April 26, 1943. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Vladivostok.

300,000 troops from the Northeast encircled Vladivostok in the north.

Vladivostok is a mountain town on a peninsula, and as long as the north side is blocked, the city is encircled. In addition, on the other side of the bay and to the north of the peninsula are the Northeast Coalition Army.

Umezu Mijiro's Kwantung Army headquarters was in Vladivostok.

After Vladivostok was captured by the Japanese army, it was built all summer, and the original burned houses were used, and the walls were made of masonry, all of which were retained, but the roofs were covered with wood. After a year of construction and clean-up, the whole of Vladivostok is even more beautiful than before.

There are no Russian civilians left, and even the natives in the vicinity are far away. The Japanese came to the 200,000 pioneer groups and initially built the city and the surrounding countryside. It turned out that the cluttered yards of the Russians were destroyed, and the streets were renovated and neat. The Japanese are like industrious little ants, always busy, building this city beautifully.

In this year, the pioneers worked hard to cultivate the wheat fields along the railway, and the wind and rain were good this year, and the harvest was very good, not only did the Vladivostok army have enough food, but even the pioneers also had surplus grain.

The transportation facilities in Vladivostok are the best built. The transportation of supplies to the front line has expanded the scale of the Vladivostok terminal, and the passenger and freight routes from Vladivostok to Busan, Vladivostok to Hokkaido, and Vladivostok to mainland Japan have been opened.

The Japanese army debated the Vladivostok fortress for some time, and finally decided to repair the Vladivostok fortress to prevent a threat from the sea. By the autumn of last year, the exterior works of Vladivostok had been miraculously completed, and this winter, the interior works were almost complete, and soon the ammunition and food stores in the fortress would be completed.

All in all, the seizure of Vladivostok has made Japan's mood much easier, and public opinion in Japan has reacted very well.

The people in Vladivostok are not all so happy, and the more senior commanders are, the more worried they are.

This winter, the number of Japanese losses along the entire railway line increased evenly, and almost every day a hundred or so people died. Individual units reported a few, or dozens of deaths, and they all felt that there was no big problem, but when the numbers were summed up, more than 20,000 people had died in one winter, and this did not include the injured.

Umezu Mijiro was most worried about the lack of troops.

Originally, the Soviet army attacked and occupied a large amount of territory in the Soviet Far East, and lost more than 300,000 troops, and later the Northeast Coalition Army fought in the northeast and lost more than 300,000 more. In the confrontation with the Soviet army in Siberia, more than 100,000 people were also lost this year.

Hundreds of thousands of troops were mobilized on the Japanese mainland and in the Chinese theater, and he still felt that it was insufficient. Umezu Mijiro knew that now, his troops were deployed along the railway, which stretched for thousands of kilometers, and there were many people in Siberia and Vladivostok, and there were simply not enough people in other places.

After conquering the territory of the Soviet Union and losing the territory of Manchuria, Umezu Mijiro's status suddenly fell from the peak to the bottom, and he changed from a hero to a sinner.

For some time afterward, the base camp withstood the impeachment of some and retained the position of commander-in-chief of Umezu Mijiro. Umezu Mijiro also did not live up to the expectations of the base camp, and worked well on the battlefield of the Soviet Union, farming with one hand and fighting with the other.

The most important thing is that Japan has weakened the Soviet Union, and Germany has constantly praised the results of the Kwantung Army to the Japanese base camp, which has weakened the voices of those who want to remove him, Umezu Mijiro.

In the spring, the Northeast coalition forces treacherously began a large-scale offensive along the railway line. The intelligence department has long detected some clues about the movements of the Northeast Coalition Army, and various offensive plans have been obtained, but nothing has happened.

The Japanese army believed that the Northeast Coalition Army, that is, the Northeast Eighth Road, had several offensive priorities, that is, they would definitely attack in several large cities along the route, and did not want the Northeast Coalition Army to attack together in multiple locations, each of which was the main direction of attack, and had overwhelming superiority in strength. According to the offensive situation, they dispatched at least half a million troops, and where did the Northeast Coalition find so many troops?

The telegraph in Vladivostok has not received any telegraph signal these days, and almost all channels are noisy.

While carrying out sporadic offensives, the Northeast Coalition Army also carried out intelligence warfare and electronic warfare against the Japanese army.

In every attack, the first thing is to cut the telephone lines and paralyze the railroad telephone. The Japanese had no choice but to dispatch trains by telegraph.

Second, the Northeast Coalition began to electronically jam the Japanese army's telegraph communication channels. This was a very nasty attack, the Japanese army was disturbed for the first time, and they couldn't think of a way in a short time, and they were at a loss. It was known that the Northeast Coalition Army had the advanced technology of the Soviet Union, but it was not capable of counterattacking at all.

In early April, according to reports from more than a dozen escaped planes, the troops along the railway line had been annihilated in just a few weeks, and more than 100,000 pioneers had been arrested and their whereabouts were unknown. In addition, the most sad thing is that the current recruits are simply samurai who are not the emperor, they are old and weak soldiers, and some of them committed suicide after the defeat, and most of them surrendered.

Faced with the defeat along the railway line, Umezu Yoshijiro called on the Japanese army in Vladivostok to fight to the death with the northeastern coalition forces relying on the fortifications and fortresses in Vladivostok. It is necessary to turn Vladivostok into a meat grinder on the Northeast Eighth Road, and to make all their living forces die under the city.

Umezu Mijiro carefully studied the battle at Stalingrad and prepared to use the Soviets' tactics to deal a fatal blow to the Northeast Eighth Road.

The Kwantung Army Command judged that although the Northeast Coalition Army had already surrounded Vladivostok, because the two sides had just finished fighting, it would take time to replenish ammunition, and the Northeast Coalition Army would not be able to attack until a month or two later. The results of the investigation also show that the weather has warmed up now, and the Northeast Eighth Road is still wearing cotton clothes and leather clothes, and the military appearance is not neat. It is inconvenient to move on muddy ground where the snow has melted.

The Japanese were different, they had an advantage at sea. Although the navy did not deal with the army, it still obeyed the orders of the general staff headquarters and sent the fleet to transport food supplies and munitions supplies. After several transports of supplies, the Japanese army in Vladivostok increased their confidence and fought to defend Vladivostok for a year and drag down the Northeast Eighth Road.

From mid-April, strong winds began to blow in Vladivostok.

Tohoku spring winds are famous. It is generally in mid to late April and lasts from two to three weeks. For about a week, the wind was strong, kicking up dust over the plains and turning the entire sky yellow. Although the wind and sand in the mountains are very small and the wind is not so strong, the wind must blow.

Often after this wind, all the snow melts, all the frozen ground melts, and the snow melts with the river, some evaporates, and some penetrates into the ground, and everything on the ground becomes very dry. After the wind blows, the surface gradually thaws, and it will soon be ready for farming.

The windy period is the time of fire danger. In the mountains and forests, as long as there is a spark, it can cause a wildfire.

In later generations, the state managed the mountains and forests, and the mountains and forests in the northeast had to implement an order for a fire ban period after the wind blew in the spring, and before the first spring rain, open fires were not allowed to enter the mountains, and people in the forest areas were not allowed not to make fires. During a few days of strong winds, the government distributed dry food and did not allow people to live and cook. There is a spring fire prevention period in the spring and an autumn fire prevention period in the fall.

Later, the Great Khinganling Fire in May 1987 was a fire-induced by the sparks of several forestry workers when the spring was dry.

In the spring wind, the Japanese in Vladivostok are celebrating the great victory of attacking the continental United States. They firmly believe that inspired by this victory, Vladivostok is indestructible.