Age of Conquest Reborn

On the night of May 23, the Soviet soldiers who had been fighting all day, under the orders of the commander, dragged their exhausted bodies, set up bonfires, boiled the snow, and after cooling, poured the snow water on the fortifications.

, when the biting cold wind blows, it immediately solidifies into a solid ice wall.

During the daytime battle, the Soviet soldiers had tasted the benefits of fortification protection. Without these ice walls, they might have been one of those corpses. Therefore, even though they were tired and wanted to fall asleep immediately, they had no complaints.

They were busy working for their own lives. The whole process did not even require the instigation of political commissars at all levels or the coercion of officers. The actions of the soldiers were very conscious. Soldiers who had experienced brutal battles during the day,

I also know the importance of fortifications.

At this time, the Japanese troops, who had fought all day and suffered bloody blows, had no rest and were preparing for tomorrow's attack. The nearly two million Japanese soldiers still didn't know what their general plan was.

Commander Prince Zai Ren arrived at the headquarters with an urgent telegram. Don't even think about resting tonight.

General Nanjiro, the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, held an order from the headquarters in his hand, his eyebrows knitted together. In the daytime battle, although the Kwantung Army only dispatched five or four divisions of troops, they launched a diversionary attack from behind the Soviet position.

, Therefore, the battle in this direction is far less intense than the frontal battlefield, but General Nanjiro is not idle either. The Soviet reinforcements are coming, and he has a premonition that the Kwantung Army will soon press forward.

Therefore, General Nanjiro sent all the staff officers of the headquarters to the main offensive direction to observe the progress of the battle. And he himself, regardless of the danger, followed a regiment and got close to the Soviet position, less than a foot away.

A thousand meters away, he carefully observed the defense situation of the Soviet positions. General Nanjiro never dared to take his old opponent Zhukov lightly after fighting for several years.

When he saw the ice and snow fortifications that had been erected almost overnight, stretching into the distance along the vast snowy fields, like ancient city walls, reflecting the bright light that dazzled his eyes under the bright sunshine of the Far East.

At that time, General Nanjiro couldn't help but marvel at Zhukov's military genius. He could actually use local materials, turn ordinary things into magic, and use ice and snow to build an indestructible defense system.

General Nanjiro had a premonition that the Far East Expeditionary Force and the North Korean garrison troops might not be able to take advantage of today's main attack direction. The facts turned out to be exactly as he expected. After hundreds of thousands of casualties, not even a single Soviet army

The Kwantung Army's positions failed to break through. The Kwantung Army's attack direction also encountered the same problem. In front of the Soviet ice and snow fortifications, the Kwantung Army's powerful artillery fire only exploded countless pieces of broken ice.

General Nanjiro was lying on the snow. When he saw his soldiers rushing up like a tide, they fell down in front of the slippery fortifications, and then turned into corpses under the dense rain of Soviet bullets.

After finding a bloody corpse, General Nanjiro decisively ordered the infantry to stop the attack, but continued to bombard the Soviet positions with artillery fire to attract Soviet troops.

It was not the main direction of attack, and the campaign headquarters did not require it. The Kwantung Army broke through the Soviet defensive positions, and General Nanjiro decisively stopped the attack. Therefore, compared with the two frontal attacking forces, the Kwantung Army's losses were minimal.

But General Nanjiro couldn't be happy. Zhukov's

If this ice and snow defense line is not broken through in an effective way, the imperial [***] army will come back at a staggering cost. Moreover, the campaign to encircle and annihilate the Soviet Far East Front Army will be greatly prolonged.

Next, delaying the end of the battle will be very detrimental to the empire.

At this time, General Nanjiro had already considered the overall issue from the perspective of the commander-in-chief of the campaign. He believed that Prince Zain was undoubtedly an outstanding commander, and he could be too inferior. Of course, it also implied that for Minai

Guangyi faction, fighting for breath

Meaning, before returning to the headquarters, he issued the following order to the artillery commander of the Kwantung Army: "Each artillery group of the Kwantung Army must continuously bombard the Soviet positions, especially concentrated on one point, to reach the level of artillery fire.

The level of saturation!”

General Nanjiro planned to see the extent of damage caused by artillery fire under saturation bombardment to Zhukov's ice and snow defense system to find a breakthrough. General Nanjiro had the confidence to squander the artillery shells like this, with Manchuria as his back and a steady stream of supplies.

, the Kwantung Army did not have to worry about lack of ammunition.

When it got dark, General Nanjiro was very frustrated when he received a phone call from the artillery commander, "Your Excellency, Commander-in-Chief, according to your order, I have organized a special artillery group with eighty 150 mm caliber guns.

The howitzer shelled one of the Soviet positions for three hours. The results were disappointing. The damage to the Soviet defense system was far from ideal. Moreover, the ice fragments raised by the explosion also acted as a hindrance to the infantry.

An obstacle to the charge.”

General Nanjiro put down the phone in a bad mood. He admired Zhukov very much. A defense system based on local materials actually made nearly two million Japanese Empire troops helpless. His own troops encountered such a situation and faced it head-on.

The troops attacking from the opposite direction are not much better!

The staff officers who observed the attack of other troops confirmed this with phone calls back. The casualties incurred by the main attacking troops made General Nanjiro so surprised that he was speechless for a long time, and then felt heartbroken. Although it was not his own troops, they were more than a dozen people.

All the soldiers of the empire!

When it was time to have dinner, General Nanjiro still didn't think of a way to crack it. He locked himself in a tent and was not even in the mood to have dinner. That ice and snow defense line would cause huge casualties to the Kwantung Army.

The severely weakened Kwantung Army can no longer afford the trouble!

General Nanjiro was walking around anxiously in the tent. One by one, ideas came to his mind, but then they were rejected. At this time, there was a sound of talking outside the tent, and the movement was quite loud, which disturbed him.

General Nanjiro, who was thinking about it, was very unhappy. He had already ordered the guards that no one was allowed to approach within two hundred meters of the tent. How could someone come in?

"Who is making such a noise outside?" General Nanjiro shouted angrily outside.

The curtain of the tent was opened, and a lieutenant leading the squad came in. He stood up straight and saw the commander-in-chief with an angry look on his face. He trembled with fear and said: "Your Excellency, the commander-in-chief, is the captain of the mountain forest combat team directly under the headquarters.

Colonel Tabaeyama said that he had something important to do and asked to see you. We have told him your order. However, Colonel Yokota insisted on seeing you. We blocked him and there was a quarrel, which disturbed the commander-in-chief's rest. Please deal with it!

"

"Huh?" General Nanjiro rolled his eyes suspiciously. I had some impression of Colonel Yokota Maeyama, but he was not an extremely outstanding officer. At the headquarters of the Kwantung Army, there were a lot of officers with the rank of colonel.

, just a colonel cannot catch my eye. The reason why I have some impression of this person is because Yokota has established some kind of forest combat team.

This forest combat team is still the thing left by his predecessor. Muto Nobuyoshi left it. It was specially established to deal with the anti-alliance alliance of [***]. Muto Nobuyoshi was very concerned about this and took care of it from many parties. It is in his hands.

One of his trump cards, it is said that during an operation in the mountains of southern Manchuria, he almost killed Tang Qiuli, the Chinaman who is now notorious and the number one enemy of the Japanese Empire.

However, General Nanjiro was not interested in this. What determines the outcome of a war is strength. He did not believe that a forest combat team with only a few hundred people could play a role on a battlefield where hundreds of thousands of troops were fighting.

, General Nanjiro, who advocated large-scale combat, naturally would not take such childish tricks to heart. The reason why he did not disband the Yamabayashi Combat Team was all because of the face of his predecessor, Nobuyoshi Muto.

He is also a member of the Mi cabinet, and has held the power of commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army. It is not good for him to deny everything of his predecessor as worthless as soon as he took office. That guy Muto is unlucky enough. He comes and goes, this mountain forest

The combat team actually survived. Of course, due to the dislike of the new commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, Yokota's mountain forest combat team was reduced from its previous favorite to an inconspicuous little player and was completely marginalized.

This Colonel Yokota was also a weirdo. He was not taken seriously and did not complain. He still led more than a hundred of his men to do things mysteriously. General Nanjiro stopped recalling and thought to himself: "Maybe Muto just left.

Only if you go astray will you be dismissed from the headquarters, right?"

Originally, I was in a bad mood today, and there was no need to see this inconspicuous Yokota. The reason why I could remember this person was because of the existence of the nondescript Yamalin Combat Team. General Nanjiro felt disgusted, and wanted to let the leader

The captain of the guard drove the guy away. General Nanjiro felt funny that a guy who had never fought in a regular battle could do anything important.

"Tell him that I don't have time. If you have anything to do, go talk to the chief of staff!" The guard chief stood at attention and was about to go out. Suddenly, General Nanjiro's heart moved, "This Yokota usually doesn't come close to me and talks to the headquarters.

The other officers are not in the same group, just like a lone wolf, and now they suddenly ask to see me, is there really something important?"

Thinking of this, General Nanjiro suddenly became interested in meeting Colonel Yokota, and ordered: "Let him come in!"

As soon as the tent door curtain opened, a tall and thin colonel officer came in with steady steps, stood at attention with a "pop", a standard military salute, "reported to the Commander-in-Chief, Yokota Maeyama, captain of the mountain combat team directly under the Kwantung Army Headquarters"

ask to see!"

With a steady voice and a loud tone, General Nanjiro looked at Yokota with interest. There was nothing surprising, but the guy's eyes were sinister and scary, "General Yokota, do you have anything important to do? I'm in a hurry."

See me?" he asked.

((To be continued.)