Chapter 614: The End of the Kwantung Army (12)
In the end, the Yamada Brigade still did not withdraw, and with the powerful infantry anti-tank equipment such as bazookas, the Inner Mongolia Military Region was like a tiger with wings. In addition, the battle itself was calculated and unintentional, and in the face of a huge number of bazooka troops, the Japanese tanks were constantly destroyed.
"Boom" "Boom" "Boom" Watching his tank troops continue to be wiped out, while the Chinese tank troops and those infantry with mysterious weapons are in pursuit, Major General Yamada Akeshi's heart is dripping blood, but he is helpless. If Lieutenant General Okada had been here, he would have ordered the artillery to bomb indiscriminately, and the artillery unit would have given him a few pads when he was dying. But Major General Akechi Yamada did not have the courage to do so, and the battle had already disrupted his heart.
The battle lasted only 50 minutes, and with the cooperation of the tank brigade, Liu Da Fatzi's rocket launcher unit lightly took the armored group that the Japanese army had put together temporarily, and also eliminated the rapid-fire artillery wing of the Japanese army.
No one on the Japanese side expected this result, and if the tank unit lost to the Soviets, it would be a technical problem and a matter of national strength, and it would be understandable. But such a large chariot force was completely wiped out by less than 200 chariots in China, which made the Japanese top brass dare not believe it anyway, and according to the report of the soldiers who escaped, the duel in this war workshop was simply a premeditated massacre, and 400 Imperial chariots only lasted less than 50 minutes on the battlefield, which means that at least eight chariots were destroyed every minute.
Major General Yamada did not return to the Erlongshan front, and when Zhang Baode's tank unit passed by the secret bunker, Major General Yamada suddenly jumped out with a command knife and rushed towards a bazooka player next to the tank, and was directly hit head-on by a rocket, just like his tank unit was torn to pieces, leaving only a broken saber. Major General Yamada was killed by an ordinary soldier, who did not know at the time that he had killed the supreme commander of the Japanese armored forces, but because the command knife was not bad, he took back the command knife that was about to break as a trophy after the battle, and only realized that it was a general's knife when he examined the trophies.
In the early morning of that night, Wan Guoquan finally rushed to the front line of Erlongshan with a large army, and Wan Guoquan already knew the results of the battle. In this battle, the Inner Mongolia Military Region completely annihilated a tank brigade of the Japanese army, plus a tank wing and a rapid-fire artillery wing with small casualties, and destroyed all the armored forces of the Japanese puppet army in the Central Manchurian region in one fell swoop, making an immortal contribution to the entire war situation.
Although the Japanese armored forces were completely annihilated, the battle situation was still grim, first of all, the terrain of Erlong Mountain was extremely unfavorable to the assault of the armored troops, and it was even more unfavorable to the attack of the infantry, but the Japanese puppet army was here with more than 100,000 soldiers, and if Erlong Mountain was not taken, the troops would not be able to rush to Changchun, and another difficult problem was placed in front of Wan Guoquan and others.
The advance of Wan Guoquan's department was blocked, but Han Yunhua's side was advancing vigorously, because the logistics base was terminated, so the 100,000-day puppet army in the border area of Chen Bing became a toothless tiger, not to mention an attack, and even self-protection was reluctant. Han Yunhua also knew the embarrassment of the Japanese army, so he specially sent a large number of fighters to bomb the Japanese position, and continuously sent large troops to attack the Japanese position, forcing the Japanese army's ammunition supply, which could hold out for a week, to be exhausted in only three days.
During the period, the Japanese army sent a large group of transport planes to the Japanese army on the front line of Baicheng in the early hours of the morning, because Han Yunhua and others were defenseless, so the first airdrop of the Japanese army was successful, and the Japanese army on the front line got a batch of supplies, but compared to 100,000 troops, the ammunition supply of 120 transport planes airdropped was extremely limited, so General Yamada Otozo ordered the air force to airdrop supplies to the Japanese army on the front line at all costs, and at the same time ordered the Japanese army in the direction of Baicheng to be fixed in Baicheng, and Han Yunhua's large army must not be allowed to enter Zhongman. A mechanized force of Wanguoquan is enough for the headquarters to have a headache, if hundreds of thousands of regular troops all pour into Zhongmanchu, then the only thing Yamada Otozo can do is to move the capital together with the puppet Manchurian government. …,
Han Yunhua, who was prepared, specially ordered the air force to set a trap and carried out an air strangulation of the Japanese air force. When the complacent Japanese Air Force Transport Group arrived over Baicheng with a large amount of ammunition and supplies, more than 500 Chinese fighter planes suddenly came out of the clouds. Although the Japanese transport planes were escorted by a whole fighter wing, they were all wiped out without being organized and effectively blocked by the massive combined air force.
The air battle lasted only 20 minutes, but the result was 23:147. The United Air Force exchanged the loss of 23 fighters for the casualties of 147 Japanese fighters of various types, the vast majority of which were transport planes loaded with goods, and in this battle alone, the strength of the Japanese Kwantung Army's army aviation group was once again greatly damaged, and all the fighters added up to less than 300 aircraft, and there were still some old fighters in it.
After the great victory of the air force, the North Manchurian also came with good news, the Soviet Red Army armored troops all the way to the bamboo, breaking through the four lines of defense of the Japanese army, and finally the troops came to the city of Yichun, and the Japanese North Manchurian Supreme Command moved south to Harbin.
For the time being, there is still no breakthrough in the South Manchurian area, but Chen Geng and Su Yu are clear that it is only a matter of time before the army goes north to Shenyang, and South Manchuria has gathered more than 500,000 elites of the Japanese army.
On October 27, Han Yunhua commanded two field armies to complete the encirclement of the 100,000-day puppet army in Baicheng, and he wanted to swallow all the 100,000 enemy troops in one bite and completely solve the Manchurian and Japanese forces in China and the West.
Although Baicheng is an important city in Jilin, Baicheng is not a transportation hub, so there are not many arms in the city, and with the consumption of this time, the Japanese army's family is gone. Han Yunhua was also not polite, and ordered Lieutenant General Hirota Hongtoku, the supreme commander of the Japanese army in the Baicheng area, to surrender, and after the surrender, he Han Yunhua would guarantee the safety of the captured Japanese soldiers.
However, Hirota Hongde was a die-hard Japanese militarist, and he frantically put forward a plan of "100,000 jade pieces", ordering the Japanese puppet army under his command to use the city fortifications to consume the people of Zhina, use grenades when the bullets are gone, use bayonets when the grenades are gone, and use stones when the bayonets are broken, and if the people want to occupy Baicheng, they must step on their 100,000 people. At the same time, in order to stimulate morale, Hirota Hongde actually ordered all the troops to do whatever they wanted in the White City Castle.
This is a common trick used by the Japanese army, and to act without military discipline is to openly condone robbery, murder, rape, and other crimes. In just one day, 877 shops were looted, more than 1,660 people were slaughtered, and hundreds more women were ravaged, and the city was a hell on earth, full of severed limbs and stumps of Chinese.
The undisciplined beastly behavior of the Japanese army in the city was soon learned by Han Yunhua, and Han Yunhua was furious when he saw the information sent back by the intelligence officers risking their lives. The troops were ordered to attack immediately, and the order was not allowed to accept any Japanese puppet prisoners without permission, and all Japanese puppet soldiers, whether Japanese or Chinese, were summarily executed.
There is no doubt about the result of the battle, the morale stimulated by money and killing is only temporary, and in the face of strong strength, the puppet army of more than 100,000 days behaved quite unbearable, and the bullets, grenades, bayonets and other things that Hirota Hongde said before were not used, and batches of Japanese puppet troops took the initiative to surrender to Han Yunhua's department after the city gate was broken.
But it was too late, and whether or not they did surrender, they were greeted by bullets in their faces. Those puppet soldiers shouted the slogan "Everyone is Chinese" in the hope of being treated with sympathy, but Han Yunhua was an authority in the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and every word he said must be carried out, and he said that if he was not allowed to accept prisoners, he could not accept it.
The offensive and defensive battle of Baicheng lasted for a whole day, and the Japanese puppet army on the Baicheng side, which claimed to be 100,000 but actually only had more than 76,000 people, was all routed in one day, and was killed by the Chinese army with loaded guns and ammunition, and thousands of people committed suicide who couldn't stand the cruel facts, and only 6,400 people survived in the end. Moreover, the Inner Mongolia Military Region has always educated every soldier with the concept of a real soldier, for them it is okay to fight, and it is okay to die, but they absolutely cannot accept such a bloody massacre. At first, it was anger that prompted them to kill the Japanese puppet army who were ready to lay down their arms, but when the battle was about to end, the soldiers came to their senses, and for those Japanese puppet soldiers who were lucky enough to escape, the main puppet army was often open, as long as they hid in the pile of dead people and pretended to be dead, they did not pierce it. …,
When the battlefield was finally cleaned up, six or seven thousand living people jumped out of the pile of dead people, which the soldiers did not expect. The goal has been achieved, so Han Yunhua also turns a blind eye to this, after all, he is not a person who is reckless. Besides, he also had to give an explanation to the central government, the United States and the Soviet Union and other countries, after all, such a big battle, and it was an unprecedented victory, if there was no prisoner, it would be unreasonable, the number of 6,400 people was not much, but the difference was really no problem.
No one has ever mentioned the matter of ordering the massacre of the prisoners, whether it is in the party or in countries around the world, such behavior is not allowed, of course, Han Yunhua himself knows it, so when he gave the order, he did not sign the order, but verbally told a few senior cadres, and the soldiers below all received the order, but it was not clear who gave the order.
After retaliating against the Japanese army, Han Yunhua ordered the troops to continue to advance, and the plan to meet Changchun in half a month must not allow any problems.
The war situation in the northeast region is reported to the world every two hours, and except for some secrets that are not easy to disclose to other countries, Han Yunhua has unreservedly let war correspondents report on them. After taking Baicheng, the strategic intention of the Inner Mongolia Military Region to encircle Changchun with heavy troops was already obvious, especially the Erlongshan front line was only a few hundred kilometers away from Changchun, and the high-level leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union once again saw the clever layout of this Chinese general.
The entire Northeast region is fighting everywhere, from the Songnen Plain of thousands of miles of fertile soil to the Ussuri River with boiling rivers, and then to the North Manchurian jungle of the vast snowfield, nearly 3 million troops of China, Japan and the Soviet Union are exchanging fire, this is the largest battle since the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the two hostile sides dispatched infantry, cavalry, artillery, and all known branches of the air force, this is an unprecedented decisive battle, one side is to resist the enemy in shame, and the other side is to hold on to the interests that have been gained.
The battle on the Erlongshan front line has been going on for 5 whole days, and in these 5 days, Wan Guoquan's headquarters has carried out 43 consecutive attacks on the Japanese defense line, but they have all been repulsed by the stubborn Japanese army, and the troops have suffered heavy losses. Even tanks lost more than 40 units, and infantry suffered more than 2,000 casualties.
However, the losses of the Japanese army were not small, mainly because the strong fortifications built by the Japanese army could not withstand the blow of rockets at all. Hattori Kotaro built 6 pillboxes on the Jiryusan front, but due to the rush of time, the concrete had limited time to set and could not reach the maximum design strength, so the losses were heavy under the blow of rocket-piercing shells, but the trenches built on the mountainside played a great role. And Hattori Shotaro is also ruthless enough, he knows very well that mechanized troops like Wan Guoquan have extremely high requirements for roads, so he ordered the troops to cut all the roads leading to Changchun overnight, and blow up all the bridges, on the one hand, in order to delay the attack of Wan Guoquan, even if the Erlongshan position is all occupied by the Chinese army, the Chinese will not want to repair these roads and bridges in a few months. On the other hand, Hattori Shotaro is also setting an example for his subordinates, telling all the Japanese puppet troops that the back road is broken, and if you want to survive, you have to work hard.
Hattori Kotaro's strategy worked very well, and sure enough, in the next few days, all the Japanese puppet troops fought desperately, which gave Wan Guoquan a headache.
On November 2, with the help of more than 130,000 people of Zhao Shangzhi's Third Field Army, the Soviet Red Army successively captured Jiamusi and Yichun, which were heavily guarded by the Japanese army.
After receiving Wan Guoquan's report, Han Yunhua decided after a little thought that the main force of Wan Guoquan's headquarters would continue to stay on the front line of Erlongshan to besiege the Japanese First Division, and never allow the First Division to return to Changchun. …,
The reason why Han Yunhua didn't consider this route before was entirely because this route was too rugged, and it would be time-consuming for a large army to march along this route. Now that the front line of Erlong Mountain cannot be broken through for the time being, then this route can only be considered, and the defense of the Japanese puppet army on this route is very empty, and it may also have the effect of a surprise attack.
The defenders in the direction of Baicheng were all wiped out, and all the armored troops on the Erlongshan front line were collectively shattered, and the blow of this general Yamada Otomi was huge. Moreover, there is also an alarm behind him, the more than 200,000 troops of the Zhina Lu Zhengcao Department have already manipulated the back road of the Kwantung Army, Tonghua, Huanan and other places have fallen into the hands of the enemy, and now Li Dingguo's department has captured the rock, and Li Zhaolin's department has also advanced to the line of Jilin and Yongji, and the army of China will be in Changchun in five days at most. And with the current empty defense in the Changchun area, it is impossible to hold on to the arrival of reinforcements, and the situation is already so bad that it can't be worse.
The only thing General Yamada Otozo can do now is to ask for help, endless requests for help, and in one day Yamada Otozo sent 18 telegrams asking for help to the country, urging reinforcements from all over the country to rush to Manchuria immediately, and Yamada Otozo hopes that the empire can transfer all the air force groups in the garrison to Manchuria to Manchuria to deal with the Soviet Union and the Chinese Air Force.
Although Japan also attaches great importance to Yamada's request for help, it is not as anxious as Yamada Otozo. The Japanese officers at home did not know the situation at the front at all, they only knew that the Kwantung Army was the most powerful military group in the Great Japanese Empire, and they did not know that the enemy faced by the Kwantung Army was also a world-famous and formidable enemy, and they did not know that the Chinese general who commanded the Chinese army actually played the role of the chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War at the same time.
The marshals and generals in Japan did not believe that the Kwantung Army would not be able to resist the attack of the Shina people in just half a month after the start of the war, so these 18 telegrams from General Yamada Otozo only exchanged a sentence that "the 136th and 137th divisions have been loaded and set off two days ago, and now they have arrived in Korea, and they can reach Manchuria in two days at most." Except for the reply, there was no splash.
In desperation, General Yamada Otoki had no choice but to ask his old boss Hideki Tojo for help, he was Tojo's most important political ally in the country, if he fell, then it would definitely not be good news for Hideki Tojo, and Hideki Tojo also served in the Kwantung Army, and he also had certain feelings for the Kwantung Army, Yamada Otozo knew that Hideki Tojo absolutely did not want to see the Kwantung Army driven out of Manchuria in this way, or even annihilated.
Things turned out to be as General Yamada Otozo thought, and Hideki Tojo inquired in detail about the war situation in the Tohoku region after receiving his telegram, and only after listening to Yamada Otozo's report did Tojo realize the seriousness of the matter. As the prime minister of Japan, Hideki Tojo is very good in terms of military command level and strategic vision, at least in this regard, Tojo is much more clever than the one in Chongqing. Tojo was well aware of the importance of Manchuria to the Japanese Empire, and if he lost Manchuria as a resource base, the Japanese would not be able to hold on for three months and would be torn to pieces by the Allies, and now more than half of the munitions on the Chinese battlefield needed to be provided by the Shenyang Arsenal and the Changchun Arsenal, and the remaining part was supplemented by small and medium-sized arsenals built in the occupied areas, and the country was only responsible for providing some heavy weapons. The Manchuria region actually served as a resource base for the 'holy war' of the Japanese Empire, and there was absolutely no room for error