Chapter 573: The Bloody Battle Without a Way of Retreat

This is a war where neither side has a way out. Those who lose will face immeasurable strategic danger! The Japanese army will suffer from the north and south attack and lose all the progressive achievements since Meiji. The Soviet Union will at least lose Mongolia, a bridgehead for advancement, and the Far East will be greatly weakened. It is more likely that one day in the future, the Japanese-German alliance will be attacked in front and behind!

Zhukov had a very good strategic vision. He quickly analyzed the difficulties he was going to face at the beginning of his appointment. Before traveling, he seized the opportunity and demanded as many conditions as possible. When he arrived at Nomenkan by plane, the first batch of army vanguards mobilized directly from Siberia had already set off!

I really saw the tragic appearance of the 57th Army that was torn and destroyed with my own eyes. As powerful as Zhukov couldn't help but suck in the air. At the same time, I couldn't help but wonder when the Eastern fishermen whose heads were filled with dead fish became so powerful?

Tactical, the Japanese army inherited from the West, especially Germany and France, is better at the strong cooperation of small units, cavalry advance, and quickly break through locally with small, fast and spiritual means, and then coerce and induce strategic initiative, "deterror", "defeat", and "force to form an alliance under the city", which is incredible about the concept of "complete annihilation" implemented by the Soviet army. Therefore, in several conflicts on the Chinese battlefield, they all dispersed armored weapons and artillery with extremely high combat effectiveness into infantry as a force for assault attack and infantry assistance.

The Soviet army is different. From the commander of Mr. Shi Dalin, we firmly implement a principle: our soldiers should be more than the enemy, and our planes and cannons should be more than the enemy. Once a war begins, we must do whatever it takes to completely destroy the enemy's fighting spirit and resistance with the most powerful offensive, and once and for all!

In the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy is a joke!

Zhukov originally thought that the battle in Nomenkan had occurred. Given the different ideas of the two sides, there would be no trouble. But what he saw and learned with his own eyes was that the Japanese army actually dispatched hundreds of armored vehicles and hundreds of cannons and hundreds of fighter jets, which were often used as a unit, and when did they become so rich?!

Soon he realized that the Japanese finally made progress under the beating of the Chinese battlefield and were forced to change their combat ideas. The second is that the Japanese's determination and goal for this war are much greater than what the Far East intelligence departments have summarized before!

Japan not only wanted to gain the upper hand to force the Soviet Union to sign a non-aggressive jump, but also wanted to seize the dominance of Mongolia and thus occupy the initiative in military strategy in the Far East!

Even further, these small Eastern dwarfs who also have endless expansion are completely possible to plan for more than one million square kilometers of land in the entire Far East! It is not impossible to change direction and carry out their "northern advance" strategy when they cannot achieve their invasion of China!

Thinking of this, Zhukov couldn't feel at all. He did not hesitate to use his tough skills. He first cleaned up the 57th Army's senior officers who were unfavorable and timid and incompetent, promoted the deputy who dared to fight desperately and executed orders to the post, and then concentrated all his military forces to establish a second defensive front on the west bank of the Halaha River, especially retreating all the artillery troops back and forming an arc array pointing to the central battlefield.

At the same time, he personally participated in the evaluation of Japanese armored weapons, artillery and air force weapons, and intuitively judged the combat performance of the opponent's weapons and equipment, but the result was very unoptimistic.

But this was not enough to discourage Zhukov. He was still calm and steady in preparation. Even though the Japanese army suffered consecutive blows, the big explosion in Hailar and then the chaos in Harbin South, which made the Kwantung Army's attack on the Haraha River delay for two days!

Especially the Hailar explosion destroyed not only some of the troops and supplies, but also disrupted the large number of strategic deployments of the Kanto Army. As wise as the General Staff led by Ishihara Kanir, the plan formulated was not included. The conditions for the irresistible blow to the rear and strategic points were simply unimaginable before!

As a result, the Soviet army obtained a very precious buffer period, allowing Zhukov to calmly complete the adjustment and deployment. After the two tank brigades led by General Pavlov, the commander of the armored army, arrived in advance, and reorganized the second line of defense with more than 100 cannons continuously transported from the Far East Railway, and then decisively took the initiative to attack the Japanese army's aggressive positions set up on the river bank!

An unprecedented tank battle and artillery bombing kicked off!

The Soviet army had a total of 280 tanks of various colors, including armored vehicles such as T-26, 5, 7, ba-6, and ba-10, and formed a huge attack cluster divided into two north and south routes like iron clamps.

The Japanese army was naturally not willing to be outdone. The more than 100 95th and 97th Middle School chariots were the main force. The total number of similar chariots in a armored brigade of the 23rd Division exceeded 220, and they were lined up on a position of 100 kilometers wide and pushed forward, clearly looking arrogant and did not take the other party seriously.

In the battle ahead, the Japanese army discovered that the tanks and chariots they equipped were more than one level better than the Soviet army! If the tonnage of the ** and other old things in the past few years were half a pound and eight taels of tonnage, and the firepower was completely impossible to withstand the Soviet army's long-barreled tank guns, then all the Chinese tanks now have more than ten tons, especially the Type 97 that strengthened the front armor. Regardless of firepower, speed, and armor thickness, they are unparalleled. They cannot deal with the Chinese monsters, and it is more than enough to deal with the thin-skinned things of the Soviet army!

Nearly five hundred tanks and armored vehicles collided like a torrent of steel! The battlefield a hundred kilometers wide was filled with dust caused by clusters of fighting groups. The sound of cannons, explosions and fireworks created a refreshing and shocking feeling that made the body secrete too much hormones!

The Japanese army believed extremely confidently that this would be another unquestionable victory! But the facts immediately slapped them in the face!

Zhukov's command art was first presented to the world! He fully estimated the gap between the weapons and equipment of both sides, and cleverly chose to form an attack front in an exaggerated regiment as a unit, completely relaxing the broad central hinterland, leaving only artillery and infantry to defend themselves with deep groove barriers.

In contrast, the Japanese tank armored vehicles that he was determined to be in victory were released like a scattered flower. The size of a cluster of twenty or thirty vehicles was much longer.

The tanks of both sides collided violently between the plain and fertile fields. The Soviet army's forty or fifty tank groups were chopped against each other with a dozen Japanese tanks that were missing. They were immediately bombarded by the opponent's 75mm caliber 32-fold cannon. The thin 22mm armor was like paper, and there was almost no power to fight back.

However, they did not have any results at all. They took the initiative to exert their maneuverability, especially the 5 and 7 models, one up to 72 kilometers and the other 53 kilometers, which was nearly twice that of the Japanese army. They were sensitive and active on the flanks of the battlefield. They attacked their weak side armor with a 45mm special tank gun, which was almost unsatisfactory!

After one battle, the Soviet tank group was almost wiped out, and the Japanese army lost only one-third of it. It seemed that the results of the battle were brilliant.

However, before the Japanese army recovered, the second batch of Soviet tanks flocked to the scene! The number of battles suddenly became two-on-one! And this time, the Soviet army adopted a roundabout strategy to avoid the front and not fight hard. The troops divided into two groups to support and interfere with each other, and gradually rushed into hundreds of meters to open fire at the same time. After several rounds, after nearly twenty casualties, they wiped out a Japanese armored main force.

The third group arrived again, gathered together, and then rushed forward and backward to the next group of enemy troops!

The Soviet tank troops, which were divided into at least three or four waves in front and back, hitting the same target wave after wave, paying a greater price than the opponent, but being able to wipe out the opponent's main offensive forces. After two rounds, the Japanese army suddenly discovered that the powerful force on their wings was completely eaten up. The main force, which had been opened by the central government for dozens of kilometers, was attacked by the opponent from north to south, surrounded by a position with nearly two hundred cannons deployed in the front!

The poor tactics of cooperation between the Japanese divisions were fully exposed! The cooperation between armored soldiers and artillery was even more messed up. The combined attack power of the air force was more like dealing with errands, each doing its own thing. When the crisis on both wings broke out, the support force sent in the rear was still on the east bank of the river. The heavy artillery troops that had been waiting for for a long time suddenly opened fire!

More than 200 cannons! It is not the standard for Japanese military even 70mm infantry cannons, but long-range cannons with a caliber of more than 100mm, and most of them have longer ranges and greater power. The year-on-year performance is all above the Japanese military's Type 92 70mm, Type 90 75mm, Type 91 105mm field cannons and Type 96 150mm howitzers. Although the range of the Japanese military's farthest range is far enough, it is heavy and clumsy, and it cannot pull the river at all. Moreover, it is expensive and unwilling to take the risk ahead!

Moreover, the Soviet army had already learned the data of their big killers and deliberately retreated out of the battlefield in order to weaken the threat of their long-range weapons!

Stolen in the center of the huge battlefield, the Japanese armored troops suddenly felt sad! I thought I could directly break through the opponent's position and bloom in the center, and then swept across the two wings to break each other, causing an unprecedented victory. Unexpectedly, their speed of 20 to 30 kilometers was barely approaching the central protruding position and was immediately hit by hundreds of cannons!

Before they could recover, the Soviet tank troops on both sides killed their opponents with their speed advantage completed the detour, surrounded them tightly in the center, and forcibly mingled with the opponent before the Japanese fighter jets flew to support them, and then started a life-and-death melee!

For tooth, for casualties to exchange for casualties! When the regional battlefield tank troops were defeated, Zhukov ordered heavy artillery to cover all firepower regardless of the enemy and us!
Chapter completed!