boyutpedia Chapter 422 Something Happens in the North
Chapter 422 Something Happens in the North
The troops of the new 100th Division retreated to Xiangyang City very smoothly. All the officers and soldiers were very happy. The process of this battle was like a dream to all the officers and soldiers.
As for the Japanese reinforcements on the Xiang-Zao Highway, after receiving the retreat order from the 11th Army Command, the commander of the 13th Division, Lieutenant General Ogisu Rikuhei, immediately ordered the chief of staff, Major General Ishikawa Takuma, to arrange for all troops to begin to withdraw in an orderly manner towards the original occupied area while covering each other. All the troops, including the baggage troops and field hospital in Changshoudian, began their retreat at the first opportunity.
After two days of rest, the troops of the Fifth War Zone began to attack towards their respective combat objectives in accordance with the orders of the war zone headquarters.
The Second Army searched carefully along the way and attacked towards Changshoudian. Because the Japanese troops had withdrawn completely long ago, the Second Army's progress was also very rapid. Only one day later, the vanguard troops of the Second Army retook Changshoudian which had been abandoned by the Japanese.
On the other side, the 31st Army Group also passed the already devastated 11th Army Group and attacked towards Sui County.
The original attacking force of the Japanese 3rd Division had long since withdrawn to the vicinity of Sui County and was in a defensive posture. When the troops of the 31st Army Group advanced to the vicinity of Sui County, they found that the Japanese had already built defensive fortifications here. They did not launch an attack rashly, but instead began to build fortifications and confront the Japanese.
When the battle between the Chinese and Japanese armies in the Sui-Zao area came to an end, Japan, whose ambitions and self-confidence were extremely inflated, also launched provocative actions against the Polar Bear in the northeast.
Due to geopolitical conflicts, Japan and the polar bears have gone to war several times in modern times.
In 1904, Japan and Russia broke out in the full-scale Russo-Japanese War for the control of interests in China's northeast region. In that war, Japan defeated Russia, and China's northeast region fell into the control of Japan's sphere of influence. At the same time, Russia was forced to cede the southern part of Sakhalin Island to Japan as compensation after the war.
In 1921, Outer Mongolia of China declared independence with the support and instigation of the Soviet Union. At that time, China was in the midst of an era of warlords' infighting and had no ability or strength to maintain the integrity of its territory. It was only under the oppression of the Soviet Union that it was forced to recognize the independence of Outer Mongolia.
When it came to 1931, the Japanese Kwantung Army launched the September 1932th Incident and used force to completely occupy China's three northeastern provinces. Then in , it established the puppet state of Manchukuo which was completely under the command of Japan.
Since the puppet state of Manchukuo was adjacent to Mongolia and had Japanese and Soviet troops stationed there respectively, and since the two sides had border disputes in many areas, it laid a lot of hidden dangers for subsequent conflicts.
Since 1935, the Japanese Kwantung Army's troops stationed in Hailar and the Xing'an Cavalry Unit have used the historical "border" issues as an excuse to constantly carry out provocations in the so-called border areas of both sides in order to test the military strength of the Soviet Union and Mongolia.
From January 1935 to October 1, there were many military conflicts, and their scale gradually escalated.
On March 1936, 3, 30 people from the Shibuya Detachment of the Japanese Kwantung Army, riding in cars, armored vehicles and tanks, invaded the Adagdolan area in Mongolia, but were defeated by the Soviet-Mongolian army. With the help of repeated provocations and actual threats from the Japanese Kwantung Army, the Soviet Union and Mongolia signed a mutual assistance agreement.
In July 1938, the 7rd Division of the Japanese Kwantung Army entered Hailar. In October of the same year, the th Special Army of the Soviet-Mongolian Far East Army entered Mongolia for garrison, and Japan and the Soviet Union reached an armistice agreement.
In May 1939, the Japanese Kwantung Army decided to first attack the Mongolian People's Republic in the Nomonhan area and occupy its eastern territory, the Kharakha region, as a springboard for the next step of invading the Soviet Far East, and thus realize the long-planned "Northward Advance Plan."
On May 11, the 24th Border Guard Team of the Mongolian Army waded from the west bank to the area east of the Khalkha River to graze. A squad of soldiers from the 3rd Company of the Xing'an Guard Cavalry of the Puppet Manchukuo stationed at the Xilintaolage outpost immediately opened fire to intercept them, mounted their horses and chased them, driving the Mongolian horse herders and their horses back to the west bank.
As a result, more than 50 cavalrymen from the Mongolian Army's Seventh Border Post captured the Xilintaolage Post of the puppet Manchukuo located in the disputed area.
At nine o'clock in the evening on May 104, Lieutenant Colonel Yabaizo Higashi, leader of the search team of the 90rd Division of the Japanese Kwantung Army, was ordered to lead cavalrymen and armored troops to Kangyur Temple, more than kilometers away from Nomonhan, and sent scouts to conduct reconnaissance and prepare for combat.
In order to cooperate with the offensive operations, the Japanese Kwantung Army Command assigned the 10th Flying Reconnaissance Squadron stationed in Qiqihar, the 24th Flying Squadron in Hailar, and 100 transport vehicles of the Kwantung Army Motor Corps to the command of the 23rd Division.
On May 14, the Higashiyazaki troops, with the support of five Japanese planes, launched an attack on the Mongolian army east of the Khalkha River.
The Mongolian army suffered heavy casualties under the fierce attack of the Japanese army and had to retreat to the Hexi area for defense. After defeating the Mongolian army, Lieutenant Colonel Higashi Yahizo led his troops back to Hailar.
After the Japanese Kwantung Army launched an attack on the Mongolian army, the Soviet government immediately sent the 11th Tank Brigade to the Khalkha River area in accordance with the Soviet-Mongolian Mutual Assistance Agreement, and ordered the 36th Motorized Infantry Division stationed in Ulan-Ude to gather at the Khalkha River.
The 57th Special Army Headquarters was moved from Ulaanbaatar to Tamtsagbulage, 125 kilometers from the Khalkha River. Soviet aircraft also gathered in the war zone and conducted reconnaissance flights in the Nomonhan area. The 6th Mongolian Cavalry Division crossed the Khalkha River and built a pontoon bridge.
On May 1939, , the th Regiment of the Japanese Army commanded by Colonel Takemitsu Yamagata, the search team commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Yahigashi Yabaizo, and the st, nd, and th Regiments of the Xing'an Cavalry of the puppet Manchukuo began to besiege the Soviet-Mongolian Allied Forces from three directions.
As a result, they were defeated by the Soviet-Mongolian Allied Forces. The Japanese search team had 115 killed and 81 missing, and was almost completely wiped out. Lieutenant Colonel Yahizo was also killed, and the casualty rate of the th Regiment commanded by Colonel Yamagata Takemitsu reached %.
Due to the continuous increase in the Japanese Kwantung Army's troops, the Soviet Military Command appointed Zhukov as the commander of the 57th Special Army.
After Zhukov arrived at Tamtsagbulag, he began to gather troops and stockpile various military supplies in order to cope with the subsequent war. In order to compete with the Japanese Kwantung Army's flying units for air supremacy on the battlefield, Zhukov ordered his troops to open field military airports in Tamtsagbulag, Sambes and other places.