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Chapter 1366: You attack me too

9:20 a.m., Changchun, Kwantung Army Headquarters. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

"Baga!"

With his hands clenched into fists and slammed on the conference table, his fierce gaze swept over the faces of his subordinates, General Kenkichi Ueda said gloomily:

"In just a few days, the whole line of North Manchurian is in an emergency, more than ten towns have fallen, even if tens of thousands of pigs are put in such a large place for people to slaughter, it will take ten days and half a month, right? With so many emperors and the assistance of the Manchurian army, why is there such an unbearable performance, is it possible that our powerful Kwantung Army has degenerated to the point that it is worse than a pig? ”

A cadre will be silent like a cicada, and no one dares to resent Ueda Kenkichi's anger.

After a while, Ueda Kenkichi sat down on a chair, touched the long mustache under his nose, and glanced at the generals standing straight on both sides of the conference table: "Gentlemen, the Chinese army suddenly appeared and attacked the important town of Aihui (now Heihe) in Northern Manchuria, and the Eighth Division originally stationed in Aihui has been transferred to the front line of the Mudanjiang River, and now it is the third brigade that is stationed in Aihui, do you think that Major General Tamura is sure to hold Aihui?" ”

Major General Imamura, deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, replied respectfully: "Major General Tamurahara has the 4th and 29th Infantry Wings, the 1st Squadron of the 2nd Engineer Wing, and the ** Brigade of the Imperial Border Garrison Brigade, with a total strength of more than 5,900 troops. I think the attack on the Imperial *** team in the area around Suihua is even more serious.

"Since the afternoon of the 10th, the Chinese army blew up the railway from Baizhen to Xinglong Town, and then more than ten towns around Suihua have been frequently attacked. Once the Red Bandits form a climate in this area and connect with the Anti-Union base areas in the surrounding areas of Harbin, it will be a big trouble for our Kwantung Army! ”

Major General Tachibana, the first section chief of the Kwantung Army and operational staff officer of the Kwantung Army, shook his head again and again: "Imura-kun is too worried, precisely because Suihua is only more than 100 kilometers away from Harbin, the central city of my northern Manchuria, and is under the attack of our army at any time, so there is no need to worry. It is expected that the blown up railway will be repaired tomorrow, and then our army will crush the border, and the banditry around Suihua will be eliminated naturally. On the other hand, Aihui is different, opposite the Heilongjiang River is Hailanbao, the third largest city in the Soviet Far East, and can get the support of the Soviet Red Army at any time. ”

At this time, Major General Tee Keisuke, commander of the military police of the Kwantung Army, strode into the conference room, and under the slightly surprised gaze of Kenkichi Ueda, he walked quickly to the large northeast map hanging on the wall of the conference room, picked up the baton, and pointed to the north of Shulan County, northeast of Changchun:

"Two hours ago, the small branch of the army attacked Ping'an Town, which is twenty kilometers away from Shulan County, and the Ninth Garrison Brigade stationed in Shulan County immediately went to the rescue, not wanting to be ambushed by the superior army of China on the way, and lost most of it, when the remnants returned to Shulan County, they found that the county town had been occupied by the China army, and suffered heavy fire again, and the captain Gao Shan Shaozuo had no choice but to lead more than 20 imperial warriors to retreat to Chaoyang Town, asking for tactical guidance. In addition, half an hour ago, Huadian County, in the south of Jilin City, sent an urgent call for help from the garrison captain Sasaki Shaozo, and when he called to ask for details, there was no response, and it was expected that the entire department had been shattered, and Huadian County was very likely to have fallen into the hands of the Chinese army. ”

Ueda Kenkichi gasped, quickly stood up and walked to the large map covered with a wall, looked carefully, and after a long while, asked with some uncertainty:

"Ladies and gentlemen, what is the explanation for the changes that have occurred in the north and south? When did the Chinese army have such a strong fighting power? One brigade of our emperor's *** team is enough to deal with tens of thousands of bandits who are not equipped with equipment to resist the United Nations, unless it is a regular army, it can pose such a big threat to our Kwantung Army. Could it be that the claws of the Soviets have already reached out to Manchuria? ”

The more Ueda Kenkichi thought about it, the more worried he became, and for a while, beads of sweat the size of beans were oozing on his forehead. At present, the entire Northeast adds up to less than 200,000 troops, but the Soviet Far Eastern Military District has nearly 700,000 Red Army troops equipped with a large number of tanks, armored vehicles, and huge artillery.

Yamaoka Michitake Takenakasa, who replaced Kyoji Tominaga, who was beheaded off, as the head of the intelligence section, stubbornly said:

"General, it should not be the work of the Soviets, now the relations between the Soviet Far Eastern Military District and its Soviet Central Committee are very stiff, I heard that Stalin has repeatedly slapped the table at high-level meetings, cursing the commander of the Far Eastern Military District, Marshal Blyukhel, as a thief and a thief, and he and his subordinates should have been sent to the gallows long ago. Now the purge in the Soviet Union is going on very strongly, and Nikolai, who was originally a little out of favor. Ivanovich. Because of the sudden defection of the Far Eastern Military District, Yezhov proved the correctness of his purge and expansion, and once again gained the trust of Stalin, and now the wave of purge in the Soviet Union is rising higher and higher, and many generals have died in the basement of the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow.

"In this case, I don't think that Blyukhel dares to use the army that lives on it in the direction of Manchuria, according to the report of the intelligence officers we sent to Mongolia, the Far Eastern Military District has gathered at least 300,000 troops in the Baikal area, and now a large number of Mongolian herdsmen are organized to dig fortifications in the territory of the Soviet Union, where the people are miserable, but under the high pressure of the iron fist, they dare not resist, for which the intelligence agencies even suggested that the empire should give up attacking China, and make every effort to seek the Far East of the Soviet Union, so that the sea can really become *** The Inland Sea, and then this vast territory bordering the Empire, will become a strategic base for the Yamato nation to go global, and after a decade or two, this land will be truly subjugated, and then the Empire will have an endless war potential. ”

Ueda Kenkichi looked at the map, nodded again and again, and the two locks of beard kept trembling: "Yo Xi!" Yamaoka-kun, your analysis is well-founded, and the content is very detailed, which is reassuring! The empire just needs a capable young man like you to take on important responsibilities, and you're doing a lot better than that bastard Tominaga! So, Yamaoka-kun, can you tell me what we should do next? ”

Yamaoka Michiwu was deeply encouraged, and hurriedly bowed and said, "My opinion is to focus on attacking and breaking each one. At present, although the Red Bandits are fierce, I think that most of their troops are miners and peasants who have just laid down their shovels and hoes, and they will certainly not be able to withstand the test of a long war.

"We gave the people of China too much time to wait, so they got carried away and dared to take the initiative to attack the emperor's *** team. My opinion is to order the Eighth Division of Mudanjiang to immediately launch a fierce attack on the enemy on the opposite bank, and if it can break through in one fell swoop, it will naturally be very good, and even if it can't, it can involve a lot of energy and dare not attack in all directions.

"In addition, the 12th Division stationed in Harbin should immediately march along the Songhua River to the county towns of Fangzheng and Tonghe, where the Red Bandits were making great trouble, and after recovering the two county seats, pounce on the lower reaches of the Songhua River with a thunderous force, and re-incorporate Yilan, Jiamusi and other places into the arms of the empire.

"As long as we continue to exert pressure on the Red Bandits, the logistics of their troops attacking everywhere will inevitably be tight, and then we will close the door and fight the dogs, and cut off their claws that stretch out to the hinterland of Manchuria, and when Manchuria is covered with ice and snow, the Red Bandits who have exhausted their resources will surely be defeated."

Ueda Kenkichi thought carefully about the map, thought so, and immediately made a decision: "Ayabe-kun, immediately convey my order, telegraph to General Maeda Toshiwei of the Eighth Division, I don't care what method he uses, before tomorrow I hope he can launch a few decent attacks on the enemy on the other side of the Mudanjiang River, if he can defeat the opponent in one fell swoop, I will ask him for credit to the base camp; Ordered General Yamada Otozo to collect a large number of military vehicles and pack horses, bring the Harbin Chariot Brigade with him, concentrate our elite forces, and defeat the enemy in Fangzheng and Tonghe in one fell swoop. Remind Yamada Otozo that the terrain on the front line of Daqingshan is precipitous, and pay attention to the attack of the Chinese guerrillas. ”

"Hey!"

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Aihuicheng is the largest port city along the Heilongjiang River, because it is across the river from the third largest city of the Soviet Union in the Far East, and because of the flat terrain along the coast, it has always been a key place for the Japanese army to defend.

Since the Japanese army occupied Aihui City, after years of construction, this border town has become a huge reinforced concrete fortress. The city is surrounded by high city walls, and within 500 meters outside the city, there are criss-crossing trenches, and around the city walls, there are dense clear and hidden fortresses. The city wall was covered with all kinds of pillboxes, and even many places in the belly of the city wall were hollowed out by the Japanese army, becoming various dark fire points.

Since the defeat of the Japanese army in Wuyun, Chik, and Xunhe had a large number of Soviet tanks in the army, in order to deal with this kind of steel beast, Major General Tamura Haraichi, the commander of the 3rd Brigade of the Japanese army guarding the county seat, attached great importance to it, and arranged a large number of "decisive soldiers" on the city walls and trenches, striving to give the squadron a blow to the head.

The Japanese puppet army guarding the county town added up to more than 14,000 people, if it was in the past, Tamurahara led the emperor team that he thought was heroic and invincible early in the morning, but after receiving the death order of the Kwantung Army Headquarters to stand by and wait for reinforcements, he reluctantly chose to defend, but he did not think that the squadron could pose a threat to him at all, after all, after all these years of construction, even against the Soviet army, let alone the Chinese guerrillas that he had always despised.

Hu Jiying, who has been officially appointed as the commander of the Fifth Division by the rescue command, commanded the troops to prepare for the siege outside the city, and after hearing that all the departments were ready, Hu Jiying looked at his watch, and then gave an order: "Start!" ”

The combat order was quickly transmitted by the staff officers using radio waves, and all kinds of Japanese and Soviet-style artillery of the artillery regiment were set up, and the artillery commander Major Luo Yaomin nodded with satisfaction after proofreading the shooting Zhu Yuan set by the rookie gunners one by one, and gave an order: "Open the gun!" ”

Forty Soviet-made 1910 152-mm cannon howitzers, 30 Type 90 75-mm field guns, and 40 Meiji 41-type 75mm mountain guns that had just been smuggled from the other side of the Heilongjiang River last night spat out angry flames together.

When the dense shells landed, there was an earth-shattering sound, and the splashed gunpowder smoke soared into the sky, and the entire Aihui City shook violently as if it had suffered a magnitude eight earthquake, barbed wire and wooden fences disappeared in an instant, the trenches were razed to the ground, and the light and dark bunkers set up everywhere also disintegrated in the deafening explosion, and the remnants of bricks, broken tiles, rubble, and mud rushed into the sky one by one, splashing in all directions.

The Japanese puppet officers and soldiers, who were stunned to watch all this, did not have time to think about whether they needed to dodge, and they turned into stumps and broken arms flying in the sky in a ball of fire, and after being swept into the air by the air waves, they were torn into pieces of minced meat again.

Major General Tamura Haraichi, who was hiding in the underground command room under the city walls, was almost crazy, was this still the army in his memory that couldn't even match his rifles? How could the artillery fire be ten times more ferocious than the saturation and bombardment of the 2nd Wing of the Field Artillery that he once commanded?

Now that the Second Wing of Field Artillery has been transferred to Guannai to participate in the war in North China, the entire mixed Third Brigade has only six 75mm mountain guns and six field artillery, how can it deal with such a ferocious artillery attack?

The artillery regiment of the Fifth Division did not give the Japanese commander any chance to think, and the overwhelming bombs still fell on the heads of the Japanese troops, destroying all suspicious targets.

Luo Yaomin, the commander of the artillery regiment, was full of smiles, and after ten minutes of addiction with the artillery regiment, his face had been blackened by smoke, and he regretfully ordered the group of artillery soldiers who had been brought out by himself to stop the shelling.

This was born in a family of Fujian Navy, graduated from the second phase of the Huangpu Artillery Department, and is now a Chinese New Year's Eve-year-old artillery major, the experience can be described as tortuous, Luo Yaomin was admitted to the second phase of the Huangpu Military Academy at the age of sixteen, graduated at the age of eighteen, and was assigned to Li Jishen's Fourth Army, deeply loved by Li Jishen, and sent to study at the Jiangtian Island Naval School, and after returning home after graduation, it coincided with the Central Plains War. Li Jishen was defeated and went into the wilderness, and he was labeled as a faction, so he had to join the 19th Route Army, which also belonged to the Guangdong Army, participated in the Shanghai War of Resistance in 32 years, and was promoted to artillery battalion commander again for his merits. Luo Yaomin originally thought that he could use what he had learned to show his strength, but he didn't want the Fujian Revolution to happen, and the Central Army entered Fujian, and he was once again beaten to the end. Just when Luo Yaomin was disheartened, Cai Zhonghu, the commander of the Second Artillery Brigade who took pity on talents, happened to know his experience, and he entered the Syrian Non-commissioned Officer School as an artillery instructor. After two years of hard work, Luo Yaomin finally had the opportunity to come out and lead the troops to fight, although he didn't know what kind of scene he would face after arriving in the Northeast, but he still participated in the North Officer Corps without hesitation, came to the Northeast to join the anti-Japanese rescue, and finally became an artillery commander as he wished.

Touching the huge barrel of the 152mm cannon howitzer, Luo Yaomin pursed his lips, and said in his heart that even the large-caliber heavy artillery on land is so enjoyable, I don't know what it's like to fight the cannon on the warship? It is a pity that China does not have a strong navy, and it is estimated that this wish will not be realized in this life. Thinking of this, Luo Yaomin sighed regretfully, and his eyes fell on the dilapidated Aihui City again.