Chapter 357: Occupy Qiqihar

Seeing the Japanese army's suicidal attack, Meng Qingshan was puzzled and didn't know what was going on, but the result was still very good, the Japanese army's resistance force was completely disabled, Meng Qingshan knew that it was time for a general attack, and hurriedly ordered to launch a signal flare to launch a general attack.

"Whoosh" three red flares flew into the sky.

"Comrades, rush" Seeing the signal flare of the general attack, Shen Qingshan, commander of the Guard Brigade, and Fang Zhensheng, commander of the Rapid Reaction Brigade, who were waiting for a combat opportunity in the position, immediately jumped up from the ground and ordered loudly to the soldiers of the Guard Brigade behind them.

"Chong Ah" was ordered, and these were basically the third battalion of guards composed of party members. Without any hesitation, they jumped up from the ground one after another, and the remaining soldiers followed in the footsteps of their comrades and charged towards Qiqihar, where the city gate was wide open. At the same time, dozens of light machine gunners and sharpshooters who rushed to the front also shot a dense rain of bullets at the Japanese garrison soldiers who were still stubbornly resisting at the entrance of the city wall.

The shouts of the fighters, the strafing of machine guns. From far and near, they soon rushed into the city, and the soldiers quickly rushed to the city wall, but there was no surprise, after the fierce shelling just now, there was almost no resistance from the Japanese army on the city wall, and the soldiers threw the Japanese plaster flag on the city wall to the ground, and planted the bright five-star red flag on the city, cheering.

Listening to the cheers in the distance, Meng Qingshan put down his binoculars and said to Liu Yalou beside him with a smile: "The chief of staff didn't expect us to attack the periphery of Qiqihar so smoothly. ”

"Yes! Commander in chief. I didn't expect the little devils to be so useless, I guess they must have been confused by the third and fourth divisions set by the commander-in-chief in the area of the Woniu River, thinking where our main forces are. I never thought that we would lead a detachment to attack his lair. ”

"This method can only be used once, and the next time it won't work."

Although the main force of the Japanese army in Qiqihar has been transferred to the area of Sun Wu. Attack on the line of the Woniu River. But Qiqihar is still too important for the Japanese army after all. The entire Japanese puppet army left behind in Qiqihar plus all kinds of puppet Manchurian police and spies. There were two or three thousand more.

Of these two or three thousand, the Japanese army accounted for at least half. Among the remaining half of the puppet Manchu military police, there are quite a few Japanese police officers and officers, as well as Japanese advisers among the puppet Manchu military and police. Maybe the combat effectiveness of the puppet Manchu military and police is not strong, but the remaining Japanese do not have a few soft persimmons. Even if the Japanese army was wiped out by the artillery just now, it was necessary to prevent the remnants of the Japanese army in the city from jumping off the wall in a hurry.

The puppet Manchurian police, who accounted for half of the Qiqihar garrison, except for a few Japanese policemen who resisted stubbornly, most of the police resistance was not fierce. After only a few shots, most of the police officers of the puppet Manchurian Longjiang Provincial Police Department and the Qiqihar City Police Department surrendered.

The real difficulty is the remnants of the Japanese army's remaining troops. Although there was a surprise attack. However, the various units of the Japanese army still showed a very high military quality, and they reacted in a very short time. Although they were scattered and unable to form a unified deployment, they were still under the command of their respective commanders, relying on favorable terrain to resist desperately, and there were more than 1,000 expatriate armed forces just gathered by the chief of staff of the 10th Division of the Japanese Army, Shanshan Yuan, to block the advance of the Anti-Japanese Union.

The fighters who advanced into the city met with desperate resistance from the Japanese expatriate forces. The reason for this, on the one hand, was due to the fact that an order was received from the commander for armed mobilization. On the other hand, it is because the families of these expatriates are basically in Qiqihar City, if Qiqihar is occupied by the Chinese people. Then, they can imagine the fate of their families and their own property

Half an hour passed. After the 1,000 or so armed expatriates who had just been called up by the Japanese army were dispersed by the soldiers of the two regiments, Shen Qingshan divided the troops into three routes, and the first way was to capture the Japanese station. The second route captured the important Japanese buildings in the city, and the rest of the men wiped out the remnants of the Japanese army in the city, resulting in nearly a company of casualties. However, it only advanced a distance of less than 200 meters. Basically, the distance of 5 meters was not advanced, and at least two fighters were killed and wounded. More importantly. In front of these Japanese expatriates who are familiar with the terrain. The fighters were like blind men, surrounded by these diaspora.

Shen Qingshan had no choice but to send someone to tell Meng Qingshan the news here. If the Japanese expatriates in the city cannot solve the problem for a long time, they will not be able to completely occupy Qiqihar. Although this roundabout operation was mainly aimed at mobilizing the Japanese troops attacking the base area, it was not intended to occupy Qiqihar. In the end, Meng Qingshan asked Zhu Guang to mobilize the mortar squad and bombard the Japanese expatriates hiding in the house, and all the remaining expatriates were killed in less than half an hour.

After the anti-coalition troops entered the city, each battalion could be assigned one or two guides, and the troops quickly separated, and the teams shuttled through the streets and alleys of Qiqihar, rapidly advancing towards the Japanese headquarters, the Japanese garrison barracks, the city gate, the city government, the police station, the finance bureau, the tax bureau, the mint, the arsenal and other targets. By five o'clock the next morning, Qiqihar, the former provincial capital of Heilongjiang, was all under the control of the Anti-Japanese Federation.

The only fly in the ointment is that when the Anti-Japanese Federation eliminated the remnants of the rebellious Japanese army in the city, the breakthrough force of less than 500 people led by the Japanese Lieutenant General Shanshan Yuan rushed to the garrison brigade that was holding a relatively complete confrontation with the Anti-Japanese Union, and after the Japanese troops converged, there were more than 1,000 troops, under the cover of heavy firepower such as grenadiers and Japanese heavy machine guns, a small hole was tore in the defensive position of the first regiment of the garrison brigade, Shanshan Yuan led less than 400 Japanese troops to run out in a hurry, and along the main road, quickly marched southward, ready to converge with Tailai to reinforce the troops, I don't know at all that there are 1,600 people in the cavalry regiment directly under the Anti-Union Command almost 2 kilometers away from the south gate, waiting for alert.

The commander of the Japanese army Qiqihar in Sunwu County did not know that his nest was being attacked by Meng Qingshan, but on a simple sand table and his generals studied what method should be used to break through the defense line of the Chinese people, I don't know what method this group of Chinese people relied on, with simple fortifications can actually block the advance of the Japanese Imperial Army, even in the pass, it is difficult to see, Yamashita Fengwu mobilized planes, artillery bombardment every day and night, the position was captured during the day, and was taken back by the Chinese people at night, He went back and forth several times, and saw that the casualties of the soldiers were increasing, and the troops were prevented from moving an inch in the area of the Woniu River, which made him very anxious.

The friendly troops on the middle road were entrusted by the bandit leader Yang Jingyu in the area of Suihua and Wangkui, and the friendly troops on the east road were blocked by the people of China in the area of Qunce Mountain, and the whole battle situation has fallen into a state of stalemate, how to break this stalemate, the last staff officer said casually, since the main force of the people of China is fighting with us in the area of the Woniu River, then their rear Shengshan fortress must be very empty, it is better to send a fleet to transport a group of soldiers along the Heilongjiang River to Weijiang Village, Sunwu County, and land and cooperate with the front-line troops to attack the Chinese army on both sides and change the situation of the war.

To this end, Yamashita Fengwu organized troops to attack the front-line position of Waist Road Bantun, and at the same time sent an operational plan to the headquarters of the Kwantung Army in Xinjing. (To be continued.) )