Chapter 3170 What if He Commits Suicide?

In order to enable Kurbalov to successfully complete this arduous task, Malashenko made special preparations and arrangements.

First, he prepared enough parts and engines for Kurbalov in advance. Malashenko even transferred some of the logistics support troops of the Varosha Division to support Kurbalov.

After fully understanding the difficulty of Kurbalov's mission, Varosha accepted the decision made by the army commander without complaint.

This 610-kilometer distance on the map is really unbearable. Not to mention that the ordinary Red Army tank troops can rest, even the leader army can't stand it.

In order to ensure that the Kurbalov Division has enough heavy equipment to fight and ensure combat effectiveness when it arrives at the target location, it is necessary to prepare enough spare parts.

If you encounter some time-consuming repair work, don't repair it. Just replace the new parts as quickly as possible. You can remove the old parts and throw them away directly.

Of course, the above is not enough. Not all damaged vehicles can be repaired.

For those that cannot be repaired or cannot be repaired in a short period of time, Malashenko also allowed Kurbalov to abandon the vehicles directly according to the combat regulations, which literally means throwing away the equipment and letting the crew continue to move forward with the troops.

As for the recovery of equipment, the Varosha Division, commanded by Malashenko himself, immediately led the team south to follow up after dealing with the Shenyang incident.

There may be some idle time during the period, resulting in the abandoned vehicles being ignored and abandoned in the wilderness, but Malashenko does not care.

The core problem is that even if the broken-down vehicles abandoned by the leader's army are thrown there, the Japanese army does not have the ability to take them away.

With the level of mule and horse of the Japanese army, the entire towed large-caliber heavy artillery is struggling. Do you still expect them to tow away the Stalin heavy tanks that have broken down and lost their ability to move? Can they take away the IS6 and IS7?

It's not that Malashenko looks down on the devils, but he really doesn't have the ability.

Once an IS6 stops there, even if the Japanese drove 10 trucks to line up to take it away, they couldn't take it away. At most, they would be blown up by the Japanese army's incompetence and rage.

It doesn't matter, Malashenko can still afford the loss.

The Red Army after the Great Patriotic War was in a serious surplus of various equipment. If it is not consumed now, it will sooner or later become scrap metal and thrown into the tank graveyard.

So this rapid march southward means "only speed, not equipment" to Kurbalov, if it can be repaired, it will be repaired, and if it can't be repaired, it will be thrown away.

Kurbalov doesn't need to worry about the rest, just follow the order, and everything else will be handled by Malashenko himself.

Back to the long-lost position of the tank commander, feeling the tremors and shaking around the body as the tank moves forward, while recalling the orders and details that he had just issued to Kurbalov not long ago.

Malashenko, who didn't want to see the Chinese treasures being destroyed by the Japanese devils again, only hoped that Kurbalov's urgent march to the south would be in time.

If the US Navy's submarine really sent the ship and the treasure to the bottom of the sea, it would be the end of everything. As long as we can intercept them before the Japanese devils load the ship and leave, we can stop all this.

"By the way, I have a question. Is this our last mission? After this battle, the Japanese devils will be finished?"

"Huh?"

Malashenko, who was still immersed in thought, was brought back to reality by Ivushkin's words. After hearing the words, he thought about it and then spoke.

"If we can capture that old devil Yamada Otozo alive, even if this battle is not the end, then the next thing will be much easier."

"The Kwantung Army headquarters occupied in Changchun is only symbolic, and it has not yet disabled the Kwantung Army's command. The old devil Yamada Otozo is still hiding in Shenyang and continues to issue orders. Our trip is to catch him."

"To the west of Shenyang is the Trans-Baikal Front's troops, to the south is the Kulbarov Division that is taking a detour to the south, and there is no hope to go east. Not to mention that we have the ability to block them halfway to the south, and the retreat route to North Korea has been blocked by the Red Army."

"So, Yamada Otozo is now a turtle in a jar. No matter where he goes in the four directions of east, west, south, and north, he has no way to escape. This time I must capture him alive!"

After hearing Malashenko's analysis, Iushkin, who was separated from Malashenko in the tank commander's seat by a breech block, also nodded, but he still had a question and spoke up immediately.

"But what if he doesn't surrender? I mean, I heard that the senior generals of the Japanese devils would commit seppuku when they were about to lose the war."

"It seems that, what's it called? Oh, yes, that's how Ushijima Mitsuru died, right? He was forced to death by the Americans in the Pacific Ocean. I saw this news in the newspaper before."

"Committing seppuku?"

Hearing this, Malashenko smiled and shook his head. He blurted out words that were not completely denied but confident enough.

"If I say this is completely impossible, it must be bragging, but I predict that the old devil Yamada Ozo is unlikely to dare to do so."

"You can see from the fact that this old guy directly abandoned his headquarters and fled without fighting that he can actually recognize the situation and is not the kind of guy who fights to the end. He is a little different from the madman like Ushijima Mitsuru. As long as we can force him into a desperate situation and give him some hope, surrendering at that time will not be a difficult choice."

While saying this, Malashenko remembered that in the timeline before he crossed over, Yamada Otozo was a complete "surrenderist" in the end.

The Emperor had just released the "Gyokuon Broadcast", and Yamada Otozo, who couldn't wait, immediately took out the surrender plan.

Without waiting for further specific instructions and orders from the headquarters, he first used the "Emperor's Sacred Decision" to suppress the clamor and trouble of the young officers, and then sent his chief of staff to discuss surrender with the Red Army immediately.

This resulted in the Red Army tanks advancing faster than the speed of the Japanese surrender, and many strategic locations still controlled by the Kwantung Army were not taken down, but were taken over by the Kwantung Army after the surrender.

Malashenko estimated that in this timeline, Yamada Otozo, who was hit hard by the leader's army, should be similar.

The leader's offensive along the way was so swift that it could only be described as "as violent as a mudslide."

Yamada Ozo should have felt the unprecedented pressure from the battle zone map where he changed the leader's army's advance line three times that day, and he also knew that any resistance under this offensive would be futile and meaningless.

People who are forced into a desperate situation will inevitably have hope in their hearts. This is human instinct and the nature of carbon-based organisms.

Malashenko estimated that as long as he could give some hope at the right time, the probability of capturing Yamada Ozo alive should be quite high.