Chapter 619-2: The Remnants of the Japanese Army
At the beginning, the Soviet army and the Japanese army confronted each other, and the Japanese army built a fortress in Dongning, and similarly, the Soviet army also built a fortress opposite it. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoAfter the recovery of the Northeast, the Japanese army occupied the fortress of Dongning with 1,000 men and refused to retreat. The Anti-League was ordered to attack and take the fortress.
At that time, it was Wang Renzhi's troops who attacked the fortress of Dongning. They obtained the detailed drawings of the fortress provided by the trail and adopted the strategy of protracted warfare, sealing off the fortress at the back of the fortress, and then gradually resorting to earthwork, blocking the vents, piling up firewood and grass at the entrance, setting fire, and smoking it. Some of the smoke escaped from the undetected vents and continued to block the vents.
The Japanese army was annoyed by this rogue style of play, but they still couldn't hold on. In the end, the remaining 300 people could not stand the smoke, and tried to leave the fortress in the dark and flee to the other side, but were all wiped out on the road.
The fortress of Dongning was the last liberated northeastern territory.
After that, this anti-coalition force was stationed in the fortress of Dongning and confronted the Japanese army on the other side of the Ussuri River. And the Japanese took up residence in the Soviet fortress opposite.
The Soviet fortress road had limited information, and the relevant Soviet authorities asked for it, and soon the Soviet side provided detailed information, but according to the reconnaissance, after the Japanese occupation, the fortress was renovated. Information on the renovated fortress is unknown.
Later, the Anti-Japanese Federation conducted many reconnaissances, but only learned about a few important former Soviet fortresses. When liberating the outer northeast, the strategy of fire attack was also adopted, with large forces surrounding the fortress in the distance and aircraft dropping incendiary bombs. The fire attack caused a forest fire and destroyed the fortress. It takes a long time to use and is expensive. Only a few hundred of the 2,000 Japanese troops in the fortress escaped. The fire was contained on both the south and north sides of the fortress, and was extinguished when it reached the railroad to the east.
Unexpectedly, there was a smaller fortress to the south of the fortress. Here a thousand Japanese troops were hidden.
Later, when I asked the Soviets to understand, I didn't know the essentials, and I don't know why there was a fortress. After knowing a few years, a Soviet veteran said that one of his comrades-in-arms had participated in the defense of the fortress, and knew that the original small fortress in the south was early, and the small hill was too low, the geological conditions were not good, and it was abandoned. It is estimated that after the Japanese found out, they carried out secret repairs, and later stationed there.
The remnants of the Japanese army were discovered by a local fellow. The fortress on the other side of Dongning had just been regained and burned in disarray, and there was a flat land on the south side that had been given to a family of Henan refugees. The family of refugees opened up the land, and according to the government's requirements, they dug a firebreak around the land and then set it on fire. When the grass and shrubs on the ground are burned out, they can be cleared. This is a measure taken by the government to speed up the process of land reclamation.
The burning of the wasteland was helped by a squad of soldiers of the garrison, and it went well. When the land was cleared, the villagers found a Japanese kettle, a Japanese baggage, which contained clothes and money. Now, the yen and the golden ticket, and the puppet Manchurian old man's ticket are still in circulation, and he tasted the sweetness, so he searched around the nearby hills to see if he could find the good things that the Japanese had left behind.
After defeating the Japanese, one of the things that all the local people liked to do was to collect what the Japanese had abandoned. The Northeast dialect is called picking up Yangluo, and the pronunciation of falling here is the same as waterlogging, that is, picking up things thrown down by Oriental people. It is not a problem to pick up clothes, money, children, some people even pick up Japanese knives, guns and bullets, and some even pick up Japanese Yanmar.
Japan's oceanic horses were bred by crossbreeding European breeds, and they are military horses, and they are also pack horses in the army, so it's a pity that they are used for farm work.
For this reason, the government has also issued an order that the people who pick up military supplies, including weapons and horses, must be handed over to the public, and the government will give rewards.
As a result, he found a hidden shooting hole. He had seen it when he was a guest at the garrison fortress and knew that it was a fortress bunker. When he was startled, he heard someone talking inside, and knew that there were Japanese hidden inside, so he ran away and went to the barracks to report.
The Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation stationed nearby found out about it and thought it was just a few remnants of dozens of Japanese troops. Now that the task of searching for the remnants of the Japanese army has been basically accomplished, there have been Japanese activities in this area from time to time, and there have been phenomena such as the loss of food, the destruction of roads and railways, and the assassination of village cadres.
There are also Japanese troops not far from the station, which is okay.
According to the analysis of a series of events in the vicinity, it should be the appearance of five or six to a dozen Japanese troops, so the garrison sent a platoon to search for the remnants of Japanese troops.
As a result, more than thirty searching soldiers were killed by Japanese machine guns, and less than ten survived.
Although the losses were large, the number of remnants of the Japanese army was roughly clear. Judging from the density of the design of several firing holes, as well as the number of Japanese troops pursuing during the retreat, it can be judged that there were at least dozens of Japanese troops inside.
The situation became serious and was quickly reported to the upper echelons of Vladivostok. Wei Zhengmin personally commanded that this fortress must be taken down. Why did Wei Zhengmin come out in person? Because this area is so important.
Now, unlike in the past, the Ussuri River basin has been completely liberated, the remnants of the Japanese army have been cleared, and the government has made plans to carry out large-scale construction. From Vladivostok to the north to Boli is a long strip of plains and mountainous hills, suitable for population and development. There are mines nearby, there are rivers, it is an industry, suitable for agriculture.
The government's plan is to build this area into an economic core area with a population of 10 million, with industry, shipping, forestry, and mining as the mainstay, supplemented by agriculture and fishery. Several railways and highways were planned to the east and west, and the construction of prisoners of war and migrant workers had already begun. Here is to be built a springboard to Sakhalin, Kamchatka, and even the Bering Strait.
The most important thing is that it will be built as a base for southern Japan. The garrison has the navy and the Hunchun area, and the south defends Japan. North of Vladivostok as the rear, it is planned not to garrison troops in the future.
This plan is majestic, and many people are excited about it. Moreover, at the previous stage of Zhu Mao's meeting in the Northeast, this plan had been approved, and this plan was praised by Mao Gong, and adjusted according to his overall plan. In the past few days, this plan has been widely recognized in the southwest, and a large number of young intellectuals are coming here to participate in construction and look for opportunities. The people in the liberated areas of North and Central China also know that many relatives have come to the homes of people in the northeast and plan to come here to make a living.
Today, in the core of the core area, there is a remnant of the Japanese army, which can destroy the railway in the east, attack Shuangchengzi in the northeast, and even attack Vladivostok in the southeast, which is worth it.
The troops were dispatched and attacked in turns, and after a day of fighting, they were surprised according to law. The remnants of the Japanese army here are not at all the one or two hundred people judged the day before, at least five or six hundred. This was extrapolated from the number of firing holes of the Japanese troops, as well as the fact that they fought in turns.
Recently, a series of cases such as the loss of food in the nearby farms, the killing of villagers, the unstable morale of the people in nearby Japanese settlements, the imminent inaction of prisoner of war camps, the killing of village militia cadres, and the sabotage of the Shuangchengzi Railway.
At this time, Mr. Lu was holding a meeting with the representatives of the United States and the Soviet Union, and the battle was personally commanded by Wei Zhengmin, and a brigade of 3,000 people was mobilized to surround the fortress, and tanks, heavy artillery, and incendiary bombs were mobilized to prepare for a strong attack.
At the same time, the local forces in Vladivostok once again began the operation of searching for the remnants of the Japanese army, and in areas where a large number of Japanese troops had not yet been discovered, the coalition forces divided the troops into a platoon as a unit and searched in all directions, so as to eliminate all the remnants of the Japanese army and leave no hidden dangers.
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1. After the end of the fighting in Europe, the Soviet Union dispatched 1.7 million Soviet troops to liberate the Northeast, and the liberation of the Northeast was launched from Manchuria, Heihe, and Dongning. There was a Japanese brigade in the fortress of Dongning, about a thousand people.
In the Dongning fortress group, each fortification is made of reinforced concrete, which is the highest level among all the fortresses.
The underground fortifications of the Dongning fortress group are equipped with command posts, communication rooms, cantonment rooms, rooms, baths, grain depots, ammunition depots, power stations, etc., and there are vertical shafts leading directly to the observation post on the top of the mountain, vents and counterattack openings.
The ground fortifications were mainly bunkers. There are many places in the underground fortifications that communicate with the ground bunkers, forming an underground and above-ground crossfire network. A triangular combat area is formed on the ground of the main position, and fortifications, trenches, and communication trenches built at the commanding heights support each other.
These fortifications are all built along the direction of the mountain range, some of the fortifications are so large that they connect the fortresses with roads and railways, some of them connect the fortresses to the camps assembled on the ground, and some of them connect the fortifications to the support points, from the point to the line, from the line to the surface, and connect the various support points as a whole, forming a powerful firepower network, and some divide the huge fortification position into three layers: upper, middle and lower, with the deepest depth reaching more than 800 meters, extending in all directions.
Dongning Fortress is widely distributed, large-scale, complete facilities, solid defense, strong attack power, is the largest of the 17 fortresses built by Japan on the Sino-Soviet border, called "Dongman Permanent Fortress", and the garrison of Dongning Fortress is "the first border garrison".
On August 15, the Japanese emperor announced his surrender, and the 783rd Brigade of the 132nd Brigade of the Japanese Kwantung Army, which was stationed at the fortress of Shengjiao Mountain in Dongning, continued to resist stubbornly because the communication facilities were completely cut off by the Soviet army. As a result of the offensive, more than 1,500 people were lost on the first day, and the two sides fought fiercely for 21 days, and the Soviet Union fired 10,000 thousands of tons of artillery shells and bombs.
The Soviets were unable to attack for a long time, and the main forces continued to advance into the northeast, gathering the 106th fortified area troops and the 223rd Brigade of the Independent Artillery, the 34th and 100th Battalions of the Independent Artillery, in this area, to destroy the enemy's fire points.
After a few days of fierce fighting, the Soviet army brought the logistics staff officer of the Third Army of the Japanese Kwantung Army, Takano Dingo, to convey the emperor's surrender edict to the Japanese Kwantung Army in the fortress, and through several persuasions to surrender, on August 30, 1945, 901 Japanese soldiers in the position of the fortress of Shengduoshan in Dongning dragged out 150 dead bodies, walked out of the underground fortifications with a white flag, and surrendered to the Soviet army.
The dead included more than 50 Chinese migrant workers and 64 Japanese women and children who were forced to commit suicide or homicide.
At this point, the final battle of World War II ended at the fortress of Dongning.
This plot was later adapted into a TV series. The Japanese staff officers who persuaded them to surrender were replaced by female officers of the 88th Infantry Brigade, and after hearing the recording of the emperor's surrender, they thought about it for a long time before surrendering en masse, and some surrendered and some committed suicide.