Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Myth of Nomenhan

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In the RB Kwantung Army Headquarters, Staff Officer Masanobu Tsuji took two pieces of paper with telegrams written on them and walked into the office of Kenkichi Ueda, the commander of the Kwantung Army.

"Where did you send it?" Kenkichi Ueda shook his head with his hands, and at a glance he knew that he was in big trouble.

Masanobu Tsuji lowered his head, walked to Kenkichi Ueda's desk, and said in a low voice, "One is from Lieutenant General Ogishu Lieutenant General, and the other is from the Army Headquarters. ”

Seeing Masanobu Tsuji's unconfident expression, Kenkichi Ueda probably guessed what was going on, the telegram from Ogisu Tatsubing must have reported the tragic situation of the two divisions being surrounded and annihilated, and the letter from the army headquarters must have told him to retire.

"Masa-kun Tsuji, help me read out the contents of the message."

"Ueda-kun, which one to read first?"

More than the news of the defeat, Ueda Kenkichi was more reluctant to know the decision of the Japanese army headquarters to ask him to withdraw from the army. Because the army can fight again if it is defeated, but if the army headquarters does not let him fight, then everything will not be reversed. "Hagishu-kun is the first."

"The 7th and 23rd Divisions have been completely annihilated by Soviet troops, the commander of the 23rd Division, Michitaro Komatsubara, has committed suicide, and the flags of the two divisions have been confirmed to have been captured by Soviet troops.

In addition, the main forces of the 2nd, 4th, and 5th divisions have already arrived in Hailar and can be dispatched at any time. However, the strength of the Soviet army was too much, estimated at more than 100,000, and we asked the Kwantung Army Command to send reinforcements of at least four divisions to launch a counteroffensive against the Soviet army and repel them. ”

However, the Kwantung Army, which was mired in the quagmire, had already sent all the troops that could be mobilized to the battlefield of Normenhan, and it could no longer transfer more, otherwise, the forces on the Chinese battlefield would become even more strained, and the numerically superior Guo army could launch a counteroffensive at any time to regain the lost territory.

If another 10,000 or 20,000 people are transferred from the Chinese battlefield, of course, there will be no problem in the short term, but if it is really as requested by the Ogishu soldiers, an additional 100,000 will not be able to be done, so the RB people will not be able to fight this battle of Nomenhan at all.

"Read another letter." Kenkichi Ueda said in a desperate tone to Masanobu Tsuji, who was standing in front.

Masa Tsuji believed in another telegram, which was sent by the RB Army Staff Headquarters. "We have confirmed that the 7th and 23rd Divisions were surrounded and annihilated by Soviet troops, and German intelligence (actually provided by the Soviet spy Sorge) also shows that the Soviet army has deployed a large number of troops in the Far East.

And so far, the Imperial Army of our Great RB Empire has not been strong enough to cope with the strength of the 40 integrated divisions of the Soviet Union at the same time while taking into account the battlefield in China.

After careful consideration by the General Staff Headquarters, the Kwantung Army needed to immediately stop military operations against the Soviet Union and the Mongols and take the initiative to withdraw its troops in the Harakha region. ”

As Ueda Kenkichi had conjectured, the RB Army Headquarters had lost confidence and patience in fighting the Soviets. The plan he advocated for the northward expansion had been completely ruined, and his own reputation in the army had plummeted.

On the other side, Manturov, the military commissar of the First Soviet Army, was enjoying the joy of victory. He looked at the half-burned RB military flag, and felt a sense of refreshment and relief in his heart.

This is the military flag of the 7th Division of the Japanese Army, and the flagpole has the emblem of the Imperial Family. For the Japanese army, the military flag engraved with the imperial emblem was a sacred relic and a symbol of glory. For them, the fall of a unit's flag into the hands of the enemy is the greatest shame for this unit, and this time it was precisely the Seventh Division that was recognized as the strongest in the Japanese army.

Just before the division was annihilated, the last thing the Japanese division commander did was not to order the soldiers to persist in resistance, but to burn the military flag, and then plant the unburned flagpole in the ground, so that the enemy could not see the imperial emblem on the top of the flagpole.

However, because the Soviet offensive was so fierce, when the flag was set on fire, the person who lit the fire was quickly shot to death, and when the flag was halfway burned, the Soviet soldiers extinguished the fire and captured the sacred flag.

This is not an ordinary military flag, but the military flag of the 7th Division of the Japanese Army. This unit enjoys a great reputation in the RB military circles, and is the double ace of the Japanese army in the First Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War, and is also recognized as one of the most fierce troops of the Japanese army.

But now this unit has been completely annihilated by the Soviet Red Army. And this Soviet army was commanded by a traverser whose soul came from China, and this military flag also fell into the hands of this Russian with a Chinese soul.

For Manturov, the destruction of the 7th Division was of great significance, as he had avenged the Chinese who had died in the Sino-Japanese War, the Russo-Japanese War, and the War of Resistance Against Japan, and eliminated this fierce Japanese unit.

Choibalshan walked up to Manturov and said lightly: "Comrade Manturov, the 2nd, 4th, and 5th divisions of the Japanese army, as well as the 14th Brigade, have begun to retreat in the direction of Hailar, and our Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also received a request for peace from the RB side, and the RB people have promised not to launch any attack on us, and the war is finally over!" ”

For Choibalsan, the end of the battle was certainly worth celebrating, because the Japanese army no longer invaded his Mongolian People's Republic and was able to retain his position as the leader of the country without having to be an exiled politician or a prisoner of war, which was a very satisfying result.

And for Manturov, the war is not over yet. What about the armistice between Japan and the Soviet Union? They will continue to invade China, do nothing wrong on the land of the Chinese, and plunder hundreds of millions of Chinese people.

But what can he do? He is a Soviet, or an ordinary Soviet, and he can't change China's history at all, nor can he say the national feelings in his heart. From the moment he crossed over, he reminded himself to be a good Soviet man and think from the perspective of a Soviet.

At this time, Manturov revealed the future of the RB people to Choibalsan from the perspective of the Soviets: "Yes, the war is over. I think that since the RB people can't win against us, then they can only change the target of aggression to Southeast Asia. And now Southeast Asia is the territory of the British and the Americans, and if the RB people really want to run into them, then there will be a good show. ”

"One is the emerging imperialist countries, and the other is the old imperialist countries, and I really want to see what they will do." Choibalshan thought for a while and said, "But with the strength of the RB people, they shouldn't dare to offend Britain and the United States."

In any case, they should not dare to invade us again in a few years, and the Mongolian people will not be threatened by imperialism. Choibalsan analyzed from the perspective of Mongolian leaders.

In any case, the war was over, and Manturov fulfilled his historical tasks as political commissar of the army group. He successfully changed the situation of the war in the early stage, destroyed the Japanese army's originally successful sneak attack plan, avoided unnecessary casualties on the Soviet side, and also caused a lot of losses to the Japanese side, avoiding the Soviet Union from winning the war but paying the price of more casualties.

In the later stage of the counteroffensive, he also learned a lot of military knowledge from Zhukov, accumulated valuable military experience, and laid a good foundation for his future career.

In our familiar history, the number of Soviet troops killed and missing is close to 10,000, and more than 15,000 wounded; Only more than 8,000 Japanese soldiers were killed or missing, and more than 8,000 were wounded. The figure of tens of thousands of enemies annihilated by the Soviet army in Nomenkhan is nothing more than a blow-up, and it is no different from a myth.

In Manturov's parallel world, the Soviet army successfully annihilated two divisions of the Japanese army with tens of thousands of troops at the cost of 5,000 killed and 8,000 wounded, creating the real Normenkhim myth.

The victory of the Soviet army in the Normenheim War had a huge, positive impact on the future fate of the Soviet Union. The complete defeat of the RB imperialists at the Battle of Normenheim forced them to abandon their "plan to go north" and began to prepare their "plan for the south", turning their guns on Britain and the United States, paving the way for the attack on Pearl Harbor two years later.

In addition, the Soviet Union also tested all kinds of new equipment of the army and air force through this war, trained the newly promoted young officers after the "Great Purge," and also boosted the morale of the once sluggish army. A generation of famous generals Zhukov was also excavated, and handsome talents were reserved for the upcoming Great Patriotic War.

The logistics department of the Soviet army also created a world miracle of continuous supply over long distances. It was widely adopted in the later Great Patriotic War, dealing a heavy blow to the German fascists.

In addition to the Soviet Union, our country also benefited a lot from this war. At that time, China's War of Resistance entered the most difficult period, and the complete defeat of the Japanese army in this battle forced them to abandon their plan to increase troops in Guannai, and at the same time boosted the morale of the Chinese people and strongly supported the Chinese people in resisting the aggression of RB imperialism.

However, as long as fascism still exists and the forces of militarism and imperialism are not completely eliminated, war will not disappear from the face of the earth.