Age of Rebirth

The sudden ringtone of the phone was not abrupt in the "tick" sound of the telegraph key, but it attracted everyone in the air finger, and their expressions tightened. Colonel He Zhijun, head of the Operations Department, picked up the phone and said in a steady tone, "I'm Kongzhi! Do you have any reports?"

Everyone stared at He Zhijun, "Well, okay, I will report to the commander immediately, you must continue to strictly monitor, and report all the movements of the Soviet aircraft fleet at any time!" He Zhijun nodded frequently.

Putting down the phone, He Zhijun said to Le Yiqin: "Commander, the radar monitoring center reported that around 950:520 this morning, from Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude, Chita, Barnur and other places in the Soviet Union A large number of Soviet aircraft took off at the same time from the field airport of the Soviet army. After confirmation by multiple ground radars, the number of fighter jets dispatched by the Soviet army is five divisions, about [-] fighters, and three divisions of bombers, about [-] aircraft!"

Le Yiqin breathed a sigh of relief, and said with a smile: "As long as the Soviet army's fleet moves, there are nearly [-] fighters and bombers, and the attack is menacing! The old Maozi is still big, good What a big formation!"

Suddenly, Le Yiqin suppressed the smile on his face, and said in a cold tone: "Order, all fighter regiments participating in the battle, take off immediately according to the combat plan, and keep the wires on during the flight before approaching the Soviet air formation." Silence, only receive guidance from the ground radar station!"[

More than a dozen combat staff officers immediately sent Le Yiqin's order to various field airports by phone. Immediately, fighter planes, in a formation of two planes, soared into the sky like sharp arrows into the dark sky before dawn, "Boom!" "Long" engine sound gradually receded and disappeared. After a few 10 minutes, the airport returned to calm, but how many pairs of eager and expectant eyes were looking at the north

Le Yiqin picked up another phone and said simply: "Give me the command of the division!"

"Dinglingling!" The phone rang right next to Tang Qiuli's hand, and the voice of Le Yiqin came over when he picked it up: "Report to the commander, the Soviet army fleet is dispatched, and our fleet has already gone up! According to the Soviet army fleet Calculated by the speed of the aircraft, the time to reach the airspace of the "Selenge River" is about five o'clock in the morning. However, please rest assured that the combat plan we have formulated is aimed at this point, and whether we can reach the target area is up to us!"

Tang Qiuli interrupted and asked: "You stayed in the air, why didn't you lead the team into the sky? It's not your style!"

Le Yiqin replied bluntly: "The teacher has an order, and the humble officer dare not disobey it!"

Tang Qiuli said in disbelief: "It's strange, why are you so obedient this time? Don't you have other evil ideas! Well, I will leave the things in the sky to you!"

Putting down the phone, Tang Qiuli said to Zhao Yuhe: "Yuhe, immediately inform Liu Hongzhang and Ouyang Yishan that the Soviet army has started to move. According to Le Yiqin's notification, the Soviet infantry's attack time should be around five o'clock in the morning. Let them get ready! The fighter group of the Southern Flying Group has already faced the battle to ensure that the position will not be bombed by the Soviet bomber group!"

Putting down the phone, Le Yiqin smiled triumphantly, and said to his chief of staff He Zhijun and Dong Ningxuan, chief of staff of the Northern Aviation Group: "After the battle started, I took off with the reserve team of three regiments to kill the old Maozi's bomber Group, ground command, I leave it to you, but there is one thing, when the division commander asked, he said that I was directing the air battle and was very busy, so I didn't have time to answer the phone!"

When the division command's enemy report arrived at the front line of the "Selenge River", Liu Hongzhang and Ouyang Yishan were returning from the forward position. In fact, even if they had not been warned, the two of them had noticed the abnormal movements of the Soviet army. Liu Hongzhang looked at the Soviet troops on the other side through the telescope, and they were constantly gathering towards the river. He said to Ouyang Yishan, "It's about to start, but I don't know the exact time for the Soviet attack!"

Ouyang Yishan didn't answer Liu Hongzhang's words, and said to himself: "On the last day, the battle of blood and fire begins again. I don't know how many soldiers' blood will be spilled here. The "Se" Lengge River, give I have too many feelings!" As he spoke, he sighed with emotion.

Liu Hongzhang patted Ouyang Yishan on the shoulder in understanding, and said: "Brother, I am the same. After fighting for so many years, I have suffered a disadvantage here. Fortunately, the master's big net has been cast, and the old Maozi has not It's been a few days, we will come back after we leave, go back to the headquarters, maybe the commander has an order!"

Liu Hongzhang really talked about it. As soon as he entered the headquarters, Chief of Staff Liu Chenglin said: "The two commanders received a notification from the division commander on the enemy's situation. The division commander judged that the Soviet army's ground attack will start around [-] o'clock in the morning. , In addition, the air force will intercept the Soviet bomber fleet in the north of the "Selenge" River!"

Liu Hongzhang raised his eyebrows and said: "Okay, this is what I want. Without Lao Maozi's bomber, this battle will not be difficult to fight. Cheng Lin, convey the command of the headquarters, and the troops will immediately enter the bomb defense cave. and shelters to prevent Soviet artillery attacks!"

General Kurygin, commander of the Soviet Transcaucasus Military Region, prepared for the attack at 26:[-] a.m. on September [-] as a decisive attack.

Not only in the first wave of attack force, the unprecedented deployment of the assault force of four infantry divisions, all artillery of various calibers were gathered together and divided into four artillery groups to provide artillery support for the four main breakthrough directions, There are more than 700 tanks in the three tank brigades, and they are evenly deployed in the offensive direction. Once the infantry reaches the beachhead on the south bank, they will adopt the old method of direct firepower to destroy and suppress the firepower points of the defenders of the independent division.

The biggest support of the Soviet attacking force was the air fleet, five fighter divisions, three bomber divisions, and nearly [-] combat aircraft. Covering the sky and blocking the sun, some senior military officers pointed out that the Selenge and airspace battlefields are too small to accommodate so many combat aircraft, which would affect the bombing effect instead.

General Kurykin, who was dominated by excitement, retorted without hesitation, with sharp and acrimonious words, "Comrade General, I don't know where your thoughts come from, but I ask you to go through everything in your head before speaking. !"

"We dispatched all combat aircraft. The goal is not only to break through the Selenge River, but also to consider that after the breakthrough, our army will continue to attack Kulun southward, and we need to control the air. By then, the vast airspace of Outer Mongolia will not be able to accommodate us. More than [-] fighters? I am afraid that at that time, comrades will complain that there are too few fighters and bombers to support you, this is one of them.”

"Secondly, after the air fleet has completed bombing the positions of the independent division defenders on the south bank of the 'Selenge' River, the subsequent task is to air strike Kulun, and bomb all the important targets of the Chinese army along the way, opening up the passage for seizing Kulun and occupying the Kulun means the end of the Battle of Outer Mongolia. Therefore, the commanders of the various troops, from today onwards, may suffer a lot. They march around the clock and approach the city of Kulun at the fastest speed."

What General Kurykin said made the senior officer who made the suggestion blushed, swallowed, and kept silent, but secretly slandered in his heart, "It's easy to say, a "Se" Lengge River, hit five It’s not like I haven’t used a large-scale fleet in six days, what’s the result, can it be successful today, I don’t believe it!”

Four Soviet infantry divisions stood on the beach on the north bank of the "Selenge" River, waiting for the aircraft fleet to arrive and start bombing, and immediately launched an attack. More than 600 artillery pieces of various calibers raised their thick muzzles, Also waiting for the arrival of the fleet, General Kurykin's attack plan, the core of everything, is to fight around the fleet

At around [-]:[-] in the morning, the sky was still dark, and a staff officer came in, "Report to Comrade Commander, our sentry heard the sound of engines in the sky, and it seems that there is a large fleet flying from south to north!"

"Huh?" General Kurykin rolled his eyes suspiciously a few times, "Big fleet? No, the direction is wrong. Could it be the fleet of the Independent Division?"

For the sake of caution, General Kurykin ordered the communications staff to immediately contact the commander of the air formation, Lieutenant General Jonasov, the deputy commander of the Air Force of the Don Military Region, and informed the situation. Major General Jonasov's reply was, "So far So far, our air formation has not found anything, and the radio monitoring has also confirmed that no frequent telegrams have been found, please rest assured, Comrade Commander”

General Kurykin is relieved. Comrades of the Air Force of the Don Military Region, if they don’t find anything, everything will be normal. Maybe the sentry made a mistake. However, this kind of spirit of vigilance is still worthy of praise. The commander who is relaxed Comrade, order the communications staff to convey your decision of verbal praise to the sentry who heard the sound of the plane and reported it in time

In fact, not only the sentinel heard it, but the more than 6 Soviet soldiers who had assembled on the north bank heard the faint roar of the plane in the sky, but no one paid attention to it

At around [-]:[-], the telegram from Lieutenant General Jonasov, the commander of the air formation, made General Kurykin unable to sit still. Only then did he know that the sentry was right, "Commander Kurygin, My mixed formation in the air was suddenly attacked by the fighter group of the independent division at about [-]:[-], and I have ordered some fighter jets of the escort fleet to fight, and the formation will arrive at the bombing area on time!"

The tone of Major General Jonasov's telegram was very relaxed, because there were only more than a hundred fighters from the Independent Division attacking his own fleet. For a large fleet of more than 500 combat aircraft, it was like a fly. up

However, General Kurygin is not so optimistic. He has been fighting the Chinese for almost a week. He knows that the Chinese are cunning, insidious and cunning from the bottom of their hearts.

(to be continued) (to be continued...)

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