Chapter 154: The Influence of Nomenkan

"Impossible! When the commander was in France, he didn't like to socialize with those celebrities, how could he bring us a sister-in-law in one night! ”

"Also, our commander has deep feelings for his ex-wife, and he hasn't come out of the loss of his wife yet, I think we should think of a way to let the commander get out of his grief and welcome a new life."

"It seems that you all hope that our commander can bring a sister-in-law back!"

"Of course, our commander is a handsome hero of the British army, don't all those noble ladies like heroes?"

"Maybe our commander will bring us a sister-in-law back tomorrow."

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In order to realize the planned northward advance of the Soviet Union to invade the Soviet Union, Japan launched a large-scale exploratory strategic offensive against the Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces in the Normenhan area, which is located 200 kilometers south of Hailar on the Sino-Mongolian border.

Immediately, each of the warring sides mobilized hundreds of thousands of elite troops, 150,000 Japanese troops and a large number of advanced military equipment (the Japanese Manchurian army dispatched 500 artillery pieces, 182 tanks and more than 300 aircraft.

The Soviet-Mongolian army dispatched 200,000 men, 542 artillery pieces and mortars, 498 tanks, 385 armored vehicles and 515 aircraft.

The Soviet Union and Japan engaged in a fierce confrontation on this overgrown wasteland with rolling sand dunes.

Due to Japan's backward military thinking and tactical technology, the Soviet army, under the command of General Zhukov, a famous general who had served as a Chinese military adviser and was familiar with the operational characteristics of the Japanese army, launched a counterattack with powerful air artillery fire and tank support, and quickly recaptured the positions occupied by the Japanese army.

From January 17 to 20 alone, 1 cavalry wing and 2 infantry brigades of the Japanese army were annihilated, and the Soviet army under Zhukov's command was defeated.

Japan suffered its first and worst defeat since the Russo-Japanese War, with both the Soviet Union and Japan ignoring Chinese sovereignty. The parties reached an agreement on the use of the Line of Actual Control of the USSR as the national border.

The territory of China was occupied by Soviet troops for no reason. Cessed. The Soviet Union sent volunteers to support China's war of resistance. That's all for the sake of not being attacked on both sides, and any international friendship is all nonsense.

The telegram that the Soviet-Japanese agreement had been successfully signed reached Stalin, which greatly relieved Stalin.

To tell the truth, Stalin had been terrified during this time, and Germany had been secretly moving troops to the Soviet-German border.

Of course, Stalin was also sending troops to the border, but what kind of combat power the Soviet army was, Stalin knew very well in his heart that the Soviet army after the Great Purge. Not at all an opponent of Germany.

Stalin was very clear about this, so what Stalin feared most was that Germany and Japan would unite to flank the Soviet Union.

Rommel also learned the outcome of the Battle of Nomenkan from the radio, even if Rommel was a traverser, he was powerless to change the Battle of Nomenkan, and Rommel was not able to decide Japan's national policy.

Even if Rommel knew that the victory of the Soviet army in the Battle of Nomenkan would sow a seed of defeat for Germany, all Rommel could do was to run Africa well.

Then wait for himself to accumulate unparalleled prestige and prowess before Rommel has the ability to change all this.

Since you can't change others, you should first change what you can, and this is Rommel's response.

Victory at the Battle of Nomenkan. Giving Stalin a respite, Rommel understood deep enough the enormous impact of the Battle of Nomenkan:

One; The Battle of Nomenkan not only dealt a heavy blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army. It also allowed the Japanese army to see the strong combat effectiveness of the Soviet army.

This battle established the psychological superiority of the Soviet army over the Japanese army, and also established the stability of the Soviet Far Eastern border region.

This enabled the Soviet Union to avoid the unfavorable situation of fighting on two fronts after the start of the Great Patriotic War, and in the future the Soviet Union could concentrate on dealing with Germany, so that the Soviet Union could drag the war into a protracted war.

Two; The impact of this war was enormous, and it prompted Japan to change its national policy of "northward expansion" to "southward expansion", which laid the groundwork for Japan's eventual defeat in World War II.

Through the Battle of Nomenkan, the Soviet Union was able to dare to draw 20 Asian divisions from the Far Eastern frontier to the European battlefield at the critical moment of the campaign, and the new force of these 20 divisions would definitely play a decisive role in turning the tide.

More crucially, the Japanese base camp attacked Pearl Harbor under the instigation of the "southward expansion" strategy.

Not only did they lose the opportunity to join forces with Germany in the Far East, they plunged themselves into an unsustainable Pacific campaign, but they also dragged the United States into the war, and the pattern of World War II was fundamentally reversed.

If Japan chooses to "advance northward," once a situation is formed in which Germany and Japan are caught in attacking the Soviet Union, the United States and Britain may not fully support the Soviet Union, because the interests of Britain and the United States in Southeast Asia have not been harmed, and they are ******** mortal enemies.

British Prime Minister Yau has always been a staunch anti-Soviet, and after the war, he hurriedly threw out the "Iron Curtain Theory".

The most likely choice for the United States is to consider redividing its sphere of influence with Germany and Japan, and it will also condemn aggression against the Soviet Union on the surface, while at the same time continuing to do business with Japan and make a fortune.

There is no doubt that the sudden emergence of a huge variable -- China's stubborn resistance and persistence in the War of Resistance -- has brought about completely unconventional changes in the Eurasian strategic pattern and created the above-mentioned situation.

Because of the shortage of strategic resources, Japan was forced to abandon its "northward advance" and could only choose to "go south" and go to war with Britain and the United States, thus heading for the abyss of defeat.

At the same time, it also led to a bad situation in which the Axis powers could not coordinate militarily and went their own way, and the Soviet Union broke out of its desperate and inevitable strategic posture and went all out to deal with the threat from the west, thus strategically establishing a pattern of victory.

Hitler and a large group of German high-ranking officials also received a report from the Japanese side that there was no need to keep the battle of Nomenkan secret, and that the Soviet Union and Japan had signed a peace agreement.

This bulletin did not attract the attention of Hitler, nor did it attract the attention of a large group of senior German generals.

The Soviet Union and Japan each sent more than 100,000 men, which was not a big war at all, and in Hitler's view, it could only be regarded as a small battle.

Hitler and so many senior German generals did not expect the huge impact of this battle, and Hitler, a corporal of World War I, could not have seen those effects......

Roosevelt, of course, also knew the outcome of the Battle of Nomenkan, and the newspapers and media in the United States knew.

But no one cared about this small battle, and many newspapers did not publish the Battle of Nomenkan, only some small newspapers wrote a little about the outcome of the Battle of Nomenkan in the corner of the newspaper.

The whole world ignored the impact of the Battle of Nomenkan on the whole of World War II, and everyone did whatever they had to do.

Rommel also did whatever he had to do, and in his sleep, Rommel met a fairy who took the initiative to give him a hug and let him ride.

The feeling of riding a fairy in a dream made Rommel feel so happy, Rommel was not happy enough once, and then he was happy a few times in the dream, and the tired Rommel could only let the fairy ride him back.

Could it be that Rommel dreamed of spring without a trace...... (To be continued.) )