Chapter 1083: Specific Battle Situation (2)

As mentioned in the previous chapter, in order to keep North Manchuria and leave its last foothold in the northeast, the Kwantung Army and the puppet army in Manchuria gathered hundreds of thousands of troops in Changchun in an attempt to block the Eighth Route Army and the Dragon's Tooth Corps from continuing north and recovering North Manchuria.

However, as soon as the battle began, the Dragon's Tooth Corps and the Eighth Route Army launched a fierce offensive, and the progress of the battle exceeded all the expectations of the Japanese puppet army.

In the face of the combined bombardment of the powerful ground and air firepower of the Longya Corps, the field troops of the Japanese puppet army suffered extremely heavy casualties, and the first line of defense lasted less than six hours before it was declared lost.

In addition to cooperating with the Dragon's Tooth Corps with the main force to participate in the frontal onslaught, the Eighth Route Army also sent a large number of small elite troops, under the leadership of local guerrillas, to carry out infiltration and roundabout operations behind the defense line of the Japanese puppet army in Changchun.

Under the powerful joint offensive of the Dragon's Tooth Corps, the Japanese puppet army in Changchun was already panicked, and after being continuously infiltrated and attacked by the guerrillas and roundabout troops of the Eighth Route Army, it became even more noisy, and it was unable to defend the frontal defense line with all its might.

In just 15 hours of continuous onslaught, it broke through the three field defense lines deployed by the Japanese army in the southeast of Changchun by railway, killing and wounding tens of thousands of Japanese puppet troops.

The fighters of the Falcon Flying Regiment began to carry out fierce air raids and bombardments against the Japanese puppet army's fortifications in Changchun, and one after another powerful aerial bombs fell from the sky and landed on the city wall of Changchun in free fall.

Boom Boom Boom! The earth-shattering explosions resounded through the heavens and the earth one after another, and clusters of dazzling firelight and smoke entangled each other and rose into the air, and some fortifications built up by Japanese puppet military sacks on the head of the city were directly overturned by the huge shock wave, and countless devils and puppet army companies with guns were blown up in all directions.

Suddenly, on some of the cities of Changchun, the flames soared into the sky, the smoke was filled, the billowing smoke rose into the air, and the terrified and terrible screams of the Japanese puppet army were endless.

In addition to the bombardment of aerial firepower, the ground artillery fire of the Longya Corps outside the city was not idle, and several tank divisions and artillery regiments directly under the division opened fire almost simultaneously.

Every second, there will be hundreds of shells of various calibers, covering the sky and the sun, with a piercing whirring sound breaking through the air, cutting through the void, and smashing on the head of Changchun City, each with a caliber of not less than 75mm.

Tens of thousands of shells combined with aerial firepower, and the head of Changchun City was completely turned into a dazzling sea of fire, and in the sea of fire filled with gunsmoke, the Japanese puppet army was killed and injured in groups.

Some city walls also because they could not withstand the bombardment of the continuous violent explosion shock waves, and collapsed and cracked one after another, and the earth shook the mountains in the big explosion, Changchun City was like a small boat floating in the sea of fire, giving people a frightening feeling that it was about to collapse and capsize at any time.

The headache of the Japanese puppet army does not stop here, the agents of the Eighth Route Army lurking in Changchun City, the Dragon Shadow Guard, and the Shadow Guard agents joined forces to attack the warehouses of the Japanese puppet army everywhere in Changchun City, hospitals and other military places, making Changchun City restless.

The Japanese puppet army was forced to deploy a large number of troops to search and suppress these elusive agents, which invisibly weakened the frontal defensive force.

By the evening of the same day, some elite armored units of the more than 100,000 Eighth Route Army and the Dragon Tooth Corps, under the command of the former enemy commanders Jiang Haidong, Liu Yidao and others, successfully outflanked and launched a major encirclement of Changchun City.

The Japanese puppet army in Changchun City was afraid that it would be surrounded by the Dragon Tooth Corps on all sides and annihilated, so it was decided to break through and evacuate from the north gate of Changchun that night. The eastern, southern, and western gates were all defended by only the puppet army and a small number of Japanese troops.

Without the support of the elite Japanese army, the remaining puppet army is not their opponent at all for the Dragon's Tooth Corps, which is in full swing. In less than an hour, the attacking troops of the Dragon Tooth Corps broke through the three gates of the east, west and south and attacked Changchun City.

At the same time, more than 100,000 Eighth Route Army troops outside the city were also ordered to engage in fierce battles with the Japanese army's breakthrough troops, biting the Japanese army to the death, making it impossible to successfully break through.

A large number of elite troops quickly gathered at the north gate of Changchun, which was still under the control of the Japanese army, and joined the blocking troops outside the city, and in turn surrounded the Japanese army that broke through.

Under the enemy's back, the devil who had already become a frightened bird had no combat effectiveness, and under the powerful firepower of the Dragon's Tooth Corps, it only lasted less than three hours before Changchun was completely collapsed because of the loss of the city gate.

In addition to less than 20,000 people who successfully broke through the resistance of the Eighth Route Army and escaped, the remaining tens of thousands of Japanese troops plus more than 100,000 puppet troops were all wiped out by the Eighth Route Army and the Dragon Tooth Corps in and around Changchun City.

After this battle, the Japanese army in North Manchuria and even the entire Manchuria region was completely damaged, and was no longer able to stop the advance of the Dragon Tooth Corps and the Eighth Route Army.

Although at this time, there were nearly 100,000 Japanese troops and 780,000 puppet troops in various parts of North Manchuria, the morale and morale of the Japanese army had been broken and defeated, and these Japanese puppet troops were scattered on the ground in a radius of hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, and many places could not care for each other.

When the high-ranking officials of the Devil's base camp learned of the rapid deterioration of the situation in North Manchuria, they immediately ordered all the remnants of the Japanese army in North Manchuria and South Manchuria to retreat to the Korean and Xian Peninsulas, completely abandoning the entire Manchurian region.

As soon as the devil left, the remaining puppet army was even more leaderless and vulnerable.

By the way, at the same time as Changchun was recovered, the siege troops also captured alive the puppet emperor Pu Yi, a hardcore traitor.

With Pu Yi in hand and their own powerful offensive, the Eighth Route Army and the Dragon's Tooth Corps easily recruited the puppet Manchukuo army scattered all over the country, and after selecting the best of them, the strength of the army was rapidly expanded, from 300,000 to 400,000 in less than a month, and the total number doubled to more than 700,000.

In this way, the Longya Corps and the Eighth Route Army went out to fight for more than two months, and their strength was not reduced, but was nearly doubled, so that the Communist Party's strength in the northeast region and as a whole was greatly increased, and thus the entire four eastern provinces were completely controlled.

It took less than two months for the Dragon's Tooth Corps to go from fighting at the pass to recovering the entire territory of Northeast China, which was shorter than the more than three months it took for the Japanese army to occupy Northeast China.

Moreover, after recovering the Northeast, Qiao Youhua was not idle, and immediately ordered Liu Yidao and Scarface to command more than 100,000 mechanized elite troops, Chen Bing, on the banks of the Yalu River, to prepare to march into the Goryeo Peninsula and completely expel the Japanese invaders from Northeast Asia.