To everyone's expectations, after the consumption of the second half of 1932 and the whole year of 1933, the Soviet Empire, which once clamored to liberate all mankind, seemed to have reached the end of its reach. Faced with the two large-scale offensives launched by the Chinese National Defense Forces on the Northwest Central Asia and the Baikal battlefield in the Far East, the resistance of the Soviet Red Army was so weak that it was incredibly weak.

The Oloviyannaya Fortress, which once blocked millions of Chinese troops in 1933, was declared to fall on the day the Chinese army's general attack was launched; then Chita, the capital of the Far Eastern Republic, was abandoned again; to the east of Chita, the Amur River defense line that the Soviet Union had worked hard for ten years, was stabbed by millions of Chinese troops. In Central Asia, the Chinese army also seemed to have entered a no-man's land and deployed in East Kazakhstan's main force.

The Chinese army was completely unaware of the signs of no sign and did not dare to confront the Chinese army's armored cluster. In the Kyrgyz Mountains on the southern Kyrgyz Mountains, the Soviet Tianshan Front's resistance was somewhat perfunctory. The Chu River defense line and the Taras River defense line were quickly lost under the fierce attack of the Chinese army. Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, also fell into the siege of the Chinese army at the end of March. For a time, newspapers in the entire capitalist world made optimistic expectations: the Soviet Union was at the end of its strength and peace would come in 1935.

However, the Chinese soldiers at the forefront of the battlefield were not as optimistic as the reporters behind, because as the battlefield quickly advanced to the heart of the Soviet Union, various thoughts or unthinked difficulties were coming towards them.

On April 1st, on the muddy road from Chita to Lake Baikal, a transport convoy that was out of sight at either end braved the cold of early spring, facing the wind and rain mixed with ice and snow. It staggered on the muddy road that had just begun to thaw. The transport convoy was composed of powerful trucks, but consisted of as many as thousands of large trucks dragged by short Mongolian horses.

For China, this world war still came a little earlier. Although China has developed rapidly in the past decade and has almost created a miracle of industrialization. However, no matter how miracle, the foundation of poverty and backwardness is still there. Although in some areas, it seems to be quite like that because the government's seedlings are being drawn, the foundation is still very thin. The Chinese Defense Force, which now looks extremely powerful, is actually the same. Behind the powerful surface, there are many potentially fatal weaknesses.

The achievements of industrialization over the past decade can only be equipped with tracks or wheels for a few armored divisions, armored cavalry divisions and armored grenadier divisions. The infantry divisions, cavalry divisions and reserve divisions, which account for the vast majority of the army of the National Defense Army, can only follow the footsteps of the armored troops with two or four legs. Speaking of the logistics of the National Defense Army, only horse-drawn carriages and ox-carts are available after leaving the railway ships. As for trucks, there are some direct logistics units that come out of armored troops and motorized troops. Other places are really as rare as giant pandas. Lieutenant Zhang Ziqiang, who serves as company commander at the Manzhouli Soldier Station Guard Corps under the Joint Logistics Command of the Northern War Zone. I don’t remember when the Manzhouli Soldier Station was equipped with trucks. Even if there were a few cars, they would probably not be willing to send them to the crisis-ridden Far Eastern Republic?

Commander Zhang Da, riding a maroon Mongolian horse, walked at the end of the baggage convoy, looking around with vigilant eyes, holding the reins in his left hand and holding a loaded 38-type rifle in his right hand. Most of his 130 brothers were riding horses scattered around the baggage convoy, only machine gunners sat in the carriage piled with sacks, holding Czech light machine guns, with a little nervousness in their eyes. For them, soldiers of the fourth-line troops of the National Defense Forces, this transportation supply line that maintains the logistics of millions of soldiers on the front line is an absolute battlefield, because at any time, the Soviet Red Army guerrillas would emerge from the forests on both sides of the muddy road!

The convoy that Zhang Ziqiang and others were responsible for escorting. After leaving the Oloviyannaya Fortress, they were constantly harassed by guerrillas, sometimes they were cold guns and cannons, and sometimes they were roadside bombs. Although they did not encounter large guerrillas, they also caused certain losses to them and the transport convoy. Two people were killed, three were injured, and a truck of ammunition was lost. This situation was common for the logistics forces of the Chinese army.

Although the main force of the Soviet Red Army had already fled far west of Lake Baikal, their guerrillas seemed to be everywhere and were constantly attacking the supply line of the Chinese army. The Northern Front and the newly established Siberian Front had to draw a large number of elite troops to be dispersed along the Siberian Railway to undertake the task of clearing out the guerrillas.

The baggage carriage slowly stopped in front of a floating bridge, and a team of cavalry that had just completed the clearance mission came towards us, and hundreds of Slavic men in ordinary clothes were also escorted. Both young and old did not look like Red Army guerrillas, all of whom were dull and dejected, like walking corpses. Behind them were hundreds of ragged old, weak and weak women and children, all of whom were Slavs, and there were also many cute loli and Russian men and beautiful girls, which caused the guards and logistics soldiers who were escorting the baggage carriage to sigh.

"What's wrong with these girls? These people don't look like guerrillas!" Lieutenant Zhang Ziqiang was also so uncomfortable. Although he basically had no good feelings for the Russians, except for the loli, Russians and beautiful girls.

"Zhang Ziqiang, why are you kid on the battlefield still the same virtue? You can't walk when you see a girl?" As Zhang Ziqiang and several subordinates muttered, a familiar voice came from not far away. Zhang Ziqiang quickly looked up and saw a cavalry major in his twenties who looked like a black charcoal head, which was Ji Xingwen, a classmate who was in his class when he was in the Central Military Academy.

"Ji Heixin, how long hasn't seen you, you kid got into a major. It seems that you are still climbing fast in the armored cavalry army!" Zhang Ziqiang hurriedly went up to say hello to his old classmate, sighed, and pointed at the Slavic civilians, and asked, "What's going on with these people? Heixin, don't be fooled. Our troops are still disciplined. If the superiors find out, you will have something to see."

Ji Xingwen sneered and waved his hand indifferently, "Ziqiang, who do you think I am? Do bandits always carry it? Tell you that catching these people is the order from the superiors." He lowered his voice: "You don't know yet. In order to combat the guerrillas and protect the safety of the logistics line, the superiors have made up their minds to clear the Slavs in the Far East... These people are all sent to the Heihe Concentration Camp!"

"Heihe Concentration Camp?" Zhang Ziqiang heard the name for the first time. "Where is that? How long will these Slavs stay there?"

Ji Xingwen smiled and shook his head without answering his old classmate's question. It was no secret that the Heihe Concentration Camp was, but the guards where Zhang Ziqiang was located were too ignorant, so he didn't know. As for what this concentration camp was, and what would happen to these Slavs. Ji Xingwen himself didn't know either. But he knew that the concentration camp was definitely not a good place, and the fate of these Slavs would be quite miserable! Because when capturing these Slavs, his troops were ordered to kill all the young and middle-aged men! And he also

He did not tell his old classmate that he no longer served in the 2nd Armored Cavalry Army, but joined a special operation team directly belonging to the Ministry of National Defense. This special operation team has about 30,000 people, all elite troops selected from infantry or cavalry units. Their mission is to deal with the Slavs, not including the regular Red Army troops, but only guerrillas and civilians in the occupied areas of the Chinese army. All the people were concentrated in several designated concentration camps, and any Slav village that dared to resist or harbor guerrillas would be subjected to corresponding severe punishment!

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Chang Ruiqing ordered the formation of a special operation team in December last year. By April 2 this year, he was already very concerned about this matter. He was in a combat room of the Ministry of Defense, watching the invasion of the Soviet Union, the sky outside had long been pitch black, but the entire Ministry of Defense building was still brightly lit. Chang Ruiqing started working day and night again. After returning from Berlin, he became very busy, and his appearance was always extremely solemn. Even if the news of the front line was frequent, it did not make him feel more comfortable.

Next to him was Lieutenant General Manstein, a military adviser sent by the Germans, a recognized genius staff member in the German Wehrmacht, and also the ideal successor of Rudendolf and Max Hoffman, the future Chief of Staff of the German Wehrmacht. This was a very tall German, almost the same height as Chang Ruiqing, and also a handsome curved face, a thick eyebrows, a thick lips, a very common hooked nose among Europeans, and looks gentle.

If he doesn't wear military uniforms, he is like a university professor. Of course, what left the deepest impression on Chang Ruiqing was his name Fritz Erich von Manstein, the best general in the German Wehrmacht in history in his previous life, was considered by his colleagues as a strategic genius in the German army. Although the existence of two superstars in the battle of Rudendolf and Max Hoffmann did not seem so dazzling, he still became the actual craftsman of the "Max Hoffmann Plan".

After being sent to China, he also became the most trusted advisor of the Chinese Defense Army commander Chang Ruiqing (who asked him to be Manstein), and participated in the formulation of the "Destroyer Plan" to attack the Soviet Union. He almost never remembered the affairs related to the war; he remembered every detail of the "Destroyer Plan"; knew the specific position of each regiment; he remembered the whole picture of the battlefield that stretched thousands of kilometers in his heart. So like Chang Ruiqing, he was confused about the overall situation of the Eastern Front battlefield.

The news of the conquering Irkutsk reached Tangshan, Nanjing two hours ago. The entire Ministry of Defense was filled with joy. Everyone thought that the overall situation of the Battle of Baikal in the Far East was decided. Only Chang Ruiqing was in an inconspicuous atmosphere in the preparatory combat room where he was Chang Ruiqing was located was extremely depressing. Because now, the first few cards of this bet that concerns the fate of the Eurasian continent have been spread out. Chang Ruiqing and his staff originally speculated that the Soviets would gather heavy troops to fight the decisive battle with the attacking Chinese army west of Lake Baikal, near Irkutsk north of the Sayan Mountains. However, before the Irkutsk Battle imagined by the Chinese army was well deployed, a tentative attack by the First Armored Grenadier Division was actually

It won important cities that I thought would have to pay 200,000 to 300,000 casualties to capture. It is of course a good thing to win an important city like Irkutsk at a small price, but the question is where is the main force of the Soviet army in the Far East? According to the battle report submitted by the Northern Front Army and the Siberian Front Army (newly established, commander-in-chief is General Guo Songling), in less than a month of combat, the two fronts wiped out about 100,000 regular Soviet troops (including border defense forces, not guerrillas), of which three infantry divisions were wiped out, and two armies were severely damaged. Less than 30,000 prisoners were captured. It is obvious that the Baikal region in the Far East was not captured by the National Defense Force, but the Soviet army voluntarily gave up!

The same situation also occurred in the northwest battlefield of Central Asia. Although the 18th Army of the Northwest Front had captured Sildaria and Bekabad west of Kuzhan and surrounded Tashkent, the main force of the Central Asian Soviet army still did not show up! In this way, the two heavy punches made by the Chinese National Defense Forces against the Soviet Red Army seemed to hit the cotton pile, and they could not use their strength. Although they had seized a lot of territory, they did not eliminate the opponent's vitality. Moreover, as the army penetrated into the former Soviet territory, the two major issues of logistics transportation and public security in the occupied areas were put on the table.

Originally, when the war with the Soviet army started in the border area, the rear of the National Defense Forces was Chinese territory, with relatively complete railways and the highway system supported the logistics, and there was no need to worry about the safety of the logistics supply line. However, after entering the Soviet territory, the situation suddenly became serious. Before the Soviet army retreated, the railways and roads were damaged. The railway lines in the occupied areas of Central Asia were almost completely demolished. Therefore, the highway bridges were blown up. The situation in the Baikal region in the Far East was slightly better, and the railway lines were still there, but the bridges along the line were destroyed, but the roads there were

Because the ice and snow thawed, it became muddy. What's more troublesome is that although the main force of the Soviet Red Army left without fighting, the guerrillas they left behind were very tenacious. Especially in the densely forested Far East Baikal, where the Chinese army occupied only railways and towns along the highway, and the vast forests were still in the hands of the Soviets. The guerillas' destruction and attack operations were everywhere, making the Chinese army's logistics transportation line seem to have become a front-line enemy. In contrast, the front-line offensive troops who could not find their opponents felt like they were resting in the rear.

"The report, and the telegram from the German General Staff was received to General Manstein."

A lieutenant of Manstein walked in with a telegram, interrupting Chang Ruiqing's thinking. The telegram was a secret telegram, and Manstein needed to translate it himself in the codebook he carried with him. This situation was extremely unusual. Chang Ruiqing frowned slightly, as if he had guessed what was going to happen. Just as Manstein was translating the telegram, he waved his hand and sent all the staff in the combat room out.

After a while, Manstein handed a translation of a telegram written in English to Chang Ruiqing and said in a calm tone: "Prime Minister, the date of the action of the White Plan has been determined, just three days later, at 3 a.m. on April 5, 1934, Berlin time."

The white plan is part of the "Max Hoffmann Plan" and is used to capture Poland and East Prussia. According to the initial plan, it should be launched on April 1, but due to the smooth progress of the Eastern Front battlefield, the German Command once hesitated, so the action was postponed for 5 days.

Chang Ruiqing also knew that the attack on the Eastern Front did not lead out the Soviet army's general reserve team, and even the main force of the Soviet army's eastern front was missing. This was not good news for the upcoming Western Front battle. He was silent and asked in a low voice: "Do you still act according to the original plan? The Eastern Front operation seems to have not achieved its goal."

"There is no need to make adjustments yet." Manstein said: "And now it cannot be said that the Eastern Front battlefield has not achieved its goal. After all, we know nothing about the Soviet army's mobilization." He paused, thought for a while and said: "Maybe we have achieved our goal, but we just don't know it yet."

"Is that right?" Chang Ruiqing pulled Manstein to the front of the map platform: "General, tell me your opinion on the Eastern Front."

"Yes." Manstein nodded, took it to the baton, pointed to the Fergana Basin and Krasnoyarsk on the map and said: "His Excellency Prime Minister, I personally believe that the Eastern Front Battle has not achieved a decisive victory so far. Although your country has occupied a lot of land abandoned by the Soviet army, since the main force of the Soviet army still exists, your country's advantage in Central Asia and East Siberia has not been established. And there are two very big troubles. In East Siberia, the main trouble is the Soviet guerrillas, because East Siberia is very

It is vast and has extremely inconvenient transportation, so you cannot occupy all of it in the short term. Most of the territory is still under the control of the Soviet army. These basins are connected to Western Siberia on land and can be continuously supplemented from the western Soviet areas. If you want to form effective control of Eastern Siberia in the short term, you must dispatch troops to attack the Soviet strongholds located deep in the jungle of Eastern Siberia, and at the same time occupy Krasnoyarsk, and then arrange a blockade line along the Yenisei River to cut off the connection between Eastern Siberia."

"Attack... Krasnoyarsk?" Chang Ruiqing looked at Manstein and asked, "General, do you think the Soviet Red Army will definitely gather heavy troops there to fight us in a decisive battle, right?"

Manstein continued, "In addition to Krasnoyarsk, the Fergana Basin is the second key point in the Eastern Front battlefield. It is the richest area in Central Asia, and it also has oil fields and oil refining and processing plants, with an annual production and refining capacity of more than 500,000 tons. If the Fergana Basin is occupied by you, the biggest difficulties you face in the northwest Central Asia battlefield will be solved by the problem of too long logistics transportation lines. With the oil there, you can invest enough armored troops in Central Asia, and there is no suspense in the victory."

"So the Central Asian Soviet Army will inevitably fight a Fergana battle with us, right?" Chang Ruiqing asked again.

Manstein shook his head and said, "I don't think the Soviet Red Army has the ability to carry out the Battle of Krasnoyarsk and Fergana at the same time. If they really do that, it will probably be the only one that we want. Unfortunately, Trotsky and Tukhachevsky are not stupid. I think they will do a multiple-choice question and make a choice between the Battle of Krasnoyarsk and Fergana."

"Can it be Poland?"

Manstein smiled and shook his head: "Impossible, there is no suspense in the Polish battle. In my personal opinion, the Soviet army will give up Poland because it cannot be defended there. It is flat like a table, and it is attacked on three sides, close to Germany, far away from the industrial center of the Soviet Union. If the Soviet Union had the advantage, Poland would be the best base for attacking Germany, but now... they will probably give up Poland and place the battlefield of the Soviet-German decisive battle along the Dnieper River." Speaking of this, Manstein paused and added: "If I were the commander of the Soviet army, I would definitely deploy like this!" (To be continued...)
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