Being able to dispatch more than 900 combat aircraft is basically the limit of the Japanese army and naval air force, which is close to more than a quarter of the number of combat aircraft owned by the Japanese army.

Although the Japanese army is in an advantageous position, the allies led by Britain and the United States are not easily killed, holding on to the last few lines of defense, the Japanese army can not be killed with all its might, like a cockroach, the two sides have formed a situation of attrition, and the Australian battlefield also needs a large number of combat aircraft.

In the northeast, a considerable number of combat aircraft are also needed to guard against the Northern Flying Group of the Independent Division Air Force.

Under the orders of Lieutenant General Hashimoto Minamiki, the combat planes of the Japanese Far East Flying Group, under the orders of Lieutenant General Hashimoto Minamiki, made the first sortie, and they took out all their family resources, hoping to provide maximum air support to the Kwantung Army, which was surrounded by Soviet troops, and if the air attack went smoothly, it could also blow up a bloody road.

However, Lieutenant General Hashimoto Nanzhao found that he was wrong, and moreover, he was very wrong; General Zhukov, commander of the Soviet Far Eastern Front, was a general with a very strategic vision, and the aviation units under his command were always in a state of readiness for war, and no matter how tense the war situation in other places was, not a single combat plane in the hands of the Far Eastern Front was allowed to move, and this was specially aimed at dealing with the Japanese Kwantung Army.

Even the Outer Mongolian Front was bombed indiscriminately by fighters and bombers of Liu Cuigang's Northern Flying Group on its way south to Saiyinshanda, and it was almost impossible to move an inch, and Zhukov was under tremendous pressure from the General Staff and the Air Force General Headquarters. After refusing to send combat planes to the battlefield in Outer Mongolia, Liu Cuigang was fulfilled by killing the more than 300 fighters that the Soviet army had finally assembled, and the sky in the south of Outer Mongolia was the world of the Northern Flying Group.

The air force in Zhukov's hands is two air groups, with about 1,000 combat aircraft, and the mixed air force of the Japanese army and navy has taken a desperate stance. Not to be outdone, Zhukov did his best to meet the battle with the air force in his hands.

Beginning on 6 April, Soviet and Japanese fighter planes engaged in fierce battles in the airspace around Robidhan and Khabarovsk. The sky was clear, and there was smoke everywhere. Ballistics and wreckage everywhere. By 9 April, each side had lost more than 300 fighters and more than 100 bombers, and neither side took advantage of it, which could be regarded as a tie, for the Soviet Far Eastern Front. It does not affect the overall situation, but for the Japanese Kwantung Army, the only hope can be regarded as completely shattered.

Air and ground rescue forces. The commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army in the encirclement, General Minamijiro, had to grit his teeth and work hard to support, while ordering an attack on Birobidzhan and Khabarovsk, never stopping, while resisting Zhukov's attack from the rear, the lives of the Kwantung Army soldiers who filled in every day were more than 70,000 or 80,000, and every time he saw the casualty statistics table, Nanjiro was distressed.

The whole of Japan, at a loss for the war situation in the Far East, could only watch the Kwantung Army being depleted day by day, and only hoped that General Minamijiro, the reinforcements that could be dragged to the mainland, and the more than 200,000 horses of the Korean Zhutun Army who were still running on the road.

The commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, General Minami Jiro, was emaciated, and General Vasilevsky, commander and member of the political committee of the Soviet Outer Mongolian Front, who was in charge of attacking Saiyinshanda, was also in a bad mood and felt a little anxious.

For the Outer Mongolian Front, which has more than 1.3 million troops, because of the air raids and bombing, the loss of several thousand troops every day is not painful or painful, but what can give Vasilevsky a headache is that the bombers and fighters of the independent division are specially looking for the vanguard and logistics units to attack.

The rapid advance of the vanguard troops was in vain, and the loss of the logistics troops also forced Vasilevsky to order the troops to slow down the pace of moving south, and the food and drink of more than one million people, and the ammunition needed for equipment were all astronomical, and the logistics supply line from Kulen to Seyinshanda was almost blown to pieces by the planes of the independent division, and the supply of supplies became more and more difficult.

Fortunately, after paying a certain price, more than 500,000 people of the three group armies of the vanguard army finally reached the front line of Altanshire, and tomorrow evening, they can launch an attack on Seyinshanda, which makes General Vasilevsky, who has been depressed, feel somewhat better.

However, this good mood did not last for a few hours, and on the evening of April 9, it was completely ruined by a sudden incident.

A telegram, placed in front of General Vasilevsky, was sent by the commander of the garrison left behind in Kulen, "Comrade commander, I report to you an emergency, in the afternoon of this afternoon, a large number of cavalry units of the Independent Division suddenly appeared on the periphery of Kulen and launched a fierce attack on Kulen, because our army does not have many troops left behind in Kulen, therefore, in a passive state, the cavalry of the Independent Division has already captured the perimeter of Kulen, I implore Comrade Commander, to send reinforcements immediately, otherwise, Kulen is about to be lost!" ”

General Vasilevsky was so angry that he almost scolded his mother, he couldn't understand why a large number of cavalry of the independent division suddenly appeared on the periphery of Kulen, and moreover, there was still the courage to attack Kulen, and besides, how did so many cavalry of the independent division dodge the front of the advance of more than one million troops of the Outer Mongolian Front, and what were the reconnaissance troops doing?

For this reason, General Vasilevsky was furious, so angry that he almost shot the chief of the reconnaissance section of the major general of the front army headquarters, and his temper was vented, and the situation that appeared in Kulen had to be solved, and if it was not solved, it would not be done, and Kulen was the logistics base and transit station of the front army, and more than one million people were fed, drunk, fed, and fed, and all the ammunition needed for equipment was in the city of Kulen, in case Kulen fell into the hands of the cavalry of the independent division, more than a million people would still fight what Seyinshanda, and they would be half starved to death if they were hungry.

General Vasilevsky regretted his decision very much, thinking that the troops of the independent division had been oppressed to the southern part of Outer Mongolia by his own army, so he only left a division of garrison troops in Kulen, and this division was still a baggage force, and when it was fully established, it was only about 7,000 troops, and the combat effectiveness was even more unbearable.

Frowning and thinking about it for a long time, General Vasilevsky picked up the phone, "Order, the 42nd Army of the Guards, send the strength of two corps, immediately return to Kulen, and be responsible for clearing the cavalry units of the independent division." ”

The strength of the two armies adds up to nearly 90,000 people, and it is used to deal with Liu Chun's four cavalry brigades of more than 20,000 people, and Vasilevsky is also ruthless; if the cavalry of the independent division is allowed to attack Kulun, attack the logistics supply line, and hit Seyinshanda, it will become very difficult; judging from the situation of the planes of the independent division and the continuous air raids of the troops, Seyinshanda is the last line of defense defended by Tang Qiuli's troops.

At about eight o'clock on the night of 9 April, General Vasilevsky held a military meeting at the headquarters of the Front Army to plan the campaign plan for attacking Seyinshanda.

More than 100 high-ranking generals of the Soviet army packed the huge tents to the brim, but the faces of the Soviet generals all had some tired looks, and the non-stop wanton and indiscriminate bombing of the planes of the independent division made the commanders of these units anxious and at a loss.

However, seeing that the commander of the Front, who was even more tired, with a somewhat sallow face, a whole circle of thinness, and a much slimmer body, the Soviet generals were balanced, and the campaign plan for the attack on Seyinshanda was announced by the Chief of Staff of the Front, Lieutenant General Pozhnev.

Similarly, Comrade Chief of Staff, his eyes were also dark, obviously he was not resting well and did not get enough sleep, "Comrades, the campaign plan of the Front Army Headquarters for the attack on Seyinshanda is very clear, that is, the 35th, 37th, and 41st Group Armies of the vanguard are the mainstay, divided into three offensive directions, each responsible for the offensive in a certain area, and at the same time, to launch an attack on the troops of the independent division, and the time of the attack is determined to be 6:30 p.m. on 10 April. ”

"Once the offensive begins, the three group armies must deploy all their forces, form a large-scale, multi-directional, and continuous offensive posture in the area responsible for the offensive, and strive to use about three days to conquer Saiyinshanda, and then advance to the Sino-Mongolian border, and the two group army units of the second echelon will also join the offensive sequence after they arrive at the battlefield on 14 April!"

The commanders of the three group armies of the vanguard were silent and launched the attack on time, and there was no problem, but in order to advance quickly, and even more so to evade the air raids of the aircraft of the independent division, the artillery and tank units of the various group armies fell far behind the infantry.

At the beginning, when the Soviet army occupied Outer Mongolia, the defense system was strengthened and improved in many ways, and it became a hard walnut that could not be gnawed, without the fire support of artillery and tanks, and the infantry attack alone could not take the Seyin Shanda, and the casualties paid would be an astonishing number, I am afraid that after the fight, more than half of the soldiers of the three group armies will fall in the Seyin Shanda, and they will not be able to conquer it.

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