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Although more than 100 tanks and armored vehicles of the Soviet army were blown up, they were not able to break their bones after all, and the armored units of the Soviet 1st Army still maintained a strong deterrent, so that the headquarters of the Kwantung Army did not dare to send troops out of the city and stronghold for a while, and it was not until all the reinforcements in North China were in place that the Japanese Army's staff headquarters was ready to send troops to rescue Harbin again, but at this time, the Red Party North China Military Region was not satisfied after recovering Pingjin, He actually sent troops to kill outside the pass and surrounded Jinzhou with at least 200,000 troops

Jinzhou is the gateway to the northeast, once it falls into the hands of the Red Party, then their two million troops in the Guannai can continue to fight into the northeast, plus the Kwantung Army, which has already given the Kwantung Army a headache, is by no means the Japanese Kwantung Army, which has only more than 600,000 troops, can be defeated. Moreover, with the Red Party's major border regions combined almost twice as much as Japan's terrifying population, theoretically they can mobilize at least tens of millions of huge troops, and Japan's domestic military resources are now on the verge of exhaustion, if there is no strong city defense of Jinzhou, in the open northeast plain, where can the Kwantung Army, which is fighting less and less, fight more and more to fight the Chinese army that cannot be killed?

However, if they really want to send reinforcements to Jinzhou, the Japanese Kwantung Army Command is worried that the Chinese will once again surround the point and send reinforcements, especially as far as they know, the Red Party now has a million troops (including local troops) in the North China Military Region alone, and because the militia system is perfect and has won the support of the people, they do not need to leave too many troops to garrison the city, so the troops that can be used for mobile operations account for a considerable part of the total strength, not to mention 6.7 million troops. But they only used more than 200,000 people to fight Jinzhou, where are the other troops?

The more they thought about it, the more frightened they became, the Kwantung Army headquarters did not dare to be careless, and they gritted their teeth and gathered 300,000 troops to drive to Jinzhou. They were also specifically asked not to be greedy for merit, and to be sure to march step by step on the road so as not to fall into the encirclement of the enemy. As for the enemy encircling Harbin, they mainly took advantage of the advantage of "internal operations" and sent a large number of bombers to carry out air raids, and at the same time strictly ordered the two Osaka divisions in Harbin to defend the city. He also encouraged them to reproduce the majesty of the first Harbin defense war

However, the Japanese Kwantung Army Command did not expect that the North China Military Region was really determined to take Jinzhou this time, and the reason why it only sent more than 200,000 people was dispatched. This is because all the heavy artillery pieces of 150 mm caliber and most of the artillery and mortars of 75 mm caliber or above have been sent to the military region, so the pressure on logistical supply has greatly increased, and it is really unable to support more troops to enter the front line of operations.

Since the reversal of the situation in the war of aggression against China, the worried Japanese have continued to strengthen the fortifications of Jinzhou, making it almost a real fortress, but Commander Lin of the North China Military Region has taken out almost all his family resources this time and concentrated more than 3,000 artillery pieces and mortars in one go. Jiashi, who did not hesitate to run out of inventory, bombed Jinzhou City indiscriminately.

In particular, it is worth mentioning that after the victory of the Central Plains Battle, Hu Weidong considered that the arsenal's new 152mm howitzer had already been finished and that the more powerful 203mm howitzer would also begin mass production within a month, so he sent all the Japanese-style large-caliber heavy artillery captured by the 15 th Group Army to the Eighth Route Army. These include the long-coveted Type 96 240mm heavy howitzer and Type 96 150mm heavy cannon. When there were only 2 240mm heavy howitzers, Mr. Lin had already dared to attack Jiancheng, not to mention that now there are as many as 16 heavy artillery brigades in the military region? In addition, after the recovery of Pingjin, the airfields in the two places were quickly repaired and utilized, although the bombers could not be stationed for the time being, but the Soviet-style fighters with low requirements for site conditions were no problem. It was precisely with the escort of more than 300 Soviet-style fighters that Mr. Lin dared to shell Jinzhou with confidence.

The power of the 240mm caliber shells was so great that no matter how strong the Japanese fortifications were, they could not resist them at all. After the city defense, which was considered impregnable, was easily destroyed by the enemy, the Japanese army in Jinzhou, which had already suffered most casualties in the shelling, became more and more demoralized, and the 18th Group Army (part of the original Eighth Route Army was assigned to the Northwest Military Region, so it is not called the Eighth Route Army here to show the difference. It took only three days for the siege force to occupy the city, killing nearly 20,000 enemies and capturing more than 10,000 prisoners of war. And at this time, the reinforcements sent by the Kwantung Army Command were only halfway there

After learning that Jinzhou had been lost, the devils who were already walking slowly did not dare to move forward, and the Kwantung Army Command did not dare to pursue it at the moment, but could only ask the navy to send a fleet to cover the landing of an army field division on Qinhuangdao, directly threatening the flank of our army in Jinzhou, trying to force it to withdraw from Jinzhou or divide its troops, so that the Japanese army could take the opportunity to recapture it. But Mr. Lin was not moved at all. A field division and regiment dare to be so rampant only by relying on the protection of the fleet, otherwise any military division under their command can be easily cleaned up, and this field division is actually facing an unsolvable problem, if they want to really cut off the logistics supply of the Chinese army in Jinzhou, they must go deep inland, but in that case, they will be dumplings in a few minutes, and if they dare not come in, Mr. Lin will just ignore them. As a result, the Japanese division really did not dare to take risks, not only did not create any substantial trouble for Mr. Lin, but dragged a large number of naval warships meaninglessly off the coast of Qinhuangdao

In the past few days, the Chinese and Soviet troops besieging Harbin have launched many attacks on Harbin, although the lack of air supremacy is a loss, but Zhukov and Xu Gao both noticed the weakness of the Japanese army in Harbin lack of long-range heavy artillery, so a large number of mortars with a short range but very easy to transfer and conceal as the main support firepower, so that the Japanese army suffered a lot of losses but could not effectively counterattack and suppress at all. At the same time, mortars also have the advantage that the equipment and process requirements for the production of artillery shells are low, and even the improvised arsenal of the Northeast Military District can be manufactured, so it does not have to rely entirely on the supply of ammunition from the Soviet Union from afar, and the sustainability of the operation is greatly enhanced.

Although the Osaka soldiers were good at defending, they had never been able to fight hard battles, and now they had killed tens of thousands of people in less than a week, and such a huge loss was something they had never encountered. )