1In August, 945, according to the Soviet-American agreement,1570,000 Soviet troops assembled in the Far East launched an armored assault on the Japanese Kwantung Army, which occupied northeast China for many years. It only took the Soviet armored force stormtroopers more than ten days to beat the so-called elite Japanese Kwantung Army to the ground.
Hundreds of thousands of Kwantung Army surrendered to the Soviet Red Army, but the Soviet Union did not send Japanese prisoners back to Japan after the war, but brought them back to Siberia.
It was not until 1956 that these hundreds of thousands of prisoners returned to Japan after the normalization of Soviet-Japanese relations. In Soviet prison camps, Japanese prisoners of war were treated inhumanely.
In order to paralyze the Japanese army, Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky thought of a good way. He took off the marshal's epaulettes and commanded the troops as a general.
In the west, a general is the highest rank. But in the Soviet army, the general is a cadre at the commander level of the group army. The Soviet army deliberately used plain code to talk, and the Japanese army monitored these radio stations.
The radio repeatedly mentioned that the supreme commander was a general. Based on this, the Japanese army judged that the Soviet army on the opposite side did not exceed 300,000 at most, and there were only about two army groups. In fact, the Soviet Union has 1 1 army group, which does not include the troops on the road.
By August, the Japanese base camp had not realized that the Soviet Union might send troops. Their main energy is to deal with the American fleet that has approached the Ryukyu area.
After the United States used atomic bombs against Japan, the whole country of Japan fell into panic, and no one knew how many atomic bombs Americans had.
The nuclear attack by the United States also made the Soviet Union very nervous. The Soviet Union believed that Japan had the possibility of direct surrender. So Stalin ordered Alexander Vasilevsky to send troops.
Alexander Aleksandr Vasilevsky chose August 9. First of all, it happened three months after Germany surrendered, which proves that the Soviet Union is still very trustworthy. Second, this day is an auspicious day for Japan, and the main generals of the Japanese Kwantung Army are all on vacation in Dalian.
Choosing this time to attack, the Japanese command system responded slowly. After completing a series of preparations, in the early morning of August 9, 1.5 thousand Soviet soldiers attacked the Kwantung Army in two ways. The Soviet army is very strong and its equipment far exceeds that of the Japanese army.
Japan was able to hold its position mainly because of its elaborate fortifications, and the Soviet Union realized this after the attack was frustrated, so it adjusted its tactics according to the battlefield situation.
That is, the Soviet Union bombed Japan's fortifications with powerful firepower for several days in a row, making it impossible for Japan to get out of the fortifications and fight.
Then, during the interval of bombing, the Soviet Union sealed all the Japanese fortifications and tunnels and dropped incendiary bombs into the fortifications. Japanese troops trapped in fortifications and tunnels have no logistical supplies.
The impact of this incident is far-reaching, and it is also the reason why Japanese people are afraid of Russia and Americans today.
It can be said that under the coercion of Soviet soldiers, the Japanese army did not dare or have the strength to resist, and finally dropped hundreds of thousands of cold bodies and returned to Japan.