Chapter 46: Surrendering Command

"Comrades, for the sake of the Soviets and for the cause of human liberation..."

The avenue was crowded with people, and standing on the high ground by the roadside, the political workers were shouting hoarse. Rush to Novosibirsk at all costs and eliminate all reactionaries! This was an order issued by the top leader of the group army headed by Frunze.

Of course, Frunze would not be so stupid as to rush forward despite the air strikes. The telegram reporting to Moscow and requesting air support has been photographed. There is no doubt that the phenomenon of air strikes encountered by Frunze's troops has been confirmed.

It has attracted the attention of Moscow's top brass. The base camp has decided to deploy a large number of aviation forces to reinforce Siberia.

"Air strike, take cover!" the loudspeaker in the hands of the political workers issued an order. The people and horses on the road immediately dispersed on both sides, and soon no one could be seen. The roar of the engine was getting closer, but it did not affect the advancing brigade.

Instead of launching an air strike, they flew in a farther direction. When the plane was far away and no shadow could be seen, the team continued to move forward.

Bombing more valuable targets is a decision made by Air Force Commander Feng Hua. The reason is that the ammunition reserves are consumed too quickly and there is a shortage of supply. There is also the consumption of the aircraft themselves. There are currently more than 200 aircraft.

After three days of missions, more than 50 aircraft were already hunkered down, and ground crews were making repairs. Seeing that they could not stop the Soviet army's determined advance, the Air Force changed its mode and used its main force to bomb the Siberian Railway. If the bombers had not had insufficient range, Feng

China also thought about bombing Omsk.

Despite the constant air raids, the Soviet army still pushed forward tenaciously. It planned to hold off the air raids for a week, but it only lasted five days, and the leading Soviet troops had already approached Novosibirsk. For this, the Soviet army paid a heavy price.

, more than 10,000 casualties, more than 200 cannons and less than half of the supplies were destroyed by air strikes.

The Ob River is right in front of us. This river is frozen until the end of April. This is why Frunze wants to launch an attack at this time at all costs, otherwise it will have to wait until November. The Ob River will freeze again.

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Night, barbed wire fence, searchlights, towers. The field airport where the 1st Air Force Wing is located has been the focus of defense since it was stationed. An entire infantry regiment was guarding it, and mines were planted around the barbed wire fence.

The searchlights on the six towers scanned all angles outside the barbed wire. In the night, the snow had not yet melted, making it difficult to hide.

"Comrades, the enemy's planes have caused a lot of trouble to our army. The Red Army headquarters requires us to rush in and blow up these planes at all costs." Krolev was making the final mobilization for the guerrillas.

Balakov, who opposed this operation, stood aside and said nothing. This was a suicide attack. The Red Army cavalry, which had no source of supplies behind the enemy's rear, had already killed all their horses. Balakov's horses

None were spared.

Looking at the remaining 800 people, after a simple mobilization, the commando team of more than 200 people crawled forward and slowly crawled towards the airport more than 2,000 meters away. They were all wearing white cloaks.

Balakov brought it with him when he set out before.

The machine guns of the supervising team have been set up. Not everyone has the will to not be afraid of death. Setting up a supervising team during a war is already a necessary tactic in the eyes of the Red Army. When the commando team approached about 300 meters from the airport, the first

The troops of the second echelon began to rush forward slowly, holding their rifles in hand, followed by the few Maxim machine guns.

"Boom!" A burst of fire flashed in the darkness, and when a muffled sound came, the commandos who were on the ground stood up one after another and shouted hoarsely: "Ula!" The explosions of the "Ula" mines continued, and these people did not take it seriously at all.

What's wrong is that I'm still pushing forward. What should I do? Going up means death, retreating means death, so why not take a gamble?

Balakov looked at his subordinates with a ferocious face as they rushed forward crazily. In the dim light of the fire, their faces were ferocious. Several political workers behind him all held short guns in their hands. As long as Balakov loosened his will in the slightest, they would

He will kill Balakov without hesitation and take over command.

Balakov closed his eyes in pain. After the failure of the last attack on the transfer station, he has been resolutely opposed to attacking solid targets. Political workers in the guerrillas believed that his revolutionary will was not firm enough and that he was suspected of right-wing failure and capitulationism. These things

A person kills his enemy ruthlessly, but he kills his own people even more ruthlessly. Military cadres all know this. To the officers of the Soviet army, the enemy's bullets are far less terrifying than the internal affairs personnel.

Ta Ta Ta Ta, the sound of Maxim machine guns sounded behind the barbed wire fence, and more than a dozen fire dragons swayed in the darkness. The commandos who desperately rushed forward kept falling, but no one stopped, and the subsequent reinforcements did not stop either.

Meaning, one after another, like one madman after another.

Boom, boom, boom, the familiar mortar rhythm sounded, and the dense shells easily cut off the reinforcements. Each explosion would lift one or two bodies. There seemed to be a line five hundred meters away from the airport, a ring constructed of explosions.

An unbroken line of death.

This sneak attack undoubtedly failed. The enemy was well prepared, especially when more than a dozen searchlights suddenly lit up, giving a clear view of the charging team. Bullets rained down like rain, and corpses were scattered all over the field. The white ground was quickly covered by

When the blood flowed out, Balakov took out his pistol, put it to his head and pulled the trigger without hesitation.

The sound of the engine started to sound, and when the twelve tanks appeared, the crazy guerrillas stopped committing suicide. Some raised their hands and surrendered, and some turned around and ran away. In short, their will collapsed.

The infantry following the tank showed no mercy at all. They hit the surrendered soldiers with their rifle butts and bayoneted the wounded who were still on the ground. Those who escaped fell to the ground one after another in the pursuit of the machine guns. In the end, the guerrillas stayed behind.

After killing more than 500 corpses and more than 100 prisoners, this guerrilla group was basically finished.

At dawn, Zhang Bo was very annoyed when he was woken up in the middle of the night. The last time he left the lead plane, he was locked up for a day when he came back. This was because he shot down two enemy planes and made up for it. Otherwise, he would have been locked up for at least three days.

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"Hurry, hurry, hurry!" an urging voice sounded. He wiped his mouth hastily, left the dining table, and rushed towards the airport.

"The vanguard of the Soviet army has appeared on the other side of the Ob River. The general headquarters asked us to increase the bombing of the Soviet railway line and completely paralyze it..." After routine combat mobilization, Zhang Bo got on his own

The pilot, Liao Haibo, made a gesture to the plane on the left. The two planes started at the same time and took off almost at the same time.

The mission of blocking the Soviet army had been abandoned, so we returned to our original work and sent out a regiment to bomb railways and highways.

"The loss is too great!" Frunze looked solemnly and handed the report in his hand to the special envoy Stalin.

"Yes, we have underestimated the madness of Chinese imperialism. It seems that they are determined to protect the Kolchak gang. This is a conspiracy of Chinese imperialism to split the Soviet motherland. We must be firm and smash them without hesitation.

Conspiracy." Stalin held his pipe and waved his fist vigorously, looking very imposing.

"The existing supplies are only enough for us to continue fighting for ten days. The Chinese imperialist planes are bombing the railways and roads every day. The supplies cannot be transported, so we must rush into Novosibirsk as soon as possible to destroy the enemy.

Otherwise, it will be much more difficult when the Ob River thaws." After Stalin expressed his stance, Frunze expressed his attitude firmly.

Novosibirsk is not a battlefield on the southern front, and there is no possibility of detour. We must prepare for the battle as soon as possible and launch the most violent attack. Time delay is very detrimental to the Soviet army. It is even more impossible to retreat at this time, and it is impossible to bite the bullet.

Everyone has to go, otherwise even if it’s Frunze, the Cheka will invite them to a symposium when they go back.

"Comrade Commander, give the order. The Ob River defense line is twenty-five kilometers long, and the enemy does not have that many troops."

"Comrades, according to intelligence, the Ob River defense line is divided into two southern sections. The ten kilometers in the northern section are defended by the Belarusian bandits, and the fifteen kilometers in the southern section are defended by the Chinese Imperial White Army. We must make full use of this...

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While the Soviet army was having a meeting, the senior leaders of Kolchak's White Army and the Volunteer Army were also meeting inside the Volunteer Army headquarters.

"Frunze has brought all the mobile troops that can be mobilized, at least 400,000, and no less than 500 cannons. For the sake of Russia, I will not take a step back. Now I ask my Chinese friends to deploy this battle." Gao

Kolchak said this at the meeting, which was undoubtedly a huge compromise. In other words, Kolchak lacked confidence in this battle and was ready to die.

In fact, in history, Kolchak retreated to Irkutsk before being caught and killed without any trial. There is a theory that during the trial, Kolchak's subordinates came to rescue him.

, the Red Army hurriedly executed him. The reason for this time and space compromise was that Kolchak saw the Chinese ambitions for the Far East and felt confused and complicated, not knowing whether it was right or wrong.

"General Kolchak just said that the Red Army is very powerful, but we are not bad either. The total number of various troops is nearly 400,000. There are more than a thousand artillery pieces in total, as well as tanks and aircraft...

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Three days of preparation time is not long, but it is not too short either. In the early morning of April 25th, it was still freezing cold in Novosibirsk. There was silence on both sides of the Ob River, and the hands reached 4:50.

When the white fish belly appeared on the horizon, suddenly the whole earth shook slightly, and a flash of lightning flashed in the sky on the west bank of the Ob River.

The Soviet army's nearly 800 artillery pieces, the main force of which were more than 300 122-mm howitzers, violently bombarded the positions on the other side of the river at the same time. The Soviet artillery did not have much time. They had to complete an hour of artillery preparations before dawn, otherwise the aircraft on the opposite side would have to

Come bomb.

When the Soviet army began to prepare for artillery fire, Qi Zhenghong did not sleep, or stayed up all night. His tense nerves relaxed at this moment, and he said to himself: "Is it starting so soon?" (To be continued...
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