"Women, how can you let a woman go to war?" Kimura frowned, he was already a veteran at 29 years old, at least he had fought a few decent battles on the Chinese battlefield. So when he was once again enlisted in the army and became a member of the Imperial Japanese Army, he had a unique sense of self-superiority in the face of those immature recruits.

And as a man with a sense of national honor in Yamato, he was not very in favor of letting women go to the bloody battlefield to fight, because he felt that it should be something that only real samurai should do, not a group of women who were responsible for giving birth.

"It seems that Amaterasu really blessed our Great Japanese Empire. Behind Kimura, the high-profile co-captain pressed his command knife, squeezed into the crowd, looked twice, and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, our enemies have weakened to the point where they can no longer protect their women and children, and victory lies ahead! Long live the Great Japanese Empire! Long live His Majesty the Emperor! Go on!"

"Hooray! Hooray!" mentioned His Majesty the Emperor, and the mental state of the Japanese soldiers immediately became three points more excited. As a unit that had been fighting inside China, the Japanese Kwantung Army was not affected by the Japanese defeat at the Battle of Imphal. And the fact that Marshal Yamamoto's navy lost the Solomon Islands is still being pressed by the Japanese base camp as a high secret at this moment, so the morale of the entire Kwantung Army is still quite high.

Among these soldiers, there are still people who believe that in addition to the scary equipment "tanks" made of steel, the infantry combat quality of the Imperial Japanese Army should be the best in the world.

To be sure, in 1930, the training level of the Japanese Army could be said to be one of the best in the world, and at least until 1935, that is, when there was no large-scale expansion, the infantry of the Japanese Army could pat their chests and say that they were the best in the world - of course, the German grenadiers, paratroopers, SS, and special forces all said so, and the specific truth cannot be examined.

As for the two skills that the Japanese Army trained the most, one was bayonet fighting, and the other was precision shooting. It can be said that every Japanese veteran is half a sniper fed with bullets, and the strength of the Japanese army's individual combat ability can be said to be obvious to all.

In addition, the spirit of bushido in the Japanese army is quite deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the soldiers have a very strong sense of loyalty and patriotism, so the will to fight is very strong. According to the criteria of the German troops, it can be regarded as an "SS" with strong combat skills, which also reflects the superiority of the Japanese Army from another aspect.

However, a Führer named Accardo on the continent gave his most pertinent assessment of the Japanese Army: "The Japanese Army is the strongest 'World War I' Army in the world. The meaning of this sentence is that the Japanese Army can be regarded as the strongest army in the world from the perspective of World War I.

But is it World War I? Apparently not. The American and German armies were struggling to pile up cars and tanks on their troops, desperately trying to keep their artillery up to speed with the infantry and even the tanks, and the soldiers on both sides fought on the front line for an hour, consuming tons of ammunition -- and the Japanese Army was still playing with bayonets, which was a bit out of place.

The entire Japanese attacking force, after having smoked spiritual opium for a few minutes, was once again jubilantly ready to go on the road. They have now successfully crossed the Soviet "line of defense", and victory is already within reach. So everyone picked up ammunition and weapons from their dead colleagues and continued to move forward.

"Boom!" Before he had taken a few steps, a Japanese soldier who was at the forefront stepped on a mine buried in the woods, and the unlucky soldier was not dead, but he was lying on the ground with a bloody face after missing a leg. The medics rushed up to bandage him, while the rest of the soldiers continued to march forward amid shouts.

At the Soviet General Headquarters in the Far East, young Chuikov was deploying troops, already aware that the Japanese were crossing the Line of Actual Control on both sides and were already engaged with some Soviet border defenses.

In the eastern border area, some of the delayed defensive lines that relied on female soldiers had been completely broken through, and the Soviet army lost thousands of conscripted female soldiers, all of whom were instilled with the idea of fighting to the death, and the effect was to slow down the Japanese attack. Compared with the precious young and strong, these sturdy female soldiers became the first batch of "cannon fodder" to be sacrificed in the hands of Chuikov.

The 3,000 such female soldiers were scattered in the border areas, used as a prominent first line of cordon, providing early warning to the troops, and also used as a touchstone for weighing the Japanese army. Chuikov wanted to assess the Japanese army's determination to fight and slow down the advance of the Japanese army. As for the old materials and scattered food and ammunition consumption, he really didn't care too much. With his backing on the U.S. aid supply base in the Far East, which is full of supplies, he has a lot to splurge at will.

And Chuikov did not sit still. In addition to brutally consuming some of the female soldiers to bring him information about the beginning of the enemy attack, he is gathering the armored forces in his hands. Even if these backward KV-1 tanks and T-26 were already as vulnerable as paper in front of the German army, they could still be regarded as powerful tanks in front of the Japanese army.

So Chuikov was not without troops at the moment, on the contrary, he had too many cards in his hand - two "well-armed" armored divisions were moving eastward, and these troops were now almost rushing to the area of engagement to inflict a deadly attack on the Japanese troops who had broken through the line from the flank. If these two tattered armored divisions were thrown on the Western Front, they would be annihilated by the German armored forces in the blink of an eye, and these tanks would really be as powerful as the ironclad lion when they were used in the Far East.

The Japanese troops where Kimura was located did not wait for the attack of the Soviet armored forces, and stopped their own attack. On the way north, the Japanese inevitably really crashed into the core defensive area of the Soviet army. These areas, heavily guarded by Soviet troops, became a nightmare for the Japanese infantry.

The fierce firepower made the Japanese attack a joke, and most of the Soviet soldiers squatted in the trenches with the M1 Garand rifles brought by the Americans and fired frantically, inflicting huge casualties on the Japanese soldiers who were accustomed to charging with bayonets, and if you count a small number of Bobosha submachine guns, as well as all kinds of machine guns, the firepower that the Soviet Union had no advantage in front of Germany instantly became a firepower advantage that the Japanese could not match.

This is like saying that the second martial arts master in the world was abused by the world's first teacher all day long, and finally one day he went down the mountain and found that he was the third in the world without any effort (not to mention that Japan seems to be a long way from the third in the world). So now the Soviet defenders are fighting very happily, they are pouring ammunition on the Japanese soldiers, and they can't hold their opponents up.

The offensive and defensive posture on the Soviet-German battlefield was changed here, and now it was replaced by Japanese soldiers who needed to rush frantically, approaching Soviet positions to prevent the Soviets from giving full play to their firepower superiority. Therefore, just a few days after the start of the war, the Japanese side was full of corpses and suffered heavy losses.

After finally breaking through several Soviet defense lines, the Japanese top brass had already discovered that their advance speed was simply slow and there was nothing to say. What was originally planned for a quick victory has turned into another protracted war of attrition.

For the Soviet side, a miracle finally appeared on the Japanese side: the initiative that Stalin had lost in Germany seemed to have been regained on the Japanese side - Chuikov was promoted to Soviet general, and Stalin seemed to pin all his hopes on a more feasible, distant Far East strategy.

Kimura lay on the corpse of his comrade and aimed at a trench of the Soviets opposite him with the Type 38 rifle in his hand. His ruler showed that the other party was 300 meters away, which was not a lot of distance for him, so he still kept his breath very calm.

Waiting for the Soviet soldier who had just thrown a grenade to show up, that's what Kimura wanted to do. After all, the opponent's firepower was too strong, which made him reluctant to get up and rush towards those terrible opponents.

Sure enough, the Soviet soldier showed his head, he was firing with his rifle, and it seemed that he had not noticed the enemy Kimura was aiming at him at all. Kimura sneered, pulled the trigger, and the bullet hit the opponent's head, and Kimura could see the Soviet soldier fall after being shot.

He pulled the bolt of his gun, and the slender Type 38 rifle provided a very long shooting range, but of course it also caused a performance disadvantage in terms of length and other aspects. This weapon has a lot of penetrating power, but it does not have much lethality, but for the Japanese army, which emphasizes accurate shooting, this little disadvantage is still within the tolerable range.

Loading the bullet, he aimed at a new target, and it didn't take long for him to continue firing, turning another Soviet soldier into a convulsive corpse. Some Japanese soldiers took the opportunity to rush into the Soviets' trenches, and then the main mode of fighting became bloody bayonet fighting, and the Japanese clearly had an advantage in this regard, and the desperate rush finally drove the Soviets out of this position.

"Kimura-kun, good job!" Cao Chang praised as he and Kimura charged forward together. He had just seen the appearance and effectiveness of Kimura's shooting of the enemy, and people with skills were obviously popular everywhere, after all, this was not an era of eating by face.

In a matter of minutes, the Japanese invaded the deserted town, the first important strategic stronghold they had captured since entering Soviet territory. This shows that they have finally found the right direction for their offensive and have finally gained a firm foothold in the Soviet Union.