readx; In order to deal with the tense situation in Omsk, the Soviet army has been reinforcing troops from other fronts since May, and the Soviet army has a large number of rebels in Poland, Ukraine and other places near Moscow, but the number of these rebels is tens of thousands, which may be a great threat in peacetime, but compared with the five or six hundred thousand Sino-Russian coalition troops on the eastern front, it is insignificant, and the Soviet army has reinforced a large number of troops in order to completely capture Omsk and gain a foothold in Western Siberia. In May, the Soviet army on the Omsk front was only about 300,000 people, and in June it had climbed to more than 400,000, and by July, including the Omsk front line and the surrounding areas, the total number of troops used by Soviet Russia on the eastern front had reached 700,000.

Although the Russian Defense Forces have grown rapidly in the past two years, from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, and then to the current scale of 400,000, they have not continued to grow after reaching 400,000 troops. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

According to the usual situation, in a vast area as Siberia as Russia, the fighting between the two sides should be very scattered, but in fact, the fighting between the two sides has always revolved around the Far Eastern Railway, and the area north of the Far Eastern Railway is basically a deserted area, and the troops are estimated to not even see a single figure when they enter the Central Asian region, and although the Central Asian region south of the Far Eastern Railway is partially populated, both sides have also invested a certain amount of troops, but they are limited by supplies and Central Asia is really not strategically important. Therefore, both sides have invested only a small number of troops, which is completely different from the situation in which nearly a million troops are concentrated in the area near Omsk.

However, whether it is the Sino-Russian coalition army or the Soviet army, the reason why they were able to concentrate so many troops in the area near Omsk and provide logistical supplies for these troops is naturally inseparable from the Far Eastern Railway. Only by relying on the railway can the two sides maintain the logistical supply of up to hundreds of thousands of infantry, and this is the fundamental reason why the war between the two sides has always revolved around the Far Eastern Railway

The war in this year was the era when the Mongol Empire swept across the Eurasian continent, and at that time, the Mongol cavalry could fight to Europe while grazing, but today there is no good logistics system, and it is a problem for the front-line troops to even eat.

The combination of many circumstances has allowed both sides to concentrate nearly a million troops in Omsk, a small Omsk that has today become a fortress, most of the city is controlled by the Russian Defense Forces, and a small part of the city to the west is controlled by the Soviet army, and the street fighting here is more fierce, larger and more protracted than on the Karachinsk side. Around Omsk, a radius of more than 100 kilometers belongs to the Omsk theater of operations, and these field areas of the Russian Defense Forces and the Soviet Army formed a confrontational situation, and the original confrontation situation became crumbling with the capture of Karachinsk by the Soviet Army.

If the Chinese forces in the rear are slow to take Karachinsk and reopen the supply lines to Omsk, then the complete collapse of the Russian Defense Forces is certain.

You must know that the Russian Defense Forces still had a strength advantage before, but now in the face of the Soviet Army, which is as high as 500,000 in the front, the Russian Defense Forces are already in a state of disadvantage, and the Russian Defense Forces, which have carried out strategic contraction and defensive operations, are on the verge of collapse.

"The situation expected by the headquarters is still too optimistic!" Tang Qiang, who had just returned from taking the Air Force reconnaissance plane to Omsk to understand the situation, said to a group of generals above: "As stated in General Kolchak's previous telegram, the Russian army's combat materials have dropped to an extremely dangerous level, even worse than what he said, according to my personal judgment, if the Soviet army continues to attack at this high intensity on the frontal battlefield, then the ammunition of the Russian Defense Forces may not be able to support it for even ten days." ”

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"Colonel Don, what do you say about a joint counteroffensive on Karachinsk with the Russian army in the Omsk direction?" Chen Weihua continued to ask: "Can they send troops out to cooperate with us in the front and rear attacks!" ”

Tang Qiang said: "This is very difficult, the Russian army is already at a disadvantage in the direction of Omsk, if it still draws troops, then there is no need to wait for the supply to be consumed, it is estimated that it will collapse immediately." Therefore, although General Kolchak promised to send a division of troops to participate in the counteroffensive, the division that is expected to be sent is, as far as I know, is a defeated army that has just been routed on the front line, and the strength is less than 5,000 people, but I personally think that it is better not to put hope on the Russian army! ”

Tang Qiang, that is, Tang Huikang's son, Tang Huikang has served as the general office of the Fuzhou Arsenal, the general manager, the general manager of the Wuhu Heavy Weapons Arsenal, and the military industry for many years Tang Huikang's position in the Nanjing Republican political axe is extremely special, and the status of China's industrial system is also extremely special. Although he is now old, he is no longer as energetic as he used to be, and he has resigned from the post of general manager of the Wuhu Heavy Weapons Arsenal because of his health, and because of his outstanding contributions, Chen Jingyun even formulated the "National Service Medal" for him. Although Tang Huikang does not hold a specific position, he has not faded out of industry, on the contrary, he is still exerting significant influence when he is appointed as Chen Jingyun's private industrial consultant.

Compared with the glorious history of his son Tang Huikang, Tang Qiang's road to the army is much more bland, although he has been in the army for many years and was promoted to colonel during the Northern Expedition, but he did not participate in the Southwest Campaign, and then after the unification of the country, there was no large-scale war and there was no possibility of making military merits, so he was like other officers in recent years, and the rank of major general was only one step away from him, but he couldn't touch it. In order to be smoothly promoted to major general, he was first transferred from the field army to the equipment department, and with his son Tang Huikang's influence in the military industrial system and in the equipment department, he soon held important positions and accumulated important qualifications. And if you want to be promoted without military merits, you can only accumulate these qualifications, but soon he saw the opportunity of the Russian Civil War, so like many officers who are eager to make military merits, he desperately squeezes into the troops stationed in Russia.

For example, Wen Jizhong and Chen Weihua were able to get the position of division commander of the troops stationed in Russia, not only because of their ability, if Chen Weihua did not have Chen Weitong to speak for him, it would definitely be impossible for him to come to Russia, and Wen Jizhong, as a member of the study abroad faction, has an extremely deep relationship with Lieutenant General Jiang Fangzhen and General Shen Gang.

For Tang Qiang, joining the troops stationed in Russia is to make military merits, so when he needed to send someone to Omsk by plane to understand the first-hand situation, although he knew that it was very dangerous, Tang Qiang, who had never been an airplane, took the initiative to ask Ying and took the E1, a single-engine two-seat reconnaissance plane, to Omsk, and after meeting the lieutenant officer of the army stationed in Omsk and General Kolchak of the Russian army, he returned by plane and reported all the information he saw to General Li Jimin and others.

Li Jimin glanced at Tang Qiang: "According to what you say, Omsk is even more dangerous than we know?" ”

Tang Qiang nodded.

Li Jimin didn't say much after hearing it, he thought that there were more than 400,000 Russian troops on the Omsk side, and even if the supply line was cut off, there would not be any major problems for a while.

After waving his hand to let Tang Qiang out, Li Jimin said to Chen Weihua under his command: "Your seventh division is ready to prepare, we have to advance the counterattack time!" ”

Chen Weihua said: "Don't wait for the Second Armored Regiment? ”

After seeing the great exploits of the task force armored regiment again, the staff was deeply encouraged, so it couldn't wait to send more armored troops into the Russian battle, so it transferred a tank battalion and two motorized infantry battalions and related auxiliary units to form the second armored regiment to rush to the Omsk front, and the original task force armored regiment was changed to the first armored regiment. By this time, in fact, the country's First Armored Division had been disorganized, and two of the three tank battalions of the First Armored Division had been transferred, and four of the six motorized infantry battalions had also been transferred. Basically, it was divided into three, went to most of Russia, and only left a small part in the country, and in order to restore the establishment of the First Panzer Division, and also to expand the armored forces, the General Staff has begun to form two more tank battalions and four motorized infantry battalions to restore the establishment of the First Panzer Division.

Although the Second Armored Regiment is here, it is not known when it will arrive at the front line, and Li Jimin does not want to wait for them for ten days and a half months.

Li Jimin said: "Of course I don't wait, now the First Armored Regiment and the First Cavalry Division are cooperating quite well, and they can completely hold Tapek!" Now the Soviet troops on the Karachinsk side have also been cut off from supplies for many days, and it is not too early to counterattack! ”

"When the time comes, the 7th and 18th Divisions will be the main forces, and the 19th Division will be the reserves, and they will fight for a battle!" Li Jimin has already made up his mind to take Karachinsk as soon as possible, otherwise things will change sooner or later if he waits like this.

After the commander-in-chief of the front, Li Jimin, made such a decision, the troops of the 12th Army also moved quickly, and on July 19, the Chinese troops officially launched a counteroffensive against Karachinsk!