Thinking of this, Yang Zhen shook his head. I am afraid that the Mongolian leader now has a backer behind him like a clay Buddha crossing a river. He has no confidence to challenge him. The backer behind them is currently too busy to take care of himself. Now I am afraid that as long as If you don't attack Ulaanbaatar yourself, you won't stand up for them either.
Yang Zhen glanced at the map again. As long as the Mongolian army did not come forward and did not exert all its efforts to block Wang Guangyu's roundabout detachment, compared with the grassland terrain in Mongolia, the roundabout troops would not encounter too many difficulties. It could not be said on the way. No time is wasted, but the possibility of arriving at the designated area on time is still very high.
Even though the battle was in full swing, Yang Zhen still did not give up his close concern for the Soviet-German battlefield. He was pleased to see that with his efforts, after the Soviet-German war broke out, the Soviet losses were much higher. Far greater than the history I was once familiar with.
It has only been more than a month since the full-scale Soviet-German battle broke out, but the losses of the Soviet army were quite huge. In the Battle of Minsk, not only the entire Soviet Western Front was destroyed, but also a group army and a mechanized army mobilized by the Soviet army. A cavalry corps and reinforcements from two tank brigades were also wiped out, and the entire territory of the Republic of Belarus was completely lost.
During the battle, the German army achieved far more significant results than the historical Battle of Minsk. The six Soviet armies participating in the battle and some of their accompanying troops, except for a few scattered soldiers, took advantage of the German encirclement before it was completely closed to find gaps to break through. The entire army was wiped out, and there was almost no unit capable of forming an organized breakout.
In the Battle of Minsk, the Soviet army only captured more than 500,000 officers and soldiers, lost more than 4,000 tanks, more than 2,000 artillery pieces, and six army commanders. Two died in battle, one was captured, and one committed suicide. Only one person was able to break through. Throughout the Battle of Minsk, the Germans killed only Soviet officers above the rank of major general and captured more than thirty people.
In the history that Yang Zhen is familiar with, the commander of the front army who was recalled to Moscow to be shot is much luckier now, because the plane that summoned him back to Moscow was destroyed by the Germans before it reached the war zone. The commander who fled therefore The general and commander of the front army who survived the disaster were annihilated by the German army together with his front army headquarters.
The general commander was captured during the breakout together with his chief of staff, becoming the highest-ranking Soviet general captured during the entire Soviet-German war. Although after the war, he only underwent a simple interrogation when he returned to the Soviet Union. Even though he was shot, he lived for four more years.
This battle, coupled with the ongoing Battle of Smolensk, completely wiped out the Soviet Western Front, which once had a strength of nearly one million people. It also implicated a group army reinforced by the Soviet Southwest Front, as well as the newly formed Central Committee. The two armies of the front army were not able to escape.
On the northern front, the Northwest Front Army and the Northern Front Army suffered equally heavy losses in the battle along the Baltic Sea. In the upcoming battle to defend Leningrad, the Soviet army could only rely on a few hastily formed militia divisions as the main force to participate in the battle, because the Soviet Union The army used to serve as the front army was already empty-handed at this time, and it was no longer able to shoulder the task of defending Leningrad.
As for the ongoing Battle of Kiev, the situation is also extremely unfavorable to the Soviet army. The aviation force of the Southwest Front fighting in Ukraine has lost embers, and two of its armies have been encircled. The remaining several armies, as well as the Southern Front, have Under the sharp offensive of the German army, the situation was also precarious.
At this time, the Soviet army, which was already extremely short of troops, did not care about the eastern border and Mongolia. Not only had all the Mongolian garrison been mobilized, but even three-thirds of the troops of the Far East Military District had been mobilized after the Battle of Minsk. Second, for Yang Zhen, the transfer of hundreds of thousands of heavy troops from the Soviet Far East Military Region was not just a matter of being moved away with huge pressure hanging over their heads.
Without the intervention of the Soviet troops stationed in Mongolia, Wang Guangyu's roundabout actions should not cause much trouble. The so-called Mongolian People's Army, for the hundred-battle army commanded by Wang Guangyu, has a low combat effectiveness that is almost negligible. Facts have proved that once an army is built by relying on others, once it loses the support of its master, the real situation will be the same.
In Yang Zhen's eyes, there is actually no difference between the Mongolian People's Army and the Puppet Manchu Army. Even if they are one-on-one, the real combat effectiveness of these Mongolian troops may not be as good as the Puppet Manchu Army. They no longer have the courage and perseverance that their ancestors had when they swept across the Eurasian continent.
In Yang Zhen's eyes, these Mongolian troops are far from qualified to be his opponents. Now that they no longer have the backing of their bosses, they probably don't have the guts to intercept the roundabout troops. Guys, I'm probably more worried about the real outcome of this war than Moscow right now.
All fools know that once it loses the support of Moscow, in a world that is now in chaos and where sovereignty and territorial integrity are empty words, it will be impossible for this regime that no one except Moscow recognizes. If it exists, if others don’t talk about it, and if you don’t take action, you will be sorry for yourself.
Sometimes Yang Zhen secretly hopes that the Mongolian People's Army will dare to intercept the outflanking troops. Then he will have a good excuse to regain this land that was forcibly split from China. But Yang Zhen also knew that this was just a thought.
Unless Jiangbei completely loses everything in this war, he cannot afford to fall out with Jiangbei now. He is not one of those angry youths. As the military commander of the largest strategic area within the party, he should be calmer. Think about it, if you don't take advantage of it, you will destroy the hard-earned foundation. You still need strength to challenge.
However, it was precisely because of his accurate judgment on the Soviet-German battlefield that Yang Zhen chose to take a roundabout route and chose to go through the so-called Mongolian People's Republic, because he was sure that the current Soviet army was absolutely incapable of standing up for the Mongols. , intercepted his own roundabout action, and was exhausted, so he only made a few protests.
But at this time, Yang Zhen didn't know that Wang Guangyu, who was traveling through Outer Mongolia, really encountered a lot of trouble. However, this trouble was not caused by outsiders, let alone the so-called Mongolian People's Army. This trouble , but it was caused by the outflanking troops led by Wang Guangyu themselves.
As Yang Zhen expected, after using tanks as the guide to break through the Mongolian army's border defense area in Aershan, Wang Guangyu's roundabout action did not encounter any interception. After discovering the actions of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, facing the Anti-Union tanks, he neatly surrendered without firing a shot.
However, the smooth implementation of the first step does not mean that the subsequent actions will be too smooth. After breaking through the so-called national border, there was no blockage from the Mongolian army along the way. When a small number of Mongolian cavalry encountered the roundabout troops, Those who could avoid it stayed far away, while those who couldn't avoid it simply surrendered. The rest monitored the movements of the outflanking troops from a distance, not even daring to fire a single shot.
In the previous battle in Hailar, the Anti-Japanese Alliance had already completely wiped out the courage of these so-called Mongolian People's Army. Facing the Anti-Japanese Alliance that was now armed to the teeth, they no longer had the original courage. In addition, after the battle in Hailar, Their internal counter-revolutionary actions meant that these Mongolian troops basically did not cause any trouble to the outflanking troops.
However, Wang Guangyu, who was now anxious, had no time to manage these prisoners. He just disarmed these people, collected their horses, distributed some dry food to each person, and simply let these Mongolian troops go to sheep. The few Mongolian troops encountered, and It didn't cause Wang Guangyu too much trouble.
It's just that after he released these Mongolian soldiers on the spot, they did something that he, including the entire detour unit, did not expect. Basically, these people did not return to their own army, and most of them crossed the border. After running away to China, no matter how hard the people left behind tried to persuade him, he would never go back.
Many people claim that they are Mongolians in China, not residents of the so-called Mongolian People's Republic. Now it is only natural that they ask to return to the country. When the Anti-Japanese Alliance prepared to force repatriation, these people cried, made trouble, and hanged themselves. He was beaten to death in a temporary shelter and refused to return to the country.
After the battle ended, Wang Guangyu, who returned to Qiqihar, was faced with the Mongolian military representatives who came to ask for help for a long time. Of course, these things were not what Wang Guangyu could think of now. If he had thought earlier, he would probably hate his current caution. He could just fire a few shots at these Mongolians and drive them away. Why did he have to disarm them?
Although potential enemies did not cause him any trouble, this combined force, which has an armored brigade, a cavalry brigade, and an integrated infantry division, has continued to suffer from its own problems since leaving the country. After the Ha River, the terrain in Mongolia is basically a flat plain compared to the terrain in the Daxinganling on the east bank of the river. Logically speaking, this terrain is conducive to the rapid assault of armored groups.
However, the speed of the outflanking force cannot be improved. The main reason is that the armored brigade assigned to the outflanking force always has problems along the way. Compared with the American-made trucks, which are much thicker, the brigade is slower at a distance of several hundred kilometers. As the main equipment, the T-26 tank has constant problems, large and small.
Although these tanks have undergone a lot of maintenance before setting off, it does not mean that various malfunctions will not occur during the long-distance attack. The tank brigade assigned to Wang Guangyu suffered from malfunctions shortly after entering Mongolia. Either the engine overheated, the tank stalled due to cylinder explosion, the tracks fell off, causing the tank to lie down, or various other mechanical failures caused the tank to be unable to move.
The large and small malfunctions of these tanks have caused the armored brigade to slow down. If the armored brigade cannot speed up, the entire army will undoubtedly be slowed down. Looking at the tanks that continue to fall behind along the way, Wang Guangyu almost lost his breath and bit his teeth. If he kept going at this speed, when would he be able to reach the designated place as required by the headquarters?