"Boss, give me thirty armored vehicles. I promise to capture Kultuk for you before dark." The battle was about to become a stalemate. Xue Dexiang, commander of the 301st Brigade of the 301st Division of the Far East, ran to Jiang Tieyao's side. , asked him for help. As the first batch of graduates trained by the Guangzhou Army Academy, Xue Dexiang, like many of his classmates and alumni, is most characterized by his passion for war. In their eyes, there is never a battle that cannot be won or defeated. The tenacious resistance of the enemy and the Soviet army was not a difficulty for him but a fierce and even spurring one.
Knowing the virtues of this guy or this group of people, Jiang Tieyao ignored him. Xue Dexiang was still young and he still had the capital to make mistakes, so he could not care about the casualties of the troops or even his own safety. A few years ago, , Jiang Tieyao is actually such a person, but now, the butt determines the head. When the victory is determined, he does not think that it is a cost-effective thing to sacrifice more in exchange for a quick victory.
The air force's attack was unfavorable and failed to knock out the Soviet reinforcements as agreed. For this matter, he had already sent a telegram to Zhuang Houzhong to express his strong dissatisfaction. However, even if the Soviet tank troops were able to provide timely reinforcements, he He did not think that the Soviet Seventh Army had the possibility of escaping. What he was thinking about now was how to use the current situation to attract the Soviet reinforcements and eat them together.
"Brigadier Xiang, I ask you to immediately reinforce the defenses on Vaka Mountain. The Russian tank troops have already arrived as reinforcements and will arrive on the battlefield in three hours. The task I give you is to not only block their Can we attack and hold them back?" Ignoring Xue Dexiang, he instead called Xiang Ke and made a series of demands to him.
Xiang Ke's answer was straightforward: "Military seat, we now have two brigades and can definitely complete the tasks you specified."
Jiang Tieyao was located on a hill south of Kultuk. From his perspective, he could clearly see the fierce battle taking place in the town below.
Due to the harassment of the Seventh Army by the local Soviet Russians, the Chinese army once advanced no less than fifty meters into the town. However, after Lankovsky controlled the situation with an iron fist, the Chinese army's offensive momentum was blocked. Seeing the Soviet Russians charging at the Chinese army's tanks and armored vehicles from all corners with explosive packs, blasting tubes and even cluster grenades, even though Jiang Tieyao was used to seeing big scenes, he couldn't help but furrow his brows and sincerely felt sorry for the Soviet Russians. I am shocked by the tenacity of people.
"It seems that it is no accident that the Soviet Russians were able to stand firm under the German blitzkrieg offensive." He said to Xue Dexiang.
"Boss, one charge can wipe them out, please believe me." Xue Dexiang still wanted to fight for it.
Jiang Tieyao glared at him, pointed to the temporary field hospital to the east, and said: "Go to the field hospital, open your eyes and take a good look. See how many brothers we have killed and wounded. Are the Soviets really so easy to be killed?" Destroy it, the Germans have already defeated the Soviet Union, will it be our turn?"
"No one will die in a war. The current battle losses are no more than one to three. We each earn two."
"Go away, do you know how many troops the Soviet Russians have? It's one to three. In order to eliminate the Soviet Russians in the Far East, do we have to kill all of our Far Eastern Army? Then I ask you, what if Stalin mobilized hundreds of thousands more troops? What should I do?"
Seeing that he was really angry, Xue Dexiang didn't say a word and walked away in despair.
It's not that Xue Dexiang lacks a view of the overall situation, or that Jiang Tieyao really cares about his brothers. The key reason for the disagreement between the two people is the issue of where to sit. As a high-ranking member of the Far East Army, Jiang Tieyao knew the consequences of this battle. In the final analysis, the purpose of the Far East Army's proactive attack is to frighten the Soviets. So, to achieve this goal, it is not just a matter of quickly annihilating many enemies, but also to gain the maximum results at the minimum cost. Only Only in this way can the Soviet and Russian decision-makers feel pain when making decisions, and can they be able to make careful calculations on their own. Only when the Soviet and Russian decision-makers really do this can this campaign be considered a success.
Seeing Xue Dexiang retreating in despair, Jiang Tieyao once again focused his attention on the battlefield. Where he focused his attention, a wounded Soviet soldier appeared under the tracks of a Chinese armored vehicle and pulled a cluster grenade on him. The armored vehicle was blown away. When he jumped up, his eyes shrank for a while, and he said to himself: "It seems that faith should not be underestimated. This battle is getting harder and harder to fight."
The most objective way to judge whether an army is strong or weak is to look at its ability to persevere under adversity.
The First Army fought all the way from Baikalsk, but in fact only suffered a large number of casualties in Kurtuk. In Jiang Tieyao's expectation, the Soviet Russians should have completely lost their will to resist.
"Give the order to slow down the attack pace of each unit, and let the commanders of each unit select sharpshooters to specialize in attacking the enemy's junior officers."
The junior officers Jiang Tieyao mentioned were the frontline organizers of the Soviet resistance. The vast majority of these people only had the rank of sergeant, second lieutenant, or lieutenant. However, because they were league members and party members, they But they are the ones with the strongest will to fight. On many one-sided battlefields, it is precisely because of the existence of these people that the Soviet Russians can launch counterattacks and organize resistance again and again regardless of casualties.
Jiang Tieyao had a very vicious vision. When he discovered this, he immediately modified the combat techniques of his unit. Under his guidance, the Chinese army began to carry out unlimited sniper warfare against those small officers. As the frontline organizers were killed one by one, sure enough, , the originally very determined resistance of the Soviet Russians began to gradually collapse. In many one-sided battlefields, the Chinese army finally began to seize control and was able to re-enter.
"Speed up and ignore the anchor. We must reach Kultuk before three o'clock." Tie Anshan waved his right hand and shouted to Chief of Staff Vadlinko.
Although the ambush of the Front Army Air Force against the Chinese Air Force was not very successful, it drove the Chinese away after all. Because of the loss of contact, Tie Anshan had to worry that the Seventh Group Army had been completely destroyed, and the consequences of this were absolutely impossible for the Northern Front Army. Therefore, even if he felt that if he rushed over, he would immediately face a tough battle, and a pure tank force without infantry support did not have the ability to attack the tough one, Tie Anshan could only muster the courage to speed up the advance of the troops.
Amidst the roar of the tank engines, Soviet and Russian tanks rolled forward one after another. At the same time, after careful consideration, Vatutin gave Shevakovsky an order to ambush the Chinese Air Force fighters. Select a brigade from the cluster to go to Kultuk to perform a reinforcement mission.