Chapter 340: Seven Battles and Seven Victories (1)
After receiving the telegram from Jiamusi for help, the neighboring Japanese puppet army immediately rushed to the rescue, among which the stronger ones were mainly the 3rd Brigade of the Kwantung Army Cavalry in Baoqing and the 11th Division in Mishan, the distance between the two was almost the same as that of Jiamusi, but the speed of the cavalry was faster, but it was beaten by the Anti-Union for a time difference, and it got into the big "pocket" laid by Xu Xiangqian with the main force of more than 100,000 people.\\
In fact, as the cavalry brigade of the Kwantung Army, the strength of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade of the Japanese Army is still very strong, and it even has a convoy under its jurisdiction, with a total of 24 tanks and armored vehicles, but they unfortunately faced Xu Xiangqian, a military genius who has been seriously underestimated in history, and the difference in strength between the two sides is more than 20 times, and the result is obvious.
Because the arsenal in the North Manchurian base area has been able to produce anti-tank gun grenades that use the hollow charge principle to break armor, and a considerable number of officers and soldiers have also learned anti-tank tactics, and the number of tanks and armored vehicles of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade was simply not enough to crush the army of more than 100,000 people, so it was quickly wiped out, and more than a dozen tanks and armored vehicles that were not too seriously damaged were transported back to the North Manchurian arsenal by the officers and soldiers of the Anti-Japanese Union for repair, and finally 5 tanks and 3 armored vehicles were completely repaired. Since then, the Anti-Japanese Federation has also had its own armored forces, although because they have no air supremacy and are outnumbered compared with the Japanese armored forces, they have always been cautious in their use, and most of them are sneak attacks and sticks
After eliminating more than 5,000 people in the 3rd Brigade of the Japanese Cavalry, Xu Xiangqian commanded the main force to form an encirclement of the 11th Division of the Japanese Army with the troops that were blocking the enemy. However, to his surprise, Lieutenant General Wataru Kushio, the commander of the 11th Division, who led the troops to fight, suddenly fell ill on the eve of the outbreak of the war (according to historical records, this person suddenly suffered from scarlet fever and pneumonia at the same time in December 1938 and died in less than half a month).
Xu Xiangqian didn't know about it. However, it is not a bad thing that the enemy is weaker than he expected, and he immediately ordered his troops to intensify the offensive, killing and capturing more than 18,000 Japanese soldiers in one day, and achieving the second great victory after crossing the river (the Red Party has always attached little importance to the battle of seizing strongholds but destroying few enemies). )。 However, the Anti-Japanese Federation only sacrificed more than 7,000 people (more than 30,000 casualties in total).
Then. The troops sent by the headquarters of the 5th Army of the Kwantung Army in Mudanjiang were struggling because of the tens of thousands of mines planted by the anti-coalition engineering troops. And as soon as they delayed, Xu Xiangqian quickly freed his hand. The 5th Army had just been formed, and the troops had not yet been fully equipped, and the field troops were only the two that had now been wiped out by the Anti-Japanese Union, so after receiving the request for help from the Japanese army in Jiamusi, the headquarters of the 5th Army could only temporarily form a special detachment to rush to Jiamusi for rescue with the garrison troops stationed in Mudanjiang and some soldiers in the township.
The combat effectiveness and firepower of this army are obviously not comparable to the elite field troops of the devils. The strength of the army was only more than 10,000 people, and it was originally sent out with the intention of joining forces with those two troops, but now that the two more elite field troops had been destroyed, they naturally did not dare to continue to advance, and hurriedly sent a telegram to the headquarters requesting that they withdraw to the Mudanjiang River. However, the command of the 5th Army of the Kwantung Army underestimated the strength of the Anti-Japanese Federation and Xu Xiangqian's ability, and they believed that the Anti-Japanese Federation would inevitably suffer huge losses after destroying the two elite field units with a total strength of nearly 30,000 troops, so they continued to urge the task force to march to Jiamusi in order to redeem the defeat. As a result, this army naturally fell into the mouth of the tiger, and the Anti-Japanese Federation easily won the third great victory after crossing the river. It also increased the number of enemies destroyed in a row to more than 40,000, and the puppet army and puppet police have not been counted
After this battle, the strength of the Mudanjiang garrison had been sharply reduced to several thousand, and if it were not for the 4th Army in Harbin to send the elite 1st Division in time, the Japanese 5th Army Headquarters would have had to abandon the city and flee. Although the devil advocates fighting to Zuihou alone, the military headquarters being terminated by an "irregular army" like the Anti-Japanese Federation will only bring greater shame. It is worth mentioning that the headquarters of the 4th Army originally planned to send the 4th Division to the rescue, but the 4th Division suddenly had an "epidemic epidemic". So the 1st Division could only be sent out
Even though the Anti-Japanese Union has become stronger and stronger because of the tempering of the war and the encouragement of consecutive victories, the strength of a permanent division of the Japanese army cannot be underestimated. If it is a field battle, Xu Xiangqian may still have the ambition to annihilate it, but if it is a storm, even if he is also good at attacking fortifications, it is almost impossible for the resistance alliance lacking heavy weapons to have any hope of success. In addition to the help of the city defense, the more the Anti-United Nations marched westward, the closer it was to the core area of the puppet Manchurians controlled by the Japanese army, and the threat of Japanese aircraft would also rise in a straight line
Although he was unable to continue to penetrate deep into the occupied areas, the officers and men of the Anti-Japanese Federation who crossed the Songhua River did not immediately return to the North Manchurian base area, except for leaving several hundred armed workers to scatter out to try to establish a guerrilla zone in the southern part of the Sanjiang Plain, Xu Xiangqian's main work in these days was to expand the army on the spot and raise funds as he did when the Red Army was fighting on the outside line, and he also relied on the more than 10,000 soldiers recruited from the enemy-occupied areas.
However, although the situation was very good, Xu Xiangqian still did not dare to place too much hope on the establishment of a solid base area in the plain area south of the Songhua River for the time being, otherwise he would not have to take advantage of the freezing of the Songhua River in winter to move the local population to the North Manchurian base area as much as possible.
On the one hand, the reason for the lack of confidence in establishing a base in this area is that the developed railway transportation and relatively sparse population density in the northeast make it extremely difficult to persist in guerrilla warfare in the plains where there is no danger to defend, especially the latter being the most fatal. On the other hand, they are well aware of how strong the Kwantung Army really is, according to the information that the Anti-Japanese Federation now has, even if the Kwantung Army has suffered successive defeats during this period, the total strength of the Kwantung Army still exceeds 400,000, and it is still receiving reinforcements
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