When the 23rd Division was tragically encircled and annihilated, at the other end of the battlefield, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army also entered the battlefield again after resting and replenishing, but they were not qualified to participate in the frontal battle, but sneaked back to the Northeast in the form of a small force, attacked the supply lines and communication lines of the Japanese invaders in the form of guerrilla warfare, and undertook part of the task of rescuing the Red Army pilots.

For this kind of "small fight" task, neither Feng Yuxiang nor Ma Zhanshan is particularly satisfied, like them, who used to be called by a "big man" with heavy troops, really don't like the days when they are chased by the enemy when they lie on the ridge and are chased by the enemy.

"When is the mouth a head these days!" Ma Zhanshan rubbed his sore calf and let out a long sigh.

Feng Yuxiang on the other side is not much better than him, how many days, he has not slept a single sleep, sometimes he can't squint all day, and sometimes just close his eyes, the devil chases him, making him a little nervous.

Looking back on the days in Arshan, although the conditions there were also very difficult, there was always a nest, and now compared to the beginning, it is simply a lost dog.

"Old Ma, we can't live like this, we must find another base!" Feng Yuxiang let out a long sigh.

Ma Zhanshan also wants to get a base area, but how can it be so easy, Arshan is not a good place to say, before the battle between Maozi and the devil is over, they may have to wander around.

"Do you think Maozi can win?" Feng Yuxiang asked again.

Ma Zhanshan did not answer directly, but said: "It is said that the devil is increasing his troops again......"

It can be seen that Ma Zhanshan does not have much confidence in the Red Army, and then he continued: "Mao Zi likes to engage in those who are vain. Get a lot of planes flying all over the sky. With this spare money, it is more practical to buy more cannons. It's good now, I only saw the plane, but I didn't see a few devils......"

Feng Yuxiang also had some feelings about this: "The landlord's old wealth is different, even if it is broken, but the ancestors' family background is thick, how can it be like we have to break a penny in half to spend!" ”

These two sighed for a long time, and they were really envious, jealous and hateful to the Red Army, and they were quite speechless about the defeat of the Red Army. Until Ren Fuchen found them to report the situation: "Two generals." General Blyukhel wants you to intensify your attacks on the lines of communication of the Japanese army, preferably cutting off their supply lines as best you can......"

Ma Zhanshan and Feng Yuxiang glanced at each other, and the two of them suddenly smiled bitterly, the logistics supply of the devils has indeed always been problematic, and the baggage troops are also not valued in the sequence of the devil soldiers. However, this does not mean that the devil's baggage team is easy to deal with, and these logistics soldiers really suffer a loss when they fight with the regular troops of the Red Army, but they still have a hand in bullying the guerrillas of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army.

Ren Fuchen also saw that these two were indeed afraid of difficulties, and hurriedly comforted: "In order for us to better complete the task, General Blyukhel has decided to support a batch of heavy equipment for our allies!" ”

What heavy equipment? A large number of 50-mm mortars and DP27 machine guns. Finally, the Red Army began to hand over the standard equipment to the anti-Japanese Allied forces. Even a batch of PTRD-18 anti-tank guns knocked out by the Red Army was given.

Why give anti-tank guns to the anti-Japanese allies? Of course, not for the guerrillas to go anti-tank, but to use them as anti-materiel weapons. It was quite useful to use a 50-mm mortar with a PTRD-18 to ambush a Japanese transport convoy.

It is indeed easy to use, when the PTRD-18 accurately knocks out the enemy's head and tail vehicles, the 50mm mortar can be bombarded wildly, and basically a convoy of devils can be reimbursed within ten minutes.

Moreover, Ren Fuchen formulated quite strict attack tactics, from the beginning of the battle to the end, it must be controlled within fifteen minutes, as long as the time comes, even if the attack has not been completely successful, it must be immediately retreated.

Anyway, every time the cavalry unit in charge of patrolling the devil arrived on the battlefield, the soldiers of the anti-Japanese alliance had disappeared without a trace, and all that was left were the burning military columns or cars, and the devils who were lying dying in a pool of blood.

In just half a month, the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army made dozens of sorties, destroying more than 10 columns of the devil's army, destroying dozens of cars, and paralyzing the devil's supply line for a time.

"Dispatch troops, immediately transfer a brigade from South Manchuria, and send at least 3 brigades of the Manchukuo army, and we must eliminate this despicable group of bandits!"

Minamijiro broke out, and in the month and a half since the war began, he had been scolded at least ten times by his superiors, and the cowards of the ruling faction once forced him to resign and apologize. Thanks to his thick skin, he pretended not to hear, of course, he can't pretend to be deaf forever, if he wants to fundamentally change the passive situation, then he has to open up the situation on the battlefield.

But how easy is that? With the annihilation of the 23rd Division, the Kwantung Army once again fell into a disadvantage on the battlefield, although the five divisions on the front line took advantage of the Russians' encirclement and annihilation of the 23rd Division to launch a fierce attack, but in the face of the strong defense of the Russians, they did not take advantage of the strong defense of the Russians, at most they used the night battle to sneak attack a few successes, and won a few insignificant tactical victories. In terms of the battle pattern, the initiative is still on the side of the Russians, the Russians are both advancing and retreating, and the Kwantung Army is really just holding on.

"What kind of actions will Lucia take next? Did the General Staff make a judgment? Minamijiro asked Nishio Teramazo angrily.

The latter replied with great difficulty: "It is not yet possible to judge the intentions of Lucia's ghost beasts, and the possibility that they will continue to attack cannot be ruled out." ”

So, what exactly does the Red Army want to do at the next stage? To tell the truth, the Russians themselves did not know that according to the original battle plan, the punishment of the Japanese to a limited extent, and the squeezing of the Japanese out of the Haraha River was the highest goal.

It should be said that this goal has been basically achieved, annihilating the 23rd Division and eating more than 10,000 enemy people in one go. But this was not the case on the battlefield, where there were five enemy divisions on the opposite side of the Red Army. Even if the Red Army wants to retreat in its entirety, it has to guard against the enemy's counterattack. Moreover, these devils also showed a very strong aggression, which made Blyukhel even more afraid to retreat lightly. Otherwise. He walked away with his front foot twitched. The enemy on the back foot marched in a big way. Isn't this battle in vain?

In turn, let Blyukhel continue to attack, another war of annihilation, and eat another division of the devils, to be honest, Blyukhel is not sure. Previous battles have proven one point -- the devil is not a paper paste, although the devil's weaponry and combat thinking are behind the times. But the combat effectiveness of the devil soldiers is not weak, and these beasts are not afraid of death at all, and they can't even wait to find death. And the ability to survive in extremely harsh environments is even more astounding. It took a month to annihilate a second-rate 23rd Division, and that was achieved with absolute superiority in forces and a surprise attack.

Now the Red Army only has a certain advantage on the battlefield, and the enemy's strength has increased, and in this case, it is very risky to continue fighting.

A veteran like Blyukhel would not make the mistake of underestimating the enemy, and after some weighing, he advised: "In view of the fact that the Japanese army has not learned a lesson, and is still concentrating heavy forces to try to fight our army again, it is no longer possible to retreat according to the original plan under this situation...... I will draw the strength of one more army from the Red Banner Front Army in the Far East and carry out another all-out offensive. Only by thoroughly smashing the Japanese army's will to fight can we realize the strategy of the Central Military Commission to fight a war and stabilize the border for 10 years. ”

Blyukher's building was on the desk of the Military Commission. Naturally, there was another round of chickens and dogs, and the Trotskyists naturally did not want to continue to expand the scale of the war. Is it possible to escalate a local war into a full-scale war? Just for such a big and barren place as the Haraha River? Is it worth it?

"This is not a question of worthiness or not, but a matter of principle, we must not show weakness to the aggressor, we must respond with an iron fist and a stick in the face of their provocations, we must let other potential aggressors know that the Soviet Red Army will never give up an inch of territory!"

In the face of the peaceful rhetoric of the Trotskyists, Stalin was resolutely opposed, and almost punched Kamenev in the face.

So why was Stalin so excited? The reason is simple, most of the merits of the annihilation of the 23rd Division went to Rokossovsky and the 1st Mechanized Army, and his cavalry department was busy for half a day. This made Voroshilov's gang very dissatisfied, for fear of being ridden on the head by mechanized troops again, so they desperately wanted to also fight a beautiful battle of annihilation, preferably the 7th Division that could annihilate the Japanese army.

Why the 7th Division? It's very simple, who made the 7th Division a division, or one of the first seven divisions of Japan, annihilated such a unit, and the meaning of annihilating the second-rate 23rd Division is completely different.

If the First Cavalry Army can annihilate the Seventh Division, won't it overwhelm the First Mechanized Army, and also prove that the future war will still be the world of cavalry?

So whether it is Voroshilov or Timoshenko, they really don't want to stop fighting, they still want to attack and want to do a big deal. The younger brother has an urgent need, and when the eldest brother is the eldest brother, he naturally has to try his best to meet it, so Stalin was ruthless.

Stalin's jump on his feet naturally frightened Kamenev, who was as timid as a mouse, but Trotsky was not so easy to fool, and it was okay to continue to fight, but it was impossible to continue to attack and increase troops.

"The scale of the battle cannot be expanded any further, our finances are tight, we cannot use force without restraint, Comrade Blyukhel can only fight with the existing troops, this is not negotiable!"

Stalin could not do anything about this, after all, Trotsky was now the nominal core, and if he insisted on not letting go, everyone would have to give some face. So Blyukhel was soon instructed by the Military Council to conduct active combat while gaining a foothold on the defensive.

What does that mean? Is it a defensive counterattack? Not exactly, because this order can be interpreted in many ways, because Trotsky's real intention was actually to defend, to be able to hold on to that one-third of an acre of land, and let the Japanese know the difficulties and retreat. The phrase "Stalin" actually added it to carry out active operations, and he added it very vaguely, because if the meaning of the Military Commission was really defensive counterattack, then it could have been directly written "to carry out active counterattack operations while basing ourselves on defense."

The reason why I only write about "active combat" is to be sloppy, that is, I don't want to stimulate Trotsky's nerves too much. After all, there is nothing wrong with fighting actively, and it cannot be equated with fighting back. It depends on how the generals on the front line understand and implement it.

Blyukhel was a headache with this ambiguous naming. Yes, whether to fight or to dismiss, the Military Commission has to give me an explanation, no. What is the intention of active combat? For someone planning the overall campaign, this order is a headache.

But who let this be an order from the Military Commission? Blyukhel can only execute, and when he executes, he actually follows the path of defensive counterattacks. Even his focus was on counterattacks, and soon the 1st Cavalry Corps, which had fought the hardest in the previous period, and the 1st and 2nd Tank Divisions of the 1st Mechanized Army were reassigned and separated from the front line.

By order of Blyukhel, the five divisions began to rest and replenish, ready to play the role of sharp knives again in the next stage of the battle. By mid-June, the Red Army's arrangement on the battlefield was such that the 82 Infantry Division was located on the left flank. The 1st and 57th Infantry Divisions were in the center, the 6th and 8th Outer Mongolian Cavalry Divisions were on the right flank, and the 1st Paratrooper Brigade was responsible for supporting the second line. On the opposite side of them, the 8th Division was on the far right flank of the Japanese army, the 9th and 19th Divisions and the 2nd and 3rd Tank Wings in the center, and the 7th Division and the 1st Tank Wing on the left flank.

The 9th and 19th Divisions, together with the 2nd and 3rd Tank Wings, launched a fierce offensive against the 1st and 57th Infantry Divisions of the Red Army from the very center of the battlefield!

At the same time as the fighting broke out, Li Xiaofeng welcomed two special guests to his office in Moscow, the first of course, an old friend of the Russian people, former president of the East Prussian People's Republic, Pavel. February 1935. The old man, who had served three consecutive terms as president, was finally relieved of his responsibilities and his position was replaced by his close aide Ben Brown. Gurion took over. And the reason for his trip to Russia this time was very simple: to repair relations with old Russian friends.

It all started in 1933. At that time, Li Xiaofeng's relationship with the Jews was very stiff, almost equivalent to a breakdown. That year, the Jews tore up the agreement to renovate the battleship and cut military spending significantly, which caused Li Xiaofeng to be extremely dissatisfied. In order to beat the Jews, someone cut off the Jews' jobs in the entrepot trade, causing the Jews to constantly interfere with him in the United States.

By the end of that year, diplomatic relations between the two sides had broken down almost completely, and East Prussia had recalled its ambassador to Russia, and no new ambassador had been appointed for the next year. And the Soviet Union was not polite, and simply downgraded diplomatic relations between the two countries to chargé d'affaires.

At that time, the Jews were quite backbone, thinking that the Soviet Union would be isolated from the world again without the channel of East Prussia. But what the Jews did not expect was that from 1934 onwards, the world was in turmoil, and first the United States and the Soviet Union resumed normal diplomatic relations, which meant that East Prussia no longer had any value to the Soviet Union.

Immediately after the Nazis took full control of Germany, East Prussia felt the pressure, of course, only at the time, but in 1935, when Hitler openly expanded his army and abrogated the Treaty of Versailles, the Jews felt more than just pressure.

As Jews who dug into the corners of Germany in World War I, it was clear what the Germans were expanding for. What to do as soon as the Germans claim sovereignty over East Prussia? Especially when Britain and France were very "restrained" and even indulgent in the resurgence of the Germans, the Jews knew that it was not reliable to rely on Britain and France to dispel the Germans from recovering East Prussia.

It was only then that the Jews realized that the foreign policy of the early thirties seemed to be too biased, and that it had offended the Soviet Union so badly that they had no one to rely on. Therefore, it became the most important task for the Jews to repair relations with the Soviet Union as soon as possible, especially when the German-Germanic people in East Prussia began to show more and more hysteria.

Therefore, after Pavel stepped down, he immediately visited Russia in a private capacity, and was the first to find an old friend, hoping that Li Xiaofeng could help with the work.

Li Xiaofeng really doesn't have a good impression of the two-faced Jews, you listened to the arrogant before, and you dared to argue with your brother, but now that you find that the wind is wrong, you want to say two good words to release your suspicions? It's not that easy!

"The question of sovereignty in East Prussia is the internal affair of your country, and our Government has always pursued the political proposition of non-interference in the internal affairs of other countries. This is a matter between your country and Germany, and there is no reason for my Government to be involved. ”

Pavel said with a smiling face: "Mr. Andrei, the establishment of the East Prussian People's Republic is closely related to your country, and the people of East Prussia have always been grateful to your country for supporting the independence of East Prussia after the First World War. And now, under the guise of nationalism, certain countries are trying to undermine the independence and autonomy of East Prussia, and as an old friend and good neighbor of the East Prussian People's Republic, how can your country stand idly by? ”

Li Xiaofeng laughed: "On the ethnic issue, the Chinese government has always respected the choices of the people of all nationalities and fully respected the right of national self-determination. If your government needs our construction, then the only answer we can give is to leave it to the people of East Prussia to choose! ”

Pavel's face turned pale, because even after more than ten years of immigration, the proportion of Jews in East Prussia did not exceed 40%, and the vast majority of the territory were of German descent, and the Jews were really not sure of winning the referendum. In fact, according to opinion polls, more than 85% of people of German descent in East Prussia want to be reincorporated into Germany, otherwise they would not have come to Moscow with a shy old face...... (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank you to Comrade hzwangdd and Comrade Juventus!