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Volume 1 On the Songhua River Chapter 2191 Hitting a wall

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    On the night of May 23, the Soviet soldiers who had been fighting all day, under the orders of the commander, dragged their exhausted bodies, set up bonfires, boiled the snow, and after cooling, poured the snow water on the fortifications.  , when the biting cold wind blows, it immediately solidifies into a solid ice wall.  .

    During the daytime battle, the Soviet soldiers had tasted the benefits of fortification protection. Without these ice walls, they might have been among the corpses. Therefore, even though they were tired and wanted to fall asleep immediately, they had no complaints.  They were busy working for their own lives. The whole process did not even require the instigation of political commissars at all levels or the coercion of officers. The actions of the soldiers were very conscious. Soldiers who had experienced brutal battles during the day,  I also know the importance of fortifications.

    At this time, the Japanese troops, who had fought all day and suffered bloody blows, had no rest and were preparing for tomorrow's attack. The nearly two million Japanese soldiers still didn't know what they were going to do.  Commander Prince Zai Ren arrived at the headquarters with an urgent telegram. Don't even think about resting tonight.

    General Nanjiro, the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, held an order from the headquarters in his hand, his eyebrows knitted together. In the daytime battle, although the Kwantung Army only dispatched five or four divisions of troops, they launched a diversionary attack from behind the Soviet position.  , Therefore, the battle in this direction is far less intense than the frontal battlefield, but General Nanjiro is not idle either. The Soviet reinforcements are coming, and he has a premonition that the Kwantung Army will soon press forward.

    Therefore, General Nanjiro sent all the staff officers of the headquarters to the main offensive direction to observe the progress of the battle. And he himself, regardless of the danger, followed a regiment and got close to the Soviet position, less than a mile away.  A thousand meters away, he carefully observed the defense situation of the Soviet position. General Nanjiro never dared to take his old opponent Zhukov lightly after fighting for several years.

    When he saw the ice and snow fortifications that had been erected almost overnight, stretching into the distance along the vast snowy fields, like ancient city walls, reflecting the bright light that dazzled his eyes under the bright sunshine of the Far East.  At that time, General Nanjiro couldn't help but marvel at Zhukov's military genius. He could use local materials, turn ordinary things into magic, and use ice and snow to build an indestructible defense system.

    General Nanjiro had a premonition that the Far East Expeditionary Force and the North Korean garrison troops might not be able to take advantage of today's main attack direction. The facts turned out to be exactly as he expected. After hundreds of thousands of casualties, not even one Soviet army  There was no breakthrough in the positions of the Kwantung Army. The direction of the Kwantung Army's attack also encountered the same problem. In front of the Soviet ice and snow fortifications, the Kwantung Army's powerful artillery fire only exploded countless pieces of broken ice.

    General Nanjiro was lying on the snow. When he saw his soldiers rushing up like a tide, they fell down in front of the slippery fortifications, and then turned into corpses under the dense rain of bullets from the Soviet army.  After discovering the bloody corpses, General Nanjiro decisively ordered the infantry to stop the attack, but continued to bombard the Soviet positions with artillery fire to attract Soviet troops.

    It was not the main direction of attack, and the campaign headquarters did not require it. The Kwantung Army broke through the Soviet defensive positions, and General Nanjiro decisively stopped the attack. Therefore, compared with the two forces attacking frontally, the Kwantung Army's losses were minimal.  But General Nanjiro couldn't be happy. If Zhukov's ice and snow defense line was not broken through in an effective way, the Imperial Army's comeback would be at a staggering cost, and the campaign to encircle and annihilate the Soviet Far East Front would be greatly prolonged.  With reinforcements coming from both sides of the Soviet Union, delaying the end of the battle would be very detrimental to the empire.

    At this time, General Nanjiro had already considered the overall issue from the perspective of the commander-in-chief of the campaign. He believed that Prince Zain was undoubtedly an outstanding commander, and he could be too inferior. Of course, it also implied that for Minai  Before returning to the headquarters, the Koichi faction gave the following order to the artillery commander of the Kwantung Army: "Each artillery group of the Kwantung Army must bombard the Soviet positions without interruption, especially at one point.  Go up and reach the saturation level of artillery fire!¡±

    General Nanjiro planned to see the extent of damage caused by artillery fire under saturation bombardment to Zhukov's ice and snow defense system to find a breakthrough. General Nanjiro had the confidence to waste artillery shells like this, with Manchuria as his back and a steady stream of supplies.  , the Kwantung Army did not have to worry about lack of ammunition.

    When it got dark, the artillery commander called, which made General Nanjiro very frustrated. "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, according to your order, I specially organized a group of artillery, with eighty 150 mm caliber guns."  The howitzers bombarded one of the Soviet positions for three hours. The results were disappointing. The damage to the Soviet defense system was not ideal. Moreover, the ice fragments raised by the explosion also acted as a hindrance to the infantry.  Charge obstacles."

    General Nanjiro put down the phone in a bad mood. He admired Zhukov very much and joined him on the spot.The advanced defense system actually made the nearly two million troops of the Japanese Empire helpless. When our own troops encountered this situation, the troops attacking from the front were not much better!

    The staff officers who were observing the attacks of other troops confirmed this with phone calls back. The casualties incurred by the main attacking troops made General Nanjiro speechless in surprise for a long time, and then he felt heartbroken. Although it was not his own troops, they were more than a dozen people.  Ten Thousand Imperial Soldiers!

    When it was time to have dinner, General Nanjiro still hadn't thought of a way to crack it. He locked himself in a tent and was not even in the mood to have dinner. That ice and snow defense line would cause huge casualties to the Kwantung Army.  The severely weakened Kwantung Army can no longer afford the trouble!

    General Nanjiro was walking around anxiously in the tent. One by one, ideas came to his mind, and then they were rejected. At this time, there was a sound of talking outside the tent. Moreover, the movement was quite loud, and he was disturbed.  General Nanjiro, who was thinking about it, was very unhappy. He had already ordered the guards that no one was allowed to approach within two hundred meters of the tent. How could someone come in?

    "Who is making a loud noise outside?" General Nanjiro shouted angrily towards the outside.

    The curtain of the tent was opened, and a lieutenant leading the squad came in. He stood up straight and saw the Commander-in-Chief with an angry look on his face. He trembled with fear and said: "Your Excellency, the Commander-in-Chief is Yokota Maeyama, the captain of the forest combat team directly under the headquarters.  Colonel, he said he had something important and asked to see you. We have told him your order, but Colonel Yokota insisted on seeing you. We blocked him, caused a quarrel, and disturbed the commander-in-chief's rest. Please deal with it!"

    "Huh?" General Nanjiro rolled his eyes suspiciously. I had some impression of Colonel Yokota Maeyama, but he was not an extremely outstanding officer. At the headquarters of the Kwantung Army, officers with the rank of colonel grabbed a lot of them.  , just a colonel can't catch my eye. The reason why I have some impression of this person is because Yokota has established some kind of mountain forest combat team.

    This mountain forest combat team is still his predecessor. The things left by Muto Nobuyoshi were specially established to deal with the anti-Japanese resistance alliance of [***]. Muto Nobuyoshi was very concerned about this and took care of it from many parties. It is in his hands.  One of his trump cards, it is said that during an operation in the mountains of southern Manchuria, he almost killed Tang Qiuli, the Chinese man who is now notorious and the number one enemy of the Japanese Empire.

    However, General Nanjiro was not interested in this. What determines the outcome of a war is strength. He did not believe that a forest combat team with only a few hundred people could play a role on a battlefield where hundreds of thousands of troops were fighting.  General Nanjiro, who advocated large-scale combat, naturally would not take such childish tricks to heart. The reason why he did not disband the Yamarin Combat Team was all because of the face of his predecessor, Nobuyoshi Muto.

    He is also under the Mi cabinet, and has held the power of Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army. It is not good for him to deny everything of his predecessor as worthless as soon as he took office. That guy Muto is unlucky enough. He comes and goes, this mountain forest  The combat team was actually retained. Of course, due to the dislike of the new commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, Yokota's mountain forest combat team was reduced from the previous favorite to an inconspicuous little player and was completely marginalized.

    This Colonel Yokota was also a weirdo. He was not taken seriously and did not complain. He still led more than a hundred of his men to do things mysteriously. General Nanjiro stopped recalling and thought to himself: "Maybe Muto just left.  If you go astray, you will be dismissed from the headquarters, right?"

    Originally, I was in a bad mood today, and there was no need to see this inconspicuous Yokota. The reason I could remember this person was because of the existence of the nondescript Yamalin Combat Team. General Nanjiro felt disgusted, and wanted to let the leader  The captain of the guard drove the guy away. General Nanjiro felt funny that a guy who had never fought in a regular battle could have anything important.

    "Tell him that I don't have time. If you have anything to do, go talk to the chief of staff!" The guard chief stood at attention and was about to go out. Suddenly, General Nanjiro's heart moved, "This Yokota usually doesn't come close to me and talks to the headquarters.  The other officers are also like a lone wolf. Now, they suddenly ask to see me. Is there really something important? "

    Thinking of this, General Nanjiro suddenly became interested in meeting Colonel Yokota, and ordered: "Let him come in!"

    As soon as the curtain of the tent opened, a tall and thin colonel officer came in with steady steps. He stood at attention with a standard military salute and said, "Report to the commander-in-chief, Yokota Maeyama, captain of the forest combat team directly under the Kwantung Army Headquarters."  ask to see!"

    With a steady voice and a loud tone, General Nanjiro looked at Yokota with great interest. There was nothing surprising, but the guy's eyes were sinister and a bit scary, "?Colonel Tian, ??do you have something important to do and are you anxious to see me?  he asked.

    ((To be continued.)
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