Chapter 66: Killing Two Birds with One Stone

After easily taking the headquarters of the 6th Division of the Mongolian People's Army, the troops of the Eastern Eight Hundred Tibets rested a little near the fortress. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

At the division headquarters, Higashi-Yamokuzo was discussing his next move with his staff officer and translator, Keiko Nakajima.

"Miss Keiko, I plan to cooperate with the troops of Yamasan-kun and attack the Soviet and Mongolian troops from the rear, what do you think?" Higashi-Yamokuzo sat in the position of the division commander, staring at the protruding part of Keiko Nakajima's upper body, and his eyes did not blink.

Keiko Nakajima is accustomed to such actions, and since she has entered the pile of men in the small Japanese Imperial Army, she must be mentally prepared for this.

Fortunately, the Kwantung Army was quite disciplined in peacetime, and they only engaged in comfort women, and rarely attacked Japanese women, especially female officers. Besides, this Keiko Nakajima was arranged by Kenkichi Ueda, the commander of the Kwantung Army, and Ueda also instructed officers such as Komatsubara, Higashi Yahurizo, and Yamayama Takemitsu to protect this woman.

This is Commander Ueda's order, and Higashi-Yakurizo, a small Nakasa, doesn't take any risks at all. But it's hard to say about the puppet army.

Keiko Nakajima thought for a moment and said, "No, since we have all come to the banks of the Haraha River, we should go and destroy the pontoon bridge of the Mongol army. This would not only prevent the Soviet troops from supporting the Mongol army on the east bank, but also cut off the enemy's retreat on the east bank. When the enemy army began to retreat, we would cooperate with the troops of Shan Shan Jun and encircle and annihilate them. ”

"Yo-shei, Yo-shei!" Eager to expand the results of the battle, Higashi-Hachizo gladly accepted Keiko's proposal.

"We brought enough explosives and anti-tank grenades with us for this operation, not to mention blowing up the pontoon bridge, and even ending a Soviet tank company." Higashi-Yamokuzo, like other Japanese soldiers, overestimated his own strength. This has become a norm in the small Japanese Imperial Army.

"I hope so. But don't underestimate your enemies until you succeed. "Even if the cautious Keiko didn't go to military school, she knew the consequences of underestimating the enemy.

Half an hour later, there were bursts of artillery fire on the west bank of the Haraha River.

Hearing the rumbling sound of artillery, Dongbabaizang immediately left the headquarters of the Mongolian army and used binoculars to observe the artillery positions on the west bank of the Haraha River.

I saw that hundreds of artillery pieces of the Soviet army continued to fire shells, launching a large-scale artillery bombardment on the east bank of the Haraha River. From the point of view of the artillery, as well as the trajectory of the trajectory, the target of this artillery attack was the 64th Wing of the 23rd Division of the Kwantung Army, led by Daisaku Takemitsu in Yamaguchi, which was responsible for the frontal attack.

"It's not good, Shanxian-kun is in danger." Dong Yabaizang watched the fierce offensive of the Soviet artillery and made this judgment.

"Shouldn't we be doing something?" Keiko Nakajima, who had just come out, said to Higashi-Yakzo.

"What can we do? The Soviet artillery positions were on the west bank of the Harakha River, should we cross the river through pontoon bridges and destroy their artillery positions? ”

"Yes, that's it. We should cross the river to attack enemy artillery positions. Although Keiko Nakajima is a little clever, she has never had combat experience, she has never attended a military school, and she does not know the dangers of crossing the river.

At the same time, one of her relatives was fighting in the 64th Wing and was shelled by Soviet troops. She was emotional, and at this time, she just wanted to save that person's life, and she didn't think about it so much at all.

This time, Higashi-Yamoku, who is rich in combat experience and has received professional military training, vetoed Keiko's suggestion: "Miss Keiko, the opposite side is the garrison of the Soviet army, and the latest intelligence also shows that there are Soviet troops on the west bank.

If we cross the river and enter the west bank of the Haraha River, we may encounter reinforcements from the Soviet army and come into direct conflict with them. We may have to pay a heavy price.

We should follow the original plan, blow up the pontoon bridge first, prevent the Soviet reinforcements from crossing the river to support, and then sneak up on the enemy from behind and take them by surprise. ”

Keiko Nakajima thought about it carefully, and also felt that the proposal to sneak attack the artillery was too rash, so she agreed to Higashi-Yahinzo's plan.

After resting, the Japanese and puppet cavalry got on their horses, and Keiko Nakajima, who couldn't ride a horse, also got into the armored car and prepared for the next move.

Soon after they left the division headquarters, Soviet tank units appeared at the front.

In front of the devil were 50 T-26 light tanks, belonging to the 11th tank brigade of the Soviet army.

This tank was nothing in the European theater, with thin armor and weak main guns, which was simply not enough to deal with the tank clusters of the Germans. But in the Mongolian steppes of the Far East, the T-26 tank was already able to pose a sufficient threat to the Japanese army.

First, the Japanese army had a small number of armored vehicles and tanks, mainly infantry, and lacked anti-tank training and decent anti-tank weapons.

Second, the devil's tank armor is very thin, and the caliber of the main gun is small and short, which is not an opponent of Soviet tanks at all. The Soviet T-26 light tank was basically enough for any Japanese armored vehicle.

Fifty T-26 tanks lined up in front of the troops in Higashi-Yabaizo and rushed in the direction of the Japanese cavalry wing.

Seeing this spectacular scene, there are only two options for the East Eight Hundred Tibets. The first option is to escape; The second option, hit.

Under the influence of Japan's martial spirit, no Japanese officer would choose to become a deserter. No matter how good the reasons for withdrawing are, they will eventually be punished.

The always arrogant Higashi-800 also thought that the anti-tank grenades they carried could cause damage to the Soviet tanks, and he also brought a squadron of armored vehicles to follow, which made Higashi-800 even more confident. This mere 50 tanks is not a problem at all for this arrogant Japanese.

"Kill the Kaji!" Higashi-800 pulled out his command knife and gave the devils the order to attack.

As soon as the order was issued, the Japanese troops launched a fierce charge at the Soviet tanks. Soviet tanks also began to fire at the Japanese cavalry with their main guns and machine guns.

50 tank guns plus 50 DPM light machine guns formed a very strong firepower. Due to the relatively concentrated firepower of the Soviet army, which also covered the entire front of the Japanese cavalry, it played a great lethal role in front of the Japanese.

Many of the cavalrymen died under the muzzle of 45-mm tank guns, or from DPM machine guns, before they could rush to the tank.

Even if they rushed in front of the tanks and threw anti-tank grenades, they were quickly eliminated by other tanks. Ironically, these anti-tank grenades were useless in front of the T-26 tank.

For one, it was difficult for the Japanese troops galloping on horses to aim, and the Soviet tanks were also moving at high speed. By the time the grenade was thrown, the tank's position had shifted and it simply missed.

After throwing grenades, the Japanese cavalry was no longer capable of anti-tank combat, but they still did not give up. They rushed to the tank, took out their cavalry knives, and slashed at the tank's armor with all their might, which did nothing and exposed the devil's own stupidity.

After a brief exchange of fire, the Japanese cavalry wing was almost completely wiped out, and the Soviets lost only one tank, which was blown up by Japanese grenades. The remaining 49 tanks, having eliminated the cavalry, began to launch a fierce attack on the Japanese armored squadron.

This Japanese armored squadron consisted of only 12 Type 92 armored vehicles with armor thickness of 6 mm and armed with two machine guns. In front of the T-26 tank, which was equipped with a 45 mm caliber tank gun and armor up to 15 mm thick, the Japanese Type 92 tank was simply not able to resist.

49 Soviet tanks rushed towards the squadron of armored vehicles, launched an attack with 45 mm guns, and a single shot could penetrate the thin skin of the Type 92 armored vehicles.

Soon after, entire squadrons of armored vehicles were also destroyed by Soviet tanks. The group of timid puppet soldiers in the back also raised the white flag and surrendered to the Soviet army.

The entire Japanese cavalry wing was not spared, and the soldiers of the armored squadron fought to the last moment. The only Japanese who survived was the beautiful translator named Keiko Nakajima.

How did she survive? Just before the battle began, when she saw the Soviet tanks, she had already predicted the outcome of the battle. She hurriedly got out of the armored car she was riding in, ran back to the Mongolian command post that she had just seized, and used the communication equipment inside to ask the Japanese army for rescue.

But what she never expected was that these communication devices were all manipulated by Manturov, an engineer. Although all communication devices can be turned on and all the keys are not damaged, no matter how twisted the Japanese are, they cannot switch to their communication channels and frequencies.

Any signal emitted by these radio stations would only be sent to the Soviet army at the frequency preset by Manturov, and it would not be able to contact the Japanese army at all.

Therefore, before the battle, Yamayama Takemitsu, who was in charge of the frontal attack, could not receive the information provided by Higashi-Yamoizang at all, let alone the distress signal from Keiko Nakajima.

As a result, after Keiko Nakajima sent a distress signal, Manturov soon learned that there were still Japanese soldiers in the trap that had been set up in advance. So, he immediately ordered the nearby troops to come to the "division headquarters" of the Sixth Division of the Mongolian Army, captured the Japanese beauty alive, and sent her to the prisoner of war camp, where she was locked up with the captured puppet army officer.

As for the so-called "headquarters of the 6th Division of the Mongolian People's Army", it was actually a trap set by Manturov. The Soviet soldiers stationed there were carefully selected prisoners of the Gula camp, while the Mongol soldiers were also death row prisoners selected from the prison to act as extras.

In order to prevent these actors from taking the opportunity to defect, Manturov had promised the criminals before the war that if they survived, he would take them back to the country and give them freedom. These are people who are going to die, how can they let go of this only chance to survive at the last moment of their lives?

Aren't you afraid that they will run away? Don't be afraid, the Normenhan region is notoriously hard, and even if you escape, you will only end up dying in the wasteland, which is worse than the death penalty. Even if they surrendered to the Japanese, Manturov's pre-arranged tank unit would execute the war criminals along with the Japanese army. As a result, there is only one way out of life in front of them, and that is to fight.

In the end, the prisoners, who lacked combat experience and were outnumbered, were executed by the Japanese army, and all of them fell for Manturov's plan to kill people with knives.

And the Japanese army also fell into the trap of the Soviet army under the clever arrangement and was wiped out by the armored forces that came. This battle not only achieved strategic and tactical success, but also achieved the goal of killing people with a knife, killing two birds with one stone.

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