I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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When Chiang Kai-shek launched April [-], Blucher asserted that "the Chinese army (National Revolutionary Army) will undergo a complete geological change, degeneration, and degeneration" because this army "is no longer a steel army that belongs to the working people and believes in Bolshevism. Army", but "reduced to a corrupt white army obeying the orders of bureaucrats, capitalists, and big landlords." However, on the current battlefield in the Far East, the Nanjing Army's strong combat effectiveness, tenacious fighting spirit, and tenacity in fighting will make the Bliuchel was taken aback, because the Nanjing Army was unstoppable and fearless when attacking, and was indestructible and never retreated when defending. It was not a "degenerate and rotten White Army" at all.

In fact, the Nanjing Army's attack on the Soviet Army was not "students challenging the teacher". The Nanjing Army was born out of the entire National Revolutionary Army and was a part of the National Army in name. There are fundamental differences between military and military, not only in terms of weapons and equipment, territory, financial resources, command, etc., but the most important thing is ideology.

The Nanjing Army's ideology is "national interests first, national righteousness first", and the Nanjing Army's operational purpose is to "fight for the country, for the nation", and there is no capitalism or Bolshevism.

An army that understands that it is fighting for the country, its family, and the nation is naturally an invincible army with firm beliefs (or beliefs).

In the final analysis, even Chiang Kai-shek’s national army has erased the stigma of Bolshevism after April [-], not to mention the Nanjing Army, which started anew on its basis, and the Soviet Army, which was trained with Bolshevism at the beginning. The National Revolutionary Army is completely irrelevant.

The dangerous situation of Bliucher at this time is inevitable. First of all, Bliuher himself is no longer the fearless "soul of the Far East" before. He, who has been imprisoned, is bound to die. Although he escaped because he was ordered in danger, he has been on the brink of death and suffered torture, ill-treatment, forced confession, and humiliation in prison. In the midst of deep fear, he was cautious and timid, did not dare to make any "political mistakes" again, and no longer had the courage to dare to open up and move forward in the military before, and his command style became more and more conservative and negative. Make meritorious deeds and only seek no faults", so the Soviet army on the Far East battlefield behaved mechanically and rigidly, without flexibility. The great "artistic processing" led to Stalin, the supreme commander of the Soviet army, making a huge misjudgment of the situation in the Far East thousands of miles away, and finally formed a vicious circle; It is not the former Soviet Red Army, which was vigorous and experienced after the Red and White Civil War, but a weak army that was almost destroyed by the Great Purge, as Blyuchel wrote in his diary: "...a large number of middle and high-level The military officers were suppressed, and the combat effectiveness of the troops deteriorated sharply. When the war went well, it was okay, but once it fell into a bad situation, those new officers would be at a loss, and the troops would be in chaos because of this. Their military quality and ability As a result, the serious shortcomings of the army were fully exposed, and brought great harm to the troops, so that as long as the battle did not go well, the troops might fall apart.

They don't know how to fight at all. Although they are absolutely politically loyal to the Soviet, loyalty cannot replace military command ability after all.

Frustrated, blocked, or counterattacked by the enemy, all they can do is brandish their pistols and shout slogans, and lead the equally bewildered soldiers into a desperate, useless battle like trying to catch ducks. Without correct and effective tactical means, soldiers died in vain one after another.

Even a senior officer at the level of brigade commander and division commander cannot even come up with a battle plan to organize troops to seize a hill that is firmly held by the enemy in the shortest possible time with minimal casualties.

This is the most fundamental reason why our army is in such a situation on the Far East battlefield!"

With a battered army led by a demoralized marshal, it is clear that the odds of victory are slim, not to mention that the two enemies are very powerful.

On the Heixi battlefield, the Soviet army was in a dilemma. The situation was like a wolf before a tiger. There were more than 20 Japanese troops (deducting casualties) to the east and more than 35 Nanjing troops (deducting casualties) to the west. The total strength of the Chinese and Japanese coalition forces was about [-]. In fact, the Soviet army is about the same. It is reasonable to say that the Chinese and Japanese allied forces launched the most powerful attack together. It is very possible to completely annihilate the Soviet army. However, neither the Chinese nor the Japanese army launched a large-scale active attack. , there are three reasons. First, the Soviet army in the encirclement is basically the main force of the Soviet army in the Far East (the Nanjing army fought in Kulun and Manchuria were all second-rate Soviet troops). The tragic victory of killing [-] enemies and at least [-] losses, since the Soviet army can be trapped to death, there is no need to force the attack, just delay the time; second, although the Chinese and Japanese armies have joined forces, they have hardly cooperated, and neither side wants to fight against the enemy. To take chestnuts out of the opponent's fire, they are worried that the opponent will take the opportunity to pick peaches when they attack by force, so it is safest to fight defensively; third, the Chinese and Japanese troops want to preserve their strength.

Fighting offensive wars consumes much more than fighting defensive wars. The data is the clearest: Nanjing Army bought 98k rifles from Germany, one for about 90 U.S. dollars, equivalent to 1000 yuan in legal currency, which is almost equivalent to a year for a farmer with 1 acres of land Income, bullets are 5 dollars for 25 rounds. To put it bluntly, in China at this time, a bullet is at least equal to [-] catties of rice or [-] eggs.

It is by no means an exaggeration to say that wars burn money.

Therefore, from the perspective of war costs, neither the Nanjing Army nor the Japanese Army is willing to continue to fight to the death with the Soviet Army.

After completing the interception and siege of the Soviet army, the Nanjing Army and the Japanese Army calmly turned from offense to defense. In Qiqihar, the Japanese army dug trenches everywhere. In Manchuria, the Nanjing Army and hundreds of thousands of former migrant workers mobilized by the Nanjing Army were also everywhere. Dig trenches and implement an "iron cage blockade" against the Soviet army.

Realizing that they were in an extremely dangerous situation, the Soviet army was naturally unwilling to sit still, and then launched a fierce counterattack, trying to rush out of the front and back of the Chinese and Japanese coalition forces. Even if the Japanese positions in the front were successful and broke through, they would still rush to the territory of Heilongjiang Province, a foreign country. The Soviet army needed to return to Soviet territory, and of course broke through westward.

On the night of October 10, the Soviet Army launched its first large-scale breakout attack against the Nanjing Army. The reason why it was chosen at night was to prevent the Nanjing Army from taking advantage of its air superiority.

After careful and sufficient preparations, Bryuchel judged that since Manzhouli is located on the northeast edge of the Mongolian Plateau, the place is a vast wilderness with very few towns and sparsely populated areas. There are almost no mountains and rivers, and the Nanjing Army will intercept them. Their troops must be on the open ground. As long as they concentrate their armored troops and cavalry to launch a joint attack, give full play to the advantages of the mobility and impact of tanks and war horses, and concentrate their forces on one point, they can rush out. Therefore, almost all the tanks and cavalry of the besieged Soviet army were concentrated, more than 800 tanks, more than 3000 armored vehicles and cars, and more than [-] cavalry, which were gathered into a powerful shock force.

Manzhouli, which had been razed to the ground in the previous two wars, once again ushered in a war of discoloration (the first battle of Manzhouli was attacked by the Soviet army and defended by the Japanese army, and the second battle of Manzhouli was the withdrawal of the Soviet army and the interception of the Nanjing army. ).

After night fell, the area east of Manzhouli shook like thunder, and more than [-] Soviet troops rushed in like a flood, launching a breakout attack like a sinking boat.

Naturally, such a huge movement of the Soviet Army cannot be concealed from the Nanjing Army. The Nanjing Army's reconnaissance planes, special forces, scouts, spies and other means of spying on the enemy's military situation have been baptized by the Sino-Japanese War and are already very mature, so it is very clear that the Soviet Army An extremely powerful counterattack is about to be launched, and then the best preparations are made for the right medicine.

At ten o'clock in the evening, when the Soviet army swept in mightily, the Soviet army was shocked to find that there were three anti-tank trenches and a wall like a Great Wall lying in front of them. It stretches like a giant dragon on the Mongolian plateau.

It is obviously difficult to build a large-scale fortification on a vast and sparsely populated wasteland. Firstly, there is a lack of sufficient construction materials, and secondly, it is difficult to dig soil due to the cold weather, but the Nanjing Army has a way .

More than [-] officers and soldiers of the entire army and hundreds of thousands of former migrant workers worked together to cut down trees, harvest dry grass, and light fires. There are no big rivers and rivers nearby, but there are still creeks, small lakes, and puddles, and the water has already formed. The thick ice, officers, soldiers and migrant workers smashed ice to get water, put ice cubes and ice water together in iron pots, iron buckets, lunch boxes, kettles, helmets and other available containers to boil ice water, and boiled water to melt the ground In the permafrost, anti-tank trenches, trenches, foxholes, etc. were excavated, and the hot and humid soil dug out was "strike while the iron is hot" to build a series of criss-cross bunker walls. Each "wall" is one and a half meters high. One meter thick, ranging from hundreds of meters to thousands of meters long, connected end to end, with distinct layers, leaving a traffic trench in the middle.

In the cold wind and low temperature, the soil melted by boiling water was molded into parapets and city walls, which quickly froze and became solid like cement concrete. Machine gun bunkers or mortar positions were built every ten meters of the city walls.

In just a few days and nights, an impenetrable field line of defense appeared in the wilderness of Manchuria.

To put it bluntly, this method is to use soil instead of cement to pour the fortifications. The strength and hardness of the re-frozen soil at low temperatures are not inferior to cement at all, just like Cao Cao "mixed soil with water and poured ice cities" on the Xiliang Wasteland.

When the Soviet army came to attack on a large scale, the Nanjing army had already established a "Great Wall" on the position.

Although it was already aware that something was wrong, the arrow was on the string and had to be launched, and Blyuchel had to order an attack.

"Kill the thief!" Seeing the Soviet army roaring in the dust, Zhang Fakui, the front-line commander of the Nanjing Army, yelled and ordered. When fleeing China, he wrote a letter to persuade him to "join the CCP and participate in the Nanchang Uprising." Zhang Fakui, who was somewhat pro-CCP in politics at the time, hesitated, but he still did not take that path.

Today, Zhang Fakui is deeply grateful for his original choice.

"Fengtian kills the thief! Give me back my rivers and mountains!"

"Down with the Soviets! Take back the land!"

"Revenge for Hailanpao, Jiangdong 64 Tun and other dead compatriots!"

The earth-shattering Chinese roar resounded in the cold night and wind of the Mongolian plateau.

The Soviet army's breakthrough attack on Manchuria made the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army feel like they were fighting the Japanese army, because the tactics of the two were almost the same, they were all crazy attacks. Facing the defense line of the Nanjing Army, the Soviet army was like a tide Like waves coming up one after another, there is no retreat, one after another, a steady stream, "Hurrah!" In the Russian slogan repeatedly chanted by Soviet soldiers, tens of thousands of Soviet troops poured down like mudslides. However, the Japanese army's offensive tactics were very strong, while the Soviet army's purely human wave tactics, soon in front of the rock-solid and impregnable defense line of the Nanjing Army, it was like a wave crashing on the breakwater, splashing Open countless bloody storms.

There was thunder and lightning in the fighting area. The Soviet army that rushed over first stepped on countless landmines one after another, and blood and flesh flew across the scene. Landmines are defensive weapons, and they are of high quality and low price. Countless landmines were planted in front of the defense line, and the continuous lightning and thunder resounded through tens of kilometers of the front line. It is full of holes, and it also affects a large number of friends around.

On the battlefield, the effect of killing the enemy is better than killing the enemy, because the screams of the wounded soldiers will cause a great blow to the morale of the comrades, and rescuing the wounded will weaken the opponent's attack power and consume the opponent's manpower and medicine Resources become a burden to the other party.

The Soviet soldiers who rushed into the minefields of the Nanjing Army did not die too many, but they were injured a lot. Thousands of soldiers fell in a pool of blood, desperate for life, dying, howling incessantly, and then either died of severe injuries or bled to death or alive Die painfully or die in the hail of bullets on the battlefield, or be directly trampled and crushed into flesh by the horseshoes of your own cavalry and the tracks of tanks coming from behind.

The charging Soviet army, with armored soldiers and cavalry as the main force, covered the mountains and plains, overwhelming mountains and seas, and then stopped in front of the Nanjing Army's defense line.

The artillery group of the Nanjing Army bombarded the Soviet Army crazily. Amidst the earth-shattering sound of the artillery, the ground of the Nanjing Army artillery group was blazing like torches, and the flames soared into the sky. Pound shells blew up pieces of Soviet cavalry, including men and horses, into ashes. The Soviet cavalry who were blown to the ground by the explosion of the shells had no time to shout, and were quickly trampled into flesh by the horseshoes of their own cavalry rushing up behind them. Mud, stumped limbs and broken arms were flying all over the sky, bloody viscera and heads were shockingly rolling everywhere, amidst the strong smell of blood and the pungent smell of gunpowder smoke and sulfur, the follow-up Soviet cavalry rushed forward in a situation where they had no choice but to mobilize Charge like moths to a flame.

The Soviet tanks attacking with the cavalry were in the same situation as the Soviet cavalry, as if they had fallen into a sea of ​​​​fire and hell. Some Soviet tanks were crushed by landmines and were blown up, and some were driven into anti-tank trenches and could not survive. When they moved, some were covered and blown up by the Nanjing Army's artillery fire, and some were destroyed by the Nanjing Army's anti-tank guns, turning into groups of burning steel wreckage scattered on the battlefield.

The intensity is beyond description.

"Fight! Fight hard!" The officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army were all red-eyed. The battlefield was full of flames. Boundless, there are more behind them, layer upon layer, still this dense team charging side by side, accompanied by hysterical roaring "Ulla" calls.

The officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army roared and hit the Soviet army head-on with a storm of powerful firepower. Tens of thousands of rifles, submachine guns, machine guns, grenades, mortars, infantry guns, and howitzers... were on the Nanjing Army's defense line A firepower net like a rainbow burst out, and countless blazing white lights flashed, rushing towards the Soviet army imperviously, killing the Soviet army on their backs and leaving their corpses like hemp.

The Soviet army's corpses piled up like a mountain on the Nanjing Army's position, and the follow-up Soviet army continued to charge by stepping on the corpses of their own troops.

In the overwhelming firepower net, Soviet tanks burst into flames one after another, and Soviet cavalrymen convulsed and danced wildly one after another like electric shocks. The screams of people and the wailing of horses converged into a deafening sound wave. The smell and the pungent bloody smell suddenly rose together.

The Soviet cavalry who rushed to the front were almost all cut off by the bullets. Rows of broken human bodies and horse bodies gushed out streams of blood and fell to the ground, and the heads beaten into rotten watermelons were scattered everywhere. Rolling, the meat-like minced meat and broken internal organs flew like cherry blossom petals in the sky, completely submerged in the sea of ​​blood.

All the Soviet cavalry who came to the front of the Nanjing Army's position were blood men and horses, but they couldn't rush through. The Nanjing Army's earthen wall defense caused a large number of Soviet cavalry to stumble and fall to the ground. Follow-up Soviet cavalry continued to swarm Countless Soviet troops were crushed to death by their own accomplices.

On the entire battlefield, human corpses and horse corpses piled up like mountains, and blood flowed like rivers.

Originally, cavalry were rampant and invincible on flat ground, but they were naturally insurmountable in front of the city wall.

The picture in front of the Nanjing Army's position is simply an elegy for the cavalry: dead cavalry and horses piled up like a mountain, dead men and dead horses piled up higher and higher at a rapid speed visible to the naked eye, one layer, two layers, three layers... Subsequent Su The army cavalry had to climb and charge on the pile of corpses mixed with people and horses. The injured cavalry fell to the ground and wailed and squirmed, and was trampled into flesh by the own cavalry who rushed up from behind. The disorganized cavalry even collided with each other. The dead cavalry was dragged by the wounded horses and ran wildly around the battlefield.

The Soviet soldiers who were shot in the head and torso by bullets rolled to the ground like leaves in a storm. Their heads were smashed to pieces by the powerful force of the bullets, and their bodies were directly blasted with blood holes the size of washbasins. They were hit by bullets on their arms or legs. The Soviet army at the bottom was torn apart and danced with limbs.

Thousands of glaring bullet marks sprayed from the Nanjing Army's position were like arcs of electric welding, sweeping back and forth and across the Soviet cavalry group repeatedly. Wherever the fire and flames went, the Soviet army turned into a rain of blood mist and flesh in patches, and the crowds and horses rolled down at a rapid speed and turned into puddles of rotten bones. The dead bodies are intertwined, and the mess is everywhere.

The charge of cavalry riding on a horse has far more momentum and inertia than that of infantry charging with two legs.

If infantry are deserters, they can turn around and run away. Cavalry cannot turn around and escape in this collective charge. It is difficult for a horse to rein in when it is sprinting at full speed. Knocked over by other cavalry rushing up from behind, the Soviet cavalry who had already realized that there was a dead end in front of them could not turn around and escape at all. meat grinder.

On the battlefield of Manchuria, which turned into hell, the roars of Nanjing Army officers and soldiers, the sound of strafing, the sound of artillery firing, the slogans of Soviet cavalry, the sound of horseshoes, the screams of wounded cavalry, and the wailing of wounded horses... shook the whole world. night sky.

The fire sea defense of the Nanjing Army only lasted two to three 10 minutes before it came to an abrupt end. The reason is very simple, there are not so many shells.

Zhong Song, the commander of the 77th Division who supervised the battle, sternly ordered the officers: "Even if you use bayonets, you must fight!"

After the artillery shells were exhausted, the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army bombarded the Soviet army with flying thunder cannons, and smashed the Soviet army crowd and Soviet tanks with dense grenades and Molotov cocktails. Numerous Molotov cocktails flew on the battlefield and caused a meteor shower. , Hundreds of Soviet tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed. Many officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army who had completely run out of ammunition even took up bayonets and rushed towards the Soviet cavalry and Soviet tanks.

At the same time, the tank troops of the Nanjing Army also launched a counter-charge, and the troops were divided into two routes to outflank the Soviet army's two wings, cutting across the middle and rear of the Soviet army like two pliers in a vise.

Hundreds of tanks formed an unstoppable storm of steel. Wherever they went, the steel was burning, flesh and blood were flying, and they were frantically strafing and bombarding. Amidst the roar of the soldiers and the billowing blue smoke from the exhaust pipe, they rushed towards the Soviet army fiercely, rampaging in the Soviet attacking team, smashing into the air and killing a large number of Soviet troops. Crazy.

Fang Peilun, commander of the 918st Battalion of the 1th Regiment, said afterwards: "A war horse weighs three to four hundred catties, and a stout Soviet cavalry weighs almost two hundred catties, adding up to five or six hundred catties, or three hundred kilograms.

Our tanks are more than ten tons, twenty to thirty tons, and the No. 40 tank I am in weighs more than [-] tons, and our tanks are made of steel. The Soviet cavalry and horses are made of flesh and blood. The results speak for themselves.

After rushing into the crowd of Soviet soldiers, I felt that there were many people knocking on the door outside our tank. The heavy and dull sound made people get goosebumps all over.

When our fuel was exhausted to the point where we could retreat, we drove the tank away from the battlefield, then opened the hatch, and found that our tank was completely wrapped in a mass of flesh and blood, the tank armor was dripping with blood, and the tank tracks were broken The meat was like mud. In some places, a severed hand, a piece of internal organs, an intestine, and a piece of scalp were found, some of which were human and some of which were horses.

The most disgusting thing is that because the tank has been running at high speed, the armor on the engine is very hot, so that the minced meat that falls on it has been roasted, emitting a disgusting 'aroma'.

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"Kill! Kill! Kill!" "Ulla! Ulla! Ulla!" The shouts in two languages ​​lasted all night. The Soviet army's breakout charge lasted all night. The officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army who lived in the positions were all dumbfounded, because what was presented to them was a scene like Shura’s purgatory. They had no time or enough light to see when fighting at night, but now they can see everything at a glance: dead people and dead horses, countless dead people And dead horses, countless fragmented dead people and dead horses, piled up all over the mountains and plains, densely packed, layered on top of each other, so many that you can't see the edge at a glance, the earth is completely covered, there are mountains and seas of corpses, piled up corpses, scattered The dead bodies were like sand dunes in the desert. There were so many dead people that every officer and soldier of the Nanjing Army who saw this scene felt a shocking psychological impact.

The blood flowed into a river, and the pool of blood in the blood river and blood pool had turned into pieces of red, frozen ice.

The low temperature and cold wind made these corpses frozen solid, and the fallen corpses were frozen as hard as stones and stuck together, and the ground was completely red.

The officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army who had ended the battle stood up carefully from their positions, and walked to the corpses of Soviet troops everywhere with their guns pointed.

There were very few wounded in the Soviet army, because after being injured and bleeding in such a cold night, the body temperature would be quickly taken away by the low temperature, and then they would freeze to death.

According to statistics, more than 500 Soviet soldiers died, and more than 1000 Soviet tanks, more than [-] Soviet armored vehicles and cars were destroyed. The Soviet troops who participated in the war were all the best of the Soviet army, which put the Nanjing Army under great pressure. The defense line was repeatedly breached by the Soviet army on a small scale. The Soviets escaped.

After the battle was over, the officers and soldiers were exhausted and happily cleaned the battlefield. The corpses of the Soviet troops were all abandoned on the spot. Anyway, it was cold and would not rot. It would be troublesome to dig pits and bury them. Although horse meat was not tasty, it was better than nothing, and it could be used as military rations. If the Soviet army's vehicles could be repaired, they would be dragged back to be repaired, and those that were completely damaged would be abandoned in place.

When cleaning the battlefield, the officers and soldiers understood why the Soviet army regarded death as home as the Japanese army, because the Soviet army had their own machine gun positions behind them, and the Soviet troops who ran back were killed by their supervisors.

This Manchuria breakout battle consumed most of the tanks, vehicles, and cavalry of the besieged Soviet army, which further led to the doomed doom of the besieged Soviet army.

After this battle, Blucher's face was pale and he didn't speak for a whole day. He knew that he and his troops were doomed.

On the Heishi battlefield, the Chinese and Japanese allied forces basically had a certain chance of winning, but the key to this battle was not in Heishi, but in Irkutsk, hundreds of kilometers away.

In Irkutsk, the 74th Division of the Nanking Army was fighting a fierce battle that was more intense than the Battle of Manzhouli.

Chapter 445

It's cold, snowy and windy, on a certain section of the Siberian Railway, more than 100 kilometers west of Irkutsk.

A Soviet train was helplessly paralyzed on the railway like a giant snake frozen in a blizzard. Thousands of Soviet troops were busy on the railway in front of the train. , overlapping craters were replaced, the railway track was twisted like a twist, the rails were scattered in the snow like overturned matches, and there were also a series of craters in the nearby forest, with towering trees around or in the middle of the craters Broken, falling apart, or staggering radially.

Apparently, this is why the train can't go on, because the railway here has been bombed not long ago.

"Comrades! Work harder! It must be repaired within three hours!" On the edge of the busy Soviet crowd, a colonel urged loudly, then turned to another colonel and complained cursingly, "Damn Chinese! We met No.20 five times along the way! Their planes are blowing up the main line of the Siberian Railway! We have to move forward while repairing the road!"

"The vanguard has found out that there are still [-] sections of the railway that have been bombed from our place to Irkutsk!" Another colonel nodded distressedly, "The main line of the Siberian Railway is too important, but it is too Fragile! Chinese planes can easily blow it up to be riddled with holes.

Fortunately, a blizzard is coming, and their planes can no longer be dispatched!"

"I hope this blizzard can last forever, otherwise, railway transportation is really too difficult!"

"Of course it will continue, it's December and the Siberian winter is very long..."

The two Soviet colonels who were talking did not notice that three pairs of black eyes were staring at them behind a snowdrift in the forest less than 100 meters away from them.

These are three scouts from the Nanjing Army, and one of them is Zhang Jinglu, the captain of the Nanjing Army Scout Corps.

The scouts were perfectly camouflaged, wearing very thick cotton-padded jackets and white cloaks outside, and their helmets and weapons were also painted white, so that when they lay down in the snow, they completely blended in with the snow, almost invisible. may be found.

The scouts of the Nanjing Army are already a very mature unit, and have been fully popularized in the Nanjing Army. Each regiment has a reconnaissance company directly under the regiment headquarters, and some battalions of key troops have independent reconnaissance companies or reconnaissance platoons. They are the eyes and ears of the main force, and they detect and spy on the enemy's situation in advance for the main force.

After the 74th Division attacked Irkutsk, it sent hundreds of scouts to start reconnaissance work. The scouts were scattered in the wilderness around Irkutsk, some within a few kilometers near the city, and some Even advancing to a place hundreds of kilometers away from the city, most of the scouts followed the Siberian Railway all the way west, because when the Soviet army counterattacked Irkutsk, they would inevitably follow the Siberian Railway all the way east.

There are at least 100 scouts from the 74th Division in the area of ​​more than 74 kilometers of the main line of the Siberian Railway west of Irkutsk. A steady stream of information was sent to the headquarters of the [-]th Division.

"Send a telegram to the division headquarters!" Zhang Jing watched the Soviet army not far away without squinting, and at the same time ordered the communication soldiers around him. With large-caliber artillery, the number is estimated to be more than thirty, with eight wagons of shells!"

After dictating the order, Zhang Jinglu secretly sighed: "Old Maozi really has a soft spot for cannons! There are so many cannons! As far as I know, there are more than 300 large-caliber and heavy artillery! Lao Maozi's industry is indeed not small. Devils can match it!"