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Chapter 1938 Secret Messenger

After entering the middle of August, heavy rains fell in the northeast region, the Songhua River, the Liaohe River and their tributaries swelled sharply, flooded and muddy, which brought great trouble to the advance of the mechanized troops of the Anjia Army. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Templar's latest chapter

The Japanese army took advantage of this opportunity to intensify its retreat, and all the railways and highways were densely packed with routs.

By the end of September, the Japanese army on the northern front had retreated while fighting, and the main force had retreated across the Suifen River, leaving part of the troops to block; Most of the Japanese troops in the central region retreated to Korea, and some of the Japanese troops in the south retreated to Korea through the Yalu River, and some withdrew to southern Liaoning, where they boarded ships at Dalian, Lushun and other ports and transported them to the Japanese archipelago.

Against the backdrop of the Japanese army's hasty retreat, the advance of the Anjia army turned into a march, and the various divisions launched a competition to see who would occupy more space and achieve greater results.

On 14 August, the First Route Army easily defeated the Songhua River defense line, which was only held by only 2,300 Japanese troops and more than 10,000 puppet troops, and successfully recovered Harbin, the largest city in the northern part of Northeast China. On this day, the right wing of the Second Route Army took Changtu, a city along the South Manchurian Railway, and the left flank occupied Zhangwu, a railway city on the Dazheng Line; The Third Route Army successfully took Jianping, cut off the Jingu Railway, and threatened Chaoyang.

On 15 August, the engineering units of the First Road Army rushed to repair the damaged Songhua River Bridge on the Middle Eastern Railway in Harbin, and laid 10 pontoon bridges on the Songhua River.

In the afternoon of that day, the First Route Army left two divisions to prevent the Japanese counterattack, and at the same time welcomed the reserve corps to station, the main force was divided into two routes, the left flank directly from the South Manchurian Railway to Changchun in the south, and the right flank from the Rabin Railway to Rafa, within a few days all the counties and towns along the way fell into the control of the Anjia Army.

On August 16, the right wing of the Second Route Army of the Anjia Army, as the main force, captured Kaiyuan City in the face of heavy rain, and the left flank occupied Xinlitun; The Third Route Army captured Chaoyang, and the Seventh Army, which advanced eastward from the Fourth Route Army, advanced to Duolun and joined forces with the troops behind the palace of the Third Route Army. After replenishing fuel in Duolun and resting for the night, the Seventh Army, which had been marching continuously, moved south the next morning, penetrated Chengde, and captured the capital of Rehe Province four days later. Since the Pingre Railway had been opened to traffic at this time, the Fourth Route Army had actually threatened North China and Pingjin from the northwest and northeast.

On 17 August, An Yi, who rushed to Harbin, replaced Hu Jialin, who had returned to Kulen for him to participate in diplomatic negotiations, and personally led the Fifth Route Army, which was composed of reserve corps, to begin to advance eastward along the Eastern Railway, and the 10th, 11th, 20th, and 23rd Group Armies, which were the main force, successively recovered Acheng and Zhuhe in one day, and the 12th Group Army advanced along the Songhua River to recover Feiketu and Binxian.

On the same day, the right flank of the Second Route Army of the Anjia Army occupied Tieling in the heavy rain, the front approached Xinchengzi, and the left flank occupied Xinmin, and the two armies were only one step away from Shenyang.

On 18 August, the main force of the First Route Army successively occupied Shuangcheng, Shicheng, Dehui, Wuhai and other cities, advanced to Changchun, and joined forces with the troops behind the palace of the Second Route Army, and then according to the predetermined plan, it marched eastward along the railway, and then turned around and went south, along the Jihai Railway and Shenhai Railway, and went south, the main purpose was to capture Shuanghe, Panshi, Huibei (Hailong), Meihekou, Tonghua, Baishan, Fushun and other cities, and the main force went south to Shenyang, and the partial division marched eastward to capture Ji'an, Linjiang and other places on the Sino-Korean border. prepare for the next phase of the war in Korea;

On August 19, An Yi led the main force of the Fifth Route Army to occupy the Mudanjiang River, and then divided the 23rd Group Army to attack the cities along the Tujia Railway in the south, connecting several battlefields together, and the 12th Group Army, as a partial division, successfully recovered Fangzheng County and Tonghe County; The Third Route Army regained Jinzhou, the remnants of the Japanese army retreated rampantly to Huludao, and Li Jinlong ordered Lieutenant General Luo Yi, commander of the 22nd Group Army, to lead his troops to follow and pursue, and regained Huludao the next day. Templar

On 21 August, a total of six group armies on the left and right flanks of the Second Route Army successfully joined forces at Huanggutun in the northwest of Shenyang City, and after a little preparation, launched a general attack on Shenyang City the next morning. At this time, the Japanese troops in Shenyang had been evacuated, and the remaining Japanese troops responsible for maintaining order did not resist stubbornly, but strangely chose to surrender again, so that Shenyang, the most important city in the northeast, had fallen under the control of the An Jia army.

On August 23, after replenishing fuel at the Mudanjiang River, An Yi personally led the Fifth Route Army to launch an operation to forcibly cross the Mudanjiang River. After half a day of fierce fighting, the 60th Division under the command of General Lu Xiong successfully broke through the Japanese army's river defense and occupied a stronghold on the right bank.

Subsequently, the breakthrough point was gradually expanded from this stronghold, and after a day and a night of continuous fighting, more than 20,000 Japanese troops were annihilated, and an important passage to the Sanjiang Plain was successfully opened.

On August 25, shops in the downtown area of Shenyang resumed business, and factories in the surrounding areas resumed operations, and everything was on track. On the afternoon of this day, the main forces of the First Route Army, the Second Route Army, and the Third Route Army met in Shenyang, and two days later the army was assembled, and the troops were divided into three routes, one was led by Gu Changfeng, and the first route was commanded by Gu Changfeng, and the South Manchurian Railway went south to attack the Liaodong Peninsula, and the first route was commanded by Li Jinlong, along the Anshen Railway to the east, attacking Benxi, Fengcheng, Dong'an and other cities, and advancing to the banks of the Yalu River.

Since southern Liaoning was the industrial center of the Japanese army, in order to ensure that every area was taken over intact, the pace of the Anjia army's march was greatly slowed down, and it was not until mid-September that the weather completely improved before the capture of Dalian and Lushun on the Jinzhou Peninsula, by which time the Japanese army had basically retreated.

On 12 September, after the An Jiajun occupied Port Arthur, which had already been emptied of ships, Kinoshita Tashita, deputy chief of the Strategy and Tactics Division of the Japanese General Staff Headquarters, who had come on a secret mission from the Japanese army base camp, took the initiative to appear and asked to meet the commander of the An Jiajun.

Gu Changfeng interrogated carefully, and then called Du Yi to verify his identity, and then sent a special plane to send him to An Yi, who had already moved the headquarters forward to Mu Ling. "" net

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In August, the rain seemed to be drained cleanly, and in September, the weather became clearer, and the temperature rose sharply after the middle of the year.

In Maqiaohe Town, east of Muling County, in a clearing outside the jungle full of dead branches and leaves, An Yi, dressed in an ordinary military uniform, held his hands in front of his chest, and looked at a large empty field a few hundred meters away in front of him with a serious face.

At this moment, in the potholed open field, hundreds of officers and soldiers of the An family are busy collecting mutilated corpses, which are transported by truck to the rear and thrown into a large pit sprinkled with gasoline for incineration, and then filled in the soil.

In the dense hill and woodland three or four kilometers away on An Yi's right hand, there were sparse gunshots from time to time -- it was the officers and soldiers of An Jia who were clearing out the Japanese troops who had fled into the mountains and woods.

After crossing the Mudanjiang River, An Yi sent Lu Xiong to lead the 20th Army to the north to capture Wandashan and important cities in the Sanjiang Plain. Once Jiamusi is occupied, the 12th Group Army can rely on the railways and highways built by the Japanese army to speed up its advance, bring the areas on both sides of the Songhua River under its control as soon as possible, and together with the 20th Group Army, advance the front to the Heilongjiang River and the Ussuri River, directly threatening the safety of the Ussuri Railway owned by the Japanese army.

An Yi personally led the 10th and 11th Group Armies, as well as the troops directly under them, to attack and advance eastward along the Eastern Railway. In order to delay the offensive of the Anjia Army, the Japanese army generally planted mines along the railway and highway leading to the Suifen River, which brought great trouble to the offensive.

At the beginning, the generals of the 10th and 11th armies and the divisions below sent professional engineers to clear the mines, but the progress was slow. The Japanese army was worried that the minefields would be quickly destroyed by the artillery fire of the Anjia Army, so the mines laid were very dense, and the sediment and fallen leaves washed down from the high mountains on both sides after heavy rain thickly covered the ground, which added great difficulty to the demining work.

As for the lack of simple and effective demining methods such as shelling, cloud burst bombs, and high-temperature combustion, Yu An Yi believes that the weather has cleared, the air is dry, and the minefield is near the dense jungle where the Wanda Mountains and the Changbai Mountains meet, and once large-scale shelling is carried out, or the use of cloudburst bombs and high-temperature burning and other demining methods, there is a great chance of triggering a forest fire, and once it spreads, it will not only hinder the troops' advance, but also be a huge disaster for the people in the northeast. Many people who depend on the jungle are on the verge of starvation.

Demining was not easy, because the Anjia army chased too quickly, many Japanese troops fled into the deserted jungle, and relied on the characteristics of high mountains and dense forests that were easy to hide, and fought the trapped beasts fearlessly to death. On the first day of the demining work, a group of devils lurking in the dense forest broke out and suddenly attacked an engineer unit in the demining process, resulting in more than 20 casualties among officers and men.

This incident made An Yi very annoyed, and immediately instructed to send special forces to intensify the attack on the Japanese troops hiding in the mountains and forests on both wings, and absolutely not allow a similar situation to occur again. Just when An Yi was pondering how to deal with the dense minefield array of devils, the people below made the first move.

Zong Xingzhen, commander of the 10th Group Army, was a fierce man of the special brigade of the Anjia Army in the ** Division, and when he saw that the demining was unfavorable, he immediately rushed to the prisoner of war camp and escorted more than 5,000 Japanese soldiers who had been captured in Harbin and Mudanjiang to the minefield.

The so-called "rolling mines" are to let people lie on the ground, like a car running over, and roll over a minefield densely covered with mines, thus detonating the mines on the way to roll. When a person rolls at high speed, there is a certain chance that he can avoid the damage caused by the explosion of the mine, so "rolling mine" is an effective method of mine clearance, of course, as the speed slows down, the probability of death will be higher and higher, and the possibility of survival is very small, of course, it is not nothing, and this scene is not uncommon in the main theme movies of later generations to show the fearless revolutionary spirit.

However, if someone forces "rolling thunder" at gunpoint, it will not be very pleasant, knowing that it is death, how can the devil obediently obey? Immediately caused a huge commotion.

Zongxing really saw that forcibly apportioning the "rolling thunder" would not work, so he played a small trick and randomly designated a prisoner to let him choose whether to roll the thunder himself or two people, one of the designated two people would roll the thunder in his place, and the other person would continue to engage in this "fun" roll call work, and if he did not choose within ten seconds, then this person would be shot on the spot.

This "fun" little game quickly disintegrated the unity and resistance of the captives, after the first few guys refused to make a choice to be shot, someone finally gave in, and designated two people who had a bad relationship with themselves to replace them, and then this behavior was imitated by the group, and the devils who were lucky enough to get the "right to name names" constantly chose to replace the dead ghosts among their former comrades-in-arms, and the unfortunate guys rolled into the minefield with unwillingness and hatred, and many people survived, so the unity of the devil captives existed in name only, Everyone is wary and suspicious of their partners.

From Mudanjiang to Muling, this "interesting" game has lasted for a week, and more than 3,000 devils have died so far, although An Yi feels that this method is cruel, but the object is a little devil whose hands are stained with the blood of the Chinese, so he acquiesces to this way of demining.

An Yi put down the binoculars and said to Zong Xingzhen and Zhang Zuying, who were following him:

"Xingzhen, Zu Ying, at this time, Han Chengfu's 23rd Group Army has already taken Wang Qing, and will soon join the 3rd Group Army marching east from Changchun to Yanji; Lu Xiong's 20th Group Army had also entered and occupied Linkou and Jining, and joined forces with Wang Yulin's 12th Group Army, which had advanced eastward along the Songhua River to occupy Jiamusi, Huachuan, and Fujin, at Boli. In the north, the forces of the two armies were concentrated, and it was believed that it would not be long before they could approach the Ussuri River and threaten the Japanese railway lines in the Far East.

"Now our two armies, which are the main forces of the attack, are still grinding here, and I am afraid that the whole army will see our jokes...... I'm a disgraced commander! ”

Zong Xingzhen blushed, scratched his head embarrassedly, Zhang Zuying smiled a little helplessly: "The devil is too yin, not only the valley bottom, but even the mountain beams on both sides have a lot of mines, which will detonate if you don't pay attention to it, whether it is for ourselves or for the sake of the people in the future, these mines must be discharged in one go, no matter what!"

"However, after advancing to this mountainous area, the number of mines has been significantly reduced, and I believe that the progress of mine clearance will be much faster in the future...... *** Little Japan, even they must not know how many mines have been buried in this area!"

At this time, a communications staff officer ran over and sent a message directly to An Yi without saluting.

After reading it, An Yi pulled Zong Xingzhen and Zhang Zuying closer to him, briefly explained a few words, and then under the protection of Shen Fengdao and more than a dozen guards, he sat in a special armored command vehicle parked in the middle of the open space that could resist the direct fire of the 57mm cannon at close range.

Returning to the car, placed under the tight protection of the armor, Shen Fengdao let out a long sigh.

The battlefield is too dangerous, not to mention the threat of sharpshooters that the Japanese army may hide in the mountains at any time, even if it is not safe to walk, no one knows whether there will be mines left in the underground that have been detected many times, and it happens to explode when you step on it.

Therefore, Shen Fengdao cheered up all his spirits, in addition to making all communication and security personnel not allowed to salute An Yi, he also repeatedly told An Yi that he must look at the road that the guards in front of him had walked and confirm that it was safe before walking, otherwise he would not agree to An Yi to go to the front line.

Huang Zhi, chief of staff of the Fifth Route Army, said to An Yi:

"The person who came has been sent to the headquarters, and after verification by the intelligence department, it is indeed our person, and from the information he feedback, it can be seen that he came from Tokyo this time and has a secret mission explained by Ishihara Waner. He said everything can only be interviewed with you! ”

"Now that his identity has been revealed, how did he return to China?"

An Yi stroked his chin and said to himself strangely: "Could it be that little Japan wants to seek peace talks through him?" But at this time, if you want to make peace, you have to bring down North Korea and the Far East anyway, and then you can talk about anything else, otherwise everything is hands-free......"

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ps: Woo woo woo, in the midst of illness, the new book has to break out in the face of a strong enemy, and it can't be discarded here, the head is a mess, how can it be a miserable word?

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