Chapter 598: The Northeast Siege and Annihilation of Songwei in the War of Resistance (2)

In fact, Duomen and Honjo Shigeru were also anxious at the moment, but Duomen was stubbornly blocked by the Jiangbei Column in the area from Yushu to Wujia Town, and only advanced less than five kilometers in one day and one night, not to mention the rescue of the Matsuo 26th Brigade, it is still unknown whether it can relieve the Japanese army of the Twin Castles in time.

At the same time that he urgently mobilized troops to prepare for the rescue of Shuangcheng and the 26th Brigade, he sent an urgent telegram to the military headquarters to quickly mobilize troops to Manchuria, and on the other hand, transferred the main force of western Liaoning back to Shenyang to take over the defense of Shenyang, and quickly assembled the troops currently stationed in Shenyang and Jilin, and handed over the 4th Brigade of the Suzuki 8th Division, which had just arrived in Shenyang, to Itagaki personally under the command of Itagaki and moved north to rescue the 26th Brigade.

Itagaki's reinforcements did not encounter any trouble before advancing to Siping. However, after Siping, between Bamian City and Fujia Town, the railway was bombed twice in a row, and a military column was listed on the track in Bamian City, and the railway had to be stopped to repair it.

Therefore, it was delayed for a whole day, and it was not until the evening of the next day that Itagaki reinforcements crossed the Horqin grassland and arrived at Jianping, which was more than 50 kilometers away from Tailai.

It's just that the information obtained from arriving at Jianping made Itagaki extremely frustrated.

He received a report that nearly 100 parts of the railway, which was about 25 kilometers long from Jianping to Tan, had been uprooted and blown up, and that if they were to be repaired one by one, it would take three days at the earliest, and according to Matsuo's reported battle situation, the 26 Brigade would certainly not be able to hold out for three days.

Itagaki had no choice but to order the troops to march north overnight, and at the same time telegraphed Honjo Shigeru to mobilize a large number of vehicles to catch up with the Fourth Brigade as soon as possible.

The railway from Jianping to Tantu was uprooted by Liang Zhongjia, and the troops of Bamiancheng and Fujiazhen who blew up the railway twice in a row to prevent the Japanese army from moving north, were not from the Fourth Route Army. As to who helped the Fourth Route Army stop the Japanese reinforcements, Song Zhewu was very strange.

At this time, the Northeast intelligence system mastered by Qi Xingya came into play.

In less than a day, Qi Xingya found out the accurate news and contacted the other party.

It turned out that this was done by a guerrilla unit led by Zhao Shangzhi, secretary of the Manchuria Anti-Japanese General Party Caucus of the Manchuria Provincial Party Committee.

For Zhao Shangzhi, Song Zhewu remembers it very clearly.

Zhao Shangzhi graduated from the fifth phase of the Whampoa Military Academy, and served as the commander of the Third Army of the Northeast People's Revolutionary Army, the commander-in-chief of the General Headquarters of the North Manchurian Anti-Japanese Allied Army, and the deputy commander-in-chief of the Second Route Army of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation.

Zhao Shangzhi was only released from the prison of the Northeast Army after the "918" incident, and at this moment he is leading the first anti-Japanese guerrilla force created in Northeast China.

As long as the resistance is resistant, no matter what kind of troops it is, Song Zhewu will vigorously support it, not to mention that this person is still the famous Zhao Shangzhi.

Song Zhewu immediately instructed Qi Xingya to establish a long-term fixed contact with Zhao Shangzhi, and gave 1,000 rifles and 50,000 yuan to the ocean.

Song Zhewu originally planned to freeze the Japanese army for another night, and wait until tomorrow, when the Japanese army is hungry and cold, and then launch a general attack on the Japanese army.

However, because Itagaki moved quickly, even though it was a march in the vast snowfield, it would only take a day and a half to travel a hundred miles, and it would arrive at Tailai at noon tomorrow at the latest. What's more, the Japanese reinforcements will continue to arrive.

After discussing with Liang Zhongjia, Song Zhewu decided to advance the time of the general attack to 18:30 that night.

At half past eighteen, dozens of field artillery pieces around the encirclement and more than 200 mortars that had taken advantage of the darkness of the night to fire at close range began to concentrate on the Japanese positions, and the fire of the explosion reflected the Japanese positions in a red glow, and the fierce shelling lasted for two hours, until the barrels of many artillery pieces were hot and red, and the shelling stopped abruptly.

At the same time as the shelling stopped, hundreds of military trumpets sounded almost immediately, and in the midst of the passionate trumpets, earth-shaking killing sounds suddenly erupted around the Japanese position, and more than 30,000 bayonets flashing with cold light rushed towards the Japanese position. …,

The heavy artillery bombardment had already torn the Japanese positions apart, and the more than 1,000 Japanese troops who were still able to fight were simply unable to defend the front several kilometers long on all sides, and were soon broken through the positions.

The result of more than 1,000 remnants of the defeated army in the face of 30,000 bayonets is conceivable and there is no suspense.

When Itagaki and the 4th Brigade arrived exhausted in Tantu Town after a night of rapid marching, Itagaki received an urgent telegram from Honjo Shigeru from the fast horses of the Sihei Army.

In a telegram, Honjo told Itagaki that the Matsuo 26th Brigade had lost contact with it after 20 o'clock last night, and it was estimated that the entire army had been shattered.

Itagaki was very conceited and arrogant, but he was very calm in military command, although he liked to use fewer enemies and more to adopt the tactics of adventurous advances, but it was all in the case of knowing himself and his opponent. If his current opponent is the Northeast Army, or other warlord troops in the Guannai, he will not hesitate to lead the Fourth Brigade to pounce, even if he can't defeat the opponent, he will bite the opponent tightly, and wait for the reinforcements to arrive, and then give the opponent a fatal blow.

But at this moment, he is facing the Fourth Route Army led by Song Zhewu, who defeated the Soviet army twice.

Although Itagaki has a very strong ** in his heart to have a good competition with Song Zhewu, he knows very well that Song Zhewu can annihilate the 26th Brigade in less than two days, which is definitely not something that his dissatisfied Fourth Brigade can provoke.

Looking for an opportunity to destroy the enemy? Joke. There is no need for him to go to Song Zhewu, Song Zhewu is probably already eyeing him now.

Itagaki was very decisive, and did not pay attention to Honjo Shigeru's orders, but urgently ordered the troops to seize the smooth road, and despite the fact that the troops were already very tired, he immediately ordered the construction of fortifications in Kenpei, and refused to move a single step.

Song Zhewu had already set up an ambush ten kilometers north of Tantu, preparing to take advantage of the victory to encircle and annihilate Banyuan. What surprised him was that he never expected that during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he dared to single-handedly pick up more than 200,000 Jin Sui troops with half a division and beat Yan Xishan's Banyuan, which was full of teeth, and in the face of his tens of thousands of troops, he actually chose to hold on to Tantu and wait for reinforcements.

If he leads his troops to pounce now, it will take a day at the fastest time from completing the encirclement to launching an attack, and to annihilate the thousands of Japanese troops who already have preset fortifications and complete formations, I am afraid that it will not be possible to do it in two or three days. At that time, reinforcements from the Kwantung Army will arrive in a steady stream, and it is likely that there will be a stalemate in the end.

Song Zhewu knew very well that the longer he was entangled with the Japanese army here, the more unfavorable it would be to himself.

Itagaki waited for a day and a night, and did not wait for Song Zhewu the next day, so he had to send a squadron of cavalry troops to search.

Itagaki soon received a report that tens of thousands of troops had been found in ambush 10 kilometers away, and according to the local people, the Fourth Route Army and the Northeast Army had been setting up an ambush here in the middle of the night the day before.

Itagaki who got the news couldn't help but secretly rejoice. Nanichiro, the commander of the Fourth Brigade on the side, was originally dissatisfied with Itagaki's caution, but at this time, he threw himself to the ground for the five bodies that Itagaki admired.

And Itagaki also admired Song Zhewu a lot at the moment. He admired Song Zhewu's decisiveness, his decisive abandonment when he missed a blow, and his undecisiveness, indecisiveness, and the style of a general. This also made Itagaki secretly determined, and in the future, he must really compete with this Song Zhewu.

Nanichiro suggested that after waiting for the entire army of the Eighth Division to arrive at Tantu on Tantu, he would then march north to force Qiqihar. He estimated that the main forces of the Fourth Route Army and the Northeast Army of Heilongjiang Province should build city defenses in Qiqihar at this moment and wait to meet their attack.

But Itagaki doesn't think so, he thinks that Song Zhewu is treacherous, good at assault, and will not blindly stick to it. This time, there was no ambush and he immediately withdrew, which was enough to prove his judgment.

Therefore, Itagaki felt that Song Zhewu would never put the main force in Qiqihar, but would hide his main force, and when he showed his flaws, he would pounce on him again and bite him hard. …,

Suffering from the fact that the planes of the Fourth Air Force were either shot down or forced to land and crash in an air battle with the Chinese, the Japanese Army now has not a single fighter plane in Manchuria, and the 10th, 11th, and 12th air groups that have been urgently transferred in China have not yet arrived for a while, and they cannot find Song Zhewu's troops through aerial reconnaissance.

Two days later, the cavalry unit reported that the Fourth Route Army was not found from Tantu to Qiqihar, and only found Su Bingwen, Zhang Dianjiu, and Xu Baozhen of the Northeast Army of Heilongjiang Province in Qiqihar.

At the same time, the commander of the 8th Division, Lieutenant General Nishiyiichi, led the main force of the 8th Division to Tantu.

Although the commander of the Fourth Brigade, Nanichiro, was a major general, and Seishiro Itagaki was a big sa at this time, but in view of Itagaki's contribution to the 918 Incident and his prestige in the Japanese army, promotion was just around the corner, and Shigeru Honjo clearly instructed Shigeru Nanichiro to obey Itagaki's command, so Nanichiro naturally obeyed Shigeru Honjo's arrangement. However, Nishiyichi is a lieutenant general, and if Nishiichi obeys Itagaki's command, he can't say anything about it.

At this time, Honjo sent a telegram in time, asking Itagaki to rush back to Mukden immediately, and prepare to return to China to report to the military headquarters, the cabinet, and the emperor on the current situation in Manchuria.

The 8th Division was the product of the expansion of the Japanese Army's armaments after the First Sino-Japanese War. After the First Sino-Japanese War, in order to expand overseas, Japan established six new divisions (the 7th Division - the 12th Division). And the 8th Division is one of them. The soldiers came from the four northeastern prefectures of Aomori, Iwate, Yamagata, and Akita.

Both the troops in Northeast Japan and those in Kyushu were known for their toughness, with the 2nd Division (Sendai) and the 6th Division (Kumamoto) being prime examples.

Itagaki also hated this earthy Yamagata man, and after receiving the telegram, he rushed back to Mukden that night.

Nishiichi himself also adhered to the character of the Japanese army's northeastern troops, was very arrogant, and was completely indifferent to Itagaki's dissuasion when he left, and after the troops had rested for a night, he ordered an attack on Qiqihar.

Two days later, when Nishiichi and the 8th Division had just arrived at Gohashi Village, they received an urgent telegram from Shigeru Honjo.

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