Chapter 342: Go Fry Fish to Eat
November 25, 1939. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info Hailar.
Since Hailar encountered great difficulties in building the road, he asked for help from the Kwantung Army Headquarters while preparing for the winter.
The Kwantung Army command knew that the only way was to transport grain by plane. The Kwantung Army was short of planes and fuel, and asked the base camp, and after a quarrel in Tokyo, agreed to provide planes and fuel. Kwantung military planes delivered food to Hailar and some more people were transported out.
After all, the capacity of airplanes is limited, and there is not much grain transported at a time, so as long as the weather is good, it is necessary to start transport planes and even bombers in various places to transport grain.
This was the first large-scale aircraft transport of troops in the history of the Japanese army, and the Japanese army thus mastered the experience of transporting troops by aircraft. In order to transport as many troops as possible, the troops that were transported away did not carry weapons and did not carry any supplies.
However, after only ten days of transportation, the problem came, and the aircraft fuel reserves in various places were gone. The previous battle consumed most of the fuel, and now that the planes were dispatched on a large scale again, the fuel was quickly running out.
Tokyo sent the navy to transport oil, but the navy's transport ships were still at sea and could not be delivered in a few days.
This time the plane transported a thousand Japanese troops away. Because the planes took off and landed in an orderly manner, the bad news was only controlled within the reach of senior officers, and the Japanese soldiers did not panic.
The command demanded that the Kwantung Army in Hailar take matters into its own hands to solve the grain.
In fact, the Japanese troops in Hailar have been looking for food for a long time.
In the summer, there was constant news of the defeat of the Battle of Nomenkan, and news came that the Japanese army was defeated, the Japanese army was going to flee, the city would be slaughtered, the plague would be released, and the Soviet Red Army would also liquidate the spies.
These rumors spread like a plague, and the vast majority of people ran, the rich ran by train, and the Mongols, who had local relatives, ran back to the steppe.
A city where people are almost gone.
At the end of the war, the Japanese army had the energy to notice this phenomenon, and the Japanese secret service thought that it was because the people were afraid of the war, so they did not pay much attention to it. Because most of the puppet Manchu armies were scattered, the Japanese army was not very well informed.
Initially, the Japanese army began to look for food in Hailar City, and all the houses broke into it, and indeed some food was collected.
At the same time, the Japanese troops in Hailar drove their cars and horses to the pastoral areas and began to rob the Mongols of horses, cattle and sheep. At first, I said I was buying, and then I started to grab it.
The Mongols who did not leave resisted, many were killed, and the Mongols in the nearby pastoral areas had to flee for their lives. Familiar with the terrain and aided by the Mongol column and special combat teams, they quickly fled away.
December 15, 1939. Hailar.
On the Hailar River, the river has long been frozen.
In winter, the river water is slow to move because of the flow of water and the continuous replenishment of groundwater and heat. On the contrary, the water in the lake is deep, and it freezes quickly, and if there is no strong wind, it can be completely frozen soon. Because the lake does not flow, the ice is much thicker than that of the river. If the lake is large, the ice will be very uneven due to strong winds when it freezes.
The ice surface of the small water bubbles is flat, and children in the Northeast play on the ice of the lake near their homes, and there are many tricks and many ways to play.
Today, the snow has stopped, and the sun is weak. The weather was bitterly cold, and it was said to be minus 33 degrees Celsius. The temperature dropped to a certain level for a few days, and ice crystals floated in the air, shining in the sun.
On such a cold morning, more than a dozen devil soldiers left the barracks and reached the river. One with a pickaxe, slashing in a wide area. The ice was brittle, less than two feet thick, and it would bubble up in a moment.
Another devil took out four grenades tied together, went to the safety ring, and threw them into the ice hole, and several people quickly ran ashore and lay down. With a bang, the ice water exploded, and several devils were like rain. When the water was finished, several people ran back to the ice. Greatly good! There's something on the ice, fish! The ice cave is five or six meters in diameter, and the water is full of broken ice and fish!
There's something to eat!
These dozen devils collected the fish on the ice, and the fish froze to death when they came out of the water, and they immediately froze hard and stone-like. The fish in the ice cave was picked up to the ice with wooden sticks and bayonets, and after a while of struggle, they froze to death.
This time, I found hundreds of catties of fish at once.
It was a good day for the Japanese troops in Hailar as they found a new source of food.
The command knew right away: the Japanese army, who had a background as fishermen, thought of catching fish in the river and was very successful. In the morning, a small unit secretly fried fish on its own. The sound of explosions on the river soon attracted other troops. The most important thing in Japan is fishermen, and of course the troops are like this, they are not stupid, and they go there one after another.
The upper echelons of the Japanese army in Hailar were overjoyed, and the entire unit was organized and actively operated, and the river section was assigned to the work of exploding fish. For a time, there was artillery fire on the ice on the river.
Mongolians do not eat fish, and over the years, there are many fish in the river. There are lakes where people go barefoot, and there are often fish hitting your legs. In later generations, the economy developed, and the locals knew that fish could be sold for money, and the number of fish in the rivers and lakes decreased dramatically.
These fish allowed the Japanese army to live a comfortable life for half a month, and after half a month, the fish were gone, even if they went upstream and downstream, they could not catch them. A grenade can't blow up even a fish.
December 25, 1939. Hailar.
Some Japanese soldiers saw the problem and were forced to leave here.
A force of Japanese troops decided to go east. The train had not gone far, they had old problems, and the bridge that had just been repaired was bombed again. Some of the Japanese troops left here on foot along the railway, they did not dare to go other ways, because they could not find a guide.
Some Japanese soldiers thought that it would not work to go east, so let's go west, go to Manchuria, and maybe find some food.
A train departs for Manchuria.
The train arrived in Manchuria without any problems. The locals here are almost gone, and only the border garrison is stationed. They have enough food, but they don't want to share it. They also knew that something had happened to Hailar Yakeshi.
This train of devils had no choice but to go door to door in Manchuria to collect food. When I found food, I simply stayed here and didn't leave. The officers discussed it and detained the train so that the men of Hailar would not be pulling the grain.
Later, it turned out that the devils who came to Manchuria were the least dead.
After receiving the information that the Japanese army was catching fish to eat, Xiao Lu was so angry that he dropped a cup at that time: "Thousands of calculations!" Thousands of calculations! How did you miss the fact that the Mongols don't eat fish! ”。 Fortunately, the cup is a military product of the Soviet army, iron, and it cannot be broken.
November 30, 1939. Yichun.
Yichun received a report on the special operations of the Great Khing'an Mountains and the battle situation of the Mongolian column.
At present, Hailar's Japanese devil army is trapped in the west of the Daxing'an Mountains. Because a lot of food is stored in Hailar Fortress, which is enough for the border garrison guarding the fortress to eat for a long time, and in addition, the Japanese have robbed a lot of herdsmen's horses, cattle and sheep in winter, and at present, the Japanese still have food.
At present, Mongolian herders 100 miles from the train route have been evacuated, and most of the residents of Arshan, Wudu River, Yakeshi, and even Hailar have also been evacuated.
It was almost impossible for the Japanese army to walk across the cold Great Khing'an Mountains on foot, because they did not have much provisions, and second, they were not fully equipped to protect themselves from the cold. Cotton clothes, like food, were either looted or not brought in at all.
There are at least four months left in winter, and these four months are enough for the Japanese. Even if the Japanese were willing to use airplanes to transport supplies in, the cost would be similar to fighting a war.
After research, Yichun decided to destroy a few more sections of the railway in the eastern part of the Great Khingan Ridge, and then withdraw his troops, and the rest was to wait for these Japanese to fend for themselves.