Age of Rebirth

The Politburo of the CPSU held a meeting about the war in Outer Mongolia. There was a secret contest where there was no gunpowder. Beria, the chairman of the Soviet Cheka Committee, suffered a big secret loss. Losing points in front of Stalin was Beria's greatest fear.

If you don't try your best to restore the decline, your position in the upper echelon of Soviet power will suffer a lot in the future. For yourself, it is definitely not a good phenomenon. Beria is cruel and grabs the Transcaucasus Major General Sergeyev, the commander of the Third Army of the Military Region, insisted on muddying the water. Even General Kurykin, the commander of the Transcaucasus Military Region, would take the opportunity to wedge in a few nails!

Beria rallied, ready to launch a Jedi counterattack, and pulled back the defeat in one fell swoop. He stood up, and was about to incite a three-inch tongue to make a long speech, but Stalin waved his hand to stop him, saying: "Comrade Beria, you Sit down first, we don't need to get entangled in the most important matters, and deviate from the theme of today's meeting, let's go back to the main issue. The current situation in the Baikal region makes us have to make a decision whether to continue to go to Outer Mongolia and Inner Mongolia. Lu attack, or stop here and observe Tang Qiuli's reaction?"

Beria's face was no longer livid, but pale, and all the energy and spirit in his body seemed to be sucked away. He sat back on his seat in a daze, and his brain went blank for a while, "Why, Comrade Stalin, even Why did you not give me a chance to defend myself?"

The other Politburo members looked at Beria with indifference, while the military generals looked at him with pleasure. [

Who is Stalin, a master of political struggle.A veteran with ups and downs in the officialdom, Beria's careful thinking can't be hidden from him at all. In Stalin's view, the death of a colonel is not worth making a fuss at all. In the Cheka system, care for subordinates.There was nothing wrong with it, but in a meeting of this size, Beria lacked a sense of the big picture when he held on to a colonel who was killed in battle.Or rather, out of season!

Appropriately pour some cold water on him.Good for Beria himself.The Chief of Staff Petroshilov, knowing him well, would not embarrass Beria in public. If Beria did not make use of the problem, the topic of discussion would still revolve around the issue of whether to continue to expand the results of the war.In a way, Beria is messing things up.

Now that the General Administration of Military Intelligence and Beria's Cheka system have confirmed it, Tang Qiuli's Outer Mongolian border guards.Without a large number of tanks, artillery, and other heavy equipment, it is necessary to continue the campaign to regain Outer Mongolia. However, it is necessary to listen to the opinions of the military generals, although their opinions cannot affect their own decisions , but in order to embody democracy, give members of the Politburo a chance to speak, after all, is it a party meeting!

Stalin took a puff from his pipe and said, "I want to hear the opinion of the General Staff!"

Marshal Petroshilov, the chief of the general staff, glanced at Beria, who was devastated, and said in a usual calm tone: "Comrade Stalin, comrades, the troops of the Transcaucasus Military District, in the salient part of the Soviet-Mongolian border, in the Lake Baikal region The military operation achieved its intended purpose, and the two cavalry brigades of the independent division that were defending the area retreated hastily to the south, that is to say, Tang Qiuli is temporarily unable to resist the attack of our Soviet Red Army in Outer Mongolia."

"Therefore, the General Staff believes that it is very necessary to continue the campaign to recover Outer Mongolia before the arrival of Tang Qiuli's Independent Division. Reinforcements from the Corps came up, and the war fell into a limited period of entanglement."

"The tactics adopted should be to concentrate more superior forces and heavy equipment, especially tanks and artillery units, as well as the air force, to launch a full-scale attack on Outer Mongolia. At the end of September, occupy the line from Kulun to Saiyinshanda. If the main corps of the independent division comes up for reinforcements, we can also reach the front line in Saiyinshan and take advantage of its favorable terrain conditions to establish a solid line of defense and prevent the Chinese army from advancing northward. The above is the opinion of the General Staff. Comrade Stalin and others Comrade, give your opinion!"

The venue fell silent for a while. The members of the Political Bureau of the CPSU Central Committee were all carefully thinking about their gains and losses. Stalin broke the silence by speaking, "Comrades, just now, Comrade Petroshilov has put forward a specific plan. You can To express my opinion, my personal opinion is that this plan is realistic and feasible.”

The supreme leaders all affirmed the plan of the General Staff, that is to say, Comrade Stalin already had a decision in his mind to continue to expand the war. Didn't he ask for bad luck, his head was kicked by a donkey?

All members of the Political Bureau of the CPSU participating in the meeting, including Beria, raised their hands in favor of the plan of the General Staff, and Stalin said: "Okay, the Politburo meeting has passed the military action plan to recover Outer Mongolia, then we will Hand over the command of this military operation to Comrade Chief of General Staff Petroshilov, and take full responsibility for it!"

After a burst of warm applause, Stalin continued: "I still have a personal opinion. At present, the troops dispatched by the Transcaucasus Military Region are obviously difficult to meet the needs of continuing to expand the results of the war. Therefore, I suggest that it is necessary to build on the existing forces. Add three to four mechanized divisions, two tank brigades, and corresponding artillery units. In addition, in terms of the air force, one or two fighter divisions can be added to the Transcaucasus Military District to offset the strength advantage of the independent division aviation.”

"Finally, I suggest that a campaign command for the recovery of Outer Mongolia be established, with Comrade Petroshilov, chief of the general staff, as commander, Comrade Bessovsky, director of the General Directorate of Military Intelligence, as chief of staff, and commander of the Transcaucasus Military District Comrade Kurykin, the member of the army, rushed to the Lake Baikal region, set up the former enemy headquarters and served as commander and political commissar, so as to unify the command of all troops, what do you think?"

As usual, there was a burst of warm applause. Comrade Stalin's proposal was unanimously approved by all members of the Politburo. After the meeting adjourned, Stalin left the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Molotov alone, which made Beria jealous again.

In the huge office, only Stalin and Molotov were left. Stalin put away at the Politburo meeting, with a confident attitude, and said to Molotov without worry: "Molotov, about the recovery of Outer Mongolia. My biggest worry is that the battle in the region will not end in a short period of time, even if Tang Qiuli's main force does not come to reinforce it, it will not be easy to end the battle before the end of September."

"Once the troops of the Transcaucasus Military Region fall into a protracted war of attrition in Outer Mongolia, we don't have any more mobile troops to reinforce them, and once Tang Qiuli's main force corps reinforces the Outer Mongolia battlefield, it will be very difficult for Kurykin In other words, it will be a disaster. At that time, we had a great advantage in Outer Mongolia, but the final result of the war was unacceptable to us."

Molotov pondered for a while, and said: "Comrade Stalin, I understand your concerns. What you are most worried about is not the Outer Mongolia region, but Hitler's Germany from the West. If we invest more troops in the Outer Mongolia battlefield, it is bound to It will cause an emptiness of troops in the direction of Europe, and Zhukov’s Far East Front Army can’t get away from confronting the Japanese Kwantung Army. Once Hitler’s Germany attacks us, the Soviet Union will be very dangerous.”

Stalin nodded, with a lot of nai on his face. Without Hitler Germany, this steel knife hanging over the Soviet Union at all times, with the national strength of the Soviet Union, only needs to mobilize about 50.00% of its troops. Stalin has absolute confidence that even if he fights hard, Tang Qiuli will be exhausted, and he will eventually get the Outer Mongolia area.

But not now, the Soviet Union must concentrate about 80.00% of its troops in the direction of Europe, to prevent the attack that Hitler's Germany may launch at any time, which can be used for troops on the battlefield of Outer Mongolia, only the troops of the Transcaucasus Military Region, and leave it to the commander of the military region Kurykin doesn't have much time, and he is not allowed to fight a protracted battle.

According to my own judgment, the time for Germany to attack the Soviet Union will be one year later. This is only a theoretical judgment. If the Germans attack earlier, the troops of the Transcaucasus Military District have failed to complete the plan of the General Staff and occupy Outer Mongolia. From Kulun to Saiyinshanda, the Soviet Red Army, which is busy coping with the German attack, will not have any ability to provide reinforcements to the troops of the Transcaucasus Military Region. [

If the end of the Battle of Outer Mongolia is far away, Tang Qiuli's main corps will definitely reinforce the Outer Mongolian border guards with all their strength. By then, it will be the most dangerous time for the troops of the Outer Caucasus Military Region. Two, one was repulsed, but surrounded, just like the result of the first Outer Mongolian War.

Although the Soviet Union has the largest military power in the world, Stalin still feels that it is not enough. In fact, the Soviet Union is currently conducting or will be conducting battlefields, which are divided into three places. The most important one is in Europe. The direction, although no fighting took place, was the direction that Stalin was most worried about.

Another battlefield, on the outer Xing'an Mountains in the Far East, was a battlefield confronting the Japanese Kwantung Army. Zhukov's Far Eastern Front Army, with a strength of more than 200 million troops, was stuck there for two years and had no way of getting out.

If the Soviet Union could deploy about 40.00% of its troops to the outer Xing'an Mountains battlefield, the Japanese Kwantung Army would not be an opponent, and the Far East would have been recovered long ago. However, the biggest worry is the German army sweeping across the European continent. Reinforce other battlefield forces.

The last battlefield is the one that Stalin can't grasp most.

(To be continued) (To be continued. Mobile phone users, please go to read.)