Of course, the orders of the Supreme Command of the Soviet Red Army were not that Fu Longzhi, the commander of the Front Army, dared to resist. The day after Fu Longzhi complained, the Soviet tank cluster gathered in Akdoka had half of its troops and tanks. The four tank troops and all the Su76s of the Central Asian Front were loaded on trains and rumbled west along the temporary railway that had just been paved. A day later, another order from the Soviet Command transferred most of the air forces under the Central Asian Front to the Polish battlefield... Now that the Polish battle is in a difficult situation, the German army has broken through one after another and approached the Poznan Fortress. The eyes of the whole world are staring at Poland. There are really not many people who are still interested in paying attention to the matters in the Central Asian battlefield.

When millions of soldiers from the three countries of DePo and the Soviet Union were strangling in the center of the Polish Plain covered with various fortifications, the headquarters of the Northwest Front Army Group of the Northwest Front Army, Dihua, the capital of the Northern Xinjiang Province, was already in extreme tension. Each staff officer was guarding the phone seriously and carrying out his own work around the map. A large-scale attack was about to be launched soon, and nearly 400,000 National Defense Forces and the same number of National Police Forces had already completed the launch at designated locations and built a starting position. More than 750 tanks were strong

After firing artillery, more than 600 aircraft and more than 3,000 cannons were ready! Astronomical weapons, ammunition and supplies were transported to the Tacheng Army Station in front like flowing water. All of this was prepared for the Battle of Jaisanboala, which will officially start at midnight on April 5, 1933! It was also the place where the Soviet Red Army gathered heavily. Both sides concentrated their huge forces and prepared to use a head-on battle to decide the initiative of the entire Central Asian battlefield in the spring of 1933!

If the Chinese army wins this battle, the deadlock in the foreign border can be broken immediately! Since the main force of the Central Asian Front of the Soviet Red Army was actually divided into two major groups in the north and south by the main force of the Chinese Foreign Army Group in the Communist Youth League City. Therefore, once the Soviet Army's Northern Front Group is defeated and retreated, its southern front group is likely to face the main force of the Northwest Front after the meeting. The final outcome will inevitably lead to the collapse of the entire army. At that time, the Soviet army in Central Asia will not be able to provide combatable troops, and the Chinese Western Front can take advantage of the victory to enter the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan in the northwest of the Pamir Plateau, thereby opening up the liaison between China and the Indian battlefield of Afghanistan.

Of course, if the Chinese army is unfortunately defeated, the consequences will be extremely serious. First, hundreds of thousands of troops in the foreign border will face the dilemma of being surrounded for a long time. Secondly, most areas in the northern border may also be occupied by the Soviet army that took the opportunity to counterattack. Finally, even the Chang Ruiqing government will face doubts and opposition from all sides...

Because of the importance of this battle, Bai Chongxi deliberately transferred the first powerful general under his command. The former commander of the Northwest Front Army Xia Wei from Mongolia to Dihua and served as the commander of the North Frontier Army Group. Now the new army general is holding a stern face, holding a telegram that has just been received to indicate the start of the battle, and has not spoken for a long time. Everyone looked at him with a breath of breath. At this time, the night was dark and the sun was covered with dark clouds outside, and it was a murderous night with a month of dark wind!

General Xia finally spoke: "What is the 5th Armored Army in now?"

His chief of staff, Pan Wenzhao, quickly pointed to the red mark on the map: "The 5th Armored Army has deployed from north to south about 15 kilometers west of Tacheng, forming an assault front of about 20 kilometers. The 14th Motorized Infantry Army, which belongs to the 5th Armored Army, cooperates with it."

Xia Wei had no expression to his fluent answer. The entire combat plan was originally formulated by Pan Wenzhao and the staff of the Northern Xinjiang Army Group Command. Although Xia Wei was a general of the Baoding Department, he had never been to the Armored Soldier School after all, and he had never even studied in the Army University. In the past, there was no difficulty in commanding artillery and armed forces, but now he is a little overwhelmed in fighting this three-dimensional battle between the stairs and the air-ground coordination. Fortunately, the National Defense Forces now implement the command mode of the commander in charge and the staff. According to Bai Chongxi, "As long as you can curse and write your own name, you can be a good commander-in-chief!" And both of these, Xia Wei is very good at commanding, so he is a good commander-in-chief.

Commander-in-Chief Xia continued to ask: "Are the heavy artillery cluster and the air force ready? The weather in Dihua tomorrow will not look good, there is no problem with the Tacheng front line? Also, the enemy's defensive positions on the front line of Zhaisangpo Ala Lake are very strong, and there will be no problem with relying on infantry to take the lead in attacking, right?"

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Since the beginning of human beings' art of military command, night attacks are probably a kind of tactic that every military commander must master. Because night is the best cover for military operations, even in the 21st century with very developed military reconnaissance technology, the US ground forces also like to fight night battles very much (because they have night vision devices). Since the beginning of this World War II, the tactic of night attacks seems to have been ignored by all military strategists. Especially the army of China, Soviet and German, as the main force in land warfare, are all cannons and aircrafts open the way, and tanks and infantry, as if they leave tanks, the aircraft will not fight!

But for the officers and soldiers of the 18th Army of the Chinese Defense Army, this night was filled with nervousness, excitement, and of course fear. Because they were finally going to officially enter the battlefield, and they were the main offensive force to take the lead! In this era when armored clusters were rampant on the battlefield, these infantry soldiers actually had to take on the task of opening the offensive path for tanks, which made them feel both honored and a little... panic!

The 52nd Division, the 53rd Division, the 54th Division, the 9 infantry regiments of the 54th Division and a combat engineer regiment directly under the Northern Xinjiang Army Group, totaling only 10 regiments of assault troops. They scattered on the front battlefield about 20 kilometers wide to the west of Tacheng, preparing to carry out a infiltration and raid under the cover of night. Their attack front was originally a battlefield where more than 700 tanks and 100,000 offensive troops were about to attack, but now they rely only on their mixed assault troops of less than 30,000 infantry engineers. You can imagine how arduous their combat mission was.

Fortunately, the 18th Army is also the best elite among the National Wehrmacht infantry. In order to carry out this assault mission tonight, intensive training began two months ago. The weapons and equipment of ordinary infantry have also been comprehensively improved. The old 38 rifles were replaced by the powerful Type 31 automatic rifle, and the regiment-level 75mm mountain cannon was also replaced by the lighter and more flexible 32 type 75mm recoilless cannon. As for the small group of troops they are now using, it is actually not a brand new tactic, but a replica of the German commando tactics at the end of World War I. If it weren't for the emergence of the armored cluster assault, I believe that the army of countries around the world would use it as a magic weapon to break the stalemate of the position.

Colonel Yu Chengwanshang, the commander of the 155th Infantry Regiment, led his regiment through the winding and twisting traffic trenches and into their attacking starting position. This famous Kuomintang general in history had a slightly worse career in this time and space. Although he had the qualifications of the Third Class of the Central Military Academy and the Second Class of the Army University, he did not catch up with the craze for the great development of armored soldiers, so he was still the colonel commander of an infantry regiment until now. Moreover, the army was promoted to this place after the great expansion of war.

However, Commander Yu did not believe that the infantry he was in was destined to remain undescended. The attack power of the armored soldiers was very strong, but their weaknesses were obvious. Not to mention the complex terrain that could not be reached by tanks and armored vehicles. Just say that their huge consumption was enough to make all logistics officers too big. The consumption of an armored army was worth 5 or 6 infantry troops. Otherwise, why would there be only one armored army under the Northern Army Group? If there were more armored troops, the Soviet army's basement area in front of him would not be as paper-like? But how many armored troops could the logistics line that lasted thousands of kilometers long? The future front line will definitely advance westward. At that time, the difficulty of logistics supply will have a greater control over the use of armored troops, and infantry may become the real main force on the Sino-Soviet battlefield.

Thinking of this, Yu Chengwan, who was walking in the forefront of the team, couldn't help but look back at his troops. The winding traffic trenches were filled with strong Guanzhong men, and the weapons and equipment they carried were full of, moving forward silently and quickly in the night. The 18th Army's soldiers were Shaanxi. The soldiers of the 155th Regiment were all Guanzhong children. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that Qin soldiers were fighting hard. Tonight is the time for these "Qin soldiers" to make achievements! A staff officer from the 52nd Division appeared at the end of the traffic trenches with several soldiers, and behind him was the trenches as the starting position of the attack!

"Captain Yu, why did you come? It's already 11:45 pm now, and there is still a quarter of an hour to fire!" This young staff member had just graduated from Army University. Today is the first time he went to the battlefield as a representative of the division headquarters. He was inevitably a little nervous and excited. He lay in this trench about 2 or 3 hours earlier. Most of the platoon leaders of the 155th Regiment also went to the battlefield for the first time, but Yu Chengwan and the battalion commanders below had experienced the Sino-Japanese War in 1923, which was rich. Under their constraints, the troops quickly took their place, and the officers and soldiers all leaned against the walls of the trench. Apart from the low breathing, there was no unnecessary sound.

Yu Chengwan and the staff officer were lying on the front of the trench to observe the terrain. He and his officers had been here more than once. He had known the surrounding terrain for a long time, and now it was just a walk-through.

"Have the offensive route cleared? How is the situation on the other side?" Yu Chengwan used a 6x Nikon telescope (produced by Japanese Optics of the Hezuo chaebol) and took advantage of the faint moonlight to look at the Soviet position on the opposite side. The division chief staff replied, "Our artillery has plowed their frontier several times over and over again, and the engineers have slandered and investigated for several nights. The Russians buried anti-tank mines outside the anti-tank trench, without anti-infantry mines, and even anti-tank mines were destroyed by artillery fire.

Moreover, according to the arrested Soviet prisoners, the main function of the Soviet defense line in front of us is anti-tanks. It seems that these Russians were afraid of our armored soldiers in the Battle of Aleresa last year... Commander Yu, do you see the raised mounds on the opposite side? That is their anti-tank fire point. Each anti-tank fire point has at least one 37mm or 45mm anti-tank gun inside, and an m1910 Maxim machine gun. However, the protection of these anti-tank fire points is not very good, not the concrete outer wall. Instead, it is made of sandbags and wood. Only the soil layer on the top is thicker. It should be easily destroyed with our 75mm recoilless gun. If you reach within 100 meters, you can knock them off with the latest iron fist 100.

In addition to these anti-tank firepower points, the anti-tank trench on the opposite side is also a big trouble. It is three meters deep and five meters wide, and both sides of the trench have been cut into steep slopes of 6 or 70 degrees. It takes some effort to break through. After passing this anti-tank trench, it is the anti-infantry obstacle, with barbed wire and Luzhai. There should be anti-infantry mines. Although it has been bombarded with cannons, the Soviet engineers always recover the obstacles there in time. It will depend on the skills of the engineers later. If it doesn't work, it can only be changed to a force attack. I will contact the artillery at any time here.

The obstacles are their infantry trenches, and there is probably a regiment of Soviet infantry guarding. They are equipped with machine guns, mortars, 76.2mm field guns and other weapons. Those anti-tank firepower points are yiti with their trench companies. Behind this trench there is an anti-tank stronghold built of reinforced concrete, equipped with 76.2mm anti-tank guns, and can also serve as the artillery observation command. It should be the core of the entire Soviet defense system. The task of your regiment is to raid and capture or destroy this anti-tank stronghold and open a passage for subsequent troops' attacks!"

Yu Chengwan said softly. In the combat plan formulated by the staff, the casualties of his officers and soldiers were just a string of cold numbers, but for regiment-level officers like Yu Chengwan, they were all the falls of lives that he had once been familiar with. After the battle, he and several battalion commanders in the regiment were responsible for writing death notices to the families of the fallen officers and soldiers! At this time, a slight noise came from the surrounding trenches, which was the brothers entering the front line. According to the plan, at this main breakthrough of 20 kilometers wide, the first wave of attack of the 18th Army would be invested in three infantry regiments and one combat engineering battalion, with a total of tens of thousands of infantry!

He looked at the Citizen watch on his wrist. This was a factory opened in China by the Japanese Susan Workshop Timepiece Research Institute, which was exiled to China in 1924. It is now 11:58 pm, and the time for the attack to be launched is almost here!

The staff officer of the division headquarters had already put his ear on the headphones of the phone and listened to the brief orders from the phone line intently. He half turned around and focused on Yu Chengwan: "It's time to start!"

Yu Chengwan took a deep breath, squatted in the trenches, raised his right hand high, and waved it heavily. The officers and soldiers of the 155th Regiment and the affiliated combat engineer company stood up under the command of their respective officers and began to check their equipment. Their military uniforms were all yellow and green camouflage uniforms, and there was a layer of camouflage cover on the steel helmets. On this star-dapped night, it was really not easy to be discovered by the opponent, even if the Soviet flares were fired out like they didn't have money!

Seeing that his subordinates were ready, Yu Chengwan gave an order in a low tone: "Start! First realize the infiltration of the raid. If it is not successful, change to a strong attack, and each unit will attack in the original order!" After saying that, he waved his hand. The three battalion commanders of his subordinates took the lead in digging out the trenches, followed by more than 3,000 officers and soldiers of the 155th Regiment. Yu Chengwan, his regiment headquarters, as well as the mortar company and recoilless artillery company of the direct regiment headquarters finally jumped out of the trenches and crawled forward towards the frontier of the Soviet army.

On the left and right wings of the 155th Regiment, the officers and soldiers of the 154th Regiment and the 156th Regiment also jumped out of the position at the same time. Each regiment was equipped with a combat engineer company, carrying enough ammunition and equipment, and in the middle of the confrontation between the two armies, squirming forward under the darkest night before dawn. More attacking troops were ready to go, waiting for the order for a strong attack in their respective attack starting positions. Behind the Chinese army's starting positions, an armored assault cluster consisting of 750 tanks and attack artillery was also ready, just waiting for the signal of the raid success or the start of the attack!

On the Chinese artillery position, more than 2,000 cannons of various caliber were also ready. Piles of ammunition were placed near the cannon position. Everyone held their breath and looked at the distant sky, with cold sweats in their palms. Once the sneak attack failed, they had to rely on strong attacks to tear open the opponent's defense line. The losses at that time were unimaginable!

Moreover, even if the sneak attack succeeded, it was only to break the Soviet army's first line of defense. There was still a deep defense system of at least ten kilometers, which required Chinese soldiers to capture it inch by inch! Even if they won the Battle of Zhasangpo Ala Lake, it was just to open the first door to victory. On the road to defeating the GC-based Soviet Union, I don't know how many more difficult battles are waiting for Chinese soldiers than the Battle of Zhasangpo Ala Lake!
Chapter completed!