A reconnaissance plane flew over from the north. The www.biquge.info reconnaissance plane was sent by the command headquarters for the purpose of immediately understanding the dynamic situation on the battlefield.

The reconnaissance plane saw that the Japanese troops on the ground were distributed in a rectangular area more than ten miles wide and several miles long, advancing in unison and running southward. A small number of troops stopped to hold back the cavalry behind them.

Behind the cavalry, a large strip of land was dotted with hundreds of craters, and there were a large number of Japanese corpses. This is a masterpiece of rockets.

Three groups of cavalry flew in a goose-winged formation, crossed the crater of the rocket, and were in pursuit, dragging yellow smoke and dust behind them. The three strands of cavalry were like three sharp knives, stabbing at the tail of the Japanese army. The cavalry was firing, and the faint smoke of gunpowder was quickly covered by the yellow dust stirred up by the horses' hooves, and in the ranks of the Japanese army, people kept being shot and fell to the ground.

A group of cavalrymen who had the fastest rush began to turn, and the flash of their swords was blinding, and they were encircling a group of Japanese troops who were holding back.

Further south, fighters and bombers were strafing and dropping bombs at the vanguard and large forces of the Japanese army. In the ranks of the Japanese troops on the ground, bombs continued to explode.

After taking the photo, the reconnaissance plane turned to the north and soon returned to that river.

This is no longer a battlefield, I saw that on the surface of the river, willow trees from inside, there were Japanese corpses everywhere, and several troops were crossing the river, preparing to pursue the Japanese army.

On the grass on the north bank of the river, there were dead bodies and craters, and a large line of tanks was parked on the riverbank, and dozens of people were dragging a tank out of the river. A small number of troops were cleaning up the battlefield, with several piles of weapons and a few piles of luggage. The corpses were laid out in rows in the clearing.

Tens of thousands of troops had gathered in the northern part of the battlefield, and some had already set off for Ulaanbaatar.

The reconnaissance plane flew to Ulaanbaatar and reached the earliest blocking position. There are rows and rows of trenches, and here and there is post-war scorched earth everywhere. Now the blocking positions are full of stretcher-carrying fighters.

Further on, behind the position was an open-air hospital, littered with wounded soldiers, stretchers, and on the side was a large morgue covered with corpses covered in white cloth. At the back of the hospital, long strips of white gauze and white sheets were drying on clotheslines, and some wounded soldiers were walking.

The reconnaissance plane finished its reconnaissance and flew away.

At the head of the Japanese army, the reconnaissance planes left not long after, the bombers and fighters also left, and the cavalry also left shortly after eating several batches of Japanese troops. The Japanese took the opportunity to gather troops and count the number of people.

Yukio Kasahara can finally stop and take a breath. After all, he is old, fifty-four years old, and he has not been to the front line for a long time, and now he has walked so far on foot, and he has been carried by several guards for more than 20 kilometers, and his bones are crispy.

The troop assembly area was a hillside, there was no river water to drink on the grassland, not a single herdsman was nowhere to be seen, the troops had nothing to eat, and they were depressed.

Yukio Kasawara was very sad to see that the troops were injured all the way, and now the rest of them were tired and half of them were injured. After so many years of soldiers, he understood that under the combined blows of pursuing soldiers, hunger, and cold, his army was doomed.

At this time, two more planes flew over. The two planes circled over the Japanese troops, there was no attack, leaflets were sprinkled like snowflakes, and everywhere there was Japanese resistance, leaflets were everywhere on the ground. The Japanese officer saw it and ordered the machine gun to fire at the plane. Some Japanese soldiers picked it up and looked at it, fearing that the commander would see it, so they hid it in their clothes.

The leaflets, written in Japanese and Chinese, said that if you surrender your guns, you will not be killed, that the Eighth Route Army will give preferential treatment to prisoners, that the Eighth Route Army has more than 200,000 Japanese prisoners in the northeast, that they are all living happily ever after, that if you surrender, you can go to the northeast to reunite with your relatives, and so on.

Yukio Kasahara asked someone to pick up one to show him, and after reading it, he didn't say a word for a long time.

At this time, the staff officers had already sorted out the situation of the various units and handed them over to him. The officers lost more than half, and the soldiers lost even more. There was a unit that he sent to the northeast to break through, and now there is no one left, and I don't know if it has escaped. Recalling that time, the army of the Eighth Route Army in the west and north of the battlefield and the east of the battlefield rushed to the northeast of the battlefield, and it was estimated that it was rushing towards them.

The Northeast Coalition Army is neatly uniformed and ordnance, and the guns in their hands can shoot non-stop. With their own troops, the Japanese army was physically exhausted because they had been starving for many days, and they had no heavy weapons and a lack of bullets, so how could they survive the enemy?

The sound of grenade explosions kept coming from the assembly ground, and Yukio Kasahara knew that it was the suicide that had detonated it.

By five o'clock in the afternoon, there were no large-scale battles on the battlefield.

Zhao Shangzhi held a horse whip in his hand, Guan Xiangying was empty-handed, and the two came to the battlefield with a group of commanders.

Several regiment commanders and battalion commanders saw each other and came to greet them.

Guan Xiangying said: "Everyone has worked hard. You guys played well! ”

Zhao Shangzhi said: "How about it, are there many casualties?" ”

Everyone shook their heads with exhaustion and excitement on their faces, and one of the regiment commanders said: "I know now that more than a hundred of our regiment were injured, and only a dozen died. ”

Several others chimed in, saying that the casualties were not significant.

Guan Xiangying said: "Good wounded soldiers must be taken care of, and the martyrs who died in battle must be meticulous in their work." ”

Several people came to a medical station, where there were more than a hundred wounded. Doctors and nurses are busy. When a doctor saw Zhao Shangzhi, he was about to say hello, but Zhao Shangzhi hurriedly waved his hand and asked him to continue the operation.

After a while, the operation was done, and the doctor said, "Hello, Commander." ”

Zhao Shangzhi asked, "Is there any difficulty?" Can I help you? ”

The doctor said: "The medicine is very sufficient, but there is a batch of newly arrived bandages that are not of good quality and a little dirty." ”

Zhao Shangzhi said: "The quality of the bandage is not good? Dirty? New! Show me. His face immediately darkened.

A little nurse said: "The soldiers are bleeding desperately, but these people are making black money on them!" "As he spoke, he brought a large bag, full of freshly opened bandages." Look at you, this works! ”

At a glance, you can see that when you open the clean package, the bandages inside are all old gauze, some are used, and some are spun from dirty cotton.

A group of officers also gathered around and talked about it, and a few of them who were very angry had already scolded.

Zhao Shangzhi said: "Is it American, or is it our own?" ”

The nurse said, "We produce it ourselves." ”

Zhao Shangzhi said: "Staff officer, record telegram: Lu, Peng, Chen, and transfer to the Northeast Bureau: A large number of inferior bandages were found in the front-line hospital, but fortunately, the hospital found it in time and did not cause a major disaster." I hope that it will be strictly investigated and re-handled. Zhao Guan Liu. ”

After the staff officer finished recording, Zhao Shangzhi signed his name and said, "Your hospital found the problem in a timely manner, and the credit is not small. ”

The doctor was embarrassed and said, "As long as the wounded don't have an accident, we will burn high incense." ”

Leaving the hospital, Guan Xiangying whispered: "Commander Zhao, your temper is much better." ”

Zhao Shangzhi said: "This is learned from Mr. Zhu." If this had been in the past, I would have started cursing. ”

At this time, a man came running on horseback, and without waiting to dismount, he shouted: "Commander, Yan'an telegram." ”

Zhao Shangzhi took the telegram and read it, and handed it to Guan Xiangying.

Guan Xiangying read the telegram and wrote: "The battle of 600,000 troops on both sides spanned 2,000 miles, took 20 days, killed 200,000 enemies, and captured a lot, which was one of the greatest victories since the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. It is hoped that we will overcome difficulties, pursue the enemy by victory, rely on the people, destroy the enemy, and prevent the enemy's army from entering North China. ”

Guan Xiangying said: "The enemy has fled a little bit, and they must not be allowed to return to North China." ”

Zhao Shangzhi said: "The little devil is powerful, can he be better than the common people?" I will starve him to death. ”

Guan Xiangying said: "We are about to study the next battle plan. ”

Zhao Shangzhi said: "There is always a saying on the road: take advantage of your illness and kill you." The devil has just failed, his morale is low, and he has been hungry for a few days, and his physical strength is not good, so we must seize this opportunity to fight another battle and strive to eliminate more than half of it. If you are well prepared, strive for total annihilation. ”

At this time, another herald came running on horseback and said, "Urgent lightning." The Northeast Bureau is in an emergency. ”

Zhao Shangzhi took the telegram, read it, and said, "Go back to the war room." Start the meeting right away. ”

Guan Xiangying received the telegram, which was sent by Xiaolu, with only one content: 30,000 devils and tens of thousands of traitors of the Japanese army in North China, escorting supplies and going north from Zhangjiakou. Our Rehe army is attacking and harassing it, and we hope to contact the Rehe army and cooperate closely to destroy the Japanese army and prevent the Japanese army from joining forces.

Soon, the battle plan for the annihilation of the participating Japanese troops was formulated, and the plan had a name, "Hunger". The battle plan was immediately reported to the Northeast Bureau, copied to Yan'an, and the plan asked Yan'an to help solve a large number of aviation fuel.

Regardless of whether these Japanese troops are completely wiped out or not, the land in the Outer Northeast has already been obtained. In the future, whether or not the land in the Outer Northeast can be occupied depends on two guards, one is the Soviet Union and the other is Japan, and it depends on two things, one is the army and the other is immigration.

At this point, both the Northeast Bureau and Yan'an breathed a sigh of relief.

The Northeast Bureau believed that the Northeast had no worries and could concentrate on dealing with the Japanese forces in North China and Korea. Having got rid of the embarrassing situation of fighting on two fronts, there is hope for a big counterattack in the future.

Yan'an believes that even after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, we have the capital to compete with Lao Jiang for the world.

Xiaolu personally believes that whether the occupation of the Outer Northeast and Outer Mongolia is firm or not depends mainly on the balance of power with the Soviet Union. For a period of time, it is necessary to make the Soviet Union turn to China. He had already envisioned that he would use the confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States to counterbalance the Soviet Union with atomic bomb technology. After a few years, China was strong enough that it was not afraid of the Soviet Union. Of course, this idea he did not say.

And there was a different voice from Japan, that is, it was going to attack Manchuria in North China and be ashamed of the Kwantung Army, which was shamelessly defeated by the Soviet Union and the Eighth Route Army. They said that the imperial soldiers had won in several theaters, that this defeat was temporary, and that the imperial soldiers would use the recapture of Manchuria to prove who was strong.

On the same day, the news of Mongolia's victory spread to the southwest, and young students in many cities took to the streets to celebrate the victory. The students even shouted the slogan of going to the northeast and building a new base for national rejuvenation.

The Chongqing government continued to congratulate the government, and at the same time announced a call for officials to be sent to Outer Mongolia and Northeast China.

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1. Historically, in 1945, Yukio Kasawara surrendered in Nanchang and died in 1988 at the age of 98.