Age of Conquest Reborn

Lieutenant General Ji Yong, the commander of the Kwantung Army's border garrison, decided that the plan to break out to the Far East was very feasible. Sun Zhenbang's Outer Mongolia Field Corps adopted an offensive method of one-shot attack, attacking across the board and pressing forward.

Not staying on the battlefield gave Yoshinaga a great opportunity.

It is impossible for the Outer Mongolia Field Corps to cover all aspects of the vast front. After the attack is launched, it will definitely be able to deal a heavy blow to the Kwantung Army border garrison. However, there will also be a considerable number of soldiers who will take advantage of the chaos on the battlefield and take the opportunity to escape. Lieutenant General Yoshinaga

If it was done deliberately, the number of Kwantung Army soldiers who escaped would not be small. At that time, there were no regular independent division troops in Outer Mongolia.

The remaining soldiers of the Kwantung Army's border garrison will inevitably be in uninhabited territory. The local garrison in Outer Mongolia alone will be absolutely difficult to resist. Lieutenant General Yoshinaga's plan will succeed. At least 40,000 to 50,000 Kwantung troops will

Army soldiers will arrive in the Far East.

However, an officer of the Independent Division with a low military rank but a very important position, Lieutenant Colonel Wu Zhengmin, deputy director of the division staff office and chief of staff of the directly affiliated corps, had insight into all this, and thus changed the outcome of the battle. The division commander

The chief of staff, Zhao Yuhe, naturally saw the emergence of such a talent in the staff department and did not hesitate to recommend it highly. The telegram to the division commander was signed by Wu Zhengmin alone, with the identity of acting chief of staff of the directly affiliated corps.

As a result, Wu Zhengmin officially came into the sight of his division commander Tang Qiuli and was regarded as an available talent. This laid a solid foundation for Wu Zhengmin to take up higher positions in the future. Personal opportunities were extremely unpredictable.

With the military rank of the school and the identity of deputy director of the staff office, he made a suggestion and changed the decision of division commander Tang Qiuli, which was the beginning of his entry into the top leadership of the independent division.

Lieutenant General Yoshinaga did not know that his intentions would be noticed by a lieutenant colonel officer of the Independent Division. More than 100,000 troops from six brigades of the Outer Mongolia Field Corps were waiting for him to rush into them and take the opportunity to break into Outer Mongolia.

There is a prerequisite, that is, we must wait until Sun Zhenbang's regiment starts to attack. Otherwise, with the strength of hundreds of thousands of Kwantung Army border guards, a head-on attack will be almost like seeking death!

During the day, we saw independent division troops in two directions, with strong troops and strong horses, ready to start a fight. However, night had covered the earth, and the expected war did not break out. This abnormal behavior caused Kanto to panic.

Lieutenant General Yoshinaga, commander of the military border garrison, was puzzled. Hundreds of thousands of Kwantung Army soldiers were frightened, but they did not dare to slack off. They spent a sleepless night in the trenches with their guns in hand!

A faint fish belly white appeared in the eastern sky, and the cool wind stirred the faint mist on the grasslands of Outer Mongolia. The earth was still sleeping. Lieutenant General Yoshinaga, who had not slept all night, walked out of the tent with dry eyelids. In the eyes of the guards,

, Lieutenant General, you have dark circles under your eyes and your face is frighteningly haggard.

The quiet grasslands and Gobi deserts were frozen, and there was no sound between heaven and earth. However, Lieutenant General Yoshinaga knew that there were more than 800,000 independent division soldiers in front and behind, staring at him and his subordinates like ferocious beasts lurking in the silence.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers, "Should we start?" he said to himself.

Unlike Lieutenant General Yoshinaga who had a sleepless night, Major General Zhao Yuhe, chief of staff of the independent division and acting commander of the directly affiliated corps, had a good night's sleep. The division commander approved his proposal to adjust the deployment, and the left-wing roundabout troops, directly under the

The 11th and 12th brigades of the Corps have reached the designated positions. There are no loopholes in the big net. The rhythm of the battlefield is completely in their own hands. There is nothing to worry about. Therefore, Zhao Yuhe can sleep peacefully.

Last sleep.

After being woken up by the guards at the stipulated time, Zhao Yuhe was full of energy, his mind was very clear, and he was refreshed. He walked into the command tent, and Wu Zhengmin, the acting chief of staff who had not slept all night, hurriedly greeted him, "Chief of Staff, the troops are all here."

Are you ready?" Zhao Yuhe asked.

Wu Zhengmin replied succinctly: "Everything is ready! All brigades have entered the offensive position. Three hours ago, Brigadier Ren Zhaoquan of the 11th Brigade on the left wing and Brigadier Chen Han of the 12th Brigade sent telegrams one after another that the troops had already

Expand them all!”

"Very good, the problem I was most worried about has finally been solved! Chief of Staff, in the name of the directly affiliated Corps Headquarters, send a telegram to express your praise. You can't just lose your temper and curse!" Zhao Yuhe was very happy and said with a smile, and then

Then he asked, "What about the Outer Mongolia Field Corps?"

"Commander Sun has just sent a telegram. Everything is ready. In addition to the remaining six brigades, the Outer Mongolia Field Corps will devote all its troops to attack, and then immediately leave the battlefield and move to Aershan.

Direction, troops take the train south!"

"Okay! Chief of Staff, please contact Commander Sun again to confirm all the details of the attack!" Zhao Yuhe ordered.

In the southeastern part of Outer Mongolia, at the temporary headquarters of the Outer Mongolia Field Corps headquarters, Sun Zhenbang looked very calm. He sat on a canvas marching chair and drank milk tea comfortably. For many years in Outer Mongolia, he has fallen in love with this kind of tea that can both quench his thirst and satisfy his hunger.

An authentic Mongolian flavored drink. If you don’t drink a few cups of fragrant milk tea after waking up every day, you will feel uncomfortable all day long!

"Chief of Staff, after the attack started, my idea was that although the division commander ordered us to attack in one strike, we should not stop at it. While attacking across the board, we should also focus on choosing three to five directions, deploying more troops, and strive to

We can catch a bunch of little Japs and fight them for five or six more hours without disobeying the division commander's orders or affecting the troops' march south. You can arrange this!" Putting down the milk tea cup, Sun Zhenbang said to Chief of Staff Wang Jun with gleaming eyes.

said.

Colonel Wang Jun, chief of staff of the Outer Mongolia Field Corps, was happy after hearing Sun Zhenbang's words and said: "Commander, I have made arrangements a long time ago, and I am not greedy for more. In three directions, Daliganga, Nalan, and Ba

Yandelchagan, in addition to the normal offensive troops, has strengthened an infantry brigade, a brigade-affiliated heavy artillery regiment, a tank regiment, and a self-propelled artillery regiment. No matter what, they can also bite more than 30,000 Kwantung Army troops.

Bar!"

"Thirty thousand? Is it a little less? In addition to the six brigades left behind, our corps has more than 200,000 people. We will eat 30,000 little devils. Even if we just beat them and leave, we still have to be generous no matter what.

Cut off a thick piece of fat, you just have a small appetite!" Sun Zhenbang said dissatisfied.

Wang Jun smiled even more proudly, "Commander, these 30,000 Kwantung Army soldiers are in the palm of your hand. Coupled with the attacks of other brigades, it must be more than 30,000 to 40,000. The rest,

The six brigades left behind in Outer Mongolia are not allowed to feed more than 20,000 to 30,000 Kwantung Army soldiers. The total of less than 100,000 Kwantung Army soldiers has fallen into the hands of our corps. Isn’t the appetite small? The corps directly under their control is not free!

"

At this time, Sun Zhenbang had nothing to say. He stretched out his thumb and said, "Okay! It's ruthless and cunning enough!"

On the grassland before dawn, it is as quiet as usual, but in the silence, but in the silence, the clouds of war have faded with the night, permeating the boundless land. Behind the attack site of the corps directly under the independent division, the artillery

On the position, there were countless large-caliber howitzers, the black barrels of which slowly rose, pointing to the north. Tanks were shining with a metallic sheen in the dim light of dawn, and behind them were groups of infantry.

At the starting point of the attack by the Outer Mongolia Field Corps, the artillery positions were also lined with artillery, with gun barrels pointing heavily to the south. Tanks were attacking in groups, and they were ready. For this annihilative attack, Zhao Yuhe and Sun Zhenbang both chose the same method.

Use the most violent artillery fire to destroy the Kwantung Army's defenses, and then conduct a frontal assault with a large-scale armored group.

The Directly Affiliated Corps and the Outer Mongolia Field Corps, with a total strength of more than 800,000 troops, cooperated with the firepower of large-scale artillery and armored forces, and the north-south attack was like two huge iron plates coming together, crushing the hundreds of thousands of Kwantung Army soldiers sandwiched in between.

, turned into powder, whether in terms of military strength or

In terms of heavy equipment and firepower, the independent division troops had an absolute advantage. It was an unsuspicious and overwhelming battle of annihilation. Therefore, Zhao Yuhe did not even ask the aircraft fleet of the Northern Aviation Group's Outer Mongolia cruise area to participate in the battle, even though Liu Cuigang had previously

Say hello.

Zhao Yuhe did not sit calmly on the marching chair. He paced slowly in the tent. It was the first time he was commanding a large-scale battle alone. He was not nervous, but he was somewhat excited. In the field battle in Outer Mongolia

In the corps headquarters, Sun Zhenbang was still sleeping, covered in military uniform.

Sun Zhenbang, who had commanded the troops of the Outer Mongolia Border Guards at that time, fought with the Soviet army in a fully-manned group army, fought bloody and bloody battles and gained the upper hand, obviously could not muster much energy for such a battle, all of them

The command was all handed over to Chief of Staff Wang Jun, which meant that it was rare to have half a day's leisure.

In a completely different mood from the two generals of the Independent Division, Lieutenant General Ji Yong, the commander of the Kwantung Army's northwest Manchurian border garrison, was not as excited as Zhao Yuhe, nor was he as indifferent as Sun Zhenbang. At this moment, Lieutenant General Ji Yong was full of heart.

anxiety,

Terror, worry and confusion about the unknown outcome. As a veteran Kwantung Army officer, his many years of military career told him that in the darkness before dawn, the boundless murderous intent of hundreds of thousands of soldiers from the independent division had already gathered.

on your own head.

Although the thunderous and torrential attack by the independent division troops from behind and behind was already expected, the battlefield with obvious advantages and disadvantages still made Lieutenant General Yoshinaga feel uneasy in his heart.

Zhao Yuhe closed his eyes, sat down slowly on the chair, rubbed his temples with his fingers, trying to calm down the ups and downs of emotions. Time passed quickly, Lieutenant Colonel Wu Zhengmin, acting chief of staff of the direct-affiliated corps, walked to him and said

: "Chief of Staff, it's time to launch an attack!"

Zhao Yuhe suddenly opened his slightly closed eyes, his eyes were bright, and a cold light flashed, "Start!" He uttered two words.

(To be continued)