Volume 1: Inner Mongolia Fengyun] Chapter 581: The Eastern Crusade is planned-

Chapter 581: The Eastern Crusade is Settled

On April 22, 1942, the main force of the Northeast People's Liberation Army broke through the resistance of the 18th Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Army's Buyeo Defense Line, crossed the railway line between Harbin and Changchun, and marched eastward. So far, the 120,000 Northeast People's Liberation Army has opened the last pass to the hinterland of Northeast China and successfully completed the tasks assigned by the military region.

On the 23rd, the vanguard of the First Field Army of the Northeast People's Liberation Army seized Yushu, an important town in the north of Jilin, and then the troops of the Northeast People's Liberation Army, which swelled up like a snowball, advanced to the hinterland of the Northeast in six ways, and at the same time, Zhao Shangzhi's headquarters in the Jiamusi area also actively echoed.

For a while, the rear of the empty Japanese garrison was like a scoop of cold water poured into a hot pot, that guy, what a mess. The entire Northeast shook, and in the next few days, the Northeast People's Liberation Army attacked with all its might, attacking everywhere in the central and eastern parts of Jilin and the central and eastern parts of Heilongjiang, capturing 24 medium-sized cities and 68 small county towns of the Japanese army.

As of May 8, the Northeast People's Liberation Army had established democratic regimes in 33 counties in the hinterland of Northeast China, eliminating more than 48,000 Japanese puppet soldiers, of whom more than 30,000 were puppet soldiers. In addition, a large number of traitors and lackeys were suppressed, and at the same time, more than 100,000 Kuomintang prisoners who were escorted to work as coolies outside the customs were rescued, and the common people were extremely enthusiastic about joining the army to resist Japan.

In an instant, the situation in the northeast region changed, although the turtle shell that the Kwantung Army had placed on the northeastern periphery was still not much damaged. But the internal situation has been eroded to the extreme, like a hard peach, which looks moist and fragrant on the surface, but a worm has already run into it, and in time this peach will be hollowed out from the inside, and then completely rot. Besides, there is not only one worm in this big peach in the Northeast, but a nest of bugs.

The chaos in the northeast shocked the Japanese government and the opposition, and millions of Kwantung troops were stabbed by the squadron for almost nothing, and now the Inner Mongolia Military Region is unforgiving, and the pressure on the northeast border has not decreased, but is still increasing troops. Although much progress was still not made in the South Manchurian region, the reinforcements hastily transferred by the Japanese army on the Shuangliao front line did not play a big role, and the army of the Northeast Army Division not only quickly broke through the Japanese Shuangshan defense line, but also successfully completely encircled and annihilated the Japanese troops on the original Shuangliao line who had withdrawn to the Shuangshan line, and the Japanese 14th Division was gathered and annihilated on both sides of the defense line except for the division headquarters that successfully escaped. Now the more than 100,000 Chinese infantry gathered on the front line of Shuangshan have been repaired and are marching in the direction of Siping with all their might.

In the direction of North Manchuria, Qiqihar, which was heavily garrisoned by the Japanese army, was breached, and with the cooperation of the special combat team, the cavalry division of the Northeast People's Liberation Army not only routed the Japanese troops defending the city, but also captured a large number of Japanese military doctors. In fact, it was Han Yunhua who deliberately dealt with Qiqihar, although this small city in northern China with a larger fart is not amazing, but Han Yunhua knew that the Shuijing Epidemic Prevention Unit of the Japanese Kwantung Army, which is also an important experimental branch of the notorious Unit 731, is here, and it is also an important base for the Japanese army to manufacture chemical weapons, so Han Yunhua made a move on this small northern city that could not attract any interest from him.

In order to take down Qiqihar, Han Yunhua has made a lot of money, as early as when Li Dingguo and others were the first to advance to the northeast, Han Yunhua ordered Li Dingguo's troops to slowly infiltrate Qiqihar, this infiltration is all-round, not just send a few special forces into the city.

Under Han Yunhua's advice, a large number of soldiers took off their uniforms and went to Qiqihar to become a puppet army, and some even took the entire team to join the Japanese puppet army, which made the Qiqihar garrison commander Omura Jiro Dazuo very happy for a while, because he was effective in suppressing bandits and made outstanding achievements, so the Japanese army base camp also specially issued him a medal, which made him proud for a long time.

Two years of infiltration had already made the Japanese defense in the Qiqihar area full of holes, so the Japanese army barely prevented any effective resistance when the two armies attacked Qiqihar this time. The most terrifying thing is that at the most critical moment of the battle, the Japanese garrison headquarters was unexpectedly terminated, and the arsenal was also bombed. As for the chemical weapons production base set up by the Japanese army in the city, it was even more unbearable, more than 100 elite special forces fell from the sky like divine soldiers, and the elite of the Japanese army of a squadron resisted for only 3 minutes before being completely defeated, resulting in the person in charge of the base being completely captured without even activating the self-destruct device of the base.

The troops did not stay in Qiqihar for long, but packed all the production lines and captured military doctors overnight and sent them to Guisui along with a large number of confidential materials. In addition, in the laboratory of the Japanese army, the troops rescued more than 300 Chinese and American soldiers who were about to be used as ** experimental "logs", and there were also a large number of experimental data and photos, and the content shown on the photos was outrageous.

Bad news came one after another, the phones of the Changchun Headquarters were about to burst, and Tokyo's reprimand telegrams also flew like snowflakes to the desk of General Yamada Oto, coupled with the continuous telegrams for help from the front, General Yamada Otomi was about to collapse.

He couldn't figure out how the situation had suddenly eroded like this two days ago, and only Lieutenant General Yukio Kasahara looked at the map with a pale face. As the chief of staff of a million-strong army, Yukio Kasawara still has a good strategic vision. Now he had understood Han Yunhua's strategic intentions, but it was obviously too late.

The operational meeting was held in the operational command room, and it was the first time that a military meeting had been held in the operational command room since General Otozo Yamada took office.

In addition to the commanders of various divisions stationed in Changchun, there were also responsible persons of various departments under the jurisdiction of the Eastern Army, such as the General Manager's Department, the Military Medical Department, the Veterinary Department, the Legal Department, the Supply Supervision Department, the Intelligence Department, the Special Intelligence Department, the Chemical Department, the Continental Railway Department, the Water Supply and Epidemic Prevention Department, and so on.

The operational command room of the Kwantung Army Headquarters is very distinctively arranged, the whole hall is very large, but it does not appear empty, and a huge square table in the middle is placed on a map of the Northeast of the same size, and the square table is about 15 square meters. On the military map, there are a large number of red and blue table signs written in Japanese, and the table signs are inserted with the battle flags of China and Japan to represent the troops of the two countries.

On the wall behind the main seat also hangs a large map, which is slightly smaller than the previous one, but has more of the Soviet Far East, and it is very meaningful that General Yamada has placed the meeting place here.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this is the fourth reprimand telegram just issued by the base camp, this is not only a shame for me Yamada Otozo, but also a shame for everyone here, please circulate it." Yamada Otozo's voice was loud, but many of the officers present could hear the tiredness and helplessness of His Excellency the Commander.

A few minutes later, Yamada Otozo let out a long breath, opened his chapped lips and said, "Gentlemen, this is the biggest defeat of our Kwantung Army, we are not afraid of failure, but this defeat is something that we and the entire empire cannot afford. If we lose this war, then we will lose control of Manchuria, and then of all of Korea, and by then the empire will have lost the war. In the same way, decades of business by the Empire's ancestors will be destroyed at the hands of you and me, and the kings will become the sinners of the Empire through the ages. So, this time we have no way out, we must fight to the end! ”

"Hay! Fight to the end! ”

"Fight to the end!" The voices in the entire combat command room were neat and loud, and they were very majestic.

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