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Moreover, in the eyes of the headquarters of the Japanese army, the Anti-Japanese Union was nothing more than a disease of scabies, and the Soviet Far Eastern Front, which was eyeing Manchuria, was a serious problem, and the strength of the 23rd Division after suffering heavy losses was increasingly insufficient compared with the Soviet army on the west side of the "national border." It would be a clever move to make use of the North China Front, which had nothing to fight at present. However, these old devils did not expect that their arrangement would greatly reduce the mobile forces available to the North China Front at the moment, and as a result, they missed in vain the opportunity for expansion of the main force of the Eighth Route Army to cross the Yellow River in the south. And even if it only greatly reduces the losses of the military and civilians in the North China base area, the battle of Qiqihar is completely worth it

Considering that the Japanese puppet army would resolutely destroy the ammunition even if it was defeated, Xu Xiangqian did not dare to pin his hopes of obtaining supplies on capture, but made full use of the time of repair, on the one hand, to further expand and consolidate the mountainous base area of the Great Xing'an Mountains and rush to repair the railway that was damaged in the battle, so as to ensure the logistics of the future westward expedition; On the other hand, they tried to exchange the gold and spirits produced in the base area for arms from Maozi again.

Considering the current situation of the Anti-United Nations, Xu Xiangqian gave up the purchase of various artillery pieces, including mortars, although there are not many existing artillery of the Anti-United Nations. Compared with the armies of the Western powers and the Soviet Union, the firepower of the Japanese army is not particularly strong, and the anti-Japanese alliance relies on advanced infantry squad and platoon tactics to greatly reduce its own casualties, under this premise, it is better to have worse weapons and equipment, but also to form as many troops as possible, after all, the price of guns and bullets is much cheaper than that of artillery and shells. Of course, if the arsenals in the base areas were able to produce shells in large quantities. Xu Shuai will definitely still respect firepower in order to reduce the casualties of his subordinates

Although the North Manchurian base area is not as good as the South Manchuria, which Japan has operated for many years, it still has some industrial and mining foundations, and in addition to the personnel and equipment brought by Gao Yuan and Xu Shuai, the arsenal in the North Manchurian base area was able to mass-produce more than 10 kinds of light infantry equipment, such as bullets, bayonets, grenades, mines, sapper shovels, and steel helmets, by the end of 1938. And this undoubtedly cleared the way for the Anti-United Nations to fight a larger-scale campaign

The battle of Qiqihar not only dealt a severe blow to the main force of the Kwantung Army, which was concentrating on Liliang to encircle and suppress the South Manchurian column, but also caused the Kwantung Army to cede a large piece of territory to the North China Front, which unexpectedly benefited from the fisherman. Meantime. Although the main force of the Kwantung Army was still carrying out a "law and order purge" in the Changbai Mountains, the Kwantung Army Command believed that the main force of the Anti-Japanese Union had moved westward and must have paid a great price in the previous campaign. This was really a good time to recapture North Manchuria, and for this reason they tried every means to transfer two independent mixed brigades and regiments to the command of the 4th Division in Osaka, which had just been transferred back to the Kwantung Army system not long ago, and transferred more than 30,000 puppet Manchu troops to be controlled by them, forming a task force with a total strength of no less than 70,000 to cross the Songhua River to the north, with the goal of directly targeting Bei'an City, where the headquarters of the Anti-Japanese Union was located.

However, the Kwantung Army Command did not expect that even though the main force was far away, Gao Yuan, the general political commissar of the Anti-Japanese Federation, still calmly and calmly used the "strong walls and clear the wilderness" and flexible guerrilla tactics to effectively delay the pace of the Japanese army, and the main force of the Anti-Japanese Federation could quickly rush back after only a few days of hard repair.

What's worse is that. The officers and men of the 4th Division have always cherished their lives, and now that they have 40,000 or 50,000 friendly troops under their control, they themselves are not willing to work desperately. And if they beat the enemy to the point of dying, and then the 4th Division came up to deliver a zuihou blow, it would be even better.

Their wishful thinking was very good, but the independent mixed brigade that was the vanguard was a traditional Japanese unit. The speed of advance was obviously faster, and the guerrillas encountered along the way also deliberately focused on the attack, as a result, they gradually separated from the large army unconsciously, and were soon surrounded by the 150,000 troops who returned to the Anti-Japanese Alliance, under the leadership of Xu Xiangqian's combat style that was always not afraid of sacrifice and bold attack, the soldiers who had experienced the bloody battle showed unprecedented strong combat effectiveness, and the devil only lasted a few hours before the whole army was wiped out, and the news was transmitted back to the Japanese 4th Division and was immediately stunned. They didn't know the fighting style of the enemy's commander, and they didn't know that the other party had paid a lot of money for it, and they took it for granted that they overestimated the enemy's strength, so they naturally came up with the idea of smearing oil on the soles of their feet.

Seeing that the Japanese army began to retreat, Xu Xiangqian couldn't help but think of some rumors about the 4th Division in the army, and immediately ordered the whole army to chase after him, but the 4th Division was as he expected, leaving the friendly troops behind, but he fled all the way back to Harbin, and as a result, the other independent mixed brigade and tens of thousands of puppet troops were all annihilated by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and the 4th Division did not even have a reduction at this time

This kind of thing will undoubtedly cause the anger of the Kwantung Army Headquarters and even the Japanese base camp headquarters, but at this time, Xu Xiangqian sent troops to pretend to attack Harbin by taking advantage of the victory to confuse the enemy, but instead gave the 4th Division a good excuse, and they reported to the Kwantung Army Headquarters that the enemy was strong, and it was precisely because of their timely retreat that Harbin was kept and they were spared punishment.

But at this time, the total casualties of the Anti-United Nations (including the previous two battles) were close to 100,000, and Xu Xiangqian's mobile forces were almost half left, even with his outstanding military talent, it was difficult to launch a major offensive in a short time, so the excuse for the 4th Division to escape responsibility gave the Anti-United Nations a chance to repair and recover. At the same time, this also forced the main force of the Japanese Kwantung Army to withdraw to help, leaving only one division of troops to continue to stay in the Changbai Mountains to search and suppress the headquarters of the South Manchurian Column, which on the one hand greatly reduced the losses of the masses in the Changbai Mountain base area, and on the other hand, also made Wang Zicai's strategy more effective

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