Carrying Chu Sinan's tanks finally drove through the empty field at the front of the team amid the cheers of thousands of soldiers, which also marked the arrival of the last time of the battle.

"Beep!" The sound of flutes sounded on the cruiser came again, and after that, there was a sharp and harsh whistle signal. Amid the whistle in the sky, the commanders of the troops who were originally standing in front of each square formation turned sideways in a neat manner, raised their right arms, and pointed at the ships on the sea not far away.

"Fast, speed up!"

"Hurry up! Your parents are waiting for news of your meritorious service..."

"The great Soviet, the great leader is waiting for the news of your meritorious service..."

"Glory belongs to you, defeat our country's enemies and completely destroy them..."

In this or that slogan, batches of soldiers braved the increasingly dense drizzle and flocked towards the ships like surging tides. They would set out from here, cross the straits for dozens of kilometers, and attack the coastal defense positions in Japan.

Some people say that "soldiers are the craziest gamblers in the world." This sentence is true in some ways. The bargaining chips of these "gamblers" are their lives, and what they want to win is only the honor brought by their military achievements. If they talk about how great their hope of winning is, no one can say it. However, from the facts of the entire World War II, among the Soviet Red Army, who were killed and injured millions, the soldiers who survived and eventually won this honor could only be described as a drop in the ocean. Now, these more than 200,000 Red Army soldiers are about to go to the battlefield with their surging ** again. In this drizzling day, a large number of them are destined to be unable to return to their own territory.

Standing on the turret of the tank, Chu Sinan quietly watched the torrent of soldiers pour into the ships that were like the mouth of a demon, and the expression on his face gradually became serious. After pondering for a while, he jumped off the tank and walked straight to Cui Kefu on one side, took out a cigarette from his pocket and lit it, and then asked: "How long will it take for us?"

Obviously, Chu Sinan was asking the crossing forces to cross the strait and how long it would take to arrive at the opposite battlefield.

Looking at the watch, Cui Kefu said: "In one hour and twenty minutes, our general attack will be launched. If it goes well, probably before dusk today, our second wave of troops should be able to board the enemy's beach. However, before that, our paratroopers and glider troops should have arrived at the rear of the enemy's positions. If their attack can succeed, then my landing operation will be greatly reduced."

The two were talking, and a buzzing roar came from the gray sky with rain curtains. Chu Sinan subconsciously raised his head and looked into the sky. In the coolness brought by the drizzle falling on his cheeks, he saw a large group of transport aircraft flying straight to the south under the cover of more than a dozen fighter planes. That was a sign of the departure of the paratroopers.

Chu Sinan has never directly commanded paratroopers to fight. He has never had any contact with soldiers of this group of soldiers, but from the bottom of his heart, he has always believed that paratroopers are the bravest and strongest group of many groups of soldiers. Their combat environment is always so harsh. Just like the words of Mr. Winster in the "Brother Company": "We are paratroopers, and we were originally surrounded." For paratroopers, in addition to artillery shells, they are destined to be the first ground troops to enter the enemy's defense line.

"This battle must start a good start," Chu Sinan muttered after looking up at the sky and watched the planes carrying paratroopers gradually disappear from sight. "I like a good start, that's a good start, Comrade Vasily, what do you think?"

After Chu Sinan finished speaking, without waiting for the latter to give a reply, he took a step forward and walked towards the jeep in the distance as if leisurely. Behind him, Cui Kefu looked solemn. He knew that the commander was putting an invisible pressure on him. Whether from a military or a political perspective, the start of this battle must be fought well, otherwise his future prospects will be greatly affected.

The flight of less than 100 kilometers is a very short distance for the Air Force, but for the paratroopers who are about to commit to the fierce battle, this distance is very long. For a large number of them, this may be the last distance they have to pass in their lives.

Less than half an hour later, the Soviet military aircraft group entered Japanese airspace in three directions. The Japanese coastal air defense forces on the Yanei Airport Defense Line, the Soyashi County Sea Defense Line, and the Yoshige County Sea Defense Line, began to use anti-aircraft guns and other air defense weapons to strike the Soviet air forces. In the military and technical environment of World War II, the most favorable weapon against air force fighters is always and can only be their own fighter jets. The substantial effect of anti-aircraft guns is not great, which is known to everyone. But what makes the Japanese army quite embarrassed is that their air power is very limited, so that in the face of large-scale air strikes by the Soviet army, they can't even come up with an air force that can form a resistance force to fight.

At 8:15, the empty troops arrived at the designated location. In the southern part of Onuma Lake behind the Japanese coastal defense line, the Soya Branch Office and the Fieldland area, a large number of paratroopers descended from the sky. Their main combat mission was to first seize combat strongholds in these three areas, and then carry out assaults on the rear wing of the Japanese coastal defense line to the north, so as to cooperate with the landing operations on the front battlefield.

There is no doubt that this was a tragic paratrooper landing battle. Because the airdrop time was during the day, they were too obvious as the target of the Japanese attack. Faced with the crazy Japanese shooting on the ground, a large number of unlucky soldiers became a corpse floating in the air before landing on the ground. Some of the paratroopers landed in the southern part of Onuma Lake fell straight into the lake, and eventually drowned in the lake under the drag of equipment and parachutes. As for the soldiers who were lucky to land safely, the danger they had to face was far from over. Next, they had to complete the assembly of the troops before being surrounded and strangled by the Japanese army.

As early as when the Soviet army finally captured the Korean Peninsula, the Japanese military headquarters had already felt that the enemy had launched an attack on the local area. In order to prevent it in advance, the military headquarters sent three divisions of the Second Front to head north on the basis of retaining the original five divisions in Hokkaido. The most important thing is that in the face of the upcoming war failure, the right-wing forces led by the military headquarters began to become even more crazy. They carried out so-called "special offensive propaganda" in the country. They called on 100 million citizens to stand up and use the spirit of special offensive to defend the local area. What is the "special offensive spirit"? It is the spirit of death like the so-called "Kamikaze Special Offensive Team". At the cost of their own territory and life, they launched a suicide attack on the enemy.

Due to long-term influence by the so-called "Bushido Spirit". Coupled with the instigation of stubborn militarists, those who were burned by fanatical militarism also began to become crazy. In this case, the Soviet paratroopers who were put into the battlefield in advance not only faced the encirclement and attacks of Japanese soldiers, but also had to beware of the attacks of ordinary people dressed in civilians. Whether men, women, elderly or children, as long as you give them a chance, they will use everything that can cause harm to attack you, earthen guns, machetes, stones, wooden sticks, everything is a weapon. Obviously, in the face of such a battlefield, the Soviet paratroopers could not achieve the expected results in attack. In this regard, the Soviet paratroopers did not start well. As the commander, Cui Kov did not consider the complex situation on the Japanese battlefield in advance, which directly led to a large number of inaction casualties of the Soviet paratroopers.

While the paratroopers were put on, the Soviet air force began to bomb the Japanese coastal defense line at Soyao Cape and the Japanese ships in Soyao Bay in the rain. At that time, due to a series of failures on the Pacific battlefield and the continuous attacks of the Soviet air force, the number of surveillance the Japanese army had was extremely limited and could not form a strong maritime defense force at all. Most of the Japanese ships deployed near Hokkaido were transformed by civilian ships and were purely suicide-oriented.

In addition, some people called "Return to the Sky" were fucking torpedoes. Of course, in order to save money and to highlight Japan's national character, the torpedoes used by the Japanese army were very different from those used by the Italians. The Japanese army should be named "Return to the Sky". They did not prepare to give the torpedo operators the return capsule for escape, so once the sneak attack mission was completed, the torpedo operators would return to the west with their "weapons".

The Soviet air strikes effectively destroyed the Japanese surface ships anchored in Zonggu Bay, but they were unable to effectively strike the people under the water. There is no doubt that this poses a certain threat to the upcoming landing operations.

At about 9 o'clock in the morning, the Soviet military cross-sea transport ship arrived at the outer waters of Zonggu Cape under the escort fleet. Immediately, under the cover of a large number of carrier-based artillery artillery fire, the Soviet landing ships began to carry out beach landings on the long coastline in Zonggu Bay.

Due to the previous large-scale air strikes, the Soviet landing operations were no longer hidden. The Japanese coastal defense forces entered the position early and relied on solid fortifications to carry out fierce blocking of the Soviet landing forces.

The drizzle continued, and on the open beach in Zonggu Bay, Soviet transport ships braved the dense Japanese artillery fire and rushed to the Shanghai beach almost crazy, throwing teams of wet soldiers onto the battlefield.

There is no doubt that in the past year, the Japanese army has invested no effort in the defense of the coastal areas of Hokkaido. Because the coastal terrain of the Sogokui area is wide and there is no dangerous defensive terrain, the Japanese army has built a large number of trench defense belts supported by bunkers as fire points in this area. At the front of the defense belt, that is, at the beach, there are a large number of reinforced concrete quads set up to block the landing of armored vehicles. These quads are densely distributed on the beach, like dead tree stumps standing up from the ground. Never underestimate these iron piles without lethality.

Although these obstacles cannot cause harm to landing troops, the mines buried densely in the barrier belt are all fatal. Behind this "jungle barrier belt", are Japanese infantry trenches blocked by barbed wire. In these trenches, a large number of Japanese infantry curled up like local bumpkins, which can effectively kill and attempt to climb the enemy on the beach. Behind the infantry trench position is an anti-tank trench that is six meters wide and four meters deep. Its function is to continue to effectively block the defense fortifications that are advanced by local armored troops after the isolation belt is removed by enemy engineers.

In this way, the armored troops were promoted with trenches, the infantry positions were used to block the opponent's infantry assault, and the fortifications cooperated with all parties to block the attack. Such a large-scale defense zone, one after another, became the biggest bargaining chip for the Japanese army to rely on. It is obvious that it was not easy for the Soviet landing troops to break through these defenses.

The landing battle at the beach that started at 9:00 was lasting for two hours. In the drizzle, batches of Soviet soldiers climbed the beach, like the tide around them. They rushed to the Japanese infantry trench positions one after another. The sounds of gunfire, mines and lands explosions, the roars and groans of soldiers sounded on the entire open beach. These sounds gathered together, like a song of "Ode to Harvest" from hell.

During the two-hour battle, the Soviet army paid a heavy price. Dozens of landing ships were sunk by Japanese artillery fire. The most serious thing was that the "Kirov" cruiser in the battle was also injured by a Japanese man torpedo, and had to withdraw from the battle in advance. Because the paratroopers from the rear of the enemy's positions did not cooperate with the pre-set paratroopers from the rear of the enemy's positions, the battle of the landing troops was quite difficult. The beach had turned blood red. The bodies of Soviet soldiers were filled with the bodies, and the first batch of troops that logged into the beach were almost all killed on this beach. The soldiers who followed up on the beach could actually find a hiding point in the pile of corpses to avoid the Japanese firepower.

With just these two hours of combat effectiveness, the Soviet army lost tens of thousands of soldiers at five landing sites, but only one result was achieved, that was, it swept away the minefields set by the Japanese army in the Foreshore. However, this was obviously not a result that would make the commanders proud, because these minefields were all breached with the lives and bodies of soldiers. To be honest, the explosion of each mine means that one or even a few lives would disappear forever.

The battle situation on the front line reached Cui Kov's ears at the first time. Of course, the commander-in-chief would definitely not be satisfied with such a result. Not only that, he also felt quite anxious in his heart. Don't forget that Chu Sinan, as the commander, is now in the Far East, and the two-hour battle was like this. Although he didn't say anything, Cui Kov would never naively think that the other party had no idea.

In order to achieve breakthrough results as soon as possible and reverse the disadvantages of the initial stage of the battle, Cui Kov ordered all air teams to increase their attacks on the Japanese coastal defense line, in order to destroy the Japanese artillery and bunker fortifications to the greatest extent. At the same time, he ordered the naval forces to capture the two islands of Liwen and Lishi, so that based on these two islands, they tried to carry out feint attacks on the defensive positions on the Tianyan line of the Japanese army and mobilized the troops to deploy as much as possible.

After Cui Kov's order was issued, the Soviet air force obviously increased its investment. A large number of bombers filled with high-explosive bombs and dive bombers filled with incendiary bombs took off from the six temporary airports of the Soviet army at Cape Krilyon, and rushed to the Japanese positions on the other side of the strait in a drizzle.

As the air force increased its investment in the battlefield, the battle situation on the landing ground began to change subtly. When the high-explosive bombs exploded on the Japanese position with the fragments of the firing, the Japanese artillery that was originally hidden behind the defense line quickly fell to its wrinkle. The torn soldiers' bodies and broken steel artillery bodies flew around the artillery positions as the air fighter planes dived. Faced with these killers flying in the air, the artillery that could only provide fire support to the battlefield ahead, obviously became the lambs to be slaughtered. However, compared with them, the infantry hidden in the trenches were obviously even more miserable, because what they were facing was able to

It is enough to ignite the scorching incendiary bombs on the positions in an instant. Whenever a incendiary bomb falls into the trench from the air, the flames that rise into the air and flash with white light can flow into the tunnel in an instant. The Japanese soldiers buried in the "bonfire" carry flames all over their bodies, either crying and twitching in the tunnel, or struggling to jump out of the tunnel, running around on the positions flowing with gunfires, until they are burned to death or killed by stray bullets. What does corpses mean, what is life worse than death, what is Avici Hell, the flames spread by the incendiary bombs can fully interpret their meaning for everyone.

With the strong cooperation of the Air Force, at 12 noon, the Soviet army's beach grabbing operations finally achieved initial results. At several landing sites, the Soviet army successfully captured some small landing sites. Immediately, after breaking through the first infantry defense line of the Japanese army, a large number of engineers rushed to the beach, clearing obstacles as quickly as possible, and filling anti-tank trenches.

During this stage of battle, the Soviet army's successful troops were equivalent to carrying out effective massacre of Japanese infantry. The remaining Japanese infantry in the infantry trenches, even the wounded soldiers who lost their resistance, were shot mercilessly, and their bodies became the best material for landfilling anti-tank trenches.

At 2 pm, after successfully repelling the second counterattack of the Japanese army with tanks, the first Soviet army's armored force successfully landed. At 5 pm, two armored divisions and four independent artillery battalions boarded the landing ground of Sogo Bay, Japan's mainland. At this point, the Soviet troops who were snatching the beach had the support of heavy firepower, and the seemingly solid defense line of the Japanese army began to become no longer terrible.

When the news reached the Far East Battle Command, Chu Sinan, who had been waiting for a long time, couldn't help but jump out of his composure in front of many generals. For him, this news had been longing for too long.

At 6:00 p.m. on July 20, a spokesperson for the Moscow Kremlin issued an announcement, claiming: "The brave Red Army of the Soviet Union, who joined the Republic, successfully landed in Hokkaido, Japan an hour ago and wiped out more than 47,000 Japanese defenders on the front line of Soya Bay... This is by no means a battle, on the contrary, it is just the beginning of this battle... We do not accept any conditional surrender of the Japanese government... Our goal is Tokyo..." , !
Chapter completed!