~Date: ~09/17~

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At the same time that the combined fleet of the Japanese Navy made a surprise attack on Vladivostok, hundreds of thousands of troops of the Japanese Kwantung Army launched a full-scale attack on the Soviet Far East.

General Umezu Yoshijiro, commander of the Kwantung Army and Japanese ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Manchukuo, moved his headquarters from Changchun to Harbin and commanded from the front.

Umezu Mijiro looked suave, and if he took off his military uniform and changed into a suit, many people would probably think that this was a Japanese scholar who had come to Harbin to attend an international academic conference. It is precisely because of this temperament that Umezu Mijiro commands the battle as ruthless as a wolf, cunning as a fox, and extremely ferocious.

Due to the mobilization of the Japanese army, Umezu Mijiro was supplemented with 500,000 troops, plus two divisions of the Korean Army, the puppet Korean garrison, the puppet Manchurian Army, and the Korean soldiers, Taiwanese soldiers, and northeastern soldiers urgently recruited by the Japanese army from Korea, Taiwan, and Northeast China, and the number of troops that Umezu Mijiro could use to fight against the Soviet Union has exceeded one million.

Umezu Mijiro established the Kwantung Defense Force, with Lieutenant General Yamashita Fumifumi as commander and Major General Yoshioka Yasunao as chief of staff, and was responsible for the northeast garrison. He led the main force of the Kwantung Army to the north.

With such an abundance of troops, Umezu Yoshijiro expanded the Kwantung Army's border garrison from eight to 13 in one go, expanded the Kwantung Army's independent garrison from one to nine, organized three special garrisons, and organized a number of independent brigades, mobile brigades, mixed brigades, and independent mixed brigades, as well as a large number of independent artillery brigades, independent tank brigades, independent artillery wings, and garrison units.

The Northeast Railway has formed a network to facilitate the transportation of troops by the Japanese army. The troops transferred from the mainland, North China, and Central China, whether by ship or car, only need to enter the northeast. It will be possible to quickly maneuver by rail. In this way, Umezu Mijiro only took half a month. It is transported by sea and rail. The 14th Division from North China, the 116th and 16th Divisions from Central China, and the 30th and 31st Divisions from the mainland were moved to the Sino-Soviet border in the north. All reinforcements were given to the Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Armies, which were used for operations on the Northern Front.

The DPRK army has also completed its mobilization and is on standby for an attack.

The remaining second-line troops stationed in the northeast are still gathering in the northeast through Korea and through Dalian.

With the front-line troops in place, Umezu Mijiro couldn't wait to attack.

Originally, Tanaka Shinichi's "Kanto Plan" set the time of the operation on August 10, as in history. But. Umezu Mijiro couldn't wait, and his reason was simple. That is, by August 10, the Soviet Far Eastern troops were likely to reinforce the Western Front and withdraw a large number of troops. That's the case. The Kwantung Army had to capture a lot of less equipment. Capture a large number of prisoners less, and it is likely that the expected combat effect will not be achieved. As for the operation at this time, because the main force of the Soviet Far Eastern Front was still there, it was very likely that the Japanese army would be plunged into a bitter battle, and Umezu Mijiro said that as long as the army and navy acted together, the planes of the Soviet troops in the Far East would be destroyed. There is no cause for concern that the huge number of tanks of the Soviet army will become the target of the Japanese army and naval aviation.

Don't look at Umezu Mijiro's arrogance. Please keep in mind that in fact what he said is very correct, as long as you control air supremacy and use air power to strike at ground forces, you will naturally get twice the result with half the effort.

The Japanese army headquarters approved Umezu Mijiro's request, and this was the case that in the early morning of July 26, the Japanese army and navy launched a full-line march to the north.

The first wave of carrier-based aircraft of the Japanese Navy attacked Vladivostok, the second wave attacked the port of Soviets, the port city of North Sakhalin, and the planes of the Kwantung Army Air Group were not idle and began to raid the airfields of the Red Army in the Far East.

In addition to the more than 400 planes of the Kwantung Army's air group, the Third Flying Group of the North China Front, the Japanese Air Force stationed in Central China, and the local air force were all transferred to the northeast and placed under the command of the Kwantung Army. The Japanese army should destroy the air power of the Red Army in the Far East at the first time with an overwhelming air strike in the sky, so as to prevent Tokyo from being bombed by the planes of the Soviet Red Army in the Far East!

Umezu Mijiro assured the emperor that it would only take a short day for the Red Army planes in the Far East to disappear from the sky.

In order to achieve the goal of a sneak attack, the air forces of the Kwantung Army and the Navy for carrying out assault missions have accurately calculated the dispatch time, and the distance of the attack has been added to the factor, and the dispatch time of each attack wave has been determined in accordance with the requirements of simultaneous firing to ensure the suddenness of the strike.

To tell the truth, the Japanese learned this style of play from the German blitzkrieg. Originally, the Japanese army's tactical thinking was very outdated, and the air force was used to coordinate the offensive operations of the ground forces. Such a concentrated large-scale aircraft group raid operation was determined by Umezu Mijiro absorbing the experience of the German army's blitzkrieg. You must know that the Soviet Far Eastern Front has more than 2,000 aircraft, and if the Japanese army only uses more than 400 planes of the Kwantung Army Air Force to cover the ground troops' attack, as it did in the past, and when the Far Eastern Front Air Force reacts, it can not only defeat the Kwantung Army Air Force, but even attack South Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, Hokkaido, and Tokyo, and bomb Tokyo into ruins.

Unlike the Japanese army, which was short of gasoline, the Soviet Union was rich in resources, and there was a lot of gasoline and diesel, and the Red Army planes were not afraid of large fuel consumption.

This time, the Red Army in the Far East suffered a great loss. There is no way, the Soviet army can build an intelligence network in the northeast, and the Japanese army, which is good at espionage networks, can also build a secret intelligence network in the Far East. The difference is that the Soviet army's intelligence network in the northeast was established by relying on those who were willing to shed their blood in order to resist Japanese aggression, while the Japanese army's Far East intelligence network was built on the remnants of White Russia and the temptation of money and beautiful women, but it was equally effective. No, the distribution of airfields in the Far East was clearly and unambiguously placed on the desk of the commander of the Kwantung Army, General Umezu Mijiro.

Groups of Japanese planes departed from the advance airfield in the northeast near the border, and under the cover of the darkness before dawn, they suddenly opened fire from the sky at the dawn of dawn and when the airfields of the Far Eastern Front were still silent.

Although the Far Eastern Front had already carried out emergency mobilization, after all, the war had not broken out, and there was still room for diplomatic mediation, and it was impossible for the Red Army planes to take the initiative to launch a preemptive strike against the Japanese army. In this case, the airfields of the Far Eastern Front were full of planes ready for departure.

Unfortunately. The actions of the Japanese army were too secretive and very shamelessly resorted to the deception of diplomatic negotiations. The issue of sovereignty over South Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and the recognition of Manchukuo temporarily blinded the Soviet leaders such as Stalin and Molotov. It was thought that as long as these demands of the Japanese were met, it would be possible to stop the Japanese attack on the Soviet Far East.

The reason for this judgment is that Stalin and Molotov knew that the Americans were stuck in Japan's neck, and Japan's domestic oil reserves were not much. However, the Far East did not have the oil that the Japanese urgently needed, and it was impossible for the Japanese to use their limited and very valuable oil for the northward war. They should go and attack where there is oil. The war between Japan and the Soviet Union could have been avoided by means of negotiation and concessions, and it was a big deal that the Soviet Union would have given up the independence of Mongolia, and Mongolia had been Chinese since ancient times. Sovereignty in China. There are endless troubles in blindly supporting ** standing in diplomacy.

Even more unfortunate was the fact that the Red Army in the Far East, like the Western Military District, only knew about the blitzkrieg of the German army, and it was not clear what the blitzkrieg was like before the battle. Moreover, the tactics of the Red Army in the Far East did not catch up with the Eighth Route Army, and they did not know how to conceal and camouflage the evacuation aircraft. Let your airport become a target for Japanese aircraft. It was especially unfortunate that the Far Eastern Front was not able to get information on the exact timing of the Japanese raid. I didn't know that the Japanese army was the elite of the army and navy, and started a war against the Soviet Union with the strength of the whole country, and I thought that the Kwantung Army only had the hundreds of broken planes captured from Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Air Force!

Terrible air raid sirens echoed over the land of the Far East!

The ground anti-aircraft fire of the heroic Soviet Far East Red Army was put into battle, and the air units that had been attacked by surprise rushed to the tarmac in the face of strafing and bombing from Japanese planes, trying to start their planes and rush into the blue sky to meet the Japanese invaders.

Bombs are exploding on airfields, and the planes of the Red Army are burning!

The battle is in a desperate state of death from the very beginning!

The telephones and radio stations of the Far Eastern Front Headquarters in Chita suddenly became busy, and bad news came one after another.

When the commander of the Far Eastern Front, General Apanashchenko, political commissar Zhertov, and chief of staff, Lieutenant General Smorodinov, received the report, the city of Chita was also attacked by Japanese air raids, and the building of the headquarters of the Front was hit by Japanese aerial bombs. Fortunately, there are only duty officers in the headquarters building, and there is an underground shelter department, otherwise the loss will be even greater!

General Apanashchenko was a well-known general of the Soviet Red Army, who was not afraid of danger and immediately ordered all ground anti-aircraft firepower to be put into battle to cover the air force to take off urgently to meet the Japanese planes. At the same time, General Apanashchenko sent an urgent telegram to Moscow, reporting that the airfields of the Far Eastern Front had been attacked by a large number of Japanese aircraft, and that the Japanese-Soviet war had broken out!

Apanashchenko did not have time to count the damage, because the Japanese ground forces attacked, and all the corps of the first-line defensive positions sent telegrams, which were attacked by the Japanese. Moreover, the Japanese army was extremely large, and with tank units as the forerunner, it carried out armored assaults on the junctions of the Red Army positions.

General Apanashchenko's order was concise and forceful: "Hold your position and destroy the Japanese troops who are sneaking up!" ”

But can you hold your ground?

After receiving an urgent report from the commander of the Far Eastern Front, General Apanashchenko, Molotov, chairman of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, did not even save the urgent summons, drove directly to the Japanese Embassy in the Soviet Union, and called out the Japanese ambassador Miji Kenkawa from the bed.

Looking at the sleepy, bare-headed Miji Jianchuan, Molotov roared angrily: "Despicable! Shameless! Like the German devils, Japan is also an undeclared sneak attacker, a coward! Get back to Japan! You are not welcome in the USSR! ”

Miji Kenkawa opened his confused eyes and asked, "Honorable Chairman Molotov, what happened?" Makes you so angry? ”

Molotov only wanted to give the order for the accompanying guards to shoot this vile and shameless fellow. However, Miji Jianchuan was a fox who pretended to be a pig and ate a tiger, while Molotov was the chairman of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the great socialist Soviet Union, and he had to maintain the image and dignity of the Soviet Union, and he could not afford to deal with this despicable villain.

Molotov took out an urgent telegram from the Far Eastern Front, threw it in the face of Miji Kenkawa, and then said again, "Your Excellency, the Soviet people do not welcome you and the Japanese fascist government you represent," and was about to turn and leave.

Miji Jianchuan called out to Molotov and said carefully: "Dear Chairman Molotov, this may be a misunderstanding, I have not received instructions from the Imperial Japanese Government regarding the war against the Soviet Union. I think there should be room for negotiation and good offices on this matter. Please be calm. I immediately sent a telegram to my Government asking for details. ”

After that, Miji Kenkawa kindly invited Molotov to sit down in the reception room of the embassy, and then went to the telegraph room to send a telegram.

After a short time, Miji Kenkawa returned to the reception room with a telegram and said in a very regretful tone: "Honorable Chairman Molotov, I have sent an urgent telegram to our government, and His Excellency Admiral Sadajiro Toyoda, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Empire of Japan, has sent a telegram back that the Empire of Japan has not declared war on the great Soviet Union, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has urgently reported to His Excellency the Prime Minister, requesting that it be quickly ascertained what is happening in the Far East. ”

By this time, Sajiro Toyoda and Miji Kenkawa were still cheating, and the establishment was treating the Soviets as fools!

Molotov couldn't bear it anymore, pointed at Jianchuan Miji's nose and shouted: "You are the most shameless diplomat I have ever met, and the Japanese government is the most untrustworthy government in the world!" ”

Jianchuan Miji lowered his head and kept saying, "I'm really sorry for causing you trouble!" ”

Angry, Molotov got up and left.

Miji Jianchuan stopped Molotov again and said unhurriedly: "Honorable Chairman Molotov, I have been instructed to inform you that our government is willing to negotiate with the Soviet Union on the issue of territorial sovereignty in the Far East, which originally belonged to the Qing State. I would like to ask your government to designate a negotiator to start negotiations between Japan and the Soviet Union as soon as possible. ”

Miji Kenkawa's meaning is very clear, that is, Japan does not declare war, and does not close the door to negotiations, and is willing to solve the problem of the battle in the Far East through negotiations.

Molotov stared at Miji Jianchuan and said coldly: "Japan is beyond its strength and dares to attack the Soviet Union, and your end will inevitably be self-inflicted!" You and the government you represent will inevitably come to the judgment seat and accept the judgment of history! If you don't accompany you! ”

At the end, Molotov no longer wanted to talk to this despicable and shameless Japanese ambassador, and went out as soon as he left.

Jianchuan Miji still bowed his head humbly and said in a low voice: "I'm really sorry for causing you trouble." Since your government is unwilling to negotiate, the Great Japanese Army and Navy can only destroy the Soviet forces in the Far East and march into the Urals! ”

Molotov's body shook, and in a moment, a cold snort came out of his nasal cavity, and he strode out!

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