Age of Conquest Reborn

Colonel Sakai, Director of the Operations Division of the Japanese Army's Far East Campaign Command, stared at Commander Haruhiko with his eyes wide open in astonishment. He couldn't figure out what time it was. Commander, did you still have the time to pay attention to the headquarter's chief of staff, Shinno Naka?

General, now, the counterattacking infantry has been beaten to death by Soviet bullets and is in urgent need of artillery support?

"Your Excellency, Commander, the counterattacking infantry is in urgent need of artillery support. You should give orders to the artillery!" Colonel Sakai's respectful but stubborn suggestion came...

Lieutenant General Haruhiko shook his head and said with an indifferent look on his face: "Sakai-kun, our artillery is so busy taking care of itself now, how can it still have the ability to provide artillery support for the infantry!" As if to verify his words, the mountains shook.

An unusual explosion sounded just above the headquarters shelter, shaking the soil on the ceiling and falling down, covering Haruhiko himself and Colonel Sakai's head and face.

Lieutenant General Haruhiko was not even in the mood to dust off the dirt on his body and asked stubbornly: "Where is Chief of Staff Shinno?"

Colonel Sakai understood that it was not that the Commander did not want to provide artillery support to the infantry, but that he did not have the capital in his hands. Thinking of this, his face became even paler, but the Commander's question still made him unable to understand, that Staff Officer Shinno

Is length so important?

"Your Excellency, Commander, just after the Soviet army began to attack, Chief of Staff Shinno left the headquarters in a car with more than a dozen guards. After that, our operations department did not know his whereabouts!" Colonel Sakai remained honest.

The answer was, Chief of Staff Shinye did not say hello to anyone when he left!

"Escape from battle! - Coward, the disgrace of our people!" Lieutenant General Haruhiko did not get angry, but said softly with incomparable contempt. When Colonel Sakai said these words,

He felt like a mirror in his mind, this bastard Xinye must have escaped!

"What? - Your Excellency, Commander, are you saying that Lieutenant General Shinno, who is the Chief of Staff of the Campaign Headquarters, escaped from the battlefield?" Colonel Sakai heard Lieutenant General Haruhiko's whispers and his eyes widened in disbelief.

Lieutenant General Haruhiko waved his hand, as if to shoo away flies from his eyes, and said: "Sakai-kun, don't worry about him. The most important thing now is to immediately grasp the situation on the battlefield and issue an order. All units should immediately stop counterattack and withdraw.

Enter the fortifications and hold on!"

Before Colonel Sakai left, a senior staff officer rushed in and said, "Your Excellency, Commander, the counterattack troops have retreated. Commander, the casualties are too great. Corpses are everywhere. The number of soldiers who can come back is only five-fifths of the original number."

One!" the senior staff officer said in a hoarse voice.

Lieutenant General Haruhiko closed his eyes in pain, feeling heart-rending pain. Just over an hour after the battle began, more than 400,000 soldiers fell on the battlefield forever, from Irkutsk to Chita.

, the hundreds of kilometers long front line was covered with the corpses of Japanese Empire soldiers. The mission of the rear guard group in the Far East Campaign was over. There would not be a single survivor, including myself. Of course, those who fled the battle

Chief of Staff Shinye, not included!

Lieutenant General Haruhiko's face was frighteningly pale, but his expression was surprisingly calm, with a decisive indifference, "Sakai-kun, in the name of the rear guard group headquarters, issued an order that all units to which they belong must devote all their forces to

In the front-line battle, including baggage troops, logistics troops, doctors and nurses in field hospitals, officers and staff of headquarters at all levels, and communication personnel!"

This order from Lieutenant General Haruhiko means that all the soldiers in the rear guard group of the Japanese Army's Far East Campaign must go to the battlefield, desperate and crazy, but his tone is as calm as a baby who has just woken up, as if he will

Pushing more people to the battlefield of death is a trivial matter, and it also includes this man's madness and disregard for life.

Colonel Sakai shivered. The commander's order was too crazy, but he saw the deathly light in Lieutenant General Haruhiko's eyes and knew that the order could not be violated. The commander was already prepared to break the jade and let it go.

All the imperial soldiers had nothing to say. He bowed deeply, with tears in his eyes, and turned to leave.

Lieutenant General Haruhiko picked up a steel helmet and put it squarely on his head. Then he pulled out his gun, carefully checked the bullets, and said to the guard captain beside him: "Yamazaki-kun, it's our turn, the guards will assemble immediately."

, follow me to the battlefield!" His tone was as calm as a dead person.

Walking to the door of the radio room on the side of the shelter, Lieutenant General Haruhiko suddenly stopped and called out to a female radio operator who had just ran out of the radio room with the rank of second lieutenant and a gun in hand, "I give you an important thing."

Task, thirty minutes later, send this telegram directly to His Royal Highness Prince Zai Ren, Commander-in-Chief of the Far East Campaign. Remember, no matter what happens, the telegram must be sent. I have given special approval, so you don’t have to go to the forward position!

"

As Lieutenant General Haruhiko said, he took out an envelope from the pocket of his military uniform and handed it to the dizzy and frightened female operator. The female operator subconsciously took it and took the envelope with the commander's temperature in hand.

As if in a dream, he stood there helplessly. For a moment, he actually forgot what Lieutenant General Haruhiko said?

"Baga! Why don't you hurry back to the radio room and send a report to the headquarters in thirty minutes! It's delaying the commander's military affairs. It's a hell of a job!" The guard captain behind Lieutenant General Haruhiko was dissatisfied.

He shouted loudly and opened his mouth to curse.

Lieutenant General Haruhiko waved his hand to stop the guard captain's scolding, and bowed deeply to the dumb-looking female operator, "Miss, please!" He said calmly, and then led the guard out of the shelter, a burst of artillery shells

With the loud noise of the explosion, Lieutenant General Haruhiko's figure was submerged in the smoke. Only then did the second lieutenant radio operator react, turned around and rushed into the radio room.

The Japanese army's stupid hand-to-hand counterattack suffered unprecedented huge losses under the joint attack of the Soviet army's well-prepared tanks and infantry. Rivers of blood flowed and corpses were strewn across the fields. Objectively, this saved the Soviet attack.

A lot of resistance and time, retreating into the trenches

The Japanese army can no longer organize as dense a defense system as before. Many sections of trenches were originally the defensive areas of a squadron. Now, only a small group of Japanese soldiers can barely defend. The Japanese army, which has lost too much blood,

It was no longer able to resist the Soviet attack.

During the several hours of artillery battle, the artillery of the rearguard group of the Japanese Far East Campaign was completely destroyed by the powerful fire of the Soviet artillery. The tenacious counterattack of the Japanese artillery also caused great damage to the Soviet artillery.

The losses, however, were all the losses of the Japanese artillery. The Soviet artillery had at most a broken leg, which did not affect its effectiveness. The Japanese position without the cover of artillery completely became the target of the Soviet artillery.

Groups of artillery shells flew in, blowing up the Japanese army like a pot. The Soviet tanks, which had slaughtered the Japanese soldiers with hand-to-hand charges, roared again, grinding away the blood everywhere, covering the infantry and resuming the attack. The tanks

The low-trajectory artillery shells blasted the Japanese army's firepower points into the sky one by one.

"Comrade Commander, the 18th Group Army reports that they have broken through the Japanese army's position, are expanding the breach, and are developing towards the two wings! The Japanese army's resistance is weak!" A staff officer held the phone and reported excitedly at the top of his voice.

The battle lasted until about two o'clock in the afternoon, when good news finally came. The 18th Group Army troops in the new offensive direction took the lead in breaking through the Japanese positions. Of course, this was just the beginning, and it was expected. There would be more afterward.

More good news is coming.

However, this news was enough to make the commander of the Soviet Union's Outer Khingan Mountains Front, General Gregariff, flush with excitement. For six or seven days, the Japanese army's blocking line was just like a steel plate. His hundreds of thousands of troops repeatedly encountered

With a bloody head and no way to move forward, now, this steel plate has finally broken, and there is no possibility of repair forever. From this moment on, there will no longer be any obstacles on the road to the battlefield in the Far East!

"Okay! - Great! Miracle, order, throughout the entire front army, commend the 18th Army! And order the Army to continue to expand and hold the breakthrough, and cover the passage of other troops!" General Gregariff shouted excitedly

Come, hit the cannonball box hard with your fist!

"Immediately report the situation of breaking through the Japanese army's blockade to the headquarters, and order the troops close to the breakthrough to turn in, do not stop, and rush to the Far East battlefield as quickly as possible!" General Gregariff was so excited that he was a little incoherent, and gave a series of orders.

In the face of huge ecstasy, he still maintained a calm mind. This order was absolutely necessary. As long as the 18th Army held the breakthrough, even if there was no breakthrough in other directions, it would not affect the overall situation!

Rubbing his swollen temples, General Gregariff tried to calm down, "Old friend, my troops are about to go to the battlefield in the Far East. Is your situation okay there? Hold on!" He whispered, feeling more urgent than ever before.

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"Communications Staff! - Communications Staff! Immediately send a report to Comrade Zhukov, commander of the Far East Front, that our Xing'anling Front troops have broken through the Japanese blocking line and will arrive at the outskirts of the Far East battlefield in three days at the latest! - To

Send it with a clear code!" General Gregariff said succinctly. Zhukov must know this news. For an old friend who is in extreme difficulties, what else is more important than this news?

As soon as this statement came out, almost all the officers in the headquarters were shocked. They opened their eyes in disbelief and sent telegrams clearly. Wasn't Comrade Commander so happy that he was confused?

The Major General Communications Director of the headquarters on the side reminded: "Comrade Commander, if you send a telegram clearly, it will definitely be intercepted by the Japanese army. Wouldn't the whereabouts of our troops be exposed? In case the Japanese army sets an ambush in the middle, how should we respond?

?It will inevitably delay our rescue of the Far East Front, please consider it carefully!"

General Gregariff did not explain, but just said: "Execute the order!"