Chapter 3146 Someone Failed to Escape

Although the Kwantung Army Headquarters had received the news of the destruction of the Second Division, it was the farewell telegram sent by Lieutenant General Okada Taketake, the commander of the Second Division.

But according to Yamada Otozo's idea, since the Russians were able to annihilate the Second Division and defeat the Second Division's supporting action forces, the entire Japanese battle mobile reserve was completely defeated in a short period of time.

Then the losses suffered by the Russians in this process should not be small, at least compared with previous battles, and greater than the losses after fighting with the Kwantung Army's regular divisions.

Although this will not lead to the collapse of the Russian campaign offensive, it should not be expected to be so much.

But it seems that the Russians will need at least some time to reorganize their troops, and wait for supplies to arrive after a major battle before launching a new offensive.

This process may be as short as two or three days, or as long as ten days and half a month, and during this period, their own defense lines and control areas should be safe, at least temporarily safe.

In fact, under normal circumstances, Yamada Otozo's thinking and reasoning were indeed correct, and even for ordinary Red Army tank army-level units, this kind of predictive analysis can be applied.

But the key to the problem is that the leader army is not ordinary, and it is far beyond the common sense cognition of the Japanese army at this stage. The heavy combined army of various arms is not something that the Japanese army at this stage can understand.

Based on completely wrong judgments, understandings, and reasoning, the final result was even more wrong.

After solving the second division in a few minutes, the leader army not only still has strong offensive energy.

And as the military chief of the leader army, Malashenko has clear goals and firm determination. He has a clear grasp of the overall situation and accurate judgment. In a very short time after the battle, he immediately made the decision to continue to move forward and pursue the victory.

One side not only fought badly, but also fought in a confused and unclear way, while the other side fought well and fought clearly and step by step.

What will be the result of the comparison between the two? It can only be said that this is completely predictable.

Yamada Otozo almost couldn't hold on the moment he received the bad news, and finally collapsed on the chair. It took him a long time to recover. The first moment he pulled himself together, he suddenly thought of something and hurriedly asked the chief of staff beside him.

"Consulate, how is the evacuation operation of the consulate going? Have all the consular staff been evacuated now!?"

"This!?"

The chief of staff was also suddenly shocked when asked by the commander. A more terrible bad news to Yamada Otozo was then said reluctantly but had to be said.

"No, no. Commander, the evacuation operation has only been partially carried out so far, and many consular staff are still stranded in the consulate and the city."

"Ah! Baga!!! These damn Russian pigs!!!"

Yamada Otozo was so angry that he gritted his teeth and trembled, but it was not convenient for him to vent his anger on the chief of staff and the people around him.

After all, if we really want to say who is to blame for this problem, it has to be him, the highest military commander of the Kwantung Army. He made a major mistake in predicting and analyzing the battle situation, which led to the current situation where he was so angry that he was half dead.

The Japanese consulate, which was originally scheduled to be basically evacuated today, can no longer be evacuated. If the Russians who roared into the city with tanks early in the morning can really let them go, Yamada Otozo thinks that the Russian commander may have a serious brain disease.

"Hey, why are the Russians attacking so fast? And they almost don't need to take additional rest. Why is this? What went wrong? Why?"

After yelling nonsense and not working, Yamada Otozo realized that his behavior was not much different from that of a monkey in a tree, so he stopped helplessly.

He began to nag at himself and think about how those Russians achieved such a super-fast attack that he couldn't understand at all.

After thinking for a long time, there was no further movement. The chief of staff, who had been by his side without interrupting his thoughts, did not speak until then.

"Commander, what should we do next?"

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Feeling that his mind was in a mess, Yamada Ozo could hardly think of any good ideas, but saying nothing and doing nothing was not a solution.

In desperation, he could only utter a sentence that even he felt was very meaningless and almost equivalent to fart.

"Update the battle map and cross out all the areas occupied by the Russians. As for the specific combat deployment adjustments, let me think about it carefully."

"Yes, Commander."

The chief of staff ran to draw the map with a heavy heart, knowing that he had no right and no need to laugh at the commander, whether in public or in private.

The war situation has developed to this point, and it is an obvious fact that it is completely out of control, but everyone tacitly agrees with each other, and actually does not want to say it or is not convenient to say it.

Even if someone else were to take Yamada Otozo's position now, he would not be able to perform better or do a better job than him. On the contrary, no one dared to take that position because it was too hot.

What should we do next? No one knows. Not only Yamada Otozo doesn't know, but no one in the entire Kwantung Army headquarters knows.

Because once you say "know", you must face the bitter fruit of failure and destruction, which is too difficult to accept.

At the same time, Malashenko, who had no idea and no interest in knowing what was going on in the Kwantung Army Headquarters, had just driven to the outskirts of Harbin and looked at this beautiful city that he had visited several times in his previous life.

Because it was not an ancient city with a long history, Harbin did not have broad and thick city walls outside the city like those ancient capitals of the past dynasties, which made it easier for Malashenko to look around before entering the city.

"This city looks prosperous and large in scale. No wonder you say this is the first big city liberated after the Red Army went south."

Within the field of vision, Malashenko saw many Western-style buildings. When he heard what the political commissar beside him said, he immediately put down the telescope in his hand and smiled.

"Let's go. I heard that the vanguard troops caught a bunch of Japanese who didn't have time to escape in the city. Let's go in and see what the situation is."

Malashenko didn't know in advance that there were still so many Japanese devils in the city who didn't have time to escape.

It's just that based on the principle of speed being the essence of war, the troops are required to advance as fast as possible as long as they are capable of doing so. It can only be said to be a pleasant surprise that they have blocked a large nest of Japanese devils at the moment.