I am Jiang Weiguo in World War II

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Konev's military ability is basically equal to that of Zhukov. The difference between the two is that Zhukov is more daring and adventurous, while Konev is calm and cautious. Therefore, Zhukov won more battles, but also lost more battles than Konev. Zhukov seldom lost battles, but the results were not as good as Zhukov.

Facing the current situation, Konev was a little hesitant. He was inclined to launch a counterattack in Cheremkhovo. However, he also felt faintly uneasy. He knew that the Soviet army, which had suffered repeated defeats in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, was really Unable to afford another defeat in North Asia, this sense of responsibility to the country and the army forced him to be extra cautious.

(In the original history, after Konev served as the commander of the Western Front of the Soviet Army, according to the deployment of Stalin and Zhukov, he commanded the troops to actively attack the German army, but fell into a bitter battle and lost. Later, he was transferred to the commander of the Northwest Front of the Soviet Army and learned a lesson , unwilling to make risky mistakes, and refused to launch an active offensive when the conditions were not ripe, which angered Stalin and dismissed him.

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"Try it, launch a medium-scale, high-intensity counterattack!" Konev finally decided, "If the results are satisfactory and the progress is smooth, we might as well consider launching a full-scale counterattack!"

This "medium-scale, high-intensity counterattack" by the Soviet army started on the night of August 8. Konev, who decided the time for this counterattack, may not have thought that this day is the Chinese Ghost Festival. Of course, this is just a coincidence .

At 7 o'clock in the evening, not long after it was dark, a series of dazzling signal flares suddenly flew up in the Soviet-controlled area opposite the Nanjing Army, followed by thunderstorm-like shelling, and the Soviet artillery units began a large-scale attack. shelling.

More than 400 large-caliber artillery and more than 1000 small- and medium-caliber artillery with a long range roared towards the Nanjing Army-controlled area together, roaring towards the area controlled by the Nanjing Army. The sound of the explosion shook the battle zone even more.

Amidst the loud noise of the sky falling and the earth cracking, the sky collapsed and the earth was turned upside down in the area controlled by the Nanjing Army. After waves of heavy shells fell, pieces of land the size of a basketball court or a football field were directly blown up, and the bomb craters were scorched. Not a single blade of grass grew, and the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army who had no time to hide in the trenches were wiped out in groups. The fortifications exposed on the surface collapsed one by one, and the earth trembled violently like a major earthquake.

In the area controlled by the Soviet Army, the Soviet officers and soldiers waiting for the attack shouted excitedly when they saw their own artillery fire turning the area controlled by the Nanjing Army into a sea of ​​flames.

In just half an hour, the Soviet army poured more than 2 shells of various types into the area controlled by the Nanjing Army. The intensity, intensity, and density of the shelling were unprecedented.

For this counterattack, the Soviet Army called it "Sharp Knife Counterattack", while the Nanjing Army called it the "Battle of Ghost Festival". Compared with the Soviet Army's name, the Nanjing Army's name was more appropriate, because there were countless deaths on both sides that night.

Chapter 480 Fighting Kitano (3)

Konev, who was born as a political officer, has unique advantages in motivating morale and ideological work, which is also one of his advantages over Zhukov.

Before the "knife counterattack", Konev and Susaikov, the political commissar of the Eastern Military Region, drafted a mobilization circular to inspire the army, and issued it with Order No. 7 of the Military Commission of the Eastern Military Region. The content of the mobilization order is as follows:

Glorious Red Army soldiers, commanders, and political workers, the time has come to punish the despicable Chinese aggressor army harshly, resolutely, and justly!The Chinese invaders and robbers treacherously attacked our peaceful homeland, destroyed our cities, and humiliated our great people.

Under the successive leadership of Comrades Lenin and Stalin, we lived in a peaceful environment and built factories, collective farms, state farms, schools and universities with tenacious labor. All of us have already obtained the fruits of our great labor.

The Chinese invading army destroyed our peaceful working life. They colluded with the German Nazis in an attempt to conquer our country and turned our people into slaves of the dignitaries and landlords of China and Germany.

Chiang Kai-shek, Chiang Wei-guo and the Kuomintang party members deceived the Chinese people and brazenly launched an evil and crazy attack on our country.

The Chinese Kuomintang, like the German Nazi Party, has degenerated into an out-and-out criminal group. As early as more than ten years ago, when the Chinese Kuomintang was still very weak, the Chinese government and the Soviet Bolsheviks tried to help China and liberate the Chinese people. , Let China and the Chinese people get a real revolution, generously and vigorously help the Chinese Kuomintang, help them establish the Whampoa Military Academy, help them establish a revolutionary army, help them launch the Northern Expedition, unify the country, help them build the country and develop However, after the death of Mr. Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, who became the successor through despicable means such as coaxing and coercion, immediately transformed himself, betrayed the workers' and peasants' revolution, and launched the heinous "April [-] coup", which made the China is shrouded in white terror. Despite this, we still repay grievances with kindness, and vigorously help China and the Chinese people to resist Japan when China is attacked by Japan. However, Chiang Kai-shek and the Chinese Kuomintang are ungrateful again, and Chiang Kai-shek’s second son, Jiang Weiguo, is even more ungrateful. It is intensifying and pushing China onto the road of militarism and imperialist aggression.

Chiang and his son were not only ungrateful to the Soviet Union, but also colluded with Hitler, the leader of the German Nazi Party, to attack us ambitiously.

In order to invade the Soviet Union, Jiang and his son even colluded shamelessly with the Japanese imperialism that had invaded China, completely betrayed the interests of the Chinese people, and became the public enemy of the Chinese people!From this we can see how shameless the Chinese Kuomintang headed by Jiang and his son and the Chinese bourgeoisie represented by the Chinese Kuomintang are!After the war in the Far East, for the sake of peace between the people of the Soviet Union and China, the Chinese government reluctantly ceded large tracts of land in the Far East to the Chiang Kai-shek regime, signed the Soviet-Chinese peace treaty, and hoped for long-term peace between the Soviet Union and China. However, the Chiang Kai-shek regime broke its promise They tore up the treaty blatantly and blatantly. From this we can see how greedy, despicable, and cunning the Chiang Kai-shek regime is!Like Hitler, the Jiangs and their sons will definitely play with fire and set themselves on fire, and will inevitably usher in shameful failure, because this is the general trend of history!This trend is determined by the inevitable replacement of capitalism by socialism!They are already on the verge of betraying their relatives, and they are just dying at this moment!

All the Red Army soldiers of our Eastern Military Region will become an example of bravery, tenacity and selfless combat. Now, the glorious mission of launching a powerful attack on the enemy has fallen on our shoulders.

In order to pay back the blood debt to the thugs of the Chinese invading army who killed our wives, children and compatriots, we should mercilessly attack the enemy, destroy the enemy, and drive them out of our land.

Comrades, attack bravely!Be brave and kill the enemy!If the enemy does not surrender, let them perish!We want to liberate our sacred territory, cities and villages, and people from the villains of the Chinese invaders.

It is our mission to deal a devastating blow to the evil enemy!Whether the Soviet people live in their own, free, and peaceful country, or they will treat the Chinese dignitaries like slaves, depends on us!Depends on our great spirit of indomitable, heroic and good at fighting!

How our people rejoiced when they heard that we had begun our offensive, advanced, and recaptured the occupied areas. The great Comrade Stalin was also waiting for the news of our victory.

Comrades, we will definitely be able to complete the tasks entrusted to us by the motherland and the people!Towards victory, move forward!Completely wipe out the Chinese invaders!Victory belongs to us!Belongs to the Soviets!Ulla! ...

Konev's mobilization order really greatly stimulated the morale of the Soviet army and inspired the Soviet army's morale.

After the Soviet counterattack was launched, there was heavy artillery fire at first, which caused heavy losses to the Nanjing Army. However, because the Nanjing Army had fought the Soviet Army many times, it knew that the Soviet Army's greatest advantage was the large number of artillery and the extremely strong artillery fire. In offensive warfare, many trenches and trenches were also dug to avoid Soviet artillery fire.

The artillery fire of the Soviet army blew up the wired telephone communication network of the Nanjing Army. Army, division, regiment, and battalion headquarters all communicated by radio, but the lower-level troops inevitably fell into a loss of contact. In the certain chaos of losing command.

When the Soviet tank units and infantry units surged up, many company and platoon-level grassroots units of the Nanjing Army fought bitterly alone.

"Soldiers of the Red Army! Forward! The road ahead is great and glorious! We are now fighting in the place where our father and brother and Marshal Frunze once fought and shed their blood! Back then, the young Red Army established the eternal history Great achievement, now, let us also carry forward the spirit of heroism! Let the glory of the Soviet Red Army be carried forward even more! Let the red flag fly over every enslaved land!" Amid the shouts and calls of the political commissars, the Soviet officers and soldiers who participated in the war They quickly rushed to the Nanjing Army.

The withdrawal of the 77th Army reduced the strength of the Nanjing Army on the Cheremkhovo battlefield by half or more. Facing the massive counterattack of the Soviet Army, the 10th Army and the 100th Army fought bravely without fear, but were defeated by the Soviet Army. It is an indisputable fact that the army is suppressing and fighting.

Participating in the war was that the Soviet army was not particularly strong, including 4 infantry divisions, 2 motorized infantry divisions, and 1 tank brigade, with more than 6 people, commanded by Vatutin.

Among the two army commanders of the Eastern Military Region, Vatutin was brave and courageous, while Kuznetsov seemed a little bit high-minded, and Konev knew this well, so he appointed Vatutin to be in charge of this counterattack.

It is worth mentioning that this tank brigade of the Soviet army was temporarily "cobbled together", because the Soviet army did not start to establish an independent armored force like the German army until the outbreak of this war (the first batch included 8 mechanized corps and 2 independent tank divisions), and were basically in the western military region to guard against the Germans, and there were very few eastern military regions. At the same time, the high-level Soviet army also believed that "actual combat proved that the tank battalion in the infantry division was meaningless", so the infantry unit was abolished. The small and medium-sized tank units in the country made the Soviet tanks fall into a nondescript embarrassing situation.

The military industry of the Soviet Union produced more tanks than Germany, but the Soviet army did not know how to use tanks rationally. The mixed formation of infantry and tanks felt meaningless, and he hesitated to form a separate tank division and tank army. Only a few senior generals passed the The Japanese War and the Sino-Japanese-Soviet Far East War recognized the power of tank clusters, and Konev was one of them. Therefore, he gathered the scattered tank battalions and tank companies of his troops, and temporarily established a tank group that has no official designation but is fully equipped. The full tank brigade was handed over to the command of Vatutin, who was very interested in tank warfare and very savvy.

Then it turned out that Konev's move was completely correct.

"Comrade Vatutin, remember!" Before the battle broke out, Konev repeatedly told Vatutin, "Your tank brigade, don't run too far, or it will throw off the infantry units behind and lose the battle. For the firepower reinforcement of the artillery unit, the task of the tank brigade is to repeatedly rush back and forth on the Chinese positions, smashing their defense lines, and making it easier for the following infantry units to completely smash them.

The tank brigade is a sharp knife, not a spear, it does not need to pierce the enemy, it only needs to pierce the enemy!"

Vatutin did not disappoint Konev, he completed the task well.

After the counterattack began, the commander of the Soviet Tank Brigade drove straight in, but at a slow speed so that the follow-up infantry and artillery could keep up. The Nanjing Army did not have a strong countermeasure against this, because the Nanjing Army did not have enough bombers, and the artillery units did not dare to open fire easily ( The number of Soviet artillery is twice that of the Nanjing Army, and the number of heavy artillery is more than four times that of the Nanjing Army. If the Nanjing Army concentrates its artillery to bombard the Soviet Army, it will soon be suppressed and covered by more powerful Soviet artillery fire, and the gains outweigh the losses) , so that the Soviet tank brigade approached and crushed the first line of defense of the Nanjing Army calmly.

The first Nanjing Army to be attacked by the Soviet Army was the 10th Division of the Tenth Army.

After the withdrawal of the 77th Army, a huge gap was exposed between the 10th Army and the 100th Army, so the 88th Division moved between the two armies and set up a blocking line.

Du Yuming, the commander of the 88th Division, was mentally prepared for the counterattack of the Soviet army. He knew very well that after the withdrawal of the 77th Army, the Nanjing Army on the Cheremkhovo battlefield was not strong enough to continue the attack and would inevitably switch from offense to defense. Therefore, he ordered the troops to build fortifications on the spot, so he was not caught off guard by the Soviet army, but Du Yuming was a little caught off guard by the attack method of the Soviet army.

More than [-] Soviet tanks of various types, as well as more armored vehicles and automobiles rushed forward together, converging into a very rare torrent of steel, with unprecedented impact.

Facing the oncoming Soviet tank group, the Nanjing Army on the ground showed no fear. Jumped out from inside, struggling to control the anti-tank guns to bombard the Soviet tanks, the roar of the Soviet tank engines was covered by the Chinese shouting like a storm, and the anti-tank guns like sharp arrows and spears were like flying meteors in the battle area , the hit Soviet tanks exploded and burst into flames, turning into paralyzed and burning steel wreckage. However, because there were too many Soviet tanks and the Nanjing Army's anti-tank guns were not enough, the Nanjing Army infantry also fought bravely. Molotov cocktails slammed into the Soviet tanks.

There was an uproar in front of the Nanjing Army's position, and the anti-tank artillery fired continuously, blasting at the Soviet tanks farther away, and the Soviet tanks that had rushed to the Nanjing Army's position or had already run over the Nanjing Army's position were hit by countless Molotov cocktails.

In front of the position, flying sand and rocks, wind and thunder rolling, a large number of Soviet tanks approached like a herd of steel beasts, claws and claws, and the fire was burning on the position. Group impact.

The attacking Soviet armored soldiers were horrified to see the originally dark Nanjing Army position as if they were holding a torch parade. Thousands of flames were dotted and densely winding on the position, and the Nanjing Army was firmly nailed to the position. , not retreating an inch, the artillerymen violently bombarded the Soviet tanks with a few anti-tank guns. Even though the two sides were already close at hand, the artillerymen of the Nanjing Army who controlled the anti-tank guns were still calm and calm, and calmly fought at a distance of tens of meters or even more than ten meters. Bombarding Soviet tanks, actions and expressions are completely out of life and death. The sound of anti-tank shells hitting the tank armor, the explosion of fireballs and countless fire sparks are thrilling; Fighting to the death, the officers and soldiers of the Nanjing Army from a basically agricultural country are already familiar with how to fight against enemies from industrial powers and industrial powers. A large number of Molotov cocktails are prepared in the positions, and the bottles are filled with gasoline, kerosene, diesel oil and even alcohol. At the same time, it is mixed with magnesium powder or rubber scraps produced by automobile factories when producing automobile tires.

The infantry of the Nanjing Army who threw the Molotov cocktails had a clear division of labor. Several people formed a group. The people in front picked up the Molotov cocktails and threw them at the Soviet tanks. Thousands of lights.

Pentium Soviet tanks, countless flying Molotov cocktails, groups of dazzling fireballs bursting violently...formed a frightening scene of war.

Du Yuming watched the battle closely with his binoculars in the second trench. The muscles on his face were trembling, and his eyes were already moist. He knew that the brothers were doing well, because what he saw with his own eyes made him feel like a knife. The shocking scene: a soldier whose right arm has been broken by a Soviet tank machine gun, and the blood gushing from the broken arm is holding a bundle of Molotov cocktails with his left hand, and the whole person rushes towards a Soviet tank like a fired shell. The tank threw away the Molotov cocktail in its hand. After seeing a mass of flames blooming on the Soviet tank, the bloody and life-depleted soldier knelt down heavily and fell to the ground; A trench of the Nanjing Army, in which seven or eight soldiers of the Nanjing Army were killed. Suddenly, a ball of fire exploded violently from the bottom of the Soviet tank. Suddenly paralyzed in the flames and thick smoke, it was a surviving wounded soldier among the dead or a Nanjing Army soldier deliberately hiding in the dead and pretending to be dead while waiting for an opportunity to fire a cluster grenade; five Nanjing Army soldiers quickly Running past the front of a Soviet tank, but was quickly knocked down by the machine gun of the Soviet tank, the body was rolled into the track by the rolling Soviet tank, and stirred into a mass of meat. They did this on purpose, using their own Attracting the attention of the Soviet tank, so as to cover the three companions who had circled behind the Soviet tank, the three Nanjing soldiers climbed up the moving Soviet tank like leopards, and killed the one whose upper body was exposed. The Soviet tank machine gunner then stuffed the grenade into the Soviet tank through the roof hatch. With a bang, the Soviet tank immediately disintegrated in the internal explosion, but the three Nanjing soldiers did not survive and were killed. The Soviet tank behind was shot to death with a machine gun... Du Yuming couldn't bear to watch it any longer. He held back his tears and put down the binoculars.

"Let the soldiers use their flesh and blood to resist the enemy's tanks and cannons, we officials are simply wolf-hearted!" Du Yuming thought painfully.

Before the invention of individual anti-tank weapons (such as anti-tank rocket launchers, anti-tank recoilless guns), infantry can only rely on grenades, explosive kits, and incendiary bottles to fight tanks. Among them, incendiary bottles are the most effective, as long as they can hit the tank armor , there is a high chance of damaging the tank or killing the tank crew, and it does not need to be sent to weak places such as under the tank track like grenades or explosives. However, it is expensive to use incendiary bottles to fight tanks. Molotov cocktails are not long-range weapons, infantry use them Fighting a tank with a Molotov cocktail is equivalent to a hand-to-hand combat between an infantry and a tank, and the body is completely exposed to the firepower of the tank's machine gun.

On the Nanjing Army's position, nearly a hundred Soviet tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed by anti-tank guns and Molotov cocktails. The infantrymen of the Nanjing Army with tanks were killed one after another by the firepower net of the Soviet tanks and machine guns, and this picture can be seen everywhere: the infantrymen of the Nanjing Army holding Molotov cocktails were shot and killed by the Soviet Army's bullets, spraying blood all over their bodies, and fell down in the twirling, with the Molotov cocktails in their hands. The infantrymen of the Nanjing Army who were blown up by the Soviet bullets were immediately enveloped in a ball of fire, screaming and rolling all over the place, and the infantrymen of the Nanjing Army who rushed to rescue their companions became the targets of the Soviet tanks, all in a cloud of blood The wounded soldiers who fell to the ground and had no time to crawl away were crushed to pieces by the Soviet tanks together with the corpses everywhere.

The Nanjing army has worked hard on the use of Molotov cocktails. Because they were backward, they had to study many indigenous weapons. Feilei Cannon is one of them, and Molotov cocktails are also one of them.

Many grassroots units of the Nanjing Army set up a special "molotov cocktail attack team", using a large-scale slingshot customized after scientific research, which can eject Molotov cocktails more than 200 meters away. As for the degree of accuracy, because this thing has no technological content, the accuracy can only be Rely on the skills that the catapult shooter has mastered after hard training.

In the battle with tanks, the Nanjing Army's machine gunners, submachine gun shooters, and snipers will give priority to shooting the opponent's tank machine gunners, reducing the opponent's firepower and observing the field of vision, so that anti-tank fighters can destroy them with Molotov cocktails.

On the other hand, the Soviet army's use of infantry-tank coordination is still very preliminary, so tanks lack infantry protection.

Relying on the courage to risk one's life and all kinds of tricks explored through actual combat and thinking, the attack of the Soviet tank group was not overwhelming. Although it caused a lot of casualties to the Nanjing Army, it was blocked by the Nanjing Army. It's just that this method of exchanging human life for destroying Soviet tanks is obviously unacceptable to Du Yuming and other Nanjing Army commanders.

Sun Liren, the deputy division commander, hurried over. When Du Yuming saw him, he immediately said, "Fumin, where is our tank unit? I'll ask you to assemble and launch a counterattack immediately!"

Sun Liren replied: "Behind!"

Du Yuming said angrily: "What do you mean? The tank troops are not in the front but behind?"

Sun Liren said: "The troops must abandon their positions and retreat immediately. There is no need for the tank troops to fight back!"

"Why?"

"The artillery fire of the Soviet army is coming!" Sun Liren said in a hurry, "We have fought many times with the Soviet army before, and the infantry and tank coordination of this Soviet army is very strict and very regular. I have summarized the previous information and data. The second round of artillery strikes by the army is extended shelling, the elder is 10 minutes and the shorter is 15 minutes. According to the counterattack strength of the Soviet army tonight, I speculate that the Soviet artillery fire will arrive in 10 minutes, and their artillery is moving forward. We have been fighting fiercely for nearly half an hour now, we must abandon our positions and retreat immediately!"

Du Yuming's face was tense, he knew that Sun Liren was quick-witted and thoughtful, and there would be no mistakes in his judgments.

Du Yuming sighed: "Order the troops to retreat!" He then said again, "Don't retreat one by one, don't start a stair resistance, retreat at full speed with the momentum of defeat, lure the Soviet army to pursue, get out of the range of its artillery fire, and then we Give it a head-on blow!"

Sun Liren agreed: "It's so good!"

As Sun Liren expected, after the 88th Division withdrew from the position, the Soviet army immediately bombarded it with a second round of bombardment.

However, Du Yuming's counterattack did not turn into reality. After breaking through the position of the 88th Division, Vatutin, who commanded the battle, followed Konev's instructions very carefully. , The enemy's situation was unknown, so he stopped as soon as he saw it, ordered the troops to stop advancing, and turned to attack vertically and horizontally, cooperating with the infantry units that had followed up, and strived to completely crush the defense line of the Nanjing Army.

After the loss of the main position of the 88th Division, several secondary positions were also broken by the Soviet army. The Soviet attacking force was completely inserted between the 10th Army and the 100th Army of the Nanjing Army, tearing the two apart.

Konev, who received Vatutin's report, immediately struck while the iron was hot. He mobilized a motorized infantry division and a conventional infantry division to defend on the spot in the central area of ​​the Nanjing Army, and then concentrated his forces to attack the 10th Army of the Nanjing Army.

Konev was very cautious and played very calmly. Facing the two armies of the Nanjing Army, his strategy was to break through the middle first, isolate the two armies of the Nanjing Army, and then concentrate on attacking one of them.

南京军第10军下辖第88师和第150师，第88师在开战初期已经承受很大损失，因此第10军实力要弱于第100军，苏军因此将第10军作为打击目标。

Xue Yue, aware of the intentions of the Soviet Army, ordered the 10th Division of the 88th Army not to join the 150th Division, and diverted to the 100th Army, joined forces with the 100th Army, concentrated their forces, and attacked the rear of the Soviet Army. The 150th Division maneuvered to defend .

Regarding Xue Yue's order, Huang Wei expressed his opposition. He believed that the 88th Division should join forces with the 150th Division so that they could deploy defenses with ease. The 150th Division alone was slightly weak, and the division was in a dangerous situation. up.

Xue Yue replied: "According to past experience, the Soviet army's attack will not exceed the range of its artillery group, so the Soviet army cannot attack quickly, the infantry can run very fast, and the movement of large-caliber artillery is slow, so the 150th Division nothing will happen.

Fighting positional warfare is to attack the enemy's strengths with our own strengths. We can't do this. The 150th Division only needs to 'run while fighting'. It is easier to have fewer troops, but the 100th Army is to fight offensive warfare. In order to truly contain the Soviet offensive and find opportunities to eat up part of the Soviet army, we must strengthen our troops!"

Pointing to the map, Xue Yue explained his idea: "As long as the Soviet army pursues far enough, the rear front will be stretched, and our army will naturally be able to capture its loopholes and take advantage of its retreat.

The 150th Division is the decoy, and the 100th Army is our counterattack force, which needs to be strengthened!"

Xue Yue saw through Konev's "squeeze tactics".

Konev used tanks and infantry as the attack force, and then took advantage of the Soviet artillery to advance step by step, squeezing the positions and control areas of the Nanjing Army. However, the Soviet infantry "stopped for a while after fighting for a while." , Wait for the rear artillery to catch up and bring the farther places into the range of the artillery before resuming the attack.

Objectively speaking, Konev's style of play is very safe. Although it is difficult to gather and annihilate the Nanjing Army, he can step by step and constantly squeeze the Nanjing Army.

Xue Yue knew that if he wanted to really hit the Soviet army hard, he had to lead the snake out of the hole first, and then close the door and beat the dog.

At the same time, Konev was also racking his brains to calculate the Nanjing Army. Xue Yue's countermeasures surprised him and faintly made the Soviet army a little bit in a dilemma. However, Konev quickly had A countermeasure that counts.

"The enemy commander intends to use this 150th Division to lure our army. Our army must adapt to the situation, and after another counterattack, another counterattack!" He slammed on the map.

On the battlefield, when the two sides are evenly matched in strength, the test is the ability and wisdom of the commanders of both sides.

In the eastern area of ​​the Cheremhovo battlefield, the 100th Division, the 99th Division and the 180th Division of the 88th Army completed a combined force. In the western area, the 150th Division retreated steadily while resisting tenaciously. The 100th Army and On the 88th, the Soviet Army attacked the Nanjing Army violently, but the Soviet Army defending in the middle area stood firmly with its powerful artillery fire superior to that of the Nanjing Army.

Once the attacking Nanjing army entered the range of the Soviet artillery group, shells fell continuously from above their heads immediately, which hindered the Nanjing army's offensive.

Fighting fiercely all night, the situation on the battlefield was confusing and confusing, but both sides firmly believed that they would be the victors.

After dawn, Konev, who had been up all night, asked Kuznetsov to replace Vatutin as the commander-in-chief of the counterattack, and added another infantry division to join the counterattack.

After the counterattack started, Kuznetsov kept recommending himself and volunteering. He believed that Konev was too conservative, and the number of troops involved in the counterattack should be increased, so as to cause a real blow to the Nanjing Army.

Konev thought twice, and since Marankin did not object, he duly followed Kuznetsov's proposal, threw in another division, and put Kuznetsov in command, while Vatutin took on another task .

Kuznetsov also had some brains, and he then took an uncharacteristically offensive approach, attacking during the day.

In fact, the Soviet army basically did not launch attacks during the day, usually at night, to cover operations, and to avoid the reconnaissance planes of the Nanjing army and hide their dynamics. Therefore, Kuznetsov’s daytime counterattack did hit the Nanjing army. The 150th Division had an accident.

From afternoon to dusk, the Soviet army violently attacked the Nanjing Army with four divisions, broke through the three lines of defense of the 150th Division in one go, and repelled the 150th Division for more than 20 kilometers in one go.