Chapter 845: The Pattern of the Far East (3)

The meeting of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union made a decision to increase the number of troops to the Far East by 400,000, which was also an important adjustment in the strategic direction of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the mobilized troops accounted for about one-fifth of the total strength of the Soviet army in the European part at that time.

After sending Zhukov away, Stalin invited Molotov, who was in charge of foreign affairs in the Central Committee of the CPSU, and after all the staff withdrew, Stalin looked at Molotov sitting on the sofa with a melancholy face, and for a while, neither of them spoke, and the atmosphere in the office was heavy and depressing.

Molotov did not know Stalin's intention to summon him alone, but from Stalin's face, he keenly felt that things were not ordinary, "Comrade Molotov, I came to you to discuss a very important matter, and the situation in the Far East is extremely unfavorable for us. ”

Stalin spoke, and his tone was heavy, and Molotov naturally knew this, and knew no less than Stalin, but he was surprised why he wanted to revisit this issue, which had already been resolved at the meeting of the Political Bureau.

Stalin continued: "The serious problem before us is that Paulpilyusky's troops, in the Khabarovsk region, have been violently blocked by the Japanese, and it is difficult to make progress, and the task of rescuing Timoshenko's troops is difficult to accomplish, and the dangerous situation facing Timoshenko cannot be delayed, so we must find another way to avoid such a tragedy." ”

Stalin stopped talking again, took a sharp puff of his pipe, and the light blue smoke instantly shrouded the leader's face, making it more and more uncertain, but Molotov was startled, he vaguely found a clue from Stalin's words, Molotov, who had been in the company for many years and knew everything about Stalin's words, knew what he should say.

"Comrade Stalin, should we get in touch with that Chinese and ask him to attack the Manchurian hinterland in order to relieve the pressure on Timoshenko?" After Molotov finished speaking, Stalin nodded slightly, and was very pleased that this old friend of the party understood his intentions in this way.

"Well, Comrade Molotov, this matter will be handled by you with full authority and try to meet Tang Qiuli's requirements," after speaking, Stalin's face, unconsciously, twitched, Molotov knew even more that if this Chinese did not take the opportunity to blackmail himself fiercely, he would not be Tang Qiuli.

General Paulpilyusky, commander and political commissar of the Transcaucasian Front, who received Stalin's strict order, really let go of his hands and feet, and used all the reserves in his hands, aircraft, artillery and tanks, and took turns to attack the blocking line of the First Army of the Kwantung Army.

In one day, the Soviet army broke through two blocking lines one after another, and the Soviet army advanced thirty kilometers in the mountains, and it was close to the western region of Khabarovsk.

Lieutenant General Takeda Shino, commander of the First Army of the Kwantung Army, knew the situation he was about to face, if the Soviet army broke through the defense line of the Burya Mountains, the next thing would be the western plain of Khabarovsk, which was undefendable.

An urgent telegram from Khabarovsk made the Supreme Commander of the Kwantung Army, General Ueda Kenkichi, who commanded hundreds of thousands of troops on the Arsenyev front and stormed the Second Army of the Timoshenko Far East, feel the pressure and fought for more than 20 days, and the Kwantung Army paid the price of nearly 150,000 casualties before gradually compressing the Soviets into the small area of Arseniev.

General Kenkichi Ueda felt incredulous about the stubborn resistance of the Soviets, and since the end of September, the firepower on the Soviet positions has obviously thinned out, which is a phenomenon of tight ammunition, and according to Ueda Kenkichi's prediction, in early October, the Battle of Arsenyev can be ended, and the Far East of the Soviet Union will be included in the pocket of the Kwantung Army.

However, the troops of the Second Army of the Soviet Far East under the command of Timoshenko, although they also suffered heavy casualties, even exceeding the casualties of the Kwantung Army, they were like cockroaches that could not be killed, they were knocked to the ground, and they could get up swaying and leisurely every time to contain the offensive momentum of the Kwantung Army.

For such an opponent, Ueda Kenkichi also had a headache, and he also truly understood the fighting will of the Soviet soldiers, the command art of the Soviet commander, and the more near the Arsenyev area, the more stubborn the Soviet resistance became, and even a small-scale counter-assault could be carried out.

Ueda Kenkichi also couldn't figure out where the Soviets' evil came from, the Soviet defense line that seemed to be so weak that it could be broken with a single stab, went to show its extraordinary tenacity, the Kwantung Army's offensive làng head, every time it was bounced back, the battle line was in a stalemate, and a week had passed, and Ueda Kenkichi still couldn't break through the Soviet army's defensive line.

Kenkichi Ueda has always believed that the only reason for the Second Army in the Soviet Far East to fight is the reinforcements from the Transcaucasian direction, which is where Timoshenko's anger lies, and the only way to break this stalemate is to continue to increase the number of troops and add weight to the Soviets until they are crushed.

A group of Kwantung Army troops, transferred from the northeast to the Arsenyev battlefield, next to the Kwantung Army's base camp Manchuria, with strong troops and material supplies, Ueda Kenkichi had enough capital, and kept twisting out the blood of Timoshenko's body until the Soviets fell to the ground.

Kenkichi Ueda wanted such a victory too much, and he was still very confident that the Navy had lost the Pacific Fleet, and he was gloating, especially since the Minister of the Navy, Mitsumasa Yonechi, was dismissed, and the Navy guys were disgraced and damaged, which was tantamount to giving the Japanese Army a dose of stimulant.

In the case of repeated defeats of the navy, the army eliminated the Soviets in the Far East and opened up territory for the Japanese Empire. The people in the country will not approve of it.

Based on this psychology, the entire Japanese Army is providing great assistance to the Kwantung Army, backed by the Japanese mainland and the Northeast region, what Ueda Kenkichi wants, he can get immediately, the Far East Campaign, at the beginning, the Kwantung Army fought again, and later, almost the entire Japanese Army bet on Ueda Kenkichi, hoping that he can create a brilliant victory.

On the shoulders of Ueda Kenkichi, he shouldered the glory of the Japanese Army, no, Prince Kanin Miyazaihito, chief of the General Staff of the base camp, personally went to the Arsenyev front in the name of understanding the war situation, and Ueda Kenkichi knew that the purpose of this royal brother Prince was to use his position as chief of the General Staff to coordinate the relationship between the various systems of the army.

The Japanese Army is monolithic externally, and there are also various factions inside, and with the heavyweight Zaihito in the center and coordination, Ueda Kenkichi let go of his hands and feet, and fought very easily, and the Arsenyev area was beaten into flames, and the bodies of Soviet soldiers were turned into wreckage on the black soil under the shelling of the Kwantung Army.

On the same day that the Soviet Transcaucasian Front broke through the two blocking lines of the First Army of the Kwantung Army in the Burya Mountains, the troops under the command of Kenkichi Ueda also broke through the defense point area at the western end of the Arsenyev region, the Anigay Line, and all the officers and men of the Third Red Banner of the Soviet Far East defending here were killed, and the commander of the army, Lieutenant General Nikolai Bryuschenk, was killed in battle.

Losing the support point of the defense line in the Anigay area, the defense line of the Second Army in the Far East was shaken as a whole, and Timoshenko was forced to give an order to shrink the defense line again, and then, it was time for street fighting, Timoshenko fell into a desperate situation, and hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers had to be captured or killed in battle.

At the critical moment, the Khabarovsk blocking line was tight, and if the reinforcements of the Soviet Transcaucasian Front went south, Ueda Kenkichi would not be able to fight in the next battle, and at least the plan to completely annihilate the Soviets would be in vain, so he immediately ordered the 7th, 11th, 19th, and 23rd divisions of the Kwantung Army stationed in Fujin, Jiamusi, and Hegang in North Manchuria, plus a brigade and regiment, with a total of 100,000 troops, to rush to Khabarovsk immediately.

The Kwantung Army units of four divisions and one brigade were integrated into the battle sequence of the First Army, and the order given by Ueda Kenkichi to the commander of the First Army of the Kwantung Army, Lieutenant General Takeda Shino, was that the Soviet Transcaucasian Front must be blocked in the area of the Bria Mountains, and if a Soviet soldier is put in, you will commit suicide by disembowelment.

With the arrival of reinforcements from the Kwantung Army in Khabarovsk, the addition of this new force was definitely not good news for General Paulpilyusky, the offensive posture of the Transcaucasian Front troops was finally contained, and the two sides returned to a state of see-saw, and Lieutenant General Takeda Shino did not disappoint Kenkichi Ueda and stabilized the battle line on the line of the Bria Mountains.

The Soviet soldiers could only watch from a distance, the faintly visible city of Khabarovsk, the tall spire of the Orthodox church, and the Japanese defense line formed by bullets and shells.

In this way, in the Far East, two battlefields were formed, the Arsenyev region bordering the Sea of Japan, in which the Second Army of the Soviet Far East was in a state of encirclement, in the Khabarovsk region at the corner of the Far East into the area of the Khanshanwei, and in this battlefield, the First Army of the Kwantung Army and the subordinate units took a defensive position to block the reinforcements of the Transcaucasian Front troops of Timoshenko.

The two battlefields were fought equally fiercely, but the Soviet army was at a disadvantage, and if there were no accident factors, it was only a matter of time before Timoshenko's troops were completely annihilated by the Kwantung Army.

Ueda Kenkichi fought in the Far East, and Emperor Hirohito in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan, was in a cold sweat in the face of a large map of Manchuria.