This was a real massacre, unwilling to fail, Okada saw that the tank group he had painstakingly run was swatted by the Soviets like a fly, and after seeing the strength of the Soviet tank group, Okada already knew that even if he sent more tanks up, it was just to send him to death. With the full strength of the 2nd Tank Division, he could not match the front of a Soviet tank group, and such a gap could no longer be described by a disparity in strength.

However, Okada was not willing to flee like this, and he knew that even if he wanted to, he might not be able to escape from the pursuit of the Soviets. Besides, with such a major failure, even if he escaped, what could he do, and in the end he would not face a tragic end. If it's good, you can end your life as a soldier, and if you don't get it right, you'll be sent to a military court. It is better to die on the battlefield, and those who die on the battlefield are those who sacrifice their lives for the country and are heroes, and after death, they will be sent to the Yasukuni Shrine to be admired by future generations and grandchildren.

But if he were to be executed because of the unfavorable situation of the war, not only would his family become the laughing stock of Kyoto, but he himself would also be labeled as a coward, a coward, and an incompetent, which was unacceptable to Okada. Seeing that only three or two of his 400 Type 97 tanks were left with kittens and still dying, Okada resolutely ordered all the artillery of the divisional rapid-fire artillery team and the 8th Heavy Artillery Brigade assigned to the command of the 2nd Tank Division to fire at the positions of the tank group and bombard indiscriminately.

"Boom"

"Boom"

Neither the Japanese tanks nor the Soviet tanks expected that the Japanese artillery would open fire at this time, and the overwhelming shells fell from the sky, and under the blow of the 105mm caliber heavy artillery, whether it was the thin-skinned Japanese Type 97 tank or the Soviet T34 tank, it was like a paper mustache, as long as it was hit head-on, it would become a pile of burning wreckage.

Okada's order was quite sudden, and neither the remnants of the Soviet tank units in the battle received the order to retreat, and both sides suffered heavy losses in the cold, and the battlefield was full of burning fires and infantry. In contrast, the Soviet tank troops, which still had more than 130 tanks, suffered much more heavy losses than the Japanese tank troops, which had less than 50 tanks, and at least half of the tanks turned into scrap metal during the 20-minute shelling, and the Japanese tank units were even more unbearable, and the more than 400 Type 97 tanks at the time of the battle were now less than 10 still active.

After the bombardment was completed, Okada gave the order to retreat, because at this time the forward sentinels came back with news that a larger Soviet tank force was coming towards the small town of Jiayin.

Okada knew that he was powerless to return to heaven, so he didn't even return to the city, but sent a telegram to Muto Ranbei Daisa in the city, ordering him to immediately blow up all the reserves and important military facilities in the city, and at the same time destroy all the important materials of the division headquarters, and then lead the remaining troops in the city to withdraw from Jiayin City immediately.

However, Okada also knew that this was just wishful thinking, knowing that this place was so close to Jiayin Castle, and the vanguard of the Japanese army had almost arrived in the city, and Muto Ranbing Osaku probably didn't have time to do these things.

As Lieutenant General Okada predicted, when the Soviet tank group approached the city and launched an assault on Jiayin Castle, Muto Ranbei did not even have time to react. Because all the Type 97 tanks had been transferred by Lieutenant General Okada, and there were less than a hundred Type 95 tanks and training vehicles left in the city, Muto Ranbei Osa had no choice but to order the remaining tank wing to attack and temporarily resist the attack of the Soviets.

However, this is just a matter of obeying the fate of heaven, and it can be delayed for as long as it can, if it can be delayed until he destroys all the important materials of the division and regiment headquarters. The Type 97 tank is not good, and the Type 95 bean tank is even more of a joke in front of the Soviet T34 main battle tank, and 100 Type 95 tanks were overwhelmed by more than 1,000 Soviet tanks in less than 10 minutes after leaving the city. …,

On the 18th, at 2:22 a.m., the Soviet tank cluster occupied Jiayin, and the Japanese 2nd Tank Division and the 8th Independent Heavy Artillery Brigade escaped except for more than 120 self-propelled guns, and the rest were wiped out by the Soviets. Jiayincheng, a forward base of tanks painstakingly managed by the Japanese army, basically did not play any role and became a trophy of the Soviet Union, and a large amount of material was captured by the Soviet Red Army.

The fall of Jiayin City and the almost total annihilation of the 2nd Chariot Division are undoubtedly shocking. After receiving the news, Yamada Otozo and Han Yunhua had different thoughts and expressions. As soon as he received the news, General Yamada Otozo was first shocked, then angry, and then worried and panicked. The defeat of the 2nd Tank Division was tantamount to adding insult to injury for the entire Kwantung Army, counting the news just received, the first blow of the Soviets directly crushed 3 infantry divisions and a tank division and a heavy artillery brigade of the Kwantung Army.

The Kwantung Army only deployed 18 infantry divisions, 2 tank divisions and 4 independent mixed brigades in the entire Heilongjiang region. But looking at it now, first four infantry divisions and one chariot division were transferred south, and in addition to today's losses, there were only nine divisions and three independent mixed brigades left in the entire Heilongjiang region. With the combat effectiveness displayed by the Soviet Red Army, Yamada Otozo, although he was very reluctant to admit this cruel fact, had to send a report to the base camp and once again request for more troops, otherwise the entire Manchurian region would soon fall into the hands of the Chinese and Soviets.

After receiving the telegram from Ivanov, Han Yunhua was also shocked at first, and then ecstatic. The first round of the offensive went so smoothly that the Soviet Far Eastern Military District was indeed not covered, and as soon as it struck, it gave the Japanese a 3:0. As long as these small cities on the Sino-Soviet border were laid down and a strong bridgehead was established, then with the strong strength of the Soviet Red Army, it was only a matter of time before it swept through North Manchuria.

Moreover, the surprise attack tonight was not only the Soviet troops who achieved good results, but also the millions of troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region also achieved brilliant results along the northeast route, and the 77th Independent Division of the Fourth Field Army of the Eastern Hebei Army Division occupied the Lingyuan portal at 6 o'clock in the morning of the 18th at 6 o'clock in the morning.

At the same time, Su Yu's Central Route Army also occupied Linhai at 8 a.m. on the 18th and was marching in the direction of Siping. The North Route Army commanded by Han Yunhua was even more remarkable, because Han Yunhua concentrated all the tank troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region here, and at the same time, Han Yunhua concentrated more than 800 military vehicles to temporarily form a huge mechanized force.

Jilin is located in the center of the puppet Manchurians, here has always been the center of gravity of the Japanese army, so the Japanese army's monitoring here is the most rigorous, after more than ten years of painstaking management, almost all the cottage villages and large and small tunzi with a sense of resistance or signs are either killed or relocated collectively, so gradually the Japanese garrison in Jilin is decreasing, plus several consecutive times by the Inner Mongolia Military Region heavy losses, so the defense of the entire Jilin region is very empty. The most important thing is that in the Jilin region, except for a tank brigade stationed in Xinjing (Changchun) and a tank teaching wing in Siping City, there is no longer any armored force in the entire Central Manchurian region. In view of this situation, Han Yunhua is ready to embark on a military adventure.

Han Yunhua knows very well that now the Kwantung Army is already a foreign powerhouse, if the First Tank Division continues to move south, his armored group still has opponents, if the First Tank Division returns to Heilongjiang, then Han Yunhua's armored forces in the entire Central Manchurian region are the absolute leader, so Han Yunhua is waiting, he is waiting for news from the Soviet tank force.

The Soviet Red Army is worthy of being a force cultivated by artillery, and once it strikes, it is often accompanied by thunder. As soon as he made a move, he took down all the predetermined military targets in less than 6 hours. …,

After receiving the telegram, Han Yunhua immediately ordered Lieutenant General Ivanov and the armored unit of the Soviet Red Army to leave an automobile regiment to continue to build a rear base in the small city of Jiayin, and the whole army immediately went straight to Yichun, an important military town in North Manchuria, along the Wuyi Ridge, the Tangwang River, the Wuying, and Shangganling. As long as Yichun is taken, then the Soviet Red Army can join forces with Zhao Shangzhi's Third Field Army, and then it can join forces to attack Suihua, Jiamusi and Harbin. At the same time, the Soviet Red Army in the direction of Heihe directly attacked Qiqihar along Wudalianchi and Bei'an. The Soviet Red Army in the direction of Fuyuan followed the line of Tongjiang, Fujin, and Suibin and went straight to Jiamusi.

At eight o'clock in the morning of the 18th, Han Yunhua received another telegram that the Japanese troops who had just arrived in Shuangcheng had received an order from General Yamada Otozo, and the whole army immediately set off for Harbin.

The news that Han Yunhua was waiting for finally came, since all the southbound troops returned to Harbin, it means that General Yamada Otosan must have thought that the Soviets were the biggest threat to the Kwantung Army, so he would transfer all the reinforcements from the south back to block the Soviets. This is what Han Yunhua wants to see the most, and this is also the situation he is waiting for, because with the containment of the Soviet tank forces, how can the Japanese have the remaining strength to deal with this half-hung mechanized group of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, then Han Yunhua's risky plan can be executed.

At 9 o'clock, Han Yunhua ordered Wan Guoquan to command the temporary mechanized troops gathered in the Inner Mongolia Military Region, bypassing Baicheng and penetrating directly into Songyuan. Regardless of how many Japanese troops were behind them, their only task was to directly attack Songyuan with the powerful assault force of mechanized troops, and then take Changchun, the base camp of Japanese puppet rule. At the same time, Han Yunhua also ordered the Air Force Joint Command to dispatch all air forces, and then, together with the aviation units of the Soviet Far Eastern Military District, to carry out air strikes on all important Japanese-controlled facilities and strongholds in the entire northeast region, including a large number of military airfields and barracks.

I have to say that Han Yunhua's plan is very risky, after all, there are still 3 infantry divisions of the Japanese army and 4 infantry divisions and 2 cavalry divisions of the puppet army stationed in the Baicheng area, and less than 300,000 Japanese puppet troops in the entire Central Manchurian region are deployed on the Baicheng line, and the remaining one-third is arranged in Xinjing (Changchun), and the last third is sent by Yamada Yisan to the Jiaohe line to encircle and suppress Lu Zhengcao's headquarters. If Wan Guoquan's armored group bypassed Baicheng and attacked the Songyuan area directly, it was likely that the rear route would be cut off by the Japanese, and it would still be surrounded by nearly 200,000 Japanese troops. In addition, the mechanized units of the Inner Mongolia Military Region have some transportation capacity, and if the fuel tankers and ammunition vehicles are attacked by air, then so many tanks will directly become live targets for the enemy's aircraft.

800 vehicles is already the limit of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, except for 550 vehicles, which are used to transport troops, the rest are all used to transport ammunition, supplies and fuel. So don't look at Han Yunhua's armored force, which not only has 668 tanks, 800 vehicles, 150 artillery pieces, and 38,000 infantry, but also looks extremely huge on the outside, as if it were a behemoth. But in fact, this mechanized force is far from being as powerful as people think, and the fragile supply lines and the tactics of going deep alone have caused great trouble for the army led by Wan Guoquan.

However, Han Yunhua decided to do so, because with risk comes opportunity. Although there were more than 500,000 Japanese puppet troops in North Manchuria, the 350,000 Soviet Red Army was enough for a small Japan to drink a pot, and there were more than 400,000 Japanese puppet troops in South Manchuria, but all of them were contained by Chen Geng and Su Yu. So the current Japanese army is like a dumbbell that has been unfolded, the two ends are large and the middle is small, and if you want to kill with one blow, you must break the connection in the middle, so that a complete dumbbell will be completely scrapped. Compared with the dumbbell of the Kwantung Army, its most lethal position is the middle full.

In fact, Han Yunhua, the dumbbell bureau of the Kwantung Army, had already laid it out, thinking that when Lu Zhengcao's department went eastward, he directly pulled the troops to the deep mountains and forests of Zhongman, and established a huge base there. Not long ago, the chaotic stew tactics of Lu Zhengcao's department directly opened up the Japanese puppet defense in the Dunhua and Jiaohe areas, and with the assistance of the 300,000 troops of Lu Zhengcao's department, the probability of success of the Wanguo Quan department is still extremely high. High risks are often accompanied by high opportunities, if the Kwantung Army is cut off by the Inner Mongolia Military Region, then the 1.2 million Japanese puppet army in the northeast will not be able to become an organic whole, and then the 500,000 Japanese puppet army in North Manchuria will become a turtle in the urn, and the only way for the more than 400,000 Japanese puppet army in South Manchuria if they don't want to be annihilated is to retreat to North Korea. …,

The chariot rumbled, and the northeast in October was already very cold, the cold wind blew, and the yellow leaves were piled up all over the ground, and it was a bleak appearance. All the rice and sorghum have been returned to the warehouse, and only the corn cob is still hanging from the beams of the farmhouse's small yard. This year is not a bumper year, but this year is the year in which the people in the Northeast have laughed the most in more than ten years, because this year, our children and soldiers in the Northeast have finally returned to their hometowns.

Honggangzi is a small hill 35 kilometers west of Da'an, so people call this small tunzi under the mountain also called Honggangzi or Honggangtun. The autumn harvest has just ended, and most of the villagers are still in the field to collect some corn stalks, ready to be used as firewood or to feed cattle and sheep, only to hear an urgent gong sound in the tunzi, after hearing the gong, the farmers working in the field hurriedly picked up the sickle and ran to the tunzi.

"Second posterity, what's going on, what's the matter with the gong, is the Japanese coming or what?" Uncle Li, the eldest in the tunzi, was the first to ask.

"Folks, hurry up and let the young people and middle-aged men in the family run into the mountains, the Japanese came to recruit the people, it was Liu Da traitor who brought people here, it was Xiao Wuzi who just risked his life to spread the word, saying that this time they brought a total of more than 100 devil soldiers and two dogs, specifically to deal with these small tunzi near us."

The second posterity is a nickname, although people call it after the birth, but in fact, the second posterity is not young, and there should be at least 47 or 8 depending on the appearance. People have forgotten what the name of the second poster is, and people are used to calling him the second poster.

Erhousheng opened a restaurant in Xuejiaweizi, the largest town outside Da'an City, although this restaurant is just a two-story broken restaurant in the eyes of others, but in this small place in Honggangzi, people still think that Erhousheng is quite promising. Besides, the second poster is kind-hearted and helpful, and when he usually goes back to the tunzi, he often brings some snacks for the old people in the tunzi to eat in the city, and can do it properly for you to bring something to the tunzi, so the prestige of the second posterior is stronger here than the village chief.

Because the second poster opened a restaurant, there were a lot of peddlers and pawns coming and going every day, so he was still very well-informed, and if there was an emergency, he even ran back to the tunzi to tell the villagers. Today, the second poster received the news from the little fifth son who was a puppet army in the city, saying that the big traitor Liu Yongsheng was going to bring people to the Honggang area to arrest the strong men, so he came back in a hurry, and also rang the emergency convening order in the tunzi - the gong.

"Didn't you just send this year's money to Liu Ermazi, why did you start catching strong men again in less than two months?" Village Chief Wu Ping asked.

"This is different from the past, this time it is because our Chinese army is fighting the Japanese in the west, and the Japanese are a little choked this time, so they will hurriedly grab the strong men to repair the fortifications and gun towers for them, and they will not be able to go to the front line this time. And Xiao Wuzi said that the chance that the strong man who was arrested this time may not come back alive, so everyone should flee quickly and come back after a while. The second housheng said anxiously.

The second post-born people are very convinced, and the village chief Wu Ping immediately said loudly: "Then what are you waiting for, hurry back and clean up, the old people are willing to go, and those who can't go and don't want to leave will stay and watch the house, the Japanese will not take the old man and the old lady like that, the young people will go regardless of men and women, take away the food that can be taken away, hide the ones that can't be taken away, and drive away all the cattle and sheep, hurry up." ”

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