Chapter 135 Nenjiang Bridge War of Resistance
Originally, it was said that several wings of the 2nd Division were fighting elsewhere, but now the military defense of Heilongjiang has been strengthened a lot under the joint development of Wei Chendong and Ma Zhanshan, and the strength of the Northeast Army has also been greatly improved.
The main force of the 2nd Division has more than 10,000 people, plus several thousand people in the puppet army Zhang Haipeng's department, a total of more than 20,000 people, this is a relatively large combat force, in Jilin and Liaoning provinces combined, the army has not invested so many troops, the reason for this, the army is still a little worried about the Yan and Huang Army.
Ma Zhanshan sent telegrams requesting air support from the Yan and Huang Army one by one, but he was rejected by Wei Chendong on the grounds that the Yan and Huang Army did not want to participate in such a meaningless war.
While scolding Wei Chendong for being a Chinese, Ma Zhanshan organized the defense of the Nenjiang Bridge and personally supervised the battle on the front line. The intelligence officer of the special high school who intercepted the telegram excitedly conveyed the content to it, and the headquarters of the Kwantung Army was extremely excited, and immediately stepped up the attack with confidence.
A formation of 40 planes immediately launched a fierce bombardment of the position of the Northeast Army at Nenjiang Bridge.
"Whew......"
"Boom ......"
Bombshells exploded on the positions of the Northeast Army. Fortunately, the fortifications in Heilongjiang have been continuously strengthened this year, especially in the provincial capital of Qiqihar, otherwise the casualties would have been greater.
Ma Zhanshan also knew that if the army wanted to take Qiqihar, it had to pass through the Nenjiang Bridge, so the Nenjiang Bridge position was also built very strong, and the frantic bombing of the Yue aircraft did not cause too many casualties.
The commander of the 2nd Division was called Duomen Erlang, Jilin, and Liaoning were basically defeated by the 2nd Division, and the army was very disdainful of the combat strength of the Northeast Army.
The fighting quality of the army is also quite high, not as straight and upright as shown on TV, holding a gun and slowly marching forward, all the soldiers are separated from each other at a certain distance, slightly bent on the waist, and walking a zigzag route, while light machine guns and mortars suppress the fire of the Northeast Army to cover the infantry charge.
The puppet army has bitter words, many people have regretted surrendering to the army, this is obviously used as a gun, when the cannon fodder is the first to be sent, there are defenders in front, and there are guns in the back, so that they are struggling, and there is a feeling of being driven ducks on the shelf.
Guarding the Nenjiang Bridge is the Yao Hong Army of the Northeast Army, there are nearly 8,000 people stationed here, it is an elite in the hands of Ma Zhanshan, who has obtained a lot of American-style equipment from the Yan and Huang Army, and knows that this is a hard battle, so Ma Zhanshan did not hesitate to put this ace army into it and put it on this very important position.
Yang Wenxing is a regimental commander of Yao Hong's army, and now the direction of the army's attack is the position he is defending.
"Huh? The enemy is already less than 300 meters away from us, why hasn't the regiment commander given the order to attack yet? The first company commander muttered to himself a little suspiciously.
Yang Wenxing was in the temporary command headquarters, looking at the enemy troops in front of the position with a telescope, and after a long time, he smiled lightly: "Let's watch a good show."
"As planned", the order was issued.
At the same time, the order of the regimental headquarters was issued.
"Hit".
With a violent roar, the soldier at the forefront of the battle line finally pulled the trigger in his hand.
"Bang ......"
"Da ......"
The roar of rifles and machine guns suddenly rang out. What makes the Yue army and most of the puppet army wonder is that the first attack of the Northeast Army actually didn't put down a few people, their marksmanship won't be so bad, so close, so many guns, so many people can't hit, is it a burning stick in their hands?
"Enemy attack, lie down".
Before they could figure this out, there were bursts of violent roars from the puppet army's charging troops, and immediately, a large number of soldiers lay directly on the ground.
Almost at the same time, the second wave of the Northeast Army attacked.
"Bang ......"
"Da ......"
The roar of the guns rang out again.
"Ah......" screams immediately came from all directions, this time, the Northeast Army's marksmanship seems to have suddenly grown a lot, not to mention the guns killed, but many life-killing bullets still directly took away the vitality of many puppet soldiers and the army.
However, the puppet soldiers who lay down at the first attack did not suffer any casualties, and the bullets were blocked by the tall men who were standing.
"Baga, all rise up and attack," the lieutenant stepped forward and kicked a puppet soldier who was lying on the ground and did not move, and roared angrily. It's already good that he didn't get a killer, after all, such a charge is about the speed effect, as soon as you come up, you will lie directly on the ground, do you want to climb to the enemy position? By then, I'm afraid the daylilies will be cold.
With a "bang", a bullet flying from there hit the lieutenant's heart exactly ......, and before he could scream, he fell directly to the ground.
Originally, the death of such a lieutenant was nothing at all, in the battlefield, who dared to guarantee that he would not die, but the death of this lieutenant still caused a lot of stirring, because some people saw the murderer, and the murderer was actually one of the puppet soldiers.
"You dog, who are you hitting?" A puppet battalion commander who saw this incident scolded and raised his hand to give the man a shot.
With a "bang", another person attacked before him, and it was not the murderer who killed the lieutenant of the army, but the battalion commander who screamed, which directly made his head bloom.
"Brothers, this devil has been doing power and blessing in my northeast for so many years, and now he is plotting against my three eastern provinces, taking our lives for nothing, and today he is a dog, give me a fight for devils......" A burst of angry roars came from those puppet soldiers lying on their stomachs, and when they heard the voice, many soldiers immediately turned on the ground, changed directions, and pointed their guns at himself.
"Bang ......"
"Da ......"
The army that followed behind the puppet army's ass suddenly became the target of these temporary rebel puppet troops.
"Ah......h
Most of the Yue soldiers didn't react at all, and they couldn't have imagined that such a strange thing would happen.
This temporary rebel puppet army has a regiment and a battalion, nearly two-thirds of the attacking puppet army, and the rebel regiment commander is called Liu Chuande, who is commanding the troops to attack the army frantically at this time.
Although many people died because of the sudden change, the army still reacted, and the soldiers who were closer to the puppet army immediately charged, and the soldiers who were farther away immediately crawled forward and continued to charge. From time to time, the army charged over and the puppet army came into close contact, and the two sides immediately engaged in a frontal one-on-one fight.
The situation here was naturally seen by the command of the army in the rear, Duomen Erlang looked at Zhang Haipeng with unkind eyes, the latter was dumbfounded when he saw the situation on the front line, where is this, where is this, he scolded Liu Chuande in his heart for not being a thing, eating inside and out, isn't this putting him to death?
"Arrest him, take him and control the rest of his troops", Duomen Jiro grimaced with a hideous face, trying to resist the idea of shooting Zhang Haipeng immediately.
"Taijun, Taijun, I'm wronged, if I want to turn against you, will I be stupid and wait for you to arrest me?" Zhang Haipeng's face turned pale and pleaded bitterly.
Duomen Erlang didn't listen at all, although he also knew that what Zhang Haipeng said was also reasonable, and it was even possible that he was really wronged, but in his heart he didn't trust these Chinese very much, who knows if his remaining subordinates would rebel again and stick a knife in the back.
"The Chinese don't fight the Chinese, we are all the Northeast Army, and we can't kill each other, brothers, let's fight devils with us", Yang Wenxing and his subordinates immediately rushed out of the trenches, shouting at the puppet army that did not rebel as they rushed.
Some puppet soldiers were also confused by this sudden situation, these lower-level soldiers, generally the commander told them to do anything, they did whatever they wanted, told them to surrender and said themselves, they had to obey the arrangement, but at this time, those rebellious puppet troops were obviously premeditated, and singled out the puppet army officers who really surrendered to the army.
The army is also confused now, and for a while they can't tell that those puppet soldiers are rebels and those who are facing them, when they think that the one standing should be their own group, the man directly raised his hand and gave them a shot, and died in vain.
"All Chinese, dead and dead", can't tell, simply don't distinguish, the wing commander gave the order to kill the Chinese, obviously all the puppet troops in this attack were abandoned by the Yue army.
Since the army turned its face and didn't recognize people, the remaining puppet troops who did not rebel also pointed their guns at the army, and immediately joined forces with the Northeast Army that rushed out to rescue, and frantically attacked the army.
When he saw the rebellion of the puppet army, Domen Jiro knew that this attack was probably in vain, and the casualties should not be small, so he immediately sent another wing to support. But the two armies were already fighting in one place, and they could not be bombarded with artillery fire.
The wing that attacked for the first time had completely fought with the Northeast Army and the coalition composed of the puppet army, and the soldiers on both sides were directly hand-to-hand combat, and the handover of broadswords and bayonets and ping-pong sounds, screams, and roars deduced the cruelty of the battlefield.
The Northeast Army's ability to fight is not much worse than that of the Yue Army, and at this time, it has an advantage in numbers, and the Yue Army gradually has a sense of inadequacy. Naturally, this situation was known to the rear command of the army, and the wing that immediately urged the reinforcements to move faster.
After all, people only have two legs, and this army wing that is going to reinforce is also full of horsepower, and they also know that if they are a second late, they don't know how many soldiers of the empire have died.
"Boom ......"
Suddenly, a deafening sound rang out around the team.
"Ah......h
"My Hand ......"
"My legs ......"
There were still undead soldiers lying on the ground screaming.
"Enemy artillery fire, hide", Wing Commander Nobutaka Ikeda shouted, he was also scratched by the flying shrapnel, but at this time he couldn't care so much, the soldiers of the empire were completely exposed to enemy fire, and the casualties increased exponentially.
"These people are so cunning, the previous artillery attack didn't find their artillery, and I didn't see any reaction from them, it turned out that they had been hiding just for this time, this was purely a conspiracy, it was a conspiracy from the beginning, those puppet army rebellions must have been premeditated, they had already communicated with the Northeast Army, why did our intelligence officers not get information at all, and how much did the soldiers of the empire pay for it, this is all caused by their incompetence."
Duomen Jiro is in an extremely corrupt mood, such a thing, how can he not be annoyed by the general who has only fought a lot of big victories, the wisdom of a lifetime is about to be ruined, soldiers care about honor very much, even if you fought well before, in the last battle, you lost, then this stain, don't want to wash it away for the rest of your life.
"Request for support from the Air Force...... "Now it is not clear where the artillery positions of the Northeast Army are, even if you want to bombard them, you can't find a point, so you can only ask the Air Force to help."
"Withdrawal".
At the same time, Jiro Tamon also gave the order for all the front-line attacking troops to withdraw, and the subsequent reinforcements did not need to rush up, just respond directly in place.
The Northeast Army and the puppet army pursued and killed for a while behind the Yue Army, and then returned, and both sides returned to the Northeast Army positions.
Originally, they were going to let those puppet soldiers be cannon fodder, but they didn't expect these cannon fodder to almost bury them alive, how could this not make them very angry, there was a feeling of being played with, and when did the imperial army suffer this crime.
Some of the commanders of the retreating army immediately wrote to Duomen Erlang, asking him to dispose of the remaining puppet army, these Chinese are too unreliable, afraid of death, and untrustworthy, raising and wasting rations, when the time comes, it will be a big thing to eat.
Duomen Erlang, this old fritter, will not simply deal with these puppet troops because of these people, it is easy to deal with, but the impact is definitely not good, now the entire northeast is very chaotic, it is the time to stabilize people's hearts, if the puppet army that has just surrendered is shot, then who dares to surrender them casually in the future, even if they pretend to be forced, they must pretend to be a little similar, although they want to kill the Chinese very much in their hearts, but they must also show a friendly demeanor on their faces, which is called goodwill in China and "common prosperity in Greater East Asia".
The wing in charge of the attack this time was almost disabled, which was a great casualty for the army, and the two provinces of Jilin and Liaoning did not suffer such a large casualty, but they did not expect that in the first battle of Heilongjiang, they suffered such a defeat at this small Nenjiang bridge, not only Duomen Jiro was not satisfied, but the commander of the Kwantung Army, Honjo Shigeru, was even more dissatisfied, and at present, the military and the government of the army were very discordant, and the cabinet did not want to expand the matter, for fear of causing dissatisfaction in the international community, but the military did not care about this, their ambition made them do everything.
Originally, the Kwantung Army Command was very confident in taking the Northeast, and if it was easy to take the Northeast, then the status of their military in the country would definitely rise, and those cabinet members who had been opposed to the expansion of the war would have no fart, but now, this battle is not satisfied, and it is difficult to say.
Honjo Shigeru gave a death order to Jiro Tamon, and within a week, the Nenjiang Bridge must be taken. While giving death orders to the front-line troops, Honjo Shigeru kept transferring troops from the country and Korea to the northeast, after all, the army did not have many troops in the northeast, and many places occupied now had to be garrisoned.
Soon after the Kwantung Army Headquarters' order to transfer troops was issued, several divisions and regiments marched into the northeast one after another.
Duomen Erlang felt the pressure, and Ma Zhanshan on the opposite side also felt the pressure, just got the information, the army was also preparing to increase troops to Heilongjiang, and the defense pressure was great.
On November 5th, the bombers who flew from Changchun bombed the Nenjiang Bridge position, and their target was the artillery of the Mabu, but when they arrived at the battlefield of the Nenjiang Bridge, they didn't even see a single ghost hair of the Mabu artillery, obviously they were hidden, these guys are really going to forbear, as soon as the military plane came, he had already hidden, and after the plane left, he bombarded the position of the Mabu, which made the Yujun realize that his plane was probably monitored by the enemy, and the take-off time and arrival time were accurately grasped by the enemy. will be so accurate to do a good job of prevention.
In response to this situation, the Yue Army also made several adjustments, deliberately letting the plane fly out and go around in a circle and then come back, or fly directly to other airports, and then go around in a circle and then bomb, but still did not catch the artillery of the horse department, this thing can be described as very strange, does the Northeast Army have such a powerful intelligence network?
On November 6, after more than half an hour of artillery preparations, the army launched another attack on the defenders of Nenjiang Bridge.
Kawasaki Osa was the co-captain of this wing, and he was overjoyed to see the defenders react like this, but in order to ensure the success of the operation, Kawasaki immediately sent a brigade to continue the detour, wanting to suddenly attack the defenders from the other side in front of him, so as to attract firepower and pave the way for the operation on this side.
Tanaka's brigade received Kawasaki's order to immediately break away from the wing and speed up, hoping that after attracting the defenders' fire, Kawasaki would be able to give the defenders a surprise attack at the right time. Kawasaki led the remaining two wings to the predetermined location first, only waiting for Tanaka's side to make a move, and then there was a surprise surprise attack on this side.
Kawasaki is quite satisfied with the terrain here, there is still more than a kilometer away from the position of the Northeast Army, in the middle is a grove full of thorns, the periphery of the forest is pulled by the Northeast Army barbed wire, obviously the Northeast Army also thinks that this place is not very suitable for charging, plus the terrain is not bad, so there are not many defenders, Kawasaki estimates that there should be no more than one regiment, he firmly believes that under the sudden attack, it should be able to repel the defenders, thus opening a gap to threaten the right position of the Northeast Army.
"Bang ......"
"Da ......"
A dense burst of gunfire came from not far away, and Kawasaki's eyes lit up when he heard it, and he ordered his troops to prepare for an attack.
Sure enough, soon, the defenders who were holding on here were transferred over for some reinforcements, Kawasaki was overjoyed, and waited for some time, and after hearing the gunfire over there more intensively, he knew that the reinforced defenders had arrived at their destination, and immediately gave the order to attack with confidence.
(To be continued)