I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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Fu Zuoyi looked calm: "We have always been preparing for the counterattack of the Soviet army, so you didn't say that!"

"No! No!" Schedrin repeated, "Your Excellency, I am afraid that you have underestimated the strength of the Soviet counterattack. Stalin himself gave this counterattack the codename 'Big Avalanche'. I am afraid that 50 Soviet troops will be thrown into this massive counterattack." Counterattack, and equipped with a large number of tanks, artillery, and cavalry.

A week ago, the Soviet Army Headquarters secretly established the "Ural Front Army" in the Ural Military Region. This front army is very strong, with at least two army groups and many mechanized troops!"

Fu Zuoyi was taken aback, but remained calm on the surface: "Your information has some value, but it's not particularly valuable!"

Schedrin gritted his teeth, and took out the last information in his stomach: "Your Excellency, the main direction of the Soviet counterattack in this counterattack is in the north of Omsk! The Soviet army will first pretend to attack Omsk and the south of Omsk to contain the enemy. Your troops then detoured to the north of Omsk with the real main force, tore apart your encirclement of the four cities in North Asia, opened a gap in the northwest of the encirclement of the four cities in North Asia, and joined forces with the Soviet army in the four cities of North Asia , and then fight back against Omsk together!"

Fu Zuoyi frowned faintly. He admitted in his heart that what Xie Delin said just now was indeed of great value. He immediately provided the main attack direction and rough plan of the Soviet army's counterattack. If the Nanjing army took the right countermeasure, it would naturally You can take the lead, but... "You are just a lieutenant colonel and chief of staff, how do you know this?" Fu Zuoyi asked coldly.

"I learned about this from the division commander Trotsky, and my 99th division was ordered to go to Tyumen. The northern part of the city is secretly assembled, and a large number of tanks have also been assembled in Tyumen!" Schedrin thought emotionally, logically, and finally, he said amazingly, "And the time for the Soviet army to launch a counterattack is tomorrow! Tomorrow night! Your Excellency General , your time is running out!"

Fu Zuoyi's heart trembled suddenly, and he looked at Xie Delin with a sullen face and sharp eyes.

Xiedlin could see the meaning of Fu Zuoyi's expression, and he said quickly: "Your Excellency, I never lied! Now, I am in your hands. If I deceive you, I will definitely die in your hands. How could I To deceive you?"

Fu Zuoyi looked at the guards beside him: "Watch him!" Then he got up and left.

Half an hour later, several senior generals of the Nanjing Army of Champion City gathered for an emergency meeting. The participants included Commander-in-Chief Fu Zuoyi, Deputy Commander Wei Lihuang, Chief of Staff Guo Jiqiao, Deputy Chief of Staff Zhou Fu, and the 77th Army Army commander Huang Wei, deputy army commander Wang Yaowu, army chief of staff Shi Weifu, and army deputy chief of staff Zhang Shaofang.

The troops of the Nanjing Army in the Champion City area are the 77th Army, which has five divisions under its jurisdiction, the 77th, 74th, 180th, 201st, and 202nd Divisions. Among them, the 180th Division is stationed in Baku, and the remaining four The divisions are all in Champion City, with a total strength of about 14.

Among the four divisions in Champion City, the 77th Division is an armored division and the only real armored division in the Nanjing Army and even the entire Chinese army. The 74th Division is a mechanized infantry division. The 201st and 202nd divisions are ordinary infantry divisions. , but also has a lot of pack animals, bicycles and many cars, and a self-propelled heavy artillery regiment is stationed here (the Nanjing Army has two self-propelled heavy artillery regiments, one in Baku and one in Champion City).

Regarding the information provided by this Soviet lieutenant colonel named Xiedlin, the eight generals had different opinions (the eight were all generals, Fu Zuoyi was the second-rank general, Wei Lihuang, Guo Jiqiao, Huang Wei, and Wang Yaowu were all lieutenant generals, and Zhou Fu , Shi Weifu, and Zhang Shaofang are all major generals).

Wei Lihuang looked solemn: "Everyone, we have received a lot of information before, which proves that the Soviet Army is massively strengthening the strength of the eastern battlefield. The headquarters believes that this move by the Soviet Army has two intentions. One is Simply defending, I just want to fight a defensive war to prevent our army from launching a new round of offensive after the arrival of spring. The second is to fight a localized, medium-scale, and high-intensity counterattack.

Whether it is the former or the latter, they are all under the control of our army. We are not too surprised by the information provided by Schedrin. If the Soviet army really wants to fight back, the most troublesome thing for us is that we don't know when the Soviet army will attack. Hit, where to hit.

Schedrin solved our thorny problem, and according to the information he provided, the Soviet army will launch tomorrow night!" He looked down at his watch, "It is eleven o'clock at noon, and there are still about thirty hours until tomorrow night.

We are running out of time! "

"Xie Delin said that the main attack direction of the Soviet army is the northern part of Champion City. They will tear apart our army's encirclement of the four cities in North Asia, join forces with the Soviet army in the four cities of North Asia, and then launch a large-scale attack on Champion City!" Wang Yaowu said, "We still have [-] hours to dispatch our troops. The time is very tight and cannot be wasted, but..." He changed the subject, "These are all based on the fact that what Schedrin said is true. In case Was he telling a lie?"

Zhou Fu frowned: "This Xie Delin may be dead!"

Shijian, one of the Five Art of War, means "dead soldier spy". This kind of spy sneaks into the enemy's camp with the idea of ​​never returning and surely dying to spread false information. Your side wins the battle.

Shi Weifu nodded: "We can't be fooled.

Ladies and gentlemen, don't forget that during the Battle of Nanjing, we played this trick against the Japanese army, thereby luring the Japanese army to the north of Nanjing City, and then wiped out the No.16 Division in the south of the Nanjing Army.

Now, the Soviets are planning to do the same to us, and we must not repeat the mistakes of the Japanese!"

Huang Wei hesitated for a moment: "Schedrin may indeed be dead, but we can't rule out the possibility that he is sincerely relying on us! Ladies and gentlemen, you all know that the Soviet Union can be said to be at the end of the day, and its social order and The state apparatus is collapsing, people's hearts are falling apart, and more and more Soviets choose to surrender to us.

From the end of last year to the present, we have successively accepted more than 1 Soviets from the Soviet-controlled area to surrender to us here in Champion City. There was even an incident where a battalion of the Soviet Army broke away from the defense line and surrendered to us. .

It is said that the Soviet Army Headquarters has adopted the method of detaining the families of officers and soldiers as hostages to force the Soviet Army to dare not surrender.

It can be seen from this that the Soviet Union has lost its hearts, and Schedrin is very likely to be a middle-level and senior officer of the Soviet Army who sincerely surrendered to us.

If we don't believe him, if we don't change the deployment of troops in time, if the Soviet army really launches a large-scale counterattack to the north of Champion City as Schedrin said, wouldn't we be mistaken by our cleverness? "

Zhang Shaofang nodded: "I support the view of the military seat. Although we have to be alert, we can't stick to the rules!"

Guo Jiqiao said: "We can't stick to the rules, but we can't really be fooled either.

In fact, the Soviets really played tricks, and it was a simple trick. However, sometimes the simpler the trick, the more it can deceive people to death.

From an objective analysis, I think it is feasible for the Soviet army to launch a counterattack to the north of Champion City.

The northern part of Champion City is a desolate forest, sea and snowfield. Our army did not deploy heavy troops there. In fact, this is not allowed by natural conditions. However, in the northwest of Kazakhstan in the south of Champion City, our army has Li Yutang's 100th Army with 16 troops. Elite soldiers, the Soviet army launched a strong attack on the southern part of Champion City, and they will definitely be hit with blood.

In fact, everyone, don't forget that the Soviet army really detoured from the north of Champion City, what kind of troops did they encounter?It is the four group armies commanded by Luo Zhuoying. Everyone knows the combat effectiveness of those four group armies, right? "

Huang Wei agreed: "Although Luo Zhuoying's four group armies cannot be said to be weak, they are indeed not powerful. On the one hand, they come from the south, and their weapons and equipment, training level, and actual combat experience are far inferior to our Nanjing army. In terms of ammunition, It is only a quarter of the Nanjing Army, and it is not that the second son favors each other. We are on the front line and they are in the rear. Their ammunition must not be as sufficient as ours; In the four cities of Asia, the area of ​​the encirclement circle is too vast, so the density of troops on the encirclement line is not high.

In comparison, Luo Zhuoying's four armies are indeed a persimmon!"

Wei Lihuang frowned and said: "It can be seen from this that what Xie Delin said is true!"

Fu Zuoyi, who had been silent all this time, was obviously hesitant and indecisive. He pondered for a while, then looked at Zhou Fu: "Xu Ren (Zhou Fu's expression), did the Maritime Bureau provide any information?"

Zhou Fu said: "There is a lot of relevant information, but not much.

The spy agencies of the Maritime Statistics Bureau in Tyumen, Kurgan, Yekaterinburg, and Chelyabinsk discovered that the Soviet army had built more than ten large airports in these four cities, especially Tyumen. Half of the airports were in Tyumen, and the airports were densely displayed. There are more and more tanks gathered in several large Soviet barracks on the outskirts of Tyumen, these are all certain, and our reconnaissance planes have also proved this, but..."

"Just what?" Fu Zuoyi asked.

"It's just that those were seen from a distance!" Zhou Fu said, "The Soviet army adopted a strict wartime military control system for these four cities. Everything was militarized and the population was restricted. The local population was strictly counted. It also requires mutual supervision. Those who expose and report suspicious elements can be rewarded. Those who do not report or who appear around enemy spies or traitors who serve the enemy will be severely punished. The implementation in the city is the same, which has greatly restricted the agents of the Bureau of Maritime Statistics lurking in these four cities. Shu Guosheng told me that more than 80 agents of the Bureau of Maritime Statistics have lost contact in these four cities, or To be arrested, or to be executed, has a lot to lose.

Therefore, the aircraft groups and tank groups of the Soviet Army can only catch a glimpse of the leopard, and it is difficult to verify.

I suspect that a large part of those planes and tanks may be made of wood, anyway, it is difficult for our agents to approach, and our reconnaissance planes can only have a bird's-eye view from the sky, and we cannot know whether it is true or not!"

"It's really uncomfortable for a blind man to ride a blind horse!" Fu Zuoyi smiled wryly.

"Boss, we must make up our minds early!" Huang Wei was a little uneasy, "After all, we are running out of time!"

Fu Zuoyi didn't speak. He knew that the matter was of great importance and he couldn't make a hasty decision.

"Report!" The voice of Liao Yaoxiang, the deputy commander of the 74th Division, came from outside the meeting room. After getting permission, he walked in quickly, saluted Fu Zuoyi and others, and then took out a report.

"An urgent report from Peng Bisheng, the commander of the 74th Brigade of the 76th Division!" Liao Yaoxiang said urgently, "The 761rd Battalion of the 3st Regiment of the brigade suddenly fell in the mountains, forests and snow fields more than 170 kilometers northwest of Champion City two hours ago. Encountered with a large group of Soviet troops, a fierce battle broke out between the two sides, only more than 3 people survived from the 120rd Battalion, and they are returning at full speed, but a report has been sent by radio!"

"What?" The generals on the scene were taken aback. A battalion of the Nanjing Army had almost 1000 people, and 900 of them were eaten up at once. It can be seen that the 761rd Battalion of the 3st Regiment must have encountered Su Su at the brigade level or even the division level. Army, not regular Border Patrol.

"It seems that a large number of Soviet troops are indeed moving to the north of Champion City!" Fu Zuoyi frowned, "Do the Soviets really want to launch a counterattack against us in the north instead of the south?"

Chapter 524 Big Avalanche (4)

Time: 1941:2 pm on February 7, 4;

Location: On the eastern foot of the Ural Mountains, in the suburbs of Tyumen.

Marshal Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny, the new commander of the Ural Military Region of the Soviet Army, looked at everything in front of him with extremely complicated emotions: the land that was originally covered with snow has now become It became taupe, and the boundless taupe replaced the original boundless white, and this boundless taupe was composed of countless Soviet officers and soldiers, extending from Budyonny's eyes to the distant horizon, completely flooded his field of vision.

Under ideal circumstances, a person can only see 1 people on flat ground at most, and 1 people are enough to completely fill a person's vision. On the slope, the field of vision is wider, but it is still packed because there are too many people.

These Soviet troops belonged to the newly established "Ural Front Army". Although Budyonny was not the commander of the Front Army, he also had the right to command this huge army.

Although the number of troops in his hand was so large that it was sensational, Budyonny didn't feel any ambition. On the contrary, his heart was more of a kind of powerless desolation.

Budyonny remembers very clearly that there were more Soviet troops participating in the Kiev battle than the current Ural Front army, but so what?Thinking of the tragic situation where the entire army was wiped out and the descendants were everywhere, Budyonny felt extremely painful.

Although victory and defeat are commonplace in military affairs, one cannot lose too many battles, let alone a big one.

Budyonny knew that the Soviet Union no longer had much property, and there was not much capital that could continue to be used in this war. If the Ural Front Army did not win this big counterattack, the Soviet Union would really be doomed.

Thinking of this, Budyonny sighed softly.

The assembled Soviet army was like streams and rivers converging into a lake. Budyonny could clearly see a long stream of Soviet officers and soldiers pouring in continuously, pouring into this large gray-brown lake all over the mountains and plains.

Although the officers tried their best to maintain order, the scene was still extremely chaotic. All kinds of noisy voices, shouts, and noises converged into a huge overwhelming sound wave, which was deafening, like the ocean before a thunderstorm.

Budyonny turned his attention to the details from the whole. He saw that most of the Soviet officers and soldiers who were entering the assembly area were driven forward by the officers like sheep with a look of panic or bewilderment.

Large trucks were conspicuously parked at the edge of the assembly area, loaded with hills of weapons and ammunition, red flags fluttering beside the vehicles, political officers waved red flags with all their might, and shouted something with their horns, Budyonny You don't need to listen to know what they are shouting, it is nothing more than those old mobilization slogans, and the political officers are surrounded by quartermasters, distributing weapons to the soldiers.

Budyonny could see clearly that a soldier was issued with a rifle and a magazine, and a magazine had only five bullets.

"A new recruit who just joined the army again?" Budyonny felt uncomfortable, and then he saw another weapon distribution place, where two soldiers who lined up to receive weapons were actually assigned a gun.

"It can't be helped!" Zhukov, the commander of the front army, came over. He saw Budyonny's thoughts, sighed, and said in a low voice, "we must try our best to save weapons and ammunition!"

"Since they are on the battlefield, giving them weapons is the most basic thing! Even if they never return, we must maintain the bottom line. We send them to the battlefield to fight, not to die!" Budyonny couldn't bear it , "If you don't send them guns and let them go to the battlefield, how can they fight?"

Zhukov showed the same unbearable feeling, and he was also moved with compassion. After a pause, he added in a low voice: "Those soldiers with two guns are all Tatars, Chuvash or Chechens!"

Budyonny oh, he felt a little more comfortable, as long as he is not Russian.

The old general of the Soviet Army was a Russian of pure blood, with traditional Russian characteristics in his thinking and style: he was a little soft-hearted to his own people, but he was cruel to foreigners at home and abroad, including non-Russians in his own country.

During the Soviet-Russian Red and White War, Budyonny led his cavalry army to sweep across Kazakhstan. Wherever he went, no chickens and dogs were left, and no grass grew. The reason why even one village in the territory is named.

Vasilevsky, chief of staff of the military region and chief of staff of the front army, came over: "It's getting dark, it's time to attack!"

Zhukov nodded, picked up a tweeter, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Red Army soldiers!"

The audience slowly fell silent.

"For Stalin! For the Soviet! For our motherland!" Zhukov couldn't help himself, tears welled up in his eyes, "Ulla!"

After a second of silence, the earth-shattering "Ural" resounded throughout the Ural Mountains.

Time: 1941:2 pm on February 7, 7;

Location: A small village called tapa (Tara) more than 130 kilometers north of Champion City (Omsk).

Zhong Song, the commander of the 77th Division of the Nanjing Army, and Hu Lian, the deputy commander, stood on a small hillside completely covered by snow. The two first raised their binoculars to look due west, and then showed disappointed and worried expressions together. Because they can't see anything.

The latitude here is very high, and it is winter now, and the night falls after four o'clock in the afternoon. The sky and the earth are dark, and the sky is like a big pot lid, which blends with the earth in the distance.

Looking up, you can only see the endless virgin forest, and what you see is the endless black and dense white spots, which are the snow on the top of the trees, which is so vast that it is daunting.

"It's fucking snowing again!" Zhong Song cursed, "Damn place! Damn weather!" He raised his head, and there were big balls of snowflakes falling, and the razor-like cold wind brought the bone-chilling pain even more. cold.

In fact, in this temperature of minus [-] to [-] degrees, if a person freezes for a long time, his body will become numb and unconscious.

"It's really a ghost place and a ghost weather!" Hu Lian also felt annoyed, "Master, you see, this is the Novosibirsk Great Plain, such a large place, but so flat, there is almost no difference in altitude in a radius of hundreds of kilometers, and it is so flat. It's like a chopping block, it's hell! This kind of terrain is very unsuitable for defensive warfare, because there is almost no danger to rely on, there are neither mountains nor hills, and the army is completely on flat ground!" He looked up at the sky, "It's snowing The sky prevented our reconnaissance planes from dispatching, and these endless forests made it impossible for us to see the enemy's situation clearly!"

"Yes!" Zhong Song became more and more upset, "So I sent hundreds of reconnaissance teams, hoping to find out the enemy's situation in advance! Boyu (Hu Lian's name), do you think the Soviet army will really make a big detour from here? Fight back?"

"If it were me, I would choose here!" Hu Lian was very sure, "Look, Master, this place is too flat, there are no mountains, no big rivers and rivers, even if there are rivers and lakes, they are frozen solid. Great for marching.

From Champion City to the north, after more than 2000 kilometers, there is the Arctic Ocean. Theoretically speaking, this distance of [-] kilometers can allow the Soviet army to make a big detour, but the further north, the worse the natural conditions and the more difficult the march. .

We only have 10,000+ people. Do we want to build a defense line of more than 2000 kilometers from Champion City to the Arctic Ocean?There are too many loopholes that the Soviet army can take advantage of! "

Zhong Song's heart was heavy, he turned to look at the troops.

The 77th Division is the number one force in the Nanjing Army, with first-class quality and quantity. The total strength of the division is as high as 77, and it is equipped with a large number of tanks, armored vehicles, armored vehicles, automobiles, artillery, self-propelled artillery, and half-tracked vehicles. The level of mechanization of automobiles has reached the level of the German armored division (the [-]th division is actually equivalent to a German armored army in terms of scale). The direct descendant of the elite, the elite of the elite, and the "Pearl in the Palm" of the Nanjing Army Headquarters.

Among other things, it can be seen from the military expenditure alone: ​​an ordinary infantry division of the Nanjing Army will receive 200 million yuan in military expenditures in French currency every month, while the 77th division will receive more than 600 million yuan (equivalent to about 200 million U.S. dollars) per month. , not because of anything else, but because the 77th Division has a large number of soldiers and a large number of chariots that burn oil and money (in the original history, an ordinary infantry division of the national army would receive a military appropriation of 50 yuan a month, Nanjing The army has sufficient personnel and excellent equipment, so the cost is naturally greater.

From this, it is not difficult to imagine how much it would cost Jiang Weiguo to raise his millions of Nanjing troops.

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