Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 1253 The Lightning King
From the Baltic Sea to the Carpathian Mountains, on the [-]-kilometer-long front, the powerful first strategic echelon of the Dragon Army launched an attack.At the same time, some Dragon Army paratroopers were also airdropped to the rear of the Red Army. Together with the so-called special operations team trained by the Security Bureau, they will create chaos in the Red Army, occupy the bridges that the Dragon Army must pass, and cut off the Red Army's communications.

Before the main force crossed the border, the Dragon Army first dispatched a commando group composed of shooters and engineers. Their task was to destroy the sentries and observation posts of the Red Army, destroy the barbed wire fence on the border, and open a passage for the attacking troops.Following the assault group are scouts and terrain surveyors of various arms.After they surveyed the terrain and found out the positions of the Red Army and the arrangement of obstacles, the Chinese armored groups arranged in echelons and the group army that cooperated with them launched a powerful offensive from the narrow front.In the breakthrough area that was only 10,000 kilometers wide, nearly a thousand tanks and [-]+ motorized troops of the entire armored group rushed over.However, the Red Army, which adopts a line defense and spreads out troops on thousands of kilometers of fronts, can only be resisted by a few or even one infantry division.

When the fierce artillery fire and hundreds of bombers crossed the border to attack the border, the tanks of the Dragon Army finally started to attack. There was a fuel tank near the radiator behind the tank, and ration packs and oil liquid tanks were hung on the armor plate next to it. Slowly drove towards the position of the Red Army.

This is what Kuozuo News Agency wrote in the newsletter. "Smoke tongues of various shapes spewed out from the exhaust pipe of the tank, and the whole air was filled with acrid gas. Gunpowder smoke and light blue mixed with the green of the grass and the golden yellow of the cornfield. The whistling Below the formation of Lanxiang fighter jets and attack aircraft, the tank mobile unit is like a thin black line drawn with a pencil on a slate."

As expected by the Dragon Army, only the frontier defense corps and a small number of field troops affiliated to the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs were able to resist the powerful armored offensive of the Dragon Army on the border.These border guards are equipped with a large number of submachine guns and machine guns.Among them, the Ukrainian border defense military region has 300 heavy machine guns and 600 light machine guns, and the five border defense corps in the White area are equipped with 2500 submachine guns and more than 600 light and heavy machine guns.The soldiers of the NKVD were extremely tenacious fighters. With their solid fortifications, they not only fired violently like a storm, causing heavy damage to the attacking dragon army, but often hit the last person.

In the West Bug River area in the south, the No. 90 post of the 13th Border Guard Corps of the Red Army fought from the first day of the war to July 7, and persisted for 2 days.On the last day of the battle, the remnants of the outpost were still desperately resisting in the ruined outpost just before being blasted with explosives by the Dragon Army combat engineers.In the 11th defense area of ​​​​the infantry of the 10th Army, the 8th Battalion of Engineers stopped the Dragon Army before the main force of the division arrived.However, these weak troops could not block the enemy's way. The Dragon Army handed them over to the follow-up infantry units to deal with them, while the armored columns bypassed their persistent outposts and fortifications, and quickly advanced deep into the Soviet territory.

In the direction where the Chinese tanks were advancing, the Soviet infantry divisions that were supposed to fight the Dragon Army in the border fortifications were still 820 miles away from the border.Most of them could not receive orders from their superiors, because the Red Army's wired communication system in many areas was almost paralyzed under the sabotage of local nationalists bought by the Chinese.In the Western Special Military District, communication was destroyed when the Chinese crossed the border 430 miles; in the Kiev Special Military District, due to intermittent radio, the military district did not have a rough understanding of the situation until 9 am.

At this critical juncture, the Soviet commanders facing the powerful assault of the Dragon Army could only take the risk of opening the confidential sealed bag containing the border defense plan issued before the war, and follow the location and route specified above, with only a small amount of ammunition. The subordinate troops who were at a loss for the sudden war came out of the barracks in a hurry, and under the continuous air strikes and shelling of the dragon army, they gathered and marched in at the risk of huge casualties.

During this process, the soldiers were already depressed by the continuous roaring of Chinese planes and the fierce artillery fire from nowhere. When they were marching, they suddenly encountered a large number of motorcycles, off-road trucks, and half-track armored vehicles. When the dragon army tanks formed a wedge-shaped column, it was impossible to carry out effective resistance, and some troops even collapsed because of this.

Two and a half hours after the start of the air strike and more than an hour after the ground battle, Jin Yunpeng, the Chinese ambassador to the Soviet Union, followed the instructions and met with the Soviet People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Molotov again.Previously the ambassador was as ignorant of the empire's mad plans as the Soviets.Jin Yunpeng didn't say anything superfluous, but just stated calmly on the surface: Because the Soviet Union carried out sabotage, terror, and espionage activities against China, and opposed China's efforts to establish a stable order in Europe, it also concentrated all the existing Red Army in the area from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea. on a long front.Therefore, the Empire is deeply dissatisfied with the Soviet Union's stepping up efforts to destroy China and Europe, violating its obligations, and is determined to order the Imperial Armed Forces to use all its strength to deal with this threat from the Soviet Union.

When Jin Yunpeng said these words, his Russian translation, the counselor of the Chinese embassy in the Soviet Union, was crying. At this time, Jin Yunpeng did not know that this counselor was originally a spy developed by the Soviet Military Intelligence Committee.

Of course Molotov didn't have time to fight with Jin Yunpeng, he had to rush back to Stalin's office to report the news that the war had broken out.

Not long after Chinese planes invaded the Soviet Union, the attacked military districts of the Black Sea Fleet, the West, Kiev, and the Baltic Sea coast sent reports to the People's Commissariat of National Defense.When the Chief of the General Staff Zhukov reported to Stalin by phone the news about the Dragon Army’s air raids on Kiev, Minsk, Sevastopol and other cities and regions on the order of People’s Commissar of National Defense Timoshenko, the The "big masters" of the Soviet Union were so shocked that they were unable to answer for a long time.

When he regained his senses, he called Zhukov, Timoshenko and all members of the Politburo to his office in a hoarse voice.

At 4:30, Zhukov and Timoshenko arrived at the Kremlin.All Politburo members have also arrived.Zhukov and the People's Commissar were invited to the office.Stalin, pale, sat at the table, holding a pipe full of tobacco.Then the Soviet dictator said slowly: "I think we should call the Chinese embassy immediately."

A long, unbearable silence followed.

At this moment, there was a report of Jin Yunpeng's request for an interview, and Molotov hurried out to receive him, so the scene ahead began.When Molotov returned with the news that China had declared war on the Soviet Union, there was silence in Stalin's office.Although everyone present knew more or less about China's invasion of the Soviet Union through various channels, none of them thought that the Chinese attack would be so fast and thunderous!
In the end, it was Stalin himself who broke the silence. He slowly exhaled a puff of thick smoke from his mouth, and then said calmly: "The Chinese are crazy, because they will be hit all over the front, and we will be hit with destruction!" Then ask the military commanders: "What do you suggest?"

Zhukov, who was standing aside, immediately replied: "At 3:20, I called Oktaburiski again, and he reported to me calmly: 'The enemy plane has been repulsed, and the attempt to attack my ship has been stopped. smashed, but the city was damaged.' At 4:10, the Western Special Military District and the Baltic Special Military District reported that the enemy had begun ground operations in the sectors of the respective military districts. All the troops in the border military region fought back fiercely to stop the intruding enemy army. At the same time, I also instructed the border guards to attack across the board to contain the enemy. In short, before the No. [-] battle report arrives, I think we should continue to wait for the news. "

Marshal Timoshenko hastened to express his position: "I don't think it should be simply called containment, but should be eliminated, and the enemy should be eliminated."

"Yes! It's not just containment, but annihilation!" Comrade Stalin spoke, and after a pause he continued: "Give orders, Comrade Zhukov."

Standing behind Timoshenko, Zhukov and the members of the Politburo immediately became quite optimistic.They quickly complained about China's surprise attack, while vowing to guarantee that under the command of the great Comrade Stalin, the Soviet Union will definitely defeat the hateful Eastern countries.

It was in this optimistic atmosphere that Timoshenko, in the name of the Military Committee, issued Order No. 6 issued by the People's Commissar of National Defense to each military region at 22:7 on June 15.According to the content of the document, which is believed to have been revised by Stalin himself, it is as follows: "Due to the unprovoked attack and bombing of our cities and airfields along the western border by the Chinese Air Force, the Dragon Army fired bombardments in many places and crossed our border. The 2th Military District should use all forces and means to attack the enemy forces and annihilate them in areas that violate the borders of the Soviet Union; destroy the enemy air force on the airfields with the powerful strikes of the bomber and assault aviation forces, bomb the main groups of its ground forces, The air force enters the territory of China and Germany within 5 miles to carry out strikes. However, one thing to note is that all ground forces are not allowed to cross the border without special additional orders. In addition, our air forces are not allowed to attack the territory of Finland and Romania , the scope of strikes is limited to the German and Polish occupied areas."

When Zhukov and Timoshenko returned to the People's Commissariat of Defense, they learned that things were worse than they had previously known.

(End of this chapter)