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The fighting in Siberia can be broadly divided into two directions, one in Astana and the other in Barnaul. Astana is the capital of Kazakhstan in the future, and today this city is the most important city in Central Asia, and it is also an important stronghold of the Soviet army in Central Asia during the military confrontation between China and Russia in the twenties and thirties.

However, when the Russian army attacked the Soviet army, they directly used a large number of rapid mechanized troops to bypass Omsk, and cut off the supply of the Soviet army in Omsk, forming an encirclement, forcing the Soviet army to take the initiative to abandon Omsk, and after taking Omsk, it lost the important support point of Omsk, and Astana, which is not far away, naturally could not resist the attack of the Russian army from the flank, and at that time, China's attitude was still very ambiguous in the eyes of the outside world, and Soviet Russia was also afraid that China would suddenly enter the war, and then form an encirclement with the Russian army. Therefore, after Omsk was taken by the Russian army, a large number of Soviet troops in Central Asia took the initiative to abandon their positions and then retreated westward, in order to avoid the annihilation of millions of Soviet troops deployed in Central Asia because of China's sudden entry into the war.

After the Russian army occupied Astana, it naturally served as an important strategic support point in Central Asia to support the war against the Soviet Union on the Western Front, and after China declared war on the Russian Republic, it became a bridgehead for the Russian army to resist the Chinese attack.

Judging from the Sino-Russian front in the Siberian region, the Russian army has formed a defensive zone supported by four strategic cities in Barnaul, Novosibirsk, Omsk, and Astana.

In addition to a large number of second-line troops in the Russian Republic, a large number of Russian troops who originally participated in the war against the Soviet Union also returned east along the Trans-Siberian Railway and participated in resisting the Chinese offensive.

It can be said that by the end of October, the Russian army had already transferred the main force from the Western Front to the Eastern Front through emergency mobilization, which certainly reduced the pressure on Soviet Russia and allowed Soviet Russia to avoid the collapse of the Eastern Front, and also allowed Soviet Russia to transfer troops to reinforce the Western Front, especially in the direction of Moscow, and this is also the result that China and the Soviet Union want to see.

But this also caused a problem, that is, with the return of a large number of main forces on the Western Front, the Russian Defense Forces' defense forces on the Eastern Front, especially in Siberia, became more and more powerful, which made the Chinese Army's offensive more difficult.

In addition to the rapid return of Russian troops, the delay in the offensive of the Chinese army is also related to the deep winter climate in Russia, which is not something that ordinary people can endure.

Although the Chinese Army has the experience of being stationed in Siberia all the year round, has also conducted in-depth research on winter operations, and the equipment of the northern troops has also fully taken into account the climate and terrain of Russia, many problems will inevitably arise in actual combat.

For example, the most important thing is that a large number of tanks are frozen in battle, you must know that it is extremely normal for Siberia to have dozens of degrees below zero at night, and many times many Chinese armored soldiers find that their tanks are frozen and cannot be started in the morning.

The fundamental reason for the freezing here is not the factor that China uses gasoline engines, nor is it that the gasoline engines used in China are liquid-cooled heat dissipation mode. Many people think that the gasoline engine is not suitable for winter operations, but the actual situation is not so, in winter operations, the performance of diesel engines will not be better than gasoline engines, and air-cooled engines will not perform better than liquid-cooled engines.

Whether it is a German tank or a Soviet Russian tank or a Russian tank or a Chinese tank, no matter what No. 4 or T34 or Chinese T9\12 series, they are extremely dependent on antifreeze when fighting in cold areas.

During World War II, it was a false proposition to discuss whether a gasoline engine or a diesel engine, or whether it was air-cooled or liquid-cooled, which was more suitable for winter operations. Because they do not have much essential difference, there is only one reason that really affects what tank engines are used in various countries, that is, the industrial base of each country, China's gasoline engine is subject to the development of the domestic automobile industry, so the technology is mature and reliable, and the production of a large number of tanks in the wartime economy also needs to rely on the conversion of major automobile companies, which is similar to the situation in the United States and the United Kingdom. In addition to these factors, Germany also because of their own lack of oil, they rely heavily on coal-to-oil they have no choice but gasoline engines, as for the Soviet Union and said, it is purely gasoline engine technology is not up to par, can only use diesel engines, Soviet Russia early T26, BT5 \ 7 series are also used gasoline engines, and later T34 diesel engines are used for a very simple reason, they can not develop high-power and mature and reliable gasoline engines, It can only be used directly with the diesel engine originally developed as an aviation diesel engine.

Let's not talk about other countries, just Germany, Soviet Russia, and China, which have winter combat needs, and as for the Chinese tanks used by the Russian military, there is no need to include them in the discussion. The engine of Germany's No. 4 tank is a liquid-cooled gasoline engine, the T34 of Soviet Russia uses a liquid-cooled diesel engine, and China's T9\12 and T15 use liquid-cooled gasoline engines.

And the tank engines of all three companies have a common feature, that is, they need a lot of antifreeze when they fight in winter.

What is antifreeze, it is ethylene glycol.

And the reason why Chinese tanks, as well as various armored vehicles and trucks, froze in large numbers during this period of time, is simple, that is, the ethylene glycol replenished by the logistics department is far from being able to keep up with the large consumption of front-line troops.

This kind of problem is also present in the other two countries, but it is not serious.

After many problems occurred in the front-line combat troops, the logistics department of the Chinese Army was greatly blamed, by the way, you have prepared so many winter combat uniforms and artillery shells, but you have leaked antifreeze, this is not a pitfall.

In fact, this is not to blame the logistics department, the Chinese Army has been stationed in Siberia and Central Asia for a long time, and originally had sufficient antifreeze reserves, but over the years, the Chinese Army's mechanization has become higher and higher, especially the troops in the northern region are all kinds of vehicles day by day, and the number of tanks increased here is not much, but the number of other tracked vehicles and wheeled vehicles has increased very much, and these vehicles are all in need of antifreeze without exception. Moreover, during the war, the Chinese troops often carried out large-scale maneuvers, which caused further difficulties in transporting supplies. As a result, the antifreeze stored by the logistics department in the northern region was consumed in a large amount of time and could not be replenished in time.

The winter operation has brought great trouble to the Chinese troops, but this has also brought greater problems to the Russian army, the reason is very simple, that is, the Russian army's original military supplies are extremely dependent on China, they themselves are not a systematic industry, after the Russian army attacked Soviet Russia, China deliberately reduced the supply of various materials to the Russian army, not to mention antifreeze, even the supply of various gasoline has been reduced, and now the Russian army can only rely on the previous reserves to fight.

From the point of view of material supply, China does not need to spend too much effort to fight, as long as it drags on for a few months, the Russian army will be finished.

However, Chen Jingyun doesn't want to delay for so long, the world situation has been undergoing various changes every day in the past few years, in the Pacific and Southeast Asian battlefields, he said, "I was fighting with the Americans and the British, and the western front of Soviet Russia was also fighting with the German army, if China was also dragged on the Russian battlefield for too long, this would be very unfavorable to China's strategic interests, Chen Jingyun needed to free up his hands as soon as possible, and then pay attention to other regions."

In Nanjing, Chen Jingyun rarely sat down with several sons.

"Some time ago, your Sixth Division fought well, but don't be proud, you have to continue to work hard when you return to the army!" Chen Jingyun looked at Chen Huajun, and after saying this, he continued: "Make as many merits as possible, so that you can block the gossip of those people!" ”

Chen Huajun is currently the commander of the Sixth Division, and he has been fighting in Siberia these days, because his mother Lin Yun was born today, so he only temporarily flew back to Nanjing yesterday, and he will have to return to the army tomorrow after one day.

Chen Huajun knew that as Chen Jingyun's son, the speed of promotion was too fast, although the other generals in the army didn't say it, but there was some discussion in his heart, Chen Huajun needed to show real achievements to be able to stop those people's mouths, and in Chen Jingyun's consideration, after this battle, he was ready to raise Chen Huajun to another level. However, Chen Huajun is only 27 years old this year, and if he can't get a passable record, it is not good for him to directly promote Chen Huajun to lieutenant general.

It is no longer the early days of the civil war and the founding of the People's Republic of China, and it is already extremely rare to see a major general in his twenties, and a twenty-seven-year-old lieutenant general, except for these descendants of the Chen family, there is no second one.

"Father, don't worry, I won't let you down!" Chen Huajun responded.

At this time, Chen Jingyun said again: "You are on the front line now, you must also be more careful, although the war is important, but your own safety is more important!" ”

If Chen Huajun is defeated on the front line and killed or captured, it will be a serious morale blow to the whole of China, and its severity is more serious than being annihilated by an army, so it is still necessary for Chen Jingyun to tell him to pay attention to safety.

Compared with Chen Huajun, who fought on the front line, his eldest brother Chen Huatian's situation is much better, Chen Huatian has been staying in China all these years, and has held many important positions in order to accumulate qualifications, such as the deputy director of the Operations Department, and was appointed by Chen Jingyun as the chief of staff of the guard division at the beginning of the year.

However, Chen Jingyun also does not intend to let him stay in China all the time to mix his qualifications.

After thinking about it, Chen Jingyun said: "Hua Tian, you are going to prepare for the next few days, go to the Fourth Army for a period of time, and then I will arrange it!" ”

Chen Jingyun arranged these two brothers on the battlefield against Russia, naturally he just wanted to let them grow up more rapidly, and he couldn't wait for them to grow up when they were seventy or eighty, Chen Jingyun sent his two sons to the battlefield, and the same situation naturally happened in other Chinese powerful families, and many descendants of big families in the army began to look for opportunities to serve on the front line and earn war merits.

It seems that this situation can also be regarded as the Chinese Army's great confidence in the victory of the war in the Siberian region, and after full logistical preparations, on November 6, the Chinese Army finally launched a full-scale general offensive against Astana, and the Fifth Army invested more than 200,000 troops to directly attack Astana.

As the time entered November, the Chinese Army had already begun to launch a full-scale general offensive, trying to destroy the Russian defense line in one fell swoop and obtain a strategic victory!