Age of Conquest Reborn

The plan for the Far East campaign is progressing smoothly, with attacks at the rear and blockades at the front, surprise troops coming out from the left and right wings, and the Soviet Far East Army being surrounded. It only took a day or two, but Prince Zai Ren's mood at this moment is not as relaxed and uneasy as before. This kind of

Uneasiness comes from the feeling of powerlessness that cannot control the overall situation.

The root cause of Prince Zai Ren's uneasiness was that Tang Qiuli's troops faced the tactics adopted by the Soviet army on the line from Chita to Irkutsk. Prince Zai Ren absolutely believed that some Chinese devil had deliberately done this.

For this reason, now, he himself is not sure whether the two Soviet front troops will return to support when the Soviet Far East Front Army is surrounded by the Imperial Japanese Army, and whether the Chinese devil's troops can be as good as he judged.

, holding back the Soviets?

"After being used once, he turned around and left himself with such a huge hidden danger that he could not control. This Chinese devil is cunning and cunning to the extreme!" Prince Zai Ren could only sigh secretly about this.

He knew that the millions of Soviet troops stranded on the line from Chita to Irkutsk in the Far East were a factor beyond his control and judgment, and the more they determined the success or failure of his Far East campaign, however, Prince Zai Ren could no longer stop.

Or make adjustments to the campaign. The three armies of the empire have been fully deployed. The arrow has to be fired. Even if we want to terminate the campaign now, we cannot do it. At the very least, the Kwantung Army troops must join in.

Prince Zai Ren temporarily put aside the uneasiness caused by Tang Qiuli deep in his heart and devoted all his attention to the final stage of the Far East Campaign.

The Japanese army was intensifying the encirclement, and Zhukov, who was in the encirclement circle, felt the increasing pressure and great danger. After discovering the Japanese troops from the front line of the Breya Mountains on the left flank of the front, the next day, Zhukov received another order to make matters worse.

According to the intelligence, "The Front Army Headquarters and the First Reconnaissance Brigade of the Intelligence Department are on the front line of the Kukan Mountains. They found that the Japanese advance troops and many mountain passes in the Kukan Mountains have been occupied by the Japanese army. This place is less than 100 kilometers away from the battlefield!"

When Zhukov listened to Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Godayav read this information, his face was dull. The successive blows had left him without any excitement or surprise. So what if he knew the Japanese conspiracy?

A wolf comes at the front door and a tiger comes at the back door. The two surprise troops of the Japanese army stabbed the left and right wings of the Far East Front. On the frontal battlefield, the Japanese Kwantung Army troops fought more and more fiercely. General Nanjiro, the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, seemed to be caught.

Taking advantage of Zhukov's weakness, he did not dare to use all the forces of the Far Eastern Front. The mentality of fighting a decisive battle with the Kwantung Army brought the magnetic tactics to the extreme.

Like brown sugar, they tightly held the troops of the Far East Front. Except for the three army groups responsible for covering, which were destined to stare at the battlefield, the 13th and 16th troops who were originally scheduled to evacuate in the second echelon,

The troops of the Nineteenth Group Army also had to stop their evacuation operations and turn around to deal with the Kwantung Army's stalking. In fact, so far, the Soviet Far East Army has been successfully dragged on the battlefield by the Japanese Kwantung Army, unable to

Get away.

In the order of battle of the Far East Front, there are a total of ten armies. The troops dragged on the battlefield include six armies, accounting for about two-thirds of the total force. In addition, Zhukov also has

The strength of a group army, but he did not dare to use it. This was the battle reserve of the front army, ready to invest in the most dangerous direction at any time. That is to say, except for the three group army units withdrawn from the first echelon, the entire Far East Front Army

, still stuck on the battlefield.

What’s even more frightening is that the vanguard of the Japanese army was found on both the left and right wings of the battlefield. So, how many troops are there in the Japanese army following behind? In what direction? The reconnaissance force of the Front Army Intelligence Department has not yet sent any more reference.

It was valuable information, but Zhukov knew that in a certain area in the Far East, there must be a large number of Japanese troops approaching.

Faced with this situation, Zhukov was a little helpless. The only thing he could do was to order the troops of the second echelon to evacuate to get away from the battlefield as much as possible. Although this was difficult, it must be done. According to the order of the front army headquarters,

The 13th, 16th, and 19th Group armies of the second echelon each detached one corps of troops and held their positions. The rest of the troops gradually withdrew from their positions amidst the rumbling artillery fire of the Kwantung Army.

On the opposite side of the battlefield, the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, General Nanjiro, has been in a very happy mood in the past few days, which is called "refreshing!" After several days of fighting, the facts have proved that General Nanjiro's wiseness and decisiveness have been

The Soviet army pressed and fought all the way from the Outer Xing'an Mountains, and the fight was in utter disarray. The Kwantung Army troops that had retreated to the Far East, with their half-broken bodies, launched an attack on the Soviet Far East Front Army, which was several times their size. Most of the Kwantung Army generals were

After not being optimistic and thinking it was a suicidal attack, the results exceeded the expectations of the Kwantung Army generals.

After every tug-of-war, the corps commanders and division commanders of the various units of the Kwantung Army counted the casualties of their troops. They were pleasantly surprised to find that although the battle was an offensive battle, the casualties of the troops were far less than the number of casualties.

In the previous defensive battles, the casualties of the Soviet troops exceeded their own. The corpses of Soviet soldiers scattered on the battlefield proved all this.

As a result, the resentment and anger caused by Prince Zai Ren's seemingly murderous order to the Kwantung Army generals have disappeared. The commanders of various Kwantung Army units fell in love with this style of play and launched the main attack.

After encountering a strong counterattack by the Soviet army, they immediately retreated without leaving the battlefield. The Soviet army stopped counterattacking and looked for opportunities to resume the attack. The Kwantung Army generals proudly called this tactic "leading the nose!"

Of course, as the battle progressed unexpectedly smoothly, Commander-in-Chief Nanjiro's prestige also rose to unprecedented heights. The morale of the troops, which had been severely beaten and depressed by millions of Soviet troops, gradually recovered.

Later, the Kwantung Army became the most elite imperial army. In the battle, the generals of the Kwantung Army, who had tasted the benefits, felt ashamed of their own short-sightedness.

Looking back now, Commander-in-Chief Nanjiro's decision-making at the time was so wise, decisive and far-sighted. In the midst of a lot of opposition, he fought against all opinions and never started from the wrong place. The Kwantung Army was praised by everyone.

Flooded towards the headquarters like a tide.

General Nanjiro enjoyed this praise very indifferently. The initial anxiety and uneasiness, worry and fear have become a thing of the past. What he has to do now is to listen to the chief of staff, Lieutenant General Matsuda Kenjiro, report on the battlefield situation and the casualties of each unit every day.

Figures, as well as the Soviet casualties, adopted a non-intervention approach to the specific attacks of each corps and divisions.

But there is one thing that General Nanjiro always said, "We must always remember that our main purpose is to stick to the Soviet army, not to inflict heavy damage to the Soviet army. Therefore, in terms of tactics, we must be more flexible."

When it comes to change, don’t show off your courage!”

In just a few words, General Nanjiro knew in his heart that after more than a month of bloody fighting from the outer Xing'an Mountains battlefield to the plain battlefield between two mountains in the Far East, the Kwantung Army generals at all levels commanded the battle and the battle had been completed.

Once you have mastered your skills, you don't need your own specific guidance, and you can enjoy your leisure time and just control the general direction of the troops.

Compared with the haggard and exhausted Zhukov, General Nanjiro even had a leisurely life on the battlefield under heavy artillery fire. He tasted some sake every day and then fell asleep peacefully. Of course, the sound of gunfire was an essential lullaby.

The roar of cannons makes your Excellency the Commander-in-Chief sleep restless!

Lieutenant General Matsuda Kenjiro, chief of staff of the Kwantung Army Headquarters, once said jokingly: "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, since the beginning of the battle, I have never seen you so relaxed and leisurely! If there is another group of geisha singing and dancing

, I almost had the illusion that this was not on the front line under heavy gunfire, but in a tavern in Ginza, Tokyo!"

In response, General Nanjiro smiled slightly and said something very mysterious and profound, "Matsuda-kun, the overall situation has been decided. All we need to do is wait for the result!"

Chief of Staff Matsuda was convinced. As the Chief of Staff of the Kwantung Army, he naturally knew the overall situation of the current war situation, and the overall situation was determined by this. However, it could also be seen from this that there was a clear difference between General Nanjiro and Prince Zain.

Prince Zai Ren's vision was very sensitive to various unexpected factors in the entire Far East and even Outer Mongolia, and he could smell them immediately. General Nanjiro's attention was on the battlefield in front of him.

Yes, it is Zhukov's tendency to become increasingly passive. In terms of overall strategic vision and sensitivity to the battlefield, General Nanjiro is obviously inferior to Prince Zaihi. Therefore, the two of them are not the same heavyweight.

The three armies of the first echelon of the Soviet Far East Front withdrew from the battlefield, the two armies that spread out to the left and right wings for strategic defense, and the one group army that moved closer to the Outer Xing'anling Front as soon as possible were originally Zhukov's precautionary measures to ensure that

The front army's retreat route cannot be cut off by the Japanese army.

However, Prince Zain was given every opportunity to defeat it. On the night of May 3, in Khabarovsk, at the Japanese Far East Campaign Headquarters, Prince Zain issued an order to encircle and annihilate the Soviet Union to the Kono Korean garrison of the Japanese Far East Front.

Operational orders for the units of the 15th, 18th and 21st Far Eastern Front armies.

"Commander of the Far East Expeditionary Force, Lieutenant General Ono Norigoro, and Commander of the North Korean Garrison Army, General Tanaka Shinichi, your main task now is to completely annihilate the troops of the Soviet Far East Front in the existing area. For a specific campaign plan, you

The department can draw up the plan on its own and report it to the campaign headquarters!"

"The headquarters has only one requirement: to completely, cleanly and neatly annihilate the three Soviet armies, and completely seal the Soviet withdrawal channel towards Chita! Then, together with the Kwantung Army troops, encircle the Soviet Far Eastern Front Army on the Far East battlefield!"

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