Chapter 216: Hulan River, Wicker Pass
July 25, morning. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoSuihua North, Hulan River Bridge.
The Hulan River originates in the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, and is already a plain and a road north of Suihua, what is the plain river? It is that the river is winding and winding, and there are many branches. The distance in a straight line is not far, only a short walk, and the river may circle a large bay of 360 degrees.
On both sides of the Hulan River is an extremely wide river flat, with a large number of willow bushes, which the locals call Wicker Tong. In wicker pass, there is water when there is a lot of water, there is mud when there is little water, and you can even leave when there is a drought. During the construction of the bridge, the nearby willow bushes were cut down, and now they are growing again.
You know, the willow bushes by the river are shrubs, not trees, and numerous small strips grow from one root. These small strips of trees are a good material for basket weaving.
The willow trees by the Hulan River are smoky and mysterious in Xiao Hong's book. When she was describing a funeral, she described the willow groves by the Hulan River by the way.
She said: "I heard that those crows went to the wicker forest on the south bank of the Hulan River, and what they did in the wicker forest, so I don't believe it." But the wicker forest, the smoke and miasma, I don't know what is there, or after the wicker forest, the wicker forest is even more something. Standing on this side of the Hulan River, I saw the smoky miasma, several miles away on the wicker forest, flying white birds, in addition to the white big birds, what else is there, it is unknown. ”
"It is said that the crow passed over there, and the people don't know much about what the crow did when it got there, and where it flew from there."
When making the battle plan, Xiaolu mentioned these willows several times.
A train came from the north. The train came from Bei'an, and it was full of supplies and reinforcements from Suihua.
The train went on the bridge, only three loud noises were heard, the three piers of the bridge exploded, the explosion was too powerful, several carriages were thrown very high, some fell on the bridge, some fell directly into the river beach, and a few carriages still stayed on the tracks.
The front of the car was fine, and a few devils who escorted the car got down from it and ran south along the bridge. Gunshots rang out in the wicker tongli under the bridge, but they didn't hit anyone.
After a while, a few ran to the bunker on the south bank of the bridge. The devils of the bunker also saw them. A few devils entered the bunker and started talking on the phone. A few minutes later, there were several explosions in the south of the bridge, and the phone was disconnected.
The devils in the bunker looked south, and several telephone poles had all fallen, which had been blown up.
The wicker tongli on both sides kept shooting very quickly, and the devil in the train stopped firing back and was killed. Only the devils in the bridgehead bunker are still resisting.
After an hour, two armored trains left Suihua and sped towards the Hulan River Bridge seven or eight miles north of the city.
When they arrived at the bridgehead, the people inside the two armored trains saw the devils in the pillboxes at the bridgehead.
At this moment, Wicker Tongli fired, and this time the gunfire was intensive, and three or four devils on the bridge were knocked down. The others hurried into the armored train, and the armored car opened fire on the wicker thori. For a long time, there was no response in the wicker pass below.
The armored train drove towards the bridge, and as soon as it drove a few dozen meters to the bridge, there were two more explosions, the first armored train was blown away, and the second armored train was blown up and derailed. A large number of soldiers got out of the wicker pass and rushed towards the two columns of armored vehicles.
Suihua later sent two more small troops, both of which were eaten, and the next day, a large Japanese army drove out of Suihua to destroy the Yichun advance army. When they arrived at the bridge, they saw that the materials on the blown up train had been emptied, but the advance army had not seen a single one.
Han Dengying only used a small force to attack the Japanese brigade that came to help, hoping to encircle the point and send reinforcements, because there was also a Japanese brigade in Suihua.
July 25th. Harbin.
Harbin is a metropolis, and the garrison has a puppet brigade, the brigade commander Zhao Zhenbang (the 12th mixed brigade). Other than that. There is also a wing of devils, and the commander is a major general.
The campaign to attack Harbin began sporadically.
The devils had several positions in Harbin City, in addition to the railway bridge and both sides of the railway, the barracks and several Japanese military institutions also had pillboxes and other military positions. In general, however, the Japanese did not attach much importance to the fortifications of Harbin, as their focus was on several areas bordering the Soviet Union.
At present, there are more garrisons in Sunwu County in the Heihe area than in Harbin, and the so-called "small Harbin, big Sunwu" refers to this incident. Sun Wu was in the south of Heihenan, on the side of the Heilongjiang River, not far from Heilongjiang, where the front command of the Soviet army was located, and the army was stationed there.
The main force attacking Harbin was Li Sen's railway troops.
Leeson had been concentrating his troops for this time. Today, his unit has expanded to more than 4,000 people, divided into several parts, and stationed along the railway.
This time, he was not alone, and he was worthy of Zhao Shangzhi's department that attacked Harbin. The two armies combined, counting the people, have more than 10,000 people.
In addition, Yang Jingyu's troops in South Manchuria also began the battle to attack Tonghua, the volunteers and the Iron Blood Army in southern Liaoning jointly attacked Andong, and the advance army Jinzhou Chaoyang and other troops also began to move to carry out offensive strikes against the nearby devil puppet army.
Wei Zhengmin's ministry also began to act in Antu, the Chao region of Jilin.
The battles in these places were not large-scale battles, they were mainly raids, and they were all battles in small towns in the countryside.
After learning that the Suihua Railway had been blown up, Li Sen blew up the railway from Harbin to Mudanjiang, the railway from Harbin to Wuchang Jilin, and the railway to Xinjing, Shuangcheng, and the troops divided into four groups and attacked in the direction of Harbin City.
The Kwantung Army received the telegram and was shocked. Once again, Yichun's advance army hit his own empty space. Harbin is a big city, a transportation hub, and its defense is so weak that it has been beaten squarely, and if it is captured, there will be big problems with materials everywhere.
Mudanjiang, Jiamusi's imperial army was on full alert for the Soviet troops in the Hunchun direction, and did not dare to move. Which unit to transfer?
It turns out that their real purpose is Harbin!
Because there was no intelligence in advance, the Kwantung Army suspected small forces, or even urban guerrillas that had previously been encountered.
Because the advance army was fighting street battles, the imperial army's superiority in the army and air force could not be brought into play, and bad news came out of Harbin one by one. First several police stations were cleared, then several gendarmerie pairs were cleared, and later, several reinforced companies of the puppet garrison were eliminated.
When several troops were wiped out cleanly, the Kwantung Army Headquarters realized that the number of troops entering the city was very large, and decided to transfer troops from Xinjing, Jilin, and Fengtian, and then draw back the troops from Xingshan Street and Bei'an Town to defend Harbin.