Selenginsk, a small and unknown city in the past, is now famous with the long-term confrontation between China and Russia. Zhukov has led his 700,000-strong army here and Bai Chongxi’s 300,000-strong army.
The confrontation has been going on here for nearly a year.
During this year, both sides seemed to have returned to the trench warfare era of World War I. Both sides were constantly reinforcing their fortifications, as if this was not enough to eliminate the psychological fear. The continuous fortifications were filled with color
The small city of Lenginsk stretches for hundreds of kilometers as the center. While trying to protect itself, it also tries to kill the enemy as much as possible.
Bai Chongxi and Zhukov are like two evenly matched boxers in the ring. Both sides are carefully sizing up each other. While they are carefully protecting themselves, they are sizing up their opponents' weaknesses. They are waiting for the other side to reveal their weaknesses before pounce on them.
Kill the opponent in one fell swoop.
Snow has begun to fall in Siberia in November. The climate conditions in this place known as the place of exile are still so harsh. The ruthless snowflakes and biting cold wind can get into your clothes from any unexpected place.
.Nature is fair. It will not favor anyone because of your camp. They will not hesitate to suck away the remaining heat in your body and take away your health, limbs and even life.
Both China and Russia learned a lot from this protracted confrontation. The Russians learned that the Chinese people opposite them were not synonymous with timidity, cowardice and incompetence as they had heard before, with a pigtail on the back of their head.
, they also have the qualities of an excellent soldier, tough, tenacious, and not afraid of sacrifice.
The Chinese soldiers here also saw that the Slavs were addicted to alcohol, brave, tenacious and good at fighting, but their way of dealing with things was quite extreme.
It was still dark, and the stars were still shining faintly in the gray sky. Fan Bingbing, who was still sleeping at this time, was woken up from his sleep by Cheng Kai.
"Fan Bingbing, it's time to get up and patrol." A loud voice rang in Fan Bingbing's ears, waking everyone in the room up.
"Come on, come on, you lazy guys, it's patrol time. If I don't see you gathered outside in five minutes, I will push you all into the snow to take a winter bath. I will make sure that all of you...
Be energetic." Cheng Kai's voice was still so loud that even the nearby barracks heard it.
This is a remote village more than 100 kilometers away from Selenginsk. It is also the location of Cheng Kai's Sixth Tank Company. Because there are large numbers of troops on the front battlefield of Selenginsk, there is no major battle.
, so the majestic 2nd Armored Division was assigned to the nearby area and took charge of patrolling.
Amidst bursts of roaring sounds, six armored personnel carriers and eight Siberian Tiger tanks slowly drove out of the camp and headed towards the prescribed patrol route.
Ever since Su Tong started fighting with the Japanese in the Northeast and Vladivostok, the Zhukov Group, which had been relatively peaceful, began to make moves again. They continued to send small groups of troops to harass the Selenginsk rear line, and some even reached the
Ulan-Ude, Siberia is so big anyway, no one can really blockade such a large place.
The Soviets continued to harass the Chahar army's rear line of defense. They bombed an oil depot today and ambushed a convoy the next. This kind of sparrow tactics really gave Bai Chongxi a headache, so he had to send more mobile patrol teams to various important roads.
patrol.
The tank was driving on a rugged road, and the constant shaking and vibrating body of the tank drove Fan Bingbing's remaining drowsiness away. As the vanguard of the entire company, the heavy responsibility of observing the road conditions ahead and the enemy's situation fell on his shoulders.
"0036, report the road conditions ahead and surrounding intelligence." The voice of company commander Cheng Kai came from the headset.
White snowflakes kept falling in front of Fan Bingbing's observation lenses, which greatly affected his vision. Wiping the foggy lenses with his sleeve, Fan Bingbing complained: "Zero Zero Three Six
No target has been found. Damn it, it’s still dark. There is just a fog two hundred meters ahead. It’s so gray that I can’t see anything.”
"Observe carefully and report immediately if there is any situation." Cheng Kai also knew that his vision was not good now, so he asked as usual and stopped asking questions.
This small team just shuttled through the fog, and did not stop until daybreak and the fog dissipated. But when the team stopped, Fan Bingbing discovered that the surrounding scenery was not the patrol area he was familiar with.
Already.
"Boss, it seems we are going in the wrong direction. This is the territory controlled by Lao Maozi." During the break, Fan Bingbing said in shame to Cheng Kai, who had been frowning at the map.
As a leading car, it actually steered the convoy in the wrong direction, which was really a shameful thing to do to grandma's house.
Cheng Kai did not pay attention to him immediately. After a long time, he raised his head and said, "Judging from the direction and speed of our march, we should be here, more than 30 kilometers behind the Soviet position. This is Lao Maozi's place."
, we have to leave quickly, otherwise we won’t be able to leave until we are discovered by Lao Maozi.”
"But we can't go the way we came, because it takes too long. We have to go from here, through a place called Puning Village, and then walk another twenty miles to our defense zone."
Time was urgent, Cheng Kai and Fan Bingbing immediately started the tank and drove in the other direction. The sound of the rumbling diesel engine sounded again in the wilderness.
After the troops marched for half an hour, the shadow of a small village appeared in Fan Bingbing's telescope, "Company, we found a village ahead. We have arrived at Puning Village. Oh no, how come there are so many tanks and vehicles here?"
Damn it, everyone, stop the car and come over quickly, something big has happened." Fan Bingbing's urgent voice came from the headset.
Hearing Fan Bingbing's exclamation, Cheng Kai quickly ordered the troops to stop the tank and came to Fan Bingbing's side.
"Lian Zuo, look quickly. Why are there so many tanks and vehicles and so many personnel in front of us? I roughly counted them and found that there are more than two hundred vehicles. This is almost the size of an armored division." Fan
Bingbing's expression was very bad. No matter who he was, he would not feel good if he found someone holding a sharp knife on his lower back.
In this small village, Soviet tanks are neatly placed. The tanks are also covered with white camouflage nets, and there are faint figures and vehicles moving in the woods behind the small village.
Cheng Kai held up the telescope and looked slowly and carefully. After a long time, he took a long breath and said solemnly: "We have never seen these types of tanks. It seems that they are Lao Maozi's new tanks. Such a tank
The elite tank divisions are not placed on the frontal battlefield of Selenginsk, but are placed on our flanks. What do they want to do?"
Cheng Kai and Fan Bingbing looked at each other, a hint of shock flashed through their eyes at the same time, "Sneak attack"
"If I predict correctly, there must be more follow-up troops behind this tank unit."
Rows of sweat oozed from Cheng Kai's forehead. He urgently ordered Fan Bingbing, "Telegram the situation here immediately to the headquarters and tell Chief Bai that the 100,000 fire is urgent."
"yes"
The Ulan-Ude command "reported an urgent report from the front. A lost tank squad of our army discovered a large number of Soviet tank troops, at least one tank division, in a small village on the flank of our army. According to the team,
It is estimated that there should be more troops behind this tank division."
Bai Chongxi, who was signing a document, was startled by the staff officer's urgent report. He immediately stood up and stood in front of the large map hanging on the wall.
Bai Chongxi asked in a deep voice: "What's the name of that village?"
"Puning Village is right here, less than twenty miles away from the defense line of our 30th Division." The staff officer walked to the map and pointed the direction to the commander.
"Haha, a large number of troops quietly moved to my flank. Even our reconnaissance planes didn't notice it. The concealment work was done so well. It seems that Zhukov had a big plan. He wanted to make a surprise attack with the strength of his troops.
"?" Bai Chongxi said with a smile, but a sharp light flashed in his eyes.
Bai Chongxi broke out in a cold sweat while looking at the map. If the Soviet Union was allowed to use their tank division as the vanguard and a large number of follow-up troops to advance deep into our positions, then the entire Selenginsk defense line would be held hostage by Zhukov.
As the army was torn apart in one fell swoop, he would have to lead his troops to retreat to Ulan-Ude or even Chita. The most important thing was that if the Siberian Army of 300,000 people he led was destroyed by Zhukov
When Bai Chongxi thought of this, he felt his heart twitch violently. He was leading almost all the elites of Chahar. If they were lost in his own hands, all the huge territory Su Tong had conquered would be lost.
He will also become Chahar, not the eternal sinner of all China
No, we must not let this happen.
Bai Chongxi composed himself and ordered: "Order the entire 2nd Air Force Division to take off, the 3rd Air Force Division to be on emergency standby, and the bomber units are all loaded with ammunition. The tank divisions targeting Puning Village must kill this poison that Zhukov buried around us.
Take off the thorns for me."
"Also, order all B17 bombers to be loaded with ammunition and wipe the village called Puning from the face of the earth."
When he said this, Bai Chongxi's face seemed to be filled with clouds, "Go and tell the reconnaissance brigade that if they haven't detected the size and movement of the Soviet army this time, they will wait to go to a military court."
While Bai Chongxi ordered the air force to dispatch urgently, he also issued an emergency alert order to the frontline troops, and urgently transferred two infantry divisions from Ulan-Ude to Selenginsk for reinforcements in case of emergency needs.