[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 157: Operation Million (Ask for Subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Although the situation on the battlefield has changed, Wu Xiuda is not worried at all. Although there are only more than 10,000 troops in the Qitaihe area, far less than the Japanese puppet army outside the city, there are more than 20,000 people in the main force of the 9th Division in the north of the Qitai River, and there are more than 20,000 of his people in the south of the city.www.biquge.info

Moreover, Wu Xiuda had already received a telegram from the former enemy's general headquarters, saying that the former commander had issued the latest operational order, and that all the troops subordinate to the former command of North Manchuria would launch an all-out attack on the large and small towns in the entire North Manchurian region today, and soon the little devils would not be able to take care of a small Qitai River.

Sure enough, at about five o'clock in the evening of January 7, as soon as it was dark, the Kwantung Army Headquarters received news that Baoqing, Jixi and Boli counties were attacked by the Shina army at the same time, and all three cities were lost overnight, and the defenders of the three infantry brigades were surrounded and annihilated.

Immediately afterwards, Longjing, Helong, Hunchun and Fusong were also attacked by unknown armed forces, and four infantry brigades stationed in these four counties and nearly 3,800 puppet troops were annihilated.

On the 8th, Li Zhaolin's troops captured Linkou and Lishu, and the troops approached Jixi. For a time, the entire central and eastern parts of Northeast China became the stage of Xu Hu's department, and the entire Japanese Kwantung Army was in an extremely passive situation.

Ma Zheng was not idle when Xu Hu's department was dealing with the Japanese army, and he was also actively planning a larger-scale battle.

For the next stage of the battle, Ma Zheng reorganized the troops in the northeast. After consulting the Central Committee, the Northeast Military Region was newly established, with Xu Hu as the commander, Li Zhaolin as the political commissar, and Xue Zhiqiang as the chief of staff.

After the reorganization, the Northeast Military Region has six divisions under its jurisdiction, namely, the Fourth Division, the Fifth Division, the Ninth Division, the 31st, 32nd, and 33rd Divisions, in addition to three cavalry brigades, three artillery brigades, two engineer brigades, one brigade of the guard unit, and communications and logistics units.

The battle in the northeast is still going on, and the eight immortals on both sides have crossed the sea to show their magical powers, and the fight is extremely tragic.

In order to support Xu Hu's headquarters, Ma Zheng ordered the air force to immediately send troops to the northeast to carry out strategic bombing of the important strongholds and facilities of the Japanese puppet army.

Although the Kwantung Army, without the support of the air force, still had the upper hand in terms of comprehensive combat effectiveness, because their forces were relatively scattered and did not fit to be concentrated, Xu Hu's troops temporarily had the upper hand in the battle in the North Manchurian region.

On January 9, news came from the European theater that the Soviet Red Army had achieved a great victory at Kursk after inflicting heavy losses on the German armored forces in the Battle of Kursk a few days earlier. In this decisive battle, the German army lost about 360,000 soldiers, more than 2,500 tanks, more than 4,000 artillery pieces, and more than 1,800 aircraft, making Nazi Germany basically lose its offensive capability. From then on, the Soviet army completely seized the strategic initiative, and the German army was forced to switch to all-out defense.

After that, the Soviet army launched an offensive on a front of more than 2,000 kilometers from Velikiye Luki to the Black Sea, and soon regained nearly half of the lost territory, including Bryansk, Smolensk, Kiev and other large cities.

The Soviet Red Army has made major achievements in Eastern Europe, which means that the invincible German army has entered the countdown to destruction, coupled with the major victories of the American army in the Pacific theater and the British army in the North African theater, the world anti-fascist war has entered the final moment, and this is the opportunity that Ma Zheng has been waiting for.

If you want to subdue the entire Northeast region, you must not only complete preparations in terms of strength, but also need a suitable external environment. Ma Zheng is not worried about the strength of the Saibei Corps, after more than half a year of development, the total strength of the Saibei Corps has exceeded 1 million, and each of the five major military regions has more than 200,000 troops.

In addition, the Saibei Corps has also formed its own air force, armored corps and strategic artillery units, and even the navy has more than 80 large and medium-sized ships, such a huge military force, and the opponent of the Saibei Corps, the Kwantung Army, has not increased its strength, but has been wiped out a lot, and the total strength has dropped to 650,000.

Now the external environment has also reached Ma Zheng's requirements, so Ma Zheng feels that it is time to launch the second phase of the war.

In order to be able to win this battle, Ma Zheng also suggested to the central government, and the central government came forward to request the Soviet Air Force to participate in the battle as a volunteer army.

Although Ma Zheng also knew that the Soviet Union and Japan had a neutrality agreement and might not send troops, Ma Zheng knew better that after the decisive victory in the Ukrainian campaign, the threat of the German army to the Soviet Union had dropped to the freezing point, and Stalin might not care about the Japanese.

Moreover, at this time, the Japanese army was not the rampaging tiger in the Pacific Ocean, and under the joint attack of the United States and Britain and other countries, Japan had become a sick cat.

Moreover, this operation was not for the Soviet Union to declare war on Japan, but only for their air force to assist Ma Zheng's troops in the operation, in order to contain the Japanese army's air superiority in the northeast region, and the Soviets would not refuse.

Sure enough, soon the Soviets replied that they were willing to send two air divisions to the war, and the specific matters would be the responsibility of the commander of the Far Eastern Military District, Lieutenant General Chabarov.

On January 11, at the invitation of Ma Zheng, Chabarov, commander of the Soviet Far Eastern Military District, and Major General Ivan, of the 1st Air Force Division, took a special plane from Outer Mongolia to Chengde to attend a high-level military meeting held by Ma Zheng in Chengde.

At two o'clock in the afternoon of the 11th, the large conference room of the headquarters of the Rehe Military Region was crowded, and the commanders and political commissars of various military regions gathered together to wait for Ma Zheng's arrival.

The conference room is very elegantly arranged, with solid wood tables and chairs, a topographical map of the Northeast hung on the wall, and a huge map of the whole territory of the Northeast is tiled on the table, while Ma Zheng, Political Commissar Luo, Xu Xiaolin, Yang Chengwu, Liu Fengchi, Tie Xinlan, Chabarov, Major General Ivan and others sit around the table.

After everyone sat down, Ma Zheng got up and said: "Everyone, today we are gathered in Chengde, mainly aimed at the Japanese Kwantung Army entrenched in the northeast, first of all, I will tell you about the situation of our enemy!" ”

"After the outbreak of the Pacific War, many mixed brigades of the Kwantung Army were transferred to the Pacific theater. The Kwantung Army, which has been transferred to the Pacific Theater from last year to the present, includes the Headquarters of the 2nd Front Army stationed in Qiqihar, the Headquarters of the 2nd Army stationed in the Yanji area, the 28th, 29th, 88th, 20th, 133rd, and 165th Divisions, and the 2nd Tank Division, and the 31st Division and the 20th Army Headquarters have been transferred back to Central China. By January 1944, the Kwantung Army had two front armies under its jurisdiction. Namely, the 1st Front and the 3rd Front. ”

"The battle sequence of the First Front is: the 3rd Army, the 20th Army, the 5th Army. The battle sequence of the 3rd Front Army was: the 4th Army, the 6th Army, the Tank Army, and the 107th Division directly under the Kwantung Army, with a total of 14 infantry divisions and 2 tank divisions. In order to replenish its strength, the Japanese army transferred the 120th, 121st, 122nd, 123rd, 124th, 125th, 126th, 127th, and 128th divisions formed not long ago to the northeast to organize the battle sequence of the Kwantung Army. Therefore, the Kwantung Army now has 22 infantry divisions, two tank divisions, two air armies, plus the continental railway troops, various guard units and military police units, with a total strength of about 578,000 people. ”

"In addition, the puppet Manchurian Defense Army has 14 infantry divisions and 3 cavalry divisions, with a total strength of more than 175,000 cadres, so the total strength of the Japanese puppet army is a little more than 750,000."

"Now I would like to introduce to you the strength of our army, which is participated in this operation against Japan, including the four military regions of our corps and the 12 divisions of the North China Corps, with a total of 34 infantry divisions, two armored divisions, nine artillery brigades, 14 cavalry brigades, and two air force groups, totaling 940,000 people. Therefore, we have far surpassed the Japanese in terms of strength and heavy weapons, so we are confident that we will drive the Kwantung Army out of China, out of Korea, and into the sea like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, and we will be more capable of erasing the entire Kwantung Army from the Japanese battle sequence and completely destroying it. ”

The more Ma Zheng talked, the more excited he became, and at the end Ma Zheng was almost roaring.

All the military and political cadres present were stunned by Ma Zheng's generosity, they originally knew that the commander was going to carry out the second phase of the attack on the Kwantung Army, but they did not expect that so many troops would be dispatched this time. That's almost a million people, and it's exciting to think about.