Chapter 211 Forcing the Japanese Army to Fight a War of Atrition
After Nanjiro took office, he did not rush to attack Qiqihar and Daqing, but first eliminated the impact of the assassination on the rule of Yueben, and sent a large number of gendarmes to search and arrest suspicious characters in the sphere of influence of Yueben, in fact, there were few people who were really caught, but in order to create the appearance that the Yuejun army had gained a lot, a group of people were wronged.
At the same time, Nanjiro began to look for a large number of candidates for Han Annihilation, after all, this time the high-level of Manchukuo suffered heavy losses, and in order to stabilize his own control over him, he had to be put on top as soon as possible.
He said that he was stabilizing the rear, and the Yan Huang Army and the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army were not idle, anyway, the battle would have to be fought sooner or later, and they didn't want to wait for Yu himself to stabilize the rear before coming to fight with peace of mind.
In late September, the 30,000 Yanhuang Army returned to the back of Jiangwan Township from Baiyin Nuole Township, and gave a hard blow to the Yue army stationed there, pinning it down, and then Tie Lihua's 38th Division and Zhang Qilong's Eighth Army quickly rushed from Huji Tumo Town, and the front and rear flanking attacks gave the Yue army a fierce blow, and the 30,000 Yue Army finally collapsed after holding out for five days, and began to flee to Tailai County in embarrassment, leaving countless corpses along the way, and finally went back to liquidate, losing more than 10,000 people.
Almost at the same time, the 50,000 Yan and Huang Army in Longjiang County and an army plus a division of the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army also launched an attack on more than 50,000 people in Xiaosongyuan, and the two sides fought inseparably in Beishan, Ganjiadian, and Dongyang, and the entire area was shrouded in artillery and gunfire, and the shouts of killing shook the sky, and the charging horns of the Yan and Huang Army sounded one after another, and the two sides fought a war of attrition.
Seeing the entire brigade of soldiers being fought by the [***] team, Komatsubara's heart ached and he urgently begged Sakamoto to find a way to support, otherwise, his more than 50,000 people would be almost defeated by the outlaw Chinese.
Sakamoto Masaemon had no choice but to support Komatsubara, and attacked violently in the area of the three houses where Yao Hong's army was stationed, and the battlefield that had just fallen silent became noisy again.
When Nanjiro listened to these reports, he sighed, these Chinese really don't let people live in peace, and they have to think of a good way, either to eliminate the main force of the anti-Japanese army, or to stabilize the situation, which can not only be accepted by the country, but also can make Chinese give up resistance...... Minamijiro fell into deep thought.
At the beginning of October, the situation in the Northeast finally settled down a little, and the war was still in full swing, Sakamoto finally took Tailai County, and drove the Northeast Anti-Japanese Army back to Qiqihar, and at the same time he also sent 50,000 people to reinforce Xiaosongyuan, Chen Bingnan led the remaining Yanhuang Army and the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army to retreat to Qiqihar together, and Daqing did not have any major battles after the 30,000 Yue troops were repulsed.
Nanjiro also set his future policy for the most time, and immediately ordered the Yue army besieging Qiqihar and Daqing to launch an attack on the two places, and to contain Daqing, so not to attack to the death, and to capture Qiqihar at any cost.
After receiving the order, Sakamoto Masaemon and Komatsubara reorganized their respective armies and fought against Qiqihar, led by Sakamoto Masaemon and supplemented by Komatsubara, with nearly 200,000 people, and the defenders of Qiqihar were only less than 200,000 after replenishment, one attack and one defense, and the army could not only disperse the attack, but also concentrate on one or two points, with a large choice, and the defenders wanted to protect the entire Qiqihar, it was passive, and the equipment was not good, and the form of this battle was quite severe for the [***] team.
Ma Zhanshan, Su Bingwen, and Chen Bingnan worked tirelessly in the Qiqihar headquarters to formulate operational policies, and the three also asked Wei Chendong's opinion, and the latter only replied with one sentence: War, don't care about the result.
The meaning of this sentence is obvious, don't think about anything else, let go of the arms to kill, the three of them glanced at each other, smiled bitterly, it seems that they are trapped in a cage, this Qiqihar wants to hold a little difficult, since it can't be held, if you still blindly want to keep it completely, you will only suffer heavy casualties, so why not simply give up part of the area, just concentrate the troops, and fight hard with the little devils, this battle is not to hold Qiqihar, just to kill the greatest damage to the army has a living force, it is to fight, this is what I am most afraid of.
"Now that I've figured it out, it's a lot easier," Ma Zhanshan laughed.
"Yes, I think you can give up here, here, here, you can give up the troops, and give the position to myself, we mainly defend in this area and this area, this part of the area is very important, and at the same time it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, I can take it if I want to, I can exchange their lives", Chen Bingnan stood up and said in a loud voice.
"Yes, Commander Chen is right, he said that he sent 10,000 troops, we sent 15,000 or 20,000 troops, they sent 20,000 troops, and we sent 30,000 to 40,000 troops, in short, we just want to fight them, since it is a protracted war, it depends on who lasts longer", Su Bingwen nodded and applauded.
"Haha...... In terms of longevity, I definitely can't do it", the three of them laughed wildly.
In the next few days, the Qiqihar defenders mobilized in large numbers, and they either directly destroyed the original position defense, or left it alone after laying a large number of mines in ambush on the position.
On October 11, Sakamoto Masaemon led his army to rush into the area of Aung Ang Kye Town, thinking that he would encounter fierce resistance, but he did not expect to take this place smoothly, and was only disturbed by a small force.
As soon as the information of the two was summarized, they couldn't figure out what the [***] team was doing, didn't Qiqihar want it? The two discussed it for a while, and decided to leave a part of the army to garrison and continue to attack, and the next way, the same smooth and abnormal, said that the army all the way can be described as a company camp.
"Sakamoto-kun, the strangeness of the [***] team has finally been figured out, it turns out that they want to force us to fight a war of attrition, and now their main forces are in Meilis Township and Damin Township, which our army must pass through, and there are more than 80,000 people in each place, so that the urban area of Qiqihar is basically empty......" Xiao Matsubara frowned on the phone, he didn't think that the Chinese [***] team deliberately did not defend the urban area of Qiqihar.
"Matsubara-kun, we will jointly draw 30,000 people to return to Qiqihar city on both sides to see if we can take the opportunity to take it, at the same time, Meilis Township and Damin Town, our army must advance, and we can't let outsiders see jokes, saying that our army does not dare to fight, so that we can also support the troops attacking Qiqihar City", Sakamoto Masaemon immediately made a decision, Komatsuba thought for a while, and agreed with Sakamoto's point of view, so the two continued to move forward as a whole army, because the land occupied along the way needed to be garrisoned, Now there are only about 70,000 people left in each of the two units.
On October 18, the two armies arrived in Meilis Township and Damin Township successively.
Garrisoned in Meilis Township were nearly 40,000 Yan Huang Army of Chen Bingnan and more than 40,000 people of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, under the full command of Chen Bingnan, and garrisoned in Damin Town were more than 80,000 people of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, with Ma Zhanshan as the commander-in-chief and Su Bingwen as the general staff officer.
Hundreds of thousands of people from both camps are facing each other in this small area, and a big battle is about to break out, and every shot will inevitably result in casualties, because no one is a fuel-efficient lamp.
(To be continued)