Chapter 595: Defending Harbin in the Northeast of the Anti-Japanese War (10)

The Japanese troops, who had just repelled the counteroffensive of the 28th Brigade, were overwhelmed, and at half past 10 a.m., the 29th Wing continued its offensive on Hospital Street.

This time, the Japanese army chose the north end of Hospital Street, which is at the junction of the central garrison area and the left flank garrison area. At the same time, the 15th Brigade, as a reserve, moved to attack the area around Xiangfang, forming a roundabout attack on the defenders of Hospital Street.

Li Du's left flank garrison was immediately under the onslaught of almost all the Japanese forces.

Stationed on the top is Zhao Yi's 22nd Brigade. Now they are being attacked by the 15th Wing of the 30th Brigade Regiment of the Japanese Army.

The Japanese lined up a large group in front of the positions of the 661st and 662nd Regiments, and after intensive artillery preparation, Japanese fighters and bombers bombed and strafed the defenders' positions in turn, and then attacked each under the guidance of a tank.

The Japanese bombardment blew up several courtyard walls of the 661st Regiment, and the Japanese tanks rumbled straight towards the gap, and the Japanese launched a fierce attack on the gap with the squadron as a wave.

The 22nd Brigade has a platoon of anti-aircraft artillery, and at this moment there is a 37mm anti-aircraft gun on the position of the 661st Regiment, but the shooters of the Northeast Army do not know whether it is because of nervousness or insufficient training in peacetime, and they have not hit the Japanese tanks after a few shots, but because the position was exposed, they were continuously bombarded by two Japanese mortars, and the shooter was blown up and killed.

At this time, the Japanese tanks also discovered this battle defense gun, turned the muzzle, and fired two shots in succession, destroying the battle defense gun. Then, the Japanese tanks drove to a position only more than 100 meters away from the defenders' positions, and bombarded the courtyard walls on both sides of the gap point by point with tank guns.

In the face of the arrogant Japanese tanks, the Northeast Army also sent several groups of personnel to try to rush over and blow up the Japanese tanks with explosives, but several groups of personnel fell in front of the position under the accurate fire of the Japanese infantry. Under the cover of tank fire, the Japanese finally stormed into the gap and occupied a compound. And the morale of the 661 regiment also completely collapsed.

Zhao Yi led his old army, the 662nd Regiment, and the four reinforced companies directly under the brigade headquarters were still resisting. However, the position of the 661st Regiment was broken through by the Japanese army, the 661st Regiment had withdrawn from its position, and the defense line of Zhao Yi's 22nd Brigade was in danger. And as soon as the defense line of the 22nd Brigade collapsed, the entire Harbin defensive battle would be completely over.

Just when Zhao Yi was disheartened and was about to give the order to retreat, more than thirty fighters painted with the blue sky and white sun emblem suddenly appeared in the sky.

As soon as these fighters from the northwest came to the skies over Harbin, they swooped down on dozens of Japanese fighters and bomber groups that were indiscriminately bombing the defenders of the Northeast Army. These Chinese planes did not pay attention to the Japanese bombers, but laid siege to one of the Japanese squadron fighters with all their might. Dozens of Chinese and Japanese fighters suddenly tumbled over Harbin and launched a fierce air battle.

The appearance of the plane made the defenders of the Northeast Army and the citizens of Harbin feel very excited, they have reinforcements! They're not alone anymore!

However, the feeling of the Japanese army is just the opposite, especially the feeling of high-ranking officers such as Duomen, which is extremely shocking for them. Because they knew very well what it meant to have a fighter of the Chinas in the sky over Harbin at this time.

At this time, both the Japanese army and the Northeast Army stopped fighting, and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers of the armies on both sides focused their attention on the sky, as if the victory or defeat of this air battle would determine the victory or defeat of the ground forces of both sides.

The Japanese fighters seem to be inferior to the Chinese fighters in terms of speed and flexibility, and the number of fighters of the national army is three times that of the Japanese army, and Japanese planes are constantly being shot down with black smoke and flames. And every time a Japanese plane is shot down, it will attract bursts of cheers from the military and civilians of Harbin.

With the downing of one Japanese plane after another, the confidence and enthusiasm of the soldiers and civilians in the Northeast on the ground continued to rise, and the defenders of the Northeast Army, who had withdrawn from their positions, also began to re-enter their positions. …,

Zhao Yi took this opportunity and strictly ordered the 661st Regiment to immediately restore its position, otherwise all officers above the battalion level would be shot. Then he personally rushed to the 661 regiment with a reinforced company to supervise the battle. Seeing that the battle was critical, Li Du also personally led a battalion to reinforce at this time.

The commander of the 661st Regiment died in the battle of the Twin Castles, and the new commander lacked prestige and poor command, which was also the reason why the 661st Regiment was broken into the position by the Japanese army. This time, the brigade commander personally supervised the battle, and there were reinforcements to reinforce it, and several other battalion commanders did not dare to make any more excuses, and the four battalions launched a counter-charge together, taking advantage of the unstable foothold of the Japanese army, and recaptured the position.

On the balcony of the official residence of the governor of the Eastern Provincial Special Region, a short and fat old man wearing satin civilian clothes, with a pair of triangular eyes, and a height of only about 1.65 meters, watched the fierce air battle over Harbin expressionlessly. This person is none other than Zhang Jinghui, the governor of the Eastern Province Special Region.

Behind Zhang Jinghui, there stood a senior police officer in a black police uniform, holding a telescope in his hand, looking at the plane fighting fiercely in the air with a surprised face, looking at Zhang Jinghui for a while, and listening to the bursts of excited cheers coming from outside, looking a little overwhelmed.

This person is Zhang Jinghui's confidant and former head of the garrison of the Eastern Province Special Region Yu Jingtao, but he, the captain of the garrison corps, has been dismissed by Li Du, Ding Chao, Xing Zhanqing and others after Li Du was stationed in Harbin, and is now temporarily serving as Zhang Jinghui's secretary.

The air battle lasted less than half an hour, and the Japanese fighters, who were outnumbered by the enemy, were completely lost, and the only three remaining Japanese fighters, seeing that their clumsy bombers had already taken the opportunity to fly away, also hurriedly fled to the northwest.

Dozens of fighters of the national army painted with the insignia of the blue sky and white sun also followed the Japanese planes closely.

It wasn't until he couldn't see the shadow of the plane that Zhang Jinghui turned around with a wry smile and said to Jing Tao: "This little Japan is a dead brain, and I still want to go back to Shuangcheng Airport at this time. ”

Yu Jingtao didn't know why, looked at the sky in the northwest direction, and asked suspiciously: "Hui Lao, how do you say this?" ”

Zhang Jinghui sighed and said, "Brother Jianhuan, didn't you see that these planes are flying from the northwest?" ”

Yu Jingtao understood that the planes in Zhang Jinghui's mouth were referring to the planes of the national army.

Yu Jingtao nodded absentmindedly and said, "It's flying from the northwest, is there something wrong?" ”

Zhang Jinghui continued with a somewhat gloomy expression: "This is still not clear? Inside and outside the Guan, there are many planes for Xiao Liuzi, and even the Nationalist Government has to borrow planes from Xiao Liuzi to go to Jiangxi to fight the Red Army. ”

Yu Jingtao asked puzzledly: "Didn't you say that Zhang Xueliang's hundreds of planes were abducted by Song Zhewu in Beimeng on the night of 918?" Zhang Xueliang still has a plane......"

Speaking of this, Yu Jingtao came to his senses, opened his mouth with a pale face, and asked hesitantly: "Could it be that Song Zhewu came to our northeast with hundreds of thousands of Fourth Route Army from Northern Mongolia?" Occupy the twin castles? ”

Zhang Jinghui shook his head and said: "Song Zhewu just defeated Lao Maozi in Beimeng, and it is said that the army that captured hundreds of thousands of Lao Maozi in World War I annihilated. As the saying goes, killing a thousand enemies and losing eight hundred yourself, the Fourth Route Army may have been greatly injured at this moment, and no matter how capable he is, Song Zhewu does not dare to mention that the tired division went east to the northeast to fight against the Japanese. ”

"You must know that Lao Maozi is not only a defeated general under his Song Zhewu, but also a defeated general under the Japanese back then. Besides, Lao Maozi is the most resentful, after suffering such a big loss, will Lao Maozi be willing? ”

"I am sure that next year they will enter Northern Mongolia again, Song Zhewu's Fourth Route Army will not dare to leave Northern Mongolia for a while and a half, it would be good if he could send some capable main forces to strengthen Han Guangdi's eastern resistance."

As soon as Zhang Jinghui said this, Yu Jingtao breathed a sigh of relief.

"It's good if this Song Manzi doesn't come to the Northeast, he wants to come to the Northeast, it's really enough for Little Japan to drink a pot of ......"

Yu Jingtao suddenly remembered Zhang Jinghui's words again, and opened his mouth in surprise. …,

"So that means that Song Manzi has already arrived at the Twin Castles with Dongkang?"

Zhang Jinghui shook his head slightly and said: "That's not necessarily, even if Song Zhewu comes to our Jilin, he won't bring many people here, didn't Wan Guobin call to say that Song Zhewu had built an old camp in Wuchagou." But on this snowy day, his tens of thousands of troops can't come over. However, as long as there is an airport, his plane can fly over. ”

This sentence continued to explain: "You must know that there are more than 2,000 miles from Harbin to Wuchagou, and it is difficult for the current planes to fly back and forth, even if they fly one way, these planes will definitely not fly from Beimeng, or even from Wuchagou, Song Zhewu must have built an airport in Longjiang or Taonan." ”

"When they fly to Harbin, they will not fail to patronize the Japanese airport in the Twin Castles. Come to think of it, now the many gates outside the city have gotten the news. But their pilot didn't know that if he flew back at this moment, not only would he not be able to land, but he would also be caught by Song Zhewu's plane that was chasing back. And if they want to fly to Jilin and Changchun, the fuel will not be enough. You say, are these Japanese brainless? ”

Yu Jingtao is a native of Changchun and graduated from Harbin Class A Commercial School. He has served as a patrol officer, the head of the road police section, the deputy director of the road police department of the China Eastern Railway, the dean of the SAR Police College, the director of the special zone police academy, the chief of the special zone garrison, and the chief of the Harbin special police.

Let Zhang Jinghui say that Song Zhewu will not lead the Fourth Route Army to the Northeast for a while, and then say that Song Zhewu built an airport in Longjiang or Shuangcheng, which makes him a little confused.

Zhang Jinghui said a little sarcastically: "Song Zhewu will definitely not lead the main force of Northern Mongolia to the Northeast, which can be seen from the fact that he asked Han Douzhan to engage in an eastward resistance. However, Han Douzhan robbed Xiao Liuzi's Shenyang Arsenal, and there were weapons and ammunition, and it is said that he took advantage of the time of the Siping Resistance War to recruit teams in Jihei and Heihei, and pulled up a team of more than 100,000 people. Although these recruits are not responsible for the time being, with the foundation of Wang Dingfang's Seventh Brigade, it is no problem to make up a few thousand elite soldiers."

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