Yukito Sato was very confident in his troops' ability to fight at night, especially after learning that the 3rd team of the 73rd Regiment, the last reserve team of the division, had also arrived on the battlefield, his confidence was extremely strong.n∈

At around 8 o'clock that night, under the cover of light rain, all the members of the 2nd Brigade of the 73rd Regiment were dispatched, and slipped down Zhanggufeng in the dark and moved towards the Heishan Highlands. It should be said that the Japanese army's night combat ability was indeed not a problem, at least the Red Army could not catch up with it at that time. Since leaving Zhanggufeng and reaching the foot of the Heishan Highlands, the Japanese army's actions were not discovered by the Red Army.

Seeing that there were only the last two hundred meters left, Sato Yukito, who personally directed the night attack, licked his lips and ordered left and right: "Start up and prepare for the attack!"

Just as Sato Yukito was speaking, a fireball suddenly burst out dozens of meters ahead of him, and then a violent explosion exploded in his ear. Before Sato Yukito could figure out what was going on, explosions rang one after another, and many Japanese soldiers were inexplicably blown into sieves.

"What's going on! Who is exposed?" Sato Yukito shouted angrily.

However, no one can answer his question for the time being, because more than a dozen flares rose from the top of the Black Mountain Highlands, illuminating the entire hillside into white. Then the light and heavy machine guns from various fire points of the Red Army fired violently, and more than a dozen flames instantly knocked the Japanese army that had climbed up and charged to the ground.

This is not the worst. What's worse is that the Red Army's artillery reacted very quickly. The mortar team specially used to support the Montenegro Highlands opened fire violently. For a moment, the Japanese were firmly nailed to the hillside and could not move.

"Baga!"

Morimoto Shinoki, who was observing the battle on the other side of the Tumen River, saw this scene from his telescope. He cursed and ordered his artillery to open fire immediately. He had to suppress the Soviet artillery anyway. Otherwise, Sato Yukito's troops would go and fight dogs without going back.

The Japanese artillery hidden on the west side of Tumenjiang River immediately opened fire. It violently bombarded the peaks of the Montenegro Highlands and the Soviet mortars hidden behind the Montenegro Highlands. However, they only fired a salvo, and immediately terrified the counterattack of the Red Army's long-range artillery. 152 mm and 203 mm heavy artillery quickly suppressed the Japanese field artillery.

At this time, Yukito Sato had just had time to order the troops to retreat. As the saying goes, it is easy to go up the mountain and it is difficult to go down the mountain. The Japanese soldiers on the hillside could hardly raise their heads in front of the Red Army's superior firepower, and could only lie on the ground and climb backwards. Don't mention the awkwardness.

"Let the heavy machine guns on Zhanggufeng cover Sato Yukito, hurry!" Morimoto Shinoki gave another order.

Zhanggu Peak is much higher than the Black Mountain Highlands. The heavy machine guns on the top of Zhanggu Peak can hit the Black Mountain Highlands, but the Japanese army dare not do this during the day because the Red Army has air superiority. Once they find their machine gun fire points, they will dive and drop bombs, and these fire points will be knocked out in minutes.

There were not so many concerns at night, but what the Japanese army did not expect was that their firepower support did not suppress the Soviet army on the Black Mountain Highlands, but was stunned by the opponent's powerful firepower.

The Japanese army captured after the war, Ichiro Suzuki, recalled: "The Soviet army in the Montenegro Highlands had extremely fierce firepower, and we made our heavy machine guns effortlessly hoarse. The rows of bullets that hit us easily penetrated our field fortifications. Many machine gunners were knocked into two pieces when they hid in the fortifications..."

So what secret weapons did the Red Army use? In fact, it is not a secret weapon, it is nothing more than anti-aircraft machine guns. Li Xiaofeng had predicted that the Japanese army would attack the Black Mountain Highlands. In order to enhance the firepower of the defenders, he airlifted the four 14.5mm zpu-2 anti-aircraft machine guns from the Anti-Air Artillery Battalion of the 32nd Infantry Division to the Black Mountain Highlands by helicopter, and their mission was to suppress firepower.

It has to be said that these four dual-equipped zpu-2s played a huge role, almost sweeping the Japanese firepower points. In fact, Li Xiaofeng once wanted to transport the 37mm anti-aircraft guns and use them to shoot them flat.

Under the suppression of the four gate zpu-2, the Japanese heavy machine gun on Zhanggufeng quickly turned into a mute. Sato Yukito's troops could only retreat in a mess without any cover, and were killed and injured more than 200 people along the way. This directly led to the 2nd Brigade of the 73rd Regiment basically losing its combat effectiveness.

This failure hit the Japanese army very heavily. When the advantageous night battle also lost its effect, they no longer knew what else to defend their positions. Especially in the second half of the night, when the Soviet army also started night battles, the Japanese were really mixed with emotion.

The Red Army's night battle was different from the Japanese. The ones involved in the night battle were still combat engineers. The scale was not as large as the Japanese, and they were basically at the platoon level. But although they were small in scale, their lethality was not small. Fire spurts, cloud bombs, grenades and explosives were eroding the Japanese army's positions little by little, and the accumulation was quite considerable.

Once the Japanese army is unwilling to be squeezed away little by little and launch a counterattack, the anti-aircraft machine guns and mortars in the Black Mountain Highlands will fire violently. With such a combination of punches, the Japanese who have always been good at night battles are almost unable to fight back, so that the Japanese who have always been good at night wars are eager to dawn earlier.

However, the Japanese were not good at dawn. The Red Army's air force and artillery continued to bombard their positions throughout the day, suppressing them to no avail. So much so that Morimoto asked the Korean Army Command for air support more than once.

Is the Japanese Air Force capable of supporting Zhang Gufeng? Unfortunately, after the baptism of the Spanish Civil War, the Red Army's air force almost undergoes complete transformation. A large number of excellent pilots have grown up, and the performance of the fighter has also been greatly improved. The new fighter jet represented by Jacques-1 firmly controlled the air supremacy, preventing the Japanese from crossing the line.

To be honest, this is the Far East Red Flag Front. If it is replaced by the Baltic Front, the Belarus Front and the Ukrainian Front, it will really blow up the Japanese chrysanthemums.

So even though the Japanese fighter planes fought hard to get close to Zhanggufeng, they either returned without success or were destroyed by the plane. This deeply stimulated the Japanese and allowed the Japanese to speed up the development of new fighter planes.

Returning to the ground battlefield, after capturing the Montenegro Heights on July 13, on July 14, Li Xiaofeng selected the key target of the attack as the 52th Highland southeast of Zhanggufeng. The 39th Infantry Division occupied the highland in just two hours with the support of air-ground firepower. However, just like after occupying the Montenegro Heights yesterday, the 39th Infantry Division did not continue to attack Zhanggufeng, but chose to defend the strengthening position on the spot.

This time, Sato Yukito on Zhanggu Peak was stunned. He did not expect that the Soviet army suddenly became so shameless and patient. The battles in the past two days were completely different from those in the past three days. The Soviet army in the past three days were like a slutty Zhang Fei, and the Soviet army in the past two days was as quiet as a virgin.

If Sato Yukito had the choice, he would definitely choose a Soviet army like Zhang Fei. The current "mother" style of the Soviet army really made him feel uncomfortable.

"Col. Will you still attack at night?"

Facing the inquiry from his subordinates, Sato Yukito smiled bitterly: "Forget it, Lucia's ghost beast has raised its vigilance, and night attacks will not be useful. Let the soldiers rest more and prepare for tomorrow's hard battle!"

Sato Yukito had realized that tomorrow would be a tough battle for him, but what he didn't expect was how painful this tough battle would be. In the early morning, Zhang Gufeng's Soviet army first began the harassing operation, constantly eroding the Japanese positions like last night. The difference was that yesterday, there was only one anti-aircraft machine gun fire support from the Montenegro Highlands, and tonight, even the zpu-2 anti-aircraft machine gun was installed.

The 14.5mm explosive bombs and armor-piercing bombs shot from two aspects made the Japanese almost unable to look up. The fierce battle was dawn, and the Soviet army on Zhanggu Peak had reoccupied nearly half of the positions. The situation was already extremely bad for the Japanese, and they had no power to fight back. As long as the Soviet army continued to use the same tactics, at most they would throw away Zhanggu Peak in three days. Once Zhanggu Peak was lost, no defenders on Shacao Peak would run away.

Otaka Kamezo could no longer sit still, and kept generating electricity to Takataro Nakamura, demanding that reinforcements be sent immediately. The problem is that Takataro Nakamura could send reinforcements. There is only one 19th Division in the Korean army. Now the entire division is trapped in Zhanggufeng. He can't let him take his troops directly under his command to the front line in person, right?

In desperation, Takataro Nakamura could only kick the ball up and respond to the request of Takagito Hiroshi to the General Staff Headquarters, which gave Miyamiya Miyato's headache.

On July 14, after learning of the "unsuccessful" battle of the 19th Division, Xianyuan Gong Zairen sent a telegram with a very special wording to the Kwantung Army, asking the Kwantung Army to conduct a field training, located at Zhanggufeng.

Why use the name of night battle training? It’s very simple. Zairen, the Xianyuan Gu, dare not report the news of the “unsuccessful” of the 19th Division to Hirohito. Once Hirohito knew that the Japanese army suffered a great loss on Zhanggufeng, no one would be able to swing immediately. So he could only sneak up on the 19th Division.

However, Zairen, the Xianyuangong, thought the problem too simply. As the main force of the Japanese army was trapped in the Chinese battlefield, the Kwantung Army was also mobilized a lot of troops, and the Kwantung Army had no time to take care of Zhang Gufeng with the existing forces. Because they were about to mobilize, the Independent Red Flag Army of the Far East Red Flag Front, which was confronting the Kwantung Army, and the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance Army of Xing'an Province, immediately took action and began to put pressure. Suddenly, the Kwantung Army did not dare to move and could only stay in place honestly.

On July 15, the third day after the shooting of Apanesechenko, Li Xiaofeng once again convened commanders of the Far East Red Flag Front Army and above to hold an operational meeting.

Compared with three days ago, the officers were much better, and the smooth progress of the battle reduced their pressure. In addition, when compared with Apanasenko, someone's way of commanding the battle was much softer. There was no such command tone as Apanasenko, nor did he interfere with specific tactical commands. Someone just made a general arrangement, and paid great attention to listening to the opinions of subordinate officers in specific combat methods, which made the officers of the Far East Red Flag Front, who were suppressed by Apanasenko's paternalistic style feel like a long drought and rain.

Not only is he very open-minded in command, Li Xiaofeng also did not make a big fuss in politics, unlike Mehlis who always exaggerate or put up a hat. On the contrary, he has been reducing pressure on the officers, always emphasizing that there is no psychological burden and not worrying about being punished for the unsuccessful battle.

With such a two-pronged approach, the commander of the Far East Red Flag Front Army finally began to perform at a normal level, which also made the battle smoother and the losses were smaller.

However, in this harmonious atmosphere, Li Xiaofeng put forward a new requirement: "Now the main force of the enemy is only Zhang Gufeng and Sha Caofeng. It is only a matter of time for us to recover lost ground. In this case, we should adjust the battle goals. Our army should aim to wipe out the enemy's 19th Division at the opposite end, and strive to give the enemy the heaviest blow at one time, so that they will not dare to step beyond the line in the next few years..."

Li Xiaofeng's request made the senior commanders of the Far East Red Flag Front Army very embarrassed, because the previous order of the Military Commission was there - not preparing to cross the border. Although someone had captured the Black Mountain Highland before, this was also a cross border, but this kind of small-scale crossing is completely different from the nature of tyrannical crossing of the main force across the Tumen River and annihilated the enemy. If the Military Commission really wants to pursue it, who will take this responsibility?

"I will bear the responsibility alone." Li Xiaofeng knew very well what the generals were worried about. He resisted the responsibility without hesitation. "Now, let's talk about the specific battle plan. After resting, the 32nd and 40th Infantry Divisions and the 2nd Mechanized Brigade crossed the river from the upper reaches of Zhanggufeng, and surrounded the enemy's 19th Division from the side..."

In fact, Li Xiaofeng's combat plan is nothing new, and it can even be said to be very simple and has no technical content. In summary, it is just a four-word word for roundabout encirclement. Some comrades may think this is too simple. Isn't it a bit of a joke?

It is not a joke at all. Now the main force of the 19th Division is trapped in Zhanggufeng. There are no extra field troops outside the division's direct troops on the other side of the Tumen River. For the Soviet Army, as long as you bravely cross the Tumen River and intersperse quickly, the next one is a good day of eating meat with big stutters, which is not difficult at all.

In fact, what restricted the Soviet army from annihilated the 19th Division of the Japanese Army was not a military issue, but a political issue. It was the instructions of the Military Commission that tied up the Soviet army's hands and feet. Now that Li Xiaofeng cut the rope, the next battle was almost certain.

“Comrade Felix has arrived in Vladivostok.”

After the military meeting, Yakov said to Li Xiaofeng. Li Xiaofeng knew very well what Yakov said, and it was actually to let him be more at ease. Don’t grab the iron-faced man at this time, and it would be better not to disobey the instructions of the Military Commission.

Li Xiaofeng patted Yakov on the shoulder and smiled and said, "You don't know Comrade Felix very well. Although he is called Iron Face Man, he is not always ruthless."

Yakov was a little confused. Anyway, he had never seen Derrensky for personal gain and abuse of power, and he did not believe that the Iron Face would be open to Li Xiaofeng. So where did Li Xiaofeng's confidence come from?

It's very simple. Li Xiaofeng saw through Derrynsky. All the fairness and justice of this person has a prerequisite - to safeguard the overall interests of the Soviet Union and the Soviet people. In other words, when attacking the enemy, he can "betray for personal gain" against his own people.

What Li Xiaofeng does now is in line with this premise and will not be polite to the Japanese Derrensky, so even if Li Xiaofeng clearly violated the resolution of the Military Commission, as long as it is beneficial to the national interests of the Soviet Union, Derrensky will turn a blind eye.

Sure enough, when Derzhinsky received the order from Li Xiaofeng to cross the border to attack the Japanese army in Vladivostok, he had no expression at all, which shocked his good apprentice Susnov.

"Comrade Felix, Comrade Andre is blatantly violating the instructions of the Military Commission, and doing things indiscriminately. You should definitely stop him from doing anything wrong!"

Derrensky took off his reading glasses, looked at Susnov and said, "Comrade Mikhail, I ask you, what is a mischief?"

"Uh..." Susnov was stunned. He soon realized that Li Xiaofeng's behavior was probably not called "a mistake" for Derrensky, "But, the instructions of the Military Commission?"

"Have you heard the word "Yi Shiyi"?" Derrensky asked calmly. Without waiting for Susnov to answer, he explained to himself: "The Military Commission made the instructions in the first place, but now the situation has changed. If we mechanically adhere to the previous instructions, it would be called dogmatism and would take no time to annihilate the enemy."

After a pause, he said earnestly: "It is true that Comrade Andre has many problems and many problems. But in the face of safeguarding national interests, he is dedicated to his duties. His current judgment and decision are the most appropriate way to safeguard national interests. In this case, we do not need to stick to the rules and regulations to create obstacles. If we do so, it will harm our national interests."

Suslov was a little confused. He seemed to have figured out Derzhinsky's persistence for the first time. This iron-faced man has been using the most appropriate way he thought to safeguard national interests throughout his life. This is something he cannot do for the time being. The so-called "persistence" and "selflessness" he had shown before seemed to be at a lower level. There are still many places he learned from Derzhinsky.

Looking at Susnov who was thinking deeply, Derrensky showed a rare smile on his iron face. To be honest, he could have come two days earlier this time to the Far East, but on the way, he chose to recall Susnov who was working in the place to work, in order to provide a final education for this young man he is very optimistic about. There are some deeper concepts and means that it is time to teach Susnov.

Taking a breath, Derrensky suddenly asked: "Do you think Comrade Andre's accusation against Apaneseko and Meheris is indeed true?" (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better and faster!

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