of the garrison also rose into the air one after another. When the communication network is damaged by artillery fire, the only way to notify the troops, enter the position, and prepare for the attack of the Chinese imperialists! While the disgraced Red Army soldiers were pouring into the trenches, the mortar fire, mountain artillery, and infantry artillery deployed by the Chinese Defense Forces at the front line were another burst of fierce attacks. Suddenly, another piece of flesh and blood flew sideways, and screams rang out one after another! Then the roar of the motor came from the opposite position, and in the slightly dewy morning light, I vaguely saw a huge black shadow rumbling towards it, and behind the black shadow was a group of M35-style helmets flashing there! This is a coordinated attack of infantry and tan! The officers of the Red Army, whose faces were covered with sweat, gave the order loudly, even to stab the Chinese tanks with bayonets! Soldiers armed with weapons and ammunition on their shoulders, braved flying shrapnel to rush into the trenches, and the remaining firing points in the fortress were in place. After 24 hours of artillery bombardment and more than 10 hours of dive bombardment, the entire fortress defense system has been shattered. Most of the fort bunkers have been damaged to varying degrees, the fortress artillery is not a single in ten, and the outer trench system has been almost one-third filled. Many trenches, which were more than one person deep and reinforced with log breastwork, had been beaten to the point that they were only half a man deep!

In front of the defensive line, all the woods had been beaten bare, and only the charred stakes still smoked there. The ground is full of craters. It looks like it's on the surface of the moon. The obstacle is gone. And the Chinese's tanks slowly pressed over in the distance, what a huge armored force! These Soviet Red officers and soldiers did not know that the eight Chinese infantry corps and one White Russian infantry corps under the command of General Xia Wei of the Chinese Wehrmacht were responsible for attacking them, with a total of 27 divisions and nearly 450,000 men! And there are also a thousand No. 1 tanks of eight corps-affiliated tank regiments! Admiral Chavi threw in 500 tanks from four tank regiments at one time, covering nearly 20,000 infantry from eight infantry regiments of the Second White Russian Army to launch an offensive on all fronts!

In charge of directing the offensive on the front line was Lieutenant General Hu Zongnan, commander of the First Infantry Army. His command position was in a bunker not far from the Soviet position. It was surrounded by on-call communications and heralds. And his staff. He and Lieutenant General Roach, commander of the Second Army, who was the deputy commander-in-chief of today's offensive, were guarding an artillery mirror. Look at the bursts of muzzle flames flashing on the Soviet positions opposite. scolded hatefully: "Niang Xipi, these Red Army soldiers are really stubborn, and their empresses are no longer to blame!" Why are you still resisting, and you have to be martyred for the Bolsheviks? I don't know how GCD educates them? ”

Liu Huan, who was the chief of staff of the First Army on the side, said with a smile: "Brother Shoushan is really not afraid of death when he is a Red Army?" Behind them, there are internal affairs personnel and political commissars with machine guns! But that's useless, the fortifications are beaten like this, as long as our tanks rush up, they will crush a lot of them with track pressure! It is estimated that the perimeter of the Borja fortress will be taken today. ”

"The key to this battle is no longer whether you can defeat Borja, but how many prisoners you can capture!" At this time, Luo Qi reminded: "The empress of our assistant commander still expects those old Maozi captives to help her take care of the country!" ”

Several people in the Shelter Department couldn't help but laugh when they heard the "Empress of the Auxiliary Commander", a nickname for Anastasia among the upper echelons of China. Those figures close to Luo Yaoguo call her this behind their backs, but in the mouth of Luo Yaoguo's opponents, she is the ugly "prostitute queen".

Although the ordinary people below don't know much about this affair because of news control, the upper-class people regard this matter as gossip after tea and dinner, and they actually make up a lot of meat jokes...... In fact, for this empress of the Romanov family, most Chinese do not have a good feeling!

"Da-da-"

By this time, Chinese tanks had escorted 20,000 White Russian soldiers to a distance of more than 200 meters from the positions of the Soviet Red Army. Heavy machine guns lying in ambush throughout the position began to spit tongues of fire, knocking down the White Russian infantry around the tank like mowing grass piece by piece. There were also scattered fires, some of which were mortar shells exploding in the attacking troops, and some of which were the last remaining ZIS-1 anti-tank guns or ordinary 37mm anti-tank guns that smashed the thinly protected No. 1 tank into a ball of fire! However, the anti-tank guns and machine guns that exposed their targets were quickly counterattacked by the 20mm guns equipped with the No. 1 tank, and columns of fire and smoke suddenly rose on the positions of the Soviet Red Army.

"Long live the Empress! Ulla! Ulla-"

Suddenly, a cry in Russian resounded throughout the battlefield, and no one needed to give an order, the machine guns on the enemy's position were the signal to charge to the death, and 20,000 White Russian officers and soldiers with rifles and submachine guns with long bayonets shouted the slogan "Long live the Empress", and their faces were resolute, and they began to charge with all their strength without hesitation! This Second White Russian Army was not composed of "White Russian youth" who had returned from foreign countries, they were the pro-Trotskyist Red Army, that is, the Russian peasants in the labor camps as the main body, and they were also the most loyal supporters of the Empress!

It is surprising that these Russian peasants are the most passionate about the Empress! In their eyes, Empress Anastasia was a holy angel, an angel sent by God to save the suffering Russian peasants! She will feed all the Russian peasants, there will be no machine-gun conscription squads, there will be no damned collective farms, and there will be no indicators for arresting people to go to Siberia! As for her affair with the Chinese marshal, what does this have to do with the Russian peasantry? At best, it's just a topic of after-dinner pastime...... If it were the private life of Stalin or Trotsky, would anyone dare to say it? Who said that he should not be charged with "viciously attacking the great leader" and sent to Siberia for labor reform! And there are so many people chewing their tongues in Vladivostok, has anyone been caught? Those noble lords are really in the midst of blessings and don't know how to be blessed!

Therefore, so that their angel queen can sit on the throne of St. Petersburg, so that their children and grandchildren will no longer starve and suffer. Twenty thousand Russian White troops rushed forward with a roar, like an unstoppable torrent, into the trenches of the Soviet Red Army. The firepower battle suddenly turned into a white-knuckle battle! This white-knuckle battle didn't last long. After all, half of the thousands of fighters who made up the Soviet Red Army were suffering Russian peasants, as well as descendants of dissidents of various classes. Why did they fight for Stalin, the usurper? So when wave after wave of White Russian officers and soldiers rushed into the trenches, they simply dropped their weapons and surrendered! Of course, not everyone's surrender was acceptable, and those Red officers and soldiers wearing blue hats or officer uniforms were often stabbed with bayonets by red-eyed White Russian officers and soldiers! The Empress forgave them, but the bitter Russian peasants did not! This frenzy was not stopped until the Chinese tanks behind arrived.

Two days of indiscriminate bombardment, 24 hours of artillery preparations, three days of political offensives, and twenty years of tyranny by the Bolsheviks ensured the success of the infantry and tan commandos in one fell swoop! Green flares announcing victory rose from the front, and cheers erupted from behind. The Russian phrase "Long live the Empress" resounded throughout the battlefield! This slogan was shouted by both the White Russian officers and soldiers, as well as the jubilant Soviet Red Army prisoners of war!

As a veteran lieutenant general of the Soviet Red Army, Barnov participated in the First World War, the Russian Civil War after the October Revolution, and the Soviet-Polish War that followed, and participated in dozens of military operations to suppress the Russian peasantry! I have won battles and lost battles, but I have never seen such a scene of happy surrender, let alone that it was my own troops who surrendered to the enemy happily! At this time, he finally understood why Comrade Stalin was so jealous of this prostitute-like empress. If it were the Chinese National Defense Forces that launched the attack today, those Red Army soldiers might have been defeated, they might have fled, and they might have surrendered, but they would never have surrendered so happily!

"Fire! All artillery fire! Punish those traitors severely! ”

The angry shouts of the comrades of the commander and the trembling muzzles of the internal affairs personnel made the remaining fortress artillery pay no attention to the Thunderhawk dive bombers that had already flown over the Borja fortress. Just two or three minutes later, six 203mm B-4 howitzers slowly raised their muzzles and burst into a roar.

More 150mm and 122mm cannons joined the chorus, and fireballs rose above the positions that had just been captured by the Belarusian-Chinese forces. This scene made the group of dive bombers that had just arrived go berserk all of a sudden, and immediately discharged a dive bombing formation in the sky, and then found the target and rushed over!

Unlike most fortresses built on the basis of danger, the Borja Fortress was built on a flat land, and the lack of sufficient building materials meant that the fort's protection was even weaker, and there were no armored batteries like the Maginot Line, only some artillery positions hidden behind the main defensive wall of the fortress made of thick rock and cement, and some fortification systems such as fortress groups, firing points, underground bunkers, etc. And those sheltered artillery positions will be exposed as soon as they open fire, and then they will be provoked by artillery counterattacks and air attacks. Although a number of anti-aircraft machine guns and small-caliber anti-aircraft guns were deployed at various anti-aircraft fire points in the fortress, this level of air defense was useless compared to the overwhelming number of aircraft of the Chinese Air Force. So by this time all the exposed artillery positions, fortresses, bunkers have been completely destroyed. And Barnov's order to open fire in broad daylight naturally cut off the last counterattack force in his hands.

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The headquarters of the 21st Soviet Army, here there is now an atmosphere of despair. The outlying positions of the fortress were all captured by the enemy in a morning of engagement, so many infantry regiments and artillery batteries on the front, the perfect defense system was broken by the enemy, and what was even more terrible was that there were so many soldiers who completely ignored the glory and terrible Article 26 of the Criminal Code of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army and raised their hands and surrendered to the White Guards on the battlefield! According to the inspection department, the 101st Army, which has the largest number of troops in the three armies of the 21st Group Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, still has a strength of only 17,800 men, the 102nd Army is less than 15,000, and the 103rd Army has a maximum of about 20,000 troops. After a short but fierce half-day battle, the 21st Army suffered heavy casualties, tens of thousands of casualties, tens of thousands of prisoners, and countless artillery and machine guns were captured by the enemy. Now it was only possible to form a line of defense along the main defensive wall of the dilapidated fortress of Borja. Before the Chita reinforcements arrived, Lieutenant General Barnov was desperate to find that they no longer had enough strength to hold on! And on the road from Chita to Borja, there are not only countless Chinese dive bombers waiting for their prey, but also a torrent of steel composed of thousands of Chinese tanks advancing along the road from Chita to Borja! It seems that the general reserve in the hands of Blyukhel will not be able to reach even if he has wings.

Morale was low, the troops were thin, the firepower was insufficient, it was surrounded on all sides, and foreign aid was cut off. Now is the situation for Barnov. According to the reports of the political workers of various units, none of the current lower-level officers and soldiers want to fight any more, and every moment there are people who risk their lives to climb out of various gaps in the main defensive wall of the fortress and surrender to the White Guards or the Chinese White Army outside!

The shells were still muffling around the Borja fortress, though not as hard as they had shaken before. But it was still enough for the soldiers in the trench to curl up and not dare to raise their heads. But there are people who risk their lives to surrender! Barnov thought to himself: "I am afraid that the problem now is not on the battlefield, but outside the battlefield!" It has been more than ten years since the victory of the revolution, but how much has the life of the Soviet people improved compared to the old Russia under the tsarist rule? No! Not only did it not improve, but there was also a serious regression! At least that's a big step back from before the First World War in 1914......"

The headquarters of the 21st Army was located in a fortified bunker more than ten meters deep, which was also the core fortification of the entire Borja fortress. The dim electric lights were lit inside, and dozens of Red Army officers, high and low, sat in the headquarters with blushing faces, silent and silent. Many of them are still injured. A white bandage leaked out of the brim of the military hat. These elites of GCISM are now all gray-faced, and there is no glimmer of hope in anyone's face. Their eyes were focused on Lieutenant General Barnov, who was slumped in his chair, and on another letter of persuasion written by Empress Anastasia herself. The officers had just reported on the situation in front of their troops, that the enemy had taken full control of the positions on the periphery of the fortress, and according to the observations from above the core positions of the fortress, they were stepping up their efforts to renovate the roads, fill the trenches under the cover of artillery fire, clear the obstacles, remove mines, and at the same time transfer the wounded and prisoners. It seems that preparations are being made for the next offensive. Their reserves were moving forward, and a dozen or so 210mm heavy howitzers were being dragged to the rear of the front-line positions, and it looked like they were going to use such gates to directly target the main defensive wall of the fortress - after they had once again refused to surrender, of course!

Surrender regardless of the safety of your family! Then save his life and receive a gift from the empress. I'm afraid that's what everyone in this room thinks, right? Barnov took a deep breath, straightened up from the map table, and scanned his bloodshot brown eyes at his officers, who looked like they had completely collapsed: "Comrades, cheer up! In front of those White Guards and yellow-skinned monkeys, you only have this bit of courage? Can't you face death as bravely as a real GCD! "The officers below, including the head of the internal affairs department in the blue hat, avoided the eyes of Barnov, as experienced front-line commanders, of course, they knew the desperate situation of the troops, they also knew the plight faced by the Soviet Motherland, and even more so that as a GCD man, it was time to fulfill the oath and dedicate their lives! But......

"But Russia needs us! Her Majesty said in the letter that she and Russia need each and every one of us! ”

"What! Comrade Zhuhle! You even call that prostitute Your Majesty! You...... Have you forgotten who you are? "Barnov could hardly believe his eyes and ears! The person who said such things was actually the head of the counterintelligence department of the group army, acting political commissar of the group army, Ivan. Colonel Djohle, an old qualified Cheka warrior and GCD man! During the civil war, because he exceeded the target of shooting counter-revolutionaries in Ukraine, he was cordially received and commended by Comrade Lenin!

Zhukhlai stood up suddenly, staring at Barnov with the same blood-red eyes: "Comrade commander! Wake up! The USSR is finished, and it is impossible for her to defeat the whole world...... It is even more impossible to liberate the whole world! This road was a dead end from the very beginning, and Trotsky was right on this point, no country can build a socialist system under the hostility of capitalism all over the world! Neither could the USSR! But the USSR is gone, Russia is still there! Not for the Empress and not for the Romanovs, but for Russia, we also need to live, at least not to die here worthless...... Because Russia needs an army! Only a strong army can guarantee that she will not be divided between China, Germany and Poland! So, Comrade Commander, lead us to the side of the Empress of Russia! From now on, we have to defend the Russian Motherland. ”

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