Chapter 143 Tang Su Contest
The Soviet Union, despite the warning of the Tang Empire, openly sent troops to Mongolia, occupied one-third of the land, and exchanged fire with the Federal Chinese army several times, causing certain casualties.
The Tang Empire was shocked, and Zhang Meng personally called Stalin and threatened to use nuclear weapons against the Soviet Union. However, Stalin was not afraid, but instead used underground nuclear tests to counteract.
This is the first underground nuclear test in human history, indicating that the Soviet nuclear test has been transferred from the ground to the ground, and it has a certain degree of concealment, which makes the Tang Empire unable to lock in the Soviet army's underground nuclear facilities and is afraid of its actions.
However, Zhang Meng was tough and ordered the nuclear missile silos in major war zones of the Tang Empire to enter a first-level combat readiness state, and all strategic nuclear bombers were launched and standby. At the same time, Stalin also ordered all nuclear missile silos in the Soviet Union to open and strategic nuclear bombers were launched and standby.
At this time, the Tang Empire was in an advantageous position in nuclear weapons and was the only country to be equipped with intercontinental ballistic missiles. The United States and the Soviet Union were still catching up and stepping up their research. At this time, the Soviet Union was still struggling to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles. After all, the technology and funds were insufficient, which was even slower than the United States.
The Tang Empire has installed 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles, which can carry nuclear missiles and directly hit Moscow. The Soviet nuclear missiles have a maximum range of only 4,000 kilometers and cannot hit the capital of the Tang Empire. The only nuclear weapon that the Soviet army can threaten the capital of the Tang Empire is their strategic nuclear bomber, which can fly directly over Chang'an for nuclear bombing.
But the serious problem facing the Soviet nuclear bombers is that they are still in the first generation, that is, propeller-type long-range bombers, carrying nuclear bombs at a speed of subsonic. The nuclear strategic bombers of the Tang Empire have bought the second generation of jet long-range bombers carrying nuclear bombs, and both sides flew towards each other at the same time. Obviously, Moscow was destroyed first, but Changan may not be attacked, because the Tang Empire not only has an absolute defense circle, but also deploys a large number of interceptor fighters. The second-generation Raptors equipped by the Tang Air Force have been equipped with advanced air-to-air missiles. The subsonic strategic bombers are difficult to break through the absolute defense circle of the Tang Empire, which is also the fundamental reason why the Tang Empire is fearless.
However, Stalin's ghost spirit knew that the nuclear threat to the Tang Empire would not achieve much effect, so he took the initiative to call Zhang Meng, saying that if the Tang and Su nuclear war were in the Tang Dynasty, the Far Eastern territory and military bases of the Tang Empire would be destroyed. At the same time, hundreds of millions of Chinese in the Federation would also suffer.
This indeed hit Zhang Meng's weakness. The Tang Empire could not ignore the lives of hundreds of millions of comrades in the Federation China, so Zhang Meng fought back hard. If the Soviet Union dared to use nuclear weapons, the Tang Empire would erase the Soviet Union from the earth at any cost.
Stalin believed that the Tang Empire had this ability, but his goal was achieved. He then proposed that both Tang and Su did not use nuclear weapons and only fought a local war of conventional weapons in Mongolia.
Zhang Meng smiled bitterly, not expecting that local wars would happen like this, but he was not afraid and agreed immediately. So Tang and Su respectively promised to control the scale in Mongolia. If one side was completely driven out of Mongolia, an armistice would be announced. The war would not be expanded.
Stalin was secretly happy. He thought the Soviet Union had taken advantage. After all, the Soviet Union and Mongolia were bordering, and the Soviet Union's powerful ground army was like a torrent of steel, which would crush everything.
But he ignored a problem. Mongolia was full of grasslands and deserts, which was indeed suitable for tank clusters and artillery clusters to fight on a large scale, but the Tang Empire had armed helicopter troops. The Korean War had shown that the Tang army's Divine Bow armed helicopters were one-sided slaughtering ground troops and won the title of tank killer. The Soviet army was still blank in helicopters at this time and obviously suffered a great loss.
But Stalin still didn't care. He listened to the Soviet army's report. The Soviet army temporarily converted anti-tank guns into anti-helicopter guns, which could fight against the armed helicopters of the Tang army.
Tang and Su both acquiesced to not use nuclear weapons and control the scale of the war in Mongolia. To fight a local war, the purpose is to become famous and see who is the world's boss.
Soon, the Tang Empire mobilized 300,000 troops to enter China through railways and assembled to Mongolia.
The Soviet army was shameless and took the lead in launching an attack before the Tang army arrived in Mongolia. The Soviet tank cluster and artillery cluster continued to fight with the Chinese army's tank cluster and artillery, like two steel torrents colliding together, which was very tragic.
The Soviet ground troops were extremely powerful and far from what the national army could resist. In just one week, the Soviet army fired 1 million tons of artillery shells and dispatched 20,000 aircraft, destroying more than 2,000 tanks and tanks of the national army, and more than 100 aircraft, causing 30,000 casualties.
However, the combat effectiveness of the National Army was also very strong. The Kuomintang and Communist armies were mixed together, and the Tang army supported the advanced weapons and equipment, which also caused the Soviet army to lose more than 1,000 tanks, more than 80 aircraft, and more than 10,000 people to be killed or injured.
As soon as China and the Soviet Union fought, the Kuomintang army suffered a loss. This situation was mainly caused by the Soviet army's powerful artillery troops, especially the Katyusha rocket artillery troops. The overwhelming large-scale covered artillery bombardment was the real cause of casualties in the National Army.
On the contrary, in air combat, although the Kuomintang army lacked enough experience, it did not suffer a great loss. This also has a certain relationship with the Tang Empire attaching importance to the naval and air force and ignoring the ground forces. The Kuomintang army completely inherited the combat ideas of the Tang army, so weapons such as Katyusha rocket launchers were not good at, which led to the loss in the first battle with the Soviet army.
Relying on its powerful ground firepower advantages, the Soviet army occupied one-third of the land in one breath and continued to force the national army to retreat.
While scolding Stalin for being shameless, Zhang Meng urged the Tang army to rush to the Mongolian battlefield as soon as possible and find ways to stop the Soviet army. He should not lose this local war and maintain the position of the leader of the Tang Empire.
The Tang Air Force quickly took action. On the one hand, they quickly transferred to major airports in Inner Mongolia and urgently entered the Mongolian air battle. On the other hand, the Tang Empire sent a mine-burning aircraft formation to arrive, laying mines directly in the air between the Sino-Soviet armies to stop and delay the Soviet attack speed.
The effect of mine laying in the air was obvious. A large number of Soviet tanks and tanks were blown up during the rushing, causing heavy losses and heavy casualties.
The large-scale mine laying of the Tang army caused the Soviet army to mobilize more minesweeping teams to clear the mines, which delayed a lot of time. At the same time, the Tang army's Blue Fox Special Service Team airborne in Mongolia. They used long-range sniper rifles to accurately shoot and kill Soviet minesweepers, causing the Soviet army to run away.
The Tang army finally won valuable strategic troops to mobilize troops. A large number of Tang army ground troops entered Mongolia during this period, and the Kuomintang army also retired and reconstructed its combat policies, guarded against the Soviet Katyusha rocket launcher troops, and formulated countermeasures.
Chapter completed!