A typical ass crooked like Kamenev was, who did not hesitate to sacrifice the interests of the Soviet Union in the Far East in order to realize his personal political ambitions. If the Soviet Union was really controlled by a stone of goods, it would be a true tragedy.

Fortunately, it is not the turn of the stone to be in charge now, and although Trotsky has many faults and has a bit of a subjective desire to bring down the Stalin-Sverdlov clique, one thing is good, he will not sacrifice the interests of the country too much for this, and in this respect Trotsky is different from the stone, he is disciplined.

Even though Lotsky was severely squeezed out of the military commission, even if he was a little embarrassed since he took office for two months, he maintained enough respect for Lenin on the issue of the war against Japan.

"Fighting a local war and guaranteeing the security of the borders for at least the next ten years is the policy put forward by Comrade Lenin. I personally agree with this policy, and at present, under the condition that we have achieved a certain battlefield advantage, there is no need to rush the truce. ”

Trotsky first refuted Kamenev's opinion, and of course he also saved face for the stone: "But this is not to say that we will never end the war by peaceful means. At the right time, for example, if the battle plan is fully agreed, the dispute can be settled through negotiation. ”

To put it bluntly, Trotsky's bottom line was clear, he had no objection to ending the war by means of negotiations, but that was after the Red Army had completed its campaign attempts and had taught the Japanese a lesson. And it's not yet time, at least the devils have not lost their combat effectiveness, let alone given up those unrealistic ambitions.

However, this made Kamenev still a little unhappy. Kamenev has always been a pacifist. The October Revolution was against the line of armed struggle. When the civil war broke out in full swing, he also wanted to kneel and lick in the face of imperialist armed intervention. Compromise with the enemy and pursue a policy of appeasement is the core idea of his policy.

It is thanks to the fact that the woolly bear is a fighting nation, and among the nine elders of the Politburo, the militant ones account for the vast majority, which suppressed Kamenev, Rao is so. This is also a bit unforgiving: "International public opinion is very unfavorable to us, the Japanese are dumping the responsibility for the war on us, and if we do not make active efforts to show the whole world our will for peace, it is very likely that at the instigation of the Japanese, the second blockade against our country will be launched." This will undo our previous efforts! ”

Kamenev's words are pure nonsense, and they are all imaginary things of his imagination. In those years, international public opinion was absolutely unfavorable to Japan, from 918 in 1931 to 128 in 1932. and then to the concoction of the puppet Manchukuo, and the Great Wall War of Resistance in 1933. It is Japan that has been creating friction and disputes over China over the past three years.

Japan's growing ambitions and desires are frowned upon even by Britain, France, and the United States, which are also imperialist blocs. On the China issue, compared with the backward polar bears, the British, French, and American bloc is more worried about the greedy Oriental dwarfs, especially when Japan is constantly hindering their interests in China, how can it be extremely rare to support the devil in international public opinion, and to maintain neutrality.

In fact, since the outbreak of the conflict in the Haraha River Valley, international public opinion has been constantly condemning the devils, and even if the Red Army launched a surprise attack to catch the devils by surprise, the most neutral international public opinion only called for a quick ceasefire between the two sides. As for those who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic, they wish that the woolly bear and the devil would die together, how can it hit the fighting passion of the woolly bear at this time!

So as soon as Kamenev's words fell, Li Xiaofeng smiled and took out a large stack of internationally famous newspapers from his briefcase, such as "The New York Times", "The Times" and "Daily Mail", and put them in front of Kamenev anyway.

"Lev. Comrade Polisovich, please tell me, where is the news that the so-called international public opinion is very unfavorable to our country? I've been paying attention to foreign newspapers lately, so why haven't I seen what you said? On the contrary, there are many voices applauding us! ”

Kamenev's face was blue and red, his lips trembled for a long time and he didn't say anything, anyway, he was quite embarrassed, Stalin's more mean directly snorted and sneered from his nostrils, and even a good old man like Kalinin was secretly covering his mouth. In the end, it was Trotsky who came to his aid and gave him a step:

"International public opinion is not important, what is important is that this war has greatly interfered with our normal socialist economic construction, and made our already tight finances even more stretched. If this war expenditure is used for economic construction, we will be able to build a tractor factory, a large steel mill and an aluminum alloy manufacturing plant this year, and we will be able to pave several hundred kilometers of first-class roads......

Trotsky said a lot of things, but anyway, there was only one core idea, that is, the war was too expensive, and he was very distressed about this expenditure.

"Did Comrade Blyukhel say when he will be able to accomplish the set goal?"

There's really no way to answer this question, because war isn't something you can fight if you want to, and you can pause if you don't want to. The Japanese have not stopped, they are still increasing troops on the battlefield, in this case, even if the Soviet Union wants to stop, they will not agree, right?

"Well, give Comrade Blyukhel two more months, and at the end of July, this war must be ended!"

Trotsky was convinced, and the pressure on Blyukhel was naturally not small, and after the Japanese Eighth and Nineteenth Divisions and the Fourteenth Brigade rushed to the battlefield, Minamijiro went so far as to transfer the Ninth Division and the Second and Third Tank Wings to the front. That is to say, on the scene of the battle on the first line, the Japanese army already had a huge strength of 5 divisions and 3 tank wings. This almost closed the one-sided advantage that Blyukhel had at war.

At this time, Blyukher's troops at hand were the 1st Mechanized Army (3 divisions) and the 1st Cavalry Corps (3 divisions), as well as the 57th and 82nd Infantry Divisions, in addition to the 6th Outer Mongolian Cavalry to support. In other words, Blyukhel used the strength of 9 divisions to fight the opponent's six divisions, and it must also be noted that among the six divisions of the Japanese army, except for the 23rd division and the three tank wings, the remaining troops were all divisions of the 44 system. The comprehensive strength of its so-called six divisions is actually equivalent to that of eight divisions under the three-three system. It is equivalent to the same strength on the battlefield.

The only thing that is more favorable for Blyukhel is. The enemy's weakest 23rd Division has already been surrounded, and after eating this division, the balance of strength between the two sides will once again tilt in favor of the Red Army. Moreover, Blyukher's reinforcements are also constantly feeling the battlefield, such as the 8th Outer Mongolian Cavalry Division, as well as the 157th Infantry Division of the Far Eastern Red Banner Front, and the 1st Brigade of the Airborne Forces.

"At present, our main task is to annihilate the enemy's 23rd Division as much as possible, and this task will be taken care of by the First Mechanized Army, in order to successfully complete this task. The 4th Cavalry Division must resist the attack of the enemy's 8th, 9th, and 19th Divisions strongly, and must hold out until the 82nd Infantry Division and the 1st Airborne Brigade arrive on the battlefield to replace you...... As for the 1st Cavalry Division, the 2nd Cavalry Division, and the 6th Outer Mongolian Cavalry Division, we must put more pressure on the enemy's 7th Division and the three tank wings that cooperate with it on the right flank, so that they cannot interfere with our task of annihilating the 23rd Division! ”

Just when Blyukhel was arranging the combat mission, a new round of relief of the Japanese army began, compared with Hirota Hiroki's diplomatic shouting for an armistice and peace, the real intention of the devil soldiers was not a truce, not even for the 23rd Division to relieve the siege, after concentrating the strength of six divisions, the devils wanted to attack.

Minamijiro arrogantly believed that six divisions were enough to inflict heavy losses on the Red Army. Not only to redeem the shame of the previous defeat, but also to bleed the polar bear. Let them know the might of the Imperial Army.

Do you remember Shizaburo Nakamura, this guy who failed to break the siege for the first time once again embarked on a journey to relieve the siege, and this time, he led more than two wings of troops, and the second wing of the tank will also cooperate with him from the south to storm Zhukov's defense line!

This attack took place in the middle of the night, and the Japanese army kicked off the attack with the night attack that they were best at, and under the cover of night, Nakamura Shizaburo's cavalry and infantry quickly interspersed and broke through, making the 4th Cavalry Division, which was not prepared for the night battle, suffer greatly.

Zhukov, who had just returned from a meeting at the army headquarters of the group army, recalled: "That night the clouds were very dense and low, and I could not see the figure of a person from a few dozen meters away...... After a few minutes of fierce fighting, just when I thought that I was in danger of escape, the guard company that had arrived from the division headquarters finally arrived at the battlefield, and under the fire of PK machine guns, the devil was repulsed...... When the battle was over, most of the guards who followed me were killed, and even a bullet hole was left in my own coat......"

After returning to the division headquarters, he immediately organized forces to counterattack, and it took most of the night to repel the Japanese troops who came over, but even so, this also made the battle shape of the next day very unfavorable to the 4th Cavalry Division, and some key nodes on the battlefield were occupied by the Japanese army with night attacks.

Just when Zhukov was anxiously adjusting his deployment and preparing to deal with the fierce offensive of the Japanese army during the day, the 23rd Division of the Japanese Army in the encirclement also spent a difficult night. The formation of Michitaro Komatsubara's troops has been completely torn to shreds. He himself with more than 3,000 gathered remnants of his army was trapped in the last position on the shores of Lake Ujur, and the battle continued to unfold almost 24 hours a day, and Rokossovsky continued to launch wave after wave of offensives in an attempt to drag down the Japanese with wheel tactics.

From the diary of Michitaro Komatsubara, which was captured after the battle, we can deeply feel how helpless the division commander was at that time: "...... Lucia's artillery bombardment was too intense, and as the battle progressed, their infantry and tanks worked better and better, and they continued to attack in concert under the cover of the tanks...... Not only the enemy's tanks, but the enemy's air superiority was almost one-sided, so to speak, the enemy's fighters flew almost close to our heads, constantly harassing us with machine guns and aerial bombs, these crazy Lucia ghost beasts were crazier than the other, I witnessed a Lucia ghost beast driving a fighter plane that had finished shooting bullets and knocked down the imperial fighters! ”

Michitaro Komatsubara is not joking, the Ivan are indeed so fierce, especially the pilots who fly the I-16, because of the high speed of the I-16, they can almost catch up with the target that they want to catch up, and the I-16 is unusually strong, and often the devil's 91 and 92 are knocked down. The I-16, on the other hand, was able to fly back to the airport crookedly with his wounds.

The enormous pressure of the Red Army suffocated the devils. That same evening. The devil's defense zone has been reduced to a rectangular zone that is one kilometer wide from east to west and one to one to five kilometers long from north to south, and the most troublesome thing for Komatsubara Michitaro is that the surrounding commanding heights have completely fallen into the hands of the Red Army, and the opponent's artillery can bombard any target on his position as it pleases -- as long as the Red Army wants to, it will definitely do it!

Of course, nothing bothered Michitaro Komatsubara and his officers more than the lack of ammunition and food, even though there were no more guns left. But against the Red Army's tanks, you have to count on them, and the tactic of carrying explosives and ramming into the tanks alone is equivalent to giving people a head in the face of the Red Army's increasingly mature and skilled infantry and tank coordination.

Michitaro Komatsubara's remnants relied entirely on airdrops, and air supremacy was basically in the hands of the Red Army, and his last position was too small, making airdrops very difficult. In the words of the devil pilot: "If the airdrop in this situation can be successful, then we can go to the Olympiad throwing competition!" ”

The difficulty is too great, and the result is naturally not ideal, for example, the previous evening, a total of 100 supply boxes were airdropped over the 23rd Division, but how many ended up in the hands of Komatsubara Michitaro? It's just five boxes. The remaining 95 boxes were all given to the Red Army. Anyway, Michitaro Komatsubara was so angry that he almost wanted to hang himself. How frustrated he was can be seen in the telegram he later sent to Minamijiro:

"According to incomplete statistics, in the last two days. Our unit lost 13 machine guns, 12 mortars and 5 Type 92 infantry guns, and if we could not replenish these losses in time, our Japanese samurai would have to fight Lucia's ghost beast with bare hands! ”

In fact, compared with the lost weapons, what made Komatsubara Michitaro collapse more was the food problem, the devil has always paid no attention to logistics, and generally went to the battlefield with a few days of rations, and went to the battlefield to requisition after eating. And this time, between the vast grassland and the desert, a Mao Ah was recruited. Anyway, when many devil soldiers are very hungry, they can only eat grass like cows and horses.

Not just grazing, according to the commander of the 2nd Tank Division, Matvey. Kulikov recalled that when his troops captured the last positions of the Japanese army and cleaned up the battlefield, they discovered a shocking and disgusting fact, these brutes were actually eating human flesh!

“…… I was stunned by the situation, I thought I was a veteran, and I had lived through the most difficult years of the Civil War, but I had never had such a terrible thought - a cauldron was steaming, and next to it was a bloodstained corpse, and you could see that the thighs and arms of the corpse had been cut off a lot, and there was even a corpse with only bones left in the torso except for the head......"

"Comrades are frightened, looking at this group of beasts with their teeth flashing with cold light, we are all cold, we sent this group of beasts away as quickly as possible, if it were not for the discipline of the battlefield, we would even want to shoot them on the spot!"

Cannibalism is not a problem for devils at all, what can't these beasts do? For example, 22 daredevils led by 22 daredevils led by Ikari Shaozuo, the head of the Ishii bacteriological unit, took two rafts on the Haraha River and sprinkled 22.5 kilograms of typhoid, cholera, plague, metreosis and other bacteria into the river water to carry out bacteriological warfare against the Soviet and Mongolian troops.

But what the devils didn't expect was that the Red Army's defensive measures in this regard were very well done, but the devils themselves did quite poorly. According to post-war statistics, about 1,340 Japanese soldiers were infected with typhoid fever, red dysentery, and choleria, and the most relieved were the 731 military doctors and death squads, and more than 40 people died due to bacterial infection.

Even after Li Xiaofeng received the relevant report, he immediately ordered the GRU to fight back, and play with biological and chemical weapons with Ambrella, a big player who plays with viruses.

Sure enough, after the GRU used a specially modified TB-3 to spread the virus to the devils, these beasts were considered to have been broken, according to the secret report of the devils: "The mysterious virus greatly hit the combat passion of the Japanese samurai, about one-third of the soldiers felt weak and sluggish, preliminary observations show that the intelligence of this part of the soldiers has declined quite significantly, and with the passage of time, the trend of intelligence decline has become more and more obvious, and even some soldiers' intelligence has degraded to the early childhood." According to Unit 731's autopsy, the virus attacks the brain and brainstem, and there is no means to defend against the virus for the time being. And the virus is not only highly 'virulent', but also quite transmissible, and the existing disinfection measures have proved to have no effect on it......"

In any case, Ambrera has created about 10,000 mental retardations for the devils, and 30% of these people have muscle atrophy and muscle weakness. If it weren't for the devil's timely service and soft shouting to stop, and using decisive means to "disinfect", this mysterious virus would have completely destroyed the five elite armor divisions of the imperial army.

From the beginning of this war, the devils no longer dared to use bacteriological weapons and chemical weapons against the Red Army and the Northeast, for fear that the Red Army would be annoyed and release this "brain-dead" virus on a large scale and turn the Imperial Japanese Army into a dwarf mentally retarded regiment...... (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank you to the parasite Schistosomiasis, the armored train and Comrade Juventus!