Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 805 Far East Fuse

Tang Qiuli ordered Liu Tiehan's troops to launch the Western Liaoning Offensive. After completing the purpose of the campaign, they suddenly retreated to the Panshan, Goubangzi, and Panjin areas. Such a retreat did not suffer Liu Tiehan's troops, and the troops originally on the Linghai line in western Liaoning were The defensive frontier has advanced dozens of kilometers further, and has achieved an extremely favorable situation. If we continue to attack to the east, we can threaten Shenyang. If we attack to the south, we can directly seize the important military location of the Liaodong Peninsula.

At the cost of extremely slight casualties, they killed one of the three most powerful divisions of the Kwantung Army and severely damaged two, attracting most of the Kwantung Army's troops to the Shenyang area. Objectively, this resulted in the collapse of Eastern Manchuria. In this area, the Kwantung Army's military strength was empty.

When the time is right, Tang Qiuli's important plan on the Sino-Soviet border can be carried out. This plan, like his recovery of foreign countries, is enough to change the strategic pattern of the Far East and the relationship between the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union.

Suifenhe, a small town on the northeastern border, and Gelenko, a small town in the Soviet Far East, are across the river from Suifenhe. During the day, residents on both sides of the river can clearly see all the daily activities of the other side. When the Russians did not invade this area, This place belongs to Chinese territory and is a small town like two neighbors.

Residents interact with each other and intermarry, which is no different from two towns in the mainland. Now, a boundary river and boundary markers have completely severed the communication between one family and become two countries.

Suifenhe basically retains the style of a town in Northeast China, but after the Japanese army occupied it, many Japanese-style buildings and colonial colors were added. Because it is close to the Sino-Soviet border, it is a key defense area for the Japanese army, with many military fortresses and strongholds built there. .

The small town of Gelenko on the other side of the Suifen River is completely Russian in style. There are several Orthodox churches in the small town. After Stalin’s brutal purge of Chinese in the Far East, the Chinese indigenous people in the town have been wiped out. There was not much left, and this was also a key defense area for the Soviet army.

Stalin deliberately transformed this territory that originally belonged to China, trying to erase all memories of China from people's memories, change the residents' religious beliefs, change the style of the town, and change the population ratio of the residents. A deep Russian mark has been engraved on Chinese territory.

Even the sea and mountain power that the Chinese are familiar with, which the Russian Czar must seize, the only outlet and ice-free port for the Soviet Union to compete for hegemony in the Pacific in the Far East, was changed to the Russian name Vladivostok. It means "Conqueror of the East". Stalin was interested in everything about the old tsar.

Tang Qiuli chose this place as a flashpoint to provoke disputes between the Soviet Union and the Communists, which has profound meaning. This area has the power of military ports, seas and mountains that Stalin paid more attention to, and there are also people who can quickly form an army. The Second Far East Army of the Soviet Union would not make Stalin feel that its troops were weak and blindly give in. This battle would not be fought, which was not in line with Tang Qiuli's wishes.

Because the Soviet Union and Japan have signed the Soviet-Japanese Friendship Treaty, neither the Soviet Union nor Japan regards the other as the most important enemy that must be resolved immediately, even though the two countries have an insoluble feud and have fundamental differences in reality and future. Due to conflicts of interest, the two sides will have a battle sooner or later, but not now.

Among them, the intentions of the Japanese were the most obvious. The nearly one million Kwantung Army soldiers in the northeast were the greatest capital the Japanese used to deal with the Soviets. The Soviet Union’s defense focus was in Europe. However, neither country immediately provoked

The meaning of war is that the Japanese are busy occupying China, the Soviets are busy carving up Poland with the Germans, and they are also competing for territory with the small Nordic country Finland, and they must be wary of Germany's fanatical head of state.

Therefore, neither the Soviet soldiers nor the Japanese soldiers regarded border patrol as a matter of high tension and alertness. A group of Soviet border patrol soldiers, about thirty people, were on the Soviet side of the Suifen River, along the boundary marker.

, conduct routine patrols.

This was a road they walked several times a day, as familiar as the living room of their own home. The Soviet patrols walked casually, talking and laughing in low voices, passing through an undulating hill. Suddenly, there was a burst of intensive bullets.

Rain poured from the hills onto the Soviet soldiers. The Soviet soldiers were caught off guard and more than a dozen of them fell down immediately.

Immediately, the Soviet soldiers fought back. For a moment, the calm Sino-Soviet border was filled with loud gunshots and dark red ballistics piercing the night sky. A dozen Soviet soldiers were suppressed on the sand by the river by the fierce firepower of the other side.

, several experienced Soviet veterans have heard that the ambushers used the standard equipment of the Japanese infantry, the Type 38 rifle.

The unique crisp "bang hook" sound of shooting is absolutely different from other weapons. Just a dozen 38-guns are not enough to make the Soviet soldiers passive, but the opponent is also equipped with seven or eight light machine guns, dense flames

, the ground was hit with sand and soil everywhere.

The Soviet patrol leader who led the team immediately ordered the radio to report the situation to his superiors, "The patrol called the Gorenki Post. Our patrol was attacked on our side of the Suifen River, near the No. 183 boundary pillar. According to

Judging from the weapons used by the other party, the attackers were Japanese troops. The other party's firepower was very fierce and more than a dozen people have been injured or killed. Please support us."

The patrol leader had just finished reporting the situation when the attackers actually used mortars. More than a dozen mortars and a round of shells blew up the remaining dozen Soviet soldiers to pieces. Then, the attackers conversed briefly in Japanese.

After a few words, he disappeared into the darkness.

An hour later, reinforcements from a company of the Soviet Gorenki outpost arrived. The battle was long over. Even the smell of gunpowder smoke was blown away by the night wind. If it weren't for the bright flashlight beam, the fragmented remains of the Soviet soldiers' bodies were blown away.

On the sand stained red with blood, no one would believe that a small-scale battle broke out here.

The Soviet company commander who was leading the team found a dying Soviet soldier and quickly asked: "Tell me quickly, who is attacking you?" The Soviet soldier, who was already giving out more air than taking in air, only said vaguely.

With the word "***", he tilted his head and died in the arms of the company commander.

A battle broke out on the Soviet side near Boundary Monument No. 183, resulting in the death of all 35 members of a Soviet patrol team. After receiving the report, the Golenki post realized the seriousness of the matter and immediately reported what happened here.

, reported to the Ussuriysk (Chinese place name is Shuangchengzi) Border Defense Station of the Soviet Far East Military District.

The Ussuriysk Border Defense Main Station immediately reported the situation to the Far East Military District Command. At this time, the Soviet Far East Military District Command was already very busy. Not only did the Ussuriysk Border Defense Main Station send such a report, but also other places.

Sent similar information.

On the night of August 23, overnight, from Khabarovsk (Chinese name: Khabarovsk) in the north to Suifenhe in the south, there were more than a hundred Soviet troops along the border between Manchuria and the Soviet Union that stretched hundreds of kilometers.

Border guard patrols were attacked by armed forces. These patrols were annihilated without exception, and more than 1,300 Soviet soldiers died.

The patrols that were attacked, before all of them were killed, reported that the attackers were using Japanese-style weapons. This was an important clue. After summarizing the situation, the Soviet Far East Military District realized the seriousness of the situation. This may be **

The * army, in a provocative action before launching a large-scale attack on Soviet territory, reported the attack on the Sino-Soviet border in the Far East to the General Staff of the Soviet Red Army in Moscow overnight.

After receiving the report, the Soviet General Staff and a group of senior generals studied it for half a night, but they could not judge the Japanese's intentions. To say that it was a signal that the Japanese army was about to attack the Soviet Union was not consistent with the rules, and no evidence was found.

The Japanese are moving to the border areas to mobilize large-scale troops. Such small-scale scattered attacks are tantamount to exposing the Japanese's intentions. The Japanese will not be so stupid.

The General Staff concluded that the Japanese would not attack the Soviet Union on a large scale, but it was a real incident that more than 1,300 of their own soldiers were killed by the Japanese. The Far East Military Region would not launch such an attack.

This fact, a joke in the head, overturned the judgment of the General Staff that the Japanese army would not launch a large-scale attack on the Soviet Union.

The conflicting conclusions and ironclad facts confused the senior generals of the Soviet General Staff and had no choice but to wait patiently for Comrade Stalin to wake up in the morning, report the situation, and ask the leaders to make a decision.

Stalin woke up in the morning and before he had time to have breakfast, he received this off-putting report. He looked at the contradictory conclusions and the solid evidence. He couldn't help but feel annoyed, but he looked at several senior generals.

, with red eyes, knew that they had tried their best. This was a major issue related to the Soviet Union's fundamental interests in the Far East, and thus affected the Soviet Union's future national defense priorities. It is understandable that they could not make the decision.

Stalin said calmly: "Okay, comrades generals, let's handle this incident this way. Notify Comrade Molotov, and then through him, as the People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, lodge a serious protest with the Communist Party, and at the same time, order the Far East Military District

, searching for all evidence at all locations where fighting occurred, and the border guards entered a state of emergency."

After receiving the domestic order, Stovekia, the Soviet ambassador to Japan, immediately took the protest letter drafted by Molotov himself and drove straight to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan with anger, where he questioned the Communists face to face.

The meaning of treachery.

After receiving the letter of protest, the Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Ishigami saw the livid-faced Soviet Ambassador Stovekia walking in aggressively. He felt unhappy and secretly thought: "Why is this annoying guy acting like this today?"

What face?" He was confused and full of confusion.

After reading this protest, he almost jumped out of his chair, and his eyes almost cramped with surprise. He would never believe that the Kwantung Army would act so recklessly behind the back of the Emperor and the base camp, but the Soviets' protest

, and his words were so precise that he couldn't help but not believe him.

Whether the Japanese or the Soviets believed it or not, this plan, directed by Tang Qiuli and implemented by Tang Qiuquan, became the scene of the conflict between Japan and the Soviet Union in the Far East of the Soviet Union with the sound of gunshots on the bank of the Suifen River at midnight.

area, the first trigger for a series of fierce battles.

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