The commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, General Minami Jiro, after receiving the news that the attack of the various attacking units had been blocked, said, "Is Zhukov finally willing to turn back?" "Listening to the ears of several senior staff officers of the General Headquarters, there was some inexplicable feeling.

This sentence has a profound meaning, judging from the current war situation, and the staff of the Kwantung Army General Headquarters and General Minamijiro himself, it is almost the same as expected, taking advantage of the opportunity of most of the Soviet troops to withdraw from the battlefield, and adopting the method of surprise attack, at the beginning, it will definitely be able to take advantage, but when Zhukov mobilized troops to counterattack, the temporary advantage of the Kwantung Army collapsed, after all, the fact that the advantages and disadvantages of the troops were obvious there!

Moreover, except for General Minamijiro himself, any senior officer of the Kwantung Army is not optimistic about this time, gambling on the entire offensive of the Kwantung Army, and the worst result is expected, and next, the various units of the Kwantung Army blocked by the Soviet Army will face a fierce counterattack by the Soviet Army, an ineffective attack, and the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers will be taken in vain, what is the plan of Your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief?

The situation on the battlefield began to turn into an unfavorable situation for the Kwantung Army, and the telephone calls and telegrams of the various units, like snowflakes, flew to the general headquarters, all of which were urgent news, and the Soviet army began to counterattack, and all the senior staff officers were anxious and focused on General Minamijiro, and the best way now is to stop the offensive immediately, otherwise, it will suffer a big loss!

The corners of General Minamijiro's mouth, but with a smug smile, seemed unfathomable, and turned a deaf ear to the sound of urgency, Lieutenant General Kenjiro Matsuda, chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, couldn't help it, walked up to General Nanjiro, bent down and reminded in a low voice: "Commander-in-chief, commander of all units on the front." Still waiting for your order, the Ministry of Defense, immediately stop the attack and return to the original position! ”

Seeing that General Minamijiro's eyelids drooped and he was silent, Chief of Staff Matsuda continued to build: "Commander-in-Chief, our offensive has achieved the desired effect, attracting a large number of Soviet troops to turn back, and the order of the campaign headquarters. We have resolutely implemented it, and we can also give an account to His Royal Highness Prince Zairen! Are you ......? If we continue to fight, I am afraid that our casualties will be incalculable! ”

Admiral Minamijiro opened his eyes. His eyes were full of beastly light. Huo Ran got up. Said: "Matsuda-kun, immediately convey my order to all the attacking troops, and immediately retreat, but pay attention. As soon as the Soviets stopped their counterattack, they immediately resumed the attack, and at the same time, ordered the 2nd, 3rd, and 8th armies, which were hidden in the second line, to all of them. Immediately after receiving the order from the headquarters, plunged into the attack on the Soviet troops! ”

"This-?" Chief of Staff Matsuda was very confused, hiccuped, the commander-in-chief's order, a little incomprehensible, the troops put into the offensive this time are more than 500,000 troops, involving the formation of more than a dozen divisions and regiments, from retreat to attack, the transition between attack and defense, is not an easy thing, moreover, the three army units left in the second line, that is the last blood of the Kwantung Army, all put into it, it is really a good idea!

General Minamijiro saw that his chief of staff was puzzled, but he didn't reprimand him, after all, the generals who could understand the battle situation thoroughly and understand Prince Zaihito's intentions, even within the Kwantung Army, were very few, and it was very likely that he was alone, "Matsuda-kun, convey the order, and the result, sometimes, is not what it seems!" He said in a very gentle manner.

Chief of Staff Kenjiro Matsuda, after saluting blankly but without hesitation, left quickly, and the other senior staff officers, seeing that the chief of staff had touched a soft nail, went to work with interest, and the so-called busy work was nothing more than always paying attention to the situation on the battlefield.

General Minamijiro half-closed his eyes again, as if he was contemplating, but in fact, in his heart, there were tumbling waves, and the fatigue after achieving his goal, until now, General Minamijiro really admired Prince Zaihito's strategy, and General Minamijiro, who has always believed in himself and regarded himself very highly, has not admired a person so sincerely, even if it is his old boss and benefactor, General Mitsuichi Yonechi, is no longer on the list!

The strength of Prince Jaehion, in terms of accurate grasp of the fighters, gave the Kwantung Army troops the time when the offensive began to be when the Soviet Far Eastern Front troops began to organize the withdrawal from the battlefield, and moreover, it was also the Far East Dispatch Army and the vanguard of the Korean garrison army when they arrived at the periphery of the battlefield.

The Kwantung Army troops began to attack with all their might, and Zhukov, in order not to be copied and pursued, would inevitably invest more troops than the Kwantung Army troops to counterattack, so that the goal of dragging the Soviet Far Eastern Front had been achieved, and it seemed that the Soviet Army's current counterattack made the Kwantung Army's attacking troops, front-line siblings, and there were signs of unsupport, but this was expected by General Minamijiro.

The cunning and fox-like General Minamijiro, how could he not leave behind, the order he just gave was a burst of magnetic tactics, the Soviet counterattack, the Kwantung Army troops retreated, the Soviet counterattack stopped, and the Kwantung Army troops resumed attacking, just like kraft candy, sticking to the Soviet army, and the three army units temporarily left on the second line, once they were put into the battlefield, Zhukov would be forced to increase their forces again and counterattack.

As for the problems that Chief of Staff Matsuda was worried about, General Minamijiro was very disapproving, and the commanders of all divisions of the Kwantung Army were all veterans of the battlefield, and they were all close henchmen who had been carefully cultivated, and their understanding and comprehension of their own orders were far greater than those of the staff of the General Headquarters.

Let the commanders of each division grasp the timing of retreat and attack on their own, but it will reduce the casualties of the troops, and General Minamijiro was completely impressed by Prince Zaihito's strategy, and for the first time, he was the chief of the general staff of the base camp of the emperor's younger brother and at the same time, who was also the leader of the hostile faction.

General Minamijiro thought about it carefully, and felt that Prince Zaihito's method of commanding the battle was strikingly similar to his own, of course, it was just an idea, and General Minamijiro, as a heavyweight general of the Yonechi Koichi line, would not change his court and throw himself into Prince Zaihito's door because of this incident, but it would be undoubtedly a success for Prince Zaihito to have such a psychological change!

On all fronts, the Soviet soldiers and the soldiers of the Kwantung Army have reached the point where they are close to each other, and the artillery on both sides has lost the role of exerting its might, and what is competing is the will of the soldiers.

However, the bravery of the soldiers of the Kwantung Army could not make up for the gap in strength, the Soviet soldiers surged up endlessly like waves of wild waves, and the battle line hundreds of kilometers long was full of flying bayonets, Soviet and Japanese soldiers, entangled together, flashing bayonets, under the gloomy sky of the Far East, pierced each other's chests without hesitation.

The Type 38 rifle equipped with bayonets had the advantage of length, coupled with the fact that the soldiers of the Kwantung Army advocated white-edged charging and paid attention to stabbing training, as soon as they fought, the Soviet soldiers screamed miserably and fell under the bayonets of the soldiers of the Kwantung Army.

The Soviet soldiers who suffered losses were stabbed on their backs, and blood splashed everywhere, but the Soviet soldiers who were beaten and dizzy soon found an effective weapon to deal with the soldiers of the Kwantung Army, that is, the standard sapper shovel equipped by the Soviet soldiers.

For this reason, the Soviet soldiers complained, but they did not dare to throw away, digging fortifications in the field, saving their lives all by the iron guys, however, when fighting with the soldiers of the Kwantung Army, the Soviet soldiers' sapper shovels played an irreplaceable role, the heavy shovel head, the steel quality is excellent, just like a small axe, in order to match the tall soldier figure, the wooden shovel handle, more than one meter long, in the hands of the strong Soviet soldiers, picked up and whirred.

When the soldiers of the Kwantung Army, stuffy their heads, holding up the bayonets of the three or eight guns, stabbed hard, the Soviet soldiers took out new weapons, chopped their heads and cut them over, the soldiers of the Kwantung Army held the three eight guns in one gear, "clank" sound, the three eight guns were cut almost off the hand, and then, the sapper shovel with the sound of the wind, chopped down again, the steel helmet of the Kwantung Army soldiers, sparks, a scream, the head under the steel helmet, red blood.

On the battle line, there was everywhere the sound of the "bang" of iron tools, the "flutter" sound of bayonets entering the body, the screams of dying soldiers, the wolf-like howls of soldiers on both sides, the splashing of blood from time to time, the "click" sound of short fire from submachine guns, the grenades of the soldiers of the Kwantung Army pulling their bodies, and the loud "boom" of dying together with the Soviet soldiers.

On the battlefield at this moment, there is no rumbling artillery, but it is becoming more and more cruel, more shocking than artillery fire, the Soviet Army and the Kwantung Army have invested nearly one million troops, on a battle line hundreds of kilometers long, fighting to the death, the strong smell of blood, even if the strong cold wind blows from the Sea of Okhotsk, it can't be blown away!

After fighting for more than an hour, the Soviet soldiers sapped shovels with sappers and shovels, coupled with the superiority in numbers, and simply cut off the attacking Kwantung Army troops to turn around and retreat, and after the situation on the front line was reported to the Far Eastern Front Headquarters, the commander, General Zhukov, asked rhetorically in no disbelief, "Did the Kwantung Army really retreat?" ”

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