The war in the southern part of the Outer Mongolia region is about to break out, hundreds of thousands of independent division troops are ready to fight, more than one million Soviet troops are rushing day and night, and more than 2 million soldiers on both sides are destined to collide fiercely on the front line of Saiyinshanda!

This was the first time that Tang Qiuli had used so many troops in his nearly ten years of conquest career, and had a head-on battle with his opponent on a defensive line that could not be lost.

In the course of fighting against the Japanese, British, and Soviet armies, the tactics he adopted were basically based on ambushes, concentrating superior forces, outflanking and dividing or encircling each other, and fighting face-to-face battles for the first time, but he had to fight like this, in a sense, he was forced by Stalin to adopt such a style of play.

The strategic location of Saiyin Shanda is too important, once lost, more than a million Soviet troops will come to the border of Inner Mongolia, and they can attack any point on the long border line at any time, and the flames of war will burn into China, which is something that Tang Qiuli will never allow to happen!

The battlefield of Saiyinshanda is in a state of imminent explosion, and on the battlefield on the front line of the Khingan Mountains in the Far East, more than 4.5 million Soviet troops and more than 1.8 million Japanese Kwantung Army are fighting inextricably, but from the overall situation, the Japanese Kwantung Army is at a disadvantage, and the defensive circle is constantly being oppressed by the superior Soviet army, and the war situation continues to develop like this, and it is only a matter of time before the Kwantung Army is completely annihilated.

After the end of the Imperial Military Council of Emperor Hirohito, Prince Zaihito, Chief of the General Staff of the Base Camp, and Koichi Yone, Minister of War, gave orders to the Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army, General Minamijiro. "With the imperial permission of His Majesty the Emperor, all the troops of the Kwantung Army on the front line of the Outer Xing'an Mountains should immediately withdraw from the battlefield and retreat to Manchuria.

General Minamijiro, who received the order, immediately began to prepare for the retreat, the order of the base camp. For more than 1.8 million soldiers of the Kwantung Army, it can be described as timely rain, in the face of the three-way attack of more than 4 million Soviet troops, even the brave and good fighting of Minami Jiro was beaten bitterly. Bitter support, the first day of fighting. More than 70,000 people were lost. However, the losses of the Soviet army were even greater than those of the Kwantung Army.

But Minamijiro didn't feel relaxed at all, such a desperate consumption, even if one Kwantung Army soldier was exchanged for the lives of two Soviet soldiers. In the end, it was the Kwantung Army that was wiped out, and the difference in strength was too great, even if the Kwantung Army was exhausted. There were still 6,700,000 people left in the Soviet army, but fortunately, the order from the base camp came, and on the day that General Minamijiro received the order to retreat, he issued a specific road map for the retreat to all the troops.

The armies of the Kwantung Army alternately covered, passed through the plain area between the Buleya Mountains and the Kukan Mountains, and then crossed the Heilongjiang River by Birobidzhan and Khabarovsk, and retreated into the territory of Heilongjiang, and then the troops of the Kwantung Army that first entered the territory of Heilongjiang formed a defensive line to block the Soviet army in pursuit.

The plain area between the Burea Mountains and the Kukan Mountains is more than 80 kilometers wide, which is enough to accommodate more than 1.8 million troops in several directions, and the Soviet army pursues it, and the battlefield space is limited, and more troops cannot be deployed at the same time, which is also convenient for the Kwantung Army to carry out layers of resistance.

If the Soviet army wants to outflank and block the rear road of the Kwantung Army, it will have to bypass the Burea Mountains and the Kukan Mountains, and no half a month is not enough, the most important thing is that in the plain area between the Burea Mountains and the Kukan Mountains, there are more shallow swampy areas, infantry and mules and horses towed artillery, which can easily pass guò, tanks, cars and armored vehicles, which are basically difficult to move an inch, and it is definitely the best route to get rid of the pursuit of the Soviet army.

The most important thing is to enter the two choke points in Manchuria, Birobidzhan and Khabarovsk, which happen to be at the southern exit of the plain between the two mountain ranges, therefore, Senior General Minamijiro gave a death order to Lieutenant General Inoue Takei, commander of the Fifth Army of the Kwantung Army, and Lieutenant General Shingoro Sakata, commander of the Seventh Army, who were defending the two places, "At this time when the Kwantung Army is facing danger, the Fifth Army and the Seventh Army must defend Birobidzhan and Khabarovsk with the spirit of not sparing all the jade." ”

"This is the key to whether the more than 1 million soldiers of our Kwantung Army can safely retreat to Manchuria, if the two places are lost, then I, Inoue-kun and Sakata-kun, are all sinners of the Japanese Empire, please two, in addition, I have ordered all the local garrisons of the Kwantung Army in the northern area of Heilongjiang, totaling more than 50,000 people, to immediately go to Birobidzhan and Khabarovsk to assist Inoue-kun and Sakata-kun in defending."

On the night of 2 April, the various units of the Kwantung Army and the Soviet Army suddenly broke away from the battlefield and retreated to the south, and such a large-scale retreat was unexpectedly unnoticed by the Soviet Army in one night, and the Su zhì of the soldiers of the Kwantung Army could be seen, and when the sun in the early morning of 3 April once again illuminated the land of the Far East, the Soviet commanders found that the opponent, who had been fighting all day, had lost their trace, and the opposite position was empty.

The situation was quickly reported to General Zhukov, commander-in-chief of the Soviet forces in the Far East, commander of the Far Eastern Front and member of the political council, and after a short period of surprise, Zhukov immediately came to the conclusion that the Japanese Kwantung Army was going to run, and Zhukov's vision was very vicious, and he could see at a glance that the route that the Japanese Kwantung Army must take in its retreat was in the plain between the Bureuya Mountains and the Kukan Mountains.

Zhukov, in the name of the commander-in-chief of the Soviet forces in the Far East, immediately ordered General Kirganin's Outer Khinganling Front, the remaining troops of the Outer Mongolian Front, and the troops of his own Far Eastern Front to immediately advance lightly, throw off all the baggage and heavy equipment, and pursue them on all fronts.

Zhukov could not be so stupid as to ignore an important issue, and while ordering his troops to pursue him, he ordered General Gregariv, commander of the Baikal Front, to lead more than 500,000 troops to storm Birobidzhan and Khabarovsk, and to attack Birobidzhan and Khabarovsk by 5 April, blocking the passage for the Kwantung Army's southward retreat, forming a trend of closing the door and beating dogs, and burying more than 1.8 million Japanese Kwantung Army in the Far East!

The order of the Japanese army base camp was issued quickly, and after receiving the second emergency telegram from the Kwantung Army, a decision was made, and the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, General Minami Jiro, responded quickly, busy but not chaotic, and in a short period of time, he completed the retreat deployment, and found the best way to retreat, he can be called a general, all the factors combined, the Kwantung Army can get rid of the fate of being surrounded by more than 4 million Soviet troops, it seems that it is not a problem?

An unprecedented retreat began, the main force of the Kwantung Army, always maintained a distance from the pursuing Soviet army for more than half a day, coupled with the blocking troops left by Minamijiro, all with the desperate fighting style of all the jade, causing great trouble to the pursuing Soviet army, a Japanese division is only more than 20,000 people, and it can actually block the vanguard of millions of Soviet troops for an hour or two, and a few divisions, the distance between the pursuing Soviet army and the retreating Kwantung Army is getting bigger and bigger.

The Kwantung Army seemed to be able to get rid of the fate of being encircled, the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, General Minamijiro, his tense heart relaxed a little bit, but the mood of the pursuing Soviet commander-in-chief, General Zhukov, became more and more impatient, and let go of the Kwantung Army, not only could not explain to Comrade Stalin, but he also had no shame in facing millions of Soviet soldiers!

This kind of game of pursuing and being pursued seems to continue like this, until the Kwantung Army is all pushed into Manchuria, and the content of the game will change, but perhaps in the dark, there is a fixed number, the so-called "people are not as good as heaven!" "The form is stronger than the man, and the changes on the battlefield come from the two battlefields of Birobidzhan and Khabarovsk, and the astonishing news came that the Fifth and Seventh Armies of the Kwantung Army finally failed to prevent the Soviet Army from occupying the two places at the cost of all the jade.

At dawn on 6 April, General Gregariv, commander of the Baikal Front of the Soviet Union, sent a telegram to General Zhukov, commander-in-chief of the Far East, saying, "Comrade Zhukov, after three days and nights of fierce fighting, our troops of the Baikal Front have occupied Birobidzhan and Khabarovsk, and the two armies of the Japanese Kwantung Army have been wiped out with 200,000 men. ”

"I am confident that the main force of the Kwantung Army will be blocked in the plain area for more than five days here, which is enough to completely annihilate the Kwantung Army here!"

The Fifth Army and the Seventh Army of the Japanese Kwantung Army, which desperately defended Birobidzhan and Khabarovsk, and opened a gap for the main force of the Kwantung Army, fought extremely bravely, and the Japanese soldiers showed the spirit of bushido, and even launched a white-knuckle charge against the encircled Soviet army with inferior troops.

If the Japanese army had relied on the strong fortifications that had been in operation for two years to defend, even if the Soviet army could finally capture Birobidzhan and Khabarovsk, it would have taken at least ten days or more, and the casualties paid would have been staggering, and ten days later, the main force of the Kwantung Army led by General Minamijiro would have already run into Manchuria, and the two key points of Birobidzhan and Khabarovsk had lost the significance of having to be captured.

The Fifth Army and the Seventh Army of the Kwantung Army will not be wiped out, and the remaining troops will be withdrawn to Manchuria, and the commander of the Fifth Army, Lieutenant General Inoue Takeshi, and the commander of the Seventh Army, Lieutenant General Shingoro Sakata, have coincidentally chosen to think that the fighting style that best embodies the spirit of bushido in the Great Japanese Empire, which is doomed to tragedy!

(To be continued)(To be continued......