Nine Hundred Thirty-Seven What to Do

The Germans were fighting in Stalingrad, the fortress of the Soviet Union, and thousands of kilometers away, the Japanese were also engaged in a life-and-death struggle with their opponents, the Soviets. Although Ishihara Wanji was selected by Hideki Tojo as the supreme commander of the front line who was the scapegoat, this guy really deserved his title of "Ishihara Zhizhi" and commanded the Japanese troops to achieve a series of great victories on the border.

The 17th Division, which came from afar, was used by Ishihara as an auxiliary offensive force on the side, cooperating with the so-called main force of the Japanese armored forces to cover the flanks of the Japanese offensive cluster. This arrangement had a certain effect. At least when the Soviet Red Army was busy eating these Japanese troops, it forgot its ultimate goal of intercepting the Japanese troops.

General Chuikov still paid the price for his youth. Although he commanded the troops very well, he neglected to restrain and intervene in the details of the army. This led to his troops singing triumphant songs all the way, but only general Time wasted on the "abandoned son" flanked by Ishihara Waner.

On the front of the battlefield, Ishihara Waner wisely invested in the two elite main forces of the 1st Division and the 8th Division in the first batch of attacks. These two units are indeed the elite of the Kwantung Army, and have achieved an amazing record of consecutively capturing 4 cities in the Soviet Far East.

Although it is said that in many cases, the Japanese high-level leaders have been in a state of brain freeze for a long time in formulating strategies, but it has to be said that no matter how weak the Japanese army is, it still has the title of "the strongest infantry in World War I during World War II". In terms of combat effectiveness, this army that believes in the spirit of Bushido still has a certain combat effectiveness, so after breaking through several Soviet defense lines one after another, the shadow of the Japanese army being beaten at Nomenkan gradually faded.

The fighter jets of the Japanese Army also took off frequently from the field airfields on the front line, using their numerical superiority to suppress the Soviet Union's inferior air force. In order to cover this huge attack, the Japanese army used a total of 400 aircraft of various types. Although it is much humbler than the scale of thousands of aircraft in Germany, it is definitely a big deal in a place like the Far East. up.

However, Ishihara Waner discovered a problem that made him desperate, that is, after having the experience of being abused by the German superior air force, the Soviet army was already terrified of losing air supremacy, so even the Japanese army The aviation force exerted all its strength, and it hardly had any huge impact on the ground forces of the Soviet Red Army.

In fact, the pressure on Ishihara Waner is still very huge. In order to entangle the Soviet armored forces, the armored forces in his hand and the 17th Division sent him several telegrams a day to complain to him. These troops have been defeated by the superior Soviet armored forces. She lost her temper after being ravaged, like a suffering little daughter-in-law, crying and shouting to go back to her mother's house to avoid the limelight.

In the end, the supreme commander of the Japanese army, Ishihara Wanji, finally pushed the second echelon reserve team in his hand onto the battlefield when he was close to the target. He replaced the 1st and 8th Divisions, which had been fighting hard for a long time, with the 9th and 10th Divisions. Then the 11th Division and the 1st Division were used to replace the 17th Division, which was on the verge of collapse, and the Japanese armored division.

Who would have thought that the armor strength that the Japanese army is proud of,

Still vulnerable to the junk out of the Soviet Union? Looking at those small tanks covered in rivets that almost escaped, Wanji Ishihara finally realized the gap between Japan and the mainstream military powers in the world.

Things obviously have a bright side. Which country's troops in the world can still fight to the death on the front line after losing two-thirds of their troops? If you think about it, there is only the imperial army of the Great Japanese Empire, right? At least in terms of spirit, Ishihara Wanji felt that the Japanese army was still invincible.

"Your Excellency, Commander!" Lieutenant General Takamasa Iseki, the commander of the 14th Division of the General Reserve, stood behind Wanji Ishihara, bowing his head while holding his command knife, and saluted: "Since the beginning of the war, our army has been as powerful as a broken bamboo, and I admire it very much. Commander-in-Chief, you use your soldiers like a god. When will we be able to fight the enemy and fight loyally for His Majesty the Emperor?"

"Ah, Jingguan-kun... don't worry, you and your division will naturally be useful in the future." Ishihara Waner stood in the temporary command tent, watching the black smoke rising from the battlefield, He replied with a smile.

There is no reason not to laugh, because under his command, although the Japanese army was in a hard fight, they also achieved a rare advance speed. The entire northbound cluster was advancing towards the hinterland of the Soviet Far East at a high speed of tens of kilometers per day, and even Hideki Tojo, who was about to find fault, shut his mouth. Most of the few high-level people in the base camp who know the situation already feel that only this "Satoshi Ishihara" can save the army of the Empire of Japan and take care of the entire Empire of Japan.

But history is cruel. In the telegram reported to the Moscow Kremlin by the General Command of the Far East Defense Forces of the Soviet Union, the Japanese army’s offensive was described in this way: “The advance speed of the Japanese army is twice as slow as that of the German army. With the means of weapons, our army has compressed its advancing speed within a controllable range, so don’t worry that the situation in the Far East will deteriorate further.”

In Cuikov's view, the Japanese army was attacking desperately forward, and this speed was the basic advance speed originally planned after the German army was seriously hindered. To put it bluntly, because of Cuikov's seriousness, the Japanese marching speed at full speed barely reached the advancing speed of the German army's fortified battle.

Of course, Ishihara Wanji doesn't know that there is such a huge gap between his troops and the German army, which has the world's most mechanized popularity. At this moment, he is still imagining that his troops can rush into Vladivostok, nibble a piece of meat in the hinterland of the Soviet Far East, and then complete a unilateral peace negotiation with the Soviet Union.

Ishihara clearly saw that on the Soviet-German battlefield, the German army had a high probability of eventually winning, while the defeated Soviet Union would lose its wealthiest territory. Taking advantage of the fire and looting at this time is very in the interests of the Japanese army. As long as the Soviet Union and Germany compromise, the territory acquired by Japan will be the territory of the Japanese themselves. The situation map he drew for the Japanese army is very clever: as long as Germany invades Moscow, the Japanese special envoy will negotiate with Germany and the Soviet Union at the same time to bring the relationship between the three countries back to a peaceful state-then the territory occupied by Japan , to achieve Japan's dream of dominating East Asia.

It can be said that Ishihara Wanji's plan seems to be more "feasible" than the Navy's plan to subdue the US Navy, because he decisively saw that Japan could not bring down the Soviet Union, so he decisively pulled in the former Soviet Union. The enemy of the ally today-Germany. Relying on a powerful Germany to defeat the Soviet Union, Japan's plan of action to take advantage of the fire is much better than the plan of the navy rolling up its sleeves and fighting the United States in an endless situation. At least Ishihara outsourced the work that the Japanese army could not do to Ah. Cardo's German Army.

Kimura curled up in the temporarily dug trench with his rifle in his hand, desperately enduring the Soviet defenders' machine guns flying over his helmet. Only now did he realize that the shooting skills he practiced so hard were actually just a way for the Army to save ammunition. It's just a way to save money.

Just like Chinese soldiers, China is a poor country, so guns are more valuable than human lives. This has also led to the combat habit of the Chinese army "would rather lie down for two seconds, but also protect the guns". Japan is not much richer than China, so submachine guns are a "luxury" that wastes ammunition for them, so that the Japanese army is rarely equipped with submachine guns.

This is why national conditions determine tactics, which is why Japan rarely equips troops with submachine guns, and this is why Japanese soldiers do not have semi-automatic weapons like the German g43 or the American m1. A tiny country that rose up by frugality, speculation and gambling, can achieve the achievements it has today, which can be regarded as a glorious ancestor. Can you ask them to do better?

The Maxim heavy machine gun of the Soviet soldiers on the opposite side even has an iron shield on the body. The Japanese Type 92 heavy machine gun with a very high gun body is really no way to compare with Maxim in terms of rate of fire. Even the Japanese themselves are too lazy to complain about the 92-type heavy machine gun. Compared with the Maxim 20 years ago, this weapon even has a gap...

Kimura saw with his own eyes that the shooter of the Type 92 heavy machine gun covering the infantry attack not far from his side was shot by the Soviets and fell down in the trench. When he staggered over to help, the shooter was no longer worth saving. .

Fortunately, because Kimura performed very well in the last battle, he was assigned to the machine gun team as a flank cover, so he didn't have to charge forward with the group of unlucky guys. So he can still breathe happily now, and most of those recruits have died on the way of charging.

The heavy artillery of the Soviets would pass by Kimura's position from time to time and land on the Japanese artillery position not far behind him. The Japanese artillery with only a small number of 70mm caliber 92 infantry guns was not the Soviet artillery with a large number of 122mm howitzers at all. Opponents, from the beginning of the battle, this artillery battle was just a "game" in which a group of RMB players in the Soviet Union "abuse food" unilaterally.

Seeing the Japanese soldiers bravely attacking the battlefield again and again, and finally being repulsed by the fierce firepower of the Soviet soldiers, Ishihara Wanji couldn't help but feel distressed. The artillery position a hundred meters in front of him had been destroyed by the Soviet artillery. The smashing made him feel more intuitively the gap in firepower between the two sides.

"Baga!" Shi Yuan couldn't sit still in the end, he decided to do something to be worthy of his name and the struggling soldiers on the front line. So he turned around and asked his adjutant angrily, "Where is Ishii's troops?"