In October 1938, the Siberian Republic was located in the important border town of Orsk on the Ural River.
In autumn, the Ural River is like a red and yellow ribbon flying at the southern foot of the Ural Mountains. Golden poplars, white birches and fiery red maples dye the entire valley into brilliant colors, which is incompatible with this beautiful natural scenery.
Yes, the whole city is filled with a tense atmosphere of war.
There had just been an autumn rain, and at dusk, a group of cars drove on the wet asphalt road with their headlights on.
On both sides of the foggy road, there are freshly harvested wheat fields. The stacks of wheat are darkly scattered on the muddy land, like bunkers built one after another. The white light in the distance seems to divide the earth and the sky into two.
A completely different space. On the north side of the highway, two railway tracks bulge slightly on the ground and then extend into the distance.
A temporary checkpoint appeared in front of the highway. A man stood in front of the railing and waved a small flag in his hand, signaling the convoy to stop. The young Republican soldier driving the car glanced at the captain sitting next to him: "Sir!"
The captain shook his head impatiently, "Damn, you guys have so much to do, why are you asking? Stop the car and check!"
The young soldier who had just left the recruit camp did not dare to speak anymore. The truck slowly slid for a while and stopped.
Several people wearing dark green Siberian Defense Forces uniforms stood by the road. One of them, a lieutenant officer, asked: "Password!"
"Defend freedom!"
The officer nodded, and a Wehrmacht soldier walked up to the car and said, "Please show your ID and pass!"
The captain got out of the car, took out his military ID card from his coat pocket, took out his passes from a paper bag and handed them over.
The soldier glanced at his military ID card and pass, then looked behind him to confirm the number of vehicles, and then said, "What is in the car? Sir!"
"Cement, used for building fortifications," the captain said deliberately in Chinese.
"Please keep your ID, sir!" The Wehrmacht soldier was stunned for a moment. Sensing the captain's displeasure, he immediately returned the ID and saluted him with a military salute.
The Lieutenant of the National Defense Force signaled his men to pull up the railing in the middle of the road, and then said to the Captain of the Republican Army who was getting on the car: "Don't you have something to drink?"
"No, we are in a hurry to get these goods. It seems that war is coming." The captain got into the car and then stuck his head out of the car window and said.
"Okay, okay, every time I see you, it seems to herald the coming of war." The Lieutenant of the National Defense Force, who must be of mixed race, raised his right hand to signal for the vehicles to pass.
"If you can't see us, you will be imprisoned in a labor camp by those Bolsheviks." The captain replied, then retracted his head back to the car window and laughed proudly.
Amidst the roar of the motor, the entire convoy continued to drive forward along the road.
Outside Aktobinsk, a small city with only 30,000 people, several fortifications consisting of trenches, bunkers and reinforced concrete forts have been built. In the headquarters in the city, the commander of the 94th Division Yang Xiaoou was staring at the map in a daze
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Aktobesk is an important non-ferrous metal producer in the Kyrgyz Republic and the main supplier of chromium to the Republic. Due to the outbreak of the war, the import of overseas raw materials has basically stopped. One-third of the Republic’s metal chromium and one-fifth of nickel
They all rely on the supply of this area. For such an important strategic metal production area, the Republican Army cannot easily give up control of this area.
The Soviet Union has concentrated nearly 700,000 troops on the southern line of the Ural Mountains and the side of the Ural River, and is very likely to launch a sudden attack on the Siberian Republic.
In order to cope with the possible outbreak of war, the Siberian Republic and the Kyrgyz Republic have carried out national mobilization. Although the Kyrgyz Republic has a land of 1.7 million square kilometers, it has only a population of more than 3 million and a total army of only three army divisions.
Less than 60,000 people.
The Republic of Siberia has a population of 17 million, of which about 9 million are Russians. In addition, nearly 4 million Chinese immigrants have become the country's second largest ethnic group. Nearly 1 million of the other 4 million people are
Jews and nearly one million Kazakhs, and the other two million people are divided into nearly a hundred ethnic minorities, which makes its mobilization capacity quite limited.
Due to the long-term threat of aggression from Soviet Russia, the Siberian Republic has always implemented a universal compulsory military service system. Every adult citizen must join the National Defense Forces for at least three years of military service. Therefore, it has always maintained a National Defense Force with 400,000 soldiers.
After emergency mobilization, the number of its national defense forces quickly increased to 800,000, which had almost reached the limit of its mobilization.
As a long-term military alliance, the Republic has maintained three armies stationed in Siberia and Kyrgyzstan to provide security guarantees for the two countries. If the Soviet Union launched a war of aggression against these two countries, a war with the Republic would definitely break out.
total war.
This is actually what Zhuyashvili is worried about.
The Turkmen, Khiva Khanate and Bukhara Khanate in Central Asia were controlled by the British when the Russian Empire disintegrated. The Soviet Union's invasion of this area actually received the tacit consent of the British, although during the attack on Bukhara
A large-scale war broke out with the Republican Army, but the war actually only took place in the territory of the Bukhara Khanate and Khiva. But if a full-scale war breaks out, the Republican Army with air superiority will definitely attack targets in Russia.
Bombing was what the Soviet Union feared most.
Based on the combat range of Republican bombers, about one-third of the key factories in Soviet Russia would be within the strike range of Republican bombers taking off from the other side of the Ural Mountains. This would make it difficult for the Soviet Union to be established.
The heavy industrial system suffered heavy losses.
However, the main factories of Republican China are thousands of miles away. Even on the east side of the Ural Mountains, which is covered with barbed wire and bunkers, the Republic of Siberia, known as the "running dog of the Chinese imperialist state", has lost its important steel and
Military industrial enterprises were built in the Omsk, Tobsk, and Pavlovsk areas close to the Chinese side to avoid suffering a devastating blow from Red Russia.
With the arrival of reinforcements from the 30th and 32nd Army of the Republican Army, the Republican Army in Siberia and Kyrgyzstan has increased to five armies and 370,000 people. This line runs along the Ural River and the Ural Mountains, from the Caspian Sea to the Arctic Ocean.
, the defense fortifications stretching for thousands of kilometers continue to be reinforced and renovated.
"If the Red Russian army starts to invade, our task is to hold the line of defense from Orsk to the Caspian Sea without being breached and ensure the mine production in this area."
This is what the commander of the Army Group said when issuing orders to all ministries. The Republican Army is not preparing to launch a ground attack into Soviet Russia, although many Russian military officers in Siberia are looking forward to this moment.