In the face of the well-trained and high-spirited Japanese infantry cavalry, the first wave of counterattack of the Outer Mongolian border cavalry unit failed unexpectedly, but the Japanese side did not take advantage of it, and their action to rescue the two Japanese pilots was delayed by the counterattack of the Outer Mongolian cavalry. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Japanese troops who crossed the Haraha River thus found themselves in a dilemma.

Hearing the sound of gunfire and explosions in the distance, the Japanese troops of Team A decisively detonated the wreckage of the fighter plane, and then retreated to the river bank to wait for the next order.

The Japanese army of B and the cavalry squadron reinforced by crossing the river were united, and after discussion, the former attracted the attention of the Outer Mongolian cavalry, and the latter bypassed the enemy in front of him and advanced to the barracks where the pilots were being held. With a distance of more than 20 kilometers, the lightly armed cavalry can go back and forth in just over an hour. However, this squadron of Japanese cavalry did not go far before it was discovered by the Outer Mongolian army, and the two sides immediately exchanged fierce fire, and the Japanese cavalry was forced to withdraw to the shore due to the light and heavy machine guns and mortars deployed by the other side.

Realizing that the plan to rescue his pilots through a surprise attack was bound to fail, Lieutenant General Komatsubara, commander of the 23rd Division of the Japanese Army, decisively ordered the river crossers to withdraw to the east bank with the captured Outer Mongolian officers and soldiers in order to prepare for the exchange of prisoners negotiated by the two sides. That night, the Japanese killed 9 people, wounded 20 people, captured 1 Mongolian officer and 6 soldiers, and the casualties of the Outer Mongolian border troops were estimated to be more than 40.

From that night on, the development of events completely exceeded the prediction of Komatsubara and the Kwantung Army Command. The Russians were furious at the Japanese army's cross-border attack, and with no hope of expansion on the Western Front and stability guaranteed by the non-aggression pact, they had already shifted their strategic focus to the vast and resource-rich Siberian region, and whether it was to carry out strategic expansion or strategic defense in this direction, it needed a buffer to act as a pressure relief valve in order to reduce the possibility of conflict between the two military powers, Japan and Russia, and Outer Mongolia undoubtedly played this role. Recently, the Japanese armed forces have not only frequently carried out aerial reconnaissance on the Outer Mongolian border, but have also sent ground troops to cross the border to carry out attacks.

The next day, the Revolutionary Military Council of Soviet Russia issued an operational order to the Far Eastern Military District and the Far Eastern Special Army, authorizing Marshal Blyukher to mobilize ground and air forces to resolutely counterattack the enemy who crossed the border, and allowed them to carry out cross-border attacks during counterattack operations.

Marshal Blyukhel, who had just turned 50, was one of the first commanders in command of Soviet Russia, a strongman comparable to Tukhachevsky in terms of influence and combat honor. Originally an ordinary fitter in the town of Metishi, he became the first person to be awarded the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of the Red Star, and the troops under his command were famous in the whole Union for their great achievements and meritorious service in various battlefields. He was the conqueror and defender of Siberia, the hero of victory over the White Guards of the Far East and the armed interventionists of Japan, the winner of numerous engagements and great battles. In battle, he was wounded in 18 places all over his body, and was an outstanding military chief under the leadership of the Bolsheviks, a well-known and well-known general. In 1924 and 1926, he was twice appointed by the Soviet Russian government to come to China under the pseudonym "Galen" to serve as an adviser to the Chinese Revolutionary Government and the head of the advisory group of the Whampoa Military Academy, and played a pivotal role in the Northern Expedition of the National Revolution. After the Middle East Road Incident in 1929, the Revolutionary Military Council of Soviet Russia decided to unify all the armed forces of the Far East into the Far Eastern Special Army. Blyukhel was appointed commander of the army. In 1929, he commanded his army to defeat the Feng warlords and establish a strong defense in the Far East.

It is worth mentioning that under the leadership of Sverdlov, Soviet Russia, which lost "half of the country" in Eastern Europe, overcame many difficulties and developed tenaciously in the cracks of the wars of the great powers.

Receiving the supreme order, Marshal Blyukher quickly flew from Vladivostok to Ulaanbaatar on a military plane, and personally dispatched troops to complete all preparations for launching a military counterattack. Out of a deep understanding of the Japanese Kwantung Army, Marshal Blyukhel set the counterattack operation at the beginning to be a corps size, so he sent all the Soviet troops stationed in Outer Mongolia to the line of the Haraha River, and transferred elite army aviation units from the Far East. Marshal Blyukhel decided to ignore the Japanese proposal for the exchange of prisoners of war after consulting the Revolutionary Military Council of Soviet Russia.

On the sixth day after the Japanese commandos crossed the river to attack the Outer Mongolian border guards, the Soviet Russian and Outer Mongolian allied forces quietly crossed the Haraha River to establish positions in the vicinity of Nomenkan -- this place has always been a disputed area on the Mongolian-Manchurian border, and the border claimed by the Outer Mongolian side is located on the east bank of the Halaha River, while the Manchurian side claims to be bounded by the river.

The Soviet-Mongolian army actively dispatched troops, and the Japanese Kwantung Army was not idle. In addition to the troops of the 23rd Division stationed in Hailar successively arrived in the border area to prepare for battle, the 7th Division, which was strong in combat, also went to Hailar as a reserve force, and the Kwantung Army Command also sent two main tank wings directly under the 1st Tank Brigade to the front line.

Just like the historical trajectory of the old time and space, the Japanese army's tank units have developed slowly in terms of size and technology, and in the war operations of invading China and sweeping Southeast Asia, their light tanks are enough to cope with all kinds of offensive battles and sports warfare, and most of Japan's military spending has been invested in naval construction, so it really has no energy and financial resources to develop tank troops. On the contrary, the Russian army was in a very bad strategic position in the Baltic and Black Seas, their naval construction was put at the bottom of the list, the development of aviation and armored forces was given priority, and in the twenties and thirties, Soviet Russia took advantage of its special position of armed neutrality to receive a lot of assistance from the American and British camps. By the end of the 30s, the Soviet Russian army was equipped with more than 35,000 combat vehicles and armored vehicles, and its armored forces were comparable to the German army in terms of scale, and the technical content of the main combat vehicles was not low at all - the C-35, which was equipped with the largest number of equipment, was a 20-ton medium tank, equipped with a 57 mm long-barreled gun, with an armor thickness of 10-50 mm, and the standard configuration was 5 members, and the overall combat performance was several levels higher than that of the Japanese army's "small bean tank".

The Japanese army reacted quickly to the actions of the Soviet-Mongolian army in the Nomenkan area. The 23rd and 7th Divisions of the Japanese Army took this opportunity to adjust their operational arrangements and gather the main forces to the east and south of Nomenkan, and the Kwantung Army Headquarters dispatched additional 7th and 9th Air Brigades to ******** and Hailar, and also transferred thousands of puppet Manchurian troops.

On the 11th day after the Japanese commandos crossed the river to attack the Outer Mongolian border guards, the Soviet and Mongolian troops, who had completed the assembly and deployment, launched a counterattack against the Japanese army in the name of punishment, and more than 400 Soviet fighters first launched air strikes on the Japanese army's aviation bases and transportation hubs in Hailar and other places, destroying more than 30 Japanese fighters and damaging the railway facilities in Hailar and its surroundings. On the same day, Soviet-Mongolian troops launched heavy artillery bombardment of Japanese and Manchurian positions on the east bank of Haraha.

After several hours of shelling, the Japanese soldiers in the trench heard the dull roar of engines, and then a large black tide appeared in their sights, and the tide quickly spread, and they were stunned when they were now a torrent of steel composed of combat vehicles, armored vehicles, motorcycles, and trucks.

Hundreds of combat vehicles and armored vehicles of the Soviet Russian army were like sharp sickles, rapidly sweeping towards the Japanese positions. When the Japanese hurriedly turned the direction of the artillery to block and shoot, the armored cluster of the Soviet Russian army had already plunged into the Japanese defensive position that stretched for more than ten kilometers, and then turned into a huge chainsaw, roaring and tearing on the Japanese position.

The Japanese soldiers watched in horror as the steel behemoths painted red with five stars went on a rampage, but they themselves could not harm them with bullets, bayonets and machine guns. In order to relieve the frontal pressure on their own troops, the two cavalry squadrons of the 23rd Division bravely made a detour to the flank, but after only a quarter of an hour, they saw the power of the Soviet-style steel torrent, and the cavalry with teeth and claws fell off their horses one by one, some were wounded and wailed, and some were turned into corpses before they could even make a sound.

The steel monsters were still wreaking havoc on the positions, and heavy machine-gun bullets appeared with a large number of Soviet motorcycles, and the Russian soldiers in the trucks behind poured more accurate bullets onto the Japanese positions. After arriving at the Japanese position, the trucks of the Soviet Russian army stopped one after another, and the soldiers either jumped out of the trucks to set up temporary positions, or fired at the nearby Japanese troops with rifles and machine guns on the trucks, while the motorcycles kept circling around, frantically hunting the Japanese who dared to take the lead.

After receiving the sudden blow, the Japanese soldiers suddenly became at a loss, those ugly iron bumps seemed to become the most feared thing in their hearts, the barrels on them continued to spray orange flames, the shells barely stopped in the air and crashed headlong into the crowd, the iron tracks made a sonorous and piercing sound to quickly push the chariots forward, and the blazing tongues of fire whipped their positions over and over again......

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