Chapter 485: The Far East is empty, and the Soviet Union is defeated

August 31 a.m., 11 a.m. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Black River.

A large number of motorized boats on the banks of the Heihe River, loaded with Japanese troops, left the shore one after another, and sailed in the direction of Hailanpao in the Soviet Union under the cover of artillery fire. It was the end of summer, the water level was very high, and the river was very wide in this area, and once the ships docked, they would approach the front line of the Soviet army.

The motor boats were transported and arrived during the Seki special performance. This is a simple boat with diesel propulsion in the stern. The difference is that the bow of the ship has a wall, which is bulletproof. Because of the lack of power, the Japanese soldiers on the boat used the butts of their guns as oars to paddle the water. The Japanese are indeed many fishermen, and the level of paddling is very high, and the boats are fast and stable if they are good at paddling.

The motor boat drove to the center of the river, and the mountain cannon on the opposite side began to fire, and the shells kept exploding on the water, and the water column soared into the sky. Scattered several ships were blown up, and the others remained unmoved and moved on.

Not far from the shore, the opposite machine guns were fired, and the ship's machine guns were also fired. After a while, several ships rushed to the beach, and under the cover of machine guns, the Japanese soldiers quickly rushed to the beach, and the guns were loud.

Patches of Japanese troops fell on the river beach, and several Soviet bunkers along the river fired together, with strong firepower. The Japanese troops were suppressed and fell down one after another, some lying behind the sand ridges of the river beach, and some had not yet disembarked from the boat, and simply could not get off the boat.

A few minutes later, Japanese artillery reinforcements on the opposite bank opened fire on the Soviet artillery positions.

This time, the Japanese seemed to have learned the lessons of their previous experience at Nomenkan, and were well matched with the infantry, firing from the batteries near the shore. In less than an hour, the Soviet pillboxes on the riverside terrace were destroyed. The Japanese shouted, charged again, and rushed into the city.

Street fighting began. After a while, the Soviet troops in the city counterattacked and beat out the Japanese troops who rushed into the city.

With the success of the Japanese army's beach, the motor boat quickly returned to the south shore and sent the second group of Japanese troops over. The second group of Japanese troops rushed into the city of Hailan Pao, and the first group of Japanese soldiers were basically dead, and only a few dozen people occupied a few houses and barricades.

After the arrival of the third group of Japanese troops, it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon, and the Japanese troops, with their reinforcements, stopped south of the station. A large area of riverside positions was firmly controlled by the Japanese army.

From then on, the Japanese army began to move a large number of troops in this gap, and the speed increased, and by night, more than 30,000 people had crossed the river. Each time the motorized boat on the return trip brought back the corpses and wounded of the Japanese soldiers, occupied a small block along the river, and killed and wounded nearly 5,000 people, and the battle was extremely tragic.

The Hailar Manchuria front line was very smooth because it chose to attack on the land border. Heavy artillery destroyed Soviet military installations, and the infantry rushed forward. A few hours down, more than twenty kilometers deep into the Soviet Union.

While the Japanese were consolidating the occupied positions, the sound of rumbling chariots in the west came, and the Soviet tank units came, and dozens of tanks rushed towards the Japanese army. The Japanese came with less than thirty tanks, and the tank battle between the two sides began.

Although compared to the Soviet-German tank battles on the Western Front of the Soviet Union, there were only sporadic encounters here, but the fighting between the two sides was still fierce. The Japanese Type 97 medium tank was much more powerful than the previous Type 95 tank, and the tanks on both sides won and lost each other, and in less than half an hour, more than a dozen tanks were paralyzed.

The Japanese commander sent a death squad, picked up explosives with poles, rushed behind the tanks to blow up the Soviet tanks, and in less than half an hour, the only three remaining Soviet tanks ran away.

By dark, the Japanese troops in the direction of Manchuria had firmly established themselves. Stations in the Soviet direction, villages, as well as nearby fortresses, positions all fell into the hands of the Japanese. A steady stream of Japanese troops drove in.

In the afternoon, the Japanese troops at Hutou on the Eastern Front had already forced their way across the Ussuri River.

The Japanese smuggled in a secluded river bay a few kilometers downstream, and the first few hundred men had already crossed the river when the tiger head shelled them. These several hundred men interspersed with the fall behind the Soviet troops, quickly occupied the railway and several villages along the railway, and by the afternoon a large force of more than 10,000 people crossed the river and surrounded the fortress.

In Dongning, Hunchun, and the Suifen River area, the Japanese army and the Soviet army have gathered a large number of troops, and after the artillery bombardment, the Japanese army crossing the river was dealt a heavy blow, and the counterattacking Soviet army once annihilated all the Japanese troops crossing the river. On this day, the Japanese army crossed the river here and declared it a failure.

September 1, 1941.

Tens of thousands of Japanese troops in Manchuria and tens of thousands of Japanese troops in Hailan Pao fought with the local Soviet army, and in the direction of Manchuria, the Japanese army won a complete victory and penetrated more than 100 kilometers into the territory of the Soviet Union.

The Japanese army attacked the Soviet Union along the railway, and all the way southwest into Mongolia, encountering a Mongolian border division along the way, and in only three hours, the Japanese army won a complete victory, the cavalry and armored troops of the border division retreated, most of the infantry were annihilated, and a few surrendered.

The street fighting of the Japanese army in Hailan Pao was fierce, and the city became a meat grinder, and a large number of Japanese and Soviet troops were consumed in the city. Stations, shipyards, and even some houses have been fought over and over again, changing hands several times. By the evening, the Japanese army had occupied half of the city, and the Japanese commander sent a telegram to Sun Wu, announcing the occupation of Hailan Pao, asking for reinforcements to resist the reinforced Soviet troops.

Reinforcements of Soviet troops arrived by train from Boly. Because the bridge on the Jieya River was still in the hands of the Soviet army, in a day and a night, the train quickly put more than 30,000 Soviet troops into the battlefield, and the Japanese army suddenly felt a huge pressure.

In the afternoon, Sun Wu's large army finally crossed the river.

The two sides invested nearly 150,000 troops and launched street battles in Hailanpao. It is obviously not surprising that such a large number of troops have been invested in such a short period of time, and on the Japanese side, the Japanese Seki Special Exercise has long been fully prepared, and the fact that the Soviet army has such a strong execution capability shows that after the Battle of Nomenkan, the Soviet army's ability to mobilize has been greatly improved.

The battle in the streets of Hailan was unprecedentedly tragic, and both sides were not psychologically prepared. The Japanese thought that after their artillery bombardment, the Soviet army was finished. The Soviet army thought that they knew that the Japanese army was not strong in the Battle of Nomenkan, but they did not expect that this time the Japanese army had a large number of people and strong firepower, and it was so difficult.

In addition, when it came to the street fighting stage, the Japanese had a prominent advantage in close combat, while the Soviet army had strong firepower, and the submachine guns were one as ten. As a result, the two sides are stuck in a bitter battle and cannot extricate themselves.

The Japanese army on the Eastern Front finally made progress, made a breakthrough at Suifenhe and Hunchun, and successfully attacked the territory of the Soviet Union.

The Japanese army in Hunchun was very strong, and a 19th Division, together with the border garrison, finally broke through the Soviet army's border defense line and penetrated five kilometers into the Soviet border.

The Suifen River was a land border, along which Japanese troops rushed into the Soviet border. On the side of the Soviet border, a large number of bunkers and fortresses were also built, some were arranged with artillery, some were machine guns, and the Japanese army lost more than 5,000 people under the cover of artillery fire, and finally entered the Soviet border, approaching the railways and towns.

Because the Soviet army in Dongning was very strong, the two sides fought repeatedly, and the Japanese army was not able to attack an inch of the Soviet border.

However, the Japanese had absolute air superiority. After the air battle between the two sides, Soviet planes never made any more sorties. Although the losses of the Japanese army were greater than those of the Soviet army, there were still more than 100 planes left, and they would bomb several cities such as Vladivostok and Shuangchengzi several times a day. These cities are full of smoke and fire.

The Soviet forces in the Far East were clearly underwhelmed, and the Air Force was even more insufficient. Only the navy was strong, and the warships were close to the shore to bombard the Japanese. It's a pity that the Japanese army attacked on the road, and the navy did not produce a single ship.

The commander of the Far Eastern Military District, General Joseph Rodionovich Apanashchenko, did not care about the current extremely unfavorable situation of the war, and constantly gave orders to the various units to resolutely block the Japanese army and destroy it.

Apanashchenko was a Caucasian, a fellow countryman of Stalin, a high-ranking general from the cavalry, one of only five generals in front of the station in 1941, he was hot-tempered and self-serving, and was known as the Tsar of the Far East. Because he was trusted by Stalin in the Great Purge, he rose step by step.

After the outbreak of the war, the Far East became the great rear, and Stalin needed a resolute man to manage the Far East, so Stalin did not remove him, no matter how many people complained.

Historically, he found that there was not a single road parallel to the Trans-Siberian Railway, which was very dangerous, so he organized manpower to build nearly 1,000 kilometers of road from Khabarovsk to Eastern Kuibyshevka, which took only five months and was completed by September 1, 1941.

He has always been eager to go to the Western Front, to fight. Now that the battle is coming, the Japanese army should give him two heavy blows first. Stalin ordered him to attack and drive the Japanese back to Manchuria. He wanted to enter Manchuria, destroy the Japanese, and then retreat.

Now, his question arises.

The troops of the Soviet Far East were deployed along the railway lines, and large armies were concentrated in barracks near the cities. Although the Japanese attacked from many points, the focus was obviously only three, and the most important direction of attack was the west. There were no big rivers there, the terrain was flat, the Japanese army was advancing from nobody, and the Soviets could no longer support it.

On September 2, on the basis of yesterday's 100 kilometers deep into the Soviet border, the Japanese army drove Soviet trains to attack in depth in the Soviet Union and Outer Mongolia.

The Soviet Far East was underwhelmed by military forces and was overwhelmed.

Apanashchenko realized that once Chita was breached, the Far East would be cut off from the Soviet Union. The Far East will fight on previously stockpiled supplies. The Far East is in danger.

Asking Moscow for help, Moscow's answer was simple, knowing their situation, but it was necessary to put the overall situation of the country first, do its best, and also delay the pace of the Japanese attack, defend Moscow, and defend the Soviet Union.

The Soviet army in the entire Far East was filled with a tragic atmosphere.

At this time, Apanashchenko thought of Yichun. He sent several telegrams, in addition to instructing the representative office in Yichun to ask for help from Yichun, and personally wrote to Commander-in-Chief Lu, asking him to send troops at this critical moment to strike at the rear of the Japanese army.