The third phase of the Battle of Nomenkan, which ended on 4 August, ended in the defeat of the Japanese army. However, the Japanese army did not give up, but prepared for the fourth phase of the campaign.

Under the "heroic" command of the "God of War" Zhukov, the Mao Xiong army fought 31,000 tons of ammunition, and you must know that in the Stalingrad Battle counteroffensive, the Soviet army only consumed nearly 80,000 tons of ammunition. The Japanese 23rd Division had already suffered nearly half of the shelling of the Stalingrad counteroffensive, but how many German troops were there in Stalingrad? There were only a few Japanese troops at Nomenkan.

The real Battle of Nomenkan is that a Mao Xiong 1 Panzer Army with nearly 1,000 tanks and armored vehicles, under the personal command of the "God of War" Zhukov, consumed almost half of the ammunition of the Stalingrad counteroffensive, and barely defeated a third-rate border garrison division of the Japanese army with only 5 base ammunition, and in the end the loss of personnel was greater than that of the Japanese army, and Mao Xiong also lost nearly 400 tanks and armored vehicles.

The ammunition consumption of Mao Xiong's Nomenkan Battle was almost equivalent to the total consumption of China's eight-year War of Resistance.

In the Battle of Nomenkan, the woolly bear's logistical capacity has actually reached its limit, and the attrition on the battlefield of Nuomenkan is extremely staggering, resulting in the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Borchian Sambes Railway running at full capacity for 2 months to maintain the battle. The Japanese army no longer advanced north, and it had little to do with the Battle of Nomenkan.

In fact, if the Japanese army tried harder, they might really enter Siberia, but once they entered Siberia, he would have to endure the full counterattack of the woolly bear, and then be dragged to death in the Siberian winter.

At the same time, the plan of the Japanese army to start encircling and suppressing the airborne division was also put on the date, to get rid of the Japanese army in the Battle of Nomenkan, and the Japanese divisions besieged this time included the 8th Division, the 25th Division, the 28th Division, and the 29th Division.

The siege of four divisions is extremely stressful for the airborne division, which is different from the high-intensity battle in Dawang Village, which is very stressful for their logistics, and there are not so many artillery, and the aircraft only have AU-24 stallions.

The stallion has a maximum range of more than 1,700 kilometers, which is enough to fly to the northeast, and it can also be landed on hard dirt runways. The modified stallion was equipped with six large-caliber machine guns, eight with hooks, four welded with honeycomb rocket launchers, and four with bombs.

As a ground attack aircraft, it is not outstanding in air combat, and it is not even comparable to the Japanese army's 97 fighters. But in terms of ground attack, even the fifth master is far inferior to it.

In the small airfield of the airborne division, there are now 20 modified stallions, which are not many, but they can barely play some role, and in the face of four divisions, some are enough.

As for the Japanese planes, they were still struggling with the airfield problem, and the B-45 bombed them every three days, so that their airfields could not be built at all, and the planes could not take off.

The Japanese army was bombed very sourly, and there was no temper at all, and in the end there was no way, the plane had to take off from Yangmingbao in Shanxi, galloping all the way, and had to return before two laps, after all, the fuel did not support its long flight time.

"Boom boom boom~~" The heavy artillery transferred by the Japanese army poured fire on the position of the airborne division, this is the base camp of the Kwantung Army, with various manufacturing industries, they have no logistical pressure, they can fire unscrupulously, the Kwantung Army is the richest in the entire Japanese Army.

The airborne division, which lacked heavy firepower, retreated into its position, holding its head and struggling to support it, hoping that the Japanese would stop the shelling as soon as possible.

The shelling lasted for more than ten minutes and then stopped, although they were rich, they were not local tyrants like Lu Qiang, they could throw shells or something casually, they were rich and capricious.

"Yo Xi, let the people of China see the power of our Kwantung Army, kill it!" As soon as the shelling stopped, one of the wing commanders drew his command knife, swung it forward, and shouted loudly.

The Japanese soldiers understood and advanced with bayonets.

The once dense forest has become charred and smoking. This is the result of a month, and all the trees in front of the positions of the two armies have been blown up or burned down, so the view here is very open, but the ground is difficult to walk. The shells blew out one pit after another, and the soil was all floating, and it sank when you stepped on it.

In front of it was the Japanese tank, the Type 97 tank, still equipped with a 47mm gun, and slowly pushed forward, and the Japanese army followed behind the tank.

The Type 97 tank is a nightmare for other Chinese/armies, but for the 41st Group Army, no matter which team it is, it is a food delivery.

Bazookas and recoilless guns are all one cannon at a time, or directly wash the floor with rocket artillery, and after covering a piece, it doesn't matter if you are a man or a tank, you will destroy them all. In fact, they did the same, a rocket with a tail flame flew out of the forest behind the airborne division, landed in the crowd of attacking Japanese troops, and the explosion swept through everything, and human life was as fragile as tissue paper in the face of the explosion, and the result was that everything was shredded.

After a wave of rockets, there was not one out of ten Japanese troops attacking, and all the Type 97 tanks became piles of scrap metal.

"Is this the rocket artillery of China? It's really amazing! "The division commander of the 8th Division, Tsukada Tsukada, was a little surprised when he saw the explosion of the rocket." Keep the shelling! ”

"Boom Boom~~"

Another shell flew towards the position of the airborne division, the earth that was blown up by the shell was shaking, and the fireworks in full bloom destroyed everything. Compared with the thousands of guns of the woolly bear, they are nothing, but compared with the airborne division, these heavy artillery pieces are simply life-threatening.

This time, the Japanese played the old-fashioned infantry and artillery coordination, trying to rely on artillery to suppress the airborne division, and the infantry followed steadily behind the shells.

This method was effective against the Guo Army and the Red Party, but against the Airborne Division, it was simply wishful thinking, and the rocket artillery that had changed positions fired again.

Bobcat looked at the Japanese heavy artillery positions marked on the map, far out of the range of their artillery, "Our artillery can't hit each other." ”

"Let the Air Force blow it up?" The staff officer suggested.

"I've thought of this for a long time, but I'm worried about the devil's air defense position next to the airport, and the speed of the stallion is not as fast as the J-5, so it will be easily hit." The bobcat voiced his concerns.

"It's a lot of trouble...... Or do you want to let the bomber formation go to bomb? ”

"Yes, yes, it's a long way away, and if you want to come, you will come with the transport plane the day after tomorrow."

"Then are you just sitting still?"

"Let me think, think about ......" Lynx lowered his head, staring at his toes, his eyes out of focus. After thinking for a few minutes, he slapped the table, "There you have it, or else, push the 105mm howitzer to the front, so that it will be enough." ”

"What? Artillery push down to the front? Division, you're not kidding, are you? ”

"I'm not kidding, you see, the devil's artillery position is about 23 kilometers away from our artillery position, and the maximum range of their artillery is probably less than 30 kilometers, so it can be said that our artillery position is within their range, but fortunately they don't know where our artillery position is. And our 105 howitzer has a maximum range of only 18 kilometers, and the limit is 19 kilometers, which is far from hitting the artillery positions of the devils, so if we want to hit it, we have to push the artillery forward, as long as it advances 5 kilometers, it is enough, and our front position is still 7 kilometers away from the artillery position, so there is no need to worry about it at all, and we only shoot one or two guns, and after shooting the shells, we will immediately withdraw to prevent the devils from countering artillery. ”

"That's all there is to it!"

In the artillery position, everyone took out the hoe from the soil, and relied on manpower to push the 105mm howitzer forward, five kilometers, and it was a mountain and forest road, so that they could walk enough.

The stallion at the airport accelerated to take off on the runway, and the stallion, as an aircraft that took off for a short distance, taxied more than a hundred meters before flying, and after turning in a circle, it went to deal with the Japanese army.

"There aren't too many rockets, you save me some use!" The logistics department/chief roared.

"Didn't you just airdrop a batch yesterday?" The artillerymen who came to get the rockets were surprised.

"Then you can't help beating like this!"

"Then what should I do, the intensity of the devil's attack is too high, and they always use artillery to suppress us, and we can't suppress the devil without artillery!"

"Don't worry, the division commander has already thought of a way to solve it."

"Really? That's good. ”

The stallion swept over the Japanese troops on the battlefield, and several rockets were fired and landed on the heads of the Japanese soldiers, or the 50kg aerial bombs they carried fell, or six large-caliber machine guns sprayed fire snakes, breaking the Japanese soldiers to pieces.

At the same time, the howitzer was also pushed to the front of the old one, although it was dangerous here, but at this time it was impossible to take care of this.

"Calibrate the elements!"

"Gear up and fire!"

"Fire!"

With a roar, the shells were sent into the sky and flew to the heavy artillery positions of the Japanese army.

"Where did you get the explosions over there?" The roar of the artillery made the Japanese soldiers on the front line a little surprised, they had not fired the artillery yet, and there was no explosion of flames on the opposite side.

"It's not good, it must be a cannon!" Someone reacted quickly.

"Where are they firing? No shells have landed here, huh? "The Japanese soldiers were puzzled.

Just when they were puzzled, the 105mm shell flew for more than ten seconds and then fell to the Japanese artillery position.

"Boom!" The first shell fell on the Japanese artillery position, and a piece of artillery was suddenly blown into the sky, and the fragmented parts flew everywhere, twisted into a twisted barrel, and smashed a Japanese soldier not far away into meat sauce.

"Shelling! Shelling !! The Japanese shouted in some horror.

However, it was too late, and the shells from the sky fell, and the explosions were continuous, and the entire Japanese artillery position was reduced to rubble.

However, the artillery of the airborne division did not have time to withdraw, and it was also a heavy loss, after the Japanese realized that something was wrong, the 92 infantry guns on the front opened fire in unison, although the power was not too great, after all, it was only 70mm, but it also destroyed most of the artillery, and there were only a few artillery pieces left at once, and the artillery also suffered a lot of casualties, and the large-caliber artillery on both sides was gone. Although rocket artillery is powerful, it is just too waste ammunition, and the ammunition dropped by air alone is not enough. The Japanese army's 92 guns were quite a lot, but they were not powerful enough, not much more powerful than 70mm mortars.