Age of Rebirth

Pressure——Great pressure from the Soviet Union's Outer Xing'an Mountains Front Army and Lake Baikal Front Army. Although the Far East Campaign went very smoothly, and the Japanese troops participating in the battle were on the offensive, but from the day they attacked the Soviet Far East Front Army, the Japanese Army's Far East Campaign The commander-in-chief, Prince Zai In, was accompanied by a huge pressure.

Prince Zairen knew very well that he seemed to have the upper hand now. The Soviet Far Eastern Front was surrounded on all sides, and there was no way to escape. However, the foundation of everything was based on the prerequisites for quickly annihilating the Soviet Far Eastern Front.

According to the plan of the Far East campaign, the troops who besieged the Far East Front Army had to break through all the defense systems of the Soviet army within a week, and then use another week to divide and encircle the Soviet army and gradually eliminate them. The tens of thousands of Soviet troops were already the limit of the Japanese army's combat power in the Far East.

However, the development of the battle situation is still out of the control of Prince Zairen. Perhaps, since the troops of the reading force division, on the line from Chita to Irkutsk, the two Soviet front army troops were detained, the trend of the battle situation began. , it completely deviated from Prince Zairen's prediction, but the situation at that time was already on the verge of attack, and no matter what, he had to bite the bullet and fight on.

Therefore, Prince Zairen had to seize the time to get rid of the Soviet Far East Front Army before the arrival of Soviet reinforcements. After breaking through the two defensive lines of the Soviet army one after another, the living space of the Soviet army on the battlefield was gradually compressed. The imperial army of the Great Japanese Empire seemed to be winning steadily?

However, not only Prince Zain, but also the Japanese commanders on the front line can see that Zhukov is deliberately shrinking the defensive circle to preserve enough strength. The thickness of the troops became denser and denser, and the Japanese army had to pay a huge price for every step forward.

Prince Zairen was quite dissatisfied with the speed of the troops' attack. In the telegrams to General Norigoro Ono, commander of the Japanese Far East Dispatched Army, and General Tanaka Shin, commander of the North Korean Garrison, they were full of words of urging and reprimanding. However, for General Nanjiro, the commander of the Kwantung Army, there was no strict order.

Prince Zairen is quite satisfied with the performance of the Kwantung Army. After the siege of the Far East Front Army, Nanjiro's performance was remarkable. When facing Zhukov's solid ice and snow fortifications, the Kwantung Army was the first to break through the Soviet army. The imperial army troops in the position, and then led the imperial army in other directions, and seized the first assured attack speed of the Soviet army. For such a brave and skilled general, even Prince Zairen, who had a high opinion of himself, could not be harsh.

After breaking through the two defensive circles of the Soviet Army in a row, the offensive troops could no longer stand still. After a whole day of mad attack, including the troops of the Kwantung Army, they did not make the slightest progress. Although the excellent steel plate was deformed in many places and would break at any time, at every critical moment, it would burst out with astonishing energy and vitality, driving the attacking Japanese troops back. [

Prince Zairen was angry, extremely angry, Zhukov, who could not be beaten to death, and the two Soviet front troops desperately breaking through the blockade, were like two heavy boulders, pressing on his heart. The current Far East battlefield is actually divided into two parts. However, the troops besieging the Soviet Far Eastern Front were the main offensive on the main battlefield, and the secondary battlefield defenders who blocked the Soviet reinforcements were completely different situations. It seemed that all battlefield situations were beneficial to the Imperial Army.

However, Prince Zairen saw a huge crisis lurking in it. The entire Far East campaign plan, the campaign guard group that blocked the Soviet reinforcements, was the biggest weakness. Prince Zairen believed that the troops commanded by Lieutenant General Haruhiko Taichi were also a piece of the puzzle. It is an excellent steel plate, but this steel plate has a fatal weakness, and the troops are at an absolute disadvantage, so that this blockade line lacks sufficient defensive depth support, as long as a single point breaks, the entire blockade line will collapse immediately.

Next, more than 200 million Soviet soldiers will rush to the battlefield in the Far East like a "tide", and the German imperial army that besieged Zhukov will change from besiegers to besieged. Every time I think of this, Prince Zairen He was sweating all over his body, and he was extremely angry at the delay in dividing and encircling the Soviet army by the offensive troops.

"Yamada-kun, send a telegram to the commander of the Far East Expeditionary Army, Ono Norigoro, and the commander of the North Korean Garrison, Tanaka Shinichi, ordering them to break through the core defensive positions of the Soviet army within two days and divide and encircle the Soviet army. If they fail to complete this task, they will come to the headquarters to accept the crime by themselves! I will prepare a place for them to cut themselves open!" Prince Zairen, who had just finished his rage and almost smashed the utensils in the office, gritted his teeth and addressed the head of the General Staff Headquarters Major General Yamada ordered.

At this time, Prince Zairen, in the eyes of Minister Yamada, had a terrifying face, "Two generals of the imperial army, the supreme commander in charge of a campaign, have only two days to live!" Major General Yamada lamented in his heart.

After Major General Yamada finished recording the order, he considered it for a while and asked, "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, is there any latest order from the headquarters for the Kwantung Army troops?"

Prince Zairen shook his head, looking a little tired and said: "No need, Mr. Nanci has his own offensive rhythm, and the Kwantung Army has performed outstandingly. The headquarters should not interfere too much!"

Major General Yamada immediately shut up and stopped. However, he still had a strange feeling in his heart, "They are both commanders in the same offensive direction, but they are treated very differently from each other. General Ono and General Tanaka were treated differently by His Royal Highness. He was scolded like hell, and he even prepared a place for suicide. General Nanjiro, however, treated him in a detached way. Not only did he not reprimand him, he didn't even interfere with how to attack. He also grew up eating imperial rice and was a man. Why is there such a big difference in treatment?"

Major General Yamada was about to leave when Prince Zairen suddenly said: "Send a telegram to General Nanjiro, Nanji-kun, the Far East campaign has reached the most critical moment, the Soviet army's reinforcements are attacking fiercely, and the imperial blocking troops are fighting extremely hard. Time is very precious to the imperial army, every minute and every second is very precious, I hope Nanji-kun will create another miracle, take the lead in breaking through the core defensive positions of the Soviet army, and set an example for the imperial troops participating in the war, please, Nanji-kun!"

Prince Zairen pinned all his hopes on the powerful Kwantung Army. After Major General Yamada went out, Prince Zairen looked at the dark night sky. He didn't understand. Zhukov, why can he still play the battlefield rhythm, step by step, and narrow the defense area in a planned way, "This person should be a strong enemy of the imperial army. Nanjiro can not lose the wind in confronting this person for more than three years. It's so precious!" He thought with emotion.

At around nine o'clock that night, in Kulun, Outer Mongolia, the chief of staff Zhao Yuhe opened the door of Tang Qiuli's office in the headquarters of the Reading Division, "Commander, Deputy Commander Liu called, and all our troops in the Far East have followed the command of the division In addition, the Niangziguan Garrison Corps, under the command of Chief of Staff Zhang Hansheng, has returned to western Liaoning overnight, and the Yuan Jinghao Division of the North China Field Corps has left Irkutsk and headed south." He quickly finished reading telegram content.

Tang Qiuli was silent for a while, but asked another question, "Yuhe, did Deputy Commander Liu's telegram mention the reaction of the Soviet army after our army retreated?"

Zhao Yuhe smiled and said, "Master, Deputy Commander Liu really understands you. Yes, in another telegram, Deputy Commander Liu mentioned the behavior of the Soviet Army. After the contact, according to the report of the reconnaissance unit, the Soviet army not only did not relax its vigilance, but instead entered into a state of combat across the board as if it were facing an enemy.

"What?" Tang Qiuli raised his eyebrows in surprise, "It's not normal, the negotiation agreement between us and the Soviet Union has been signed, and Molotov has been gone for more than five hours, enough to return to Moscow Well, the generals of the Soviet army on the front line should have received a notification from Stalin, knowing that our army’s retreat is fulfilling the negotiation agreement, but why are they still so nervous?” He murmured to himself in confusion road.

Zhao Yuhe explained the abnormal behavior of the Soviet army from another angle, "Master, it is very possible that Stalin did not believe our sincerity and ordered the Soviet army to maintain due vigilance. The troops are all engaged in the attack to break through the Japanese blocking line!" After finishing speaking, he added, "Master, think about it, how many times the Soviet army has suffered under your hands, Stalin I was scared by you!" [

Tang Qiuli laughed loudly, agreeing with Zhao Yuhe's interpretation, but he still had great doubts in his heart, "Time is very precious to the Soviet army. A few hours of time , The Soviet Army, which was enough to return to the aid, used all its forces in the attack, but put on a posture as if it was facing a big enemy, where did something go wrong?"

Although he thinks this way, he will not be troubled by this problem. He has already followed the negotiation agreement. As for the reaction of the Soviets, that is Stalin's own business. If he is suspicious, he can't help it if he doesn't believe him, too. Stalin was a master of intrigues and tricks, so he would naturally be on guard against being fooled by others. However, it was completely unnecessary. His attention was no longer on the Soviet army.

Soon, Tang Qiuli's thoughts were all focused on the upcoming plan to launch a large-scale offensive against the Japanese army in the Far East. The staff officers who came in and out from time to time sent over the required materials. Ge Zhenzhuang, the director of the department, also devoted himself to intense work, and the abnormal reaction of the Soviet army was quickly forgotten.

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