As Chen Feng expected, the performance of the Soviet army on the battlefield can be called naïve, and the difference between it and those lions in the eighth theater is not half a star. The nearly 80,000-strong army lasted less than four hours before most of them were wiped out, and the rest did not retreat, but were deployed along a low hill that was not very high, which was simply stupid.

Seeing this performance of the Soviet army, the corners of Chen Feng's mouth couldn't help but rise, just because he still wanted to fight with the tiger Ben under his command with all this garbage, the Soviets were really stupid and naïve.

At 7 o'clock in the morning of 1 June, the sky was bright, and the Soviet reconnaissance plane went to the battlefield to conduct reconnaissance, but it was shot down by the air defense unit of the Eighth Theater, and the pilot and the fighter plane were directly blown up in the air.

At this time, after a night's rest, Major General Isov also roughly figured out how much fighting strength he still had in his hands, and there were still more than 22,000 infantry men, including more than 800 wounded. There are still more than 5,100 cavalry members, but all the horses of these cavalry have been lost, and these people can only be regarded as ordinary infantry at this time, and even inferior to infantry, because the weapons and equipment of these people have almost been lost. In addition, he has more than 270 tanks in his hands, which is also the biggest reliance of Major General Isov.

However, Isoff also discovered an extremely serious problem, that is, his troops now have a serious shortage of officers, especially senior officers, in last night's battle his troops lost a large number of senior officers, the command of the 35th Mechanized Army was almost completely wiped out, up to the army commander, political commissar, chief of staff, down to the infantry division commander, deputy division commander, division political commissar almost lost, brigade commander level officers also suffered heavy casualties. It can be seen that last night's battle was obviously premeditated by the Chinese, and it hit the soft underbelly of the Soviet army at once.

At this time, he only had Shabailev, who had just been promoted to deputy division commander, and there were also 4 regiment commanders and 11 battalion commanders. Speaking of this, we have to mention the Soviet military rank system, the Soviet Red Army is a professional army, so it also has its own set of military ranks, but in order to maintain the equality of officers and soldiers, so before 1935, the military ranks of the Soviet Union were generally equal to positions, that is, from New Year's Day in 1918, the Soviet People's Commissariat and its subordinate military councils ordered the establishment of a "job rank" in the Soviet Red Army that was different from the military rank system, and divided into commanders and Red Army soldiers according to the relationship between superiors and subordinates. Commanders are divided into senior, intermediate, and junior levels. A total of 4 classes and 12 grades. Specifically: senior commanders: corps commanders, corps commanders, division commanders, brigade commanders; Intermediate commanders: regiment commanders, battalion commanders, company commanders, platoon commanders; Junior commanders: division chiefs, deputy platoon leaders, squad leaders; Red Army Soldiers: Red Army soldiers.

Although such a military rank system has played a role in maintaining the equality of officers and soldiers, standardizing the order of military personnel, and identifying military identity. However, due to the shackles of the "rank of post" itself, it is not possible to "clearly show the military, professional level, military age and merit, rights and prestige of commanders and chiefs."

In light of this, it has been thoroughly studied. The Central Committee of the CPSU and Comrade Stalin approved. September 22, 1935. The Resolution on the Establishment of a Military Rank System in the Red Army of the USSR was issued by the Central Executive Committee of the USSR and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, which stated: "Military ranks are an important condition for the correct organization of the service, the deployment and rational use of cadres in the whole army. The introduction of military ranks creates the necessary prerequisites for the establishment of legal positions in military personnel. In the armed forces. According to the military rank, the moral subordination relationship and the relationship between superiors and subordinates among military personnel are determined, the positions corresponding to the military rank are determined, and the period of active and reserve service is stipulated. Military ranks are of great significance to the specific power to stipulate the material provisions, salaries, State guarantees and preferential treatment of the servicemen themselves and their families".

In accordance with this resolution, the ranks of commanders and soldiers of the army and the air force, the ranks of commanders and soldiers of the navy, the ranks of military commanders and soldiers, the ranks of political workers of the army, the ranks of technical personnel of the army and the air force, the ranks of technical personnel of naval engineering, the ranks of military economic and administrative personnel of all branches of the armed forces and the ranks of military economic and administrative personnel of each service department, the ranks of military medical personnel of each service department of each service branch, the military rank of veterinary personnel of each service department of each service branch of the armed forces, and the military judicial personnel.

At the same time, it was decided to establish the rank of "Marshal of the Soviet Union" as the highest military rank in the Soviet Army, and to award "senior commanders with outstanding military ideas for the establishment of outstanding meritorious service in national defense construction, army building, and anti-aggression wars." Accordingly, on November 20, 1935, the Central Executive Committee of the USSR and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR awarded five comrades, V-K. Blyukher, S.M. Budyonny, K.E. Voroshilov, A-I. Egolov, and M-N. Tukhachevsky, with the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union.

At this time, in addition to the marshal, the commanders and soldiers of the army and air force in the Soviet Union had a total of 5 ranks and 14 ranks: 1. Senior commanders: the first group army level (2), the second group army level (3), the army level (4), the division level (5), and the brigade level (6); 2. Superior commanders: colonel (7), major (9); 3. Intermediate commanders: captain (10), captain (11), lieutenant (12); 4. Junior commanders: Tuas (15), deputy platoon level (16), squad (17); 5. Red Army soldiers: Red Army soldiers (19).

Therefore, according to the military rank system now implemented in the Soviet Union, only Isov and Shabailev can barely be regarded as senior commanders, and the others can only be regarded as superior or even middle-level commanders at all.

As the sky gradually brightened, Major General Isoff discovered an extremely serious matter, that is, it seemed that his troops were now surrounded by the Chinese, and looking through the telescope, there were Chinese troops everywhere in the east, west, north and south, and his troops were dead and suppressed within a radius of less than ten kilometers near the hills, and the situation was precarious.

What worried Major General Isoff even more was that he saw that there were a large number of tanks in the Chinese army, tanks that he had never seen before? Could it be that the Chinese can already make tanks on their own?

Now the only thing Rear Admiral Isov can do is pray that the Chinese tank is not as tough as it seems, and that the BT7 fast tank produced by the great Soviet Union can completely suppress the Chinese tank in terms of performance.

Immediately after observing the entire battlefield, Major General Isov sent a telegram to his superior command of the Far Eastern Military District in the Buryatia-Mongolian Autonomous Republic and the Irkutsk Oblast of the Siberian Territory, requesting that troops be immediately sent south to reinforce the 35th Mechanized Army and the 59th Tank Division.

In view of the fact that reinforcements could not arrive in a short period of time, Major General Isov asked the Far Eastern Military District to immediately send an air force to fight with his troops, otherwise these remnants of his troops would not be able to support them for even three days.

After receiving the telegram from Major General Isov, the leading organs of the Soviet Far Eastern Front army cluster were greatly alarmed, although the situation on the front line was not good, but they did not expect it to be so erosive. Commander of the Far Eastern Front G. M. Šteln fidgeted, he could not imagine how the Chinese could crush the 80,000 Soviet-Mongolian troops in one night, and even surround the remaining coalition forces.

At the same time, G.M. Steln also had a question in his mind: It stands to reason that the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army should be weaker than that of the Japanese army, otherwise it would not be Japan invading China, but China attacking Japan. After the Battle of Nomenkan a few months ago, it turned out that the Japanese army was not at all an opponent of the great Soviet Red Army. The army should also not be stronger than the great Soviet Red Army.

But it turned out that the troops under the command of that Chinese general not only won, but also won beautifully, and the great Soviet Red Army is now completely passive.

However, he believed that the great Soviet Red Army would definitely be able to defeat the Chinese army, and his confidence came from the long-standing psychological superiority of the Soviet army over the Chinese army, and this psychological superiority came from the continuous oppression and erosion of China by Tsarist Russia in the past hundred years, and also from the Middle East Road War a few years ago.

In July 1929, the 'Middle East Road Incident' broke out between China and the Soviet Union due to the ownership of the right of way of the Eastern Railway, causing an armed conflict. The reason for this was that the authorities in Northeast China took back the telegraph telephone of the China Eastern Railway and sent the Soviet staff back to China. After an armed conflict between the Soviet Army and the Northeast Army, the Nationalist Government declared war on the Soviet Union. The fighting was fought mainly in the Chinese regions of Manchuria and Zalainuoer. From the end of July until November, dozens of large and small battles were fought.

In November, the Soviet army successively captured Zhalainur, Manchuria, and Hailar. More than 9,000 Chinese soldiers were killed or wounded and captured (2,000 were killed or wounded, and more than 7,000 were captured). According to Soviet statistics, the Soviet army was killed 143 people, 4 people were missing, 665 people were wounded, and the Soviet army won. On December 20, Zhang Xueliang sent representatives to sign the "Boli Agreement" with the Soviet Union. On December 26, the "Middle East Road Incident" ended with the Chinese side accepting the Soviet side's proposal to restore the status quo ante in the Middle East Railway and the release of the prisoners by both sides.

Compared with the Soviet Army, the Northeast Army at that time was not much worse than the Soviet Army in terms of weapons and equipment, and it still had a huge advantage in terms of troops. But the result was a fiasco for the Northeast Army, which was beaten 10:1 by the Soviet army, and it was precisely because of this understanding that the Soviet army always believed that the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army was below 5.

After deliberations, G.M. Šteln decided to adopt the suggestion of Major General Isov and immediately send two of the four aviation divisions under the air force of the Front to the Sino-Mongolian border to assist Major General Isov in the battle, and at the same time transferred three infantry divisions, one tank division, and two artillery divisions to the Sino-Mongolian border urgently. (To be continued......)