readx; Just when the Chinese battlefield was plunged into a brief period of peace and the "Nomenkan" front was thrown into full force, the ambitious Hitler and the ill-intentioned Stalin instructed their respective representatives to formally sign the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact" and the "Subsidiary Secret Protocol" in Moscow, forming a military-political alliance and preparing to divide Poland together. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Originally, the [***] industrial alliance formed by Hitler and Hitler was originally intended to unite with Hitler to jointly deal with the Soviet Union under the control of [***], but as soon as Hitler turned around, he destroyed this alliance, and instead fought with the Soviet Union, which made the political axe and the military circles generally feel betrayed.

However, how could Hitler, who was already determined to get rid of him, care about weak protests, and the humiliated Saymoto political axe and the military department took aim at Prime Minister Hiranuma, who had always advocated an alliance with Germany. On August 29, Hiranuma was forced to announce his resignation due to fierce attacks from domestic political forces, in which he declared with remorse that the situation in Europe was complicated and bizarre, and that Japan's previous policy had come to an end.

The high command believed that the reason why Hitler did not hesitate to abandon the Soviet Union and chose the Soviet Union was because Stalin believed that the Soviet Union was more powerful, and if the "Imperial Army" could defeat the Soviet army in the Nomenkan area and show the strength of the Soviet army, it would be able to forcefully counterattack Hitler and make him regret abandoning it, so the Kwantung Army quickly gathered a large number of troops and prepared to completely defeat the Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces on the opposite side.

On August 4, 1939, the provincial headquarters of the Army issued an order to transfer elite troops from the Kwantung Army to form the 6th Army, which was specifically responsible for operations in the Nomenkan area. The Soviets did not show any weakness in massing in the 'Nomenkan' area, and by the beginning of August they had reached the strength of three sniper divisions, seven tank brigades, and two artillery regiments, in addition to five infantry divisions and a large number of aircraft in reserve in the depth of the defensive line.

On 23 August, the 6th Army of the Kwantung Army, with the strength of seven brigades, attacked from the left flank of the Soviet army in a roundabout way, and as a result, it got into the pocket of the Soviet army.

Subsequently, although the Yue army also tried its best to launch an offensive, in the face of the superior mechanized troops of the Soviet army, it did not bargain for any advantage, but lost a lot of troops, and the Yue army was unable to launch another offensive and turned to the defensive.

Just when the headquarters was at a loss for what to do with the situation at Nomenkan and didn't know how to end it, shocking news came from Europe!

On September 1, 1939, the German [***] team attacked Poland on all fronts, igniting a war in Europe!

He gloated over the treacherous Hitler for triggering the war in Europe. Having learned the lesson of Hitler's so-called pact of fooling and failing peaceball, the new Prime Minister Nobuyuki Abe issued a statement on September 4: "At the outbreak of war in Europe, the Reich will not intervene and will decide to move exclusively towards the settlement of the Chinese incident." He made it clear that he would never fulfill the alliance treaty signed with Hitler and send troops to attack the Soviet Union, and if European countries wanted to attack Germany, they would not have to take into account his attitude at all.

As for the war between Ben and the Soviet Union at Nomenkan, in the eyes of Prime Minister Abe, it was originally Hitler's business, and he only believed his * promise and stepped into that quagmire, but after all, he had not fallen into it very deeply, and it was still too late to pull it out. Only China's war was launched on its own, and it was a matter of China to fight and destroy it, and it did not expect others to help, let alone let outsiders interfere. The statement of the new prime minister of the Cabinet is in fact a statement to Western countries that the Cabinet has no intention of interfering in anything other than the China incident.

After he expressed his attitude, the War Department immediately ordered the Kwantung Army to stop the mobilization of troops and prepare for a peaceful settlement of the 'Nomenkan' incident with the Soviet Union.

To his surprise, just after the ambassador to the Soviet Union asked the Soviet Union for an armistice, Stalin once again agreed to an armistice, just like the "Zhang Gufeng incident," and his eagerness for an armistice was even stronger than that of himself!

It turned out that after crossing the Polish border, the German [***] team quickly broke the resistance of the Polish army, drove straight in, and occupied a large part of Polish territory, and even the part that had been agreed to the Soviet Union was unceremoniously pocketed, because the Soviet army had not yet entered Poland. However, the Soviet side, due to the fierce fighting with the Chinese army at the 'Nomenkan', had no time to look westward, and could only watch Hitler take the land that belonged to him as his own. Therefore, Ben's request for peace was in the hands of the Soviet Union, so he agreed without hesitation.

On 15 September, the two sides reached an armistice agreement in Moscow, and the next day, the Soviet Red Army, which had no worries about the future, crossed the national border on a large scale and attacked Poland to participate in the feast of dividing up the territory. At the same time, the troops and all the heavy equipment assembled on the Nomenkan line were transported to the Western Front through the Trans-Siberian Railway.

The outbreak of the "Nomenkan Incident" and the Great War in Europe not only did not contain every soldier of the Chinese army, but on the contrary, the General Headquarters of the Soviet Union thoroughly figured out the details of the Soviet Union and went all out to deal with China, thus making the War of Resistance against the Chinese people more difficult and deepening the cruelty of the Sino-Japanese war.

At this time, the eight newly formed divisions of the General Headquarters had all been formed into an army and joined the battle sequence of the Chinese Dispatch Army, solving the problem of insufficient troops that had been plaguing the enemy, so they began to plan and launch a new offensive to compress the living space of the Chinese political axe and force it to give up resistance.

The 11th Army stationed in Wuhan, although it smashed the counteroffensive of the [***] team in the Battle of Nanchang and kept Nanchang, but the situation of being flanked by the Fifth and Ninth Theaters did not change, so Okamura Ningji concentrated the third, ninth, 13th, 33rd, and 101st divisions, more than 300 ships of the Third Fleet, a wing of marines, more than 100 aircraft, and a total strength of more than 180,000. In addition, in order to prevent the powerful 19th Army from going out to Fujian, Okamura Ningji deliberately placed the 15th Division in Nanchang, and the 17th Division was stationed in Yingtan.

At the same time, in order to meet the needs of the Wang Jingwei regime, which was about to appear in Nanjing, to establish a pro-national political axe, the General Headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army was set up in Nanjing, commanding the First Army, the 12th Army, the 11th Army, the 13th Army, and the 21st Army of the North China Front, as well as all army units in China. In order to embody Prime Minister Abe's new strategic thinking of single-handedly dealing with China's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the General Headquarters of the Dispatch Army was composed of two of the three giants of the Army, with Senior General Nishio Toshizo, Director of Education, as Commander-in-Chief, and Lieutenant General Seishiro Itagaki as Chief of General Staff.

When Okamura Ninji began to attack Changsha, the command of the Yue army began to plan a new offensive, preparing to seize Nanning in Guangxi and northern French Indochina, so as to cut off the main Chinese supply line through Nanning into French Indochina, which could dispel France's intention to assist China in the War of Resistance, and at the same time could also serve as a base for the Imperial Navy to conduct air operations in Chinese mainland, especially the base area of the War of Resistance centered on Yucheng. The High Command believed that at this time the armies of Germany and the Soviet Union were busy carving up Poland; Britain and France had already declared war on Germany, and there was no time to care about the Far East, even if the occupation of northern French Indochina would directly provoke France.

On the Guangdong side, the 18th Division, the 38th Division, the 104th Division, and the 106th Division took the initiative to attack the 12th Group Army from Guangzhou to the north to contain it from reinforcing Guangxi; Guangxi, on the other hand, landed from the Qinzhou area with the 5th Division, the Guards Brigade, the 5th Fleet, and the 3rd Combined Air Force and attacked Nanning in the north.

Soon after Okamura Ninji launched the offensive on the northern route, the 21st Army began to gather troops near Guangzhou, and the large-scale troop movement was quickly detected by the intelligence officers of the 4th Theater and quickly sent to Gao Fei's headquarters. In the face of such a rampant attack by the Yue army, Gao Fei realized that a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity was already in front of him, and as long as he made good use of it, he could completely change the strategic situation of Fujian and win the initiative on the battlefield!

On September 14, 1939, the 101st and 106th Divisions of the Chinese Army attacked from Jing'an, Fengxin, Gao'an and other places west of Nanchang, opening the prelude to the attack on Changsha; The 33rd Division of the Yue Army set out from Tongcheng and attacked fiercely to the south, attempting to break through the position of Mufu Mountain, penetrate directly to the south, cooperate with the enemy's main force in the direction of Yueyang, and encircle and annihilate the 15th Group Army of the Central Army defending the Xinqianghe area; At the same time, under the cover of naval guns, the 1st Division of the 3rd Division and the Marine Corps, under the cover of naval guns, took dozens of motorboats to make a detour from the waterway of Dongting Lake and landed near the mouth of the Xinqiang River and the Boluo River, in an attempt to encircle the defenders of the first line from the left flank.

Xue Yue, commander of the Ninth Theater of Operations, determined the guiding principle for this operation in light of the characteristics of the geographical environment in northern Hunan and the army's intentions, as well as the troops, combat strength, weapons, and equipment of both the enemy and us. The hundreds of thousands of elite troops of the Central Army in the Ninth Theater resisted step by step in accordance with the established policy, and slowly led the army into a well-designed pocket!

However, 10 days after the campaign began, the 19th Group Army stationed in northern Jiangxi began to retreat in great strides and put on a posture of preserving its strength. Local troops south of the Pearl River Estuary have also ceased their harassing activities. All of this clearly shows the Japanese army: the Fourth Theater has no intention of intervening in the campaign of the Japanese Army against the Ninth Theater!

While despising the selfishness of the Chinese, the Command began to send troops from Guangzhou to Bao'an, Huiyang and other places, and at the same time, the naval fleet gradually assembled in the Beibu Gulf, preparing to launch an offensive against Guangxi!

In mid-September, at the height of the war in northern Hunan Province, Sir James was leading Company A to patrol the Sha Tau Kok border and began his military career in Hong Kong.

As a professional soldier from an aristocratic background, James did not have any good feelings for the soldiers on the other side of the border, but felt extreme disgust, because in his opinion, whether it was the opponent's short stature, ugly appearance, arrogant posture, or the vice of slaughtering civilians in war, it was not the style of a good soldier. Although before he took up his post at Sha Tau Kok, the battalion commander had repeatedly warned him not to clash with Yue himself under any circumstances, because the British political axe had already expressed a neutral attitude on the Chinese issue, not to mention that the Yue army now had far superior strength and firepower, but James did not care about this, and still looked at the opposing troops with a very contemptuous expression when patrolling.

In the evening, James led a platoon to patrol north along the barbed wire, and because it was a relatively remote place, and the troops on the opposite side rarely came, he was in a slightly better mood and began to admire the nearby mountains.

Suddenly, there was a shrill laugh from the opposite side, and James looked up to see several shirtless soldiers standing under a few lychee trees, pointing with their hands in this direction, obviously mocking the British army.

James felt a surge of anger rise in his chest, and without hesitation, he roared to the ground in English: "Shut up you bitch! ”

Unexpectedly, Yue Jun actually answered him with a louder laugh, and one of the soldiers even took off his pants and made lewd gestures to him!

James was immediately furious, shouting and scolding at the other side, and the soldiers behind him also scolded in unison, giving him a strong momentum. When the soldiers heard the scolding, they immediately ran to the edge of the barbed wire, shouted insults, and from time to time used their rifles to make aiming movements. Where the British soldiers could bear this insult, they immediately responded with the same gesture, and because of their numerical superiority, several soldiers had to face a dozen rifles each.

The army hurriedly took a few steps back and waved his arms violently behind him, and immediately after, dozens of figures ran out from the middle of the bushes and rushed over with bright bayonets.

Only then did James realize the seriousness of the problem, and hurriedly ordered his soldiers to put away their weapons and prepare to communicate with the army calmly. But the other party didn't give him a chance to speak, and surrounded the barbed wire and insulted, while constantly making lewd gestures to James.

James couldn't hold back his anger, and reached out to take out a pistol, but was stopped by the platoon commander next to him, he said: "The political axe and the commander don't want us to have a conflict with the Yue army, Guangdong is already all their territory, let's bear with it!" ”

James just retracted his hand unwillingly, but found that an officer-like soldier on the opposite side pointed at him and shouted loudly, and then, there was a sound of continuous pulling of the bolt from the army, and the muzzle of the black hole was pointed at him.

In order to calm the situation, the platoon commander hurriedly walked in front of James and said to the lame language of the military: "Misunderstanding, misunderstanding!" ”

James suddenly saw a hint of murderous intent in the eyes of the officer, and hurriedly shouted, "Be on guard!" Then he lunged at the platoon commander.

With a crisp gunshot, the muzzle of the southern pistol flashed, and the platoon commander threw himself on the barbed wire, his hands slowly slid over it, and slowly fell.

James hurriedly rolled to the ground, and several bullets immediately hit the place where he had just stood, and then, a fierce gunfire was heard in his ears, and the soldiers fell in a pool of blood under the sudden attack, and only a few who reacted quickly hid in the grass in time to escape.

James pulled out his pistol and shot at the opposite side without raising his head, but instead of hitting the target, he attracted more bullets, so that he could only bury his head deep in the weeds, and did not dare to move.

Suddenly, the gunfire stopped, and he slowly stuck his head out and looked to the other side, only to find that the barbed wire fence was empty, only bullet casings were scattered all over the ground.

James looked at the corpses all over the ground, felt furious, and fiercely shouted to several surviving soldiers: "Immediately run to the battalion headquarters to report and ask for reinforcements!" Then he ran wildly along the barbed wire fence in the direction of the outpost.

As soon as they ran out of a distance of two hundred meters, the two platoons left behind arrived in full armor, and James looked at the frightened faces of the soldiers and shouted angrily: "We have just been vilely attacked by the Yue army, more than 30 soldiers have been killed, and now, we have to ask the Yue army to repay the blood debt!" With that, he led the soldiers and ran towards the place where the army often appeared.

A group of heavily armed soldiers ran up the barbed wire, and James decided to strike first, so he did not hesitate to order: "Soldiers, hit me!" Then he raised his hand and knocked down the Yue army who was running at the front with a single shot.

More than a dozen soldiers fell under the sudden attack of the British, and the soldiers behind hurriedly rolled into the bushes, and then counterattacked with accurate fire, as the battle continued, new casualties were added on both sides, and half an hour later, reinforcements arrived almost simultaneously, and the roar of mortars began to appear in the middle of the dense gunfire. The barbed wire fence quickly became shattered under the continuous attacks from both sides, and there were large and small holes that were large enough for people to drill through.

The well-trained and experienced Japanese troops gradually took control of the situation on the battlefield and suppressed the British troops with ferocious attacks, and then about a squadron of Japanese troops rushed over the barbed wire fence and rushed to the British positions with bright bayonets. Where had the British soldiers, who had not experienced the baptism of war, seen such a formation, and hurriedly jumped out of the rudimentary fortifications and fled backwards without a life. The commander immediately ordered the troops to pursue, and at the same time severely attacked the British troops with a dense barrage of machine-gun bullets and mortars, leaving dozens of corpses along the way.

The commander of the army was preparing to pursue the victory and expand the fruits of victory, but suddenly received an order to stop the attack, so he had to watch the cowardly British soldiers disappear into the distance, and finally, with his own soldiers, calmly retreated to the side of the barbed wire!

(To be continued)