readx; Ulan-Ude, in the southern part of Lake Baikal, was originally just an ordinary town along the Trans-Siberian Railway, and even a small village could barely be called a small village. Pen ~ fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info but after the twenties, after the Mongolian railway in China was connected to Siberia, Ulan-Ude, which was the intersection of the two railways, also prospered.

Ulan-Ude is important not only because it is the meeting point of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Mongolian Railway, but also because the railway standards in Russia are different from those in China, which makes it impossible for Chinese trains to directly enter the Russian railway network and need to change the wheels. Because Ulan-Ude has become an extremely important transit station, there is a huge train transfer yard, second only to Akdouka, where the Northwest Railway and the Central Asian Railway intersect in Kazakhstan.

It is natural that such an important strategic transportation point cannot be defenseless, and it turns out that the vast majority of the strength of the Russian Defense Forces was used in the Siberian war against the Soviet Union, but at this time the Russian Republic left a lot of second-line troops in the domestic region.

In June 1941, the Russian Republic had expanded its strength to 1.2 million after the pre-war mobilization, and as the war progressed, this number of troops was obviously not enough to fight Moscow, so the Russian Republic carried out a deeper mobilization, almost looting the young men in the territory and stuffing them into the army, but the population of the Russian Republic was too small after all, and the number of young men suitable for service was limited, so even after the deep mobilization, The number of field troops in the Russian Republic is only about 1.5 million, including nearly 100,000 casualties since the beginning of the war with Soviet Russia.

Of course, the Russian Republic is a country with a national military service system, and their total strength is more than 1.5 million after the real mobilization, but in addition to these front-line troops, there are also quite a lot of second-line troops in the military strength of the Russian Republic, that is, the troops equivalent to the surname of China's local garrison forces, scattered and scattered add up to 500,000 or 600,000, mainly responsible for domestic defense and part of the front-line support tasks, and the soldiers of these second-line troops are either too old or too young. Moreover, the vast majority of second-line soldiers were temporarily recruited after the outbreak of the war, and their training was naturally not strong.

At this time, the Russian army deployed in the troops of Ulan-Ude is such a second-line infantry division, in fact, the Russian Republic does not have much defense force in the country, and most of their troops are deployed on the western front, although there are certain forces in the hinterland of the country, but for China's huge forces, it is almost equal to no defense.

Xie Chabei leaned out of his tank, and just took out the telescope to observe, but unexpectedly, the T12 tank under him was a bump, almost making him drop the telescope in his hand, and when the high-speed tank crossed the obstacle, the movement was not small, and he immediately shouted to the car: "Leisurely click!" ”

The driver of this T12 command tank also heard the dissatisfaction in Xie Chabei's tone, and immediately slowed down.

From the telescope, there was a white expanse in the distance, and there were several small black dots on the white side, which were obviously Ulan-Ude's buildings.

Then he took out a map from his hand and looked at it carefully before saying, "It seems that we have arrived!" ”

In a short time, dozens of tanks of this tank battalion had already slowed down and stopped.

"We rushed too fast, the 23rd Regiment supporting behind is still lagging behind, and it is estimated that it will take an hour to come up!" An armored captain beside Xie Chabei said this, but Xie Chabei was unimpressed.

"This time is just right, and the extra time is just enough for the Air Force to fight for a while!"

Xie Chabei continued: "Gather all the situations on the other side, and then call in the air force for support, and do a good job of guiding the air force brothers to bomb!" ”

The captain gave the order, and Xie Chabei took out his binoculars and looked at Ulan-Ude in the distance.

The defense of the troops in this place is not too strong, and with the cooperation of his own tank battalion and the 23rd Regiment, it should not be a problem to take this place, Xie Chabei is confident in this, otherwise he would not have fought for the task of the vanguard of the whole division from the division seat, he knows very well that this battle is an opportunity for his own meritorious service, and it is related to his future development in the military circles, and he must not make any mistakes.

Xie Chabei knows very well that although he was born in a family of generals, and his father is an army general Xie Yan, but his development over the years has not been smooth, his talent in military is not to mention that he is on a par with his father Xie Yan, even compared with his eldest brother Xie Chanan, it is also a cut behind the boss, his eldest brother Xie Chanan was among the best in Wuhan Military Academy, and he was the third in the infantry section of the world, with such excellent results, he was promoted to lieutenant less than a year after graduation, He was promoted to lieutenant colonel before he was 30 years old, and after three years of advanced study at the Nanjing Army University, he was promoted to colonel at the age of 33, and served as the commander and deputy division commander of the 9th Division, the army's number one ace division.

Seeing that the situation in the northwest was tense and the war was about to break out, Xie Yan used his connections again to transfer his eldest son Xie Chanan to the First Mechanized Infantry Division of the Second Armored Division under the Fifth Army in the northwest as a division commander.

He was promoted to major general at the age of thirty-six, and served as the commander of the main division at the age of thirty-eight, which is rare in the middle [***] world.

And compared with the excellence of his eldest brother Xie Chanan, Xie Chabei is much backward, his grades in the Wuhan Military Academy can only be regarded as average, and the road to promotion is not even, he was promoted to captain at the age of thirty, and he was promoted to major at the age of thirty-four, becoming a member of the middle-level officers, this kind of speed in the officer promotion system of the Chinese Army, can only be regarded as very general, if there is no special opportunity, his life will be the end of the colonel, and this is still because of his father Xie Yanzai, If it weren't for Xie Yan, the general's father, he Xie Chanan probably wouldn't even be able to cross the threshold of major.

And Xie Chabei knows very well that even if he has his father Xie Yan's gang, it is difficult to cross the threshold of major generals, although Xie Yan is an army general, and his status in the army is also considered to be the top of the ranks, but as a newly promoted general who has survived by virtue of his qualifications, his voice in the army is far inferior to those army bosses who have been famous for a long time. Xie Yan also followed Chen Jingyun all the way during the Xinhai Revolution, after the end of the civil war, he was promoted to major general in the twenties, that is, after the first Chinese war, and was promoted to lieutenant general in the thirties, and he stayed up in the rank of lieutenant general for eight years before being promoted to general in 1940.

With Xie Yan's current energy, it is not easy to support an eldest son, Xie Chanan, and he doesn't have too much energy to raise his second son, who is of average ability.

Xie Chabei knows this very well, but he is also unwilling to stop at the rank of school officer, although he does not have the greed to become a peerless famous general, but if he has been in the army for decades in this life, and he has not been able to get the rank of major general when he retires, then he will not be willing to do so anyway.

And now, the opportunity is already in front of Xie Chabei, the outbreak of the world war may be a disaster for ordinary people, but for those officers who want to climb up, this is undoubtedly a great opportunity for them to make war achievements.

If there is no war, there will be no military merits, and without military merits, you will not be able to be promoted quickly, and if you want to climb up, you can only honestly boil up your qualifications.

And Xie Chabei knows very well that if he uses the traditional promotion mechanism, he will definitely not be able to cross the threshold of major generals in this life.

Now that the war is coming, it is an opportunity for Xie Chabei, and when Xie Chabei made up his mind to win the battle in this battle no matter what, there was a roar of planes in the sky.

Xie Chabei looked up at the sound and saw seven or eight planes appear in the sky, and said in his heart: "Come so fast!" ”

Xie Chabei naturally knew that these planes did not take off in a hurry after receiving air support from Xie Chabei, but planes that had already taken off before and had been on patrol, and once they received a request for air support, they would rush to the predetermined area, and the whole process would not take too long.

Of the seven aircraft in the sky, four are B13 front-line bombers, and the remaining three are F4 fighters that escort these bombers.

However, there are a lot of F4 fighters in the Chinese Navy and Air Force, and the establishment of the Chinese Air Force is huge, and it is a large-scale expansion at this time, although the number of newly commissioned F5 fighters is already more than that of F4 fighters, but the Chinese Air Force is not extravagant enough to withdraw all F4 fighters.

However, although the F4 fighter can only be regarded as a second-line force in the Chinese Air Force, for today's countries, the surname of the F4 fighter can still be advanced enough, and it will not fall behind in the confrontation with the advanced fighters of various countries.

Through the telescope, Xie Chabei saw that the planes in the sky had begun to reduce their altitude, and the four B13 bombers had entered a state of dive, and after a while, a number of aerial bombs had fallen into the Russian positions in the distance, setting off a series of explosion smoke and dust, and soon several fighters of the Russian army also quickly took off to meet the battle, but these planes were all old-fashioned F3 fighters, and they could not resist the F4 fighters in the Chinese Air Force at all, and it didn't take long for several Russian F3 fighters to be shot down one after another.

Seeing this scene, Xie Chabei also sighed a little, you must know that these F3 fighters were sold by China to Russia, and now they have been beaten down by the F4 fighters of the Chinese Air Force, which has to be said to be a joke of fate.

In fact, this situation is not only in the Air Force, but also in the Army, almost all the equipment of the Russian Defense Forces is Chinese standard equipment, and the tanks they are equipped with such as T9 and T6 are all made in China, and now the Russians are using these Chinese-made weapons to resist China's attack.

In front of a row of buildings in Ulan-Ude, Xie Chabei looked at the tongues of fire that erupted from these buildings from time to time, his eyebrows furrowed, and he immediately said to a colonel beside him: "Battalion Commander Li, it's not easy to do here, the firepower of the Russian army is not weak, and they still have a lot of Type 36 rocket launchers in their hands!" ”

Battalion Commander Li next to him was the commander of a mechanized infantry battalion of the 23rd Regiment, but he obviously didn't have too much to worry about: "The number of Russian troops here is only one battalion at most, although they are hiding under the ruins of these buildings, but it is a fool's dream to block our progress in this way!" ”