Chapter 512: Occupy the Xing'an Mountains forever

December 25, 1941. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info 10 a.m.

In order to fulfill the agreement reached between China and the Soviet Union, the Northeast Coalition Army began a campaign to occupy the eastern slope of the Great Khing'an Mountains.

According to the instructions of Yan'an, the Northeast Coalition Army formulated an operational plan. The whole plan was to first occupy the relevant railways and cities in the Great Khing'an Mountains and cut off the railway supply to the Japanese army, and then gradually occupy the major central cities in the northeast to completely liberate the northeast and eliminate the Japanese army in the northeast.

The Soviet Union was dissatisfied with this plan and demanded that the plan to send troops to the Soviet Far East be added. However, Yan'an insisted that the strength of the Northeast Coalition Army was insufficient, and it came step by step.

The Mongol column launched an attack on the local Japanese defenders in the area of Baicheng.

Xiaolu nominally personally commanded the battle, but in fact, he only formulated the strategy, and actually commanded the Mongol column. Xiaolu's high-profile appearance here is to attract the attention of the Japanese army and let the Japanese army focus their energy on him.

Since the Japanese army sent troops to the Pacific, the Japanese troops in the Northeast are mostly old and weak, and Xiaolu no longer has many scruples, as long as enough supplies are prepared, the only thing to consider is the timing of starting this battle. Now, the time is finally ripe.

This time is different from the past, the Northeast Bureau has prepared cadres, and is ready to set up a government and start managing the city immediately after the city is built, and make long-term plans, instead of giving up after the city is defeated.

There are currently less than 300 devils stationed in Baicheng, and according to intelligence, about 1,000 new Japanese troops arrived by train from Changchun via Da'an.

When the train arrived at a place fifty miles away from Baicheng, I heard the sound of gunfire in Baicheng in the distance, and the devils on the train, except for a few local officers, were mostly newly recruited Japanese soldiers from the Japanese mainland, some were already in their forties, and some were only seventeen or eighteen years old, and basically they were not even soldiers in the township.

Everyone was wondering why the sound of battle was coming from the direction of Baicheng, and a loud bang came from the front of the train.

The next car at the locomotive was the commander's car, and the officers of Baicheng who came to receive the troops were also here, and everyone was speculating about what might happen to Baicheng, and the explosion came from the middle of their car and exploded in the car.

The locomotive was dragged and shaken, and the hook fell off for some reason, and it rushed forward for more than 100 meters before stopping. The carriages were all derailed and staggered.

There was the sound of shelling in the white snow on both sides, and more than two dozen sounds, more than a dozen carriages were all hit, and the shells penetrated the carriages and exploded in the carriages.

The Japanese didn't know what kind of cannon it was, and those who had knowledge thought it was a mountain cannon, but the mountain cannon was too strange to explode after penetrating the carriage.

This is a rocket.

After the rocket exploded, the white figures on both sides began to ski and charge. Rushed to the front of the carriage and began to shoot from the compartment. The charging white figures lay down together, submachine guns fired, and soon, the resistance in the carriage was suppressed.

The white figures began to shoot into the glass windows, some people actually took out the keys and opened the car door, and others rushed in.

After an hour of gunfire, all the Japanese recruits on the train were wiped out, and a few veterans and some child soldiers surrendered.

December 25, 1941. Eleven a.m.

The battle of Baicheng ended, and more than 300 devils and 2,000 puppet troops were wiped out. One and a half regiments of the puppet army revolted on the battlefield, accelerating the course of the battle in Baicheng.

The Mongolian column marched into the city, and the propaganda team, under the protection of the troops, posted a notice announcing liberation, demanding that the former puppet organs go to the office to report, and that the railroad and so on go to work as usual, and so on.

When Xiaolu received the news of Baicheng's recovery, he had already given the order to attack the Wangye Temple.

December 26, 1941.

The Baicheng City Government was established, and the counties under its jurisdiction were recovered one after another, and thousands of Northeast Democratic Alliance troops attacked in all directions, and various county towns were recovered one after another, such as Tang Woxue.

Today, people everywhere have realized that Japanese rule in Tohoku is coming to an end. The Japanese in the major towns also realized this, and they had no way to escape, and they were helpless. Some resisted, and the resistance was tragic, and the majority of the Japanese gave up resistance. In the countryside, a small number of pioneer regiments were issued, and there were no Japanese at all, and the speed of liberation was even faster.

On the same day, Wangye Temple was conquered, and hundreds of Japanese troops were wiped out. Most of the puppet army surrendered.

Xiaolu ordered to attack Zhalantun and other large and small cities west of the Nenjiang River. The Northeast Democratic Alliance Army in Jiagedaqi and other places on the northern front attacked southward and formed a flanking posture with the Mongolian detachment.

In this way, by January 15, 1942, the right bank of the Nenjiang River and the vast area east of the Great Khing'an Mountains were all recovered, except for Hailar Manchuria and other cities in the west of the Great Khing'an Mountains.

Importantly, the two railways in this area were in the hands of the Northeast Democratic Alliance, and the Japanese army suspended the transportation from Hailar to the Soviet Far East, rerouted the transportation routes to the Soviet Union, and transported the looted materials in Chita and other places to Vladivostok to the east, and supplies from Vladivostok to the west. For a time, the railway became the lifeline of Japan, and the newly repaired railway trains stepped up to transport the Japanese. The war continued on the railway.

The situation in the Northeast continues to evolve.

On January 16, 1942, an army of 20,000 attacked Fularji and Qiqihar. The army besieged Qiqihar and bombarded the city defenses with mortars. There were only less than 3,000 Japanese troops stationed in the city, including schools, hospitals, horse farms, research institutes, and only a thousand real guard troops.

The Japanese army was shocked by the sudden attack on Qiqihar by the Northeast Anti-Japanese Coalition Army, and at the same time felt that it had made a mistake. Intelligence from the Kwantung Army has always shown that the Northeast Coalition Army has some troops in the Xiaoxinganling Mountains and relies on the Soviet Union for its existence. The rest of the Northeast Coalition Army was in western Manchuria, especially in the area of Rehe in Manchuria. They sent some troops to attack the Baicheng area, but it was still excusable, how could it be possible to fight Qiqihar.

The impossible happened. A few days ago, the Qiqihar defenders reported to the Kwantung Army Command that they had found a large army gathering towards Qiqihar. At this time, the Kwantung Army realized its mistake and began to mobilize troops.

Most of the Kwantung Army in the northeast was stationed in a few large military camps, and it was not easy to be mobilized to the battlefield in a short period of time. Still, the Japanese did it.

On January 17, just a day after the Northeast Coalition Army launched an attack on Qiqihar, Japanese reinforcements took a train to reinforce Qiqihar.

Qiqihar is the ruling central city of the Nenjiang River Valley, and the Japanese army in Harbin, Suihua, and Bei'an each dispatched 3,000 to Qiqihar by train.

From the point of view of the Japanese army, the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army still followed the pattern of activities in previous years, attacking railways and cities, and then giving up and running. Therefore, the Japanese army did not have an overall preparation, but reinforced Qiqihar according to the previous countermeasures, and then recovered other large and small towns.

At noon, three troop transport trains departing from Bei'an were attacked along the Qibei Railway between Yi'an and Kedong. The attacking side used armor-piercing shells, which shattered dozens of carriages, and a large number of Japanese soldiers were killed in the train.

Soon after, the Democratic Alliance took over the railway, and Li Sen served as the commander of the railway corps and concurrently served as the director of the railway bureau.

The Bei'an devil reinforcements climbed out of the carriage and were immediately hit. By the time the Japanese commander found himself surrounded by nearly 20,000 men and wanted to break through, it was too late.

Japanese troops from Harbin were also attacked. After leaving Harbin, the train reached the vicinity of Anda, where the railway was bombed. The Japanese army was surrounded by more than 20,000 people.

Only the reinforcements from Suihua were not attacked, because they took the route of going first to Harbin and then to Qiqihar, a few hours late.

The battle lasted for three days. The Northeast Coalition Army smashed hundreds of train cars with more than 100 armor-piercing shells, killed a large number of Japanese troops, dealt a blow to the will of the remaining Japanese troops to fight, and completely defeated the Japanese army with similar military strength.

On January 21, Qiqihar was recovered, the reinforcements of Bei'an were wiped out, and the Harbin reinforcements broke through the siege and walked back to Harbin under the rescue of the Suihua troops.

In the afternoon, the remnants of 3,000 Japanese troops were moving along the railway towards Harbin when they heard the sound of airplanes. The Japanese army rejoiced: air support came.

The plane approached, and the Japanese cheered. I just lost the battle, and now I have the confidence again: yes, all the planes that came were Japanese.

They didn't notice that the queue of more than a dozen planes coming was very neat, and there was a long column, all of which were of any type, and they came to the top of the Japanese queue.

Suddenly an accident came, a sudden dive, and the machine guns began to fire along the ranks of the Japanese.

More than a dozen planes repeatedly strafed the long line of Japanese troops as if they were conducting teaching and training. The Japanese troops immediately scattered and lay down, and in less than ten minutes, a small half of the Japanese soldiers died from the gunfire of the plane.

Soon, the plane left. An hour later, nine planes flew in again, strafing again. This time, the Japanese army was very scattered, and the losses were much less.

In the two air raids, half of the Japanese were killed and wounded, and it has been a while since the air force was called for support, why haven't the planes arrived?

Just in anticipation, a large number of Northeast coalition troops rushed out from both sides, shouting loudly, charging and shooting at the same time. Soon, the two armies came into contact with each other.

At this time, three planes of the Japanese air force from Xinjing arrived above the battlefield, only to see the Japanese troops wearing yellow uniforms below and the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army wearing white clothes tangled together, unable to bomb, so they had to leave.

The Japanese planes did not fly far, and the fighters of the Northeast Coalition Army flew over. This time it was all fighter jets, as many as six planes.

The first air battle began.

Because the plane flew a little bit, it was a long distance, so the scene of the air battle was over the Lianhuan Lake, not by the railway. The planes of the Northeast Coalition Army are Japanese-made, with similar performance, and the pilots are almost all novices, far inferior to the Japanese army. Although the Northeast Coalition Army fought more and fought less, it still did not achieve absolute superiority.

However, the Air Force performed a miracle when the Chinese pilot, who had only been flying for a few dozen hours, shot down a Japanese plane and damaged another. Although one of them fell and one was injured, the Northeast Coalition Air Force received great encouragement: such a young air force could shoot down Japanese planes.

The air battle ended in only a few minutes, and the battle on the ground had just begun.

More than 10,000 troops of the Northeast Democratic Alliance surrounded less than 2,000 Japanese troops.

The submachine guns of the Northeast Democratic Alliance Army played a great advantage, and one person could even deal with four or five people. A few hours after the battle, the battle was over.

This time, the participating troops used up almost all the submachine gun bullets and rocket warheads in their hands, and the cost was huge. Because the opponent's combat strength is not high, the losses of the Northeast Coalition Army are very few.

This created a new mode of warfare, using advanced weapons, coupled with a powerful fighting bayonet spirit, to defeat the Japanese army. From then on, the Northeast Coalition Army owned the railroad and owned the city. For the first time, infantry and railroad soldiers saw the benefits of their own air superiority.