Chapter Seventy-One: The Festival of China
It turns out that General Jonathan Wainwright is not alone in wanting to wash away his shame through war. Wainwright originally planned to organize a death squad of 500 people, but as soon as the news spread, almost every rescued prisoner of war wanted to sign up, and in the end, the number of Allied commandos reached more than 700 people! Basically, they are all on top of a Class B regiment.
If it weren't for the attrition and injuries caused by the beating and prolonged abuse of the Japanese army, it would not have been a problem to estimate the number of Allied commandos to exceed 1,000.
There was more than one weapons warehouse in Mukden City, and Ren Laifeng took out the guns and ammunition inside and handed them over to the Allied commandos, and General Wainwright expressed his gratitude to General Ren Laifeng of China on behalf of all the Allied forces.
"Wainwright, I need some pilots on my side. You leave me a batch of experienced pilots. "Allied pilots are a valuable resource, Ren Laifeng looked at the Allied soldiers behind Wainwright, as if trying to see which one was a good pilot.
Through these two days of contact, Wainwright already knew that Ren Laifeng had an air force under his command, but he was still surprised that Ren Laifeng asked him for a pilot. After a slight stunned moment, Wainwright nodded in agreement.
"Soldiers, who among you is the pilot? General Ren needs experienced pilots, who have experience in air combat please stand up. ”
Wainwright said it twice, and finally someone agreed, "I, Smith, have 1,200 hours of flying experience, and I once shot down two Japanese fighters!" I'm signing up! ”
"I, Edward, have eight hundred hours of flying experience and have participated in four air battles. I'm willing to sign up! ”
Since the first Smith, there have been pilots who have raised their hands to sign up, and when the sound stopped, Ren Laifeng took a general look, and there were almost thirty people. There are a lot of these people, and if two people fly one plane, he will be able to fly more than a dozen planes in the sky.
Wainwright went with the Allied commandos. These Allied commandos carried Type 38 rifles and Japanese-style grenadiers, and flickered like a ghost throughout the Battle of Mukden, and from time to time they could bring unexpected damage to the Japanese army.
On one occasion, the Allied commandos even succeeded in destroying a Japanese convoy transporting ammunition, resulting in a Japanese wing fighting on the front line not being able to get ammunition, and our troops seized the opportunity to directly beat this wing into a half-crippled unit.
When the first large-scale air battle took place, the two sides that were fighting on the ground invariably stopped fighting. Ground troops on both sides are watching this Armageddon in the sky! Thirty fighters of our army fought against fifty planes of the Japanese army.
The air battle was extremely tragic. From time to time, planes exploded in volleys, and planes that were damaged and crashed fell straight down like dumplings. The air battle lasted half an hour and ended with the escape of the Japanese fleet on the side with more aircraft.
Half an hour ago, the devil's planes were nearly twenty more than ours, and after half an hour, the devil's planes still had the advantage in numbers, but they fell more than twice as many as our troops. The Japanese flight commander could not bear this kind of loss comparison, especially after his two escort planes were beaten into the air and disintegrated, the commander of the devil flight formation resolutely led his troops to withdraw from the battlefield. In fact, he just ran.
The devil's plane was beaten away! There was a cheer on the ground, and the morale of our army was greatly boosted!
The fierce battle between China and Japan outside the city of Mukden lasted for nearly half a year, from the middle of winter to the beginning of spring, and then to the beginning of summer. During this period, Yamada Otozo wanted to increase troops from Changchun to the Fengtian battlefield several times, but he never dared to move.
Tens of thousands of people from the New Ninth Army and the New Tenth Army led by Lin Xincheng were eyeing each other. There were no large-scale battles, and there were constant frictions in small-scale conflicts. Moreover, according to the analysis of the Japanese intelligence department, the two units of the New Ninth Army and the New Tenth Army have expanded extremely rapidly recently, and the total of the two armies has exceeded 100,000 horses! In this case, how dare Yamada Otozo send a large army south from Changchun on a large scale?
Outside Mukden City, the battle between Ren Laifeng and the Third Front of the Japanese Kwantung Army continued. At the beginning, the devils had a large number of troops and an absolute advantage. However, the commander of the Third Front, General Harem, committed suicide by disembowelment before the start of the battle, which directly led to the leaderlessness of the nine divisions and three brigades.
The newly appointed commander was not convinced. The combat effectiveness of the Third Front Army was originally at the third-rate level, but now it has been lowered by another level, to the amateur level. In this regard, Yamada Otozo can only cry out in vain?
Summer arrives at the end of May and the weather gets hotter. On the last day of May, our scouts discovered that the Japanese army had put Shahezi Village under martial law! The village is surrounded by devils with wolf dogs and war horses. The Scout sensed something was a little strange and reported it to Ren Laifeng.
Ren Laifeng pointed to the map and saw that there didn't seem to be any of our troops nearby. Is that to send the cavalry regiment over? Or send the Flying Tiger Battalion over? Ren Laifeng suddenly remembered that there was another Allied commando team that had not been contacted for a long time. He couldn't get through on the phone, so he just sent a telegram. Ren Lai Feng sent a telegram ordering the Allied commandos to raid Shahezi Village!
Since the Allied commandos are fighting in the northeast, he has to obey the dispatch of Ren Laifeng. Wherever Ren Laifeng asks him to fight, he has to fight. Wainwright looked at the telegram, didn't say a word, replied to the telegram with two words, obeyed!
That evening, a military meeting of senior generals of the Third Front Army was held in Shahezi Village. At the meeting, the new commander, Lieutenant General Muto, reassigned the defense areas to the divisions, brigades, and regiments, and devised several tactics that he considered beautiful.
Halfway through the military meeting, gunfire rang out outside the village. Muto's face changed, and he hurriedly ran out of the conference room with people to check the situation, and the gunfire outside had become dense like rain, and the sound of artillery appeared. Ren Laifeng slapped a platoon of the Flying Tiger Battalion to cooperate with the Allied commandos to attack Shahezi Village!
Seven of the nine division commanders were concentrated in the village, and the three brigade commanders were all here! Coupled with Muto, the new commander of the front army, it can be said that it will be star-studded. So many generals are surrounded by our army!
The devil resisted desperately. Our army bombarded with tanks from a distance and with guns when it was close, and carried out a merciless attack on the devils! After the battle, five of the seven division commanders of the Japanese army and two of the three brigade commanders did not escape.
Ren Laifeng looked at the general's epaulettes in front of him, and he smiled happily.
At the end of June, with the large-scale uprising of the puppet army in the northeast, the Japanese army was forced to withdraw its troops from the Mukden battlefield. Ren Laifeng led his troops to pursue the victory, and in one fell swoop he joined forces with the southbound troops led by Lin Xincheng.
On August 15, 1945, the Emperor of Japan read out the Edict of Surrender. On 2 September, on the battleship "Missouri," Shigemitsu Aoi, then Japanese Foreign Minister, and Umezu Mijiro, chief of staff, signed the instrument of surrender on behalf of the Japanese Government. General Xu Yongchang signed on behalf of the Chinese government on the victorious side.
When the news came out, the whole country rejoiced! September 3 is a glorious day for all Chinese and the people of the world. This day is the festival of all Chinese children!
(End of book)
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