The decisive battle at Ogisu Ribei finally broke out.
However, the initiator of this decisive battle was not the Kwantung Army.
"Their firepower is too strong!"
A lieutenant colonel who fled with his troops from the front line reported in a panic: "They launched a sudden attack in the early morning with a large number of aircraft and artillery. Our defenders did not even have a tank, and they were still going to be defeated by the Soviet army.
Thousand-ton artillery shells were violently bombarded. The civil engineering fortifications built in the Mongolian wilderness had long been flattened by Soviet artillery fire. The soldiers of the empire could only rely on simple individual bunkers dug by engineers' shovels to fight...
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"I really can't stand it anymore..." Lieutenant Colonel's body was shaking slightly, as if he still had the fear of the horrors on the front line.
The infantry regiment to which this lieutenant colonel belongs was originally just an infantry regiment with low combat effectiveness under the Kwantung Army's 8th Border Guard Corps. Among them, the new recruits alone accounted for more than 30% of the total strength of the regiment.
Proportion.
Even the national treasure-level First Tank Division of the Kwantung Army has now turned into piles of black smoking steel garbage. How could this regiment, filled with a large number of new recruits, be a match for the Soviet army?
And Ogisu Rihei's original preparation to turn the tide by relying on the germ warfare of Ishii's troops has now become nothing more than a joke.
Although Ishii's troops secretly released a large amount of plague, glanders and other highly infectious bacteria into the Halaha River according to the plan.
However, since the drinking water of the Soviet and Mongolian troops came from the water pipes laid in the rear, there were basically no major casualties.
On the contrary, the Kwantung Army troops on the front line were repeatedly ordered not to drink river water by their superiors, but many soldiers secretly drank river water due to extreme thirst and became victims of germ warfare.
Many combat units deployed by the Kwantung Army on the front line suffered a sharp decline in combat effectiveness due to a large number of injuries, illnesses and infections.
The "most powerful secret weapon" that Ogisu Rihei had high hopes for ended up shooting himself in the foot.
Since the Battle of Nomenkan, the Kwantung Army has suffered tens of thousands of casualties. Tanks, armored vehicles, aircraft, field artillery and other technical weapons have been completely destroyed. General Zhukov sent by the Soviet Union used the most basic and most effective human sea tactics.
, the oppressive Ogisu Rippei had no power to fight back.
Zhukov, the "firefighting captain" who was ordered to do so at the critical moment, was able to easily overcome the miraculous with the right under the threat of various secret weapons of the Kwantung Army.
Ogisu Rihei admitted that his opponent was a famous general of his generation!
It’s not that the Kwantung Army wasn’t elite, it wasn’t that the Japanese soldiers weren’t brave, and it wasn’t that there weren’t enough secret weapons.
The Kwantung Army, the strongest unit of the Japanese Army known as the "Flower of the Imperial Army". To put it bluntly, it is just a short man pretending to be a tall man, acting as the "boss" in a group of low-mechanized armies.
What Ogisu Rihei didn't know was that, in Zhukov's view, the so-called strength of the Kwantung Army was just a boast that there were no tigers in the mountains and monkeys ruled the roost.
Even the most elite and valuable tank division of the Kwantung Army was only mentioned as a joke in Zhukov's report to Stalin: "The Japanese tanks are very backward, and their basic tactical movements are also very dull, focusing on detours and side attacks.
This method can be easily eliminated."
Now, the 6th Army in the hands of Ogisu Rippei has suffered a fatal blow, and all the main forces are either injured or disabled. All the frontline units are asking for support, but the reserve team in the hands of Ogisu Rippei is fully equipped.
Not more than a thousand people.
Those who can be sent to the front line have already been sent to the front line. How many troops are left? Speaking of support, Ogisu Ripei also wants to send reinforcements to the rear!
However, in the Guannei battlefield, the base camp had already sent the troops it could muster to Changsha to prepare for a decisive battle with the Chinese army, and now it could not mobilize any spare troops to rush north for reinforcements.
"A heavy artillery regiment and three anti-tank rapid-fire artillery squadrons transferred to us from the pass will be assembled in the next four days." Faced with a deep sense of frustration, Ogisu Libing braced himself: "The telegram order No.
Colonel Takemitsu Yamagata of the 64th Regiment of the Seventh Division and Colonel Takahide Ise of the 13th Regiment allowed them to retreat 5 kilometers and wait until our artillery is in place to launch a counterattack together."
"Hi!" The staff officer quickly stood at attention after receiving the order, and then turned around to convey the instructions from Ogisu Ripei.
"Also, Colonel Toru Morita, who ordered the 71st Regiment of the 23rd Division, told him that no matter what, he must hold on for four days for the empire's counterattack. Once the four days are up, he will be the hero of the empire. By then
, I will personally ask General Sugiyama Gen for the abovementioned merit for him!"
At this point, Ogisu Tatehe closed his eyes and continued in a serious tone: "No matter what, the 71st Regiment cannot withdraw from the position. If he holds it, he is a hero. If he cannot hold it, then he will commit seppuku!"
Four days?! When the officers on the side heard this deadline, they couldn't help but gasp.
Even elite tanks such as the 1st Tank Division could not survive for a day under the impact of the Soviet army's huge armored forces. The regiment equipped with "heavy hand guns" could barely survive until the next day.
That's all.
Asking Colonel Morita Toru to defend the mission for four days would have been impossible to complete from the very beginning. What is the difference between this and directly asking the 71st Regiment to die?!
Ignoring the strange looks from the officers, Ogisu Tatehe took a deep breath and slowly opened his eyes: "The 23rd Division under my command as the main force is, after all, just a newly formed unit. It can hit
This level is enough to prove how tenacious the soldiers of the Japanese Empire are!"
"However, being tenacious is not enough!" Ogisu Ribei's indifferent face showed no emotion at all: "We lost 10,000 people but made no progress. In terms of results, this is absolutely unacceptable to the base camp.
Accept it. If we cannot win in the end, then the more than 10,000 imperial warriors who died before will have died in vain! Every soldier of the empire is precious, and I will never allow their lives to be wasted like this.
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"In order to make their sacrifices meaningful and valuable...I would even sacrifice 50,000 lives to win this war!" In the blink of an eye, Ogisu Rihei was able to do so.
Without a trace of expression, he made this decision that was completely contrary to his previous statement that "the lives of Imperial soldiers are precious."
"The final decisive battle will begin in four days. Before that, except for the designated troops required for the decisive battle, the other departments must be prepared to face a difficult test. They must fortify themselves layer by layer and resist step by step, at all costs.
At all costs, wait until our supporting artillery is assembled in place!"
Punching the conference table hard, Ogisu Tatehe ordered fiercely: "Except the 64th Regiment and the 13th Regiment, bring all the troops that can be mobilized to establish a sniper position. As long as our
If the front can hold out until reinforcements arrive, there will still be a chance for victory!"
