Although the field troops have been almost completely annihilated by the Anti-Japanese Union, there are still thousands of fortresses and fortresses built to guard against the invasion of the Soviet army near the Sino-Soviet border in the east, among which no less than 100,000 Japanese troops are stationed. If the Anti-Japanese Federation were just passing through this area, they would generally not easily dispatch to deal with the Anti-United Nations out of fear of the Soviets, but if the Anti-United Nations planned to stay and live permanently, their logistical supply would be cut off, and these devils would have to work hard. With the strength of the Anti-United Nations, it is basically helpless against those strong fortresses that may not be able to bombard the 203 heavy artillery, but are generally equipped with large-caliber long-range heavy artillery, and so many Japanese troops are really desperate, and the Anti-United Nations troops will definitely not be able to afford to consume them, although Xu Xiangqian will not retreat from them because of this (anyway, even if the troops are lost to a certain extent, there is always a way to withdraw to the North Manchurian base area for repairs.) But there is no doubt that this area can only be used as a battlefield (by the way, get some money, food, supplies, soldiers and population).

Xu Xiangqian now really admires Taizu's original decision, in fact, the Japanese army not only built fortresses on the eastern and western borders, but also the border devils between North Manchuria and the Soviet Union did not omission, but due to the lack of labor in North Manchuria, and relatively not as important as South Manchuria, the construction progress is relatively slow, but if Gao Yuan is a year and a half late in the northeast, those fortresses should be built one after another. However, the North Manchurian base area was established and expanded rapidly, and the devils could no longer build the fortress group in North Manchuria, but the Japanese puppet military and police who supervised the work lost their lives, and the Anti-Japanese Federation also seized some of the materials transported by the Japanese army in advance

However, more than 100,000 devils are stationed in thousands of fortresses, and the troops are naturally quite scattered, and a considerable part of the fortresses of the Kwantung Army are actually still under construction, and the troops are insufficient and there are no complete fortifications available, so these devils are naturally much easier to deal with. Gao Yuan's excellent organizational building work was more effective at this time, than when he first came to the Northeast. The underground organization of the Red Party in the Northeast has swelled dozens of times, and the intelligence work is far better than before, and it is precisely because of this that Xu Xiangqian can clearly understand many fortresses that are not open to the public at present, and find out those targets that have not yet been completed and have greater offensive value

And then it didn't take long. Xu Xiangqian boldly divided his troops into multiple ways. Captured more than 100 fortresses and fortresses under construction by the Japanese army, and also used the strategy of encircling the point to annihilate many brave Japanese troops, and even took advantage of the opportunity that the main force of the defenders was annihilated and the fortress defense was weak, and successfully captured several Japanese fortresses that had been built. In these battles, the Anti-Union Union seized a large number of weapons, ammunition and important materials. In particular, it is worth mentioning that for the first time since its establishment, the Anti-Japanese Union possessed more than 105 caliber barreled artillery and various anti-aircraft guns, and the heavy artillery unit and air defense unit of the Anti-Japanese Union were established soon after. And because of the "accumulation of small victories into big victories", the total number of enemies destroyed in these battles is quite staggering if added up, and the number of Japanese troops destroyed alone is as high as more than 10,000. In addition, more than 100,000 young coolies (the coolies must have been concentrated in the fortress under construction) who were captured by the devils to build defenses and transportation lines were rescued.

Historically, even if these coolies had not died of exhaustion or torture in the process of building fortresses, when the Kwantung Army's so-called "Eastern Maginowo" was completed, almost all of them were killed by the devils, and only a few escaped by chance, and the total number of victims was hundreds of thousands. And now that the Anti-Japanese Federation has rescued them, it has not only saved more than 100,000 lives, but also directly obtained excellent soldiers, these coolies are generally young and strong and hate devils. Under Xu Xiangqian's men, he only needs a little training to become a tiger and wolf army.

You must know that the Red Fourth Front Army once expanded its strength from more than 10,000 to more than 100,000 within one year (in fact, it may be shorter), and its combat effectiveness is still the highest in the Red Army, so this level of expansion is not difficult for Xu Xiangqian, especially the serious bandit problem in the Northeast was once the first in China, and even civilians were forced to use guns to defend themselves. The Japanese occupation of Tohoku is not as long as it has been in history, so most adult men in Tohoku have used firearms to a greater or lesser extent (after the Japanese occupation of the three eastern provinces, the Kwantung Army confiscated civilian guns, totaling as many as a million). Even if you include shotguns, it's still a staggering number. ）。 This point is absolutely incomparable to the Guannai, so the speed of recruit training is relatively much faster, and Xu Xiangqian's ability to quickly become an army with recruits is becoming more and more prominent

Of course, because some coolies are tortured too hard by devils or are disabled (such as mutilated fingers, which do not affect their work, but they cannot shoot), they are generally not allowed to join the army unless they have special expertise. Even if Xu Xiangqian, who uses "more soldiers, the better" and has quite low requirements for basic qualities, he can't integrate all of them into the army, but sixty or seventy thousand recruits is really not a small number, plus more than 10,000 wounded soldiers who have recovered during this period have crossed the frozen Songhua River to demobilize and return to the team, as well as 20,000 recruits recruited south of the Songhua River (anyway, the Anti-Japanese Federation here can't occupy it, so the problem of conscription being too ruthless will affect the economy does not need to be considered at all, Therefore, as long as they are young and middle-aged people of the right age and in good health, they are all within the scope of conscription, but thanks to the rapid progress of the Red Party's recruitment skills in the past two years, the level is almost the same as that of the late stage of the Liberation War), Xu Xiangqian's troops are still more than 250,000.

As for weapons and ammunition, having captured so many devil fortresses, even if they are basically unfinished, and the destruction of the devils before their defeat is relatively resolute, but even if the number of captures is only two or three percent of the total, it is already a considerable gain for the Anti-Japanese Federation, which is dominated by light infantry and more accurately riflemen, plus the plateau managed to let people transport some weapons and ammunition from the north of the Songhua River during this time, even if Xu Xiangqian wants to expand the size of the army to 300,000 people, the weapons and ammunition are basically enough

Although the scale of these battles is not large, but because they were carried out in a very short period of time, the combat methods are quite similar, and the results are even more brilliant, so most of the historians of later generations call them "Dongjiang Great Victory", which is also the fourth great victory after the Anti-Japanese Union crossed the Songhua River in the south

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