Chapter 294 The Battle of the Trapped Beasts VIII How the Slaves Became
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"... The battlefield in the western section of the Central and Eastern Road has formed a tug-of-war situation, with the main forces of both sides gathering, and it is difficult to find a good opportunity to break through. Based on the experience of the tug-of-war in the middle and western fronts of the European war, the key point of the tug-of-war is to establish a stable defensive position, strive to be steady in the offensive, and move forward step by step. Now our army's superior forces have come out of seclusion one after another, with sufficient military capital reserves and high morale of officers and soldiers. On the other hand, the Soviet Red Army is already a tired division with long battles, with too long front lines and difficult logistics supply, and it is difficult to carry out long-term consumption battles. Therefore, in the battles of the Central and Eastern Roads, it is advisable to adopt a steady attack and a steady and steady tactic. Do not underestimate the enemy and make a rash move, and destroy the difficult-to-get good situation!"
The above passage was said by Bai Chongxi in the secret room after he translated the secret telegram sent by Chang Ruiqing in the secret room and in the war room of the Central East Road Army Command.
In the war room, Huang Xuchu, chief of staff of the Central East Road Army, Xia Wei, Liao Lei, Tang Shengzhi, and Han Chunlin (the commander of the Sixth Army of the Northeast Army) were all very talented, so they naturally knew that they were all instructions from the Chairman of the Standing Committee and understood what their MPs were planning.
Xia Wei pressed the map table with his hand, leaned forward slightly, and asked hesitantly: "Brother Jiansheng, the Japanese and the Russians are fighting in Manzhouli. If the Japanese win, the situation in the western section of the Central and Eastern Road will naturally be fine. If the Japanese win, our 200,000 people will start a war with the same number of Red Army!" He looked at Bai Chongxi: "This scale is not easy to grasp!"
Bai Chongxi said: "It doesn't matter if all the Japanese are destroyed. Guo Maochen's 5th Army of the Northeast Army has fought with the Russians. He has not been able to withstand it for three days?" Xia Wei nodded and said to Huang Xuchu who was frowning and pondering, "What do you think about it?"
Huang Xuchu had just returned from the front line of Kazakhstan Tusumu. He had seen the combat effectiveness of the Soviet Red Army with his own eyes. He hugged his arms and slowly pondered: "The Red Army is indeed a powerful soldier we have never seen before. The Fifth Army brought by Guo Maochen in the Northeast Army can withstand it. However, their losses are still extremely heavy. If they do not receive timely reinforcements, they will last for two days at most."
"Guo Maochen is strong. Our four armies are not weak either! We still have two heavy artillery brigades and five Japanese heavy artillery gangs, which should be able to form superior firepower. Wang Junhao's first army is coming soon, and there are also the second army, the third army and the first cavalry army in the pass! And we have now established a national mobilization system in five provinces including Fujian, Guangdong, Shanxi, Guangxi, and Jiangxi. We can recruit millions of reserve troops at any time! Let's go from
More than 500 heavy artillery purchased by France have also been shipped and will be in place at the latest in December. With such an overwhelming advantage in force and firepower, how could we lose to the Russians!" Bai Chongxi's tone was as iron as iron, and it seemed that he had made up his final determination. He looked at Xia Wei with fierce eyes: "Xu Cang, the first army you are leading now is our best unit. Those who have fought the Nenjiang Battle! Let them go up and reinforce Guo Maochen first! Remember, don't give us Central Army, don't embarrass the commission!"
Xia Wei is the backbone general of Chang Ruiqing system and the most capable general. He was not vague when he heard this. He stood at attention and said, "Don't worry, brother Jiansheng! With my first army here, the old men should not step past Ha Rigantu Sumu!" As he said that, he turned around and walked out. As soon as he arrived at the door, Bai Chongxi called him again: "Xu Cang, three heavy artillery brigades will be pulled up together! But when you get to the front, you will be under the command of Guo Maochen! He is now the commander-in-chief of the front enemy! Do you understand?"
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The strong north wind blew again in the evening, and the strong wind brought up fogs of snow and mist, almost covering the entire battlefield. The front line of Kazakhstan Tusumu seemed to have calmed down because of the wind and snow. However, there were artillery shells that exploded on the positions of the Chinese and Russian armies. The Soviet Red Army's long-range heavy artillery had stopped shooting at the artillery positions behind the Chinese defense line of Kazakhstan Tusumu. This afternoon, their heavy artillery positions suddenly encountered a precise counterattack from the long-range heavy artillery of the Chinese army! It was obvious that the Chinese Army's Central East Road Army had already arrived at the front line of Kazakhstan Tusumu.
For the Red Army, who had not succeeded after four days of attack, it was too irrational to use its limited troops and firepower to hit the revisionist steel defense line. After asking Stalin, Voroshilov ordered the Central East Road Campaign Cluster to start adjusting its situation. The army, which was originally in a tough state, began to build fortifications on the frozen land. The artillery positions were also moved backwards. Only some 76.2mm field artillery were harassed artillery bombardment. Their cavalry also gave up their attack and gave the grassland to their opponents, only to ensure the contact between the Central East Road Campaign Cluster and the West Manzhouli Campaign Cluster, and to maintain a retreat for the army.
Now the offensive and defensive situation on the front line of Kazakhstan Tusu has changed. All 20 infantry regiments of the five infantry divisions of the Soviet Russian Red Army, together with five mountain artillery battalions, four cavalry artillery battalions, six heavy artillery battalions, and dozens of mortar companies, have all taken their place. The logistics and logistics units of the Red Army's Eastern Front also urgently transported a large number of ammunition, which can basically allow each cannon and mortar to be divided into two base ammunition, and machine rifle bullets can also maintain the combat needs of seven days. According to the estimates of the Eastern Front Command, the Battle of Manzhouli will be victorious within five to six days! At that time, China's Central East Road Army will definitely give up the attack and retreat to Hailar...
But what if they don't retreat? Can the Central East Road Campaign Cluster last until the main force of the Eastern Front? Besides, after the main force of the Eastern Front fights against the Japanese devils in Manzhouli, how much more energy can the front fight again? This time, the use of the front forces is really too nervous! These questions have been in the minds of Voroshilov, Budunny and Yakiel, but no one said it. Because such deployment is probably the most reasonable choice at present, it depends on whether the Kharigan Tusumu can defend it here! Voroshilov has issued a death order, and all the Red Army soldiers must defend to the end and not retreat at a single step until the main force of the Eastern Front completes the task of annihilation of the enemy!
The GC-savvy soldiers who received the order all went crazy and worked in their own way - digging trenches on the frozen soil, repairing fortifications, and eating a few bites of black bread as hard as stones when they were hungry. When they were thirsty, they grabbed a handful of ice and snow and put it in their mouths. It was really hard to the extreme, but the morale of the Red Army soldiers was still extremely high.
Later, a famous Soviet writer, Nikola Alexeyevich Ostolovsky, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his book "How Slaves Become", described it in his book: ".........As for the frustration of the attack in Kazakhstan Tusumu in the past few days, we only feel ashamed and guilt, and feel that we have let Lenin down, let the expectations of the Soviet Union, Mongolia, and the Chinese working people down. We have all made up our minds to teach the Chinese invaders a lesson in the next battle! According to our political commissar (senior political commissar), and later general Konev, who was the general, we are fighting against the Chinese revisionists who invaded Mongolia on the territory of the Mongolian People's Republic!
However, the more than twenty soldiers of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Army who were assigned to our company obviously did not agree with this statement. Each of them looked at us with resentful eyes and was unwilling to fight. They wanted to escape whenever they had the chance. Our company instructor Zaitsev had to declare that they were traitors of the Mongolian people and asked them to tie them together with ropes. As a result, the Mongolians started chanting scriptures again, and in the end they were quarreled, Zaitsev asked us to find some rags to block their mouths... At that time, I just thought this was a very good thing
I never thought that I, the firm supporter of Comrade Lenin, was tied with a rope and threw it into a truck heading to Sorowitsky Monastery (labor camp)! It was not until then that I realized that I was a slave! From the moment I watched the innocent Mongolians tied up with a rope in Harigantusumu more than ten years ago, I was a slave to the GCism! All the people in our Workers' and Peasants' Red Army Eastern Front Army are slaves to the GCism system..."
Opposite these slaves fighting to liberate all mankind. The revisionist officers and soldiers of the Central East Road Army were also told that they were fighting against the invaders who invaded China! Their country had reached the most dangerous moment. If they took a step back, China might become a colony of Soviet imperialism! All Chinese would become slaves of Soviet and Russian pseudo-GCism! The large squadrons of high-mortem infantry sang patriotic songs and entered the position of Kazakhsakakusumu. Cannons were arranged on both sides of the Middle East Railway, and long barrels were raised. The ammunition on the battlefield was also full of ammunition, some were high-explosive bombs, and some were poisonous gas bombs brought from the Japanese arms warehouse in Hailar!
The Soviet Red Army's position was about 30 kilometers on the grassland, and the two wings of their defense line were also equipped with the remnants of the Red Cavalry Army as a warning. However, due to the hasty time, their defense line was not deep enough, and the fortifications were not solid at all. In the eyes of the Belarusian military advisers in the Central East Road Army, such a defensive position was built on a grassland without danger, which was simply a joke on the lives of officers and soldiers. If the German army was attacking, the Soviet Red Army could resist for more than 3 hours would be a miracle. Even if they faced the Chinese team that had not been baptized by the European war, they would have to be beaten. Because they had neither a solid position nor a firepower was completely overwhelmed by the Chinese team. The only thing they could rely on was some experienced cannon fodder.
The revisionist attack began with bombardment. At the darkest time before dawn on November 3, 1919, the snowstorm had just passed, and a storm-like flash suddenly flashed behind the Chinese military position of the Karigantu Sumu! Hundreds of flashes completely dispersed the heavy darkness in an instant, followed by the violent shaking of the earth, and densely connected into a roar and roar!
Under the command of Lieutenant General Xu Zuyi, the artillery director of the Middle East Road Army, 96 155mm howitzers, 36 105mm howitzers, 12 155mm cannons, 12 203mm heavy howitzers, and 144 75mm mountain artillery cavalry artillery. The main artillery force of the entire army has been concentrated here! There are 300 cannons of various calibers in the total attack. At dawn, with his order, the preparations were already completed. The artillery soldiers who had been waiting in the artillery position for a long time immediately filled the shiny shells into the cannon chamber and fired them onto the heads of the Soviet Red Army!
The Red Army was almost stunned by such powerful firepower in an instant. The Red Army officers and soldiers who were sleeping in the field fortifications built were awakened by the huge explosion of artillery shells and were blown away by the blood and flesh. The scattered metal fragments swept across the Red Army positions like wind, tearing everything exposed to pieces! The shells fired by the 203mm and 155mm heavy artillery were even more powerful. One huge gap after another was blown on the Red Army's front line, erasing all the things that originally existed there from the earth. GC warriors were of course brave. Under such shells, they gritted their teeth and crawled in the trenches, with only one thought in their minds: "We must defend them, and we must not let the revisionist invaders succeed!"
At this time, Ostolovsky and his comrades were on the front line. In addition to being bombed, they were also enduring the mustard gas of revisionism. Moreover, they did not have enough gas masks, so they could only use it for officers and a small number of soldiers. Most of them could only cover their mouths with masks and cover their heads with cloth. Ostolovsky was still a big boy, so they were assigned a gas mask. However, having a gas mask does not mean that they would not be killed by poison gas! In particular, the king of poison gas, such as mustard gas, can only cause damage if it is contaminated on the skin.
The attack of poison gas bombs often lasts for several hours! There will always be a lot of poison smoke infiltrating the gas mask and causing casualties. In history, Hitler's regiment was attacked by 6 hours of poison gas bombs and they all turned blind (of course, they were temporarily blind, otherwise the head of state would have to learn fortune-telling or massage). However, Ostolovsky's luck is obviously better now than the head of state. The Chinese do not have as much poison gas as the Germans, nor so many shells, otherwise these Russian GCists would not be able to get attacked by revisionist infantry, and they would all be poisoned and killed.
Chapter completed!