Lin Junxiong still seemed to be fully focused on the research and development of weapons, and did not take the Japanese army's autumn crusade to heart at all, so anxious that Du Sheng and Qian Changchang went to the arsenal many times to blow their beards and stare at him, and Lin Junxiong laughed at him.

The time entered the middle of November, some places in the northeast began to drift snowflakes, Lin Junxiong stood in front of the map to inspect for a long time, the Japanese army dispatched more than 100,000 troops to carry out the autumn crusade did not show the due fierce offensive, but the revolutionary army took advantage of the familiarity of the terrain to win repeatedly, after the latest battle report sent back by the columns five days ago, Lin Junxiong vaguely felt a trace of danger.

Dusk Sheng and Qian Changjiu walked into the conference room, and they all felt a little unbelievable when they saw Lin Junxiong, who hadn't walked in here for several months, actually appear here.

"Why, you don't know me anymore? I know that I am the commander of the revolutionary army, isn't this the counter-crusade going well, don't look at me with such strange eyes, and tell you the good news, the Type 40 rifle and light machine gun have been successfully developed and manufactured, and they will soon be ready for mass production, and you can try the power of the new weapon in a while. Lin Junxiong said with a smile.

"Really, great, this is good news, I just received the latest battle situation of the columns, although it is a small victory, but the autumn crusade of the Japanese puppet army is weak, I believe that soon we will achieve the victory of this counter-crusade."

Lin Junxiong looked at Qian Changchang, who frowned slightly, and asked, "Old Qian, what do you think of the current situation of the anti-crusade?" ”

Qian Chang smiled bitterly and said: "I think the commander must have sensed something, and there are new instructions to come here, so the old money will rely on the old man to tell his opinion." It's been two months since the counter-crusade was going on, and although we've been winning a lot, I always feel that it's going a little unusually, but I can't say what is out of the ordinary. ”

Lin Junxiong patted Dusheng's shoulder and said, "Second brother, you have to learn more from Lao Qian, you can't give up your vigilance at any time, I think you have been carried away by the news of the victories of the columns in the past two months, and you have lost your cool judgment, you come and see." ”

With a look of shame, Du Sheng and Qian Chang followed Lin Junxiong to the map, Lin Junxiong pointed to the map and said: "At present, Fang Yun's Yizong has been involved in Mengjiang County by the Japanese puppet army for two months; The roads in several directions of Feng Zhansong's six longitudinal provinces of Changchun, Jilin, Jiaohe County, Panshi County, and Pseudo-Jian Island Province were blocked, and they were completely controlled in the Changshan area; Xie Qin's three verticals were blocked in the Changbai Mountains, and the passages to Antu County, Hunchun County, Yanji County, and Helong County were all blocked by the Japanese puppet army; Diao Yongyun's five columns were blocked in the area of Qingyuan County, and Xinbin was placed by the Japanese puppet army with a division and two puppet regiments, and the back road to the base area was blocked; The situation of Tang Jijun's second column was even worse, and he was lured to Linjiang County by the Japanese puppet army; The situation of Weixin's four verticals is not optimistic, and the Heilongjiang Provincial Garrison dispatched 20,000 people to search non-stop, taking care of themselves! ”

As soon as Du Sheng and Qian Chang analyzed by Lin Junxiong, cold sweat broke out on their heads, and Du Sheng said nervously: "If the Japanese army has enough troops in each column, then we will be in danger!" ”

"In the past, we still had the advantage of geographical advantages, but now that the Japanese army is also familiar with the terrain, we are in danger, the Japanese army has dragged on for so long, it is not at all as fierce as the previous crusade, it seems that it is waiting for something." Qian Changchang also said worriedly.

Lin Junxiong let out a long sigh and said slowly: "The Japanese are waiting for the attitude of the Soviet Union, and now that the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo axis military bloc has been formed, the Soviet Union is considering whether to join, but Germany will not give up Turkey and Bulgaria, and the possibility of the Soviet Union joining should be very small." Even so, it is likely that Japan and the Soviets had made some secret agreements behind their backs, so that some of the Kwantung Army's defenses in the north could be repatriated for use in the crusade. ”

Du Sheng and Qian were shocked for a long time, if it was true to Lin Junxiong's conjecture, the anti-Japanese forces in the Northeast would suffer a devastating blow.

Seeing the looks of the two, Lin Junxiong said with a smile: "The situation has not yet reached such a bad situation, and there is still room for redemption." ”

After Lin Junxiong finished speaking, he pointed and thought about the map for a while, and then said for a long time: "Twilight, immediately convey the order to all columns: 1. All columns must realize the current grim situation and severely punish the arrogance of the troops; 2. All intelligence points pay close attention to the situation of the Japanese reinforcements and send the information to the nearby columns in a timely manner; The 3rd and 5th Columns and the 1st Column broke through to Dongfeng County at the same time, and occupied Dongfeng County according to the strategy of 'relying on the inner line, taking the opportunity of the enemy first, and attacking the outer line with evasive tactics', fighting against the Japanese puppet army, and then waiting for the opportunity to break through and return to their respective base areas; the 4th, 4th, and 6th Columns flanked Jiaohe County, and then attacked Antu County with the 3rd Column, and after the victory, the three columns jointly attacked the enemy who came to help, the 4th and 6th Columns waited for the opportunity to return to their base areas, and the 3rd Column went to Hunchun County to wait for the opportunity to return to the base areas; Fifth, after the first column led the Mengjiang County garrison to pursue, the second vertical Mengjiang County broke through the encirclement, and then used a small force to contain it, and the large force directly killed Fusong County, and finally returned to the base area. ”

Twilight asked suspiciously, "Commander, are you going to take the initiative?" ”

Lin Junxiong's face was solemn, "I hope it's still too late, the Japanese puppet army will definitely do its best to block it, it's hard to say whether they can complete the established strategy, once they are dragged and the Japanese reinforcements arrive, they fall into encirclement, then it will be dangerous, and then all columns will face a hard battle!" ”

Qian Chang was shocked by Lin Junxiong's arrangement, "If you don't experience the flames of war, how can you sharpen a brave army that is invincible and invincible, the commander's arrangement is already very comprehensive, and then it depends on how the columns perform." ”

Lin Junxiong was still a little worried in his heart, after all, these troops were the results of the past two years, and they were the foundation of the subsequent anti-Japanese struggle, and he said to Du Sheng: "Let all columns flexibly use the tactics of regular movement warfare such as encirclement and reinforcement, frontal assault and detour of both flanks, **depth and division and encirclement." ”

When Twilight went out to give orders, Qian Chang sighed: "It seems that the commander should take the time to organize an officer training, we are too far from you!" ”

Lin Junxiong smiled and said: "When will Lao Qian learn to pat on the back, haha"

Qian Changchang said with a straight face: "Commander, I am telling the truth, we should really learn from you, several column captains have been in contact with you for a long time, and they are all very good, but if you can personally guide other officers, it is conducive to improving the overall combat capability of the troops." ”

Lin Junxiong nodded and said: "The battle has just begun, we still have a long way to go, I am ready to organize two officer trainings next year after this crusade to smash the Japanese puppet army, after all, we may have to follow the strategy of dispersed guerrillas, and some officers must be allowed to grow up as soon as possible, but the real growth depends on the battlefield experience." ”

Hayashi's assumptions about the international situation were quickly confirmed, and in November 1940, German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop wrote to Stalin that the Germans hoped to draw the Soviet Union into the Axis bloc and establish a "four-nation alliance." Stalin then sent Molotov to Berlin for negotiations. The German side provided a draft of the "Four-Power Pact", which required the Soviet Union to expand only in the direction of the Indian Ocean south of the territory. Stalin agreed to sign the treaty, but at the same time demanded that Turkey and Bulgaria also be included in the Soviet sphere of influence. Hitler was very dissatisfied with this, so he did not give a reply to the Soviet side.

However, Japan took the opportunity to reach a private agreement with the Soviet Union, promising a temporary truce between the two sides, and the two sides each drew a part of their troops from the opposing forces in northeast China as a sign of sincerity.

The Kwantung Army drew five divisions from the forces that opposed the Soviet Union to join the crusade against the anti-Japanese forces in the northeast, and Tojo Iwa immediately sent the four divisions that arrived to various places to prepare for a clean-up operation.

I don't know if it's the luck of the revolutionary army, or if God can't stand the suffering people of the Northeast anymore and can't bear to let the revolutionary army fall into a desperate situation. Before December, the snow fell like goose feathers in the sky, and the four divisions that had been reinforced to destroy the revolutionary army had not prepared enough warm clothing in advance, so they had to march slowly while waiting for the arrival of cold materials, but Tojoiwa's confident purge plan was full of loopholes, and the columns also took the opportunity to escape from the encirclement.

After the 5th Column and the 1st Column annihilated the garrison of a Japanese wing in Dongfeng County, they quickly withdrew from Dongfeng County, went around to the rear of the 3 wings that came to reinforce them, and launched a surprise attack on the three tired divisions that had been running for a long time.

The Second Column did not encounter much obstacle when it entered Mengjiang County, but when it arrived at Fusong County, it encountered fierce resistance, but fortunately, Tang Jijun adopted the strategy of luring the enemy in time to lure out part of the troops of Fusong County, and used the ambush in advance to annihilate most of the pursuing enemy, and then swaggered from Fusong County into Changbai Mountain, and the Japanese puppet garrison in Fusong County did not dare to pursue.

The 3rd, 4th, and 6th Columns attacked Antu County together and ended the battle before even firing a single shot, and the garrison of Antu County was less than 1,000 people, and when they learned that tens of thousands of people were besieging Antu County, the important military facilities in the county town were bombed one after another, and the city walls on which they relied were also blown up, they immediately retreated to Yanji County.

Koizumi immediately sent a division to Antu County, and the three columns learned that a Japanese division was coming from the direction of Jilin, and Xie Qin, Wei Xin, and Feng Zhansong had already summed up, so they immediately took the initiative to attack, and the six columns were frontally pinned, and the three columns and the four columns were outflanked. The three columns immediately retreated in three directions, and the division sent out by Koizumi Takahara did not know which road was the main force, and was afraid of being ambushed, so they had to enter Antu County.

On December 20, 1940, the revolutionary army surrounded everywhere escaped from the encirclement, and many counties with fewer garrisons were constantly attacked by the revolutionary army, and after the Japanese army paid more than 30,000 casualties of the elite Kwantung Army and more than 20,000 casualties of the Jilin garrison, the Kwantung Army Headquarters ordered to stop the crusade, ordered Tojo Iwa to reformulate a detailed and careful deployment, and reported to the Kwantung Army Headquarters for approval before carrying out the crusade plan.

The first autumn and winter crusade of the Japanese army against the revolutionary army ended in failure.