Chapter 589: Defending Harbin in the Northeast of the Anti-Japanese War (4)

What did Zhao Yi and Yu Datou talk about?

Zhao Yi said himself,. At that time, he persuaded Yu Datou to rein in the precipice as soon as possible, and unanimously to the outside world, but Yu Datou did not listen to the persuasion. Yu Datou also turned around and persuaded Zhao Yi not to conflict with the Japanese army when it passed through Shuangcheng, according to Zhao Yi's own words, he "responded to it" and agreed.

According to Song Zhewu's memory, Zhao Yi once explained in his reminiscences that he was "not strong enough to fight hard with Xiqia".

It's just that this explanation is somewhat far-fetched.

The puppet army of the "Northern Expedition" of Xiqia and Yu Datou had just surrendered to the Japanese, and they were either newly recruited soldiers or suspicious people, and they did not even have a complete infantry regiment of the regular army. However, Zhao Yi and other brigade commanders have intact national defense forces or provincial defense forces in their hands. After waiting for three months of "hypocrisy and wrongdoing", the puppet army has greatly increased its strength after training and enrichment, but Zhao Yi's troops are still that little bit of men, and they don't see where the strength is going.

The ambiguous attitude of several brigade commanders of the Northeast Army for three months brought obvious benefits to the puppet army, and even strengthened the courage of the Kwantung Army, but what benefits did it bring to the Northeast War of Resistance?

Since he was really determined to resist Japan, he naturally wanted to unite with friendly forces. However, Feng Zhanhai and Zhang Zuozhou, the troops who took the lead in raising the banner of resistance against Japan, fought alone and were defeated by the puppet army, but Zhao Yi and others watched from the sidelines, watching their own troops being defeated by the traitor puppet army at their own doorstep!

Not only did they not take action to resist the war, but they also did not even have verbal support, and these dignified lieutenant generals and brigade commanders of the Northeast Army watched the puppet army kill Harbin.

If it weren't for Xiqia's order to remove the bigwigs in Harbin who had been riding on the wall and watching, Ding Chao had no choice but to finally raise the banner of resistance against Japan, I don't know how long their ambiguous attitude would last.

As for Zhao Yi, now that the Japanese army is preparing to forcibly attack Harbin through Shuangcheng to the north, Zhao Yi no longer has any room to wait and see, he must make a choice immediately. Either provoke the anti-Japanese banner, or surrender to the Japanese army, otherwise the Kwantung Army will definitely turn around and clean up Zhao Yi after cleaning up Li Du and Ding Chao.

At this time, the situation in the Northeast is changing as rapidly as a marquee.

On the night of the failure of the puppet army in Datou's attack on Harbin, the Japanese army began to board the train in Changchun and took the train north along the China Eastern Railway, which could reach Shuangcheng in two days at the latest. Either fight or surrender, the ambiguous attitude can no longer be maintained, Zhao Yi finally made up his mind to join the anti-Japanese camp in Harbin and declare anti-Japanese.

The 22nd Brigade had three regiments, and the 661st Regiment was originally far away in Dunhua, and the regiment commander Qu Baoheng also ran away from the former brigade commander Su Dechen. Wu Yonghe, attached to the lieutenant colonel regiment, took over the Great Seal and rushed to Shuangcheng with a part of his men to join Zhao Yi. In this way, plus the 662nd Regiment of Zhao Yi's old army, which was originally stationed in Shuangcheng. Zhao Yi directly controlled the strength of about five battalions in Shuangcheng. Chen Decai, the commander of the 663rd Regiment of another regiment, led his troops to garrison the old sentry ditch on the bank of the Songhua River in the south of Shuangcheng.

Laoshaogou is located in the northwest of Dehui County, on the side is the second Songhua River Bridge, the Middle East Railway passes from here to the north and south, and the Songhua River flows east-west, there is a steamboat dock here in Laoshaogou, so it is also a water and land transportation artery. If the Kwantung Army marched east into Harbin, it must have crossed the old sentry ditch first.

The Japanese army came by train from the southwest along the Eastern Railway, and Shilipu to the east of Shuangcheng still had the puppet army's Liu Baolin brigade. Zhao Yi knew very well that if he wanted to keep the twin cities, he must avoid the two-sided attack of the Japanese puppet army.

The best measure for an enemy attacking from different directions on the outer line is to break through the enemy all the way before he can achieve a combined attack.

Therefore, Zhao Yi decided to concentrate the 5 battalions of Shuangcheng and first attack the weaker puppet army Liu Baolin Brigade in the east. At the same time, Chen Decai's 663rd Regiment was ordered to stop the Japanese advance at Laojiaogou. …,

On the night of the 2nd, Zhao Yi led his troops out of Shuangcheng County at night and attacked Liu Baolin's puppet army in Shilipu in the east.

What surprised Zhao Yi was that when his troops were still more than ten miles away from Shilipu, there was a fierce sound of gunfire in the direction of Shilipu, and Zhao Yi hurriedly sent someone to check on it......

Soon, the commander of the reconnaissance company, who had been sent to check on the situation, returned with several servicemen in fur coats.

The reconnaissance company commander told Zhao Yi that it was the Eastern Resistance Jiangbei Column led by Han Guangdi himself who was fighting in front of him, and was encircling and annihilating the puppet army Liu Baolin Brigade at the moment, and Han Guangdi would then rush over to meet Zhao Yi.

It turned out that since Han Guangdi accepted Song Zhewu's order, he also thought that if he wanted to block the Japanese army in Shuangcheng, he must first pull out the Han Baolin Brigade of the Shilipu puppet army.

The Jiangbei Column was composed of more than 8,000 experienced veterans, all of whom rode horses and were very mobile. The armament was completely in accordance with the configuration of the troops, except that there were no mountain artillery and heavy machine guns, and the artillery was all 60 or 80 mm mortars.

To encircle and annihilate more than 4,000 puppet troops with a weak will to fight is simply a piece of cake for the Jiangbei Column, which has excellent personnel. After surrounding Han Baolin's brigade, dozens of mortars bombarded violently, and the puppet army immediately messed up, and now the besieged Han Baolin brigade has been divided, although the battle is not over, a complete victory is inevitable.

In the past few months, Han Guangdi has been saddened by the performance of the generals of the Northeast Army, including when he blocked the Kwantung Army in Siping, there were troops of the Northeast Army all around, but none of the troops rushed to help, and he was very glad that he came to the Fourth Route Army early.

However, he was still very happy about Zhao Yi's arrival. Zhao Yi was able to lead the troops to attack Han Baolin, which showed that Zhao Yi had finally made up his mind to raise the flag to resist Japan. Therefore, he decided to meet this Zhao Yi, and it was better to discuss with Zhao Yi that the two sides would cooperate to stop the Japanese army at the Songhua River Bridge.

From the sound of gunfire to now, only half an hour has passed, and the sound of gunfire from the direction of Shilipu has gradually thinned out, which makes Zhao Yi secretly surprised in his heart.

He is very aware of the strength of Han Baolin's brigade, although the more than 4,000 puppet troops are only half of the veterans, but the weapons and equipment are very good, and the combat effectiveness is not weak, he thinks that if there is a sneak attack by his troops, he will successfully defeat Han Baolin, if the two sides face each other in a dignified manner, he is only slightly stronger than Han Baolin.

Although he did not know how many people Han Guangdi's Jiangbei Column had, he knew that the Eastern Resistance suffered heavy casualties in blocking the Japanese army in Siping for dozens of days, and according to Yu Datou, there were more than 30,000 casualties. Although he didn't believe the casualty figures Yu Datou said, he believed that there should be about 15,000 casualties during this period of time. Although the Eastern Resistance had guns and money, and recruited a large number of recruits during this time, it took at least three months to half a year of training to go to the battlefield.

Therefore, Zhao Yi judged that the number of Han Guangdi's Jiangbei column should not exceed 10,000 at most. Judging from the sound of mortars just now, it seems that there are 20,000 or 30,000 people on the other side. This surprised Zhao Yi a lot.

If there are 20,000 or 30,000 people on the other side, it means that Han Guangdi brought his main force of the Eastern Resistance to Shilipu. Even thinking of his ambiguous attitude towards the anti-Japanese resistance in the previous paragraph, Zhao Yi not only felt a little empty in his heart. Chen Decai's 663rd Regiment is still in Laojiaogou, and the more than 4,000 people he brought, if Han Guangdi turns his face with him and annexes his 22nd Brigade, it will be a piece of cake.

Therefore, when he heard that Han Guangdi was coming to see him, Zhao Yi couldn't help but panic, thought for a moment, and said to the staff officer of the Eastern Resistance who came with the reconnaissance company commander: "Zhao is also here to eliminate Han Baolin's puppet army. Since your ministry has already beaten this rabbit cub first, Zhao will thank the Northeast father. The military situation was urgent, Zhou could not wait for Captain Han, and Zhao had to rush back to Shuangcheng to prevent the Japanese army from advancing eastward. Please tell Captain Han that Zhao will thank you in person another day! ”

After explaining these scenes, Zhao Yi led the team to turn around and return north. …,

Although the combat effectiveness of the Han Baolin Brigade is not weak, Zhao Yi and the Han Baolin Brigade get along well during this time, and the Han Baolin Brigade imagines that he Zhao Yi will make trouble at this time, and if he goes to sneak attack, he will definitely succeed. didn't expect to be preempted by Dongkang.

Zhao Yi was very depressed, and there was no end to returning north to Shuangcheng. As soon as dawn, Zhao Yi ordered the troops to camp. Yesterday was a small year, and the battle was not fought until he ran around all night, the more Zhao Yi thought about it, the more unlucky he became, he hastily ate some breakfast, and fell asleep alone.

At noon, the personnel who remained in the Twin Cities came running in a car, saying that there was an urgent military intelligence report.

As soon as they heard that there was an urgent military situation, the guards did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly brought the person to the small courtyard where Zhao Yi lived to report to Zhao Yi.

It was reported that, according to the Buyeo station, the Japanese army had crossed the old sentry ditch and reached Buyeo and was advancing towards Shuangcheng.

This news was like a bolt from the blue for Zhao Yi, and Zhao Yi was almost stunned.

He had already arranged for Chen Decai's 663rd Regiment to destroy the bridge to block the Japanese army, why did he let the Kwantung Army come over so quickly?

In fact, Chen Decai's regiment not only resisted, but also did destroy the railroad tracks around the Songhua River Iron Bridge. It's just that Chen Decai didn't expect the efficiency of the Kwantung Army engineers to temporarily repair the railway in a very short period of time. The Japanese came out on two trains, the first of which was loaded with emergency repair materials. In a hurry, Chen Decai's regiment only resisted for half a night, and then let the Kwantung Army break through the defensive line, and Chen Decai had no choice but to retreat.

When Chen Decai retreated, it was when Zhao Yi's troops began to approach Shilipu, and now Zhao Yi's position was less than 50 kilometers away from Shuangcheng, and it was basically too late to rush back. But Shuangcheng is the territory of the 22nd Brigade, and Zhao Yi still has a lot of belongings that he hasn't taken away, so he is really unwilling to push it to Harbin.

In the dark night, a train slowly pulled into the station of the two castles. The car was loaded with Japanese soldiers, and machine guns and rifles were facing the platforms on both sides. Suddenly, with a shout, the Northeast Army in ambush on both sides of the station opened fire fiercely, and the Japanese soldiers hurriedly opened the carriage door, and just jumped off the platform, they were knocked to the ground like ducks......

At the end of the battle, an officer rushed up excitedly and said, regiment commander, more than 400 devils have been killed, and more than 30 have been captured. Give a close-up of the hero regiment leader - Zhu Chuanwu......

Footage from the hit TV series "Breaking through the East" that year