Chapter 179: Capture of Jilin
At the same time that Zhang Xinghan's troops besieged Jilin, Jiang Baili not only led his troops to capture Zhangwu County, but also sent Sabuli to lead a cavalry regiment to bypass Xinmin and attack the rear of the Yue army, thinking that it was a countermeasure.
After dawn, he personally commanded the 3rd Mobu Division to set off from Zhangwu and attack Xinmin City under the cover of the air force.
The army that forced Shenyang and the Xinmin area to withdraw from the north to reinforce Siping was unable to retreat.
……………… In Jilin City, the 1st and 3rd regiments of the 1st Motorized Infantry Division of the Northeast New Army have already entered the attack position.
At 8 o'clock in the morning, Zhang Xinghan gave an order, and the two main regiments immediately launched an attack on the south and west of Jilin City.
Li Zhenyuan's armored brigade also attacked the city of Jilin from the north of the city, and 88 anti-aircraft shells and 75 tank artillery shells rained down on the positions of the puppet army.
These puppet armies were completely formed by Zhang Jinghui, Yu Zhishan and other old departments of the Northeast Army in various parts of the original three eastern provinces, combined with local ruffians and hooligans.
It is still okay to bully and bully the common people, but it is still okay to maintain law and order.
But fighting against the Northeast New Army, which even said he couldn't defeat, was completely vulnerable.
Especially the puppet army in the north of the city, although there was a personal command and supervision of the battle, but they had never seen such a huge tank and armored vehicle, and the puppet army that was almost like a torrential rain of fire collapsed instantly.
Li Zhenyuan personally led tanks and armored vehicles to catch up.
The devil advisers and puppet soldiers who couldn't dodge were shot and fell to the ground one after another.
The shells fired by the 88 anti-aircraft guns and the 75mm tank guns killed and injured the puppet soldiers who left the bunkers and tried to escape back into the city.
On the battlefield south of the city, Niu Erzhu commanded the officers and soldiers of the 1st Mobu Regiment to capture Jilin and capture Pu Yi alive under the cover and support of a tank battalion to launch a charge against the puppet army's position.
It was similar to the North Gate, and they were already frightened, and the two weak puppet soldiers turned around and fled without firing a few shots.
The puppet army collapsed at the first touch, and the attack went smoothly, exceeding Zhang Xinghan's expectations.
Wang Yizhe was also quite surprised and said: "Xinghan, these puppet armies are too vulnerable." ”
"Yes, completely vulnerable, with these armies, he Pu Yi still wants to try to restore his Qing Dynasty? Go for his spring and autumn dreams. Zhang Xinghan was in a good mood and smoked a flue.
"Report to the commander, the air force reconnaissance plane reconnoitred and learned that a division of the army, tens of thousands of puppet troops, has left Changchun and Siping, and is advancing towards Jilin." At this time, a communications soldier came over and saluted Zhang Xinghan and reported.
"I see." Zhang Xinghan did not have any worries at all, and the distance from Siping to Jilin was more than 150 kilometers, and even from Changchun it was more than 200 miles.
With the speed of the puppet army's march on foot, there was no day or night to rush there, and judging from the performance of the Jilin puppet army, his troops should be able to capture Jilin soon.
Time was in time.
The 3rd Mobu Regiment in the south and west of the city was not equipped with tanks and armored vehicles, but under the instructions of Zhang Xinghan, they were given special care by the fighters of the Air Force Flying Regiment.
A large number of aerial bombs were dropped on the positions of the puppet army in the west of the city, causing extremely heavy casualties to the puppet army, and even more serious was the psychological deterrence caused to the puppet army.
Under such a powerful air attack and bombardment, the morale of the puppet army, which was not very high, fell to freezing point for a while.
The artillery of the 3rd Motorized Infantry Regiment was bombarded, and the infantry attacked with super firepower, and the puppet army, which had already been frightened, turned around one after another, and even threw away their weapons directly, raised their hands and knelt down in surrender.
At 10 o'clock in the morning, the two regiments of the 1st Mobu Division attacked Jilin City from the south and west of the city.
The armored brigade also attacked from the north of the city, and the puppet army in the city panicked and retreated again and again.
Jilin is already in the bag for Zhang Xinghan.
The rabble inside the city was not the Soviet Red Army at Stalingrad, and it was impossible for them to withstand the attack of the new army and hold Jilin.
At twelve o'clock in the afternoon, the Mobu regiment took the lead in attacking Pu Yi's head of state and successfully captured Pu Yi and his retinue alive.
However, Puyi's senior adviser, Kenji Tsuchihara, narrowly escaped.
At one o'clock in the afternoon, the puppet army in the city was basically wiped out, and some stubbornly resisted and were killed, and most of the puppet army surrendered.
Outside the Führer's Mansion, an armored car roared in, the door opened, and Zhang Xinghan and Wang Yizhe stepped down from it one after another.
At this time, Pu Yi and his ministers had been guarded by heavily armed soldiers of the New Army, kneeling at the entrance of the Führer's mansion.
Seeing Zhang Xinghan and the others striding towards him, Pu Yi's face turned pale with fright, and he hurriedly lowered his head.
Niu Erzhu, the commander of the first regiment, greeted him and saluted: "Commander, Shizuo, Pu Yi and his ministers are all captured by us, what should we do?" ”
"Betrayal of the country, deserve to be killed!" Wang Yizhe hated these traitors the most, and had been delusional about restoring their feudal dynasty rule, so he immediately said ruthlessly.
Niu Erzhu looked at Zhang Xinghan and waited for his final decision.
Zhang Xinghan walked up to Pu Yi and the others, looked at him, and said indifferently: "What the hell is this year?" Are you still dreaming of your emperor? Do you still want to continue your feudal and backward rule? ”
Pu Yi looked up at Zhang Xinghan in fear, speechless.
Zhang Xinghan continued: "For the sake of your emperor dream, you did not hesitate to bend your knees to be a lackey for yourself, I really don't know if your ancestors will be ashamed of their descendants for such a behavior if they know." ”
"Don't insult my ancestors, they are ...... valiant and heroic," Pu Yi protested.
"Put your mother's bullshit, if it weren't for Wu Sangui's big Han annihilation, you Tartars would also want to enter the Central Plains? Be your mother's big dream of spring and autumn. Zhang Xinghan interrupted him without waiting for him to finish.
"You ......" Pu Yi was angry and annoyed.
"What? Are you not convinced? Today, on behalf of the 40,000,000 sons and daughters of China, I announce the death penalty to a traitor like you, and execute it immediately. After speaking, Zhang Xinghan leaned into his ear and whispered: "Goodbye, you Tunguska wild pig." ”
"I'll fight with you......" Pu Yi was so angry that he was smashed with the butt of a new army soldier behind him as soon as he wanted to get up, and his head was broken and bleeding.
The recruit yelled, "Fuck, be honest with me." ”
"Let's do it." Zhang Xinghan waved his hand.
"Commander, I'll do it myself." Wang Yizhe took a general-purpose machine gun from a soldier, took two steps forward, and held the machine gun at Pu Yi and his lackey ministers with a fierce strafing fire.
After a burst ......of gunfire, the wishful traitors and their men put an end to their life of sin.
After executing Pu Yi, Zhang Xinghan ordered his troops to rest in Jilin until the evening of the same day, and ransacked all the banks and vaults in Jilin that had just been established in the puppet state of Manchukuo.
Evacuating Jilin at 12 o'clock in the evening, this time Zhang Xinghan did not lead his troops to follow the path they came, but went directly from Jilin to the west into Changchun, and he wanted to take advantage of the night to attack the 14th Division of the Yue Army, which was going to Jilin from Changchun for reinforcements.
As for Yue himself and the puppet army, Zhang Xinghan still focuses on eliminating the living forces of Yue himself in the northeast, and as for the puppet army, most of them can be transformed and incorporated into his own troops.
As long as he loses ground in the northeast, and then executes such hardcore Han annihilators as Zhang Jinghui, Yu Zhishan and Jixing, he can become a large number of puppet armies.
"Commander, Jilin has been captured by us, will the army return to Changchun?" Inside an armored car, Wang Yizhe asked.
Zhang Xinghan pondered for a while and said: "It shouldn't be, now Pu Yi is alive or dead, I don't know, they will definitely recapture Jilin at any cost and rescue Pu Yi, because they need a puppet like Pu Yi too much." ”
As Zhang Xinghan had guessed, although the 14th Division had received the news when Jilin had just been lost, Muto Nobuyoshi did not let them stop advancing.
Instead, he ordered them to continue their march to Jilin, recapture Jilin at all costs, and snatch Pu Yi back from Zhang Xinghan as much as possible.
Therefore, the commander of the 14th Division, Shunroku Hatata, had to order the troops to continue to advance, and it was a rapid march overnight.
At about three o'clock in the morning, Zhang Xinghan led his troops and the 14th Division of the Yue Army to encounter in the vicinity of Bonihe Town.
Without the slightest hesitation, such a field battle was exactly what Zhang Xinghan dreamed of, and he immediately ordered Li Zhenyuan to lead the tank regiment of the armored brigade to assault frontally, and Liu Jianguo to lead the 1st and 2nd Mobu regiments to charge in concert.
He led the armored air defense regiment and the troops of the 3rd Mobu Regiment to intercept the rear of the 14th Division in two roundabout ways.
In such a field battle, the 14th Division was simply unable to withstand the cluster assault charge of hundreds of tank No. 4 tanks of the tank regiment, and soon the forward troops were crushed.
Wang Yizhe and Liu Jianguo commanded the infantry of the two main regiments to follow up and launched a general attack on the 14th Division.
Zhang Xinghan led the air defense regiment and an infantry regiment to successfully detour back to the rear of the 14th Division, and launched an attack on the rear guard of the 14th Division with the superior firepower of the air defense regiment.
The enemy was attacked on the back of the abdomen, and the defeat of the 14th Division was decided.
The battle lasted from three in the morning to seven in the morning.
Under the flanking attack of the tanks and armored vehicles of the new army, the 14th Division was crushed, except for a few who escaped by chance by night, most of the Japanese army was surrounded and annihilated in the area of the Stone River.
"Commander, we annihilated a total of 10,000 troops in this battle, and we suffered less than 200 casualties!" After dawn, Liu Jianguo reported to Zhang Xinghan in a hurry.
"I know, order the troops to take away what they can take away, and destroy what they can't take away on the spot, and the whole army will immediately march to Changchun." Zhang Xinghan waved his hand.
"We can't take the weapons with us, our cars are all loaded with valuables such as the ocean and gold brought out from Jilin City, and now we can't even take away a hundred rifles!" Liu Jianguo said.
"Then destroy it on the spot." Zhang Xinghan said indifferently.
"Yes! I'll immediately go and organize people to deal with it. After Liu Jianguo saluted, he turned around and left.
(To be continued)