Although the reaction of the commander of the Kwantung Army and the Japanese base camp was not slow, they still could not keep up with the rhythm of Chen Feng's mechanized troops, and when the Japanese reinforcements were stopping on the road, more than 50,000 pioneers under the command of Chen Tiebao had launched a siege at two o'clock in the afternoon of November 16, 1941.

Chen Tiebao was originally a dumbfounder, although he has transformed into a qualified commander after Chen Feng's training in the past few years, the domineering and reckless spirit in his nature has not decreased. After receiving the order of the eldest young master to annihilate the Japanese army, Chen Tiebao dared to slack off, and as soon as he arrived in Yichun, he held a military meeting at the division and brigade level, arranged an attack plan, and launched an attack on Yichun City on time at two o'clock.

Yichun is located in the northeast of Heilongjiang Province, across the river from the Soviet Union, named after the Yichun River, a tributary of the Tangwang River, and belonged to the territory of the Jurchen Five Kingdoms of Tokyo Province during the Liao and Song dynasties. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, it was under the jurisdiction of Tangyuan County and was a primeval forest area. After the fall of Northeast China, in order to plunder the timber and other mineral resources of the Yichun area, the Japanese colonialists set up a Yichun stronghold in Yichun and sent heavy troops to guard it.

Due to the lack of labor, the Japanese army transported a large part of the Chinese prisoners to Yichun and forced them to work, in order to prevent these prisoners from escaping, but also to defend against the Soviet Union, the Japanese army built a large number of fortifications in Yichun, and built the small town of Yichun into a fortress.

There were five lines of defense of the Japanese army outside the city of Yichun, each stronger than the other, and originally according to the plan of the Soviet side, the main force was transferred to the southern front where the Japanese defense was relatively weak, and then a part of the troops were concentrated to attack the northern front. Forced reinforcements from the Japanese army on the southern front, and later sent troops to attack the southern front and occupied Yichun by surprise.

But Chen Tiebao only vetoed this plan at a glance, and fought with the Japanese army for more than four years, although he won countless battles, but Chen Tiebao never underestimated the Japanese army. Moreover, some commanders of the Japanese army showed no worse campaign command ability than any Chinese general, so Chen Tiebao did not think that with the wisdom of the Japanese commanders, he could not see the Soviets' small plan to leave the mountain.

Chen Tiebao himself has no good way, but Chen Tiebao grew up on the grassland. The men on the grassland have their own principles and standards for doing things. Chen Tiebao always believes that fighting is like wrestling on the grassland, and only when the combat effectiveness of the two sides is not much different will they consider strategy, if the strength between each other is an absolute gap, then even if the tactics are successful, it will be difficult to turn the tables.

Now there are less than 80,000 Japanese puppet troops in the Yichun area. And there is also a lack of aircraft artillery. Ammunition reserves are also insufficient. Morale was even lower, and there were a large number of Japanese immigrants in the city. And their side has 3 times the number of soldiers and is fully equipped with weapons. The combination of light and heavy firepower is reasonable, and there is a large amount of siege heavy firepower, and the ammunition is relatively sufficient, so there is no need to play Tibetan cats with the Japanese, just start a war.

Therefore, Chen Tiebao believed that except for the necessary reserves, all the rest of the troops of the whole army were pulled into the battlefield, and at the same time launched an attack on the 36 positions of the five lines of defense garrisoned by the Japanese army, completely crushed, and directly smashed the turtle shell of the Japanese army.

However, Ivanov did not agree with Chen Tiebao's brutal action, and the two had a dispute, so they had to transfer this major issue to the Northeast Asia Theater Command and let Chen Feng, the commander, adjudicate.

Chen Feng quickly made a reply after reading it, since the two people insisted on their own words and no one would let anyone, for the sake of fairness, the 50,000 troops on the Yichun front line were divided into two, Ivanov commanded a division to attack 21 positions in the north and south according to his plan, Chen Tiebao would only attack the other half of the troops to attack 15 positions in the east and west directions, and the remaining 200,000 troops would leave half of the troops as reserves, and the remaining 100,000 troops would bypass Yichun and attack Hegang.

After receiving Chen Feng's order, Chen Tiebao and Ivanov each took action and launched an attack on Yichun on time at a quarter past two in the afternoon.

In the face of the fierce attack of the Chinese and Soviet forces, the Japanese troops in the city also showed great heroism, resolutely resisted, and refused to surrender. There is no position that the two sides have repeatedly fought for, and every inch of land is contested.

Chen Feng's troops occupied the people, the Japanese army occupied the advantageous position, the two sides fought across the fortifications, and in just two hours of attack, the front line was full of blood. The Soviet and Soviet assault positions were littered with dead and wounded soldiers, while the Japanese positions were constantly carrying the wounded and dead out of the trenches.

The Japanese army is indeed very tenacious, but the tenacity of the Japanese army is based on the huge casualties of the puppet army. Despite experiencing many pre-war uprisings of the puppet army, the Japanese army base camp has ordered to treat the puppet army well, and strictly ordered the Japanese army to prohibit beating and scolding the puppet army that cooperated with them in battle. But after all, the base camp is beyond the reach of the whip, and the Japanese soldiers below still look down on the puppet army, beating and scolding is the most common, and the puppet army is driven to the forefront as cannon fodder as soon as there is a battle, and this time is no exception.

In just two hours, more than 1,600 corpses and wounded were carried from the forward positions, including 726 corpses. Among these Japanese puppet soldiers who died in battle, there were only 189 Japanese soldiers, and the rest were puppet soldiers.

With the continuous strengthening of Chen Feng's firepower, the puppet troops at the front did not even dare to raise their heads, and most of them fired at will when they counterattacked. The Japanese army also saw this situation clearly, and after the execution of two puppet company commanders who were ineffective in combat, the situation seemed to improve on the surface, but soon the outermost defense line collapsed, and the Japanese army only retreated to the fourth line of defense.

However, to the embarrassment of the Japanese army, the puppet army in the outermost line of defense would rather be captured by the Chinese and Soviet troops than the fourth line of defense, so the 4,800 puppet troops in the outermost fifth line of defense of the Japanese army, except for more than 1,000 people who were killed and wounded, took the initiative to be prisoners of the Chinese and Soviet forces.

After the start of the Battle of Yichun, the situation continued to deteriorate, and by 7 p.m. on November 16, when the Soviet army stopped attacking, the Japanese army had broken through two of the five defensive lines in the north of Yichun, with more than 1,300 casualties, and one of the four defensive lines in the south, with more than 1,100 losses. The five defense lines in the east were broken through two, with more than 2,000 casualties, and the three defense lines in the west were broken through one, with a loss of more than 1,700 people, and in just half a day's attack, the Japanese puppet army lost more than 6,000 people, of which nearly 3,000 became prisoners, the vast majority of them were puppet troops, and some were Koreans, and the Japanese army that surrendered on their own initiative was not nothing, but the number was not much, only more than 70 people.

The bad situation made the Kwantung Army headquarters anxious, and in addition to urging reinforcements to speed up, General Umezu had to order Lieutenant General Sakata, the Japanese commander on the Iharu side, to grit his teeth and persevere.

Chen Feng also attaches great importance to the battle of Yichun, Chen Feng believes that as long as Yichun is taken, the entire Heilongjiang will be completely recovered, and the remaining Harbin and Qiqihar will not be able to hold much as long as the two armies are attacked.

Early in the morning of 17 November, the offensive of the Chinese and Soviet troops began, but unlike yesterday's blind attack, in addition to the aircraft and artillery today, the Chinese and Soviet troops directly dispatched a huge heavy "tank," and the huge barrel on its turret was terrifying, and the diameter of the pipe was by no means more than 100 millimeters that ordinary "tanks" could withstand.

This kind of sharp weapon is not only terrifying to look at, but it is really powerful to use, although the Japanese fortifications are strong, but they can't last long in front of this giant tank, and they will become ruins if they run down.

The Japanese army obviously did not know that this was the 155 self-confident howitzer newly equipped by Chen Feng's department, which was the first self-propelled artillery newly developed by Chen Feng's department.

With the addition of self-confident howitzers, it was even more difficult for the Japanese to defend, but the Japanese side apparently also received an order to die, and would rather die than retreat. Therefore, although the battle was fierce on the 17th, Chen Feng's department failed to move forward.

For the 17th, Chen Feng's troops failed to move forward, the Japanese Yichun garrison headquarters was extremely happy, plus the Kwantung Army headquarters sent a telegram, saying that the reinforcements had arrived in Tieli, and it was less than 150 kilometers away from Yichun, according to the speed of the reinforcements, if nothing else, the reinforcements would arrive on the morning of the 19th, that is, as long as the defenders of Yichun held on for another day and night.

The time of one day and one night seemed to Lieutenant General Itagaki to be quite easy, and although Yichun fought very fiercely in the past two days, the casualties were also very heavy. But there are still more than 60,000 troops in the city, and there are more than 100,000 immigrants, all of whom can be pulled into the battlefield at any time.

In addition to being overjoyed, the overjoyed Lieutenant General Itagaki still issued some rewards to the troops on the front line to stimulate the sluggish morale, although it was just some melons and fruits and drinks, but the morale boost was immeasurable.

However, before the Japanese garrison headquarters could be happy for a long time, when the reinforcements were only less than 50 kilometers away from Yichun, the 8th Infantry Division of the puppet army and the 5th Brigade of the puppet cavalry in Yichun City collectively revolted, and the rebel troops stormed the barracks and ammunition depots of the Japanese army, and at the same time opened the city gate and killed several lines of defense at the north gate of the Japanese army.

After a night of fighting, 60,000 Japanese puppet troops in Yichun City were wiped out, and more than 100,000 ordinary Japanese immigrants became prisoners.

In fact, all this is Chen Feng's bureau, Chen Feng began to send people to infiltrate the Japanese puppet army in the northeast a long time ago, Chen Feng's infiltration of the Japanese puppet army is divided into two aspects, one is latent and the other is rebellion, Li Tiannan, the commander of the 8th Infantry Division of the puppet Manchukuo Defense Army who led the uprising, was rebelled by Chen Feng, and Xu Haotian, the commander of the 5th Brigade of the puppet cavalry, was originally a major in the eighth theater, and was sent to the northeast by Chen Feng two years ago, and then by chance, together with a small unit of his, was absorbed by the puppet army as bandits, Later, with the help of Li Tiannan, he was promoted to the commander of the 5th Brigade of the puppet cavalry.

Originally, these two chess pieces Chen Feng was not intended to be exposed, but because the old devil of Itagaki temporarily adjusted the combat deployment, Li Tiannan and Xu Haotian's troops were temporarily transferred from the reserve to the front line, and they were scheduled to be replenished to the second front line tomorrow. (To be continued......)