Chapter 932

Why did the Soviet Union launch the battle of going south to Kursk in such a hurry? This matter starts from the fact that the top leaders of the Soviet Union learned that the Japanese army was trying to attack the Far East of the Soviet Union northward. We should know that the Soviet Union was once a powerful and huge country, which straddled Eurasia with vast territory and huge population resources.

If in the past, even if it was known that Japan was trying to attack the Far East, the leaders of the Soviet Union would laugh for a few days as a joke after dinner. Even in the early stage of the Soviet German war, the Soviet Union maintained its superiority in the Far East against the Japanese army.

But now things have changed a little. The main force in the Far East of the Soviet Union has been transferred to the western front, and the rest of the troops are only in reserve at best. It is obvious that there is no bottom in everyone's mind to use this force to prevent the possible all-round Japanese attack.

We should know that the Soviet Union has always maintained its military superiority in the Far East, so it has always maintained a high-pressure offensive posture, which is also the main reason why the Japanese Kwantung Army built fortifications in Northeast China. Now the conversion of attack and defense between the two sides has been reversed. Those who have defensive lines need to attack, while those who don't need to defend need to defend instead. It's really a sense of helplessness.

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In the end, the top leaders of the Soviet Union felt it was necessary to quickly stabilize the retreating western line, otherwise there would be no effective resource supply base for the whole Soviet Union: the Baku oil field near Stalingrad was disturbed by the German, and its income could not make ends meet; If the supply route of the Far East from the United States had problems again, the Soviet Union would really be in a comprehensive predicament.

So Stalin was in a hurry. He decided to give up Moscow and keep Stalingrad. This will at least give him a chance to restore the Soviet Union's resources supply, and give the Soviet Union the capital to organize counterattacks in the Far East or on the western front, so as to regain the strategic initiative. In line with this idea, the main force of the Soviet Red Army began to move southward in an all-round way, competing with the German main force in the Kursk region for the strategic initiative in the Soviet German battlefield.

It is a pity that Stalin and Zhukov did not expect that the G group army, the most important force in Germany, was such a hard nut to crack. The Soviet army did not have the ability to swallow the G group army for a while when it attacked the whole line. It is necessary to know that the high-level of the Soviet Union had the experience of attacking the German Liszt E group army. They generally believed that even if the G group army was more elite than the E group army, the Soviet army, which is not what it used to be, could annihilate the elite of the German Army.

After thousands of calculations, they were still wrong about the strength of the German armored forces. In the eyes of the Soviet leaders, the combat capability of the German armored forces, which had been overestimated, was proved only after the battle started - they still underestimated the German anti sky combat capability.

It is precisely because of this that the battle plan of keeping Baku oil field in the west line has been completely destroyed. The war will not be divided in a month. Judging from the current situation, it may even drag into the second winter. Now the question is: what about the Far East in the east?

In the continuous mountains of the Hinggan Mountains in the north-east of China, dim light shines through the dense woods on the face of an ordinary Japanese soldier with his 38 rifle, staggering along the road made of soft rotten leaves, looking around with vigilance.

Next to him, another Japanese soldier was also carrying a rifle in his hand, stepping on the elastic rotten leaves, walking forward step by step carefully. In the distance, more Japanese soldiers seemed to have no end. They were crossing the Sino Soviet border, or the dangerous "Manchuria border" they were talking about.

Kimura is a standard infantry of the Kwantung Army. He carries his suitcase behind him, an anti tank mine, and standard Japanese Imperial infantry equipment. He had never had so many bullets in his pocket. There were more than 100 bullets in his pocket. The only thing that made him feel sorry was that he had to carry all these things on his own. After all, the logistics supply of the Japanese army had always been in the "extremely immature primary exploration stage".

However, it's not good news for the grassroots soldiers to launch such a hasty attack on the powerful enemy. When they heard that they were going to attack the Soviet Union, they all trembled. They had heard about the soul stirring battle in the Nomenkan area, and they also knew that the battle that the Japanese army lost was actually quite ugly.

So this time, everyone came here again with guns. Obviously, they were very worried. No one knew what kind of situation was waiting for them, and no one knew how the Soviet people on the opposite side would jump out and kill them.

"When I heard the squadron leader explain the attack route, I heard that this time we are going to take mountain roads instead of fighting with Soviet tanks." Every army has that kind of burning fire of gossip. This kind of person can chatter endlessly even when fighting. The way to stop him from closing his mouth is to remove his chin or break his head.

You don't have to fight enemy tanks? The news sounds good. But what about an anti tank mine that every infantry has to carry? It's said that every army has strengthened its engineers, and many people have trained the combat method of using anti tank mines as explosive packs to die with enemy tanks... Anyway, it sounds terrible and makes people feel uncomfortable.

"Hey! I said... Fujiwara... "Kimura swallowed a mouthful of saliva, carefully blocked his figure with a big tree in front of him, and then asked the gossip man around him:" on the map, doesn't it say that there is a village here? What about the village? "“ Don't you know what kind of map those stupid people in the training department drew? They say there's a road here. You come all the way here. Do you see it? " The eight trigrams man named Fujiwara turned his mouth, as if he looked scornful. He poked the plants at his feet aside with the butt of his gun, and then continued to walk on“ Suddenly! Suddenly, suddenly Not far behind a dense plant, a faint white smoke suddenly erupted, which was the gas diffused by the machine gun when it kept firing. Obviously, there was a well camouflaged firepower point, which was facing the Japanese soldiers who were tens of meters away, pouring dense ammunition violently. The sudden attack made these scattered Japanese soldiers walking in the forest panic. They were not the elite Class-A divisions of the Japanese army a few years ago, so many of them had not experienced the real test of war. After practicing their shooting skills with the local people in China, they came to "fight" with the real swords and guns of the Soviet Union. The tracer bullets shuttled through the crowd. Kimura was so scared that he held his head and threw himself on the ground. Fortunately, the rotten leaves on the ground were very thick. He didn't feel too bad when he fell. He reached out and picked up the rifle he had just lost, so he could barely see the situation around him. The Soviet man's machine gun position was firing fiercely, and his friends were dead and wounded“ Baga What about cover? Fire! My God For Kimura, who has participated in strict military training at least, the current situation has not made him too confused. However, the friendly troops behind him are not as calm as he is. These farmers who are sent to the battlefield without training for a few days are no different from civilians in combat effectiveness. So under the barrage of gunfire, these Japanese soldiers were in a mess until dozens of soldiers died. It seemed that they should fight back. So in the distance, some 38 rifles started to fight back. Their bullets hit the grass and sent the branches far away. The machine guns of the Soviet Union were obviously suppressed by the dense Japanese shooting, and the shooting began to become incoherent, so the Japanese soldiers had more opportunities to shoot, so many Japanese soldiers knelt down with guns and fired, and some people rushed to the grass with bayonet rifles in their howls. Kimura took a look at Fujiwara, the gossip man who was hit by a bullet and was lying on his back. When he heard that he still had strength to shout, he was relieved. So he took the grenade out of his body, pulled it open, knocked it on his helmet, and then threw it out“ Boom The grenade exploded near the grass and raised a piece of black soil. Seeing that the enemy's firepower was completely suppressed by the grenade, the officer's cry came from a distance: "all! Assault! Long live the Empire of Japan! Long live your majesty With this cry, the Japanese soldiers who had been lying on the ground and didn't move forward seemed to be playing dope. They staggered up from the ground, shouting "banzai" and rushed to their target crazily. At this time, Kimura, who threw the grenade that decided to win, finally got up from the soft place. Leaning against the big tree, I took a look at Fujiwara, the gossip man behind me. However, I found that the noisy comrades in arms who had just sent out a pig like cry were no longer moving. There was so much blood on him that it was obvious that this kind of injury could not be saved in the mountains“ Damn it Kimura murmured, just want to go around the tree to continue to attack, but found that the battlefield has been quiet. He passed by some soldiers standing in a daze, got to the front and saw the scene behind the grass. There are two dead Soviet women soldiers and an old-fashioned Markham heavy machine gun that has been destroyed... This is an isolated position. Obviously, the purpose of the other party here is to sneak attack.