readx;

Chapter 1533 is approaching step by step

On 1 April, the Xiao Wu Mechanized Corps of the Western Front of the Military Region, which was the vanguard, swept across the prairie and joined forces with the rear of the Central Route Army at Karaganda. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

During this period, due to passive avoidance of war, the Far Eastern Army swept away the leaves all the way to the northwest and central part of Kazakhstan, and the arrows of the Central Route Army had captured the important town of Dezkazgan, which was more than 400 kilometers southwest of Karaganda, and the Western Route Army occupied Fort Shepchenko, an important port city on the Caspian coast.

In addition, through a large airship formation and two flight regiments equipped with AN6 large transport aircraft, the Mongolian Military Region rushed to transport three fully equipped infantry divisions and two mechanized chemical divisions to Guryev to build fortifications along the Ural River, and the northernmost part of its defense line was Uralsk (now Urals), an important city on the main railway line leading to Kazakhstan, and the entire front was 300 kilometers long, and the defensive task was extremely arduous.

At the same time, the tank army group led by Ye Cheng and the motorized front army led by Li Jinlong crossed the Gobi and desert of the Mongolian plateau, crossed the Altai Mountains, and entered the bridgehead of Central Asia, Ust-Kamen.

With the addition of the two vital forces, the strength of the Anjia Army that entered the Central Asian operations was significantly strengthened, and then the leadership of the Central Asia Corps was rapidly reorganized, with Ye Cheng as the commander of the Central Asian Corps, Li Jinlong as the deputy commander, and Hu Jiyang as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy. At the same time, Xiao Wu officially separated from Ye Cheng's front army and was specifically responsible for the mechanized cluster of the former Mongolian Military Region, the First Tank Army was promoted from deputy commander Lieutenant General Peng Wanjun to army commander, the former commander of the Second Tank Brigade Lieutenant General Deng Shaoqi was transferred to deputy commander, and Colonel An Ruoyi, former deputy commander of the Second Tank Brigade, served as the brigade commander and was promoted to major general.

After discussions, the Central Asia Bureau continued Hu Jiyang's operational ideas, and while consolidating the defense of Ust-Kamen, it continued to increase troops in the central and western regions of Kazakhstan.

The Soviet army gathered its total forces on the eastern front, passively waited for the Anjia army to move south, wasted many fighters in vain, and finally discovered the intention of the Anjia army, immediately changed its strategy, and moved the troops to the southwest, fortified layer by layer, delayed the southward movement of the Far Eastern Army and the Anjia army, and won valuable time for the strategic counteroffensive of the Soviet army.

Fanzhi County, as if he had aged ten years old all of a sudden, Tojo Hideki, wearing a pair of glasses, lying in front of the map, his expression was extremely serious.

Defeated! Still defeated!

The battle of Xinkou, sent off more than 100,000 elites at once (many troops were not collected, scattered), and in the process of retreating from Yuanping to Dai County, they encountered many rear-end attacks from the squadron, and the troops had no morale, and the defeat was like a mountain, from Laoxian County to Daying Town and then to Yangmingbao, along the way, the soldiers were lost, and they fled to Fanzhi County in one breath, but they suddenly found that Yanmen Pass, Huyukou and Ruyuekou were occupied by the ** guerrillas, and they attacked for two days in a row, and still did not take the above three vital passes. And the pursuers have broken through several defensive lines outside Yangming Fort in a row, which makes Hideki Tojo feel a deep crisis.

"Have you taken Hu Yukou and Ru Yuekou down?"

Hearing the sound of footsteps, Hideki Tojo raised his head and saw that it was Major General Okawa Kazusaku, and hurriedly asked.

Okawa Kazusaku saluted Hideki Tojo, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "I don't know how the branch developed, it has only been more than half a year, and so many troops have been established." Not only was Yanmen Pass not an inch of land exhausted, but our troops attacking Huyukou and Ruyuekou were defeated again! ”

Hideki Tojo's eyes widened, and he said in disbelief: "In the past few days, we have lost almost four or five thousand imperial warriors, according to the battle loss ratio of one to four, the ** guerrillas of China have died at least 20,000 people, and they have only forty or fifty thousand people in total, where did so many troops come from?" ”

Okawa Kazusaku shook his head: "This is not the key, the strange thing is that most of the weapons they use are all Imperial Army standard weapons, from Type 38 rifles to 11-year type light machine guns, 92 style heavy machine guns, everything is available, and even they have grenadiers and mortars, all of which are made by the Empire from the capture." I now wonder if they robbed the Empire's arsenal, otherwise where would so many Imperial weapons come from? ”

Tojo Hideki was slightly stunned, stood up and walked back and forth a few steps, thoughtful: "There can only be one explanation, that is, the strongest opponent of the empire, the An Jiajun, sold to these dirt eight roads." ”

Facing Okawa Kazusaku's puzzled gaze, Tojo Hideki sighed: "In the confrontation with the Anjia Army, in the previous Pingjin War and the Eastern Hebei Battle, our army has suffered countless losses, where did those guns and ammunition go?" The system of the An Jiajun is different from ours, and their weapons are more advanced than ours, and they will not equip the troops with the weapons of the Empire, so where do these weapons go? It can only be **guerrillas! Think about the 18th Group Army's deep development base in our hinterland, which unit is missing guns and ammunition? I guess it was all allocated from the previous seizures of the An Jiajun.

"I now understand why Ishihara-kun, Itagaki-kun, and Dohi Moto-kun, as well as many imperial generals, are so jealous of the An family's army! In the first battle of Xinkou, a newly formed unit of the Anjia Army had such a strong combat power, it is hard to imagine what it would be like if it was replaced by the Anjia Army in Nanhua or Mongolia? Against such an opponent, I really can't think of how I can beat them......"

Okawa Ichisaku comforted: "Your Excellency, please don't be discouraged, even if you fail, it's better than fearing the enemy like a tiger." Okawa firmly believes that Your Excellency will be able to lead the troops out of this difficult situation. ”

Tojo Hideki's eyes became grim: "Although the base camp has urged me several times to leave the army by special plane, return to Beiping, and then return to Tokyo to report on my work, but if I don't take the troops out, Tojo will never leave Shanxi, and Tojo vows to live and die with the soldiers." ”

"Bang-"

The door was suddenly slammed open from the outside, and the commander of the Ninth Division, Lieutenant General Yoshizumi Ryosuke, rushed into the room and said loudly: "The army is unstoppable, they have broken through the defense of our army on the front line of Yangmingbao, and the forward is approaching the Qili River, how to decide, please make up your mind as soon as possible......

Before Yoshizumi could finish speaking, the roar of fighter planes suddenly sounded in the sky, and his face couldn't help but change greatly, and he turned his head and ran out of the door.

During this period, the Anjia Army Air Force completely controlled air supremacy, and the Japanese army was seriously disrupted in both attack and defense, especially the attack on the command organs, which resulted in the death of a large number of combat and confidential staff officers.

Hideki Tojo and Kazusaku Okawa were as vigorous as rabbits, and they had just jumped out of the temporary headquarters, and a large area of the house where they had temporarily sheltered had been hit by dozens of aerial bombs, and the explosion was booming, the flames soared into the sky, and the smoke of gunpowder filled the air, and when everything subsided, the entire courtyard had been razed to the ground.

Hideki Tojo's face was extremely ugly, and this was the eighth command that had been changed in a week. Since the headquarters of the Japanese army was lined with large and small antennas, and the higher the antenna, the higher the level of the command organ it represented, so the air force of the An Jiajun specially looked for these places to bomb and bomb one by one, which made Hideki Tojo already a little nervous.

"Eight Geya Road, order the 118th Division to take Huyukou and Ruyuekou at all costs, otherwise military law will be engaged!" Hideki Tojo roared hysterically.

"Hey—"

Okawa Kazusaku took the order and left.

......

Late at night on 1 April, the northbound detachment of the Anjia Army, which had been biting the devil's butt all the way, joined up with the main force in the ancient city northeast of Yangmingbao, and the northbound detachment was immediately disbanded, and all units returned to the troops, and the task of attacking the fortified positions was handed over to the main force of the 30th Group Army, which had completed the rest.

At 7 o'clock in the morning of 2 April, all the large and small cannons of the An Jiajun roared together, the earth trembled, and the overwhelming shells smashed down like hail on the opposite side of the Qili River.

A series of loud noises sounded from the enemy's position, and one after another not very strong civil fortifications flew into the sky, and the enemy's defensive line suddenly turned into a sea of fire.

The shelling lasted for half an hour, and although officials at all levels repeatedly told them to economize, the artillery of the Anjia Army still poured more than 6,000 shells into the positions of the puppet army.

During this half hour, the engineering units sailed upstream, entered the Qili River, and quickly landed on the other side of the Qili River under the cover of artillery fire. Immediately, 30 boat-bridge vehicles rushed to the river, throwing down the pontoon bridge components, and the engineering troops quickly supported the components to cross the 234-meter-wide Qili River, and the six components just formed a pontoon bridge, and 30 boat-bridge vehicles could be used for the construction of five pontoon bridges.

Half an hour later, the shelling was over, the pontoon bridge had been built, the tank cluster quickly rushed up, behind the tank, there were still anti-aircraft gun trucks, and the infantry soldiers shouted, followed the tanks and anti-aircraft gun trucks, crossed the pontoon bridge, and swooped down on the Japanese positions. From time to time, the enemy's fire points spat out tongues of fire, which were quickly destroyed by tank guns one after another.

The tank stopped when it was more than 100 meters away from the trenches and began to rain bullets on the trenches with its on-board machine guns.

According to experience, in these trenches, there are often ambushes of the "filial piety brigade", and these filial sons with white scarves on their heads during the Xinkou War left a deep impression on people.

As expected, the "daredevils" hiding in the trench could no longer hold on, jumped up one after another, and pounced in the direction of the tank.

The gunners in the tank, as well as the anti-aircraft artillery trucks that had rushed to the side of the tank to assist in the defense, fired machine guns in unison, and scarlet tongues of fire spat out from the barrels.

Those "daredevils" who had just jumped up from the trench were suddenly beaten into a strange arc in the air, accompanied by flying scarlet blood lines, and fell into the trench one after another.

Tanks and anti-aircraft artillery trucks fired together, like a scythe harvesting life, and the devils flew with flesh and blood, suffering heavy casualties.

However, the tenacity of the devil far exceeded imagination, and the devil's firepower hidden in the second and third trenches suddenly spit out countless tongues of fire, and many soldiers who followed the tanks and anti-aircraft artillery vehicles were caught off guard and fell in a pool of blood.

The living warriors lay down one after another, letting the bullets whizz over their heads, suppressed by the enemy's heavy fire, unable to raise their heads at all.

Seeing this, the soldiers who operated the tank could still bear it, and the long muzzle of the gun shook, and immediately spit out a slender tongue of fire, and with a loud "boom", a dark castle that was spitting flames flew into the sky in the firelight.

The bombardment of various tanks was artillery after artillery, destroying those improvised hidden fire points one after another.

At this time, the Air Force also came to make fun, and the two bomber squadrons that took off from Taiyuan Airport circled over their positions and dropped one bomb after another, causing the devils to cry wolf and flee in all directions.