Chapter 209: The Bear of the End? (viii)

Six hundred and fifty kilometers east of Ufa and 260 kilometers from Chelyabinsk, in the city of Kurgan, which was already in charred ruins, a simple tent erected against the remnants of the church was the former commander of the Chinese Army's Northern Front.

"It's impossible to launch a general offensive in June, it's absolutely impossible that all my supply lines are soaked in muddy water, and supplies can't be transported, how can this battle be fought?"

In the face of Lieutenant Colonel Nie Wenqing, the special staff officer of the base camp, Marshal Wang Zhi, the commander of the front army, looked sincere and helpless.

"In any case, an all-out offensive must be launched, and the overall plan of the base camp cannot be changed." Nie Wenqing also acted on orders.

Wang Zhi didn't bother to talk to him, and tilted his head towards General Xiang Lan, the chief of staff sitting beside him: "You tell him." ”

Xiang Lan patiently explained: "It's the season of Lingxun, Staff Officer Nie, you have seen it all the way, the ice water is flooding, there is an ocean everywhere, the ice roads and xiǎo railways built in winter are all in vain, and the sections that armored combat vehicles can barely pass have become quagmire traps, no matter whether you are wheels or tracks, you can't get in and out, and there are not a thousand but eight ......hundred vehicles trapped on various isolated islands by floods and swamps."

"The only thing that can be relied on is the Trans-Siberian Railway, but the base camp should be very clear that the entire section of the West Siberian Railway has been damaged by the system during the retreat of the Russian army, and the bridge across the river and the swamp causeway that play a key role in this are even more 'taken care of', and it is very tricky to repair. Most of the causeways and bridges, which had previously spent a lot of manpower and material resources and were urgently repaired in a harsh environment of tens of degrees below zero, had not yet had time to be reinforced, and this time they were also washed away, and it will take some time to repair them all. ”

After a pause, Xiang Lan couldn't help but aggravate his tone: "There is a shortage of food and ammunition in the front, and the rear can only be in a hurry - I originally expected to be able to rely on airlift to rescue emergencies, but the airlift troops that were originally assigned to the front army were all transferred to support Turkey's United Air Force three months ago, and so far they have no intention of returning it at all, and they can't even think about it." ”

"Also, the 'temporary resettlement' policy of forcing the population eastward in order to strengthen security in the occupied territories and reduce the pressure on rail transport – to put all the people in concentration camps, to be honest, has turned all the men and women of Western Siberia into guerrillas. Now that the law and order situation in the rear is deteriorating, we have assigned the entire 18th Army to protect the railway line, and even so, we can only control a few dozen kilometers along the railway line, and we are not at all able to crusade against the towns far away from the railway line. ”

Hearing this, Nie Wenqing sneered: "As far as I know, the resistance of the residents in the occupied area is largely due to the lax military discipline of the troops on the ground, right?" The troops were attacked sporadically, and even when they were only requisitioned on the spot, they immediately carried out the 'three lights' atrocities of burning, killing, and killing the nearby settlements, and similar incidents continued one after another, even the emperor had heard of them, but he never received a report from the front army. ”

In addition, the front army threw a large number of regular troops into the railway repair work, which led to low morale among officers and men, and there were many incidents of disobedience at the scale of companies and battalions during this period, and the front army did not report them in time. Could it be that if the front army does not report, the base camp will not know? The emperor doesn't ask? ”

Wang Zhi squinted his eyes disdainfully, sneered, and said, "Military discipline is not strict? When a war starts, either you die or I live, of course you have to fight back when the troops are attacked, and of course you have to suppress the requisition and resistance, how did the German Empire do it in civilized Europa, and we are just as capable of killing jī monkeys in barbaric Siberia, and we will be honest after a few times, it will be the same everywhere - if it weren't for the ethnic concentration camp policy of the base camp, it would not have become what it is now"

"Either quickly organize the local gentry to establish an autonomous government, and restore the industrial and agricultural production damaged by the war as soon as possible; Or just leave it to its own devices. Who came up with the bad idea of driving all the inhabitants out of their homes and putting them in concentration camps in order to save a little relief food? I really don't understand whether this is to strengthen law and order, or to worsen law and order? ”

"As for the disobedience incident, it is not about the construction of the railway at all, some slippery heads are willing to stay in the rear to build roads, and they do not want to go to the front to starve and freeze, and when they hear that they are going to the front line, they deliberately slack off and delay, and some commanders deal with it too roughly, which leads to a rebound of the group - in the final analysis, it is a matter of supply, and if it is difficult to supply, everything is difficult. Why don't you report it? This level of disobedience is no different from the coquettishness of a xiǎo child, and the problem that can be solved by a division commander and brigade commander does not need to bother the senior staff in the base camp. ”

Nie Wenqing put his hands on his knees, listened quietly very politely, and then retorted: "First, the relocation policy is only a temporary resettlement and protection of xìng, and it is by no means a racial concentration camp, and the front army obviously did not really understand and publicize this important policy. ”

"Second, the Russian army's policy of clearing the wilderness has completely destroyed local industrial and agricultural production, and almost all the intellectuals who can take up managerial and technical positions have been withdrawn. Leaving it unchecked, the inhabitants may become bandits—no different from becoming guerrillas. If production cannot be resumed in the short term, and relief is required, the materials to maintain the minimum living security of millions of residents are by no means 'a little' to be described, and temporary relocation is the most appropriate way to deal with it at present. ”

"Third, regardless of the reason, military disobedience is the fundamental challenge to military discipline, and it must be reported to the center as soon as possible, and the military justice organs will investigate and deal with it, even the commander of the front army has no right to make his own claims."

Wang straightened his eyebrows, and slapped the case: "Cao Nima, the sky has changed, and the eunuch in the palace who carries the skirt also dares to teach Lao Tzu a lesson?" The heads of those people in the base camp are in the water, they shouldn't come, and they shouldn't come in turn-xiǎozi, I don't have anything to say to you, go back and tell Gu Yingyang, find someone who has seen the world, climbed the corpse mountain and swam through the sea of blood."

In the face of the rebuke of this long-held marshal commander, Nie Wenqing smiled slightly, got up, and shouted loudly while saluting: "Eastern Front Army, Third Field Army, Deputy Platoon Commander of the 1st Battalion of the 93rd Regiment of the 11th Infantry Division, Warrant Officer Nie Wenqing, come to report." ”

Wang Zhi blinked, his gaze lingering on Nie Wenqing's face for a long time.

The Eastern Front was established during the Asian-Russian War, and was later renamed the Vladivostok Front, which took on the important task of attacking the Russian coastal region and the home port of the Russian Navy's Pacific Fleet, Vladivostok. And the 11th Infantry Division where Nie Wenqing was located was the unit that suffered the heaviest losses in the Battle of Vladivostok, which was famous for the sea of corpses and blood—by the end of the war, the cumulative number of casualties in the whole division even exceeded the number of people participating in the war, and it was quite completely wiped out.

"You're from the 11th Division? Have you been to Mount Kimir? Wang Zhi's eyes appeared in front of the mountain of death that had made him almost nervous - the blood of tens of thousands of Chinese and Japanese officers and soldiers really washed this mountain full of reinforced concrete fortifications from top to bottom.

Nie Wenqing nodded: "The company I am in has almost all been wiped out twice, and only a handful of people survived each time, if what I have experienced is not a corpse mountain and a sea of blood, then I don't know what else can be called a corpse mountain and a sea of blood." ”

Nie Wenqing couldn't help but say what he didn't say: "As for His Excellency Marshal, I'm afraid I just watched this scene from afar in the telescope, right?" ”

Wang Zhi's anger suddenly subsided by seven or eight points, he let out a long sigh and slowly sat back on the folding chair.

"For the sake of the 11th Division and Mount Kimir, I forgive you for your recklessness, but I tell you the truth, if we insist that my Northern Army and the Central Asian Army launch a full-scale attack at the same time, we will probably pay a huge amount of blood unprecedented since the start of the war - when the time comes, whether it is Mount Kimir or Vladivostok in the last war, even Chita, which devoured the blood of 180,000 people in one go, will be just 'sprinkling water'."

"Even then, orders must be carried out, and I have only brought orders, not room for negotiation."

After Nie Wenqing finished speaking, he pressed his hands tightly and bowed deeply to Wang Zhi: "I offended a lot just now-Yu Sī, I also hope that the commander Haihan; Yu Gong, then the military order is like a mountain, and I hope that the commander will put the overall situation first, show the fighting spirit of attacking the Vladivostok fortress in the past, and nail the enemy's Ural Front to the death on the line of the Ural Mountains......"

Wang Zhi smiled bitterly and shook his head: "I understand, it's not that the base camp doesn't understand the difficulties of our northern army, but precisely because it has seen through the heart, liver and lungs of our army, so it plans to let us nail the enemy in the Ural Mountains at the expense of the sea of corpses and blood, and create favorable conditions for the Central Asian Army to break through the Ural River from the south?" ”

"The commander really understands people." Nie Wenqing made no secret of it.

Wang Zhi patted the back of his head lightly: "The ghost of Vladivostok still asks me for my life in my dreams from time to time, Gu Yingyang, this bastard, wants me to have no good dreams in my life...... Forget it, that's all it takes, I don't have anything to embarrass you, Staff Officer Nie, I only have the last request. ”

"Commander, please speak."

"Stay and drink with me tonight, and tell me about the mountains of corpses and blood you have experienced......"

Nie Wenqing was stunned for a moment, and then nodded heavily: "The lower official obeys the order." ”

This time it was Xiang Lan's turn to frown: "Commander, please think about it again, it won't work like this." This time it was not a fortress cut off by foreign aid, but a complex mountain defense line tens or even hundreds of kilometers deep, with the defenders backed by industrial and populated areas, short supply lines, and dense railway lines, so it was easy to reinforce and replenish. ”

"On the other hand, our army, at the moment, the rear line is a mess, heavy artillery cannot be transported, and the armored forces that have always been the main force for the breakthrough are also useless, there is a lack of supplies, and morale is gradually affected.

"Even if the conditions of Jiāo pass are improved later, the Trans-Siberian Railway will be unimpeded to Chelyabinsk, from Beijing to Chelyabinsk, it will take 5,500 kilometers, and from Shenyang to Manzhouli, it will also take 5,700 kilometers, and the length of our supply line is several times that of the other side, and from Ulan-Ude to the west, there is only one single-track railway available."

"If we fight head-on, our supply efficiency will be much lower than that of the other side, and if there is a problem with the only railway line in the rear, the front line will be difficult to support. In this way, it is the next policy to insist on an all-out offensive - commander, please send a telegram to the base camp and beg for a few days to allow our army to come up with another good plan. ”

Wang Zhi sank slightly, and turned to Nie Wenqing with a slight apology: "What Xiang Chief of Staff said is reasonable, no matter what, I have to give it a try-Staff Officer Nie, I think you should not be in a hurry to leave, stay here for a few more days, see the situation in the current place with your own eyes, and then return to the emperor and the base camp before it is too late." ”

Nie Wenqing nodded with a faint smile and said, "If the base camp is willing to be accommodating, the lower officials will naturally obey their fate." ”

Wang Zhi clapped his hands and stood up: "Then it's decided-Lao Xiang, go, let's go with a message." ”

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