Chapter 609-2 Sneak Attack on Chita and Storm Burleigh
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Chita had only a few hundred Japanese servicemen who were railroad guards. The other thousands of people are North Korean troops, the North Korean army is the Koreans requisitioned by the Japanese army in Korea, and the main functions of the troops are transportation, logistics, security, and so on.
Chita is north-west of Hailar, and there is a river flowing north through the city that flows into the lake northwest of the city. The west side of the city and the east side are not high mountains, and the mountains are forested. To the west of the lake are wide, flat mountain valleys, vast grasslands and swamps.
It was the first place where Tsarist Russia exiled prisoners. The importance of the exile was the Decembrists. Their arrival has made the cultural undertakings, trade, and mining here prosperous. The railway from Hailar joins Chita and the Trans-Siberian Railway. As such, it is an important transportation hub. Because it is hundreds of kilometers from Manchuria and hundreds of kilometers from the border of Outer Mongolia, it is far from the border and belongs to the safe area.
For months, there have been sporadic fighting along the railways and along the borders, but here it is calm. Not only is Chita calm and safe, but the railway that is hundreds of kilometers away from Chita is also safe. This gave the Japanese army the impression that it was far from Manchuria and that the Manchurian army was not capable of reaching here.
On the morning of the 6th, a large number of soldiers dressed in white suddenly appeared in the mountains and forests on the east side of the city, and the soldiers passed through the wide urban area, entered the city center, and after three hours of fighting, occupied the Chita city area with the railway station as the core.
At the same time, the airfield, a dozen kilometers west of the city, was also occupied by several hundred people.
It was the Mongol column that occupied it. Commander Wang Fa also arrived here a day after the arrival of the vanguard. Instead of launching an attack immediately, the troops were hidden in the mountains, and after reconnaissance, a detailed plan was drawn up to conquer them in one fell swoop.
From Hailar, they passed through Manchuria and captured the railway, the vanguard successively captured the small towns along the railway, and then, by train, quietly approached the city of Chita. Dozens of kilometers away from Chita City, the troops marched on foot, through the mountains and forests, and hid near Chita City.
The Japanese army did not realize that the Northeast Coalition Army would attack here, the garrison was small, unready for battle, and was taken by surprise.
When drawing up the battle plan, some people wanted to directly ask the Outer Mongolian troops to occupy the Baikal line and ignore the city of Chita. With both ends occupied, Chita City is isolated, which is much easier. The commander-in-chief of Xiaolu insisted on taking this place first, and his reason was that it was very close to Manchuria and was a transportation hub, and the army attacking the west should use this place as a logistics base to capture and build it as soon as possible.
In fact, this is another central city he planned, in addition to Yichun and Jiagedaqi. This place is rich in minerals, so it must be occupied as soon as possible.
Xiaolu still has unspeakable worries in his heart. Although Stalin has given in now, I don't know when, when the situation in the Soviet Union improves, Xiaogang will turn his face. If you don't occupy it in fact, your heart will always be unsteady. Well, now Chita is occupied.
As soon as Xiaolu received the telegram of Chita's liberation, he issued an order to send a task force to set off immediately and enter Chita. The whole task force is composed of professionals from various regions, such as railways, highways, agriculture, urban management, mining, forestry, and industry. The task force was prepared three months ago and transferred to Hailar for intensive training half a month ago.
After sending the task force, Xiaolu sent a telegram to Yan'an, asking Yan'an to coordinate the various liberated areas and migrate to the Chita area on a large scale.
April 6.
It seems like a good day. In the afternoon of this day, Boli, who had been fighting for several days, finally conquered it.
After the liberation of the south of the main stream of the Heilongjiang River and the west of the Ussuri River, the northeast began to develop it with all its might, hoarding troops in preparation for the attack on Boli. Many heavily armed units had long since secretly crossed the Ussuri River and were stationed at secret bases. The troops have repeatedly rehearsed and are ready for the offensive.
They were the first troops to complete the preparations for the offensive, and they were also the first to suggest the next Northeast Bureau, to attack Boli as early as possible and achieve a partial victory first.
In the winter, the Japanese army had already sensed the intention of the Northeast Coalition Army, and stepped up the construction of fortifications on the basis of the original fortifications built by the Soviet army, and did not know the defensive force along the railway. Boli's Japanese army gradually increased to 20,000,
This time, the troops attacking Boli were most of Lu Zhengcao and all of Li Lanchi's troops. In mid-to-late March, they crossed the Ussuri River more than a dozen kilometers south of Burleigh. After the order to launch a general order, the troops cut off the railway from Boli to Vladivostok. At the same time, a small unit dismantled a section of several kilometers of railroad more than a dozen kilometers away on the other side of the Heilongjiang River. In this way, Boli's Japanese army was left alone.
The large forces of the Northeast Coalition Army launched a strong attack on the Japanese army, and while destroying the railway, the large forces launched an attack on the strongholds on the periphery of Boli in several different locations, and the planes in the sky, tanks on the ground, rocket artillery, and heavy artillery attacked together. These main attack sites were the key defensive positions of the Japanese army, not the forward positions of the Japanese army, and the large troops attacked the small units, and the momentum was like a bamboo.
The Japanese army wanted to protect the railway, and the scattered forces were broken by the Northeast Coalition Army in two or three days. Thousands were killed and wounded, and only a few Japanese troops retreated to the city of Boli.
On the 4th, Vladivostok sent reinforcements to reinforce Boli. The train was bombed shortly after leaving Vladivostok. The railway was blown out of a dozen large craters with a diameter of three meters. The Japanese troops dispatched from Shuangchengzi also suffered the same explosion. On the same day, the Japanese army detected that tens of thousands of people were moving dozens of kilometers north of Shuangchengzi, apparently preparing for a war of annihilation.
It is almost impossible for reinforcements to reinforce Boli, and the Northeast Coalition Army has already made arrangements to encircle and send reinforcements.
By the 5th, the Japanese army knew the situation they were facing, they could not hold it, they could not escape south, they had to retreat. The Japanese army at the Kwantung Army Headquarters decided that the Boli garrison would retreat and retreat downstream along the Heilongjiang River, from where it would return to Japan via Sakhalin.
On the night of the 5th, the Japanese retreated. Li Lanchi's troops were ordered to pursue, and the camera liberated the lower reaches of the Heilongjiang River, including Sakhalin Island.
On the 6th, the large army pursued the Japanese along the way, preparing to annihilate all the remaining more than 10,000 people on the road. Boli announced his liberation. Yan'an called, asking LΓΌ Zhengcao to consolidate the occupation of Boli and take charge of the supply of materials for Li Lanchi's pursuing troops.
April 6, Chongqing, Soviet Embassy in Chongqing.
The embassy received a battle report that the Northeast Coalition Army of the Eighth Route Army, after a winter of arduous fighting, launched a general offensive six days ago, and had already conquered more than a dozen cities along the railway, such as Boely, Hailanpao, and Chita, yesterday, and the army was now launching an offensive on Vladivostok on the Hunchun line of the Suifen River.
The war report also said that after a winter of guerrilla warfare, our army had greatly depleted the Japanese army, wiped out more than 50,000 Japanese troops, and after our general offensive six days earlier, the powerful Japanese army was routed by us in several cities.
The details of the battle will be reported in the future battle report.
The Japanese army attacking the USSR became alone, with no way out, no logistical supplies. It was foreseeable that the demise of the Japanese troops was just around the corner.
Report to the Political and Governance Bureau immediately.
The report of the battle soon reached the American army.
The US military was very surprised by this result, and they immediately went to the relevant departments in Chongqing to ask for verification of the results.
If you break through Hailan Bubble, Bo Li will be enough, how can it be possible to go hundreds of kilometers behind enemy lines and conquer Chita?
The news soon reached the continental United States. The United States was attacked by Japan, and the morale of the people was hit. Now, the good news has arrived, and the U.S. government has released it to the press, hoping to boost people's morale.