Just as the Kwantung Army is always ready to fight against the Soviet Union, its so-called biggest enemy has never completely cut off their desire to go south to find a warm outlet. The Kwantung Army is always ready to go north, and others may not be ready to go south.
How to create an impression that the Kwantung Army is still indestructible to the equally ambitious opponent has become the most urgent problem for Umezu Yoshijiro and the new Chief of Staff Yoshimoto Teiichi. After all, compared to the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the national power and military strength are stronger. That polar bear was a much greater threat to the Kwantung Army's rule in Manchuria.
While urgently deploying a large number of uniforms, military uniforms, and weapons to redress the embarrassed 23rd Division, the Kwantung Army Headquarters also urgently mobilized ten troops from the remaining divisions, local independent garrison units, and even the border garrison unit. The two squadrons were replenished to the 23rd Division as quickly as possible, and artillery was transferred from other divisions, and the cavalry was replenished to the 23rd Division.
In order to restore the combat effectiveness of the 23rd Division in the shortest time, the Kwantung Army almost went to the point of doing whatever it took. In just five days, the already dilapidated 23rd Division was reorganized at least On the surface, it still looks like a complete division.
Even in order to create an illusion for the Soviet army, the Kwantung Army privately ordered the 23rd Division to take the initiative to provoke the Soviet and Mongolian troops to show that its combat effectiveness had been fully restored. But in fact, even if the 23rd Division was crazy about the Kwantung Army, Supplement, but the real restoration of combat effectiveness is still far away.
This is why the troops of the 23rd Division provoked many times and even entered the depths of Outer Mongolia. However, the Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces immediately withdrew as soon as they made a slight counterattack and never entangled with the Soviet-Mongolian troops. Of course, before the Soviet-Mongolian troops counterattacked, in order Showing the military power of the Japanese Empire, these Japanese troops can still hang around in Mongolia for a while, just try to hang around for as long as possible.
What the Kwantung Army Headquarters didn't expect was that their actions indeed deceived the Soviet troops stationed in Mongolia. Even the Soviet General Staff far away in Moscow was deceived by them, but Yang Zhen picked it up. I got a big bargain and got a lot of ammunition and equipment for free.
The logistics department was naturally overjoyed to receive such a large amount of supplies. With this batch of supplies, the arsenal, which had been somewhat exhausted by heavy production tasks during this period, could finally breathe a sigh of relief in some aspects, at least for the use of general-purpose machine guns. The production speed of fully charged Soviet M-1908 rifle rounds, 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun rounds and 120mm mortar rounds can be slightly slowed down.
The arrival of the equipment and supplies compensated by the Soviet Army also heralded the participation of the three parties and four countries, but the fight was a bit messy. The Lingxi Battle, which lasted for less than half a month, ended in an anticlimactic manner. After the battle, Yang Zhen Instead of continuing southward to Hung Yen Province, the 1st and 4th divisions heading south were ordered to move to defense on the spot at the southern foot of the Hinggan Mountains south of the Aershan Mountains.
Yang Zhen did not forcibly suppress the sentiment among the troops to avenge the victims of Hailar compatriots. Instead, he circulated the documentary filmed in Hailar to various troops, including local troops and various cities, to improve the morale and fighting spirit of the troops. They screamed, petitions and even bloody letters were sent to the headquarters one after another.
Not only were the troops excited by his excitement, but even the common people showed unprecedented cohesion and war consciousness after watching these documentaries. Many students took to the streets to march without any mobilization, in addition to expressing their patriotic wishes. Call on everyone to join the army and raise military expenses for the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
Suddenly, the enthusiasm for joining the army surged throughout the base area. Go to the front line, and slogans about everything for the front line filled the streets and alleys, and even the rural fields. Donations were sent to the Northeast Bureau and the Anti-Japanese War General Headquarters. At various army stations, young people who wanted to join the army could not be turned away.
But what’s incomprehensible next is that after arousing the public excitement among the soldiers and civilians in the base area, Yang Zhen himself handed over the task of combined training of the troops, as well as the distribution of troops, ammunition hoarding and other tasks. Guo Bingxun, Chen Hanzhang, Zhang Zhenhua and several others.
Even the issue of troop deployment in the new area west of the Greater Khingan Mountains was left to Yang Jingyu, the commander of the local armed forces in the military region, and Wang Guangyu, commander of the Nenjiang Military Region. Except for the occasional trip to Qiqihar to discuss troop allocation in the west with Wang Guangyu, they almost no longer After all, even if you take Chen Long, the military intelligence chief, to Qiqihar, you won't have much chance of meeting Wang Guangyu.
And he himself was either running back and forth between Qiqihar and Jiamusi, or secretly discussing something with the Military Region Intelligence Minister Chen Long in a secret room, or holding talks with Kovalev in Harbin. As for what the two of them were discussing, and No one knew what Kovalev was talking about, and Yang Zhen never told anyone about it, nor did he let anyone else ask.
Seeing that Guo Bingxun had become the boss because of Yang Zhen and was very busy, Li Yanping felt sorry for Guo Bingxun and wanted to ask several times, but finally endured it. He knew that Yang Zhen must be secretly planning something again. , that’s why we let go so boldly in this most critical period for the development of the entire Anti-Japanese Alliance.
In addition, Li Yanping himself is not the kind of person who is overly curious, so he resisted asking anything about what Yang Zhen was doing during this time, because he knew that no matter what Yang Zhen was doing, he was Based on the vital interests of the Anti-Japanese Alliance and even the Chinese nation, Li Yanping believed that Yang Zhen would never act recklessly.
However, Li Yanping obviously had too idealistic ideas about his partner. If he knew what Yang Zhen was planning, it would be weird not to fall out with him on the spot, because Yang Zhen was busy with only one thing during this period. The main thing is to figure out how to let his ally shed more blood in the upcoming Soviet-German war.
And try every means to use the Soviet Union to get more benefits for the Anti-Japanese Alliance when they are stuck in the quagmire of the war. Although Yang Zhen's plan pitted not only the Soviets, but also other major participating countries, his plan, But it was mainly Soviet people.
In particular, the T-34 tanks, Yak-1 fighter jets, Peter II bombers, 1937-type 152mm howitzers, M 30122-mm howitzers, etc., which he had long been eyeing, these Soviet The equipment that the army has always refused to sell, of course, is the ZLS III 76mm cannon that the Soviet army has completed development but has not yet put into production.
Yang Zhen is already salivating over the equipment that will be used in the upcoming Soviet-German war. Even the German army, which has always looked down on the Soviet military industry, has acquired it. Yang Zhen has already been coveting it, and he has long wanted to get it.
As for those thin-skinned tanks like T-26 and BT, they were not what he really wanted.
In order to obtain these powerful weapons and equipment that are very suitable for the current situation of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, so as to regain the entire Northeast as soon as possible, since the Soviets have always refused to transfer them, Yang Zhen had no choice but to do so even if he didn't want to.
Play dirty with them.
Although he has prepared weapons and equipment that can be exchanged, he can use the Soviet army's huge equipment losses in the early battles to exchange for the equipment he wants. He can even use the Soviet Union, which has lost the Ukrainian grain-producing areas, in the first two days of the war.
When Nian got into a situation where he was short of everything, he used food in exchange for these equipment.
But Yang Zhen felt as if a bone was stuck in his heart. The feeling of being picked on after spending a lot of money really made Yang Zhen uncomfortable. If he didn't use this opportunity to trick them, Yang Zhen would not be able to balance his heart at all, and Yang Zhen
Zhen didn't want to see another situation like what he knew in history, where the Soviets were still secretly attacking China despite having too much to take care of themselves.
Yang Zhen, who traveled through time from later generations, knew better than anyone in the world what the outcome of the bloody battle considered to be the bloodiest in the twentieth century would be. In this war, both sides were roughly
He even knows more about the deployment of troops and the development trends of weapons and equipment, including the battle history of previous wars, than the general staffs of both sides.
How to make the Soviets pay more in this bloody war that lasted for four full years, so that they had no time to look around during World War II, reduce some pressure on themselves and even Xinjiang, and even use the Soviets to be attracted
Yang Zhen spent a lot of time thinking about taking advantage of the opportunity in the western battlefield to regain Outer Mongolia without changing the outcome of the entire World War II.
Although the more than one million Soviet troops stationed in the Far East Military District and the Siberian Military District were prepared for the Kwantung Army, and have gradually begun to be transferred westward to the Moscow Military District, the Ural Military District and other second-line military districts in the western part of the Soviet Union, the remaining dozens
A large army of ten thousand and a large amount of mechanized equipment is a big pressure for any army.
It was not only the Japanese Kwantung Army that felt huge pressure, but also the Anti-Japanese Alliance. This kind of alternative pressure brought even greater pressure to Yang Zhen than the Japanese Kwantung Army, because unless he was willing to become a pawn in the hands of the Soviets,
Otherwise, once the Soviet leader thought that he wanted to get rid of the Soviets that day, he might really fall out with him.
For Yang Zhen, although these troops were prepared for the Kwantung Army, they could still turn around when necessary, or when they thought they needed it, or when they thought they had harmed their so-called great Soviet interests.
Deal with yourself.
For the Soviets, when they think they need it, they don't care whether you are their ally or enemy. When necessary, they will always take care of you. Only the hundreds of thousands of Soviet troops stationed behind them,
When it drops to a number that Yang Zhen can accept, Yang Zhen will feel at ease when he sleeps at night.
After all, no one wants to fight bloody battles with a sharp sword hanging above their head and hundreds of thousands of well-equipped troops gathered behind them, especially when this army belongs to a group that has been in trouble for others many times. A so-called ally who stabbed a knife in the back.
The performance of the Soviets in the west made Yang Zhen always wary of them. This is also why Yang Zhen retained these fortresses used by the Kwantung Army to fight against the Soviet Union after successively capturing a large number of fortresses built by the Kwantung Army on the national border. The reason why he came down was because Yang Zhen didn’t want to be a second Pole.