Chita is the intersection of the Eastern Railway and the Trans-Siberian Railway, as long as the Chita area is occupied, the Trans-Siberian Railway will be cut off, the Soviet Far Eastern Front will lose the support of the European mainland, and the Japanese army can get a steady stream of supplies through the Eastern Railway. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

If this situation continues, within a year, the Soviet Far Eastern Front will collapse, the Japanese army will occupy the entire Far East east of Chita, and the Japanese Empire will expand its territory by millions of square kilometers at once, which will become the biggest military victory after the Russo-Japanese War!

The reason why Ishihara chose Chita as the starting point was because he saw this.

Now, the Japanese Kwantung Army has achieved the first goal, and the northbound cluster led by Ishihara has completely controlled Chita and the surrounding area of hundreds of kilometers, and has built a complete fortification with Chita City as the core and the extension of the Eastern Railway in the Soviet Union as the axis.

However, the Soviet Red Army did not sit still, but launched a fierce counteroffensive at the first time.

At present, the Soviet Red Army has chosen Chita as the primary target of attack, and the Red Banner Army from the west and the Red Banner First Army from the east have launched a fierce attack on Chita from the east and west.

Moreover, the Army Group in Mongolia and the First Army of the Red Banner are both large armies with a strength of more than 200,000, which means that the Soviet Red Army besieging Chita now has more than 400,000 infantry alone, and if you count the Air Force, the number is even more, even more than 500,000!

On the other hand, Ishihara's northbound cluster only has two divisions and one chariot division! Even if the Fourth Division, which was guarding the Soviet extension section of the Eastern Railway, was counted, the total strength was only more than 100,000 troops, so in terms of troops, the Japanese and Soviet armies invested in Chita City were completely disproportionate.

However, it should be noted that the Kwantung Army has already mastered air supremacy in Chita.

Since the full-scale outbreak of the Far Eastern War, the aviation regiment directly under the Kwantung Army has fought three large-scale air battles with the Soviet Air Force in Chita, Boli, and Vladivostok, and after the three large-scale air battles, the air force under the Soviet Far Eastern Front has been basically crippled and is no longer able to take the initiative to attack, so it can only retreat into Boli and Vladivostok and barely carry out territorial air defense operations.

This was also the war dividend brought to little Japan by the Sino-Japanese War, and it is not surprising that the air force of little Japan, after being trained in air combat with the Chinese Air Force, has made great progress in both actual combat experience and technical and tactical capabilities, while the pilots of the Soviet Air Force have hardly any actual combat experience, and it is not surprising that they were defeated.

Therefore, although the Kwantung Army's northward cluster was at a disadvantage in terms of strength and even more at an absolute disadvantage in terms of armored strength, because the air regiment directly under the Kwantung Army had air supremacy, the battle situation in Chita maintained a fragile balance, at least for the time being, the Japanese and Soviet armies were unable to break this balance.

Once the war reaches a stalemate, the attacking and defending sides will instinctively build and strengthen fortifications.

The Japanese army is a famous marmot in the world's military history, and they are defensive operations, so they worked extra hard to build fortifications, and in just half a month, they almost built Chita into a fortress! In addition to the main trenches crisscrossing the city, there are plenty of bunkers, bunkers, underground shelters, and tunnels.

Not to be outdone, the Soviet Red Army on the opposite side also built several hundred kilometers of trench fortifications, except for the direction of the Eastern Railway south of Chita City, which could not be completely blocked due to the strict defense of the Japanese army, the rest of the directions have been completely blocked by the trench fortifications of the Soviet Red Army, and it is impossible for even a fly to fly out.

Just three days ago, the Soviet Red Army launched a major offensive from the east and west, trying to break through the Japanese defense line in Chita in a pincer offensive, but in the end it ended in failure, so in recent days, the Soviet Red Army has not launched a major offensive, and there have been only sporadic engagements on the forward positions of the two sides.

This kind of sporadic engagement, but it is best suited for the snipers on both sides to play a role.

The Xiaoluyuan Special Operations Brigade was already competing with the snipers of the Soviet Red Army on the opposite side.

Passing through a deep tunnel and stepping through a section of knee-deep mud, Toshimi Okahara entered a sniper spot he had chosen yesterday.

This sniper point is hidden in the compartment of a Soviet T-32 tank that has been blown up, and Toshishi Okahara accidentally discovered yesterday that there is a tunnel that can go straight to the belly of the wreckage of this T-32 tank, and then in the belly of this tank wreckage, there is actually a large hole that has been blown up, through which the tank compartment can be entered.

As a result, the wreckage of the T-32 tank became an ideal sniper location.

Kokahara Toshisi tried to reduce his range of movements, passed through the tunnel, silently entered the tank wreckage, and then observed the enemy position in front from the lookout hole of the tank wreckage, this tank wreckage was blown up by the Kwantung Army air force in the last offensive operation, and the wreckage was exactly on a high ground, so the field of vision was very broad.

Through the lookout hole of the tank wreckage, Okahara Toshisi could clearly see a Soviet shelter in front of him, outside the shelter, two Soviet soldiers were chatting against the main trench, a Soviet soldier was boiling water, and a Soviet soldier came out of the shelter with a document bag on his back, apparently to convey orders.

Kokahara Junsi subconsciously set up the sniper rifle and locked on the Soviet soldier with the document bag through the scope, and at the same time, the index finger of his right hand also lightly put on the rifle trigger.

However, at the moment when Kokahara Junsi was about to pull the trigger, he gave up again.

It's just a herald, but it's not worth it for him to waste such a good sniper point!

Okahara Toshimi let go of his fingers, and at the same time removed the reticle of the scope from the Soviet soldier carrying the document bag, and re-aimed it at the exit of the shelter, and Kokahara decided to take a gamble that some senior officer of the Soviet Red Army would come out of the exit of this shelter today and appear under his sniper rifle.

The wait was long and boring, time seemed to stand still, only ten minutes, but in the feeling of Toshishi Okahara, it seemed to be as long as centuries! At this time, Toshisi Kokahara can only divert his attention by thinking of something pleasant and help him get rid of this feeling of loneliness.

So he took out a photo from his pocket and put it next to the lookout hole, so that he only had to tilt his head slightly, and his eyes could sweep the photo, and he could see the chubby little girl in the photo, this little girl was named Miedako, the daughter of Toshisi Okahara, and she was seven years old this year.

Looking at the chubby little face of the woman in the photo, Kokahara Junsi's mood finally became better, and the time was not as difficult as before, and suddenly, two hours passed like this, and then, Kokahara Junsi finally waited for the goal he wanted!

A Soviet general with the rank of lieutenant general on his epaulettes walked out of the shelter surrounded by a large group of officers, this poor fellow should have just wanted to come to the forward position to inspect, but he didn't expect to choose the wrong line in the end, and then put himself on the verge of death.

After seeing clearly the Soviet general's epaulettes and rank marks on the collar badge through the scope, Okahara Toshisi's spirit was suddenly shocked, the lieutenant general of the Soviet army, at such a time, can be regarded as a heavyweight target! In the next moment, Toshishi Okahara's right index finger lightly touched the trigger of the rifle.

The distance had been determined a long time ago, and the wind speed could also be judged by the fluttering amplitude of the cotton wool hanging on the lookout hole, and the advance was calculated according to the distance and wind speed, and Toshimi Kokahara moved the reticle on the scope slightly up and then to the right a little, and then began to wait quietly for the time to shoot.

Now is definitely not a good time, because in front of the Soviet lieutenant general, there are still many guards blocking it, if Kokahara Toshisi pulls the trigger now, and a certain guard in front of him suddenly hits a bullet, it will be a high probability event, because from the sniper point to the shelter in front, the distance is more than 800 meters, and the bullet needs to fly for more than a second, more than a second, enough for the Soviet lieutenant general and his entourage to change their body shape.

Toshimi Okahara held his breath and waited quietly for a better moment.

Not far from the shelter, there was a horizontal traffic trench, the Soviet lieutenant general and his entourage, in the field of vision of Kokahara Junsi's scope, the position was superimposed from the front into a line, seeing this, the corners of Kokahara Junsi's mouth immediately bloomed with a hideous smile, yo Xi, the opportunity has come!

Locked onto the target, adjusted his breathing, and then slowly pressed the trigger, at a certain moment, the sniper rifle against Kokahara Toshisi's shoulder suddenly shook, and then let out a muffled pop, and in an instant, a 6.5mm caliber bullet had been sprayed out of the muzzle of the Type 38 sniper rifle.

After suffering the loss of the wolf's tooth pistol and the sniper rifle with a pin, Kokahara Toshisi also equipped the members of the newly formed special operations brigade with a southern-style pistol with a pin and a Type 38 sniper step, and now Kokahara Toshisi is using a Type 38 sniper rifle with a pin and a pin and a sniper rifle.

After pulling the trigger, Toshishi Okahara's eyes were glued to the scope.

After a second delay, in the field of vision of the scope, a bloody flower suddenly bloomed on the face door of the Soviet lieutenant general, and then it fell straight backwards like a piece of sawn wood, and the next moment, the guards and staff officers walking in front of and behind the Soviet lieutenant general exploded instantly.