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spnThe unit I am in belongs to the 17th Group Army of the Central Asian Front, numbered 473rd Division, and is commanded by Major General Yang Huai.

Lieutenant General Li Jiajue, commander of the 17th Group Army, personally conducted pre-war mobilization for us during the departure.

General Li is from Sichuan. He told us in his rich Sichuan dialect that we should not be afraid of death when fighting. The country has made good arrangements for us in life and death. He also said his motto, which moved all the officers and soldiers of the 473rd Division present.

——For a man who wants to repay his country's kindness, dying on the battlefield is a good death.

We are born in the greatest era. Our parents can live out their old age in peace, our wives and children can be provided for, and we can charge on the battlefield with confidence. Our casualty rate is also very low because we have weapons armed with technology.

A powerful army and death are just words with a low probability. Once encountered, it can only be said to be one's own life.

On that day, the Southern Group of the Western Expedition Army commanded by General Zhang Zizhong officially set off. Since the 17th Group Army was a semi-mechanized group army, it set off as the vanguard together with the First Division of the Third Armored Group Army.[

What I recorded in the diary is not confidential. The division commander said that it might be published as a battlefield diary in the future. They all praised my writing skills. Although modesty is a virtue, I am also very happy. Moreover, keeping a diary can make me happy.

It will be better to recall all this in the future..."

"On November 26, 1946, after an 11-day march, we arrived at the westernmost city of Khokqub Province. It used to be Astana, an important city of Kazakhstan, and is now our city - Tana. Because it is all the way along the way.

On our territory, we marched very quickly and did not encounter any enemies, not even the legendary rebel guerrillas. Perhaps they were all wiped out by the garrison. Or they were frightened by our imperial troops.

Dare to come out and be active.

Further west from Tana City is the Soviet Tyumen region.

However, we will not go to Tyumen because it is said that General Zhang Zizhong will march from the north. We will be in the south of Tyumen.

Tyumen, judging from the map, is still 1,700 kilometers away from Moscow.

The division commander said that once Moscow is captured, the territory of our empire will be at the door of Europe. This will be a very great feat. Just looking at the map, we know that our territory will be the largest in the world.

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"December 5, 1946.

The further north and west you go, the worse the weather conditions become. There was another heavy snowfall last night.

Fortunately, we have the latest airships, which can always keep up with our marching speed and provide us with food, fuel and all other military supplies.

Although I don’t know the specific combat plan, I guess that taking down Moscow may require 1 million or more troops. I really hope that there will be more and more airships like this, and they can fly in ice and snow. This is the benefit of technology.

I heard that they are the result of the Science and Technology Committee.

I hope the snow will be lighter tomorrow.”

"December 7, 1946.

There was another heavy snowfall last night. This blizzard has lasted for three nights. When the temperature drops at night, the heavy snow will come. It is never late.

The 1st Regiment of the 473rd Division, where I was marching in rotation, encountered a Soviet guerrilla attack at dawn. However, the Soviets' sneak attack failed and we captured them alive. We learned from the prisoners that the front

There is a Soviet defense line more than 50 kilometers away, and several Red Army divisions are stationed there.

I think it may be a tough battle, because I put myself in my shoes. When the enemy comes, my comrades and I will definitely defend our country. This line of defense will be the first barrier to Moscow. It will also

It was the first real battle."

"December 9, 1946.

Yesterday's battle was very surprising. The Soviets did have 4 Red Army divisions on the defense line, and they were responsible for this 15-kilometer-long defense line.

However, when the battle started, our tanks and self-propelled artillery had just concentrated their strength to fire a salvo, and the enemy actually surrendered.

The battle, which was originally expected to last a day, ended in three hours. One Red Army division surrendered, and the remaining three also surrendered after holding on for more than an hour.[

When we cleaned the battlefield afterwards and tallied the results, we discovered that these Soviet Red Army divisions were seriously understaffed. The four divisions combined were less than the size of one of our reorganized divisions. It is said that a large number of their troops were transferred to Moscow.

It was just a pretense. In addition to being short of soldiers, they were also seriously short of weapons, medicine, and food. When we were cleaning the battlefield, we found a lot of abandoned corpses. In the winter, many soldiers starved to death without food. They and the Japanese

People are different, they don't eat humans, but they don't have the strength to bury those soldiers who froze to death. The frozen soil is too hard, so the Soviet soldiers who starve to death are randomly discarded where they are.

Some Soviet soldiers had been freezing to death for a long time, but they were squatting or lying there as if they were alive. The ice and snow allowed them to retain the appearance of their last moments before death.

The division commander, Comrade Yang Huai, ordered us to blow up artillery pits and bury the bodies in accordance with the group army's requirements. So the engineers used drills to drill many holes, and then used explosive bags to blow up many large craters, and finally buried them.

The battle only lasted three hours, but it took six hours to bury the corpses. The final statistics showed that more than 600 Soviet officers and soldiers were lost in non-combat situations. Perhaps the sudden heavy snowfall the day before yesterday ruined them.

After the battle is won, we continue to move forward, and this place will be handed over to the subsequent troops, maybe the 14th Group Army, maybe the 10th Group Army, and our task is to continue to move forward until they come to rotate our leading offensive mission."

——The above is excerpted from the battlefield diary of Hua Jingou, a soldier of the Southern Group when the Imperial Army attacked the Soviet Union.

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The total strength of the Wehrmacht's Western Expeditionary Army is planned to be more than 1.4 million, including the Third Armored Group, the Fifth Armored Group, and the Fourth Armored Group. It is considered to be the strongest armored force in the empire.

The Third Armored Group Army is directly commanded by General Chen Jun and serves as the main force in the Southern Group attacking the Soviet Union. The Fifth Armored Group Army is commanded by Dai Anlan and is also responsible for commanding the Northern Group. As the fist force of the North Sea Theater in the Siberian direction, it fights all the way west. The Middle Group

The attack on Tyumen and the straight line to Moscow were commanded by Zhang Zizhong.

Of the three offensive clusters, the fastest will be the Southern Cluster. The Southern Cluster has the powerful Third Armored Group Army and many fist field army units of the Central Asian Front, and has better logistical supplies. At the same time, the southern region is not the focus of the Soviets.

Defensive zone. The resistance encountered by the southern cluster was very weak, and the advance speed was very fast.

The three-way army has a total size of 1.4 million people, and many field armies will participate in the battle later. It can be said that as the first wave of troops, 1.4 million people is already a very large number, and it also includes two and a half imperial armors.

Group Army.

They were almost enemies on the Soviet battlefield at this time.

This is the force on land. In addition, there are propeller fighter units that follow along the way in the form of field airports. These aircraft, which have very low requirements for takeoff, can even take off directly from the road or lawn.

After airships or large strategic transport aircraft transport "medicine", supplies, and even oil to a place, the swarming propeller fighter troops can quickly take off from the simple site with murderous intent and escort the troops all the way forward.

In fact, because Moscow is only a little over 2,000 kilometers away from China's earlier Line of Actual Control in Central Asia and Siberia, Chinese planes taking off from Central Asia's Khovent Province can generally easily escort them halfway.

"In two days, the Soviets' real defense line will be reached."

Looking at the heavy snow falling outside the armored vehicle, Chen Jun frowned slightly. As one of the three armies attacking the Soviet Union, the Southern Group was naturally the fastest. The leading troops of the Southern Group, composed of the Third Armored Group Army and the 17th Group Army, marched all the way.

The autumn wind swept away the fallen leaves, taking away nearly a thousand kilometers long and hundreds of kilometers wide of Soviet land, about more than 400,000 square kilometers of land.

Except for Soviet villages that were so rare that they could not be spoken, very few small cities occasionally appeared on the march route. From the west of Khokrov Province to the Kurgan Oblast, Chelyabinsk Oblast, and Bashkortostan in the Soviet Union,

Tatarstan...a vast area, an appallingly small population, desolate villages and dilapidated cities, the imperial army did not even have to do more. When they arrived at a place, they directly used tanks to crush the Soviet regime.

"Government" institutions, the bewildered Soviet civilians had no courage to resist at all.

They are a group of civilians who don't even have enough to eat, and are enveloped in the crisis of the Soviet Union, which has deteriorated to the extreme. However, they are faced with a posture that is armed to the teeth. Tanks can be lined up directly from the front to the mountain col at the end of the line of sight.

Leaving a large area, perhaps tens of thousands of square kilometers, with a mechanized company equipped with only some armed vehicles would be enough to frighten the Soviets.

However, the smoother the early march, the more anxious Chen Jun felt. Others may not know it, but as a commander, he knew very well that although there were no problems with logistics and supplies for this attack on the Soviet Union, in terms of troop strength,

And weapons and equipment are enough to defeat the Soviet army.

You know, although the Soviets claim to have assembled more than 5 million Red Army troops near Moscow, their actual combat effectiveness is very poor, especially in the direction of Central Asia and Siberia, which has unprecedented pressure on its strategic space. Military industrial bases have been bombed again and again.

Nowadays, it is difficult to maintain such a large-scale military operation through covert military production and lucky escape. If it were not for the Americans, the Soviet Union would have collapsed long ago.

However, after all, there are more than 5 million Soviet troops. The weaker the resistance they encounter now, the more obvious the opponent's intention to shrink their troops is, and the stronger the resistance they will encounter in the future.

Therefore, at the beginning of the formulation of the campaign, Chen Jun expressed his opinion to the base camp many times. The collapse of the Soviet Union can be achieved in 1947, but it should not be done too hastily. The reason is very simple. First, the casualties will be too large, and secondly, preparations will be made.

If it is not enough, it will quickly advance to eat more of the Soviet Union's land, further weakening it, until the army "approaches" the Moscow defense circle.[

He estimated that this process would take about 6 months or more. These 6 times include allowing the second- and third-line troops to consolidate their occupation of the newly captured Soviet areas, as well as building frontline airports and stockpiling supplies. Large-scale battles are not easy to fight.

For the fight, it will take at least two or three months to store supplies alone at the current speed of airships. By then, in addition to airships, there will also be cars, some railways, and airplanes. All of them will be added together to support the attack on the Moscow defense circle.

In addition to worrying that they would encounter stronger resistance by then, Chen Jun was also worried that the Germans would be unable to stop the Allied landings and would retreat step by step and eventually fail. This was very detrimental to the empire. Therefore, in order to coordinate the German war in Europe

, the Soviet Union cannot be too procrastinating, and the war must proceed at least at a moderate speed.

"The Soviet Union is really cold in winter."

After calming down, Chen Jun looked at the military map and made a simple calculation. He found that the Samara Defense Line, the real Soviet defense line in front, was only a few dozen kilometers away, which meant that the battle would not take place until tomorrow at the latest.

It would start. Marching at night in the ice and snow was a taboo, and the Soviet army did not need to make a surprise attack to deal with this. Therefore, he planned to have the troops stationed overnight after advancing for a certain distance, and make an effort to capture the Samara defense line early tomorrow morning.

Seven Red Army divisions spread out in a fan shape. According to the results of aerial fire reconnaissance, the defense strength is extremely limited. Behind the defense line is Samara, a small town in Samara Region. Further ahead is Ulyanovsk, which is far away from Moscow.

There is only a straight-line distance of more than 800 kilometers.

"Send the order, continue to advance 20 kilometers, and camp on the spot for the night..."

A series of orders were quickly transmitted. The vanguard troops quickly moved into action, reconnaissance troops also began to lurk in all directions, and aerial support reconnaissance would also be carried out more intensively.

"Samara has a military airport and two field airports. It is also only 800 kilometers away from the Moscow Defense Circle. If we capture this place, the Air Force's fighter planes will be able to participate in the battle in the Moscow Battle Circle."

Looking at the white land, Chen Jun has already thought about expanding the airport. Attacking the Soviet Union is a major battle. It cannot be done in a day or two, because the Soviet Union is too big and the weather conditions are not good.

The next day, when the sky was just getting bright, it was actually only four or five o'clock. The slightest light allowed people a few meters away in the snow to be clearly seen.

Hua Jingou turned around and bumped into his comrade Xiao Luo next to him. Only then did he see the faint light coming from a light-transmitting corner of the military two-person tent.

"It's dawn."

He stood up subconsciously. This kind of military tent is very insulating. It is said that it is cheap and the effect is naturally very good when used in the field. People can sleep in it and keep it warm. It is just right for two people to live in one and they will not feel cold.

"Didi..."

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To be continued...