However, due to the deep-rooted old-fashioned Shili in the Soviet Air Force, the spread of this air force establishment and theory and tactics outside the 1st Air Force was not very smooth, and it was not until the outbreak of the Soviet-German war that a large number of senior officers were removed from their posts because of poor performance in the early stage, and Pokryshkin was further promoted, coupled with Stalin's direct involvement, the situation began to change. After the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, due to the large losses of Soviet bombers in the early stage of the war, and at the same time lost air supremacy, the bomber division was cut one, and an air force group army had 3 fighter divisions, 1 bomber division and an attack aircraft division (the number of aircraft was the same as that of fighter divisions), and the basic establishment was more than 900 aircraft

At this time, Pokryshkin's position was already very high, but his military rank was only major general, which was the same as Taizu's practice of boldly reusing young people, but not giving them too high status, so as not to affect the unity of the old comrades' hearts.

For the Soviet Union, the attack on Weihaiwei Port not only lost dozens of ships, hundreds of aircraft, and thousands of Soviet officers and soldiers, but also the dream of an ice-free port in the Far East and a powerful Red Navy almost came to naught. With this as an excuse, the Chinese had ample reason not to lend the port to the Soviet Red Navy for use, and to lose the two battleships that were intended to be copied and improved. The Soviet Red Navy would have to wait at least another 10 years for the Soviet Red Navy to realize its dream of "giant ships and cannons", unless the Western powers suddenly agreed to sell the Soviet battleships or even transfer them outright, but this is obviously unlikely

As the center of the international communist movement, the second largest industrial country, and the great Soviet Union, which had five million Red Army and Red Navy, was actually bitten hard by the Japanese dwarf, who could not even defeat the Chinese army. If the Soviet Union does not fight back hard and get back face, how can it have face in the international community in the future?

And even more so to Stalin's understanding of the Japanese. If they do not resolutely respond to their provocations, these dwarfs may well think that the Soviet Union is weak and can be bullied, and will gain an inch, in order to let them learn from it thoroughly in the future, and avoid the danger of the Soviet Union falling into a two-sided war. Even if the "Soviet threat theory" becomes more and more prevalent in the international arena because of this, we must teach these Japanese monkeys a lesson that they will never forget!

Having said that, the Red Navy of the USSR could not count on it. It was already inferior to Japan, but now the Pacific Fleet has suffered heavy losses, and the other three fleets are all in the European part of the Soviet Union, so it is impossible to rush all the way to Asia to fight (even if they rush over, there is no chance of victory, even if it is three to one). So the Red Navy suffered, and the Soviets could only get it back from land. And the Soviets, who consider themselves to be the best army in the world, are also where their confidence lies. Since the Soviet Far Eastern Front was already in a state of imminent war, Stalin directly demanded that the commanders of the front line launch an offensive within a week, and at the same time, in order to ensure logistical supplies, all but the indispensable transportation of daily necessities on the Trans-Siberian Railway gave way to the needs of the front.

On the Eastern Front. Due to the natural barrier between the many fortified fortresses and rivers built by the Japanese, although the Soviet army invested more than 300,000 troops and a large number of artillery and aircraft, it did not make a breakthrough quickly. Konstantinovich. Zhukov gave full play to the liliang of the armored corps, concentrated thousands of tanks and armored vehicles, including more than 300 T34 medium tanks, boldly implemented interspersed detours, isolated the main core batteries of the Japanese Hailar fortress group, and then concentrated dozens of powerful tracked tractor-towed 203mm B4 heavy howitzers to solve them one by one, although the power of the 203mm heavy howitzer is far from being comparable with the giant guns of the battleship, but the solidity of the Hailar fortress is also not as strong as the sea defense battery, After Maozi frantically ventured to push the B4 heavy artillery to a distance of 500 meters and directly target the shelling, the reinforced concrete layer of the Devil's Fortress could not withstand no matter how thick it was

After destroying the enemy's 240mm or more fortress artillery, Soviet infantry and field artillery also went into battle one after another to eliminate the devils who resisted or broke and fled. It must be admitted that even though the current Japanese army has been frantically expanded again and again, the quality of today's soldiers and grass-roots officers is far from being comparable with the early stage of the Anti-Japanese War, but it still has obvious advantages over the Soviet army, which has also expanded more than ten times in a few years and most of the experienced officers have been cleaned, but to Zhukov's surprise, the Japanese army could not stop the fierce offensive of the Soviet army at all in actual combat

As the most equipped front army of the Soviet Union, the Far Eastern Front has now replaced all the old Mosin Nagant rifles originally equipped with the first firepower shijie (the single-shot accuracy of the Bayi assault rifle is much higher than that of the AKM, but there is a certain gap in the pouring firepower, which is also a different trade-off made according to their respective national conditions. The new AKM assault rifles, light machine guns and heavy machine guns were also updated, which increased the density of Soviet infantry fire dozens of times compared to the previous ones, and hundreds of vehicle-mounted 40-barreled 122mm rocket launchers provided the most powerful support artillery fire in human history. Although the accuracy of the devil's shooting and artillery fire was higher, it was still far from enough to offset the overwhelming superiority of the enemy's firepower, and as for the bayonet jishu that the devil had always boasted about, the Soviet officers and soldiers who were shooting wildly with AKs did not give them this opportunity at all

Just as during World War II in history, submachine guns (assault rifles are similar to the situation) and rocket artillery after a large number of troops are equipped, the effect is especially obvious for the relatively poorly trained Soviet army (if it is like the Japanese army, which has a frighteningly high shooting accuracy, it will not have such a big improvement). ), so much so that even in battles at the level of the weakest infantry squad platoon of the Soviet army, the exchange ratio still exceeded 3:1. At the campaign level, because Zhukov, a famous commander in World War II, fully carried forward the advantages of Soviet artillery and troops, the result was even more gratifying, the 1st Army only suffered more than 10,000 casualties, and all the strong Hailar fortress groups were conquered, and at this time, the southbound armored group had already rushed to the front line of the Great Wall and won the crucial Xifeng Pass and other key passes, if it were not for the lack of fuel left, and it was impossible to get supplies on the Inner Mongolia grassland, they could even kill until Pingjin (to be continued. )