Chapter 189 Recovering the Northeast 1
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The eastern part of Mongolia and the puppet Manchukuo junction, Tamchag Prague, here is close to the back of the head of the chicken head of the "rooster" shaped map of the Yanhuang Continent, surrounded by desert Gobi terrain, and at the same time bordering the Hunshandak Sandy Land of Inner Mongolia Province of the Yanhuang Continent, it is a barren land, usually deserted. At this time, the third column of the target plane, the Yellow Red Party, and the command of Mr. Chen were assembled here to stand by.
"Di~~Di~~~" The iron whistle suddenly blew in the camp.
"Assemble, assemble!" The non-commissioned officers in the unit shouted orders one after another, calling for the soldiers of their respective units to return to the unit.
Ten minutes later, the temporary training field was full of rows of Red Party fighters, and not far from the rear were their reliable battlefield partners - rows of neatly arranged Jiefang-1 tanks (Type 59), after nearly half a year of study, test drive, familiarization and actual combat, the soldiers have largely subdued these steel monsters, and can drive like arms, orders and prohibitions.
"Take a break!" Cāo Field took a left step, and Ge Zhuang, the commander of the 113th Company of the 10th Regiment, ordered.
"Brush ~~" A company of more than 100 people spread their feet apart in a neat and orderly manner, waiting for the next order from the company commander.
"Brothers, according to the instructions of the superiors, everyone immediately packed up their personal belongings, checked their equipment, carried ammunition supplies, and we set off in an hour, understand?"
"Yes!"
"Then liberate now!"
"Hurry, hurry!!"
As the company commander gave the order to end, more than a hundred Red Party fighters trotted back to their respective tents, checked their guns, and stacked their personal belongings.
"Dashan, did you say that you are going back to your hometown to fight the little devil this time?" Li Wenshan, who was in his forties, with a weathered face, was born in the Northeast Army, and later followed General Zhang Xueliang into the customs and retreated to Shanxi.
"Almost, except for the little devils around us, it is the Soviet Union, and it is impossible to fight the Soviet Union, so there is only the northeast." Tian Dashan, who came out of a village with Li Wenshan to serve as a soldier, replied.
"Northeast, how many years have we been out, this time we are really going to fight back!" Li Wenshan pulled the bolt vigorously and said vigorously.
"Uncle Li, it's time for us to go back and avenge the villagers!" The Red Party soldier named Dashan, who was bending down to pack his backpack, paused with both hands, and then pressed the root of his thigh vigorously, and said.
"Daisen~~"
"Huh?"
"If I'm lucky this time, I'll be glorious in front of the battle. Don't forget to take my ashes back to the village and bury them in the ground of our village, the feng shui outside is not good, and I am afraid that I will not be used to living 'underneath' outside. ”
"You won't, uncle!"
"Hehe, just in case."
"Yes, don't worry."
An hour later, with the tanks starting one after another, they drove off into the distance with a rumbling sound. Thousands of dark green military trucks of all kinds, loaded with personnel and materials, followed closely behind, and the third column, totaling 150,000 people, drove mightily towards the east of the puppet Manchukuo - Gui'an Province, this way they had to cross the desert, open the way with tanks, and cross the Great Khing'an Mountains, aiming directly at Harbin, the capital city of Heilongjiang Province (this route was the main direction of attack of the Soviet Union in the later attack on the Guan Dong Army).
At the beginning of 1943, the "Verdun of the East" defensive line, which had taken many years to build by the Guan Dong Army to defend against the attack of the Soviets, was basically completed. Starting from Hailar in the northwest of Gui'an Province, it connects the areas of Heihe, Boli and Hutou, with a total of more than 8,000 permanent fortifications and support points, and a depth of 50 kilometers, to deal with the threat of heavy armored forces of the Soviets in the north.
However, due to the existence of the desert Gobi at the junction of Mongolia and Gui'an Province, the terrain is less suitable for large-scale chariot assault than the Boli area in the east, so the defense force of the Guandong army here is relatively simple and lax. It was not until the middle of 1943, when the Yanhuanghong Party recovered Outer Mongolia and cut off the rear road of the 250,000 Guan Dong Army that attacked the Soviet Union, that the top management of the Guan Dong Army suddenly found that there were major drawbacks and loopholes in the painstaking management of the "Oriental Verdun" defense line, so they stepped up digging and building fortifications here, but after all, the time was limited, and the weather was soon winter, and the fortifications did not go smoothly, and only a small part of the plan for that year was completed.
The eastern part of Arshan City, Gui'an Province, is located in the mountainous area of Taiping Ling. At the highest point of 1,711 meters, the terrain is dangerous, and it is the first choice for the Dong army of Wakou Pass when they urgently build a new defensive fortress. After several months of excavation, a fortified support point fortress consisting of 12 artillery firing ports and more than 100 machine-gun holes was built. At this time, there were more than 800 Japanese soldiers in the fortress, and in addition to 100 veterans, the remaining 700 were newly recruited retired soldiers or expatriates of the Japanese Pioneer Group.
Because the Yanhuanghong Party had not launched an attack at this time, coupled with the cold weather, all the fortifications and artillery ports were temporarily closed, and more than 800 Japanese soldiers were distributed in different caves to rest according to their ranks, and most of them were wrapped in quilts to drive away the cold. Inside the cave, however, a few wires were pulled, and electric lights were installed at places such as the intersection of the cave passages and the commander's command room, emitting a melancholy dull yellow glow.
"Is there an order from the headquarters?" In the fortress command room, Jiro Endo, who was in charge of the defense of the fortress, asked.
"Hey! Your Excellency Endo, there is no news yet, and there is no news of other places being attacked by the Red Party. The telegraph operator replied with four hand wells.
"I see. Eight grids, it's so cold! Jiro Endo, who was stamped by the low temperature in the fortress, scolded as he spoke. Because it was far away from nearby villages and towns, they had stationed three days ago in order to prevent a possible attack by the Yanhuang Red Party, but by now, there was not even a shadow of the Red Party's attacking force.
"After dawn tomorrow, you let the people in the fortress go out in batches to bask in the sun, and it's not a way to stay up like this, tomorrow let Kudo lead people to build a wooden house at the foot of the mountain, and half of the people will go to the wooden house to rest every day."
"Hey!"
The Taipingling Fortress of the Japanese Invaders, a rest area for ordinary soldiers, in order to save electricity, only a light was installed in the toilet place, and the place where the soldiers slept was completely black.
"Okabe-kun, it's so cold~~" said Sadago Kusaki, who wrapped his whole body in a quilt.
"Eight squares! The sappers' waste, the repair of the fortress did not have a vent, and it was impossible to burn wood for heating, eight grids, eight grids! Okabe scolded.
"Ding~~~" There was a sound outside abruptly.
"What's going on?" Grass land sadago jǐng ti said.
"What else could there be? It must have been a gravel falling from the top of the cave! Okabe said with confidence.
"I heard the voice coming from the arsenal, okay?" Kusago asked uneasily.
"You're worried about those shells?" Maybe it's finally a topic that can divert the brain's attention, Okabe Shigeichi said very playfully: "Don't worry, Kusaoji-kun, I used to work in a military factory, not to mention a small stone, even a relatively large stone is okay if it hits a cannonball directly." ”
"I'm still a little worried, let's go over and have a look, okay? Okabe-kun. The cautious Kusakichi Sadago insisted.
"No need~~"
"Please, Okabe-kun!"
"Good, good. I'll take a look with you, there's nothing to do anyway. ”
Half a minute later, Okabe Shigeichi and Kusakichi Sadago carefully illuminated the cave in front of the cave where a large number of shells and bullets were placed, and did not find anything unusual.
"Well, look, I'll just say that the pebbles on the top of the cave fell."
"Well, Okabe-kun is right."
"Hurry back, I'm freezing to death, if only I had a bottle of sake now!"
"Hey!"
When the two Japanese soldiers returned to their lodgings after chatting with each other, a small oblate black sè metal box appeared in the munitions office, in a blind corner under the cover of the shell box that was invisible to the human eye.
Somewhere high in the sky at the Taipingling Fortress.
"Whew~~ It's okay, these two little devils didn't have an in-depth inspection, which scared me."
"I'll be a little more careful next time, but I didn't expect that the time bomb was placed at a slight tilt, causing the bomb to slip." Yadi explained.
"It doesn't matter. Yadea, the self-detonation device you designed should be powerful enough? Wang Fan asked.
"Rest assured, the power is enough to detonate these shells, causing the entire mountain tunnel to collapse and bury the devils in the fortress alive."
"That's good, it's 11 o'clock in the evening, let's go to the next location to continue planting explosives, and wait until four o'clock tomorrow morning to listen to the 'serial firecrackers'."
"Okay, but you really took a lot of effort to sacrifice fewer soldiers for the Yanhuanghong Party."
"No way, according to the record of the Soviet Union's attack on the Guan Dong Army in 1945, the Guan Dong Army defended by permanent fortifications, and finally gave the Soviets considerable casualties and trouble, if it is a pure field battle, we are not afraid with the advantage of equipment, but like this kind of mountain fortress-style hard bones, it is still quite difficult to gnaw, and it is better for me to solve it at a time."
"What about the fortifications of cities such as Harbin, Changchūn, and Shenyang?"
"Tomorrow at four o'clock, with the 'chain of firecrackers' lit, let's make dumplings again at the same time, destroy the artillery positions and barracks of these urban devils, and weaken the combat power of the Guan Dong army to the greatest extent.
"I see!"
The capital of the puppet state of Manchukuo, Xinjing City in Jilin Province (later Chang Chūn), built a large number of barracks in the surrounding area at this time to accommodate the 200,000 troops of the two mobile decisive armies of the Guan Dong Army. Because the weather in the northeast turned cold and began to snow, and the time was after 12 o'clock in the evening, there was no news of the Red Party's attack in various places, so most of the Japanese soldiers of the decisive corps had already gone to bed and waited for the possible deployment of the Ming rì.
Next to the more than a dozen long rows of brick-built barracks, there are several large cāo fields covered with white snowflakes, and thousands of trucks, artillery and other weapons and materials are neatly parked here, waiting to leave at any time. The barracks are surrounded by brick walls and barbed wire, and you need to pass through the gate to enter and exit, and there are elevated heavy machine gun towers on both sides of the gate, which are also electrified, and a high-power white searchlight is placed on each side, and the miserable white sè light shines back and forth, which not only maintains the mystery of the barracks but also ensures the safety of the barracks, so the soldiers of the Guan Dong Army stationed here sleep peacefully and sweetly.
Not far from these barracks, about 10 kilometers away, there is the Xinjing Military Combat Readiness Airport, where more than 400 fighters are parked in permanent or semi-permanent hangars, waiting for orders to go out at any time. However, because of the heavy snowfall, the runway began to freeze, and I really remembered that flying was indispensable for some preparation and chicken flying dog jumping. As for the city of Xinjing, a train maintenance factory is working overtime to modify the front and carriage of ordinary locomotives and weld steel plates to meet the firepower and protection requirements of armored patrol trains.
Four o'clock in the morning is the sweetest time for people to sleep. The Japanese barracks are 10,000 meters in the air.
"Yadi, it's almost time, start!" Wang Fan said.
"Understood!!"
As Yadea's words fell, countless aerial bombs suddenly appeared from high altitude, and then under the influence of the earth's gravity, they fell towards the barracks, airports, and train modification factories below.
With a piercing effort, a rumbling explosion came from below, accompanied by a thick black smoke, and the dark red flame began to burn. And because Wang Fan dropped a large number of napalm bombs at the barracks, the screams seemed to be getting denser and denser.
As for the major permanent fortifications in Gui'an Province.
"Boom! Bang!! ”
"Nani?" Jiro Endo, who was sleeping in the war room and clothes in the mountain, suddenly sat up when he heard the voice. However, as soon as he asked a question, before anyone could answer it, the rock above his head was torn apart by the action of the martyrdom bomb, and it smashed towards Jiro Endo.
As the time bombs in the various fortresses were detonated on time, including the Taipingling Mountains, dozens of newly built mountain fortifications and fortresses built by the Dong Army were destroyed one after another, and the devils who were waiting to fight in them were either killed and mutilated by the shells that exploded as soon as possible, or were buried by the large-scale landslides that followed, and died in the extreme pain of suffocation. Of course, due to Wang Fan's limited time and map scanning range, it is impossible to take care of all the Japanese fortifications, large and small. However, with this round of investigation and removal of obstacles, it is believed that most of the permanent fortifications and materials and equipment relied on by the Guan Dong army have been destroyed, and the difficulty of the Red Party's counterattack in the northeast has been reduced in a straight line.
In the afternoon of the next day, while Umezu Mijiro and his subordinates were still collecting losses from the "air raids" in various places, the Red Party Third Column had overcome the obstacles of the natural environment and was heading directly at Baicheng, the western gateway between Harbin and Changchūn.