October 9, 1943. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Qinhuangdao.

Just when the Northeast Coalition Army was dealing with Li Huatang and protecting Li Zhaolin, the Japanese army in the Qinhuangdao area of Shanhaiguan began to advance northward.

The front line of Shanhaiguan, as the forward position of the Northeast Coalition Army and the Japanese army, has been more than a year. In the past year or so, almost all the people in this area have fled, except for a few rich and noble families and traitors who have fled to Beiping and Tianjin, the vast majority of the poor people have fled to the northeast. Some poor people simply went to the Outer Northeast.

The head of Shanhaiguan City was still in the hands of the Japanese, but most of the mountainous areas were already in the hands of the Northeast Coalition Army and the Rehe Column.

During this year, the Japanese built reinforced concrete fortifications on the north side of Shanhaiguan, and only regular fortifications were built on the side of the Northeast Coalition Army.

However, both sides have deployed a large number of troops on this line, with hundreds of thousands of Chen soldiers, and there is always a danger of a major battle breaking out. From the spring of 43 years, the Japanese army gradually mobilized the Japanese army and puppet army in central China, the pressure on the Taihang Mountains was reduced, the pressure on the Yellow River and the Yangtze River basin was reduced, and even the pressure on South China was reduced.

Finally, in the autumn, intelligence showed that the Japanese army's offensive plan had been delayed, and a large number of supplies and military forces had to be used to meet the large army of devils returning from the Soviet Union through Outer Mongolia. The focus of the wrestling between the two sides is on the front line of Suiyuan and Zhangjiakou. Later, the Japanese army in Outer Mongolia was plagued, and there were only 30,000 people left, the Japanese army in North China decided to abandon them and ordered reinforcements of the Outer Mongolian troops to come back.

Judging by the intelligence of Japan, several places in Beiping, the Japanese army was preparing to attack on October 9.

On the morning of October 9, Japanese artillery began to bombard, bombarding the positions of the Northeast Coalition Army.

It may be that the Northeast Coalition Army retreated, and after half an hour of shelling, the positions of the Northeast Coalition Army were bombed to shreds.

The Japanese planes in the sky were also active, and the two reconnaissance planes reconnoitred in depth the Northeast Coalition Army, and found that there were many corpses behind the positions, and then behind them, there were artillery positions and tank positions.

Soon, the Japanese artillery, which had received the results of the reconnaissance, extended its fire, and the planes also began to bombard the artillery and tank positions. The bombs fell on the position, and piles of fire burst out, and all the tanks that were blown up were burned, and none of them started to escape.

The Japanese pilots were overjoyed to see that the bombing had worked.

Soon, the Japanese began a second, third wave of aircraft bombing. By ten o'clock in the morning, the positions more than ten kilometers deep, and even the barracks, were bombed.

The Japanese pilots saw that the bombing effect was very good, but they did not see many dead people, nor did they see the Northeast Eighth Road, which fled in panic after being bombed.

At 10:10 a.m., the Japanese infantry, led by several tanks, rushed out of their positions and rushed to the position of the Northeast Eighth Road. In the distance of the position, many people carried corpses and the wounded were retreating. The Northeast Eighth Road was really panicked, carrying the corpses and the wounded, and running fast. There was some sporadic resistance on the position, basically resisting for a while and then quickly withdrawing.

By half past ten, the Japanese army had penetrated two kilometers deep, and seeing that the Northeast Eighth Road had retreated, they began to worry about the pig rush and speed up. By less than eleven o'clock, the Japanese had advanced almost two kilometers.

The terrain of the battlefield was long and narrow, with the sea in the east and mountains in the west, only a few kilometers wide, and the Japanese troops were distributed in a two-kilometer square strip, and the progress was smooth.

Because the Japanese commander advanced too fast, he moved his headquarters forward, and he had already reached the forefront of the original position, and when he looked carefully with a telescope, he saw that there were not many soldiers on the position of the Northeast Eighth Road, and he was overjoyed: The Northeast Eighth Road really put the main military strength on the Soviet Union and Outer Mongolia.

By four o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese army had advanced more than 20 kilometers, and the vanguard received an order to find the position of the Northeast Eighth Road in front, stop its advance, and stand by. The terrain here is much wider, twenty or thirty kilometers wide from east to west, and it is all hilly terrain.

In the evening, the newspapers controlled by the Japanese army and traitors in Beiping published news that the imperial army was advancing smoothly and that a large number of Eighth Route Army troops had been killed or wounded.

The next day, the artillery laid by the Japanese yesterday afternoon bombarded the positions of the Northeast Eighth Road.

Aircraft reconnaissance found that the Northeast Eighth Road retreated overnight.

The Japanese continued to cautiously search and advance. Today there was no resistance at all, it had long been withdrawn, and it was clean.

On this day, the newspapers in Beiping, Tianjin, and other places began to predict when the imperial army would win and recover Manchuria, some predicted two weeks, some predicted a month, but they all believed that the imperial army had accumulated strength for a whole year, and now it broke out, and its strength was not trivial, and it was not something that the Northeast Eighth Road, which had empty military strength, could resist.

On the third day, Japanese reconnaissance planes discovered that near Suizhong County, a large army of the Northeast Eighth Route was retreating northward on the highway.

The Japanese army today is completely convinced that most of the northeast is empty in strength, insufficient in military strength, and insufficient in military supplies, so it has no choice but to retreat.

The large Japanese army stopped the search and advanced, and along the road, under the leadership of those few tanks, advanced rapidly, and by the afternoon, it was approaching the county seat of Suizhong.

The Japanese army suddenly stopped advancing, and the reconnaissance planes repeatedly reconnoitred in Suizhong County, mountainous areas, and the sea, but never found a large force, and after confirming safety, the Japanese army drove into Suizhong County.

Up to now, even the newspapers in Chongqing have issued a wail, saying that the Northeast Eighth Road has been repelled by the Japanese army, and the Northeast is not protected. Some newspapers scolded Yan'an, but they would only engage in friction and would not attack Japan. Others scolded Yan'an for sending a large army to the Soviet Union, ignoring the interests of the country, and being a traitor.

For a time, the mood of the whole country was depressed. Looking forward to the victory of the Northeast Coalition Army, people from all walks of life were very disappointed and anxious.

The underground elements of the Nationalist army, who had infiltrated various cities in the northeast, were still active and not as cautious as before. Some of those who hesitated were determined to join the Chongqing camp and prepare for action.

A piece of news spread all over the country that Commander Yang Jingyu, the commander of the Northeast Coalition Army, had been replaced, and his deputy, Deputy Commander Wang Detai, acted as the commander-in-chief of the campaign.

The Japanese army became more and more emboldened, and the speed of advance became faster and faster, and by the 13th, the Japanese army had reached the south of Xingcheng. There is Black Peak Mountain on the west side and a hilly area on the east side.

The counterattack, which the countrymen had been waiting for for days, began.

This time the counterattack was very sudden, and various earthen cannons on both sides of the road were fired at once. Because of the smooth advance in a few days, the Japanese army's vigilance was much looser, and the stormy shells caused great damage to the Japanese army. The Japanese troops were not given in vain, they quickly dispersed, the artillery shelled on both sides, and the infantry did not mess up in the slightest, quickly organized and launched an attack on the positions on both sides.

At a glance, it is clear that the Japanese commander of this battle is a master.

In any case, the counterattack of the Northeast Eighth Route had a certain effect, and the Japanese army originally suspected that its attack was too fast and too smooth, but now they saw that the Northeast Eighth Route copied the back road and desperately counterattacked. The two sides began a battle for position.

A few hours after the battle began, the Japanese detected a new movement, and in the mountains on the west side, it was discovered that a large force of the Eighth Route Army wanted to move on the battlefield, apparently to copy the rear road. The Japanese commander once again showed his clever side, the Japanese troops in the southern position of Xingcheng retreated, and in this matter, the Eighth Route Army had entered the position from the mountainous area and began to attack the follow-up Japanese troops and puppet army troops.

Less than twenty minutes after being copied, the retreating Japanese army arrived and began to reinforce the follow-up troops that had been attacked.

As soon as the vanguard of the Japanese army arrived, the Northeast Eighth Road, which had taken the back road, began to retreat and entered the mountains.

At this moment, the Japanese army understood that this was the real strategy of the Northeast Eighth Road, and wanted to lure the enemy into depth, encircle and annihilate him. But their military strength is insufficient, and the effect of their strategy is only that. No matter what kind of clever strategy you have, if you don't have enough strength, you won't be able to achieve results.

The battle, which later researchers called a tug-of-war, began.

The Northeast Coalition Army, mainly on the hillside on the west side, launched an attack on the Japanese troops on the front line of the road. In the area where the Japanese army was strong, the Northeast Coalition Army retreated. In the weak area of the Japanese army, the Northeast Coalition Army attacked forward.

The news coming back from the battlefield was very confusing, and both sides said that they had won, and how much you advanced today, and how much I recovered tomorrow. According to the analysis of discerning people, neither side has the certainty of absolute victory in this battle.

The Japanese-controlled newspapers in North China said in a contemptuous tone: The Northeast Eighth Route did not hesitate to give up some land in order to carry out the so-called strategy of luring the enemy into depth. It's a pity that they put the main force in the north, and here, because the strength is not strong, all the tactics do not work. The Imperial Army would capture southern Liaoning by the end of autumn and reoccupy Manchuria.

The occupation of Rehe Liaonan opened the door to Manchuria, and Manchuria would be infinitely defensible.

On Japanese soil, optimism for the reoccupation of Manchuria was also rampant. Many were undermined by the humiliation of losing Manchuria, and now they are desperate to see the reoccupation of Manchuria and boost the morale of the Japanese army and the people.

However, there are also people who are very calm, they believe that in this war, the performance of the Northeast Eighth Road is inconsistent with the previous one, and they suspect fraud. However, this school of thought was quickly refuted. In the past, the Northeast Eighth Route took the initiative to plan a campaign, but this time, they fought on two fronts, and this time the campaign was launched on our own initiative, and they were a little caught off guard.

In addition, the Japanese army received an important piece of information that Liaonan was about to change its commander, and General Yang Jingyu was deprived of the command of the campaign.

At the same time, this information was also obtained by the Chongqing side. At this time, this matter was no secret, and Chongqing sharply criticized the Northeast Coalition Army for the change of commander. Some people even say that this is the beginning of the decline of the Northeast Eighth Road.

At the same time, news about the chaotic internal situation in Northeast China also kept coming out, and the Chongqing side sharply criticized, why did you get rid of Li Huatang? Why kill him in secret?

In addition, rumors of great economic difficulties in the Northeast have also flowed out.

For a time, there was a lot of discussion about the prospects of this battle, and they all thought about it.

And now, what is the Northeast doing? In the past, every time there was a major event, the Northeast Bureau would make a strong voice, but now, this voice has not been heard. Some people have studied and said that there is a problem with the leadership of the Northeast.