Chapter 593: Defending Harbin in the Northeast of the Anti-Japanese War (8)

There are still more than 500 people left in the Luye Brigade at the moment, although the Japanese army is fierce, but after all, there are nearly 2,000 people in the 22nd Brigade, and the numerical advantage makes up for the gap in the fighting, and seeing their own people rushing quickly, the Northeast Army's courage has doubled, and for a time it has fought evenly with the Japanese army, and the melee is a mess.

After this delay, Lu Ye could no longer run away, and the second and third detachments quickly rushed up from both flanks and joined the white-knuckle battle. After a fierce battle until noon, the dissatisfied wing led by Major General Hasebe was finally annihilated, and all 1,526 people, including Major General Hasebe and Kano Nakasa, were killed, and not a single prisoner was captured.

Zhao Yi was embarrassed to welcome Han Guangdi and Dongkang into the twin castles.

Because of the great victory, the people of the two castles happily welcomed the 22nd Brigade and the troops of the Eastern Resistance into the city, and the sound of firecrackers sounded everywhere in the city.

The president of the Twin Castle Chamber of Commerce led the gentry and merchants not only to send a large amount of rice, white flour and pork, but also to the 22nd Brigade and the Jiangbei Column 100,000 oceans each.

On the one hand, Zhao Yi ordered people to send rice, noodles and pork to the four detachments of the Jiangbei Column led by Wang Tiehan in Laojiaogou, and on the other hand, he celebrated in the two castles, including the people of the Jiangbei Column, each of them drank half a catty of liquor and half a catty of pork, and drank until midnight before resting.

What Han Guangdi didn't expect was that early the next morning, Zhao Yi came to bid farewell to Han Guangdi. said that he had received an order from Li Du to go to Harbin.

Han Guangdi knew that Zhao Yi would never join the Eastern Resistance at this time, and he did not persuade him much, but gave Zhao Yi all the Japanese weapons and equipment captured in this battle. and handed Zhao Yi a contact password, and agreed that the two sides would support each other.

said that the two sides supported each other, but in fact, Zhao Yi knew very well that this was Han Guangdi being polite to him, the Jiangbei Column was strong and strong, and it was the Jiangbei Column that supported him.

Because he was afraid of Zhao Yi's disposal, Chen Decai, who stayed in Lao Jiaogou, did not go with Zhao Yi, but announced his separation from the Northeast Army, joined the Eastern Resistance, and was organized by Han Guangdi as the fifth detachment of the Jiangbei Column.

Because Han Guangdi had just lifted the siege for him, eliminated more than a thousand devils, and sent him a large number of weapons and ammunition, Zhao Yi did not dwell on Chen Decai's rebellion.

Seeing off Zhao Yi, Han Guangdi did not lead the Jiangbei Column to stop at the Shuangci, but completely blew up the Jiangqiao, and after leading the troops to drive more than 50 miles to the northwest, he suddenly turned to the southeast and secretly moved to the area of Taipingzhuang to cover and rest.

The Harbin Northeast Army, which had just defeated the puppet army with a big head, knew very well that it was about to face an opponent far more powerful than the puppet army. Although after the new victory. The Northeast Army is very powerful, but Li Du and others also know their own strength.

At first glance, the Northeast Army in Harbin has many numbers, but the actual strength in Harbin is not much. For example, Ding Chao's 28th Brigade had only one regiment and cavalry, a battalion, and an artillery company in Harbin. Li Du's 24th Brigade only had two regiments, Chen Dongshan and Ma Zezhou. Originally, Feng Zhanhai still had about 4,000 people, but after defeating the puppet army, Feng Zhanhai went his own way and led his troops to follow and pursue south. As for Zhao Yi's 22nd Brigade, there are only more than 1,000 people now, but fortunately, he brought a lot of weapons and ammunition, and quickly recruited a large number of recruits, and finally recovered to 3,000 people. Even so, the Harbin garrison was still very thin. All combined, that is, 13,000 troops.

If there is only one problem, it is better to say that as the saying goes, "Brothers are of the same heart, and their benefits are gold." However, in the face of a strong enemy, the Northeast Army was full of contradictions. One Harbin is now crowded with at least several people, Ding Chao, Li Du, Xing Zhanqing, Wang Zhiyou, Zhao Yi, Yuncheng, and Zhang Jinghui are each forming a system, which is like scattered sand, and the Japanese army will attack, and the Northeast Army will be defeated. …,

Li Du and others are also aware of this problem, although they have no subordinate relationship between the upper and lower levels, and now they are united to resist Japan, at least they have to elect an alliance leader.

After recalling Feng Zhanhai, many parties urgently discussed for three days, and it was not until the 31st that the brigade commanders publicly recommended Li Du as the commander-in-chief of the Jilin Self-Defense Army, and then publicly recommended Ding Chao as the commander-in-chief of the Road Protection Army. With a team of less than 20,000 people, two commanders-in-chief were made, which was nothing more than Ding Chao's reluctance to be subordinate to Li Du. But how do the two commanders-in-chief command?

Since Zhao Yi's 22nd Brigade and Jiangbei Column abandoned the twin castles, the southern gate of Harbin was completely opened, and the Japanese troops advancing east would approach Harbin without hindrance.

Hasebe's headquarters were completely annihilated at the Twin Castles, and Honjo Shigeru was shocked into a cold sweat. Not daring to advance lightly, he immediately ordered all the 39th Mixed Brigade and the 2nd Division in western Liaoning at the moment to assemble and go to the Shuangci and build a temporary airfield in the Shuangci.

However, the river bridge was destroyed, the railway was interrupted, and the Japanese army on the North Road could not guarantee the logistics supply, so they had to rush to repair the railway on the one hand, and on the other hand, transport a large number of military supplies to the Shuangcheng Castle as the main military station for attacking Harbin. The troops attacking Harbin all crossed the river on foot and assembled at the twin castles.

To build an airport, if the customs are changed, there are many mountains and ravines, and the airport will not be able to be built for a while and a half. But this is the Great Plain of the Northeast, on the open land, just level it out a little, and within a few days, a temporary airport with a length of a thousand meters and a width of 500 meters was built. Subsequently, all four flight squadrons living in Qiqihar were transferred south to Shuangci and were ready to support ground operations.

A week later, Duomen had assembled nine infantry brigades, 1 cavalry squadron and 3 field artillery squadrons, 1 engineer squadron, and several tanks at the Twin Castles. The follow-up troops were still coming, and the very unconvinced Duomen decided not to wait for reinforcements, and launched the offensive against Harbin first with these forces at hand.

Early in the morning of the 5th, the Japanese army, with a squadron of the 2nd Cavalry Wing as the vanguard, began to advance to Harbin, 50 kilometers away.

Last time, the puppet army attacked Harbin from the southeast by taking Yushu and Acheng, but this time the Japanese army attacked by train from the Eastern Railway in the southwest. Therefore, it is natural that Harbin's defense system should focus on the direction of the Eastern Railway. The main forces of the 22nd, 24th, 26th, and 28th Brigades of the Northeast Army are concentrated here.

For the Japanese invasion, Li Du and Xing Zhanqing's deployment was as follows: In the right flank area, from the Middle East Railway to the Songhua River in the west, Chen Dongshan's regiment of Li Du's 24th Brigade and Xing Zhanqing's 26th Brigade should be responsible for guarding, equipped with six artillery pieces, and Wang Zhiyou, the former enemy's commander-in-chief, was in charge of commanding.

There is the Songhua River on the right side of this place as a barrier, and the defensive area is also narrow, which is conducive to defense, so Li Du invested relatively few troops.

The central area, with Gujiatun Station as the core, is defended by two regiments (4 battalions) of Ding Chao's 28th Brigade and the police corps, and a field artillery company of the 28th Brigade is responsible for defense, equipped with 2 artillery pieces, and Ding Chao serves as the commander-in-chief.

The left flank area was guarded by a regiment of Xing Zhanqing's 26th Brigade and Zhao Yi's 22nd Brigade and Li Du's Ma Zezhou Regiment, with 4 artillery pieces under the direct command of Li Du. The left flank was relatively rear, but the front was long, stretching from Hospital Street in the southern suburbs of Harbin to the Tianjia Shaoguo area in the southeast.

Outside Harbin, although Yu Datou's puppet army was defeated, it was still a threat. In order to ensure the safety of his flank communication line, Li Du deployed Feng Zhanhai's department and the 675th Regiment of the 26th Brigade, which had rushed back urgently, to the Acheng area east of Harbin.

The commander of the 675 regiment is none other than Zhao Qiuhang, who is rumored to be the grandfather of star Shen Aojun. However, the head of the regiment was a small role in Harbin at that time.

When the Japanese army advanced to Santun, which was 12 kilometers northeast of Shuangciao, they first encountered the Northeast Army alert force of about 200 people, and the Japanese army repulsed it and continued to advance. When the yellow flag was inlaid in Wutun, it was once again stubbornly resisted by Li Du's department. …,

The battle continued until 7 p.m., when the Japanese broke through the resistance of the Northeast Army and advanced to the vicinity of Liutun with red and yellow.

Although the battle lasted for a day, the battle was not fierce, and the Japanese 2nd Wing mainly made a tentative attack.

Because until this time, the Kwantung Army was not completely clear about the specific situation of the annihilation of the Hasebe, and a small number of the troops of the Hasebe broke out of the encirclement, and were intercepted by Wang Tiehan and Chen Decai at the old sentry ditch, and no one escaped the net. It was only after the Japanese army occupied the twin castles that they learned from the mouths of the common people that the Jiangbei Column of the Eastern Resistance was involved.

The combat effectiveness of the Eastern Resistance was taught by the 2nd Wing in Siping. Therefore, the 2nd Wing advanced very cautiously.

In a one-day exploratory attack, the 2nd Infantry Wing killed 3 people under the commander Shinichi Mikawa, and the 2nd Cavalry Wing killed 2 people including Cao Chang Kikuta and dozens of wounded.

The next day, the Japanese army continued to advance slowly, and at 11 o'clock at noon they arrived at the line of Xuejiatun, Liumajia, and Yongfatun. It was only 4 kilometers away from the city of Harbin, and it was close to the defense line established by the Northeast Army in Harbin. At 1 o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese army completed the deployment in front of the enemy, and the troops were in place one after another.

The caution of the 2nd Wing made Duomen very angry.

Tamen believes that a review of the scene at the Twin Castles shows that Hasebe fell for the tricks of the Shina and was ambushed and lost while pursuing the Shina. The Second Division has a glorious military history, and Nogi Noshinori, who is worshiped as the god of the Japanese army, is the second division commander of the Second Division, and during the Russo-Japanese War, he defeated the Russian army at Gongchangling and received the title of Brave Division. Such an army is not afraid of any squadron.

Therefore, after severely reprimanding the 29th Wing, Tamen ignored the fact that the troops had just arrived, and they were not very clear about the enemy situation and terrain, and the 15th Brigade of Amano had not yet been fully in place. At 2:10 p.m., the order to attack was given.

The Japanese attack force was divided into two flanks, and the 15th Brigade of Amano, which had just arrived in Harbin, took on the attack west of the railway. In front of the field is the garrison area of the right flank of the Northeast Army commanded by Wang Zhiyou.

The 3rd and 2nd Wings of the 4th Brigade had arrived, and their strength was stronger, so they undertook the attack on the left flank of the Northeast Army to the east of the railway, that is, to the northeast army. The focus of the attack was on the Northeast Army position near Hospital Street, where the 3rd Brigade was responsible for the attack. This is the garrison area of the right flank of the Northeast Army commanded by Li Du.

At half past three o'clock in the afternoon, the battle of the Japanese army attacking Harbin officially began.