Chapter 144: Soviet Exercises
Before the headquarters made up his mind, Xi Yiyi did not plan to attack Chahar, and not only that, he also planned to temporarily withdraw the two fourth brigades of cavalry and infantry. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
He admitted that he underestimated the combat effectiveness of the allied army in China, committed a taboo in the army, and gave the allied army a chance to break through.
Now the two main brigades of the Eighth Division are under the siege of the superior forces of the Allied forces, and there are heavy casualties, and the Aoki Wing has only two artillery squadrons left plus an infantry squadron to escort Nakazawa Mitsuo, but their wing flag has been burned, and the Aoki Wing has completely disappeared.
Even if he still had three intact direct wings, and the Fourth Brigade still had more than 3,000 men, his allied army had even more numbers, at least 80,000 or 90,000.
Moreover, in the several wings directly under the division and regiment, apart from the considerable fighting of the artillery wing, the engineer wing and the baggage wing were not much stronger than the fighting of the Chinese army.
It is more than enough to let them fight a defensive battle, but let them take the initiative to attack the enemy, and even Xiyi No. 1 Middle School has no bottom in his heart. Besides, if this kind of casualty continues to be fought, I am afraid that Chahar has not yet been taken, and the Eighth Division will not.
As soon as Nishiyi stopped advancing, and the Aoki Wing was gone, there was no need for him to rush to Chahar, and His Excellency the Lieutenant General stopped his troops in the Akagi area, not far from Ryuguan.
At the same time, he ordered the 4th Brigade to withdraw to Rehe and wait for the latest order from the headquarters, and at the same time reported the possible involvement of the Soviets in the Chahar incident to the Kwantung Army Command.
Deng Wen and Zhang Lisheng led the allied army with 20,000 people left to enter Dushi, and Li Han led the 145th Brigade to Longguan, blocking the entrance of the Japanese army into Chanan.
However, neither Longguan nor Dushi had any good geographical advantages to take advantage of, so after the two troops entered the garrison, the first thing they did was to engage in civil engineering and turn the entire garrison into a large construction site.
Although he defeated two groups of Japanese troops who invaded Chahar in a row, no one, including Li Han, knew whether the devils would continue to want Chahar to send troops. Moreover, due to the successive heavy losses in the southern Chasan area, if the Japanese army does not come, it will be a thunderbolt.
The Eighth Division is one of the permanent divisions of the Japanese Army, with four infantry wings and four directly subordinate wings, with a total strength of more than 28,000 people. This result shocked the Kwantung Army command.
The commander of the Kwantung Army, General Ryokarataka, was annoyed and angry, the defeat of the 46th Independent Brigade was due to the despicable and shameless Li Han who used poison gas bombs against them, and he was naturally very clear about the powerlessness of the chemical weapons made by the Empire.
In the face of the pervasive and powerful lethality of poison gas, the 46th Regiment Brigade lost the battle defenselessly, and although Ryokari Takashi found it difficult to accept, at least it was still excusable.
However, this time, with such a huge number of troops, the Eighth Division was still defeated, which made Ryokara unacceptable.
Of course, the Soviets intervened in the Chahar affair, which also complicated the dispatch of troops to Chahar this time, and Ryokari Takashi also had to think about what to do after the Soviets made a move.
However, it was only a fear, since Japan's victory over Russia on the Russo-Japanese battlefield, this group of dwarfs with inflated self-confidence not only did not fear the Soviets, but even often provoked the Soviets at the junction of Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia.
Later, the Battle of Nomenkan between Japan and the Soviet Union was also the first to be done by the Japanese, although in the end the Japanese suffered a defeat, but it can be seen that the Japanese were not only not afraid of the Soviet Union, but even tried to occupy the territory of the Soviet Union.
Of course, this is all after the official outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, and with the current strength of the Kwantung Army, it cannot confront the Soviet army in the Far East, so the attitude of the Soviets will also directly affect Ryokara's decision-making.
As for why the fuse was indexed to the Soviets, neither Nishiyichi nor Hishikari Takashi doubted it, because this information was obtained by Aoki Daisa at the cost of his life.
But just holding back this breath without saying a word is obviously not the Japanese style. Although Takashi was worried about the Soviets interfering, he decided to continue to send a division south and test the reaction of the Soviets.
Not only was Ryokari Takashi unwilling, but the Kwantung Army Command was also noisy, and almost all the division commanders and brigade commanders strongly demanded that the troops be redeployed to take revenge, because they could not accept such a record of the Imperial Army.
A year ago, the Kwantung Army captured Mukden Province, the hometown of the Northeast Army, with only more than 10,000 men, and the strength of two divisions occupied the entire territory of the Northeast.
Now the 20,000-strong Division A led by Xi Yiyi is unable to defeat even a Chahar Province guarded by a miscellaneous army, and has lost more than 10,000 people.
Since the Meiji Restoration, apart from the Russo-Japanese War accident, this was the heaviest loss of the Imperial Army, and some radicals were already clamoring for Nishiyi's disembowelment.
Fortunately, Ryokari Takashi is still relatively sober, and the division commander is already a high-level member of the Japanese high-level. There were only 17 permanent divisions and regiments in the Imperial Army, which means that there were only 17 lieutenant generals and division commanders in the entire Japanese Army who had real power like Nishiichi.
If one division commander commits suicide just because he didn't capture Chahar once, then these seventeen division commanders are estimated to die in a few years.
Besides, Nishiichi once served as the emperor's attendant military attaché, and the emperor had a good impression of him, so to punish him, at least only veterans in the military world have this right. Lingkari Takashi didn't say that he let Xiyi have a disembowelment, and even the removal of him has to be considered again.
All the Japanese troops in the northeast region have a total of five divisions, which seems to be quite a lot, but in fact, these forces are far from enough for the territory they now occupy in the Republic of China.
There are three provinces in the northeast alone, and in addition to Rehe Province, there are four provinces, and even if one province is stationed with one brigade, the four provinces will use up the strength of two divisions.
However, the Soviet Union had more than 100,000 people in the Far Eastern Military District, and there were still more than 10 people in the Northeast Volunteer Army fighting.
Now the Eighth Division is in a semi-crippled state again, which means that he only has four and a half divisions left in his hands.
These forces were not only responsible for suppressing the rebellious Northeast Volunteers, but also for the Soviet Far Eastern Military District. Moreover, the area of the three northeastern provinces plus Rehe is close to one million square kilometers.
In any country, it is already thankful that this force can hold the current territory. Only Japan, a crazy nation, would have such a crazy general, and even wanted to send a division south to attack Chahar.
However, before the Ryokari Dispatch Division had left Changchun, the Soviet Far Eastern Military District reported that it was going to hold a military exercise in Outer Mongolia recently, and the imaginary enemy of the exercise was none other than the army of the Great Japanese Empire.
At this time, the Kwantung Army was collectively silenced, they have been eyeing the outside world, and the Soviets have always coveted the northeast region.
Although Comrade Stalin personally ordered the killing of what he called the brutal and greedy Tsar, he inherited the Slavs' greed for land.
When it comes to land, Stalin can say that the blue is better than the blue, and if he is strong enough, he wants to turn the whole world into the territory of the Soviet Union.
The Japanese dwarf moved Chahar, which was equivalent to moving his cheese, but because the international situation facing the Soviet Union was very difficult, it was not easy for Stalin to attack the Japanese.
And recently, under the leadership of the mustache, the Germans have become more and more unscrupulous, and their military strength has become more and more powerful, which also made Stalin focus more on the European region.
However, he still secretly sold a batch of weapons to the Chahar Alliance, with the purpose of adding to the Japanese blockage.
Originally, after the First World War, Germany was overwhelmed by the huge reparations, and the Soviet Union was ravaged by the intervention forces of 14 countries, and then they imposed an economic and technological blockade. So Germany and the Soviet Union began to hook up.
Germany was responsible for providing the Soviet Union with complete sets of weapons manufacturing production lines and helping the Soviet Red Army establish a modern staff command and training system.
The Soviet Union, for its part, opened its bases and factories to Germany, where it could undisturbed the training of armourers, pilots, and other military personnel, and the development of weapons strictly prohibited by the Treaty of Versailles.
Originally, the two pairs of difficult brothers cooperated very well, and each took what he needed. And the Soviet Union also took the opportunity of this cooperation to raise the level of domestic industrialization and technology almost to a higher level.
It's a pity that the good times didn't last long, and after the mustache came to power, everything changed.
Because the mustache is particularly bold and good at demagoguery, Germany's living environment in Europe and the world has become more and more relaxed, and the role of the Soviet Union in him has naturally decreased a lot, and the relationship between the two countries has also cooled down rapidly.
Although the two countries cooperated, they were also world enemies before, Germany began to become stronger, and Stalin had to guard against it.
However, although Stalin did not want to move the Japanese, who made the little devil not angry, and actually lost the battle in Chahar, but he was still defeated by the Chinese army that he had always looked down on.
The Soviet Far Eastern Military District had also fought against the Northeast Army before, and they won a complete victory. Now that the Japanese army has been defeated by the miscellaneous cards of the Northeast Army and the miscellaneous cards of the Northwest Army, Stalin naturally had an idea.
With this combat strength, the Japanese would be fully capable of taking Manchuria and turning it into the great rear of the Soviet Republic in the Far East with the strength of the Far Eastern Military District.
That's why Stalin asked the Far Eastern Military District to move and see how the Japanese reacted. Unexpectedly, Ryokari was so unfrightened, their exercise had not yet started, and the division that had almost left Changchun with one foot quickly retracted back to its original position, and even the division and regiment stationed in Xian began to move.
Stalin regretted it a little, regretting that he had raised his profile a little, if he had waited for this division of the Japanese to leave the northeast before making a move, it would have been possible to capture Manchuria, and what the Japanese could do, the great Soviet Red Army would have been more beautiful.