Things really evolved in the direction that Liu Yimin estimated.

Japan's ambassador to the Soviet Union, Togo Shigetoku, was actually of Korean descent. His ancestor, surnamed Park, was a potter who was plundered by Toyotomi Hideyoshi during his invasion of Korea. His father, Park Su-sung, came out of the potter of Sè, and after the Meiji Restoration, he bought the surname Togo with his original surname, and he had nothing to do with the famous Togo Heihachiro.

Because he graduated from the German Department of the University of Tokyo, had translated Schiller's works, and had a deep understanding of German culture, he did not approve of Hitler's domestic and foreign policies during his tenure as ambassador to Germany, and had great differences with Hiroshi Oshima, Hitler's confidant and army attache in Germany, on the issue of concluding a German-Japanese alliance, and was dismissed from the post of ambassador to Germany last year and reappointed as ambassador to the Soviet Union.

On August 25, Molotov urgently summoned Togo Maud.

At this time, Togo Maud did not know that three elite divisions and one armored brigade of the Kwantung Army had launched an attack on Vladivostok with the cooperation of aircraft and heavy artillery, and thought that the Soviets were going to report the situation to Japan on the Soviet-German non-aggression pact! As for the conflict in the Nomenkhand region, Japan and the Soviet Union protested again and again as early as May. However, since the two armies did not really decide the winner, and the country did not authorize further negotiations, Togo Shigetoku did not think much about this matter.

The summons was extremely unpleasant, and Molotov's cold eyes stared at Togo Maud through the lenses, and asked Togo Maude in stiff Russian why his own country did not declare war and invade the coastal areas of the Soviet Far East? Is Japan going to an all-out war with the Soviet Union? Then," Molotov said fiercely: "Undeclared war and habit of sneak attacks are the consistent style of the Japanese army. The valiant Soviet Red Army will annihilate the invading Japanese army and recapture the island of South Harlem and the entire Kuril Islands."

Togo Shigetoku only knew that the Kwantung Army and the Su Méng Army were fighting in Nomenhan, but how did he know that the Kwantung Army had launched another attack on Vladivostok? Therefore, with a bewildered face, he waited for Molotov to finish speaking, and then quickly defended that it must have been a misunderstanding, and he did not receive any domestic notification of actions against the Primorsky region"

The Great Japanese Empire would never launch an attack on the Soviet Far East.

Molotov still had a good impression of Togo Maude, and felt that this Togo Maude looked more straightforward and did not have the hypocritical diplomatic rhetoric of many diplomats. Now when he heard that Dongxiang Maode was completely dismissed, he was disdainful, and immediately said: "If the government of our country dares to do it, we must dare to do it, and we can't be like a thief, stealing other people's things and not admitting it." The Japanese government is the most despicable and shameless government I have ever seen in my diplomatic career: "Your ambassador is persona non grata. ”

After returning to the embassy, Shigetoku Togo, who had been kicked out, "immediately sent an urgent telegram to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to report the situation of Moloto's summons and ask for urgent instructions on how to deal with it." At this time, the cabinet knew that the Kwantung Army was respecting things again.

The situation then developed even faster, and Zhukov's Soviet army, eager to end the fighting in Nomenkhan, made it easier for the Red Army in the Far East to concentrate its forces against the invading Kwantung Army, and issued an ultimatum to the encircled Japanese army in the Nomenkhand area. On August 27, when the Japanese army refused to surrender, "Zhukov ordered to concentrate planes and artillery and destroy these remnants of the little devils with artillery fire."

In an instant, the encircled Japanese troops were covered with flesh and blood under artillery fire, and only 400 Japanese troops were left on the Normenhan front, and only one squadron of 100 people from the cavalry wing of the 23rd Division ran out of the whole formation. That is to say, the 23rd Division is finished, "the 1,500 men of the 8th National Border Garrison are finished, and the 1st Division of the 7th Division and other special forces units that cooperate with the operation are also finished."

At this point in the battle, it was impossible for the Su Méng Army to continue to expand the results of the battle, because the reinforcements of the Kwantung Army had already been reinforced, and although the Su Méng Army had a firepower advantage, it also suffered heavy casualties" with a total of 57,000 troops

people, 7,000 killed, 1,000 missing" 16,000 wounded. With such a high casualty rate, the troops naturally lost the ability to continue fighting.

The Japanese troops in the Vladivostok area achieved certain results. Although the Red Army in the Far East had long been prepared"

However, the 2nd Division and the 5th Division were the two most elite mechanized divisions of the Japanese army, and their combat effectiveness was absolutely first-class in this era. Hoshino Toshimoto's armored brigade was also the first professional armored unit of the Japanese army, and the tank weight was not as heavy as that of the Soviet army, but it was no problem at all to use it for roundabout attacks. In addition, the commander of the Eighth Route Army, who had been fighting for a long time, had been fighting for a long time, and his command level had been improved, so it was inevitable that he would use one wing of the First Division to attack the enemy head-on, and that the Second Division, the Fifth Division, and the armored brigade would attack in a roundabout way.

At this time, the consequences of Stalin's purges were revealed. The Red Army of the USSR did not lack bravery, what it lacked was excellent commanders. When the Red Army soldiers, led by political instructors, sang songs and lined up in a neat line to launch a counterattack against the invaders, everyone would have burst into tears.

The Soviet Red Army units that counterattacked the Japanese army were strewn with corpses in front of the Suifenhe fortress group.

Fortunately, the Soviet air power and ground artillery were strong, and they were the street masters. After the counterattack troops suffered losses and discovered that the Japanese army was trying to return to attack, they dispatched all the planes they could to fight in the air with the Japanese army, bombing the Japanese ground forces, delaying the Japanese attack, and gaining time for the mobilization of troops. Even the sailors of the Pacific Fleet were urgently mobilized and put into defensive operations.

The Ussuri Plain is suitable for the movement of mechanized troops, and if the Kwantung Army is explicitly authorized by the base camp for this operation, the strength of the troops can be a little larger, and the United Fleet provides support, Vladivostok is very likely to fall into the hands of the Japanese. It's a pity that Kwantung grass is only a front army, and it is secretly doing it behind the base camp, and it is impossible to get the support of the navy. In addition, the Japanese army was only three and a half divisions, and the Red Army in the Far East had more than 20 divisions, with sufficient troops, and it was convenient to rely on the lines of communication for mobilization. This affected the effectiveness of the Japanese army.

After the battle of Nomenhan, a group of demons in the Japanese base camp were already frightened by the powerful firepower of the Soviet army, for fear that when the Soviet army reacted, they would make dumplings for the second, fifth, and first divisions. Therefore, Emperor Hirohito slapped his palms red at the Imperial Council and strictly ordered the Kwantung Army to stop further actions and resolve the conflict between Japan and the Soviet Union through diplomatic channels.

Unconvinced, the commander of the Kwantung Army, Kenkichi Ueda, sent several telegrams in succession, asking the base camp to send additional reinforcements, destroy the Su Méng Army in the Normenhan region, capture Vladivostok in the coastal area, and solve the Far Eastern problem in World War I.

Kenkichi Ueda, who was severely reprimanded by the base camp, actually coerced the base camp by resigning from the post of commander of the Kwantung Army. This time, Emperor Hirohito was not polite and directly dismissed Kenkichi Ueda from his post as commander of the Kwantung Army, and removed Ryosuke Isoya, chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, from his post as well, and ordered Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Shigetoku Togo, to take full responsibility for negotiations with the Soviet Union.

The commander and chief of staff of the Kwantung Army have been dismissed, how will this battle be fought and for whom? Okabe Naosaburo had to curse three times in a row, looked at the looming shadow of Vladivostok, and ordered all troops to stop the attack, build positions on the spot, and wait for further orders from the base camp.

At this time, great changes in Europe were imminent, and the Soviet Union had no intention of fighting with Japan, so Japan and the Soviet Union hit it off, sat down at the negotiating table at the first time, and began the armistice negotiations between Japan and the Soviet Union.

The world situation at the end of August and the beginning of September 1939 could not be more appropriately described as strange.

Just a week after the signing of the Soviet-German non-aggression pact and the cannoning of the Nomenkhamp incident had not completely stopped, on August 31, the greater yīn plot was introduced. In order to make his invasion of Bōlan a little more open, Hitler instructed the Nazi bandits to plan the Grevitz incident. Prior to this, the Germans had already created a great deal of accusations against Bōlan of tolerating violent groups and of ethnic cleansing of Germans in Bōland. Immediately afterwards, the German Nazis carried out a series of 21 events consisting of Operation Himmler, with only one purpose, that is, to create a false impression that the countries of the world would understand that it was not the Germans who wanted to invade Bōlan, but Bōlan who was provoking Germany.

On August 31, a detachment of German SS troops dressed in Bōlan uniforms, posing as Bō Army, attacked the Grewitz radio station on the German border and delivered an insulting speech against Germany. Subsequently, all radio stations throughout Germany broadcast the news that "Germany had been attacked by Bōland", and Hitler used this as a pretext to sign the first battle order for the invasion of Bōland.

By this time, the weak Bōlan was still counting on the protection of Britain and France, because on August 25, Bōlan had just signed a mutual defense treaty with Great Britain as an annex to the military alliance with France. Both Britain, France, and Bōlan expected to rely on this treaty to restrain Hitler.

All negotiations were under the guise of Hitler, and war was inevitable. On September 1, fascist Germany dispatched 1.5 million troops, 2,500 tanks and 2,000 planes to invade Bōlan in three directions, and World War II broke out.

In the sky were the planes of the German army, on the ground were the torrent of steel of the German army, and the earth of Bōlan was trembling.

The brave Bōlan cavalry brandished their sabers and met the German tanks, and the results were predictable.

Then, on September 15, Japan and the Soviet Union signed an armistice agreement, and the two sides ceased combat operations. September 17

On Sunday, the Soviet Red Army entered the territory of Bōlan, joined forces with the German army, and forced the Bōlan army into a desperate situation and began to carve up Bōlan.

If the German blitzkrieg shocked the world, then the Soviet invasion of Bōlan completely stunned the world.

The righteous people of the world, while condemning the German aggressor, condemned the Soviet Union.

When Liu Yimin heard this series of news on the radio, he didn't show too much surprise, but he looked at the map every day. He knew that everything that was supposed to come had come, and that the world would be in a big war next. The Nazis are doomed, and the little devils are doomed,

It's just a matter of time.