April 16, 1927 at 10 p.m. Northeast Heilongjiang, Sao Gang Town Railway Station.

This is Luo Yaoguo's former enemy headquarters. It is also the brain and heart of the 50,000 Kuomintang direct allied troops, and now the lights here are as bright as day. The high-raised antennas are constantly sending or receiving all kinds of battle reports and orders, and the busy staff officers at all levels now have excitement and joy on their faces, because they are experiencing an unprecedented victory! It was the first major victory in decades for this ancient and impoverished country!

Now the defensive line built by the Soviet Red Army east of Zalaino has been completely crushed. Today's battle is almost a small rehearsal for a post-blitzkrieg. This mode of combat is not simply to tear apart the opponent's defense line with armored troops, but also the second echelon that quickly follows - the 18th Division of the Kuomintang. The task of the armored forces now is to assault! Assault! Assault again!! Break through any organized defensive positions they encounter, crush and scatter the artillery positions behind the Soviet front, the baggage troops, and the command structures at all levels. Then, the 18th Division, which followed closely, was responsible for completely destroying it, quickly turning a tactical breakthrough into a campaign breakthrough, and turning a tactical victory into a campaign victory!!

At this time, Blyukher, like the generals and commanders who were attacked by the German fascist blitzkrieg, was completely at a loss! Although he also advocated this theory of large-depth warfare in history, he also advocated the use of tanks, motorized infantry, and cavalry to tear apart the opponent's defenses, drive straight in, and divide and encircle the opponent...... But it's still 1927! He hadn't thought of such a good tactic yet, and naturally he hadn't thought about how to deal with the current situation.

In the past, a depth of 10 kilometers allowed the rear troops to move calmly, fill gaps, or set up new defensive positions. In a world war, it often takes an entire week of artillery bombardment and infantry charges to move the entire front forward by ten kilometres, and this little result is enough to make the commanders at the front and the political axes in the rear complacent for a while. Where did it take half an hour to break through, and then an hour later another ten kilometers were advanced! And at the same time, the miracle of smashing all the reserves and auxiliary units deployed in the rear of the front line by the opponent? And the one who created this miracle was actually poor and weak, as if the Chinese army was about to die!

No! This is not something Chinese done!! This must be that I am making trouble!!

The thought suddenly crossed Blyukhel's mind, and he immediately trusted his own judgment. The steel monsters that have broken through under their noses and are slaughtering the heroic Soviet fighters must be the army of all evil imperialism!

They must have used the Chinese White Army as a bait to lure the Soviet Red Army into China, and then took advantage of the fierce battle between the Chinese and Soviet armies to attack the unsuspecting Soviet Red Army in a despicable and shameless manner, and it was also an overwhelming strength of artillery, uh, and hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles! Right! That's it!

"Chuikov!" Blyukherr suddenly turned his head, looked at Chuikov with a frightened expression, and shouted: "Hurry up and send an urgent telegram to Moscow!" We are now under surprise attack by the overwhelming numerical imperialist army!! I said I was going to invade the Soviet Union!! This is a trap, a trap for myself!! ”

…… Yanjing Zhongnanhai Juren Hall. It's also brightly lit now, but it's a gloomy cloud that hangs over it.

Zhang Xueliang just sent a secret telegram, the battle situation on the front line of Zhalanuoer has been completely eroded, and most of the siege relief troops led by Luo Yaoguo have now been defeated by the Russians! Well, of course, this is analyzed by Zhang Shaoshuai. There was no news from Luo Yaoguo's side...... It is estimated that there is less luck and less luck!

Zhang Zuolin is now sitting on the sofa in the living room of Jurentang with a sad face, and the whole person is so haggard that people feel heartache when they see it. The old handsome man was trembling in his hand and pinched the "farewell letter" that his son had just sent from Manchuria, and it was really full of blood and tears!

"Dashuai...... Adviser Sakanishi came. Yang Yuting's trembling voice rang in Veteran Zhang's ears. He had just invited Rihachiro Sakanishi, the military attache in China and the chief military adviser to the Yanjing political axe, to Jurentang to negotiate...... Traitorous things!!

"Please let him in......" Zhang Zuolin replied weakly. In the current situation, is there any other way than to ask me to come forward and help the Feng family get back? As for what benefits I want, I can only promise them first, and then find a way to deal with them later.

After a while, Sakanishi Rihachiro slowly walked in accompanied by Yang Yuting. He was trying to keep his old face from laughing. The Kuomintang army was defeated, and the news that Feng planned to "sell the country for glory" naturally knew all about it through Yang Yuting. And this side has already prepared a plan for this...... Although Ishihara strongly suggested helping the Kuomintang army defeat the Soviet Union and creating conditions for the Soviet Union to carve up China. However, this whimsical idea was not approved by the political axe and the military in the end, and their plan was to profit from it after the defeat of the Feng faction and the Kuomintang, either to occupy the northeast directly, or to obtain benefits through the Zhang Zuolin regime.

"Zhang Dashuai, the Great Empire is deeply sympathetic to your country's suffering...... And I am also willing to help your country recover the current predicament, but ......"

Time was pressing, and the two sides no longer exchanged pleasantries, and as soon as they sat down, Rihachiro Sakanishi went straight to the point and said what he meant.

Zhang Zuolin heard that he had not "abandoned" him, and his face improved slightly, but his hands were still a little trembling. A signed "traitorous agreement" is being held tightly in his hands. Historically, these demands were promised by Zhang Zuolin during Guo Songling's anti-Feng period...... It is said that the Huanggutun incident was triggered by this!

"Consultant Banxi, last time...... I have agreed to all the four-point demands put forward by your country, and I have signed them all in black and white! It's just that...... Now that my 100,000 troops are trapped in Manchuria and can't get out, your country must find a way to help me, otherwise I will fall, and this agreement will be a piece of waste paper! ”

Waving the traitorous agreement in his hand, Zhang Zuolin squeezed out a somewhat stiff smile, looked at the other party and said:

"This time...... It's come to this point, and I won't say who is responsible. It's just a little bit, my son is also in Manchuria now, if he has something three long and two short...... It's just a matter of breaking up!! ”

When Sakanishi Rihachiro heard the other party's conditions, he hurriedly patted his chest and promised: "Please rest assured that after receiving your guarantee, the imperial political axe will immediately make representations to the Soviet side through the embassy in Germany, asking them to immediately stop the attack on Manchuria and retreat from Northeast China!" Otherwise, you will face the interference of the Emperor [***] team! But...... Zhang Dashuai also has to make concessions and may have to compensate them for their losses, after all, in this war, you China is the defeated side! ”

…… The two infantry divisions of the Soviet Red Army, concentrated near the town of Zhalaunor, were basically in a state of recuperation when they were raided by the rumbling Chinese armored forces. They had already gone through two consecutive days and two nights of marching and fighting, especially a day and a half of bloody battles, which had tormented them physically and mentally. Many people fall asleep as soon as they lie down, and they can't wake up even when the sky falls. Not to mention that just a few dozen tanks and armored vehicles pressed over.

By the time Blyukhel and the other Soviet generals realized that disaster had struck, it was too late to organize troops to resist! Even the superintendent machine guns of the political commissars and internal affairs personnel did not have time to set up, and the troops collapsed all at once! It was not the tanks and armored vehicles commanded by Guderian that actually routed them, but their fear of such a sudden blow. In the vast darkness of the night, unknown and powerful enemies are driving steel chariots that are simply "indestructible" from all directions. In the eyes of the Soviet Red officers and soldiers, who were completely dominated by fear, there were so many of these steel behemoths! There are too many to count! With these few people and these weapons in their hands, it is impossible to defeat at all, and the only reasonable choice is to flee...... "Assault!" Assault! Rush over! Leave the routs alone and leave them to the infantry behind!! "Guderian, who commanded the battle, now has these few words in his mouth over and over again, and these words are probably the essence of the blitzkrieg, right?

The task of the armored forces tonight is to assault! Assault! Assault again!! Disperse all the organized resistance they encountered, disrupt the enemy's logistics, command, artillery, and other systems, and put the opponent in chaos and fear. A chaotic and disorganized army is no match for the fast-following Kuomintang 18th Division infantry, even if these Soviet Red Army soldiers were once brave and well-trained, once in a situation of disorganized chaos, they would be as vulnerable as any other rabble!

Faced with the current rout, Blyukhel had to pin his last hope on the Seventh Cavalry Division commanded by Rokossovsky, who was monitoring Zhang Xueliang's group on the Western Front. Now only this division is still intact and ready to fight to save the Red Banner Special Far Eastern Army.

…… April 16 at 11 p.m. The armored forces under Guderian's command had already rushed through the ruins of the town of Zalainorr to the back of the two Soviet infantry divisions commanded by Blyukhel. Now these two divisions have also been divided and surrounded by the follow-up Kuomintang 18th Division, and it seems that there is no hope left, and it is only a matter of time before they are completely annihilated...... The armored brigade that rushed behind the Soviet troops had less than forty tanks and more than two dozen armored vehicles left. The rest were either destroyed by the Soviets or temporarily abandoned due to mechanical problems. Now that the armored brigade had completed its assault mission, they were to establish a four-kilometer-wide blocking line west of the town of Zhalainoer to block the return of the Red cavalry division near Manchuria. Guderian, who received the order, immediately lined up the tanks and armored vehicles and trucks in his hands, and also set up a thin long snake formation on the steppe. More than 2,000 infantrymen, under the command of officers, set up various artillery, machine guns and rifles, and did not have time to dig bunkers, but directly leaned around various vehicles, quietly waiting for the arrival of the opponent.

At this time, the fighting in the small town of Zalainorr was still going on, and the Soviet Red Army, which had been divided into several pieces, now seemed to have somewhat restored order. Groups of soldiers were organized by the senior officers and put up desperate and fierce resistance. The artillery of the Kuomintang army is now beginning to roar unscrupulously, and the Soviet heavy artillery capable of suppressing them has been completely wiped out in the onslaught of armored forces.

All of a sudden, fireballs began to rise high over the town again, and even Rokossovsky and his Soviet 7th Cavalry Division, who were several kilometers away, could see it clearly! Rokossovsky now knew that imperialism had begun to attack the Soviet Union! And he is the only hope for those comrades-in-arms who were attacked by the despicable and shameless Yue Kou!

"Bang Bang ......"

Faintly from the front, there was the sound of sporadic gunfire. It was Rokossovsky's scout cavalry that ran into the temporary line of arrest set up by Guderian.

After a while, a fast horse galloped from the front, and a Soviet lieutenant above brought Rokossovsky information obtained by the reconnaissance unit:

"Comrade General, an armored unit of the 'Yue Army' blocked in front of us, about a hundred tanks, and quite a few infantry with machine guns, but no artillery ...... was found."

"Invaders!!" Rokossovsky scolded hatefully, it should be a scolding of the "Yue Army" blocking them, right? After scolding, the general frowned slightly, and glanced at the blazing Zha Lai Nuoer, where 20,000 (no longer existed) comrades were waiting for his cavalry division to come to the rescue! Even if there is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of you, you are not allowed to retreat! If he retreats, the political commissar will come to arrest, and the good life will say goodbye to him forever.

"Comrades! Bolshevik fighters! Ahead there are militarists armed to the teeth, and these vile and shameless enemies have just attacked our main forces...... Of course, this sneak attack has already met with a shameful failure...... Our valiant Red Army fighters will soon be able to crush them completely! And our mission is to speed up the process! Now I order the entire 7th Cavalry Division of the Red Army to launch a surprise attack on the enemy who is blocking us! All assault!! Assault!!! For Comrade Stalin! For the sake of the Bolshevik Party! For the sake of the Soviet Fatherland! Assault!!! ”

After saying nonsense, Comrade General pulled out his snowy saber, drew a beautiful arc in the air, pointed ahead, and then shouted "Ula!" "Then he jumped out and led the Red Army cavalry with LinkedIn to launch a charge without hesitation! About eight thousand young Bolshevik fighters, also pretending to be inspired by the general's speech, shouted and drew their sabers and began this doomed and tragic offensive. Behind them, of course...... There were also political commissars who were smiling and nodding frequently, and internal affairs personnel who were busy setting up machine guns.

…… It was still the afternoon of April 6 in Moscow. The owner of the Kremlin has just had afternoon tea and is now furious in his office. Bad news from the northeastern front in China had already reached Stalin's desk by radio waves, and there was another bad news from Germany.

"Comrade Nikolayevich urgently telegraphed." Stalin's secretary Bajanov took a deep breath and told the great leader another bad news from the Soviet embassy in Germany: "Ambassador Nagaoka has just met with Ambassador Nikolayevich through the German Foreign Office, and they demand that we immediately stop the war with China and withdraw from Chinese territory, otherwise they will take ...... against us."

"Despicable! Shameless!! These vile and shameless mongregs! How dare they fool the USSR like this! "Baranov's words have not yet been finished, and Stalin is already in a state of rampage. These people are so shameless! How can there be such shameless people in this world? They are now demanding that the Soviet Red Army withdraw from Chinese territory! Uh, can you get out? Now that stupid Blyukhel has been surrounded by your army in Zalainor, how can you retreat? It seems that this incident is a trap of imperialism at all! They instigated the Chinese White Army to provoke the Soviet Union, and then used the Chinese White Army as bait to lure the main forces of the Soviet Red Army in the Far East to the northeast...... The goal is to destroy them through vile undeclared war and sneak attacks! Thus clearing the way for the invasion of the Soviet Far East!

"Joseph? Comrade Vissarionovich...... How should we respond to this request? Barenov glanced timidly at the great leader in his rage and cautiously asked the question.

Smack. Stalin slapped the table hard, glared at Barenov with anger on his face, and exclaimed: "These despicable and shameless people still want an answer!" Bastard! Barangov, you go and tell Nikolayevich, let him tell the devil, just let the horse come! The Soviet Motherland is not afraid of any threat! ”

"Wait a minute!" As soon as Barenov turned around, Stalin's roar rang out again: "Inform the Politburo and the Revolutionary Military Council to convene an emergency meeting, we must be ready to mobilize all forces to defend the Far East of the Motherland!" And inform the people of the Comintern to come to the Kremlin to meet me! I will arrange for them to launch a workers' struggle in this country, and we must smash the war conspiracy of the imperialists! Uh, let the GCD also raise the banner of armed defense of the USSR! ”

At this time, Stalin was already fully convinced that it was a group of Chinese troops who defeated the Soviet Red Army at Zhagano in Chinese uniforms. In fact, this theory was circulated for a long time at the time, and almost all people believed it...... Even including the military itself!

(To be continued)