Through the secret telegram deciphered by the intelligence department, Zhang Xuewu was very sure that his overall strategy might have been adjusted to a certain extent, and he seemed to have the intention of putting pressure on the Soviet side, because he stubbornly believed that as long as the Soviet Union stopped giving Zhang Xuewu the necessary assistance, then Zhang Xuewu's 10th theater of operations would become vulnerable.

The reason why he is unwilling to admit that he was defeated by Zhang Xuewu is that he has always believed that the so-called Yamato nation is superior to the Chinese nation, and his pride makes them cry bitterly in the face of the fiasco and find all kinds of reasons and excuses, if it were not for the cannons and shells of the Soviets, as well as the fighters that the Soviets helped Zhang Xuewu build, Zhang Xuewu would have been impossible to defeat the powerful Imperial Kwantung Army.

So, Umezu Mijiro and Ishihara Waner decided to launch the Far East Plan step by step, but the Kwantung Army has always been characterized by playing the piano and playing the piano indiscriminately, so this time is no exception, Ishihara Wanji started his fortune by disobeying orders, so the staff officers at all levels of the Kwantung Army all take Itagaki Seishiro and Ishihara Waner as an example, why do you allow Ishihara Waner and Itagaki Seishiro to take the opportunity to take the position?

So there was finally a big problem in the unexpected place of Umezu Mijiro and Ishihara Waner, and this problem seems to have been what Zhang Xuewu has been looking forward to for a long time, in a place that Zhang Xuewu is familiar with, but he didn't care about it at all because of the great changes in history, Zhang Gufeng is also known as Daoshan, called "Zaozelnaya" in Russian, which means the highland on the other side of the lake.

Its geographical location at the junction of Korea, the Soviet Union and China has a place that cannot be found on even a 50,000th military map, its mountain range originates from the Tianchi of Changbai Mountain, the rolling Tumen River flows from its Hassan Lake, and the Zhanggu Peak is a strategic point overlooking Vladivostok from the east, which is the only ice-free military port in the Soviet Union.

At the end of June 1938, three months after Zhang Xuewu thwarted the large-scale attack of the Yueben Kwantung Army, the Kwantung region was only bombed in Jinzhou, and a small detachment of the Soviet Army suddenly occupied Zhanggufeng by surprise, and began to build fortifications on the mountain and arrange barbed wire.

He who has already classified the northeast as a puppet Manchukuo and made Korea his colony quit? However, because the Soviet army was preparing to defend against the attack of the [***] team in the Xuzhou area, and it was necessary to face a thunderous counterattack in the 10th theater of Zhang Xuewu's headquarters in Manchuria and North China, the various units of the Kwantung Army, North China, and Central China were frequently mobilized, and from the perspective of troop deployment, it was difficult to clash with the Soviet army on a large scale in a short period of time.

Moreover, the actions of the Soviets also frightened Yue himself, because if the Soviet Union's move was not a temptation, then it proved that it was impossible for the Soviet Union to compromise with Yue Ben, and the Soviet army was also likely to cooperate with Zhang Xuewu to recover his hometown in the northeast, so he was anxious to know the true attitude of the Soviet Union, whether it was a test or a preparation before the attack, although there was not much difference between the two, but its true meaning was a thousand miles away.

At the same time, the cabinet instructed the ambassador to the Soviet Union, Chongguang Kui, to mediate with the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union made it clear that it was impossible to withdraw troops from Zhang Gufeng, so Chongguang Kui's diplomatic mediation reached a deadlock, saying that Zhang Xuewu always believed that the essence of the so-called Yamato nation was actually a cheap species, and he often always took the initiative to talk to others, and was slapped face, and if you want to talk to him, then waiting for you is also a face. A nation that doesn't even understand etiquette, righteousness and shame is not bad if it doesn't drink blood, and it still expects it to be a civilized person? It's so hard!

Under the influence of the surging patriotic movement in the country, the base camp of the army during the war made a painful decision to give a warning to the Soviets and recapture Zhanggufeng by force, and at the same time, in order to avoid the further expansion of the situation, and to lead the war to the northeast, thus affecting the situation in Central China, which was fighting a decisive battle with the Chinese [***] team, the base camp ordered the army stationed in Korea to complete this task.

On 7 July, the Kwantung Army overheard and learned that the head of the Soviet garrison in the Poshet region had been sent to the commander of the Soviet garrison in Khabarovsk. Lieutenant General Sugorov's telegram judged that the Soviet army was attempting to occupy the western heights of Xiangshandong, which is more than 10 kilometers northeast of Zhanggufeng, and immediately informed the Korean army, and the commander of the Korean army, General Koiso Kuniaki, immediately ordered the Hunchun garrison and the special services in the area to conduct a verification and investigation, and ordered the 19th Division of the Korean Army and the Hunchun garrison to pay attention to their vigilance.

It took three years to spend more than 10 million oceans and $3 million to build an intelligence network that summed up the entire northeast, and many high-ranking officers of the puppet army were members of his organization, so it can be said that Zhang Xuewu was able to know every move of the army in the northeast.

In fact, Zhang Xuewu checked the map many times, Zhang Gufeng is located in the southernmost part of Hunchun County, the puppet Manchukuo, facing the border between the Tumen River and the coastal states of the Soviet Union, and Hunchun County is classified as a defensive dungeon of the Korean Army, not under the jurisdiction of the Kwantung Army.

After receiving the order from the headquarters, the officers and men of the division were influenced by the idea of the Central Military Department to give a blow to the Soviet army for illegally crossing the border with strength, and they were determined to make preparations for recapture, and even prepared to come and not be rude, and to burn the flames of war to the territory of the Soviet Union. For Zhang Xuewu's 10th Theater Headquarters and the Soviet Army, the Korean Army still despised it as always, believing that the Kwantung Army was not worthy of the reputation of the flower of the imperial army!

According to the judgment of the General Staff Headquarters, on 9 July, the Soviet army suddenly dispatched troops to occupy Zhanggufeng, which had long been full of people coming and going, and resolutely ensured the intention of securing the place.

At the same time, in order to prepare for the war, to threaten the military railways leading to North Korea and East Manchuria, and to reconnoiter the army's preparations for war against the Soviet Union, and in addition, it is also possible that due to the recent incident in which the Minister of Political Security of the People's Republic of China, General Ryushikov, fled to Northeast China, the protest was carried out in order to restore the prestige of the Red Army in the Far East. To create an oppressive position on the Soviet troops, it is important to know that the division is stationed in the north of Korea, and its mission is to prepare for possible provocations on the part of the Soviet Union, and not to fight against China.

However, the wartime base camp suddenly changed its policy in an attempt to test the attitude of the Soviet Union, that is, it intended to play a dangerous trick. During the war, the base camp believed that in such a narrow area, neither side would be able to dispatch a large number of troops to fight a decisive battle, so it would not lead to a large-scale war between the Soviet Union, so even if the entire division of the 19th Division was destroyed, it would not matter, and this was a good time to show the Soviet Union its strength.

For this reason, the puppet Manchurian military advisory department specially convened a top-secret military meeting of the commanders of the border surveillance team, and this meeting was to exclude all Han annihilation from the surname, and afterwards, the Han annihilation to which the northern advisers belonged should make ideological preparations, and convey the order to the garrison level, demanding the selection of two shrewd subordinate officers, preferably those who can speak Manchu, requiring more ideological education, and the unprecedented selection of the ministers of Manchukuo, requiring a further understanding of the thinking of these people, so that they can be used for screening work. Many other matters were entrusted to the command of the First Counselor's Palace, Nagashima Counselor's Palace.

Moreover, he can also prepare thousands of sets of puppet Manchukuo military uniforms for the Kwantung Army and the Korean Army, and it can be said that the club is his specialty, and he can use the name of Manchuria [***] to clash with the Soviets, which can play a role in deterring the Soviet Union, and can directly avoid the direct confrontation between the Soviet Union and the Soviet side.

Zhang Gufeng said that the scale of the conflict between the Soviet and Soviet armies was not large, and it was even smaller than in history, but several thousand soldiers in the Korean army and the Kwantung Army in the Soviet Union, who were wearing puppet Manchurian uniforms, were violently beaten by the Soviets.

On the one hand, they want to scare the other party, and on the other hand, they have always been accustomed to taking advantage, and how can the Russians, who like to take advantage of the chaos, give up the good time to say that they are ignoring it? Zhang Xuewu only relied on the Soviet side but did not close to the meaning of resignation, which the Soviets were very unhappy, Stalin did not like Zhang Xuewu such a very reading and national spirit of the faction representatives, the tenth theater of operations with the help of the Soviet Union has seemed to be very strong, but this strength in Stalin's eyes is like ants and elephants in the comparison of strength.

Although a person can fight a thousand times and lift something dozens of times larger than his body, an ant is an ant after all, and an elephant is an elephant, and there is no comparable surname between the two!

He said that he and the Soviets were testing each other, and the Soviets were taking the opportunity to eat more and occupy more, while he wanted to scare the Soviets and let the Soviets show a little sincerity at the negotiating table and cut off military aid to support Zhang Xuewu's department in the 10th Theater, but the helpless thing was that the Imperial Army was too vulnerable to attack and could not defeat the Soviets on land, so he moved the idea of the Navy, and the Soviet Navy was indeed not a level of opponent compared with the Imperial Navy.

(To be continued)