Chapter 217: The Japanese army in Xingshan Town retreated
July 26th. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info Xingshan Fortress.
By the time the two sides reached a stalemate for nearly a month, the devils had lost about half of their troops. Investigators found that almost every day, there were fireworks burning corpses behind the position, and the cars carrying the urns made several trips to Jiamusi several times every day.
News came from the headquarters in Yichun: We have won victory on the battlefield of Baicheng Suihua Harbin, and the enemy may not be able to support it, so we must strictly pay attention to the enemy's dynamics and do not let them escape smoothly.
During the day, the scouts discovered that the devils had troops and began to evacuate.
Chen Xingshan, Li Lanchi, and Xie Chengrui analyzed various situations and knew that the enemy was about to retreat. If we had followed their plan, we would not have taken advantage of anything. So, the three of them made a plan: send people along the tunnel to attack the enemy's headquarters and barracks in the early morning, and at the same time, Li Lanchi's troops launched a counterattack and took the initiative to attack the enemy with the cooperation of Xie Chengrui. If the enemy retreats, pursue, and if the enemy does not retreat, he wins and returns.
Today, the number of tanks has changed, and the enemy has only two tanks. And we already have ten. These ten tanks were all dragged back by Xie Chengrui from the dilapidated tanks destroyed on the ground, demolished the east wall and made up the west wall, and put them together little by little. There was a tank in it, and there was a hole in the turret, how could it not be found to be a good part to repair. There was also a tank missing a heavy machine gun and could not be found.
There were originally eight tank drivers, and the remaining two were also selected after temporarily training ten people in the past few days.
The Yichun command unified the plan and put forward two additions, first, the people who attacked the command headquarters should shout in Japanese: retreat, go to Jiamusi. Second, it is necessary to pay attention to the retention of people in the fortress to meet the retreating troops. Thirdly, the charging troops should be loaded with bullets, and their guns should be discharged when fighting with the enemy with bayonets.
Morning.
Last time, he assassinated the Xingshan Street Town Office and Barracks of a thousand devils. Now there was a glimmer of light in the sky, and there was a little movement in several rooms of the Command Headquarters, and then, a very strange figure appeared in the room.
At 5:40, gunfire was heard simultaneously in the barracks and the town office. The gunfire was urgent, but it was not heard very well from the outside, because it was a gun fired in the house. The town office is where the commander lives this time, and the barracks is where the staff department lives. The large army lived in the adjacent barracks.
This time, the gunfire lasted for more than ten minutes, and the town office ended after only a few minutes.
At this time. The phone rang in the office. One person was about to answer the phone and was stopped, and the other person picked up the phone and yelled loudly: "Retreat, go to Jiamusi." Hunchun Soviet troops invade! Right away! Repeat, retreat, go to Jiamusi. Hunchun Soviet troops invade! Right away! ”
The person next to you gestures, meaning to ask the other person to repeat. He immediately said it in Japanese: "Repeat! ”
The other party said loudly: "Retreat, go to Jiamusi!" Right away! "The phone hung up.
A few more phone calls came, and a few more teams were given orders to retreat.
The big camp was lively.
To the south of the fortress, a cannon port protruded from one of the bunkers, and then several other bunkers also protruded from the muzzles.
At six o'clock sharp, more than a dozen cannons were fired together. Some of the shells landed in the Japanese camp, and some fell into the coal mines.
At this time, the west side of the Xingshan Fortress. The assembled 6,000 men heard the sound of artillery, shouted loudly, and rushed to the Japanese camp.
The cannon fired very accurately, and the shells emitted were very scattered, constantly exploding, and the killing effect was very good, not only the killing power was great, but the deterrent effect was also good.
It was Qian Jinxin and his first batch of trainees who fired the cannon, and they had come to the fortress by mountain road the night before. In the past two days, I have been familiar with the various gun emplacements in the fortress, and I have fired a few corrective shells before, but now they are the cannons, and the commander said, don't spare the shells, and hit as much as you like.
The shelling had already disrupted the Japanese barracks. The casualties that fell these days immediately rose.
The news of the retreat in the Japanese camp was already able to spread. The officers in the barracks were not of high rank, and many officers were waiting for orders from the command, but everyone was ready, and some troops had already begun to retreat.
Several officers received an order to retreat, and the order was to move to Jiamusi, immediately. So, he immediately set out with his own team. When others asked him, he answered truthfully.
Similarly, several groups of varying sizes, led by their respective officers, began to retreat.
The retreat of these people exacerbated the confusion in the camp of the devils.
The immediate response of some officers was to organize a counterattack, which must have been an attack on the Xingshan fortress. But I don't think it's right. Xingshan Fortress never attacked, why is it abnormal today?
They were actually waiting for orders. Someone has already left, half of the people who have retreated, and it will be their turn soon.
At this time, the shouts of Xingshan charging came.
The artillery of the fortress stopped, and ten tanks led the leading force into the Japanese barracks.
Gunfire rang out from the tanks.
Ten tanks and ten monsters, each tank's two heavy machine gun bullets shot at the devil like a splash of wind. The bean chariot can't beat other chariots, but it's definitely top-notch to hit people.
Ten tanks were like ten sharp knives, and the devils were cut down like grass.
The advance infantry rushed up.
On the one hand, there are soldiers who have been recuperating in the fortress for a month, and on the other hand, soldiers who have been attacking outside the fortress for a month.
The morale of the soldiers on one side is high, and the morale of the soldiers on the other side is low.
The soldiers on one side are ready to attack, and the soldiers on the other side are preparing to retreat.
On one side there were strong officers, and on the other hand they were waiting for orders from officers.
The soldiers on one side put their guns while fighting with bayonets, and the soldiers on the other side withdrew their bullets.
Victory or defeat is decided.
At this time, shouts also came from the barracks and the headquarters, the same shouts as the advance army.
The devil panicked, why is the command finished? Besieged?
Unable to receive an order, the remaining devils were divided, and several brigades began to retreat, because the captain was there, so they were well organized and retreated to the south, and the remaining few had no orders and could not move. There was a brigade, the captain of which was very fierce, and urged all three or four hundred subordinates to fight with the advance army with bayonets, and decided to break the jade. There are also some sporadic devils who have joined the ranks of leaving people behind.
At eight o'clock sharp, the battle in the barracks was over. More than 1,000 desperate devils pinned down more than 3,000 advance soldiers and half of the tanks, and although the infantry and tanks paid attention to coordination, one tank was still blown up by a Japanese death squad.
The advance army had only more than 2,000 men to break out, and the other half of the tanks pursued southward. The team that came out of the dark tunnel was also pursuing, and the two teams met, and the pursuit was much stronger.
When the tank pursued more than ten miles from the mouth of the Lianjiang River, all the machine gun ammunition was exhausted, and there were only a few shells left, and there was not much fuel.
By one o'clock in the afternoon, the pursuit reached the mouth of the Lianjiang River and received an order from Yichun: stop the pursuit and organize a retreat.
This time, the 9,000 troops of the Xingshan Fortress won a complete victory, and in the month they held the fortress, they eliminated more than 10,000 devils, and more than 3,000 devils during the pursuit. A large number of weapons and baggage were seized. Most of the devils died from artillery bombardment and tank gunfire, and the fortress of Heungsan pooled all its ammunition and heavy weapons and won a great victory.
This time, the senior commander of the devil was killed, and several middle-level commanders blocked the pursuers with a suicidal resistance battle without an order, while the others retreated in an orderly manner, pulling thousands of people out of the battlefield and into Jiamusi.
Of course, Yichun also paid a huge price in the form of two thousand casualties. Later, it was commented that in this battle for the defense of the fortress, tanks and anti-tank weapons were the key to victory.
Japanese politics was shaken by the battle. The navy has already planned to launch an impeachment action against the Kwantung Army, asking the policy support of the Japanese state to go south and support the navy.
Yichun was jubilant here, and the propaganda agency issued dozens of battle reports in a row. These war reports were disseminated in the Kuomintang and occupied areas, greatly boosting the morale of the whole people.
In the past six months or so, people who have followed the war situation in China have become accustomed to the Lu's style of war reports, and there is no exaggeration of the national government war report at all, listing a large number of facts, providing a large number of names of Japanese soldiers who were killed, and providing a large number of photos. The Japanese army also collected all these war reports, and senior officers had to read them, and many people had a chill in their hearts when they read the war reports.
By now, the purpose of the first phase of the campaign has been achieved.
However, the battle is not over yet.
Xinjing.
The Kwantung Army Command had already received news of the retreat of the Imperial Army units at the Heungsan Fortress.
They acquiesced in the action because, in their greater trouble.
The Kwantung Army command realized that Yichun was practicing a strategic deception. Its real purpose was to attract a large number of troops to attack Yichun, which was not important at all, and the real purpose of Huqi was to attack the Soviet army from Hunchun County.
At present, the situation in the Hunchun defense line and Zhang Gufeng at the junction of the Soviet Union is very tense, and war is about to break out.
In the Sino-Russian Treaty of Linghui signed by China and Russia in 1858, Zhanggufeng in the lower reaches of the Tumen River on the east side of the Hunchun region has different ownership in different versions. The Chinese version of the treaty shows that Zhang Gufeng is Chinese territory, while the Russian version assigns Zhang Gufeng to Tsarist Russia.
Beginning in 1935, the border conflict between the puppet Manchurians and the Soviet Union gradually escalated. In June 1936, Soviet troops occupied Zhanggufeng and built fortifications. In July, the Kwantung Army deciphered a telegram and learned that the Soviets would expand the occupied area, so they informed the commander of the occupation forces in Korea, Lieutenant General Kotaro Nakamura.
Historically, on August 1, the Japanese base camp received the "Continental Order No. 163", asking Korea to occupy the armament war. Although the time has not yet come and the order has not been issued, the Kwantung Army Command has already determined that there will be a military operation in the Hunchun direction to the Soviet Union. Yichun is a disguise.
The Hunchun side was mainly dealt with by the Korean garrison, so how should the Kwantung Army deal with it?