On the battlefield in the Far East on 9 April, more than 1.8 million troops of the Japanese Kwantung Army under the command of Senior General Minamijiro were surrounded by more than 4.5 million troops of the Soviet Far Eastern Front, the Baikal Front, and the Trans-Khingan Mountains Front, commanded by General Zhukov, commander and member of the Soviet Far Eastern Front and commander-in-chief of the Soviet Army in the Far East, on the way back to the northeast region.

However, General Gregariv, commander and member of the Soviet Baikal Front, commanded more than 500,000 troops, captured two key points, Birobidzhan and Khabarovsk, cut off the retreat route of the Kwantung Army's southern foot, and closed the door for the Kwantung Army to retreat to the northeast.

Beginning on 5 April, the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, General Minamijiro, ordered the troops of the three armies of the Kwantung Army, regardless of casualties, to storm Birobidzhan and Khabarovsk day and night, trying to open a gap, and the southern foot of the plain between the Buleya Mountains and the Kukan Mountains was under artillery fire all day.

The soldiers of the Kwantung Army were indeed brave and not afraid of death, but the artillery of the Soviet Baikal Front was not an ornament, and the commander, General Gregarif, made up his mind that he would never take the initiative to attack, relying on strong fortifications to hold on, giving full play to the power of artillery fire, and blowing up into a sea of fire on the route of the Kwantung Army soldiers' charge.

By the time of the fierce fighting until 8 April, the attacking Kwantung Army soldiers had suffered more than 70,000 casualties, and the cold ground in front of the Soviet positions on the outskirts of Robidzhan and Khabarovsk was full of stiff corpses of Kwantung Army soldiers, and the withered yellow steppes were dyed a shocking dark red by the blood of the corpses of the Kwantung Army soldiers, and the casualties of the Soviet troops blocking the attack also reached more than 40,000 people, leaving so many corpses behind. The Kwantung Army didn't even touch the edges of the two key points!

At the northern foot of the plain, the main force of the Soviet army under the command of General Zhukov was not in a hurry to advance, but adopted the method of steady and steady advance, and millions of Soviet troops, like a rising tide of the sea, pressed over in unison.

When encountering a blocking line of the Kwantung Army, he had superior forces. Cut and surround in sections, and then, eat it bite by bite, Zhukov's style of play is very clear, and gradually deplete the living forces of the Kwantung Army. Wait until the battle is almost over, and then strike the fatal blow. Finally, the Japanese Kwantung Army was completely annihilated in the plain area between the two mountains.

Zhukov's conducting technique. It is indeed old and ruthless, slowly draining the blood of the Kwantung Army, if the attack is too fierce, the Kwantung Army is still fighting, and at any cost, it will break through in the direction of the exit of the southern foot. The troops under the command of General Gregarif may not be able to stop it, and the best result will be to run away from some Japanese soldiers. The soldiers under the control of the survival instinct are terrifying, and the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Japanese Kwantung Army should not be underestimated.

Therefore, Zhukov took the method of boiling frogs in warm water, did not press tightly, and always gave General Nanjiro a glimmer of hope, so that he felt that there was a chance to open the exit of the southern foot and retreat to Manchuria, instead of desperately trying to kill a thousand enemies and lose 800 himself.

As for the time, Comrade Stalin did not ask for it in particular, and the time limit he came up with was ten days, and now, only four or five days have passed, and Zhukov can already feel that the breath of the Kwantung Army is getting weaker and weaker, and the soldiers of the Kwantung Army who fell under the guns of the Soviet soldiers are not four or five hundred thousand, but they are about the same, and the swamps on this plain, on the ice, are frozen with a thick layer of dark red blood.

From Chita to the logistics supply line of the battlefield, a steady stream of ammunition and materials were transported to the front-line troops, with sufficient ammunition and sufficient supplies, but the Kwantung Army in the encirclement had no food and grass inside and no rescuers outside, and the battle situation was judged, and there were two or three days, and the final fatal blow was coming!

Therefore, at this time, Zhukov was full of confidence in victory, but in contrast, General Minamijiro in the encirclement was anxious, like a beast trapped in a cage.

Since being surrounded on the plain between the two mountain ranges, General Minamijiro has a very bad premonition, I am afraid that the Kwantung Army will be shattered here, but General Minamijiro has not despaired, let alone the idea of desperately fighting for everything.

It is easy to break all the jade, only need one order from yourself, more than one million samurai of the Kwantung Army will not hesitate to launch a decisive white-knuckle charge against the Soviet army, staining the land of the Far East with blood, and it will also give the Soviet army a certain amount of damage, but the final result is that the Kwantung Army is completely annihilated, and General Minamijiro has not impulsed to this kind of Cheng dù, he does not want the pride of the Great Japanese Army to end in his own hands, that is the sinner of the Great Japanese Empire.

The tactics adopted by Zhukov were also perceived by General Minamijiro, and similarly, he also believed that this was the only chance, and if Zhukov had taken the method of pressing the onslaught on all fronts regardless of one qiē, this battle might have ended long ago.

Consumption, consumption in an unbearable time, General Minamijiro also felt that he had the capital to consume, and moreover, the homeland and His Majesty the Emperor would never sit idly by and watch the Kwantung Army be wiped out by the Soviet Army, and the Great Japanese Empire could not afford such a loss.

General Minamijiro's judgment was very accurate: Since the Kwantung Army was surrounded, the Japanese base camp adopted a method that could be adopted to reinforce the besieged Kwantung Army, including the Far Eastern Dispatch Army that was being formed in China, and more than 200,000 troops in five divisions and regiments that had formed combat effectiveness, including more than 250,000 troops in six divisions and regiments of the Korean Zhutun Army, and local garrisons in Manchuria, which had gathered more than 100,000 people in three divisions and regiments.

Together, there are nearly 600,000 troops, but far water can't quench the thirst of the near, the strength of the five divisions and regiments on the mainland is being transferred to the Far East, but it takes time, the six divisions of the Korean Zhutun Army are still on the way, some troops, are they still assembling, they haven't left the Korean Peninsula, they don't have seventeen or eighteen days, they can't rush to the battlefield, but did the Soviets give the Kwantung Army so much time?

The answer is obviously no, the only unit that can quickly reinforce the Kwantung Army, that is, the three divisions put together by the local garrison of Manchuria, but the combat effectiveness is really not flattering, and it is okay to bully and bully the common people of Manchuria in peacetime, and it is okay to maintain local law and order.

The Manchurian local garrison was originally a second-line unit, and the number of such troops was only more than 100,000, but Emperor Hirohito and the base camp were also in a hurry to go to the hospital and ordered these temporarily formed troops to launch an attack on Birobidzhan and Khabarovsk on 6 April, with the intention of seizing key points, opening the exit for the southward withdrawal of the Kwantung Army's troops, and receiving the Kwantung Army's southward retreat.

General Gregariv, commander of the Baikal Front of the Soviet Union, only sent more than 80,000 troops to meet the reinforcements of the Kwantung Army, although the strength of the Soviet army was less than that of the Japanese reinforcements, but the combat effectiveness and equipment level of the soldiers were not on the same level at all.

Two days later, the three divisions of the Japanese army reinforced the Kwantung Army, most of the casualties, lost the ability to attack again, General Gregarif took advantage of the situation to order the troops to counterattack on the whole line, fierce fighting for a day and a night, the three patchwork Japanese divisions, wolf bèi unbearable the whole line retreated, the Soviet army has been driven to the north of Heilongjiang Jiamusi area, the Japanese army left tens of thousands of corpses.

If it weren't for General Gregarif considering that his main task was to block the back road of the Kwantung Army's retreat, he would definitely order the troops to continue the pursuit, and he would be able to fight all the way to Mukden and occupy the entire northeast of the country.

At this time, the territory of Northeast China was extremely empty, and almost all the Japanese troops were withdrawn, and as for the 300,000 national soldiers in Manchukuo, the Japanese did not count on it at all, and in terms of combat effectiveness, it was several times more unbearable than the garrisons in these places.

Fortunately, the Soviet army retreated, otherwise, the northeast had fallen, Emperor Hirohito, who received the report, was shocked into a cold sweat and urgently summoned the civil and military ministers to discuss, but no one had a way to solve this problem, the troops in Manchuria could no longer be mobilized, and they had to be used to guard against hundreds of thousands of horses and horses of the independent division entrenched in the area of western Liaoning?

That's another crouching beast, ready to burst out and hurt people, although now in Manchuria, but there are less than 100,000 local garrisons left, but there is finally some power to fight back, of course, this is Emperor Hirohito's self-consolation thoughts, once the independent division of the east commands the troops, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Kwantung Army being surrounded by the Soviet army, to launch an attack, with the current less than 100,000 troops in Manchuria, it is absolutely impossible to resist!

Thinking of that terrible situation, Emperor Hirohito had trouble sleeping and eating, restless, and his temper was also very irritable, and the maids and attendants in the palace became a channel for His Majesty to vent his anger for no reason, and every day there were corpses covered in bruises, quietly pulled out of the palace, and he was now anxious and overstretched, so that he was a little psychopathic!

You can't watch the Kwantung Army, let the Soviet army eat it, and you have to rescue, otherwise, the overseas territories of the Great Japanese Empire will lose more than half, and Ito Yanzaburo will not lose more than he gains in the Southwest Pacific Theater no matter how easy he fights, and he will have both fish and bear's paws!

The army is still on the way to vomiting blood, and it can't be counted on for the time being, but what can be counted on is the winged troops, so the base camp gave an order, and the army and navy each took out three air groups, a total of more than 900 combat aircraft, to form a Far East flight group, with Lieutenant General Hashimoto Minami, head of the aviation department of the base camp, as commander, they could go to the battlefield and blow up a passage for the Kwantung Army!

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