On September 1, 1943, the 361st Division of the 101st Army of the 40th Army of Ma Zhanshan, who had been dormant for a long time, reappeared and attacked Manzhouli, where there was only one Japanese army. (_--)

The 366th Division took advantage of its mechanization and went south to attack the Japanese Arshan Garage Army.

The 367th Division divided its troops to attack the left and right flags of Barhu.

The weak northern regions of the Japanese army fell into the hands of Mazhanshan. By September 5, the three divisions of Mazhanshan had destroyed and occupied nearly 40,000 square kilometers of grassland areas in the Sino-Soviet border area.

The lightning attack made Meizu Mijiro stunned. At this time, his plan to attack Erguna's left and right banners had just begun. Without having time to do anything big, he was knocked unconscious by Ma Zhanshan's series of raids.

A string of big blisters appeared on Mejiro Umezu's anxious lips. In order to regain the lost territory in the north, he no longer cared about it. Under Mizu's strict order, the 14th Division and the 1st Division were forced to take out more than half of their troops and turn to Manchuri.

The 23rd Division and the 57th Division that besieged Hailar also pieced together an eight thousand troops to march northward.

The 8th** garrison, the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 13th, 3rd** garrison and other Japanese troops along the border line also drew elite troops to support the attack.

The troops of the "Manchukuo" military-controlled area, the ninth and tenth military-controlled areas head north from the surrounding areas of Hailar Fortress.

For a time, various numbers of Japanese troops and puppet troops filled this Guangru land, with a population of up to 100,000.

The battle mainly took place around and in the city of Manzhouli City. Ma Zhanshan invested more than 20,000 well-equipped troops to defend Manzhouli to the death. The Japanese army successively invested three divisions to attack in turn. (_--)

Guns and cannons roared on the ground, and the sound of airplanes rumbled. On the tenth day of the tragic battle to defend the city, the 102nd Army, the 103rd Army, the six divisions of the Anti-Japanese United Army, and the 120,000 troops of the Second Route Army suddenly came out of the mountain and penetrated into the south of Manzhouli. The majority of the 14th Division and the 11th Division that besieged Manzhouli City were cut off in one fell swoop and part of the 1st Division, and then launched an encirclement.

This huge coalition suddenly appeared, shocking Mejiro Umezu and Anan Weiji. The strength of the coalition forces shocked the Japanese troops surrounded near Manzhouli.

At the same time, the main force of the Third Route Army of the Anti-Japanese United Army and the Fourth Route Army appeared around Hailar. The tenth detachment, which had been fighting with the Japanese army for a month and a half, suddenly dispatched the main force to attack the 23rd Division and the 57th Division.

Under the stickiness of the tenth detachment, the remaining troops of the 23rd Division and the 57th Division were surrounded by the Third Route Army and the Fourth Route Army in Hailar City.

At this point, the four main divisions of the Second Front Army of the Kwantung Army were divided into two battlefields and all fell into hard battles.

The whole world is paying attention to the battle in the north of "Manchukuo".

On the Soviet side, although the German army retreated after the Battle of Stalingrad, they did not lose the initiative. They immediately added the Hyoguban and engaged in large-scale air combat with the Soviet army to fight for air supremacy. The air combat lasted for nearly two months and ended with the defeat of Germany.

In July and August, two large-scale battles broke out between the east of Smolensk in Guangru and the long area of ​​Kursk. The Battle of Kursk was an attack on the German army and Smolensk was an attack on the Soviet army.

The development of the battle is quite dramatic. In previous battles, tanks have been proven to be inappropriate to break through the opponent's defense line as assault forces. In the face of a large number of anti-tank line-controlled rockets, tanks, assault forces that have been soaring for several years, have lost their power.

Both sides of the battle gave up the tactics of using tanks to break through the enemy formation, and neither could break through the opponent's defense quickly, making it difficult to achieve the battle goal. The battle time was getting longer and longer, and it gradually turned into a pure war of attrition and trench warfare.

The German army neither eliminated the Kursk Soviet outskirts, nor was the Soviet army able to break through the Smolensk defense line, known as the "Eastern Fortress". In these two battles, due to the tenacious resistance of the Smolensk German army, resisting the Soviet attack, the German side did not draw reinforcements from the Kursk direction to support Smolensk. After the Kursk German army entered the defense, there were still a large number of troops available, so that the number of troops would not be too small and they would fall into a state of crisis.

The front gradually stabilized, and the Axis Team regained the confidence lost after two retreats in Stalingrad and Cuban.

This state is a good state for the Axis powers. They can use the opportunity of the front stability to mobilize the manpower and material resources of the European occupied areas and accumulate strength. For the Soviet Union, it is like a blow. The stalemate front devours only a few human resources and material resources left in the Soviet Union every day. After the Soviet Union tried its best to mobilize manpower, it only had six million troops. Now they face more than 5 million Axis ** teams on the Soviet territory. The manpower and material resources of the two sides are not much different, and the future battle can be expected to be extremely difficult. At this time, they most hope that reinforcements from the allies will land in Western Europe, and that the Chinese and American armies on the Pacific Front will defeat the Japanese army as soon as possible, thereby liberating human resources and material resources to support the Eastern Front.

Every failure or victory on the Chinese battlefield involves Shi Daling's heart. This time, the coalition forces formed by the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces and Ma Zhanshan Army launched a large-scale attack. Shi Daling knew it clearly. Every two days he would receive telegrams from the Soviet liaison officers in the coalition, saying that he knew where the coalition forces fought and what state they were in.

Both Manzhouli and Hailar fought in the Stalingrad battle. The Chinese fought with great success. Facing the most elite Kanto Army among the Japanese army, they were not afraid of it, and fought to the death and won the praise of Shi Daling. For the first time, he changed his views on the Chinese.

One day, after Shi Daling read the latest briefing, he finally expressed his feelings.

"The Chinese are not lacking in courage and wisdom. Their soldiers are as brave and as strong as us. All they lack is the support of industrial power for them. If they are lucky enough to obtain this support, with the huge human resources they have, they will defeat the Japanese and do not even need Americans to land."

There was also a "request" transferred by the Yan'an delegation to Moscow on Shi Daling's desk, requesting Shi Daling to release the "strict control" of used tanks and armored vehicles and allocate part of the recovered tanks to the Anti-Japanese United Nations League, and do not return them all.

Nowadays, Soviet military factories rarely produce tanks. This kind of thing is becoming less and less useful on the Soviet-German battlefield. The maintenance troops are lazy to repair the "waste guys" who were originally lost in battle and abandoned on the battlefield, and are only planning to drag them back to the steel mill to rebuild other practical weapons.

Zhang Lansheng's maintenance team collected hundreds of damaged tanks. Because the agreement reached by Zhang Lansheng with the Soviets was no longer valid due to changes in the situation, the Soviets did not need the tanks that Zhang Lansheng repaired, nor were they prepared to provide the agreed rewards, but were preparing to pull them all back to the furnace. Zhang Lansheng reported to Yan'an in desperation, which led to the "request" from Yan'an.

Shi Daling took this report and readily approved the words "Agree". The Chinese people faced Japan without effective anti-tank methods. The Chinese need these things and let the Chinese use these "scrap steel" to beat Japan hard.


Chapter completed!