Chapter 517: The Battle of Jiamusi
March 10, 1942. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Jiamusi.
At half past five in the morning, the offensive of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army on Jiamusi began.
After fighting Harbin, the next target of the campaign plan was Jiamusi. The plan was to liberate the first batch of cities in the former Heilongjiang Province, use them as a base area, connect them with Outer Mongolia, cut off the connection between the Japanese army in the northeast and the Soviet Far East, and increase the difficulty of the Japanese army's logistical supply.
Two hundred thousand troops had already gathered outside the city of Jiamusi.
The troops dispatched by the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army included Zhao Shangzhi's Third Route Army, Zhou Baozhong's Second Route Army, Chen Fengshan's Xingshan Column, and Li Lanchi's Sanjiang Column.
In addition, among the nearby troops, Wang Renzhi's Mudanjiang Column sent Wu Fugui to participate in the battle, Xie Chengrui's directly subordinate tank brigade to participate in the battle, Qian Jinxin's directly subordinate artillery brigade to participate in the battle, and Wang Santai's special combat team to participate in the battle.
In the past two years, various units have stepped up their efforts to expand their troops, and these units have gradually become stronger. These troops surrounded Jiamusi in four directions. Now the weather is still very cold, there are still some days before the opening of the river, the ice on the river is very thick, even tanks can walk, therefore, it is possible to attack Jiamusi from the ice.
There are many troops attacking Jiamusi, and that is because there are many Japanese troops in Jiamusi.
The troops of the Japanese army originally stationed here were transferred to Vladivostok, and the new troops were immediately replenished, because it was not far from Yichun. In addition, the Japanese army had long been aware of the movements of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army, and mobilized the troops in Mudanjiang, and the troops in Jilin also mobilized a part, plus the mobilized puppet army, a total of more than 80,000 people.
For a city of Jiamusi's size, it is difficult for the attacking 200,000 troops to form a very tight encirclement. Not much, the anti-Japanese coalition forces have air supremacy, and the small aircraft used for reconnaissance are observed at high altitude on the battlefield and provide timely information to the ground. The Japanese could not escape secretly if they wanted to.
Xiao Lu, with a few staff officers, had already arrived at the headquarters of the big battle.
The Japanese army has mobilized a large part of the Japanese army in the northeast here, and there are some troops that are constantly being transported, and now it has reached forty percent. This was the first large-scale battle, or a storm, and Xiaolu attached great importance to this battle and personally served as the commander-in-chief of the campaign.
There is another reason for him to worry, there are Japanese troops in Fujin and other places to the east of Jiamusi, not far from here. If the Japanese army is desperate, it will be very difficult to deal with it. In addition, if this battle is not won quickly, it will have a negative impact on the morale of the people in the entire Tohoku.
In addition to the mobilization of troops and the deployment of materials, preparations were also made in other aspects for the campaign. One is the intelligence collection of Jiamusi by the Jiamusi underground party, which completely collected all the intelligence of the Japanese army. Second, the underground party conducted an investigation of key departments, organs, factories, etc. in the city. Third, the traitors and Japanese spies in Jiamusi City were investigated.
In order to cross the river with tanks, the migrant workers spent a night paving a road with thick wooden planks on the ice, and splashed water and frozen ice on the wooden planks to form a solid tank crossing the river.
Originally, the start of the campaign was scheduled for March 5, but it was postponed by five days because rockets and artillery shells were not complete.
The Japanese army also made very detailed preparations.
Although the Japanese army had long known that the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army had mobilized troops to Jiamusi, they knew that they had underestimated the number of troops on the other side in the past, believing that the number of troops in this area would be tens of thousands at most, and that the large army had already gone to Inner Mongolia last year.
New intelligence from the Japanese army shows that the number of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army is very large, and reconnaissance planes have filmed the movement of tens of thousands of troops. In addition, the troops attacking Harbin also proved the strength of the other side.
The Kwantung Army Command believed that it was necessary to mobilize large forces to carry out a decisive battle at Jiamusi and win the battle in one battle, so as to lay a stable situation in Manchuria.
Therefore, they also mobilized a large number of troops, a large amount of supplies. By the beginning of March, after the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army closed up, the Japanese troops were confident enough to destroy the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army in a single battle.
Because Jiamusi has been in a state of confrontation with Yichun for a long time, the position is fully built, which is the best in all cities, and this time for the decisive battle, tens of thousands of citizens were driven away and trenches were dug around the city. These trenches were trenches and were used to defend against infantry.
Jiamusi also had three hundred artillery pieces and dozens of aircraft in preparation. The Kwantung Army had airfields in Jiamusi, Fujin, and Shuangyashan.
At 5 o'clock in the morning of the 10th, the attack began.
The artillery opened fire together, targeting the fortifications and barracks around the city. The Japanese headquarters in the city was also bombarded by long-range artillery. After the shelling lasted half an hour, the Democratic Union forces around the city began to move. After reaching the front of the position two hundred meters, the Japanese pillboxes that had not been blown up began to shoot, and the infantry also entered the trenches and began to shoot.
At this moment, the commander of the Democratic Alliance Army shouted and fell down. The rockets fired, the rockets were extremely dense, and in just a few minutes, a large area of trenches, pillboxes was blown flat.
At this time, it was dawn.
Dozens of planes have already arrived over Jiamusi, Fujin, and Shuangyashan airports.
At this time, the Japanese planes were still parked at the airfield, preparing to take off, and the airfield was busy.
Fighters swooped down and fired at the planes on the airfield, and the bombers began to drop bombs.
This time it was an armor-piercing shell with a hollow charge, each shell was small, but the number was large, and hundreds of shells could be dropped at one time. Two bombers dropped bombs, and the entire airfield was carpet-bombed, not only the planes were bombed, but also the runway was destroyed, and even most of the airport facilities were bombed.
Even the pilots and bombardiers did not expect that the engineers of the arsenal were talking about such a powerful thing.
The same effect was achieved by the planes bombed by Fujin and Shuangyashan.
The planes returned home, asked the command for instructions, and the bombing effect was very good, and there were still four bombers that did not drop bombs, and all the targets were blown up.
The command demanded that they fly to the city of Jiamusi and drop bombs on several defensive positions of the Japanese artillery positions, because now the Japanese artillery has begun to counterattack.
A few minutes later, the planes that bombed the Jiamusi airfield found the bombing target and bombed the defensive positions in the east, west, and south of the city. The fighters fired along the trenches with machine guns and circled in positions for more than half an hour, not leaving until they ran out of bullets.
Twenty minutes later, the planes in the direction of Shuangyashan arrived at Jiamusi, circled a few times, and found the Japanese artillery position, and the two bombers decisively dived and dropped bombs, and the bombs exploded carpetly, and dozens of artillery pieces were blown up, causing the shells to detonate, and half of the artillery positions were bursting with explosions, and gunpowder smoke was billowing out.
As soon as this wave of planes left, planes flew in the direction of Fujin and bombed the remaining half of the artillery positions. After the bombardment, all the Japanese artillery was destroyed.
When the artillery positions were bombarded from the sky, the infantry units on the ground rushed to the city of Jiamusi through the opening of the rockets, and returned to attack other fortifications, and the gap in the Japanese fortifications soon widened.
At ten o'clock in the morning, the east and west sides of Jiamusi had been steadily occupied, Zhao Shangzhi's troops entered the suburbs from the west side of the city, and Chen Fengshan's Xingshan column and Li Lanchi's Sanjiang column entered the outskirts of Jiamusi from the east side of the city.
At eleven o'clock, the opening in the south of Jiamusi City was torn open, and Zhou Baozhong and Wu Fugui's troops rushed to the outskirts of the city.
The battle for the outskirts of the city continued until five o'clock in the afternoon, when the Japanese suffered heavy losses under the bombardment of artillery planes and rockets, and thousands of people were wiped out in the first wave of shelling. After the infantry rushed up, they quickly occupied a large part of the city, and thousands more Japanese puppet troops were wiped out.
In the evening, all the suburban defense lines of Jiamusi were breached, except for a few Japanese troops who retreated to the city, most of the suburban troops were wiped out, and the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army occupied the outskirts of the city.