At this time, the commander of the Kwantung Army, Kenkichi Ueda, still had some trump cards.
Everyone, including the Kwantung Army headquarters, wanted to fight.
Although many people were sent to the base camp to lobby, they believed that at least an attack of four divisions should be launched.
Attack the Japanese army and collect the remains of the soldiers who died in the battle.
However, these requests were directly rejected by the base camp.
After all, the Battle of Wuhan has reached its most critical period at this time.
The Japanese invaders suffered considerable losses during the Battle of Wuhan, and even tended to be on par with the Battle of Xuzhou.
The battle in northern Henan has not stopped at all, and the number of soldiers killed in the battle has also increased.
Elevate.
In the southeast of the Republic of China, wars continued.
At this time, the Japanese army's front line had been stretched to thousands of kilometers.
It was undoubtedly extremely unwise for Japan at this time to provoke a strong opponent like the Soviet Union while fighting the Republic of China. .
At this time, the Soviet Union and Europe were preparing to invade Poland.
Compared with the Far East, the Soviet base camp cared more about the situation in Europe, so they did not make things difficult for Japan's peace negotiations and agreed to it.
At this point, the largest military conflict between the Soviet Union and Japan in history ended with the defeat of the Japanese army.
However, the real Battle of Nomenkan was far from the disastrous defeat of the Japanese army in front of the Soviet army as rumored in later generations.
But after the great purge, the Soviet army's combat power was extremely low.
With its absolutely superior strength and technical arms, it just suffered higher casualties than the Japanese army.
Compared to Zhukov, who received full support from the top brass of the Soviet Union, the Kwantung Army, in addition to receiving the tacit approval of the base camp in the early stages, was not allowed to use its hands and feet in the middle and late stages, and the strength of several divisions was not available for combat.
He was ordered by the base camp not to expand the scale of the war.
During the battle, the Soviet Union invested at least four divisions with approximately 570,000 combat troops.
To deal with more than one division of the Japanese army, the combat strength alone was more than double the 250,000 Japanese troops.
The 23rd Division is compared to the fifth and sixth permanent divisions fighting in China.
Full of new recruits.
The 23rd Division has added a certain amount of combat troops.
After reaching more than one division, the number of combat troops is only about 250,000.
It is not unusual for the 5th Division, known as the Steel Army, to have 280,000 soldiers during the war.
Although the number of artillery pieces is similar, 122 and 150 heavy artillery account for a considerable part of the Soviet Union's more than 500 artillery pieces.
Whether it is range, power, or quantity, it has an overwhelming advantage.
Mountain artillery and field artillery both have certain advantages.
Reinforcements were made one after another, with nearly 500 tanks, more than 300 armored vehicles, and more than 500 aircraft of various types being invested.
In contrast, the Japanese army only had more than 180 tanks and armored vehicles, more than 300 aircraft, and only more than 500 artillery pieces, of which only 70 or 80 were heavy artillery.
The person responsible for commanding the Soviet army was Zhukov, one of the Soviet Union's most capable generals in World War II.
But even under the command of an outstanding general like Zhukov, when he did not have much advantage in terms of initial strength, he could only rely on hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles to act as fire brigade rescuers, in order to barely resist the Japanese offensive.
It was not until subsequent Soviet reinforcement aircraft and more armored units arrived that the situation was restored after consuming several times as many artillery shells as the Japanese.
But even with such an advantage, the Soviet casualties were actually higher than the Japanese casualties.
In addition to the fact that the Soviet army has not experienced any large-scale wars in these years, it is conceivable that the Great Purge had a profound impact on the Soviet army.
Almost all the experienced and combat-effective officers in the army were purged.
Even in the Soviet-German War, in a sense, the German army failed to achieve such great results against the Soviet army.
It can be seen that internal losses are sometimes not necessarily greater than those caused by external enemies.
In order to maintain such a long-distance war, the Soviet Union's logistical pressure on the Soviet army almost reached its limit.
To talk about the victory of the Soviet army in this war, it can only be said that it successfully pushed back the counterattacking Japanese army to the east bank of the Halaha River.
From a military perspective, the Soviet army did not achieve much victory.
The fact that the Soviet army's combat effectiveness was relatively low after the Great Purge was not only reflected in the Battle of Nomonkan.
In the subsequent invasion of Finland, the Soviet army's weaknesses were exposed again.
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It is conceivable that the Soviet army at this time had such weapons and equipment and fought so fiercely with the Japanese army.
On the battlefields of the Republic of China in history, the countless soldiers and civilians of the Republic of China faced how much pressure they endured when facing millions of Japanese troops. .
"Commander, Britain and France have declared war on Germany."
When Jiang Li got the relevant data about the Battle of Nomenkan, he also heard a piece of news that was not too surprising.
"What is going to come will always come.
These British and French guys think that concessions can be avoided.
Isn't everything that happened between the Republic of China and Japan enough to prove that blind concessions can only make the war come faster?"
Jiang Li sneered, The upheaval in Europe is coming just as it happened in history.
"Europe is too far away from us, and it doesn't have much to do with it for the time being.
Right now, Wuhan alone and northern Henan are enough for us to worry about."
Zhang Zhibang took a breath, and the fighting in eastern Henan was not intense. , with the support of several military commanders under his command and the group army staff, there can be no trouble.
Just in time for the Luoyang military meeting to be held again, Zhang Zhibang rushed back by plane, so he could not miss anything big.
"Who said it was none of our business before Britain and France declared war on Germany?
Japan forced Britain and France to close the Yunnan-Burma Highway and the Yunnan-Vietnam Railway respectively.
If the Japanese plan succeeds, we have spent tens of millions of dollars to build the Yunnan-Burma Railway.
It will be open to traffic in February next year, but it is hard to say whether it will be put into operation."
Jiang Li threw a report on the table in front of Zhang Zhibang.
"How dare they close the Yunnan-Burma railway and highway?"
Zhang Zhibang suddenly got angry.
"The roads we have spent so much money to build, let alone the Japanese, even the foreign devils have to think carefully if they really dare to do this.
Think about it, you really think that our Republic of China is easy to bully, Commander, I know you have a lot of cards in your pocket, you have to show them at the critical moment, so that those foreigners can see that our Republic of China is not in a state of poverty. " The northwest obviously has a lot of automobile production.
In the past two years, steel and oil production have also increased.
Although even Zhang Zhibang didn't know much about the production of tanks.
However, the expansion of the 2nd and 3rd Mechanized Brigades is visible to the naked eye.
The armored forces in Suiyuan were formed even faster than those in the Central Plains.
Zhang Zhibang believed that as long as Jiang Li was willing, after more than a year of savings, he could organize one or two large-scale counterattacks and cause a certain degree of pressure and casualties to the Japanese army.
"If the trump card is revealed too early, it will not have the final effect.
The commander naturally has the commander's consideration."
Feng Zhanhai, who came from Lanzhou, glared at Zhang Zhibang and said.
"Isn't this too frustrating?
I originally expected the Soviet Union to have a big fight with the Kwantung Army and share some of the pressure on us.
I didn't expect that this old guy is not a good guy.
He stopped fighting only halfway through.
It was also a bit of a disdain.
We have held back millions of Japanese troops with the wax spear heads, and they can't kill ten thousand Japanese troops.
We fought with one division for so long," Zhang Zhibang muttered again.
"The Soviet Union has been engaged in internal strife in recent years, and a large number of generals and outstanding officers have been killed by their own people.
Without these backbone officers, the command is in disarray, a mess in the battle, and a mess after the retreat.
Only those who can achieve good results can be smart.
After all, the Soviet Union's industrial foundation is still there.
After fighting a few battles, the army will gain practical experience and its combat capabilities will be improved."
Jiang Li said with a nonchalant smile.
"The Wuhan side has been fighting for so long, and some of them can no longer bear it.
I have called you together this time, and naturally we will take action.
The main branch is weak and the branches are strong.
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Now the central Wuhan side is more sensitive.
We have occupied Henan before.
As soon as this happened, in Sichuan, some of the influence of the central government was squeezed out bit by bit by us, who directly sent troops to support.
To help Wuhan, it is estimated that the Japanese were not attacked, and they were regarded as grabbing territory by others, so we should start from the two directions of northern Henan and eastern Henan, and use the existing forces to launch two counterattacks.
The old rule is that you don’t need to recover much lost ground.
The key is to protect yourself as much as possible while causing more damage to the Japanese army. " "Commander, if you don't give us more troops, I'm afraid this battle will be difficult to fight."
Zhang Zhibang said.
"It's easy, just let those who think it's easy to fight come and fight.
If you're not easy to fight, pull down the team and let Zhao Tieshu come up.
It just so happens that his 2nd Army has also been resting for a while."
Jiang Lidao.
"Then let me go.
I just went up now.
I haven't fought a few decent battles, so how can I trouble Lao Zhao.
In fact, if you think about it, it's not that difficult.
The 9th Army can still hold on."
Zhang Zhibang's repetition made everyone in the venue burst into laughter.
"It's not that there has been no reinforcement at all.
This time, an independent heavy artillery regiment has been assigned to each of the fighting group armies.
Besides, hasn't the mechanized brigade been strengthened?"
Feng Zhanhai also smiled when he heard this, but changed his tone and said, "But the Wuhan side is also We still need to provide a certain amount of support.
Wuhan is not short of ground troops for a while.
What is lacking is still able to block the supporting firepower of Japanese aircraft and artillery.
Our flying team in the north We won’t do anything, but organizing a few large-scale air strikes should not be a problem.
We have to help Wuhan survive these few months.
When winter comes, the Japanese army will be under greater logistical pressure.
Time, but Wuhan fell prematurely, and the Central Plains fell into the dilemma of being attacked on three sides.
Even if we prepare for a long time, we must try our best to avoid, or postpone, this unfavorable situation. " "Then let's do it this way.
The pressure in northern and eastern Henan is a little heavier.
The strategic bomber formation has been resting for so long and it's time to come out for training again."
Jiang Li agreed.
In fact, Zhang Zhibang's guess was good. , 1939 was a relatively peaceful year for the Northwest Army.
Although northern Henan was constantly engaged in wars, eastern Henan, Shanxi, and Suiyuan were also fighting intermittently.
But the overall scale is not large.
The Northwest Army lost more than 170 tanks, while the Japanese army only lost more than 200 tanks.
The exchange ratio is relatively close.
Compared with the past, the losses of the Northwest Army are much worse than the previous results at first glance.
On the one hand, the Type 97 tanks recently put into service by the Japanese army have indeed caused certain losses to the Northwest Army, especially the Avenger tanks, which no longer have much advantage over the Type 97 tanks.
However, in the tank battle, the Northwest Army was still the dominant side, and a considerable part of the Northwest Army's tank losses were caused by the Japanese infantry when attacking the Japanese army.
The losses of the tanks were greater, but the casualties of the Northwest Army's infantry were always controlled to a certain extent.
In more than a year, the Northwest Tank Factory has successively produced more than 400 tanks.
In addition to supplementing the war consumption, the armored forces in the northwest have also been continuously expanded.
At the beginning, the three mechanized brigades only had a hundred and dozens of tanks.
At this time, the northwest army was already in continuous combat, and the number of tanks increased to four More than a hundred vehicles.
Zhou Dafu's armored mixed brigade has been expanded.
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At the same time, the 2nd and 3rd Mechanized Brigades are also undergoing expansion.
But this is not Jiang Li's real trump card.
After the meeting, Jiang Li and a few people from Feng Zhanhai arrived at the garrison that had been expanded into a garrison division.
On the lawn inside the heavily guarded military camp, the grass was turning over as the tracks of a low-looking tank rolled.
The tank nimbly turned several times on the turf.
Finally stopped.
Compared with the Tomahawk series tanks in the northwest, this tank looks lower, but the barrel is thicker than the modified 57 gun of Tomahawk 2. caliber artillery.
"This kind of tank looks a little weird.
The thick barrel is thicker and shorter, and the body is a little smaller than a tomahawk.
Can it be used better than a tomahawk?"
Yang Hucheng questioned.
Although he is not a tank driver and rarely gets inside, some principles are the same.
For example, when he rides in a car, the size of the space inside the car is directly linked to the comfort level.
The small size of the tank means that There are fewer steel plates to hang, which directly affects the defense performance.
At this time, the Tomahawk had become an iconic weapon of the Northwest Army.
As a newly developed tank, it was natural to compare it with the Tomahawk.
"There is no Tomahawk tank to use."
Several people came out of this tank that looked a little like a tank but also a little different.
The leader was a tank crew member responsible for testing.
Gave Yang Hucheng this answer.
"To be precise, this is derived from the Avenger tank.
It may be more appropriate to call it a self-propelled artillery.
This self-propelled artillery has canceled the turret, so it cannot flexibly rotate to attack targets at different angles like a tank.
But this kind of self-propelled artillery has no turret.
The advantages of the self-propelled artillery that have been modified several times also make up for certain shortcomings.
After the turret is eliminated, the body is relatively shorter and has a higher survivability rate on the battlefield.
Although its body looks small, its armor thickness is not.
Low, the defense capability can reach 80% of the Tomahawk tank.”
"The additional artillery is powerful enough to penetrate all improved frontal armor, including the Tomahawk, at a distance of more than 800 meters.
The artillery also has a great destructive effect on ground fortifications
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