Chapter 200: Battle of Annihilation in Siberia

The Soviet aircraft were the most tenacious in this counterattack. During the battle, the target of the Soviet aircraft was not combat, but the Chinese tanks on the ground. Although the Chinese fighter planes responsible for cruising were very diligent in chasing and killing, they were ultimately unable to stop some even though the aircraft

Even if it emits smoke, it will crash into opponents with tanks on the ground.

In this battle, the Tenth Mechanized Corps lost more than half of its tanks, and Zhukov lost all his last remaining air force. However, such a sacrifice was worth it in the eyes of the Soviet army, and the Tenth Mechanized Corps of the Chinese National Defense Force had to stop

Step by step, waiting for subsequent reinforcements and supplements.

As the commander of the 10th Mechanized Corps, Bai Chongxi did not shirk responsibility. Instead, he emphasized in his report that he was insufficiently prepared for air strikes, resulting in excessive losses to the troops, and requested punishment.

What impressed the Chinese officers and soldiers the most in this battle were the pilots who were not afraid of death. One after another, the planes in the sky risked being chased by Mustang fighter jets, constantly diving and attacking, and constantly braving the darkness.

The scene of smoke hitting the ground even caused a considerable psychological shadow on some officers and soldiers.

After three days of fierce fighting, Bai Chongxi did not continue to advance not because he was afraid, but because Liu Mingzhao called and asked him to suspend his advance and wait for reinforcements from the infantry behind him.

Fine snowflakes fell from the sky and slowly turned into heavy snow. The harsh winter that the Soviet army had been waiting for finally came. When the ice on the Ob River was enough for tanks weighing dozens of tons to drive over, Gao Sheng waited so hard for the fighter planes to arrive.

Already.

In Novosibirsk, the Soviet army held on tenaciously for 25 days. This was the result that Chuikov expected. But he did not know. This was the result of Gao Sheng's deliberate indulgence, especially in the past week, the offensive of the Wehrmacht was often not so resolute.

The heavy snowfall lasted only one day and one night. The frozen soil under the one-foot-deep snow was extremely hard. At Chuikov's headquarters in Omsk, he received a telegram from Moscow, requiring him to initiate a launch in half a month.

A powerful counterattack to eliminate the Chinese imperialist bandits that were besieging Novosibirsk.

Chuikov is still very confident about this counterattack. On the vast land of Siberia, the long logistics line of the Chinese imperialist bandits has become extremely fragile. Especially when winter comes, the logistics pressure is even greater. In addition,

The hundreds of thousands of local troops operating behind the enemy's rear frequently attacked and harassed the logistics line. Chuikov judged that the Chinese imperialist troops under the city of Novosibirsk would not exceed 500,000. At this time, Chuikov had more than 1 million troops available.

, including two mechanized armies hidden in Kuibyshev.

The Chinese imperialists have not yet crossed the Ob River and have not yet been able to conquer Novosibirsk. Chuikov’s judgment is that the troops are insufficient. This should be related to the large-scale battles taking place in Central Asia.

After receiving the report from Moscow, Chuikov held a military meeting to discuss the relevant arrangements for the counterattack. This meeting lasted all day and night. When the meeting ended, it was already early in the morning. He walked out of the smoky conference room and looked at the first ray of dawn on the horizon.

Chuikov was in a good mood. Just when he was about to take a good sleep, there were some uncomfortable sounds faintly heard at dawn.

Chuikov stopped and looked around. When the voice became clearer and clearer, his expression changed. He reached out and took the telescope from the staff officer's hand, and ran to a building without caring about the danger. What appeared in the telescope was a dense group of bombers, and there were also

There are a large number of escort fighter groups. "Quickly, contact Kuibyshev and find out about the situation there."

Five minutes later, Chuikov, who did not wait for the news, first waited for the bomb to fall to the ground. All that fell from the sky were big guys of 500 kilograms each. Omsk, which had not been subject to large-scale air attacks, ushered in the first bomb since the war began. In a large-scale air strike, one hundred B-17s, backed by one hundred Mustang-B fighter jets, bombed all prominent targets in Omsk.

In comparison, Kuibyshev was hit on a larger scale. Five hundred B-17s, in the words of the Air Force, wiped this small town off the map. Two aircraft deployed in the woods outside Kuibyshev The secret camps of the Soviet mechanized army and the headquarters in the city were all heavily bombed. Especially the camp in the woods outside the city that it thought was well hidden was heavily protected by napalm bombs from 300 B-17s. .On this day, many targets were attacked by air strikes. Almost all the gathering places for counterattack forces were attacked by the Chinese Air Force. This was something Chuikov never expected, as if the Chinese knew about his military deployment.

Yes, Gao Sheng did know Chuikov's military deployment. I can't say he knew everything, but he knew at least 80% of it. He didn't even expect that even after he killed Chuikov, the Soviet army's latest password was already in the enemy's hands.

In Central Asia, Liu Mingzhao did not use the cracked code to use troops in a targeted manner, not because he did not want to destroy the enemy, but because President Fang Da's strategic requirements must have driven Zhukov into West Asia.

Almost at the same time as the large-scale air attack began, the million-strong Wehrmacht crossed the Ob River with 3,500 tanks as the leader, and rushed towards Kuibyshev as quickly as possible. Gao Sheng's goal was very clear, which was to encircle and annihilate Chuikov. The counterattack troops were deployed without anyone noticing. Although the cold winter is the enemy of the National Defense Forces, it also laid a solid ground for the rapid march of the mechanized troops. As for the logistics and supplies of the mechanized troops, there is no need to worry at all. , Air Force bombers kept dropping parachutes, fuel, food, and wine to keep out the cold.

After crossing the Ob River, a mechanized army of 60,000 people advanced rapidly at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour. The well-prepared wheeled equipment relied on the anti-skid chain as a killer. Although it could not reach high speed when marching on the frozen surface, it was very stable. Then tens of thousands of infantrymen, using sleds as marching tools, resolutely followed the mechanized troops. In just one day, the 400,000-strong army advanced 150 kilometers. After dark, the march Two rows of burning fires appeared on both sides of the road, one piled every fifty meters, and the stench of burning diesel permeated both sides of the long march.

It was not until the early morning that the assaulting armored group encountered an organized blockade. The reason for this situation was that, first, the mechanized troops advanced too fast, and second, no air raids were heard during the entire day. From Omsk to Novosibirsk, All valuable targets were not spared. The gathering points along the Siberian Railway, such as Chulym and Kargat, were raided by the air force more than three or four times. At dawn, a small town appeared in front of Liu, who personally led the assault. In the sight of the Niue Telescope, Balabinsk is a small town less than ten kilometers away from Kuibyshev, just along the Siberian Railway.

At this time, Liu Mianyue could be sure that he was about to cut off the retreat of the twenty Soviet infantry divisions deployed in Kargat and Churem. The premise was that he could eliminate Kuibyshev's Soviet troops as soon as possible. Heavy military groups.

Liu Mianyue did not rush to launch an attack, but asked the troops to stop advancing, take a rest, expand their formation, and call for the air force. Due to road problems, Liu Mianyue did not have a cannon in his hands. In addition to tank guns, he only had various

Various types of mortars and rocket launchers. To Liu Mianyue's surprise, he did not wait for reinforcements from the air force, but first received artillery shells from the Soviet army. Fortunately, the troops had already deployed, and the sparse shelling by the Soviet army did not have much impact.

But the tanks that rushed out later frightened Liu Mianyue. There were so many Soviet tanks on the snowy ground, picking up snowflakes and rushing forward. Now he only had one tank brigade and one machine gun in his hands.

Infantry brigade, the nearest other tank units are still ten kilometers away.

There was no choice but to go up. The mechanized infantry brigade seized the time to build a position. Don't expect to dig out the frozen soil. They could only use snow to pile up bunkers. The engineers shoveled hard and pounded them tightly. The tank troops rushed up first regardless of the situation.

, two regiments with more than 400 tanks, no less than tenacious, launched an active attack against the endless Soviet army.

Liu Mianyue simply stood next to the command vehicle and shouted loudly in clear words: "My vanguard has been actively attacked by no less than one mechanized Soviet army. Please reinforce quickly. Please reinforce quickly." At this time, Liu

Mieyue knew very well that he could not take a step back. Even a step back would affect the entire process of the assault. Once an effective defense system was formed by the Soviet army, it was very likely that the Soviet army would attack this place before the main force could catch up.

Pincer attack.

"Quick! Fly at full speed!" Liu Xuan, captain of the 10th Air Force Air Wing, shouted loudly into the radio.

"Speed, what we need now is speed, move forward at full speed." Sima Li, commander of the Sixth Mechanized Corps, was roaring. Half an hour later, the 17th Tank Brigade rushed to the battlefield, waiting for fierce artillery fire without waiting for orders, and stood firm

He plunged into a battlefield where more than a thousand tanks were mixed together. The largest battle between pure tanks in history took place in the wild less than thirty kilometers away from Kuibyshev.

Ten minutes later, the 18th Tank Brigade, which was ordered to detour behind Kuibyshev, encountered an active attack by a Soviet tank regiment and an anti-tank artillery regiment less than ten kilometers away.

The assault troops rushed to the battlefield intermittently, but Liu Mianyue immediately jumped into the battle one by one, without even a short rest. One hundred fighter planes of the Air Force arrived belatedly an hour and a half after the battle started, looking at the chaos on the ground.

In the tank battle, they could only look for Soviet artillery positions and subsequent troops to vent their anger.

The battle known in history as the "Third Phase of Encirclement and Encirclement" in the Siberian Campaign started from the early morning of December 2 to 4:30 pm on December 5. The assault group defeated the main Soviet force deployed in the Kuibyshev area.

.The troops deployed by Chuikov to counterattack had been cut off. The Soviet army, including Novosibirsk, totaling about 500,000 people, fell into the encirclement of the Chinese Army. The Sixth Mechanized Army, which had created a miracle,

With the cooperation of the Air Force and the assistance of the sleigh march of ten infantry divisions, they successfully completed a classic roundabout battle. At the same time, the main force of the Wehrmacht, which launched the front attack, successfully broke through the Soviet defense line. Two
Chapter completed!