Chapter 448: British and American vigilance
Although the battle in the Far East eventually evolved into a defeat war that the top leaders of the Hualian League least wanted to see, the news was always good and bad. Even if it could not completely annihilate the huge Soviet army, as long as it could defeat the enemy's morale on the front battlefield, it should be considered a good result.
Although Rokosovsky's order was beyond everyone's expectations, the Soviet army had lost most of its mechanical means of transportation, and it is naturally easy to distinguish whether two legs are fast or four wheels.
Twenty-four hours after the Rokosovsky retreat and dispersion order was issued, more than half of the Soviet troops were involved by the main ground forces of the 36 Chinese divisions or were in the surround and counter-encirclement to hinder the retreat, and had to cheer up again to fight the Chinese troops around them.
The remaining Soviet troops that were still evacuating were not completely able to evacuate smoothly. The Chinese Air Force repeatedly blocked and dived the strafing in the sky, and there were many Lingding San companies. The platoon-level troops were pursuing the retreating Soviet troops.
These troops were pursuing troops drawn from the thirty-six divisions, and they were pursuing them in trucks and various vehicles collected. Due to the uneven distribution of these troops, some pursuing troops were temporarily ordered by regiments and battalions to pursue them.
It was not until forty-seven hours that the preliminary statistics were initially found that there were more than 20,000 people in these scattered troops. So far, they had basically given up their vehicles and pursued the Soviet fleeing troops with various weapons on their shoulders.
But what is reassuring is that behind these people, there are four divisions of troops who can basically follow the entire system and chase after them. They are not alone.
In China, there are even twenty divisions of troops advancing to the front line, preparing to conquer the entire Tungus area in one go.
At the same time, the troops were also moving ten light infantry divisions, two mechanical mixed Huamo infantry divisions and two cavalry divisions. These troops moved northwards like the Damox sword to the border line of 50 kilometers around Erlianhot. The sword pointed to the pain in China's heart that was falling towards the Soviet Union in the Sino-Soviet game, and the land dismembered by the Soviet Union - Mongolia.
However, this is not when the Hualian government will immediately resolve the problem of Mongolia's return. The biggest intention of these troops suddenly deployed troops on the border was not to fight, but to pressure, and to cooperate with the ongoing battle in the second war zone in northeastern Mongolia, and to exert the most intuitive and fearful military pressure on the Mongolian high-level leaders who lined up the wrong team and stood in the wrong position.
The war between China and the Soviet Union has always made Mongolia in the middle uncomfortable, no matter what the reason is. It cannot slap. If Mongolia does not have the intention to split, how can it be instigated and dismembered by the Soviet Union?
The Hualian government has not yet used force to retake it here, which is nothing more than one of the main reasons: before the Soviet Union's military armed forces in Asia was resolved, Mongolia's recovery work could only slow down.
However, until now, I believe that the senior Mongolian leaders who were trying to fantasize about the Soviet Union's support and the old and young men who were the princes and nobles who had already known how unrealistic this was.
A few weeks later, when Tungus was completely in the hands of China, the work of opening up the third road there was to mention the time limit schedule calculated by day. Mongolia was not in time, and they had to make a choice whether to surrender unconditionally or to bear the anger of the Chinese army.
On the day after the Far East War Zone counterattack began, the Northwest War Zone operations also entered the most critical moment of the first phase. After the First Army won the Western Transportation Town Akdoka, which was not very tightly defended, the Airborne Army airborne a division of troops outside the throat town of Kapuhaga, 50 kilometers north of Almaty.
Konev, who was in charge of the central theater, immediately sent four infantry divisions to the landing location of the airborne division, trying to stop and entangle the airborne division to advance south. When he learned that there was only one airborne division, he then sent three more troops to fight, trying to eliminate the airborne division that was alone in one fell swoop.
However, what is surprising is that after Konev sent these troops to try to annihilate the airborne division, another small division's airborne troops fifteen kilometers west of Almaty City.
Just when Konev began to notice that the situation was not good, Chinese army troops appeared in Zalkent, 300 kilometers away from Almaty. Judging from the number of troops attacking here, they were troops affiliated with the 11th Army.
The three-sided attack made Konev feel very uneasy. The Chinese First Army had already taken the Akdoka. This made the hope of obtaining reinforcements from the north very slim. Konev knew that once the Chinese were galloping along the railway line, it was only 400 kilometers from there to Kaphagai town, and it was also good transportation conditions for both the railway line and the highway line.
The fantasy of obtaining support from the Soviet rear from the west was also extinguished by the airborne army of the small division. When receiving an emergency from the east, Konev could only smile bitterly and launch an attack on the airborne soldiers of the small division that cut off the western railway and highway in an attempt to open up contact with the rear.
However, what made Konev feel embarrassed was that when he was attacked from three sides, how many troops could be drawn out to open up the defense line composed of Chinese airborne troops to the west?
The answer is that there are only four newly recruited light infantry divisions, mostly recruited temporarily. Although the ratio of troops to the two sides is 6 to 1, anyone knows how unreliable it is to drive out these newly recruits who have just taken off civilian clothes and put on soldiers' clothes.
The Third Army had broken through the Zhaisangbo area at this time. Although the opponents of the Northwest Army planned to use Qingjianbi to force the radical elements in the Chinese army to wave their butcher swords and slash at the local people, Konev seemed to have forgotten and seemed to be too highly concerned about the Soviet Union's influence in this area.
The Jaisangbo area has always had a folk blood relationship with China. Even after the mid-19th century, Kazakhstan was under Russian rule. The eastern region where the Kazakhs lived, the Jaisangbo area still belonged to China.
With the help of the translator soldiers equipped in the army, the officers and soldiers of the Northwest Army quickly purchased enough animals from some people who were not forced to be taken away by the Soviet army in time. They were not robbed or used Soviet currency.
In order to ensure smooth purchases and ensure the image of the army, the Fourth War Zone allowed the offensive troops to distribute candy and tea and some of the shortages of daily necessities to the troops when communicating and contacting local residents. These things can be directly used as hard currency for bartering, and they are also products that are short-lived in the daily lives of local people.
Especially tea, special eating habits make these people need to obtain valuable vitamins in tea. In China, the fine square tea in the hands of the junta officers is a must-have for life in the eyes of locals.
In addition, the military purchase price is fair and the transaction is harmonious. With the first good start, news will spread out on the grassland faster than radio waves, and the good image of Chinese soldiers begins to be rebuilt bit by bit in the hearts of the people.
Among the three upper, middle and lower armies advancing westward, except for the 11th Army that attacked from the bottom south, which formed the recruitment source in the northwest, the other two armies were equipped with more than three local soldiers in the company-level troops, in order to play a guide and language translation role in the battle advancing westward.
Although if these soldiers recruited from Xinjiang, Gansu and other places will lose more effect, this is enough to build a bridgehead for in-depth advancement in several key traffic throats in Kazakhstan, then the rest is to let the tanks gallop westward on the plains.
Twenty-one hours after the airborne battle, Konev gave up his plan to reopen the western transportation artery, because at this time, three divisions of a tank brigade of the First Army, fighting from north to south, had already joined forces with the airborne army of that division with its own maneuver. What is the consequence of the heavy armed forces fighting with the Soviet light infantry in the field? You can know the answer and result without thinking.
The defense of Kaphagai Town only lasted for four hours and the victory of the Chinese army ended. Since then, the last barrier north of Almaty has been conquered, and the railway and road traffic to the west are still firmly controlled by the Chinese Airborne Division. The east is being steadily advanced westward from an army of the Northwest Army.
Due to the terrain to the south, there is no transportation route for Almaty. Almaty can now be said to be an isolated city with troops under the city.
Faced with such a dilemma, Konev finally issued a desperate order to resist, and took a special plane to leave Almaty west, avoiding the Chinese air force in the north intercepting and turning to Rezkazgan, then flew to Asnata to continue to command the battle in Kazakhstan.
However, after arriving at the latest command, Konev sent a detailed report to the Soviet Red Gate Supreme Committee in Kazan. The report clearly explained the rapid changes that have taken place in Kazakhstan over the past week, and particularly emphasized that among the three armies that China advanced westward, there are currently three known Chinese ace troops.
The Chinese used such a powerful army here, which means that the Chinese were bound to win here. The situation was very unoptimistic.
Although Konev's report was highly valued by Stalin and others, he was powerless. The current Soviet Union is like a light shoulder pole with heavy objects on both ends, and the Soviet Union's huge arms were assembled at both ends. Although the east has begun to collapse, the west can still maintain a good resistance.
Although as explained in Konev's report, once Kazakhstan falls and the Chinese capture Omsk, it is equivalent to the Chinese breaking the shoulder pole from the middle, and the Soviet Union will become a terrible situation where the east and west rule their own.
However, Konev did not know, and many Soviet officials did not know that although Kazakhstan's geographical location is important, it is still basically in a region with semi-nomadic animal husbandry as its main economy. Many people can't figure out what the Chinese government leaders want to do in this land?
In fact, the reason why the senior executives of the China Alliance for Political Affairs and Military want Kazakhstan is very simple: the first is that Kazakhstan is a must-pass place for Central Asia to the Middle East, and it is also a key place to go westward to the Mid-Qiu Ming Oilfield. These two are enough for Duan Guoxue to send troops.
Moreover, not only the Tyumen Oilfield, a super-large oilfield that the Soviets are still unknown to, but also Kazakhstan itself has rich oil resources. There are also coal, iron, copper, lead and abundant natural gas resources, and tungsten mine reserves occupy one of the top three in the world.
However, what made some senior officials such as Stalin even more heartbroken is that once Kazakhstan is captured, the Soviet Union's atomic bomb plan will be greatly affected. If Kazakhstan, which accounts for 15% of the global uranium mine reserves, the Soviet Union's nuclear plan will be hit the most deadly.
Although the Soviet Union's nuclear program started late, it has been in a process of rapid development in a highly confidential manner. When the Soviet Union was attacked by Germany, the most preferred evacuation was various institutions and facilities related to nuclear research distributed in Ukraine and Belarus.
After strategic transfer and migration, Soviet nuclear physics research has maintained a rapid development momentum even after the capture of the two cities of Moscow and Stalingrad. At the same time, through senior spies in the United States, Stalin also knew slightly that the Americans were also conducting nuclear physics research, but the progress was much faster than that of the Soviet Union.
Although China's dispatch of troops to Kazakhstan made Stalin angry, he was powerless. The battle between the east and west lines had already made the Soviet Union's national defense force stretched, and he really had no ability to open up a third battlefield to resist the Chinese's advancement westward.
However, Stalin, who knew what Kazakhstan meant to the Soviet Union now, made an astonishing decision, that is, to all the troops and staff sent to the uranium mining area to exploit known uranium mines and transport ore to western Soviet Union with the most preferred mode of transportation.
The purpose is to try to obtain enough uranium reserves before the Chinese occupy this place, so as not to have an embarrassing situation of developing nuclear bombs but producing no raw materials.
You should know that since the scientific community has demonstrated the terrifying power that nuclear physical explosions can produce, uranium mines have been highly sensitively cancelled international transactions by various countries. Intelligence agencies in various countries have finally strictly inspected and controlled the mining and transportation of each ton of uranium mine, which is to cut off other forces from the source to obtain such a supreme killer.
Stalin knew what the uranium ore on Kazakhstan's land meant to the Soviet Union. The Chinese had already reached the city. Since they had clearly known that they were unable to continue to occupy this place, they had to seize the uranium ore as quickly as possible to ensure Soviet nuclear bomb research.
Stalin believed that as long as the Soviet Union could research a nuclear bomb, the Soviet Union would have a chance to turn over again. Perhaps it would not only turn over, but could even stand the Soviet Union at the peak of the world's highest peak of force.
On the other side of the distant Pacific Ocean, crossing the long continent to Washington in the east, the latest war report obtained from the official media of China and the Soviet Union was placed on the desk of US President Roosevelt.
However, this wise old man, known as one of the greatest figures of the 20th century, just looked through the translated content and discarded the report information.
The same content every day has made the elderly a little bored, and the intelligence agencies are unable to provide more effective and accurate information, which makes the elderly a little anxious.
Now in the United States, the US public opinion and some economic consortiums are also exerting influence and disguised pressure on Congress, with the purpose of starting a war against China.
As an excellent politician, Roosevelt certainly knew the benefits of declaring war on China. Now that Japan has been defeated by the Americans in the Pacific, some important military strategic areas have also returned to the hands of the Americans.
It is also a matter of time before going to war with China. The reason is simple, that is, the Southeast Asian colonies have a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fall into the hands of Americans.
Americans don’t have much interests in Asia, that is, the Philippines, and more colonies and material resources were in the UK before World War II, France and the Dutch. As a growing country, the United States needs more places to dump products and raw materials.
The Americans looked at the wealthy colony of Southeast Asia with a jealousy. It was just because of the sensibility and no sufficient excuses that the United States had not taken substantial action to capture the colony that expanded Southeast Asia.
But in history, when the Americans snatched the Philippines from the Spanish, it also aroused the vigilance of Britain and France. They joined forces to suppress the United States to further expand its colonial expansion in Southeast Asia. After all, these allies are not solid, but are all wine and meat allies based on interests.
Now in World War II, Japan first jumped out and occupied Southeast Asia, drove away the Americans and offended the British and French. Even the Dutch were trampled twice. Roosevelt, who had a keen sense of political and economic interests, naturally knew that this was a great opportunity for the Southeast Asian colonies to reshuffle.
In order to prevent the German tanks around you, Britain and France have been trapped in the quagmire. Even if they are willing to take back the colony here, they are powerless. If the United States defeats the latest rulers here in the name of liberators, then the Americans can naturally turn the land of Southeast Asia into their own colony!
What a wonderful opportunity this is, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity God has given to America!
However, what made American senior officials such as Roosevelt worry was that due to geographical factors, China is too close to Southeast Asia. After defeating the Soviet Union, will China turn around and intervene in Southeast Asia?
Coupled with Japan's strange actions recently, Roosevelt, who was far-sighted, smelled an unusual smell. China, the most unreliable guy in the Allied Army, has aroused the alert from Britain and the United States.
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