Chapter 634: Great Northeast Strategy - Good News and Popularity in the World

Just when the Southern Route Army was killing the Japanese army, the Northern Route Army and the Central Route Army also launched an attack on the Japanese army.

In line with the operational plan formulated before the war, the Northern Route Army took Hailar as the center and advanced in the direction of Zhalantun, seeing that Chen Feng's hundreds of thousands of troops were pouring towards Zhalantun like a tide, the Kwantung Army wisely chose to retreat, and soon the defenders of Erdaohezi, Boketu and Zhalantun retreated, and even the Japanese puppet army in Gannan, Arong and other places east of Zhalantun also withdrew to a single left, and the Japanese army all withdrew to Qiqihar, a military town in North Manchuria.

On the afternoon of the 7th, the forward troops of the Northern Route Army arrived at the periphery of Heshan in Longjiang County, on the outskirts of Qiqihar, where the Japanese army had deployed heavy troops, and this was the first line of defense for the Japanese army to defend Qiqihar.

Zhang Jingjun, commander-in-chief of the North Route Army of the Eighth Theater, commanded the North Route Army to encircle Qiqihar, and the North Route Army was divided into two routes, one was to attack Longjiang County directly from the Nianzi Mountain District, and the other was from Gannan to Qiqihar City, but it was blocked by the main force of the Japanese army in Changshan.

At six o'clock in the afternoon of the 7th, the two armies carried out a tentative attack on the outer positions of the Japanese army, and found that the Japanese army had built complete fortifications on the periphery of Qiqihar, all of which were composed of bunker groups and permanent firepower points, and the defensive level and ability were extremely high.

At the same time, the Central Route Army also easily took the right front banner of the section, and eliminated an infantry brigade of the Japanese army and half a regiment of the puppet army in the right front banner of the section. A large number of cattle and sheep were seized, and the main force approached Ulanhot.

Obviously, the Japanese army attached great importance to Ulanhot, stationed a large number of troops here, and the fortifications on the periphery of Ulanhot were also quite strong and well-built.

At this time, on a long front from Qiqihar in the north to Shuangliao in the south, China and Japan gathered more than 1 million troops and set up a posture on the Qiqihar, Ulanhot, and Shuangliao lines, which was quite a momentum of strategic decisive battle.

8th. The offensive and defensive battle of Qiqihar officially began. Zhang Jingjun personally sat in the Nianzi Mountain area, commanded 6 infantry divisions, 1 artillery division and 3 technical brigades, and about 220,000 troops to besiege Qiqihar garrisoned by the Japanese army, while Yeherina commanded more than 20,000 miscellaneous soldiers under his command to go north to Heihe! Prepare to seize this important military town in Northern Manchuria.

And the Central Route Army also launched an attack on Ulanhot at this time. More than 200,000 troops attacked on all fronts. It put a lot of pressure on the Japanese army. The Japanese Third Front had to urgently increase its forces to Ulanhot.

The Southern Route Army, after a day and a night of continuous attacks, finally collapsed again in Namusi's Japanese army. Isamu Yokoyama, commander of the 1st Division of the Japanese Army, continued to retreat eastward with less than 2,000 remnants, and when he retreated, the Japanese army blew up more than 400 Chinese civilians in Namusi along with more than 3,000 tons of ammunition and materials.

After the Namusi tragedy, Chen Feng personally called Li Daniu and asked him to kill Hengshan Yong at all costs, otherwise he would not come back.

After a day and a night of fighting, the mobile corps wiped out three divisions of the puppet army and two infantry brigades of the Japanese army, but the main force of the Japanese army has withdrawn to 50 kilometers away. Even if the mobile corps wanted to pursue, it was too late.

At this time, the troops besieging Kailu County and Tongliao City sent an urgent telegram, saying that the Japanese Eighth Division had taken the initiative to attack ten minutes earlier, and now the battle was still going on, and it seemed that they wanted to break through.

Li Bin and Wang Jiming analyzed that it was true that the breakout leave and the containment of the mobile corps made it impossible for the Jidong Corps to pursue the Japanese army. Seeing that the main force of the Japanese army had withdrawn far away, it was too late to pursue it, so Li Bin and others decided to return to Tongliao after discussion, and now pull out the two nails that the Japanese army set in Tongliao.

At noon on the 8th, Li Daniu's department called, after 6 hours of pursuit, he took a mechanized infantry regiment to finally intercept Hengshan Yong and others under a hill 35 kilometers outside Shuangliao City, and after an hour of fighting, before the arrival of Japanese reinforcements, the rout of less than 2,000 people was completely wiped out, and Hengshan Yong was captured alive, so far, the first division and the first chariot division, which were quite famous in the Japanese army, were all wiped out.

When the news came, the command of the mobile corps cheered, but what was said below made them unable to laugh. Although Lin Daiyu and Bao Xinghua's troops achieved a great victory and completely annihilated the two main divisions of the Japanese army, their own losses were also quite astonishing, and Li Daniu's mechanized infantry 4th Division had more than 15,000 people left after the war, and there were still more than 2,600 wounded, and the death toll reached more than 5,000.

Bao Xinghua's 1st Armored Division was even more miserable, with only about half of the 12,000 and 660-odd tanks remaining, and the death toll was as high as 6,600, and a large number of officers and men, including Bao Xinghua, commander of the 1st Armored Division, were wounded. The losses of the air defense brigade assigned to their command were also quite staggering, with a brigade of more than 4,400 people, and only more than 2,800 people remained after the war, and the death toll was as high as more than 1,600.

In this battle, Li Daniu's troops wiped out more than 38,000 Japanese troops, and lost more than 15,000 themselves, of which more than 11,000 were killed in the battle, which can be said to be more than half of the casualties. In addition, more than half of the equipment of the 1st Armored Division was also lost, and only more than 200 of the more than 600 light and heavy tanks remained intact, and the rest were all in tatters.

After receiving the telegram from Li Daniu's headquarters, the headquarters of the mobile corps immediately telegraphed Li Daniu, ordering them to rest in place and treat the wounded, and the main force would immediately move south to join them.

In northern China, Chen Feng's headquarters fought the Kwantung Army, the largest military strategic group of the Japanese army, in northeast China, and the troops used by both sides exceeded 1.2 million, or even more. In the Indochina Peninsula of the South Pacific, the 150,000 troops of the Nationalist Government set out from Yunnan, China, and entered Burma to replace the British and Burmese troops against the Japanese Southern Army. The two sides fought in Mandalay, and neither could help anyone.

When the news came, the entire world was shaken, especially when the United States, Britain, the Netherlands, and other countries were completely defeated, and the Chinese government took the initiative to attack the Japanese army, and Europe and the United States and other countries exclaimed that it was the Chinese who were resisting Japan. In particular, Namus completely annihilated the two elite divisions of the Japanese army, captured Japanese Army Lieutenant General Isamu Yokoyama, killed Army Lieutenant General Tsujiro Yamada, and killed more than 38,000 Japanese officers and men.

Looking at the United States, Britain and other countries, the United States has just experienced the great defeat of Bataan, and 87,000 officers and soldiers surrendered to the Japanese army. Britain has just lost Yangon, forced to hand over all the defense of Myanmar to the Chinese government, and clearly said that it will give up the ownership of Myanmar, as for the Netherlands and France are even more rubbish, have disappeared in the international community, so in comparison, the Chinese seem to have suddenly become the protagonist heroes of the entire Pacific theater.

For a time, all major media and newspapers in the United States were full of China and China/military, and Chen Feng was undoubtedly the most dazzling star, a photo of him in military uniform was published in the newspaper, and even the national radio station of the United States introduced the Chinese general on the other side of the ocean, and the military miracle he created ignited the enthusiasm of the American people at once.

The U.S. government also revealed to the people that a Chinese general had a good impression of the United States, and not long ago sent people to save four-star General MacArthur in the Philippines, and also sent a large amount of supplies to the U.S. and Philippine troops on Bataan Island, so that those heroic soldiers had the strength to continue fighting with the evil Japanese army.

Especially after hearing that the Huaxia Company of the United States was the general's industry, and that the new motorcycles and sports cars that swept the United States and the penicillin, streptomycin, and tetracycline drugs that saved millions of Americans were the products invented by the general, a large number of Americans flocked to the Huaxia Company's outlets and bought Huaxia Company's products on a large scale, and the sales of the Huaxia Company tripled in just a few days.

The same thing happened in Britain and the Soviet Union, and China and Chen Feng quickly became the most exposed words in the world, and quickly became popular in the entire world. (To be continued......)