[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 622: The debut of the rookie air force (ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

The defeat of the 23rd Division of the Kwantung Army at Nomenkan was very dissatisfied with the base camp, and in modern times, until the Battle of Nomenkan, the Japanese army had an innate psychological advantage over the Soviet and Russian troops, which came from the Russo-Japanese War in 1905. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoAs the victor of the war, the Japanese army has always looked down on the Soviet Russian army, and even the Soviet Red Army lost its armor and defeated the allied forces of Western countries in the Great Patriotic War, which could not change the sense of superiority in the hearts of the Japanese.

Especially when the Japanese army received the news that most of the excellent and experienced commanders in the Red Army had been executed due to Stalin's rebellion, they were even more disdainful of the Red Army, and even arrogantly claimed that one division of the Japanese army could fight three divisions of the Soviet Union.

It was precisely because of this that this fiasco was simply an intolerable shame in the eyes of the base camp, for which the commander of the Kwantung Army, General Ueda, was severely reprimanded by the base camp. Even many veterans who had never cared much about the actions of the Japanese army openly claimed that this was the only and greatest shame for the Imperial Japanese Army, especially the invincible Kwantung Army.

This kind of reprimand made General Ueda very dissatisfied, originally from the beginning Admiral Ueda did not support the 23rd Division Commander Komatsubara's operation, but he couldn't bear Lieutenant General Komatsubara's repeated instructions, and finally agreed to his battle plan, but I didn't expect the final outcome to be such a fiasco!

However, it doesn't end there. As a result of the deliberate propaganda of the Japanese high-brass, the belligerent mood of the various units of the Kwantung Army had been aroused, and they had long been looking forward to fighting the Soviet army, and this defeat seemed to everyone to be nothing more than an accident, yes, an accident. The defeat did not bring introspection, but more mania, and the entire Kwantung Army was in a kind of morbid "euphoria".

No one cared why the cavalry wing of the 23rd Division and the heavy armored vehicle unit were still defeated after the successful surprise attack on the Mongolian army headquarters, and no one cared why the powerful heavy armored vehicles of the Imperial Japanese Army were shattered by Soviet tanks. No one cared that the cavalry was helpless in the face of these rampaging "steel monsters" of the Soviet army, so they had to desperately wield their sabers and slash. The fanatical Japanese army was eager to engage the Soviets, and more than 90% of the officers knew nothing about the situation of the Soviets, but they despised their opponents for no reason.

Immediately afterward, before the aftermath of the previous stage of the war had been dealt with, the Kwantung Army received a telegram from Komatsubara. The content of the telegram was: The Soviet army continued to increase its troops in Nomenkan, and on the 18th it had expelled the "Manchukuo" army from the Nomenkan area; Soviet planes bombed the hot springs area and the Gangur Temple, causing damage.

As the commander of the garrison in the Nomenkan area, Lieutenant General Komatsubara suggested that he take the initiative to punish him severely.

Immediately after receiving the telegram, the Kwantung Army command convened an operational meeting. As a result of the discussions, the Kwantung Army Command ordered the mobilization of troops in the direction of Nomenkan. The mobilized forces included all of the replenished 23rd Division, the Yasuoka Detachment, which consisted of the 1st Tank Regiment and a part of the 7th Division, and the 2nd Flying Group. This was a large-scale mobilization of troops without precedent in a border dispute, and its policy was to engage in a head-on confrontation with the Soviet army, and its attitude was very tough.

In this regard, the resistance of the Soviet side was very fierce, and Zhukov immediately organized 150 tanks, 154 armored vehicles, 90 artillery pieces, all aircraft and other troops to counterattack in three directions. Due to the open ground around the Bayinchagang Heights, which was very conducive to aircraft and combat vehicles, the Japanese troops were all exposed in front of Soviet tanks and armored vehicles. In this battle, Japanese anti-tank guns and the tactics of destroying marching tanks with ****** in close combat came into play. Subsequently, the tide of the battle began to turn against Japan, and the 23rd Division retreated to the right bank of the Haraha River to join the Yasuoka detachment.

In early June, the War Department of the Japanese base camp issued an order to organize the Sixth Army in Hailar to directly command the operation. The commander of the Sixth Army was Lieutenant General Di Zhou, and the war turned into a protracted war.

On the other hand, the Soviet Union formed the First Army Corps under the command of Zhukov, and continuously strengthened its strength with five armored divisions (420 tanks and armored vehicles each). At the same time, the Soviet Union continued to mobilize planes from the country to fight the Japanese army.

In the early morning of August 20, the Soviet-Mongolian army launched a general offensive campaign. With 3 infantry divisions, 2 cavalry divisions, 5 armored brigades, 1 machine gun brigade, 1 airborne brigade, and a large number of aircraft and artillery, the Soviet-Mongolian army began a large-scale counteroffensive. Although the Japanese army did not have a single tank, it was heavily bombarded by thousands of tons of Soviet artillery shells, and it was also surrounded by Soviet armored units, but the Japanese army was not afraid and bravely fought fiercely with the Soviet army on the position.

By 26 August, the 23rd Division of the Japanese Army had been completely encircled. Under the heavy bombardment of Soviet heavy artillery groups, tank groups, and aerial bombs, the Japanese 23rd Division suffered heavy losses. In this battle, the Soviet army suffered heavy losses to the search team of the 23rd Division of the Japanese Army, the 1st Brigade of the 26th Wing of the 7th Division, the 64th Wing of the Japanese Army and the 13th Artillery Wing were annihilated by most of the Soviet Army, the commander of the 64th Wing, Takemitsu Yamaguchi Daisa, and the commander of the 13th Artillery Wing, Ise Takahide Osa, were both killed, and the commander of the 71st Wing of the 23rd Division, Toru Morita, was also killed, and all the only 22 cannons of the Japanese army were lost.

On August 31, after 11 days of being bombarded by tens of thousands of tons of shells, the 23rd Division of the Japanese Army, which had run out of ammunition and food, decided to break through. More than 2,000 soldiers of the 23rd Division used grenades to fight their way out of the encirclement, and the Japanese units also broke through.

In view of the fact that there was no hope of defeating the Soviet Union, the Japanese ambassador to the Soviet Union Togo made a request to the Soviet Union for an armistice at Nomenkan. Subsequently, the Japanese ambassador to the Soviet Union, Togo, signed an armistice agreement with Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov. The Battle of Normenhan, on the other hand, lasted 135 days. The two sides invested more than 200,000 soldiers, more than 500 artillery pieces, 900 aircraft, thousands of tanks and armored vehicles, and more than 60,000 people died.

Before the Battle of Nomenkan broke out, Major General Suzuki could never have imagined that the mighty Imperial Army would be so vulnerable in front of the Russian Red Army. In particular, the Empire's self-proclaimed army of the first in Asia, in the face of the torrent of steel of the Soviet Red Army, all resistance was like window paper, which could be broken at the first stab.

And the most incredible thing about Rear Admiral Suzuki's strength of the Soviet Air Force, when those scythe-painted fighters streaked across the sky, it was the moment of death, and the ground was like a wasteland ploughed by a tractor, and no place was intact.

Because of this, when the rookie air force of the Suicha Military Region appeared on the battlefield, Major General Suzuki fell into an ice cave, and once thought that the Soviet Red Army had entered the war again.

"Boom Boom"

One by one, the bombs fell to the ground and then exploded rapidly. However, to the surprise of Major General Suzuki, the performance of these fighters was really flattering, and every time thirty or forty fighters dropped bombs, more than half of the aerial bombs were dropped outside the battlefield, and the hit rate was extremely poor. Even Rear Admiral Suzuki saw a fighter plane drop a precious bomb on the heads of the people of China, and those who didn't know thought that it was the Imperial Air Force on a mission.

However, after the initial panic, these fighters with poor combat skills slowly stabilized, and the bomb dropping was much stronger than before. For a time, the Japanese defenders of Thirteen Ao Bao were blown up.

Fighter planes were whistling, artillery was roaring, Japanese troops were groaning, and for a time the explosions of Japanese infantry positions and artillery positions rumbled, and severed limbs and stumps flew sideways. The bombing lasted a full half hour, and dozens of fighters had enough of their addiction to the Japanese positions before swaggering away.

When the smoke cleared, I saw that the Japanese position was full of bloody corpses, severed arms and stumps, and blown up weapons and equipment scattered everywhere, like Shura hell.

Putting down the binoculars, Liu Fengchi, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy, shook his head disdainfully, and secretly said This is the elite of the Japanese army? It's too rubbish, it's not as good as the Japanese army in North China, it seems that the commander is really right, this 12th Division is really a group of recruits who have never been on the battlefield. (To be continued.) )