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Chapter 1404: Battle Suihua (3)

At the headquarters of the Kwantung Army, Ueda Kenkichi was pacing back and forth, looking anxious. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

As soon as night fell, the attack reached the front line of Lao Yeling, and the forward team was forcibly crossing the Wulin River, while the rear team needed to be stationed at each pass to ensure the supply of supplies. The Chinese army made full use of its proficiency in the terrain to carry out offensive operations against the places where the brigade and below were stationed, and when the divisions and brigades sent their main forces to the rescue, they were frequently blocked, and the roads that they had traveled during the day suddenly became a death zone full of traps and mines. In just five or six hours, it was confirmed that the number of brigades and squadrons of jade shatter had reached three, and the squadron had reached eight, and such a huge loss was something that Ueda Kenkichi had never expected beforehand.

Now not only is the entire east bank of the Mudanjiang River in chaos, but even the west bank of the Mudanjiang River, which was originally calm, is not peaceful. After nightfall, the Harbin-Mudanjiang railway was attacked many times, among which nearly 20 highways and railways in Zhangguangcailing were devastated, and the troops stationed along the railway line were either killed or wounded, and suffered heavy losses.

In addition, the 12th Division, which had just occupied Fangzheng and Tonghe counties, was frequently attacked by the Daqingshan guerrillas and other anti-Japanese anti-Japanese units on its logistical supply routes, and ammunition and fuel were scarce, and the 12th Division, which was trapped between Zhangguangcailing, Daqingshan, and Baishishan, was struggling.

Trapped by the lack of troops, Ueda Kenkichi could not fortify everywhere at all, and could only choose key areas for defense, but such a layout gave the Chinese guerrillas and the Anti-Japanese Federation a great space for their activities, resulting in the possibility of being beaten at any time. Now, the Chinese army that has penetrated deep into Jilin and Liaoning, one has sneaked out of Changbai Mountain and extended its tentacles to the Liaohe Plain areas such as Siping, Kaiyuan, and Tieling, while the other is active in the Songnen Plain areas such as Jiutai, Dehui, and Nong'an, looting materials and relocating people.

The hundreds of thousands of troops withdrawn from the North China Front have just arrived in Mukden (Shenyang), and the commander of the North China Front, General Terauchi Shoichi, and the chief of staff, Major General Ishihara Waner, are on their way to Xinjing (Changchun).

The situation in Manchuria has deteriorated sharply, especially in the North Manchurian region, the city of Aihui has long fallen, and all the mixed third brigades in Bei'an County have been shattered, and now even Suihua City is in danger, which makes it difficult for Ueda Kenkichi, who has always regarded himself very highly, to accept.

Things elsewhere can be ignored for the time being, but Suihua City has to hold on no matter what. The geographical location of Suihua is too critical, and its significance as a bridgehead in North Manchuria is also very huge, and only by keeping Suihua can we cover a fig leaf for the turmoil of the entire Manchurian situation. Otherwise, the emperor was furious, the cabinet was questioning, the military department was dissatisfied, and he became a general.

"Where did the 28th Brigade and the 35th Brigade arrive?"

Kenkichi Ueda finally stood in front of the map, and the thin old man, who was already sixty-two years old, had been hit repeatedly, his hair on his half-bald head was becoming more and more thin, his eyebrows and beard were gray, and his whole person looked extremely haggard.

Lieutenant General Hideki Tojo, who led the staff team to return to the Kwantung Army sequence in advance, raised his baton and pointed to Baizhen, which was more than 30 kilometers away from Suihua City:

"At present, the two brigades are advancing rapidly in the direction of Suihua at a forced march speed of 10 kilometers per hour. As long as the 31st Brigade can stick to the Chinese army to the death, tomorrow with the cooperation of our air force, there is great hope that the Chinese army will be completely annihilated under the city of Suihua. ”

Kenkichi Ueda said worriedly: "Can you hold out until dawn tomorrow?" Okamoto-kun sent telegrams one after another, the Chinese army was equipped with a large number of Soviet-made heavy artillery, as well as tanks, armored vehicles and other siege weapons, Suihua was in danger! “

Hideki Tojo comforted: "Commander, I have personally visited Suihua Castle, in order to resist the attack of the Soviets, the city walls have all been reinforced with reinforced concrete, and most of the fortifications of the city are also built with steel and cement according to the thickness of three to four meters, and ordinary artillery fire cannot hurt it at all." According to the design requirements, I dare not say that three months is enough, and one week is more than enough, please give Okamoto-kun enough confidence......"

"Report! Suihua was in an emergency, the Chinese army used armored trains, and after the commander of the Okamoto Brigade expressed his will to live and die with Suihua, he cut off contact! ”

"What!?"

Ueda Kenkichi's face changed drastically, and he and Hideki Tojo glanced at each other, their faces full of despair.

......

In Suihua City, the devils hiding in the bunkers and fortifications of the city wall, whether they were officials or ordinary soldiers, suddenly saw the armored train that appeared on the railway, their eyes widened in horror, and many people even let out desperate screams. These devils know very well in their hearts that the 240-mm super cannon equipped with the armored train is enough to tear apart all the strong fortifications!

The panting armored train gradually stopped advancing, the heavy cannon in the front of the locomotive made a metallic sound of "dangdang", and the huge 240mm heavy cannon slowly raised its black head, and the huge muzzle was aimed at the Suihua city wall.

"Bang-"

There was a deafening bang from the armored train, the whole body shook violently, and the incomparably huge recoil force of the shells when fired caused the two steel rails under the car to sink slightly.

The black muzzle spat out a long tongue of fire several meters long, and the 240-millimeter heavy cannon shell spun at high speed and flew out, flying towards a tall and majestic and seemingly impregnable large pillbox at the head of Suihua City, 500 meters away.

"Boom-"

A loud bang came, and a huge hole was opened in the bunker hole, and more than thirty devils in it turned into a mass of meat sauce in the explosion, and the broken flesh and reinforced concrete blocks were mixed together, and shot out from the breach with the churning flames.

Witnessing this incomparably powerful blow, all the devils hiding in the fortifications were in a hurry, and under the urging of the infantry and grenadiers, the machine gunners picked up their light and heavy machine guns one after another, and poured a dense rain of bullets on the armored train. The bullets rained down on the body of the armored train, and the sparks splashed everywhere, but the thick-skinned armored train was unscathed.

Ignoring the devil's fire, the armored train continued to use its 240-mm heavy cannon to aim at the fortifications that had stood majestically under the previous artillery cover, sending those reinforced concrete bunkers into the sky with one shot.

Witnessing the gradual disappearance of the fortifications of the city, Major General Okamoto, who sent a farewell telegram to the Kwantung Army Headquarters, had a solemn face and ordered loudly:

"Immediately organize death squads, and at all costs, also take out the armored train of the China, otherwise our walls will soon collapse!"

"Hey!"

A wing commander hurried away, and at this moment, the officers and assistants in the entire command headquarters felt a sense of foreboding rise in their hearts.

The two-meter-thick, steel-made Suihua East Gate slowly opened under the influence of machinery, and soon, a large number of puppet soldiers poured out of the doorway, and a look of despair appeared on their faces, and they pounced in the direction of the armored train. Following the puppet army, there was a devil death squad with a white ribbon wrapped around their foreheads and the word "victory" written in red letters.

The T-28 medium tank, the T-26 light tank, the Ba-27 armored vehicle and the ninety-two wheeled armored vehicle, which followed around the armored train, spat out a tongue of fire. At the same time, the 75-mm guns on the armored train, the hundreds of light and heavy machine guns used by the Fourth and Fifth Divisions, and more than 200 mortars from the mortar regiment were fired at the Japanese puppet army.

Such terrifying firepower was built into an unbreakable line, and the puppet soldiers who rushed out fell to the ground one after another as if they were cutting wheat. It didn't last for five minutes, and within 200 meters of rushing out, the puppet army was beaten all over the field and the whole army was annihilated.

When the puppet army was exhausted, the devil's death squad was immediately exposed to firepower, although the devil soldiers fell in rows, and the explosive bags wrapped around their waists were triggered, making a huge explosion, but these militarists who were *** by the spirit of bushido, still marched forward fearlessly, but how could manpower compete with the destructive power of steel? Most of the devil daredevils fell to the ground 300 meters away, and a few devils were lucky enough to approach 100 meters, but they turned into cold corpses under the accurate point fire of snipers.

The futile charge of the devil's brave death squad is completely a suicide show. The infantry of the 5th and 6th Divisions witnessed this suicidal attack and joined in the ranks of strangling the devils, as easily as shooting a moving target in a weekday training.

After destroying about 4,000 puppet army death squads, the armored train began to bombard the fortifications on the city wall with one cannon after another. After more than half an hour of shelling, the city wall of Suihua City was already scarred, and a section of the city wall on the left hand side of the city gate was blasted open with a gap of more than 20 meters wide.

In the operational headquarters on the platform of the railway station, which was converted from an ordinary train car, Hu Jiyang saw the effect of the shelling of the armored train through the binoculars and was very satisfied. When he saw that a large part of the city wall had been collapsed, he immediately turned his head and gave an order in an irrefutable tone: "Order the forward troops to assault!" ”

"Dididi-"

The battle sounded again with the loud trumpet of the charge, and a regimental soldier who was in the vanguard leapt from the trench and swept towards the gap in the wall that had been blasted open by armored trains. The tank was the first to start, leading the troops to charge, and close to the rubble, the tank muzzle continued to pour shells and machine gun bullets. All the 75-mm guns on the armored train also fired together, suppressing the remnants of the Japanese puppet army's return fire with heavy fire. Under the cover of the fire of armored trains and tanks, the striker smoothly rushed to the vicinity of the gap.

The shouts of killing were earth-shattering, and the Japanese soldiers were knocked to the ground one by one by the revenge bullets, and a few remnants of the devils suddenly jumped out of the ruins and started a fierce hand-to-hand battle with the rescue fighters who rushed up. Although the bayonet skills of those devils are quite skillful, they can't stop the attack of the rescue officers and soldiers who are pouring through the gap in the city wall like a tide.

At this moment, a group of devil death squads covered with explosives spills poured out from both sides of the gap, and they swooped towards the assault force and pulled the explosives bags wrapped around their waists.

"Boom-"

There was a loud bang, and the bricks, the remnants of reinforced concrete, the severed limbs, and the steel shards at the breaches of the wall mixed together, and the flames soared into the sky. The forward units of the Fifth and Sixth Divisions suffered great losses when they were attacked by devils and human bombs, and more than 300 officers and men in the gap were either killed or wounded, and suffered all casualties.

In order to regain this strategic point, two T-28 medium tanks quickly rushed towards the gap in the city wall, crushed the broken bricks, and stopped at the gap to suppress the Japanese counterattack.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the devil immediately organized a second batch of human bombs and swooped down on the gap. The machine gun of the T-28 tank spat out a dense tongue of fire, and the bullets swept down a large area of human bombs that rushed at them. Just when the Japanese suicide team was approaching 50 meters and the two tanks were in danger, the follow-up troops had already arrived, light and heavy machine guns were fired, mortars and grenadiers captured from the Japanese opened fire one after another, and the dense rain of bullets sent the human bombs who were not afraid of death to meet Amaterasu.

"Kill!"

Another battalion of rescue officers and soldiers shouted and rushed into the gap, the Mosinagan rifle in his hand, aimed at the devil human bombs that pounced on them to carry out accurate point shooting, violent explosions one after another, one by one devil death squad members, under the blow of the explosive bag on their waists, turned into a mass of flesh and blood.

Finally, the terrifying human bombs were cleared, and the officers and men of the 5th and 6th Divisions, who had gathered into an unstoppable crowd, rushed into Suihua City with shouts after consolidating the defense at the gap.

"Rush!"

The red-eyed soldiers followed the street and entered the blocking points arranged by the Japanese soldiers in various rooms, and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Japanese soldiers.

The officers and men of the special brigade quickly followed, they climbed the broken walls along the ruins, climbed the broken city walls, and through the battlements, fired accurately at the windows that spat out tongues of fire from time to time, killing a large number of machine gunners and sharpshooters of the Japanese puppet army, and ensuring the safety of the charging infantry.

After receiving the latest intelligence feedback from the front line and observing the evolution of the battle situation in the train headquarters, Hu Jiyang put down his binoculars, briefly discussed with He Yifei, the commander of the Sixth Division, and then asked Tang Qian, the chief of staff, and said: "Old Tang, it's time to order the advance troops to quickly capture the city gate, so as to facilitate the large army to enter the city and fight." At this time, the Japanese army's human bombs were almost cleared, and tanks and armored vehicles should also enter the city to participate in the battle and clear the remnants of the enemy. Remind the soldiers in front of you, pay attention to the coordination of the infantry and the tank, I don't want unnecessary casualties! ”

"Okay, it's time to deal a fatal blow to the Japanese invaders!"

Tang Wen nodded, immediately walked out of the command car, and carefully instructed the herald on standby.

After receiving the latest instructions, the officers and men who served as the front of the assault quickly divided into two battalions and rushed to the east gate of Suihua. The soldiers were like tigers out of the gate, and the offensive momentum was unstoppable, and soon, a squadron of devils stationed at the east gate of Suihua was all reimbursed. The soldiers quickly opened the thick iron gates, and thousands of officers and soldiers rushed in, while tanks and armored vehicles also rushed into the city.

Tanks, armored vehicles, infantry, machine gunners and special forces fighters work together, tanks use artillery fire to destroy the fortifications in the city, special forces fighters use accurate marksmanship to suppress Japanese marksmen and hit distant fire points, infantry and armored vehicles kill those devils who try to get close to tanks, and officers use pistols to shoot devils who try to fight hand-to-hand at close range. Save the soldiers with an unstoppable offensive and move the front forward.

The soldiers of the puppet army had never seen such a fierce posture at all, and when they saw that the usually majestic "imperial army" had been shot and fell to the ground, they were so frightened that they completely lost their fighting spirit, turned around and fled.

"Shoot or kill!"

The sound like thunder was earth-shattering, and the puppet army who was reminded was overjoyed, and they threw away their guns, knelt on the ground, raised their hands high, and surrendered to the rescue fighters who rushed over.

With the surrender of a large number of puppet troops, there are only more than 2,000 devils left in the city who are still resisting, and the resistance has weakened by half.

The 5th and 6th Divisions were unrelenting, tanks and armored vehicles continued to use heavy firepower to cover the infantry's charge, and other machine gunners and mortar gunners quickly followed.

The fierce battle lasted from 1 a.m. to 3:30 a.m., and the remnants of the enemy in the city were basically wiped out, leaving only a brigade of devils, under the leadership of the commander of the Japanese army, Okamoto Brigade, in a sturdy four-story building of the puppet government, and resisted stubbornly. Not only is the building itself made of reinforced concrete, but even the outer courtyard wall is made of one-meter-thick masonry mixed with steel, which is extremely strong.

The two T28 tanks of the Tank Regiment of the Fifth Division fired more than a dozen shots one after another with tank guns, and they did not gain anything except leaving a little white mark on the courtyard wall. The devil relied on the sturdy building, in the high windows of each window, to strike outward, the attacking rescue soldiers rushed three times in a row, but could not make a breakthrough, the impact of the tank, could not break through the wall more than one meter thick, but there were hundreds of casualties.

Hu Jiyang, who received the urgent report, immediately instructed the artillery regiment to mobilize 152 mm plus howitzers to attack the fortified positions.

Five minutes later, two Soviet-made "Russo. The "Balthe" half-track, towing two 152-mm howitzers, drove into the city and quickly came to the Japanese puppet government building.

The artillery flattened the 152 mm howitzer and loaded it with high-explosive armor-piercing shells, and the muzzle of the black hole hole was aimed at the courtyard wall, and the artillery let out a huge roar, and the courtyard wall collapsed in response.

Immediately, the cannon continued to exert its might, blowing up a solid building into huge holes, and the devils in the building panicked, but helpless, and the screams were endless.

After firing more than 30 guns in a row, the building was already crumbling, and the officers and men of the Fifth and Sixth Divisions rushed in to engage in a hand-to-hand battle with the remaining Japanese troops.

Major General Okamoto, the commander of the Japanese army, was directly hit by an anti-aircraft artillery armor-piercing shell that broke through the outer wall of the building, and there were no bones left, and the rest of the devils had already been blown up, and they could not organize effective resistance at all, and within ten minutes, all the Japanese troops in the building were annihilated.

At this point, Suihua City, which has a large number of light and heavy industries and abundant inventory materials, has fallen into the hands of rescue, and the situation in the entire Northeast has undergone great changes.