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Battle Of Lahasusu
The Battle of Lahasusu was a riverine clash fought during the Sino-Soviet conflict of 1929 around the mouth of the Sungari River. Battle The battle begun when the Soviet Amur Flotilla attacked the garrisoned city of Lahasusu from the river. Soviet monitors ''Lenin'', ''Sverdlov'', ''Sun Yat-sen'' and ''Krasnyi Vostok'' and other minor units faced a Chinese flotilla of 11 units. Chinese steamer ''Kiang Tai'' suffered a direct hit, while monitor ''Lenin'' set aflame the gunboat ''Kiang Ping''. The gunboat ''Lee Ju'' managed to score hit on the Soviet gunboat ''Proletarii'' and the monitor ''Sun Yat-sen'' but was eventually hit by ''Krasnyi Vostok'' and grounded by its crew. Older sources report different transliteration of the Chinese ships, stating gunboats ''Chantai'' and ''Chanan'' sunk, followed by ''Chianping'', while the ex-German gunboat ''Lichi'' was abandoned and taken in tow by Soviets. The army transport steamer n°18 and seven barges were also seized. While the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sino-Soviet Conflict (1929)
The Sino-Soviet conflict of 1929 (, russian: Конфликт на Китайско-Восточной железной дороге) was an armed conflict between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and Chinese warlord Zhang Xueliang of the Republic of China over the Chinese Eastern Railway (also known as CER). The conflict was the first major combat test of the reformed Soviet Red Army – one organized along the latest professional lines – and ended with the mobilization and deployment of 156,000 troops to the Manchurian border. Combining the active-duty strength of the Red Army and border guards with the call-up of the Far East reserves, approximately one-in-five Soviet soldiers was sent to the frontier, the largest Red Army combat force fielded between the Russian Civil War (1917–1922) and the Soviet Union's entry into the Second World War.Michael M. Walker, ''The 1929 Sino-Soviet War: The War Nobody Knew'' (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2017), p. 1. In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |