"Comrade Zhukov, Comrade Manturov, the 8th Cavalry Division and the 5th Cavalry Division of our army have captured the stronghold of the Japanese army on the Urad Ula Aobao Mountain, may I ask what is the situation on your side?"

At the Soviet headquarters on Mount Hamar, Choibalsan asked two Soviet leaders about the progress of the counteroffensive in Russian, which was not very fluent and had a Mongolian accent. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Manturov frowned, glanced at Zhukov, and said: "Comrade Choibalshan, our army has basically repelled the troops on the left and right sides of the Japanese army, and the north and south clusters are ready to encircle from the northeast side of the Japanese army and carry out our next plan. ”

"Very well, but, Comrade Manturov, why are you frowning? Did your army suffer great losses? Choibalsan saw something wrong with Manturov's look.

"We may have a lot of difficulties ahead of us." Manturov said.

"What difficulty?"

Zhukov looked at the map hanging on the wall, pointed to the northeast side, and explained to Choibalshan: "Comrade Choibalshan, now the 14th Brigade of the Japanese Army has built a position 6 kilometers northeast of the 6th Tank Brigade station, and when our troops encircle the Japanese army in the center, this Japanese reinforcement is very likely to launch an attack on the southern cluster to prevent our army from encircling it. ”

"So serious?" Choibalsan, who originally had a relaxed expression, also frowned like Manturov and said, "Then Comrade Zhukov, what will you do next?" ”

"We will follow the original plan to encircle and outflank the Japanese army." Zhukov replied.

"Still outflanked? Don't modify the route of the march? ”

"That's right, we will move the 9th Motorized Brigade in reserve to the northeast to deal with the attack of the Japanese 14th Brigade, while the rest of the troops will attack according to the old plan." Manturov replied without hesitation.

Fortunately, the Soviets still had a sufficient number of reserves, in addition to the 9th Motorized Brigade, the 212th Brigade of the Airborne Forces and 2 infantry machine gun battalions. In addition, two motorized divisions and three infantry divisions were arriving at the front to deal with the Japanese reinforcements from the Chinese battlefield.

Choibalsan looked at the map and thought for a while, then said: "Yes, I almost forgot that the Soviet Red Army still has reserves. It should be enough to respond to the attack of one infantry brigade of the Japanese army with one motorized brigade. ”

Manturov still frowned and said: "That's right, as long as the 9th Motorized Brigade is transferred there, it will be enough to deal with the potential sneak attack of the 14th Brigade and ensure that the encirclement operation of the north and south clusters will not be blocked, but the reinforcements of the Japanese army are not limited to this." ”

"More than that?"

"As I told you before, the Japanese army has also transferred the main force of three divisions from the Chinese battlefield, with a total of 30,000 troops, and is now on the way to the army, and it will be there within a week."

"Yes, Comrade Manturov, you said it before. Well, when will the reinforcements of the Soviet Red Army arrive? ”

"It will take 10 days at the earliest to get all of them there and go into battle. Therefore, we should fight quickly and strive to complete the encirclement within three days and destroy the main force of the Japanese army.

Otherwise, when the enemy's reinforcements arrive, we will have to spend more time and more manpower and material resources to win this war. "The impatient Manturov has made up his mind to end the war in a short time, to return home as soon as possible, and to leave the bloody Mongolian steppe.

Of course, his decision was not made hastily, but after multiple considerations, and was supported by Zhukov.

The reason why he was able to get Zhukov's support was that the reinforcements sent by Moscow arrived earlier than he had just said, and the two motorized divisions transferred from the western region did take ten days to arrive, but the reinforced infantry divisions only needed two days to be fully engaged in battle.

At that time, there were already airfields on the front line, and the Soviet Union also had Rysunov transport planes, and the infantry could quickly get to the front line by air and quickly put into battle. But the vehicles of the motorized troops could not be airlifted.

In fact, at that time, half of the men of one of the reinforced infantry divisions had already arrived at the front line and would be ready to go into battle at full speed the next morning, but Manturov did not tell Choibalsan in order to keep Choibalsan and the other officers vigilant and not to underestimate the enemy.

On the front of the battlefield, the main forces of the Soviet Red Army were already engaged in a confrontation with the main forces of the Japanese army. The Soviet troops of the northern cluster were already engaged in a fierce battle with the Japanese on the Lemizov Heights together with the 3 regiments of the central cluster, and the central cluster was also besieging the RB devils on the sandy heights and green heights.

On the back of the Japanese position, to the northeast of the devils, the 8th Motorized Armored Brigade and the 6th Tank Brigade of the Southern Cluster, which had circled to the rear of the Japanese army, and the 7th Motorized Armored Brigade of the Northern Cluster, had already advanced in the direction of Nomencambold Ao Bao (the planned place to encircle and join the divisions).

Due to the emptiness of the rear of the Japanese army, most of the troops were pinned down on the front line, and the two armored mechanized units soon crossed the desert and successfully met at the encirclement site.

The infantry of the southern cluster, as well as the 601st Infantry Regiment of the northern cluster, also followed the pace of the mechanized troops, quickly detoured behind the main force of the Japanese army, and launched a behind-the-back attack on the Japanese troops in the encirclement to the west to the east of the sandy heights and the east of the Lemizov heights.

Even though the main force of the Japanese army was completely surrounded by the Soviet army, Michitaro Komatsubara, the 23rd Division of the Japanese Army, who was in a desperate situation, still preferred to die rather than surrender and did his best to resist.

As an active promoter of the northward expansion plan, Komatsubara Michitaro was not willing to let himself be defeated by the Soviet army. Otherwise, his plan to advance north will be in vain, the Japanese army will abandon the attack on the Soviet Union because of the victory of the Soviet Union, and he may become a laughing stock in the RB military circles if he loses the battle.

So he will resist at all costs and with all his might. And the little devils below him are not cowards who surrender casually, they are all brainwashed by the spirit of bushido and want to be loyal to the little emperor. They all obeyed Komatsubara's decision and put up a desperate resistance.

The Soviets met fierce resistance from the Japanese on the sandy heights and the green heights. The intensive attack of mortars and machine guns of the RB men repelled the charge of the Soviet infantry several times.

The well-numbered anti-tank death squads of the devils also posed a great threat to the mechanized units of the Soviet Red Army. When the Soviet armored vehicles rushed up, hundreds of little devils strapped bombs rushed towards the Soviet armored vehicles painted with red stars on their armor.

Most of them died under the barrels of Soviet guns, but dozens of people still rushed to the armored vehicles and detonated the bombs on their bodies, and died along with the torrent of steel.

As a result, at the end of the day, the Soviet army lost more than a dozen armored vehicles, all of which were blown up by Japanese human bombs.

After learning the news that the main force was surrounded, the commander of the 6th Army, Lieutenant General Hagisu Ritsu, issued an order to the commander of the 23rd Division's Komatsubara Division to break out of the encirclement on its own, and the Japanese army actually launched a counteroffensive.

They intended to launch an attack on the Soviet forces in the northeast, open a gap in the northeast, withdraw to the northeast, and then join up with the reinforced Japanese troops, regroup their forces, and fight another battle with the Soviet army, realizing the northward advance plan promoted by Komatsubara.