The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

The japanese army's art of war has always implemented a "sneak attack" tactical core, probably from the time when the village chiefs fought in melee, they called it the "Warring States" era, because they are too close to each other, here is a yell If there is a war, the other side will know immediately and respond on the same day, so they have to adopt this seemingly helpless method. (.)

I have to admit that this tactic has allowed Japan to win many times, and has expanded from a small island country to a world power by relying on similar successful experiences time and time again, so the concept of winning by attack is deeply rooted in the army.

This sudden onslaught against Soviet Russia is also an example.According to the plan of the Kwantung Army Staff Headquarters, it is believed that the Soviet Russian Army after the Great Cleansing has completely lost its fighting spirit, and cannot even build a complete upper and lower combat guidance system. The commanders of those troops were lax in discipline, and they didn't clearly realize how big the attitude gap existed among them. The friction and provocation again and again thought it was just a joke and could be passed by just talking about it.

But this time is different!There was obviously a problem with the intelligence of China from the Soviet Union. They did not judge that Japan was actually approaching the impasse!The army lost the war, the navy suffered heavy losses, and China is getting stronger and stronger. If it joins hands with the Soviet Union and Russia to attack from the north to the south, the four provinces of Manchuria will not last long, and even North Korea may be lost in one fell swoop!

And Japan, which lost these colonies, resource areas, and population areas, will inevitably suffer a great loss of national strength, and once the debts are collected by the great powers.If it's not good, it will be overturned!

Seeing this clearly, Ishihara Waner and others don't have any time to continue talking to them, not to mention that Japan may face the danger of land sinking at any time. The four provinces of Manchuria have become the core of the new Japan. Homeland Center, no mistakes can be tolerated!Over the years, Japan has desperately borrowed loans and opened factories, mines, and farmland in the Northeast to immigrate. The intensity and speed are far beyond imagination!That's it.They can't get enough of it!

However, Soviet Russia was busy with internal strife and cleansing and ignored the urgent needs of Japan itself. The repeated provocations could not cause fierce counterattacks!What's more, this counterattack is the excuse that Ri himself needs most to start a war!The Japanese people who have lost consecutively need a victory to boost their confidence and morale!I can't think about China for the time being, so the Russian Far East, which is beyond our reach, deserves to be the best candidate!

The first strike of the sneak attack went extremely smoothly!After the tens of thousands of Soviet and Mongolian troops were attacked twice, they were all wiped out without even using fighter jets to assist them.subsequently.The Soviet Union deployed a heavy artillery group on the west bank of the Haraha River early, and the reinforcements who were hit hard did not hesitate to put it into battle. The Japanese Army's 1st Division Chariot Wing and the 23rd Division did not do their investigation work well in the early stage. At that time, he suffered a good beating and lost dozens of tanks and nearly 200 people.

However, such a violent counterattack was only a flash in the pan. The Japanese army's flight regiment, which had been preparing for a long time, immediately dispatched dozens of fighter planes to completely blow up the artillery position into ruins, and then the armored troops drove straight in.Shun Shun Dang rushed across the river, seized the commanding heights on the West Bank, fought in the first stage, and successfully achieved the goal!

The Soviet army was a little confused at the time!They have only a small army in the entire Mongolia area, and they are scattered in an area that is thousands of kilometers long.It takes 750 kilometers to transport manpower from the local military depot to the front line. According to the Japanese army's estimate, it will take five or six days.

It is too late to rely on these people to regain the lost ground.If you come too little, it will become a refueling tactic, if you come too much, it will waste time.No matter how you calculate it, it is beneficial to the Japanese army.

In the final analysis, the Soviet army actually looked down on the Japanese army. Those dwarfs who charged with a single muscle and fought with bayonets were nothing more than scum in front of cannons and tanks. They didn't take advantage of it at all. Didn't you see that last time Zhang Gufeng beat him to death, or did they take the initiative to seek peace?

This sudden sap fell, and the tens of thousands of Mongolian troops did not even hold on for three days.Even a regiment stationed nearby and an artillery group were killed. The speed was so fast that it was staggering. When did he become so powerful? !

The consequences of the cleansing immediately appeared!The Soviet army in the entire Far East is almost out of touch, and among the tens of thousands of people in the 57th Army, there are almost no senior officers who can make decisions and dare to stand out. Reporting to Moscow, while hastily mobilizing forces to rush to support.

此时的57军力量其实不算弱，下辖步兵第57师、第82师等其他部队，其中一个步兵师为18000人；第11坦克旅等，共计约40000人。

When Stalin received the report, he was surprised at first, and then became furious. He was creating the eternal foundation of the great Slavic republic. The purge from top to bottom guaranteed his supreme authority in a stable core position, and the peace with Germany won a short-lived European Union. The direction of safety, the Far East, is an important place for the next step of integration and progress.At such a critical moment, Ri himself slapped him in the face so shamelessly, what was he doing?

Comrade Stalin is definitely not a leader who is willing to swallow his anger. Without much hesitation, he ordered the 57th Army to go into battle immediately. Well, why should he care about those false names?

"The damned Japanese dwarf must be severely punished! We must not condone such unscrupulous expansion of imperialism!"

The 57th Army did not dare to be negligent after receiving the order of the supreme Comrade Iron and Steel, and immediately mobilized all of them. Not long after the Chinese side's feigned attack on the Great Wall defense line started, the first batch of troops drove to the Haraha River battlefield in a mighty truck. The scale and speed are far beyond the expectations of the Japanese army!

The reconnaissance planes of the Kwantung Army flying all over the sky immediately discovered a large number of Soviet troops marching into Mongolia. When the information was fed back to the headquarters, Ishihara Waner and others were taken aback!They originally estimated that the Soviet Army would hesitate for a while, and first protested and questioned Japan through the embassy and consulate, negotiated with each other for ten and a half days, and then expressed a compromise after confirming that there was no way to defeat the Kwantung Army, and signed a truly effective agreement The treaty was completed to stabilize the border between Manchuria and Mongolia, and more than half of the Kwantung Army deployed here for defense was withdrawn.Then plot the issues along the Heilongjiang line.

Taking a step back, even if Soviet Russia refuses to compromise, Japan will still take the lead in the escalation of the war. Taking advantage of that time, it will pull in all the follow-up troops that cannot be put into battle as planned due to road problems, and use all their weapons. In the past, the positions were all opened up, and the Kwantung Army still won the victory!

Speaking of this, I have to mention how bad the Kwantung Army's detection of Soviet Russia's intelligence work was.Compared with their research and infiltration of China for hundreds of years, military maps are drawn in more detail than the Chinese themselves, and their understanding of the sphere of influence of Soviet Russia is too general.

<The ground around the rainy Halaha River is so bad that it makes people vomit blood!The strange terrain that is soft and sticky and even directly forms a swamp makes heavy tanks have to face the dilemma of being stuck in and unable to get out at any time. During the first few days of the battle, it often happened that tanks were suddenly trapped in mud pits and were hit by artillery fire from the Soviet and Mongolian army. bad luck.

Correspondingly, the overall advance speed of the troops was also extremely slow, the formation could not be deployed as expected, and the logistical supplies could not keep up, and the heavy large-caliber heavy artillery could not be dragged in place with just a horse... Wait a lot of trouble Ishihara Waner and the others were overwhelmed.

Fortunately, the troops that have been baptized by many battles with China are not bad, especially the tank brigade of the First Division, they are all masters who have fully absorbed various lessons from the Chinese battlefield. Both Kai and Type 55 medium tanks are equipped with at least 90mm front armor and turret armor, the tracks are also widened accordingly, the engine horsepower is increased, and the artillery is almost replaced with Type 75 37mm field guns, which are more powerful than the early 47 , [-] small cannons are a bit higher than the boss!

The accumulation of various unfavorable and convenient conditions led the Kwantung Army Command to urgently carry out a large number of adjustments. The originally estimated logistics force and ammunition supplies were far from enough, so they had to increase deployment efforts. At the same time, they realized for the first time that the real Fully mechanized troops are not so easy to play, and armored weapons alone are far from enough to guarantee the victory of the war.

The Kwantung Army needs time to adjust.Unexpectedly, however, the changes came so quickly. First, the fake attack on the Great Wall's defense line was so wild and ferocious that the two divisions couldn't bear it. They lost Gubeikou and Jiangjunguan in one day and one night.Although there are factors of their deliberate indulgence, but the speed is too fast, which makes people caught off guard!

Followed by the rapid advance of the Soviet army, when Ishihara Waner saw that the Soviet army did not throw off their long legs and walk or ride forward as they imagined, but directly drove in groups with trucks The 750-kilometer long transportation line can be driven to the ground in only two days. Even if it takes about five days to rectify and deploy, then at least a week later, a large number of Soviet troops will go into battle.And this time the opponent will no longer be the Mongolian army with a few heavy weapons, but the Soviet army with all heavy weapons and armored troops!

Ishihara Wan'er didn't feel so scared. Compared with him, he was more prepared. The two divisions that had already been dispatched were not fully equipped, which added up to nearly 3 people, hundreds of tanks and one or two hundred troops. With a fighter plane, there are still several times the strength waiting behind. In terms of quality and equipment, the opponent is not an opponent.

But it should never have happened, the north and the south are advancing at the same time!Could it be that they have passed their anger and plan to take this opportunity to formally launch a full-scale operation to annihilate the Kwantung Army?

There should be no such possibility.Ishihara Waner believed in his own judgment, so among his suggestions to Neiji Okamura, he was 100% sure that the Great Wall battlefield would not expand, because the leader of China, Generalissimo Jiang, did not have the courage to fight decisively, and neither did the northern princes. The determination to sacrifice for the country, they are still acting! . . )

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