From to 1935 2020

——At this time, the Soviet Red Army was not the battle lion after the 1944 counter-offensive. There were many internal problems in the army, and the logistics management was extremely chaotic. 10,000+ troops broke into the enemy's territory for hundreds of kilometers. On the seventh day of the battle, There have been major problems in the logistics supply chain.

At this time, Zhukov, who was addicted to fighting, had already penetrated 160 kilometers into North Manchuria.

Fortunately, Stalin's instructions to Zhukov were to penetrate [-] kilometers into North Manchuria, establish a buffer zone under the complete control of the Soviet army, and then use this as a front-line base to start a "round battle" with the Japanese army.

Zhukov realized that there was a problem with his logistics supply, so he had the idea of ​​​​"slowing down". In addition, he had already exceeded the strategic goal of the first stage. The 10,000+ Soviet Red Army stopped after occupying many border cities. Step, take the initiative to retreat, and begin to consolidate the existing position.

During the seven-day battle, Zhukov also noticed a detail. Relying on the advanced tank cluster tactics, his army was indeed brilliant on the battlefield, cutting the Japanese army into pieces and fleeing.However, except for the first three days when the first division was defeated, relying on the principle of "proximity" to surround half of the division's troops and fought a battle of annihilation, the rest were defeat and repulsion battles.

The Japanese army of the two divisions that I encountered later was also defeated by the armored army commanded by him in the next four days of fighting, but they could only bite off a piece of meat but could not fight a beautiful battle of encirclement and annihilation.

The main reason, apart from the terrain (there are many mountains in North Manchuria), is that his front-line armored troops assaulted too quickly and were slightly separated from the rear infantry.The logistics could not keep up, and the ammunition and fuel had been exhausted to the brink of danger.In actual combat, Zhukov even discovered that the fuel and ammunition consumption of the troops far exceeded the pre-war budget.And after seven consecutive days of high-intensity fighting, the tanks in his hands were constantly breaking down due to various mechanical failures during the long-term use, losing mobility, and fewer and fewer tanks could fight normally.

The reason why Zhukov had difficulty supplying supplies was because after his troops entered China, the supply line relied heavily on railways.Not to mention the different tracks between China and Russia, this railway was blown up a lot by the Japanese army when they retreated. It cannot be repaired temporarily, and it will not be able to function in a short time.

Before the start of the war, he invested 650 tanks. On the seventh day of the fight, there were only more than 150 tanks left that were barely usable.A large number of tanks participating in the battle were not destroyed, but were forced to abandon them on the battlefield and wait for someone to recover and maintain them because of failures and insufficient maintenance teams.Fortunately, for the past seven days, the Soviet Red Army has always been in a state of strategic offensive. After the war, it can basically control the battlefield. Most of the abandoned tanks can be recovered and repaired.

One go at a time and then fail three times, talking about the dilemma Zhukov faced after running out of three ax moves seven days after the start of the war.

On the seventh day, Zhukov's forward troops had actually surrounded one of the Tenth and No.19 divisions, totaling more than 3 Japanese troops, but then found that they had a big problem due to logistical supplies, and suffered a short period of time. No less than these two Japanese troops.At this time, information came from the CCP's underground party in the Northeast, and four Japanese divisions were rushing towards his forward troops.

"My attack speed and distance are determined by my logistics officer!"

Zhukov had been supernatural for seven days in a row, and at this time he realized the importance of this sentence for himself.Fortunately, Stalin set his strategic goals very loosely before the war. After he reported the situation of the troops to Moscow by telegram, he said that his current strategic situation was not good and had reached the limit of attack. rest.

To Zhukov's surprise, Stalin replied immediately after receiving the telegram: everything will be done according to your wishes.

On April 28, Zhukov's vanguard had retreated to the buffer zone of "one hundred kilometers in North Manchuria" drawn by Stalin.And the Red Army units that had attacked too fiercely before all retreated one after another at this time to reduce the supply pressure.After the war, the 19th and No.[-] divisions of the Japanese army who had escaped from the dead were still in shock, and after Zhukov received the addition of six new divisions from the front-line Japanese troops, he was also secretly glad that he accepted it as soon as it was good and retired. It must be done in time, otherwise it is very likely that the opponent will succeed in "blossoming in the center".

In the next few days, Zhukov was busy repairing the tank, waiting for supplies, adjusting the troops, and at the same time counting the results of the ten days and the losses of the troops.

On May 650, the statistical report came out: before entering the war, he had 230 tanks and 560 armored vehicles.The number we have now has dropped to 190 tanks and more than [-] armored vehicles.Of the missing tanks, only a small part were destroyed by the opponents on the battlefield. There are at least [-] fully repairable tanks, because they failed to recover in time during the active retreat a few days ago, and were forced to blow up or directly discarded.According to the statistics of casualties after the war, the Soviet Union also paid more than [-] offensive losses.

Stalin didn't care about Zhukov's superb performance at the beginning, but he didn't perform well in the closing stage.He was just asked to concentrate on summarizing the various problems exposed by the troops during the seven-day offensive and come up with feasible solutions.During the period, Stalin asked him: "If you want to maintain a longer continuous attack, what else do you need?"

Zhukov thought for a while, sent back a telegram and replied:

"Three times as many trucks, three times as many maintenance shifts, and the best logistics officer ever!"

When Zhukov's Far East Front Army took the initiative to retreat, the reinforcements of the Kwantung Army rushed to rescue the friendly army, but they did not take advantage of the victory to pursue it.

The three first-class divisions that fought directly were all bloodied by Zhukov's "seven-day offensive".In seven days, the three front-line divisions in Manzhouli had nearly 9 people, one division was disabled, two divisions were severely damaged, and more than 5 troops were killed or missing.After the war, looking at the wounded soldiers in the [-]th, [-]th, and [-]th divisions that were rescued, the huge number of casualties also frightened the Kwantung Army collectively. Very close to losses during the Russo-Japanese War, and that's just the beginning.

What shocked the Kwantung Army was the terrifying assault, piercing, and cutting capabilities of the armored army commanded by Zhu Kejun.This unprecedented armored tactic was briefly tried in the hands of the Red Army in Huainan a month ago, and the Soviets also came a month later.

The defense line that the Kwantung Army spent a winter carefully building was torn to shreds in front of the rumbling tanks.If it hadn't been for the Soviet Red Army, which had rushed too fast in the last two days, to run out of fuel and ammunition, reaching what is often called the "turning point of attack" in military terms, the three divisions that retreated on the front line might not be able to retreat.

In the Soviet Union, Stalin was determined to treat the Japanese as "experience milk packs" and "slowly gather wool", but repeatedly asked Zhukov to fight steadily, not to kill them all at once, but to train troops slowly.The Japanese side was also frightened by the fierce offensive of the Soviet army, and they didn't recover their souls after half a month, and they didn't fight back immediately because they lacked confidence.

Historically, the psychological advantage over "Lucia" that the Japanese army had managed to build up after the Russo-Japanese War was lost in just a few days, and then the two sides confronted each other about [-] kilometers from the North-Manchurian border.

Zhukov, who was fighting on the front line, was waiting for supplies to be delivered and the tank unit to be repaired. At the same time, he used the confrontation period to slightly solve a lot of problems exposed during the ten-day battle.In addition, the third priority of the Soviet Red Army is to widen the railway gauge in the occupied area to facilitate supplies.

While Zhukov ordered the army to withdraw, the Japanese army on the opposite side began to "strengthen the wall and clear the field". They took the initiative to dismantle a large section of the railway facing the front line, in order to make it difficult for the opponent to use the North Manchuria Railway to gain in the next attack. supply.

As time entered the spring news in May, the sky and the ground thawed, the ground was covered with mud, and the road was difficult to walk. The intensity of the exchange of fire between the two sides dropped a lot in an instant.

If Manchuria is fighting a war at the level of World War II, the Zhanggufeng area on the east side of the Tumen River is still fighting a war at the level of World War I.The Soviet Red Army and the Japanese army repeatedly fought for the commanding heights of several mountains on the border. After the artillery bombarded the infantry, the infantry rushed to the artillery. The two sides fought repeatedly for several hills. It was a bad battle. .

No matter who occupies those hills, the final fate is to be smashed to death on the top of the hills by the opponent using heavy artillery.After continuous and meaningless "mutual harm", as in history, the two warring parties unanimously gave up this "stupid and rude" exchange method, and each retreated tacitly.

Compared with the anticlimactic situation in the Northeast, the battles in the Pingjin area have gathered sand into towers, small fights have become big fights, and the climax has been wave after wave. There is a tendency for the situation to become bigger and bigger.

The coalition forces of the Red Army and the 29th Army, after solving the Japanese army in Nanyuan and the concession area around Tianjin within a day, began to wipe out the Japanese army in the Tanggu area with all their strength.

At this time, the "China Garrison Garrison" has already reacted from the initial confusion.

The Japanese army, which had been preparing for war all winter, did nothing.At the Japanese garrison in Tanggu, they built solid fortifications and even dug a large number of anti-tank trenches.

The process of the Fifth Army and the 29th Army's attack on Tanggu was not smooth from the beginning.In later generations, the North China region experienced earthquakes, excessive exploitation of groundwater, artificial transformation of terrain and other factors, and the geology and landforms became very severe.During this period, Tanggu belonged to the Haihe River Basin, and there were many rivers and wetlands in the area, so it was difficult for tanks to charge quickly here.The weak load-bearing capacity of the few bridges in the area is even more of a nightmare for tanks to pass through.

"Damn it, these little devils are really accurate with marksmanship!"

Hiding behind a T[-] tank with broken tracks, Wang Yongnian took off his helmet, watched the white marks left by the bullets on it, and put the hat back on in fear.

"Old Lizi, I almost died, it's all because of this baby who saved my life!"

He patted the brim of his hat while reloading his Mosin Nagant.Old Lizi, who was leaning against the back of the tank with him, was carefully peeking ahead of the ground, glanced at it, and quickly retracted.

"Dangdangdang..."

"Tat-tat-tat..."

The T60 tank they relied on as a cover was firing at the Japanese position more than 200 meters away. Its track had been blown off and it could no longer move. It could only temporarily serve as a fixed battery on the frontline battlefield.

"I have to go, the little devil's cannon is about to fall, we are not this iron bastard!"

Old Lizi was a veteran who had participated in the Battle of Bailing Temple, while Wang Yongnian who was by his side was a recruit who had joined the Red Army for only half a year.In the past two years, the Red Army has been expanding its army crazily. Veterans like Lao Lizi are basically prepared according to the specifications of one old and three new. (Note: During the Battle of Bailing Temple, Lin Husan’s troops received many veterans of the Third Red Army and the Fifth Red Army. After the war, these veterans returned to Jianjian to lead new recruits)

In today's battle, Lao Lizi's combat team was alone with three recruits on the battlefield. Of the remaining two, one was lying more than 20 meters away, and the other was lying ten meters away—although Huang Ke handed over The Red Army's three-three system tactics were given textbooks, but due to the quality of the Red Army soldiers during this period, they used Huaye's four-four system tactics.

The one that suits you is the best. The quality of individual soldiers in the current Red Army is still far from the "strongest light infantry in history" on the Korean battlefield in history.And to make up for this distance, you need to pay countless tuition fees condensed with your life.

The regiment that Lao Lizi and Wang Yongnian belonged to attacked a village stronghold occupied by the Japanese army, which was located on a hill more than 20 meters high.About a small squad of Japanese troops was stationed in the area.This is a small hilly terrain. About two hundred devils are scattered in this area, occupying a favorable terrain, hiding in the long-repaired artillery holes or trenches and desperately defending.

The regiment the two belonged to did not attack smoothly. During the attack, they were attacked by the preset coordinates of the artillery behind the Japanese position. The vanguard company and the same tanks participating in the attack suffered great losses.Of the three tanks participating in the battle, one T200 was hit directly in the face by a [-]-caliber grenade shortly after they set off, losing their operational capabilities and withdrawing from the battle early.Of the remaining two breakthrough T[-] vehicles, one relied on its thick armor to withstand the opponent's shells, but was interrupted by the opponent's cannonball when it attacked [-] meters from its main position. Tracks, then stuck here became fixed gun emplacements nailed to the front.

Another T100 tank, he is now parked more than 150 meters to the left, and with it as the center, there is another Red Army team of soldiers suppressed there by the Japanese army, and they are shooting at the Japanese army on the position.Judging from the situation, the condition of that tank is estimated to be similar to that here.Fortunately, the field artillery position that the Japanese army hid in the rear before the war revealed its position shortly after firing, and it was too late to move, and was destroyed by the [-] artillery pieces of the Red Army.

A real field battle is not like the TV series in the movies, where a dozen or even dozens of people are packed in an area the size of a tennis court, and then they shoot at the enemy right in front of them.Like in movies and TV shows, a group of people get together densely, which looks impressive, but in fact this is a very stupid behavior of giving away people's heads.

In fact, even if it is an area the size of two tennis courts, there are usually only two or three battle groups, and a dozen or so people will be enough to fill the sky—and several battle groups must be arranged as far apart from each other as possible. Occupy the corners to widen the distance, so as not to be reimbursed by the opponent for a class.

Old Lizi looked to the left, and there was another group of four people nestled in two crater bombs more than 50 meters away. He saw an antenna-like thing shaking in the crater there, and he knew it was the Soviet Union. Assisting the Red Army's walkie-talkies, the offensive observers were lying there and using binoculars to observe the opposite Japanese firepower point to guide the rear artillery bombardment.

"Boom, boom!"

When Lao Lizi was observing his surroundings, two artillery shells fell in a row near him, one landed 30 meters away from the left rear, and the other landed more than ten meters away from the right front. sound.

Old Lizi sensed the danger.

"Little ghost, Tie Wangba's goal is too big here, let's go there."

After the sound of the cannon, Old Lizi held the cat on his waist, and immediately dragged Wang Yongnian to the nearest bomb crater to lie down.Not long before the two of them lay down, a cannonball landed on their previous hiding place. If the two of them hadn't walked in time, they would be doomed now.

"Damn, the hand cannons of these little devils are really accurate." (Note: The hand cannon refers to the grenade in the hands of the Japanese army)

Lao Li glanced at the T[-] tank not far away. Just when he was almost shot, this T[-] tank was being continuously fired by the opponent. rattle.After being blown off the tracks and losing his ability to move, he was still fighting as a fixed firepower point on the front line. Guided by the nearby radio infantry plane, he fired continuously with [-]mm machine guns and took out two exposed Japanese machine guns. position, but he also succeeded in absorbing enough hatred, attracting concentrated fire from all sides - [-]mm anti-aircraft guns, [-]mm infantry guns (that is, the Taisho [-]th year style), plus multiple grenade launchers. .

The offensive of the company that Lao Li belongs to has actually been thwarted. Less than half of the more than 100 people who attacked can continue to fight, but they only attacked 200 meters away from the front position of the Japanese army and were suppressed. He couldn't hold his head up, and had to wait for support from the rear to maintain the offensive.A few days ago, the Nanyuan battle was fought so smoothly. One is that the terrain there is not as disgusting as here. There are wetlands and rivers everywhere, and the tanks can be concentrated to the maximum extent. More importantly, the Red Army was ten times stronger at that time. Strong firepower cannon and attack crushing.

On the Tanggu side, there are more than 1 devils in strength, and there is a port to rely on. The place has been in business for a long time and the fortifications are strong.Pre-war artillery coverage attacks were poor.Coupled with the geographical advantage, the Red Army on the attacking side fell into the opponent's preset bombardment trap as soon as the battle started, and suffered huge losses.

"The little devil is really not that easy to deal with!"

In the crater, Old Lizi quickly probed and retracted.

"Pfft, puff!"

Two consecutive bullets hit the ground beside him.At the moment when he probed, he found the head of a Japanese soldier wearing a helmet exposed behind the ruins more than 200 meters away, lying behind the trench and shooting at the direction where Lao Lizi was.

When he escaped from the bunker of the T60 tank just now, although Old Lizi avoided the shelling, he was spotted by the other party.

"Damn!"

Old Lizi yelled and cursed in his heart, he huddled in the crater, thinking about how to fight back, but saw Wang Yongnian next to him holding his head and trying to stick to the ground.Beside his body, there was a popping sound on the mud, and dust splashed. It was the sound of bullets from the opposite side drilling into the mud.

"You son of a bitch, the more you are afraid of death, the faster you will die, kill him with me!"

Old Lizi yelled at him and kicked his ass.He knew very well that he had exposed his position, and now this position is likely to be covered by grenades fired by the Japanese grenade.During the Battle of Bailing Temple, Lin Husan set up traps at that time, and the advantage was so great, but when the infantry of the two sides fought hand-to-hand, on some small battlefields, the Red Army suffered more casualties than the opponent, and the biggest losses were caused by those grenadiers. .

Wang Yongnian came back to his senses after being hit on the butt, and nodded at Lao Lizi.

Old Lizi guessed that the opponent should have finished firing the shuttle bullets, so he poked his head suddenly, and raised his gun to shoot at the position of the Japanese soldier whose helmet was exposed.When he retracted and pulled the bolt to load the gun, Wang Yongnian followed suit, aiming and shooting at the same target.

One of them pulled the bolt, the other fired, and they fired in turn, also suppressing the Japanese soldier opposite him so that he couldn't raise his head.

"I'll go first!"

After shooting three rounds in a row, Lao Lizi rushed out of the pothole based on his experience, while Wang Yongnian continued to shoot for cover. After five rounds of bullets, Wang Yongnian also rushed out of the pothole under the cover of his comrades, and trotted for more than ten steps , plunged into another crater in front of him, and while he was lying there reloading the Mosin-Nagant in his hand, Old Lizi was doing the same action not far from him.

After loading the ammunition, the two looked at each other more than ten meters away. At the same time, they raised their heads and glanced at the opposite side, only to find that the Japanese soldier who was shooting at them was no longer in the original position, and he had also moved.

"The two Chinese soldiers on the opposite side, at least one of them is a veteran!"

Leaning in the newly transferred trench, Lieutenant Kobayashi Wusi slowly put a row of bullets on the [-] cover in his hand.Beside him lay the corpse of a ghost soldier—the head had been uncovered, the blood and brain had already drained dry, and it looked extremely disgusting.There was a deformed helmet beside the corpse, and there was an obvious bullet hole in the inferior watermelon iron helmet.Although Soviet-style weapons have always been said to be "stupid, big, black and thick", they have never been economical in terms of durability and materials. They have a "good reputation" of "not enough craftsmanship" and superior materials. It has always been a model of "saving materials", even steel helmets are cutting corners.

His name was Nakata Keiaki, and he was an excellent grenadier gunner, but he was shot in the head—Kobayashi Wusi guessed that he should have been killed by the veteran opposite him who shot at him.The body of Nakata Keimaki’s assistant fell three meters away from him. The cause of death was a bullet wound in the chest. The man still had a terrible bullet wound on his right wrist, and the bone spurs were exposed—he and Nakata Keimaki were shot almost at the same time .The grenadier is the key target of the opponent on the battlefield.As soon as his identity was revealed, almost all the muzzles within the range would shoot at him immediately, and the two of them were shot and died almost at the same time.

Kobayashi Wusi glanced at the corpse of his companion with a look of despair. He was from Tokyo and was from the same place as him.At this time last year, the First Division he was in was still Tokyo's Royal Forest Army, Tenko Konoe, but after the February [-]th Incident, after the emperor's family died, the reputation of the First Division in the Japanese Army was completely stink.

"Rebels", "sinners", "rebels", and "non-citizens", who once thought they were superior to others, were collectively deprived of their honor, and then thrown into Pingjin, the place with the worst strategic situation, as cannon fodder Sacrifice.

Kobayashi May Fourth, he is not a recruit, he has seen human blood, personally participated in [-], and even shot and killed a policeman in Kyoto.

In fact, the military headquarters had already foreseen what would happen to the First Division at the forefront once the war broke out here in Pingjin. This was their intention.The officers and soldiers of the First Division who participated in the [-] Mutiny were all thrown here in Tanggu in an orderly manner.They are deprived of everything, they are disgusting criminals and garbage in the eyes of the military and the people, and they are just thrown here for waste utilization.

The Battle of Tanggu has been fought for five days.

The coalition of the 29th Army and the Fifth Red Army, which has been incorporated by the Red Army, has been attacking Tanggu endlessly. The troops of more than 1 people are now compressed by them in a small seaside area of ​​less than [-] square kilometers.

Fortunately than the Nanyuan defenders, there are a lot of mud flats, rivers and rivers around here, and a large number of anti-tank trenches dug in advance, which greatly offset the assault force of the opponent's tanks, making them unable to charge.Jue Husband, the brigade leader of the First Division, paid great attention to the threat of Communist tanks before the war. Compared with Mu Taguchi's crazy second class, Jue Husband has been working hard to strengthen Tanggu in the past winter defense of the area.

Jue. Husband (Note: This ghost officer’s name is so strange) himself was the division commander of the first division. He was implicated in the February [-] Incident and was demoted to the brigade commander. Here—this is actually an insulting appointment, and his rank was even lowered from Lieutenant General to Major—in the Japanese army, the rank of the brigade commander is all major general, which is also an insulting demotion.

Criminal army, criminal general, criminal soldier!

This is the identity of the Tanggu defenders who are being besieged.

"You sinners used bayonets to win meritorious deeds in China, so let's clear your name."

This is what Kanichiro Tashiro said to his husband Colonel before the war when he threw their army of criminals into Tanggu.

Kobayashi's May Fourth company was guarding a position more than 300 meters long.The hundreds of people on the front line have to deal with the attack of more than 400 Chinese soldiers and three tanks from a battalion on the opposite side.

Relying on the reasonable firepower arrangement and timely artillery support before the battle, they paralyzed the three tanks shortly after the opponent attacked.Unfortunately, the penetrating power of the Sanqi artillery in the hands of the Japanese army is really impressive. Although it damaged the opponent's walking device, it could not penetrate the frontal armor and cause effective damage to the tank soldiers inside. Now the two T60 tanks at the front It became the most troublesome steel fortress for the defenders. They communicated with the observers around them by radio, and kept firing machine guns at any exposed firepower points.And the field cannon at the rear, which made great contributions after the start of the battle, was covered and destroyed by the opponent with a more powerful cannon shortly after the successful strike.

Now Kobayashi's May Fourth company can only rely on the only mortars, grenades, machine guns, and human bombs to resist the attack from the opposite side.

The good news is that all the opponent's tanks are immobilized, and there will be no more tanks in a short time.The bad news is that the enemy army on the opposite side has too many troops.Kobayashi May-si, who occasionally poked his head out of the trench to observe the shooting, saw that the first attacking Red Army had suffered a large number of casualties in front of Chendi, but they still persisted. Behind them, the second wave of reinforcements had already caught up. Arrived, entering the battlefield.

There was a scream in the sky. It was the mortar shells fired by the Red Army on the opposite side, which was about to cover the position he was defending.

Hearing the screeching sound of shells, Kobayashi Wusi hurriedly hid in the nearest bomb hole, his body curled up like a trembling snake.

Half a second later, the sound of explosions continued to ring around the body, and occasionally the screams of nearby colleagues who were shot can be heard. In addition to these, there was the very familiar sound of the charge.

After five days of encirclement and annihilation in Tanggu, Kobayashi was already very familiar with the opponent's offensive methods: during the shelling process, they would start to charge, and he could even tell whether the charge was a real charge or a fake charge by listening to the sound of the charge.