"Good news! Great news for the Far Eastern Army! The Imperial Army has broken through the defense line of the Ussuri River of the Chinese Army and planted the banner of the Rising Sun on the land of China! ”

Major General Matsui Ishone, the director of the Military Affairs Bureau, who was dry and thin, rushed into the office of the Minister of War, Senior General Yusaku Uehara, and shouted with his fist, his face full of irrepressible excitement. At this time, sitting in this small office is not Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiichi Tanaka. Yoshiichi Tanaka arrived at the Miyazaka Army Provincial Building at 6:00 p.m. on July 00, 0 minutes before the Japanese Second Army launched its general attack. Novel chapters are updated the fastest

Yusaku Uehara raised his wrist and took the time, and it was already 6:20 a.m. on July 2. He nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "In less than 2 hours, it broke through the defense line of the Ussuri River, which was defended by the superior Chinese army, and the Far Eastern Army really deserves to be the flower of the imperial army!" ”

He looked triumphant, thinking that he didn't know that the Japanese army of four divisions spent 2 hours paying the price of nearly 10,000 casualties before he could break through the defense line guarded by a Chinese infantry division! Well, and it was only the first line of defense of the 2nd Chinese Division, and then it was going to be hard fighting for several days in the forest in the northeast...... It's still early to make a real breakthrough!

Yoshiichi Tanaka also said in his heart, "God bless the Imperial Army". According to the information he had, the Chinese had deployed at least one army in the Ussuri River defense line and the Tiger Head Fortress! The number of Japanese troops was 50% larger than that of the four divisions, and the firepower was more than double. If the Japanese Second Army was easily defeated by them, then the detour of the Japanese First Army would not have the slightest meaning. The Chinese Northeast Front will not be in a hurry, and naturally there is no need to draw troops from near Shanghai to the north. In this way, the battle in Shanghai will not be won, and the chapters of the ......" novel will be updated the fastest

"Is the loss situation out?" Yoshiichi Tanaka let out a long breath. Ask Matsui Michi.

Matsui said with a solemn face: "Your Excellency Prime Minister, according to the report of the Far Eastern Army Command, preliminary statistics. In the July battle, the Second Army lost about 700 people and seriously wounded more than 2,200. "The Far Eastern Army played a little word game here, and the losses they reported were July, that is, until 2 o'clock yesterday evening. It would be a bit scary to report the losses that have been counted in the past six hours or so today.

Yoshiichi Tanaka stood up. The expression of joy on his face that had lost a lot of weight could not be concealed. The loss was almost 6,000 ...... Although it is a little bigger, it is still within a reasonable range, and the combat effectiveness of the ** squadron is not as strong as imagined. This war. There is still hope. He turned back to Prime Minister Yusaku Uehara and said with a smile: "Uehara-kun, give instructions to the military department." The First Army was ordered to 'forcibly' enter the Soviet Far East. It is hoped that they can force their way across the Heilongjiang River within a week and lay an unshakable foundation for the empire's continental hegemony! With that, he nodded slightly at Yusaku Uehara, and then strode out of the War Minister's office. After determining the shape of the battle in Manchuria, the Japanese prime minister was ready to go to the navy to communicate again. Listen to their opinion on ending the war. He, the head of the Japanese Empire, knew how much money his country had. If there is a protracted war, Japan will have to go bankrupt.

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The sound of gunfire was so thick that the battlefield of fierce fighting between the Chinese and Japanese armies shifted to Linhai on the west bank of the Ussuri River in the early morning of July 2. Although the Japanese had an advantage in firepower and strength. But this boundless sea of forests seems to have become a trap that devours the lives of the Japanese infantry!

In particular, along this improvised road, which was called the "Linhai Highway" by the warring parties, there was desperate resistance from the officers and men of the 2nd Division of the Wehrmacht. The Japanese attack suffered heavy casualties. They set up an unknown number of blocking positions in the woods on both sides of the road, and the Japanese had to pay heavy losses for every step forward. And when their infantry captured these improvised barrage positions under the cover of artillery fire, the Chinese infantry guarding there often disappeared into the endless forest sea as soon as they slipped away. If the Japanese infantry launched a successful pursuit, then most of them would have gone and never returned, in the old forest. I don't know how many dangers await them!

Major General Umezu Mijiro was so anxious that he was about to go crazy. The 1st Brigade under his command was a new force that was transferred after the Japanese broke through the Ussuri River defense line, and the two wings and six brigades were all fully manned. The total number of troops is 6, 7,000 people! The mission is nothing more than sweeping along the Linhai Highway. I thought it would be an easy job, but who would have thought that after 24 hours of fighting, I had to advance less than 5 kilometers! And even this 5-kilometer road can't be considered completely controlled, and from time to time there are gunshots coming from behind him!

It was a small group of Chinese troops coming out of the depths of the dense forest, exchanging fire with the alert troops they had deployed on both sides of the road. He also sent a small group of troops deep into the dense forest to clear out the Chinese army entrenched there, but these small groups of Japanese troops either wandered around in the dense forest for half a day and found nothing, or they were ambushed by the Chinese army and suffered heavy casualties, and even two infantry squads never returned, and it has been more than five hours, and even a single news has not been transmitted. Thinking of this, Major General Umezu had the urge to set fire to the entire forest, but the heavy rain could only be done.

When he was in a hurry in his own temporary headquarters, a staff officer ran into the tent and saluted: "Report to the brigade commander, the 1st Infantry Wing has occupied the Chinese army's blocking position!" ”

"Oh, got it, let them stay in a squadron and move on." Umezu Mijiro's face was pale, without a trace of joy, such a breakthrough has happened several times in the past 24 hours, but soon after each breakthrough, there will be a new round of resistance war, I don't know when it will be a head?

And Umezu Mijiro's direct opponent, Colonel Wu Qiwei, was also frowning at this time, listening to the staff officer's order to report to the division headquarters. After nearly 0 hours of fierce fighting, the colonel, who had always been neatly dressed, was already covered in mud and sweat, and there were still scorched marks on the corners of his military uniform. Since the formation of the Chinese National Defense Force, it has probably never experienced such a bloody battle, right? The Japanese were overwhelmingly superior in firepower, and their infantry poured in as if they were dying. Even the officers and men who had undergone strict training were almost frightened by such an attack! The most unacceptable thing is. His regiment fought hard for so long, and it only received two reinforcements, and it was less than 2,000 people. It's all heavy soldiers sent by the division headquarters! And this time, the order transferred by the division headquarters clearly told him that the last reinforcement was already on the way, and then the 2nd Division would have no troops to send! And the military department will not send reinforcements either! But their 6th Regiment must rely on Linhai to carry out the most stubborn resistance, even after the Linhai Highway is broken through by the Japanese army, they must not return to the Tiger Head Fortress, but must hold on to this Linhai to the end!

He snorted and interrupted the staff officer's announcement: "Did the division headquarters say how long it is necessary to hold the Linhai Highway?" And how long do we need to stay in the forest? We don't have much ammunition left. The staff officer said, "The division commander just ordered us to hold on as much as possible." As for ammunition supplies and weapons and equipment, they can be withdrawn from secret warehouses in Limhaili, the specific location is xxx, and the managers there have already been ordered. ”

Wu Qiwei wears a general's hat on his head. Walked out of the shelter in the dense forest. Not far away, there is still a battlefield with gunsmoke. The sound of gunfire there has thinned out. The Japanese had already driven the officers and men of the 204th Battalion into the woods. He muttered to himself: "Fight, fight, whoever fights first will be the one who will fight it out......"

"Hurry up, hurry up and get into the firing position!" The company commander of the 6th Company of the 20th Battalion of the 6th Regiment is now Second Lieutenant Zhang Zhonglin. The original company commander had already died in yesterday's battle. Now Zhang Zhonglin commanded this company with less than 0 people to hold a blocking position. The position is located in the woods, and the Linhai Highway is a few dozen meters away. After the 204th Battalion's blocking position was broken through by the Japanese, a brutal offensive and defensive battle would soon begin on their side

Finish. Now the Japanese ghosts have also learned to be obedient, and they know that there are most of the ambushes in the woods on both sides of the road, so before their soldiers come up, they use 75mm guns and mortars to plow the woods on both sides of the road. However, Zhang Zhonglin's company was already prepared and hid deep in the forest during the Japanese shelling. They finished firing their guns before rushing back to their positions. As soon as he took his position, he saw a small group of ghosts swaggering over with rifles and an officer with a command knife on his shoulder.

"Reason." Zhang Zhonglin shouted at Chen Li, the sniper who was attached to their company. "The officer is yours!" Then he ordered: "Others are free to fire, machine guns and submachine guns are not allowed to fire." He knew that this small group of Japanese ghosts was the bait for the pathfinder, to lure them to expose their machine-gun fire! The shooting accuracy of the imp mortar is ridiculously accurate! As for the submachine gun, it is difficult to exert its full power at this distance, and firing is also a waste of bullets.

"Smack!" The first to fire was the sniper Chen Li, which was stipulated in the Wehrmacht infantry code. Hit the officers of the enemy army with the first shot! I saw that the ghost squad leader's head suddenly bloomed, and he fell down before he even had time to scream! Immediately after that, the riflemen of the 6th company all opened fire, and the gunfire was not very dense, some sparsely, but the shot was surprisingly accurate! After 0 hours of hard fighting, these infantry have become experienced veterans, and they can play at the level of their usual training. It's really a piece of cake to make a big living person at a distance of a few tens of meters! That is, in tens of seconds, there were corpses lying on the road. However, the Japanese army's retaliation also came soon, and mountain artillery and mortar shells rained down, which immediately drowned Zhang Zhonglin's defensive position in a cloud of fire and smoke!

As soon as the shelling stopped, the command and shouts of the Japanese charge rang out. Zhang Zhonglin raised his head from the foxhole where he was hiding, and when he looked around, most of the brothers were already setting up their rifles and preparing to fire, and even the two heavy machine guns that were left inside were intact. He exhaled softly, raised his right hand high, and stretched out three hands to command. This means putting the enemy within 0 meters before firing.

Soon the Japanese ghosts who rushed ahead entered this distance, and these short and fierce Japanese soldiers were all wearing loose khaki military uniforms and fluffy cloth military hats, which looked a bit like scarecrows. But the bayonet-mounted rifles they were carrying were no joke! Moreover, there are hundreds of them, and if they really rush in to fight the white blade, dozens of people from the 6th Company of the 20th Battalion are not opponents.

......The 65mm caliber Maxim machine gun began to roar, and a string of flames swept over the little Japanese infantry like wheat! Meantime. Rifles and submachine guns also began to wield, bullets rained down, and the Japanese soldiers who rushed to the front suddenly screamed and fell down one after another! There was also a Japanese soldier who was actually frightened. I turned around and ran back, but was given a pistol by the Japanese officer who supervised the battle! The other ghost soldiers all lay on the ground or hid behind the tree poles and started firing back with their rifles, which is probably the biggest disadvantage of choosing to set up a blocking position in the woods, and the opponent can also use all kinds of plants as cover!

The infantry of both sides fired at each other in the woods, grenades flew around from time to time, and in a short time the Japanese heavy machine guns and mortars also moved up to support the attack of their infantry with ferocious fire! And the mountain artillery and mortars of the 6th Regiment of the Chinese Army, which were ambushed deeper in the woods, also began to counterattack. Two other companies of the 20 Battalion also arrived to reinforce them. The battle lasted from the early morning of July to the afternoon, and the Japanese launched seven charges in succession, two of which broke into the Chinese positions. In the end, Zhang Zhonglin and his subordinates were driven out with bayonets and submachine guns. It was not until the evening of the same day that the 20th Battalion of the Chinese Army retreated into the jungle and ceded its position to the opponent, but the fighting along the Linhai Highway was far from over.

However, the Japanese Second Army encountered stubborn resistance from the Chinese army along the Linhai Highway. When the news of the heavy losses reached the command of the Far Eastern Army in Yanpo. The commander of the Far Eastern Army, Kawai Cao, and the chief of staff, Toshiichi Terauchi, in the war room. There are also people like Nagata Tetsuyama, the head of the combat section, but they are greatly relieved.

Kawai Cao said to Nagata Tieshan with a smile: "Nagata-kun, the two imperial army divisions are blocked on a road, so now we can be sure that the main force of the Chinese army is still around the Tiger Head Fortress, right?" ”

Nagata Tieshan bowed slightly, and some smiles appeared on his face that had been tense since the start of the war: "It is basically certain that according to the military report of the Second Army, they have broken through at least two divisions of the Chinese army, and they are still struggling. They came and encountered at least one army of Chinese troops...... There should be one more in Tiger Head Fortress, and there may be one south of the fortress. "Speaking of which. The smile that Nagata had just shown was gone. "Your Excellency Commander, it is estimated that the First Army of China is mobilizing forces to prepare for a counterattack, and my Second Army is afraid that it will encounter a counterattack by more than two Infantry Corps of China!"

He Cao smiled faintly: "It's okay, the second army has 00,000 imperial soldiers...... Even if the Shina army gathered a million troops, it would not be possible to defeat them in a few days, and then Muto-kun's surprise attack force should appear behind them. He turned back to Chief of Staff Shouichi Terauchi and said, "Where is the First Army now?" When can we launch an operation to force the crossing of the Heilongjiang River? ”

"Your Excellency, the main force of the First Army has arrived in Birobidzhan in the Soviet Union, and the operation of forcibly crossing the Heilongjiang River can be launched on July 5 at the latest."

"And what about the Soviet Red Army in Birobidzhan?"

"They had withdrawn to Belogarsk a day earlier, and it was said that their Far Eastern bandit campaign was not going well...... Zabaikalsk was also captured yesterday by the rebels in Chita. ”

"After Baikalsk was occupied? How so? Kawai frowned. After Baikalsk was occupied by the rebels, their communication line with China was opened, and they could obtain supplies from China at any time, and they could retreat to China in time if the war was unfavorable. In this way, those rebels may really want to become bigger! This is not good news for the Japanese, who are preoccupied with the Soviet Union entering the war.

Terauchi shook his head and said: "According to intelligence, there are also many Far Easterners (referring to Chinese, Koreans, and Mongols) in the Red Army division stationed in Zabaikalsk, accounting for about 40%, and their division commander and political committee members are afraid of their rebellion, so they want to purge them first." As a result, the people on both sides of the army were on fire in the barracks, and it happened that Chita sent troops to attack, so they ......"

"How could there be such a thing!" Kawai Cao's face turned gloomy. "If the Soviet Union is unable to enter the war in the short term, I am afraid that the strength of the empire will not be able to force China to submit!" He is the first brain of the Japanese Army, Nagata Tetsuyama. "Nagata-kun, what's wrong with you?"

"Moscow is deliberately releasing water! How could the rabble in the Far East resist the Red Army? "Nagata Tetsuyama's face is pale." They must have wanted to use the civil war in the Far East as an excuse to evade their obligation to participate in the war against the country. No, they should be meditating on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, wanting to wait until the empire and China are exhausted before making a move! ”

"So what do we do?" Kawai asked.

"The Far Eastern Army must win a landslide victory!" Nagata Tetsuyama gritted his teeth and said. "Only then will the USSR be eager to join in!"

"Overwhelming...... Victory? Kawai laughed bitterly. Where did the Far Eastern Army have such strength? ”

"The 11th Division of Yanpu and the 9th Division of Boli can all be assigned to the Second Army." Terauchi Shouichi built yì road. "In this way, the first army and the second army together have the strength of 0 divisions and cavalry groups, which is enough to annihilate the three Zhina armies near the Tiger Head Fortress."

"What about the Twin Cities?" Kawai walked over to the map table, picked up the baton and tapped it on the location of the twin cities. "There is only one tenth division, in case that army attacks, can it hold it?" (To be continued.) )