Chapter 524: Jinzhou, Tighten Your Pockets

May 3, 1942, at half past four in the morning, Jinzhou. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The total attack begins.

At the beginning of the general attack, the rumble of aircraft was heard from the northwest.

Marshall said: "Is the plane your secret weapon?" ”

Xiaolu said: "The plane is not. But the bomb on the plane was. I don't have many planes, I don't have many pilots, so I can only blow up and go. So, bombs are important. ”

Marshall said, "How many hours does your pilot fly in general?" ”

Xiaolu said: "Not necessarily, less than dozens of hours, more than hundreds of hours." ”

Marshall said, "It's too little. ”

"Most of them didn't have much culture before, so they learned culture first, and then they learned to fly. Most people are desperate to fight it. ”

Soon, the effects of the bombing came back.

The cities bombed this time were limited to the two cities of Jinzhou and Chengde, and the target of the bombing was the airfield, because the planes were dispatched suddenly, and the planes of Jinzhou and Chengde were parked at the airfields, and almost all of them were blown up.

Ten minutes later, the second group of aircraft arrived in two cities and bombed ground artillery positions and barracks.

The bombers dropped everything, including a captured bomb of hundreds of kilograms dropped on the military camp in Jinzhou, blowing up a building with a large crater in the middle of the building.

The Japanese army has always been rampant in China, and I didn't believe it when I heard that the planes bombed Harbin, but now that I was bombed by the planes this time, I believed that there were planes on the Tuba Road. The tremendous power of the bomb also hit the confidence and morale of the Japanese recruits.

At 5 o'clock in the morning, rocket artillery fired.

The rocket artillery here is specially deployed, and the troops have been practicing for almost a year. Forward observation posts reported that the forward positions of the Japanese army had been torn open with a large opening five or six hundred meters wide. The ground forces quickly approached the gap.

At half past five, the mortar in the big mouth was fired. The so-called unconscionable cannon of mortars, dozens of guns fired together, smashed all the positions in front, left and right, destroyed all the defensive positions on the periphery of the city in this section, and the infantry began to charge.

At the same time, several artillery positions outside the city also opened fire on the Japanese positions in Jinzhou in different directions. Because there were all kinds of cannons, the connoisseurs who watched the battle were terrified, and just after a few mountain cannons, a mortar cannon sounded. There was no sound of the rockets being fired, but there was a loud explosion.

At seven o'clock in the morning, the front reported that the infantry had entered Jinzhou City from four locations.

Xiaolu said: "A few hours faster than I planned, which shows that the Japanese recruits are indeed not strong in combat." Our command could move to the mountains west of Jinzhou City to see what was going on in the actual battle. ”

When the headquarters arrived on the mountain, they saw the smoke of gunpowder billowing from Jinzhou City, and the sound of explosions came from time to time in the city, and the firelight continued to extend to the center of the city.

Marshall Zhang Zhizhong, who was watching the battle, had been pondering, and now that the path was relaxed, Marshall asked: "Look, that cannon, a white line, what kind of cannon is that?" ”

The trail said: "The water pipe is loaded with explosives. Earth cannons. How about we made it ourselves? It's scary. At this moment, the earthen cannon he said fell on a building, and it was clearly visible through the telescope that half of the building had been blown up.

Xiaolu really didn't want to tell the secret of the rocket. This is a very advanced rocket artillery, I didn't let them visit it last time, and it's not easy to tell the truth this time.

Zhang Zhizhong said: "Earth cannon? The explosiveness is strong. It's advanced. ”

Xiaolu said: "Ammonium nitrate plus sugar, plus explosives and **." ”

Zhang Zhizhong said: "Sugar? ”

"This time there were 100,000 people," Marshall said. The Japanese army in Jinzhou was finished. "Dare, he's been counting the number of his army.

At this time, the good news of Chengde also came, the city of Chengde was small, and the siege troops attacked from the mountains, and now they have entered the city. There were more Japanese recruits in Chengde, and their combat effectiveness was poor, and they couldn't even shoot accurately.

Jinzhou fought for a day, and the two sides fought fiercely in the streets of the city, fighting for every street. Most of the houses here are made of adobe stone, and the houses have no buildings, and the two sides chase and fight in the courtyard streets.

After two days of fighting in the city, both sides suffered heavy casualties, and the puppet army surrendered one after another the next day, and by the evening of the next day, there were more than 9,000 puppet troops who surrendered.

According to the description of the puppet army, almost all the puppet troops surrendered, and the Japanese army did not suffer three or four thousand wounded, and too many died in the bombardment on the first morning, and the Japanese army had five or six thousand wounded soldiers. Most of the Japanese army as a whole were new recruits, with weak combat capabilities, inexperience, and low morale.

During these two nights, the Japanese Anti-War League shouted to the Japanese troops in the city at various positions.

That's the secret weapon of the trail.

Tired of shouting, the loudspeaker began to play some recordings of Japanese speeches, all of which were old people and children of the pioneer group, and some old people could not cry when they talked about the death of their children in the war. The child cries and calls for his father, and he is also very worried. In the middle of the night, when the recording was played, the sad Japanese songs began to play.

When the Japanese soldiers heard this, they were even more sad.

The cultural propaganda cadres thought: These actors are crying so well. An actor is an actor, crying in Japanese, and he can bluff the Japanese.

On the morning of the third day, the Japanese broke through, and about a few thousand Japanese troops broke through to the north.

The command gave the order, let them out, and then pursue the enemy.

The city of Jinzhou was restored.

The headquarters and a small number of troops marched into Jinzhou City, a large number of troops pursued the fleeing Japanese troops, and some troops marched according to the plan to attack other small cities.

In order to show the image of his troops, Xiaolu specially pulled the visiting group to visit the prisoner of war camp.

The so-called prisoner of war camp is the former military camp of the puppet army, all the puppet soldiers are resting in their own rooms, and when the group arrives, the political workers are doing work for them, and there is a puppet army in each room talking about their suffering.

After passing through a room, I only heard the crying inside being too loud, and the visiting group asked to go in and check it out.

It turned out that a puppet army was telling about his sister being killed by the Japanese army, and when his sister's intestines flowed out, the puppet army cried so much that he was angry, and several puppet soldiers in the house also cried. The doctor had almost entered the house with Xiao Lu and the others, and was examining the fainting soldier.

At this time, a cadre wearing glasses stood up and was reasoning with them, and when he saw the path coming in, he hurriedly stopped and saluted: "Report to the commander-in-chief, we are reasoning with the captive soldiers." ”

Xiaolu said: "Very good. I heard it all, and everyone recognized the hatred of the Japanese, which is good. He turned to the captives and said, "Brothers, we are such a team, and we are fighting the Japanese land. We are going to drive the Japanese devils out of China. In the past, you had no contact with us, so I don't blame you, but now, I understand the reason, and I hope you will join our troops. Let's fight devils together. ”

A few captives said, "It's done! "Fight devils!"

"I've been in contact with you before."

Xiaolu said: "How did you get in touch?" ”

The captive said, "My family's Balu is very good to my mother and treats her." We asked me to surrender. ”

Xiaolu said: "Okay. You listen to your mother and become filial. Good. He said to everyone: "If you want to join the army, you can register immediately." If you don't want to join the army, we will send you home with a passage fee and a letter of certification for you. If there is an anti-Japanese people's government in your hometown, the government will arrange for you to participate in production. ”

Leaving here, Marshall said, "These captives have become your recruits?" ”

Xiaolu said: "Yes. That's how my troops came to be. There are quite a few bandits. After joining the army, they should study culture and reason. Soon it will be different. ”

After another long talk with Xiaolu, Marshall set out from Jinzhou, left the northeast, made a detour to Xi'an, and returned to Burma. In the more than 10 days since he left Myanmar, the situation in Myanmar has deteriorated.

One day after the trail took Jinzhou, Chengde was also recovered.

On this day, the Japanese troops who fled north were pursued, and small units were constantly exterminated. Fleeing all the way, almost all the county towns were fighting, and some local troops again committed the mistake of fighting the 100-regiment war, without orders, and on their own initiative, many county towns were beaten down by the militia, local armed forces, and guerrillas without waiting for the arrival of large troops.

The fleeing Japanese army was attacked by local armed forces in Panshan Tai'an, and when they arrived in Liaozhong, they returned to the territory of the Japanese army, and only a few hundred people remained.

Ten days later, the two liberated areas of Jinzhou and Chengde were connected. Chaoyang, Yixian, Chifeng, Fuxin and other places have been recovered.

Li Sen adopted the method of surprise attack, attacking Zhengjiatun and seizing more than 200 tanks there.

Along the railway line is the sphere of influence of Li Sen's troops, and hidden strongholds are everywhere. Tens of thousands of troops, day and night, hid in the villages near Zhengjiatun, and on May 4, the day after the Battle of Jinzhou, Li Sen raided Zhengjiatun at night. Using the special combat team to sneak up on the sentry post and infiltrate the fortifications, Li Sen's troops took the tank warehouse, oil warehouse and ammunition warehouse in one fell swoop.

In the morning, the army surrounded the barracks, mountain artillery, mortars, and mortar artillery were fired together, and the 3,000 Japanese troops were panicked and fought fiercely for a day, because the tank soldiers left the tanks, and the weapons were really not good, and they were annihilated by Li Sen, and nearly 800 wounded soldiers were captured, and the rest were all killed.

The Battle of Tongliao was a bit more relaxed. There were less than 1,000 Japanese troops here, and most of them were Mongol puppet troops. The army surrounded Tongliao, and as soon as the cannon was opened, the puppet army surrendered. The Japanese soldiers who supervised the battle killed a number of people, and the situation changed a little.

A Mongolian puppet army killed his brother because the Japanese army killed his brother and killed the Japanese military adviser with a cold gun. The Japanese army was in chaos for a while, and taking advantage of this opportunity, the army was killed, and the puppet army surrendered. The remaining Japanese officers resisted for an hour in a courtyard and were almost all killed by mortar bombardment by Wan Quance's order.

The Northeast was so unusual, with a high-profile attack, which was in stark contrast to the period of the Hundred Regiments War.

At the time of the Battle of the Hundred Regiments, Japan had not yet started a war with the United States, and almost all its forces were dealing with the Chinese theater, trying to solve China's problems as soon as possible and advance southward.

By the end of May, the various units had expanded dramatically to a total of nearly 100,000 men, training daily in preparation for a Japanese counterattack.

Nenjiang, Harbin, Jiamusi, and the First Battle of Jinzhou basically used up the ammunition that had been distributed to these troops over the years, and the captured ammunition was basically exhausted, and the fuel and ammunition of the flying brigade were also consumed.

It takes time to transport oil from Yan'an, and it takes time to produce ammunition.

Yichun's workers have expanded to 200,000, producing day and night, and the transportation department is speeding up transportation, because there is a railway in hand, and the transportation speed is faster. It is also because of the railways that the speed of transporting raw materials to the industrial base from various places has also increased.

Jinzhou is facing a very dangerous situation, and it may be attacked by the combined forces of the Japanese forces from the north and the south at any time.

However, twenty days after the war, the Japanese army did not attack. In the past 20 days, the troops have been given a good opportunity to consolidate this large area.

According to the reconnaissance, the Japanese troops in the direction of Shenyang did not dare to move, fearing that Shenyang would be lost, and those in Xinjing did not dare to move, and the Japanese troops in Anshan Luda and several other places were too busy to take care of themselves because of the attack of the anti-Japanese coalition forces around them, and the Japanese troops in North China were assembling in the Tangshan area and preparing to counterattack northward.

Today, the railway passing through Zhangwuyi County has been completely occupied, and the speed of the anti-Japanese coalition army to transport the people, materials, and troops has been greatly accelerated. In the following two years, the economy of the liberated areas in the northeast developed by leaps and bounds, and a large number of refugees in the customs area entered the northeast along this channel, and the northeast liberated areas entered a stage of rapid development and their strength increased sharply.

The northeast is now in the north, the west is all recovered, the rest of the rural areas are all recovered, and most of the small towns are also recovered, and only the big cities, railways, mines, and ports are still in the hands of the Japanese.

It was at this time that a very detailed report came from Myanmar.

Because of the presence of people from the Chongqing government, Xiaolu did not communicate with Stilwell about the war situation in Burma, but only learned about the war situation in the Southeast Peninsula, Indochina, India, Nanyang and other places in a macroscopic way.

In the six months since the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese army has advanced with great triumph, and the US army has been defeated and retreated one after another. The islands of the South Seas are full of ink, and the natives are extremely afraid of the Japanese army, and the tribes are strong, and there are many defectors.

Today, the US Navy counterattack, which should have happened in history, is now not happening at all. The trail also went to the situation with Stilwell for the Pacific Fleet. Today, the U.S. military is rebuilding Pearl Harbor. Because the infrastructure of Pearl Harbor was completely destroyed and all the oil was burned, the US military had no ability to counterattack at all.

The battle report shows that the southwest layout promoted by Xiaolu has worked. Yunnan and Guangxi have gained a firm foothold. Although the Japanese army attacked fiercely and reported frequent successes, occupying half of the area larger than in history, its military strength was obviously insufficient. The Japanese occupied ports, oil fields, mines, cities and communication arteries, and there were not enough of them, and there was simply no strength to occupy other areas. Most of the locals have never met their neo-colonizers, the Japanese.

Including Burma, the great southwest of Indochina has a lot of vacuum, the old power has run, and the new power has not yet come.

The Southwest Bureau felt that the opportunity had come, the opportunity to solve some enclaves, and the opportunity to open up to southern Tibet.