Chapter 2167: The Trick of Egg Pain
The current Prince Zairen absolutely has the confidence to say this, Zhukov's three outstretched arms have been broken, and the passage to the line from Chita to Irkutsk has been completely blocked, and the units of the three armies of the Soviet Far Eastern Front have suffered heavy losses, and the losses of troops are more than four-fifths.
Now that the Far Eastern Dispatch Army and the Korean garrison troops are joining forces to press the Far East battlefield, he has ordered the troops of the Kwantung Army, as well as the troops on both flanks of the Burea Mountains and the Kukan Mountains, to stop the offensive, consolidate the existing positions, and prevent the Soviet troops from breaking through from other directions.
Therefore, Prince Zaihito's mood at the moment was quite happy, and after sending the telegram to Emperor Hirohito, he was still unsatisfied, feeling that the first telegram was too simple, a little dry and waterless, he immediately took out a piece of stationery, and buried himself in writing, "Imperial Brother, this Far East Campaign, after more than a month of layout, finally at this moment, see the dawn of victory, the courtiers are here, happy for the Great Japanese Empire, for the Imperial Brother!" ā
"The Soviet Far Eastern Front was completely wiped out, and the Soviet Union's military strength in the Far East collapsed, and the Soviet Army's troops of the Trans-Khingan Front and the Baikal Front are still stranded on the line from Chita to Irkutsk, and there is no sign of returning to Zhukov's troops. It was Stalin who did not order the two Soviet troops to return to their aids! ā
However, the younger brother believed that the delay in the westward advance of the two Soviet armies on the line from Chita to Irkutsk was always an unpredictable factor for the Imperial Far East campaign plan, so the idea of the younger brother was to carry out a general attack on the Soviet Far Eastern Front as much as possible. Although the preparations for the Far Eastern campaign were not very sufficient, they were also sure of victory, and in addition, the Soviet army in the Far East would no longer exist. The troops of the Chinese devil Tang Qiuli in Outer Mongolia and the Far East will be the next big problem for the Imperial Japanese Army. The subordinate brother will plan as soon as possible. A battle plan against the devil troops in China! ā
From this secret telegram from Prince Zaihito to Emperor Hirohito, it can be seen that Prince Zaihito's military talent and the general attack on the Soviet Far Eastern Front have not yet begun, and Zaihito is thinking. How to deal with the troops of the Independent Division, Tang Qiuli commented, "Zairen will be our strong enemy in recovering the Northeast Region!" There is some truth to that.
In the command of the Far Eastern Front of the USSR. When Zhukov saw the commanders of the fifteenth, eighteenth, and twenty-first armies evacuated by the first echelon, these three bloodstained and wolf-like subordinates, his face was a little calm, and he neither angrily blamed them, nor did he get angry, but just said lightly, "It's good to come back!" In that case, no one will be able to return to the sky, take a rest, and hurry up the rectification of the troops, and the troops of the three of you will be combined into the army directly under the front army headquarters and will be under my command! ā
The commanders of the three group armies, after saluting without saying a word with shame on their faces, staggered away, they thanked the comrades of the commander for his magnanimity, but they did not know that Zhukov's heart was painful and helpless at the moment, and after going out of the three group armies, nearly 350,000 troops, and a few days of hard work, the soldiers who came back were only more than 60,000 people, and the three group armies were reduced to one army, with nearly 300,000 soldiers, and they were gone.
After a series of fierce battles, the total strength of the Far Eastern Front has dropped from more than 1.3 million to less than 900,000, while the strength of the Japanese army, including the Kwantung Army, which has always fought against it, has increased to more than 1.4 million, almost double the strength of the Far Eastern Front.
It is impossible to break through, since the three armies of the first echelon, in their respective directions, encountered superior Japanese troops, Zhukov understood this, the supreme commander of the Japanese army in the Far East, was determined to eat his own troops, the price paid for the breakthrough was even greater, and it had no effect, therefore, Zhukov ordered the troops of the front army to move to the defense on the spot.
In the swampy plains of the Far East, between the Burea Mountains and the Kukan Mountains, hundreds of thousands of Soviet soldiers, with the fatigue and numbness of a long campaign, dissolved a layer during the day and froze as hard as steel at night, digging fortifications and communication trenches, building bunkers and shelters.
Turning from offensive to defensive, for the Soviet Far Eastern Front, it is not only the battlefield advantage that has changed hands, but also means that it has fallen into the heavy encirclement of the Japanese army, and there is no need to worry about the lack of food and grass for the time being, and there is still ambiguity between the lack of rescue troops outside, Zhukov knows this better, and the defensive war against the background of the battlefield is not easy to fight, which is related to the morale of the troops, the soldiers' will to fight, and many other factors.
Moreover, there was still a trace of irrepressible fear in Zhukov's heart, and the urgent telegram to the General Staff and Comrade Stalin had been sent for two or three days, but he had not yet received a reply, and what he feared was that Comrade Stalin would not consider ordering the Trans-Khinganling Front and the Baikal Front to return to help, in this case, the final outcome of the Far Eastern Front would be the total annihilation, and the Japanese would not let go of such a great opportunity!
On 10 May, Prince Jaehito presided over a military meeting attended by senior officers at and above the level of brigade commanders of various units and brigades in Khabarovsk, the General Headquarters of the Japanese Far East Campaign, to make campaign arrangements for the encirclement and annihilation of the Soviet Far Eastern Front.
The magnificence of the conference room, the large portrait of Emperor Hirohito, hung in the center, Prince Zaihito's seat, just in the middle of the portrait of Emperor Hirohito, behind it are two dazzling plaster flags, the red circle in the middle, like a blood-soaked baked cake, the portrait of Emperor Hirohito, left in two sparse mustaches, slender eyes, with a look of arrogance, is full of gloom, high, looking at the hundreds of generals below the star, sitting upright, the arrogance on the face, not inferior to their emperor's officers.
These Japanese officers with command knives are all loyal thugs who dominate Asia and the world, and they are also a group of bloody maniacs who kill people without blinking, especially the officers from the Japanese Far East Dispatch Army and the Korean Garrison Army, in just today's effort, there are more than 100,000 Soviet prisoners of war, guns and knives, slaughtered completely, at this moment, the meeting has not officially begun, these executioners with blood on their hands, are excitedly exchanging ideas with each other.
In this group of high-ranking Japanese officers, I saw Lieutenant General Haruhiko Taiichi, commander of the Third Army of the Far East Dispatch Army, and Lieutenant General Mitsuo Kikuchi, commander of the First Army.
This arrangement was purely nonsensical, and the idea came from the handwriting of Lieutenant General Tatsuaki Shinno, chief of staff of the General Headquarters of the Far Eastern Campaign, and it was possible to take advantage of this military meeting to finally leave the Far Eastern Battlefield, which was stimulated by the smell of gunpowder and blood, and returned to the General Headquarters of the Campaign, and left for many days, which was a bit unfamiliar.
Before Lieutenant General Shinno's freshness had passed, he heard the rumors, saying that it was the new Major General Yamada, the head of the General Staff Headquarters, who had the intention of seeking power and usurping the throne, and the news was quietly reported by a few of his own henchmen, so Lieutenant General Nino was eager to do something to show his own existence, and also to warn Yamada that guy that it was best to be honest!
His reason was that from the day of the establishment of the Far East Campaign General Headquarters, all the imperial army units in the Far East were all the troops of His Royal Highness Prince Jaehito, and there was no longer any distinction between the Kwantung Army and the Korean garrison army.
In this regard, Prince Zairen did not clearly disagree, nor did he pay too much attention to it, there are more important things, waiting for him to bother, then he still has the leisure to take care of such small things, so he will be tossed by this guy Xinye, besides, this Jian yƬ is quite in line with his own thoughts, isn't it, they are all his own subordinates, where are the barriers clearly distinguished.
Major General Yamada, head of the General Staff Headquarters, saw through Lieutenant General Shinno's little trick at a glance, and adopted a cold-eyed attitude, of course, on the bright side, he maintained absolute respect for Chief of Staff Shinno, did things without leakage, and couldn't find any fault, which made him hold back his strength, staring wide-eyed, and eager to hold a magnifying glass to find Major General Yamada's fault, he was disappointed, and there was an awkward feeling that a tiger eats the sky and has nowhere to eat!
There was no problem with arranging the seats for the conference in this way, they were all generals of the Great Japanese Empire, who also worked for His Majesty the Emperor, killed people for the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere, and fought under the unified command of His Royal Highness Prince Zaihito, who sat next to each other, it was not all the same, even the generals of the Kwantung Army, who did not communicate much with other Japanese troops and were relatively closed and self-contained, did not feel that there was anything wrong, but had the opportunity to learn about other imperial troops.
Therefore, the Japanese officers who participated in the military meeting, whether they knew each other before or not, chatted very hotly, which was also in line with the original intention of Chief of Staff Shinno, breaking the boundaries of various troops, and everyone was in harmony, but after all calculations, something still happened!
(To be continued)(To be continued......