Sakhalin Island is located east of the Heilongjiang estuary, facing the Sea of Okhotsk to the east and north, facing the mainland across the Tatar Strait to the west, and bordering Japan across the Soya Strait to the south. It is 984 kilometers long from north to south and 6-160 kilometers wide from east to west.
km, with an area of 76,400 square kilometers, is the largest island in China. The central part of the island is criss-crossed by mountains, surrounded by vast plains and dense forests. There are coal, oil, gold and other resources underground.
The original inhabitants of Sakhalin make a living by fishing and hunting.
After Tsarist Russia invaded and occupied Sakhalin, the original residents of Sakhalin perished and were forced to flee back to the mainland. There were not many remaining original residents, and they were forced to learn to speak Russian and were not allowed to speak their native Chinese.
When Russia invaded and occupied Sakhalin Island, it first landed on the mother-child island, drove away the original residents, built camps, churches, schools, opened gold mines and coal mines in the mother-child island, and named the mother-child island Alexandrovsk. Waiting until Tsarist Russia
After occupying Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands, Japan heard the news and came to share the spoils. With a stroke of a pen, the Tsar gave Japan the Kuril Islands, which originally belonged to China, south of Sakhalin Island. Later, the Russo-Japanese War broke out, Tsarist Russia was defeated, and the
Sakhalin is divided from it, with the northern part occupied by Tsarist Russia and the southern part occupied by Japanese troops.
As a result, Sakhalin Island has three names: Sakhalin Island to the Chinese, Sakhalin Island to the Russians, and Huatai Island to the Japanese.
After the Soviet Red Army repelled the interference of the great powers, the ownership of Sakhalin Island became an unsolved issue again. The Soviet Union wanted Japan to return South Sakhalin Island, and believed that the Kuril Islands also belonged to the Soviet Union. The Japanese wanted to monopolize Sakhalin Island, and the two
The core issue that Chinese diplomats quarrel with every year is whether China's Sakhalin Island should be named Su or Japanese.
After Japan launched the Far East War, it adopted surprise attacks to attack Vladivostok and North Sakhalin Island. Sakhalin Island soon fell to the hands of the Japs. All the captured Soviet soldiers and Soviet residents on Sakhalin Island were imprisoned by the Japanese army.
, in the words of the Japanese army, all the work of coolies, the Japanese immediately poured into Sakhalin Island and established a political power. They began to regard Sakhalin Island as Japanese territory. Due to the failure of the Soviet Red Army in the Far East, the Soviet Union was afraid of destruction in the east-west front war.
In view of the danger to the country, the Soviet Union signed an agreement with Japan to nominally return the territories in the Far East that originally belonged to China to the Puppet Manchukuo, and clearly recognized that the sovereignty of Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands belonged to Japan.
At that time, Stalin did not expect that the revolutionary Liu Yimin could lead a large army to destroy the arrogant Kwantung Army, liberate the Northeast, and recover the lost territory in the Far East. If he had known, I don't know what decision he would have made at that time.
It is said that some Russian scholars in later generations came to a conclusion after careful study after decrypting the archives, that is, during the Japan-Soviet Far East War, Liu Yimin's department had the strength to march into the Northeast and assist the Soviet army in defeating the Kwantung Army. As a result, Liu Yimin only dispatched
The bomber formation bombed Japan's Yawata Iron Works, Nagasaki Port, Sasebo Base and attacked Shanghai, which had little effect on the Soviet Red Army's reinforcements. As a result, the Far East Red Army lost its battle and the Russian double-headed eagle flag lost an eagle, forever losing its hard work.
The lands liberated from the oppressive Manchus over the years include the beautiful Sakhalin Island.
Some Japanese scholars have even sinister intentions. They started researching when they founded the Military Forum, and even said that they were fanning the flames before the Japan-Soviet Far East War, creating a mood of antagonism between Japan and the Soviet Union, and creating an atmosphere of war between Japan and the Soviet Union. After the Japan-Soviet Far East War broke out, although Liu Yimin did not
They directly sent troops to the Northeast to support the Soviet Union's operations, but they air raided Japan and occupied Shanghai, weakening Japan's economic and military strength, forcing the Japanese Empire to launch a Pacific War in order to solve the resource crisis, thus falling into the trap of defeat. There is even a bold Japanese scholar who
Without any supporting materials, he made false accusations that the Japan-Soviet Far East War was a trap carefully woven by Liu Yimin, known as the Chinese God of War. He induced Japan and the Soviet Union to go to war and made the then Soviet Union give up its occupation of China's Far East territory. Then he
They made a sneak attack on Kanto Prefecture, and then captured the Far East in the Northeast. They recovered Sakhalin Island and the Kuril Islands, and legitimately recovered the lost territory. Unfortunately, both Japan and the Soviet Union fell into Liu Yimin's trap and worked hard to make Liu Yimin's wedding clothes.
Later generations of Chinese scholars sneered at the claims of Japanese and Russian scholars, and quoted a large number of facts to refute the Russian scholars' claims that Liu Yimin was ineffective in reinforcing the Soviet army. As for the false accusations made by Japanese scholars, the Chinese scholars' answer was only four words: nonsense!
This was a debate that would take place in the academic world many years later, and it was impossible for Liu Yimin to know about it!
Just when our armies were joining Henan, Anhui and Jiangsu, in the early morning of June 25, Zuo Quan, the deputy chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army who commanded our army to capture Sakhalin Island, issued an order to launch the Sakhalin Island campaign.
After Zuo Quan arrived in the Northeast by plane, he discussed with Chen Yun, Ye Jianying, Tan Zheng, Xu Guangda and others and decided that it would be better to capture Sakhalin Island sooner rather than later. Because the main force of the North China Front was eliminated by our army, there was no resistance for the main force of our army to move south.
It will soon be possible to reach the Yangtze River line. In this way, the Japanese troops in Central and East China are very likely to escape. If this part of the Japanese army escapes, there are three ways to go. One is to withdraw to Japan, and the other is to withdraw to Southeast Asia to join the Japanese Southern Army.
The third is to withdraw to the southeast coast or South China to fight against the trapped beasts. No matter where they withdraw, the Japanese army will strengthen the defense forces of Sakhalin Island in the north and Taiwan Island in the south. The longer the time, the more Japanese troops will increase on Sakhalin Island. Therefore, the capture of Sakhalin Island
Sakhalin must cut through the mess quickly and win it quickly!
After Zuo Quan's telegram was reported to the Central Committee and Liu Yimin, the Central Committee instructed Zuo Quan to seize Sakhalin Island, which was tantamount to delegating power. After our army ended the Battle of Hengshui, Liu Yimin ordered the special operations formation to fly to Vladivostok, and the navy's fleet
Concentrate on Vladivostok, command by Zuo Quan, and seize Sakhalin Island.
Liu Yimin's reply to Zuo Quan was very detailed. It summarized the detailed information about Sakhalin Island captured by the Kwantung Army and reminded Zuo Quan to attack Sakhalin Island after the US submarine launched an attack on the Japanese submarine to prevent the Japanese submarine from attacking and intercepting the transport force.
fleet, causing heavy casualties.
The reason why he repeatedly emphasized the need for US submarines to clear out Japanese submarines in the Tartar Strait is because Liu Yimin knew that our army lacked naval personnel, and the leaders did not know the disastrous consequences of Xiaoxiao's submarine attack fleet. If the Japanese army deployed a few submarines in the Tartar Strait
Submarines are enough to block our fleet from crossing the sea. Because our army has no effective means of dealing with submarines, the sea-crossing fleet can only become a target for Japanese submarines. A single torpedo can kill a ship of capable soldiers at the bottom of the sea.
Liu Yimin also reminded Zuo Quan that troops participating in sea-crossing operations must prepare sufficient life-saving equipment. If the life-saving equipment is insufficient, use pneumatic tires and large hoists instead to ensure that every soldier has an escape device.
After the Battle of Midway, U.S. submarines had sneaked into the waters around Sakhalin Island and attacked the Japanese fleet. Therefore, after receiving Liu Yimin's request for U.S. submarines to clear the Japanese submarines deployed in the Tartar Strait and blockade the Far East coastal ports, the U.S. military
He ordered the submarine force to sneak into the Tartar Strait, search for and destroy the Japanese submarines deployed here, and clear the way for the Chinese navy that was about to cross the sea to attack Sakhalin Island.
The Americans know that once our army captures Sakhalin Island, Chinese and American air force fighter jets can use the southern airport on Sakhalin Island as a base to block the Japanese naval base in the Kuril Islands, and then bomb the Japanese mainland from the north.
Sakhalin’s strategic position is so important!
On the evening of June 24, the US military liaison team informed that US submarines had successfully attracted Japanese submarines to the waters east of Sakhalin Island, and the Tatar Strait was temporarily safe.
After receiving the notification, Zuo Quan immediately ordered all the troops to prepare and board the ship in the early morning. At dawn on the 25th, he launched a landing operation at the mother-child naval port on Sakhalin Island.
In order to avoid Japanese submarines, the naval fleet took a detour into the Ussuri River and secretly arrived at Vladivostok. The ships that came were all light ships. Large ships such as the Zhenhai were still in Qinhuangdao and Lushun, and could not enter the Northeast Inland Waterway. Therefore, Zuo Quan
The plan was to divide the troops into two groups. One group would set off from the Soviet port to directly attack Muzibo, the capital of North Sakhalin Island during the Soviet occupation at that time. The other group would start from Vladivostok to capture Feng, the center of Japanese rule in the southern part of Sakhalin Island.
The original city was the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk that the Soviet Union regained on Sakhalin after the end of World War II.
The one responsible for the offensive task on the south route was the Fu Zhuting Department of the Northeast Frontier Army, which launched a sea-crossing operation in a naval fleet; the one responsible for the offensive task on the north route was the Cheng Cuilin Department of the Northeast Frontier Army, which used ships captured in the Soviet port to transport troops and launched a sea-crossing operation.
The reason why these two troops were chosen is because Fu Zhuting and Cheng Cuilin are both famous generals of Dongye who have experienced battles for a long time. The composition of the main force of Dongye in these two troops is higher.
Due to the limited number of ships, the two troop transport fleets cannot transport one army at a time and can only transport troops in batches.
Providing cover for our army's landing operations was a mixed formation of the Chinese and American air forces led by Chang Qiankun. It had three fighter groups, six bomber groups, and nearly 300 aircraft participating in the battle.
The key factor in determining the Battle of Sakhalin lies in the airborne special operations formation. Only when the special operations formation is successfully airborne can it provide accurate bombing targets for the bomber group, destroy the Japanese shore defenses, and ensure that our fleet does not have ship-borne heavy artillery firepower.
Log in successfully.
Sakhalin Island has been divided between Japan and the Soviet Union for a long time. Both sides have their own agendas. It can be imagined that the fortifications on the island are strong. There must be permanent constructions on the mother and child mooring of the important port and the Fengyuan coast of the central city of South Sakhalin Island.
Sexual fortification.
Because Li Lingfeng and Wang Tongsheng stayed in Jinan to guide the First Division of the First Army in airborne training, the special operations formation was led by Wang Laohu, Zhao Yonggang and the commander of the first regiment Li Shanzhu.
At 1 o'clock in the morning on the 26th, transport planes taking off from Vladivostok soared in the night sky, flying towards Sakhalin Island, which was shrouded in tranquility under the night sky. Their targets were the mother and child mooring in the north of Vladivostok and the Fengyuan area in the south.