After more than 20 days of tug-of-war, the first Haraha River conflict was with the Soviet Union and the Mongolian coalition forces voluntarily retreated to the West Bank. Since the outside world generally believed that the Soviet Union and Mongolian coalition had a military advantage of no less than 3 to 1 compared with the Japanese and Manchu troops on the opposite side, this result naturally made Japan happy. Congratulatory telegrams flew to the Kanto Army Command like snowflakes. The commander of the Division Komatsuhara gained the reputation of "Flowers of Kanto", which was as famous as the "Malay Tiger" Yamashita Fengwen, "Ohu Fengniu" Niushima Man, and others.

The victory of the Battle of the Halaha River is so significant. The Japanese base completely ignored the huge advantages of the Soviet army in armored combat. The focus of the discussion was on how to reward the soldiers on the front line. Although the Kanto Army Command noticed the astonishing losses of the front line units, in the victory, the generals took it for granted that these sacrifices reflected the bravery of the Emperor* people and were worthy of the price. As for Komatsuhara, who had a lot of thought during the war, although he deeply reflected on the backwardness of the Japanese Army's existing weapons configuration and tactical strategies in the summary report on this battle, and proposed the necessity and urgency of military reform, it did not attract enough attention from the senior management. He himself relaxed his vigilance in the praise and praise of his colleagues and all walks of life in the country.

In the first Battle of Hawaii that year, the strong combat power and tenacious will of the Japanese army made the US side feel very moved. After that, the motto of "action like wind, guarding order like forests, attack like fire, and defense like mountains" was added to the training code of US recruits. Although the Japanese army was defeated again and again in the middle and late stages of the Pacific War, the world still realized the awesomeness of the Japanese army in modern wars. Now the elite Soviet troops in the Far East were defeated by the Japanese second-rate divisions, whether it was directly competitive with Japan in the Pacific and Japan, or the head of Western allies who faced Japanese challenges in the world strategic territory, they all had a new sense of crisis. Once the Japanese army occupied the entire Far East and even expanded its sphere of influence to the vast Siberia, the Japanese archipelago would be in a truly complete absolute defense circle, and the renewed expansion of this military empire would also break through all constraints.

Against this background, the senior Soviet leaders proposed to the European and American powers through diplomatic channels to jointly curb Japan's expansion. Germany, the United States, Austria, Italy, Love, West and the Netherlands responded and sent representatives to Moscow to contact. The Moscow Conference was nominally a solution to the problem of low agricultural development in the Soviet Union, but in fact it clarified the position and division of tasks of various countries on how to curb Japan's military expansion. The Soviet territory faced the Japanese archipelago across the sea and bordered Japan's occupied areas on the Korean Peninsula and the puppet Manchukuo, so it was naturally the only pioneer to directly confront it. The defeat of the Far Eastern troops on the east bank of the Haraha River this time, the Soviet representatives pointed out that their country urgently needed to rectify their troops and strengthen equipment, but they also had serious lack of funds and technology, so they asked the participating countries to further lift trade restrictions on the Soviet Union and provide assistance as much as possible.

Representatives of the seven European and American countries soon reached an agreement on the principle of aiding Russia to suppress Japan. In order to alleviate the economic crisis and promote trade exchanges, they agreed to relax the economic blockade against the Soviet Union, provided that the Soviet Union made no official guarantees to infiltrate personnel in Europe and the United States and did not support the Soviet Union. On this basis, all countries agreed to provide the Soviet Union with a total amount of no less than 200 billion marks and a term of no less than 10 years to the Soviet Union. 80% of the loan must be used to purchase military supplies and military technology from the lending countries, and the navy and air force equipment shall not exceed 20% of the total loan.

In addition to relaxing trade restrictions and providing preferential loans, countries provide various support measures based on their own conditions. The Germans decided to transfer non-military materials backlogged in warehouses to the Soviet Union at very low prices in exchange for minerals, wood, fur and other resources produced by the Soviet Union. They were willing to send military technicians to assist the Soviet Union in training officers and soldiers free of charge. Due to the high war reparations, the US government was no longer as rich as before, but they were more eager to curb Japan's expansion than the Germans. Therefore, they decided to provide Soviet Union with more than 40 billion US dollars worth of military materials, including dozens of combat ships sealed after the war.

It is worth mentioning that the Netherlands adhered to neutrality during the two wars. Due to the special relationship between the Dutch royal family and the German royal family, during the Japanese swept Southeast Asia, the U.S. and British colonies fell one after another, but the Dutch colonies were survived. Now, these Dutch colonies have become "enclaves" that the Japanese occupied areas have been surrounded by Japanese occupations. The Japanese government has repeatedly proposed the "relocation" requirement, hoping to replace Dutch East India, Dutch New Guinea and the Maluku Islands with colonies in southern India or southwestern Australia, thus turning the entire Southeast Asia into a back garden of Japan. For this seems to be

Reasonable transactions that seriously damage the interests of the Netherlands, the Dutch government repeatedly refused, and the Japanese government repeatedly threatened and tempted. The Dutch were both angry and afraid of this. With their only thousands of troops in Southeast Asia, once Japan puts force into force, it would be impossible to fight. In this case, the Dutch government had to rely on the joint efforts of European and American powers to curb Japan's expansion. It was willing to contribute money and efforts to the Soviet Union and the Dutch government and private consortiums would provide the Soviet Union with up to 28 billion marks of interest-free loans, and use its own merchant fleet to transport aid supplies to the Soviet Union for free.

With the solid industrial and military foundation of the Soviet Union, a large amount of aid from European and American countries is undoubtedly a strong booster, and with the understanding and support of Western allies, the Soviet army can finally expand its military facilities in a grand manner. Just in the month when the Moscow Aid Agreement was signed, the Soviet government and Germany, the United States, Austria, Italy, Ireland, and the Netherlands signed a first-phase loan of 46.5 billion marks, of which 45 billion were quickly converted into military orders of 12,005 aircraft, 26,056 military combat and transport vehicles, 44,400 artillery, 171 ships and millions of tons of firearms and ammunition. These equipment and materials will be delivered to the Soviet Union and Russian troops in four years, which is equivalent to more than a hundred times the loss of equipment by the Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces on the east bank of the Haraha River!

Although the Moscow Aid Agreement was signed secretly, Japan soon knew its existence and knew most of the provisions in it. The top leaders of Tokyo were shocked by this, and ordinary soldiers and civilians were very indignant. In order to save the situation, the Japanese government carried out the largest diplomatic action after the war against European and American countries. However, for various reasons, the diplomatic action was huge but had little effect, which directly led to a sharp and evil relationship between Japan and Western allies.

In terms of attitude towards the United States, the Japanese government reversed its previous toughness, actively reached a post-war understanding with it, and held a contact meeting on the signing of a non-aggression agreement. It was finally abandoned because the US side believed that violating the terms of the armistice agreement was too expensive. However, the US government privately promised that once Japan had a war with the Soviet Union or Western allies, the United States would remain neutral as much as possible as long as the interests of the United States were not endangered. This made Japan think there was no worries in the Pacific direction.

In September 1941, less than five months after the end of the First Battle of the Haraha, in response to the Soviet Union's citation of the special provisions of the Moscow Aid Agreement, the Luftwaffe sent the 401st High-altitude Reconnaissance Plane Brigade to the 99th Special Service Wing to Vladivostok, the largest strategic base and defensive fortress in the Far East, to deal with the increasingly frequent military mobilizations of the Japanese army in the Korean Peninsula and the puppet Manchukuo. The He121 twin-engine reconnaissance aircraft equipped by the brigade can be said to be the outstanding performance of the German aviation industry in the late 1930s.

Works, in fact, the maximum ceiling of ordinary aircraft is usually within 6,000 meters. The first-stage supercharged engine can reach 700,010,000 meters. The second-stage supercharged engine can exceed 12,000 meters. The he121 is equipped with the most advanced technology of the 3-speed 2-stage turbocharger. This means that when the "Thunderbird" appears in the Far East, Japan's most powerful fighter can only look up from a distance 4,000 meters below its limit height. The Japanese small and medium-caliber anti-aircraft guns are helpless to them.

With the secondary fuel tank mounted, the range of the he121 reaches 3,000 kilometers, and its radius of activity is enough to cover the northern part of the Korean Peninsula, the puppet Manchukuo and even the Japanese archipelago, including three of the four major bases of the Japanese Joint Fleet. More importantly, the "Thunderbird" can be equipped with radio-guided bombs to carry out precise high-altitude bombing, at the cost of only sacrificing part of the speed and endurance

The "Thunderbird" who arrived at the Soviet-Russian aviation base immediately began to change the paint and painted a striking red five-star wing and fuselage. Since then, as long as the weather allows, these high-speed reconnaissance aircraft will conduct an aerial reconnaissance on the Japanese military deployment on the Korean Peninsula and the puppet Manchukuo every two to three days. After one or two high-altitude reconnaissances in the northern part of the Japanese archipelago every month, the pilot used a high-altitude observer improved by a high-altitude bombing sight for direct observation, and then manually controlled the two aerial vehicles located below the belly of the aircraft.

The cameras conduct continuous shooting at the right angle and timing. During the reconnaissance, every time they encounter interception by Japanese fighter jets and intercepting ground anti-aircraft artillery, all German pilots have to do is climb up as much as possible and fly at altitudes more than ten kilometers above the ground. They are not even easily noticed by people's naked eyes. In the last three months of 1941, this kind of reconnaissance was conducted in total more than 40 times, and the Japanese army conducted 31 air interceptions accordingly, but none of them succeeded. The ground anti-aircraft artillery tried 20 times to intercept, but also did not achieve any results.

By early 1942, the number of German reconnaissance aircraft stationed in the Far East increased to 22, including 10 He121 Thunderbirds and 4 electronic reconnaissance aircraft equipped with radar detectors. This kind of equipment can calculate the position of the opponent's radar based on the received radar waves, and the new aerial camera equipment manufactured by Zeiss will also effectively improve the effectiveness of aerial photography and reconnaissance.

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