Chapter 111: The Great Victory of the Mudanjiang River
The retreat of the Japanese army made the landing speed of the Northeast army many times faster in an instant, and the number of Northeast troops who landed in the other two places had exceeded 10,000, and they began to pursue the Japanese army in an organized manner.
More than an hour later, all the Northeast troops crossed the Mudanjiang River, except for those heavy artillery that could not be moved for the time being, all the Northeast troops came, and the soldiers who landed in the rear soon followed the soldiers in front to pursue the fleeing Japanese troops.
The Northeast Army caught up with the Japanese army in Hualin Town, and there were less than 20,000 Japanese troops left at this time, and nearly 50,000 Northeast Army vanguard troops tightly dragged the Japanese army to escape, and the Northeast Army behind was rushing towards Hualin.
Matsushita Takamaru originally wanted to flee with the army to the west of the chicken, but due to the slow speed of retreat in the night, they were caught up by the Northeast Army in Hualin Town, and they had no choice but to counterattack here, and the Northeast Army would catch up with them sooner or later.
Now Matsushita Takamaru regrets retreating a little, the Shina army has been biting them, according to this situation, the Shina army will not give up if they are not destroyed, I knew that it would be better to fight to the death with the Shina army in Mudanjiang.
The retreat of the Japanese army was too fast, and only a small part of their own artillery retreated, and most of the remaining half remained in Tieling, plus the artillery destroyed by the Northeast Army, now they only have ten cannons, which is not enough, and two of them have a lot of problems.
After seeing that the Northeast army was catching up, Major General Matsushita Takamaru immediately ordered his army to respond to the battle, made some simple defense facilities and waited for the arrival of the East Northeast army.
"Da Da Da ......"
The Japanese army was full of firepower, and the Northeast Army was caught off guard as soon as it reached the firing range, and they did not expect that the Japanese army did not continue to flee but stopped to block them, and for a time the soldiers who rushed to the front kept falling, but they also quickly reacted and began to counterattack.
The strength of the Northeast Army exceeded that of the Japanese army, and they did not blindly rush forward, but divided some soldiers to attack from other places, and the Japanese army's temporary positions would definitely have many defects, and they would have to break through from these places.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”
The few remaining cannons of the Japanese army launched an artillery bombardment on the Northeast Army, and a few shells fell on the dense Northeast soldiers, and the soldiers who were attacking the Northeast Army were blown up on their backs, and the offensive suddenly stalled, but soon resumed the attack.
For the Japanese artillery of the Northeast Army is very helpless, their artillery is still on the other side of the Mudanjiang River, even if it is transported across the river, they can not bring it, in order to catch up with the Japanese army, the artillery is a heavy and difficult to move military material must be discarded.
The northeastern soldiers who saw that the Japanese army still had artillery quickly dispersed, and the effect of the sporadic artillery attacks of the Japanese army decreased instantly, and the pressure of the Japanese army was not relieved.
An hour later, the defeat of the Japanese army was already obvious, those rudimentary military defense facilities could not withstand the destruction of more than half of the Northeast Army, and some defective places were captured by the Northeast Army, and the defeat of the Japanese army was only a matter of time.
"Division commander, the artillery shells have been almost consumed, and some places have also been captured by the Chinese army, and our losses are very severe. Just received word from the scouts that there is also a force in the rear, and we should ......"
"Don't say it, this defeat is all my fault, I will bear this responsibility, the warriors of the empire will definitely not back down at this time, the soldiers who are willing to follow me to fight to the death can stay, and I will not be reluctant if I don't want to!" Matsushita Takamaru's henchman was interrupted by Matsushita Takamaru before he finished speaking.
At this time, they have no way to retreat, to be precise, there is no way to retreat when they retreat from the shore, it is okay to die in battle, if they do not die in battle, they will definitely be embarrassed in the military headquarters in the future, and they will even be insulted by the people in the country. What's more, the road behind is blocked by the Chinese army, and if you want to escape, you can only run from the small mountain on the back, do you want them to jump into the river?
"Swear to follow the division commander !!"
Except for a very small number of samurai and civilians, these officers are basically children of major families, and they will not say these words that are equivalent to loyalty.
"Long live the Great Japanese Empire! Long live the Emperor!! Matsushita Takamaru shouted loudly.
"Long live the Great Japanese Empire! Long live the Emperor!! A group of officers also shouted, and some soldiers in the vicinity were also infected and shouted.
The samurai spirit of the Japanese army was terrible, they would rather die in battle than continue to retreat, and their belief in the emperor was very crazy, and they could die for the emperor.
In an hour's time, the Northeast Army also arrived, and they directly made a little detour to block the road for the Japanese army to retreat, attacking from the rear of the Japanese army, and taking the Japanese army by surprise.
The Japanese army, which was flanked by the Northeast Army, completely retreated to the place where the peony turned in Hualin Town, which can be said to be a "last battle", but the entire Japanese army did not surrender.
"Don't push the Japanese army too hard, the dog jumps over the wall when he's in a hurry, how good it would be if they jumped into the river, maybe there will be a dog's life!" Wu Junsheng joked with the officers next to him.
"We can also force the Japanese army into this situation, this is the first time since the start of the war, it is really not easy, if you jump into the river, I will burn some paper money for them, but they will never jump into the river, it is a shame for them, if I am not going to jump into the river!" A colonel, who was already in his forties, said that he could not bear the shame of jumping into the river, let alone the Japanese army, which had always been proud and arrogant.
The Japanese army, who was cornered, used the scattered residential buildings there as cover to shoot the Northeast soldiers, and at this time they only had about seven or eight thousand people left, and all those artillery pieces had been abandoned and captured by the Northeast Army.
In the end, Matsushita Takamaru got a 500-person death squad, so that these death squads were tied with explosives and a few grenades on their bodies, and first sent a hundred people to take advantage of the darkness of the Northeast Army to sneak around the back of the Northeast Army from the river bank without paying attention. But these Japanese death squads were discovered by the soldiers of the Northeast Army just after they came ashore, and they were killed before they could enter after a burst of random shooting, accompanied by a huge explosion, which frightened the Northeast soldiers and made them vigilant.
The Japanese army of less than 10,000 was quickly cleaned up under the encirclement and suppression of nearly 70,000 Northeast troops, more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers surrendered, and more than a dozen officers were stopped by Northeast soldiers when they committed suicide, and Major General Matsushita Takamaru was shot and killed indiscriminately.
It is a pity that there is no or capture of Major General Wu Junsheng of Matsushita Takamaru, in his opinion, the living Japanese military officials are much more important than the dead, but he is also very excited to be able to annihilate this Japanese army.
Although they annihilated this Japanese army, they also paid a huge price, with nearly 40,000 casualties and wounds, more than the number of Japanese casualties, most of which were sacrificed while crossing the river, which shows the difficulty of the battle to cross the river, if it were not for Matsushita Takamaru retreating in a panic in order to preserve his strength, their losses would have been even greater.
After cleaning up the battlefield, Wu Junsheng immediately set off towards Jixi, they wanted to take advantage of the weakness of the Japanese army to snatch Jixi back, and by the way, clean up the traitors along the way.
The person in charge of the Japanese army who was rushing to the capital of Heilongjiang Province almost vomited out a mouthful of old blood after hearing the news that Major General Matsushita Takamaru and their army had been annihilated, and he really lost the other, although he had thought that the Matsushita Takamaru who stayed behind would not be better, but he didn't expect that they would be sacrificed so much, and it was so fast, they hadn't rushed to Jianglong yet!
If you choose between Heilongjiang Province and the Jilin places that you are now occupying, you will undoubtedly choose the former, which is a whole province, and the cost is far less than the occupation of Jilin.
The land occupied by the Northeast Army will naturally be recaptured after they increase their troops, but after the loss of Heilongjiang, it is very unfavorable to their plans, which is what the Japanese military top brass thinks, so Matsushita Takamaru was abandoned by them, but Matsushita Takamaru himself did not know.
In the capital of Jilin Province, which has been renamed the governor's mansion, Zhang Zuolin's adjutant excitedly broke into Zhang's mansion with a telegram, and a handyman in Zhang's mansion had just gotten up to work, and it was only six o'clock in the morning, and Zhang Dashuai had not yet gotten up.
The adjutant was a frequent visitor to Zhang's Mansion, and Zhang Zuolin also told these subordinates that the adjutant could go in and out of Zhang's Mansion to find him at will, so the adjutant did not encounter the obstruction of his subordinates, and walked to Zhang Zuolin's room with ease.
"Knock knock ......, big handsome, Mudanjiang good news, big victory!!" The adjutant shouted as he knocked on the door.
Zhang Zuolin was sleeping with his wife in his arms at this time, he was very angry when he heard the knock on the door, he had not slept well since the Japanese army invaded Jilin, and his sleep only improved a little after the Wehrmacht entered Heilongjiang and Jilin, and he was tired all night last night, and someone came to disturb his rest early in the morning. But when he heard of the victory, he immediately fell asleep, lifted the quilt, stood up, put on his pants, and quickly went to open the door bare-chested.
"Marshal, Commander Wu won the battle, annihilated a Japanese division in the Mudanjiang River, captured the military flag of a wing, and the military flag is on its way here." The adjutant saw Zhang Zuolin shirtless and knew who else was inside, so he just stood at the door and handed it to Zhang Zuolin, and then took a step back.
Zhang Zuolin took the telegram and rubbed his eyes, and after getting rid of the droppings in the corners of his eyes, he looked at the telegram carefully, and after a while, he let out a loud laugh and shouted: "Hahaha, good, good, good, well done, finally out of a bad breath, this is a good start, do your best to publish this news!" ”
It is really not easy to finally have a victory since the start of the war, Zhang Zuolin has waited for the flowers, and his pressure has been relieved to a certain extent.
The adjutant immediately took this telegram to the newspaper office run by the Jilin government, and asked them to immediately publish the news in today's newspaper, and the news that had been prepared was put back in the line, and at noon the news of the great victory in Mudanjiang spread throughout Jilin City, and this exciting news gave a shot of strength to the very negative Jilin people.