On January 25, 1942, tens of thousands of troops on the two lines of Qiqihar Wangye Temple set off to the west of the Great Khing'an Mountains, took a train, and drove all the way to Arshan and all the way to Hailar. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info this time is different, they completely occupied and took over the railway, all the railway employees were received, and the railway military management committee was also established. In this way, the transportation of troops was extremely fast.

From the Great War of 1939 to 1940, Hailar was rarely inhabited by ordinary Mongols and Han Chinese, and the city was basically populated by Japanese and traitors.

Since the end of last year, there have been rumors in the steppe that there is going to be a big war in Hailar. This is the news spread by Song Laohu's special combat team.

Song Laohu, nicknamed Tiger Tiger among the members of the special combat team, is fierce in battle and has a stoic personality. Like his character, his troops are fierce and stoic. I have been active in this area for more than a year, and sometimes, in addition to military training, I have expanded my base areas, and I have not even fought with the Japanese army for a month or two, but once I have engaged in a battle, I must win a complete victory.

Not only did they expand their base, but they also expanded their ranks.

His team is divided into two groups, one is the old foundation of his special combat team, which has now expanded to more than 800 people. The second is the field troops, which are mainly newly recruited from the ethnic minorities in the Daxing'an Mountains and refugees from the Guannai, and the number is more than 3,000. In addition, he expanded the militia to include almost all the young and strong herders.

In the summer of 1941, he built an airfield in the Daxinganling base area. There are already a dozen such airfields throughout the north-north-east and west.

In the mountains of the Great Khing'an Mountains in the east of Hailar, it is already the world of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army. Yichun, and even the headquarters of the Eighth Route Army, knew that there was a Song Laohu in the west of the Xing'an Mountains, and although he was a regiment-level cadre, he controlled a large area of mountainous areas west of Hailar.

In the past, Song Laohu didn't understand that the Northeast Coalition Army put his own Tiger Special Combat Team here, thinking that they put a sharp knife behind their buttocks, but when the Japanese army attacked the Soviet Union, the buttocks became the front chest, and the morale of the whole team immediately rose a lot, and he also understood the far-reaching thoughts of the Northeast Coalition Army.

It was also in the summer of 1941 that Xiaolu gave him a question, if the Japanese army occupied the Soviet Far East, and we occupied Hailar, Manchuria, how to use the fortress of Hailar? How to outwit Hyrule Fortress?

Song Laohu devised a plan to use tunnels to get close to the fortress. The Yichun staff agreed, asking them to pay attention to the soil in the tunnels and not let the aircraft detect it.

Speaking of attacking the fortress with tunnels, we must start with the layout of the fortress. The layout of the fortress is related to the topography of Hailar.

Hailar is located where the Ilmin River joins the Hailar River in the north. The old town is south of the Hailar River, west of the Yimin River. After the Japanese army occupied here, a large number of military camps, warehouses and other military facilities were built in the south of Hailar River, east of the Yimin River, where the special railway line was, and where the airport was.

Later, a number of private houses appeared here. Song Laohu's stronghold is here.

The fortress surrounds the city of Hailar and has five places, on the south bank of the Hailar River, two on the east and west sides of the Yimin River, and one on the north bank of the Hailar River. In a counterclockwise direction, starting from the north, Japan refers to these five regions as the first through the fifth.

The largest fortress is the second district, which is on the south bank of the Hailar River north of the old city, on the north side of the railway. This is a plateau, called Henan Terrace, which raises the urban area from 60 to 70 meters. The other sites are relatively small in scale and do not have many underground facilities. The Japanese used this as a major fortress, apparently to deal with the Soviet troops coming from the west.

The underground fortifications of the fortress are east-west and are made of reinforced concrete. The total area of various fortifications is 10,000 square meters. The underground fortifications are composed of a main road and a number of branch roads, with a total length of about 4,000 meters and a total area of 5,000 square meters.

The ground of the Beishan position in the north of Hailar River forms a circle, and more than 30 reinforced concrete bunkers, various artillery positions, and permanent firepower points are built in a circle, and light and heavy firepower are deployed, and the pillboxes are combined with air-to-air firepower.

There are several bridges on the Yimin River, Xing'an Bridge, Yimin Bridge, Hulun Bridge, connecting the east and west, and there is the Hailar Bridge on the Hailar River, and the lower Hailar Bridge connects the north and south.

Song Laohu's battle plan was: dig tunnels on the secluded side to enter each fortress, with No. 1 and No. 2 as the main ones. Several other places, because there are only ground facilities, do not dig tunnels, and are destroyed by ground artillery fire.

The amount of work is huge, to dig two tunnels, from the east and west of the river to the north together, a total of more than 100 miles of trunk tunnels. The excavated soil is stored in houses and courtyards, and even made into mud walls for houses. If it is close to the Hailar River, the soil can be dumped into the river beach and into the river. Song Laohu began to organize 1,000 militia to excavate in July, and later, another 1,000 young and strong refugees from Henan's Yellow Flood Area came, and the progress was accelerated.

In order to maintain secrecy, when selecting candidates for excavation, strict screening was carried out, and those who had enmity with the Japanese and were alert were selected. Moreover, during the excavation process, it was not allowed to go to the surface, it was not allowed to act alone, and the personnel took turns to rest, and the resting place was in the base far away from Hailar City.

In September, the tunnel outside Hailar was dug through, and the tunnel was close to the fortress in the south of the city. In order to speed up the excavation, the tunnels outside the city were very wide, up to two meters high and up to two meters wide, and three or four meters deep underground.

In the fall, the tunnels under the city of Hailar were dug to the north of the city.

In winter, the real problem comes. One is that the ground is full of snow, and there is nowhere to dump the soil, so there is no choice but to dump the soil into the tunnel dug before, and the tunnel is getting narrower and narrower.

The most important thing is that the tunnels cannot be dug into the fortress.

The tunnels have been repaired to the concrete layer of the fortress, and if you put your ears to the concrete wall, you can already hear the sounds of driving, walking, and even talking in the fortress. The problem is how to enter the fortress through the tunnels.

The tunnel is still being excavated, digging along the concrete wall, because I dare not make any movement, I have to dig gently, so the progress is very slow.

In the process of excavation, a large number of bones can often be excavated. All of them belong to Chinese migrant workers. A total of 130,000 Chinese migrant workers were mobilized to build this fortress, and only one person survived in the end. There is a mass grave in the northwest of the fortress, which is full of bones.

Fortunately, the terrain is relatively high, and there is no water seepage in the tunnel, but it is very cold in the tunnel, whether it is winter or summer, it is very cold, and cotton clothes should be worn in summer.

By November, progress had accelerated. The weak link of the fortress was found in the tunnels in the west and northwest, that is, the floors of several warehouses, which were laid with stone with a thin layer of cement on the stones. There are wooden shelves on the concrete floor, on which are supplies. The soldiers digging tunnels dug through several entrances and entered the fortress warehouse.

The fort was dug through, which greatly encouraged the excavating troops and migrant workers.

By December, all the fortresses had been dug up, and the Democratic Union forces had reconnoitred all the fortresses, drawn drawings, and worked out plans.

As a result of the reconnaissance, the Hailar fortress is now empty, with only more than a thousand people, scattered in a number of fortress posts, plus the command, organs and logistics departments on the ground, the total number of Japanese is less than two thousand. Hailar also has 3,000 puppet troops, who are organizing transportation and doing logistics.

In early February, a large army captured Yakeshi, Arshan and other places, and the front of the army approached Hailar. On February 15, the army reached Hailar.

It was the first day of the Lunar New Year.

The Japanese army in Hailar had already received an order, and the order said that this time, the Eighth Route Army would occupy western Manchuria, and they should hold the fortress and resist for a year, and after a year, the situation would change greatly.

The Japanese troops in Hailar all entered the city according to the order.

On 18 February, when the general offensive began, the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army concentrated 20 rocket launchers, dozens of explosive pack projectors, and dozens of mountain artillery pieces to fire at the three ground positions in the southwest, southeast, and northeast of Hailar. The most important positions were bombarded by rocket artillery. After five minutes of bombardment, all three ground positions were destroyed, leaving only a few tunnels.

In the early morning, the sound of tanks was remembered in the southwest, southeast, and northeast directions of the city, and six tanks led the infantry to rush to the remnants of the Japanese position, and the fierce battle began.

More than 7,000 people were stationed in the Hailar fortress, 4,000 Japanese were stationed in the fortress in the northwest and due north, and 3,000 people were stationed in several other places, including a small number of puppet troops.

In addition to these 7,000 people, there are more than 2,000 people stationed in the barracks and warehouses in the urban area, who are the command staff, the warehouse management personnel of the cargo station, and the garrison force in the urban area, most of which are puppet troops.

The Northeast Coalition Army attacked in three directions, and the Japanese army drew forces from the side to counterattack, and the two sides fought several times in attack and defense, and the ground fortifications were no longer possible.

By noon, the Northeast coalition forces occupied positions and advanced towards the city. As soon as the large army occupied the Japanese warehouse barracks in the east of the city, there were not many people in the old city on the west side.

At the same time as the anti-Japanese coalition forces attacked, radio trucks in all directions loudly broadcast letters of persuasion in Chinese and Mongolian, asking the puppet army to surrender and make meritorious contributions. In the morning, part of the puppet army revolted, and the Japanese army was hit from behind. By noon, almost all the puppet troops revolted, and the Japanese army was flanked in both directions and routed. The puppet army led the Northeast Coalition Army forward. The battle went well.

Hailar's puppet army was mainly Mongols, and their main job was to do miscellaneous work, and when the great war came, their main role was to send them to death. In recent days, the puppet army has revolted several times, which has dealt a blow to the trust of the Japanese army in the puppet army. Because of the meticulous work of the Northeast Coalition Army, the puppet army revolted and led the Northeast Coalition Army into the urban area.

The Japanese army ordered, and the Japanese troops passed the bridge, all turned into underground fortresses, and began to resist.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the assault on the fortress began. At the same time, the ground forces of the Northeast Coalition Army also attacked these two fortresses, and at this time, there were 5,000 people in the two fortresses, most of whom were in various positions in the fortresses.

4,000 anti-Japanese coalition troops entered the tunnel at night and were all hidden in the tunnel. The tunnels were so stuffy that the vanguard had no choice but to enter the fortress warehouse, kill the Japanese sentinels guarding the warehouse, and transfer half of the people to several warehouses.

The order was given to four thousand men to set out from the warehouses, in groups of ten, armed with submachine guns, to attack the various passages of the fortress.

For a while, there was a lot of gunfire inside the fortress, and soon, a large army attacked in all directions along the main tunnels inside the fortress.

Song Laohu's troops have been preparing for more than a year, and it is for this battle that everyone is brave, because they are equipped with a large number of Soviet submachine guns from the Nomenkan battlefield, and their combat effectiveness is strong, and they occupied most of the rooms and fortifications of the fortress in an hour.

There were a lot of Japanese soldiers running in the underground passage, all of them carrying ammunition, heralds, and some standing guard. Some of the wounded soldiers also lay in the corridors because they did not have rooms. The weapons of the Japanese army are all in the battle positions, and there are not many weapons in the corridors. The corridor is about two meters wide and about two and a half meters high, and the Northeast Coalition Army has submachine guns, like the Monkey King in his stomach, and he travels through it quickly and quickly occupies the headquarters.

Because the ground offensive was still bluffing, although the Japanese troops in various positions knew that they were under attack underground, they did not dare to transfer the army to the corridor behind for reinforcements.

At half past three, the attacking troops underground arrived at various battle positions, entered pillboxes, artillery positions. The pillboxes on the ground have machine guns, anti-tank guns, mountain guns, but there are no powerful melee weapons, how can they beat rifles, submachine guns and grenades? The Japanese army was rapidly attritional, and soon it was gone.

At four o'clock, the two fortresses were occupied separately, and the troops of the external attack and the troops of the underground attack converged.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, before it was dark, Song Laohu got the news from various troops that the entire underground fortress had been occupied.

At 10 o'clock, the siege force found that the Japanese army had only a two-story building in Hailar, and there were still some remnants of the Japanese army in it.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, Hailar recovered. The Northeast Coalition Army broke through the fortress at a small cost, and the Japanese suffered more than 8,000 casualties. The commander of the 80th Mixed Brigade of the Kwantung Army stationed in Mongolia called Nomura Noboru as the commander of the fortress, and committed suicide in defeat. Hundreds of wounded soldiers were captured.

It was Wang Fa's Xing'anling column that recovered Hailar, Wang Fa and deputy commander Li Fanglin entered the city, and when they saw Song Laohu, Wang Fa laughed and said: "Song Laohu, Song Laohu, with you fighting internally, my troops basically have no casualties. ”

Song Laohu said: "This is our commander-in-chief's plan. We've been doing this for a year, just for this day. ”

Wang Fa said: "According to the plan, our next task, the first one is to occupy Hailar and familiarize ourselves with the fortress. The second was the occupation of Manchuria. The third is to enter the territory of the USSR and engage in a little sabotage. ”

Li Fanglin said: "The commander-in-chief said, these three tasks are up to you. ”

Song Laohu said: "The commander-in-chief understands that I am going to the territory of the Soviet Union to carry out sabotage, and he knows that I will wait for this task." I've already sent out a lot of people and reconnoitred the Japanese troops in the Soviet Union a few times. In the past, I cooperated with the Soviet Union, and I still had secret camps in the Soviet Union. ”

Wang Fa: "That's what I think about too. Let's divide the labor, I think, Li Fanglin, you are the mayor of Hailar and the commander of the city defense, I will take Manchuria, Tiger, you go with me, take Manchuria, and you will enter the Soviet Union. ”

Li Fanglin said: "Okay." I'll do this mayor. My task is also to restore the railroad and liberate the nearby county seats. I've seen it, we've made a fortune this time, and the supplies in the fortress are enough to support us for a while. ”

Wang Fa: "Okay. Immediately ask the headquarters for instructions. ”

On February 20, Manchuria was recovered. The Japanese army in Manchuria was too small in number, and voluntarily abandoned the city and retreated into the Soviet Union. Since then, all the eastern and western parts of the Great Khing'an Mountains have been recovered. The anti-Japanese coalition army assembled in Hailar Manchuria, on the border of Outer Mongolia and the Soviet Union, and posed an offensive posture against the Japanese army.