"One division is enough!" Shisuo Tanuchi looked at the map for a long time, and finally focused his attention. "General, the Imperial Army is currently in an offensive, and the strategic initiative is in my hands. The Chinese army is in a passive defensive. The lower officials estimate that the main force of the Chinese army is now focusing on the Hutou Fortress. If the Imperial Army attacks there, the more their attention and strength will be concentrated on the Hutou Fortress, and they will never launch a counterattack elsewhere." He paused for a moment and added: "And tomorrow, the First Army will launch a battle to force the Heilongjiang River. At that time, the Chinese army will be in chaos and will definitely not have extra troops and energy to invest in the battle between the Shuangchengzi." [] Please search for Piaotianwen, the novel is better and faster!

At first glance, his words sound quite reasonable. Kawahika Kawa nodded slightly, as if he agreed. The temple pointed to the Hutou Fortress on the map and said, "The victory of this war can only be achieved by attack, not by defense! Our focus is on the west bank of the Ussuri River! Only by annihilation of the main force of the Northeastern Chinese Front Army on the west bank of the Ussuri River can the empire win the war! Win Manchuria!" He turned around, faced Kawahika Kawa, stood at attention and shouted: "I beg you to switch to the 9th Division, the 11th Division at the Hutou Xin'antu line!"

Kawakao seemed to be hesitating, and he looked at Nagata Tetsuyama. "Nagata, do you think the Chinese army is not planning to attack Shuangchengzi?" His eyes stared at Shuangchengzi. "There is seven inches of the entire Far East Army. Once it is lost... it will be a complete loss!" "Please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better and faster!

"Your Highness General, you can't think so." Nagata Tetsuyama's eyebrows were also tightening. "The biggest dilemma of the empire now is that it is insufficient troops and difficult to last. Therefore, the most radical offensive tactics must be adopted to seek quick victory. If you consider too much defense," he pointed to Far East State and North Korea on the map and said: "There are loopholes everywhere. All defense lines are very thin, and it is impossible to be foolproof. Even if all 20 divisions of the army are used to lay out the twentieth divisions. Defense is not enough! And as the Chief of Staff at the Temple said, the Empire cannot win by defense, so the subordinates also support the transfer of the Ninth and Eleventh Divisions to the Hutou Xin'antu Line." At this point, he suddenly took a deep breath and murmured: "It is best to use the six divisions in China as well as the Manchuria battlefield in the Far East. The Shanghai battle seems to be a bit extra... Now the military forces in Manchuria are so tight. It is really a bit..."

Kawakao smiled faintly: "Just fighting in Manchuria, the Chinese government will not seek peace... We have defeated the Manchurian army in China. Chang Ruiqing will not seek peace, nor will he be overthrown by his political enemies, and China will not fall into chaos... Moreover, the Manchurian army in China has shown their defensive ability. The four divisions of the Imperial Army took three days to defeat one of their troops! Even if the First Army succeeded in a surprise attack, the Korean army and five domestic divisions were invested in Manchuria, it may only be a result of a tragic victory? Will we still have the power to attack the Chinese army in China? I'm afraid there will be no power to deal with the counterattack of the Chinese army in the pass?"

"If the Chinese Manchu army is destroyed, the Soviet Union will definitely join the war, and the empire will win!" Nagata said loudly. "The Soviet Union's joining is the only way for the empire to win. To pull the Soviet Union into the war, it is necessary to achieve a decisive victory in Manchuria! Commander, please advise the military headquarters to give up the battle in Shanghai and concentrate troops on the battle in Manchuria!"

"Nagata-kun." Kawaho's face had already become slapped. "Shanghai operations are the decision of the Prime Minister and the Military Department, and we should not criticize them. Our responsibility is to use our existing troops to achieve a complete victory in the Manchurian war!" He paused and said, "I have approved the suggestion of mobilizing the 9th Division and the 11th Division on the Hutou Xin'antu front line."

Nagata Tetsuyama and Teraunuchi Soichi looked at each other, Nagata stepped forward and shouted: "Your Excellency, then please make suggestions to the military headquarters and let the Korean army attack north of the Yalu River!"

Kawaka frowned. The Far East Army and the Korean Army are on par. The commander of the Far East Army pointed at the Korean Army's actions, which may arouse the disgust of the Korean Army? Besides, in order to carry out the "Qi" operation in Nagata Teksan, three divisions have been transferred from the Korean Army. Now there are only four divisions left in the Korean Army. Moreover, the Korean Army's mission is also very heavy. On the one hand, it has to suppress the North Korean region, and on the other hand, it has to confront the Chinese army north of the Yalu River. The use of troops is already very difficult. If they want to attack the north of the Yalu River, it is really beyond the capabilities of the Korean Army.

"Okay, let's stop here!" Kawaho saw that the two men of Teraenaka and Nagata wanted to make suggestions, and waved his hand impatiently: "I will make suggestions to the military headquarters. Now you should quickly formulate a plan to mobilize the Ninth and Eleventh Divisions. By the way, the defenses of Teraenaka, Shuangchengzi and Yanpu cannot be relaxed... It's better to mobilize the pioneers and organize the young and strong Shuangchengzi and Yanpu to make up for the shortcomings of the imperial army."

...

At this time, in the military commission combat room in Tangshan, Nanjing, Chang Ruiqing, Bai Chongxi and Zhao Zhen were also surrounding the sand table to discuss military information.

"The situation is a bit wrong!" Chang Ruiqing looked at the Ussuri River line on the electric sand table with his waist and slowly pondered: "The Japanese fought with the 23rd Division north of the Hutou Fortress for two and a half days, but they had not really made a breakthrough. Now the 67th Regiment of the 23rd Division and the 69th Regiment of the 23rd Division are still on the original defense line, but the defense line of the 68th Regiment, which is the farthest from Hutou Fortress, has been broken through, and the 68th Regiment's resistance along the Linhai Highway is also very successful... This is the combat power of the six Japanese divisions? In addition, the Far East Army has eleven divisions, and the Korean army should have five to six divisions. Now there is only fierce battle on the front line of Hutou Fortress, and other places are extremely calm. What are the Japanese thinking about? Brother Jiansheng, Brother Youlin, what are your opinions?"

"The Japanese army's performance is indeed a bit weak," Bai Chongxi nodded, as if he felt the same. "They probably invested in the Hutou Fortress. According to the report of the First Army, the Japanese army only invested 150 to 180 heavy artillery more than 100mm in the artillery preparations before the general attack. Moreover, since the battle, they have only carried out three large-scale artillery attacks. One of them was an hour, and two were half an hour, both used to shell the 68th Regiment's position. Such firepower is not like the main attack, Yaoru. I think the Japanese should not place the main attack on the front line of Shuangchengzi Suifenhe like us, right?"

Zhao Zhenze looked at the map for a long time, his eyes on the Yalu River area, frowned and thought hard. After a while, he said: "The current battle is a battle of national destiny between China and Japan! Neither side should be reserved. Japan has twenty standing divisions! It should be put into it. How could it be possible for three to four divisions to attack in the Ussuri River area, and the remaining sixteen and seven divisions sit and watch the scenery? I think Japan must be planning something bigger." He paused and said: "I guess the biggest possibility is to attack Liaodong. The Japanese have always been very persistent in the Northeast... Brother Yaoru, Brother Jiansheng, do you think the Japanese can feint attack on the front line of the Ussuri River to attract the main force of our army to the east. At the same time, secretly transfer part of the main force of the Far East Army to North Korea and prepare to attack Liaodong? Our troops in Liaodong are very empty!"

"There is such a possibility!" Chang Ruiqing's face also became serious. "There are still five divisions in Japan that have not moved, and their navy has not moved either. Maybe they are preparing to copy our retreat! Brother Jiansheng. Do you think you will transfer two more troops to the Northeast?"

“Where to adjust?”

"Shanghai.Nanjing."

"What should I do if the little Japanese came to Shanghai to log in?" Bai Chongxi asked back.

"Shanghai?" Chang Ruiqing's brows frowned even more. The current situation between China and Japan is that every family has a difficult sutra! China's weakness is that the navy is weak, and Japan can launch landing operations at almost any point along the coast of China! Therefore, the strength of the entire 10 infantry troops is now restrained in the coastal provinces and cannot move.

"Then transfer an army northward! Transfer the first army from Pingjin area to Liaodong and western Liaoning." Chang Ruiqing thoughtfully said: "I will send another call to remind the Northeast Front Army, so that they must strengthen the defense of the Yalu River, Liaodong and western Liaoning, and beware of the Japanese army launching a joint offensive of sea and land."

"Brother Yaoru," Zhao Zhen seemed to have thought of something. "What if the Japanese army pretended to be the Soviet Union and launched a raid around the north of Heilongjiang River?"

Chang Ruiqing sneered: "That's thankful! The Heilongjiang River is several hundred kilometers away from the heart of the northeast, and it is dependent on the two Japanese legs. It will not be possible to reach the Japanese for ten days or half a month. By then, the Shuangchengzi will be defeated long ago, so they will be waiting to be defeated by us!"

...

The Soviet Far East. Birobijan.

The completely Russian-style flagpole on the roof of the Birobizhan County Party Committee building was still flying bright red party flags high at this time. However, sitting in the office of the Birobizhan County Party Secretary was the Japanese Lieutenant General and the commander of the First Army. According to the tacit understanding reached by Japan and the Soviet Union, the Japanese army who "forcedly" passed through was completely unfair in Birobizhan! Even the decorations in the county party secretary's office did not change at all. There were portraits of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky on the walls, and two small party flags were inserted on the desks that the Lieutenant General now used. The bookshelf in the office were neatly placed in the Russian version of "The Complete Works of Marx, Engels", "Selected Works of Lenin" and "Selected Works of Trotsky". Sitting in such an office, Muto Shinyi was really uncomfortable.

"Report!" The voice of Colonel Tada Jun, the combat section chief of the First Army, rang out of the office door.

"Come in."

Tada Jun walked into the office with a document, put the document on Muto's desk with both hands, right next to the Soviet GCD party flag. "Commander, this is the report of the 6th Division. The reconnaissance teams they organized and sent were safely returned. The Chinese army's defense in this area was very relaxed, with only a few local security forces, and there were no defenses on the south bank of the Heilongjiang River. The nearest regular army stationed in Tongjiang County and Sanjiangkou Fortress, all the troops of the Ninth Fortress Brigade of the Chinese Army, with only 5,000 people at most."

"Sanjiangkou Fortress? Is it strong?" Muto Nobuyi stood up and walked to the front of the military map hanging on the wall. Tada Jun also followed and pointed at the intersection of Heilongjiang and Songhua River on the map and said: "This is Sanjiangkou. There is a fortress built by the Chinese army, but it is not as strong as the Tigerhead Fortress. According to the information provided by the Soviet Union, the fortress is mainly equipped with 105mm cannons, which are used to deal with the Amur River fleet of the Soviet Red Army."

"Fu Jin, has the situation in Jiamusi been found out?"

"Jiamusi has a division of the 10th Chinese Army, and there is no Chinese Army in Fujin County." Tada Jun's answer was also provided by the Soviet intelligence agencies.

Muto Nobuyi smiled with satisfaction. "It turns out that he is empty and ready! It seems that the surprise attack has been successful. The Sixth Division and the First Cavalry Group cross the river tonight. The Sixth Division surrounded the Sanjiangkou Fortress with a brigade force, and the main force of the division captured Tongjiang County. The First Cavalry Group rushed to Fujin County and must occupy it before July 7. The main force of the army must also complete the crossing of the river before July 7. My headquarters is located in Tongjiang County."

With the order of Muto Nobuyi, nearly 30,000 officers and soldiers of the Japanese 6th Division and the First Cavalry Group, who had been waiting on the Heilongjiang River, took advantage of the night to force the crossing of Heilongjiang. Unlike the strong crossing operation in the Ussuri River, the defense on the Sino-Soviet border is empty and there is no defense on the south bank of Heilongjiang River. The entire crossing operation was extremely smooth. In just one night, all the infantry and cavalry of the Japanese 6th Division and the cavalry of the First Cavalry Group crossed the Heilongjiang River. The engineers of the 6th Division were still building three available on the Heilongjiang River about 15 kilometers away from the Sanjiangkou Fortress.

The pontoon bridge passed by the baggage vehicles. Then the 30,000 troops were divided into three routes according to Muto's orders. They surrounded the Sanjiangkou Fortress. They rushed to Tongjiang County. After annihilated hundreds of Chinese infantry guarding the city, they occupied the county. At the same time, they sent troops to sweep the Chinese towns on both sides of the Songhua River. They rushed to Fujin County 7,80 kilometers away. They defeated the resistance of Chinese security forces and border police along the way, and occupied the chaos of Fujin County on the afternoon of July 6. The subsequent three Japanese troops also crossed Heilongjiang and stepped into China's territory!

This raid by the Japanese army seemed to have achieved a successful success.

At the same time, the Soviet government in Moscow also issued a righteous statement, strongly protesting against the forced action of the Japanese army through Soviet territory without permission, and demanding that the Japanese army completely withdraw within 24 hours and compensate for all losses caused by this...

...

Chenyang Beidaying, Northeast Front Army General Headquarters.

When the news of the Japanese army raiding Tongjiang by the Soviet Union was sent to the Li River by the Sanjiangkou Fortress, all the officers in this command, including General Guo Songling, Commander-in-Chief of the Northeast Front, and General Wei Gang, French adviser, were extremely surprised!

The senior generals gathered in the war room and repeatedly deduced the military flags on the map sand table to try to find out the purpose of the Japanese army's move. Of course, they also realized that the Japanese army's attack north of the Hutou Fortress might be a feint. However, in the inferences of these people, the real target of the Japanese army's attack should be Suifenhe or the Sino-Korean border. Even if the navy is used to transport several divisions to attack Shanghai, it is possible. No one expected that the Soviet Union and Japan would be so shameless and colluded to play the trick of sneak attacks!

But what was the purpose of the Japanese army's sneak attack on Tongjiang?

Go to attack Harbin? The straight-line distance from Tongjiang to there is 500 kilometers! The Japanese army is not mechanized, how long does it take to march with two legs? And what if they are captured by Harbin? Waiting for the Chinese team to surround them? This is obviously impossible.

Or go south from Tongjiang. Passing through the large meadows and vast forests of the North Wilderness, directly behind the Hutou Fortress, and attacking the Japanese army attacking Hutou Fortress in the front? There is a possibility of this, but the forests in the northwest of Hutou Fortress are not so easy to pass. They are all primeval forests that have not been cut down for hundreds of years. There are no roads to go from the north to the south. Such forests are not easy for the army to enter and exit.

Therefore, after a number of Chinese and foreign military experts deduced, they all believed that the most reliable route for the Japanese army to advance was to first go west along the Songhua River to Jiamusi, and then turn back south to capture Qitaihe. Cut off the connection between Hutou Fortress and the Middle East Railway, and even continue to go south to attack Mudanjiang, and cut off all the rear routes of the Zhong** team on the eastern front!

"Haha," General Guo Songling, who is the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Army and who controls the overall battle situation in the Northeast, showed a relaxed smile after roughly understanding the movements of the Japanese army. He looked at the expressionless French General Wei Gang below and said: "There are about four Japanese divisions on the front line of the Hutou Fortress. Now there are three or four divisions around Tongjiang. North Korea has at least four divisions... These are the twelve divisions. According to intelligence, there are still five divisions in Japan that have not moved. That is to say, there are at most three divisions on the front line of Shuangchengzi and Vladivostok." A hint of excitement appeared in his eyes: "Mr. General, your plan has been successful!"

"There are five divisions...whether their goal is?"

Chang Ruiqing gently put down the urgent telegram sent by the Northeast Front Army that he had just received, rubbed his somewhat swelling temples and murmured to himself.

"Commissioner, do you want Chief of Staff Bai and Minister Zhao to come over?" Seeing Chang Ruiqing's hesitation, the new deputy chief Chen Cheng whispered.
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