To tell the truth, the problem of military discipline in the Red Army has always been very bad, and this problem is not a day or two, but as early as the period of its domestic revolutionary war, this problem was very widespread. Why did Trotsky repeatedly mention his opposition to the guerrilla habit, and one of the points of this guerrilla habit was directed against military discipline.

At that time, the composition of the personnel who joined the Red Army was very complicated, and it can be said that there were all kinds of people (and the same was true of the White Army), and even some soldiers who were in the Red Army today would have switched to the White Army tomorrow. Not a general mess. Not only the soldiers are chaotic, but also the officers and so on, and even the party members and cadres are not much better.

For example, Comrade Steel's group of friends are really a group of Qiu Ba. Expecting a group of Qiu Ba to bring out well-disciplined soldiers is really a dream. The reason why the Red Army in the era wanted to engage in the routine of political commissars is that it is too chaotic, and there must be such a person who controls the power of life and death to stabilize the situation (of course, the level of political commissars is not necessarily high).

This terrible situation continued with the victory of the Bolshevik Revolution, especially after the fall of Lao To, and the dominance of Comrade Steel's line, and the dross of his line. The so-called upper beam is not right, and the lower beam is crooked!

Of course, a certain immortal will not ignore this problem, since the fall of steel, he has been grasping this problem, in order to reverse the evil trend. However, this is a long-term work, and it cannot be achieved overnight, not to mention that the "old Qiu Ba" during the domestic revolutionary war are still there, which makes this work even more difficult. All Li Xiaofeng can do is do his best.

It is precisely because of Li Xiaofeng's attention that the discipline problem of the Soviet Red Army in this time and space is not so prominent, of course, if you want to say 100% eradication, it is also impossible. Where in a community is there not a grain or two of rat droppings?

Let's get down to business! As soon as Gao Qiaotan's troops arrived at the outskirts of Zhangjiakou, they were attacked by Lu Dongsheng's old troops. Well, another digression, at this time Lu Dongsheng was no longer a brigade commander, but served as a liaison officer between the Eighth Route Army and the Soviet Red Army. Graduates of the Frunze Military Academy like him are just the right fit for this.

The combat effectiveness of the 358 Brigade at this time is no longer what it used to be, nominally a brigade, but in fact it can be counted as a reinforced division. Its three subordinate regiments (716, 7, 8) are said to be regimental in size. In fact, they can all be counted as reinforced brigades. But there is no way, who let the old Jiang in order to restrict the development of the Eighth Route Army, stunned not to give the establishment. And the living can't let the urine suffocate to death, and if you want to resist the Japanese, you have to be flexible.

Today's 358 Brigade has been fully reequipped with Soviet-style weapons, even if it is an old item eliminated by the Soviet Red Army, compared with before, it is a shotgun and a gun. The rifles are basically Mosinagan guns, and the machine guns are DP plate guns that were previously equipped by the Soviet Red Army for the NKVD. Each regiment also had an artillery battalion, armed with 45-mm anti-aircraft guns and 76-mm howitzers that had been eliminated by the Red Army, and the brigade also had an artillery regiment under its command. Armed with 76-mm howitzers and 122-mm howitzers. All in all, its combat effectiveness was no worse than that of the brigades of the Japanese army.

Moreover, the 120th Division has more than one 358 Brigade, the 359th Brigade, the 1st and 2nd Independent Brigades, the 2nd Column of the Shanxi Youth Anti-Japanese War and the Divisional Cavalry Detachment have all been completely redressed. Let's put it this way, the 120th Division is a division, but it is actually a few points stronger than a full army.

And the Japanese invaders quickly realized this kind of strength, the two sides had just exchanged fire, and the devils' previous set was ineffective, and they could not beat the 358 Brigade at all because they had no advantage in firepower. After a while, the devil was suppressed.

This took Takahashi by surprise. You must know that one brigade of the Japanese army is enough to beat two or three divisions of the scraping army, and now it is so difficult to meet only one 358 brigade, is this a hell?

But the hell is still to come, just when Takahashitan's vanguard troops were forced back step by step by the 358th Brigade, the 359th Brigade rushed out again, after a fierce attack. The vanguard of the devils collapsed and had to retreat back in a hurry.

Although there were not many enemies annihilated in this battle, it raised the morale of the top and bottom of the 120th Division. To tell the truth, when the Central Committee decided to fight hard with the devils, the commanders and fighters of the 120th Division were not without misgivings, after all, they had never fought such a large-scale frontal battle. Everyone is a little uncertain in their hearts. And after this battle, everyone up and down was relieved, and even couldn't help but have a kind of "devils are just like this" thought.

Of course, if you want to say how well the 358 Brigade and the 359 Brigade fought this battle, it is also impossible, because according to He Shuai's original plan, the 358 Brigade and the 359 Brigade only need to block the devils outside Zhangjiakou, and then wait for Kulikov's cavalry and armored troops to outflank in place, and then the big guys will rush up to fight a battle of annihilation.

It's good now, the 358 Brigade and the 359 Brigade are too strong, and they actually defeated the devil head-on, and the big troops behind the devil haven't come up yet, how can this battle be fought?

Anyway, He Shuai criticized the 358 Brigade and the 359 Brigade and told them not to steal the show anymore. However, the 358 Brigade and the 359 Brigade felt aggrieved, because they didn't expect the devils to be so dish-oriented, they fought according to old experience, and when they used to block the devils, they didn't have to use all the strength to eat milk to fight with their lives. Who would have thought that today's devils wouldn't even be able to withstand the three-plate axe!

At this time and then, I am afraid that both the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army will need to adapt, and when they have the weapons they can use and the supplies that are still sufficient, their combat effectiveness will naturally not be the same, and they will have to adapt to this change.

Takahashi was indeed surprised as the battle continued, but he thought it was more of an accident, and that accidents like this sometimes happened to the Communist army, at least he had seen it a few times. Of course, Takahashi Tan still firmly believes that this is just an accident, because the forces under his command are still quite strong, and to put it mildly, it is enough to fight a battle in Huaxia.

Therefore, Takahashitan only ordered the troops to be more vigilant, but he still acted according to the original plan, and if one wing could not open the situation, then two wings would be on it, not one brigade, and he still did not believe that the communist guerrillas could resist one division and regiment!

According to this thought, Takahashitan rushed into the encirclement with a big grin, and when he came to his senses, he was surrounded by the main force of the 120th Division, the Outer Mongolian cavalry and the Red Army infantry armored corps. It's on the short road from Zhangjiakou to Beiping. Nearly three divisions of the Japanese army were wiped out with this!

During this period, the Japanese army did not think about breaking through or reinforcing the siege, but in the face of the 120th Division, which had been reborn, they had no way, but instead put in countless puppet troops in the siege relief operation.

Zhangjiakou victory!

This exciting news immediately spread throughout the land of China, and more than 15,000 Japanese troops were annihilated in World War I, and 9,000 were captured. It's been a long time since I've heard of such a big victory. Anyway, in the historical Battle of Henan, Xianggui, the Communist Party only killed more than 24,000 Japanese soldiers. And what are the losses of the scraping army? More than half a million. This ratio is quite embarrassing.

What made the Chinese people even more excited was that not only Zhangjiakou had achieved a great victory, but also in the southern part of North China, the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army also won the victory in the defense of Handan, repelling the invading Japanese army and killing and wounding more than 10,000 people.

This two great successes in the south and the north really dissipated a lot of the haze brought by the defeated scraping army in Henan, Hubei, and Hunan. This lets tens of thousands of Chinese sons and daughters know that we are no worse than devils, and devils are not invincible.

Of course, Jiang was also very happy that the scene he most wanted to see finally appeared. In his opinion, **** wants to achieve such a brilliant victory. There is bound to be a heavy price. He made a formula in his own mind, and when converted, he believed that for every 10,000 Japanese invaders annihilated, **** would inevitably lose 100,000 troops. After these two battles, **** will inevitably lose more than 200,000 horses. Even he thinks that this is still the most optimistic estimate, and if you estimate it "objectively", **** will inevitably lose more than 300,000.

Therefore, Lao Jiang was very excited to praise the **** in public opinion, and also called on the whole country to learn from the ****. Of course, the last half of the sentence is completely nonsense, and it is true to call on the country's miscellaneous cards to learn from **** to send them to death, as for his descendants, they will naturally continue to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, waiting to receive the fruits of victory.

So we have to ask, what is the loss of **** in these two battles? It is definitely not as tragic as Lao Jiang imagined. But if you want to say it's easy, that's also false. The victory of Zhangjiakou and the defense of Handan cost a total of more than 20,000 casualties. Among them, the pure attrition is about 5,000 people. After all, devils don't do it in the face, and when they are in a desperate situation, they will be more crazy than usual, and their resistance will be more fierce, and the natural losses will be greater.

However, such casualties are not unacceptable, not to mention the elimination and capture of more devils, and it will also completely change the balance of forces between the enemy and us in North China. Before the outbreak of this war. The devil can also mobilize about 60,000 mobile forces to conduct field battles, and can take the initiative to find trouble with the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army. And after this battle, the devil basically lost the ability to attack, and could only be trapped in a few big cities, and he couldn't move at all.

Let's put it this way. After this war, North China really became the world of ****, except for a few large strongholds, the entire North China has been completely controlled by ****. The masses can be fully mobilized, more war resources can be obtained, and the army will grow faster.

The benefits of this war were not limited to China, but also caused unprecedented repercussions in the international community. In the past, the two major hooligans, including the United States and the United Kingdom, have increasingly shown their posture of looking down on Huaxia, believing that Huaxia just can't afford it, and that Adou is mud, and that Huaxia does not yet have the qualifications of an international hooligan. But after this war, the attitude of Britain and the United States immediately changed: oh, it turned out that it was not that Huaxia was too bad, but that Jiang was too bad. Huaxia also has troops that can fight, not exactly scum!

Don't underestimate this little bit of change, the international status has always been played out, and it has always relied on strength to speak. If you don't show this strength, the ghosts will look down on you. And this time, **** is a small test, initially showing this strength, which is extremely beneficial to the entire Chinese nation.

Of course, this is just a good start, and we need to make persistent efforts in the future, and then we can strive for more dignity and voice for the Chinese nation after the more brilliant we perform in the strategic counteroffensive stage.

However, in July and August, what amazed the world the most was not the victory of **** in North China, but the sudden declaration of war by the Soviet Union on Japan. Although many people had realized that the Soviet Union's declaration of war on Japan was only a matter of time, it was a surprise to the world that this moment came so suddenly and so early.

For the World Anti-Fascist Alliance, this means that the last platter of the alliance has been put in place, that the alliance has really achieved broad agreement on all issues, and that victory is really just around the corner. In any case, the news made the people of the world who opposed the Axis countries rejoice. They unanimously admired the decision of the Soviet government, which greatly improved the international image of the Soviet Union. gained more support and understanding for the Soviet Union.

Of course, this was not without a price, the moment Japan learned of the decision of the Soviet Union, the Kwantung Army was active again, according to the idea of the Japanese base camp, it was necessary to give Lucia a little color to see. It is necessary to teach a good lesson on the battlefield about "treachery" and exposing the country's ghosts.

The entire northeastern front was once again surrounded by the flames of war, and on a front of more than 1,000 kilometers, the Kwantung Army and the Red Army were inextricably fought, and even the Japanese navy was ready to go out to attack Vladivostok. However, when the Red Naval Air Force launched an all-out attack and mastered most of the air supremacy in the Sea of Japan, the devil had to dispel this idea of sending him to death, and only dispatched submarines and bombers to carry out a symbolic attack.

Of course, it was impossible for the Soviet Red Army to be beaten and not fight back. In the past few months, the military commission has been building up the military in the Far East, accumulating the deployment of troops from three army groups with a total of eight corps near Chita and Irkutsk. A completely new post-Baikal front was formed. Lieutenant General Meretskov was appointed commander of the Front, and the Far Eastern Campaign was carried out in conjunction with Blyukher's Far Eastern Red Banner Front.

In accordance with the instructions of the Military Commission, Blyukher, as the commander-in-chief of the entire Far Eastern theater, Meretskov as the deputy commander-in-chief, and Li Xiaofeng as the political commissar. The two fronts, together with the Far Eastern Red Banner Primorsky Army, put pressure on the Kwantung Army from the east and west. The general idea of warfare was that if the Japanese troops did not move, then they would sit quietly and wait. If the Japanese launch a small-scale tentative attack, then resolutely fight it back. If the Japanese army launches a full-scale attack, then actively defend and annihilate the living forces of the Japanese army.

In general. Neither the Military Commission nor the ****** have any plans to fight at this time, if the devil is honest and does not move. That's sit-down warfare. After all, at this time, the strength of the Far East was still not strong enough, and there were only two front armies with an independent group army, and the strength was on par with the devils. The losses of the defensive positions carefully constructed by the frontal assault devils may be relatively large. The Military Commission still believed that it would not be able to mobilize enough troops and materials to meet the needs of the Far East until the war against Germany was completely victorious.

Of course, if the devil doesn't know whether he is alive or dead and wants to fight, then he might as well give it a little color. Annihilate a little more of the devil's vital force and lay a good foundation for the future.

However, the reaction of the Kwantung Army was somewhat unexpected by the Military Commission: its First Front launched a full-scale offensive from Khabarovsk to the Sea of Japan, which seemed to mean to capture Vladivostok in one go. The Third Front Army also launched an offensive in the direction of Inner Mongolia and Hailar, and its independent 4th Army also began to storm Hailanpao. Anyway, the devil is putting on a posture of attacking on all fronts.

It's just that a week after the battle. There is only one empty shelf left in this frame. The Japanese offensive did not cause much trouble to the Red Army at all, and most of the offensive came to an abrupt end after only advancing five to ten kilometers. It gives people the feeling of thunder and rain.

In fact, this is also normal, part of the main forces and veterans of the Kwantung Army have been transferred to the Pacific theater, although the additional recruits are also very well trained, but there is still a gap with the veterans who have actual combat experience, especially those who have fought with the Soviet Red Army.

Of course, this is not a decisive factor, and more importantly, the weapons and tactical thinking of the Kwantung Army are already two planes compared with the Soviet Red Army at this time. One is still at the level of the First World War, while the other has been largely motorized and is moving towards mechanization. Moreover, all the middle and senior commanders of the Red Army had accumulated sufficient combat experience on the battlefield against Germany, and naturally they threw the Japanese army farther and farther away.

After just one week, the Red Army basically contained the offensive momentum of the Kwantung Army and forced the Kwantung Army to go on the defensive, and after another week, the Kwantung Army began to crumble even the little territory it had previously captured. And this made the Military Commission see clearly the reality of the Kwantung Army, and soon issued new instructions to Blyukhel.

The new directive, naturally, was to attack, and since the gap between the Kwantung Army and the Red Army was all-round, then why not fight back? If we can take the opportunity to capture the Mudanjiang, Harbin, and Qiqihar lines, it will be beneficial to the Red Army's military operations to liberate Taiwan in the future.

There are even members of the Military Commission who are extremely optimistic, believing that it is completely possible to annihilate the Kwantung Army in one fell swoop and completely recover Northeast China and even North Korea. If the entire Korean Peninsula can be occupied, then the military operation to liberate Taiwan in the future will be unimpeded.

However, this kind of assumption was resisted by Li Xiaofeng and Blyukhel, the two of them were still very sober, it is true that the devil is not good at attacking, but it is not easy to deal with the ******** to defend it. We must not be blindly optimistic, after all, the Red Army in the Far East has limited strength and cannot take risks, so it is better to fight steadily and steadily.

Based on the suggestions of Li Xiaofeng and Blyukher, the Central Military Commission finally decided that the main target of this stage of attack was the Mudanjiang River, and the Far Eastern Red Banner Front must break through the so-called "Maginot Line in the East" by the devils...... (To be continued.) )

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