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Chapter 1911 The Frustrated Japanese Army

When the two Chinese and Japanese teams on the front line of the Xing'an Mountains were fighting fiercely, the area east of Ulan-Ude was spreading a wave of panicked escapes. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Under the light of the moon and the stars, the railways, highways, fields, and hillsides were full of chaotic soldiers, who retreated in irregular queues in groups of three or five, winding towards the east.

This is a team that knows at a glance that it has lost a battle.

There is no formation, no life, the head hanging on the chest is so heavy that it seems that it can't be lifted, and the invincible posture of the past is long gone.

The long Type 38 rifle seems to have become a huge burden in the hands of these devil soldiers, carrying it, carrying it, carrying it in different postures. Everyone's ragged yellow uniforms were covered with mud and blood, making the dullness even more exhausting.

Between the marching processions, there were a large number of vehicles, and even many old carriages, and from time to time officers shouted reprimands for the routs to make way.

The troops left behind in Ulan-Ude in the rear have been called several times, but they are almost exhausted, and there is not much time to buy for evacuation.

Now, Petrovsk and Chita are being attacked by the Anjia Army at the same time, and if the troops cannot be withdrawn to the Far East as soon as possible, to the Boli area, where the Kwantung Army Command has designated a concentration, then once the return route is cut off, what awaits them will be the fate of being surrounded and then annihilated.

In the area west of Ulan-Ude, there were originally eight ** garrisons and twelve ** mixed brigades, but under the fierce thunderous blows of the An Jia army, especially the terrible air incendiary bomb attack, they suffered heavy losses.

Now that many of these routs have lost their organization, many people do not know which part of the people around them come from, and they don't even know whether they are a wing or a brigade, and they have completely lost the fanaticism for victory in the past, nor do they have the belief that the "holy war" will win.

Due to the overall backwardness of the equipment, at this time the entire rout team was filled with a depressing and heavy life, in the place they passed, scattered villages, billowing black smoke, the village can be seen everywhere the villagers killed, regardless of men, women, old and young, at this time the full moon in the sky, under the red flares that continue to rise into the air to illuminate the road, seems to be dyed red by the blood flowing in the villages.

In one of the luxury carriages, Lieutenant General Seki Kameji, commander of the 20th Army of the Japanese Army, was sitting precariously with his head turned out of the window, staring blankly at the rout rolling like a tide outside the train, and his heart was full of bitterness.

Due to the war in North America, the main divisions of the 20th Army were withdrawn, and now the 20th Army is actually a third-rate army. However, no matter how bad it was, it was an army of nearly 200,000 people, and it was really unexpected for him to be defeated in less than two days without holding out under the condition of occupying a favorable geographical position.

At present, there are still three **mixed brigades and four ** garrisons in Ulan-Ude City, and the attacking Anjia army is attacking and defending street by street, but against the Anjia army, which has rich siege experience, the time that the troops in charge of the palace can buy are really limited.

The Kwantung Army Command asked all units to rush to Boli as soon as possible to assemble, hold on to the Far East, and ensure the safety of the Pacific Ring Railway, so the troops withdrew in a hurry, and many wings went on the road without supplies, and now they can only survive by continuous plunder.

Many of the smoky villages outside the train windows were the bodies of Japanese immigrants who had not fallen at gunpoint by the An Jiajun, but had died in the massacre of the Japanese army's own making.

Guan Kameji let out a long sigh, this kind of cannibalism was purely unforgiving, his troops could not delay too much time, and if these Japanese immigrants moved with the troops, they would delay the speed of the march, so killing them was the best solution to avoid them from being enslaved by the Chinese people!

However, the clean slaughter of villages is the best and fastest way to implement the policy of clearing the wilderness, and these villages are not all Japanese immigrants, but more Slavs and Tatars! Although in the past, they also followed the rules and paid taxes to the colonial government established by the Kwantung Army, but now leaving them is inevitably in danger of being an enemy.

"Da-da-"

In the moonlight, the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and a village near the railway was quickly surrounded by Japanese troops.

This is a village where Russian descendants and Japanese immigrants live together, the Japanese army rushed into the village, no matter which nationality, even many Japanese children who shouted "buy a disc" in the face of the saber, they still chopped down, blood mixed with angry eyes, disbelief of the head scattered everywhere, the Japanese villagers who were originally happy to welcome Wang Shi suddenly lost their souls, hurriedly fled, gunshots, cries, shouts and curses, instantly resounded in the village.

Not long after, hundreds of villagers fell in pools of blood, and as the sound of hooves faded away, the Japanese soldiers took food and led cattle and sheep away.

After four or five hours, when the army had crossed, the villagers who had managed to save their lives from the Ghost Gate Pass stumbled back to the village, and some of them ran out of their cellars, wells, and mangers, or from the beams of their houses.

Soon, the Japanese immigrants and the Russian villagers fought together, and in the end, it was estimated that they were bored, hugged each other and cried bitterly, and the scene was extremely miserable.

......

At three o'clock in the morning, the town of Marhan, more than sixty kilometers southwest of Petrovsk.

The town had been reduced to rubble by daylight fire, and a "Big Leopard" off-road vehicle passed through the devastated ruins and stopped in front of a makeshift headquarters consisting of several communications command vehicles and tents.

Li Fuqiang, who was dressed in an ordinary camouflage military uniform, got out of the car door, walked into the tent with a guard, and saw Dong Jinming, who was standing in front of the map and studying the battle situation with the staff officers, frowned and asked:

"Xiao Dong, why did you stop attacking? Jin Hongmo and Pei Yannian have already gone to the front, and now your troops are lagging behind! ”

Dong Jinming's face was tired, he saluted with a strong fighting spirit, and then reported: "Commander, the enemy in front of us withdrew from his position overnight and withdrew to the Marhan Pass area to redeploy his defenses, and our 91st Division has advanced to the front of the enemy army and is waiting for artillery to follow up. At the same time it is night, and the Air Force cannot cooperate in the operation! ”

Li Fuqiang shook his head: "No! At this time, you can't slack off at all, you must stick to it, and you can't give the devil a chance to breathe! ”

Dong Jinming smiled bitterly: "Commander, without artillery support, our army will pay a lot of casualties!" ”

"This is not a reason to slack off! Jin Hongmo on the left flank and Pei Yannian on the right flank have already rushed to the front, if your side falls behind, their flanks will be exposed to the Japanese army, and the entire offensive may collapse, have you thought about serious consequences? Li Fuqiang asked.

Dong Jinming distinguished:

"Commander, when I was studying at the non-commissioned officer school, I was your student, and you should know that I am not a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death! However, the route I was responsible for in the middle was the most rugged, and because of the mountainous terrain, tanks, armored vehicles, and self-propelled guns could not be used, and I had to rely on manpower and animal power to tow artillery.

"And the enemy's fortifications, built on the mountains, are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and if they are forced to attack, they will definitely bring unnecessary casualties! According to the pre-war deployment, our front army is a combination of real and fake battles to contain the strength of the Japanese army and buy time for the northeast offensive, and there is no need to consume more troops here! ”

"Then watch the devil slip out from under our noses?"

Li Fuqiang said unhappily: "The battle of attacking the Chita Barrier in the eastern mountain cluster has begun, and Hu Jiyang's army is also besieging Ulan-Ude at this time...... The main forces of the Japanese army are speeding up their eastward flight, and the task of our front is to take Petrovsk as soon as possible and cut off the retreat of the Japanese army!

"If we put this group of enemies in Chita, wouldn't it be for nothing to cheapen Jiao Guangxu and them? What will the military districts and headquarters think of us? ”

Dong Jinming said with a resolute face:

"Commander, there are still two days left before the deadline for capturing Petrovsk specified by Commander Yin Jinan, and the artillery will be redeployed in place tonight, and I will attack the Japanese positions in front with all my strength early tomorrow morning."

Li Fuqiang was silent for a while, and looked straight at Dong Jinming, whose eyes were red, for a while before he said:

"Okay, just do as you say, fight well! Let the soldiers rest tonight, you also have to pay attention to your body, according to the analysis of various situations, our current Japanese army is ordered to be in charge of the palace, morale is low, tomorrow's battle must play our majesty! ”

"Yes, thank you, Commander!" Dong Jinming happily saluted.

Li Fuqiang smiled and shook his head:

"I'll contact the Air Force when I get back, and tomorrow I won't be able to use cloudburst bombs again! There are also three army aviation brigades assigned to us, and tomorrow they will also fight together! Don't let me down! ”

After speaking, Li Fuqiang walked out of the tent with his hands behind his back, Dong Jinming hurriedly followed, came to the outside of the tent, and saluted Li Fuqiang neatly with the seven or eight staff officers who followed him, until Li Fuqiang's "big leopard" disappeared at the end of the distance, and then returned to the tent.

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In Petrovsk, there was chaos in the commander of the Japanese Third Army, scrap of paper was everywhere, and the staff officers were packing up and preparing to evacuate.

Lieutenant General Eitaro Yama held the telegram in his hand, shook his head and said: "Marhan Town has given up too early, if we hold on for one more day, we can leave one day later and wait to retreat with the Twentieth Army!" ”

The Chief of Staff, Major General Takahato Tatsuhiko, said:

"Yesterday evening, the Anjia army has surrounded Marhan Town on three sides, if it continues to hold on, that wing may be surrounded and annihilated at midnight, and it is wise to retreat!"

"yes!"

Eitaro Yama said helplessly: "Our opponent is too strong, not only is the weapons and equipment good, but also the soldiers are sufficient, and we are now facing at least a dozen regular divisions of the Anjia Army armed to the teeth!" Add to that the enemy's air supremacy, and the kind of deadly bombs that burn even in the air, this battle is too difficult to fight! ”

A group of generals in the command shook their heads in unison, originally they still had confidence, relying on the strong fortifications here, at least a month or even half a year, but they didn't expect that the battle was less than forty-eight hours old, not only did the fortress groups along the border line fall, but now even the defensive positions outside Petrovsk were threatened, and they had to retreat in advance, the situation was so bad that no one expected it in advance.

"How long will the outer Marhan Pass positions be able to hold out?"

Eitaro Yama looked at the staff officers who were removing the map, turned his head and asked again.

Takahatsu replied reluctantly:

"Two days at most, at least tomorrow at noon! Commander, you'd better call General Guan Guizhi and tell them to march quickly, otherwise it is very likely that the retreat will be blocked by the An Jiajun. ”

Eitaro Yama sighed:

"Alright! When I sent a telegram to the Twentieth Army, I said that the main forces of the Anjia Army had been found in the southwest, south and southeast of Petrovsk, and that we had been ordered by the command of the Kwantung Army to evacuate ahead of schedule and let them accelerate their approach to us on their own! ”

The communications staff officer recorded Eitaro Shimoyama's telegram and then used the last radio station that had not yet been cleaned up to send out radio waves to carry out the final clean-up work.

Half an hour later, the staff officers finally packed up, left the Russian-style building that had been used as a headquarters for more than a year, and boarded the eastbound train with Eitaro Yaman.

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