Hearing Yang Zhen's sigh, Wang Guangyu, who was a man with both military and political skills after all, and who knew that the Anti-Japanese Alliance had not completely turned against the Soviets yet, could only nod his head. However, after a long silence, Wang Guangyu was still somewhat unwilling to accept it. Said: "No. 1, forget it then. Can you give me one more day? In just one day, I will be sure to wipe out all this garbage."
Speaking of this, Wang Guangyu saw Yang Zhen who was a little surprised after hearing that he said those Mongolian troops were rubbish. He couldn't help but smiled bitterly and said: "Maybe he is used to fighting with armies like the Japanese army, and he is too concerned about these troops' performance on the battlefield. Having experienced the poor Mongolian army, I can only use the word rubbish to describe it."
"No. 1, you haven't seen their performance on the battlefield. If you had, you wouldn't be so surprised by what I called them. It's hard for me to imagine that this is also called an army. It's really a waste of time to blind those people. If we in the Anti-Japanese Alliance had already had their equipment, we would still be fighting so hard."
Yang Zhen waved his hand and didn't care about Wang Guangyu's name for these Mongolian army trash. Not only the Mongolian army, but also the Soviet army, which trained them single-handedly, performed well during the Soviet-Finnish War and the Battle of Nomonhan. How good it is.
The Soviet-Finnish war relied on the vastly different national strength of the two sides to fight a war that seemed to be a victory but was actually a disastrous defeat. However, the opponent was too weak and was not defeated. In fact, it was suppressed by the strong national power of the Soviet Union. Damn it, if it were an evenly matched opponent, the Soviets would probably get nothing.
As for the Battle of Nomonhan, if it were not for the overwhelming advantage of armored clusters and artillery fire, and if the Japanese army was really evenly matched in terms of equipment, and the Japanese army was defeated simply by relying on equipment superiority, I am afraid that the outcome of that battle would have been... If it has been rewritten, even the entire history of World War II may be rewritten.
Even so, judging from the losses in troops and weapons on both sides, the Soviet army in that battle was actually not even a tragic victory. According to the history that I am familiar with, in the early stages of the Soviet-German war two months later, The collapse of the Soviet army was not solely due to Stalin's command.
Compared with the well-trained German army, the Japanese army, and even the Finnish army, the training and tactical application of the Soviet army, including the command ability of the officers, are so different. Their tactics are so rigid and their tactical application capabilities are so poor that they can be used. To describe it as a complete mess, if the master is like this, then how can the slave be better? In this situation, Yang Zhen is not too surprised.
As for Wang Guangyu's unwillingness, Yang Zhen smiled and said: "Forget it, it's so easy to come here uninvited, only to receive a little lesson and then leave arrogantly, how can it be so good? If we don't teach them a thorough lesson, they will really treat us as weak persimmons."
"When Political Commissar Li was negotiating with them before, the Soviets refused to express their position. Now these bastards who only know how to add insult to injury have been surrounded by us. They are anxious. We will let them hang out in Hailar for a few days first. From our side Let’s talk about it after it’s completely resolved.”
Having said this, Yang Zhen looked at the map and pondered for a moment, then looked at the watch on his wrist and said: "Isn't a battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the 122 Rocket Artillery Corps directly under the military region already here? Focus on it." After hitting him with two volleys of firepower, he gave them an ultimatum to surrender within three hours."
"The ultimatum should be tougher. Tell them directly that if they don't surrender within three hours, I don't care who is standing behind them and will kill them all on the spot. If they can't beat them, they can just say a few words to the boss behind the scenes and run away. It's that easy."
"Also when negotiating with the masters behind them, the prisoners can be released, but the equipment and supplies must be left with me. Not even a nail can be returned to them. The tanks and armored vehicles will be added to our troops. As for the light equipment, we will I don’t care, but if it were given to the internal troops, it would be enough to arm five regiments.”
It was a good idea for Yang Zhen to give these Mongolian troops a threat and make them surrender voluntarily. Unfortunately, these Mongolian troops did not give him this opportunity. Before Wang Guangyu could order the rocket artillery salvo, the Mongolian troops in the encirclement circle over there After several failed attempts to break out of the encirclement, he surrendered on his own initiative.
After receiving the report from the frontline troops, Wang Guangyu had no choice but to ask the troops to take in the prisoners first. He did not expect that these Mongolian troops, who had behaved quite stubbornly before, would behave like this and be surrounded. Are you here? When a breakthrough fails, it is better to try more. After only a few attempts to break out, they raise their hands and surrender. Is this still called an army?
Wang Guangyu, who had gathered enough strength and punched the enemy empty-handed, was despised, so he could only send people to disarm these people and take them in. After interrogating the prisoners, Wang Guangyu realized that these guys had run out of food. When they retreated, , most of its baggage was almost lost. In addition to the relatively sufficient amount of ammunition, the food had already been lost.
Moreover, its high-power radio station that communicates with the country was sent to the west by a missed artillery shell of the Fifth Division as early as the beginning of the encirclement, together with the radio operator. Otherwise, after these people knew that the people who rescued them had arrived in Hailar, You will never surrender so easily.
Looking at the groups of prisoners squatting on the ground in full Soviet military uniforms, as well as the mountains of Mosin-Nagan rifles, Deggarev light machine guns, and M1910 Maxim water-cooled heavy machine guns that had been confiscated, Tokarev pistol and Nagant M-8 revolver.
There are also those 50mm mortars, 82mm mortars, and a large number of guns and ammunition, which are all typical Soviet equipment. Even the sabers equipped by their cavalry are authentic Soviet-style sabers. With a full set of Soviet army standard equipment, Wang Guangyu vaguely thought that he was not entering a prisoner-of-war camp where Mongolian troops were held, but a prisoner-of-war camp where Soviet prisoners of war were held.
However, Wang Guangyu was not wrong. Among the prisoners of war of the Mongolian army, there were a large number of Soviet advisers. In addition to the more than 30 captured in the counterattack, this time they captured a hundred Many, these people are not those fakes, they are all serious and authentic Soviet military lieutenant-level officers.
These people are a large number of Soviet officers who were placed in the Mongolian army in the name of advisers and played an actual command role in the Mongolian army. Without the consent of these Soviet advisers, even the so-called commander-in-chief of the Mongolian army would not be able to do anything. Without the right to mobilize any troops above a battalion, the Soviet army's control over the Mongolian army was far beyond what outsiders could imagine. It was precisely because of this that Wang Guangyu was able to capture one hundred, fifty or sixty soldiers in one go. Soviet Army officer.
Here they are busy taking in the prisoners of war of the Mongolian army. Over there, Kovalev, who did not find Yang Zhen in Hailar, and the major general chief of staff of the Soviet army stationed in Mongolia, could not calm down. The Mongolian army entered the northern Xing'an area. They have lost contact for two full days. Judging from the situation where they were surrounded before losing contact, any further delay may be a disaster.
Especially after hearing the sound of guns and artillery in the north completely subsided, and the 23rd Division of the Kwantung Army taking advantage of the main force of the Eastern Cluster, which concentrated 80% of the entire Mongolian army, to enter the Xing'an North area, resulting in a lack of troops, they openly and arrogantly entered. After the news broke out in Mongolia, the Soviet major general couldn't sit still.
These abominable Japanese troops took advantage of the fact that the main force of the Mongolian army in front of them had been transferred away, and the energy of the Soviet armored group in Mongolia was diverted by the battlefield to the east. They defeated the border defense corps of the Mongolian army in front of Arshan, which had lost most of its strength. They openly Entered Mongolia.
These daring Japanese troops not only invaded the Mongolian People's Republic, but also looted the Bayinbur area where a large amount of food and ammunition were stored. The Soviet troops stationed in Mongolia and the Mongolian army after the battle of Nomonhan, stored in Nearly 10,000 tons of grain and war preparation materials, as well as nearly 100 trucks there, were looted by the Japanese army.
Bayinbur Land is more than 100 kilometers west of Nomonhan where a bloody battle broke out between the Soviet Army and the Japanese Kwantung Army the year before last. At that time, it was an important strategic material transfer station for the Soviet and Mongolian armies. After the war, the Soviet Army out of its overall Considering this, a large number of strategic reserve warehouses were set up there.
Not only were the supplies that were originally transported to the front line but not consumed were stored in Bayinbur, a large amount of ammunition, supplies and hundreds of trucks were also subsequently transported to prepare for a similar incident in the future. When things happen, avoid consuming a lot of transportation capacity and transporting thousands of miles from home.
The Soviets are very self-aware of the Kwantung Army's future goals. Therefore, in order to reduce the pressure on logistics and transportation during wartime, although they withdrew most of the Soviet troops stationed in Mongolia, they have stockpiled a large amount of equipment and ammunition in Mongolia. , materials including grain, especially in the eastern region near the Manchu-Soviet border, there are many such secret warehouses.
What makes the Soviet major general chief of staff even more worried and anxious is that when the Soviet army stationed in Mongolia originally had an infantry division, a tank brigade, and an independent heavy artillery regiment, most of their heavy artillery units were transferred back to Mongolia. The equipment is all stored in Baganur, a town north of Bayinbur, which is only a few dozen kilometers away from Bayinbur.
The Soviet army only had a divisional artillery regiment of 122mm standard howitzers in Baganor, with a total of forty-eight. In addition, there were twenty-four 152mm howitzers and a full set of tractors. In addition to In addition to these large-caliber heavy artillery, there are also a large number of 76mm field guns, 45mm anti-tank guns, and 37-caliber anti-aircraft guns.
In addition to a large number of artillery, there are also more than 200 T-26 light tanks, BT fast tanks and BA armored vehicles of a tank brigade and a mechanized brigade. These are enough to arm a mechanized division. Once it falls, The consequences of falling into the hands of the Japanese army would be quite serious.
However, by the time the Soviet troops in Mongolia received the news and mobilized a mechanized brigade to rush southward, these Japanese soldiers had already completed the looting of the Bayinbur area. Everything they could take away was taken away, and what could not be taken away was taken away.
They poured gasoline captured in the Bayinbur area and burned it all. After looting the entire Bayinbur area, these large Japanese troops disappeared into Mongolia.