Chapter 597: The War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in the Northeast Encircled and Annihilated Matsuo (1)

Although the cavalry of the Chinese suffered a lot of casualties in the first charge, they only lost four or five hundred men and horses, and the other side was fully capable of fighting again—and even if they did not dare to organize another charge, it would be easy to disengage, and his infantry could not catch up with the opponent's four-legged cavalry with two legs.

Why did the cavalry of the Chi Na surrender?

Could it be that they were frightened by the dense fire of the Imperial Army?

Or are you scared silly?

Just when Matsuo was puzzled, a staff officer brought an officer of the Northeast Army with a white flag in his hand, and after asking, Matsuo realized that the cavalry unit that he killed four or five hundred people turned out to be the men and horses of Zhang Haipeng, the puppet commander of Heilongjiang border security.

According to the officer, they were attacked by tens of thousands of troops of the Fourth Route Army, and only these people escaped from the troops of more than 8,000 people. This is still Zhang Haipeng's quick opportunity and familiarity with the terrain, using the speed of the cavalry, regardless of casualties.

According to the words of this pseudo-officer, although the Fourth Route Army was infantry when they fought, they were equipped with horses when they moved, and now they are following and chasing, and they are about to arrive, hoping that Matsuo will let them come.

Knowing that tens of thousands of troops of the Fourth Route Army were attacking Zhang Haipeng's department, Matsuo couldn't help but be shocked, with his strength of less than 5,000 people, in the plains and fields, if he wanted to resist the attack of tens of thousands of troops, it was almost impossible to complete. In this icy and snowy place, it is impossible to dig trenches and fortifications, and the other side has planes, so there will not be much time to hold on and wait for reinforcements.

However, the battle still had to be fought after all, and Matsuo ordered Zhang Haipeng's troops to come over immediately, and on the other hand, he sent a telegram to Duomen and Shenyang Honzhuang Fan, asking for tactical guidance.

Zhang Haipeng led his troops to be beaten by the Fourth Route Army that suddenly appeared out of nowhere, relying on his old and spicy vision and the ruthlessness of daring to break the wrist of a strong man, he fled with his old troops at the first time, so that he picked up a life, and finally saved the basic troops on which he depended. What made Zhang Haipeng extremely angry was that the troops he had worked so hard to bring out were indiscriminately killed by Little Japan.

As soon as he saw Matsuo, Zhang Haipeng couldn't help his temperament anymore, he was outrageous, and he scolded Matsuo with a blue face-

"Damn, you're blind, and you're *** beating Lao Tzu's team!"

Although Matsuo didn't understand Chinese, from Zhang Haipeng's expression and tone, he could still feel that Zhang Haipeng was not saying anything good, and he couldn't help but be angry.

"Yaga!"

With a "bang", he pulled out the command knife and went straight to Zhang Haipeng viciously.

Zhang Haipeng was not to be outdone, and pulled out his war knife as soon as he stretched out his hand.

As soon as the two of them stretched out their hands, the officers and soldiers on both sides also cheered at the end of their guns, and drew their knives, seeing that a fire fight was about to begin. In a panic, Chief of Staff Li Shengtang and Chief of Staff of the 26th Brigade Kamei hurriedly crossed between Zhang Haipeng and Matsuo, and kept persuading them.

Fortunately, at this time, there was a report of a large number of cavalry in the south, and Matsuo and Zhang Haipeng waved their hands, knowing that they could not act rashly at this time, otherwise they would all be wiped out by the Fourth Route Army.

Matsuo took Kamei, Zhang Haipeng, and Li Shengtang to hurriedly run to the roadbed, raising the binoculars to take a closer look.

I saw that a large number of cavalry were chasing after them more than ten miles away in the south, and the cavalry facing them had stopped advancing at this time, dismounted one after another, and unloaded a field cannon from the horse and quickly assembled it. The dismounted cavalry also quickly spread on the spot. There was also a large force of cavalry, which began to move quickly towards the flanks of the 26th Brigade from a distance.

Matsuo made a quick estimate, although he couldn't see all the other party's men, but he estimated that the opponent's strength must be more than 10,000, otherwise it would be impossible to dare to surround his 26th Brigade on three sides. …,

Considering that he had almost no heavy weapons and was very disadvantageous in the field, Matsuo decided not to wait for the order of Duomen, but to retreat to Qiqihar first and keep the troops. Matsuo urgently ordered the whole army to withdraw to Qiqihar, and the cavalry squadron directly under the brigade immediately searched and advanced northward.

Matsuo left a brigade on the spot to prepare to block the pursuing Fourth Route Army troops, and he himself led the main force of the brigade to prepare for a northward retreat.

At this moment, there was a bad news that could not be worse, behind them, the first brigade and the second brigade of Heilongjiang, as well as Xu Baozhen's guard regiment and other troops, had occupied the area of Dongkeli and Zhang Lama's shack, just blocking their way north to Harbin. Moreover, it is clear that the forces of the Fourth Route Army and the Northeast Army acted jointly, and the two sides soon formed a complete encirclement.

Besieged!

Matsuo, who was extremely shocked, understood that since the Northeast Army had appeared behind him, Qiqihar had obviously been occupied by the Chinese people. On the snowfield, in the face of an enemy several times larger than oneself, it is impossible to break out of the encirclement, recapture Qiqihar under the siege and pursuit of the enemy, and hold on to it. At present, the only way is to resist the attack of the Chinese as much as possible, and hope that the Kwantung Army of Jilin and Liaoning will come to the rescue as soon as possible along the railway.

Matsuo ordered to immediately telegraph the situation to Tamon and Honjo Shigeru, and on the other hand, he commanded five brigades of Japanese troops and Zhang Haipeng's more than 2,000 puppet troops to build a ring of fortifications between the east side of the railway and the East Lake.

By the time the Fourth Route Army and the Northeast Army under the command of Xie Ke and Su Bingwen had completely completed the encirclement of the Japanese army, it was already dark.

The Fourth Route Army and Xie Ke's Heilongjiang provincial troops did not attack immediately, but piled up a long wall of snow outside the Japanese encirclement.

Seeing that the other side did not attack immediately, Matsuo also seized the time and ordered the troops to dismantle the unburned carriage boards from the bombed wagons, as well as the sleepers on the railway, and light piles of bonfires to keep warm and cook. The officers and men of the 26 Brigade had been tired for more than half a day, and they had not even taken a sip of hot water into their stomachs, and they had already frozen.

You must know that the current temperature is already more than minus 30 degrees, and the temperature will drop further at night, and many people will freeze to death and frostbite without bonfires for heating.

As the bonfires in the Japanese positions were lit, the field artillery of the Fourth Route Army, which had not moved, began to "speak".

The target of the shelling was specifically aimed at the bonfires in the Japanese defense circle, where there was firelight, it became the target of the shelling, and for a time it exploded into the Japanese defense circle sparks and pans flew wildly. The Japanese army had no choice but to extinguish the bonfire and eat some dry food to satisfy their hunger.

Of course, hot water was dispensed with, and the Japanese could only gnaw on dry food and eat a handful of snow.

Although the Japanese also returned fire, the only three remaining Japanese field guns had just fired three shells, and they were counterattacked by dozens of artillery pieces from four directions, and the three field guns and more than 20 Japanese artillery pieces were blown up and killed.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Zhang Haipeng led his troops to ignore the Japanese army's obstruction, and took advantage of the fact that the snow wall of the Fourth Route Army had not yet been built, and desperately rushed out of the snow wall that was about to be encircled from the north where Xie Ke and Su Bingwen were responsible for defense. Because Zhang Haipeng's men were all cavalry and their speed of action was very fast, Xie Ke and Su Bingwen did not stop Zhang Haipeng, but only stopped Zhang Haipeng's more than 2,000 horses and horses, and let Zhang Haipeng run away with more than 1,000 people.

As soon as Zhang Haipeng ran away, these puppet cavalry were unwilling to return to the Japanese army, and all surrendered to Xie Ke.

Matsuo, knowing that the situation was critical, tried to organize his troops to break through at night, and his troops even rushed to a position dozens of meters away from the snow wall built by the Fourth Route Army. However, the Fourth Route Army didn't know what method it used, and the snow wall was so shining and strong against the firelight that even a grenade could not be exploded. The Fourth Route Army not only built intact infantry firing bunkers on the snow wall, but also machine-gun bunkers were even built into pillboxes, and countless firing holes sprayed dense bullet rains, firmly stopping the Japanese army more than 40 meters away, unable to advance at all. …,

After half a night's battle, the Japanese suffered more than 800 casualties, but they couldn't break through the snow wall by half a step, and Matsuo had to order to stop the breakout operation.

Although the number of casualties of the Japanese army far outnumbered the number of deaths, most of the Japanese army's baggage supplies were blown up and burned in the vehicles, and only a dozen tents were rescued, which were also used as command posts. The wounded officers and men lay down in the cold and biting snow for the night, and they all froze to death.

More than 1,000 people were killed and wounded in one day and one night, and the 26th Brigade lost almost 30%, which made Matsuo have to dispel the idea of breaking through.

Before dawn the next day, Matsuo received a report that 348 troops had frozen to death, most of whom were wounded. There are countless people with frostbite.

After dawn, Matsuo finally discovered that the reason why the position of the Fourth Route Army had become extremely strong in one night was because the Fourth Route Army had poured water on the snow wall, which had been turned into a wall of ice that stretched for dozens of miles.

Matsuo was inspired and also ordered the troops to step up the construction of the ice wall, but to build the ice wall, it was necessary to build water, and the Japanese army did not dare to make a fire to boil water, so they had to blow up the East Lake and take water to build the wall. However, this will not work, as long as the Japanese army starts to build a snow wall, the shells fired by dozens of field guns of the Fourth Route Army and the Northeast Army will hit the head and brain, and they will specially blow up the wall.

After more than an hour of busyness, not only did not a one-meter-long snow wall be built, but more than 300 people were lost, so Matsuo had no choice but to do it.

As soon as the morning dawned, the dozens of planes that flew in yesterday flew again and carried out wanton and indiscriminate bombardment of the personnel and positions and facilities in the Japanese defensive circle; after the planes flew away, the artillery of the Fourth Route Army, under the guidance of the teaching and shooting planes circling in the sky, began to bombard the Japanese positions.

An hour later, planes loaded with ammunition flew in again and bombed and strafed the Japanese again.

In this way, the Fourth Route Army continued to bomb and shell the Japanese until five o'clock in the afternoon, when the bombing and shelling slowly stopped.

The bombing and shelling of this day inflicted heavy losses on the 26th Brigade, with nearly 1,000 casualties, and less than two brigades of troops still able to fight. Matsuo had no choice but to send out a sixth emergency telegram, urging Tamen and Shigerama Honjo to give tactical guidance......

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