Age of Conquest Reborn

Saiyin Shanda is located more than 800 kilometers south of Kulun. It is the only gateway from Outer Mongolia to China's Inner Mongolia. There is a railway and a road connected to Kulun. It is also the only area that the Soviet army has not occupied yet. From Saiyin Shanda

Further south, there is China's Inner Mongolia border city Erenhot. The distance between the two is less than 300 kilometers. Vasilevsky, commander of the Soviet Outer Mongolia Front Army stationed in Kulun, the next target of action must be Seyin Mountain

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The difficult problem before Tang Qiuli was to make a decision: to hold on to Saiyin Shanda and keep the Soviet army out of Saiyin Shanda, and then to fight the Soviet army a few times at Saiyin Shanda to contain the Soviet army.

Continue heading south.

In the face of the Soviet attack, we gave up Saiyin Mountain and continued to retreat to the border area. However, the distance from Saiyin Mountain to Erenhot was only less than 300 kilometers, and the room for maneuver in the battle was extremely small. The Soviet army would be in

After occupying Seyinshanda, do you need to

In a few days, troops would be deployed along the border. In addition, the Soviet army occupied Seyinshanda, which effectively blocked the choke point for the Duli Division troops to return to Outer Mongolia. They wanted to hold back the troops entering the Far East.

All the Soviet troops will definitely have to spend a lot of time.

Faced with the two choices, Tang Qiuli was quite hesitant, repeatedly weighing the pros and cons, and was unable to make a decision for a while. From his heart, the situation in the Far East was about to undergo major changes. Tang Qiuli was unwilling to fight with more than a hundred people at this moment.

There is no need for Wan Sujun to go head-to-head.

However, the strategic maneuvering space in southern Outer Mongolia is only so large. If the strategic space is enough, Tang Qiuli will definitely continue to retreat and lure the Soviet army to continue to penetrate deeper. By then, once the Germans take action, it will be too late to turn back.

After racking his brains for two days, Tang Qiuli was still hesitant and unable to make up his mind to choose a combat method. During this period, he also asked deputy division commander Liu Tiehan for his opinion. Liu Tiehan's answer was very simple.

, "Commander, from Cullen

To the south, only Saiyin Mountain reaches the front line, which can be used as a line of defense to block the Soviet army. If it is abandoned, it is not necessarily known whether the Soviet army will invade Inner Mongolia. Therefore, my opinion is that Saiyin Mountain must be defended!" Liu Tiehan said in

The telegram said so.

Chief of Staff Zhao Yuhe's suggestion was based on another idea, "Division Commander, our troops in Outer Mongolia are only more than 200,000, while the Soviet army, although there is only one Outer Mongolia Front, has more than one million.

There is a huge difference in military strength and strength. Our weapons and equipment and the combat effectiveness of our troops can make up for part of the shortcomings, but they cannot change the disadvantage in the comparison of the enemy's and our own forces."

"If we block the Soviet army on the Seyin Shanda line, the troops will definitely pay a huge price in casualties. If we insist on defending the Seyin Shanda line, the Soviet army will definitely be unable to move forward, but are the casualties we can bear?"

"Didn't you say that in more than ten days, the Soviet Union and Germany will inevitably start a war? My personal opinion is that we should try our best to avoid a head-on confrontation with the Soviet army with superior strength, and instead deal with it. In more than ten days, it will be very difficult for us to fight against it.

It will pass soon. Didn't you also warn the troops not to engage in direct confrontation with the Soviet army?"

"However, if the division commander's judgment is wrong and the Germans do not attack the Soviet Union on time, and more than one million Soviet troops line the border, then our troops in Outer Mongolia will be in a very difficult situation. From this perspective,

Saiyin Shanda must be defended!" Zhao Yuhe said in a rare half-joking manner. Of course he was not doubting the division commander's judgment, but felt that in more than ten days, Su De would start a war, which was a bit unbelievable!

Tang Qiuli also smiled. Although he knew that Hitler would definitely attack the Soviet Union, whether it was the history in the memory of later generations or the real world, there was no reason why this could not happen due to the lessons he had done for Hitler.

A major event that shocked the world and changed the final outcome of World War II and the new pattern of the post-war world.

There is no doubt that Hitler will attack the Soviet Union. However, everything is unexpected. If Hitler postpones his attack on the Soviet Union, even if it is delayed for half a month, it will have a major impact on the situation in Outer Mongolia.

, it was not that Hitler did not want to fight, but that he was not prepared enough and had to postpone it. This was not what Hitler wanted, but it had to be done.

Among them, the most obvious one is the war between the Soviet army and the Japanese Kwantung Army. There is no doubt that within a month or so of the message, the Japanese Kwantung Army will definitely not be able to withstand the attack of more than four million Soviet troops. The only way out is to spit out

The Far East of the Soviet Union retreated to the hinterland of Northeast China, but could Stalin let it go?

The Soviet troops that defeated the Kwantung Army had enough troops to attack the Northeast. If one of the front troops was mobilized to participate in the attack on itself, I am afraid that I would have to mobilize all the troops in the north to compete with the Soviet army. Next, recover

In Northeast China, we were not fighting the Japanese Kwantung Army, but a direct face-to-face fight with the Soviet Army. This was not in line with our strategic vision.

After careful weighing, Tang Qiuli finally made up his mind to stick to the front line of Saiyin Mountain and prevent the Soviet army from continuing to move south. Making this determination was undoubtedly a heavy decision for Tang Qiuli, which meant that it would be used to attack

The Japanese Kwantung Army's troops would consume a large part of them in the battle with the Soviet army. They had to do so as a last resort, which can explain Tang Qiuli's mood at this moment.

Tang Qiuli walked back to the headquarters in Saiyin Shanda City and said to Chief of Staff Zhao Yuhe: "Yuhe, record the following orders. Feng Jiwu's Niangziguan garrison will leave four brigades of troops, led by the corps commander.

Under the command of officer Feng Jiwu, we held the Jinzhou defense line in western Liaoning. The rest of the troops, under the command of Chief of Staff Zhang Hansheng, immediately rushed to Saiyinsanda in Outer Mongolia. The combat sequence was placed under the command of the directly affiliated corps."

"Sun Zhenbang's Outer Mongolia Field Corps will immediately head to the Saiyinshanda area to participate in the battle against the Soviet army. The above two units must arrive at the designated position as quickly as possible and wait for the next order from the division headquarters!"

Zhao Yuhe said calmly: "Commander, you are going to have a big fight with the Soviet army at Saiyin Shanda!"

Tang Qiuli smiled and said: "It's not that I want to fight, but that Vasilevskiy refuses to give up. In less than three days, the leading troops of the Soviet army will be at the gate of Saiyinsanda. If possible,

I don’t want to fight this battle. Two corps plus most of the Niangziguan garrison, more than 700,000

The strength was enough to compete with the Soviet Outer Mongolia Front Army. Yu He sent a telegram to Liu Cuigang, saying that the Northern Flying Group would participate in the Seyinshanda battle. Battelle immediately commanded the armored forces in the Pingjin area and headed for Seyinshanda.

If you want to fight, use all your family wealth!"

Tang Qiuli gave an order, and all the participating regiments and armored units of the Duli Division immediately set off from their respective stations and rushed to the front line of Saiyin Mountain. In the winter, the prairie of Inner Mongolia was noisy and boiling. On various roads, the grassland soil

On the road, convoys and infantry marches of Duli Division troops could be seen everywhere. In the sky, formations of fighter jets and bombers were seen from time to time, rumbling past and landing at the field airport around Erenhot.

The various regiments of the Li Division were waiting for the Soviet army to arrive. According to Tang Qiuli's judgment, Vasilevsky's leading troops would arrive at the city of Saiyinsanda in no more than three days, which was the beginning of the battle.

However, on April 3, the Soviet army still did not take any action. The intelligence sent back by the reconnaissance troops sent out was basically the same, "Our reconnaissance unit has arrived at the outskirts of Kulun. After reconnaissance, it was found that the Soviet troops did not move southward.

There are no signs, but to rest and recuperate at the current station!"

Tang Qiuli was confused. He was puzzled and puzzled. What was Vasilevsky doing? Why had no action been taken after five days? What was he waiting for?

The battlefield in southern Outer Mongolia fell into an abnormal silence. The Soviet army stood still in the Kulun area, and Tang Qiuli stood ready at the front line of Saiyin Mountain. However, the battle did not happen as expected.

But in the Far East, there were fireworks everywhere, blood and flesh flying everywhere, and smoke everywhere.

On March 31, the Soviet Lake Baikal Front arrived at the Chita line and joined the Soviet Trans-Xing'anling Front, which had arrived earlier. Then, the troops split into two groups to form the Eastern Attack Group. On April 1, the two Soviet army groups respectively

Taking Chita and Nerchinsk as the starting points for the attack, they stabbed the Japanese Kwantung Army on the front line of the Outer Xing'an Mountains with two knives on the side and back. The Soviet army's attack on the Japanese Kwantung Army began!

Just when General Nanjiro, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Kwantung Army, was hurriedly mobilizing troops and preparing for a counterattack in response to the attack from the side and rear, four hours later, General Zhukov commanded more than two million troops belonging to the Soviet Far East Front.

On the frontal front, which had been confronting the Japanese Kwantung Army for two years, a full-frontal offensive was launched. The more than 1.8 million Japanese Kwantung Army troops were immediately plunged into a three-pronged attack and were in a dangerous situation of being attacked from both sides.

General Nanjiro, the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, is really in trouble this time. More than 4.5 million Soviet troops are attacking in three directions. The pressure on himself is not ordinary. If there are no external reinforcements, the Kwantung Army will be safe outside.

The Kwantung Army could not hold out for more than a week on the front line of the Ridge. This was without being cut off by the Soviet army from retreating to Manchuria. If the Soviet army divided its forces and marched directly to Khabarovsk, the Kwantung Army would not be able to retreat to Manchuria even if it wanted to.

arrive.

Facing two million Soviet troops, with the well-trained training of the Kwantung Army and the bushido spirit of the imperial soldiers who were not afraid of death, General Nanjiro was fearless and confident that he could win. If the Soviet troops had less than three million troops,

On the left and right, with his own command ability, the elite of the Kwantung Army, General Nanjiro, dared to fight and blocked the Soviet army to the north of Waixing'an Mountains, making it impossible for them to move forward.

However, they faced more than 4.5 million Soviet troops. They were divided into three groups and came like a tide. The comparison of the strength of the troops was more than doubled. If the Kwantung Army could fight again, General Nanjiro's commanding skills would

No matter how proficient he was, he could not make up for the disadvantage in military strength, so an urgent telegram from the Kwantung Army Headquarters flew to the Japanese mainland like a spark.

((To be continued...)