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Volume 1: On the Songhua River Chapter 2036: Finding the Kwantung Army (Part 2)

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    Saiyin Shanda is located more than 800 kilometers south of Kulun. It is the only gateway from Outer Mongolia to China's Inner Mongolia. There is a railway and a road connected to Kulun. It is also the only area that the Soviet army has not occupied so far. From Saiyin Shanda  Further south, there is China's Inner Mongolia border city Erenhot. The distance between the two is less than 300 kilometers. Vasilevsky, commander of the Soviet Outer Mongolia Front Army stationed in Kulun, the next target of action must be Seyin Mountain  Da.

    The difficult question before Tang Qiuli was to make a decision: to hold on to Saiyin Shanda and keep the Soviet army out of Saiyin Shanda, and to fight a few battles with the Soviet army at Saiyin Shanda to contain the Soviet army.  Continue heading south.

    In the face of the Soviet attack, we gave up Seyinshanda and continued to retreat to the border area. However, the distance from Seyinshanda to Erenhot was less than 300 kilometers, and the room for maneuver in the battle was extremely small. The Soviet army would  After occupying Seyinshanda, it would take less than a few days for troops to be deployed along the border. In addition, the Soviet army's occupation of Seyinshanda was equivalent to blocking the choke point for the Duli Division's troops to return to Outer Mongolia. I think  It would definitely take a lot of trouble to hold back all the Soviet troops entering the Far East.

    Faced with the two choices, Tang Qiuli was quite hesitant, repeatedly weighing the pros and cons, and was unable to make a decision for a while. From his heart, the situation in the Far East was about to undergo major changes. Tang Qiuli was unwilling to fight with more than a hundred people at this moment.  There is no need for Wan Sujun to fight head-on.

    But the strategic maneuvering space in southern Outer Mongolia is only that big. If the strategic space is enough, Tang Qiuli will definitely keep retreating and lure the Soviet army to continue to penetrate deeper. By then, once the Germans take action, it will be too late to turn back.

    After racking his brains for two days, Tang Qiuli was still hesitant and unable to make up his mind to choose a combat method. During this period, he also asked deputy division commander Liu Tiehan for his opinion. Liu Tiehan's answer was very simple.  , "Division Commander, from the south of Kulun, there is only one line of Saiyin Mountain, which can be used as a line of defense to stop the Soviet army. If we give up, it is not necessarily known whether the Soviet army will invade Inner Mongolia. Therefore, my opinion is that Saiyin Mountain will definitely  Guard!" Liu Tiehan said in the telegram.

    Chief of Staff Zhao Yuhe's suggestion was based on another idea, "Division Commander, our troops in Outer Mongolia are only more than 200,000, while the Soviet army, although there is only one Outer Mongolia Front, has more than one million.  There is a huge difference in military strength and strength. Our weapons and equipment and the combat effectiveness of our troops can make up for some of the shortcomings, but they cannot change the disadvantage in the comparison of the enemy's and our own forces. "

    "If we block the Soviet army on the Seyinshanda front line, the troops will definitely pay a huge price in casualties. If we stick to the Seyinshanda defense line, the Soviet troops will definitely be unable to move forward, but are the casualties we can bear?"

    "Didn't you say that in more than ten days, the Soviet Union and Germany will inevitably start a war? My personal opinion is that we should try our best to avoid confronting the Soviet army with superior strength and deal with it. In more than ten days, it will be very difficult for us to fight.  It will pass soon. Didn't you also warn the troops not to engage in direct confrontation with the Soviet army? "

    "However, if the division commander's judgment is wrong and the Germans do not attack the Soviet Union on time, and more than one million Soviet troops line the border, then our troops in Outer Mongolia will be in a very difficult situation. From this perspective,  Saiyin Shanda must defend!" Zhao Yuhe said in a rare half-joking manner. Of course he was not doubting the division commander's judgment, but felt that it was a bit unbelievable that Su De would start a war in more than ten days!

    Tang Qiuli also smiled. Although he knew that Hitler would definitely attack the Soviet Union, whether it was the history in the memory of later generations or the real world, there was no reason why this could not happen due to the lessons he had done for Hitler.  A major event that shocked the world and changed the final outcome of World War II and the new pattern of the post-war world.

    There is no doubt that Hitler will attack the Soviet Union. However, everything is unexpected. If Hitler postpones his attack on the Soviet Union, even if it is delayed for half a month, it will have a major impact on the situation in Outer Mongolia.  , it was not that Hitler did not want to fight, but that he was not prepared enough and had to postpone it. This was not what Hitler wanted, but it had to be done.

    Among them, the most obvious is the war between the Soviet army and the Japanese Kwantung Army. There is no doubt that within a month or so of the message, the Japanese Kwantung Army will definitely not be able to withstand the attack of more than four million Soviet troops. The only way out is to spit out  The Far East of the Soviet Union retreated to the hinterland of Northeast China, but could Stalin let it go?

    The Soviet troops that defeated the Kwantung Army had enough troops to attack the Northeast. If one of the front troops was mobilized to participate in the attack on itself, I am afraid that I would have to mobilize all the troops in the north to compete with the Soviet army. Next, recover  In the Northeast, it is not fighting the Japanese Kwantung Army, but a direct face-to-face fight with the Soviet army. This is not in line with my own strategic vision.

    After careful weighing, Tang Qiuli finally decidedDetermined to stick to the front line of Saiyin Mountain and prevent the Soviet army from continuing to move south. Making this determination is undoubtedly a heavy decision for Tang Qiuli. This means that the troops used to attack the Japanese Kwantung Army will fight against the Soviet army.  In the battle, a large part was consumed, and it was done as a last resort, which can explain Tang Qiuli's mood at the moment.

    Tang Qiuli walked back to the headquarters in Saiyin Shanda City and said to Chief of Staff Zhao Yuhe: "Yuhe, record the following orders. Feng Jiwu's Niangziguan garrison will leave four brigades of troops, led by the corps commander.  Under the command of General Feng Jiwu, the remaining troops, under the command of Chief of Staff Zhang Hansheng, immediately rushed to Saiyinsanda in Outer Mongolia, and the combat sequence was placed under the command of the directly affiliated corps. "

    "Sun Zhenbang's Outer Mongolia Field Corps will immediately head to the Saiyinshanda area to participate in the battle against the Soviet army. The above two units must arrive at the designated position as quickly as possible and wait for the next order from the division headquarters!"

    Zhao Yuhe said calmly: "Commander, you are preparing to have a big fight with the Soviet army at Saiyin Shanda!"

    Tang Qiuli smiled and said: "It's not that I want to fight, but that Vasilevskiy refuses to give up. In less than three days, the leading troops of the Soviet army will be at the gate of Saiyinsanda. If possible,  I don't want to fight this battle. The two corps plus most of the Niangziguan garrison, with more than 700,000 troops, are enough to compete with the Soviet Outer Mongolia Front Army. Yu He, send a telegram to Liu Cuigang, Northern Flying Group  , to participate in the battle of Seyinshanda, Battelle immediately commanded the armored forces in the Pingjin area and headed for Seyinshanda. If we want to fight, we will use all our resources!"

    Tang Qiuli gave an order, and all the participating regiments and armored units of the Duli Division immediately set off from their respective stations and rushed to the front line of Saiyin Mountain. In the winter, the Inner Mongolia prairie was noisy and boiling. On various roads, the grassland soil  On the road, convoys and infantry marches of Duli Division troops could be seen everywhere. In the sky, formations of fighter jets and bombers were seen from time to time, rumbling past and landing at the field airport around Erenhot.

    The various regiments of the Li Division were waiting for the Soviet army to come. According to Tang Qiuli's judgment, Vasilevsky's leading troops would arrive at Seyinshanda City in no more than three days, which was the beginning of the battle.

    However, on April 3, the Soviet army still did not take any action. The intelligence sent back by the reconnaissance troops sent out was basically the same, "Our reconnaissance unit has arrived at the outskirts of Kulun. After reconnaissance, it was found that the Soviet troops did not move southward.  There are no signs, but rest and recuperation at the current station!¡±

    Tang Qiuli was confused. He was puzzled and puzzled. What was Vasilevsky doing? Why had no action been taken after five days? What was he waiting for?

    An abnormal silence fell on the battlefield in southern Outer Mongolia. The Soviet army stood still in the Kulun area, and Tang Qiuli stood ready at the front line of Saiyin Mountain, but the battle did not happen as expected.

    But in the Far East, there were fireworks everywhere, blood and flesh flying everywhere, and smoke everywhere.

    On March 31, the Soviet Lake Baikal Front arrived at the Chita line and met up with the Soviet Trans-Xing'anling Front that had arrived earlier. Then, the troops split into two groups to form the Eastern Attack Group. On April 1, the two Soviet army groups respectively  Using Chita and Nerchinsk as the starting points for the attack, they stabbed the Japanese Kwantung Army on the front line of the Outer Xing'an Mountains with two knives on the side and back. The Soviet army's attack on the Japanese Kwantung Army began!

    Just as General Nanjiro, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese Kwantung Army, was hurriedly mobilizing troops and preparing for a counterattack against the attack from the side and rear, four hours later, General Zhukov commanded more than two million troops belonging to the Soviet Far East Front.  On the frontal front, which had been confronting the Japanese Kwantung Army for two years, a full-frontal offensive was launched. The more than 1.8 million Japanese Kwantung Army troops immediately fell into a three-pronged attack and were in a dangerous situation of being attacked from both sides.

    General Nanjiro, the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, is really in trouble this time. More than 4.5 million Soviet troops are attacking in three directions. The pressure on himself is not ordinary. Without external reinforcements, the Kwantung Army will be safe outside.  The Kwantung Army could not hold out for a week on the front line of the Ridge. This was without being cut off by the Soviet army from returning to Manchuria. If the Soviet army divided its forces all the way and took Khabarovsk directly, the Kwantung Army would not be able to retreat to Manchuria even if it wanted to.  arrive.

    Facing two million Soviet troops, with the well-trained training of the Kwantung Army and the bushido spirit of the imperial soldiers who were not afraid of death, General Nanjiro was fearless and confident that he could win. If the Soviet troops had less than three million troops,  On the left and right, with his own command ability, the elite of the Kwantung Army, General Nanjiro, dared to fight, blocking the Soviet army to the north of Waixing'an Mountains, making it impossible to move forward.

    "However, we faced more than 4.5 million Soviet troops, divided into three groups, and came like a tide. The comparison of strength was more than doubled.No matter how capable the Kwantung Army was in fighting, no matter how proficient General Nanjiro's commanding skills were, they could not make up for the disadvantage in strength. Therefore, an urgent telegram from the Kwantung Army Headquarters flew to the Japanese mainland like a spark.

    ((To be continued)
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