Chapter 639: Flames on the Gobi
September 27, 1943 at 3:40 p.m. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoOuter Mongolia, a hill in the south of the Middle Gobi region. The position of Wang Fa's troops.
At 3:40 p.m., you could see the Japanese troops in the telescope, and the Japanese troops were very scattered, their clothes were very dirty, and they were unkempt, and they were slowly approaching. Some soldiers even wore shoulders made of animal fur, while others did not even have hats and shoes.
The reconnaissance plane circled and flew within the range of the Japanese army's march, and the troops on the ground saw it and immediately reported it to Wang Fa, and the order of the column was quickly issued, and the troops who were too far away from the Japanese began to abandon their positions and move to the left and right sides of the Japanese army.
At four o'clock, the battle began.
The timing of the start of this battle is uncontrollable, and when the Japanese army comes, the battle will start.
The fire of the blocking troops was fierce, and the Japanese quickly retreated, and after more than half an hour, the Japanese organized elite troops to attack the frontal position.
One by one, the rush began.
By six o'clock in the evening, the Japanese had already attacked three times, and when it was dark, both sides stopped fighting and began to rest.
At night, the fighters rested in the trenches. The autumn nights in Mongolia are already very cold, and the autumn clothes are not warm on the body, so everyone spreads out the bedding and lies down with their clothes. Fortunately, I have eaten mutton and drunk broth, otherwise I would have gotten sick.
There were people standing guard in each position.
The recruit Wang Guofu went to work at three o'clock at night, he was a little sleepy, and after leaving the bed, the cool breeze blew and he immediately woke up. After entering the sentry post, I talked with the previous sentry for a few words, and knew that the Japanese army was camping in the opposite three miles and had not moved since nightfall.
The night was so quiet that the howls of wolves that I used to hear while camping were now inaudible. Only the autumn wind was blowing, and the clouds in the sky were running fast, obscuring the stars and the moon.
After standing on the post for a while, he suddenly felt that there was some movement, and when he listened carefully, he didn't hear anything, but he still faintly heard some movement.
Wang Guofu's hometown of Daxinganling, used to be a militia, when he was a child, he followed his elders as a hunter, and later fought guerrilla warfare, very clever, but this is the first time to fight positional warfare, camping at night, never very close to the Japanese army, I have no bottom in my heart, I feel that if the Japanese army sneaks attack, it will be a big trouble. Thinking of this, he picked up a Molotov cocktail, squatted down, lit it, and threw it forward.
The incendiary bomb crossed an arc and landed on the position. With a bang, the bottle shattered, and a flame erupted.
By the light of the fire, Wang Guofu saw some Japanese troops, who were crawling in front of the position, only more than 20 meters away from the forward position, and the bullets were loaded, and they clicked and shot into the sky.
The Japanese soldiers who came to sneak attack knew that they had been discovered, so they simply shouted and charged towards the position.
The Japanese army was very close to the forward position, but it took only a dozen seconds to arrive.
In just a dozen seconds, the sleeping soldiers woke up and entered the battle position. The gunfire of the blocking troops rang out one after another, and incendiary grenades began to be thrown forward, and by the light of the fire, the gunfire gradually intensified.
Suddenly, several fire dragons erupted from several places at the front of the position.
The flamethrower fired.
The flamethrower was developed for more than half a year, and in the summer, the quality of the product stabilized, mass production began, and during the day, only once when the combat vehicle was attacking, this time, the Japanese army was too close, and without waiting for the order, they were launched one after another.
The flamethrower was really powerful, and one by one the Japanese soldiers were on fire, and they couldn't stop howling. With the firelight, the blocking troops fired at the men, and the casualties of the charging Japanese troops immediately increased.
This time, the Japanese army was obviously determined to win, and after fighting for a long time, they just did not retreat.
In front of the position, the burning corpses of the Japanese soldiers illuminated the position, and the Japanese troops in front were like moths flying towards the lights, rushing up one after another and falling down again.
The battle lasted an hour and a half at once, and it was still dark.
Wang Fa had already woken up. He knew that it would only dawn at six o'clock, and it was still more than an hour before dawn. Although the night was not conducive to both the offensive and defensive sides, it was very difficult to block the Japanese army from the position. Now the order was given to the various units to prevent the Japanese from approaching the positions at any cost, and from time to time incendiary bombs exploded in front of the positions.
By half past five in the morning, the fire in front of the position was gradually weakening, and the incendiary bombs were almost exhausted.
The roar of airplanes was heard in the eastern sky.
Two minutes later, the plane arrived over the battlefield and began to circle, apparently discerning the positions of friend and foe.
The fires of the ground forces were lit, the flamethrowers also spewed fire in front of the position, and the remaining incendiary bombs were thrown at the front of the position. The position lit up all at once.
The planes clearly saw clearly, and one of the planes dropped an incendiary bomb in the distance in front of the position. The incendiary bomb hit the ground, and the fire exploded, illuminating a radius of several hundred meters at once.
Ground radios immediately confirmed that the bombing was correct and that it was appropriate to move a little east. Other planes immediately followed, dropping several incendiary bombs around the incendiary bombs.
Other planes immediately followed, dropping several incendiary bombs around the incendiary bombs. Under the guidance of incendiary bombs, the planes began to drop cluster bombs on the densely populated areas of the Japanese troops, and in the dark night, the explosion of the cluster bombs was very clearly visible, and the flames of the explosions one by one were immediately covered by smoke.
The plane bombed for more than ten minutes before leaving.
At six o'clock, it was dawn. The Japanese retreated.
Wang Fa adopted a very clear strategy, as long as the Japanese army moves west and northwest, I will not care about you, as long as you turn back and go southeast, I will fight you. The Japanese also saw this clearly, so they had to go west first, and then detour south.
Noon September 30, 1943. A suburb of Harbin. Road General Command.
Xiaolu received a telegram from Wang: The Japanese army retreated and fled in a northwesterly direction. More than 5,000 enemy were killed and wounded in this battle.
The telegram was simple, but Xiaolu knew that it would not be easy to let the dying Japanese army retreat. Our troops blocked in the southeast, and the Japanese retreated to the west, so that the Japanese could stay on the steppe for another week.
The rest is left to the bad weather in the Mongolian Gobi.
Xiaolu immediately called back: "Very good. The troops were strictly inspected for plague infection. In any case, precautions should be taken to eradicate parasites and not to touch the likes of yellow squirrels and marmots. No hunting. No negligence. ”
Soon there was a call back: "There are more than ten people with symptoms, and two have been diagnosed." ”
Xiaolu was shocked and immediately sent a telegram to the others in the Northeast Bureau, asking for the organization of doctors and medicines to be shipped to Outer Mongolia immediately.
The plague incident has become the top secret of the Northeast Bureau, but almost all the senior leaders are busy with it. Xiaolu had seen the plague since the troops entered Inner Mongolia, but this time the troops were so large that it would be difficult to control them in case of infection.
The plague was mainly transfected by animals such as yellow rats and marmots, and the Japanese army, who lacked food and clothing on the grassland, often hunted, and the number of prey was relatively large, not yellow sheep, not wolves, wild horses, but rodents such as rats. Eating these animals, for a long time, where is the reason not to transmit diseases. Some people have verified that the 1910 plague in Northeast China was caused by hunting marmots on the grasslands.
The war report of Inner Mongolia also came. The harassing troops made it impossible for the Japanese puppet army to advance fifty miles a day, and the puppet army was panicked. Especially after the planes dropped leaflets about the plague infection of the Japanese army in Outer Mongolia, thousands of puppet troops had already deserted.
According to Hebei's intelligence response, the upper echelons of the Japanese army in Hebei were arguing over whether to rescue the Japanese army in Outer Mongolia. As a result of the quarrel, the reinforced Japanese puppet army marched slowly on the Inner Mongolian grassland.
Intelligence from Outer Mongolia also came. Aircraft reconnaissance, the Japanese army in Outer Mongolia is heading west, and the march is difficult. In addition, fighter jets attacked the Japanese headquarters and killed a number of people, the exact results of which are unknown.
Now, it is the end of September in Outer Mongolia, and Outer Mongolia is starting to cool down, and winter is coming. Xiaolu newspapers wrote articles and sent messages, resulting in the mobilization of large forces to attack at the turn of the Japanese army in Inner Mongolia and Outer Mongolia to fight a war of annihilation.
In essence, only Wang Fa and Guan Xiangying were fighting the Japanese army in Outer Mongolia, Zhao Shangzhi was in command, and other large troops were withdrawing one after another. The Northeast instructed that before leaving Outer Mongolia, you must be thoroughly quarantined.
The weapons used against the Japanese army were airplanes, small flying machines, Mongolian cadres, and bad weather. The planes reconnoitred in the sky, got a clear picture of the movements of the Japanese troops, and organized air raids from time to time, causing psychological pressure. The small aircraft was operated by a special combat team, led by Mongolian cadres, to organize the evacuation of herdsmen on the road of the Japanese army's advance and cut off the Japanese army's food supply.
In pastoral areas, there is a type of disaster called the white disaster, which is caused by snowfall. In the days when there was no large-scale pasture storage, the winter sheep also relied on nomadic herding, and cattle and sheep ate dry grass for a living. A heavy snowfall covers the withered grass of the grassland, and cattle and sheep will die in large numbers if they can't eat grass. In addition, heavy snow is the most harmful to people, if a strong wind blows on the Gobi, and then blows the snow, it will form a white-haired wind.
The white-haired wind rises, the visibility is very low, people get lost, can't see the direction clearly, and it is easy to freeze to death. Especially when walking at night, in case of white-haired wind, people are very likely to get lost and freeze to death, even if they are only a few meters away from the yurt.
The Japanese army in autumn clothes marched in Outer Mongolia, and as long as they were not allowed to leave Outer Mongolia in November, then this army would be dead.
Later, because there was no rescue of the Japanese army on the Great Gobi, the herdsmen along the way could not be found, and the soldiers were all wearing autumn clothes, and after a few heavy snowfalls in early winter, a large number of soldiers died.
After calculating that it was impossible for the Japanese army to get out of Outer Mongolia, Wang Fa's troops withdrew from the battlefield and returned to the city after the arrival of the first cold snap. The Japanese army in Inner Mongolia was under the blow of the Rehe column, marching slowly, and when they heard the news of the plague, they took the initiative to reduce the speed of the march and move slowly. After the first heavy snowfall, the rescue force withdrew to Zhangjiakou and abandoned the rescue.
Although it was only a few thousand miles, the Japanese army fell in front of the enemy of the climate. By January, fewer than a few hundred had fled to Suiyuan. Those who did not reach Suiyuan were only a few hundred captured by the Northeast Coalition Army. Later, Mongolia spent a year disposing of the corpses of Japanese soldiers.
That's an afterword.
The intelligence of Outer Mongolia was very complicated to handle, and at the same time, the intelligence of Harbin came. The dark tide in Harbin is surging, and something is going to happen.