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Chapter 840: The Japanese army lost and the cabinet fell

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    While Li Guoyao's troops were busy expanding and training troops, the Japanese army was busy with two things!

    The most important thing is the war between the Kwantung Army and the Soviet-Mongolian Allied Forces in the Nomenkan area. It has been almost three months since this battle started in June, but it still has no intention of ending.

    The most important thing is that although the Japanese army has been in an offensive posture during these three months, they have achieved very few results and suffered extremely heavy losses.

    After the Japanese army failed several attacks in late July and early August, the Kwantung Army Headquarters had to continue to mobilize reinforcements to the Nomenkan area, but before the reinforcements arrived, the two sides could only conduct small-scale operations.

    The Japanese army wanted to wait until reinforcements arrived to continue the attack, but the Soviet-Mongolian coalition did not give them this opportunity. After being suppressed and beaten for so many days, the Soviet commanders had long been tired of it, so they decided to launch a strategic counterattack.

    The commander of the Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces is Zhukov, a god-of-war figure who was transferred to the Nomenkan battlefield not long ago.

    In fact, before the battle began, the Soviet commander here was named Feklenko, who was the commander of the 57th Special Army of the Soviet Army. This man was the commander of the Soviet Union after the great purge. He lacked combat experience and was afraid of death.

    When the Japanese army launched its attack, he was still commanding 120 kilometers away from the battlefield and had almost no understanding of the battlefield conditions.

    Therefore, in the early stages of the battle, the Soviet army suffered successive defeats.

    After receiving the report, the top Soviet officials were keenly aware that Japan's intention was to test the strength of the Soviet army and prepare for its future attack on the Soviet Union.  He believed that the Japanese attack must be resolutely crushed, otherwise there would be endless trouble.

    So, after careful consideration, he decided to send a man who was good at fighting to take command there. This man was Zhukov.

    At that time, Zhukov was serving as deputy commander of the Belarusian Military District.

    Stalin chose him because he had inspected Japanese operations on the Chinese battlefield and had some understanding of the Japanese army.

    Zhukov arrived at the battlefield on June 5. He severely scolded Feiklenko, and then rushed to the front line without stopping to inspect the troops.  Based on the latest intelligence, he believed that additional troops must be sent to this area and decided to use armored operations with aviation support.

    The top Soviet leaders also met Zhukov's request and continuously sent 57,000 additional troops, 542 artillery pieces, 498 tanks, 385 armored vehicles and 515 aircraft to the front line.

    The top Soviet officials had invested heavily in this battle. The superiors had only one sentence for Zhukov: "Defeat the invading Japanese army in the shortest possible time, but do not cross the border of the Mongolian People's Republic!"

    During the battle in July, the Japanese army took advantage of the opportunity before Soviet reinforcements arrived on the battlefield and launched a fierce attack on the Soviet and Mongolian armies.  At that time, the comparison of the strength of the two sides was: the Japanese army had 38,000 troops, and the Soviet-Mongolian coalition had only 12,541 troops. The Japanese army had an absolute advantage.

    However, Zhukov calmly organized the defense.  The Soviets had fewer soldiers, but more tanks and armored vehicles than the Japanese.  Zhukov commanded tanks and armored units to carry out continuous counterattacks, constantly exhausting and consuming the enemy's effective forces, causing heavy casualties to the Japanese army.

    Japanese commander Michutaro Komatsubara used to be a military attache stationed in the Soviet Union. It should be said that he had some understanding of the Soviet army's combat style. In particular, the Soviet army once abolished its armored forces, which was still fresh in his memory.

    But he didn¡¯t expect that the Soviet armored forces could be so hidden and caught him off guard.

    The Japanese did not expect that one of their divisions could defeat the Chinese Kuomintang's army of more than 100,000 people, but they were defeated in such a mess even though their military strength was superior to that of the Soviet army.

    As a result, Japan began to increase its troops to the Nomenkan area on a large scale. To this end, it also specially formed the 6th Group Army to carry out the Nomenkan operation.

    By this time, the Japanese army had invested more than 75,000 troops in the Nomenkan area, and was preparing to launch a larger attack on the Soviet army on August 24.

    While continuing to engage in small-scale battles with the Japanese army, the Soviet and Mongolian troops were making intense preparations for combat in various covert ways.  It is planned to completely annihilate this group of Japanese troops before the arrival of winter, and this annihilation operation has been deployed in the last few days of mid-August.

    In order to confuse the enemy, Zhukov successfully conducted battle deception before launching a counterattack.

    ¡°For example, in order to realize the suddenness of the tank attack, he removed the silencers of several tanks and then drove them continuously back and forth along the forward position, so that the Japanese army would become accustomed to the Soviet tank mobilization.

    For another example, in order to conceal his counterattack attempt, Zhukov moved several powerful audio devices to the front to imitate the sound of pile drivers, realistically creating the illusion of large-scale construction of fortifications, making the Japanese mistakenly believe that the Soviet army was not trying to counterattack, but was instead trying to counterattack.  To implement??Conquer.

    All these battle deceptions were successful. The Japanese army did not expect that the Soviet army actually launched a counterattack. Their nightmare was coming!

    At 5:45 on August 20, Zhukov commanded the Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces to launch a fierce counterattack against the Japanese troops facing them.  150 bombers and hundreds of artillery pieces carried out fierce bombing and artillery attacks on the Japanese forward positions, deep artillery positions and troop assembly areas.

    The Japanese soldiers who were sleeping were either dead or injured, and those who were lucky enough to survive were also shocked by what they saw.

    The artillery shells fell in front of and behind us like a blanket, which was very terrifying. The Japanese observation posts tried every means to find the Soviet artillery positions, but they all failed.  Because Soviet bombers were bombing and fighter planes were strafing.

    The Soviets won this battle on all fronts!

    Subsequently, Zhukov ordered an offensive across the board, and the Japanese troops fled in panic.

    Soon after the Soviet army launched a large-scale roundabout attack, the 23rd Division strictly ordered the troops to rely on their positions to hold on, and on the night of August 20, they began to organize a counterattack against the Soviet and Mongolian troops.

    When the 23rd Division launched a counterattack on August 24, the tank units of the Soviet and Mongolian Army converged in the Nomonhan area from the north and south on the same day, behind the Japanese defensive position, and then divided, encircled and annihilated them.

    The first to be surrounded and annihilated was the northernmost search team.  The Soviet-Mongolian army used tank groups, intensive artillery fire, and aerial bombing to attack the positions of the seven enemy squadrons.

    When the firepower was at its most intensive, about 200 artillery shells exploded on the search team's position every minute, and almost all the fortifications were flattened. Due to the heavy rain in the previous few days, the trench was very wet, but the enemy's wounded were bandaged there.  Ammunition was also placed in these trenches.

    Soon, these trenches were blown up, and the wounded and ammunition were buried.  Then the tank troops charged back and forth on the enemy's position. After that, less than one-third of the search team's personnel remained and they were forced to abandon their position without orders.

    The Japanese troops held their positions, fully believing that after the counterattack troops took action, the situation would improve and they would switch from defensive to offensive.

    However, the situation was contrary to their expectations. On August 26, when the Soviet and Mongolian troops tightened the encirclement, they annihilated the 1st Battalion of the 26th Regiment. Its captain, Major Junzo Ikuta, was killed. The 10- and 15-cm caliber weapons  The cannon unit was also wiped out and all weapons lost.

    Lieutenant Colonel Yoshio Sometani, commander of the Mulei Heavy Artillery Regiment, committed suicide on the 26th. Immediately afterwards, Major Kyozo Umeda, acting commander of the 1st Field Heavy Artillery Regiment, committed suicide on the 27th because he felt the heavy responsibility for the failure.

    The 71st Regiment suffered heavy casualties during the fiercest battle on the 26th. Its commander, Colonel Toru Morita, was also shot dead in the afternoon.

    It is worth mentioning that Toru Morita was attached to the 1st Infantry Regiment stationed in Peking City during the "July 7 Incident" and was one of the planners who participated in the incident.

    After that, the Soviet and Mongolian troops almost completely occupied the Japanese positions and eliminated most of the Japanese troops.  At this time, the enemy's 64th Infantry Regiment and 13th Field Artillery Regiment, which were surrounded on the original position, had very few combatants left, but they were still making a last stand.

    In less than ten days since Zhukov launched the general offensive, the Japanese army was surrounded by the joint operations of various Soviet arms. The defeat of the Kwantung Army was a foregone conclusion.

    On August 30, the Kwantung Army headquarters received an order from the Tokyo base camp to "stop the offensive" under desperation.

    What made the top Japanese military officials even more angry and desperate was that when the defeat of the Kwantung Army was determined, the desperate Japanese received another piece of bad news: the Soviet Union and Japan's ally Germany signed the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact".

    The Japanese government and military thought that Germany would contain them in the west and the Soviet Union would not be able to fight on both sides in Asia and Europe. But now Germany has betrayed Japan.

    In order to establish a military alliance with Germany, Japan did not hesitate to negotiate with Germany more than 70 times, but Germany never gave the Japanese a clear answer.

    Therefore, the sudden signing of the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact" caused the Japanese government to lose face, and Prime Minister Hiranuma Kiichiro was forced to resign.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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