Chapter 429: The Bandit Army Strikes

Li Tie walked into Zhukov's office in a bland manner, Li Tie only stayed in the office for less than an hour, and then Li Tie walked out of the headquarters of the Russian 57th Army with high morale under Zhukov's personal farewell.

Eight hours later, the sky had just darkened, and a full 10,000 bandit cavalry, under the leadership of Xiang Zuo and Sister Teng, were slowly approaching the Japanese position in the distance under the cover of night.

Coming to the most suitable distance for cavalry charge, the bandit soldiers sent a message that the Japanese outposts in front had been cleared. Xiang Zuo happily gestured to his wife, Sister Teng, who was beside him.

I saw that hundreds of cavalry behind Sister Teng immediately jumped off their horses, and these cavalrymen quickly unloaded a large-caliber squeeze gun from their horses, and then a mortar with a box of ten-round shells.

A few minutes later, hundreds of mortars were densely placed behind Sister Teng. He looked to the left at the bandit soldiers beside him in his hand, and gave a clear order:

"Kill all those who don't have horses. Kill all those who don't have a white turban wrapped around their arms. Then he looked at the fire in the distance with his cold eyes to the left, and he lightly pointed with the horsewhip in his hand: "Attack!" ”

I saw that behind him, tens of thousands of cavalrymen who were tied to the horse's mouth began to run little by little, and rushed silently towards the firelight in the distance.

At this time, the soldiers of the 23rd Army Division of the Japanese Army, which surrounded the 57th Army, were having dinner. While the thousands of Japanese soldiers stationed on the west side of the 57th Army were enjoying a sumptuous dinner on their positions, they seemed to suddenly hear a slight vibration on the ground.

As time passed, the vibration grew louder and louder, beating the hearts of the Japanese soldiers like a war drum from the dark night. And then before the soldiers could figure out what was going on.

Countless mortar shells fell on the Japanese positions, and a huge explosion woke up all the Japanese soldiers who were still eating: "Enemy attack! A terrible shout filled the night sky.

As thousands of shells kept falling into the Japanese position, tens of thousands of cavalry had rushed to the front of the Japanese position, and dozens of bandits running in front of the cavalry suddenly took out a huge pistol from their arms, and dozens of gunshots rang out, and the flares in the sky took a clear view of the panicked Japanese soldiers.

Then I saw tens of thousands of bandit cavalry with the help of bright flares, flat raised the horse pistol in their hands, and began to shoot frantically at all moving objects, when a shuttle of bullets ran out, these bandit cavalry pulled out the big knives behind their backs, and began to harvest the soldiers of the 23rd Division of the 23rd Army that surrounded the Russian 57th Army.

The battle proceeded very quickly, and almost before the Japanese soldiers could organize an effective defense, several thousand Japanese troops were divided into several parts by tens of thousands of cavalry.

Because it was night, the men of the 23rd Division did not know how many cavalry were coming to attack, and in the dark night, the Japanese soldiers did not dare to return fire at will, so in the end they could only retreat while fighting, and soon the Japanese soldiers withdrew from their defensive positions.

In this way, the huge encirclement encirclement of the 57th Army was torn open by the bandit cavalry, and the Russian soldiers of the 57th Army, who had already received the news, frantically escaped from the gap in the Japanese encirclement.

But the battle was not over, although tens of thousands of people of the 57th Army escaped, but they still had to face the pursuit of the Japanese mechanized troops, and at the same time, on the way to the escape of these soldiers, there were tens of thousands of Manchukuo puppet troops to encircle and intercept.

At this time, it can finally be seen that the real combat effectiveness of the soldiers of several countries can be seen. The Russians were the fastest, and although the Japanese were caught off guard, they quickly organized formed units to fight back against the bandits with the help of tanks and armored vehicles.

After breaking up the infantry of the 23rd Division of the Japanese Army, the bandit army quickly broke into pieces, divided into 10 cavalry teams of 1,000 people, and began to engage in guerrilla warfare with tens of thousands of Japanese troops and tens of thousands of Manchukuo troops.

Due to the flexibility and proper tactics of the bandit army, although 10,000 cavalry fought against tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers, the bandit army fought impressively, and finally succeeded in holding back the pursuing troops of the Japanese army and the Manchukuo army, ensuring that the Russian 57th Army successfully escaped back to the Nomenkhand area.

Zhukov, who had received help from the bandits, finally faced up to the Japanese army in front of him, and in the next few weeks, the two sides entered many major battles in Nomenhan and Manchuria.

Due to the lack of training, the Mongol army had no will to fight, and took the initiative to withdraw from the Nomenkhand region within a few days of the war.

However, the Russian 57th Army, which came to its senses, no longer advanced lightly against the enemy, but adopted a steady and steady strategy to play positional warfare with the Japanese army.

Since the Russian army at this time still has armor superiority and air superiority, the two sides are fighting fiercely in the area around Nomenhan, today you destroy one of my battalions, and tomorrow I will eat one of your squadrons. From mid-July to the end of August, the two sides fought dozens of battles, large and small, and finally ended in a draw, with tens of thousands of casualties on each other.

Fortunately, the combat effectiveness of the bandit army was good, except that the 10,000 bandit army was still fighting with the Japanese army in the Normenhan area, and tens of thousands of bandit troops were transferred to the left of the black killing, and they actually entered the territory of the puppet Manchukuo several times to attack the county seat, so that the Japanese army and the puppet Manchukuo army had to be exhausted.

After several weeks of fighting between the two sides, Russian reinforcements finally arrived, and at the same time, more and more Russian soldiers grew into qualified veterans after the baptism of war.

On the other hand, the Japanese army, due to the irresoluteness of the battle of Nomenhan in Japan, caused the two veteran divisions to arrive in the northeast for a long time, so that the Japanese army in the Nomenhan area could not be reinforced, and at the same time, the puppet Manchukuo army also proposed to calm the situation.

In the end, at the insistence of the Japanese southward expansion faction, the Japanese Kwantung Army of the puppet Manchukuo took the lead in proposing an armistice to Zhukov, and agreed to return to the state before the war, and took the initiative to withdraw its troops.

Although the Japanese offered an armistice, which was equivalent to admitting the defeat of the Battle of Normenhan, Stalin, who was eager to attack Poland, did not want to go to war with Japan for a long time, so at Stalin's behest, Zhukov immediately agreed to the Japanese proposal and conducted peace talks between the two sides.

In this way, it lasted more than three months, and with both Japan and Russia suffering heavy losses, the battle of Nomenheim ended with the Japanese admitting defeat.

In fact, the battle of Nomenkhan ended up a disastrous victory for Russia, but in order to boost the morale of the Russian army, Zhukov did not report the actual casualties to Comrade Stalin according to the facts.

In the war report submitted to Stalin, the number of Japanese soldiers killed doubled to more than 50,000, and as for the defeat of 100,000 Manchukuo troops, it also turned into countless wounded enemies, but because it was in Manchukuo, the specific number of wounded enemies did not have time to be counted.

Although the battle report was exaggerated, Zhukov still described in detail the strong combat strength of the Japanese army, and with the combat effectiveness of the second-line troops of the Japanese army, the Russian army still suffered such a big loss when the heavy weapons were at a disadvantage, which shows that the Japanese army was not easy to deal with.

Therefore, Zhukov's advice to Stalin was not to start a war with the Japanese army in the Far East, otherwise in order to defeat the Japanese army, at least one million troops must be stationed in the Far East to have the possibility of a complete victory over the Japanese army.

And Stalin, after receiving Zhukov's report, also felt that for the sake of a dispensable Manchukuo, there was really no need to wage such a costly war with Japan.

After all, in Stalin's mind, Europe was a fertile land, Russia had enough land in the Far East, and the Far East was really vast and sparsely populated.

However, Stalin also approved of Zhukov's report that Li Tie had once again applied for the establishment of a free trade zone at the junction of Mongolia and Russia, and that he would lease tens of thousands of square kilometers of land near Manchuria on the border between Mongolia and Russia.

In fact, Stalin also felt that it was a pity that so much land was idle in the Far East, but Stalin didn't know what medicine was sold in Li Tie's gourd, and Stalin felt from his heart that Li Tie had no good intentions.

Out of political sense, Stalin always felt that Li Tie Lao must have an ulterior motive in wanting to rent Russian land, and the most infuriating thing was that he could not see through Li Tie's true intentions, so Stalin always disagreed with Li Tie's reasonable demands.

It was not until the end of the battle at Nomenkhand that he received Zhukov's report, and at the same time received a request from Li Tie to lease land again, and this time Li Tie did not lease land in the Far East, but on the Mongol side of the border between China and Mongolia.

In the end, Stalin agreed to this land lease agreement because although Li Tie rented Mongolian land, he really had to give all the rent to Comrade Stalin.

This was really a good business, and even if Li Tie had any intentions for Mongolia, it was not the Russians who were unlucky in the end, so Stalin agreed to the lease agreement.

On the Mongolian side, because in the Battle of Nomenhan, not only did not exert all his strength, but also pulled the Russians back, and finally abandoned the Russians, even if they knew that Li Tie's lease agreement with Russia was illegal, they would not give Mongolia face.

However, the current Mongols are ruled by many tribes and princes, and no one wants to come out and offend the powerful Russians and the 100,000-strong bandit army at the same time.

In the end, the Mongols simply agreed to the lease agreement between the Russians and Li Tie, on the grounds that it was to compensate for the losses suffered by the Russians as allies in the Mongol army during the Battle of Normenhan.

Stalin was also very happy to see the princes of Mongolia so acquainted, since the Far East was still under the control of the powerful Russia, and Mongolia was so obedient, it seemed that the garrison in the Far East could be reduced by a part in the future.

An attack on Poland was imminent, and he had to prepare sufficient troops to deal with a possible strong backlash from Britain and France.

These were the final results of the Battle of Normenheim, after which Russia's ambitions to encroach on Northeast China were put to rest. Japan abandoned the northward expansion strategy, and then changed to a comprehensive plan to prepare for the south, which is also the reason why Japan will attack Britain and the United States and other countries in the future.

As the actual beneficiary of the war, Li Tie obtained nearly 10,000 square kilometers of land in Manchuria and Mongolia, including the Normenhan region, and if we take a closer look at Li Tie's layout in the northeast, we can see on the map that almost all of Li Tie's sphere of influence is along the Sino-Russian border from Manchuria and on both sides of the Heilongjiang River.

If you include the Mazhan Mountains near the Heihe, Li Tie's bandit army actually controlled a considerable area along the Sino-Russian border. As long as Li Tie is given a sufficient supply of troops, it is very convenient to go north or south.

It's a pity that until this time, no one knew that Li Tie had completed this huge layout. At this time, Japan was busy making plans for its next attack on China.

Russia's Zhukov is also repeatedly summing up the lessons of the Battle of Nomenkhan. After this crushing victory, Zhukov learned the most important lesson, that is, no matter how good a tactic is, it must be implemented by a strong army.

At the same time, the proficiency of soldiers in military training in peacetime and the will to fight can make up for the gap in weapons and equipment in war.

This is also the reason why Zhukov later became the commander-in-chief of the Northern Army, and finally shined in the war between Russia and Germany.