readx; Just when the Fourth Air Force of the Chinese Air Force launched a large-scale air raid on Barnaul, in a certain palatial hotel in Rubtsovsk, a group of [***] officers came in and out, the original hotel lobby was already full of desks, all kinds of cables were almost all over the floor, and there were almost no less than 100 people in the entire hall carrying out intense and busy work. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Since the outbreak of the war, this hotel has been requisitioned by the Chinese Army, and at the same time served as the headquarters of the Fifth Army.

On the second floor of the hotel, the originally huge banquet hall has been converted into a combat conference room, and at this time, a large group of generals are sitting together, and Major General Fei Yanghong, deputy chief of staff of the Fifth Army, is holding an indicator stick on the map to tell everyone present about the latest battle situation.

"According to the reality of the air reconnaissance intelligence sent by the Air Force in the morning, the Russian army in the Gil area on the left flank has been reinforced again, and the reinforcement is not less than 10,000 troops, and there are a lot of heavy equipment, plus the original two divisions in the Gil area, then the Russian army here already has three divisions, which has had a certain impact on our army's offensive in the Gil area!"

"In the direction of Bisk on the right flank, the Russian army has gathered at least four divisions or more, and there are quite a lot of armored troops to support, and now the eleventh army of our army is fighting more hard here, Lieutenant General Ji Liangtong has asked the group army for reinforcements several times, otherwise I am afraid that the scheduled battle plan will be delayed!"

"In the direction of Barnaul on the front, the 10th Army and the 22nd Army of our army are attacking Barnaul, although the Russian army is encouraging support, but from the situation in the past few days, the Russian army's holding strength is not as strong as before, and the large-scale counteroffensive that often occurred some time ago has also been less, so it can be seen that the ammunition reserves of the Russian army in Barnaul are no longer sufficient, and it is no longer enough to support them to launch a large-scale counteroffensive!"

"In the direction of Astana, the Second Army of our army is still on the offensive, but I am afraid that this situation will continue until the ratio of forces between the two sides does not change much!"

"In addition, the 1st, 2nd, and 4th Panzer Corps of our army have completed their assembly in Bruzovstan and are ready to go into battle at any time!"

After Fei Yanghong finished speaking, he looked around and said, "Commanders and colleagues, the above is the current situation of our group army!" ”

In order to launch the Battle of Barnaul, the Fifth Army gathered nearly 400,000 troops, and at the same time received reinforcements from the Sixth Army, and the Central Committee of the State Military Commission in Nanking hoped to be able to settle the battle and launch a super-large-scale battle in Barnaul, so as to completely defeat the main force of the Russian Defense Army, and then lay the foundation for victory in this war.

In order to settle the outcome of the First World War, the Fifth Army and the Sixth Army have always been in the early stage of the layout, and up to now, among the many armored units under the Fifth Army, only two infantry divisions in the Second Armored Army and the Reading Tank Regiment under the jurisdiction of the infantry corps have been invested, and the real elite combat strength of the Fifth Army has not actually been dispatched, and the First Armored Corps, the Fourth Armored Army, the Ninth Heavy Armored Division, and the Eleventh Heavy Armored Division under the Fifth Army have actually not been dispatched. Instead, it has been in a state of assembly, and in order to gather these heavy troops, the Fifth Army has paid a huge price.

However, before the preliminary layout was completed, before the reinforcements of the Sixth Army arrived, although the Fifth Army had a strong armored force, it was not enough to annihilate hundreds of thousands of Russian troops within a radius of hundreds of miles.

After hearing this, Fang Dashan first spoke: "Didn't the twenty-fifth army of the Sixth Army say that it had already gone north, and now it is there?" When will it be possible to support the operation in the Biysk direction? ”

Major General Fei Yanghong said: "According to the battle report reported by the Sixth Army, the 25th Army under it has crossed the Altai Mountains, and the 83rd Division of its division is heading towards Abachin, and the other division is going to the direction of Bisk for reinforcements, and it is expected that it will take three to four days to arrive!" ”

The 25th Army of the 6th Army did not advance along the Northwest Railway and the Central Asian Railway like other troops, but chose to cross the Altai Mountains, and the original combat target was Abachin, but the 11th Army in the direction of Bisk was in a tight situation on the way, so the 25th Army divided into two routes, one way to continue along the intended combat target to Abachin, and the other was to reinforce Bisk in the northwest.

"If it's just a division, I'm afraid it's a little difficult for them to take Abachin!" Lieutenant General Guo Chengdong, deputy commander of the Fifth Group Army next to him, said: "This 25th Army belongs to a newly organized unit, and the two subordinate divisions are only newly formed this year. It will be very difficult for this 83rd division to take Abachin, so it is better for both divisions to reinforce the Bisk direction! ”

After Guo Chengdong finished speaking, Lieutenant General Song Junpeng, chief of staff of the Fifth Army on the side, said: "If the two divisions of the 25th Army have reinforced Biske, it will be a trouble for Abaqin to have no troops in the past, I'm afraid that Xu Lishan will gossip!" ”

Xu Lishan in his mouth is naturally the commander of the Sixth Army, General Xu Lishan, this person is not so good-tempered, although this time in the Battle of Barnaul, Chen Jingyun personally ordered to be based on Fang Dashan's Fifth Army, so the main force of this exhibition is still those armored mechanized troops under the jurisdiction of the Fifth Army, and Fang Dashan is the founder of the Chinese armored forces, and he is a veritable tank warfare expert in the Chinese Army, and he is more proficient than Zuo Yugang in the use of armored forces. Otherwise, Chen Jingyun would not have put Fang Dashan, who was still a little less qualified, in the position of commander of the Fifth Army, thinking that he would let Fang Dashan fully exert his command level of armored troops.

And Xu Lishan is an old qualified general in the Chinese Army, and his qualifications are much deeper than Fang Dashan, Chen Jingyun is mainly Fang Dashan in the Battle of Barnaul, and Xu Lishan is the deputy, it is said that Xu Lishan is very dissatisfied and has a lot of gossip.

But strictly speaking, there is no contradiction between Xu Lishan and Fang Dashan, if there is, it can only be said that there is a contradiction between the branches of the military, Fang Dashan, as the founder of China's armored forces, is naturally a staunch supporter of armored forces, and Xu Lishan, although he has also commanded armored forces, but he is a serious traditional infantry general, or a staunch giant artilleryist, and even suggested that the army replace all the divisional artillery with 155 mm howitzers, according to his words, No matter how many of them are and how many tanks they have, I can smash it through with a heavy artillery, and no matter how strong the defense line is, I can smash it through.

This person is also the most accomplished general in the Chinese Army.

The Chinese Army is so big, there are so many generals, these generals are naturally not good at everything, what they are good at is just one aspect, Xu Lishan is good at attacking tough battles, Zuo Yugang is good at attacking fiercely, Fang Dashan is good at tank warfare, and Shen Gang is good at strategy formulation, and Chen Yi is the premier artillery expert in the Chinese Army, basically they all have what they are good at, and Chen Jingyun arranges positions according to their strengths. You can't let Xu Lishan, an infantry general, lead the armored forces, just like letting a battleship in the navy send an artillery or torpedo warfare expert among the generals to lead an aircraft carrier.

For example, the famous Vice Admiral Nagumo Tadaichi is good at torpedo warfare, but the stiff promotion system of the Navy has made him a general of the Navy's mobile aviation unit.

This kind of thing will not happen in the Chinese Navy, the commanders of the major air fleets are all aviation factions, and the commanders of the battleship fleets are all battleship factions with prominent reputations, and the distinction is clear, and it is basically impossible for the generals of the battleship faction to command the air fleet.

But no matter what, letting Fang Dashan, a junior, serve as the supreme commander of the campaign, and Xu Lishan, a senior, can only serve as the deputy commander of the campaign, will naturally make Xu Lishan unhappy. In addition, the tasks of the Sixth Army are relatively extensive, in addition to supporting the Fifth Army, they also need to support the Fourth Army, in addition to serving as the logistics transportation of the entire Central Asia and the Siberian theater.

In mid-November, the troops of the Sixth Army entered Central Asia one after another, the main force turned north to the Barnaul area, and a small part followed the Fourth Army in the south, taking over the blank area left by the Fourth Army in the south, and at the same time the troops of one army directly arrived in the eastern area of Barnaul.

In addition to the Sixth Army, some units of the Reading Force also began to enter the Central Asian region, such as the 91st Division and the 93rd Division. The reason why these units of the Reading Division and Brigade were not incorporated into the major infantry corps was that these units were units adapted from the local garrison units, for example, the 91st Division was formed by drawing some of the many garrison units in Xinjiang Province and Qinghai Province. The quality of its soldiers, as well as the level of armament, were not even inferior to those newly formed divisions. In terms of combat effectiveness, the divisions formed by the garrison units in these localities can only be regarded as third-rate, and the tasks they undertake are only some rear garrison tasks, and they are basically not needed in large-scale field battles.

At present, the Chinese Army has more than 110 infantry divisions and brigades, of which 1 to 59 are China's standing infantry divisions before large-scale mobilization, and the 60th to 66th divisions were expanded from the original reading mechanized infantry brigade in the late thirties, so don't look at their numbers are only more than 60, but they are the main mechanized infantry divisions in the Chinese Army, and the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th, and 9th divisions of the Chinese Army together form China's mechanized infantry division units. The 67th to 87th Divisions and these 20 divisions were newly formed infantry divisions during the large-scale expansion in the past two years, and the soldiers were mainly mobilized veterans and recruits, and although the training was poor, the level of weapons and equipment was the same as that of the original infantry divisions, while the 88th to 99th Divisions, these 11 divisions were urgently drawn from the garrison units in various places after June 1941 and then formed into training, and the quality of the local garrison troops was originally far lower than that of the field army. Therefore, the quality of the soldiers of these programmed garrison divisions is not too strong, and the weapons and equipment are mainly old inventory weapons, and the divisional artillery is still the 75 mm artillery used by the Chinese Army in the early years, these guns were retired and mothballed as early as the thirties, and now they are just taken out for use, and other heavy weapons are also basically used to mothballed retired weapons, and there are even a large number of MG08 heavy machine guns equipped by the Chinese Army in the early years, 1915 light machine guns, and rifles are also a large number of 1916 rifles in stock.

Therefore, the quality of the soldiers and the level of equipment of these 11 divisions are relatively low, and they are not suitable for modern large-scale field operations at all, so they can only maintain and maintain lines of communication and strike at guerrillas.

However, the arrival of these garrison divisions freed up the energy of many main divisions, freeing them up for battle.

When everything was ready, it was already November 21, 1941, more than a month before China attacked Russia, and now the army's Fifth Army, Sixth Army, several reading divisions and brigades, the Fourth Air Force of the Air Force, and a wing of the Third Air Force finally completed the large-scale assembly in the early stage and launched a full-scale attack towards Barnaul!

This is a super-large-scale battle with a combined strength of nearly a million troops on both sides!