"Boom...... Rumble...... Boom ......" A deafening huge explosion sounded, and clusters of dazzling red light and black smoke intertwined and rose from the position of the 7th Division of Aihui Reading Force.

On the other side of the Heilongjiang River, about 1,000 heavily armed Soviet soldiers divided into hundreds of small steamers and began to cross the river.

The main individual weapons of the Soviet army were Mosinagan hand-pulled bolt rifles, and the machine guns were Makqin heavy machine guns and Gergalev light machine guns.

Of course, the Soviet Army's Makqin belongs to the revised Soviet Maxim, and in order to reduce the logistical pressure, the Soviet Army's Makqin heavy machine gun and their Mosinagan rifle and Deg Galev light machine gun are all of a unified 7.62mm caliber.

However, with only the Maxim heavy machine gun and the Deggalev light machine gun, the Soviet machine gun unit could not really provide strong fire support and cover for the attacking troops.

Aside from the effective range, they are inferior to the MG34 general-purpose machine gun equipped with the Northeast New Army in terms of rate of fire and power alone.

In positional warfare, the general-purpose machine gun of the Northeast New Army erected a triangular iron frame is a high-power heavy machine gun with an ultra-high rate of fire.

In the 187th round, the DSHK/DSHK large-caliber machine gun (12,7mm) of the Soviet army was still at the experimental stage at this time, and it was not until 1933 that mass production of large-scale equipment for Soviet troops was carried out.

However, the artillery of the Soviet army caused a lot of trouble for the defense units of the new army in the northeast.

Its artillery unit is armed with 1910/30 122mm cannon field howitzers and 152mm heavy guns.

In terms of artillery caliber and power and firing range, the 150mm German-style heavy guns equipped by the Northeast New Army are not much different from them.

However, the heavy artillery brigade of the Northeast New Army had just been formed, and in addition to some veterans as the backbone, many of the recruits had not yet completed their training, so they suffered losses in the artillery battle with the Soviet army.

Because the Air Force was not allowed to cross the border without an order to bomb and carry out air raids, the Soviet artillery fire was able to continue to show off its might and cause considerable casualties and troubles to the defense units of the New Army in Northeast China.

Although the artillery suffered some losses, the infantry of the two sides ended in a complete defeat of the Soviet army, and on the river more than 1,000 meters wide, the Northeast New Army inflicted heavy casualties on the Soviet attacking troops with intensive crossfire, and many small steamers were sunk just halfway through.

Due to the lack of effective fortifications on the small steamers, although some of the small steamers were not destroyed, the Soviet troops on them had already been killed and wounded by the dense machine-gun and rifle fire of the defenders.

……………………………… In Manchuria, the Soviet army attacked again, and the scouts of the Northeast New Army had already learned about it and quickly reported it to the Manchuria command.

When Zhang Xinghan learned about it, he immediately ordered Li Zhenyuan to lead the armored group army to the border line to wait for the arrival of the Soviet army.

As soon as Li Zhenyuan received the order to leave, a communications soldier hurriedly walked in with a telegram in his hand.

"Commander, the chief of staff is in an urgent telegram from Harbin." The Signal Corps saluted and reported.

Zhang Xinghan stretched out his hand to take the telegram and opened it to read: "Commander Junjian, at present, the Soviet reinforcements have arrived, and they have launched a fierce attack on the border defense line of our eastern front.

Baili believed that the Eastern Front should use air forces to penetrate deep into Vladivostok and destroy as many important Soviet communications points as possible with air strikes, and artillery positions in order to disintegrate its offensive capability.

In the direction of Manchuria in the southwest, we should give full play to the superiority of our armored forces and maneuver deep into the enemy's territory to annihilate the enemy; if we are worried about the escalation of the scale of the war, we can quickly return to our territory after completing the goal of destroying the enemy.

We must not passively defend and fight a war of attrition with the Soviet army, and this battle with the Soviet army should only be resolved quickly. ”

After reading it, Zhang Xinghan closed the telegram and said to himself happily: "The chief of staff is reasonable, if you want to force the Soviet Union to negotiate an armistice, the only way to do this is to give the enemy a devastating blow and let them see the strength of our new army in the northeast. ”

Groaning, Zhang Xinghan said to the communications corps: "Prepare a telegram, the main force of the flight regiment of our Northeast New Army, from now on, immediately take off to attack the enemy's Vladivostok, bridges, airfields, and artillery positions, and completely disintegrate the enemy's offensive capability, and send HE111 medium bombers and Zero fighters to penetrate deep into the enemy's mirror and bomb the section from Chita to Ulan-Ude on the Siberian Railway to cut off the enemy's logistical supply and transportation.

Another telegram ordered the 9th Reading Division stationed in Songyuan to march towards Hulunbuir at a speed. ”

"Yes!" The Messenger quickly finished his notes, saluted, and turned to leave.

After the deployment was completed, Zhang Xinghan left Zhang Shixian's 8th Reading Division to stay in Manchuria, and personally led all the 5th Reading Division and all the three tank and armored divisions of the Panzer Group Army to leave the border line and advance to meet the enemy.

At the same time, the BF109 fighter group of the flying regiment stationed in Jiamusi and the Stuka bomber group began to take off and fly towards Vladivostok on the east bank of the Heilongjiang River.

Adrian. Alek, 26 years old, was a sergeant squad leader in a heavy artillery regiment of the Far Eastern Military District of the Soviet Army.

He and more than a dozen of his men were in charge of a 152mm heavy gun.

Not long after the shelling ended, Alec was sitting smoking a cigarette not far from the heavy artillery bunker, and his men were reloading the heavy artillery and doing some of the usual tricks.

Suddenly, there was a vague roar in the distant sky, and Alec stood up vigilantly and began to observe with the gunner.

Through the gunner, he saw a scene that surprised him greatly.

In the distance, dozens of planes were flying towards them in the distance.

With the help of the gunner, Alec was even able to see the blue sky and white emblem on the wings and belly of the plane.

"Oh my God, no. The planes of the Chinese are coming, quickly dodge, hurry! Alec immediately left the gunscope and roared at the top of his lungs.

The next moment, Alec and his men ran towards the air defense fortifications in a panic.

Other Soviet artillery was soon alarmed.

However, the speed of the plane was extremely fast, and without advance warning, it was too late to evade after the bombed party only discovered it with their ears and eyes.

Before Alec and his comrades could hide in the anti-aircraft fortifications, about forty BF109s and Stuka bombers roared in.

After a shrill whistling sound, heavy bombs fell from the bomb bay of the Stuka dive bomber in free fall.

Due to the low-altitude dive, the Stuka bomber's bomb delivery was very accurate.

......A series of violent explosions sounded one after another, and the 152mm heavy guns and 122mm cannon field howitzers half-hidden in the bunkers were wrapped in huge flames.

In the firelight, artillery parts weighing thousands of tons scattered in all directions.

Bursts of hot shrapnel and artillery parts shot out, enveloping Alec and his men who hadn't gone far.

A piece of ocean-sized steel shot in from Alec's back, coming out of his chest, and Alec's body that was running wildly suddenly froze, looking down at his bleeding chest, Alec could clearly feel that his strength and consciousness were rapidly leaving his body.

Soon, his whole body fell straight forward uncontrollably, and he died of anger.

"Dada...... Suddenly, suddenly, ......" Zhang Xinghua piloted a BF109 fighter and began to dive and strafe violently along the Soviet artillery position.

A 30mm MG108 cannon and two 13mm MG131 course machine guns opened fire.

The dense and scorching rain of bullets suddenly formed three tongues of gunsmoke, which rushed straight to the ground and fled the Soviet artillery in a hurry.

Everywhere they went, the mud was splashed with smoke and dust, and the Soviet troops who could not hide were suddenly hit by a dense rain of bullets with great power, and many people were directly blown to pieces by machine guns.

What's more, they were cut off by a 13mm heading machine gun bullet, or their heads were blown up like watermelons.

The air raid lasted for more than 10 minutes, and the entire Soviet heavy artillery position was already in flames.

At this time, about twenty or thirty Soviet fighters had already taken off to intercept them, but at this time, the planes equipped by the Soviet army were extremely backward, most of them were backward I-3 fighters, and compared with the BF109, the surnames in all aspects could lag behind for a whole era.

Therefore, Zhang Xinghua and other pilots flew the BF109 fighter plane to meet the battle with great ease, and after less than 20 minutes of fighting, they easily shot down all the Soviet fighters that flew in without accident.

In the end, Zhang Xinghua and his team covered the bomber group, and attacked the bridges, airfields and other strategic points in Vladivostok.

Several BF109 fighters flew over Vladivostok and fired at the city.

The air force was powerless, losing air supremacy in less than a day, and the Soviet commander Blyukhel was so anxious that he continued to ask Moscow for additional air support while moving his headquarters from the ground to underground bunkers.

Blyukhel did not expect that his own air force would be so different from the air force of the Northeast New Army, and at this point he had already conceived the idea of an armistice.

Towards evening, with the help of his own air force, Zhang Xinghan led three tank divisions and one motorized infantry division to collide head-on with the Soviet troops who had just driven from the direction of Borja in a distance of about 50 kilometers from Manchuria.

The Soviet army had three tank and armored divisions, one cavalry division, and two infantry divisions, with a strength of nearly 90,000 men.

The total strength of the Northeast New Army led by Zhang Xinghan was about 60,000, and the Soviet Army had an advantage in terms of strength, but the Northeast New Army had an absolute advantage in the firepower of tanks and armored vehicles and infantry divisions on both sides.

Fierce fighting ensued with tanks and armoured vehicles, followed by infantry and cavalry, and a great battle broke out.

This is the largest large-scale battle of tanks and armored vehicles in human history since the tank interview, with more than 2,000 tanks and armored vehicles participating in the battle.

(To be continued)