The Battle of Normenheim, also known as the Battle of the Haraha River, also known as the Battle of Normenkan, was a battle fought between Japan and the Soviet Union in the Far East at the beginning of World War II. Japan calls the events from 11 May to early June the First Nomenhan Incident, i.e., the First Nomenhan Incident, and thereafter until the ceasefire on 16 September, the Second Nomenhan Incident, i.e., the Second Nomenhan Incident.

The war took place in 193 at Nomenkan, then on the border between Manchuria and Mongolia. The armies of Japan and the Soviet Union fought on behalf of the "puppet state of Manchukuo" and the "state of Mongolia" respectively (the Soviet-Mongolian coalition led by Marshal Zhukov of the Soviet Union and Marshal Choibalshan of the Mongolian People's Republic), but Japan and the Soviet Union did not officially declare war on each other. The battle ended with a crushing defeat of the Japanese Kwantung Army. Japan and the Soviet Union maintained a state of peace in World War II until August 8, 1945, when the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and attacked the puppet state of Manchukuo on August 8, 1945, after the U.S. military dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.

The Battle of Nomenhan originated from the question of the ownership of the triangular area west of Nomenhan by the invading Japanese army and the Outer Mongolian Army to the Halaha River, and finally caused the battle. The battle ended in a crushing defeat for the Japanese Kwantung Army.

The Battle of Normenhan completely failed the attempt of the Kwantung Army in Northeast China to invade westward, and then prompted the Japanese army to abandon the "northward policy" and choose the "southward policy", attacking the Pacific islands and attacking Pearl Harbor, which eventually led to the complete annihilation of the Japanese fascists. Japanese historians have called the war "the greatest defeat in the history of the Japanese Army." It was one of the most important battles in the history of the Mongol state, and the Mongols commemorated the anniversary of the outbreak of the war. In summary, the numerical losses of the Soviet troops in this battle were comparable to those of the Japanese army. The loss of equipment was significantly higher than that of the Japanese army.

June 11, 1939. Teachers' quarters at the Frunze Military Academy in Moscow. Ouyang Yu, who just passed through yesterday, just got up not long ago, and the identity that the system now arranges for her is a teacher at the Command College of the Frunze Military Academy, a position that was arranged for her by Comrade Steel Stalin three years ago, so she appeared in the dormitory of the Military Academy this time, instead of appearing directly near the battlefield with troops like the previous Madrid copy, which also confirmed her previous conjecture. The dungeon world has a continuity of time and space, so Ouyang Yu regretted his messy actions when he was on a mission with famous generals.

After having breakfast in the officer's cafeteria, Ouyang Yu walked into the classroom with the teaching materials and started a day's teaching work, in the past few years when Ouyang Yu disappeared, the system actually created a clone of her, replacing her with daily teaching work, so that when she crossed over to the copy world again, the people around her would not feel any discomfort, they would only think that she was teaching seriously every day, and the memory of the clone in the past three years was also when Ouyang Yu crossed over. It was poured into her brain so as not to be exposed in front of others.

It's past ten o'clock in the morning. The door of Ouyang Yu's classroom was suddenly opened from the outside, and the two officers walked straight in front of Ouyang Yu under the gaze of dozens of students, which made the students worry about their beautiful teacher, thinking that Ouyang Yu had committed something or was denounced, Cheka came to the school to arrest people, similar things happened a few years ago, and some respected generals or marshals were arrested in this way.

"Comrade Ivanova, the High Command has something very important to order you to report immediately, this is the order document. ”

One of the officers took out a document from his briefcase, and Ouyang Yu took it and looked at it, "Got it, I'll go to the headquarters to report now." ”

After Ouyang Yu finished speaking, he left dozens of trainees, and accompanied by the two officers, he took a car to the headquarters of the supreme command organization of the Soviet army.

"Report!"

"Come in. ”

Ouyang Yu pushed open the door of the conference room, walked in with his head held high, and then saluted in a dashing manner: "Catherina Viktoevna Ivanova, I am ordered to come and report!"

There will be a star-studded group in the conference room, there are two marshals alone, there are seven or eight generals and generals, and the lowest one is also a lieutenant general, a major general? I'm sorry I am not qualified to participate in such a meeting, she Ouyang Yu is the first major general to participate in this kind of meeting.

"Comrade Ivanova, please take a seat. ”

Presiding over the meeting was Marshal Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko, who was the chairman of the headquarters of the High Command, so such a high-level meeting was naturally presided over by him, Ouyang Yu found a corner seat and sat down and listened carefully to the content of the meeting.

The content of the discussion at this meeting was the provocation of the Japanese on the border between Mongolia and the puppet state of Manchukuo, and from May 4, 1939, the Japanese army continued to provoke military conflicts on the border. The army of the puppet state of Manchukuo, there have been dozens of battles, each time the scale of the battle is getting bigger and bigger, the Japanese wolf ambition has been revealed, the latest intelligence shows that the Japanese Kwantung Army has begun a large-scale deployment of troops, ready to launch a large-scale attack in late June, so the Soviet high command decided to counterattack, appointing the famous General Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, as the commander of the 57th Special Army responsible for the full command of the war against Japan.

After the meeting was dismissed, Marshal Timoshenko left Ouyang Yu alone and said: "Comrade Ivanova, you are one of the few generals in the army who has actual combat experience in large-scale armored forces, Comrade Stalin attaches great importance to the war against Japan that is about to begin, and personally asks you to go to the front line to fight by name, hoping that you will not live up to Comrade Stalin's expectations of you, continue to carry forward the fighting spirit of the people's army on the battlefield, and teach the Japanese a cruel lesson, so that those Oriental dwarves will not dare to fight us again in the future!"

Ouyang Yu stepped forward and replied loudly: "Yes, I will definitely live up to your expectations of Comrade Stalin and Comrade Marshal and teach the Japanese a hard lesson!"

"Very good, this is your letter of appointment, from now on you are the commander of the 36th Motorized Division, this division is upgraded and formed by your old unit in Spain, you should be no stranger to command, that's all I have to say, you go down and take over the troops. ”

"Yes, Comrade Marshal, I bid you farewell. ”

The 36th Motorized Division is actually the unit brought over by Ouyang Yu this time. This time she came with 22,000 infantrymen. Five hundred and fifty tanks (eighty percent of them are T-26s. The rest is the T-35. ), 670 armored vehicles, 1,300 artillery pieces of various types, 600 aircraft (most of them I-153 fighters, the rest are SB-2 bombers), 2,000 trucks, and a total strength of more than 50,000 people, which is no longer the size of a division. This is already the size of an army, but under the systematic arrangement it is a division.

All the personnel and equipment of the 36th Division were loaded onto the train, and it took five days to reach Datamchag Prague in Mongolia via the Trans-Siberian Railway, where a large number of soldiers and equipment were being transported far from the assembly point set up by Zhukov.

In the headquarters, Ouyang Yu met the military god who had many admirers in later generations, the current General Zhukov, and the future Marshal Zhukov.

"Comrade General Zhukov, Major General Ivanova, commander of the 36th Motorized Division, reports to you!"

"Welcome, Comrade Ivanova, I have long been looking forward to meeting the most famous and beautiful female general in our Rainbow Army. I've read your book "Tanks, the Future King of Land Warfare" several times. It inspired me a lot, and now that you're here, my confidence in fighting the Japanese has increased a little more. ”

After General Zhukov warmly shook hands with Ouyang Yu, he introduced other generals to her, "Tank, the Future King of Land Warfare" is a clone of Ouyang Yu, a military book written during his teaching to introduce the use of tanks, which tells the future development direction and tactics of tanks, and has been selected by Frunze Military Academy to become a key textbook, and even Iron Comrade Stahlin said it was good.

After the greetings, General Zhukov pointed to the large map on the wall and said to Ouyang Yu: "Comrade Ivanova, the current invading Japanese army has occupied the three places of Arshan, Kangyur Temple and Amugulang, and more than 20,000 people of the 23rd Division of the Japanese Army are stationed here, I hope that your 36th Division can wipe out or defeat the 23rd Division and retake these three places from the hands of the Japanese, do you have the confidence to complete the task?"

Ouyang Yuli said loudly: "I have confidence, please wait for the news of my victory!"

"Okay!" Admiral Zhukov patted Ouyang Yu's shoulder appreciatively, "Then you go down and prepare, I'm waiting for your good news." ”

"Yes!"

At 5 a.m. on 19 June, the field airfield of Sambes (present-day Choibalshan) in Mongolia was busy, and 600 warplanes belonging to Ouyang Yu took off one after another, whistling away with deadly bombs towards the Japanese positions in Arshan, Kangyur Temple, and Amgulang.

At 5:43 a.m., 600 warplanes flew over the Japanese positions and dropped a large number of bombs on the Japanese barracks, material storage points, artillery positions, and other important targets, so that the Japanese troops who were still asleep did not have time to react at all.

Komatsubara, the commander of the 23rd Division of the Japanese Army, was awakened by the explosion in his sleep, and hurried out of the room without even putting on his clothes.

In Komatsubara's view, the most important thing that Japan lacks is people, and the most lacking is materials, and the soldiers are all cheap cannon fodder, and there are as many soldiers as you want with an enlistment notice, but the materials are different, and they are very precious to poor Japan and must be kept, so many Japanese soldiers who could have survived lost their truly precious lives because of his absurd orders.

A Japanese army storage gasoline warehouse, military Cao Ishihara Taro is directing his men to use trucks to transport the gasoline in the oil depot, several nearby oil depots store 500 barrels of gasoline, once it is blown up, then in the future, the 23rd Division will not even want to have a drop of gasoline.

"Haiyagu, Haiyagu!"

The Japanese soldiers guarding the warehouse were laboriously carrying barrels full of gasoline onto the trucks, and the bombs falling from the sky were getting closer and closer to here, Ouyang Yu's fighters were looking for valuable targets at high altitudes, and the warehouses with a large number of trucks soon came into the sight of the pilots.

Two I-153 fighters swooped down from the sky, two 12.7mm machine guns in the nose fired four lashes, thick and dense bullets that tore through the bodies of more than a dozen Japanese soldiers and set two trucks on fire.

"Hurry up and put out the fire, or we'll be all done!"

Taro Ishihara picked up the fire extinguisher and rushed to the burning truck, and several Japanese soldiers around him joined the heroic soldier to put out the fire.

But just as they had extinguished the burning truck, the two I-153 fighters spun around in the air and flew back, summoning several I-153 fighters to join the attack.

"Dadada...... Rumble...... Boom......!"

Several I-153 fighters fired at low altitude and dropped two bombs, one killing Taro Ishihara and several Japanese soldiers, and the other happened to be thrown into the warehouse, detonating the 500 barrels of gasoline stored inside.

"Boom......!"

With a shocking bang, there was a huge explosion in the warehouse, splashing and burning gasoline engulfed all objects within a radius of one kilometer, and more than a dozen Japanese soldiers who were lucky not to be killed on the spot turned into torches rolling around one by one with burning gasoline.

The I-153 fighters that had just attacked the warehouse were almost blown to the ground by the violent blast wave, and the pilots took a lot of effort to avoid the plane crash and death, wiped the cold sweat from their foreheads, and hurriedly left the scene of the accident.

The bombing lasted for more than half an hour, and after dropping all the bombs and using all the bullets, Ouyang Yu's pilots left the Japanese position that was almost hell on earth.

Komatsubara's forehead was smashed by flying stones in the air raid just now, and he was being treated by a military doctor, and his heart was bleeding after seeing the loss report sent by his subordinates, more than 1,000 soldiers were killed, more than 3,000 were wounded, the artillery belonging to the division was completely destroyed, and countless materials were lost, and the 23rd Division could be described as a serious injury, but before he could catch his breath, he received a call from the front-line observation post, and a Soviet army of tens of thousands of people was coming towards him.

Ouyang Yu, who had absolute superiority in equipment and numbers, divided her 35th Division into three and attacked the three areas of Arshan, Kangyur Temple and Amugulang, where the Japanese army was located.

One hundred tanks T-26 and T-35 were at the head, the same number of BA-10 armored vehicles were behind, and 5,000 soldiers of the 35th Division were behind the tanks and armored vehicles, and with a devastating momentum, they launched an attack on the 3,000 Japanese troops stationed in Amukulang.

In order to destroy the tanks of the 35th Division, the Japanese army also sent the best **** attack, but all the Japanese soldiers with bombs tied to the tanks were killed by the infantry of the 35th Division protecting the tanks before they could get close to the tanks.

The battle in the three areas did not last long, and in less than an hour, the defending Japanese army, which had suffered heavy casualties, received an order to withdraw from its position on its own initiative, and the three areas of Arshan, Kangyur Temple and Amugulang were easily captured by Ouyang Yu. (To be continued.) )