Chapter 741: The Battle of Olaf I
readx; In Moscow, Stalin looked at the Chinese office in the Soviet Union in his hand, his face was black and terrifying, and several high-ranking Soviet Russian officials around him were also full of anger. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"Is this Chen Jingyun trying to provoke a full-scale war? Does he think that the political axe of our proletariat will fear him as a talented man? A bearded man below shouted.
"In recent years, the pace of China's expansion in the East has become faster and faster, and Chen Jingyun's ambition to subvert the dictatorship of our proletariat has become more and more obvious, and we absolutely cannot continue to endure it like this!" Another man was indignant.
Speaking of the country that hated China the most, it must be Soviet Russia, and even said, "China's hatred of China is not as good as theirs, and China's intervention in the Russian Civil War in 1917 made it impossible for the Social Workers Party to complete the reunification of Russia. In 1923, when Soviet Russia took advantage of the first Sino-Chinese war, it tried to attack China with China without declaring war, but what did not make Soviet Russia think was that it was so unfought, and it didn't take long for China to take down, resulting in Soviet Russia also having to stop troops and sign an armistice agreement with China.
In 1930, China said that the war broke out again, at that time Soviet Russia also wanted to fight China again with the "Ben", but considering the inferior performance of the army in 1923, the confidence of Soviet Russia in the combat effectiveness of the "army" was greatly reduced, and Stalin was also in the stage of stabilizing power at that time, and purged a group of Soviet generals of the non-Stalin faction, so he did not dare to act rashly, and wanted to wait for the Soviet army to occupy the advantage before sending troops, but as expected by the Soviet army, the army suffered a crushing defeat again, As a result, Soviet Russia had to give up its plan to send troops.
In the thirties, as China's power grew stronger, Soviet Russia felt more and more hopeless to advance eastward, and even the most optimistic Russians thought that it would be impossible to unify Russia in a short time. However, the Russian side has never given up this idea, just as the Russian Republic has always been obsessed with westward expansion, and they all want to reunite Russia.
In order to enhance its strength, Soviet Russia has been vigorously developing its defense industry since the 20s and has built a modern army, which has made it the largest in the world in terms of the number of tanks it has, almost double that of China. However, the situation of Soviet Russia's focus on the development of heavy industry caused great difficulties in the light industry and agricultural part of Soviet Russia, and the living standards of a large number of Soviet and Russian people could only be maintained at a very low level.
Countless histories have proven that faith is no substitute for bread. From the twenties to the present, almost every year, a large number of people and even soldiers from the Russian side have fled to the territory of the Russian Republic through the blockade line, and in order to further attract the people of Soviet Russia to flee, the Russian Republic has even dispatched planes to go deep into the territory of Soviet Russia to drop leaflets, and use radio to send propaganda broadcasts to the territory of Soviet Russia, saying that the Russian Republic is still a country of Orthodox believers, saying that the Russian Republic is a country of democratic freedom, as long as anyone on the Russian side abandons the darkness and turns to the light. Then the Russian Republic will guarantee them a life, land, bread, work!
Naturally, the heavy industry of the Russian Republic is far inferior to that of Soviet Russia, but the Russian Republic is not poor, and through the development of light industry and the development of resources, the standard of living of ordinary people in the Russian Republic remains at a normal level.
Over the years, the Russian Republic has accepted at least five million Soviet and Russian immigrants, and the people on the Soviet side of Russia have almost fled near the military confrontation line between the two sides in Siberia, and later forced the Soviet Russia to do its best to impose a strict blockade, and even send the people near the border to more western territories, and implement a joint sitting system for the fleeing Soviet Russians, and if a family member escapes, his family will be shot directly.
Accepting immigrants became the main way of population growth in the Russian Republic, knowing the whiteness of Russia around 1918? At the time of the retreat to Siberia and the Far East, the total population of the Russian republics at the beginning of the country was only 10 million.
"Chinese imperialism is something we cannot bear, but war is about the survival of our proletarian regime, and we cannot start a war just because we hate it or like it!" Stalin, like Chen Jingyun, was a veritable talent reader, and anyone who could overcome the crowd and become a talent reader by himself had a special surname that others could not have, and anyone who had seen Stalin could feel the leadership aura that emanated from him.
Several famous readers in this era, such as Chen Jingyun, such as Hitler, such as Stalin, and Roosevelt, they all have very outstanding personal charm, Chen Jingyun's calm and indifferent, he has never made strategic mistakes, he has never changed his face in anything, so that many Chinese have felt his strong self-confidence, making everyone believe that Chen Jingyun has the ability to force the cable again and again, and has the ability to lead China to the top of the world.
If Chen Jingyun brought any kind of benefits to China during his lifetime, it was not a strong national strength, not a strong military force, or even a way for the Chinese people to eat well, wear clothes and live in a house, but the biggest benefit he really brought to China was that he re-erect Chinese ed the pride and self-confidence that he had lost for a hundred years, and he allowed the Chinese nation to stand tall among the nations of the world.
Many people say that the theory of national superiority is pathological and dangerous, but it definitely has an incomparable effect on enhancing national self-confidence, when you say every day that the Chinese nation is the best nation in the world, after a long time, the people will think that they are the best members, this kind of thing may not be useful for individuals, but when it is enlarged to the entire Chinese nation, it can greatly increase national cohesion.
On the German side of Hitler, his extremely incendiary speech fascinated countless Germans, and made countless Germans believe that Hitler was the savior of Germany, and Hitler's ruling in the thirties also fully demonstrated his ability, which can make a country with social chaos and almost half of the people without work quickly get rid of the impact of the economic crisis, and even regain the strength to adjust the whole of Europe, so how can Hitler say that he is incapable.
And Stalin's iron blood, his natural leadership temperament made a large group of social workers willingly follow him, the era of great industrial development in Soviet Russia happened in Stalin's era, to put it bluntly, without Stalin, Soviet Russia would never have today's strong strength.
Roosevelt was also able to convince countless American financial giants and plutocratic predators that he could lead the United States out of the economic crisis.
It takes courage and determination to become a great man, and it takes outstanding charisma and ability to become a scholar.
Of course, the readers here do not include the second or third generation of readers, these people just inherited the power of their predecessors, and this power was not created by themselves.
Stalin was a brilliant reader, and his methods and vision were not comparable to those of the following group of Soviet military and political officials.
"What's going on in Siberia right now? How many troops has China increased? Stalin spoke.
The general next to him said: "According to our intelligence, China has increased the strength of at least one army in the Kazakh region. In addition, according to the feedback of our agents embedded in China, China has now carried out a large-scale mobilization in the northwest region, and a large number of troops originally stationed in China have begun to rush to the Kazakh region. The Chinese army on the Omsk front has increased from one army to three armies, and their second armored army and fourth armored army have also been transferred one after another, and their current movements are unknown! ”
After saying that, he continued: "In addition to the Chinese Army, the Russian Defense Forces have also carried out a full mobilization, and the front-line troops have been further increased! ”
Hearing this, Stalin also couldn't figure out what Chen Jingyun was going to do, according to China's movements, such a large-scale mobilization was obviously a posture of a large-scale attack, as for the reaction of the Russian Republic of Russia, it was within the normal range, China wanted to attack Soviet Russia, and the Russian Republic must have raised its hands to welcome and fully cooperate, which can be seen from the fact that the Russian Republic launched a general mobilization order an hour after China issued a mobilization order. In this case, the Russian Defense Forces are still implementing a policy of closely following China's footsteps, and perhaps there is still the instigation of the Russian Republic behind it.
"What is our situation, and can the deployment of troops hold back the enemy's attack?" Stalin asked.
The general next to him said: "Our army has implemented a state of full combat readiness, and the front-line troops are ready to meet any attacking enemy!" And we are already preparing to reinforce the Siberian front with troops from Central Asia and the central region! The Chinese and those traitors will never be able to cross Omsk! ”
Siberia is currently the place where the Soviet army is most concerned, with more than one million troops deployed, and it is still increasing, and if it were not for the capacity constraints of the Trans-Siberian Railway, the Soviet army would have been eager to deploy more than two or three million troops here.
The troops in the Omsk direction mainly rely on the Far Eastern Railway, while the Chinese troops in the Central Asian direction such as Kazakhstan mainly rely on the Northwest Railway of China, and these two railways have limited transportation capacity, and it is impossible to supply troops to fight without restrictions.
Based on the limitation of transportation capacity, once the Siberia is fought, everyone is actually equal, and the territory of Siberia is vast, it is basically difficult for everyone to concentrate a large number of troops to encircle and annihilate the enemy. Fighting in the territory of Russia is not the same as fighting in the European region, and if you fight in the European region, you can basically decide whether you win or lose if you go deep into the depth of the enemy's army for hundreds of kilometers, but when you fight in the Russian region, a depth of several hundred kilometers is nothing at all.
Distance and the severe cold of winter and the rainy season of spring and summer are the biggest enemies fighting on Russian territory, this situation has not only become the biggest obstacle to Germany's attack on the Soviet Union in World War II in history, but also the enemy of the Sino-Soviet war in this time and space, otherwise the Chinese Army would not have painstakingly studied the war against the Soviet Union for 20 years, and it can even be said that the reason why China's armored forces have developed so rapidly, and new tanks have been developed from generation to generation, to a large extent, is to fight against Soviet Russia.
In the southern operations and confrontation operations, in the thirties, the T9 tank could not be used, let alone the T11 heavy tank, nor the T13 self-propelled anti-tank gun, and even the 25-ton T12 Southern Army was too heavy, and all the existing heavy armored units in China were used to deal with the Soviet and Russian directions, and there was only one light armored division and several light armored brigades in the south.
In the face of China's heavy armored corps, Soviet Russia felt huge pressure, otherwise Soviet Russia would not have gone crazy in the thirties and built tens of thousands of T26 and BT5 series tanks, and these tens of thousands of light tanks are still insufficient in the face of China's heavy armored forces, which is also the reason why Soviet Russia developed KV series heavy tanks and a new generation of medium tanks, which is simply to resist China's heavy armored corps.
In the face of the offensive posture made by China and Russia, the pressure on the Soviet side of Russia was huge, but in the face of the imminent complete victory on the battlefield in Finland, Soviet Russia was not willing to give up so willingly.
As a result, in the 24 hours that made the whole world extremely nervous, China, the Russian Republic, and Soviet Russia were all preparing for war, a large number of military trains shuttled on the railway, countless supplies were transported to the front line, and war seemed to be on the verge of breaking out.
At 3 p.m. on February 26, 1940, just nine hours after China issued an ultimatum to Soviet Russia, the troops on both sides of the Kazakh front entered the most tense moment.
Fifteen kilometers away from a small village behind the line of military confrontation between the two sides, there are a large number of tanks and other armored vehicles on flat ground, most of which are T9 tanks that are currently the main force of the Chinese army, and some are T8 light tanks.
It was a temporary armoured unit consisting of a battalion of medium tanks and a battalion of mechanized infantry, which belonged to the Sixth Panzer Division of the Fourth Panzer Corps, which had been ordered to rush to the front from the rear yesterday. Although no clear order has been issued from above, the officers and men of this unit are speculating that if the Russians do not accept China's ultimatum to stop attacking Finland, then this unit will be ordered to tear through the forward defense line of the Soviet army and then launch an attack on the Soviet army.
Time passed little by little, and at five o'clock in the afternoon, a lieutenant colonel in the temporary joint command headquarters received an order from the division headquarters, and the commander of the mechanized infantry battalion major next to him was a man about thirty years old, named Han Yihua, who was extremely handsome, but spoke loudly: "Brother Gan, what do you say about the order from the division headquarters?" ”
Lieutenant Colonel Gan directly handed the order in his hand to Han Yihua beside him: "Major, look at it yourself!" ”
Han Yihua took the telegram, and after reading it, his brows furrowed: "Why do you have to send someone over there?" Could it be that you and I are not enough to take command of this operation! ”
Lieutenant Colonel Gan smiled and said, "Maybe the division headquarters is not at ease, so I sent Staff Officer Lin over!" ”
Han Yihua is very dissatisfied, this small-scale unit is Lieutenant Colonel Gan as the highest commander, and Han Yihua is the deputy commander, and now the division headquarters has sent a staff officer over, and he is also a staff officer at the level of lieutenant colonel, this situation will not have any impact on Lieutenant Colonel Gan, but it is not a good thing for Han Yihua. You must know that the Chinese Army does not have a tradition of sending people from higher authorities to temporarily command troops, and it will not say that there are deputy division commanders, chiefs of staff, and the like who directly command troops at the regimental and battalion levels. Generally speaking, the commander-in-chief of the unit is under direct command, and even if he comes down to conduct guidance and inspection, it is rarely said that he directly commands the troops.
At eight o'clock in the evening, a lieutenant colonel arrived in this small village, and although Han Yihua was not very comfortable, he still maintained the necessary respect.
However, the temporarily transferred lieutenant colonel staff officer took out a written order from the division headquarters, which required the unit to go to a small town called Olaf in the south, which was originally nothing, but the key point was that the town in the south was not an area controlled by the Chinese army, but a small stronghold of the Soviet army, in which a battalion of Soviet troops was stationed.
Lieutenant Colonel Gan said: "Isn't our ultimatum not going to expire until six o'clock tomorrow morning, how can we be asked to go in at night to attack the Soviet army?" ”
Han Yihua was also puzzled: "Why did the division headquarters give such an order?" ”
The lieutenant colonel's staff officer had a stern face at this time: "Could it be that the two of you want to question the orders of the division headquarters?" ”
As soon as he said this, the other two officers in this humble conference room instantly became serious, these two officers are not military commanders, but political officers, they are political commissars of the National Socialist Party from the tank and mechanized infantry battalions, these people usually do not serve or meddle in the tactical problems of the troops, the main job is to publicize the National Socialist Party in the army and ensure the leadership of the National Socialist Party over the troops, to put it bluntly, they are a supervising army, don't look at their usual lack of existence, However, in times of war, these political commissars were all ruthless, and in addition to supervising that the commander-in-chief of the unit would not disobey orders, they would also stand up and call on the Kuomintang members in the army to fight for the country and the nation when they were in a tense situation.
In the eyes of these people, they cannot tolerate anything that goes against the orders of their superiors, even if they send them to death.
The Kuomintang political officers in the Central [***] team are of a different system from the traditional military officers, and they do not interfere with each other in normal times, and they do not even have any sense of existence, but their role is known to any military commander.
Lieutenant Colonel Gan's face remained unchanged and said, "We are not questioning the orders of the division headquarters, we just want to know why!" ”
The lieutenant colonel said: "I don't know, I only know that this order is from the military department!" After saying this, he added: "This is not a simple military operation, you can treat it as a political task, and you can rest assured, I will not interfere with your command, I will return to the division headquarters early tomorrow morning!" ”
The man said so, Lieutenant Colonel Gan and Han Yihua glanced at each other, and they both knew that although this order was a little strange, as soldiers, they also needed to carry it out.
After the order was delivered, Lieutenant Colonel Gan quickly gave the order for the troops to move immediately, so dozens of tanks and a large number of cars in the night turned on their headlights and headed south, like a long glowing snake pounced on its prey in the night.
At twelve o'clock in the evening, Lieutenant Colonel Gan looked at the small town with thin lights in the distance, and from the telescope, he could vaguely see the Soviet troops on several towers. Since the beginning of the day today, both sides have issued orders to prepare for war in an all-round way, and these Soviet troops have naturally received the order, and they are already on full alert at this moment.
Because the movement of the armored troops was too loud during the movement, Lieutenant Colonel Gan quietly approached in a reconnaissance tank to observe, and after making sure that everything was the same as shown in the original intelligence, Lieutenant Colonel Gan said to the adjutant who was wearing: "Order the troops to attack, and be sure to rush in with all their might, without delay!" ”
After the order was given, the tank battalion and the infantry battalion in the rear quickly activated the tanks, and then began to rush straight towards this Olaf.
Ten minutes later, four self-propelled guns of the Chinese Army began to fire one after another, and the 105-mm high-explosive bombs crossed the night sky and fell into the Soviet positions like meteors, and then the flames of the explosion were lit up on the Soviet positions, and the deafening explosions resounded throughout the field.
With the first attack of the Chinese armored forces, the Soviet troops in Olavne also launched an artillery counterattack, but due to the hurry of the incident and the fact that the Chinese armored forces had not yet approached at this time, their artillery counterattack only had a psychological impact and did not have any actual results.
At this time, Lieutenant Colonel Gan had already boarded a T9 tank command vehicle, and he leaned out of the tank and waved his big hand towards Olaf in front, and in an instant a large number of T9 tanks poured over like a tide, and a small number of tanks would stop rapidly while moving, and then fire a shot at the Soviet position, and then start to advance rapidly.
Dozens of tanks and armored vehicles, consisting of dozens of 75-millimeter guns and dozens of 20-millimeter rapid-fire guns, as well as hundreds of heavy machine guns, this kind of firepower is absolutely impossible for an ordinary infantry battalion to resist.
The firepower of the same number of infantry and armored units is completely unequal.
After being attacked by the fierce attack of the Chinese armored forces, Olaf was full of explosive fire, and at this time the anti-tank fire in the Soviet army also began to counterattack, and the distance was far away, but fortunately, the Soviet anti-tank fire could not penetrate the armor of the T9 tank, and could only leave a bullet mark on the T9 tank, but after the distance got closer, in the face of the counterattack of the Soviet infantry anti-tank fire, the tanks under Lieutenant Colonel Gan began to suffer casualties.
Seeing that a T9 tank next to him was hit by the track, like a galloping war horse, dragged out a huge mark on the ground, the track was destroyed, they did not stop fighting, the turret quickly turned, and then aimed at a Soviet anti-tank gun is to fire, 75 mm high-explosive shells set off a huge explosion on the Soviet anti-tank position.
At the same time, more tanks quickly approached the Soviet positions, and then used tank guns and vehicle-mounted machine guns to strike at the Soviet positions over and over again, while the mechanized infantry behind them, who accompanied the tank attack and covered the tanks, saw this situation, and their faces showed fear of war and death and excitement at the same time.