In the Hulunbuir grassland, the fighting between the two sides is still raging. Around Harigantusumu, the main infantry forces of both sides were facing each other, waiting for the arrival of follow-up troops. But between the cavalry units of Soviet Russia and Japan, there was a series of small but fierce contact battles. At the same time, the cavalry of the Northeast Chinese Army was also ordered to leave Harigan Tusumu and carry out a sweeping attack on the Mongolian tribes loyal to the Mongolian People's Party in the Hulunbuir steppe. The Eastern Front of the Soviet Union also sent small units of cavalry to strike at the Mongol tribes loyal to King Khala Khan in the steppe. And all the Tibetan Buddhist monasteries on the steppe were destroyed, and for a time the Mongols on the steppe became the most innocent victims of this war. The fiercest fighting took place in Manchuria.

It had already been discovered that the Japanese army headquarters of the Japanese Xianbeilian Army, which had divided the troops of the Soviet Russian Red Army, did not sit back and wait for the rescue of the Chinese. Instead, they fought a fierce battle with the besieging Russian Red Army, probably trying to defeat the Soviet Russian Red Army around Manchuria before the 200,000 reinforcements sent by the Chinese and the 100,000 or so Soviet Russian Red Army who blocked the reinforcements started a decisive battle. It is so saved that people "mistakenly think" that the Imperial Japanese Army is so incompetent that it depends on the Chinese to save their lives! And who knows what kind of heart those Chinese rescuers are pressing? Maybe they are just doing superficial work, and in their hearts they wish that the imperial army would be wiped out in Manchuria! Just as China will never dare to believe Japan, the Japanese devils would rather believe in the white devils than their Asian neighbor, China!

And although Soviet Russia is already engaged in secret negotiations with China, they will not trust the revisionists either. For several days, the Red Army continued to practice the tactic of dividing its troops into two routes. On the one hand, the troops of the Middle East Road Campaign Group were continuously transferred to the blocking front west of Harigan Tusumu, and heavy firearms were gradually put in place, and a decisive battle was about to break out.

On the other hand, the 250,000 Red Army of the Manchuria Campaign was also desperately fought under Stalin's personal supervision and launched a fierce attack against the Japanese army! It seems that Stalin was also playing the same idea as Xianyuan Gong Zairen, wanting to crush the Japanese army in Manchuria before the 200,000 Chinese reinforcements arrived! And the Revolutionary Military Council in Moscow also gave the Eastern Front a death order. The war on the Eastern Front must be ended by the spring of 1920! The Eastern Front must completely liberate the entire Far Eastern SSR! At the same time, it is necessary to inflict heavy losses on the Japanese army in the Far East and Manchuria, and lay a solid foundation for the future recovery of the Far Eastern States!

Lenin and Trotsky sent telegrams several times a day to the headquarters of the Eastern Front in Baikalsk to ask when the main forces of the Japanese army in Manchuria would be completely annihilated. Everybody knows. The more than 200,000 Japanese troops here are the essence of the entire Japanese Army! If they break through and flee back to the Far Eastern State, they will be able to recover in a few months. With these elites, relying on the Amur River natural insurance. With the support of the Japanese river fleet, the Soviet Russian Red Army could not defeat the Far Eastern State even if it dispatched 1 million troops.

On the Chinese side, at this time, it also put on a posture of fighting to the death in Manchuria and Soviet Russia. In addition to the 200,000-strong Middle East Road Group Army under the personal command of Bai Chongxi, it marched westward day and night. The First Group Army, which consisted of the Fifth Army, the Sixth Army, the Eighth Army, the Sixteenth Army, and the Third Brigade of Heavy Artillery, also went north to Manchuria under the command of General Wang Junhao, another confidant of Chang Ruiqing. Lieutenant General Zhao Zhen's Third Army of the Northwest Army was also expanded into the First Cavalry Group Army of the National Defense Army, making a gesture of preparing for a counterattack on northern Mongolia. Even the Air Force Corps of the National Defense Forces, which had been training since the time of the Nationalist Government in Guangzhou but had never been on the battlefield, was transferred to a field airfield outside Harbin.

Under such circumstances, the Soviet and Russian sides were even more anxious to defeat Japan as much as possible, so as not to be attacked by the combined forces of millions of Chinese and Japanese troops!

As a result, the elite troops of Japan and Russia collided with violent sparks on the front line in Manchuria.

The two sides are in this battle against each other. Hundreds of cannons were used to fire each other. The infantry of both sides charged and counter-charged each other along the outer lines of Manchuria. At every key point of the position, hundreds or thousands of shells from both sides were often smashed. The infantry on both sides fought repeatedly several times before deciding who belonged! The casualties were unusually tragic from the start. The Japanese troops in the Jedi showed their greatest ferocity and tenacity. Fight regardless of the qiē. But the officers and men of the Red Army, who had gone through the baptism of world war and civil war, and had a firm Bolshevik faith, also showed the greatest determination!

The shouts of "onboard" and "Ula" on the battlefield were repeatedly remembered, and the infantry on both sides fought their best Banzai assault under the cover of artillery fire! From time to time, you can hear "Long live the Emperor!" And "Long live Lenin!" slogans, and the sound of explosions that followed!

It must have been some Japanese soldier or Red Army officer who fought to the last breath and pulled the grenade on his body. Die with the enemy around you! Both sides of the war are probably the most fanatical fighters in the world. On the one hand, there are the Japanese who have been brainwashed by militarism and are bent on being loyal to the emperor; On one side are GCIST fighters who are always ready to dedicate their entire lives and energies to the cause of human liberation. The result of the desperate battle between them naturally turned the battle line into a sea of corpses and blood.

Marshal Prince Zairen of Xianyuan Gong stood in the command post on a hill in the south of Manchuria, holding a telescope and carefully observing the battle situation in the frontline position. The commander of the Similian Dispatch Army, who had already been driven out of Syberia by the Red Army, still had an expression of refusal to admit defeat. The defeat in the Battle of Chita was indeed difficult to convince, but in fact their Japanese army did not lose at all. Instead, he met an ally like China's Northeast Army! They were not defeated by the Red Army, but by the Chinese, and such a result is not to mention Prince Zairen, that is, no one from the entire sending army is convinced! They all wanted to fight a beautiful turnaround in Manchuria and regain their invincible prestige as the Imperial Japanese Army!

Inside the telescope, the field position of the Russian Red Army built on the grassland south of Manchuria was bursting with exploding fire. The battlefield was filled with gunsmoke, and from time to time there were timber for fortifications or human stumps and severed arms that were lifted high into the sky! The barbed wire, deer barricades and other obstacles in front of the position have long been bombarded to pieces. The Japanese attack formation has also been deployed, and the 6th Division, one of the three most elite divisions of the Japanese Army, is responsible for attacking this area! For the past two days they have been attacking the Red Army on the opposite side. The casualties on both sides have long been countless, but no one will give up, and they always organize new offensives again and again. This time, the attacking troops braved all kinds of Soviet fire to break through the defensive positions, and even if there was a distance from them, the two sides could imagine the tragic scene of the two sides fighting with bayonets.

He took a deep breath of the air full of gunsmoke: "You should be able to take the position this time, right?" Corpses are almost all over the battlefield! His Royal Highness put down his binoculars, and behind him was already full of staff officers reporting on the military situation.

"The commander of the Nakajima Division of the 2nd Division reported that the Russian army was up to noon today. Six attacks have been launched against the positions held north of the city, and they have all been defeated! However, the front-line troops are already running low on ammunition, so I beg for urgent supplies! ”

“…… The 5th and 8th Divisions on the defense line west of the city were also repeatedly entangled and fiercely fought with Russian troops. The Russian army used poison gas shells in the offensive! According to battlefield intelligence. It should be mustard gas. The commander of the 5th Division, Lieutenant General Suzuki Soroku, needs to send the army headquarters to urgently increase the reserve force! And apply to return fire with gas shells! ”

"The joint command in Shenyang called and asked about the situation in Manchuria and whether it could hold out for more than 10 days......

When it's noisy. General Otani Kikuzo, who served as the deputy of the Idle Yuan Palace, ran in with a happy face. Seeing that Xianyuan Gong Zairen also forgot to salute, but reported loudly: "Your Excellency Commander! According to the news of the cavalry group, the vanguard of China's Middle East Road Group Army has arrived at Harigantu Sumu, and it is estimated that it will be able to launch an attack within 48 hours! ”

There was a relieved voice in the command post of the former enemy, these Japanese devils themselves could not have imagined that they were actually looking forward to the rescue of the Chinese so much! However, Xianyuan Gong Zairen's voice was still cold: "We can't have too high expectations for the people of China, and the siege of Manchuria will have to be solved by ourselves!" Otani-kun, you go and send a telegram to General Akiyama Yoshiko, and ask him to personally go to Harigan Tusumu to urge the Shina army to attack. ”

Otani Kikuzo replied: "General Akiyama has already left for Hailar, and the headquarters of China's Middle East Route Army is located in Hailar. ”

Xianyuan Gong Zairen was silent for a moment. Nodding and replying, "Okay, with Akiyama-kun in Hailar, I'm much more relieved." Otani, you go and send a telegram to Akiyama and ask him to inform the dispatch army headquarters of the exact time when the eastern Shina Army will launch a general attack. That's also the time for our general offensive! ”

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Admiral Yoshiya Akiyama arrived in Hailar on November 1. The main forces of the huge Middle East Road Group Army are also in place. And the unfolding was completed in the steppe west of Hailar. And the offensive and defensive battle on the front line of Harigan Tusumu has also been restarted in the early morning of October 30, and by November 1, the two sides have been fighting hard for three whole days!

However, under the desperate resistance of the defenders with the 14th Division of the Fifth Army of the Northeast Army as the main force. The Red Army's attack suffered heavy casualties, but progress was very limited. The 36 75mm mountain artillery cavalry guns assigned to Guo Songling exerted their greatest power. The shelling continued day and day, and a large number of mustard gas shells were used, which caused the Red Army assault troops, who were not equipped with a sufficient number of gas masks, to the ground in mourning. And the counterattack of the heavy artillery of the Red Army. But because of their rapid transfer, they have repeatedly failed! The artillery cluster of the Red Army under Kulik was not playing its due role because of the lack of shells.

To the surprise of the arrival of the Red Army, the number and quality of the defenders also seemed to be more numerous and higher than expected. It turned out that because the Japanese cavalry unit controlled the battlefield, the Japanese garrison brigade that was originally left in Hailar, as well as those of the Northeast Army and the seriously wounded Japanese soldiers who had just recovered from serious injuries, also joined the battle of Harigan Tusumu, making the number of defenders reach 23,000 or 4,000 people. And many of them are elites who have really experienced the test of life and death! The result was a bitter battle for the five infantry divisions commanded by Yakil in front of the defensive line they held.

Voroshilov, who was on the front line to supervise the battle, was already about to have a strong wind. Comrade Stalin had high hopes for his troops, which were quite strong, with five infantry divisions, four cavalry divisions, an artillery cluster, and 30,000 cheap Mongol cannon fodder. But they were beaten to the ground by the Sino-Japanese coalition forces, which were far fewer than them!

First of all, his beloved cavalry suffered heavy losses, and even his favorite general Timoshenko was killed on the battlefield. Immediately afterwards, Yakir's infantry also showed that Xiàn was not satisfactory, although the opponent chose a good terrain to defend. Since three days ago, they have brazenly used poison gas shells to attack in defiance of international justice! But their strength was only 2 divisions at the top, less than half of Yaquil, and they actually carried it for three days! He also poisoned thousands of heroic Red Army soldiers...... More than 20,000 revisionists have already become reactionary like this, and if the more than 200,000 revisionists of the Chinese Army's Middle East Route Group Army have arrived, what kind of reactionary will it become?

Voroshilov held up his binoculars, his eyes red staring at the battlefield in front of him that was filled with yellow smoke. That's the revisionists shelling the starting positions of the Red Army with mustard gas shells! I don't know how many Red Army soldiers were poisoned and killed or wounded. Voroshilov cursed loudly. He gave an order to Yakir beside him: all officers and men of the Red Army should do a good job in anti-poisoning and disinfection, and use the spirit of Marxism-Leninism to fight against the mustard gas of revisionism...... At the same time, he also ordered Yakir to organize another full-fledged attack. The corpses of the Red Army, who had been killed by poison gas or something else in front of the Chinese positions, were piling up. Because his Middle Road campaign cluster must be by noon tomorrow. Take down Harigan Tusumu! Otherwise, a large number of reinforcements of the Chinese army will come up!

On the opposite side of Voroshilov, Lieutenant General Guo Songling, the revisionist leader who commanded the troops to hold on to Harigan Tusumu, also frowned and observed the situation at the front. After three days and three nights of fierce fighting, this former instructor of the Beijing Army University understood what a real fierce battle was! What he sees now. I'm afraid it's a bloody battle that other squadrons have never imagined. The Russian Red Army came as if it was not fatal, regardless of whether there was a mountain of swords and a sea of fire or some poisonous gas in front of them! Ula Ula's shouts resounded throughout the battlefield, almost drowning out the sound of gunfire, and it is estimated that many people will be stunned when they encounter this kind of scene for the first time.

And these Soviet Russian Red Army is not just scary, their infantry offensive tactics, artillery infantry coordination tactics, and individual combat skills, in Guo Songling's opinion, are far higher than the Northeast Army, and even higher than the Japanese army! It seems that these elites who have fought in world wars are indeed not comparable to the squadron. His troops held out for three whole days. However, tens of thousands of casualties have been paid, and this war is indeed extremely cruel!

He put down the binoculars in his hand, sighed softly, and said to Zou Zuohua, a senior staff officer sent down by the Middle East Road Group Army beside him: "Yue Lou, did the group army headquarters say when the reinforcements will come up?" We've been here for five days. It's a bit overwhelming. ”

Zou Zuohua just shook his head: "Chief Bai just ordered us to continue to defend to the death, the Middle East Road Group Army has been doing its best to march, but during this time, the roads are muddy, and the speed of the army is really not fast." ”

Guo Songling smiled bitterly when he heard this, and said coldly: "Is it really not fast?" I'm afraid I still have the intention of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, right? Seeing that there is a lively fight in Manchuria now, I want Lao Maozi and the little devil to fight clean and pull down? But I don't want to think that there is a war now. Militarily, it is important to be lenient with the enemy, and it is necessary to prepare for the worst...... You have also seen how well those old hairy people can fight, if they destroy the little devils in Manchuria, will our 200,000 army still be able to destroy them? ”

"Report! Beijing is in an urgent telegram, please translate it by Chief Bai. The staff officer's loud report resounded through the general headquarters of the Middle East Route Army in Hailar. Everyone's eyes turned to Bai Chongxi, and everyone knew what the telegram sent by Beijing Xingyuan wanted Bai Chongxi to translate meant!

This is the contact method between Chang Ruiqing and Bai Chongxi, and the most critical information and orders are transmitted. This time, since the Middle East Road Group Army left the Yakeshi West Expedition, such secret messages have been coming almost a day! Similarly, Bai Chongxi would also use the radio of the group army headquarters to send several secret telegrams to Beijing to ask for advice. As for the content of the secret business, the staff officers in this command with a little brains can also guess a rough idea, that is, how to rescue the more than 200,000 Japanese devils in Manchuria.

Of course, these Japanese devils are dead! However, the Chinese National Defense Forces had to put on a rescue posture, and they had to look like they were in a hurry...... If it weren't for this, the Japanese devils would have broken through and fled long ago, and before the arrival of the Soviet Russian Red Army brigade, it would not have been possible to retain 15 divisions of Japanese soldiers by relying on four Red Army cavalry divisions. But in that case, the hundreds of thousands of Soviet Russian Red Army that followed the pursuit would take the opportunity to sweep through North Manchuria, and it was not clear what kind of GC regime would be raised!

Therefore, Chang Ruiqing decided to let Japan see enough hope of winning the war, so that they could stay in Manchuria and be consumed by the Soviet Russian Red Army. However, there is a lot of attention to what kind of Cheng dù is consumed by the Japanese. Neither can they be wiped out, nor can they retain too much vitality. It is best to let the main force of the squadron appear on the battlefield when they are not dead, save a few of them, and then beat the exhausted main force of the Soviet Russian Red Army, so that these internationalist fighters who are always trying to stick their bear claws into China will have a long memory! However, this scale is really a bit difficult to grasp, so Chang Ruiqing and Bai Chongxi had to keep in touch with telegraphs, and constantly make adjustments according to the battlefield shape and the domestic and foreign shapes......)

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