Beiyang reactionaries

Liu Xiang began to count.

The size of the Soviet army was many.When the war broke out, the size of the Soviet army had exceeded 500 million people.More than 300 million people have been deployed in Europe and around 200 million in Novosibirsk and the Far East.

There are about 100 million Soviet troops on the opposite side of the Xinjiang Military Region.

Even with the addition of some other reserve units, the number of Soviet troops would not exceed 130 million.But there are at least 70 troops at the front of Tacheng alone.Looking at the mobilization of more than 3300 cannons and more than 2200 tanks on the front line of Tacheng, it can be said that the main force of the Soviet army is indeed on the Tacheng side.

"Is there any information on the mass mobilization of troops by the Soviet Army?"

"No."

Ge Jingen shook his head.

But said: "But there is a piece of information that the Soviet army has begun to mobilize, and it should be a large number of military expansion. Especially the situation in Irkutsk is unfavorable, and the Soviet Union should be more anxious."

"Ah."

Liu Xiang had a headache.

The Soviet army played cards uneasy.In order to protect Xinjiang, Liu Xiang deployed heavy troops in Yili and Tacheng.And in the Kashgar area, many troops have also been deployed, mainly to protect the Xinjiang-Tibet Highway.Therefore, on the Kashgar side, there are not only troops from Xinjiang, but also troops from Tibet.

However, the Soviet army did not control the Yili and Kashgar areas at all, and all the troops came completely towards Tacheng.

The Soviet army dispatched 11000 sorties in three days, which simply surpassed all previous wars.The number of aircraft dispatched by the Northern Military Region in a short period of time is astonishing, but it is not as violent as the Soviet Union.The Xinjiang Military Region used a large number of fighter jets to protect the airspace, and the Soviet army lost a large number of aircraft, more than a thousand.But the Soviet army didn't feel anything at all, and continued to strengthen air strikes and air combat.

Even Liu Xiang began to wonder how many planes there were in the Novosibirsk Military Region of the Soviet Union.Since the Sino-Soviet war, the Soviet Union has lost 3000 aircraft.This must be a great loss to the Soviet Union, but the Soviet Union doesn't seem to care at all.

Did the USSR have so many planes?

"Zhanhou (Ge Jingen), tell me, what exactly Budyonny wants to do? Do you really want to take Tacheng at all costs, or do you want me to mobilize some Yili troops to support Tacheng and then attack Yili?"

The commander-in-chief of the Soviet army currently attacking Xinjiang is Soviet Marshal Budyonny.

The five marshals of the Soviet Union, Tukhachevsky and Yegorov were executed, Voroshilov was at the top of the Soviet army, Blyuchel was the commander of the Far East Army, and Budyonny was the commander of the Novosibirsk Military District.

Liu Xiang was a little hesitant.

What did the Soviet Army want to do.Does Budyonny really want to take Tacheng, or does he want to mobilize troops from other places and attack from other places.

"Commander, I don't think it's possible."

"How to say?"

"I have also read a lot of books about the Soviet army. They focus on frontal breakthroughs. Including Tukhachevsky's theory of great depth, frontal defeat of the enemy is an important thing. You can see how many cannons the Soviet army is equipped with. They want to use powerful artillery fire to wipe out the enemies in front. Budyonny is a very good cavalry general and has made great contributions to the construction of the Soviet cavalry. He probably appreciates the offensive strategy of large depth rather than This kind of strategic deception. Moreover, the Soviet Union's traffic conditions in this area are not very good. If there is a large-scale troop transfer, we should be able to find out. Besides, judging from the attack of the Soviet Union's reinforcements in the past two days, the Soviet troops are not improvised. It must be the main force. I think Budyonny's strategic deception should be before the war, not now."

Ge Jingen's face was a little ugly.

From Ge Jingen's point of view, both Liu Xiang and himself were deceived by Budyonny.The deployment of the Soviet army was opposite to the Altay region, opposite to Tacheng, and opposite to Ili, including troops opposite to Kashgar.Because of this, the Xinjiang Military Region will disperse its forces and focus on protecting Tacheng, Yili, and Kashgar.But now it seems that the main force of the Soviet army is on the opposite side of Tacheng, and the Soviet army has only one goal, and that is Tacheng, which is Karamay.Whether it is Yili or Kashgar, they are all just to confuse the Chinese army.

Ge Jingen is the chief of staff of the Xinjiang Military Region, and his job is to analyze the enemy forces.Ge Jingen believed that it was his dereliction of duty.Although I thought that Tacheng was the main target of the Soviet army's attack, I didn't expect that the Soviet army would concentrate all its efforts on Tacheng.

"Ah."

Liu Xiang nodded.

After humans entered the industrial society, the potential for war became greater and greater.However, compared with the era of cold weapons, wars in the era of hot weapons have higher and higher demands on logistics.Therefore, the larger the war, the more difficult strategic deception becomes.

After all, with so many troops and so many logistics supplies, it is not easy to hide them.This is especially true for countries like China and the Soviet Union.Because the Chinese and Soviet armies were fighting, there were too many cannons and tanks mobilized, and a lot of shells were needed.The artillery shells fired by China and the Soviet Union in Xinjiang in the past few days, including the bombs dropped by planes, need thousands of train skins to transport them, and this is just the beginning.This war is fought for a month and a half, or even a few months, so the ammunition consumed is not tens of thousands of wagons, and 10,000+ wagons is simply impossible.The Soviet army has already mobilized such a large-scale army in the direction of Tacheng. It is not so easy to hide a large-scale army opposite Yili.

Yili is the headquarters of the Xinjiang Construction Corps, and there are a lot of troops there.It is impossible to defeat Ili's troops without 50 million troops.How much ammunition and logistics will be needed once so many troops fight, these things cannot be concealed.China's reconnaissance planes are not for nothing.

Liu Xiang pointed to Altay and said worriedly: "I'm actually worried about this place. I thought the Soviet army was scattered, but I didn't expect the Soviet army to play tricks on us. What I'm worried about now is whether the Soviet army will bypass Altay and attack Dihua (Urumqi)."

"Bypassing Altay is not a simple matter. From Altay to Dihua, the distance is about 800 kilometers. Judging from the situation of the Soviet army, their tanks followed the infantry, so the Soviet army wanted to bypass Altay. It may be a tank unit. And the Soviet army does not have enough logistical capabilities to support the actions of the tank unit. Therefore, if you want to bypass Altay, you can only use cavalry or infantry units. If cavalry units and infantry units want to attack 800 kilometers, there is no 20 days It's impossible."

"Not to be taken lightly."

Liu Xiang shook his head.

Dao: "When the prime minister was still the supervisor of the Southwest Frontier Defense, Tang Jiyao, the governor of Yunnan, was expelled. The vanguard troops were the troops of Commander Zhang Zizhong of the Northern Military Region and Commander Wang Tianpei of the Armored Forces. Each of them led a regiment to march in a hurry, and they rushed to attack in less than five days. They traveled more than 400 kilometers. The road from Sichuan to Yunnan was very difficult at that time, but they insisted on running for 400 kilometers with their legs, and quickly entered the war. Many times we think it is impossible, but maybe it is possible to create Miracle. The French also believed that the Maginot Line was impenetrable, but the Germans just bypassed the Maginot Line and forced them to surrender to France. If the Soviet Army secretly mobilized several divisions from the Altay area to attack Dihua, the impact alone would be It is very unfavorable to us. Since the era of Tsarist Russia, many local forces in Xinjiang have been very close to them. In recent years, we have been suppressing those local power factions in Xinjiang. Once the Soviet army entered the hinterland of Xinjiang, those local power factions that were suppressed said Maybe you will rebel. We can't ignore it."

"Commander, but Tacheng needs reinforcements. The Soviet army's current offensive is too fierce. If no reinforcements are sent, I worry that it will be difficult to keep the Tacheng defense line."

"We need reinforcements, we need reinforcements. If that's the case, let's fight randomly and expand the scale of the war."

"Then expand the war."

Liu Xiang looked at the map and suddenly became firm.

"What does the commander mean?"

"Reinforcements must be dispatched. There must be no problems with the Tacheng defense line. Karamay must not fall into the hands of the Soviets. If Karamay falls into the hands of the Soviets, there will be major problems in the entire Xinjiang war. Dihua will leave the Fifth Construction Corps The corps and other troops are all sent to the Tacheng defense line. All the trucks we have here in Dihua are used to transport troops and ammunition. All troops must be sent to the Tacheng defense line within a week and accepted by Deputy Commander Tang. (Tang Shengzhi) command."

"Is the defense on Dihua's side too weak? What if the Soviet army really followed the commander's guess and entered Dihua directly from the Altay area? If someone really rebelled internally, we would not have enough troops?"

Ge Jingen frowned.

Dihua is currently the political, economic and military center of Xinjiang.There is the provincial government of Xinjiang, the headquarters of the Xinjiang Military Region, and the party, government and military institutions of the Xinjiang Military Region are all located in Dihua, and Dihua is also the most populous city in Xinjiang.Earlier, the headquarters of the Xinjiang Construction Corps was also in Dihua, but it was moved to Yili for the war.The status of Dihua in Xinjiang is so high.

And just as Liu Xiang said, many powerful factions in Xinjiang are suppressed.Many of their powers have been deprived, and they have become ordinary people from the former Xinjiang nobles.The cabinet's policy on these frontier areas is very simple. It tries its best to suppress the original nobles and win over the local ordinary people.

After the policy is down, the implementation of the people below must be relatively rough.The local government is short of money, and the local money is in the hands of those nobles.So the local governments on the border directly robbed these nobles of their money and land. Of course, the money was taken by the local government, and the land was distributed to the border civilians according to the land policy, or taken away by the Construction Corps.There are many drastic methods that should not appear in the process, and these are all unavoidable things.

In the past 20 years, China has been slowly transforming from a military government to a constitutional government, and all laws are not comprehensive.Therefore, many of the cabinet's policies are downright crude and simple.This is not something that can be solved by a certain person, or a certain kind of thought.This is what history must go through.

The government is also bullying, and Duan Xun is also bullying.

Duan Xun has been in charge of Beijing since 1920, and it has been almost 20 years now.For the landlords in the Central Plains, that has always been handled with care.The land reform was carried out very slowly. Although great progress has been made, it took 20 years to complete the land reform.Because Duan Xun was afraid of some problems.

So what is adopted is not a radical strategy, but a gradual strategy.The land reform was carried out slowly, and all kinds of political, economic, and military means were used to complete the control of the output.But in the border areas, Duan Xuncai didn't care about them.This is not because Duan Xun values ​​the Han nationality and discriminates against ethnic minorities, but because of the difference in power balance.Because the nobles in the border areas have too few populations and are too weak, they are not at the same level as the rural forces in the Central Plains.In many places, as long as tens of thousands of troops are stationed there, most of the forces in the border areas can be suppressed.So even if it is mandatory, what can they do?

Like in Mongolia, some powerful Mongolian princes alone own tens of millions of acres of pastures. If it is not resolved, what will happen.So for these people, coercive measures are taken, and their land is directly confiscated, without giving you any chance to explain.

But how could these people be reconciled to the strategy of the cabinet.They were originally nobles from generation to generation, enjoying privileges from generation to generation.But after Chen Ping took control of these areas, they lost their privileges.Political privileges are gone, economic privileges are gone, all enjoyment is gone.Under such circumstances, the relationship between the nobles in these frontier areas and the Republic of China in the early years was very poor, or hostile.No one is right or wrong, this is a conflict of interest.

Because Russia has always had a special relationship in Xinjiang, these people had a deep relationship with Russia in the early years.In addition, their families have been rooted in the border areas for many years. Although they lost their privileges and land, they still have a lot of strength.If these people take advantage of the Soviet army's invasion of Xinjiang and cause some internal rebellion to cooperate with the Soviet army's offensive, Dihua needs to keep troops.The Fifth Corps of the Construction Corps, this is a new unit that has just been established.Can the Soviet army be stopped, and can these rebellions be resolved.

Ge Jingen was very worried.

If Dihua is lost, then the entire Xinjiang Military Region will be passive, or the entire Northwest battlefield will really be passive.It is possible that the whole world will collapse.

"Not weak anymore."

Liu Xiang waved his hand.

Confidently said: "Even if the Soviet army really bypassed Altay, it would not be a large force. At most it would be a few divisions. And if they want to attack 10 kilometers, it is impossible to carry much ammunition, let alone How many heavy weapons are I carrying? I guess they are not as good as ours in terms of weapons. I have a corps with [-] divisions in my hand. Do I still worry about their divisions? There will be no problems if you guard for ten and a half months. If you can’t hold it for a month, then there’s no need to fight. As for rebels in various places, you still have to find a way on the Construction Corps side. The autumn harvest is almost over, and more armed Corps troops will be used to solve these problems. To the military The committee sent a telegram requesting reinforcements from the Lanzhou Military Region to enter Xinjiang as soon as possible."

The closest to the Xinjiang Military Region is the troops of the Lanzhou Military Region.