In order to settle the war in the Nomenkan area as soon as possible, the Soviet High Command decided to expand the 57th Special Army in Prague, Tamchag, into the 1st Army, and Zhukov was appointed commander of the group army.

The 1st Group Army has a total strength of more than 60,000 troops, including the 57th Division, the 82nd Division, and the 152nd Division, three infantry divisions, the 36th Motorized Division, the 5th Mechanized Brigade, the 7th, 8th, and 9th Armored Brigades, the 6th, 7th, and 11th Tank Brigades, the 212th Airborne Brigade, the 5th Machine Gun Brigade, the 185th Artillery Regiment, the 37th and 85th Anti-Tank Gun Battalions, and the 63rd, 66th, and 150th Air Defense Battalions. In addition, the 6th Cavalry Division and the 8th Cavalry Division of Outer Mongolia were also under the command of the Soviet First Army, and so far, the Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces assembled in the Nomenkan area have reached more than 100,000 people. As many as 500 tanks, 346 armored vehicles, 542 artillery pieces, and 515 aircraft were concentrated on the front line.

In addition, in order to win this battle, the Soviet side dispelled the Japanese plot to launch a full-scale attack on the Soviet Far East. Under Stalin's personal orders, 18,000 tons of artillery shells, 6,500 tons of bombs, 7,000 tons of fuel, 4,000 tons of food, 4,000 tons of supplies, and 3,000 trucks were transported by railroad around the clock.

At the same time, in order to avoid the danger of fighting on both the eastern and western fronts, the Soviet Union actively engaged in contacts with Germany. The Soviet Union was pleased with Germany's response, and the Soviet Union was engaged in war with Japan while negotiating with Japan's ally, Germany.

Several Japanese attacks gave Zhukov a certain understanding of the enemy on the opposite side. Thinking that those Japanese dwarfs should not be as tough as they imagined, Zhukov consulted with the officers below several times and decided to take the lead in launching an attack on the Japanese army, so as to gain the initiative in the war.

On June 11, when the battle under Kailu was in full swing, the command of the Soviet First Army gave the order for a general attack, and the reason why the general offensive was launched on this day was only because the Soviet intelligence officers received the information that, according to the custom, every Sunday. The senior officers of the Japanese army on the front line would take turns returning to Hailar for vacation.

2:10 a.m. on the 11th. The order for the general offensive was conveyed to the first-line companies, the Japanese positions on the opposite side were silent, and the Soviet counteroffensive achieved the greatest suddenness.

According to the operational plan, the Soviet-Mongolian army will dispatch three infantry divisions. 2 cavalry divisions. 5 armored brigades. 1 machine gun brigade, 1 airborne brigade, and a large number of aircraft and artillery launched a large-scale attack on the Japanese troops around the Bayinchagang Heights. Due to the heavy losses of the Japanese army some time ago, a large number of tank units were surrounded and annihilated. As a result, the Japanese at the front had only a small number of tanks and armored vehicles, and a pitiful number of anti-tank weapons, so the battle was not a fair duel from the beginning.

Although they were heavily bombarded by thousands of tons of Soviet artillery shells and surrounded by Soviet armored units, the Japanese army had no fear and bravely fought fiercely with the Soviet troops on their positions. The civil fortifications built in the Mongolian wilderness were quickly flattened by Soviet artillery, and the Japanese relied on simple individual bunkers dug by individual sappers and shovels.

By June 14, the Japanese 23rd Division had been completely encircled. Under the heavy bombardment of Soviet heavy artillery groups, tank groups, and aerial bombs, the Japanese 23rd Division suffered heavy losses. More than 8,000 troops of the Sixth Army who came to reinforce were heavily bombarded by the Soviet Air Force on the road, losing more than half of them and temporarily unable to advance.

On the 17th, just after the news of the annihilation of the 12th Division of the Japanese Army came from the eastern steppe, Zhukov issued an order for the last battle of the Japanese army in the encirclement. Tens of thousands of Soviet Red Army, under the good cover of tanks, artillery and aircraft, launched a general attack on the rudimentary positions of the Japanese army.

In this battle, the Soviet army completely annihilated the search team of the 23rd Division of the Japanese Army, the 64th Infantry Wing and the 71st Infantry Wing of the 23rd Infantry Brigade of the 23rd Division of the Japanese Army were completely annihilated, and the 72nd Infantry Wing was severely damaged. More than half of the casualties of the 13th Field Artillery Wing, the 23rd Engineer Wing, and the 23rd Transport Wing were killed. At the same time, the 1st and 2nd Brigades of the 26th Wing of the 7th Division of the Japanese Army, as well as the 64th Wing and the 13th Artillery Wing were mostly annihilated by the Soviet Army, and the 64th Wing Commander Takemitsu Yamaguchi Daisa, the 13th Artillery Wing Commander Ise Takahide Osa, and the 23rd Division 71st Wing Commander Morita Toru Osaa were all killed, and the Japanese lost more than half of their guns and ammunition and almost all of their heavy weapons in this battle.

The Kwantung Army Command was greatly shocked by the crushing defeat on both the northern and southern fronts, and the Kwantung Army Headquarters, General Ueda, while ordering the Sendai 2nd Division, 8,000 men of the 29th and 7th Divisions, anti-aircraft artillery units, and the main force of the border garrison to advance to Nomenkan to reinforce the Hailar defenders. At the same time, General Ueda asked for help from home, asking the base camp to add more troops to northeast China.

The Japanese army base camp knew the seriousness of the matter, and if the Soviet Union and Chen Feng's troops attacked the puppet Manchukuo at the same time, the matter would be in trouble. On June 22, 1939, in view of the unfavorable situation of the Japanese army in the Nomenkan area, the Japanese army base camp decided to mobilize the 5th Division (stationed in Guangzhou), the 6th Division (Anqing, Anhui), the 9th and 10th Wings of Field Heavy Artillery, 9 squadrons of rapid-fire artillery, 16 field anti-aircraft artillery squadrons, 1 flying squadron, and 22 automobile squadrons to participate in the battle at the exit from the Guannei battlefield in China to strengthen the Nomenkan area.

In addition, the Japanese base camp actively engaged with Germany, hoping that Germany could launch an offensive in the western part of the Soviet Union. For this reason, Japan even promised to provide Poland with an interest-free loan of 1 billion yen as a reward for borrowing, but Hitler refused.

What made Japan even more angry was that while the Japanese army was actively preparing for war, news came from Europe that Germany had signed a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union.

This news not only stunned the Japanese, but also surprised Britain and France, who had been on the sidelines. They all expected the rising Germans to turn their attention to the East, preferably to a protracted war with the Soviet Union, and for this they did not hesitate to sacrifice the interests of weaker and smaller countries, such as Austria and Czechoslovakia, and connived at Hitler's repeated challenges to the Treaty of Versailles, but they did not expect to end up in return.

On June 20, 1939, two Vulture transport planes arrived in Moscow carrying a delegation of Nazi Germany. Stalin, Molotov, and Ribbentrop held two talks, and that evening, the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact was formally signed.

The main contents of the Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact are as follows: 1. The two parties undertake not to use force, aggression or attack against each other, either alone or in association with other countries. 2. In the event of a war between one of the Contracting Parties and a third State, the other High Contracting Party shall not give any support to the third State. 3. The Contracting Parties shall in no way participate in any group of States which, directly or indirectly, opposes another State Party. 4. The Parties shall settle all disputes between the High Contracting Parties by peaceful means. 5. The treaty is valid for 10 years.

In addition to the non-aggression pact, the Soviets and Germans signed a secret additional agreement, which stipulated: 1. In the event of territorial and political changes in the regions belonging to the Baltic states (Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania), the northern boundary of Lithuania would become the limit of the sphere of influence of Germany and the Soviet Union. In this regard, the parties recognize the interests of Lithuania in the Vilno region. 2. In the event of territorial and political changes in Poland, the Soviets and Germans will be roughly divided by the Narev, Vistula and San rivers. Whether it was in the interests of both sides to maintain the independence of Poland and how to demarcate the border could be determined only in the course of further political developments. 3. On the part of South-Eastern Europe, the USSR was concerned about the interests of Bessarabia in Romania, and Germany declared that it had no political interest in the region at all. 4. The parties will treat this agreement as a top secret document.

To be able to solve the contradiction with Germany in this way was far beyond Stalin's expectations, and Stalin was not worried about Japan at all, the Soviet Union was not China, the Soviet army was not only more numerous than China, but also far better weapons and equipment than the Chinese army, and more importantly, the Soviet Union had a strong industrial base, especially heavy industry, which was not comparable to China.

If it weren't for the tremendous pressure that Germany exerted on the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe and the fact that the German-Japanese alliance was more concerned, the Soviet Union would have sent a large army to the Far East long ago, and how could it tolerate the Japanese dwarfs jumping up and down.

The Soviet Union was actually worried about the Germans, and the pressure on the Soviet Union caused by the strong rise of Germany and the ambiguous attitude of Britain and France was not something that ordinary people could imagine. In particular, three months ago, Stalin invited British and French representatives to hold military and political talks in Moscow. During the negotiations, the Soviet Union made a number of proposals to Britain and France, including the conclusion of a treaty of mutual assistance against aggression between Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, which would be valid for five to 10 years, and the guarantee of security by the three countries in Central and Eastern Europe.

However, because Britain and France each had their own small calculations, the negotiations were fruitless and rejected the Soviet Union's proposal to guarantee the national security of Central and Southeastern Europe.

Now that the greatest threat to the Soviet Union has been lifted, Stalin can finally speak upright, and at the same time, thanks to the major victory in the Nomenkan region and the strong performance of Chen Feng, an ally, in the eastern steppes, the strongman finally can't help but show his sharp claws and hideous fangs.

On 26 June, the Soviet High Command decided to send 150,000 troops to the Far East, including three armored divisions and two heavy artillery brigades.

The "betrayal" of the German allies: the Japanese were angry and angry, but they were helpless, they could not control the mustachiod maniac, and all they could do now was to protest verbally, and at the same time they had to send an ambassador to negotiate with the Soviet Union.

It will not work without negotiation, and if reinforcements from the Soviet Red Army arrive, it will not be easy to negotiate again. It would be even more troublesome if the Soviet Red Army and Chen Feng were united, this time the Kwantung Army lost 2 divisions at once, and was heavily damaged by 2 divisions, and it was completely unable to cope with the all-out attack of Chen Feng's troops and the Soviet Red Army. (To be continued......)