After the Cairo Conference, Ou Chuer returned to Chang'an to take charge of financial work. An Yi, accompanied by Vice Premier Dong Fuchuan of the Government Affairs Council, Minister of Construction He Jing, Vice Minister of Defense Yang Jie, and Vice Minister of the General Logistics Department Zhang Yang, went to Central Asia and Siberia.
and an inspection visit to the Far East.[:.Com text/text//
The war situation in the Far East was calm. At the beginning of the year, the Japanese army was unwilling to continue to waste troops in Northeast Asia where there was no hope of maintaining it. Taking advantage of the freezing Bering Sea in winter, they all retreated to Alaska. Lieutenant General Hu Jiyang, deputy commander of the Andong Military Region in charge of the pursuit, commanded two
The group army moved north along the coastline and did not reach the Chukotka Peninsula safely until mid-summer in July, where it built a defensive line and faced the Japanese army across the Bering Strait.
The Northeast Asia Railway, which the Japanese spent a lot of effort to build, was blasted and demolished by the Japanese army, but the general land base is still there. It was repaired by the Anjiajun Railway Corps and quickly put into use. However, most of this railway is now in alpine areas.
It has only been three or four months since the railway was restored to traffic, and many problems have already occurred. If it were not for the tireless maintenance of the Anjiajun railway soldiers, who often strengthened the roadbed and replaced the rails, this artery would have been paralyzed.
You must know that railways running in the permafrost zone are very fragile. The permafrost is not ice that lasts for thousands of years. It does not melt in the cold and heat, and its volume will never change. The permafrost is extremely sensitive to temperature and has a great impact on the operation of the railway.
In the frozen state, the frozen soil is like ice. As the temperature decreases, the volume gradually expands, and the roadbed and rails built on it will be arched by it. In summer, the frozen soil melts and the volume shrinks. The rails also
Then it dropped. The frozen soil repeatedly froze and thawed alternately, causing serious deformation of the roadbed. The entire rail became uneven and even twisted into a twist. This affected normal traffic and required constant maintenance by railway troops. The cost of its operation
Very high.
Under the current circumstances, this railway artery is very important to South China's national defense security. It connects the lower reaches of Heilongjiang, the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk, the Kamchatka Peninsula and the west coast of the Bering Sea. Most of these places are in extremely cold zones at high latitudes.
Winters are mostly around 20 to 30 degrees below zero, and summer temperatures are usually over 10 degrees. Agricultural production is extremely backward, and a large amount of materials must be transported from outside to maintain it. Only railway transportation can sustain such a large demand.
Therefore, this railway with constant problems can only continue to operate like this, but it will definitely be transformed in the future, using bridges instead of roads, gravel ventilation roadbed, ventilation pipe roadbed, gravel and gravel slope protection, hot rods, insulation boards, comprehensive
Measures such as the anti-drainage system have brought about earth-shaking changes to this railway.
With the arrival of winter, the Bering Sea froze, and the Andong Military Region entered a state of combat readiness. An Yi decided to visit Khabarovsk, where the headquarters of the Andong Military Region is located, to remember Mu, Li Fuqiang, An Mingqi, Hu Jiyang, Han Xianzhi, etc.
People solve practical problems.
An Yi and his party took a special plane and first arrived at Huo Qubing City.
In the Ural region in late November, the autumn air is crisp and clear. Although there is frost at night, the temperature during the day is still around 7 or 8 degrees Celsius.
An Yi listened to the reports from the theater commander Zhao Rui and the political commissar Huang Yingwu. After celebrating the Army Day on July 1, Li Jinlong was transferred to the political commissar of the Southeast Asia Theater and partnered with Gu Changfeng again. The deputy political commissar of the Far and Central Asia Theater Huang Yingwu was promoted to partner with Zhao Rui.
.Both of them are generals, so they won’t feel awkward when they match up.
Affected by the Soviet-German War, the Soviet Army did not station troops along the Ural River and Ural Mountains. Instead, the Anjia Army seized the time and built a large number of permanent fortifications near the border, as well as anti-tank trenches and fortifications.
, the entire border defense line is 20 kilometers deep. Even if the Soviet Union turns its back in the future, the troops guarding the border can easily hold the Soviet army near the border for ten days and a half, and this time is enough for the Anjia Army Headquarters to mobilize troops.
Generals were sent for support.
"At the time of the Qin Dynasty, there was a bright moon and at the time of the Han Dynasty, the people who marched thousands of miles away have not yet returned. But the flying generals of Dragon City are here, and they will not teach Hu Ma to cross the Yin Mountains!"
An Yi stood on the top of a nearly 100-meter-high concrete mountain built more than 20 kilometers west of the Urals, looking out at the endless Rennes Desert in the distance, feeling a sense of sadness and bitterness in his heart.
The deserts in the interior of Eurasia, such as Mongolia, Xinjiang and Central Asia, have completely different feelings from the deserts in Australia, Africa and West Asia. The air here is colder and moister, and the long yellow sand has a cold feeling.
, not as warm as other deserts.
The strong desert wind blew on his face, and the biting chill brought from Siberia made An Yi shiver. He tightened his collar, turned around, and asked Zhao Rui who was following behind him.
, Xiao Wu, Wu Xianwei, Shen Ziling and other generals asked: "Are you aware of the ongoing war between the German and Soviet troops on the east bank of the Don River?"
"Know!"
Zhao Rui nodded and said: "The outcome of the Soviet-German battlefield will directly affect the preparations for our war zone. Our intelligence department has been paying close attention to it!"
Huang Yingwu echoed: "In the past few months, according to the instructions of the Military Commission, we have intensified the release of prisoners. So far, 80% of the three million German prisoners have been released, and we have obtained 400,000 machine tools, including ordinary machine tools.
, precision machine tools, high
Precision machine tools, as well as some crankshaft machine tools, forging machine tools, and the introduction of millions of sets of machine tool accessories, which has greatly improved the self-innovation and replication capabilities of our industry. Some of these machine tools have been transformed into CNC machine tools for use in the military industry.
Production.
"
Huang Yingwu is also in charge of the provincial military control committees under the war zone, and he is very clear about the needs of industrial development, so he had a smile on his face when he introduced it, and he was obviously very satisfied with the deal.
Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Shen Ziling said: "It stands to reason that with the addition of new troops, the combat effectiveness of the German army should be high. But in fact, this is not as simple as simply doubling the combat effectiveness of the accumulated troops. After the Battle of Two Rivers, most of the German troops were
The captured German troops have become frightened and no longer have the invincible spirit they had before. Even if they return to the army, their role in the battle is not as great as imagined!
"After the summer offensive, the Soviet and German fronts were intertwined, and each other's positions were intertwined with each other. The deepest part of the protrusion was dozens of kilometers away. The German army always insisted on one point of attack. That was to stare in the direction of Moscow, and to this end, it invested in front and rear of this line.
140 divisions in total.
With more than two million people, the Soviet army responded calmly with the strengthened Western Front, Bryansk Front, and Voronezh Front. It firmly blocked the German army from the upper reaches of the Volga River west of Moscow to the Protva River. The two armies had no daylight here.
There will be no fierce and fierce battles at night."
Deputy Commander Lieutenant General Wu Xianwei took over and said: "The Soviet army's winter offensive counterattack direction was mainly concentrated in the south. Before this, this line of warfare was mainly maintained by the Soviet Army's Southwest Front Army and Don River Front Army. The main direction of defense was
The Volga hills, the Obhiselt hilly area... In fact, since the Battle of Stalingrad
After the defeat in the battle, the Soviet army had surrendered the lower reaches of the Volga River and the northern lowlands of the Caspian Sea to the Germans. If Hitler had not been hot-headed and attacked Saratov from the junction of the Volga River Hills and the Obhiselt Hills, ancient
Bishev and other cities, directly inserted into Kazan. It is not necessarily said that the Soviet Union has been destroyed by the German four-pronged attack.
"The Germans' stupid move gave the Soviets an opportunity. With the continuous formation of new front armies, the Soviet army has successfully blocked the gap in the south, gradually gained an advantage in terms of strength comparison, and has initially developed the ability to counterattack. October 2
On the 11th, the Soviet Stalingrad Front moved south from Liyazan. With the cooperation of the Western Front, it captured the German-occupied Liask and Michurinsk.
Tambov, Borisogrebsk, Mikhailovka and other important cities, and successfully annihilated three infantry divisions of the 33rd Army under the German Army Group B in the Lipetsk area, and in Ulyupin
Skopje and the Karachi area east of the Don River. Four divisions of the Romanian Corps led by the German army were eliminated. As of the 23rd of this month, the Soviet army had pushed towards the German-occupied Stalingrad from the north.
“While the Stalingrad Front was attacking southward, the Soviet Southern Front and the Don Front were cooperating with each other and moving down the Volga River. In the past ten months, they had fought fierce battles with the German troops in towns such as Mechashen and Dubovka.
Pushing towards the east of Stalingrad City, we have already
After capturing the city of Paromnaya. Corresponding to the other two armies, the Caucasus Front moved south along the western edge of the Rennes Desert, successively captured Ertan, Nizhny Baskunchak and other cities, cutting off the banks of the Lower Volga River.
Railway, and crossing the Volga River in the Halabari region.
"According to the latest report from the intelligence department, the Soviet Caucasus Front has reached the city of Astrakhan, and the German Army Group A has transferred troops from the Caucasus region that is confronting us to move north to protect the lower reaches of the Don River, the North Caucasus and Crimea.
safety.”
An Yi asked: "Can everyone think based on this that Germany is no longer viable? The victory of the Soviet army is only a matter of time?"
"not necessarily!"
General Xiao Wu, commander of the theater armor, shook his head: "The problem with the German army is that the battle line is stretched too long and it is unable to shrink its troops for a while. It is like using an open palm to meet the Soviet army's gathered fist. Initial defeat is inevitable."
However, at least so far, the Germans' advantage is still obvious!
"From north to south, the Soviet-German battlefield mainly consists of several important nodes from Leningrad, Moscow, Tula, Vronesh, Stalingrad to Astrakhan. At present, these cities are basically under the control of the Germans.
, the Germans first abandoned a large area of land east of the Pola River and the Volga River, and now they gave up the vast area east of the Don River. Their military strength has been squeezed into a fist by the Soviet army!
"At any time, we should never underestimate the determination and courage of the Germans to advance for victory. Although it is very difficult for them to take a step forward under the Moscow city under the stubborn resistance of the Soviet army, it is now the German army's turn to defend the Soviet offensive.
, it will not be easy for the Soviets to easily defeat the Germans, and I think it will be a tug-of-war for a long time to come."
An Yi looked at the other brothers and got similar answers.
An Yi said happily: "Let me tell you a top-secret news: At present, the German Army High Command has begun to gradually restore the organizational structures of group armies, corps, divisions and other levels that were abolished after the collapse in West Asia. Officers and soldiers with rich combat experience have been dispersed.
The decisive factor is that the 1st to 4th Armored Groups have been reorganized in Ukraine. These four armored armies have included a large number of SS elites, and their will to fight is extremely firm. Once these four armored armies have been reorganized,
The group army will re-enter the front line, and the Soviets will be very uncomfortable!
"The reason why we maintain such a strong mobile corps in Central Asia and the Ural region is to respond to possible changes on the Soviet-German battlefield at any time. Although Hitler has temporarily surrendered to us, we cannot underestimate that he will get hot-headed at any time and do some weird things.
The decision comes!
"For us, the longer this war lasts, the better it is for us. Although the Germans have integrated the power of Europe and obtained many factories from occupied Britain, Belgium, the Czech Republic and other countries, the machine tools and equipment are very advanced.
, but they have a fatal weakness, that is, a serious shortage of resources. They have machines but no resources, and they cannot maintain sufficient production capacity. In this case, through continuous trade, we can let the Germans voluntarily put idle products into use.
The machine tools and production lines were dismantled and exchanged for our resources.
"At the same time, we can attract high-level technical workers from Europe and their families to move to our country through high salaries, stable life and superior working environment, thereby improving our country's technological soft and hard strength! This kind of deal only lasts for two years
In time, our industrial development will basically reach the level of the United States before the war, and then we will have nothing to fear!"
The generals nodded their heads in agreement.
After inspecting the border defense line, An Yi returned to the urban area of Huo Qubing, visited factories, enterprises, oil fields in the suburbs, and farms that had just completed the autumn harvest, and then went north to continue the inspection visit.
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