Hulunbuir Prairie, located in the west of the Great Xing'an Mountains, is named after Hulun Lake and Bear Lake. In Mongolian, Hulunbuir means otter and male otter, because the two lakes on the grassland are rich in otters.

Hulunbuir grassland is the cradle of China's ethnic minorities, and the Xianbei people, Khitans, Jurchens, and Mongols in Chinese history all grew up in this cradle, and they all attacked the gate of the Great Wall from here to the west, entered the Yellow River Valley, and stepped onto the stage of Chinese history.

But since the Xinhai Revolution, the lion of China has fallen into a deep sleep, and Soviet Russia has taken the opportunity to pull Outer Mongolia out of the arms of Mother China. During the October Revolution in Russia, Xu Shuzheng sent troops to recover Outer Mongolia with the support of Duan Qirui, but then the Anhui War broke out, and the direct army was defeated.

On November 26, 1924, with the support and action of the Third International of the Soviet Union, the Mongolian People's Party announced the abolition of the constitutional monarchy and the establishment of the Mongolian People's Republic. However, China, the United Kingdom, the United States and other major governments at that time did not recognize it.

After the September 18 Incident, the Japanese army built a large number of fortresses on the so-called Manchu-Soviet and Manchu-Mongolian borders, and from a strategic point of view, only the westernmost fortress was built in Hailar, which is 300 kilometers away from the border Manchuria.

The Allies sent troops to the northeast to overthrow the puppet state of Manchukuo. Taking advantage of the civil strife in the Kwantung Army, the Soviet Union bribed Major General Nomura Noborijiang, commander of the Hailar garrison, and sent troops from Marshal Malinovsky of the Soviet Post-Baikal Front to occupy Hailar Fortress, which in fact advanced the so-called Manchurian-Mongolian border to the Chinese side for another 300 kilometers.

In order to prevent the Soviet army from continuing to advance forward, General Ye Weixun, commander-in-chief of the Allied Chinese Battlefield, ordered the 1st Guards Division, the 101st Air Cavalry Division and the Youzhou Army to be stationed in Yakeshi to confront the Soviet army, and the Imperial Foreign Minister lodged a strong protest against the Soviet invasion of China.

At that time, the negotiations between the three countries of the Iron and Steel Alliance had entered a critical stage, and the Han Emperor had no time to take care of the invasion on the west side of the Great Xing'an Mountains, but this did not mean that the Han could tolerate Lao Maozi's rudeness. Even if you are pretending or diplomatic etiquette, you can't ignore the diplomatic protests of the Han Kingdom, right?

This kind of behavior shows the vulgarity and barbarism of the leaders of Soviet Russia. Therefore, there is no longer any need for us to engage in any further dialogue with them. In my opinion, such an act is equivalent to - a declaration of war! Therefore, the army of our Grand Alliance will begin to liberate Hailar, Manchuria, and ...... today. Cullen! ”

At the same time as the Han Emperor made a televised speech, the 1st Guards Division launched an undeclared war, and the steel torrent of the Tiger tanks launched an attack on the Soviet Army along the Lal River, and it was not the Han Youzhou Army in dark green uniforms that attacked with the 1st Guards Division, but the 8th Division of the Kwantung Army in yellowish uniforms has now been renamed the 8th Division of the Dongying Army, with the division commander Lieutenant General Tsukada and the former commander of the brigade garrison. Because the two sides were already allies, all the Japanese soldiers who had surrendered to the Allies had been released and incorporated into the newly formed Toei Legion.

The Allied forces in the China Battlefield have been renamed the Greater China Alliance North Sea Front Army, referred to as the North Cluster. The 17 divisions of the Dongying Garrison, which was originally subordinate to the Kwantung Army, also belonged to the Northern Cluster. In the past two months, Admiral Ye Weixun redeployed 1.2 million troops from the Northern Cluster, and his operational targets were directly aimed at the Soviet Far Eastern Military District and the Soviet Army stationed in Mongolia and abroad.

In the face of the aggressive attack posture of the Allied side, Lao Maozi certainly did not sit idly by and continued to increase troops to the Far East through the Trans-Siberian Railway. Nearly 400,000 elite units of the Red Army were reinforced from Europe to Chita and Khabarovsk, where the headquarters of the Trans-Baikal Military District and the Far Eastern Military District were located.

The units under the headquarters of the Soviet Army in Outer Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar have increased from five infantry divisions to nine divisions, and two T32 tank divisions have also been moved to Choibalsan.

But the Soviet side mobilized troops, just to prepare for a rainy day. They didn't expect the Allies to fight at all.

The 8th Division of the Dongying Army attacked the city along the coast, swept away the auxiliary positions of the Hailar Fortress, and pulled out and cleaned the peripheral positions of the Beishan Fortress and the Aobaoshan Fortress, the commanding height of the city. Regarding the drawings left by the Eastern Army, the 8th Division of Dongying worked according to the drawings and soon surrounded the fortress group. Knowing that the fortress was large-scale, well-designed, and well-defended, the Allied forces did not launch a strong attack, but bombarded the mountain for several hours with the firepower of nearly 300 Tiger tanks of the 1st Guards Division and a 155 self-bombing howitzer regiment, almost completely flattening this small hill less than 100 meters high.

After the Great Purge, a large number of young commanders with no command experience but strong political beliefs were promoted, and General Beorev was born as a political commissar, and during the purge, he captured and killed the commander of the Soviet army in Mongolia of Tukhachevsky's line, which was appreciated by Moscow and promoted to the new commander of the Mongolian Military Region.

Later, Comrade Beorev responded positively to Comrade Stalin's initiative to "purge the opportunists", a large number of Red Army officers who had experienced the civil war were arrested and killed, and the Mongolian army finally became a pure revolutionary force, and every Bolshevik in the Mongolian army was "adept at identifying the enemies of the party, no matter how skillfully disguised they were." ”

At the same time, the Soviet troops stationed in Mongolia, like other military districts of the Soviet Union, lost a large number of officers with extensive command experience. The sound of Hailar's artillery sounded, and no one in the Ulaanbaatar command reminded Beorev that reinforcements should be sent first, but waited with the commander for the latest instructions from the Supreme Command and Comrade Stalin.

The Soviet troops in the Beishan fortress of Hailar waited for a day, did not wait for the news of reinforcements, and after receiving the ultimatum from the allies, they raised the white flag and walked out of the fortress. The fate of the boiled bun mountain has proved that the Kwantung Army boasted that it could withstand the fortress group of 100,000 troops, and the word "impregnable" was just a joke in the face of the enemy's strong firepower.

Taking Hailar, the 300,000-strong army of the Western Front led by Lieutenant General Chen Shukang swarmed through, and took advantage of the flat terrain on the steppe, advanced by mechanized troops at high speed, and soon pushed the battle line back to Manchuria, the so-called Manchurian-Mongolian border line before the Soviet invasion.

When the news of the Han army's undeclared war was reported by the Soviet army to the Moscow Command, Stalin was pointing at Foreign Minister Molotov's nose and scolding.

"Why don't I know about the Han protest ......?"

Molotov bowed his head and said nothing, he understood: In public, especially in front of many generals and marshals in command, it is easy to lose the face of the leading comrades, and it is easy to be sidelined! After experiencing the Great Purge and Purge, the Foreign Minister knows very well that this black pot has been decided by itself.

General Zhukov, Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Red Army, also knew what was going on in his heart, and could not bear to see Molotov being scolded again, "Comrade Stalin, the Han army took advantage of our unpreparedness and pushed the front back to Manchuria with lightning speed, but the other side does not seem to have any intention of expanding the conflict. Otherwise, the Han army would not have stopped at the border line and given up the best opportunity to attack our Manchurian and Mongolian lines. In Borja, only two divisions of the Far Eastern Military District were stationed there. ”

Zhukov had a very high reputation in the Soviet army, and he had to give face, not to mention that Stalin was waiting for the opportunity to get off the donkey. Molotov was a hardcore follower of Stalin, and he couldn't really chill his heart, and the dictator also needed someone to support him.

"Comrade Zhukov, what do you mean...... The Han Kingdom doesn't want to start a real war with us? They just want to retake Manchuria? ”

"No, Comrade Sta Yao, I don't think it's that the Han Kingdom doesn't want to go to war with us, but they don't want to be the first to go to war with us?" Zhukov's words were a bit distorted, but everyone in the command department understood.

"Comrade Zhukov, do you mean...... "Marshal Kuznetsov has been in a bad situation in the command department recently, and he has been in the wrong position in the presidential dispute between Marshal Timoshenko and Stalin, so he stopped talking.

But at this moment, Stalin also clearly had no intention of suppressing his political opponents, "There is no clear information that the German army has increased in Poland and Romania, and the plan to land in Britain is in full swing, how can Germany break the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact and launch an attack on our Soviets at this time?" Their troop movements, only to keep the German reserves away from the long-range bombers of the British, the two million Red Army on the border line, were enough to scare off any attempt by the Germans. ”

Stalin's words made Zhukov and Vroblov and others smile bitterly. It's good to have strong self-confidence as a national leader, but it's ...... to be overconfident The intelligence services have long warned that Germany has stockpiled a large amount of military supplies on the Eastern Front, and that German troops on the Western Front are constantly being transferred eastward, and that in the entire East Prussia region, the total number of Germans has reached more than two million, almost the same as that of the Red Army. But Stalin still stubbornly believed that Germany would take Britain first, and then open up a new battlefield. Although the Triple Entente had been signed, the hostility of the capitalist countries towards the Red Soviet had not been eliminated, and the Soviet Union should not have instigated Hitler's madman in the first place, and the United States had to take responsibility and send American troops to land in Western Europe before the Red Army could send troops. This is the bottom line of the Soviet Union.

Because of the internal division of the Supreme Military Council of the Soviet Command, the Soviet army did not respond in time to the Hailar conflict, and the Soviet Army in Mongolia and the Soviet Far Eastern Military District only raised the alert level to the highest level and were ordered to be ready for battle at any time, but there was no substantive military action.

Zhukov's judgment was not taken seriously enough by Stalin, and the bearded man's self-righteous personality made it impossible for him to accept any contrary advice from his subordinates. In his opinion, the USSR could not be the first to fall into the war even after joining the Entente, and Stalin considered his strategy to be correct. The marshals' proposal was only to give up half of Britain and attack the Soviet Union unless his head was gnawed by a bear, and with the largest territory, the most powerful Red Army, and the huge potential of industrial capacity.

As for the Han Kingdom, did the little guy of the Han Emperor think that if he defeated Japan, he could do whatever he wanted in the Far East? To dare to say such arrogant words as "such an act means a declaration of war" is really hairless, and I don't know how thick the sky is.

The Allied armored forces stopped in Manchuria to recuperate, successfully confusing Stalin, who believed that the Han Emperor's speech was nothing more than a bluff. On July 20, 1941, the Soviet Far Eastern Military District was put on strict defense, and the front-line troops entered the highest level of combat readiness. The Soviet forces on the European border remained in peacetime, with Soviet Air Force fighters lined up close along the runway and forbidden to attack German reconnaissance aircraft. The army on the border was also not put on alert, and was ordered to seek permission from the top to strike back in the event of an attack.

For three days in a row, the border was as calm as usual, as if to prove Stalin's judgment. Only the diplomats of Han and the Soviet Union engaged in a war of words, Wilson vs. Molotov, the whole world seemed to appreciate the eloquence and exaggerated performance of the two foreign ministers, and even the planes over the English Channel were far less.

The most famous movie star in South China, Garbo, with his wonderful performance in "The Sequel to the Troubled Times in Australia", was once again honored as the queen of the Melbourne Film Festival. Oh, isn't the actor in Moscow?