After seven or eight days of fierce fighting, even Zhukov had to admire the resilience of the Japanese, as sticky as kraft candy, the Far Eastern Front still had more than 1.3 million troops, while the Japanese Kwantung Army, after heavy losses and fierce battles, the strength of the troops was sharply reduced from more than 1.8 million to less than 800,000.

In the initial period of time, for the counterattack of the Kwantung Army, Zhukov believed that it was just that the Japanese, for the sake of so-called face, saw that the other two fronts of the Soviet Red Army had withdrawn, and thought that they had an opportunity to take advantage of it and wanted to take revenge.

However, after a few days of fighting, Zhukov sensed that something was abnormal, and blocked the choke point of the Kwantung Army's retreat, and the Baikal Front in Birobidzhan and Khabarovsk had already withdrawn, and the gate to Manchuria had been opened.

The Kwantung Army took the initiative to retreat, which was in line with Zhukov's wishes, and his own troops could also withdraw without any worries, but the development of the war situation, unlike Zhukov's judgment, the Japanese Kwantung Army was like going crazy, knowing that the counterattack would not have any effect, but the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, General Minami Jiro, seemed to have taken out all his blood and launched a fierce attack on the Soviet Army every day with the strength of no less than five divisions.

The unusual behavior of the Kwantung Army. In order to deal with the counterattack of the Japanese Kwantung Army, the troops of the Soviet Outer Mongolian Front had to take out about one-third of their forces to deal with the attack of the Kwantung Army, which made Zhukov quite a headache, and the order given to him by the General Staff was that the entire Far Eastern Front returned to the European battlefield.

However, the Japanese Kwantung Army was stalked. If the Far Eastern Front wants to leave, it will also be a big trouble, and he can't leave more than 400,000 troops behind, and accompany the Kwantung Army to the death, Zhukov has never thought of a more secure way. The battle is ongoing, though. Time in the last few days. Zhukov's uneasy feeling became more and more strict, not only for the abnormal behavior of the Kwantung Army, but also for the other two front troops, the evacuation operation was so smooth, and he had an unsteady feeling in his heart.

Artillery fire on the Far Eastern front. Even at night, it never stopped, and the Japanese Kwantung Army was full of vigor and launched attacks day and night. Zhukov did not bring a staff officer or guard, walked out of the tent of the headquarters alone, and breathed a breath of cold air full of the smell of gunsmoke.

Looking at Zhukov's current position, the front line is in full swing, the fierce artillery fire reflects half of the night sky, and there are faint roars, and the artillery shells of his own troops returning fire, dragging a long tail flame, screaming from the night sky overhead, "The Japanese are really persevering!" This nation has a kind of gambler-like madness in its bones! He shook his head and thought to himself.

However, Zhukov's thoughts immediately shifted from the battle in front of him to other things, "The affairs of the Outer Mongolian Front, it is not his turn to worry, that Vasilevsky has some intention of competing with himself, and he also knows that his life is not very easy at the moment, that Chinese Tang Qiuli will bring endless trouble to the Outer Mongolian Front, it will definitely be!" He thought to himself.

Zhukov knows very well the Chinese who once defeated him and let himself taste the taste of being a prisoner for the first time in his life, Vasilevsky's troops, in Outer Mongolia, can seriously damage the troops of the independent division, this leaves a great trouble, I believe that Vasilevsky's orders are as strict as himself, if Vasilevsky cannot correctly view Tang Qiuli's ruthlessness and cunning, he will definitely suffer a big loss on this Chinese, although the Outer Mongolian Front has more than one million troops.

Originally, the position of the Outer Mongolian Front should have been close to the vicinity of Minusinsk a long time ago, ready to cross the Ural Mountains, and it should be the fastest force to rush back to the European direction, with more than one million troops, it is obviously unrealistic to repel the German army, but at least it can establish an effective blocking line on the front line of Moscow to temporarily block the crazy momentum of the German offensive.

It can also be calmly resolved, the current excessive madness of the Japanese Kwantung Army, however, according to the recent report of the General Staff, the Outer Mongolian Front Army is still wandering in the western region of Outer Mongolia, and the speed of the march is extremely slow, and it is also being closely pursued by the troops of the independent division, and is in a situation of fighting and retreating, that is to say, Vasilevsky's troops are in big trouble.

Originally, with Zhukov's understanding of Tang Qiuli and his personal experience of the combat style of the independent division, he really wanted to put forward some pertinent suggestions to Vasilevsky in his personal name, but he hesitated for a long time and did not make this move, and he couldn't tell what the reason was, but Zhukov himself knew that he might get into big trouble for himself.

In fact, from Zhukov's strategic point of view, although the Outer Mongolia region and the Far East region belong to two different battlefields and have different operational goals, they are definitely a whole, and no matter which battlefield has an accident, it will affect the other battlefield, and a unified command structure should be established, instead of being artificially separated as it is now, but this idea cannot be said, not even a word can be revealed.

Zhukov believed that even if Comrade Stalin agreed, the first person to jump out to oppose it would be General Vasilevsky, and even he would use the most vehemently rhetoric to oppose and attack himself.

However, Zhukov vaguely felt that Vasilevsky's evacuation in Outer Mongolia encountered not enough trouble, Tang Qiuli and the Soviet Union after three large-scale wars in Outer Mongolia, there were more than one million soldiers on both sides, fell under each other's guns, the contradictions between the Soviet Union and Tang Qiuli, there is no room for reconciliation, with Tang Qiuli's style and character, there is no reason to only add this trouble to Vasilevsky?

Also, before the political bureau decided to increase troops to the East, in the Far East, where did the independent division that formed a triangular opposition with its own troops, the Japanese Kwantung Army, go now? That's the strength of the main force of the independent division, five or six hundred thousand people!

Since it was impossible for Tang Qiuli to let the Outer Mongolian Front go smoothly, there was no reason to only invest no more than a dozen divisions, could it be that the powerful independent division troops were ambushed in an unknown area, and they were aimed at the Outer Khinganling Front and the Baikal Front?

Zhukov couldn't help but shudder, if there really were hundreds of thousands of troops in an independent division, it would definitely be a big trouble for the two fronts waiting for the retreat in the middle, and he also had no reliable channel to confirm this judgment that in Outer Mongolia and the Far East, the Soviet army had not established an effective intelligence network, which was Zhukov's weakness.

Strictly speaking, it is not that the Soviet army's reconnaissance system is incompetent, but that after Liu Tiehan commanded the troops to enter the line from Chita to Irkutsk, strict secrecy measures were taken, coupled with the vast and sparsely populated area, which was very conducive to the concealment of nearly one million troops, and the capture of Chita and other key points was carried out with lightning speed, after eliminating a small number of Soviet troops left behind, the news was immediately and strictly blocked. The command of the Soviet troops, has not yet received any news.

Zhukov groaned for a while, and then relieved, no matter what, the Baikal Front and the Trans-Khinganling Front combined, the strength of more than two million people, if Tang Qiuli really deployed troops to intercept, it would not be so light, but it would slow down the speed of the retreat of the troops, but this is also a matter of no choice, the General Staff asked and replied.

However, Zhukov still decided to send a telegram to General Kirganin and General Gregarif to remind them to pay attention to this, which was somewhat pretentious, but the feeling of uneasiness in his heart did not diminish in the slightest, and his thinking turned back to the current battle.

And behind the abnormality, what kind of purpose is hidden by the Japanese, no matter what aspect of the analysis, the Japanese Kwantung Army should not be such a crazy counterattack, even a regiment commander of his own unit will know that the Japanese counterattack will not have any effect, with a half-crippled army that has been exhausted for a long time, take the initiative to attack the Far Eastern Front with more than 1 million troops, in the eyes of other commanders of the Soviet Army, the actions of the Japanese are almost like looking for death!

Although Zhukov also thinks so, he thinks deeper, which Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army, General Minamijiro, has fought with him for two or three years, and the two sides have fought many times, that is not a fool, on the contrary, he is still a guy who is as cunning as a fox and as ruthless as a snake, Nanjiro would do such a stupid thing, Zhukov does not believe it!

Thinking of this, Zhukov became even more uneasy, as if he felt that an invisible net was looming over the head of the Far Eastern Front, and he hurriedly walked back in the direction of the tent of the headquarters, secretly thinking to himself: "Something should be taken!" ”

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