Chapter 183: The Northeast War Begins

After a full day of discussion, Chen Xuan decided to take a multi-pronged approach and formulated a response plan.

1. Gu Weijun, who is in charge of diplomacy, actively contacts the consuls of European and American countries, strives for the support of various countries, exerts pressure on the Japanese, rents merchant ships from various countries that the Japanese dare not touch, and expands the strategic reserves, especially on the islands such as the abbot of Yingzhou.

Second, although the naval strength is still insufficient, Chen Xuan does not intend to hide them all the time, and the newly built water carriers (which do not yet meet the standards of aircraft carriers) have also been officially put into service; with the reconnaissance assistance of the Air Force, it is unlikely that the Japanese will want to lure the snake out of the hole and ambush the fleet of the Baath Party, and the navy also needs to go through some actual combat, and training alone cannot improve its combat effectiveness.

3. The Germans had already transferred the ownership of the Jiaoji Line to the Zhenhua Group, but the Japanese were unreasonable and forcibly occupied the Jiaoji Line, so why should the Baath Party be polite, the southern section of the Far Eastern Railway, that is, the section from Jilin to Lushun, was assigned to the Japanese after the Russo-Japanese War, why can't the Baath Party take back this section of the road? Even if the lawsuit goes to the sky, it is the Japanese who are unreasonable.

Fourth, if possible, directly recover all the concessions and military ports of the Japanese in Lushun.

Fifth, let Sun Zhiheng, commander of the Northeast Group Army, mobilize 100,000 troops, press to the line of the Yalu River, and be ready to attack Goryeo at any time. Then let's fight, who's afraid of whom?

It was agreed that the Baath Party's war machine began to rumble into action.

Yan Fu insisted on leading the fleet south, despite his advanced age, Chen Xuan and others could not resist him, so they had to let him, but the air force also sent the most elite pilots to assist, and there were many German naval officers who voluntarily surrendered to the Baath Party in Shanghai before, and some of them stayed in Shanghai and did not have time to return to China to participate in the war.

After Gu Weijun had a secret conversation with the German consul, the Germans also hated the Japanese for taking advantage of the fire to rob, and the two hit it off, dozens of naval officers were rehired as naval advisers, and army officers were also sent to the northeast to participate in the war in the northeast.

After that, Gu Weijun attended or held a banquet intensively, inviting consuls from various countries to participate, as for what he was talking about, no one knows.

After receiving the order from the high command, the commander of the Northeast Group Army in Harbin, Heilongjiang, quickly summoned the commanders of the provincial military districts and mobilized a large amount of military supplies.

In the end, it was decided that Li Jinxu would be the commander of the southern section of the Far Eastern Railway and the surrounding branch lines, and Zhang Xiaozhun was the deputy to start the recovery plan immediately, and the Japanese who had previously emigrated to the Northeast and eastern Mongolia were also being cleaned up.

Sun Zhiheng mobilized 100,000 Northeast Army to form the Far East Army, with himself as the commander, and Tan Fangcheng stayed in the Harbin base camp to increase the training of the militia, in order to supplement the combat strength of the regiment.

The remnants of the bandits in the northeast ravine were silent, thinking that the Northeast Army was about to clear the bandits again, and many bandits were so frightened that they went down the mountain overnight to surrender.

Li Jinxu and Zhang Xiaozhun's Southern Route Army gathered 60,000 troops, and the first battle was fought at Changchun Railway Station, and the South Manchuria Railway was subordinate to the South Manchuria Railway Co., Ltd., where more than 4,000 troops were stationed.

The Baath Party has been developing in the northeast for some years, and the concern for the Japanese is also the top priority, and the entire Japanese Changchun military camp has long been investigated and destroyed by Wu Qi's archives bureau.

In charge of this battle were two divisions of the Jilin Army under the jurisdiction of Li Jinxu, with a strength of about 8,000, because it was the first battle, and it was in Changchun, so Li Jinxu and Zhang Xiaozhun personally commanded.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, when the negotiations of Baath Party diplomats were ineffective, the 1st and 3rd divisions of the Jilin Army quickly entered the position, and the artillery of the artillery division of the Southern Route Army quickly entered the battlefield under the traction of cars and the cover of the air force.

The Northeast Air Force led by Zhu Zhuquan dispatched a flying group, a penguin (boom. bombing squadron, a total of more than 150 aircraft, while the Japanese army in Changchun only more than 10 fighters as reconnaissance.

After the 30 fighters of the two Flying Tiger squads of the Northeast Air Force took off into the air, the Japanese army was not to be outdone, and all of them took off to meet the enemy, and the first shot was fired by the Air Force, and the Japanese fighters could not match the Flying Tiger squad in terms of quantity and quality, but it was only a frontal impact, and half of the 13 fighters of the Japanese army fell, and the rest were screaming and dying in all directions.

The first wave of the two Flying Tiger squads did not chase after them, and continued to fly towards the Japanese position, leaving the task of pursuit to the next wave of the Flying Tiger Squad, and the Penguin Squadron did not have the interference of the Japanese fighters, so they were divided into three waves, and flew together to the Japanese artillery positions and arsenals that had been marked a long time ago.

All of a sudden, the Japanese artillery position shouted horses, the formation was chaotic, how could the penguin squadron be polite, after the first wave of Flying Tiger squad strafing, flexibly dodge the Japanese anti-aircraft machine guns, round aviation bombing. Bullets rained down.

In the violent explosion, a statue of artillery was overturned to the ground, the barrel was twisted into a twist by the powerful potential energy, and from time to time there were martyrdoms, the lucky Japanese soldiers were swept away by the powerful air waves, and smashed heavily on the ground, and the unlucky ones were directly torn to pieces by the manic shells, and there was no place to die, and the Japanese artillery positions rose with huge flames, and the smoke rose into the sky.

The Northeast Army's air-ground integrated combat has been practiced countless times a long time ago, and the planes have just finished strafing. The explosion of the shells was not over, the army artillery was already moving into place with the towing of the trucks, and the artillery battle between the two armies began.

The Kwantung Army is worthy of being the elite of the great war with the Russians, and there are still many artillery remnants after such a fierce bombardment, and it is thought that the gun emplacements were built in places that could not be bombed by aircraft.

"Brother Jin Xu, it seems that this battle is not so easy to fight, the Japanese army is experienced, the tactics are appropriate, and the reaction is also very fast, you see, their shelling is also very accurate! There is still a certain gap between our soldiers and them! ”

Zhang Xiaozhun put down the binoculars in his hand and said to Li Jinxu, who was in the secret command headquarters in disguise.

"It's not surprising that the Kwantung Army itself fought the Russo-Japanese War with the Russians, naturally has more combat experience than us, and the soldiers are elite enough, but in the face of our absolute strength, they have no possibility of victory, filial piety, brother, immediately ordered, after five rounds of artillery fire, launch a full-scale attack!"

"No more temptation?"

Zhang Xiaozhun said strangely, Li Jinxu's tactics did not seem to fit the style of the big war.

"No, we must crush these Japanese troops in front of us as soon as possible, and not give them a chance to reinforce the troops that have driven from Lushun, and the enemy's position has long been penetrated by our people, and there is nothing to try."

"Good! I'll inform Master Xu and Master Dong now! ”

Division Commander Xu's name is Xu Tingge, who served as the commander of the First Division of the Jilin Army, and Division Commander Dong's name is Dong Dacheng, who is the commander of the Third Division, and the two divisions of the attack are the main force.

"Didi—"

The artillery of the Northeast Army has not fallen, the charge horn has sounded, and the soldiers in camouflage uniforms all over the mountains jumped out of the trenches and rushed to the Japanese positions like the wind.

The Japanese army was caught off guard by Li Jinxu's unreasonable playing style, and its strength was not as good as that of the Northeast Army, and there were still fighters of the Northeast Army circling around like a ghost on their heads.

If you want to fight back but it is difficult to organize an effective team, these low-level commanders with sabers will have a terrible bullet hole in their heads as long as they come forward, and machine gunners are no exception, and it is obvious that the Northeast Army also deploys sharpshooters.

Li Jinxu looked at the charging soldiers, put down the binoculars in his hand, and nodded, as if he was quite recognized.

"Brother Xiaozhun, it seems that Commander Du (Du Xiao) has trained quite good soldiers, the spacing of the charges is good, and the large-scale damage of the artillery bombardment has been avoided, and the cooperation between the two is not bad, this kid still has two brushes."

"Commander Du, you, and Commander Sun Hongye of the Southeast Army are all the protégés and favorite generals of the marshal, so naturally they will not be bad."

Zhang Xiaozhun nodded in agreement.

"What kind of protégé loves generals, compared to you talents who have returned from abroad, we are soil buns, and we have to ask Brother Xiaozhun for more guidance."

Seeing that the attack was going well, Li Jinxu also joked with Zhang Xiaozhun.

The Southern Route Army of the Northeast Army did not live up to high expectations, just a charge, it took several high ground on the periphery, and deployed troops, Chen Xuan did not have the habit of taking advantage and fighting with the enemy, this habit also affected the entire army of the Baath Party, and there was a set of methods for clearing the remnants of the enemy.

The officers and men who rushed to the enemy's position held their positions to the death, and the guards of all ranks, armed with automatic rifles or Mauser pistols, formed a brigade to quickly clear the remnants of the various trenches, whether they were dead or not, and fired a single shot.

The Baath Army, arguably the richest army in the country, far outstripped other units in peacetime, and its wartime supplies were enviable, even to the Japanese army.

Part of the artillery quickly occupied the forward artillery positions of the Japanese army, and the rest were quickly transferred to the second position under the tow of trucks.

The forward positions were clear, and it was time for street fighting, which was originally the place where the army's reaction ability was most tested, and the enemy's headquarters had long been blown to pieces by the penguin squadron, and the Japanese officers were either killed or did not know which mouse hole to hide in.

After the Japanese headquarters was terminated, the air force and artillery could not give much support, and there were still many Chinese next to the station, so they couldn't fire at their own compatriots.

The heights were occupied by the Northeast Army, and the remaining Japanese troops were also completely annihilated, and the commandos who had been prepared for a long time were like tigers descending from the mountains, swooping down on Changchun Station, and from time to time you could see sharpshooters in camouflage suits shifting their positions or eliminating the enemy's threat.