At noon on September 5, 1942, Suizhong. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Japanese defense line of several kilometers long is very reasonable, the Japanese army is stationed here 100,000 people, almost the essence of the Japanese army that can be pulled north of the Yangtze River here, until this morning, there are still several trains still transporting the army here, of course, the intelligence shows that they stopped south of Qinhuangdao, because Qinhuangdao was half occupied by the Eighth Route Army, and there was a fierce battle.

Many generals of the Japanese army in North China did not understand the decision of the North China Army Headquarters to build a positional station, and believed that they should not be so cautious in dealing with the Tuba Road, and that the forces of the two sides were too close to each other, and there was no need to engage in positional warfare.

Although they also knew that the Eighth Route in Manchuria was different from the Eighth Route in North China and the Eighth Route in Shandong, they still believed that the Eighth Route Army was not good at weaponry, and it was far from being the opponent of the Imperial Army.

As for why the Kwantung Army failed, they believe that the reason for the defeat is very simple, most of the elite units of the Kwantung Army are in the Soviet Far East and the South Seas, and those who remain are recruits, and the recruits will not fight, and this is a problem with the deployment of the base camp.

Some officers of the North China Army even demanded to march into the northeast and recover Manchuria. The officers were not allowed, and some lower-level officers even collectively chopped off a section of their fingers and handed it over to the North China Garrison Army Headquarters in Beiping.

In the late spring and early summer, even the new Kyoto was captured, and there was a Shao Zuo who ran to Beiping and committed suicide by disembowelment at the gate of the Iron Lion Hutong Headquarters, and the entire North China Japanese army was furious, and the base camp also intended to ask them to solve the Manchurian problem, so that the North China Army had to organize forces and march to Manchuria.

Okamura Ningji's reason for procrastination is very simple, Nanyang is also drawing military strength from him, and guarding against the communist army in North China is now his focus, because the military strength is seriously insufficient, it is difficult to cope with the two-front battle, and he asked the base camp to increase troops, and the result is that the increase is all new soldiers, old and weak soldiers, and the combat effectiveness is very low.

There is another reason, that is, the weapons and equipment of the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi, Hebei, and Shandong have been greatly improved, at least the bullets in their weapons are significantly more than before, and this change has caused serious losses in the Japanese army's military strength, and this kind of loss occurs all the time, and there is no major battle, as long as a month passes, the total military strength will lose a batch.

Now, just after the military forces were drawn from the battlefields of Henan, Shanxi, and Shandong, the Eighth Route Army and Tang Enbo's army on that side became active.

However, the North China Army still followed the order, transferred troops, and even temporarily gave up the recovery of Rehe, concentrated its military strength, and dealt with the Jinzhou front, preparing to defeat the Manchurian Eighth Route in Suizhong and gradually recover Manchuria.

Okamura was a very pragmatic man, he did not drive straight in, but built fortifications, because he carefully studied the reports of several battles in Manchuria, and he found that the weapons of the Eighth Route of Manchuria were different from those of the Eighth Route in North China, they had armored troops, they had air forces, and the tactics of the air force and armored troops were very powerful.

In addition, he also found that the Eighth Route of Manchuria had some very lethal weapons, which were most likely aided by the Soviet Union. In this case, they should be treated as regular troops, because the base camp allocated almost all the planes to the navy, and the limited aircraft of the army had to bomb Chongqing and cooperate with the operations in South China.

In North China, the Japanese army had no air superiority at all, only positional warfare was realistic, and positional warfare was used to eliminate the weapon superiority of the Manchurian Eighth Road.

The Japanese fortifications in Suizhong relied on a small river, and there were not only trenches, reinforced concrete pillboxes, communication trenches protected by wooden planks, underground bunkers on the hillside, and anti-tank trenches in front of the positions. The artillery positions were quickly repaired, the artillery had just entered the positions, and as long as the shells were in place, the forces of the Manchurian Eighth Route could be consumed.

The Japanese hoped to turn this powerful position into a meat grinder, consuming most of the forces of the Eighth Route in Manchuria.

At the critical moment when the position was about to be completed, Manchuria attacked on the Eighth Front.

Hearing the news that the Eighth Route of Manchuria had sent planes to bomb the airfields in North China, all the Japanese troops in Suizhong understood that the great war had begun.

The crux of the matter is that the Japanese army did not have aircraft, but the Eighth Route Army did. The only planes and airfields of the Japanese army were destroyed.

At noon, planes from the sky came, flying from the eastern sea.

Whose plane?

At this moment, the Japanese saw several fires rising from the positions of the communist troops opposite, and soon, grass was thrown on the fire, and white smoke rose up. The Japanese commander on the high ground could see that it was the fire that instructed the planes to bomb, and there was no doubt that the planes coming from the sky were from Manchuria.

The order was given by the front commander to everyone to enter the bunker, to enter the hiding hole. The Japanese air defense equipment had not yet arrived, and not only did it not have air superiority, but it did not even have protective facilities.

At this time, the planes began to drop bombs.

At the beginning, the planes dropped conventional aerial bombs, and the main targets were pillboxes and trenches, and more than 30 planes began to bomb from east to west, some bombs exploded on pillboxes, some in trenches, some on flat ground, and some on artillery positions. Eighty or ninety bombs were blown up, many Japanese soldiers were killed, and the positions on the ground changed.

At this time, more than a dozen signal flares were raised on the opposite side. The location of the flare was apparently chosen.

Sure enough, the planes in the sky saw the flare and dropped bombs on the Japanese in several areas where the flare was launched.

This time the bomb was very different. As soon as the bomb left the plane, it exploded, and one bomb turned into five or six hundred dense small black dots, and the black dots slammed into the ground like a demon.

Quickly, the observation posts on both sides of the high ground saw that there were explosions in four or five sections of the Japanese army's position that was more than ten miles long, and the explosion range was oval, and in the entire explosion range, hundreds of small bombs exploded together, almost penetrating.

The Japanese soldiers on the ground felt even more pain, the hiding hole in the trench could avoid the bombing of artillery shells, and it could also prevent the bombing of aerial bombs, but they could not prevent the bombing of these little devils, a small bomb that fell in the trench could completely kill all the people in the hiding cave.

Sadly, these small bombs are numerous and almost ubiquitous. A bomb that doesn't explode is a landmine, and it can explode if you're not careful. After the cluster bomb exploded, explosions were heard one after another on the position, killing and wounding people in each explosion.

Each bomber dropped two submunitions and flew away.

After the smoke of the explosion cleared, the sound of the plane was silenced.

The Japanese soldiers came out of the hiding hole and began to inspect the position, at this time, they found that the position was full of bombed corpses, and there were blown up dead bodies everywhere. The wounded soldiers were howling loudly. Checking the weapons, the machine guns in the machine-gun positions were almost blown away.

Because of the large area of the position, the Japanese troops on those positions that were not bombed found that only a few areas were bombed, and these bombed positions were almost connected, dividing the long position of the entire Japanese army into two sections.

Before the Japanese could transport the wounded away, the artillery on the opposite side rang out.

The artillery bombarded the same area that had just been bombed. This time, anti-tank trenches, trenches, pillboxes, fortifications on the positions were bombarded with great intensity, and soon the fortifications on the positions were almost destroyed.

Later, one of the surviving Japanese soldiers recalled: "I have been fighting with the Eighth Route Army for several years, and I have never seen so many artillery shells of the Eighth Route Army dumping on a position, which is our key deployment area and the key area of the opponent's attack." There, almost half of the officers and soldiers were killed, many more were injured, and only a few survived. In the future, we will no longer dare to despise the Eighth Route Army. ”