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Xiaolu received a telegram from Wang Santai and immediately congratulated Zhukov on his victory. In addition, in the telegram, Koji said: "According to intelligence, the activity of several bacteriological units of the Japanese army has intensified, and people have already reached the Nomenkan front. ”

The Soviet army attached great importance to this information and immediately interrogated the Japanese prisoners of war. A number of prisoners of war were interrogated, all of whom were unaware, but one of them happened to say that on the afternoon of June 30, the troops declared discipline and were not allowed to drink water from the river.

Immediately, other prisoners were arraigned, and they also confirmed the order.

Several times of accurate information, Yichun's intelligence has a high reputation. This time the Soviet troops believed that the intelligence of the trail was right. At the same time, the entire unit also began to move, closely observing the Japanese army and cleaning up the battlefield. Water bottles and gas masks were distributed to the troops, and discipline was declared at the same time, and the water used by the troops was transported from the rear and no drinking water was allowed at will.

July 6, Nomenkan front.

The Soviet army received another urgent telegram from Xiaolu, saying: "The front-line bacteriological troops are the Hailar Research Detachment, the 543rd Detachment of Manchuria. Planner: Shiro Ishii. Bacterial species: Yersinia pestis, anthrax, melioidosis, cholera. ”

On the same day, Koji sent a third telegram: "The Japanese army's alternative bacteriological warfare plan: 1 launch shells. 2. Aviation bombing. 3. Artificial delivery on the river. Date: July 8 to 11, no drinking water is allowed. ”

The Soviets received the information and immediately formulated measures, first, to bomb all Japanese artillery positions. Second, intensify the attack on the Japanese transport planes and not let a single transport plane come over. Third, the Soviet-Mongolian troops on both sides of the river strengthened epidemic prevention. Fourth, it is necessary to create public opinion and expose the crimes of bacteriological warfare in the Japanese army.

Historically, from the very beginning of the Threshold War, the Kwantung Army Command instructed the Ishii troops to draw up a germ warfare plan in the Nomenhan area. The Ishii bacteriological unit organized a death squad, a total of 22 people, all of whom wrote a letter of guarantee in blood, promising to go and promising not to divulge secrets.

The operation began on July 13, and 22 daredevils led by Ikari Shigeshige Shaoza of the Ishii bacteriological unit took two rubber boats to sprinkle 22.5 kilograms of typhoid, cholera, plague, melioidosis and other bacteria into the river water in the top water of the Halaha River to carry out bacteriological warfare against the Soviet-Mongolian army.

At that time, there were no strict orders within the Japanese army, such as not drinking river water at will.

The result is ironic, 1,340 Japanese soldiers were infected with typhoid fever, red dysentery, and choleria, and more than 40 military doctors and death squad members of Unit 731 were infected by bacteria and died. According to the "testimony of Kajishin" in the archives of the Changchun City Public Security Bureau, Warrant Officer Namba of the Second Military Medical Department of Unit 731 died, and the lieutenant-level military medical officers Hida Nakanshin, Inoue Kanichi, Mima Takayoshi, and Kurakami Masahiro died...... More than 40 people died due to bacterial infection.

In addition, this time the release of bacteria also brought a tail-burner: epidemics.

This kind of inhumane thing must always be avoided, and the Japanese army has very good epidemic prevention measures, in case the disease spreads to the local Mongols, then it will be a big trouble.

July 7, Nomenkan front.

In the past few days, the intensity of air battles has reached its peak. There are several famous examples of air battles in the past few days, which are talked about by later generations of the Soviet Union and Japan:

Warrant Officer Hiromichi Shinohara, a warrant officer of the 12th Flying Regiment of the Japanese Army, was shot down. Shinohara, who was experienced in air combat, said that the Japanese said that he had shot down 58 enemy planes in his lifetime and was an ace pilot. On this day, after shooting down five Soviet planes in a row, he was surrounded and attacked by several Soviet planes and crashed on the Balqigar Heights.

The Japanese later found his plane, did not find his body, and announced that his body had been burned.

In another case, Captain Skobachin, a Soviet pilot, drove his plane into a Japanese fighter plane after the machine gun was fired, and actually crashed into the enemy plane and landed safely. After reporting the process of colliding with the enemy plane, the political commissar did not believe it and severely criticized it, but only when he saw that several fragments of Japanese fighters were found on the wings of his plane, he admitted his deeds.

Captain Rahov, a heroic pilot of the Soviet Army, met a fighter piloted by Takeo of the 12th Flying Regiment of the Japanese Army, Rakhov hit the Japanese plane with a machine gun, and the Japanese pilot Takeo parachuted and landed on the west bank. Takeo was captured after unsuccessfully committing suicide.

In the last case, fighter pilot Griseweets found his commander Zabaluev lying next to the plane. Griseweitz landed the plane on the crater-riddled grass, taxied to Zabaluev's side, and shoehorned the wounded Zabaluev into the cockpit of the single-passenger plane. Then in front of the Japanese soldiers, he flew into the sky with a double load of planes in the wind and flew back to his airfield.

July 8, Nomenkan front.

The Soviet army called again to ask if there was any information, and Xiaolu called back: "None." Immediately, Xiaolu sent a telegram to Wang Santai, asking him to pay attention to poison prevention and stay away from the riverbank.

Wang Santai is now on the front line, and his base is in a low mountain forest on the east bank of the upper reaches of the Nomenkan battlefield. They live in a hole in the ground, which has been dug recently.

Observer Sasha has already made contact with the Soviet forces on the other side, and they have asked them to gather information as soon as possible.

Wang Santai sent a few people to ambush on the frontline battlefield every day to observe the battle situation, and those who came back recalled what they saw and recorded it. This is the task that Xiaolu gave them an explanation. At first, Wang Santai's soldiers had opinions about the prohibition of fighting, and later, after collecting a lot of information, everyone began to understand Xiaolu's intentions.

These days, they have rescued more than two dozen Soviet Air Force pilots and captured more than thirty Japanese pilots.

Today, the Japanese search team has discovered the disappearance of Japanese pilots, as well as the disappearance of Soviet pilots who landed and parachuted. They increased their search force, but fortunately, Wang Santai's men had already shot the wolfdogs of the Japanese search team, and they had not yet exchanged fire with them.

In the evening, several groups of scouts came back to report the situation, one group found an anomaly, they saw a group of devils, dozens, with green clothes and armbands. They were guarded by a lot of men and heavily guarded. The strangest thing is that they were carrying several cars, and the telescopes could see that what hit them was not weapons, not ammunition, but instruments.

Without waiting for Wang Santai to speak, Sasha listened and said, "This is the bacteriological army, quickly, tell me the location." ”

In the evening, a telegram was sent to Mongolia and Yichun: "Bacteriological units of the Japanese army have been found. ”

The Soviet Union met overnight to study countermeasures. While I was in a meeting, I received a telegram from Xiaolu. In addition to the location of the bacteriological unit, the telegram also briefly determined the battle plan: "The plane dropped gasoline barrels." Our army is guided on the ground, burn! ”

July 9, Nomenkan front.

In the morning, the Nomenkan front line was already fighting, the war on the ground had almost stopped, and the air force in the sky was still fighting. The plane struggle was not as fierce as the day before yesterday, but everyone still saw the two groups of planes fighting in the air from time to time.

Directly east of the Normenhan battlefield, fifteen or sixteen miles away from the battlefield, there is a large grassland, which was originally pasture, but a month ago, the Japanese occupied this place, and the herdsmen were not allowed to graze, and the security was tight.

The other day, several fighters tracked down a Japanese military car, and this was only discovered here. It is fenced with barbed wire, surrounded by a few sentry posts, with a few vehicles in the middle and a few tents.

This is the temporary stronghold of Unit 731.

About two miles from here, in the direction of due south and southwest, two piles of dry firewood were piled up. There were two people on the side of each pile of dry firewood. In search of these dry firewoods, the fighters stayed up almost all night. They walked a long way before they left the meadow and went to the woods to find it.

Wang Santai and Sasha led more than 50 people to arrive here a long time ago, and ambushed about three or four hundred meters away from the temporary stronghold of Unit 731.

Their confidential staff is also there, the radio station has been turned on, and Su Meng has been contacted.

At half past five in the morning, the telegram showed that by now, the Soviet plane had been leaving for five minutes. Wang Santai ordered: "Ignition." Several soldiers behind Wang Santai raised small red flags.

The soldiers next to the dry pyre saw it and also raised their flags in response. After a while, a few piles of dry wood were lit, and after a while, the flames were high. The warriors put the wet grass on the fire, and smoke rose up.

The rumbling of airplanes came over. A reconnaissance plane flew first.

The driver immediately saw four fireworks on the ground. The two adjacent fireworks were connected into a line, and the two lines pointed to a small village. The pilot was overjoyed, got over the small village, went around, and saw tents and cars.

At this time, three bombers came under the protection of several fighters.

At this time, the Japanese in the stronghold moved, and several people got into the car and began to run towards the car.

Wang Santai decisively ordered and opened fire.

Several people immediately opened fire. The two running Japanese were knocked down. Several more people ran out and ran towards the car. The gunfire rang out again, and people kept falling.

The bombers have already begun to drop bombs, no, gasoline barrels. Several gasoline barrels were dropped, and none of them hit. There was a gasoline drum that even fell more than ten meters away from Wang Santai's ambush site.

"Hit it right!" One of the fighters cursed.

The bomber lowered the altitude, made a turn and continued to throw gasoline barrels. This time I hit a few. The plane had experience, lowered the altitude, threw again, and more than a dozen gasoline barrels fell on the yard of Unit 731, and one even smashed directly on a car.

The bomber did not give up, threw a few more laps, and it seemed that all the oil drums were gone, and then left.

Fighters are coming. A fighter jet aimed at the stronghold, and the machine gun opened fire. A cloud of dust stirred up on the ground. A shell hit an oil drum, and flames erupted. Another fighter hit again, hitting a couple more oil drums.

The fighters were evacuated.

Wang Santai ordered to shoot and hit the oil drums. Behind him, the warrior raised the flag again.

Shooting oil drums is simply shooting training, although the distance is remote, but the target is too large, and the gun hits. When one shot hits, those who are close to the fire immediately catch fire, and those who are far away begin to leak oil, and after the second shot, they will inevitably catch fire.

Sasha ordered the dignitaries to call back and confirm that the bombing was successful.

In a few moments, all the dropped oil drums were ignited, and flames flowed in all directions along with the flowing gasoline. The entire stronghold of Unit 731 was shrouded in flames. You can see some people running around, they have gasoline on them, and they have turned into burning people.

Soon, a large sea of fire appeared in the steppe.

The warriors in ambush felt the heat and retreated.

The bacteriological units of the Japanese army were wiped out.

At this point, the battle came to an end. Historians refer to the first skirmishes as the first phase of the campaign, and the skirmishes in June and July as the second phase. That is, the second stage is over. Both the Soviet Union and Japan realized that a small-scale campaign would not solve the problems between the Soviet Union and Japan.

From then on, the two sides began to accumulate strength and prepare for large-scale battles, duel each other, and strive to win the biggest bargaining chips at the negotiating table.

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1. Regarding the casualties of the Japanese army from July 3rd to 5th, the Japanese side is always vague, and many documents believe that it was 3,000. According to the final figures of the Japanese army, eight thousand people died in the entire campaign. Then on August 20, the Soviet army counterattacked and killed 4,000 to 5,000, if the casualties this time are counted clearly, then there will be no casualties in other battles? Matsumoto's memoirs describe how he rescued the wounded, but did not mention the transportation of corpses from the West Bank. Judging from the course of this battle, it was difficult for the living to be withdrawn to the West Bank, and the bodies were not recovered. In Matsumoto Kusadaira's memoirs, the number of Japanese soldiers crossing the river was 18,000, not 15,000. Moreover, the Japanese troops who crossed the river had been asked not to drink the river water.