Chapter 335: Great Pursuit, Great Harvest
The most tragic pursuit in history began. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
By ten o'clock in the morning, all Japanese positions were occupied by Soviet troops, and the Soviet and anti-Japanese coalition forces began to freely pursue the Japanese troops. Soviet armored units took the lead and soon caught up with the Japanese troops. The tanks rampaged through the infantry, only a few tanks were blown up by the Japanese death squads, and the rest pursued the victory until the afternoon, when the Soviet-Mongolian army withdrew.
The Japanese army, which had been fighting for ten hours, finally got rid of the pursuit of the Soviet army and the anti-Japanese coalition army, and reached a place several kilometers away from the battlefield. The Japanese officers were really powerful, and they all reorganized their ranks and fled in the direction of Hailar. The fleeing procession winded for miles.
At this moment, there was a loud burst of gunfire in the grass on both sides of the last troops, and several rows of guns rang out, and the Japanese soldiers were killed and lay down.
Shooting on both sides stopped.
The Japanese officer immediately ordered that this was a small unit. The large forces ignored and continued to retreat.
For the next hour, there were small force attacks every five minutes. The small forces attacked with great efficiency, and after killing 100 people, they immediately withdrew.
By three o'clock in the afternoon, the retreating Japanese troops heard the sound of pursuit coming from the east. Soon, they saw thousands of cavalry coming from the steppe on the eastern side. The Japanese troops immediately lined up to resist, and the cavalry fired their guns on their horses, and the gunfire was intensive. Twenty meters away, the cavalry gave an order, all of them carried their guns, and drew their sabers. A few minutes later, the cavalry swept past the retreating Japanese troops, and a section of the Japanese army was completely dispersed.
Walking out a few dozen meters, the cavalry turned its head and killed the Japanese army again. This time, after killing the Japanese army, the cavalry did not come back, and ran to the depths of the steppe in the distance.
The cavalry attack, which lasted only twenty minutes, came and went quickly.
These cavalry were mainly the newly captured Mongol puppet army. In the past, in their troops, Japanese officers and Japanese advisers said the same, they were all uncles. The Mongol soldiers and officers had only obedience and obedience to the Japanese.
Now, at the instigation of the anti-Japanese coalition forces, they are slashing and killing the Japanese army. The Japanese army was vulnerable in front of them and suffered heavy casualties. All of a sudden, the Mongol soldiers began to gain self-confidence. This battle has had a huge psychological impact on these people. Many people still remember it decades later.
In the following years, this cavalry crisscrossed Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia, and made great achievements.
This time, the Japanese suffered huge losses.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, the large force of pursuing troops in the rear caught up with the Japanese again. This time, there were more than a dozen tanks rushing ahead, and it was a Japanese tank.
The Japanese thought it was their tank unit, and they were very happy, and many people waved to them, and those who were close ran up and wanted to hitchhike. Everyone was tired, and it would be nice to be able to hitchhike.
The others saw someone running towards the tank, reacted, and ran to it.
The Japanese soldiers wanted to hitchhike and wanted to go crazy, and they didn't notice at all, those tanks did not stop, and kept chasing down the retreating Japanese army.
The Japanese who wanted to hitchhike approached the tanks.
Suddenly, the tanks opened fire, and the machine guns opened fire on the Japanese soldiers who were coming around. In a matter of seconds, the range of machine-gun fire was full of corpses.
The Japanese realized that it was the enemy who was driving their own tanks.
The Japanese army was in chaos, but in a minute, officers began to organize Japanese soldiers to counterattack, and they wanted to blast the tank. The fleeing team, not fully prepared and in a hurry, found only grenades. The grenade exploded around the tank, not damaging the tank, but killing the surrounding Japanese soldiers.
The tanks had already entered the ranks of the Japanese and began to crush and ram in the ranks of the infantry.
At these two moments, there was a shout from behind, the sound of a charge. This is the infantry of the anti-Japanese coalition army catching up. The Japanese death squads attacking the tanks were quickly killed.
The tank, with the infantry, pursued for half an hour and stopped. The tank is out of fuel. The infantry continued the pursuit for a while, and after eliminating the Japanese troops who were blocking it, they also stopped.
According to the memories of the soldiers who escaped later, the Japanese soldiers had no physical strength, and without the cover of the tank, they were pursued by the tank, often falling down and being crushed by the tank while running. Later, the tank ran out of bullets, so it killed people with tracks, and only stopped knowing that it was out of fuel.
Half an hour later, the Japanese army caught up with the anti-Japanese infantry. This time, the Japanese army saw that it was a large force of the anti-Japanese coalition army that caught up.
Once again, the scuffle began. The slowest troops began to fight bayonets with the anti-Japanese coalition forces.
By six o'clock, the battle was over. The Japanese did not camp and continued to advance, and only after three hours camped on the steppe. Most of the troops lost their baggage, had nothing to eat, and had to starve.
The Fourth Division, which had just joined the battle, had the most out of the Nomenkan battlefield, and most of them had hidden dry food and water and physical strength.
In the evening, Xiaolu met Zhukov again.
Zhukov expressed his deep gratitude to Xiaolu, hugged and kissed his face. When the staff officers of the command saw him, they cheered.
Xiaolu said: "Hello. I brought you a box of penicillin. ”
The surrounding staff officers cheered again.
After greeting for a long time, grabbing Zhukov's words, Xiaolu said half-jokingly: "What do you use to thank me?" ”
Zhukov said: "I said before that all the weapons and materials of the captured Japanese army will be given to you. ”
Xiaolu: "Thank you. These weapons are scrap metal for you, weapons for me. I have a repair shop, fix it, and it still works. Comrade Commander, please understand, we have no industry, we do not have a large rear, we are poor. ”
Zhukov said: "Understand, understand. You deserve it. Your arrival at the critical moment of the battle has caused my warriors to die far less. ”
Xiaolu said: "We are happy to help you fight the Japanese army. My scrap copper and rotten iron had to be transported to the Outer Mongolian side, and later, it was transported back to Yichun via the Soviet Union. ”
Zhukov said: "Yes." ”
The trail stopped at Zhukov's headquarters for a day. When Zhukov saw Xiaolu for the second time, he officially informed Xiaolu that an armistice would begin today. He asked Xiaolu to order the troops to stop the pursuit.
The trail immediately halted the pursuit. At this time, the anti-coalition forces had chased out for more than 100 miles, and the Japanese soldiers were full of corpses along the way.
Because of the defeat of Nomenkan, the 20th Division of the Japanese Army stayed in Hailar and did not come to Nomenkan. The Japanese army still had 40,000 men in Hailar.
The Japanese army killed and wounded more than 50,000 people on the front line, and most of the wounded were sent away about ten days before the war. The wounded later were basically dead because no one took care of them. The puppet army suffered more than a thousand casualties, and the rest were scattered.
And the Soviet army also suffered more than 40,000 casualties. The reason why the Soviet army suffered so many casualties was mostly in the later period, when the Soviet Union was short of ammunition and fought with the Japanese infantry. A Japanese death squad was able to kill several Soviet soldiers, and on the morning of the last day, the Japanese troops who blocked the attack fought with the Soviet troops with bayonets, and the deaths caused to the Soviet troops accounted for 30% of the total number of deaths.
It's already cool in September.
The battlefield has ceased fighting.
The Japanese army asked for the corpse to be collected. The Soviet side agreed.
The Japanese army sent a team of cars with red cross flags on them, white cloths and urns, and many oil drums.
After getting out of the car, the people in the car immediately began to collect the body and burn the body. The Northeast Coalition Army, which was the most active on the battlefield, was at peace with the Japanese army because of the armistice.
An interesting situation arose on the battlefield, where the Japanese side collected the corpses and burned them; The Soviet side collects the corpses and the wounded; The rest of the anti-coalition side is to clean up the scattered weapons scattered on the battlefield. Later, even the scattered weapons of the Soviet army were taken away.
The anti-coalition troops who collected weapons all brought some Western medicines, and when they saw Soviet officers, they gave a few. The Soviet soldiers and junior officers had a good impression of them, and they took medicine from others and received reinforcements from others, so they also turned a blind eye to their collection behavior.
In order to carry them as quickly as possible, this unit quickly recruited several teams of migrant workers, who were Mongols, who led horses to transport things and carry weapons, ammunition and guns for them.
The Mongols led horses, some tall and some short. The Japanese army recognized those tall horses as the military horses of the Japanese army.
What the Soviets did not understand was that they wanted even the wreckage of tanks and planes, and the damaged artillery. It was not the reporters who were quick to let the victorious fighters take pictures as quickly as possible in front of the wreckage of the plane, which was afraid that it would soon disappear. By the end, these people began to pick up shell casings, bullet casings on the battlefield.
In the end, the whole battlefield was clean, like the turf that cattle and sheep had gnawed.
Some of the Soviet troops saw it and simply gave them some remaining weapons and bullets. The top of the Soviet army decided to give them some weapons and ammunition. These guerrillas were stronger and could better contain the Japanese army.
The smoke of burning corpses on the battlefield of Nomenkan rose into the sky, and there was an endless stream of cars transporting corpses.
There is an interesting story that when the Japanese army was burning the corpses, the grenades in the corpses exploded, killing two people who burned the corpses.
Looking at the summary information of the battle, there was one person who couldn't stop laughing in his heart, and that person was Xiaolu.
This time the battle went exactly as he envisioned, and the losses of both the Soviet and Japanese armies were more than double that of history, and the losses of forces on both sides were huge. Several units of the Kwantung Army were concentrated in Hailar, and the northeastern hinterland was relatively empty. The living space of the Northeast Coalition Army suddenly expanded.
A large number of Japanese troops were stationed in Hailar. Hailar, in winter, that's the place of death, so many Japanese soldiers, it's just meat on the chopping block!
Of course, the situation in the world will not change because of the changes in this campaign. Zhukov called for a truce, but did not tell himself why, and that says it all. The USSR was negotiating with the Japanese. Just because you don't break it doesn't mean you don't know. The Soviet Union was seeking interests in Europe, and according to the development of history, the next target of the Soviet Union should be Finland, Northern Europe.
How can we grow in the Northeast? After all, the strength of the Japanese army was far stronger than that of the anti-Japanese coalition forces.
Europe, World War II is about to begin, how can you benefit from World War II?
End of the seventh volume of Nomenkan.