In the past four arduous months, Yegorov was based in Kazan and used more than 100,000 Far Eastern troops to resist the steady stream of Soviet troops coming from the direction of Moscow.
The entire Kazan was almost reduced to ruins. The war spread from the west city to the east city, but many places were firmly controlled by the Far Eastern Army and it was difficult to shake them.
Of course, if the frozen Volga River in March had not thawed in time, and Ulyanovsk, Togliatti, Samara and other cities in the lower reaches of the Volga River were controlled by the Far Eastern Army, the Soviet Black Sea Fleet would not have been able to go north to participate in the war.
In addition, the entire Volga Hills region is
The Far East Army was a very active guerrilla zone. The Far East's land policy of distributing farmland to households was deeply popular and people of all ethnic groups enthusiastically supported it. It constantly attacked the Soviet Army's logistics supply lines, resulting in a serious shortage of material supplies for the Soviet Army. Otherwise, it would be besieged from several sides at the same time.
Kazan has fallen.
In just these four months, after stabilizing its position, the Far Eastern Army completed the assembly of troops and combat materials, and at the same time destroyed the protruding areas where the Soviet Army and the Far Eastern Army were intertwined, and launched an active counterattack in late April.
.Only one month passed, and all the units were basically assembled in place. They were just waiting for the command from the headquarters, but at this time, the Soviet army was still at a loss.
At two o'clock in the morning on May 27th, the earth fell silent.
"Three, two, one...go!"
Following Yegorov's order, the earth shook violently, and the eastern sky was dyed a terrible orange. Long-range artillery flashed across the dark sky. Twelve or twenty-four "Katyusha" weapons equipped by the Far Eastern Army
"The rocket launchers, as well as some eight-barreled rocket launchers supported by Nanhua, dragged long tail flames, lighting up the night sky like splashing ink, and fell on the Soviet position like raindrops.
Planes passed one or two hundred meters above the Soviet positions, and a shrill roar was heard. Aerial bombs fell like old hens laying eggs, blowing up the artillery positions exposed by the Soviet army in their eagerness to counterattack.
Got a mess.
In an underground bunker in the east of Kazan City, various telegrams and telephone rings kept ringing. This was the command center of the Far Eastern Army. It was precisely because they knew that Yegorov was in Kazan that the Soviet army launched wave after wave of
A powerful offensive, but in the face of the heroic and tenacious resistance of the Far Eastern Army, the offensive was crushed again and again.
When the situation was at its most critical, the Soviet army's salient was already less than 200 meters away from Yegorov's command post. However, reinforcements rushed in from the rear and wiped out all the Soviet troops, turning the danger into safety.
Yegorov paced back and forth, his expression extremely serious.
Three hours after the offensive was launched, neither the northern or southern fronts had broken through the Soviet defense line. He became a little frustrated. So, he asked the communications personnel to answer the phone calls from the commanders of the northern and southern wings, asking them to step up the offensive. Finally,
, Yegorov shouted an order into the phone:
"Victory or defeat depends on this. Zhukov has moved most of his troops to my front. There is no defense force worth mentioning in front of you. You must crush it resolutely and then quickly encircle the central position."
An Mingqi, who served as Yegorov's chief of staff as an observer, reminded that the Soviet army had transferred a tank corps from the western front to strengthen the defense of Shkar-Ola in the north, and also transferred another tank from the reserve front army.
Army, strengthen the Kanash defense line in the south. These are two effective forces that cannot be ignored. It is very difficult to break through the defense line in just one or two hours.
Yegorov was not angry but happy. He smiled and prayed to An Ming:
"This is a good thing! Stalin also transferred the newly formed tank troops. Such troops without combat experience, no matter how well-equipped they are, cannot display their combat effectiveness. Immediately send power to General Fediko and General Leonid
, tell them to concentrate their efforts on attacking the enemy's tank troops first, and completely destroy the arrogance of these reactionary troops who obey the orders of the evil Stalin."
Another five hours later, the first batch of battle reports came in one after another. In the face of the overwhelming superiority of the Far Eastern Army, after the Soviet tank troops were defeated, the defense lines on both the north and south wings collapsed, and the Far Eastern Army was advancing in depth.
On this day, the Far East Army Air Force, which had gained air supremacy, flew into the sky one after another under the escort of fighter jets, and then dived vertically, roaring and throwing bombs to the ground. Hundreds of Q1 attack aircraft modified from AB26
, throwing a dense rain of bullets on the Soviet army.
On the ground, more than a thousand T34 tanks were rampaging, followed by more armored vehicles and motorcycles. Behind the tanks and armored vehicles were tens of thousands of modified crawler trucks. Wherever the torrent of steel went, it was devastated and the earth shook.
, the sky is moved by it.
By sunset on the 27th, the Far Eastern Army on both wings of Kazan had penetrated more than 80 kilometers into the Soviet defense line.
At eleven o'clock that night, the Far Eastern Army took advantage of the situation and recaptured Krasnogorski. It is said that General Fediko specially sent a mixed force of tanks, artillery, and infantry airborne troops to penetrate deep behind the Soviet army.
In the meantime, they captured the Soviet army's strategic material supply base.
At four o'clock in the morning the next day, the Southern Group met head-on. Seventeen hours after tearing through the Kanash line of defense, the railway hub city of Chivelisk fell into the control of the Far Eastern Army, which declared the end of the railway supply line for the Soviet army attacking Kazan. This
It is not the main threat. Since the main railway lines leading to the rear will be cut off, once the Far Eastern Army on the north and south wings encircles both sides of the Volga River, the nearly one million Soviet troops in the encirclement will face the fate of being completely annihilated.
The Far East Army achieved a reversal in the Battle of Kazan when the whole world was not optimistic about it. It may even change the fate of Moscow and the Far Eastern Republic. This is the most important telegram that An Yi received early in the morning.
The other telegram was about Wang Jingwei. Although it was also important, it was dwarfed by the first piece of news.
Wang Jingwei appeared in the Japanese Concession in Tianjin yesterday morning.
Previously, some media in Hong Kong published a seven-rhythm poem written by Wang Jingwei: Lying down and listening to the bells announcing the late night, the remaining dreams of the sea and sky are hard to find. The helm tower is calm and the wind is still bad, the lighthouse is dim and the moon is half overcast. Good friends are gradually passing away for thousands of catastrophes.
At the end of the day, China will see it again after a hundred years. It is sad and lonely, and it reflects on the life that it has not done its best.
Even people like An Yi who are not familiar with ancient Chinese understand what Wang Jingwei wants to express - the first half of this poem describes Wang Jingwei's desolate and sad mental state after leaving Macau.
The road is "difficult" and the future is "difficult" and dangerous. The second half is borrowed from the Jin Dynasty's expedition
The allusion of Western General Huan Wen's condemnation of Wang Yifu implies that the Chiang Kai-shek Group, Nanhua and the Chinese Communist Party cannot escape responsibility for the Sino-Japanese War; at the same time, he re-evaluates Wen Tianxiang's famous poem "Crossing the Lingding Ocean" to express his "devotion" to carry out "
Peace Movement" and the will to act as traitors.
It is reported that after Wang Jingwei's poem expressed his ambition and strengthened his "determination" to be a traitor, he immediately lowered the conditions for negotiation with Japan and clearly proposed that he would organize a puppet regime in the occupied areas to achieve the purpose of "supporting China and Japan."
Long before Wang Jingwei arrived in Tianjin, he sent Zhou Fohai to Tianjin to restore the "New Life" piaotian literature founded by Zhongtong. The Japanese military police took turns protecting it day and night downstairs, making it difficult for birds to get close.
To prepare for the unexpected, Wang Jingwei and his followers also went to the Japanese military hospital yesterday afternoon to check their blood type in case of emergency.
Zhao Rui called and asked whether to take immediate action against Wang Jingwei? At present, the Tianjin Station of the Central Intelligence Agency has made emergency arrangements and conducted strict surveillance around Wang Jingwei's apartment, and several special operations teams from North China have rushed to Tianjin.
, just waiting for the headquarters order to be issued.
In the telecommunications room, An Yi dictated the message and ordered Zhao Rui not to take action for the time being, but to secretly observe Wang Jingwei's every move.
The military commander had already planted several nails in Wang Jingwei's side. The previous whereabouts of Wang Jingwei and the negotiation process with Japan were all under the control of the military commander. Even Wang Jingwei went to Taiwan on the way to North China and lived in Keelung, Taipei and other places for a period of time.
What happened is also well understood.
However, so far, no one from all walks of life has obtained any concrete evidence of Wang Jingwei's murder. Even Chiang Kai-shek, who controlled all this, has not tolerated it. Naturally, An Yi did not want to be the first person, so he decided to wait and see what happens.
Later, An Yi called Hu Jialin and asked him to closely monitor every move of the German and Soviet troops in the Middle East and the Caucasus in order to deal with various emergencies.
At present, the war between the Soviet Union and the Far East has entered a critical moment, and Kazan will become the focus of the world's attention.
Once the Far East Army completely closes the encirclement, the more than 500,000 Soviet troops that have penetrated deeply into the Kazan area, as well as the same number of troops squeezed into the encirclement from the north and south, will be completely separated from the rear. In such a small area,
The encirclement and annihilation of such a large force in the area had only occurred before when Germany attacked France. The price of France's failure was surrender. So, if the Soviet army was completely wiped out, what would be the consequences?
After sending the telegram, Shen Fengdao asked curiously: "Are you worried that Germany will choose to attack us while the Soviet Union is busy taking care of itself?"
An Yi did not answer Shen Fengdao's question immediately. After asking the staff to hang up a large map of the Soviet Union, he thought about the map for a long time before turning his head and saying:
"As the Soviet army was encircled, Stalin would inevitably mobilize his troops on the Western Front for rescue. In this way, Hitler had two options. One, decisively attack the Soviet Union, take advantage of the situation to capture Ukraine and Belarus, and strive to capture Leninga before winter.
Le, Minsk, Kiev and
Crimea Peninsula, and then push the front line to Volkhov, Smolensk, Kursk and Kharkov, and then improve the defense, it is best to build wide anti-tank trenches and to keep warm and keep out the cold.
Tunnel, while resting and recuperating, while preparing combat supplies.
"When next spring comes and the ground thaws, we can launch a new offensive and strive to capture Moscow, Tula, Vronesh and Stalingrad in two years. After that, we only need to deploy the defense line step by step to complete what Napoleon did not do back then.
A difficult feat to truly unify the European continent;
"The second is to take advantage of the civil strife in the Soviet Union and have no time to launch an offensive on the Eastern Front of Germany to cut through the mess quickly, concentrate all our forces, and start a war against us. We have signed the "Three Kingdoms Charter" and become a party to the "United Nations Declaration" The sponsoring country has actually stood on the opposite side of the Axis Powers. What is particularly important is that Iraq and Persia, where the war started, are newly recovered areas and have no mass base at all. As long as they fight a few defeats, dominoes will inevitably appear. The effect was that the army was defeated like a mountain.
"But Germany can use the Eurasian railway bridge to continuously mobilize troops to the front line. In addition, Turkey is an Islamic country and has more appeal than us. By then, the entire Western Front will be in chaos. At the same time, The Japanese army took advantage of the situation to launch attacks in Malaya, Burma and East India to attract our attention. Then, facing a two-front battle, especially when the east and west fronts are separated from each other, the possibility of failure is very high!"
When Shen Fengdao heard this, his eyes widened, he turned to look at the map, and then asked worriedly: "If it were you, which one would you choose?"
An Yi answered without hesitation: "If it were me, I would give priority to resolving Iraq, Persia, and India, and join forces with the Japanese army in the Indian Ocean to complete mutual strategic unification. You must know that the Soviet Union's civil war, the more lively the fight, the better, it is best for both sides Fighting to the death, evenly matched, will greatly consume the national strength and soldiers of the Slavs. When Germany takes over all the areas surrounding the Soviet Union, it can calmly deploy its troops. In the future, it can choose to start a war at any time and at any place. By then, the exhausted Slavs will The Soviet Union and the Far East are no match for Germany!"
Shen Fengdao looked extremely ugly and asked: "So, which one do you think Hitler will choose?"
"have no idea!"
An Yi shook his head, but still gave an answer:
"Based on my understanding of Hitler, he always wanted to eliminate Bolshevism and believed that the Slavs were not worthy of possessing the fertile land of Ukraine. In the minds of Europeans, politics often comes first. With an excuse to attack the Soviet Union, they can To win over and unite the Vichy government, Spain, Portugal and other countries. Moreover, the basis for the existence of the Axis powers was the "Common International" agreement signed by Germany, Italy and Japan. Now the Soviet army is firmly contained in the Urals by the Far East Army. , I think the chance of Hitler, a paranoid, choosing to attack the Soviet Union is far greater than choosing to attack us!"
Shen Fengdao was just relieved when An Yi said again: "However, seeking defeat before victory, no matter which path Hitler chooses in the end, we must always be vigilant... By the way, Lao Shen, today It is already the seventh day since the no-fly zone was established. How is the retreat of the Allied forces on the Sinai Peninsula going?"
Shen Fengdao replied: "It has entered the final stage. There are currently about 30,000 people stranded on the peninsula. It is expected that it will be settled today and tomorrow."
"good!"
An Yi pondered for a moment and said decisively: "Let everyone prepare and leave for home today. The international situation will become more and more turbulent, and we have to deal with it carefully. As long as we cross this hurdle, the sea and the sky will be brighter! Otherwise, we can only do our best. And An Tianming is dead!"
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