The Fourth Disaster, Starting from the Movie Eight Hundred

(The number of tickets for urging me to update is less than 20. I understand. It’s because everyone feels sorry for me. I can rest tomorrow. I’m happy~)

In 1970, a Soviet film called "Blood Siberia" won many awards including Best Director, Best Screenwriter, Best Actor, Best Actress and more than 20 other awards at the Moscow Film Festival that year. It swept the Moscow Film Festival and achieved unprecedented success internationally, with its box office second only to the animated film "Havoc in Heaven" that year.

On the day of the awards ceremony, a man in his sixties walked up to the podium. After accepting the trophies for Best Screenwriter and Best Director, he excitedly said, "I want to use this film to commemorate those years that I cannot bear to look back on, and to let the proletarians around the world who are truly fighting for human liberation understand that revisionism is a dead end!"

Vasily, a very common name in the Soviet Union, is basically as common as Zhang Wei and Zhang Tao here. As a new generation of proletarians born in Cheremkhovo, Siberia, Vasily's memory began when the Soviet Red Army liberated his hometown. Soon after, he also became a member of the Soviet Red Army and was extremely proud of his identity.

But when the time came to 1939, Vasily heard a bolt from the blue news that Irkutsk, not far from them, had fallen, and the army that occupied it was called the International Volunteer Army.

This military organization, whose name sounds vaguely similar to the Communist International, was a very pure military organization, so pure that it beat the Soviet Red Army into a panic and forced it to retreat all the way from Vladivostok to Irkutsk. Even the Trans-Siberian Railway was interrupted. If the Volunteer Army had continued to advance, not to mention the Soviet Far East, it would have been a problem as to who would rule Central Asia.

So the Soviet Union mobilized 500,000 troops and marched towards Irkutsk along Siberia. According to the plan of the Soviet military staff, the volunteers had gone on a long expedition and must be exhausted here. When the Soviet troops arrived, they would surely be defeated!

Vasily followed this main force and rushed to Irkutsk, arriving at the battlefield that changed his destiny.

"I'll always remember that endless dawn. The volunteers launched their attack in the wee hours, suddenly lunging at you from corners where even flares couldn't reach. They were incredibly strong, possessing... enough strength to rip a human body apart. I saw with my own eyes my squad leader get punched through the chest. Yes, with a fist, no sharp weapon on it, just a normal human fist, but the power was definitely not human."

"The deputy squad leader yelled to me, 'Vassily, reload!' I was so nervous and scared that my normally practiced movements became distorted. In that brief moment of distraction, the deputy squad leader was dead. The other man grabbed a Mosin-Nagant that had fallen to the ground and whipped it towards me with a whoosh. The deputy squad leader's head was reduced to splattered pieces of flesh right in front of me."

"Just as the powerful warrior rushed towards me, we heard artillery fire in the distance, and he was blown away. Thank God, they were not invulnerable after all, and the shells did damage them, but the man quickly stood up again. My comrade grabbed my clothes, and I ran with him to the next defensive point."

"But we didn't stay there for long before we heard the whistle to retreat. The fourth line of defense had fallen in less than ten minutes. I really couldn't understand how the volunteers did it, but we had to retreat because according to the previous plan, all abandoned directions would be covered by artillery fire. However, this plan could not be implemented for long because the volunteers' planes had night combat capabilities. As soon as our artillery opened fire, the artillerymen's lives entered a countdown. They had to leave quickly after the start of the run, otherwise they would be reduced to ashes along with the artillery."

"My comrades and I were lucky. We escaped, but some troops couldn't. If they had chosen to fight to the end, the Volunteer Army would have wiped them out without hesitation. But if they surrendered, the Volunteer Army didn't mistreat them. Instead, they took them to prisoner-of-war camps. Later, I learned that the Volunteer Army actually abided by the Geneva Convention and didn't mistreat our soldiers. If I had known this, I would have surrendered too. Yes, then, at least for me, the war would have been over. Fighting for the Soviet revisionists was a deeply dishonorable act, a mistake that must be corrected."

Vasily's unit was the newly formed Soviet 1st Siberian Division, a mechanized infantry division equipped with the latest T-34 tanks. However, this tank had no advantage over the Volunteer Army's Qilin tanks.

According to the recollections of Soviet veterans at the time, they were extremely shocked when they first saw the Qilin tank.

"I swear, that's the most beautiful tank I've ever seen in my life. It's so perfect, as if it grew out of our Slavic aesthetic. The semi-egg-shaped turret provides reliable bulletproofing and defense. The frontal homogeneous steel armor is over 100 millimeters thick and has an inclined configuration. Both the design and materials were top-notch at the time!"

After the war, the Volunteer Army conducted live-fire tests on the armor of Soviet tanks and Qilin tanks at the same thickness. The results showed that under the same thickness and placement angle, the armor defense of the Volunteer Army tanks was 15% higher than that of the Soviet tanks. In addition, in the severe cold of minus 40 degrees Celsius, the armor protection performance of the Volunteer Army armored vehicles did not decrease at all, but the Soviet Army's was only equivalent to about 85% of the original performance.

"In addition to the gap in heavy equipment, the gap between the Soviet army and the volunteer army's soldiers was also huge."

Now-declassified photos and documents show that the Chinese People's Volunteer Army soldiers were able to fight day and night in temperatures as cold as -40 degrees Celsius without being affected. This led the Soviet army to seriously suspect that the Chinese People's Volunteer Army used some special drugs, but no evidence was found. However, today we can find some clues through the "genetic optimization project" being implemented by the Chinese People's Volunteer Army. It is certain that the Chinese People's Volunteer Army had already mastered mature genetic engineering technology before 1939 and used this technology to transform a group of super soldiers.

"It's like the legendary Space Marines. Of course, we're not in the world of Warhammer 40K. If that were the case, it would be terrible. But for the enemies fighting against the Volunteer Army, such an opponent is hopeless."

The enhanced soldiers of the Volunteer Army can carry more weapons and have higher combat efficiency, but their body shapes are not exaggerated to the point of being easily visible. Instead, they are similar to normal people. This undoubtedly increases their concealment and makes them invincible on the field.

"A massive, heavy shield that's too heavy for an average person to lift. Over 20mm thick, it's enough to withstand direct fire from ordinary small arms in a trench. This kind of armor isn't manufactured separately, but to use it, you have to become a super soldier first."

Even today, the Soviet Union still does not have the relevant technology, but by looking back at the Siberian Campaign, we can clearly realize how terrifying those reinforced soldiers were. It took them only 24 hours from the start of the battle to the breakthrough of all the Soviet defense lines.

Zhukov, commander of the Soviet Siberian Front, realized that the Soviet defeat was inevitable and he was ready to die with his soldiers.

But the highest order from Moscow forced him to leave.

"The Soviet Union's understanding of the Volunteer Army at the time was very limited, and they had to let a general with rich combat experience tell everyone about it, so Zhukov eventually left, and the war situation had completely deteriorated."

The attack launched by the Volunteer Army made all the Soviet army's preparations come to nothing. More than 200,000 Soviet soldiers were killed in the battle. Except for a few hundred who escaped by chance, the rest were all captured. The Soviet Union's largest and final military operation in the Far East ended here.

The background of the movie "Blood Siberia" was filmed based on the Siberian Campaign. The film truly reflects how confused and entangled the soldiers who experienced the Great Purge were under the brutal rule of the Soviet revisionists. The Soviets allowed a new system to take over a country, but people at that time did not know how to achieve a better future.

Movies are the memory of an era and a summary of a certain period in history. But no matter what the outcome, from a strategic point of view, unless the Soviet Union fights the Volunteer Army to death in the ice and snow of Siberia, in the subsequent historical trend, losing the Asian region will become a geopolitical situation that the Soviet Union must face.

With the failure of the Battle of Irkutsk in Siberia, the Soviet Union actually completely lost control of the Trans-Siberian Railway. What made the Soviet Union collapse even more was that the new Soviet Union and the new Red Army formed by Trotsky had begun to take over the Soviet Far East. A heretical regime that was absolutely unacceptable to the Soviet Union had thus raised its own red flag.

Another fateful showdown between Si and Tuo is about to begin.

Chapter 115: Japan with Clear Eyes

(I saw everyone's urging tickets for more updates. Since you've all given me so much face, I have to take responsibility. Today is the fifth update! This is the first update!)

In the Kremlin office, Comrade Steel was looking through the information reported by Zhukov with no expression on his face.

Not only he was reading this information, but other Soviet generals and even military experts were also reading it. Now it was not only the Soviet Union that felt something was unusual, other countries had also discovered the abnormality of the Volunteer Army.

Whether objectively or subjectively, the strength of the Volunteer Army has surpassed the scope of the military that humans can understand at this stage. It is understandable that an army has an iron will, but it is impossible to understand that humans are as strong as steel. The life structure of carbon-based organisms does not allow such a powerful existence.

From the intelligence gathered from the front lines, Comrade Steel saw an army that was so powerful that it was difficult to understand.

They have a firm will to fight, advanced war weapons, and all members have a college degree or above. Although their beliefs are relatively complex, they are generally advanced left-wing progressive forces. Generally speaking, to cultivate such an army, at least a country with overwhelming advantages in industry, education, humanities, beliefs, etc. is needed, and the local population must be at least over 100 million, or even more. Currently, there are only such countries in the world, the United States and the Soviet Union.

But it is impossible for the United States. If they could train such an army, American capitalists would have hung street lamps all over Wall Street long ago. But it is even more impossible for the Soviet Union. If the Soviet Union could hide such a powerful force, then Lenin would have had to apply to others before coming to power, and the fall of Tsarist Russia would probably not be a matter of a single word from others.

It's neither this nor that. In the end, the only regime in the world with a population of over 100 million and capable of existing as a country is the Republic of China.

Of course, Su Cizong didn't think that the trash Chairman was capable of training a volunteer army, so was there some shocking secret hidden in that ancient and mysterious Eastern land?

Anyway, after giving their all, scientists from various fields in the Soviet Union finally came to the conclusion that there was probably a very ancient force in the ancient land of China, and this force was hidden very deeply and would only appear when the nation was on the brink of life and death.

Then some Soviet scientists made the bold assumption that this organization might have been secretly born during the Shang and Zhou dynasties in Chinese history, and that the Mohist idea of ​​universal love and non-aggression among the various schools of thought might be one of its inheritances.

Throughout human history, China is the only one of the four ancient civilizations that has survived to this day, and this nation has always been able to burst out unimaginable fighting power at the moment of life and death, and continue its own civilization. The first time was an accident, and the second time was a coincidence, but after the rise and fall of 83 dynasties, it has been able to be passed down stably to this day. There is only one possibility, that is, Marxism had its roots in China a long time ago!

Well, don't laugh. Soviet scientists did speculate this way, and the more they speculated, the more outrageous it became. However, this outrageousness compared to the combat effectiveness of the Volunteer Army has become a possibility that the Soviet high-level officials highly recognize.

Either you admit that the Volunteer Army fell from the sky, or you admit that the Volunteer Army is an ancient Chinese watch organization.

Obviously the latter is more convincing.

As for those in the volunteer army who possess combat capabilities beyond those of ordinary humans, Soviet scientists believe that this is some kind of spiritual practice. According to ancient Chinese tradition, they should be called "immortal cultivators" or "martial artists." They have continuously accumulated understanding of the mysteries of the human body over the long years of history. The ultimate goal is to make people become gods. Although they cannot reach that level now, they can already give birth to super humans, who are better than Homo sapiens and should be called "new humans."

How to say it, after the Soviet scientists' imagination, things turned out to be much closer to the truth. At least many outrageous parts were supplemented to be very reasonable. After all, compared with the combat record of the Volunteer Army, this outrageousness is normal.

But what Su Cizong wanted to hear was not science fiction that contained more speculation than evidence. After all, political decisions had to be based on reality. He only knew two things that were very certain.

First: The Soviet Union lost the Far East.

Second: The combat effectiveness of the Volunteer Army was overwhelmingly stronger than that of the Soviet Army.

As for the new Soviet Union, it was indeed a threat, but Trotsky knew from his character that the two sides did not necessarily have to fight to the death. The relationship between the Soviet Union and the new Soviet Union could be negotiated, and maintaining peace was not difficult. The volunteer army only wanted to take back their homeland in China, and this part could also be negotiated.

The loss of the Soviet Union's eastern territory is certainly heartbreaking, but to be honest, the Soviets themselves really have no nostalgia for that bitter and cold land. This is a typical belief of 40K players. They are loyal when told, but will not go there unless asked.

"Leader, the Volunteer Army has just unilaterally announced the end of their Far East military operations and will not advance further."

"Well, let me see."

Su Cizong took the document from his secretary, which read: "The special punitive action against the Soviet revisionists has ended. The Volunteer Army is only for the purpose of recovering historical territories and will not advance further. The Volunteer Army is not an invader."

As expected, the Volunteer Army had no good words for the Soviet Union, calling it "Soviet revisionism" all the time.

Su Cizong picked up his pipe and fell into deep thought, weighing the pros and cons.

It seems that what the Soviet Union will do next is to negotiate territorial issues with the new Soviet Union, and the Volunteer Army will at most assist the new Soviet Army and will not actively launch an attack. This is a good thing, but they will definitely not stop, so the next target will definitely be...

Su Cizong raised his head, his eyes focused on the Korean Peninsula, and then looked at Xinjiang.

Some people are alive, but already dead.

At this moment, the secretary walked in and said, "Leader, the Volunteer Army has airdropped into Xinjiang, and Sheng has been arrested."

"Understood. Tell the Soviet troops on the border to be on guard and not to cross the border and provoke."

"Yes."

From the day the Volunteer Army won Irkutsk, Su Cizong knew that he would have to take back Xinjiang sooner or later. Now the Soviet Union no longer has the extra energy and strength to fight against the Volunteer Army. For places that cannot be defended, they must let go. The Soviet Union's goal has always been Europe first.

We have done everything we can, and it is time to negotiate with the Volunteer Army.

The Soviet Union was lucky. At least after they expressed their intention to negotiate, the Volunteer Army was still willing to communicate with them.

On the other hand, on the Japanese side, whether explicitly or implicitly, the Volunteer Army had no intention of stopping. There were rumbling sounds of artillery fire on the west bank of the Yalu River every day. The Volunteer Army pulled nine-tenths of the artillery here and used the Japanese positions across the Yalu River as targets every day. At first, it was players who fought, and when the players got tired of it, they started fighting with local conscripts. After the local conscripts were trained, they became recruits and militia. In short, they fought the Japanese with the attitude of fighting on two mountains in rotation.

The Japanese army on the opposite side was in constant fear. From the sky to the ground, there was no safe place. You never knew where the volunteer army's artillery shells and bombs would fall from, but the Yalu River, a natural barrier, had to be defended. Therefore, the Japanese army here had learned to be pangolins, and each of them had learned the skills of Takeuchi Renzan without a teacher. After all, people who could not burrow into the ground had no right to survive in front of the heavy artillery shells of the Xuanyue Cannon that might fall at any time.

Now the Japanese army knows that the Volunteer Army has deployed five Xuanyue cannons across the Yalu River. Together with the one in the Nanjing Liberated Area, the Volunteer Army actually has six of these terrifying war beasts, but they can't even build them.

So even though the Volunteer Army never revealed where its rear was, most countries, including Japan, have already regarded it as a hidden super industrial power. If not, there is no way to explain where the Volunteer Army's weapons and equipment came from. As for the origin of the Volunteer Army, Japan, which knows China better, is more daring to speculate, and even directly got it to the legendary fairy island. When it comes to feudal superstition, Japan has always been very professional, professional in nonsense.

There is no way, we can only guess now. Is there any other better explanation?

The next day, the artillery fire of the volunteers stopped. No one knew when the artillery fire of the volunteers stopped. Anyway, the Japanese had already begun to move underground and did not dare to go too far even when they came out for a walk.

However, humans are still very adaptable. For example, the Japanese soldiers who are still stationed on the east bank of the Yalu River have basically reached the point where they only hide when hit by heavy artillery and do not move when hit by mountain artillery. After getting used to being bombed, they are not afraid of artillery with a caliber smaller than 105, because the shells that they can hear are definitely not aimed at them. As for those heavy artillery, dear, sometimes even if you hear it, you will still die if you are within the killing radius. You can't hide after you die, so it's better to be optimistic.

But the survivors still had to live, so the Japanese army continued to dig at the nearby mountains, forming a complex underground city. The mountains were filled with weapons, ammunition, food supplies, and even comfort stations. However, the Yalu River, as the boundary river between China and North Korea, is about 795 kilometers long and flows through many important cities. It is definitely unrealistic to let go of the entire line, so the Japanese army adopted a key defense approach, using nodes to form a complete line of defense.

First, the Yalu River estuary. The ownership of islands at its mouth, such as Choudun Island and Xin Island, directly affects control of the waterway. Securing the estuary prevents enemy ships from sailing up the river and threatening inland cities. However, considering the Chinese People's Volunteer Army had not yet demonstrated a strong navy, the Japanese defense in this area was not strong and could only be considered satisfactory.

Then there are Hushan and the area surrounding Jiuliancheng. Hushan, at 147 meters, is a commanding point in the middle reaches of the Yalu River, offering a commanding view of the other side. During the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing army deployed defenses here, but their loss led to the collapse of the defense line, demonstrating its importance. Jiuliancheng, while flat, backs onto the Ai River, necessitated the construction of fortifications along the riverbank to prevent mechanized troops from penetrating it.

Finally, at the confluence of tributaries, the entrances to rivers such as the Xuchuan River and the Tulu River (the largest tributary on the North Korean side) need to be defended to prevent the enemy from encircling them along the tributaries. Together with the previous defense structures, they form a complete Yalu River defense system.

These places have withstood the test of history, from the Sino-Japanese War to the Korean War. The Japanese army deployed 100,000 troops here, and under normal circumstances, they could resist an invasion of ten times their number.

But this is only the data that can be achieved in theory under normal circumstances. After suffering repeated beatings from the Volunteer Army, the Japanese dared not continue to fantasize about victory on the sand table, but faced the upcoming war on the Korean Peninsula with a more pragmatic attitude.

The Volunteer Army will definitely take action, but no one knows when.

The volunteer army was also very busy at this time, conducting a major trial.

Chapter 116: No slacking off!

(Second update! More to come later)

The liberation of Xinjiang was inevitable. This place did not have much combat power. Although Sheng called himself the King of Xinjiang, a turtle is still a king. It was okay for him to bully the old, the young and the poor people in the remote areas, but he would have no problem dealing with any local warlord who was a little larger.

Who makes it difficult to develop in Xinjiang? All inland provinces face such problems: high transportation costs, water shortages, and it is inherently unsuitable for agricultural development. Most people here are semi-agricultural and semi-nomadic. It is difficult for a purely agricultural people to survive here, unless you spend thousands of years persistently hoeing the land, allowing people and nature to live in harmony, and have a strong national collective force as a backup, otherwise the investment in the local area will be a waste of money.

Look at modern Mongolia, which has to choose between joining China and Russia and join the river, even though its own country does not have much water resources.

The sorrow of the inland provinces is also the sorrow of those inland countries.

But it doesn’t matter. Now that the volunteers have arrived, everything will be fine. The bad guys have been locked up, and the whole Xinjiang will soon be full of vitality and all things will flourish.

"Xinjiang is a good place, but it definitely wasn't what it is now. It's extremely poor."

The two steamed buns with meat patties brought from Nanjing were sighing. Not long ago, he and Dayu investigated several villages around Urumqi, and the results were shocking.

Please note that these are the villages around Urumqi. The people here are so poor that they can only rely on the natural economy based on agriculture and animal husbandry and pray to God for food. The situation in other places can only be worse.

According to the data currently compiled by players, there are only a pitiful 1814 million mu of arable land in the entire Xinjiang, and the total grain output is 88.47 tons per year. What does this mean?

Xinjiang's total population at the time was 433 million. If the food was evenly distributed, it would only be a "carbon-based biological life-support diet," with no thought of developing industry or generating a food surplus. Furthermore, this was a completely even distribution scenario. Given the local situation, such a scenario would be impossible. The local elites would undoubtedly reap the lion's share, leaving herders and farmers struggling to survive, and the potential for famine at any moment due to environmental crises.

In contrast, modern Xinjiang's annual grain output is 2119.2 million tons. It is the sufficient grain reserves and various advanced agricultural technologies that have made Xinjiang truly the good place we know it to be. Before that, Xinjiang was like a portrayal of the entire old China, held hostage by external forces, impoverished and weak, emaciated, and full of starving people.

Compared with the crisis of starvation, the fact that Liang Mantou with Meat Patties and Dayu were robbed by various local bandits more than a dozen times on the way to investigate was not worth mentioning at all.

The two men, who were already upset, started a massacre of the "poor" bandits. They tied the captured bandit leader to the back of a tank and dragged him to death. Only then did they barely vent their anger.

However, the deeply rooted religious and royal aristocratic forces in the area cannot be eliminated so easily, and a campaign of anti-counterrevolutionary activities in line with the Chinese baby system is needed.

At present, the volunteer army has prepared a new list that is more than two meters long and more than half a meter wide.

These are old-time exploiters who all have original sin, and the cost of educating them is too high. It is better to use the Maxim spirit to solve the problem, and then use public trials and grievance meetings to awaken the numb slave mentality of the local people.

These are all classic methods, and only require fine-tuning according to local conditions.

For example, in areas with abundant arable land, we should tell more stories about farmers, in cities, we should tell more stories about workers, and on pastures, we should tell more stories about herdsmen. We cannot do any obvious overnight operations to find fault. The volunteers just like to catch big tigers weighing thousands of pounds, and they can earn a lot of points by killing them.

If there are no tigers, flies and mosquitoes are fine too. We are not picky eaters.

"This is the latest mission arrangement, everyone take a look."

Mo Yu distributed the information in his hand. Those who looked at the information were all locals. Players did not need such paper information. They shared it directly through voice and text in the game, which was a paperless office.

The Northeast is currently preparing for the grand trial, and there are also venues in Xinjiang and the Northwest, but the grand trial is the grand trial, and production and construction cannot be neglected at all.

Compared with Xinjiang, the development difficulty of Northeast China is obviously much lower, but this is only relatively speaking. When you hear the name "Beidahuang", you will know that Northeast China was barren back then, which is completely different from the current Northeast granary.

The Japanese's predatory construction in the local area was point-to-point and not connected at all, and they would not carry out comprehensive construction in the entire Northeast region. They did have this idea in the later period, but they did not have the energy and time. Moreover, even if the Japanese built up the Northeast, it would still be a Japanese colony or overseas province under the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Belt. The honor and prosperity had nothing to do with the Chinese.

Despite this, Northeast China was still a very well-developed region in the whole of China at that time, because the elites here cannot be counted from the Japanese devils, but from Marshal Zhang. At that time, Northeast China already had the most advanced industrial clusters in East Asia, including Shenyang Arsenal, Anshan Iron and Steel Plant, and Dalyan Shipyard (yes, it existed at that time, what a surprise, right?), and it could even manufacture China's first independent car "Minsheng Brand". The industrial level was at the T0 level in the whole of China.

This industrial level was still among the best in Asia in 1945, which is why the industrial base was placed here after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Soviet aid was only part of the reason. If we only consider the Soviet factor, then Xinjiang, Gansu, Ningxia, and even Shanxi are closer to the Soviet core area than the Northeast, but the industrial systems in those places are indeed not as good as those in the Northeast.

As for the South, you can ask a certain chairman why the South's industry could not develop at that time.

However, in this parallel world, the Nanjing Liberated Area became the eldest son of the Republic. As the player's first liberated area and revolutionary base, the points invested accounted for 90% of the points obtained by the player in the early stage. Eighty to ninety percent of the points produced by the liberated areas were also used in the Nanjing Liberated Area. After the complete liberation of the Northeast, the Nanjing Liberated Area allocated half of the points to support the construction of the Northeast.

But these are only things that the players know. The locals have no idea about it. After all, the economic system behind the player points is backed by Liu Qi's dimensional ship production system, and Nanjing does not need to pay a penny. At most, many local talents have been transferred to the Northeast to engage in construction. That's the only impact, but the treatment they should receive is not any different.

Even people in the Nanjing liberated areas were very fond of this "Chuang Guandong" model. They could earn enough to buy a small house in one year, live a stable and comfortable life in two years, and become a small rich man in three years.

Isn't it just overtime? There is overtime pay. The guarantees given by the volunteer army are all real. You can do good deeds and go down in history, and you can also make a lot of money and bring glory to your family.

Northeast, here I come!!!

It sounds great, doesn't it? But players have to consider a lot, especially farming players, who are already so busy that they even have to drag combat players over to fill the gap in personnel.