Chapter Eighty-Three: The Spectator of Nomenkan

For many, Hitler's German offensive against Poland was shocking news. For Li Guang, who was training on the Stone Statue Island, he didn't even show a surprise.

The news of the world war did not arouse Li Guang's idea, but a telegram from the Soviets made Li Guang feel as if something was wrong.

Since Li Guang established intelligence contacts with the Soviet Union, he has already provided two pieces of information to the Soviet Union. The second piece of information is about the Battle of Nomenkan. Li Guang's purpose in giving this information to the Soviet Union was mainly twofold: First, to make the Soviet Union prepared, and to use the Soviet Union's hand to deal a severe blow to the Soviet Union. The second is to take the opportunity to get some compensation - 500 tons of cannon steel.

Toronov, the former Soviet embassy in Germany, has now been transferred to the Soviet legation in Uruguay as a civil servant, which can be regarded as a promotion. This Toronov obviously wanted to get more information from Li Guang, so the war report to Li Guang was quite timely, and this thing was also a means for the Soviets to brag about anyway.

However, Li Guang always felt a little strange when he looked at the battle report of the Soviets in his hand. The news he saw about the Battle of Nomenkan from the Internet generally focused on four aspects. First, the war was commanded by Zhukov, and the victory of Nomenkan selected an excellent general for the Soviet Union. Second, the Soviet Union won a great victory. Thirdly, the Soviet Union used armored combat on a large scale in this battle. Fourthly, it is not very credible that Zhukov fired a huge number of shells in this battle, which is said to have amounted to 30,000 tons or 40,000 tons.

But in the reports of the Soviets, it seems, the victory was not very brilliant. If it were brilliant, the Soviets would not have sent themselves such a modest war report.

The Soviets only wrote in the report that the Soviet army lost 10,000 casualties, and the 23rd Division of the Japanese Army was completely annihilated, defeating more than 100,000 Japanese troops. If it was according to such a ratio, Li Guang even suspected that the Soviet Union was defeated. If there are 10,000 casualties, then the total number of casualties will not be 40,000 or 50,000. The 23rd Division of the Japanese Army died 20,000 people.

However, there is still a little bit of a glorious account of the achievements of the Soviet armored forces in the report. One of them mentioned that more than 60 tanks of the Japanese army were destroyed. However, there is no mention of the losses of Soviet tanks.

How did Li Guang know that his butterfly had influenced a lot of history. He snatched the alloy steel plate that Yuben used to make the 97 armored command vehicle, and as a result, Yuben did not continue to manufacture this command tank. Instead, they went all out to build the 97 tank, and as a result, the number of 97 tanks equipped in the army was more than in history.

Historically, the army only invested four 97 tanks in Nomenkan, but in this time and space, it invested 16 tanks.

Thanks to the information provided by Li Guang, the Soviet Union was very well prepared. More than two hundred tanks were put into service, and more than five hundred armored vehicles. But the performance of the 97 tanks of the little devils in the battle was not bad, compared with the Soviet T26, BT3, BT5, BT7 tanks not only not weak, but even had advantages. Although the main tank of the Soviet T28 is stronger than the Type 97, the 97 tank is not without threat to the 30 mm armor of the T28 tank. The Soviet armored forces were not able to rampage through the bean tanks that ravaged Ben as they did in history.

In addition, at this moment, the future famous general Zhukov is not a master of armored warfare, and he is still in the groping stage.

Therefore, in fact, in this armored battle, the army even had the upper hand.

However, in terms of victory and defeat, it is indeed a victory for the Soviet Union. The fact that the Soviet Union held the Nomenkan and the army was forced to retreat is the most obvious evidence, and it is precisely the side that put forward the peace request, which shows that the army won a great victory.

This battle, historically speaking, actually completely destroyed the idea of the army going north. In this battle, he himself had already fired more than 30,000 shells in luxury, but Zhukov fired more than 30,000 tons of shells. Dozens of times the proportion of ammunition consumption and ten times the amount of troops invested, completely scared Xiao Yuben.

So much so that Ben never mentioned the idea of going north, but after the outbreak of the Pacific War, he provoked the more powerful United States.

Although Ben suffered losses in this war, he also discovered the advantages of the 97 tank, and is now producing the 97 tank at full capacity. Even the development of new equipment capable of countering the T28 tank began. In a short period of time, it will undoubtedly enhance the combat effectiveness of the army, and this is also a little butterfly effect that Li Guang did not expect.

Regarding everything about Nuomenkan, Li Guang was just a spectator, and he didn't care too much about this battle, but this battle could not continue to expand, and he was a little regretful. It seems that his butterfly is still too weak to make the Ben and the Soviet Union turn into a long-term fierce war.

The outbreak of war in Europe also made the Soviet Union interested in a truce, so as to free up its hands to carve up Poland with Germany. The Soviet Union was even more snobbish than the United States, focusing only on interests and not even a little face. Seeing an opportunity, he immediately negotiated peace with the Yue army, and rushed to Poland with a knife. For polar bears, Li Guang also has no good feelings. A little envious and jealous of the hatred, the USSR was really rich. In Li Guang's memory, China only consumed more than 70,000 tons of ammunition in the eight-year War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. And the naval resistance army does not have a hundred tons of shells plus bullets and torpedoes in stock, which is simply too poor.

According to the situation of the battle between Zheng Xuechang in the South China Sea and the Yue Army, Li Guang decided to take advantage of the money in his hand to ask Toronov again to buy some BR2-152mm cannons and 122 howitzers.

The request for purchase was quickly replied to, and it was also possible to see which weapons the Soviets valued more. 152 cannons, the USSR did not limit the number. And the lightweight, easy-to-use and powerful 122 howitzer, the Soviets did not sell it at all.

The last time Li Guang was able to buy six 122mm cannons, it was because the Soviets saw that Li Guang had provided life-saving information. Normal purchases, the Soviets only sold junk goods. Garbage is garbage, Li Guang doesn't care, it's a good thing to be able to buy it.

PJP added another mission, going to the USSR to buy twelve 152 cannons. Later, Li Guang learned that the Soviets had only produced 36 pieces of this gun, and only 37 of them were a trial gun, and the Soviets were unwilling to keep a shell production line for such a small and bulky cannon. In the first battle of Nomenkan, the Soviet Union put this cannon into use, but the transportation speed was terrible slow. Therefore, the Soviets were willing to dispose of and sell this cannon to Li Guang.

In 40 years, Li Guang bought this artillery again, and finally the Naval Resistance Army actually bought all the more than 30 Soviet-made 152 guns, and the Naval Resistance Army became the only army in the world to use this cannon. In the end, a complete production line of shells was won at a very small cost.

Regarding the situation in Europe, Li Guang is now very concerned.

You know, the PJP has now crossed the Strait of Malacca into the Indian Ocean and is on its way to Germany.

After Germany invaded Poland, although Britain and France declared war on Germany, the two sides seemed to still be in a tacit understanding. (In fact, on the day Britain and France declared war, a German submarine sank a passenger ship, but it was not announced.) In the meantime, Britain and France condemned Germany only diplomatically. This period was called the "Fake War" or "Strange War" by the Germans.

Did Britain and France still hope that the Germans would take the initiative to stop? Of course, the national war requires preparations, but when Li Guang was in this era, he was a little puzzled, could it be that World War II started with such a strange atmosphere?

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