Seeing this, the rest of the tanks and armored vehicles of the Northeast Army retreated to a farther place, while the fire of the machine-gun company tightly blocked the direction of the breakthrough. n.et say that the network / no pop-up ad full text TXT download

As soon as Kazuo Miyamoto saw that the "meat bullet" worked, he hurriedly gathered all the grenades to organize the second batch of death squads. At this time, the Northeast Army's "Walker" flamethrower tank company drove down from the upwind, a row of 12 vehicles, pulled into a ring and sprayed flames, the grass and bushes in front of the position all burned, and the thick smoke and fire and dense machine gun shells made the "meat bullets" unable to approach. In desperation, Kazuo Miyamoto ordered the wounded comptroller to lead a few wounded soldiers to rush to the letter under the cover of thick smoke, and he and the remaining Japanese officers and soldiers were ready to wait for reinforcements until "the whole army was shattered".

At this time, what Kazuo Miyamoto occupied was no longer a position, just a small sand dune, and the fate of the Japanese army being completely annihilated was already doomed, and it was impossible to break through. The horses have all been killed, and it is impossible to outrun the mechanized vehicles to break through on foot, and the reinforcements are also 10 kilometers away from the nearest mountain mountain troops, not to mention that the opposite side of the mountain county is also blocked by the Northeast Army, and the situation must be difficult. However, Shan County has no worries, and if it is not good to fight, it can retreat back to the national border. And he, Kazuo Miyamoto, is already running out on all sides, and there are casualties every minute. In desperation, a reinforcement suddenly appeared in the thick smoke, as if falling from the sky, this is the Sato squad of the 64th Infantry Wing of Japan. It turned out that Second Lieutenant Sato was ordered to lead his squad to make a surprise attack to occupy the second pontoon bridge of the Northeast Army, a mission that was supposed to go and never return, but when Sato's team set off, they lost their way. Later, when I heard the rumbling of cannons in the west and the black smoke rising into the sky, I rushed towards the cannons and the black smoke. On the way, he encountered the wounded soldiers who broke through Miyamoto's detachment, and heard that Miyamoto Kazuo was in danger. As a result, Second Lieutenant Sato took it upon himself to lead his squad of 600 soldiers and rushed into the dunes under the cover of thick smoke. It was 7 p.m. on July 8.

Kazuo Miyamoto was really overjoyed and surprised to see the arrival of Sato's team. But Sato's squad is infantry, and they have no weapons to deal with the steel chariots of the Chinese army, and they are not their own subordinates, and they came to the rescue on their own initiative, so there is no need to sacrifice in vain, and the arrival of Asama is just to prolong the time of "jade shattering". Kazuo Miyamoto advised Second Lieutenant Sato to return to his team. But the young lieutenant was eager to fight, fantasizing that he would be able to do a great job if he could keep Miyamoto back to the army, and that the emperor's samurai were not afraid of sacrifice, and they fought hard until they died in the face of an enemy with superior equipment, which was something to be proud of. Moreover, the task of blowing up the bridge that he received when he set off had already made it clear in advance that he was "going and not returning". Thinking of this, Second Lieutenant Sato rejected Kazuo Miyamoto's advice and insisted on waiting for help. Due to the increase in fresh troops, it was also dark, and Kazuo Miyamoto reorganized the remnants of the army and dug trenches to strengthen the fortifications. The Northeast Army used searchlights to illuminate Kazuo Miyamoto's position, directing the artillery on the west bank to shoot, and the shells exploded in and around the position, detonating the mines in front of the Japanese position and the explosives buried in the formation, igniting the transport cars, and the fire burned all night.

On the afternoon of July 9, Lieutenant Batel of the 17th Mongolian Cavalry Regiment of the Northeast Army led the whole regiment to charge on horseback. There was a scuffle of knives and guns, and the second lieutenant Sato and his squad at the front were all cut and annihilated. Only Kazuo Miyamoto and 79 soldiers were left to resist in a bushy sand ditch, so that the exposed Chinese cavalry did not dare to rush closer. At this time, the tanks of the Northeast Army rushed up, and the "Walker" flamethrower tanks rushed forward from a slope, and the Japanese army's circular position was instantly enveloped in flames and smoke. After a while, the gunfire thinned out. Eventually, it all stopped. I saw dozens of Japanese cavalry staggering out of the bunker, brandishing sabers and shouting "Hooray!" "Break forward. The tanks and armored vehicles of the Northeast Army swarmed up, crushing and pressing, and cleaned them up. …,

Kazuo Miyamoto drove the remnants of a dozen soldiers forward to divert the attention of the Northeast Army, and he himself fled into a depression. Battle immediately led two soldiers to crawl forward from the oblique thorns, and found a chubby Japanese officer in the grass in front of him, peeking forward with a telescope. Kazuo Miyamoto didn't notice that Battle was approaching him from behind. Lieutenant Battle took off his boots, jumped up and jumped close to hold the fat officer under him. But the fat officer was very strong, and the two rolled for a while, and Battle had to pull out his pistol and shoot the other party twice in the abdomen, and the fat officer did not move. Two soldiers also ran over, and when they checked, it was Kazuo Miyamoto, but unfortunately he was dead. Battle brought back the Japanese officer's epaulettes, picture bags, pistols and other items back to the troops, which was regarded as revenge for the division commander Tang Yulin.

In this battle, only 4 of the comptroller and wounded soldiers of Miyamoto's commando team survived, and the rest were all killed.

The other two attacks in Shanxian County also did not go well, and under the counterattack of the Northeast Army, they suffered heavy casualties and fled. The entire battlefield was full of traces of tank tracks, charred Japanese corpses, destroyed armored vehicles, and the aftermath of smoke. The air is foul-smelling and dead. The Japanese soldiers were silent one by one, and their hearts trembled at the sight of the rotten bones that had been run over by the chariot into the sand. Officers and soldiers, regardless of whether they were officers, carried a skeleton between them and quietly withdrew to the position of the headquarters of the Shan County Wing.

In front of the military flag, the county association and 1,700 remnant soldiers mourned for three minutes at the stench of more than 800 corpses, and the bodies were loaded into more than a dozen cars and transported back to Xinjing, where they will be burned as the first batch of ashes of this war, and transported back to their Japanese hometown to listen to the cries of their relatives. But those soldiers, who were crushed back and forth by Chinese tanks to the ground, along with the "Yamato Soul", will never go back.

In the battles of July 8 and 9, the infantry of the 64th Wing of the Japanese Army suffered a total of 4,368 casualties and missing, which can be said to be a great defeat.

In the first battle, the Japanese suffered heavy losses, so they quickly increased their forces in order to gain the initiative before the Chinese army attacked in a big way.

The Japanese General Staff Headquarters and the Ministry of War fully supported the Siberian garrison, which transported more than 50,000 troops from the mainland into the Eastern Siberian region and increased the number of air units. The war of the Japanese General Staff Headquarters and the Siberian garrison on the Sino-Japanese border was no longer about occupying the east bank of the Sangye River, but about crossing the Sangye River and attacking China in depth on all fronts.

In the face of the escalation of the war, the Chinese government decided to transfer Zhong Liwei to the post of commander of the 37th Armored Army to meet this modern war on a scale unprecedented in human history.

At the end of July 1942, Zhong Liwei, deputy commander of the Northwest Military Region of the Chinese government, was conducting exercises with several assistants in the urban area of Harbin. Participating in the exercise were commanders, chiefs of staff, and operational staff officers of several tank corps of the cavalry regiment.

After the exercise, on August 1, Zhong Liwei was giving a lecture at the headquarters of the 3rd Cavalry Corps of the Northwest Army. Suddenly, a call came from Beijing: Zhong Liwei was ordered to leave immediately and report to the Supreme Command the next day.

Zhongli Health in 1899. He was drafted into the Chinese army in 1917, participated in World War I and the Second Sino-Japanese War, and served as commander of the armored corps from 1925. The 39th Tank Regiment under his command was later reorganized into the first high-speed tank regiments of the Chinese government, and Zhong Liwei served as the regiment commander for seven years, thus establishing his tank combat theory.

In 1931, Zhong Liwei served as the commander of the 2nd Brigade of the Armored Corps, commanding the 39th and 40th tank regiments. In 1934, he was the commander of the 5th Armored Division, in 1937 he was the commander of the 2nd Armored Corps, and then the 7th Corps of the Armored Corps.

During the Spanish Civil War, as a senior observer, Zhong Liwei went to the front lines of the Spanish Civil War to inspect the performance and role of the Chinese government's battle tanks in support of the Spanish Franco Army.

At that time, Zhong Liwei was already a well-known tank expert in China, and one of the advocates in China who advocated the large-scale use of tanks for independent combat. He advocated a combination of tanks, artillery, and motorized infantry, believing that this was the most effective means of warfare in terms of marching time and consolidating the results of the rapid mechanized troops. …,

It can be said that Zhong Liwei is a commander with a wealth of practical experience as an officer and a tank combat expert.

On August 2, Zhong Liwei, who was urgently called to Beijing, walked into the office of War Minister Cai Ye in the early morning. Cai Ye raised his head from the map table, and after greeting Zhong Liwei, he said, "The Japanese army suddenly invaded our borders, disrupting our advance attack plan. This is a map of the situation in the invasion area on July 28. ”

Cai pointed to the map and said: "In this area, the Japanese army has carried out small-scale provocative attacks on our border guards for a long time; In this area, the troops of the 23rd Division of the Japanese Army invaded on a large scale and attacked the border guards of our army defending the area east of the Sangye River. In my opinion, there may be serious military adventures in both the offensive and defensive strategies of the Northeast Army. In any case, it didn't end there...... Can you take off to that side at once, and, if you need to, take command of the army and take over the command of the troops? ”

Zhong Liwei suddenly realized that after careful selection, the Supreme Command arranged himself to fight on the chessboard of the East Siberian steppe. What kind of fate awaits him? He glanced at the map on the conference table and saw that a Japanese invasion route had begun to be drawn east of the Mulberry River. Although he did not know what kind of army he would command at this time, and he did not know the details of the Japanese army, he had no choice, and he was willing to take this opportunity to try his skills to meet difficulties and dangers. He immediately replied:

"Rest assured, minister! I can go over now!"

"That's great!" Cai Ye said appreciatively: "The plane you take can be ready within 8 hours, at the central airport. You go to the General Staff, where you can get the necessary materials and at the same time discuss future contacts with the General Staff. Send you a couple of professional officers to wait for you on the plane. I wish you success!"

After breaking up with Cai Yi, Zhong Liwei came to the General Staff Headquarters and met with Zhang Xiaozhun, Chief of the General Staff. Zhang Xiaozhun said: "I have nothing more to add, please find out the local situation as soon as you arrive at your destination, and then, frankly tell us your opinion." Immediately, the two arranged for future contact.

This summons did not sit down to study the map, nor did it study the strategy and tactics of the Japanese army. For such a big event, President Wu Peifu, who is the supreme commander, did not summon him. But in any case, this trip to the Far East will affect the fate of his entire life. In that case, he will fight this battle against all odds. You have to fight, you have to win, he realized that.

The plane flew in the direction of Eastern Siberia. Before reaching its destination, the plane landed in Chita and stopped for a while. Yang Yuting, commander of the Chita Military Region, and Zhang Wenhui, chief of staff, briefed Zhong Liwei on the new situation: Japanese fighters penetrated deep into Central Siberia, chasing and strafing the cars and horse teams of the local people, and disrupting the army's supply lines.

On the morning of August 5, Zhong Liwei arrived at the front line and listened to the commander Guo Songling and the chief of staff Sun Liechen at the headquarters of the 37th Panzer Army about the battle east of the Sangye River, and did not take active military action. Zhong Liwei asked Commander Guo Songling: "Do you think that you can command troops from a place 120 kilometers away from the battlefield?" Guo Songling replied: "We are sitting here, of course, a little farther away. However, in the areas where there is conflict, we are not ready for operations. The front telephone and telegraph lines were not laid even for a kilometer, there were no ready-made command posts and landing sites, and drinking water was the biggest difficulty. ”

"What are you going to do in this situation?" Zhong Liwei asked.

"We sent people to get timber, and then we started building the command post."

Zhong Liwei learned that only Ma Zhanshan, the senior commander of the Northeast Army, had been to the battle area, so he asked Ma Zhanshan to accompany him to the east bank of the Sangye River to inspect the deployment of the positions of the enemy and us. Through the observation of the forward positions, Zhong Liwei believes that up to now, various circumstances have shown that the Japanese army has not abandoned its attempt to invade Central Siberia and the Far East of China. It is estimated that the Japanese army will soon launch a large-scale military operation. At that time, the cavalry of the 37th Panzer Corps of the Chinese government and the Northeast Army would be powerless to stop the military offensive of the Japanese army, if the enemy attacked from several sides at the same time, such as Krashan, Chenjiakou, and Alan Mountain. …,

After consulting with the commanders of the 37th Panzer Corps at the Returning Corps Headquarters, Zhong Liwei issued his first report to the Supreme Command. The report proposes to increase the number of troops to hold the landing ground on the east bank of the Sangye River, and at the same time prepare an operational plan for counter-assault from the depth. The next day, they received a reply, and the Supreme Command and the Chief of the General Staff fully agreed with Zhong Liwei and others' judgment on the situation and the plan of action for the next step.

On August 8, the Supreme Command ordered Guo Songling to be relieved of his post as commander of the 37th Armored Army and appointed Zhong Liwei as the commander of the army.

After Zhong Liwei assumed the post of commander of the 37th Armored Army, he immediately moved the headquarters of the general to the foot of Kra Mountain near the west bank of the Sangye River. Began to gather troops, store and transport military supplies. Military transport of the Trans-Siberian Railway began to get busy. A large number of military supplies were transported to the east bank of the Mulberry River.

With the arrival of Zhong Liwei, the Air Force was also strengthened: the 12th Fighter Regiment of the Air Force was transferred from the Northeast Military District, together with the former 101st Brigade of the Army Aviation Corps, for a total of 1,125 combat aircraft. A lot of field airfields have been opened in many places. The newly equipped P3M "Woolly Rhino" heavy fighter has begun to maneuver in the air with Japanese aircraft.

On 17 August, Marshal Zhang Zuolin, the supreme commander of the Northeast Army, came to the front line of the Sangye River to inspect the combat units and strengthen the combat units of the Northeast Army.

At the same time as the Northeast Army increased its troops, the Japanese army also increased its troops again.

On 20 August, the Siberian Garrison added the 7th Division, which is the most elite mobile unit of the Siberian Garrison and is directly under the Siberian Garrison Command. The division was formed in 1894 and has two brigades, four infantry wings, and a total of 25,000 soldiers. During the Sino-Japanese First Sino-Japanese War, it was subordinate to the 1st Army to attack the Liaodong Peninsula, and during the Russo-Japanese War, it was subordinate to the 3rd Army and participated in the Battle of Liaoyang. It can be said that since its establishment, the 7th Division has always served as a strategic reserve of the Japanese base camp and has carried out the mission of mobile warfare, which is the pride of the Japanese army. In particular, the 26th and 28th wings are well-known in the Japanese Army, and most of the students of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School are in the two wings of the 7th Division before graduation. They are recognized as Japan's most combat-ready troops. At the end of World War I, when Japan and China jointly intervened in the Soviet Union, the 7th Division went to Siberia and became the main force in the northward advance into Soviet Russia. Later, the 7th Division was stationed in Eastern Siberia, which allowed Japan to take advantage of this opportunity to strengthen its presence in the Far East, so the 7th Division was also considered the most suitable main force for fighting against China. Now, the 7th Wing of the 26th Division is on the march under the command of Ichiro Hasegawa Osa. At the same time, the 28th Brigade of the 2nd Wing also assembled at Mount Aran.

The Japanese Army's 1st Tank Division has three tank wings stationed at Wuxingling near Xinjing. Lieutenant General Masatomi Yasuoka, a classmate of Lieutenant General Komatsubara, was Japan's most elite tank unit with 782 tanks and 537 armored vehicles. After receiving the order, Lieutenant General Yasuoka led the 3rd and 4th tank wings to assemble at the Mount Alan railway station.

The Siberian Cavalry Division is the only field unit in Japan and is directly subordinate to the Siberian Garrison Command. Most of the officers in the division are Japanese, a few are local native officers, and most of them studied at the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School. Most of the soldiers were born as farmers and herdsmen, and they were skilled in horsemanship and had good fighting quality, so they could be called "elite" as cavalry troops.

After the two sides make new preparations, a new fight is coming.

On August 21, 1942, Lieutenant General Toru Saga, commander of the 2nd Flying Regiment of the Japanese Air Force, moved his headquarters from Shinkyo, the capital of Eastern Siberia, to Shirakaba.