On August 6, the former General Command of the Battle of Stalingrad.

"Voice!" Through a chessboard, Lucoonki frowned and thought for a long time before finally picking up a piece in front of him and taking a step.

"It's my elephant eyes there. Do you guys think there are too many two horses?" Chu Sinan held a cup of tea, glanced at the chessboard leisurely, and then said disapprovingly.

"Oh, I can't stop!" Lukoonki covered his hands and said in pain, "This is simply torture. I know why Comrade Zhukov and others are not coming to the command center now. They are not busy with military affairs. They are simply tortured by you and dare not come."

"Oh? Is that true?" Chu Sinan blinked his eyes in shock and said with an innocent look.

Lucoonki nodded seriously, but didn't speak.

"Hahaha," Chu Sinan laughed loudly, put the teacup on the Chuhehan Realm on the chessboard, then stood up, stretched his waist and said, "That's it, I won't be able to stop it. In the future, some people complained about my abuse of my subordinates."

Chu Sinan was indeed a little proud at this time. You should know that when he was in the special forces in the southern country, he liked to play chess very much, but his chess skills were really not a big deal. In the army, it was a famous chess basket. Unexpectedly, now that the feng shui has changed, he became the best chess master in the Soviet army. Chess is easy to learn. As long as you remember the formulas such as "the horse goes to the day, the like goes to the field", you will basically make a few tricks. But if you want to win, it will not take a day or two.

During these days in the battlefield dispatching site, whenever he had free time, Chu Sinan would pester the people around him to come to this thing. As Lukoonki said, he was torture. In less than two days, Zhukov, Cuikov and Meletskov, who were originally interested in it, fled one after another. The only guard who was left unlucky was Lukoonki. Now, Lukoonki can't stand the torture.

Take out a pack of cigarettes from your pocket, take one and hold it in your mouth, and then ignite it with the match handed over by Lukoongi. Chu Sinan looked at the cloudy sky outside the command center, and exhaled his breath and said, "War. It's actually just playing chess, not torture the enemy. You will be tortured by the enemy."

"Then I would rather be tortured by the enemy on the battlefield than tortured by you on this chessboard." Lucoonki threw away the matchstick in his hand and said disapprovingly.

"Oh," Chu Sinan turned his head and looked at him, and then asked, "Why, do you want to go to the front line too?"

"I have this idea." Lukoonki hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "But I want to be a guard for you more. Oh, how good would it be if there was a choice between two things?"

"You little brat, you have a choice between the two." Chu Sinan laughed and scolded.

"Don't worry, I have a chance," Chu Sinan nodded after scolding, "But it's not now. The current war is too cruel. I don't want my friends to die on the battlefield."

Lukoongi nodded gratefully. He knew that Chu Sinan was right. The current war is really too cruel, and major-level officers like him had an astonishing death rate on the battlefield. Because of this, Elsa told him more than once that he should not ask for battle to go to the front line.

"When this battle is over, I think we will go to the Far East, where you have the opportunity to make military achievements on the battlefield." Chu Sinan continued.

"Far East?" Lukoongi was stunned, "Are we really going to go to war with the Japanese?"

Chu Sinan nodded, then took out a folded telegram from his military top pocket and handed it to Lukoongi.

"This is a telegram sent from Moscow five days ago, you can take a look."

Lukoonki took the telegram and read it carefully. The content on the telegram was very simple. The general meaning was that Moscow had expelled Japanese ambassador to the Soviet Union Miji and Matsuoka Yoeu, the agency, on August 2, on the grounds that in Manchuria, Japan, a bacterial warfare unit commanded by Shiro Ishii, plundered Soviet citizens on a large scale and used them to conduct inhumane bacteria experiments. For this reason, the Supreme Soviet Command made a decision that if Japan did not give a serious explanation, the Soviet military would take measures against the Japanese army stationed in Manchuria.

After all, the content on the telegram is too simple, and it is impossible to reveal the entire content of all the events, but Chu Sinan is very clear about a series of problems, because he has been paying attention to the situation in the Far East.

Just at the end of last month, an anti-Japanese coalition army in China crossed the frozen Heilongjiang and entered the Soviet Union, and was soon discovered by the outpost of the Soviet Far East Border Defense Military Region. In this team, in addition to some anti-Japanese war soldiers, there were some Chinese and Soviet refugees. After investigation by the Far East Border Defense Military Region, a sensational secret was revealed.

According to the oral accounts of those refugees, in Manchuria, a Japanese bacterial army code-named "731" has long been using living people to conduct inhumane bacteria experiments. Among these living experiments, not only Chinese people, but also large numbers of Soviets who were removed.

As a branch of the border defense force, the Far East Border Defense District has always been under the jurisdiction of the Security Committee. Therefore, Klyuchkov, who was specifically responsible for this work, received the news immediately and immediately handed it over to the Supreme Command.

This news is undoubtedly the best excuse for the senior Soviet army leaders who are planning to arrange war against Japan. Therefore, under the planning of the Supreme Command, this information was submitted to the Supreme Soviet Presidium. After only half a day of discussion, the presidium unanimously agreed that Japan's approach had caused great emotional damage to the Soviet Union and the people of the Soviet Union. In view of this, the diplomatic department should send a note to the Japanese government and urge it to deal with the incident seriously.

On July 30, the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs submitted a note to the Japanese Embassy in the Soviet Union, in accordance with the Soviet Union's request. The Japanese government must make an explanation on this matter within three days, and extradite the head of the bacterial army, the relevant personnel of the army, to be extradited to the Soviet Union for trial.

Regarding the Soviet request, Japan only gave part of the reply, that is, it could release Soviet prisoners in Manchuria, and could apologize for this matter and give compensation that satisfies the Soviet Union. As for other requests, it could not be agreed.

From the surface, the situation in the Far East began to intensify, but in fact, this hit the minds of the Supreme Command of the Soviet Army.

So in this situation, on August 2, the Soviet Union recalled the ambassador to Japan. At the same time, the Japanese ambassador to the Soviet Union was expelled. At the same time, the Soviet Far East Military Region, the Far East Border Defense Military Region, and the Pacific Fleet announced that they had entered a pre-war mobilization state. The main forces of the East Siberian Military Region and the latter Baikal Military Region also began to urgently mobilize to the east. For a time, the clouds of the war began to gather over the Far East.

For Chu Sinan, this was undoubtedly the result he expected to see. But in the eyes of the Japanese military, this was tantamount to a disaster.

This year is undoubtedly a crucial year for the Japanese militarist expansion war. On the Pacific battlefield, with a series of wars in the south and north, the Japanese navy has controlled most of the Pacific and South Pacific. In May, the Japanese Pacific Fleet raided the three major port cities of Pass, Adelaide and Brisbane in Australia, and invaded Australia's mainland. For the Japanese militarist government, occupying Australia and New Zealand plays a crucial role in the overall situation of the Pacific War. Geographically, Australia's permanent bases in the Pacific can become the most frontier positions to resist the US Navy. From the perspective of war resources, Australia's rich iron ore is the strategic material that Japan urgently needs.

In order to win Australia in the shortest time, the Japanese military had to recruit soldiers at home several times, but for Japanese island countries, the continuous recruitment from the country was almost impossible to support their national production. In order to solve this problem, the Japanese military had to order forcibly recruit soldiers from occupied areas such as North Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, etc. to supplement their combat teams in the Pacific. But then again, although the recruitment in this way was easy, the worries were obvious, especially those soldiers recruited from North Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. The Japanese Front Command had to be wary of them turning against each other in front of the battlefield.

The Pacific battlefield is becoming increasingly scarce, and at the same time, the situation on the Chinese battlefield is also becoming increasingly unfavorable for them. In the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression carried out by the Chinese, the war on the front battlefield has basically stagnated after 42 years. However, in contrast, the battle on the rear battlefield led by the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army has become increasingly fierce. The "eating" policy of the Eighth Route Army guerrilla zone commanded by the North China Garage Army has always achieved little success. The North China Garage Army Command requested the military headquarters several times to mobilize more Kanto Army troops to enter the pass, in order to clear the anti-Japanese forces of the Eighth Route Army in North China in the shortest time.

Originally, according to the plan of the Japanese military headquarters, they were ready to mobilize the Kwantung Army to enter the area south of the Great Wall of China to cooperate in combat in September. However, at this time, the Soviet Union, which had always been in direct participation in the Chinese war, suddenly had a complete change in attitude, and this change caught the Japanese military headquarters off guard.

Looking at Manchuria, the comparison of the military strength of the Soviet and Japanese troops in the Far East, I believe that any senior Japanese military general will feel numb. In Manchuria, after years of war, the Japanese Kwantung Army has been greatly reduced. Now, the total strength of the entire Kwantung Army is only nearly 600,000. What about the Soviet Army? Just one Far East Military Region has 400,000 troops, and the remaining ones, such as the Far East Border Defense Military Region, have 200,000 troops, and the latter Baikal Military Region has 200,000 troops.

The East and West Siberian Military Region has more than 300,000 troops. In this way, the Soviet Union could dispatch nearly 1.2 million troops in the Far East in a short time. In addition, they also have the largest Pacific Fleet. Although this fleet does not have an aircraft carrier, it is the fleet with the largest number of submarines in the world. In addition to the navy, the Soviet army in the Far East also has a total of six air fleets.

The combination of numbers is in the Far East and Manchuria. The troops of the Soviet and Japanese sides are not at the same level at all.

What to do? How to solve the critical situation facing the Manchuria region?

After continuous consultations, the Japanese military headquarters and the cabinet finally made a decision, which was to postpone the deadline of the war with the Soviet army as much as possible. At the same time, from all areas where troops could be recruited, they would mobilize troops to Manchuria as much as possible. Anyone could see that the Soviet Union's war against Japan was already imperative, and this incident was just an excuse for them to provoke a war.

In order to achieve the goal of postponing the war, the Japanese military had to make a decision to sacrifice some people.

On August 15th, just as the Battle of Stalingrad was entered by Chu Sinan, the Japanese negotiating team with Matsuoka Yoyou as the chief representative left Tokyo and arrived in Moscow by plane. There were also twelve backbones of the 731 unit. Among them, Shiro Ishii. Before leaving, Matsuoka Yoyou received the instructions that the negotiations should be delayed until mid-September, during which time, the negotiation team could consider any unreasonable requests made by the Soviet side. In short, it was to buy time for the outbreak of the Far East War and the Japanese troops who participated in the war.

On the same day that the Japanese negotiating team arrived in Moscow, Chu Sinan, who was in the front-line command of the Stalingrad Battle, received a message from his wife. At that time, as his guard, Lukoonki, apart from seeing the general's dark face, could not understand what he was thinking.

However, the day after Chu Sinan received the news, the front-line command of the Stalingrad Battle of the Frontier reached a high-frequency call with the Kremlin. Chu Sinan talked with Tukhachevsky, who had always valued him for a long time. No one knew what the two talked about, but soon after, Chu Sinan ordered the various legions under his command to speed up the attack on the front line of Stalingrad.

On August 26, just as the Soviet-Japan negotiations were underway, the Supreme Soviet Military Court of the Soviet Union issued a verdict on twelve Japanese soldiers led by Shiro Ishii. The Soviet soldiers who maintained the court seemed to have received some orders, and they blocked the Japanese defense lawyers with the regiment from the court. Therefore, in the absence of defense, the Supreme Soviet Military Court of the Soviet Union ended the trial after only half a day, and the twelve Japanese officers were unanimously sentenced to death.

Faced with such extremely unreasonable and barbaric trials, the negotiation team represented by Matsuoka Yoeuki raised a solemn protest to the Soviet Union, but unfortunately, no one paid attention to their protests.

Swobodne, a small Soviet city on the Sino-Soviet border, across the winding Heilongjiang River, this small city is far away from the Japanese Kwantung Army border outpost in Manchuria. This small city has always been the garrison of the 74th Infantry Division of the Soviet Far Eastern Frontier Defense Forces.

On September 1st, a drizzle of early autumn brought the first cold wave of the year to the entire Heilongjiang River Basin. The cold wind blowing from Siberia seemed to herald a new severe winter.

Under the escort of more than a dozen military vehicles, Klyuchkov, who had already put on his military coat early, came to the riverside post of the 74th Infantry Division. In addition to several senior generals from the border defense district, there were also the twelve Japanese officers who were about to be executed.

Klyuchkov jumped out of the car with a soldier's shoulder. He lit a cigarette for himself before turning his head and said to a thin middle-aged man behind him, "Comrade Pu'er Kayev, are you going to implement our plan here? Do you think it's all feasible?"

"Comrade Kryuchkov," Pu'er Kayev smiled slightly, took a pair of telescopes from the guards, handed them to Kryuchkov, and then said, "On opposite us is the 139th Division of the Fifth Army of the First Front of the Japanese Kwantung Army. This unit has always been unruly and has had countless conflicts with our border guard river patrol troops in the past two years. Therefore, it is really appropriate to implement the plan here."

"I hope so," Klyuchkov said expressionlessly, "I think I need to remind you Comrade Pu'er Kayev that the order from the Supreme Command is very clear, that is, to provoke military friction with the Japanese on your defense line, which is crucial for our next action. Well, as the first secretary of our Security Committee, Comrade Chu Sinan is particularly concerned about this matter. I think you should be able to understand the severity of this?"

"I understand, I understand," Pu'er Kayev said repeatedly, "I will never disappoint the Supreme Command, and of course, I will not disappoint Comrade Chu Sinan."

"Then let's start." Klyuckov squirted out a sip of smoke, then waved his hand casually.

"Yeah!" Pu'er Kayev turned around and winked at a staff officer behind him. The latter immediately understood and turned around and ran away.

Taking advantage of this kung fu, Klyuchkov took the telescope and looked at the Japanese outpost opposite the river through the two observation holes. On the other side of the river bank, a group of Japanese Kanto soldiers wearing steel helmets and carrying marching bags were performing a river bank patrol mission, while not far from the river bank, a patrol boat with a plaster flag was slowly swimming with a stream of black smoke.
Chapter completed!