Chapter 591: Defending Harbin in the Northeast of the Anti-Japanese War (6)

With the sound of gunfire, Zhao Yi knew that a sneak attack was impossible, and decisively ordered a strong attack, he wanted to take advantage of the chaotic opportunity of the Japanese army, quickly engage the enemy, and annihilate the Japanese army in one fell swoop by virtue of his numerical advantage twice that of the enemy.

Zhao Yi ordered, the field artillery mortars of the 22nd Brigade, which had been prepared for a long time, began to fire, and the 1st Battalion, which was in charge of the main attack, slammed into the station box office under the cover of artillery fire.

In the past few months, in addition to the stubborn resistance of the Eastern Resistance in Siping, and the barely decent battles in Qiqihar, the Kwantung Army in Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang provinces, as if entering a no-man's land, has fought more with less everywhere, and even in western Liaoning, it has completely driven Zhang Xueliang out of Shanhaiguan with less than 30,000 troops. The Northeast Army either surrendered and cooperated with the Imperial Japanese Army, or watched from the Imperial Japanese Army to beat the Chinese army, but the Northeast Army, which was as timid as a mouse and forgot its military duties, was as if the Imperial Army was not fighting their compatriots.

The Japanese army has felt that it has been really cool and great recently, and it feels like a wolf has entered the flock.

Therefore, the Japanese army was very arrogant, and after arriving at the station of the two castles, they only made simple preparations for camping, did not build fortifications and arranged enough vigilance troops, did not seriously search the surrounding area, and did not even send a single soldier to the nearby two castles. Their target was Harbin, and they didn't bother to pay attention to these Northeast Army troops who were pretending to be deaf and dumb along the way.

It took the Northeast Army a full three hours to prepare for the battle, but the Japanese army was still unaware.

The police equipment at the station was very relaxed, the Japanese sentry post was the farthest, only two or three hundred meters away from the station platform, the warning time was very short, and when the Japanese army hurriedly took up arms to resist, the troops of the 1st Battalion rushing in front had already rushed to the front of the station box office, smashed open the window and threw grenades inside, if the other troops were a little faster, they could completely block all the Japanese troops indoors.

At this time, the 2nd Battalion and the machine gun company on the left flank had also pounced on the eastern crossing and attacked the Shuangcheng station from the northeast.

As soon as the gunfire rang out in the direction of the station, the artillery of the artillery company immediately opened fire, and the 3rd Battalion, which was hiding in the south, also quickly attacked, seizing the west crossing south of the station and cutting off the retreat of the Japanese army. The 3rd Battalion, relying on the roadbed and tracks, began to fire heavily at the station.

Although the sneak attack made the Japanese army scramble for a while, the Japanese army was indeed well-trained and had extremely strong individual combat capability, and as soon as the guns rang out, the Japanese army set up light and heavy machine guns at the doors and windows in a very short period of time, and launched fierce fire on the Northeast Army that rushed over.

Although the Japanese army's light machine gun, also known as the crooked handle, was developed as early as 22 years, because the diehards in the Japanese army's top brass insisted that in addition to the correct strategic strategy, the most important thing to determine the outcome of the war was that the soldiers had a strong spiritual will. As a result, light machine guns were delayed in massively equipping the troops.

The Kwantung Army was in the process of launching the "Nine. After the "18th Incident", Itagaki felt that his strength was weak, because the northeast was too big, and when domestic reinforcements could not arrive in a short time, Itagaki suggested that the military headquarters urgently transfer a large number of crooked machine guns to the Kwantung Army to strengthen the firepower of the Kwantung Army.

Although Nagata Tetsuyama, director of the Military Affairs Bureau, was extremely dissatisfied with the fact that the military headquarters did not dare to increase Manchuria in large quantities, but only increased the number of divisions and brigades like squeezing toothpaste, at the beginning of the incident, he was unable to do anything about the increase of troops due to the obstruction of the cabinet of Reijiro Wakatsuki. However, he, the chief of the military affairs bureau, had the final say in the allocation of weapons to the Kwantung Army. Under the instructions of Nagata Tetsuyama, a large number of crooked sub-machine guns placed in warehouses were continuously transported to the northeast, and the units of the Kwantung Army had already deployed light machine guns to the squad in advance.

Therefore, the firepower of the Kwantung Army was so fierce that the Northeast Army behind it could not raise its head.

After the Northeast Army threw grenades from the window, a part of the Japanese troops braved the dense rain of bullets, grabbed the door, and started a white-knuckle battle with the Northeast Army that rushed to the front with snowy bayonets. …,

Because the follow-up troops were firmly suppressed by the Japanese firepower, the number was not superior, and the stabbing technology was not as good as that of the Japanese army, most of the more than 100 Northeast Army troops who rushed to the front of the box office were killed, and a small number had to withdraw and shoot at the Japanese army from a distance.

Because the Japanese army did not set a defensive position outdoors, after driving away the Northeast Army that rushed to the front, they could not hold out outdoors, so they had to retreat to the box office.

Although the Japanese army had no fortifications to rely on, and only relied on the station buildings to respond to the battle in a hurry, and was in an unfavorable situation of being passively beaten, the Northeast Army organized several charges in a row, but they were all beaten back by the fierce fire of the Japanese army, and they could not tear apart the Japanese defensive positions, but the Japanese army could not be helped. The battle slowly became stalemate.

The only threat to the Japanese army was the two field guns and several mortars of the Northeast Army, but the accuracy of these shooters was extremely poor and could not effectively strike at the Japanese army. Moreover, the station is built extremely strongly, it is all reinforced concrete, and there is no major problem with a few shots.

On the contrary, although the Japanese army did not have artillery, and because there was no outdoor position, mortars could not be fired, but under the cover of fire, the Japanese army set up grenadiers at various entrances and constantly fired outwards.

The grenadiers of the Japanese army hit very accurately, and the firing points of the Northeast Army within a range of 300 meters were constantly removed.

As time slowly passed, the advantage of the Northeast Army's night attack not only gradually disappeared, but was also forced to gradually retreat under the blows of the Japanese grenadiers and heavy fire.

Zhao Yi wanted to eat this Japanese army too much, and he was too reluctant to give up the advantage that he had finally gained by night attack, the battle started in the first half of the night and lasted until dawn the next day, Zhao Yi had not given the order to retreat, and he was still imagining that the Japanese army would not be able to hold on under his blow.

It was precisely because of Zhao Yi's indecision that he caused huge losses to the 22nd Brigade.

At 6 o'clock in the morning, a shocking and absolutely unexpected situation suddenly appeared, Zhao Yi received a report that hundreds of Japanese reinforcements appeared at Xijia Station in the west, only 5 kilometers away from Shuangcheng.

If Zhao Yi had calmed down at this time and commanded the troops to retreat in an orderly manner, the losses would have been much smaller. However, Zhao Yi still fantasized about destroying the Japanese troops at the station.

For the reinforcements of the Japanese army, the first to bear the brunt was the 3rd Battalion of the 662nd Regiment that was guarding the south and was responsible for cutting off the rear road of the Japanese army. Zhao Yi made a desperate bet and ordered the 3rd battalion to defend the West Road Crossing. However, the 3rd Battalion could not withstand the offensive of Japanese reinforcements, and Major General Hasebe commanded the Japanese troops to rush directly into the West Road Crossing by vehicle and suppress the 3rd Battalion with heavy firepower.

The 3rd Battalion, which could not resist, was forced to abandon its position and retreat north to join the 1st and 2nd Battalions.

At this time, the first battalion in charge of the main attack had suffered heavy casualties, and even the battalion commander Su Chengjie was injured by Japanese shells. Shinichiro Kano, who was at the station, saw that reinforcements were coming, and the Northeast Army was already in chaos, and knew that this was a good time to annihilate the sneak attack on the Northeast Army in front of him, so he immediately commanded the troops to rush out of the station and launch a counterattack against the 22nd Brigade.

At this time, Zhao Yi woke up like a dream and immediately ordered a retreat.

It's just that the sky is already bright at this time, and in the thick snow, it is not easy to evacuate.

This place is located in the Songnen Plain, the terrain is open, there is almost no place to rely on, and the land is white, the officers and soldiers of the 22nd Brigade wearing gray military uniforms and red armbands have almost no place to hide, and they have suffered heavy casualties under the fierce pursuit fire of the Japanese army. If you spread your legs and run violently, the troops will inevitably be completely scattered. Zhao Yi had no choice but to grit his teeth, try his best to control the troops, and retreat while fighting. It's just that not only the two field guns were lost, but even the mortars were lost.

Lu Ye, who was blocked in the station and besieged for half a night, was also ruthless, commanding his brigade to chase the 22nd Brigade wildly, and even Zhao Yi himself was overturned from his horse by the air wave of a Japanese cannonball, and almost gave up his life.

When the 22nd Brigade retreated to the Taipingzhuang area, it had already suffered six or seven hundred casualties, not only the first battalion commander Su Chengji and Jin Yongshan and other four battalion company commanders were killed in battle, but even the commander of the 661st Regiment, Wu Yonghe, was also killed by stray bullets. The troops were chased and beaten by the Japanese army all the way, and the wounded could not be contained, and they were all killed with bayonets by the Japanese soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield. …,

Just when Zhao Yi was already in despair, there was a sudden faint sound of dense cannonball explosions in the direction of the twin castles.

Judging from the dense artillery sound, this is dozens of mortars firing, and the troops directly under the command of Hasebe who stayed at the Twin Castle Station do not have so many mortars at all, this must be the reinforcements of the Northeast Army who have arrived and are attacking the Twin Castle Station. If the Twin Castle Station is lost, not only Rear Admiral Hasebe will be in danger, but he will have to face the outnumbered Northeast Army in the field.

Thinking of this, Lu Ye did not dare to hesitate, and immediately ordered to stop the pursuit, and the whole team quickly returned to the twin castles.

It was not the Northeast Army that was attacking the Shuangcheng Station, but Han Guangdi's Jiangbei Column.

When Han Guangdi led his troops to the Twin Castles, it was already more than seven o'clock in the morning, and Lu Ye had already led his troops to chase Zhao Yi and left the Twin Castles, leaving only the troops directly under the wing led by Hasebe to clean up the battlefield, and the two field guns captured by the Japanese were being dragged towards the station. The easy defeat of thousands of Northeast Army made the Japanese army very excited, and the vigilance was very relaxed.

Listening to the sound of guns farther and farther away, and looking at the hundreds of Japanese troops slacking off at the station, Han Guangdi decisively ordered a detachment to attack the station, and the second and third detachments spread out to the two flanks of the station, preparing to meet the Japanese troops who were returning to help.

A detachment and a column of artillery battalions dozens of mortars, first launched a fierce bombardment of the Japanese troops on the station, under the sudden fierce artillery fire, the Japanese troops on the station suddenly became in chaos, the Japanese army never expected that the Northeast Army had just been defeated and fled, and now there was a group of Chinese troops wearing grass green uniforms rushed to the twin castles, not only daring to attack them, but also more fierce firepower.

In the chaos, some Japanese soldiers ran back to the station box office and other buildings, while some Japanese troops ran to the train on the platform to resist.

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