Chapter 202: One Pot End
Tukhachevsky next to him didn't say a word just by sitting, Lin Jun looked at the wounded Japanese captain who was carried up in front of him (the captain of the Japanese army is also the captain of the ordinary country. The www.biquge.info head of the pen is a little big: this Japanese officer looks good from the eyes of the Oriental, but now Lin Jun hopes that this guy can be as limb as the four corpses of Japanese generals he just saw! It's simple to die!
"Damn, what should I do if I live like this?!" I thought in my heart that I really wanted to scold the officer who was sent by the person, but I finally couldn't help it.
"Andrey, report to the Kremlin and let that side decide."
Tukhachevsky finally opened Chrysostom.
The Japanese captain lying on the stretcher had a broken leg, and his two arms and the other leg were tied to the stretcher with strips of cloth, and he stared at the group of senior Soviet officers in the room.
Hearing the commander-in-chief say such a sentence lightly, Lin Jun said to the person on the ground: "Don't die, it's not easy to confess when you die." ”
With a wave of his hand, "Send it to the hospital for treatment, send someone to take a look, beware of this guy wiping his neck!" ”
The guard ignored the Japanese protest on the ground, picked it up and walked away.
"Slaughter, slaughter, and get me a job, trouble!"
When the officers on the side left the office, Lin Jun complained to Tukhachevsky.
"Maybe the Kremlin will like this guy, at least it can be used as a bargaining chip."
"I don't think so, God knows what the emperor will think."
What is it that annoys Lin Jun so much? Because the one on the ground just now was Prince Morihou Higashikuya, the son-in-law of the Emperor of Japan. Today is June 17, 1939, the 2nd Tank Regiment of the 1st Mechanized Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has just destroyed the last Japanese position in the encirclement on the east bank of the Haraha River in the morning.
These few days have been the most refreshing and exciting days for Lin Jun: on June 12, Tukhachevsky decided that the time was ripe for a decisive battle and gave the order for a general attack. Four brigades of armored units, plus the 36th Mechanized Infantry Division, broke through all Japanese flank defenses from the left and right in just one day, cutting off more than 50,000 Japanese troops on the east bank of the Haraha River from Manchuria.
It was not that the more than 50,000 Japanese troops could not break through the blockade, but that the main positions were too busy to take care of themselves -- thousands of medium and large-caliber artillery pieces of the Soviet army were suppressing and shelling as if they did not need money, there were bombs and solidification ****** dropped by bomber groups in the sky, and the Japanese troops on the positions had to face a huge tank group that had never been seen before: more than 300 T34 and KV1 were accompanied by infantry with PPS-39 submachine guns rushing straight over the mountains.
The Japanese already had an estimate of the superiority of the Soviet armored forces, so they prepared a certain rapid-fire gun (caliber 37 mm, unlike the general 37 mm anti-tank guns of that time, but much larger and capable of firing several rounds in a row. But before it could enter the range of rapid-fire guns, the behemoth in the eyes of the Japanese army had already begun to suppress it.
Finally, a few long-lived rapid-fire guns survived to six or seven hundred meters away from the tank, and the gunner, who had been dizzy, found that the shells he fired clearly hit the tank, but the steel monsters rushed forward as if they were fine.
The gunner's desperate shot was either blown to pieces by tank shells or turned into a hornet's nest by machine gun bullets, and the rapid-fire gun with the longest life was the most ugly to kill, which was directly crushed by a KV-1 that had no intention of firing!
After the Soviet tank launched a fierce attack, the Japanese commander had already issued preparations to prepare for the **** attack, and when he saw that the rapid-fire artillery could not be counted, a large number of Japanese soldiers wrapped in explosives bags and holding ****** appeared on the position, trying to crawl close to the tank. Not to mention the original machine-gun fire of the tank, the Soviet infantry trotting behind them did not give the Japanese daredevils a chance at all, and the dense firepower of the PPS-39 was like an insurmountable wall of fire guarding those steel behemoths.
In the northernmost part of the battlefield, more than 100 tanks and armored vehicles of the Yasuoka Tank Division collided head-on with the Soviet 11th Tank Brigade, and more than 300 tanks and armored vehicles fought a bloody battle on the steppe - obviously the Japanese Type 89 and Type 95 were no match for the T-28, T-26, T-130, BT-7 tanks and BA-6 and BA-10 armored vehicles, and the four latest Type 97 medium tanks were also inferior to the Soviet tanks, and they were the first to be destroyed when the battle began, just because they were at the forefront of the cluster.
After half an hour of melee, the Japanese were completely at a disadvantage, and at this time, Tukhachevsky, who received a report that the 11th Tank Brigade had encountered the main force of the enemy's tank division, ordered the 3rd Tank Regiment of the 1st Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to send a reserve to support - a battalion of T34 joined the battle and completely cut off Yasuoka's way of life.
A T34 tank gun jammed when firing the second gun, and in a hurry, the commander ordered the loader to open the hatch and use the anti-aircraft machine gun to strafe the Japanese tank 300 meters away while ordering to ram the opponent, but the driver just hung up the gear and reported: "The target has been destroyed!" ”
The loader shouted there: "It exploded, the tanks of the little Japanese could not stop our anti-aircraft machine guns!" ”
It was a Type 89 medium tank on fire, and even rifle bullets sometimes pierced its thin armor, not to mention the armor-piercing and incendiary shells used by all the large-caliber anti-aircraft machine guns of all the tanks of the 1st Division!
At this time, Comrade Commander "decisively" commanded his tank to sweep the Japanese tanks with anti-aircraft machine guns, and the loader covered the shoulder wounded by shrapnel and returned to the fighting room - the gun commander took over the loader, and this T34 beat 4 Japanese tanks and 2 armored vehicles with anti-aircraft machine guns before the end of the battle, with a super rate of fire far higher than that of other tanks and a deadly rampage!
Seeing that the situation was not good, the Japanese tanks could only retreat, and after rushing across the border, they found that the Soviet tanks behind them were not chasing. Before they had time to thank Aunt Amaterasu, the Japanese tank soldiers sadly found that those huge hungry Soviet tanks were lining up and bombarding their side, and in the end, only 5 Japanese tanks were out of the range of Soviet tank guns.
A tank battle between the "herd" and the "herd" with a huge disparity in strength came to an end.
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As soon as the encirclement was formed, tens of thousands of Japanese troops became turtles in the urn, and they could only be encroached upon step by step by Soviet tank troops. By sunset on June 12, tens of thousands of Japanese troops had been confined to a narrow area less than 25 kilometers long and no more than 10 kilometers wide.
The next day, Tukhachevsky ordered his troops to continue the onslaught, and when there was no backup and a small number of support troops were bombed by the Soviet Air Force, Michitaro Komatsubara, who commanded the Japanese army in the center, ordered to hold the existing positions at all costs, which caused the attacking Soviet mechanized troops to suffer certain losses.
Before sunset, Tukhachevsky ordered a temporary halt to the offensive and consolidated the encirclement.
That night, the Japanese launched a night attack in an attempt to break through, but the Soviet army was driven by a large number of searchlights and power generation vehicles, and the east side of the encirclement was suddenly snowy, and the Japanese army was like a mouse under the white night being beaten back to the starting position by a shell and tank machine gun. This was Zhukov's idea for Tukhachevsky, and it was of course Lin Jun who inspired Zhukov.
Seeing that the night attack failed, Komatsubara Taro instead set his mind on defense and waited for reinforcements or orders from Tokyo.
But Tukhachevsky did not give the Japanese a chance at all, and the attraction of the two multi-Japanese divisions in the encirclement was not ordinary, and on the third day the Soviet tank units continued to launch a fierce attack, and finally continued to compress the Japanese positions while dividing them into several disconnected pieces.
On the afternoon of the 15th, Tukhachevsky had the planes drop leaflets at the Japanese positions to persuade them to surrender, but the Japanese answered with the remaining artillery.
At noon on the 17th, the tracks of T34 finally ran over the last headquarters of the Japanese army on the Haraha River.
At noon, when the infantry was cleaning the battlefield, they found a Japanese captain who was still alive near the Japanese headquarters, and it was not easy to catch him alive, but this guy who injured his leg and fainted by the shell was not allowed to be treated after he woke up! What is even more puzzling is that as soon as they were sent to the temporary prisoner of war detention center, several Japanese officers who had been prisoners in it for several days saw that the captain was tied up and dragged in like a dumpling, and they wanted to snatch people from the guards like crazy.
You're still in the POW camp!? The Red Army soldiers, of course, did not allow such a situation to occur, and it was only after a "clashes" that they figured out why these Japanese prisoners, who had not had a temper at all for several days, went crazy - they had picked up a treasure! Captured alive the son-in-law of the little Japanese emperor! No wonder the captives, who valued the emperor's prestige more than their own lives, rioted.
Carrying His Royal Highness the Prince of Japan to the Joint Command Headquarters to report his merits made Tukhachevsky and Lin Jun, who rushed back to the General Headquarters from Tamchagbulak in the morning to see the last moment of the Japanese army, lose their good mood: I didn't expect there to be this hot potato!
Lin Jun and Tushi both knew the status of the emperor and his family in the hearts of the Japanese, and if the Japanese knew that the emperor's son-in-law had become a prisoner of the Soviet army, and they didn't know what the consequences were, it would be more troublesome than the problem of capturing 10 Japanese generals.
Slaughtered it? Or kill yourself with it?
Not at all! Dying after being captured is not the same as being killed by a shell, and the news of the capture of the Japanese prince has spread all over the Soviet positions, and many simple Red Army soldiers are talking about it with great taste, and Lin Jun is too lazy to give any gag orders.
"Commander-in-chief, I hope Molotov will make good use of this prince."
"Molotov? He'll have a way. Tukhachevsky's tone was a bit casual, and he was not at all worried about it. (To be continued.) )