Chapter 3172 How Did It Turn Out Like This?

After finalizing the plan with the political commissar, Malashenko, who was afraid that the Japanese devils might jump over the wall at any time, immediately took action.

Considering that there were many potential needs for persuading the Japanese to surrender in the war against Japan, the leader army had prepared a lot of persuading bombs for spreading leaflets before the southward attack.

The leaflets used to persuade the Japanese troops in the city to surrender were also prepared in a hurry. The first batch was rushed out in the afternoon and was immediately stuffed into the persuading bombs and delivered to the artillery.

Everything was ready, and Malashenko immediately issued a firing order to the ISU-152A self-propelled artillery unit that had already arrived and entered the firing position.

After receiving the news that "the Russians are coming", the Japanese troops in the city were already panicked. When they heard the sudden sound of artillery and whistling outside the city wall, they were immediately frightened like turtles and quickly found shelter nearby.

The fact that "Russian artillery is extremely fierce" has long been spread throughout the Kwantung Army like a plague and wildfire. Now even the ordinary soldiers of the Kwantung Army know it clearly.

It's not that the Kwantung Army Headquarters didn't care and let this bad news that hit morale and shook the army spread everywhere, but it really didn't have the ability and energy to do it.

Yamada Otozo, who was numbed by the corrupt war situation, basically lost the ability to effectively manage and command the various units of the Kwantung Army. Many times, he was even commanding the troops that had actually been destroyed by the Red Army based on the map, which was even worse than the twilight of San Dezi's doomsday.

The most important military command has become like this, and what will the management of the troops be like is actually predictable.

It is no wonder that all kinds of rumors that are not conducive to morale and shake the army's morale will spread so widely, especially when the Japanese troops in the city are basically young men and recruits.

"Mr. Ozawa, I heard that you fought with the Russians before. Is their artillery really as powerful as the rumors say? I heard someone say that the Russian artillery can blow down the entire trench with one shot. Is this true?"

The Japanese sergeant called Ozawa turned his head and looked at the guy with the same rank as himself. He was helpless and speechless when he heard the other party's idiotic question.

He also couldn't understand why even a new recruit who had been doing security work for half a year could become a sergeant now. Has the Kwantung Army really reached the point where no one is available?

"Isn't the whistling sound outside obvious enough? Listening to this sound, you should be able to guess the power of the Russian artillery. Isn't it difficult?"

Unlike the trembling and fearful recruits around him, Masao Ozawa is an experienced Japanese veteran, and a veteran who originally belonged to the Second Division.

It's funny to say that in the battle with the leader's army not long ago, the brigade where Masao Ozawa was located was rushed to pieces by the huge IS6 and IS7 heavy tanks not long after the battle started, and suffered heavy casualties.

The angry captain was unwilling to fail, and drew out his command knife and was about to personally command the counterattack.

Unexpectedly, a whistling Russian tank shell exploded not far away, and the captain, whose half of his body was blown to pieces, flew backwards on the spot.

Masao Ozawa, who was not far away, immediately took a few soldiers to check, touched the captain's pulse with his fingers, and then probed his nostrils, and found that he could still be saved, at least temporarily.

Masao Ozawa, who didn't have time to think about it, immediately found a stretcher, took the soldiers to carry the captain and sent him to the rear.

Thanks to his bow legs, he ran fast enough, and there was a three-wheeled sidecar motorcycle parked not far away, unattended in the chaos of war.

Masao Ozawa put the captain in the sidecar and rode on the motorcycle and started running wildly. He didn't find a field hospital along the way, but the Russian tanks and shells chasing him were getting closer and closer.

Masao Ozawa didn't dare to stop at all, so he could only flee on the three-wheeled motorcycle, and finally fled all the way to Harbin along the dirt road.

Masao Ozawa, who was covered in dust and blood, just got off the car and immediately called for someone to come and treat the captain.

But he didn't expect that the military doctor came up to check twice, rolled his eyelids, shook his head without doing any first aid, and turned away.

Masao Ozawa, who felt stupid, didn't react until then. The captain, who was left in the sidecar by him, had already died on the road.

It is not known whether he died from the serious injuries or from his own fierce driving skills. Anyway, he was already dead and I don't know how long he had been dead.

Fortunately, the superiors who had already become a mess did not pursue the matter too much, and Masao Ozawa was sent to the rear with other defeated soldiers for reorganization that night.

At that time, Masao Ozawa never expected that this would be his last chance to escape.

Upon learning that the Russian tanks rushed into the city early the next morning, all the remaining Japanese in the city had no chance to escape, and they were either killed by the Russians or became prisoners, Masao Ozawa was directly shocked and broke out in a cold sweat.

He smoked three cigarettes in a row to calm down, secretly sighing that he was too lucky, and it was probably because of Amaterasu's blessing.

The subsequent reorganization was also relatively smooth. Masao Ozawa, who had finally spent a few days of peace, was reassigned to the newly formed 198th Division and became a sergeant.

The newly formed 198th Division was nominally a reserve force newly formed by the Kwantung Army Headquarters, but Masao Ozawa could also see that.

This is not a proper field force at all, not even a reserve force.

The personnel are either new recruits or just conscripted soldiers, and the equipment is completely missing.

Except for rifles, which can be guaranteed to be one per person, everything else is missing, and many people don’t even have the most basic grenades.

As for more advanced weapons such as machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars, and infantry guns, let alone.

Masao Ozawa, who walked around the entire squadron, only found a Type 99 light machine gun, a crooked handle, and two grenade launchers that lacked sufficient ammunition, and they were brought down from the battlefield by other defeated soldiers, not newly issued when the troops were reorganized.

The above is all the infantry core firepower of the entire squadron. Masao Ozawa couldn’t understand where all the weapons and equipment produced by the Kwantung Army, which has the ability to produce weapons by itself, went.

Later, I heard from others that the Russian bombers had bombed almost all the weapons storage areas of the Kwantung Army within a few days after the war.

I don’t know why the bombing was so accurate and so deadly. It is probably because the air raid coordinates were marked in advance and waiting to be bombed. I don’t know who provided the information to the Russians.

But no matter what the reason, Ozawa Masao knew that the Kwantung Army was probably at the end.

Even a powerful unit like the Second Division was killed by the Russians without a single piece of armor left. Now they expect these muskets and cannons to resist the Russians.

Ozawa Masao, who has seen how powerful the Russians are, thinks that this is pure dreaming.