August 15, 1941, Soviet Union. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Pragveshchensk.

Pragveshchensk is not a very easy name to remember, but many people know other old Chinese names: Hailan Bubble.

There is a Jiangdong 64 Tun near Hailanpao, since the north of Heilongjiang was occupied by Tsarist Russia, the Han people in the north of Heilongjiang have been driven to the south bank.

Hailan bubbles at the entrance of a large river that flows into the Heilongjiang River, which flows into the Heilongjiang River from north to south, called Jieya River.

Today, Hailan Pao is opposite Sun Wu of Aihui Heihe, because the Japanese army has many garrisons, and the Soviet Union also has many garrisons here. Because the Japanese army built a lot of fortresses, the Soviet army also built a lot of fortresses. Along the banks of the Heilongjiang River, the fortresses are connected one after another.

The fortress is made of reinforced concrete, some of which are covered with earth, like a small bag of earth, and some are nailed with bark, as if they were peasants' huts. Newcomers may not know that if someone observes for months, these fortresses will be observed clearly.

Three days ago, though, things started to change. In addition to the few Soviet troops stationed in the fortress, the large Soviet troops in the barracks began to organize their equipment.

During the day today, all the soldiers remained in the barracks and were not allowed to move, and at ten o'clock in the evening, they all set out and quietly entered the railway station. Because of discipline, everyone is quiet. One carriage after another was full.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, the train was not even whistled and slowly drove out of the train station. In less than ten minutes, another train left the train station.

Throughout the night, more than a dozen trains drove away.

It should be said that the retreat of nearly 20,000 troops, and the movement is so small, it is not simple, but all this fell into two pairs of eyes. A pair of eyes are in a house in the city of Hailanpao, which is near the train station.

Of course, the house was not lit and was still in front of the curtains, but there was always a man behind the window, sitting in a chair, just staring at the railroad outside. In fact, he didn't need to stare like this, just listen, and he could tell if there was a train passing. However, he still watched very carefully, and every time a train passed, he recorded the time and the number of carriages.

In the middle of the night, when the train was gone, the man opened the cellar in the middle of the house, and when he entered the cellar, he closed the lid on the cellar, turned on the lamp, turned on the telegraph, and began to send the telegram.

Soon, the Japanese command of Sun Wu on the other side of the Heilongjiang River received detailed information about the departure of the Soviet troops in Hailanpao.

The other pair of eyes is very mysterious, just on the surface of the river in Yuyahe.

It was now night, and the railway of Hailan Pao left the city to the north, and after walking along the Jieya River for a while, the branch railway merged into the main line, and drove northwest to Siberia and southeast to Boli.

There was a black thing on the surface of the river, the size of a civilian ship, and there was a man on it, observing the train with a telescope. In the second half of the night, when there were no more trains, the man climbed into the dark boat and said, "Report, a total of eighteen trains have passed, plus the one that has just passed, a total of two hundred and seventy carriages. ”

One of the people inside: "Dive, collect troops, and return to your home port." ”

The black boat closed its lid, dived into the water, and was gone.

This is a submarine.

August 16, 1941, Sun Wu. Staff quarters of the headquarters of the Japanese army stationed in Sun Wu.

A staff officer came in excitedly with a page of paper, and said, "There is also the latest information on the transfer of troops from the Soviet Union." ”

The other two people in the room said, "Bring it." "Take the paper and mark it on the wall.

On the wall was a large map, opposite Hela, marked: 50,000, evacuate 100,000. Across the Black River: 50,000, evacuate 110,000. Vladivostok: 80,000, evacuate 200,000. Boli: 30,000, evacuate 100,000. On the opposite side of Dongning, it is marked: 30,000, 200,000 evacuated. Wait a minute.

He replaced the number next to Chita on the map to 10,000 and evacuated 100,000.

Another staff officer said: "With the addition of a few other sporadic garrisons, the Soviet garrison is only 300,000 people." ”

The staff officer who had just come in said: "Don't forget that at least half of the Soviet troops left behind are recruits, who were workers, fishermen, herdsmen, lumberjacks, miners a month ago. ”

Another staff officer said: "Most of the veterans left behind are logistics troops, and they are responsible for transportation. Soon a lot of people will leave here to transport supplies. ”

The staff officer working on the map said: "The good news is that the tank troops and heavy artillery units opposite Hailar are also withdrawing. In the Far East, there were only a hundred taels of tanks and a maximum of fifty aircraft. The Soviet troops were so scattered, we divided into three armies according to the plan, concentrated attack, and we would definitely be able to cut them into four pieces. When the time comes, the situation for the Soviets will be very bad. ”

The staff officer who had just come in said: "I think that we should learn the lessons of the battle of Nomenkan and send a force of 500 men to the area of Siberia, and after the Soviet army is far away from Siberia, destroy all the railways, and prevent the Soviet army from the west from coming back to help the Far East." In this way, the time for victory is gained. ”

The staff officer working on the map said, "Okay, let's revise the battle plan and send it to several other troops." ”

The staff officer who had just come in said: "On the Eastern Front, the main direction of attack is Dongning, 150,000." After the start of the war, the troops in Korea will join the battle, a total of 250,000. On the northern front, the direction of attack is Heihe Aihui, 150,000. The direction of the offensive on the Western Front was Hailar, 150,000. In addition, small forces were sent elsewhere, railways were sabotaged, wheat was burned, warehouses were destroyed, airfields were destroyed. I think the plan is already perfect. ”

"However," said the staff officer, who had been silent for a long time, "the base camp, and even His Majesty the Emperor advocated going south. If we don't succeed, then we have no choice but to die. If we fight, will the Kwantung Army command help us? We cannot mobilize the troops of the DPRK, and if we can press the 700,000 troops up, we can guarantee victory for a period of time, and we can guarantee that it will not affect His Majesty's plan to advance southward. ”

The staff officer in front of the map said: "If there is a fight, it is impossible for the Kwantung Army Command to ignore us." If we fail, they're finished. ”

The staff officer who had just come in said: "There is another factor, which is the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army. ”

Before he could finish speaking, the other two people interrupted him and said, "Northeast Democratic Alliance? They were mainly in southwestern Manchuria, numbering only fifty or sixty thousand people, plus hundreds of thousands of peasants. The anti-Manchu anti-Japanese elements in Yichun, because of the treaty with the Soviet Union, we did not move them. But there are too few people in Yichun to be worried. I think there's a good saying that you don't have to get rid of them now. As long as the Soviet Far East is finished, these Manchurians will collapse without a fight. ”

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1, August 9: "Regardless of the evolution of the Soviet-German battlefield, cancel the plan to solve the problems of the North in 1941 and concentrate on solving the problems of the South." See History of the Great East Asian Wars, vol. 1, p. 162. If before that, Japan was still a little half-hearted, now Japan has made up its mind: to go south.