"Interesting things happened," Litvinov wrote in his diary, "and our anti-chemical detachment more than once found evidence of the use of biological and chemical weapons by the Japanese, and even captured alive part of the scum of Unit 731." However, the Japanese firmly denied this qiē, and instead blamed the great Red Army for creating a humanitarian catastrophe. ”

When he wrote this, Litvinov seemed to laugh back angrily, and he wrote in a bitter and sarcastic tone: "What a high-sounding phrase for a humanitarian catastrophe! It's just that I doubt that there is such a word in the Japanese dictionary, and whether it has been explained exactly, and from the evidence obtained by our war correspondents and KGB staff on the battlefield, the Japanese do not know what humanitarianism is at all, and they are not even human at all! ”

Not only did Litvinov strongly condemn the crimes of the Japanese, but even Colonel Smith of the German Spator Regiment, who mentioned earlier, revealed to the outside world: "What the Japanese army has done has broken through the lower limit of human morality, and I am quite puzzled by how the Japanese government created these devils!" ”

The reason why Colonel Smith expressed such an emotion is very simple, because he is a witness to the crime of cannibalism by devils: "On May 28, I entered position No. 103, which the Japanese had previously held, with the Russians...... I saw more than a dozen corpses blistered in water in the two large pits behind the trenches, judging from the clothes, it seemed to be the puppet Manchurian army, these guys who were Chinese called traitors and doglegs were slaughtered by their 'masters' with war knives, like pigs and sheep...... If you look closely, their thighs and buttocks are covered with knife marks, and some of them can still see bones...... The scene was terrible. Extremely challenging the limits of human psychological endurance! ”

In fact, what Colonel Smith saw and heard was quite good. American war correspondent Wellington wrote in his compilation of "Observations of the Battle of the Haraha River": "The Japanese there were surrounded. The worst supply problem arose, when the Russian lads blew up the last fortifications of the Japanese army, they couldn't understand why there were at least 300 Japanese soldiers at the scene, but only 75 were found on the scene. What about the rest of the devil soldiers? The world has evaporated? In the end, the Russians found the answer in the field kitchen: it turned out that after the Japanese had eaten up the military rations, they ate their own people one by one! ”

Even Wellington's description is exactly what went out of a horror movie: the corpses of the different stages of preparation are stacked on the ground like piles of wood, some of them have been skinned, and some of them have been shaved clean, and long strips of human flesh have been skewered together and smoked over a firewood. What's even more terrifying is that there is a big pot that is still bubbling with the smell of meat, and a pile of bloody bones is thrown next to this pot......

The Japanese government, the base camp and the Kwantung Army naturally categorically denied this, and even if the evidence was conclusive, they turned a blind eye like an ostrich with their heads covered. In response to these accusations, the Japanese prevaricated with Lucia's slander and planting, and when they were forced to hurry, they simply pretended not to hear them.

I have to say that in the face of the face, the Japanese have done very successfully, which is really unprecedented and unprecedented! But shamelessness did not help the Japanese win the war. After all, no matter how thick-skinned you are, you can't stop the gun.

Early in the morning of May 28. Matvey. Kulikov observed the Japanese positions with a telescope in the division command, his brows furrowed. For days. It was raining incessantly and the fog was filled, which was a great obstacle to the attacking side, especially to the Red Army, which was playing a high-tech infantry and tan's coordinated attack.

For several days, the officers and men of the 2nd Tank Division crouched in the skirmishers, enduring ankle-high water and the cold weather peculiar to the Northeast in early spring.

The weather is now the worst enemy of the Red Army!

After looking at it with a telescope for a moment, and then looking at his watch, Kulikov categorically ordered the start of artillery preparations - the general assault on the Japanese 23rd Division began!

Dozens of howitzers and mortars opened fire at the same time, and the rain of bullets bombarded the last positions of the 23rd Division, according to the Japanese record: "In one day, seven or eight thousand shells poured down, and the soldiers were blown up to the flesh and blood, and the casualties were extremely heavy!" ”

On that day, the adjutant of the 72nd Infantry Wing, Captain Nobi Busho, received a telegram from the division commander, Michitaro Komatsubara, asking him to burn the flag and bury the gilded crown decorated with the Emperor's chrysanthemum imperial coat of arms when the worst came.

"Burning the military flag" was the standard procedure of the Japanese army when facing the annihilation of the entire army, and although Nobi was familiar with this fatwa when he was studying at the Land University, he never imagined that he would one day carry out this order. For cannon fodder like Nobi Busho, who is armed with the spirit of bushido, the defeat of the Imperial Army is tantamount to the destruction of the worldview.

At that time, in the dark and damp field bunker, Nobi Bush opened the wooden box where the wing flag was stored in the faint light of the candle, rubbed the damp and heavy Rising Sun Flag, and felt extremely sad in his heart!

It was at this moment that the final blow of the Red Army began!

Kulikov's orderly, Malenkov, recalled: "When the flames of the signal flares that were fired to start the general offensive were still drifting, and the last shells of our artillery that fell on the enemy's positions exploded, our army launched the first joint offensive operation of all arms in the history of modern warfare in the world.

The infantry followed the tanks in waves through the barbed wire and trenches.

The artillery extended the barrage on the red cloth board that followed the infantry to the line of achievement.

Air Force fighters and attack planes constantly carried out dive fire as indicated by the red smoke bombs of the ground forces.

Rifles, machine guns, and mortars were firing fiercely in the direction of the remaining enemy troops, and grenades, rocket launchers, and Spitfire tanks and flamethrowers continued to burn the last of the enemy's resistance to ashes.

Again and again, our brave and fearless Red Army soldiers repelled the fierce counterattacks of the enemy officers with grenades, submachine guns, and bayonets.

Medical teams carried stretchers and transport teams braved a hail of bullets, constantly moving ammunition forward and evacuating the wounded. Step by step, turning the enemy's trenches into our positions......

Attack after attack, attack after attack, and the enemy repeatedly counterattacked. Another counterattack. flames and smoke clouds. The Red Army fighters resolutely crushed the enemy into powder......

The fierce battle lasted a whole day. At about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, a sudden storm arose, and the Japanese army took advantage of the darkness to carry out a resolute counterattack, which once frustrated the attack. At the most critical moment of the battle, Kulikov personally went to the front line, led his guard company to a fierce assault forward, and drove the devils back with submachine guns and bayonets.

During this day of fierce fighting, a large number of Soviet heroes emerged from the attacking units of the Red Army. For example, the deputy commander of the 2nd Battalion of the 21st Regiment of the 3rd Tank Division. Ilyich commanded the battle in the front line with a submachine gun. In the face of the enemy's frantic counterattack, he fought without retreating, and suddenly burst out of more than a dozen devils in one breath, until he ran out of bullets and was stabbed in the stomach with a bayonet by the devil soldiers, he still swung his gun and slammed the enemy. When the reinforcements repelled the devil and were about to evacuate him, the deputy battalion commander resolutely refused to leave the position, and after the hygienist hurriedly stitched up the wound on his stomach, he still stuck to the front line to direct the battle. Until the battalion was repositioned and withdrawn from position.

Another Hero of the Soviet Union, Peter, was even more heroic, and his friend Igor recalled: "Peter was a big fat man. He was the most delicious foodie in the company, and at one time his comrades looked down on him. But Peter fought bravely, and in the three battles before his death, he destroyed three enemy bunkers, five machine-gun fire points, and was awarded two Red Banner Medals...... After the battle of that day, Peter rushed to the front as always, he first destroyed one of the enemy's machine gun fire points with a bazooka, and just as he was reloading, two devil soldiers pounced on him from the side, facing the bright bayonets, Peter was not afraid, and he picked up the sapper shovel and met it...... After some hand-to-hand combat, Peter easily killed the two devils, but he didn't have the slightest intention of stopping, and immediately rushed to the next target with the bazooka on his back......

"I can't even remember how many enemy firepower Peter knocked out that day, but I remember that after running out of all his ammunition, in the face of the siege of the enemy hordes of enemies, he rushed forward in great strides, knocked down two devils, and finally resolutely pulled the grenade...... While cleaning the battlefield, I finally found him, and he was blown into several ......"

According to the only living recollection of the devil soldiers: before the grenade was fired, Peter was already seriously wounded, one arm had been broken, he was covered in blood, only two eyes were exposed, and when several bayonets were inserted into his chest, he pulled the grenade with the only hand that could move.

Immediately after Peter's death, his unit reported his heroic deeds to the Military Commissariat, and within a minute the Military Council decided to award Peter the Order of Lenin and the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, and erect a bronze statue in his hometown. The regiment he was in was renamed Peter. Petrovsky regiment.

Compared with the valiant Peter, there are also some Heroes of the Soviet Union who not only achieved brilliant results, but also fought quite intelligently. Like Kirill. Ivanov. Later, he was called the bombing hero, and he almost broke the devil with a grenade. Also as an assault player, Kirill is very good at throwing grenades, not only far, but also quite accurately. In the words of his company commander: "Kirill can throw a grenade into the basket across the basketball court, and I wonder if the coach of the national basketball team is blind. Why not let him play basketball? ”

During the day's fighting, Kirill's assault squad was suppressed by two Japanese machine guns, and at the critical moment, Kirill dropped bombs covertly from a distance of 100 meters, destroying them with only four grenades.

This was just the beginning, and in the ensuing battle, in the face of a very cleverly built bunker by the Japanese army, the bazooka men could not destroy it after exhausting all their ammunition, and just when everyone looked at each other and did not know what to do, Kirill appeared. With a few grenades on his back and a submachine gun in his arms, he began to assault forward, taking advantage of the cover of the terrain, he rushed to a distance of seventy meters from the bunker in one fell swoop, and after hiding himself, he once again performed a stunt.

The first grenade landed in the enemy's firing hole, and with a boom, the enemy's machine gun temporarily stopped firing, and just as Kirill's comrades cheered and shouted again for Ula to charge forward, the damned machine gun began to spray tongues of fire again!

Seeing that his comrades were about to fall under the enemy's guns, Kirill quickly threw the bomb again, throwing three grenades in a row, except for the last one that bounced out on the edge of the perforation, the other two accurately "drilled" into the perforation, and after two explosions, the bunker was forever dumb fire!

After the war, in recognition of Kirill's exploits, the Military Commissar awarded him the Order of Lenin and the title of Hero of Bombing with 100 Shots, and immediately transferred him to the Soviet national basketball team. At the 11th Olympiad in Berlin in 1936. Kirill won the first Olympic gold medal in basketball for the Soviet Union.

But the most legendary Heroes of the Soviet Union were not these. Rather, a wonderful ace pilot in the air, Nick Ray. Tercochin. This very young I-16 pilot. In the previous month's fighting, there were not many appearances, not a single enemy plane was shot down, at most it was a few air patrol missions, and the plane was safely flown back.

On May 28, however, Tercochin opened, and in one fell swoop, "six" planes were killed. Here's what happened, that morning, Terkochin had just completed an air patrol with the long plane. After encountering a group of enemy planes in an aerial battle, the long plane shot down two enemy planes, and Terkochin had all the bullets and still had zero eggs.

When returning to the airfield to refuel and replenish ammunition, Terkochin's squadron suddenly received an urgent report that at least 12 Type 93 bombers were flying in the direction of the airfield, asking them to take off immediately to intercept them. After a while, Terkochin, who had just landed not long after landing, took off again, and soon he found the Type 93 bombers.

The Devil's group of bombers were flying towards the airfield in a dense formation, and without saying a word, Terkochin was ready to start shooting with a control stick firmly in his scope. Suddenly, he found that although the ground crew had filled his car with fuel, it was not loaded!

As you can imagine. At that time, Tercochin had the heart to scold his mother, and it was easy to prepare to open, but there were no bullets, which is not the same as when he got into bed and was ready to bang, he was told that his aunt was here, and he didn't bring such teasing.

And what makes Terkochin even more nervous is that there are really no extra fighters in the airspace over the airport, and the other comrades in the squadron are still preparing for takeoff.

At that time, after thinking quickly, Tercochin made a crazy decision - Lao Tzu is out of the way and fights with you! Gritting his teeth and stomping his feet, aiming at the trapped Type 93 bomber, he slammed the throttle stick and hit it head-on!

This mid-air traffic accident soon caused a chain reaction, the body of the 93 that was hit was crooked, the wings quickly shaved off the nose of another 93 on the other side, and after a frightening sound of metal friction, parts of the plane flew everywhere in the sky.

As mentioned earlier, the devils were in a dense formation, which soon caused a chain reaction, and a series of scraping and rear-end accidents came down, and five 93s were immediately reimbursed. What's more, the devil who was about to drop the bomb because of the dodge, all the bombs were missed. In other words, Terkochin single-handedly "destroyed" five enemy aircraft, making a total of six "victories" with his own car.

Of course, if the story ends here, the big guy will at most sigh at Tercochin's bravery, just like the later story of "my plane was ordered to hit your plane". But that's not how it ends in this story.

After hitting the enemy plane, Terkochin did not die honorably, as soon as he turned over, he parachuted, and at the same time, the unlucky ghosts who were knocked down by him also parachuted. Tyrkocin and the devil pilots floating in the air, you look at me, I look at you, how the big guy looks at each other, how unpleasant, so another air battle broke out.

Tercochin and the devil pilot drew their guns in the air and fired at each other, and at one point they were also raining bullets, which was really more thrilling than Tom's Hollywood masterpiece, and this aerial fight lasted until it landed. With the help of Mongolian herders around the airport, Terkochin killed three Devil pilots and disarmed the remaining five.

At that time, Terkochin tied the devil pilots with a rope and escorted them back to the airport, facing the division commander who rushed to hear the news, Tyrkochin said proudly: "Comrade General, I have brought you a small gift!" ”

After fierce fighting until noon on 29 May, the 23rd Division, which had resisted for nearly a month in the face of the unreasonable direct crushing of the First Mechanized Army, finally collapsed, and the division was almost wiped out in formation.

After burning the flag, the division commander Michitaro Komatsubara committed suicide by seppuku in his command post, and all the middle and senior officers of his command also committed suicide by seppuku or shooting. Only a few lucky ones escaped from the encirclement in the chaos. According to Japanese statistics, only 100 people of the 23rd Division escaped from the encirclement. For a division of more than 10,000 people, this is tantamount to the shattering of all members.

However, the devil will never admit that the 23rd Division was surrounded and annihilated, according to the official report of the Kwantung Army, the 23rd Division successfully repelled the siege of Lucia's ghost beast ten times the strength of the army, and calmly turned in. It is also said that the losses are extremely weak, and the cumulative number of dead and wounded is only more than 1,000 people.

The devils also boasted that the 23rd Division had destroyed a lot of enemies, with preliminary estimates that more than 30,000 enemies had been wounded, more than 15,000 had been beheaded, and weapons, ammunition, and supplies had been captured.

However, when international public opinion asked the devils to come up with evidence of these brilliant results, the devils all used military secrets and all kinds of inexplicable excuses to deduce, and it was not until the Red Army exhibited the posthumous photos of Komatsubara Michitaro and other officers that the devils reluctantly admitted that in order to cover the main force transferred to Komatsubara Michitaro's division, the commander personally broke off and died in battle...... (To be continued......)

PS: The starting point background is really carded, the update is late, sorry!

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