Chapter 622: The End of the Kwantung Army (20)

Anyway, the electrification of the headquarters of Zhishan is tantamount to sprinkling a handful of salt on the wounds of the crumbling puppet Manchukuo. Since Yamada Otozo intended to use the puppet Manchukuo troops as cannon fodder from the beginning, in Yamada Otozo's words, if the 200,000 imperial troops could not play a role, let them be destroyed with Manchukuo.

There is also a reason why Yamada Otozo thinks so, if the Kwantung Army cannot hold South Manchuria, then it will withdraw to Korea, and compared to the Koreans, the Kwantung Army still does not trust the troops in Manchuria. Because in the eyes of the Japanese, the Shina people are cunning and fickle, and the Koreans are loyal, and if the 200,000 imperial troops withdraw to Korea, it will definitely be an unstable factor, so Yamada Otozo viciously wants to send all the troops of the puppet Manchukuo to the front line, even if it can't cause much resistance to Han Yunhua's department, but it can also rub the sharp spirit of Han Yunhua's department. But unexpectedly, Han Yunhua took a big advantage, and the Japanese puppet army suffered heavy losses all of a sudden.

The significance of this move by Yu Zhishan's department was extremely significant, and the news came that the whole country was shaken, which was not comparable to the uprising of the Tongzhou security team. Political significance aside, it is also extremely important militarily. Due to the fact that the battlefield of 160,000 puppet troops was anyway, the Japanese army's carefully arranged defense system was suddenly full of loopholes, and Han Yunhua took this opportunity to order the troops to immediately see the needles and attack the weak points of the Japanese defense line.

Han Yunhua's troops moved extremely quickly, and before Yamada Otozo's order could make any effective decisions, the troops of the Inner Mongolia Military Region began a full-scale attack. This time, Han Yunhua brought out all his strength, and Han Yunhua also knew that there was no need for reserves at all, so the order he gave to all the troops was that the whole army was not divided into main attack and secondary attack, and all troops and all directions were the main attack.

By December 7, Han Yunhua's three armies had made breakthroughs, the northern route troops had defeated the enemy in front and occupied Tieling, and the troops were advancing in the direction of Shenyang. The troops in the south have also crushed the Japanese troops on the front line of *zhou and Fuxin, and the troops are coming to Shenyang, and there are defeated Japanese troops everywhere along the way, and the Kwantung Army is gone.

General Yamada Otosan is more decisive this time than the last time, the domestic reinforcements have landed in Korea, but it is far from quenching the thirst, the domestic reinforcements have 100,000 people, plus the troops in North and South China, all the reinforcements have reached 170,000, and they are not new to the army. But North Korea's port is not a few hours away from Shenyang. Therefore, General Yamada Otozo decisively gave the order to advance eastward, and the Kwantung Army and the top brass of the puppet Manchukuo immediately moved to Korea by train, except for Lieutenant General Yukio Kasawara who stayed in Shenyang to collect the remnants of the army, and the large army left immediately.

The Japanese army shouted a lot before the war, but now it is just a trapped beast. A large number of troops on the front line were surrounded and annihilated by the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and some were surrounded in places with dangerous terrain, and it was only a matter of time before they were destroyed. As for the headquarters led by Yamada Otozo, staying in Shenyang was just waiting for destruction, so Yamada Otozo chose to escape very interestingly.

By December 10, in addition to the resistance of the Kwantung Army at Qingshui in Harbin, only nearly 100,000 people of the 57th, 59th, and 66th divisions were left to retreat to Pan*, and then surrounded by 220,000 people of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and the remaining troops were either annihilated or retreated to Korea with the Kwantung Army headquarters.

On the 11th, under the escort of a huge armored group of 1,600 tanks, Han Yunhua and the entire former enemy headquarters drove into Shenyang City, and more than 300,000 people in Shenyang took the initiative to go out of the city for ten miles to meet Han Yunhua's headquarters.

It was cold in the north in December, but the icy climate could not cover the fiery enthusiasm of the people in Northeast China, and for a whole day, the whole Shenyang fell into a carnival. …,

After entering Shenyang, Han Yunhua did not order the troops to stop the attack, but ordered the troops to continue to launch the final blow to the Japanese puppet army in the area, and at the same time sent Xu Shiyou, Li Dingguo, Li Dayong's troops and armored troops to pursue the Yamada Otosan division that fled south.

The overall situation in the Northeast region has been, but there is still a distance from the final victory, after all, there are 300,000 Japanese troops who retreated to Korea with General Yamada Oto, plus reinforcements sent from Japan and other places, the strength in the hands of General Yamada Otomi is still not to be underestimated. Moreover, the main battlefield of the next battle was changed to North Korea, which was obviously unfavorable to the Chinese army, so Han Yunhua still did not dare to take it lightly.

After arranging the next combat mission, Han Yunhua ordered all the Korean and Chinese Korean soldiers drawn from various units to gather in Shenyang, where he wanted to set up the Korean People's Army.

Not to mention, there are really a lot of Koreans in China, but the vast majority of these people are Korean peasants, who were caught by the Japanese and sent to the northeast to work as laborers, and joined the army after being rescued by the Inner Mongolia Military Region. In addition to the Korean soldiers in China, 30,000 people were sent over one after another in just a few days.

By December 15, 36,721 soldiers had been sent to Shenyang by various units to attack. After a brief understanding of these people, Han Yunhua found that 60% of them were Koreans, and the rest were Koreans in China.

On December 16, under the chairmanship of Han Yunhua, the Korean People's Army was formally established, and Wu Ting was appointed commander-in-chief of the Korean People's Army, with Kim Fat-ja as deputy commander-in-chief and Choe Yong-kyun as general political commissar. The whole army has three infantry divisions, each with three infantry regiments. In addition, there are artillery regiments, cavalry regiments, guard regiments, etc. directly under the army.

The inauguration ceremony was very hasty, the troops did not have an independent military flag, and the military uniforms and all military regulations were all used in the Inner Mongolia Military Region. According to Jin Fatzi's idea, this force should be subordinate to the independent armed forces of the DPRK, but Han Yunhua directly subordinate this armed force to the Military Commission of the border district government, which means that the Korean People's Army is only a unit under the leadership of the CCP, and has the same status as the Eighth Route Army, the New Fourth Army, and the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

On December 18, under the order of Han Yunhua, the Korean People's Army rushed to the front line to fight in North Korea. Han Yunhua's order to Woo Ting was that the Korean People's Army did not need to shoulder the combat mission of a frontal attack, and that the Korean People's Army was only responsible for guerrilla operations in Korea. Han Yunhua is well aware of the combat effectiveness of the Korean People's Army, and although the weapons and equipment are not bad, there are too many peasants in the Korean People's Army, and the time they have joined the army is too short, and it is simply impossible to fight a big battle.

However, just like the Eighth Route Army, although the frontal battlefield is not powerful, guerrilla warfare can be powerful. Moreover, Wu Ting himself was the only North Korean who walked through the Long March, and he himself was also one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party's artillery unit, and he had been leading guerrilla operations in the Taihang Mountains before coming to the Northeast, and he was very experienced in guerrilla warfare. And Jin Fatzi and Choi Yongjian are both capable cadres, and with the assistance of the two of them, Han Yunhua believes that the Korean People's Army can greatly contain the strength of the Japanese army.

Although the fighting in the northeast region has not completely ended, the focus of Han Yunhua's own work has shifted from commanding operations to receiving territory and organizing production. At the same time, because he was busy fighting the Japanese during this time, the bandit quilts in the mountains and forests of the northeast began to become active. Han Yunhua himself hated these bandit troops, and ordered the armed forces in various places to resolutely exterminate them.

Although the Japanese retreated, what was left to Han Yunhua was a mess, the entire northeast region was full of broken walls, city defense facilities, traffic roads were seriously damaged, and bridges in many places were blown up when the Japanese puppet army retreated, and they must be repaired as soon as possible.

After Han Yunhua discussed with the central authorities, it was decided to move the government of the border region from Yan'an to Guisui, because the Yan'an area was remote and no longer suitable for the central authorities to lead the nationwide anti-Japanese struggle. Now that the Inner Mongolia Military Region has recovered the northeast region, the government of the border region already has the capital to sit on an equal footing with the Nationalist Government in the south. …,

The three northeastern provinces are definitely a piece of fat, the industrial system here is perfect, the agriculture is also extremely developed, and the cities are lined with a large population, and Han Yunhua can enjoy the ambition in the hearts of the warriors if he occupies the northeast region.

Although the fighting on the front line has not subsided, Harbin and Pan* are still in the hands of the Japanese army, or the Japanese army in Harbin and Pan* are still resisting stubbornly. However, Han Yunhua ordered the defenders in various places to immediately count the large enterprises and factories in various places, and those that could resume production should be restored as soon as possible, especially the military industrial enterprises.

At the same time, Han Yunhua also inspected the Shenyang Arsenal, although the Shenyang Arsenal was damaged by the Japanese when they left, and most of the equipment was either dismantled and transported by the Japanese or buried on the spot, but Han Yunhua still ordered the troops to repair it, and looked for insiders to search for the whereabouts of the equipment. At the same time, it also asked the Soviet Union for help, hoping that the Soviet Union could reinforce a batch of weapons production lines.

In the battle of the Northeast, it was the Japanese who suffered the most, and the biggest beneficiary was the CCP. Originally, the law exhibition of the border government had been out of his control, and Han Yunhua's strong rise not only completely changed the situation of the war between China and Japan, but also changed the balance of power of the Nationalist Government of the Communist Party of China. Although the Nationalist Government still has nearly 3.5 million troops, the current CCP is not inferior to the Nationalist Government at all, and in terms of the combat effectiveness of the troops, Lao Chiang is confident that he does not dare to compete with the Japanese Kwantung Army, which means that the current strength of the CCP may have completely surpassed that of the Nationalist Government.

Now the CCP stretches from Alxa in the west, to the Bohai Sea in the east, from the Mongolian steppe in the north, to the Jizhong Plain in the south, and the seven provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Rehe, Suiyuan, Chahar, and Hebei have completely become the territory of the CCP.

Fortunately, Xue Yue can also be regarded as a competitive spirit, following the Third Battle of Changsha, Xue Yue commanded the troops of the Ninth Theater to launch a counterattack against the Japanese dispatch army, and the troops have won successive battles, and now the Japanese have been completely driven out of Hunan. In addition, the Allied forces also achieved good results on the battlefield in Burma, and the Yunnan Provincial Government was also good, Chairman Long Yun commanded 250,000 troops to recover Tengchong and other places, and completely drove the Japanese out of Yunnan Province.

The good news kept coming, and the old Jiang, who had been entangled for a long time, finally got a little comfort. However, whenever I think of him, Jiang said lightly that the Northeast that he had given up for more than ten years actually fell into the hands of the CCP, which made Lao Jiang think how unbalanced.

Moreover, now the CCP has almost developed a habit, that is, all Japanese theaters have become the object of their contention, and for every Japanese puppet army annihilated, a city or region falls into the hands of the CCP. If Lao Chiang did not want the CCP to develop, he had to occupy the territory in advance, forcing Lao Chiang to have to increase his troops to the front line, and at the same time strictly ordered the troops in various places to immediately formulate corresponding battle plans, and then launch an attack on the Japanese puppet army in the area under his jurisdiction to seize the territory.

In fact, Lao Jiang didn't know that this was the most powerful part of Han Yunhua's formulation to force Jiang to resist Japan. If Lao Chiang does not want the CCP to develop too quickly, he must grab territory from the Japanese himself, and if he grabs territory, he must fight with the Japanese and make enemies, so that even if the Japanese have the intention to release water, it will not work. In this way, even if no one forces Lao Jiang. He will take the initiative himself.

In general, during this period of time, both the CCP and the Nationalist Government have recovered a lot of territory, and at the same time, they have won a lot of battles, which has impressed the international community, and Lao Chiang took the opportunity to propose a loan of $1 billion to President Roosevelt, perhaps because the Nationalist Government's performance during this period was really good, or because of some other factors, Lao Chiang's request was quickly granted.

On January 1, 1943, on New Year's Day, the Qingshui Rule, which had been besieged for a whole month and a half, finally could not hold on, and in the morning the Chinese army broke through the fortifications of the city, and the war extended into the urban area of Harbin. Because the ammunition of the Japanese army had been exhausted two days earlier, although the Japanese who lacked ammunition also put up stubborn resistance, but they were too restricted, and finally the city gate was breached, and when it was more than 11 o'clock in the afternoon, the remaining 50,000 Japanese troops in the city finally collapsed completely. At about 6 o'clock in the afternoon, Lieutenant General Shimizu, who was completely desperate, ordered more than 13,000 Japanese troops trapped in the vicinity of the Harbin Radio and Television Building to surrender to the Chinese army. …,

Chinese Although New Year's Day is a relatively important festival in Western society, it is no different from ordinary days in China at this time, so Han Yunhua did not organize any activities, but continued to stay in Shenyang to lead the work.

On January 4, good news came from the southeast front, Li Dingguo's division and the remnants of the Kwantung Army finally took Fengcheng after three days of hard fighting in Fengcheng, and the front of the troops pointed directly at Dandong.

On January 8th, the Japanese army of Pan* completely collapsed under the attack of Su Yu and Chen Geng, but unlike the Japanese army in Harbin, the Japanese army of Pan* were some diehards of Japanese militarism, and they did not give up resistance because the Chinese army broke through their defensive positions, but fought a tragic street battle with Chen Geng's department, and the remaining 40,000 remnants of the Japanese army were compressed into a narrow area between the Pan* railway station and the garrison headquarters. However, the desperate resistance of the Japanese army caused huge casualties to the Inner Mongolia Military Region, and the furious Commander Chen ordered the whole army to concentrate all the artillery fire and completely destroy the Pan* Railway Station.

240 artillery pieces of various calibers bombarded for 4 hours, the entire Pan* railway station and the surface buildings of the garrison headquarters collapsed, none of them were intact, and the 40,000 Japanese troops suffered extremely heavy casualties due to the high density, and two hours later, Pan* was liberated.

At 10 o'clock in the evening of the 9th, Li Dayong's headquarters received good news that Dandong had been recovered, and an infantry brigade of the Japanese army had been completely annihilated, and at the same time, a batch of strategic materials that the Japanese army had not had time to transport, the vast majority of which were grain and cloth.

On January 10, 1943, Han Yunhua announced to the world the news of the defeat of the Japanese Kwantung Army and its withdrawal from China as the commander of the Inner Mongolia Military Region, in this notice Han Yunhua showed the world the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army, after nearly 80 days of fighting, China, the United States and the Soviet Union fought thousands of miles in Northeast China, recovered 144 large and small cities in Northeast China, eliminated 840,000 Japanese puppet troops, and the total number of Japanese puppet troops who fled to Korea was less than 300,000, and the Kwantung Army, known as 1.2 million elites, was basically wiped out. Even if there are still some troops that have not been affected, the Kwantung Army that has been driven out of China can no longer be called the Kwantung Army.

After the circular was issued, the Nationalist Government, the Soviet Government, and the United States Government immediately sent congratulatory telegrams, followed by Britain, Free France, and other countries on the Western Front to celebrate the major victory of the Chinese people.

The entire liberated areas and the nationally controlled areas controlled by the Nationalist Government fell into joy for a while, while the Japanese and the enemy-occupied areas controlled by Japan were like mourning and looking lifeless. When the news of the disastrous defeat of the Kwantung Army came back home, the Japanese people were shocked, and in their minds, the Kwantung Army represented victory, and they were synonymous with invincibility and invincibility. Although the Japanese government still wanted to cover up the defeat, due to the vigorous propaganda of the Inner Mongolia Military Region and the allied forces, the Japanese government could not stop Youyou's mouth at all.

The Japanese people demanded that the government immediately deal with the stupid guy Yamada Otozo and replace it with a more capable general who went to Korea to clean up the situation. However, many more people attributed the failure of the war to the government's mistakes, and the cabinet should be held responsible, and for a time the whole of Japan was in turmoil.

On January 13, under domestic pressure, the Emperor of Japan made a decision to resign from the Tojo Cabinet and form a cabinet with Army General Kuniaki Koiso as prime minister. The successive defeats made the Japanese government realize that it was necessary to have a strong army general as prime minister, but there were indeed many qualified army generals, but not many were able to escape. Emperor Hirohito and the Ministry of Military Affairs turned over the army generals, and found that those with prestige and ability could not get away from the front line, and Koiso Kuniaki actually worked in the General Staff Headquarters and the Ministry of War more than 10 years ago, and served as the Minister of Extension for two terms after retiring. At the same time, the Japanese army headquarters made a decision and ordered General Yamada Otozo to immediately return to China to report on his work, and at the same time, Army General Nobuyuki Abe immediately went to Korea to serve as the ninth governor of Korea and commander of the Kwantung Army, responsible for all military and political affairs on the Korean front