The door of the "Peng" office in the Nanjing Ministry of National Defense Building was pushed open, and a communications staff officer ran in panting, waving a telegram in his hand, "Sir, sir, Kazan, Kazan has entered."
As the staff officer's loud voice sounded in the office, everyone in the office looked at the staff officer.
Only then did this reckless guy realize that more than a dozen figures with shining golden shoulders in the office were looking at him intently. Among them stood a man in his thirties wearing a Chinese tunic suit. His appearance was somewhat delicate but his expression was...
As a young man with an unruffled and confident temperament, the staff officer felt an invisible breath that almost suffocated him, pressing him so hard that he could hardly breathe.
A major general with two stars on his shoulders asked solemnly, "What on earth is going on?"
This Major General is Xu Li, Director of the Staff Operations Division of the Ministry of National Defense, and this staff officer who broke in rashly is one of his direct subordinates. Today was the day when Su Tong came to the Ministry of National Defense to listen to the report. Even the Prime Minister of the State Council Li Zongren
, Defense Minister Jiang Baili, Chief of Staff Bai Chongxi and other senior officials were present to listen to the report. Seeing his subordinates being embarrassed in front of so many superiors, Xu Li was very unhappy, so his tone was also very bad.
Only then did this rash staff officer realize his recklessness. His rash rush into the office must have left a frivolous and unstable impression on his superiors, which is something a staff officer tried his best to avoid.
"Sir, me, me, me." Realizing that he had disturbed the chief's discussion, the staff officer stood on the spot at a loss, his face turning red.
Seeing the appearance of the staff officer, Su Tong, who was standing in the middle of the crowd, couldn't help but smile softly and said gently: "Okay, don't stand there, what is the good thing that makes you so excited."
"Uh" Seeing the president asking himself something, the staff officer was a little stunned.
"You idiot, why don't you answer the president's question quickly?" Xu Li, who was standing by, saw the staff member's dumbfounded look and cursed.
"Oh," the staff officer who finally came to his senses quickly stood at attention, saluted everyone and said loudly, "Senior officers, Commander Sun of the Second Army Group has come to report that the Second Army Group has passed by.
After a whole day of fighting, we successively captured the Soviet army's outer positions in Kazan yesterday afternoon, annihilating a total of nearly 70,000 Soviet troops, and are now organizing forces to launch street battles against the Soviet troops defending the urban area of Kazan."
"Well" Su Tong nodded noncommittally after listening to the staff officer's words, turned to Jiang Baili beside him and said: "Mr. Dan Ning, now that Kazan's periphery has been breached, do you think you should continue to order the troops to conquer Kazan in one go, or should you?
Use Kazan as a bait to lure more Soviet troops to encircle the point and provide reinforcements."
Jiang Baili touched his gray hair and pondered for a while before saying: "According to the intelligence, the Soviet army's strength in Kazan has reached 600,000. Although we have annihilated nearly 70,000 of them in the periphery, but
It can also be seen from here that the Soviet commanders did not intend to engage in large-scale field battles with us on the plains. Instead, they huddled their forces in the city and relied on the complex terrain to engage in street battles with us. This is how they were able to
One of the main reasons for the German army to stop in the suburbs of Moscow. The elite Germans have already suffered more than 400,000 casualties under the city of Moscow. We must be on guard. Kazan is a big city, like Moscow and Umyanovge.
Ledun is one of the three largest cities in Soviet Russia. If we want to capture Kazan, we will probably suffer a lot of casualties."
After hearing this, Su Tong sneered: "Humph, I want to use the same method as the Germans to deal with us and consume our troops. But they made the wrong calculation this time. We don't have anything else, but we have a lot of soldiers. We will start from now on."
The conscripted soldiers in North Korea and Vietnam are not just sitting around consuming food. There are one million people who eat and drink from us every day. Now it is their turn to work hard. Do you want to fight a war of attrition with us?
I will do as you wish.”
Having said this, a cold light flashed in Su Tong's eyes and he said sternly to Bai Chongxi: "The telegram orders Sun Liren that starting from today, all the troops of the Korean Army and the Vietnamese Army will take turns to attack Kazan day and night. In addition, from Vietnam and North Korea
If the two places recruit another 500,000 troops, even if Kazan is a bottomless pit, I will have to fill it up."
Bai Chongxi's heart tightened, knowing that this little fellow of his was going to kill someone with a borrowed knife again, but he had no objection to Su Tong's approach. After all, the person who died was not one of his compatriots, so he immediately replied solemnly: "Yes, I will do it right away."
Go give the order"
With the issuance of Su Tong's order, the historic city of Kazan immediately fell into a bloody storm.
General Chernyakhovsky Ivan Danilovich, commander-in-chief of the Kazan front line, was standing in front of a sand table with his hands behind his back, thinking about the battle situation in recent days.
General Chernyakhovsky was a brave and resourceful general on the Soviet side. Before the war began, he concluded that if the Soviet army was to fight on the plains outside Kazan with more than one million soldiers, it had been prepared for more than a year.
, the Chinese army, which has long been armed to the teeth, has no chance of winning in a field battle. The only way to defend Kazan is to turn Kazan into a strong fortress like Moscow and Umyanovgrad, and use the city
The complex terrain built countless fortresses to stop the Chinese attack and turned Kazan into their tomb. Only after they could no longer endure such heavy casualties might the Soviet army have a chance to save Kazan.
Some time ago, China transferred an army group back to the country. Their troops in Soviet Russia have been reduced to more than 3.5 million, and there are still many places to be stationed. With the vast territory of Soviet Russia, they must be able to mobilize
There won't be too many troops in Kazan, right? They will definitely win the battle quickly.
The facts did not surprise General Chernyakhovsky. After capturing Kazan's peripheral defense line, the Chinese side immediately launched an attack on the suburbs of Kazan. After receiving the report, Chernyakhovs
General Ki immediately ordered the troops to launch a counterattack according to the plan. As of today, the sound of gunfire has been heard in the suburbs of Kazan for three days. During these three days, the Soviet army has repelled dozens of attacks from the Chinese side. The battle situation is very serious.
In order to build fortifications, the headquarters ordered all Kazan citizens to take to the streets to help the army build bunkers, bunkers and other fortifications. In short, more than 900,000 Kazan citizens, young and old, all mobilized, turning Kazan into a
Huge military fortress.
After three days of fighting, the casualties on both sides were considerable, but generally speaking, as the attacker, the Chinese side suffered greater casualties than the Soviet Union. This can be concluded from the reports of each defense zone.
"Well, aren't the Chinese people very brave? Then let me drain all your blood here." Chernyakhovsky secretly thought that he still has more than 500,000 troops in his hands. According to this
Even if the Chinese army can capture Kazan with such a casualty ratio, their casualties will be at least 700,000 to 800,000. Chernyakhovsky believes that such a casualty rate is absolutely unacceptable to the Chinese side.
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Just when Chernyakhovsky was considering mobilizing that unit to take over the troops in a certain area that suffered heavy casualties, an officer came to report: "Report to Comrade Commander, our people captured several prisoners this morning. After interrogation,
Later I got some new information.”
"What's going on?" Chernyakhovsky asked casually without looking back.
"After our interrogation, we found that those prisoners were not regular Chinese troops, but servants of Vietnam and North Korea."
"What servant army?" Chernyakhovsky turned around in disbelief and asked sharply, "Have you asked clearly? All those who have participated in the attack in the past three days are those servant troops."
"Yes." There was a trace of helplessness in the officer's voice. "After interrogating the prisoners, we ordered each defense zone to check the corpses left by the enemy. The IDs they carried also showed that they were all Korean and Vietnamese soldiers. They only wore clothes.
Just put on the uniform of the Chinese National Defense Force."
"Assholes, these bastards, how can they do this? How can they do this?" At the end of the sentence, Chernyakhovsky's voice gradually lowered, yes, why can't they? Now the Chinese are obviously trying to make these servants
To consume the strength of the Soviet Russian army, and then think about the fact that behind these Chinese servants there is the even more abominable Russian bodyguard of Alexei, China’s number one lackey, and the Chinese National Defense Force, who are watching with covetousness. Chernyakhov
Ski's heart became cold.
"It turns out that the Chinese people are fighting the same doctrine as we are. I still underestimate those Chinese people too much."
Chernyakhovsky murmured, and then ordered sternly: "Send a report to Moscow immediately, tell Comrade Stalin the situation here, and ask Moscow to immediately send reinforcements, as well as aircraft and artillery, in greater numbers."
The more the merrier, I have a feeling the situation in Kazan will soon deteriorate."
"Yes, Comrade Commander." The officer saluted and immediately strode out.
When Chernyakhovsky's telegram was handed over to Stalin, it was already midnight in Moscow. Looking at the telegram asking for help in his hand, Stalin's trademark beard could not help but tremble a few times.
I originally thought that General Chernyakhovsky and 600,000 troops guarding Kazan could at least be able to resist the Chinese for more than half a year. Unexpectedly, the Chinese actually used despicable human sea tactics. What was even worse was that they
Just driving his army of servants to take turns to fight, while he watched the fun from behind, this also made Stalin feel entangled in his heart.
After thinking for a long time, Stalin finally made a decision. He picked up a red phone on the table: "General Staff? I order you to immediately send at least one group army or more troops to support Kazan. It must be fast. Kazan