Chapter seven hundred and ninety-four someone beat the dog
During these two days of fighting, the Fifth Division not only destroyed more than 60 tanks and more than 20 Soviet-made field guns of the Mongolian army, but also captured 30 T-26, BT-5 tanks, and BA-1, 3, and 27-type armored vehicles. The remaining vehicles include seventeen Soviet-made 76mm field guns and nine 120mm heavy mortars.
In addition, there are seven 45mm combat defense guns, 13 82mm mortars, and 41 Soviet-made M1910 Maxim water-cooled heavy machine guns. As for the standard equipment of the Mongolian army, the Mosin Nagant rifles, Deggarev light machine guns and large quantities of ammunition were piled up, and the remaining nearly 10,000 Mongolian troops were tightly surrounded.
In this battle, in addition to the previous main force of the 6th Cavalry Armored Division and part of the 8th Cavalry Armored Division, the so-called Mongolian People's Army successively added a fully equipped T-26 tank the day before the arrival of the 5th Division. tank regiment, two cavalry regiments, an infantry regiment and a border defense corps with the strength of a regiment, plus two field artillery battalions and a machine gun battalion.
In order to regain their so-called territory, these Mongolian troops were mobilized in full force. These troops were equivalent to 80% of the total strength of the Mongolian People's Army, and the tanks and armored vehicles were equivalent to more than 95% of the overall strength. , if these troops are surrounded and annihilated by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the Mongolian People's Army will become a complete empty frame.
Adding up the total strength, the Mongolian army entering Xing'an North is almost equal to Wang Guangyu's fifth division, the first cavalry brigade, and the independent first brigade. In terms of heavy weapons, it has nearly a hundred tanks, armored vehicles, and more than 60 Soviet-made units. Field artillery and 120mm heavy mortars of the Mongolian army.
Its firepower configuration is actually better than that of the Fifth Division. Because of the march and combat in the mountains, the division's artillery only carried one mountain artillery battalion, plus two field artillery batteries. The number of artillery shells was not very sufficient due to transportation reasons. In addition to light weapons, , the Fifth Division was far from rivals of these Mongolian armies in terms of firepower.
Under the premise that the strength of both sides was roughly equal and they had the advantage of heavy weapons, they were completely defeated. In just two days, more than half of them were killed or captured. The heavy weapons were basically lost, and the remaining troops were captured by Wang Guangyu. A division, more than half of the cavalry brigade, and a regiment were surrounded in a place so big that a single artillery shell could blow up a company. With such a result, it is no wonder that Wang Guangyu was so angry with these bullshit Mongolian People's Army. I can't stand it anymore.
The disproportionate number of casualties during the battle made Wang Guangyu think that he was not dealing with a well-equipped army, but a group of armed bandits. You must know that in the previous stage, Wang Guangyu was clearing out the bandits in the Nenjiang Military Region. , the casualty price paid is also higher than this number.
Wang Guangyu believes that let alone the Kwantung Army, even if it were replaced by the Puppet Manchukuo Army, or even the old Northeastern Army, with the same strength and firepower, they would not be able to fight like this. These so-called offensives of the Mongolian People's Army , there are only three axes at best. After defeating their three axes, they are basically helpless.
After the battle, Wang Guangyu and the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Division who participated as the main force not only did not feel the joy of victory, but felt that they had been punched into the garbage. Especially the officers and soldiers of the Fifth Division were quite dissatisfied. It seemed that they were not satisfied with this. The army fights as if the reputation of its main division has been insulted.
In their view, this kind of army can be easily dealt with by even the military division troops, and there is no need for their first-class main division. You must know that in combat, facing these troops equipped with tanks and artillery, they have an absolute equipment advantage. Wang Guangyu was originally prepared to pay 2,000 casualties for the Mongolian army, but he did not expect that the sum total would be less than a quarter of the original plan.
After two days of fierce fighting, Wang Guangyu not only looked down upon these Mongolian troops and directly called them garbage, he even looked down upon the Soviet Red Army who trained these Mongolian troops. With his disciples beaten like this, Master As you can imagine, the level is probably not much higher.
Not only did the tactics and strategies of these Mongolian armies, including the military uniforms they wore, almost all copied from the Soviet army, but all their training was also trained by the Soviet army. So the real Soviet armies behind them The combat effectiveness can be imagined.
No wonder the Little Japs shouted loudly that one division could annihilate three Soviet divisions. Without its powerful fire support, according to their tactical level and the real combat effectiveness of the Little Japs, one regiment could really annihilate them. Defeat one of their divisions.
In Wang Guangyu's view, if his superiors allow him to enter Mongolia, he will be able to sweep across the so-called Mongolian people without having to mobilize any reinforcements. Republic, so he proposed to make an all-out effort to completely deal with these Mongolian armies in the encirclement circle.
Wang Guangyu can do it all at once, and no other military commander will give up such an opportunity, but as the top military commander of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, although he also wants to annihilate these uninvited Mongolian troops in the Hailar River Basin , but Yang Zhen knew that he couldn't be so hasty.
This time the beating hurt the dog, but the master behind it finally came forward. Wang Guangyu almost took over the so-called Eastern Group, which accounted for almost 80% of the entire Mongolian People's Army's strength, 90% of its heavy equipment, and included almost all of its armored units. , ate more than half of them and surrounded the remaining troops, especially when Wang Guangyu captured more than 30 Soviet advisers in the Mongolian army in one fell swoop, it was normal for the Soviets to be unable to sit still.
On the day Wang Guangyu launched a full-scale counterattack, Colonel Kovalev had already rushed to Hailar via Mongolia. He did not come by himself, but came with the Chief of Staff of the Soviet Army Group in Mongolia. Obviously , the situation of the Mongolian army in Hung Yen North Province made the Soviets behind them really restless.
After receiving the report of Kovalev's arrival, Yang Zhen was not in a hurry to see them. He crossed the Hailar River to join Wang Guangyu. As soon as the two of them arrived, Yang Zhen knew his plan to annihilate these Mongolian troops. I'm afraid it won't be possible. The Soviets will not sit back and watch their captive dogs being eaten cleanly by themselves.
If the Mongolian troops who really entered Xing'an North were killed by themselves, it would mean that the so-called Mongolian People's Army was completely destroyed, and the remaining troops stationed in Ulaanbaatar only had more than 3,000 troops. A cavalry and armored division is simply unable to undertake the defense task of more than one million square kilometers.
With the annihilation of these so-called Mongolian People's Army, the Soviet Union's huge investment in these armies in order to support this regime and army was all in vain. Unless the Soviet Union wanted to completely abandon Mongolia, otherwise Until new troops are trained to replace these annihilated Mongolian armies, a large number of Soviet troops will be contained within Mongolia.
From another point of view, no one can tell whether Mongolia, with a total population of only more than 700,000, can still muster more than 20,000 troops without equipment, and without the support of the army, those in Ulaanbaatar It is still unknown whether the regime can still hold on to its buttocks and whether the regime established by the bayonet can be stable.
This is absolutely unacceptable to the Soviets, who are currently focusing their attention on the Western Front. As for letting the Soviets spit out the fat in their mouths, it is even more impossible. The world only sees them using The international situation and the civil strife in neighboring countries have annexed a lot of other people's territories. When have we ever seen them spit it out?
To be honest, if he hadn't considered the Soviets behind him, Yang Zhen would have really wanted to annihilate all these people who were desperate to save others north of the Hailar River in one go, and even go so far as to recapture Outer Mongolia, a piece of China that was torn apart by outsiders. open territory.
But reality is reality after all, and a dream can only be a dream. Unless he really plans to cut off all external channels and meet the Soviets on the battlefield, his dream of regaining Outer Mongolia can still only be put aside. It is a dream that cannot be realized, at least within time.
Since the dream cannot be realized for the time being, how to use the nearly 10,000 so-called Mongolian People's Army and the dozens of Soviet advisers on hand as hostages to get as much benefit from the Soviets as possible, Yang Zhen I feel like this is what I should consider more now.
Judging from the current development of the situation, Yang Zhen can accurately judge that these things were not ordered by Moscow. They should be decisions made privately by the Soviet troops stationed in Mongolia under the instigation of high-level Mongolian officials. However, they were not ordered by Moscow and were not decided by Moscow. Doesn't mean Moscow doesn't know.
Judging from the strength of the Soviet leader's control over the Soviet army and Outer Mongolia, any movement in Mongolia cannot be hidden from Moscow. Although this action of the Mongols was not necessarily directed by Moscow, Yang Zhen believed that Moscow was sitting on it. Seeing the results, if you keep silent, the Soviets will naturally be happy to take advantage of it. If you don't admit it, you will only have two scapegoats at most.
Anyway, the Soviets have the confidence to believe that even if they win, as long as the Soviet troops are still in Mongolia, they will not be able to easily march into Mongolia unless they dare to risk fighting on two sides and directly fall out with the Soviet Union. This is also what they are doing. It is only by grasping one's own lifeline that I have this confidence.
But I'm afraid the Soviets didn't expect that the Mongolian People's Army, which they trained first-hand and was called the Little Soviet Army in East Asia, would be so unrestrained in fighting. In just two days, nearly 20,000 well-equipped troops, They were swept away wildly, most of the prisoners were wiped out, and the rest were tightly surrounded.
If the dog he raised was eaten by others, how could he look after his home and nursery? The Mongolian army fought like this, which made the Soviets unable to calm down and rushed to defeat these remnants and return, even though they guessed that The Soviet Union's intentions were revealed, but Yang Zhen was helpless.
Therefore, in response to Wang Guangyu's request to annihilate them all in one go, Yang Zhen could only shake his head slightly, sighed slightly and said: "Kovalev and the Chief of Staff of the Soviet Army in Mongolia have arrived at Hailar, and they are annihilating them now. The possibility of this Mongolian army is almost gone. We beat the dog here, and someone over there lost his temper and got angry."