Chapter 345 Secret Visit to the Soviet Union

However, my fear and contempt are out of my inferiority mentality. It can be said that under the education of the samurai spirit, 80% of my people have a perverted inferiority mentality. I am not tall, but my surname is extremely cruel. For the strong, they are willing to take the initiative to offer their wives and daughters, and for The weak choose to kill, and the law of the jungle allows me to play it to the fullest. Although the empire has the fleet with the largest tonnage of the world's surface ships, they are still very inferior. This inferiority comes from the cracks in their bones and will not be removed because of the century-old revival of the Meiji Wei New Area.

In contrast, China has been standing in the world for thousands of years. It has been at the forefront of the world's national forest and at the peak of the pyramid. How many years have you been happy? It is equivalent to an upstart and a downtrodden aristocrat. The downtrom is still aristocrat, and the upstart can only be an upstart forever.

It can be said that Zhang Xuewu's beautiful defensive counterattack in the tenth war zone made the Kwantung Army run away. Even the proud Okamura Ningci had to avoid the limelight and retreat into the northeast Jinzhou to defend. In fact, Okamura Ningci had a full opportunity to retreat to the Pingjin area at that time, but Gangmura Ningci learned about the tenth battle. One of the youth army in the district has captured Shanhaiguan, so it immediately commanded the troops to retreat together with the Kwantung Army. Although the establishment lost the troops of the two divisions, the remaining five divisions of the North China Front Army and the main forces of the four mixed brigades, as well as the headquarters of the Kwantung Army, successfully withdrew the Jinzhou defense and lost the mountain. The Japanese army of the customs barrier set its strategic defense point in Jinzhou, the gate of Liaoning!

Jinzhou is located in the southwest of Liaoning, with the Songling Mountains in the north, Liaodong Bay in the Bohai Sea in the south, and Huludao, Panjin, Chaoyang and Fuxin, forming a radiation circle in Jinzhou. However, now Huludao, Chaoyang, Fuxin, Panjin and all of them are occupied by the tenth war zone. Jinzhou is isolated to a certain extent. The Japanese Kwantung Army gathered almost all the mobile forces of as many as 14 divisions and seven reading mixed brigades, plus five divisions and four reading mixed brigades of the North China Front Army, as well as the special forces of the technical arms, all of which were firmly guarding near Jinzhou, digging a half-arc defensive line day and night.

The landform structure of Jinzhou is divided into three mountains, one water and three fields. The terrain is high in the northwest and low in the southeast. From the mountainous area at an altitude of nearly 400 meters to the south, it gradually descends to the coastal plain below 20 meters above sea level. The mountains are undulating. There are the Medical Wulu Mountains in the northeast, and the Songling Mountains, the Daling River, the Xiaoling River and the Daughter River in the northwest. In the territory, the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the terrain is complicated!

So Zhang Xuewu did not decide to directly attack Jinzhou to restore the northeast. Although the main force of the Kwantung Army and the main force of the North China Japanese army are concentrated in Jinzhou, in terms of strategic intention, this will be a very good opportunity for a large-scale battle. If he can defeat the main force of the Japanese army near Jinzhou, then Zhang Xuewu can The remnants of the northeast were pacver, and the Japanese army was driven across the Yalu River. This rare opportunity for a strategic decisive battle was indeed rare, but Zhang Xuewu was also very clear that the tenth war zone now did not have the ability to solve the troops of nearly 20 divisions of the Japanese army at one time, and it could not even defeat them face to face. Moreover, the Japanese army used Jinzhou as the middle. The heart has made a large and in-depth deployment. Zhang Xuewu knows that he is now facing caution before being cautious. Both light and aggressive are extremely dangerous.

The second large-scale operations of the Japanese Kwantung Army under the command of Zhang Xuewu were almost all premised on the active attack of the Japanese army, and Zhang Xuewu's main force was waiting for work. When the attacking troops of the Japanese army were exhausted, the strategic materials prepared were exhausted, and tactically The Japanese army has been in a divided and scattered position, so that Zhang Xuewu can directly invest in the fresh force to concentrate superior forces and technical equipment, and give one of the Japanese army an annihilation attack. In fact, this is all defensive counterattack tactics. The troops in the tenth war zone have no experience and preparation for direct attack, and Zhang Xuewu's The reserves of supplies and ammunition are not enough for it to fight a large-scale annihilation war.

If you want to annihirate the troops gathered near Jinzhou, you need to invest at least all the combat strength of the tenth war zone, and even the three divisions responsible for the defense of Baotou must be transferred out. For Zhang Xuewu, now they can't guarantee the supply of ammunition and materials needed for the battle. Previously, the Kwantung Army attacked Chaoyang. Chengde, Chifeng, Zhangjiakou and Baotou, the fortresses belonging to the tenth war zone and the field troops fired as many as 1.1 million shells and aerial bombs of more than 75 mm, and the Japanese army also fired more than 500,000 rounds. It can be said that this consumption speed could not be afforded by the ammunition factory in Baotou Industrial Zone, so the war The consumption of spare materials and the damage caused by the battle are even more astronomical.

For this reason, Zhang Xuewu decided to go to the Soviet Union in person, because according to the surface of his various changes, he is likely to make all the relative deployments to the Soviet Union. The polar bear seems to be very powerful, but in the face of the strong rise of the Germans, the last thing the polar bear wants to see is the east and the west. There is a situation of line combat, so it is said that if I make a sudden action like Nomenkan, it is easy to scare the polar bear who is fierce and timid in appearance.

In fact, after the historic Battle of Nomencan, the Soviet army occupied the absolute advantage and actual control, still retreated 50 kilometers to maintain a ceasefire, and signed a non-aggression treaty with me. What does this mean? Zhang Xuewu has never seen a precedent for polar bears spit out what they eat in their mouths, which shows that Germany brought to the Soviet Union a far greater sense of crisis than what they saw. After the Battle of Nomencamp in history, the Soviet political axe began to reduce a large number of military aid to China, which was caused by a successful failed battle.

Moreover, now the strong rise of the Germans is earlier than history and more prepared. Under such conditions, the Russians will naturally feel extremely nervous, so that they divide Poland with Germany and attack Finland is nothing more than looking for a strategic buffer!

However, everything that has not yet happened can only be said to be speculation for Zhang Xuewu. Will history return to the original historical track? Zhang Xuewu is also very helpless about the history that has changed. His greatest advantage is to be familiar with history, and what he has to do is to change the process of history, which will make him lose its ultimate advantage. Zhang Xuewu also has to admit that if he loses his prediction of history, then he and Strategic and tactical masters such as Ningji Okamura, Guaner Ishihara and Meizu Mijiro can only rely on strength. The name of the one who digs a pit for the other party may not be big, and the biggest possibility is that he has dug the pit and fell in.

When Zhang Xuewu's request for a secret visit to the Soviet Union in Chengde was proposed by the Commander-Chief of the 10th Theater, the Soviet Union immediately contacted Molotov, who had been responsible for contact with China. Because the military delegation of the National Government Axe had been staying in Mozambique. Sco, so Molotov seemed to be very cautious, Stalin, the Supreme Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, who personally asked for instructions with secret documents.

On August 22, 1938, Zhang Xuewu flew directly to Moscow through a Soviet military plane at Baotou Airport, and 30 falcon fighters of the thunder and lightning brigade escorted the whole process, because Zhang Xuewu was not only the only one who secretly visited the Soviet Union, but also a number of experts from the Baotou Scientific Research Institute, who will fight with the Soviet Union. Secret technical exchange.

In order to keep the formation of Zhang Xuewu's secret visit secret, Molotov arranged the entire military delegation of the national political axe to a ministerial-level recuperation reception, so that all personnel could not return to Moscow for at least 20 days, and all the relevant Soviet personnel he had contact with were also excluded.

The heat wave in Moscow in August lasted for a few days, and she had already slightly felt the coolness of autumn. The windy skirt of the Soviet girl made Zhang Xuewu and others, who secretly visited, feel a trace of briskness. They can't feel death here, smell smoke, and are not gray all day long in Baotou, but people's faces But the expression seems to be standardized? Zhang Xuewu sat in the car and looked at the Kremlin outside the window along the cracks in the curtains of the car. It was once the palace of the tsars of all dynasties and the oldest architectural complex in Moscow. However, after the October Revolution, it became the seat of the party and government organs of Soviet Russia. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, it became a substitute for the Russian political axe!

The Kremlin is located on the Borowitz hills at the confluence of the Negrinna River and the Moscow River. It is bordered by the Moscow River in the south, the Alexandrov Garden in the northwest, and the Red Square in the southeast. It was built as a wooden wall at the beginning of the 11th century, a stone wall after the 13th century, and a magnificent brick palace wall in the 15th century. The Mlin Palace is located in the center of Moscow and is one of the symbols of Russia. Around the Kremlin are a group of large-scale and well-designed buildings such as Red Square and Church Square.

Zhang Xuewu looked at the towering Ivan the bell tower. On the left side of the bell tower, there was a cannon king weighing 40 tons, and on the right side was the famous bell king. Although these two giants had never been used, they showed the superb casting technology of Russian craftsmen. There is a proverb in the Russians to describe the Kremlin. On the palace, on the land of Moscow, only the Kremlin is towering; on the Kremlin, only the distant sky can be seen!

This time, the Soviet Union also agreed to Zhang Xuewu's secret visit to the Soviet Union after repeated hesitation, because this news, whether it was learned by the Japanese side or the national political axe, would lead to unpredictable serious consequences. Therefore, the Soviet side was also very cautious, and Zhang Xuewu did not make any excessive demands. This time, Zhang Xuewu's intention was to quietly enter the village to shoot. The low profile of the Soviets was just in line with Zhang Xuewu's mentality.

(to be continued)