The night of October 17 was a sleepless night for everyone, whether it was Han Yunhua, who was busy in the front headquarters, or Stalin and Roosevelt who were far away in Moscow and Washington, everyone's mood was eagerly anticipating. Although the preliminary preparations were sufficient, no one dared to guarantee victory in this battle, after all, they were facing the most elite military group in Japan.

Especially for the cadres and soldiers of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, since the founding of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, there has never been such a solemn preparation for a battle. All previous wars were natural, Han Yunhua said that he would fight, and as for how to fight and when to fight, it was also decided by Han Yunhua. But this time it was different, and this time all the cadres and fighters of the Kwantung Army felt an atmosphere called tension, and this tension was completely reflected in those high-ranking cadres of the military district headquarters.

At the front-line headquarters of the Central Banner of the Branch, Han Yunhua stared at the map with a frown, marking something on the map with a red pencil from time to time, and sometimes measuring the distance with a standard military measuring tape.

"Zhuang Fei, is the intelligence accurate, the Japanese Kwantung Army border guards really went south?" Han Yunhua confirmed again and again.

"Yes, Commander. I just got the news that the 23rd Division, the 64th Division, the 128th Division, the 126th Division, and the 1st Tank Division of the Tank Army stationed in Heihe and Yichun have all left their garrisons and are rushing to Changchun with all their might, seemingly to reinforce Yamada Otozo's Kwantung Army Headquarters. Qian Zhuangfei said affirmatively.

"Where have the troops of the Japanese army gone south to reinforce them?" Han Yunhua continued to ask.

"I have arrived in Harbin, and I can reach Changchun in 20 hours at most." Qian Zhuangfei continued to answer.

"Okay, let the little devil go south first, and then order the Soviet Red Army to send troops, I want to see if Yamada Otozo is Gu Tou or Gu Buttocks." Han Yunhua sneered.

"So what do we do?"

"What to do, continue according to the original plan. All the troops arrived at their designated positions this evening and awaited orders. When the time came, the whole army assaulted. Han Yunhua said coldly.

"Okay, I'll deliver the order."

At 1 o'clock in the morning of the 18th, the entire front-line headquarters was still brightly lit, and all the operational staff officers and service personnel were in place, waiting for the orders of the comrade commander.

"Zhuangfei, have all the troops arrived at the designated position, and are they all ready for battle?" Han Yunhua confirmed for the last time before the war.

"Yes, commander, all the troops have arrived at the designated positions, including the Soviet Red Army, and all have entered the predetermined combat positions, waiting for the commander's order." Qian Zhuangfei replied loudly.

"Very well, now we will start to check the table, my time is 0:55 in the morning, and in 5 minutes I will give the order to attack the whole army." Han Yunhua said loudly.

"Yes!"

The 1st Command in Chengde, the 2nd Command in Ningcheng, the Central Command in Dunhua, and the Red Army Command in Boli received a total order from the headquarters of the Inner Mongolia Military Region at the same time. At 1 o'clock in the morning, the 1.7 million elite of the coalition army, under the cover of 3,200 tanks and armored vehicles and 1,500 large-caliber artillery pieces, launched an all-out attack from the border line of thousands of kilometers in the northeast.

At one o'clock in the morning, General Yamada Otozo had just fallen asleep when he was woken up by the guards. Yamada Otozo, who was originally extremely angry, suddenly broke out in a cold sweat after listening to the report of the newspaper operator, and his drowsiness was thrown directly out of the clouds.

"Nani, the Shina people have launched an all-out attack on our Imperial Japanese Army? Is the message accurate? General Yamada asked urgently.

"Hai, ten minutes ago, the Chinese launched an all-out attack on our Kwantung Army in Lingyuan, Ningcheng and Shuangliao in South Manchuria. The news came back from the front and was unmistakable. Chief of Staff Yukio Kasahara said loudly.

"How's the battle going?"

"Report to Your Excellency Commander, there is no report on the results of the battle for the time being, but I think that the people of Laizhi have been preparing for so long, and the first round of attacks will definitely be fruitful. Although the specific battle is not clear, we are still prepared for the worst, because Han Yunhua's demon has never fought uncertain battles, and every time he makes a move, he can hit the soft underbelly of the empire. Regardless of whether the troops on the front line can withstand the attack of the China, our headquarters must make some moves and arrange a defensive plan in advance. Yukio Kasawara suggested. …,

"Kasahara-kun is right, what are the actions of the Soviets, where are the 23rd Division and other troops?" Yamada Otozo will continue.

"There is no news from the Soviets for the time being, but the Soviets have just won a big victory in Europe, recovering the Kursk region, and are now busy expanding the results of the war, so they should not have time to take care of the fighting in the Far East, after all, the Soviets do not want to fall into the dangerous situation of fighting on two fronts."

"You mean that the Soviets will not intervene in this war?"

"Yes, Your Excellency, Commander. The Soviet Union's dispatch of troops to Manchuria was certainly a disaster for the empire, but it was not necessarily beneficial to the Soviets, and in the end it would only be a cheap deal, so it was judged that the Soviets would not do such a stupid thing. Yukio Kasahara continued.

"Not necessarily, the Americans can come up with tens of billions of dollars in supplies to fund the Allies, so why should the Soviets be 'stupid' once in a while. Moreover, now that Han Yunhua's headquarters are charging in front, the Soviets may not want to solve the threat of our Kwantung Army to the Far East in one fell swoop, and this will be beneficial to the Soviet Union and China, and even to the Americans. "General Yamada Otosan has seen farther and his thinking is clearer.

Yamada then continued: "If the Soviets had not been involved, what would have been the outcome of this war? ”

"It's hard to be sure, the biggest possibility of five or five is a lose-lose situation. The battle of Han Yunhua's division is indeed very powerful, and we cannot deny this. As for the reason why Han Yunhua's troops are far more powerful than other Chinese troops, it took the empire nearly two years to make a breakthrough, that is, the training methods of this Chinese army are very different from the training methods of other troops. The training methods of Han Yunhua's department are very systematic and advanced, and at the same time they are very practical, and sometimes in some not too fierce battles, Han Yunhua will bring some recruits into formations and let them train in battle, so that although the troops have added some unnecessary trouble, they are all elite, and they all look like veterans. Judging from the current situation of the Kwantung Army, if we fight with Han Yunhua's troops alone, the chances of victory are not too great, because our army does not have an advantage in terms of strength or weaponry. Speaking of this, Kasawara Yukio slowed down and continued: "However, if the Chinese people want to rely on a mere Inner Mongolia Military Region, it is like completely destroying our Kwantung Army, which is simply wishful thinking. No matter how we say that our army also has millions of elites, plus we have been operating in Manchuria for 10 years, whether it is logistics supply or fortifications, it is far more convenient than the Chinese people, if there is really a full-scale war, the Chinese people and my Kwantung Army may suffer a little loss in the early stage, but in the later stage, it is definitely the Chinese people who take the initiative to retreat, because the logistics supply line of the Chinese army is extremely fragile, and it is simply unable to undertake such a large-scale campaign. ”

"And what if we add the Soviets, what are our chances of winning?" Yamada Otozo continued to ask.

"Commander, I don't think this assumption is at all necessary, the Soviets will not declare war on the Reich, because they are afraid that the Reich will attack them with the Germans. One Germany was enough for Stalin to have a headache, and with our Great Japanese Empire, there was no doubt about the defeat of the Soviets. If the Reich had acceded to the Germans' request to send troops to the Soviet Far East, the Soviets would have been defeated and the Reich would not have been in the predicament it is in today. Lieutenant General Yukio Kasahara said indignantly.

"Kasahara-kun, don't worry about this, we are all soldiers, and soldiers should take obedience to orders as their duty. We don't need to think about things at the top, His Majesty the Emperor said that we can just command the troops to charge, even if His Majesty the Emperor asks us to fight the Germans. You are the chief of staff of our Kwantung Army, and you know best the strength of our army, and now you tell me if the Chinese and Soviets attack the Kwantung Army in the north and south at the same time, can we hold Manchuria, and if we can't hold it, how long can we hold out. "Yamada Otozomichi. …,

"If the Chinese and the Soviets flank our army at the same time, our chances of victory are almost zero. Our Kwantung Army was mainly for spying on the Soviets, so we also had a certain understanding of the strength of the Soviet Far Eastern Military District. The troops of the Far Eastern Military District of the USSR have been transferred to the west several times, and now there are less than half a million people left. However, they are extremely well armed, and the empire is more than a generation behind. And our army is victorious because of the large number of troops, with the total strength of our army now nearly three times that of the Soviets, if we really want to go to war with the Soviets, if we do not count the reserve forces, the two sides should be at the same level, and our army may have a slight advantage in comparison. However, if we add the Chinese troops, our army will be at a disadvantage in all respects. According to the information transmitted by the intelligence department, the current strength of Han Yunhua's unit in China should have exceeded 1.5 million, which is hundreds of thousands more than our Kwantung Army, and all of them have good combat effectiveness. The Inner Mongolia Military Region alone is enough for our Kwantung Army to deal with, and if the Chinese troops cooperate with the Soviets, our army will definitely be defeated, and it will last for two months at most, or even less. ”

"Yo Xi, Kasahara-kun, your analysis is very reasonable, now I am not worried about the war in western Manchuria, as you said, it is impossible for the people of China to attack Xinjing immediately, our fortifications in the major cities along the line are not repaired in vain, with the blocking of these fortifications, we can calmly dispatch troops. But I'm worried that if the Chinese and Soviets join forces, the result will be unpredictable. Judging from the fact that Han Yunhua's unit suddenly possessed a large number of Yi-16 and Lag-5 fighters, the people of China must have reached some kind of tacit understanding with the Soviets, but I don't know if they have developed to that point, whether they have reached a strategic alliance or even a closer relationship. Kasawara-kun, you immediately sent an order to all troops, including the border troops in North Manchuria, all of them to prepare at least a week's worth of ammunition and food for the battle, and at the same time ordered Timitsuo to move his headquarters north to Yichun and closely monitor the movements of the Soviets. General Yamada said with a frown.

The main reason is that the battle launched by the Inner Mongolia Military Region this time is very strange, just as Yamada Otozo considered, in the end, both sides are most likely to lose both, which is not beneficial to the Inner Mongolia Military Region and the Kwantung Army, and this is not Han Yunhua's consistent style of planning and moving. Therefore, Yamada Otozo insisted that there must be something wrong with this, but he himself was not extremely determined, after all, this is a strategic orientation, and a mistake would be catastrophic. Especially on the Soviet side, there is now talk about the Soviet Union's color change in Japan, and the impact of the Battle of Nomenkan on the Japanese is too profound. Therefore, at this time, Yamada Otozo was very cautious, although he suspected that the Soviets had colluded with Han Yunhua, but he did not dare to provoke the Soviets too much, and just ordered the troops to strengthen vigilance.

But Yamada Otozo did not expect that during the time he was talking with Yukio Kasawara, the 350,000 elite soldiers of the Far Eastern Military District of the Soviet Red Army, under the command of Lieutenant General Ivanov, had already used the cover of night to spread out on the Sino-Soviet border. In the early morning of the 18th, the Soviet army suddenly launched a powerful assault operation against the Japanese army from the three directions of Fuyuan, Xunke, and Heihe at the same time, and at the same time, the armored group composed of 1,680 tank armored vehicles and 662 military heavy trucks also went straight to the station of the second tank division of the Japanese army in Jiayin under the cover of night.

At dawn, the Soviet army crossed the border in almost all directions, forcibly crossed the Heilongjiang and Ussuri rivers, and entered northeastern China from the Heilongjiang and Ussuri rivers respectively, launching a powerful attack on a frontal battlefield of 2,000 kilometers. At 3 o'clock in the morning, the 38th Infantry Division of the Soviet Far East Military District took the lead in delivering good news, the 83rd Division of the Japanese Army stationed in Fuyuan was defeated, and the large army had occupied Fuyuan City, and was clearing the remnants of the enemy in Fuyuan and establishing a bridgehead for the large army. …,

Immediately afterwards, the 28th and 126th Divisions and the 5th Artillery Brigade under the command of Lieutenant General Vasilev also received good news, they gathered and annihilated the 6th Brigade of the Japanese Garrison, the 34th Cavalry Division of the puppet Manchukuo Wehrmacht, and the 2nd Infantry Division on the periphery of Heihe, seized a large amount of supplies, and most importantly, they occupied the Heihe military airfield by surprise, and the 34 Japanese fighters parked at the Heihe airfield all became trophies of the Soviets before they were put into battle.

At 4 o'clock, Sunk was also taken down by the Central Route Army commanded by Ivanov, and the 11th Division, the most elite infantry division of the Japanese army, was surrounded in a narrow area of 12 kilometers outside Sunk City, and if there were no large reinforcements to reinforce it, the 11th Division would be completely destroyed.

These results were all expected by Han Yunhua, after all, there was a calculation or no intention, one side was fully prepared to destroy the other party, and the other side was not very prepared at all, in order not to attract the attention of the enemy side, it actually retreated part of the coastal patrol force for more than ten miles.

You must know that the Japanese army has only two tank divisions in the northeast, namely the first and second divisions of the tank army, and each tank division has nearly 300 taels of tank armored vehicles, which are the two most powerful units in the Kwantung Army and the two units that pose the greatest threat to the Inner Mongolia Military Region. Now the 1st Tank Division has gone south to support the Kwantung Army Headquarters, and only the 2nd Tank Division remains. If the 2nd Tank Division is eliminated, there will be no troops in the entire Heilongjiang region that can withstand the Soviets.

Jiayin is a small city in the north of Heilongjiang, although the population of Jiayin is only a hundred thousand, but it is the station of the second tank division of the Japanese army, and it is also a strategic base placed by the Japanese army on the Sino-Soviet border, which has hoarded a large number of strategic materials.

In fact, it was not Fuyuan or Heihe that was the first to be attacked, but the inconspicuous small city of Jiayin. It's just that the Soviet tank group was not lucky, and Lieutenant General Okada of the Second Tank Division was not a guy who played cards according to common sense, and Okada Zi, who had been stationed in North Manchuria for 6 years, and also participated in the Battle of Nomenkan, had a deep memory of the Soviet tank and artillery units. Therefore, since Okada, who was lucky enough to survive from the Nomenkan battlefield in 39, has always maintained this habit, that is, no matter what the situation, he will put the guard post more than ten kilometers or even dozens of kilometers away. So when the Soviet roaring chariot crossed the Heilongjiang River and rushed straight to Jiayin, Okada had already received the report, and at the same time immediately organized troops to counterattack.

Okada didn't know how many tanks the Soviets had sent south to fight this time, but he was well aware of the responsibility he and the entire tank division beared. If Soviet tank units were allowed to pass through their own defense zone quickly, his tank division would become a disgrace to the Japanese Empire. Despite the unknown situation of the enemy, Okada pulled all 312 combat vehicles and 24 armored vehicles out of the tank base to stop the Soviets.

It was the largest decisive battle between tanks in China, between the 2nd Tank Division of the Japanese Kwantung Army under the command of Lieutenant General Okada, and the commander-in-chief of the Red Army Tank Group in the Far East under the command of Lieutenant General Vagrahi of the Soviet Army. However, the gap between the two sides is not half a point, and the Japanese army's second tank division has three brigades and seven tank brigades, the 3rd and 4th tank brigades, and the tank teaching brigade, as well as the 2nd mechanized infantry wing, the divisional rapid-fire artillery team, the divisional search team, the 2nd mechanized artillery wing, the air defense team, the engineer team, the maintenance team, and the baggage team. However, it was the elite of the tank units of the Soviet Far Eastern Military District that went south to fight this time, and in addition to the nearly 800 tanks allocated to the army, all the remaining 1,600 tanks were pulled to Jiayin. Although the war had not yet begun, the outcome of the 2nd Tank Division of the Japanese Army had already been predicted.

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