June 21, 1939. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Nomenkan Front. Command of the Soviet Army.

Several telegrams were placed on Zhukov's desk. His desk was made up of several shell boxes.

A telegram was sent back by the liaison officer of the reconnaissance unit, Sava, and the new information contained in it caused Zhukov to worry. At the beginning, the observers passed on a large amount of Japanese intelligence, and later corroborated each other with the information transmitted by Yichun, which helped Zhukov a lot, and even won the praise of Moscow. However, in the past few days, the news has been somewhat unfavorable for the Soviet army.

What's the news? The Kwantung Army on the opposite side increased its troops again.

First, on June 20, the Kwantung Army added the 7th Division, which is the most elite mobile unit of the Kwantung Army, directly under the command of the Kwantung Army, stationed in Qiqihar, with a total of 25,000 soldiers. Although this time the whole team did not reach the front line, the division was a first-class division and was elite.

Second, the 1st Tank Division of the Japanese Army, with 3 tank wings, was stationed at Junction Ridge near Xinjing. Lieutenant General Masatomi Yasuoka, the division commander, was a classmate of Lieutenant General Komatsubara, and with 282 tanks and 37 armored vehicles, the division was Japan's most elite tank unit. After receiving the order, Lieutenant General Yasuoka led the 3rd and 4th tank wings, a total of 182 tanks and 37 armored vehicles, from Baichengzi and Wangye Temple to the Arshan Railway Station to assemble.

At the moment, the tanks of this division have arrived at the Arshan railway station, and fuel is being delivered to the Arshan railway station.

Thirdly, Lieutenant General Toru Saga, commander of the 2nd Flying Group of the Japanese Air Force, moved his headquarters from Shinkyo to Hailar. The 2nd Flight Group has a total of 310 combat aircraft. The Japanese army transferred four flight brigades, the 7th, 9th, 12th, and 15th, and concentrated 8 squadrons of fighters, 2 squadrons of light bombers, 6 squadrons of heavy bombers, and 2 squadrons of reconnaissance planes. With the exception of a small number of fighters and reconnaissance aircraft left at the Kangyur temple and the field airfield in Amgulang, they were equipped in Hailar

78 planes, 41 Arshan, made a situation of pincer attack on the Soviet plane.

Fourth, other planes are still gathering towards Hailar.

Fifth, the puppet Xing'an division went to Arshan by truck.

Zhukov was pleased to see that China's Northeast Democratic Alliance had decided to raid its lines of communication in an effort to keep tanks without fuel. It's very effective.

However, Zhukov was also worried that the Air Force had already suffered losses in this section, and this time, the Japanese Air Force was still very strong.

In particular, a telegram from Koji listed the information of the Japanese air force in detail, even including the type of Japanese aircraft, the number of flight hours of the pilots, etc. This information has already shown that the Japanese air force is currently much more powerful than the Soviet air group.

Two days earlier, on June 19, the Soviet army dispatched 150 planes to attack the Japanese army assembly areas and field airfields in the vicinity of Kangyur Temple, Amgulang, and General Temple. Japanese planes also dispatched 120 to the battle. Zhukov was quite satisfied with the results of the air raid that destroyed a series of airfields.

In the end, a telegram from Commander Lu caused him to be even more worried, and according to the inside intelligence, the Japanese army already had a clear information about the Soviet airfield and the number of aircraft. Beware of a sneak attack by the Japanese army.

Zhukov believed that planes should be sent to bomb the Hailar airfield and railway station immediately, with a focus on consuming Japanese aircraft and fuel. However, the logistics department and the air force department immediately raised objections: the bombing mission that had just been completed had consumed almost all the aerial bombs, and the fuel was insufficient.

So when will we be able to get enough bombs and fuel? The answer is that it will take 27 days to be ready.

Therefore, time has become the most important factor.

Although Zhukov sent the telegram urging to the logistics department and also reported the situation to the General Staff, he still felt that it was not enough, and what needed to be done?

It would be nice if Hairule had a unit. Zhukov sent a telegram to Xiaolu to see if he could let his reconnaissance unit in Hailar take on some raids, buying three to five days for the Soviet Air Force.

Xiaolu soon called back, first, to undertake the attack mission of Hailar. Second, it will undertake the attack mission of Arshan, and third, it will undertake the attack mission of the Baicheng-Arshan railway. Fourth, it will undertake the task of harassing the line from Qiqihar to Hailar, that is, the Binzhou Railway.

Zhukov sent a telegram to Sasha to his staff, praising his work and asking him to ask the Chinese army to reconnoiter more detailed information.

Sasha quickly called back: We're working on it. Part of the station has already been seized.

The following is Sasha's war diary.

June 21, 1939, night, South Hung Yen Tunnel Fortress.

I received a call back from the staff of the Special 57th Army, and they praised my work. I feel happy.

This time the mission was not as arduous as I imagined, and I originally imagined that I would have to escape from the pursuit of the Japanese army all the time. Actually, no. When we entered the mountains, the Japanese army had nothing to do.

Of course, there was something more difficult than I thought, and that was walking. Walking on mountain roads, without cars, and walking for four hours at a time, the officers and men of the Chinese army are all the same, and it is not simple.

The Chinese army had no means of transportation, and marched entirely on foot. They walked on a very hidden mountain road, which was not too difficult to walk. It is said that it is the path taken by hunters when they hunt. I also hunted in the mountains of Vladivostok, where there did not seem to be as many beasts as in the USSR.

The food eaten by this soldier was a kind of fried noodles, which was mixed with cornmeal, wheat flour, and other noodles, with some sun-dried carrots and other vegetables, and fried with oil, salt and sugar. When eating, just rinse it with boiling water, and it tastes good.

When we were fighting in the field, we had to put dry noodles in our mouths and fill them with water, which was hard to eat.

This army is very interesting, their officers, exactly the same as the soldiers, there are no privileges, the soldiers even come to them to ask for cigarettes, they also go to the soldiers' pockets to find wild fruits to eat.

In addition, I saw that there were many ordinary people who transported supplies for them, and all the quartermaster had to do was sign the notebook that the people had brought them. There were many Mongols and Koreans among the people.

Let's talk about today's battle. I think it's a good fight. I took quite a few photos and wanted them to be of high quality.

In order to gain time, the special operations team set off half an hour after receiving the telegram, that is, at half past eleven. We walked for an hour to the South Hung Yen Tunnel.

The South Khingan Tunnel is a tunnel of the Bai'an Railway through the Great Khingan Mountains, which is more than 3,000 meters long and has a fort at each of the two exits. The fort is now our headquarters, and I am now writing my diary in the fort.

By the time I arrived at the North Fortress, the fighters had already reached combat positions.

I saw such a powerful fortress with a telescope and was disappointed, because the special operations team did not have heavy weapons, not even heavy machine guns.

Brigade Commander Wang told me not to be in a hurry, told me to observe, and said that the battle had begun.

In my binoculars, a group of Manchurian troops, about twenty people, was the Forest Police Force. I have previously interrogated prisoners of the Forest Police Force. Most of them are locals and are familiar with the terrain.

The troops were scattered, and it was not until the Japanese were in front of them that they formed their formations.

I thought we were watching the enemy, and I didn't want to surprise me with what was going on.

The group of policemen arrived at the gate of the fort and spoke to the Japanese who came out of it. They also took out two bottles of wine and two roast chickens for the Japanese. This wine is famous locally, I have drunk it, it is very good, not as strong as vodka. The roast chicken is also very fragrant, and I think if the Chinese go to Vladivostok to sell this roast chicken, they will definitely make a fortune.

At this time, the Japanese allowed them to enter the fortress.