Chapter 873 Fight Luàn Battle

At two o'clock in the morning of 10 November, Timoshenko commanded more than 80,000 remnants of the Second Army of the Soviet Far East to begin a decisive breakthrough in the direction of Arsenyev directly north.

Temoshenko's breakthrough operation greatly exceeded the expectations of the commander of the Kwantung Army, Ueda Kenkichi, the Soviets wanted to break through sooner or later, but they didn't expect it to come so quickly, according to Ueda Kenkichi's estimate, the exhausted Soviet army had to take advantage of the fact that the imperial army troops had not attacked for a few days, take a good breath, and then break through.

Ueda Kenkichi's wishful thinking played well, he ordered the troops to stop the offensive, creating the illusion of a long-term siege, which can be said to paralyze Timoshenko, and it was a clever move to disintegrate the combat effectiveness of the Soviet soldiers.

Once relaxed, without the pressure of the Imperial Army, the mentality of the Soviets will undergo subtle changes, and the feeling of desperate combat will be consumed, which will then affect the soldiers' will to fight.

Ueda Kenkichi is cunning, on the one hand, he despises Chinese culture very much, on the other hand, he wants to use the strategy of the Chinese, but unfortunately he is not a two-and-a-half hanger, which is probably a common problem of the Japanese in that era, on the one hand, he tries to remove the influence of the cultural mother country on them, on the other hand, he enjoys the jīng essence of this culture with peace of mind, but it is labeled by the Japanese themselves, and this self-deception is most in line with the xìng character of the Japanese.

Timoshenko was not fooled, as a clever commander, he was very aware of the current situation of the troops, relying on a breath to support, without fighting for a long time, this anger was vented, and the Second Army was completely finished, it can be said that it collapsed without a fight.

With the courage of dozens of days of bloody battles with the Kwantung Army, the troops of the Second Army in the Far East quickly broke through the encirclement of the Kwantung Army, and tens of thousands of Soviet soldiers rushed out.

Ueda Kenkichi knows his own affairs, and with these hundreds of thousands of troops, in the Arsenyev area with a radius of nearly 100 kilometers, forming a tight encirclement, that is a fool's dream, to be able to form an encirclement, is already the limit of the Kwantung Army's troops, not to mention the depth of the encirclement, can take care of the main direction, has made Ueda Kenkichi làng spend countless brain cells.

As soon as Timoshenko broke through, Ueda Kenkichi understood that that little force could not stop the flooded Soviets at all, so when the Soviet army broke through to the north, he was not too anxious, and ordered the troops to chase after him, and at the same time, he ordered the First Army in the Khabarovsk direction to immediately block the Soviet troops and finally destroy them in the field without fortifications.

The First Army of the Kwantung Army, in the Khabarovsk region, did not fight very easily, and the Soviet Transcaucasian Front received an order to die, and the order of the General Staff of the Soviet Army was that even if it could not rush into the narrow corridor and meet Timoshenko, it would be in the Khabarovsk region to entangle the First Army of the Kwantung Army to the death, so that it could not divide its forces to intercept the Timoshenko breakthrough force.

After receiving the order of His Excellency the Commander, Lieutenant General Hikogoro Takashima, commander of the First Army of the Kwantung Army, frowned like an iron pimple, and Takashima was very annoyed by His Excellency's order, although he did not have much pressure in the Khabarovsk region, he was also ten fingers pressing fleas, and he lacked skills.

The Soviets on the opposite side, although they could not break through his blocking line, but the fighting was going on, and Takashima also saw that the Soviet army had received a death order, and would never stop if it did not break the blocking line, and if it divided its troops to intercept the remnants of Timoshenko's troops, the frontal blocking force would be reduced, and its own blocking line would be immediately in danger.

There was no way, Takashima had no choice but to order the 25th Division, the 31st Division, and the 4th Hún Brigade to form a brigade and the 7th Brigade with a total of more than 80,000 troops, to establish a blocking line on the line of the Bikin River south of Khabarovsk, block Timoshenko's troops here, and join forces with the troops that caught up with them later.

After withdrawing the troops of two divisions and two brigades from the blocking line, the forces of the frontal blocking position were stretched thin, and Takashima immediately felt the pressure, and the troops of the Transcaucasian Front received an order from the General Staff to meet the troops of Timoshenko who broke through at any cost.

The commander of the front retained General Kinsky, who was not satisfied with the results of the battle of his troops for more than two months, and the uninterrupted attack not only did not break the blocking line of the Kwantung Army, but on the contrary, the troops of the Kwantung Army fought more and more, and seeing that his old comrades-in-arms were besieged, he was unable to do anything, and General Kinsky was very angry in his heart.

Now, Timoshenko has broken through and is coming in his own direction, and if he does not break the current stalemate, not to mention that Timoshenko is not satisfied, the General Staff and the Supreme Commander will not be able to go over, keep Jinsky commanding the troops, and go all out to storm the blocking line of Takashima, and use all the weapons at the bottom of the box, and the reserves will not be left at all.

The Transcaucasian Front troops were desperate, the fighting in the Khabarovsk region suddenly reached a boiling point, spreading dozens of kilometers of front, the sound of guns and artillery was earth-shattering, the Soviets were desperate, and the first army on Takashima was immediately unbearable, and for the first time it was broken through the blocking line, and the Kwantung Army troops who were blocking were forced to retreat to the second blocking position.

The first army of Takashima, under the fierce attack of the Soviet Transcaucasian Front, was constantly forced to shrink the blocking line, and after fighting for a day and a night, Takashima was shocked to find that the blocking position had retreated dozens of kilometers.

What a good phenomenon is this, there is a desperate attack of the Transcaucasian Front in front, and the Timoshenko breakthrough troops in the back rush over, flanking from the front and rear, who is surrounded is not certain? He hurriedly telegraphed the tense situation in the Khabarovsk region to Commander Kenkichi Ueda, and the answer he received was: "The troops of the Soviet Transcaucasian Front must be resolutely blocked, and the remnants of Timoshenko's defeated army must also be stopped." ”

After receiving the order, Hikogoro Takashima almost spurted out a mouthful of blood, and he knew how much capital he had in his hand that it was not a problem to block the Transcaucasian Front, and it would be difficult for a strong man to undertake the task of blocking the army in two directions.

Ueda Kenkichi pursued the Timoshenko troops who broke through the siege also did not go well, in the north of Arseniev, was stubbornly blocked by the Soviet army, fought for a day, and finally took the position, and when he arrived on the ground, Ueda Kenkichi's nose was so crooked, and all the troops who blocked the hundreds of thousands of Kwantung Army troops were all Soviet wounded, and not even a single prisoner was captured.

The heroic resistance of more than 10,000 wounded Soviet soldiers bought Timoshenko a precious day, so that more than 80,000 Soviet soldiers temporarily got rid of the passive situation of being tightly bitten by the Kwantung Army, but more than 10,000 wounded remained here forever.

Kenkichi Ueda felt that the situation was not good, Takashima was tight, and the resistance was blocked for another day, and the Timoshenko troops, who had been besieging for more than two months, were afraid that they would run, so he had to order the Second Army, which was fighting with the Kamchatka Front of the Soviet Union, to immediately leave the battlefield, rush to the Khabarovsk region, join the First Army, and be sure to encircle the remnants of Timoshenko again.

If the troops are not transferred back to Manchuria, Timoshenko will not be able to run anyway, and he is depressed, and he received a telegram from the Second Army, "Your Excellency, your Excellency, our troops are entangled with the Soviet army, and they can no longer get out of the battlefield, if they are forced to leave, they will be followed and pursued, and in this way, the casualties of the troops will increase dramatically." ”

Kenkichi Ueda believed that the situation of the Second Army was true, and it had fought with the opponent for more than two months, and it was not something you could just leave, and besides, the strength of the Second Army was not advantageous compared with the Soviet Kamchatka Front, and the original purpose was not to destroy the Soviet Army, but to block the Kamchatka Front from moving south and reinforce Timoshenko's troops.

Now, the two have become a tight situation, one is still chasing wildly, the result may not be known, Ueda Kenkichi's anger, irrepressible outburst, nearly 600,000 troops were dispatched before and after, and he was not reconciled to fight like this, in the Arsenyev encirclement, the Kwantung Army did not take much advantage, and the proportion of casualties of the Soviet army was close to one to one.

But in addition to scolding the blind command of the base camp, he could only order the troops to chase after the Timoshenko troops who broke through, seeing the blood-red eyes of His Excellency the Commander, those staff officers in the front command of the Kwantung Army knew that His Excellency the Commander was going to kill again, so they all hid and left, yesterday, a squadron leader who was not long-eyed, ordered the troops to rest for ten minutes, and was touched by His Excellency the Commander, and cut off the poor guy's head with a single knife.

The troops of the Kwantung Army, which urgently returned to the Liaodong Peninsula, were originally a tired division that had come down from the battlefield, and that momentum and ruthlessness had long been exhausted in more than two months of fighting, and an incomplete division of the vanguard unit arrived in the area of Shangjiahe, west of Fengtian, and was suddenly ambushed by Liu Tiehan's two brigades.

Five hours later, the 18th Division of the Kwantung Army, which had hurried over from the Far East, and more than 21,000 people, disappeared into the fierce artillery fire of the Dongzhi troops.

According to the order of the division commander Tang Qiuli, the Dongzhi troops immediately withdrew from the Liaodong Peninsula and formed a confrontation with the more than 200,000 Kwantung Army troops who arrived later on the Fengtian line.

Tang Qiuli, who was far away in Dingbian, after receiving Liu Tiehan's telegram, smiled like an old fox, and saw that the Mei sisters beside him had a chill, and the delicate balance between the Far East and the Northeast that he was looking forward to was about to be realized, how could he not be happy.