Age of Conquest Reborn

Hearing his wife's crying cry, Tang Qiuli's body stiffened, and then he gently stroked Mei Xue's hair draped over her round shoulders and hugged her tightly.: Read the novel

"Xue, you are not going alone. According to the decision of the military meeting, all non-combatants and logistics agencies will temporarily withdraw to the mainland. You see, even Yu Deshui's intelligence department and Shen Jun's investigation department have been withdrawn. Originally,

, you should have followed the evacuation teams of several agencies yesterday, but as a result, you lost your temper and shed tears, so you stayed one more day. I also had to arrange for Shan Hu to arrange a detachment from the security brigade to escort you, haha—

—! You have to leave in the end!" Tang Qiuli said with a chuckle, with a touch of endearment in his tone.

Mei Xue raised her tearful face, her eyes full of worry, "Qiu Li, is it really that dangerous this time? I have been following you for several years, and I have never seen a big battle.

You are about to start evacuating people, and I am worried that you are alone in Outer Mongolia! Is it possible that we have reached such a dangerous moment?" she asked eagerly.

Tang Qiuli patted his wife on the back and said nonchalantly: "It's not dangerous, it's just a normal response. Without the burden of complicated non-combat agencies, the troops are more flexible. Okay, Snow, guards

The brigade is waiting for you outside. Don't let the soldiers blow the cold wind outside. Come on, I'll take you to the car! Send me a telegram when you get to Erenhot."

The night became increasingly gloomy, the cold wind howled, and the hard snow particles flew with the wind, hitting people's faces, causing burning pain. Tang Qiuli watched Mei Xue get into the car, and gently touched his wife across the car.

With a delicate face, he waved his hand and shouted in a low voice: "Drive!"

Several cars and bright lights, like jumping lightsabers, pierced the dark night sky and gradually disappeared into the desert wilderness in the distance. Tang Qiuli stood there for a long time until the gleam of light in the distance completely disappeared.

After sending away the non-combat troops and rear agencies, and sending away his wife, Tang Qiuli could go into battle lightly, turned around, jumped on the armored command vehicle, and loudly ordered: "Leave immediately, destination, Minusinsk!"

"Let me use the directly affiliated corps, these more than 200,000 elite soldiers and generals, to have a good time with Stalin!" He thought viciously while sitting on the bumpy armored command vehicle.

In early March 1942, after many efforts, the number of Soviet troops gathered in various assembly areas west of the Ural Mountains reached more than 2 million. General Vasilevsky, commander and political commissar of the Soviet Outer Mongolia Front,

, arrived in Yekaterinburg by special plane on the morning of March 7, and the front army headquarters was immediately established.

On the evening of the day he arrived in Yekaterinburg, General Vasilevsky held the first combat meeting attended by division-level front commanders and above. For him, he went to take office this time with full confidence and the determination to win.

belief.

The military and political affairs are shouldered by the same person. The commander and the political commissar are all the same person. He has 1.6 million troops. In the Outer Mongolia Front Army, he can be said to be a man of his word. No one challenges his authority. Of course, the general is also a senior member of the Soviet Red Army.

Among the commanders, a general who has experienced battles for a long time naturally has his own command style.

Therefore, at the combat meeting, General Vasilevsky behaved extremely arbitrarily, "Comrades, this time the General Staff appointed me as the commander of the front army to command the troops to carry out combat missions against the Chinese Tang Qiuli's troops.

Before departure, at the Politburo meeting, Comrade Stalin had already determined the combat policy for the reading force troops. Now, I will talk about the specific campaign deployment!"

Hundreds of Soviet generals below, including group army commanders and military and division commanders, were all stunned. "What? Are we starting to deploy battles now? Isn't this too impatient? Even a pre-war meeting was not held, and each unit just

Arriving at the assembly area, I had almost no idea of ​​the local situation. Furthermore, the various group armies within the Outer Mongolia Front Army came from different military regions and front armies and were not familiar with each other. Basically, the commanders of each group army

If we don’t even know their names, how can we cooperate when a war breaks out?"

"In the original army, each had different fighting styles and combat methods. Getting to know each other was an essential process. Don't you, Comrade Commander, even understand this basic common sense?" A series of question marks circled around.

In the minds of these Soviet generals.

However, people just opened their mouths and mentioned Comrade Stalin, so it’s better to listen. Anyway, with more than one million troops, no matter how we fight, it makes sense.

General Vasilevsky continued: "In the Outer Mongolia region, Tang Qiuli's Reading Division troops will launch their attack at six o'clock in the morning on March 10th. The first, second, and third front troops will

The Fourth and Fifth Army, with a total of 550,000 troops, served as the vanguard, divided into five lines, crossed the Ural Mountains, and was the first to launch an attack. The vanguard must occupy the territory before 6 a.m. on March 12th.

Minusinsk.”

"Remind the five group army commanders that the time left for you is only forty-eight hours, which means that it takes two days and two nights to capture Minusinsk. According to the Air Force's reconnaissance report, the main force of the reading force division

The troops are all concentrated on the Minusinsk front line, preparing to block our army. The Air Force will dispatch 1,500 fighter jets and 800 bombers to cooperate with the attack of the leading troops."

"The rest of the group army, the second echelon, was personally commanded by me. It bypassed the Minusinsk battlefield and entered the western region of Outer Mongolia via the Tangnu Mountains. Then, it quickly captured Ulanguben, Ulyasutai, and Checher.

Lege and Hadasan are going straight to Kulun. It is expected that around March 20th, they will launch a general attack on Kulun. They will try to use three days to capture Kulun and end the Outer Mongolia campaign. Comrades, what are the differences?

Any opinions?”

If you don’t have any objections, then to hell with it, the five armies are working together to attack the main force of the reading division on the front line of Minusinsk. This is no problem. The intelligence provided by the intelligence agency shows that the so-called main force of the reading division is just a corps.

There are only more than 200,000 people. If he dispatches more than double the troops, he will definitely be able to capture Minusinsk and annihilate or severely damage the readers' troops. There is no suspense result. However, the time limit is too harsh.

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From the current gathering place of the troops to Minusinsk, even if there is no fighting, the time spent marching alone will take more than thirty hours, and the remaining ten hours will be necessary to wipe out or severely damage more than twenty people in one fell swoop.

Wanduli division unit, is this possible?

Even if it kills more than 200,000 chickens, it will take a long time, not to mention that it is an elite division and a brave and capable reading force that defeated the Soviet army twice and killed more than one million Red Army soldiers in the steppes of Outer Mongolia.

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Also, there are only two roads to go through the Ural Mountains and into the east. More than 500,000 troops rely on two roads that can barely be called highways. There is no more than three days. Such a large number of troops cannot be defeated at all.

It cannot be completed unless a group army sets off first. In this case, in terms of strength comparison, it will be at a disadvantage. Otherwise, it will be hit hard by Tang Qiuli.

A senior group army commander felt that he was a veteran and needed to remind Commander Vasilevsky. He stood up and said: "Comrade Commander of the Front Army, I have no objection to your campaign deployment, but we must

To deploy troops based on the actual situation, the biggest difficulty facing us is not the squadron in Minusinsk, but the road traffic situation!"

Then, the commander of the group army, whose temples were already pale, explained the situation in the Ural Mountains in detail. General Vasilevsky looked coldly at the commander of the group army, who was somewhat relying on his elders. He himself

I am familiar with him. During the Civil Revolutionary War, he was his immediate superior and he served as the commander of the regiment. He was the division commander. However, his personal circumstances and official career were different, which resulted in the difference in status today.

After the old man finished nagging, General Vasilevsky said calmly: "Thank you for the reminder. Comrades must think that I issued some unrealistic orders regardless of the actual situation. Then you are wrong.

Before convening this combat meeting, I have ordered the front army's engineering troops to use three days to open up five additional roads in the Ural Mountains, which is enough to ensure that all troops can pass through the Ural Mountains in the shortest possible time. Dear comrades,

Do you have any different opinions?"

Who still has an opinion? Who dares to have an opinion? Although Comrade Commander's tone is calm, the murderous look in his eyes is leaked time and time again. Besides, everyone has already thought of a countermeasure before raising any opinions.

You just make yourself uncomfortable!

On March 8, outside the western border of Outer Mongolia, in Minusinsk, a military town in the former Soviet territory, Tang Qiuli was in a Russian-style building, with his hands behind his back, looking at the empty streets covered with white snow, and the plan to clear the country with solid walls.

, does not include this city, but because the clouds of the recent war have gathered over the city, the residents in the urban area have mostly fled. Of course, most of them fled to the Soviet Union.

In this regard, Tang Qiuli adopted a laissez-faire attitude of not promoting, not stopping, and laissez-faire. In other words, he did it intentionally. The residents who fled to the Soviet Union would inadvertently concentrate more than 200,000 reading force troops.

The news in Minusinsk reached the ears of the Soviet commanders, convincing them that they would never give up Outer Mongolia and would fight to the death with the Soviet troops crossing the Ural Mountains around this city.

In a sense, this is a strategy to confuse the Soviet army. Starting from last night, most of the troops directly under the corps have secretly evacuated the city. The only troops remaining in the city are Liu Hongzhang's First Brigade and Ouyang Yi.

Shan's second brigade, plus Shan Hu's guard brigade, has less than 40,000 troops.

To be continued.)