Chapter 609: The End of the Kwantung Army (7)
As Zhang Baoguo expected, the Japanese puppet army in the Xue family was wiped out almost without much resistance, except for a dozen Japanese soldiers from small merchant and hawker families who saw the opportunity earlier, and they were not too harsh on the nearby Chinese in peacetime, so they temporarily saved their lives, and the remaining complete infantry squadron and an infantry company with only 32 puppet troops were quietly solved by Zhang Baoguo and others.
After taking the Xue family fence, Zhang Baoguo and the others continued to hurry non-stop, leaving only a platoon of infantry who knew Japanese to support the façade of the Xue family fence, and also guarded the phone of the Xue family fence, otherwise it was likely that the Japanese army who noticed the abnormality would find out the situation.
At ten o'clock in the evening, Zhang Baoguo and others arrived in Da'an City, and at the same time, Wan Guoquan's large army had also rushed to Xuejiaweizi, because along the way, Zhang Baoguo and others had cleared the obstacles for the large army, and at the same time, under the guidance of the patriotic people, the troops marched smoothly, and the Japanese did not expect that a huge Chinese army had reached their heart.
"Commander, just now the forward troops sent a telegram reporting that they have arrived at the outskirts of Da'an, asking if they will enter the city immediately." Ma Jiayuan walked into the temporary headquarters and asked.
"How long will it take for our tank troops to reach Da'an, and how long can your half infantry regiment hold out without reinforcements?" Wan Guoquan asked.
"Xuejiaweizi is only a dozen kilometers away from Da'an, even if it is on foot, it is only an hour's away, and we now have a car to travel, although it is night, but at most 20 minutes our troops can reach Da'an. Needless to say, more than 70 percent of the division's combat effectiveness is veterans with more than three years of military experience, and more than half of the cadres are class students who have received military education. Even if there are no reinforcements, it should be fine to hold out for eight or nine hours. Ma Jiayuan is still very confident in his troops.
"That's good, order the BT Assault Brigade to move forward quickly, and be sure to reach Da'an within 20 minutes. Ordered Zhang Baoguo's regiment to enter the city immediately, establish a solid bridgehead at the gate of the city, and wait for the arrival of the large army. Wan Guoquan resolutely ordered.
The battle soon began, and the Japanese garrison in Da'an was the 64th Wing of the 70th Brigade of the 54th Division. This 70th brigade was originally only a three-unit infantry brigade, that is, there were no wings under the brigade, only three infantry brigades. However, in view of the importance of Daan, the Kwantung Army Command reorganized the 54th Brigade stationed in Daan, together with some garrisons and police, into a reduced infantry wing, the 54th Infantry Wing. Although this infantry wing is no different from other infantry wings in terms of officer disposition and other aspects, it is far inferior to a regular infantry wing in terms of strength.
However, these Wan Guoquan and others did not know that this was a military secret of the Kwantung Army, so the Japanese attached great importance to it, even if the spies of the Inner Mongolia Military Region had reached the point of penetration, they still could not detect such a secret thing.
Exactly like what Wan Guoquan and others deduced, when hundreds of Chinese farmers appeared outside Da'an City, they did not attract the attention of the city defenders, but the infantry squad responsible for guarding the gate at the city gate routinely sent two sentries to come over to take a look at the situation.
I have to say that Liu Er Mazi is a wonder, and this person's personality is really hard to figure out. The two Japanese sentries came over and saw that the leader of the team turned out to be Liu Ermazi, so they just nodded and said a word yo Xi and left, not even seeing Zhang Baoguo, the "Shaozuo" in the team.
Originally, according to the predetermined plan, now Zhang Baoguo and the others should take action, and then establish a solid bridgehead at the city gate, wait for the arrival of reinforcements, and then eliminate the other nobles who were established. However, Zhang Baoguo saw that the Japanese garrison was so loose, so he germinated a more daring idea, he wanted to directly take over the Japanese garrison headquarters and directly eliminate the command system of the Japanese army, so that the infantry wing defending the city fell into complete chaos. …,
The soldiers waited for Zhang Baoguo's order to attack, but they did not see Zhang Baoguo's order until the whole army had entered. After entering the city, Zhang Baoguo asked the troops to immediately go straight to the headquarters of the Japanese army, and the most excited person after entering the city was Liu Ermazi, after entering Da'an, it was equivalent to his territory, and Liu Ermazi knew the most about the situation in the whole city.
The commander of the Japanese garrison never thought that the Chinese army would be so bold, and the Chinese army not only attacked Da'an. And it also hit his command post, and when the ragged Chinese strong farmer passed by the Japanese garrison headquarters, many of the headquarters guards even rushed out to see the excitement. There were also some Japanese who pointed at the oncoming Chinese peasants with disdain, and they did not think that the oncoming Chinese troops were coming from hell.
When the Zhuangding team passed by the garrison headquarters, Zhang Baoguo decisively gave the order to attack. The more than 100 'imperial troops' who were in charge of escorting the troops suddenly turned their guns and rushed towards the garrison headquarters. At the same time, those puppet troops who were originally depressed were actually a trap, and at the first moment of the gunshot, all the strong men flocked to the cart behind them.
The tarpaulin covering the cart was quickly pulled away, and what caught my eye was not gold and silver treasures, but extremely neatly arranged 38 large covers and submachine guns.
The sudden change surprised the guards of the garrison headquarters, and they were caught off guard by Zhang Baoguo and others in shock. In less than 3 minutes, the gate of the garrison headquarters that was close at hand was taken by the Chinese army, and then the garrison commander Taro Yamamoto was beaten into a sieve by the Chinese soldiers who broke in as soon as he grabbed the phone, and the chief of staff, Morikawa Yunyi Shaosa, was killed.
The defenders at the four gates of Da'an heard the rapid gunfire in the city, but because they did not receive an order, no one dared to act rashly at will, let alone lead the troops into the city to reinforce casually, so they just made a phone call to the headquarters in the city.
However, the Japanese headquarters in the city has been completely destroyed, so the Japanese troops at the city gate do not dare to leave their posts at will. But after all, the movement in the city was too big, and the infantry squadron stationed at the east gate of Da'an was the first to find out that the matter might have reached the point of being out of control, so at the risk of being dealt with by the base camp, sent an infantry squad into the city to see what was going on, and then the Japanese army realized the seriousness of the matter.
After the success of the surprise attack on the headquarters, Zhang Baoguo immediately led his troops to attack in the direction of Da'an Ximen. It's more difficult to fight from outside the city, but it's much easier to get from inside the city to outside the city. Moreover, the Japanese army did not have many troops stationed at the gates of each city, and the most was only one infantry squadron, and each infantry squadron only had a hundred or dozens of people, which was far from the approved standard number, and it could only be regarded as a semi-reinforced squad when it was fully armed.
At 10:15 p.m., Zhang Baoguo and others occupied the west gate of Da'an, and under the command of Zhang Baoguo, 720 soldiers attacked in depth into Da'an City.
At 10:28, a tank brigade of Wan Guoquan was the first to arrive at Da'an City, and quickly entered the city to destroy the remnants of the enemy. Originally, under the attack of Zhang Baoguo and others, who did not have heavy weapons, the Japanese army still had a certain degree of confidence in resistance. But now this confidence is rapidly eroded by the sound of the rolling chariots of the Chinese army. The remaining less than 2,000 Japanese troops in the city were completely wiped out in less than 40 minutes, and the most surprising thing about the battle was that the Kwantung Army, known as the most elite military group of the Japanese army, produced a large number of prisoners.
This phenomenon aroused Wan Guoquan's attention, and after careful interrogation, it was discovered that the infantry wing stationed in Da'an was originally a parallel import, and it was said to be an infantry wing, but in fact it was just a reinforced brigade, and the entire wing was only a regular unit of an infantry brigade, and the rest were all police and Japanese military police, and even 400 corporate security personnel of the Japanese Mitsubishi Corporation. These people are not professional soldiers in the first place, and it is okay to support the façade and bully the common people in peacetime, but if they are really pulled into the battlefield to compete with the Chinese army, it is still far from good. …,
After interrogation, Wan Guoquan also knew that such situations abound in the Kwantung Army, and since the outbreak of the Pacific War, a large number of elites of the Kwantung Army have been transferred to the southern battlefield, and in order to confuse the Chinese and the Soviets, the Japanese base camp did not transfer troops in a structured manner, but adopted the method of drawing four to make up for two. That is, 40% of the elite of an infantry division was transferred to supplement the Southern Army, and some people were transferred from the Japanese expatriates in China or the Northeast and the Co., Ltd. to supplement the Kwantung Army, and this proportion was half of the number of people transferred. In other words, the total strength of the Kwantung Army is now slightly less than what Commander Han Yunhua expected, but the quality has greatly decreased. This problem is not obvious in the units of the Kwantung Army on the front line, because the elite of the Kwantung Army are deployed on the Sino-Soviet and Sino-Mongolian borders, so it is difficult to see the actual situation of the Kwantung Army from these infantry divisions.
But in the hinterland of the Northeast, it is extremely obvious, which is why Wan Guoquan, like Lu Zhengcao, has a feeling, that is, the more he attacks the hinterland of the Northeast, the more he feels that the Japanese are not as strong as he imagined, so that Lu Zhengcao still thinks that the Kwantung Army is actually a paper tiger, and the Northeast Army succumbed without a fight in the incident twelve years ago is really shameful. At the same time, he also felt worthless for Zhang Shaoshuai, precisely because that incident changed Zhang Shaoshuai's life, and also changed the fate of hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Northeast Army and 30 million Northeast compatriots