Beiyang reactionaries

"The local troops of the Central Asian Republic of the Soviet Army?"

"should be."

Yili.

After Duan Xun decided to expand the war, the front line has been conducting battle plans.The goal of the Northeast Military Region is Vladivostok and Shuangchengzi, and the Northern Military Region is to eliminate the Soviet army in Ulan-Ude, and then besiege Irkutsk.Settle Irkutsk before winter comes and snow falls.

The Xinjiang Military Region is on the Yili side.

At present, the fighting in Tacheng is very fierce, with tens of thousands of casualties every day.Casualty figures for both China and the Soviet Union rose rapidly.The Soviet Far East suffered too many casualties, and the situation has become very passive.Therefore, the movement of the Soviet army in Xinjiang is getting bigger and bigger.

Budyonny really dared to fight.

Budyonny was born as a cavalry general, but this war is not like cavalry combat at all.The characteristic of cavalry combat is that it is very mobile, and most of the time it will leave with one blow.Once encountering a well-defended enemy, the cavalry will not resort to storming.Because the cavalry is not formed to storm the opponent's defensive positions.But Budyonny completely violated the cavalry combat style.

This time Budyonny concentrated his forces to attack Tacheng, completely ignoring the casualties.And continue to generate electricity for Moscow, asking Moscow to support the Novosibirsk Military Region.You need troops, planes, tanks, and cannons. Anyway, Budyonny and Tacheng are already exhausted.Because Budyonny knows that the current situation is that the Soviet Union is completely backward.Facing the new combat mode of the Chinese army, the Soviet army was not prepared at all, so the huge losses after the war shocked the entire Soviet Union.Now there is only one way to save the situation, and that is to open up the situation in Xinjiang.Therefore, regardless of the huge casualties of the Soviet army, he concentrated his efforts and continued to smash Tacheng.

The pressure on China's defense line in Tacheng is really high, because the casualties are constantly rising.Since the outbreak of the Sino-Soviet War, Tacheng is a real imitation of flesh and blood.Just look at the number of shells fired by both sides every day, and you will know that the two sides are completely exhausted.In Tacheng, China and the Soviet Union fired an average of 200 shells every day, and lost an average of about 2000 aircraft every day.How long has it been since the Battle of Tacheng broke out, and China and the Soviet Union have already lost more than [-] aircraft.

A war of this scale is definitely the most intense war since the outbreak of World War II.

Moreover, some things that Liu Xiang was worried about are indeed happening, and there are some rebellions in Xinjiang.These local forces used rebellion to meet the Soviet army.The most serious cases are in the northwest region of Outer Mongolia and the Altay region.In those places that are not strictly controlled by the Chinese army, rebellions are frequent, which seriously threatens the communication arteries of the Xinjiang Military Region.It even affects the communication security of the Xinjiang Military Region.The local tribes in the Altay region have completely surrendered to the Soviet army.The Soviet infantry and cavalry have already poured into the Altay area.

Liu Xiang also had no choice.

Liu Xiang wanted to break the current situation, so he set his sights on Almaty.As long as Almaty is taken, the Soviet offensive in Tacheng will definitely ease, or even end.So Liu Xiang asked Yili's Construction Corps to attack.

The headquarters of the Xinjiang Construction Corps is in Ili.

Sun Zhen dared not sleep at all these days.Because the troops of the Construction Corps were originally used as a reserve team.They will only go up when there are huge casualties in the field troops.They are currently in Yili, and all preparations are defensive.Sun Zhen has built many defensive positions on Yili's side, and all preparations are for defense.

But now he took over such an important task, of course Sun Zhen didn't dare to be careless in the slightest.

Not the Soviet elite.

After this period of war, especially after the offensive and defensive battle of Tacheng, the cards of China and the Soviet Union have basically been revealed.The elites of China and the Soviet Union are currently in the Tacheng area.

Those in Yili are all local troops.

After these days of reconnaissance, the staff analyzed that the troops on the opposite side should be the local troops of the former Union Republic.The fifteen republics of the Soviet Union, including five countries in Central Asia.Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan.

After the October Revolution in Russia, these countries also experienced such revolutions.Finally, it joined the Soviet Union and became a republic of the Soviet Union.These countries also have troops of their own.

But none of them are elite.

Now that the situation is tense, many local troops and many agricultural reclamation troops have also begun to give designations and become field troops.The staff analyzed the troops in front of them, which were the local troops in these places.

"Chief of the Guard."

"commander."

"At six o'clock tomorrow morning, our air force and artillery units will officially launch an offensive. The opponent, like us, has transformed from a local army and land reclamation army to a field army, and must be inferior to the field army in many aspects. Therefore, this Our purpose in the war is not to encircle and annihilate the enemy, but to defeat the enemy, drive the enemy, and divide the enemy. If you want to quickly defeat the enemy and drive the enemy, your group army is the top priority."

After several days of deployment, Sun Zhen has decided to make an official attack the next morning.

It is the final deployment.

Standing in front of Sun Zhen was Wei Lihuang, Commander of the Armored Army of the Xinjiang Construction Corps.Although the Xinjiang Construction Corps has been reorganized, the reorganized troops are mainly members of the original Construction Corps.Including many officers are from the original Construction Corps.It can be said that the Construction Corps is half army and half civilian, so it is basically reorganized into an organizational system, and it is the original Construction Corps organization.

However, these reorganized troops are not all members of the original Construction Corps.

After all, many people in the former Construction Corps have been engaged in construction for many years, and they have fallen behind militarily.So either they received some short-term training during the assault in the past few years, or they were transferred from other troops.Especially some technical arms, such as artillery units, anti-aircraft artillery units, and tank units under the jurisdiction, all of which need to transfer professional officers from outside.

Wei Lihuang is like this.

The reason why Wei Lihuang was transferred here was to form an armored army.The Xinjiang Military Region is the top priority. Therefore, in 1938, the Xinjiang Construction Corps only had the First Corps and the Second Corps. It had two armored divisions, only 33 people, and 350 tanks.

But now, a year later, the Xinjiang Construction Corps has reorganized five corps with 80 people.In addition to the Fifth Corps currently going to Dihua, Ili has the First Corps, Second Corps, and Third Corps, and Kashgar has the Fourth Corps.Moreover, an armored group army was formed, with 5 armored divisions and 900 tanks under its jurisdiction.

Wei Lihuang was the commander of the Armored Army.

Because of the military cooperation between China and Germany, and Duan Xun has always attached great importance to tank combat, so there are many studies on Chinese tank tactics.Even China is one of the few in the world that has a dedicated armor academy.In many countries, military academies include tank command courses, but China has established a university dedicated to the study of tank troops.Therefore, it can be said that China is no less than Germany, or even stronger than Germany, in the study of tank tactics.

Moreover, China is a mass-produced tank commander.

At present, most of the grassroots commanders of the Chinese tank force have graduated from formal armored academies and have been receiving formal tank combat training.Whether in theory or in practice, China's tank commanders are better than other countries in the world.

Because of this, after the Sino-Soviet war broke out, the Chinese army used tanks so skillfully.That's because the Chinese tank troops usually conduct training in this area.Sun Zhen chose the same this time.

Since the Soviet army on the opposite side belongs to the local army that has just been transferred, just like the construction corps, it must be inferior to the field army in many aspects.Therefore, we are going to use the mobility of the tank to cooperate with the air force and artillery to defeat the troops in front.

Fight face to face?

Sun Zhen would not choose.

Both China and the Soviet Union have a large number of tanks and a large number of artillery units.If we fight face to face and attack head-on, it will become a war of attrition, and neither side knows how much it will cost.Now Liu Xiang's order is to let the Construction Corps take Almaty.Since this is the case, it must be taken by surprise, so Sun Zhen is going to drive this army away.

"Yes."

"As long as their defensive line is loose and their troops show signs of retreating, then your army group will bite me and don't let go. If the tank is broken or there are wounded, the troops behind will gather. Your goal is to completely wipe out the Soviet troops. Divide them up and let them disperse. The 400-kilometer vast land from Yining to Almaty is where your army group gallops."

"Yes."

"Go get ready."

September 1939, 9, five o'clock in the morning.

The air force stationed in Yili has not been mobilized.The battle on the front line in Tacheng was very fierce. For a while, the Chinese Air Force was at a disadvantage in the duel and was suppressed by the Soviet Air Force.But even so, Liu Xiang did not move the air force on Yili's side.

At the beginning of Liu Xiang's war, he mobilized the air force of Dihua (Urumqi) to support Tacheng and Karamay, and then invited the air force of Lanzhou Military Region to support him.At the most dangerous time, Soviet aircraft even began to bomb Karamay, seriously affecting Karamay's oil production, but Liu Xiang still did not move the air force in Ili.

It is to maintain the air defense strength of Yili.

Therefore, Sun Zhen can currently mobilize 9 air force divisions.Sun Zhen's approach this time was different from that of the Northern Military Region and the Northeast Military Region. He mobilized nine air divisions and did not attack targets such as airfields, radar stations, and oil depots, but directly attacked the Soviet defensive positions.

Then 1100 cannons were mobilized to cooperate with the air force to attack the Soviet defensive positions.Sun Zhen's goal is very simple, to defeat the Soviet army in front of him.As long as there are some problems in their defensive positions, Wei Lihuang's armored army will attack.

At 5 o'clock, the sky in Xinjiang was not completely bright, but the planes of the air force had already taken off from all directions, and the artillery units had also entered the attack position.At six o'clock, the Air Force and Artillery officially launched the Battle of Yili.

The boat can withstand wind and waves, but the boat is small and easy to turn around.

These words are very suitable among countries.For big countries like China and the Soviet Union, the potential for war is astonishing.This is especially true for the two countries that have begun to become industrialized countries.

Both countries have the strength to mobilize tens of millions of troops in a short period of time, and tens of millions of troops are fully armed.The troops that can be mobilized alone are larger than the population of many countries.

Just because the two countries have such strength, it is very difficult for a big country like China and the Soviet Union to defeat a big country like China and the Soviet Union under ordinary storms and attacks from outside.If you want to use war to solve countries with large populations, large land areas, and high industrial output like China and the Soviet Union, it is basically impossible.Just like the current Sino-Soviet war.

Don't look at China's absolute upper hand now.