Xiangxi, Qiancheng, the office headquarters, and the temporary command center of Anyi.
Although he was thousands of miles away, due to An Jiajun's efficient communication system, An Yi knew what was happening in South China, Southwest, Mongolia, and Central Asia, and was able to respond immediately.
"Totaling up to nearly 200,000 Soviet prisoners, the logistics pressure is huge!" An Yi sighed slightly after reading the latest battle report forwarded by the General Staff Headquarters.
No one knows that firewood and rice are expensive. Even taking compressed food (compressed biscuits, cans, etc.) as an example, a person consumes no less than one kilogram of food materials per day. An army of tens of thousands is tens of thousands of kilograms, and an army of one hundred thousand is one hundred thousand kilograms. , an army of 500,000 people is 500,000 kilograms, calculated in kilograms, it is 250,000 kilograms, equivalent to 250 tons. Just the food consumed by the troops every day makes the logistics department breathless.
In addition, the fuel and ammunition consumed are hundreds of bullets for a soldier unit, tens of thousands of bullets and hundreds of artillery shells for a company unit. If there are tens of thousands of troops, millions of bullets and tens of thousands of artillery shells. Bullets and Although the price of artillery shells is not uniform across countries, it is indispensable to burn money. For an army of tens of thousands, the price of ammunition alone is tens of millions of dollars. A battle of tens of thousands of people for a few hours will cost tens of millions of dollars. The cost is really not surprising. If we also calculate the manpower and material resources, transportation costs and various consumption in this process, there is no problem in multiplying it several times.
Logistics is the lifeline of war. The logistics department has a quota for how much food and ammunition the frontline needs to spend every day. Now there are suddenly an increase of 200,000 mouths and dozens of departments involved. No wonder An Yi is shaking his head. .
Shen Fengdao comforted: "It is worth the effort to solve the problem without bloodshed and reduce the casualties of the troops! Those prisoners are all young and strong, good laborers. They will be alive and kicking with a little recuperation. In the future, the railway from Central Asia to Mongolia will be built. , to develop the mineral deposits in Central Asia, with such a free labor force, we can save a considerable amount of expenses."
Having said this, Shen Fengdao couldn't help but shook his head: "I'm just afraid that these people are unruly and disobey discipline, and they have received special military training. If they don't pay attention, they will cause trouble, and then the troops will be wasted in custody. The gain outweighs the loss. ”
After hearing what Shen Fengdao said, An Yi had an idea and smiled slightly: "When you say this, I have some confidence. Stalin will never be soft on prisoners. It won't be long before these prisoners will probably Being included in the list of traitors, it seems that our political cadres will have to be busy again!"
At this time, Colonel Fu Mingshan, deputy director of the Ministry of Intelligence, strode into the room, came to An Yi's side, and handed over a telegram marked "urgent" with both hands.
An Yi took it and glanced at it, then his expression became extremely solemn. After reading it carefully, he handed the telegram to Shen Fengdao.
After reading this, Shen Fengdao was extremely surprised: "The Japanese army launched an attack on Tatarsk on a starry night? Now Beard is in trouble!"
"yes!"
An Yi looked worried: "According to air force reconnaissance, the Japanese army's march stretched for dozens of miles on the Siberian grassland, and there must be at least more than 200,000 people. I originally thought that the Japanese army would have to rest for at least one night to regain their strength after arriving. We will launch an attack, and by then the four divisions of Dong Jinming's First Group Army, which were ordered to be transferred north, should also be in place. Who knew the Japanese were so impatient?"
Shen Fengdao consoled him: "Huzi is not fighting alone. Doesn't the Far Eastern Army have two infantry divisions cooperating with him? In order to facilitate unified command, Marshal Fetiko, commander of the Eastern Front of the Far Eastern Army, set up his headquarters in Omsk. Build another line of defense and hand over all the Far Eastern Army in the Tatarsk area to Beard's control. Now Beard has six divisions in his hands, which should be able to withstand it!"
"I guess it won't be a big problem if you survive tonight!"
An Yi stood up, paced back and forth, and after a while, he said decisively: "Old Shen, what do you think of me transferring the air force north overnight? Almaty and Zalal Abad will be occupied by the army! Central Asia The Soviet army has been short of food for a long time, and its combat effectiveness has been severely weakened. With the collapse of its main force cluster, I think there will not be much problem in dealing with the remaining Soviet army even without the help of the air force!"
Shen Fengdao was stunned for a moment, then nodded: "This is a good idea. But to be on the safe side, we'd better leave one of the five air regiments behind. This will make it easier to discover the Soviet army's movements in time and strike as soon as possible!"
"Okay, let's do it!"
An Yi did not hesitate and immediately instructed Fu Mingshan to issue transfer orders to the General Staff in his own name.
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In Western Siberia, Tatarsk, surrounded by night, is filled with noise.
Since the Japanese advance troops advanced to the eastern suburbs in the evening, their artillery has never stopped shelling the Anjia Army's defense line outside the city that took over from the Soviet army.
Hu Jialin's face was calm. He and Chief of Staff Huang Zhi stood on a five-story building outside Tatarsk, watching countless lightning-like fires flashing frequently from the northeast, east and east, dragging long tails. Arc, heading straight towards Tatarsk.
"Commander, we have contacted the First Army." In the room behind Hu Jialin, the communications staff hurried out with a telegram and saluted.
"Um?"
Hu Jialin turned around, glanced at the young communications staff officer, and then asked, "Where are Dong Jinming's troops moving now?"
"They sent the telegram from the Cupino train station," the communications officer replied.
"Cupino?"
Hu Jialin's brows suddenly frowned, and he quickly walked back to the headquarters room, then stopped in front of the large map of Tatarsk City facing the door.
"Cupino!"
Hu Jialin searched the map for a while and quickly found his target. The city of Cupino was located southwest of the city of Tatarsk, a full hundred kilometers away from Tatarsk. It seemed that he could only reach it tomorrow.
"This Dong Jinming, what does he do for food?"
Smashing the pencil end in his hand on the map, Hu Jialin turned around and cursed at everyone in the headquarters: "I started from Kurunda early yesterday morning and took a train to go north for two full days. Until now. Tell me there's still a hundred kilometers left! If everyone is like him, how can we fight this war?"
In the headquarters, several major generals of the Seventh Army were present. Facing the angry Hu Jialin, no one dared to say anything.
Huang Zhi walked in at this time, holding the telegram just sent by the communications staff in his hand, and said to Hu Jialin: "They can't be blamed for what happened. They were frequently attacked by Far East Army rebels and Soviet guerrillas on the road. The enemy. After demolishing the railway and destroying the railway bridge over the Kurunda River, the First Army spent a lot of effort to build the railway and quickly moved north without any delay."
Hu Jialin was stunned for a moment, took a look at the telegram, his face softened a little, and then sighed: "Without the First Army, we have four divisions to withstand the Japanese attacks of at least six divisions, and our troops are stretched thin!"
He Yifei, commander of the Seventh Group Army, said loudly: "Commander, the defenses left to us by the Far East Army are complete. We are confident that we can withstand the Japanese attack and wait for the arrival of follow-up reinforcements! Besides, there are two divisions of the Far East Army working together.
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Hu Jialin frowned: "But now we don't know whether we should trust our allies! The Far East Army is in chaos. There have been more than ten battlefield defections. As far as I know, in the battle of Novosibirsk, there were two divisions
There was a mutiny on the battlefield, and the Japanese army marched straight through the gap between the rebels and reached the headquarters of Marshal Fediko, and then the entire front collapsed!"
This was the first time that all the generals had heard this top-secret news, and their faces became ugly. No one wanted to have an allied force that they thought was their friend stabbing them when they were trying their best.
"Commander, the General Staff is calling!"
It was still the communications staff officer just now. The news sent this time made Hu Jialin frown: "Yes, tomorrow the four air force regiments will rush to Barnaul, Kurunda, Pavlodar and Tatarsk to compete with the Japanese army.
Air superiority. The Second Artillery Missile Brigade deployed in Leninabat will be transported to Kurunda by airship to provide all-round deterrence to surrounding areas!"
All the generals were overjoyed, but thinking about the current serious situation, they all frowned.
However, when faced with a narrow road, the brave will win, and only those who fully trust the soldiers on the front line will win.
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After continuous artillery preparations, another brigade was mobilized to conduct a full-scale feint attack on the Anjia Army's front line using skirmishers. After obtaining the basic information about the firepower configuration of the Anjia Army's front-line positions, the Japanese army suddenly assembled heavy troops and launched an attack on the Tatarsk left-wing position.
onslaught.
"Kill me!"
More than 120 95 light tanks of the Japanese tank force spread out across the line amidst the waving of the messenger's signal flag, forming an attack surface of two kilometers and pressing hard against the Chinese army's position three kilometers away.
The Japanese troops who accompanied the battle were organized into squads and followed the tanks with shining bayonets and shouts. Farther away, a Japanese regiment of more than 3,000 Japanese soldiers surged forward like a wave.
"Bang!"
The flares were raised high, and the Japanese offensive formation was immediately exposed to the bright light.
More than one hundred and twenty Type 95 light tanks roared towards the target like prehistoric monsters. When the fleet of fast-moving tanks was five hundred meters away from the Anjiajun position, the several-ton bodies of the tanks were advancing one by one.
After a pause, flowers of death bloomed on the barrel of the tank, and the rumbling sound continued.
Orange fireballs rose up in the front position one after another, but the expected scene of flying flesh and blood did not appear. Just when the Japs inside and outside the tank were confused, the artillery of the Anjia Army, which had been silent for a long time, began to perform.
As long whistling sounds came from far and near, huge fireballs burst out from the swarming crowd of Japanese soldiers. Then, smoke pillars more than ten meters high rose into the sky one after another, filling the sky with clods of earth and stones.
Broken bodies fell from the sky one after another.
All the Japanese soldiers within a few dozen meters of the impact point were shocked to the point of bleeding from their ears and noses and were knocked unconscious! And with the 8-12mm armor thickness of the Type 95 light tank, the consequence of being hit by a 120mm caliber grenade was that it burst into flames and exploded into a
Iron coffin!
Twenty-four 120mm howitzer shells from the 19th Division Artillery Regiment of the Seventh Group Army of the Anjia Army fired rapidly and indiscriminately, covering the Japanese attacking troops.
The artillery shells falling one after another shook the plain area at the front of the position. At the moment of the explosion, the soil flew up, and the rising smoke completely annihilated the Japanese attacking troops.