It stands to reason that there will be no surprises in the outcome of this naval encounter between the Chinese and Japanese navies, because the Nanyang Navy is far from being the opponent of the Japanese Navy in terms of the number or rank of warships, and it is impossible for a destroyer to confront a cruiser in any case, let alone a small fleet composed of the cruiser as the flagship and the remaining seven large and small warships.

But the result of things is often so unexpected, after two hours of fierce fighting, the small Japanese fleet was completely defeated, 2 of the 8 battleships were sunk, 4 were damaged, two of them were beaten and lost power, and the rest of the battleships fled in defeat, while the destroyer of the Nanyang Navy was only slightly damaged, which did not affect the combat effectiveness at all.

According to the reports of the officers and men of the navy who escaped by chance, although the Chinese warships were not large, their artillery fire was extremely fierce, and the most incredible thing was that their shooting accuracy was extremely high.

In particular, among the two Japanese battleships that were sunk this time was a heavy cruiser, which was the Kago among the Japanese Furutaka-class heavy cruisers. The Japanese Furutaka-class heavy cruiser was the first cruiser built by the Japanese Navy after the signing of the Washington Naval Treaty to be equipped with a 20-centimeter caliber gun, and was one of the oldest heavy cruisers in Japan.

Despite the relatively long service time, the performance of the Furutaka-class heavy cruisers was not bad, because the Japanese government modernized the only two Furutaka-class heavy cruisers in 1937 in order to make the Furutaka-class cruisers the main warships of the Navy.

A Furutaka-class heavy cruiser after the completion of the transformation. It has a base displacement of 8,700 tons, a public test displacement of 10,630 tons, a maximum speed of 33 knots, and a cruising range of 7,000 nautical miles per 14 knots. The caliber of the main guns was increased from 200 mm to 203 mm, and three twin turrets were used: two main turrets facing forward, a knapsack arrangement on the foredeck before the bridge, and a main turret at the rear of the hull. The torpedo tubes were reduced by four, and the fixed type was changed to a two-seater quadruple torpedo tube with a swing on the upper deck; Strengthened anti-aircraft firepower, increased catapults and 1-2 water reconnaissance aircraft.

In terms of performance, the Furuhawk-class heavy cruisers, although they cannot be compared with the heavy cruisers of major naval countries such as the United States and the United Kingdom. But it's not far off.

However, it was such a battleship that was inexplicably sunk. Of the more than 600 Japanese naval officers and men, only a few hundred escaped, and all the rest fell into the sea and were fed to the sharks.

After the incident, the entire Japanese Navy was in an uproar, and they could not imagine how a small destroyer could defeat a heavy cruiser and seven warships with a displacement of more than 2,000 tons. And sank several ships.

With this contingency. The Japanese Naval Operations Department immediately adjusted its operational plan. The first is to suspend the attack on Nanyang Ling, and at the same time send intelligence personnel to urgently find out how many new warships there are in Chen Feng's department, and whether the performance of this new warship is really as strong as those naval officers and men who escaped by luck said.

Not to mention that the Japanese side was panicked by a destroyer under Chen Feng's department. After seeing the powerful forces of the Eighth Theater Guard Division and the Fourth Armored Division, the Soviet side readily agreed to jointly send troops to Northeast China to cooperate with Chen Feng's headquarters in declaring war on the Japanese Kwantung Army.

At eight o'clock in the morning of October 28, Chen Feng's two divisions and one brigade, as well as three infantry divisions, two artillery divisions and one tank division of the Soviet Red Army, totaling more than 80,000 people, rushed to Jiayin County.

The Soviet Union's declaration of war on Japan caused an uproar in the world, and the Japanese could not believe that this was true, and the Germans were also shocked, and they did not dare to imagine that this was a decision made by the Soviet Union.

Under the frantic attack of the Germans, the Soviet Union not only lost more than 3 million troops, but even the capital Moscow was surrounded by German troops. If it were a normal situation, the Soviet Union would not have chosen to make enemies with Japan at this time, and would even try to establish good relations with Japan in order to prevent it from being attacked by Germany and Japan from the east and west, and would dare to declare war on Germany and Japan at the same time.

Whether the Japanese believe it or not, this is true. After receiving the letter from the Soviet Union, the Japanese side immediately sent a telegram to the Kwantung Army Command, asking them to immediately strengthen their vigilance and be careful of being attacked by the Soviet Red Army. However, it was too late, and when the telegram from Tokyo reached the Kwantung Army Headquarters, the telegram for help from the defenders of Jiayin County also arrived at the Kwantung Army Headquarters at the same time.

Under the joint attack of 80,000 or 90,000 soldiers, the Japanese defenders of Jiayin were quickly defeated, and the defenders of the two brigades retreated back without holding out for even an hour, and the Chinese and Soviet troops began to pursue.

The Kwantung Army was also considered to be a mixed bag, and directly abandoned the border area, and the defenders retreated all the way to the line of Wuyiling and Tangwang River, relying on the fortifications that had already been built to block the attack.

On the same day, the paratroopers of the Eighth Theater carried out airborne landing in Jiamusi, although Jiamusi was an important military base of the Japanese army on the Eastern Front, but due to the transfer of a large number of main forces to the west during this time, the defense strength of Jiamusi and other places was extremely weak. Although the defenders also put up extremely fierce resistance, they still could not prevent the paratroopers from capturing Jiamusi.

However, in this battle, Chen Feng's paratroopers were once again severely damaged, and there were only more than 7,000 of more than 10,000 paratroopers left after the battle, and the casualty rate was as high as 33%. Of course, the battle record is also quite impressive, and more than 8,000 puppet troops were completely annihilated.

At the same time, the anti-Japanese forces lurking in the northeast also began to exert force, Yehelina commanded her White Russian soldiers to finally capture Heihe, Xu Bao once again made a big fuss in Xinjing, a notorious traitor was assassinated on the street, which greatly shocked a group of traitors in Xinjing, and the Anti-Japanese Union was not idle, intercepting and killing the Japanese transport team and a small group of Japanese puppet troops everywhere, and for a time the entire northeast region was full of wolf smoke.

The simultaneous attack on the eastern and western fronts put enormous pressure on the Kwantung Army command. In particular, the enemy in both directions was equally strong, which not only caused a headache for the Kwantung Army command, but also Japanese immigrants in the northeastern region felt uneasy, and some began to move south, while others returned home decisively.

On October 29, the Kwantung Army Command made an important decision to abandon all unnecessary territory, hold on to important cities and lines of communication, and at the same time mobilize reinforcements from within the country again.

Although this move seems a bit stupid and has the meaning of luring wolves into the room, it is the best method that the Kwantung Army Command can think of.

The Tokyo side has made a detailed study on this matter, believing that it is impossible to mobilize more troops from the mainland in a short period of time, so it is feasible to abandon some places that are not of strategic significance, but the reinforcements are only more than 30,000 people in two divisions at most, which is not very useful for the current Manchurian battlefield, so the Tokyo side ordered the Kwantung Army Command to immediately start organizing the Manchurian soldiers in the countryside and organizing these people, and at the same time ordered the Manchurian government to expand the Wehrmacht again to resist the attack of the Soviet Army.

In addition, the Kwantung Army Command believed that at such a time, the Kwantung Army Command could not fight alone, so it ordered the North China Front Command to suspend all operations, and the large forces began to assemble in Beiping, Jinan, Tangshan, and other places, ready to go north to reinforce the Kwantung Army at any time.

After receiving the order from the base camp, although Okamura Ninji was a little unwilling, but he once served as the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, he knew very well the strategic position of the Kwantung Army, once the Kwantung Army was defeated, then the Manchurian government would not exist, once Manchuria did not exist, Korea and North China would be in danger, although some were reluctant, but Okamura Ninji still strictly implemented this order.

When the North China Front was massing on a large scale, the Kwantung Army Headquarters finally responded, and a large number of Japanese puppet troops shrank back from some remote areas, while large forces in the interior also began to assemble in Jixi, Hegang and other places.

In addition, the Kwantung Army Command issued an order to recruit soldiers in the countryside in the northeast to make up for the shortage of troops. Under the vigorous efforts of the Kwantung Army Headquarters, more than 50,000 Japanese immigrants in Tohoku were armed in just three days, and more Japanese immigrants were rushing to various recruitment points.

Speaking of Japanese immigrants in Tohoku for some years, as we all know, Tohoku was 1931 "nine. The 18th Incident was completed after the fall, but the plan for Japanese immigration to Northeast China had been in place many years before that.

According to the "Qing Expedition Strategy" formulated by the Japanese government at the end of the 19th century, Northeast China was the first stop of the Japanese occupation of China. However, several attempts before 1931 ended in failure due to stubborn resistance from the Chinese military and civilians. 1931 "IX. After the fall of Northeast China after the 18th Incident, the Japanese attempted to turn Northeast China into their colony, so a plan for large-scale immigration to Northeast China proposed by Japanese colonialists Kato Wanji and Tetsuo Tonomiya began to be fully implemented.

The plan was to set up a "pioneer group" in Japan, the so-called collective organization for the development of Northeast China, and to establish immigrant villages in Northeast China in order to facilitate Japan's long-term colonization of Northeast China. Soon after, Tonomiya Tetsuo established the "Yaei Village" and "Qianzhen Village" in China, and hundreds of Japanese colonists first established the so-called "New Order" in Northeast China.

The Japanese colonialists declared Northeast China a "royal paradise" in order to call on more Japanese to join the ranks of the colonizers. For many Japanese, Northeast China was unfamiliar and naturally very tempting, so a large number of colonists poured into Northeast China and began their so-called "happy life" in Northeast China. (To be continued......)