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Chapter 1397 Emergency Transfer

The fighting on the front line of Mudanjiang has lasted for six days, but the situation has never been as grim as it is today. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

With Mudanjiang City as the center, the Japanese army launched a fierce attack on the 2nd, 8th, 9th, and 10th divisions of the defense on a front of more than 20 kilometers from north to south.

The Japanese army was very determined, and successively invested three divisions and regiments of the Seventh Division, the Eighth Division, and the 21st Division and eight brigades on this line to save the Japanese army from holding the battle line, and with the help of the mobile ability of the railway, it was possible to plug the loopholes in the river defense at any time, so that the Japanese army was helpless after several days of hard fighting.

During this period, the Japanese army drove tens of thousands of migrant workers, built the Mudanjiang City to Jiangxi Village, Mudanjiang City to Kalutun Railway, and determined to capture the rescue position on the east bank of the Mudanjiang River.

On the morning of the 19th, due to the sudden southward movement of cold air, the Mudanjiang area was filled with fog from 1 a.m. In order to prevent the Japanese army from taking advantage of the dense fog to choose to launch a river-crossing operation, they fired flares into the air as if they were not paying money, trying to find out the movements of the Japanese army.

However, on this night when visibility is less than five meters, such a move can only seek a kind of psychological comfort. At the various ferries on the west bank of the Mudanjiang River, the Japanese troops were dense and everywhere, but one by one they were orderly, and there was no noise.

At this moment, a semicircular light flashed in the area of Huangnigou and Nanlingtun on the east bank, and then a dense muffled thunder came, and all the Japanese troops located at the Kalutun Wharf looked at the eastern sky in astonishment, and the air seemed to be torn apart in an instant. Almost instantaneously, a heavy artillery shell roared and fell, and the circular fire shock wave instantly drew a large snow-bright circle, within a radius of tens of meters, everything flew into the sky, clods, stones, trees, people, trucks, all followed the swarthy ground, and rose to the sky.

In the blink of an eye, several more large-caliber shells fell around the pier, and for a time the mountain collapsed and the ground cracked, and the ground shook.

The obedience and discipline of the Japanese army was truly terrifying, and despite the surprise attack, all the soldiers just lay down in silence and endured the shells exploding around them. Everyone remembered the words of the officials at all levels when they set out, and they must not make a sound, otherwise it will bring unexpected disasters to the attack.

In fact, this is just a tentative artillery bombardment, in the fog, no one knows what happened on the other side of the river, can only use this means to detect whether there is an army assembly on the other side, but unfortunately, except for the sound of artillery, there is no sound in the dense fog, so the sound of artillery soon fell silent.

However, it was these dozen or so heavy artillery shells that made the dock on the west bank of the Mudanjiang River a mess, and more than a dozen cars were thrown into the distance, burning fiercely. The Japanese soldiers who were boarding the assault boat suffered heavy casualties and corpses all over the field.

When the artillery stopped, the Japanese began to line up again and board the boats as if nothing had happened, filled them up, and rushed to the opposite shore.

Soon, the first batch of ships rushed to the Langyu on the east bank of the Mudanjiang River, and the Japanese army began to build a beachhead, but at this moment the dense fog was set up on the rescue position four hundred meters away, but nothing was found, and the flares still rose into the sky in vain.

Soon, a wing of Japanese troops went ashore, all kinds of light and heavy equipment were arranged in place, and the Japanese troops began to touch the position of saving ***.

"Boom-" sound, I don't know who stepped on the mine laid out at the front of the position, the Japanese attack was finally exposed, all the officers and soldiers guarding the front line, quickly woke up, raised their guns, and shot blindly at the front of the position shrouded in thick fog.

Seeing that their whereabouts were exposed, the Japanese troops no longer deliberately concealed their whereabouts, and immediately returned fire, with light and heavy machine guns, grenadiers, and mortars, desperately firing at the front, regardless of whether they hit the target or not.

In the fog, there were flashes of explosions, muzzle flames, shouts of killing, machine guns, and grenade explosions......

The smoke and fog were mixed together, and no one could be seen a few steps away, which was extremely unfavorable for the defenders. Because the muzzle of the gun lost its crosshairs, the artillery and mortars could not exert their power, and the Japanese troops soon rushed to the front line, and the Chinese and Japanese troops were close to each other, and there were scenes of fighting bayonets in many places.

Due to the massive expansion of the army, the 8th, 9th, and 10th divisions of the Salvation Army, which were later formed, were mainly composed of Chinese Red Army soldiers, and were equipped with weapons of the All-Soviet standard.

In order to minimize the casualties of the troops, in accordance with the order issued by the rescue headquarters to preserve the living forces as much as possible, the commander in charge of the defense line of the section gave the order to retreat, preparing to destroy the opponent with a group of pillboxes built on a gentle slope.

Seeing the retreat of the squadron, the Japanese army let out a huge cheer, and then under the command of officers at all levels, they charged forward again, but they were soon blocked by the second line of positions carefully constructed by the rescue ***.

Mudanjiang area is located in the north of Changbai Mountain, the west is Zhang Guangcai Ridge, the east is Lao Ye Ling, the whole area highlights the mountain and undulating, also vertical and horizontal rivers, since ancient times it is called "nine points of mountains and rivers and one point of field", the terrain is mainly mountainous and hilly, showing four geological forms of middle mountains, low mountains, hills and river valley basins.

The second front consisted mainly of pillboxes, all of which were built on hills, and the firing ports were very small, and tongues of fire were spewed outward, sweeping the Japanese troops to the ground in batches.

The Japanese army was in a state of attacking from the bottom up, and the originally carefully constructed pillboxes could not be hit by bullets, grenades could not be thrown, and explosives bags and blasting canisters could not be approached, but this time, in order to break through the Jiangdong defense line, the Japanese command specially allocated a large number of flamethrowers to various divisions and regiments to enrich the offensive means when breaking through the fortress group.

Flamethrowers are actually not the standard equipment of the Japanese army, and the vast majority of devils have not received professional training, and the methods are extremely rusty, coupled with a large cylinder of fuel on their backs to the battlefield, they are naturally extremely nervous in their hearts. As long as the Japanese army did not shoot accurately, the long flames and the characteristic "whooshing" sound would immediately become a reference for guiding the officers and soldiers to shoot, and the bullets in all directions would be concentrated, and the Japanese flamethrowers quickly turned into big fire people, howling miserably in the thick fog.

Thanks to the fog, there are still a large number of flamemen rushed to the bunker more than ten meters in front of the bunker, they carefully lay on the ground, at the direction of the machine gun tongue of fire, shoot out a stream of flames, as long as the shooting hole, the machine gunner in the bunker has no choice, the whole bunker will quickly be filled with flames, there is no time to retreat, there is no choice but to be generous.

With the fall of one pillbox after another, mortars, light and heavy machine guns and artillery could not exert their due power in the dense fog, and the commander who quickly judged the situation of the enemy and us immediately announced a retreat in order to preserve the vital forces, first let the artillery units withdraw from the battle, and then the reserves and the officers and men of the front line. In order to prevent the Mudanjiang River from being cut off by the Japanese army, this time the troops did not choose to move north and south, but retreated into the lofty mountains and mountains in the east, retreated to the line of Lao Yeling, and then used the rolling mountains to maneuver with the Japanese army.

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Jining County, save the *** headquarters.

When the army commander Tang Honglei heard the bad news from all fronts, his expression was solemn, and he stood in front of a large map of Heilongjiang, carefully observing the evolution of the battle situation.

Deputy Army Commander Zhang Jie said with some joy: "Fortunately, we gave priority to the transfer of the people on the east bank of the Mudanjiang River yesterday, otherwise it will definitely be uncomfortable to watch our people fall into the clutches of devils." Although the positions along the Mudanjiang River have fallen into the hands of the enemy, our main force has not suffered serious losses, and the terrain of the eastern line of the Mudanjiang River is dangerous, especially the road leading to Jining, and the Guanchuan is dangerous, and in addition to our continuous construction for several months, minefields are everywhere, and fortresses are arranged in many dangerous places, and it is not so easy for the Japanese army to completely break through. ”

Tang Honglei nodded, and suddenly ordered: "Order all departments, after the train and armored train are evacuated, all the railway bridges will be destroyed." If large-caliber heavy artillery and heavy weapons that are inconvenient to move away cannot be removed for a while, we must resolutely blast them, and we must not let our hands and feet be tied to the altars and jars, still less allow our precious materials to fall into the hands of the Japanese invaders.

"This time the Japanese army is very determined, and the follow-up strength is still increasing, I estimate that for a long time after that, we will switch from offensive to defensive, and we can only resolutely carry out the guerrilla warfare strategy formulated for us by the commander before departure, and now it is time to really test us."

The communications staff officer took the order, and An Ming, director of the military department and mayor of Jining, said: "Now we have to urgently relocate a series of factories such as military factories, pharmaceutical factories, and textile factories in Jining...... I think Suifenhe City is a good choice, the place is far away from the Japanese army's control area, starting from the Mudanjiang River, all the way are lofty mountains, very conducive to our guerrilla warfare, and the railway is connected with Soviet Russia, which is not only convenient for retreat, but also can support the frontline in time, the geographical location is very superior. ”

"You can call the shots about this, and in the future, you will have to take the initiative to take on the part of industry and civil affairs, and I will only be responsible for fighting the war...... Alas, no one expected that this fog would come at such an inopportune time, and the situation would deteriorate so quickly that it was jaw-dropping, and the bombing of various mines should be quickly put on the agenda, and not be in a hurry at that time, and leave good resources to *** people. There are also those *** captives, if they can be used by me, after strict interrogation and show us loyalty with practical actions, you can consider staying, referring to the individual team formed by the Baoding battalion forwarded by the fourth hall, which is used by various departments, and the rest of the stubborn ones are all buried in the mine, so that the *** people have a headache. I don't believe that so many prongs can't stop the arrogance of the little devils. ”

Speaking of this, Tang Honglei looked at his watch and stood up: "It's already six o'clock, I'll go to the warehouse now to check our family resources, for a long time in the future, we will spend time in the mountains, and these things must be properly transferred." Fortunately, we have built material storage points on Zhangguangcai Mountain, Guohel Mountain, Lao Ye Mountain, Taipingling Mountain, and Wanda Mountain, so we don't have to worry about the soldiers going hungry in the next year. By the way, how did you do with buying pack horses from the villagers? ”

An Mingqi stood up with him: "Now the thousands of trucks supported by the Red Army in the Far East are all responsible for transporting people, and the trains are also full of people, and those mules, donkeys, pack horses and other large livestock cannot be carried, and all of them have been bought by our government workers with silver dollars." In the city of Jining, many merchants were reluctant to leave, and on behalf of the government, I bought all their supplies with silver dollars, and then asked them to go to the nearby countryside to hide, and wait for the anger of the Japanese army to pass, and then come out to do business. The merchants were grateful to Dade and evacuated the county seat one after another. ”

Surrounded by guards and guards, the two came to the gate of the headquarters, only to see the streets shrouded in thick fog, all of which were people fleeing outside the city with their families and hurrying with packages and suitcases. In addition to the north gate, the military barracks outside the other three city gates are all set up as automobile transit centers, and the masses around Jining will enter the Soviet Far East through the cars that travel to and from the Sino-Soviet border. The government of Save *** and Jining has made a solemn promise to ensure the interests of the people, and the people distributed to all parts of the Far East will have liaison personnel stationed to deal with disputes with the Soviets in a timely manner and safeguard the interests of the Chinese.

Tang Honglei stopped and looked at it for a while, and sighed: "Although I have only occupied this city for more than a month, I am really reluctant to leave here." After all, this is the first city we built with our own hands, and many factories and enterprises have condensed our efforts, and now all of them have to move away and rebuild in other places, which is not a taste when you think about it. ”

An Mingqi comforted: "Don't worry, everything will be fine." The temporary abandonment now is for a better harvest in the future, and when we run away *** people in the future, we can build as much as we want. I'm afraid that you will be reluctant to leave the army when the time comes...... By the way, army commander, you said that we now have ten divisions of men and horses under our command, and there are still five divisions being organized, you said that if we return to our Anjia army sequence, which position will the two of us achieve? ”

Tang Honglei grinned: "No matter how you say it, you have to be a military commander, right?" Speaking of which, all of this is really like a dream, and when we left Syria in January this year, who would have thought that we would grow to the current size? But then again, don't look at so many of us, if we really want to meet Uncle Xia and Uncle Hutou, they can easily defeat us with one army. ”

An Mingqi was also very happy: "So, there is no need to remember the past at all, let's just look forward." The northeast is full of mountains, where can I not go? As long as we take out the common sense of mountain warfare that we learned at the Syrian Military Academy, I don't believe that Xiao *** can do anything with us. ”

"Hearing you say this, I'm in a much better mood, let's go, let's get busy, try to finish the work as soon as possible, *** people don't have much time left for us."

After speaking, the two of them each took someone and left quickly.