As its own tanks and armored forces were defeated, the Russian army was unable to stop Li Yifeng's roundabout assault force, and the defense line fell.
The 50,000 Russian troops were defeated across the board. Li Yifeng commanded his troops to pursue the enemy while dividing his forces to capture Vladivostok.
On the third day after the Qiao Family Army fought with the Russian Far Eastern Front, that is, on May 8, the 6.5 million German troops who had completed their final preparations brazenly launched a lightning attack on Poland.
In less than a day, the 6.5 million German army devoured Poland's weak resistance.
Immediately, they launched a fierce attack on the Soviet border areas non-stop.
Hundreds of thousands of German armored troops were divided into lines and carried out roundabout attacks deep into the Soviet defense line. Thousands of German fighter planes attacked nearly a hundred Russian airports on the border, as well as dozens of important cities and transportation in the west. Hub, railway crane factory, army, navy and air force bases, as well as a large number of Russian troops moving towards the national border.
Due to the lack of effective preparations, Russia lost more than 1,200 fighter planes in just half a day.
Millions of elite German army troops were divided into three groups and launched a simultaneous fierce attack on the Soviet Union.
A large number of dive bomber groups of the Air Force accompanied and provided cover, defeating a large number of Russian armored forces that came to fight, causing inestimable losses to the Russian army.
At the same time, because the German army was equipped with the Tiger and Panther, the two most advanced tanks and combat vehicles, earlier than in history, the German armored divisions had an absolute advantage when facing the Russian army's advanced tank combat vehicle T34.
The T34 tank, regarded by the Russians as the most advanced tank, has become vulnerable to Tiger and Panther tanks. Its direct-aiming artillery was unable to cause substantial damage to the Tiger tank's thick defensive armor.
"The Tiger tank's 88mm caliber direct-aiming tank gun can fire T34 almost every time.
There is a huge gap in military strength and equipment between the two sides. Coupled with the German army's preemptive strike and the lack of preparation of the Russian army, the Russian army was destined to be defeated across the board.
In less than three days of fierce fighting, more than 800,000 of the more than two million Russian troops deployed on the border were wiped out, and more than 1.6 million Russian troops were defeated across the board.
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At the same time, the 500,000 Qiao Army, under the cover of armored assault troops, drove the remaining troops of Zhukov and Vasilevsky all the way to the Lake Baiga area.
But when Zhukov and Vasilevsky were even more desperate, a Qiao family army descended from the sky like a magic weapon. Their escape route has been cut off.
The railway in the Lake Baiga section was destroyed, and a large number of fortifications were built to prepare for the attack.
With no other choice, Zhukov and Vasilevsky ordered the remaining troops to immediately launch a fierce attack and open up the cut off retreat.
However, what they faced was the most elite force of the Qiao Family Army, Qiao Anbang's direct henchman special operations division. Twenty thousand special warfare division soldiers are led by the division commander Liang Yimeng.
Fighting to the death and refusing to retreat, they just blocked the fierce attacks of hundreds of thousands of Russian troops, buying time for the main force to arrive and annihilate the Russian troops.
On May 10th, the main force of Qiao's army pursued them to Lake Baikal. They were almost in despair and their morale was dispirited. The demoralized remnants of hundreds of thousands of Russian troops launched a fierce attack.
The special operations divisions also took advantage of the situation to counterattack. Under attack from both sides, hundreds of thousands of Russian troops were defeated.
Vasilevsky died in the battle, Zhukov was saved, and he and several guards fled to the edge of Lake Baiga during the melee. He was rescued by a local fisherman and had a lucky escape.
That¡¯s it. All the areas east of Lake Baikal were recovered by Qiao's army, and the 500,000 Russian Far Eastern Army was completely annihilated.
Due to insufficient troops, a large amount of territory was occupied in a short period of time. In addition, each unit fought for many days and was in urgent need of rest and recuperation. The occupied territory also needed to be digested.
Qiao Anbang ordered the troops to stop their westward march, began to seize the time to replenish their troops, and prepare winter clothing for the troops in advance.
Although it is only March, Qiao Anbang, as a person who has been here, still needs to make some preparations in advance. After all, once winter arrives in the hinterland of Russia, the severe cold is really not something that ordinary people can bear.
In addition, there is another purpose of stopping the westward march to Qiao Anbang, which is to allow the German army, which has been accumulating strength for a long time and is at its peak, to fight with the Russian army. When the Russian army loses its city and territory and is on the verge of collapse, the German army is about to collapse. When he was overwhelmed, he led his army into Siberia and regained China's inherent territory, so that he could share the fruits of victory equally with Germany.
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Although this possibility is extremely small, properly weakening the German power so that it has no time to look eastward will be extremely beneficial to the Qiao Army's future operations.Profitable.
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In the next two months, the German army was unstoppable and successively captured Ukraine, the Caucasus and other places, directly threatening the Russian capital Moscow and Leningrad.
Within these two months, Qiao Jiajun also completed a new round of military expansion and reorganization.
Another 200,000 troops were recruited in the Northeast and Usu Yalitai and other regions, and the strength of the Northeast Front Army reached 1 million.
At the same time, the remnants of the Japanese Kwantung Army saw that the situation was not good and had withdrawn from the direction of Sakhalin Island to their homeland a month ago. Li Yifeng commanded the First Group Army to take advantage of the situation and capture the entire territory of Sakhalin Island.
So far, the Qiao Jiajun's battle flag has covered a vast area stretching from the Korean Peninsula in the east, to Sakhalin Island and Vladivostok in the north, to the Tannu Uryang Sea in the south, and to Lake Baikal in the west.
??Recovered nearly three million square kilometers of lost land for China.
After completing the expansion again, Qiao Anbang began to set his sights on the interior of the pass. There was no other way. The Shanxi-Suiyuan Army in Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei-Suiyuan and other provinces and the central military commander Qiao Anbang had to deal with these potential threats so that he could concentrate on using troops externally without any worries. .
On June 1, 1938, under the instruction of Qiao Anbang, a division of the Tingping Army marched from Peiping to Suiyuan in an attempt to force the 35th Army of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Army stationed in Suiyuan to retreat.
However, Fu Zuoyi was unwilling to give up on Suiyuan, and opened up the battle tit for tat, preparing to compete with Li Pinxian.
At the same time, Wei Lihuang and Yan Xishan also sent additional reinforcements to Baoding, intending to force Li Pinxian to withdraw from Suiyuan.
In view of this, Qiao Anbang immediately ordered more than 170,000 people from the two armies of the Northeast Front to enter the pass, and combined with Li Pinxian's Pingjin Army to advance towards Baoding and Cangzhou.
At the same time, Qiao Anbang ordered Qiao Anguo to command a hundred thousand troops of the East China Front to cross the Yellow River north to threaten Shanxi.
When the war was about to break out, Qiao Anbang sent a secret message to Yan Xishan and Wei Lihuang at the right time.
"Brother Baichuan is as handsome as my brother Junjian. Now Anbang has millions of elite soldiers, and has achieved an initial victory in the war with Russia. The military has been greatly strengthened. It is about to lead the army to sweep the world and establish a powerful country with free people and prosperity.
We urgently need the help of our two brothers. We hope that the two brothers will put the overall situation first and not make mistakes. Otherwise, millions of troops will enter the pass, and the lives will be ruined and blood will flow into rivers. Anbang will not want it. If the two brothers can take the national The great cause is our top priority. The troops under your jurisdiction will remain intact and are still under your command. All supplies such as weapons, ammunition, uniforms, and food will be provided by Qiao. I hope you will think twice before taking action. "
After receiving this threatening message from Qiao Anbang, Yan Laoxi and Wei Lihuang, who were already desperate, hesitated for a long time and reluctantly agreed to Qiao Anbang's suggestion of surrender.
More than 300,000 people in the unit were placed under the unified command of Qiao Anbang, and were jointly organized with the Pingjin Group Army into the North China Front Army. Li Pinxian was appointed as the commander-in-chief, Wei Lihuang was appointed as the chief of staff, and Yan Xishan was appointed as the deputy commander-in-chief.
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