On the destroyer Hayami, Lieutenant General Ozawa climbed onto the deck in the lifeboat on which Lieutenant General Ozawa was riding, and Takeda Heirai quickly greeted him.
However, Ozawa pushed Takeda Hirai away and looked at the Suzuki that was slowly sinking in the distance and howling loudly. It kept hammering the deck hard and no one could hold it back.
After a while, seeing that Ozawa's mood had calmed down a lot, Takeda Hirai said cautiously: "General Ozawa, the Fukui Maru has sunk and the Suzuki has also been sunk. What should we do?"
When Ozawa heard this, he was angry and secretly wondered if it was because you were incompetent and failed to kill the Soviet Navy's submarine. How could the fleet have suffered such a heavy loss? It's better now that you ask me what to do.
Ozawa glared at Takeda Hirei and said angrily: "What else can we do? Do you want to attack Vladivostok with these six destroyers? Don't forget, the Soviets also have submarines!"
Hearing the tone of Ozawa's words, Takeda Heirai was so frightened that he quickly shut his mouth, but he was thinking in his heart that Ozawa was just taking his anger out on himself. Damn it, a senior official would kill someone.
Ozawa sighed. He knew that the Fifth Task Force had suffered huge losses this time, and the military department would definitely criticize him. As the commander of the task force, he was afraid that his work would be over, and it would be difficult to make a comeback.
The battle in Vladivostok can't be fought anymore. I'd better head south quickly, join up with the main force of Admiral Yamamoto's combined fleet, and let those bastards from the Army clean up the mess.
Thinking of this, Ozawa was a little discouraged and dejectedly issued the order to retreat.
Looking at Vladivostok not far away, Ozawa, Takeda Heirai and others were filled with unwillingness and sighed sadly.
Takeda Heiyori couldn't help but think that he was just a little short, but in the end he still fell short. The war was really composed of many accidental factors. This time, the lucky scales did not side with Japan...
The warships of the Japanese Navy's Fifth Task Force gradually disappeared into the sea. Seeing the retreat of the Japanese fleet, cheers like a mountain roar and a tsunami came from the entire Vladivostok.
"Ula!"
"Ula!"
"Comrade Commander, look, what is that?"
Savushkin's adjutant pointed to the sea level in the distance and said that a small black spot appeared on the sea level not far away and continued to approach the shore.
Savushkin looked at it with a telescope and said: "He is one of ours, let someone go and have a look!"
"yes… "
After a while, the adjutant ran back and said: "Commander, this is Comrade Xu Rui!"
"What? Isn't Comrade Xu Rui in the submarine?"
The next moment, Savushkin felt something was wrong. The submarine's air supply equipment was broken, and it could only sneak in the water for an hour. But now that hour had passed, but there was still no shadow of the C-3 submarine. Could it be...
A bad premonition enveloped Savushkin's mind.
"How is Comrade Xu Rui?" Savushkin asked.
"Comrade Xu Rui is fine, he just collapsed due to excessive exertion. I have sent him to the hospital," the adjutant said.
"I'm going to the hospital to see Comrade Xu Rui." After Savushkin finished speaking, he hurriedly left the fortress and drove towards the hospital.
At the First People's Hospital of Vladivostok, Xu Rui slowly opened his eyes and saw Savushkin standing on the bedside, looking at him kindly.
Savushkin said: "Comrade Xu Rui, you finally woke up."
Xu Rui asked: "Comrade Savushkin, how are the other comrades on the C-3 submarine?"
Savushkin's face darkened, he lowered his head, and then said: "Comrade Xu Rui, except for you, no one from the C-3 submarine survived."
Xu Rui's heart palpitated, and he was a little sad. None of the sixty officers and soldiers survived. If he died too, the deeds of the martyrs would never be known.
"Comrade Xu Rui, what happened? Why didn't the C-3 submarine dive in time?" Savushkin asked.
So Xu Rui told Savushkin what happened in the submarine. Savushkin burst into tears when he heard that Sumarokov sacrificed himself to save the members of the submarine.
Savushkin said: "It's so touching. I am proud to have subordinates like Sumarokov. The warriors of the C-3 submarine are real heroes. The people will not forget them, and the country will not forget them." Forget them."
Xu Rui said: "Comrade Savushkin, now that the threat at sea has been eliminated, our army has severely damaged the Japanese fifth task force, destroyed several Japanese ships, and killed thousands of Japanese troops. It is a great victory. To achieve such a The record is really not easy. Without heroes like Krushenko and Sumarokov, the war situation would be unimaginable."
Savushkin nodded. He felt very sad after losing two outstanding subordinates, Krushenko and Sumarokov, in one day. However, Savushkin knew that now was not the time to be sad, although A great victory was won at sea and the invasion of the Japanese navy was defeated, but the threat on land has not disappeared. According to the latest intelligence, the Japanese army has broken through the frontal defense line of Xingkai Lake, and the Japanese army of about 5,000 people is swooping towards Vladivostok. Come here, the situation is serious.
Savushkin immediately told Xu Rui about the enemy's situation, and Xu Rui said: "The Japanese army broke the frontal defense of Vladivostok? What did the veteran say?"
Savushkin said: "Comrade Cherev and Comrade Leng Tiefeng called and said that they were prepared to lure the enemy deep into the enemy's territory as planned and annihilate this group of Japanese devils."
Xu Rui said: "The key to being able to completely annihilate this Japanese army is whether we can destroy the Japanese ferry in time. As long as we destroy their ferry, we can block the Japanese reinforcements and completely annihilate this Japanese army. Of course, The decision-making power on the battlefield lies with the frontline commanders, and we should not interfere too much."
Savushkin said: "I have told Cherev to let him act according to the opportunity, but we also need to strengthen the defense of Vladivostok to prevent the Japanese from jumping into Vladivostok."
Xu Rui said: "Comrade Savushkin, I believe Cherev and the veterans, this group of invading devils will never escape..."
Near Xingkai Lake, at the former enemy headquarters of the Soviet army, Leng Tiefeng said: "Comrade Cherev, now the frontline troops of the Japanese army of 5,000 people have gone deep. I think it is not appropriate to let the Japanese army penetrate too deep. This will have a negative impact on Vladivostok." pose a threat."
Cherev thought for a while and said, "I have a different idea. The Japanese vanguard only has 5,000 people and cannot make a big wave. After the next wave of Japanese reinforcements land, we can divide them, surround them, and annihilate them together." Of."
Leng Tiefeng said: "Okay, let the Japanese move forward a little further, which will help our army divide and surround the Japanese."
"Report, comrade political commissar, the fifth batch of Japanese reinforcements have landed and are moving forward." A soldier came to report.
Leng Tiefeng's eyes lit up and he said: "Comrade Cherev, so far, the Japanese have landed more than 10,000 people. We can take action."
Cherev said: "Yes, 10,000 people, exactly half of the Japanese army's division. Excluding the 3,000 people who have been annihilated, our three divisions near Xingkai Lake are absolutely sure to eat these 7,000." People, if the number of Japanese Japs continues to increase, our army will be in a hard fight."
Leng Tiefeng said: "Then we will start the third step now."
Cherev nodded and then gave the order.
"Order the artillery division to immediately bombard the Japanese ferries on the shore of Xingkai Lake. Don't allow even one ferry to escape back to the other side!"
"yes!"
"boom!"
"Boom!"
Artillery shells streaked across the sky and landed on the beachhead controlled by the Japanese at Xingkai Lake. The ferries were destroyed one after another. Under the indiscriminate bombardment of Soviet artillery fire, more than a hundred Japanese ferries were destroyed. All were destroyed, and the Japanese garrison troops remaining on the shore also suffered heavy losses under the artillery fire.
Subsequently, the Soviet army that had been ambushing nearby launched a fierce attack on the Japanese on the shore. The Japanese troops who stayed on the shore only left a few hundred people and some wounded. They collapsed under the fierce attack of the two regiments of the Soviet army. Many of them collapsed. When the Japanese soldiers saw the Soviet troops rushing from a distance, they turned around and jumped into the lake in fright. However, such a wide lake made it impossible to swim back by human power. These Japanese soldiers were eventually swallowed up by the water of Xingkai Lake...
At the same time, the Soviet army showed no mercy to the wounded Japanese on the shore. For those who were only slightly injured, the Soviet army saw that they were still valuable, so they gathered them together and prepared to throw them into the mountains to log wood. As for those Japanese soldiers who were seriously injured and lost the ability to work, the Soviet army did not hesitate at all and stabbed them to death with bayonets. The entire beach was littered with the corpses of Japanese soldiers.
Matveyevich, commander of the 324th Regiment of the 108th Division of the Soviet Far Eastern Front, immediately reported to Cherev: "I have occupied the beach and cut off the Japanese army's retreat!"
Hearing this news, everyone including Cherev and Leng Tiefeng breathed a sigh of relief. The acquisition of the beach position meant that the enemy's retreat had been completely cut off. Next, they could launch an all-out siege against the Japanese. , completely eliminate them.
"Order, the 108th Division encircles the fifth wave of Japanese offensive troops, and the 107th and 109th Divisions encircle the main force of the Japanese. Each unit must complete the encirclement of the Japanese within two hours." Cherev issued a series of Cherev believed that as long as the siege of the Japanese Japs was completed, the seven thousand Japs on the south bank of Xingkai Lake would never escape again.
Inoue Haruyuki led five thousand Japanese troops to break through the Soviet defense line and advance towards Vladivostok. At this time, news came that the Navy's Fifth Task Force was severely damaged in Vladivostok. The flagship Suzuki and the troopship Fukui were sunk, and six thousand Japanese troops were sunk. Japanese soldiers were buried in the sea.
After hearing the news, Inoue Haruyuki was not disappointed, but instead showed joy on his face. This also meant that the Navy could no longer compete with the Army for the credit of capturing Vladivostok. The Navy guys were really useless!
Inoue Haruyuki said: "Since the Navy has failed, the task of capturing Vladivostok falls on our Army. Let the idiots in the Navy see how powerful our Army is!"