Chapter 112: The Battle for the Mountain Pass (I)
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The Japanese military leaders were all silent when they learned that Major General Matsushita Takamaru's army was broken, and they had already expected this result that the importance of Heilongjiang was much higher than that of the Jilin region occupied by Matsushita Takamaru. They also blocked the news of the Matsushita Takamaru army's jade shattering, and did not let the news come back to China, although it was only a small defeat, but before the Korean jade shattered a division had already made them very passive, if this news was transmitted back, even if there was the support of the government, the people would not accept it, when did they suffer such a big loss after the Russo-Japanese War?
The army that rushed to support Xu Lanzhou was still on the way, they had just entered Heilongjiang Province, and there was still a short distance from Jianglong, and the Wehrmacht was still rushing towards Jianglong with a slow look, as if they were waiting for the Japanese army.
On the other hand, the army sent by Han Ming into Heilongjiang had already beaten those rebels to flee in all directions at this time, and the 50,000 rebels only hastily resisted for a day and then immediately retreated, while the Wehrmacht kept chasing them, and both sides were rushing in the direction of Yichun.
Han Ming, who was in the Boli area of Tsarist Russia, took 70,000 troops all the way south and directly attacked the Japanese army, and the Japanese army only had 20,000 troops to defend them, and they were not their opponents at all, and the Japanese army left more than 7,000 troops to retreat south in a few hours.
At this time, the Japanese army in the area north of Vladivostok was very empty, and basically sent to attack Jilin, and the Wehrmacht did not encounter any resistance along the way, and those sporadic Japanese troops basically took the initiative to flee when they encountered them.
The 200,000 national defense army led by Cai Yi happened to arrive at the provincial capital of Jilin at the end of the Mudanjiang Campaign, he and Zhang Zuolin met and rushed directly to Dunhua to support the Northeast Army, Zhang Zuolin also followed, Jilin Province had already been quietly replaced by Zhang Zuolin A lot of imperial officials into the government not long ago, even if he was not there, the government can still run.
Just as they rushed to Dunhua, the northeastern army of Dunhua was struggling to resist the fierce attack of the Japanese army, and it had been two days of bloody fighting, and the Japanese army began to gain an advantage.
At this time, there were only 200,000 troops in the Northeast in Dunhua, and Zhang Zuolin had exhausted his strength and transferred troops from other places here, while the Japanese army had 230,000 troops of seven divisions, which exceeded the strength of the Northeast Army.
The military defense of Dunhua is very solid, and when the Northeast Army and the Japanese army were fighting in Yanbian, Zhang Zuolin had already asked people to build military defense facilities here, using the mountainous terrain in the northwest of Dunhua.
The road from Dunhua to the provincial capital must pass through a mountain road, and there is a mountain pass not far west of the center of Dunhua area, and two horn-like mountains protrude from the outside of the mountain pass, in the shape of a semicircle. The road to the provincial capital happened to pass here, and Zhang Zuolin set up a position here.
"Da Da Da ......"
"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
The Japanese army was attacking the northeastern army in Yamaguchi without fear of death, and the northeastern army in Yamaguchi was resisting with great difficulty.
In addition to bombarding the attacking Japanese soldiers, the most important thing is to deal with the Japanese artillery, and it is easier for them to find the position of the Japanese artillery in the high places.
At the beginning, the Japanese army fell into the tactics of the artillery units of the Northeast Army on both sides of the mountain pass, and lost a lot of artillery and artillery, which made General Ueda Arisawa very angry, and he was played by the Northeast Army. At the beginning, the east on both sides of the east was not shelled by the artillery, and I don't know how the Northeast army hid the artillery from letting them find out, and when they set the artillery in front of the mountain pass with peace of mind and launched an artillery bombardment, the cunning Northeast artillery bombarded their artillery indiscriminately, and they were caught off guard.
In the next two days, the Japanese army focused on attacking the mountains on both sides, although they did not capture all the Northeast troops on both sides, they also destroyed half of the positions set up by the Northeast Army there, and more than half of the artillery was blown up by their death squads.
The northeastern armies on both sides no longer posed a great threat to the Japanese army, and the Japanese army was attacking the mountains on both sides of the mountain pass at the same time as attacking Taniguchi.
"It is very difficult for the Chinese army to block our advance according to the topography of the mountain pass, and although the advantage is ours, the situation is very unfavorable for us. I have received news that the Wehrmacht in China has arrived in the capital of the province of Ji, and that 200,000 troops are heading here, and that if we fail to break through this pass before the Wehrmacht arrives here, it will have a huge impact on the subsequent plans. General Ueda Arisawa hid in the trenches in the rear and looked at the battlefield with binoculars while speaking sternly to an officer near him.
At this time, the Japanese reinforcements had just landed, and it would take a lot of time to get here, and the reinforcements would arrive here later than the Wehrmacht, which was what Ueda was worried about, because if they could break through the mountain pass, they would face the Wehrmacht's attack, and at that time they would have no other way but to retreat.
If they breached the pass, they would build a military defense to the west like the one they now had, so that they would have time to wait for reinforcements to arrive, and the Wehrmacht would have enough time to make a detour around them. The Japanese army has collected a lot of maps of the three eastern provinces during the Russo-Japanese War, and then sent a large number of intelligence personnel to investigate, and now the maps of the three eastern provinces used by the Japanese army are more accurate than those used by Zhang Zuolin, and it is not surprising that the Japanese army knows that there are similar mountain passes in front of them.
"We don't need to be afraid of the Wehrmacht in China, the army of the Empire of Japan is the strongest, and the Wehrmacht may not be as strong as the legend says, maybe we can annihilate the Wehrmacht. Even if the pass is not breached, we will be able to hold out until the arrival of the Imperial army, and I am sure that the Shina army will soon be able to break through the mountain pass, so don't worry, Your Excellency! A major general self-righteously analyzed.
Lieutenant General Nakamura Satoru is very unkind to this major general, but he knows that this major general's deeds in the military academy are simply a shame for the academy, if it weren't for the fact that his family is a relative of the emperor and the family is still very tough, he can't even be a colonel, let alone a major general, he has no ability at all. The major general formed a faction in the army and did whatever he wanted, so that these officers dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, and when they heard the words of the major general, the officers were very disdainful in their hearts, and a trace of disdain flashed in their eyes from time to time.
"Hmph, the Wehrmacht doesn't know how many times stronger than Zhang Zuolin's army, our northeastern army in China has suffered a lot of losses, and we have only advanced here after fighting for so long, don't despise the enemy, now is not the Manchu period. From the war between China and Tsarist Russia, it can be seen that the Wehrmacht is not an ordinary army, and even though Tsarist Russia has recently declined, its strength is only slightly inferior to that of the Empire. Think for yourself how much strength we have left after we break through here! Nakamura Satoru refuted mercilessly, almost saying the word stupid.
The nearby officers turned their heads away from the major general after hearing this, but Nakamura Satoru's words relieved them.
"You ......" Major General was very angry, when did anyone dare to say this about him, he was so arrogant that he almost took out his saber and pointed it at Lieutenant General Nakamura Satoru.
"Enough, what kind of place is this, not your noisy place!" General Ueda Arisawa threw the telescope to the ground with a bang, although he was also very dissatisfied with the major general, but this is also the son of his old friend, and the two families still have a lot of origins, otherwise they would not let the major general follow him, of course he also knows the actions of the major general in the army, but he just turned a blind eye, and he couldn't imagine such a discouragement.
"The strength of the Wehrmacht is not weak, not even worse than the elite of the empire, and the Wehrmacht that can sweep away the Beiyang Army and the Revolutionary Army in China is not so simple, and the actual combat experience is not worse than ours, so it cannot be underestimated." Ueda Arisawa's words were undoubtedly inclined to Nakamura Satoru, and Major General's face turned pale for a while.
"Your Excellency, Commander, we have forgotten the most important thing, since the army of China can attack us on the mountain next to the mountain pass, why can't we treat it the way of others, as long as we increase our efforts to capture it." Nakamura didn't take the little things to heart at all, and then said his own way to crack the defense of the Shina army.
As soon as Satoru Nakamura's words were finished, the eyes of the officers present, including Ueda Yuzawa, flashed in their eyes, it was obvious that they also agreed with this method, why didn't they think of this?
The situation on the battlefield was beyond Ueda Arisawa's expectations, and the Shina army, which had been fighting for two days in a row, did not have any tendency to fatigue at all, and now it was the third day of attacking, and they had not made much progress in attacking, but they had only occupied a few trenches in the outermost part of the Shina army's mountain pass. So he decided to implement Nakamura Satoru's method, focusing on occupying the mountains and forests on both sides, and then letting the army attack the Shina army from there.
"Why does the Japanese attack seem to have weakened, do they also know that they are tired, and I still fight for them!" The commander of the 1st Division of the 21st Army in the Northeast squatted in the trench and looked at the attacking Japanese troops below and said that the Japanese army had been attacking them for two days in a row, and there was no sign of stopping at all, and now the intensity of the Japanese attack has obviously decreased.
Xu Qiang, who was next to him, picked up the small military kettle he was carrying, opened it and took a sip, then threw it to the division commander Hu Lin and said: "After fighting for so long, take a sip, although the Japanese attack has weakened, but you can't relax, give me the telescope, I'll take a look." After speaking, he grabbed the telescope in Hu Lin's hand and slowly half-stood up and looked at the Japanese army, his telescope was shattered by a Japanese officer with strong knife skills during the close combat of the Shangyanbian Campaign, and now he shares one with Hu Lin.
At a glance, the Japanese attack really weakened a lot, and the strength of the attack was significantly reduced, and I don't know whether to rest or what to do.
Xu Qiang took the telescope to observe left and right, and the telescope that was moving to the right suddenly moved back a little, only to see the officers in the rear of the Japanese army discussing something, pointing to the horn-like mountains on both sides from time to time, with an excited look, which made Xu Qiang very curious. Xu Qiang ignored it after observing for a while, but soon he found that many of the Japanese officers who were directing the battle actually looked up the mountain from time to time, not casually, but at the foot of the mountain on their side.
Xu Qiang hurriedly looked at the place where these Japanese officers looked, and there was nothing at a glance, but if you looked closely, there were a large number of Japanese soldiers climbing the mountain, it was autumn now, and most of the leaves were yellow, if you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't be able to find those Japanese soldiers in yellow uniforms.