Rebirth of the National Marshal

"Commander-in-chief, we must never let these 40 Soviet troops enter the subarctic coniferous forest belt. You see, the area of ​​this forest is too large. If we really let them in, this area stretching for hundreds of kilometers may become our attack route. We will have to send a large number of troops to these places to protect our logistics lines. By then, Irkutsk can be said to be occupied or not. We can't transport anything there back. If there is a railway line, it will be a little better, but now there is no railway line, and we rely on road transportation. The troops we have to send on the road will be more. If they send out a company of troops, we have to send out a battalion of troops, and we don't have that many troops." This move of the Soviet soldiers really dumbfounded the Chinese staff.

They had formulated a variety of combat plans, but they didn't expect that they would voluntarily abandon the city and run to the mountains and forests to fight guerrilla warfare with you. When Colonel Hu Lian saw this, he was dumbfounded. He didn't understand how a man like Marshal Timoshenko could lead people to fight guerrilla warfare with him? You are a marshal, even if you don't care about your own face, don't your generals also care about it? How come you are so united in your opinions?

"This is really a miscalculation. I never thought that this old guy Timoshenko would be a guy who could take it or leave it. Now he is leading his people to fight guerrilla warfare. That's an army of 40. I estimate that even if they enter this coniferous forest belt, there will be a loss of about 10 people. Even if there are some animals in it, can they eat them? It's impossible for them to eat tree bark. Apart from this, I think they have no other way. Even if the Soviet Central Military District airdrops some supplies to them, it is impossible to airdrop food for 40 people." This is definitely a heroic move. After entering, the loss of more than 1/4 of the enemy will definitely be. Not a single shot was fired. You have lost 1/4 of the army here, but you have also saved the remaining 3/4. If you continue to stay in Irkutsk and fight the security regiment's army, once the tenth and ninth regiments of the security regiment complete the encirclement of the 40 troops, all of them will become prisoners of the enemy and will not be able to be preserved at all.

"We must never let them accomplish this. Once they succeed, it will be impossible for us to completely occupy Siberia. Immediately order the Air Force to replace all bombs with incendiary bombs. Drop large numbers of incendiary bombs on the places where they enter the forest to cause forest fires." Fortunately, there were no environmental protection organizations in that era. If some environmental protection organizations existed, Mao Yuanshan's order just now would definitely nail him to the moral cross. Using incendiary bombs to burn the entire forest was something he could do.

The staff officers below immediately went to convey the order. For them, it was no big deal even if the entire city was burned down, let alone burning down a forest. In this era, no one paid attention to environmental protection, and the term had not even been uttered. It was normal for people to die in a war, and losing a few forests was nothing. This was a matter that could not be any smaller.

In fact, the area Mao Yuanshan chose to drop bombs was not the entire forest, but an intermediate zone between the forest and the human settlement area. This area could not completely prevent the troops from entering the forest, but could only delay their progress.

"Call me to pick up Qiu Qingquan." Mao Yuanshan doesn't smoke, but he smoked half a pack of cigarettes this afternoon. He was hesitating about whether to burn the entire forest. In the end, he didn't have the heart to do it and just burned a small part. The rest depends on Qiu Qingquan's armored forces and future forces. You must kill these 40 people in the shortest time possible.

"Commander-in-chief, my name is Qiu Qingquan. I am currently in the city hall of Irkutsk." Qiu Qingquan's army occupied the second largest industrial city in the Far East at the cost of less than two thousand people. Although the factory area suffered some damage, most of the mechanical equipment can continue to produce after a little repair. However, this is now a war zone. According to Mao Yuanshan's order, all these mechanical equipment must be loaded and shipped back to Mongolia. There are two large industrial bases in Mongolia that have already started. In addition to the industrial equipment purchased from Germany and the United States, all these equipment must be shipped back.

"Now the plan has changed. The things happening in the factory have nothing to do with you. You must reorganize your army immediately, and then send an infantry regiment of soldiers to rush at full speed to the place where we enter the forest, which is where our air force is about to bomb. After you occupy this place, nail it there like a nail." This order was almost shouted by Mao Yuanshan. Qiu Qingquan over there also understood what was going on. It must be that the Soviets were going to escape into the forest. If they were really allowed to escape into the forest, it would be extremely difficult to annihilate them.

"Commander-in-chief, don't worry, I'll do it right away." Qiu Qingquan hung up the phone immediately without saying any extra words.

"Everyone, put down what you are doing. Don't clean up the battlefield here yet. Someone will come to replace us. Leave a minimum number of soldiers behind, and the rest get on the bus. Our most important task now is to seize these locations. I will then tell the commanders below about the locations, and we'll talk about it on the way." Fortunately, Qiu Qingquan's troops usually have a good habit. After each battle, they either clean up the battlefield first, or replenish their ammunition, food and other things first. Otherwise, it will take at least twenty minutes. Now these twenty minutes are saved. There are the sounds of roaring motors everywhere. They are about to go to war again. They never know where the battlefield ends, because they know where the commander's finger is pointing. They pounce on it like hungry wolves and tear apart everything they see, just like now. The Air Force has pointed out the direction, and the place where the big forest is on fire is where they must occupy.

It was unrealistic to let the armored forces build a defensive position, so Qiu Qingquan's task was to wander around there as much as possible, delaying as long as possible and making sure not to let the large forces enter the forest. Later, it was proved that his strategy was correct.