From to 1935 2020

"I really want to know, after 1941, Hitler saw that we and our Chinese comrades teamed up to eliminate Japan, and at the same time hoarded a large number of elite troops in the direction of Europe, whether he still had the courage to attack the Soviet Union."

When Stalin said this to Huang Ke, the main force of the 20 Soviet Red Army commanded by Zhukov had already entered the Hulunbuir area at this time. The armored troops with thousands of tanks as arrows, supported by thousands of logistics trucks, continued to attack the Hulun Buir area. Continuously breaking through, interspersing, and repeatedly cutting and pulling the defense line urgently built by the Japanese army.

Just like last time, it took only three days for Zhukov's troops to advance hundreds of kilometers again, and even [-] kilometers in seven days.Due to the sufficient logistical supply, this time it was not forced to retreat due to insufficient ammunition supply on the seventh day like last time.After learning the lesson from the last time, Zhukov stopped the attack on the eighth day after continuously defeating, injuring, and annihilating the six Japanese army divisions standing in front of him. The battle lasted until July [-], when the Soviet Red Army, which captured the Hulunbuir area, took the initiative to retreat more than [-] kilometers.

After this battle, the Soviet Red Army penetrated into North Manchuria as far as 260 kilometers.The territory directly controlled covers an area of ​​more than [-] square kilometers, and the casualties and losses caused to the opposite Japanese army exceed [-].All the six divisions that participated in the war were severely injured and maimed. The Japanese army had been prepared for a long time. Although the battle failed and some troops were withdrawn, none of the divisions were completely annihilated, but "the divisions were all there, and all of them were severely injured." His embarrassment shocked Tokyo again.

At the same time, in the direction of North China and the east of Hebei, and the direction of Rehe, as the echo of the Soviet Red Army's second offensive, Li Runshi also launched a partial border offensive in the eastern Hebei area in coordination with the ground.From the Yanshan guerrilla zone to the estuary of the Bohai Sea, and the newly opened Jehol guerrilla zone, all Red Army units, whether the main force or the guerrillas, were attacking the Japanese army.

It was not the main decisive battle that focused on encirclement and annihilation during the Battle of Pingjin, but a "super bad battle" that was fully blossomed and focused on bloodletting.

When the war broke out on July [-], when China and the Soviet Union stopped their active attacks by coincidence, everyone in Tokyo, Japan exclaimed: "Northern Manchu hell, North China quagmire" has been largely rejected by those sane old people. The ghosts popped up in their minds.

PS: Starting tomorrow, I will write a book hard, so I can't be lazy anymore.

-------------------- Chapter 244 Okamura Ningji's Madness --------------------

"Lucia, damn Lucia!"

Nanjing Shimonoseki Wharf, Tatsuhiko Aoki, the head of Japan's High-tech Department in Nanjing, hid in a corner of the wharf, watching with a dark face the cargo ship that was docked at the wharf from Jiangbei and was unloading.

What was unloaded on board were tanks that the Soviets sold to the Chen Jitang government at a "friendly" price—a total of sixteen T27 light tanks.And last month, Li Runshi's Red Army in the north also exchanged the last three Vik tanks in Fu Zuoyi's hands with T26s, and then directly donated them to Chen Jitang. Insufficient, in order to simplify the logistics supply, it was simply given to Chen Jitang who had the support of the British.

Compared with Chang Kaishen's era, when the Red Army and the Kuomintang army met and never negotiated, the Nanjing National Government and Li Runshi's Red Army in the Chen Jitang era have always followed the inertia of the past and continued to maintain a "friendly state."In exchange for the Red Army's "donation" of tanks, Chen Jitang opened the door for the Red Army to obtain overseas materials through the Yangtze River waterway, and to transport personnel and materials to the Fangsu Red Army in the south of the Yangtze River by land.So far, the two families have been under the banner of the Anti-Japanese War and have maintained a peaceful state of "good neighborliness and friendship".On the Jiangnan side, after the two forces negotiated on the territory issue, they each settled down to their respective roles, and there was peace.

After the Battle of Tongzhou, after Chen Jitang saw the important role tanks played on the battlefield, he felt itchy himself, and thought about getting addicted to armored troops.

Chen Jitang initially wanted to buy German products, but the Germans took him for a fool and charged a high price for the battered No. 27 tank, and then gave up.Britain also enthusiastically sold tanks to him, but the price was too high.On the contrary, Li Runshi in the north, after learning of Chen Jitang's needs, acted as an intermediary and recommended the Soviet T27 tank to him.Stalin's asking price was not high. Chen Jitang sent people to North China to test the T[-]s in active service. He was very satisfied, and then bought [-] of them in one go—including weapons and spare parts, the total cost was only [-]. Ten thousand U.S. dollars, which is quite a cheap conscience price.

After the war broke out in April, the Far East route between China and the Soviet Union had been cut off by the Japanese Navy, and Soviet transport ships could not sail out of the Sea of ​​Japan.The current batch of tanks were all transported by the railway from Mongolia to Baotou.In fact, in order to ensure that Chen Jitang could use the tanks as soon as possible, Li Runshi sent the T[-] tanks brought by the Soviet Union through the Baotou communication line to support the CCP directly to Chen Jitang.

Chen Jitang used more than 30 tanks (including Chang Kaishen's defeated ones) to form his own tank reinforcement regiment, which are now deployed in the area between Nanjing and Songhu. During the process, Li Runshi in the north was also very friendly Some Kuomintang generals, including Qiu Qingquan, who had no blood debts were released and handed over to Chen Jitang.In order to buy the hearts of Chang Kaishen's surrendered generals, Chen Jitang was also very happy to recruit these people under his command, and Qiu Qingquan was even appointed as the commander of the tank unit.

T27, a two-person small tank, is not much better than the 94 bean tanks currently in service in Japan.However, Chen Jitang's massive purchase of tanks from foreign countries shows a problem in itself: Chen Jitang is now also wary of the ever-increasing Japanese troops in the Songhu area.

After being "fortunately" in charge of the Nanjing government, Chen Jitang, with the support of the British, had a pretty good life for the past three months.The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are the most affluent places in China, and he and the Guangxi warlords shared the interests here.

Chen Jitang embraced the British thigh, while Li Zongren hooked up with the Frenchman.Not only did Chen Jitang follow the trend to form an armored force, but the Gui faction on the side also bought [-] UE light armored vehicles from France through the relationship of the French master after May, and is now forming its own "tank force".

(Note: The UE light armored vehicle is 3.15 meters long, 1.7 meters wide, and 1.9 meters high, with a total weight of only 2.7 tons and a load of 1.4 tons. It is operated by a driver and a commander. It is powered by a Renault 4-cylinder air-cooled gasoline engine , the maximum output power is 38 horsepower, the maximum road speed is 38 kilometers per hour, and it drops to 28 kilometers per hour after being fully loaded. As for the protective armor, there is basically no armor, and the rifle can penetrate it. In terms of firepower, a spherical machine gun mount is installed at the front of the car. A machine gun can be installed.

The French built thousands of this car at one go, but its main function was as an artillery tractor and ammunition delivery vehicle, and it was rarely used as a tank. The Germans used it similarly after the French campaign.But in China they are used as tanks.

In history, the Nanjing government purchased 27 vehicles from France after the Anti-Japanese War, but when they arrived in Vietnam for re-export, they were detained by the local French colonial army for their own use, and the delivery was delayed for a year.The performance of this car is actually the same as that of the T[-].However, due to its extremely light weight, it is very suitable for the dense water network areas in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. )

After seeing the drastic changes in China in the past two years, Britain and France have rarely held together tightly on China's issues to keep warm.While each of the two supported one side, they also required them to "cooperate closely to defend against foreign enemies."Under the joint suppression of the two imperialist masters, Chen Jitang and Li Zong maintained a superficial "harmony". Everyone fought their own way in their respective territories. In addition to the new regime, although there were many conflicts of interest, it was far from turning their faces. There is still a lot to hit - after all, whether it is Li Runshi's Red Army in the north or the Japanese dispatched troops stationed in Songhu next to them, the pressure on the two of them is very huge, and it is impossible not to hold together to keep warm.

As far as conflicts are concerned, of course there are, but Chang Kaishen has just been promoted to the top position, and the two families are busy digesting the gains in their hands, and the conflicts are far from breaking out.

In the north, Li Runshi's Red Army and the Soviet Army launched two consecutive active offensives in April and June, which had shattered Japan's plan to invade China last year, and gave the Guangdong and Guangxi families who took control of Nanjing an extremely precious opportunity. Time to breathe and stand your ground.

The British and French saw everything the Japanese did in Songhu, and they were happy to arm the troops of Guangdong and Guangxi to protect their interests here.

Tatsuhiko Aoki looked at the tanks being unloaded at Shimonoseki Wharf, his teeth itching with hatred.

Japanese militaristic war madmen often think with their "ass" instead of their brains.

Just like Hideki Tojo, who lives in the Northeast, is now a stubborn "conservative" who "strives to protect Manchuria". In Nanjing, Tatsuhiko Aoki, who has worked as a spy for so many years, has a firm stand. The reason is that his "butt" is sitting here.Only when the Locust Army succeeds here will he have a chance to be promoted.

"The great opportunity to go south to seize the most affluent land in South China was wasted by the North China Dispatch Army and the Kwantung Army's trash!"

Aoki Ryuhiko said bitterly to his subordinate Sasaki that he knew very well that every day it dragged on, it would become more difficult for the locust army to "take" Jiangnan with ease.

The Japanese military's southward advance plan was originally to be launched at the end of July, but the Soviet Red Army's offensive in late June once again severely damaged the Kwantung Army. When the temporary truce on July 140, its troops went north to Manchuria again. The territory has advanced as much as 10 kilometers.After this battle, another six divisions of the Kwantung Army suffered heavy losses, not to mention more than [-] casualties. What's more, due to the inability to control the battlefield after the war, a large amount of equipment was also lost during the retreat.Now in the Northeast, North Korea and even Taiwan, the hospitals in the three places are full of seriously injured locust soldiers, and the situation in the Northeast is further deteriorating.

The chain reaction caused by this is that for the safety of Manmeng, Japan was forced to transfer the five divisions that were about to enter the "Southern Advance" plan to the Northeast to fill the vacancies. All of them were filled into the bottomless pit in Beiman, and the original plan to go south was postponed again "indefinitely".

The productivity of Japanese military industry in World War II was actually at the same level as that of Italy (in fact, it was worse than Italy, but its mobilization ability was better than that of pasta), and its production capacity was about the same as that of spaghetti.Historically, its aircraft production in 1937 was only a few hundred - considering that they lost a lot during this period, it is not surprising that the production is not high, but the overall production capacity is still quite low.

In the history of the invasion of China, it was necessary to import a large amount of weapons and ammunition from Italy to fill the gap within a few months. After the war in 1938, the military expenditure was even more crazy, and the domestic production capacity could not keep up. The situation of Chang Kaishen waste and Jin Laoxi frantically sending arms and equipment to the Japanese army.

(Note: In the Battle of Songhu and the Battle of Shanxi and Hebei in history, the Japanese army seized a large number of weapons in the battle of war, and these equipment also played a very important role in the subsequent war of aggression against China.)

And in this plane, although the Japanese army mobilized earlier than in history, the front lines were all defeated, and there were basically no captures. The Northeast and North China added up and lost the equipment of almost ten divisions. The war started in less than three months. It was the first to taste the pain of insufficient domestic military productivity.If a third battlefield is to be opened in the south of the Yangtze River, Hideki Tojo in the north will definitely yell "Tianzhu country thief" crazily.

But Tatsuhiko Aoki, the head of the intelligence agency in the south, and Toji Yasui, the commander of the secretly formed East China Dispatch Army and the head of the Second Division stationed in Songhu, didn't think so at all.The former commander of the Second Division was Neiji Okamura, but because Ishihara Wanji stepped down early because of the disastrous defeat in the Bailing Temple Battle, his first chief of operations was replaced by Neiji Okamura, so the current Second Division The head of the division was held by Yasui Fujiji (a year earlier than in history).

On July 31, when Tatsuhiko Aoki came to the Pudong area to secretly meet with Toji Yasui and report to him the military situation of the Chen Jitang regime, the two were secretly discussing the topic of "when to leave alone".

Tatsuhiko Aoki: "A great opportunity is right in front of us, but those people in the military department are staring at North China all day long, missing the best opportunity for nothing."

Yasui Toji also agreed with him, he patted the table bitterly and said:

"The base camp threw five divisions in one breath in the eastern Jidong area. This is a stupid move that is not worth the loss. There is not much output in Jidong, and the only coal mines belong to the British. I got the news that Li Runshi was in Hebei hoarded millions of troops, Tada Jun didn't dare to go south, and then he was dragged by Li Runshi, fighting various public security battles every day. I have a relationship with the North China Front Army, and he told me that the casualties there exceeded [-] in June , Before the [-]th of this month, the casualties exceeded [-]. It wasn’t a big war, it was all caused by small wars and all kinds of messy public security wars. There is no meat to eat, but it tastes good to throw away, Jidong is a chicken rib!”

Toji Yasui patted the table and said bitterly: "The troops of the five divisions were thrown in that muddy pit, unable to enter, retreating and unwilling to give up, just like in April, and now they are being led away by Li Runshi's troops. Hope The North China Expeditionary Army should not have been established. The correct approach would be to withdraw all of them to the outside of Shanhaiguan, leaving two divisions to guard Rehe, and the rest to go to North Manchuria. For such a small area in eastern Jidong It's really stupid to stuff five divisions in such a tiny space."

Because he was not in his position, Toji Yasui pretended not to know that Japan "can eat but not vomit", and whoever vomits is the "national characteristic" of the national thief: everyone knows that Jidong is corrupt, but at the critical moment when someone needs to stand up and cut off his wrist, he is alone Everyone pretended to be stupid and looked up at the sky at 45 degrees, but no one made a decision.

"Are you still unwilling to make up your mind at the military department? What is Mr. Okamura doing now? He personally made the plan to advance south! This time it was postponed again. In two months, the Lucias will attack again, and it will be postponed again." ?"

In fact, the battle has reached this level, and the Japanese army has also seen signs of the offensive rhythm of the Soviet Red Army.What they play is the "half-moon offensive" style: before the war, it takes about one to two months to stockpile supplies, and then launch a half-month cycle of armored assaults. , make every effort to stabilize the existing achievements and not to advance rashly.And the newly occupied areas will be digested by the people of the Anti-Japanese Alliance—Li Runshi in North China has plenty of people. As long as the "Mengbao" traffic line continues, people can be transferred from here to fill in the Northeast at any time.

Tactically, the Soviet Red Army "revolutionarily" used tanks and armored forces to break through tactics, but strategically, it was a steady and "ordinary" regular combat method, which did not give the Japanese army any chance.

When Aoki Tatsuhiko said this, he slammed the table vigorously, and then told Yasui Fujiji two other pieces of information he had just received.

One piece of intelligence is that after the Battle of Tongzhou, military exchanges between Li Runshi and Chen Jitang intensified.Li Runshi released Qiu Qingquan and other Kuomintang officers who had no blood debts, and even sent pilots to conduct tactical exchanges with Chen Jitang's air force after the war.

"The navy's bastards, who didn't know what to eat when they bombed Tianjin, actually let the Communists capture a Type [-] warship. Li Runshi sent someone to send the plane to Chen Jitang last month. During this time, he All the pilots are engaged in simulated air battles with the Communist pilots flying the [-]th ship battle."

The second piece of bad news is some military officers of the Communist Party.He is also conducting tactical exchanges with the officers of Chen Jitang's army, explaining the Japanese infantry tactics and confrontation experience.

"If we continue to procrastinate, the locust kingdom will take over East China in the future, and more blood will be shed! Yasui-san, the North China region has been corrupted beyond repair. If the locust kingdom wants to break through the predicament, only you here will fight hard ..."

After saying this, Tatsuhiko Aoki took the lead, followed by a group of regimental leaders and squadron leaders of the Second Division, and everyone made a deep bow to Yasui Fujiji.

"The rise and fall of the locust kingdom, let's fight here, please!"

Toji Yasui would not know that Tatsuhiko Aoki, a small head of the intelligence agency, was able to so easily pull his subordinates to the door to "persuade him to leave", but it was the result of some high-level people secretly acquiescing and even instigating hints, and the reason behind this The black hand also includes the former division head of the Second Division and the current Chief of the First Operations Department of the Army, Neiji Okamura.

"You are crazy, Okamura! The strategic intentions of Lucia and Chizhi are already obvious. Lucia is relying on the advantage of national strength to prepare to crush the empire in the northeast. Li Runshi is relying on the advantage of population to discord with the imperial country." The army fights regular battles, but slowly wears down and trains with bad battles. And at this time, you have to encourage the people below to send troops to the south of the Yangtze River..."

"I understand what you said, but the current situation of the empire in China is in a deadlock! When Stalin decided to transfer his energy from Europe to the Far East, this is an unsolvable situation!"

The two people who were arguing were Toshiro Obata and Neiji Okamura.

"Then why do you still encourage the members of the Second Division to go alone?"

"It's not just me!"

Neiji Okamura said viciously,

"Do the people above want to take risks but don't want to take responsibility? They are really smart and stupid!"

Toshishiro Obata understood what was going on in an instant, and sighed.

"Attacking Jiangnan and opening up the third battlefield will only make the Locust Kingdom lose faster!"

Neiji Okamura looked around, closed the door, and after confirming that there was no one around, he lowered his voice and said to Toshishiro Obata: "I intend to make the locust country lose faster and the red deer die more. a little."

"What do you mean?"

"The current military department, from top to bottom, is too short of people with brains. Jidong is corrupt, and it should have given up on leaving the customs and trying to protect Manchuria, but no one dared to make this suggestion."

"You can, but you don't want to take the blame and blame yourself."

"If you lose a lot, if you get used to losing, someone will dare!"

Neiji Okamura snorted, and then he said to Toshishiro Obata in a low voice with a sullen face: "Whether it is the first division or the second division, it is full of red deer that we carefully selected!"

Toshishiro Obata was stunned for a moment, and instantly understood something.After a few seconds of silence, he asked: "After the defeat, the imperial kingdom lost North China, lost Jiangnan, and even lost Manmeng..."

"I'm betting!"

Neji-dori Okamura,

"Do you still remember that Huang Ke told the truth, dream talk, and crazy talk in Chichibu Palace?"

Toshishiro Obata is also a very smart person, grasping the key points in an instant.

"Are you talking crazy?"

"Don't you think that crazy talk is actually what Stalin most wanted to see, the best situation in East Asia in the future?"

Toshishiro Obata exclaimed:

"Give up Manchuria, unite China and the Soviet Union, and seize Southeast Asia? Okamura-kun, you are really crazy! That Huang Yuanxing is full of tricks, and every candy he throws out is filled with poison! Chang Kaishen's lesson is not enough Do you dare to believe his words?"

"If you don't believe me, tell me how to solve the current predicament of Locust Kingdom, and who else can help us?"

Neiji Okamura's eyes were red, and the veins on his forehead were protruding. His expression and demeanor were like a gambler who lost in a hurry.

"Okamura-kun, calm down, the war between China and Japan has just begun..."

"No, I'm calm! I've been reading Huang Ke's book and Stalin's speeches all this time, analyzing word by word. Their purpose, their thinking, what they want, their I have read all of what I am afraid of - Mr. Saizonoji is right, Chichibu Palace is right, Huang Yuanxing's three solutions to breaking the situation are actually all true! The empire can only come back to Prime Minister Ito's vision, China and Japan united It is possible to establish a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere!"

Toshishiro Obata covered his face with his hands.

Crazy, crazy, he found the craziest person in the Imperial Army, right in front of him.

-------------------- Chapter 245 The Limits of Capitalism--------------------

A convoy of six tanks with five pairs of road wheels, breathing black smoke, was running on the road leading to Moscow in the form of a tracked march.Behind the long convoy of tanks, there are three maintenance trucks full of spare parts.

The convoy started from Kharkov, Ukraine, and drove all the way to Moscow, marching at an average speed of more than 45 kilometers per hour. Except for two stops on the way, to rest and replenish fuel, the rest of the time was on the road.During this period, three tanks had mechanical failures and broke down halfway, and were left behind for maintenance, but the remaining three tanks continued to advance smoothly.

After running for nearly a day and a night, it finally arrived at the Kubinka tank training base on the outskirts of Moscow at [-]:[-] pm Moscow time.

After arriving at the destination, the four crew members of the lead car jumped out of the tank. Three of them were all exhausted, and only one young man with black eyes and black hair maintained great energy. After getting off the car, he immediately Just check the three tanks that arrived at the destination one by one, and observe the wear and tear of their tracks and torsion bars after a long march.

"It's great to be young!"

Among the crew members, Koshkin, the oldest driver, looked enviously at the energetic young man and sighed.

At the end of last year, Koshkin, the designer of the Kharkov Tank Factory, accepted Stalin's plan to design a new "thirty-ton" tank torsion bar suspension tank.

While getting the design requirements, Stalin got a lot of design documents from nowhere, and asked Koshkin to use them as design references.When he got it, he was dumbfounded.

It was an incomplete picture of the improvement and upgrade data of the tank car family. From the initial "20-ton" level design prototype, it was upgraded to 26 tons, and the final 32-ton final version. The data includes A lot of critical data.

Although these incomplete data could not help him directly copy a tank, it helped the young Koshkin team avoid countless detours in the design process.

It took half a year for Dr. Koshkin to build six prototypes, and then began a long test and improvement work. Among them, on August 650th, according to Stalin's request, a total of six test vehicles The prototype vehicles formed a convoy and drove out from Kharkov, traveling a distance of more than [-] kilometers to Moscow in the form of a tracked march.

In the 650-kilometer long-distance tracked march, three tanks finally reached their destination smoothly, and their performance is already very satisfactory.

Ten minutes later, the young man reported to Koshkin: