Chapter 321: The Big Picture Has Been Decided

The war has been fought for so many years, and many junior officers on the battlefield, especially those at the level of squad leader and squadron leader, have died unexplained. Mu Dafu knew that if he persisted, he was afraid that the veteran who did not want to be accused of being a national thief and refused to surrender publicly would shoot himself in the back and let himself die in the same unknown way.www.biquge.info

Don't look at yourself as a big officer, but in the eyes of these people, at this time, I'm afraid it's not as good as a second lieutenant. And once a person's will to survive reaches a certain level, not to mention that he is a big Zuo, I am afraid that he is a general, and these people dare to do the same.

Killing people on the battlefield, even the most astute forensic doctors can't find any traces. A classmate of Mu Dazuo in the Army Non-commissioned Officer School, when he was the squadron leader, died inexplicably on the battlefield of Songhu. Who fired the shot in the back, and in the end, no investigation came out.

If he doesn't want to repeat the mistakes of the past and die at the hands of his own people, it is better to push the boat with the current. Since his subordinates are already unwilling to fight, why bother forcing them to die. When the time comes, I will die inexplicably, and I don't know who shot me. Although he has made up his mind to die, he can't accept that he died so inexplicably.

I was completely disappointed in my heart, but I felt sorry for my emperor and the empire because I allowed those subordinates who had no intention of fighting to surrender. So he chose the most painful way to die, that is, he chose to commit suicide by seppuku. And when I was seppuku, I didn't even have a single person around me.

All the remnants of the Japanese army in Huludao voluntarily surrendered, indicating that the entire western Liaoning battlefield had come to a complete end. In the fierce battle for more than half a month, Wang Guangyu successively broke through the mountainous areas of western Liaoning, surrounded and annihilated nearly half of the Fourth Army's troops in Yixian County, and completely crushed Iida Shojiro's determination to fight. Although the progress was a little slower, Wang Guangyu fought steadily and completely captured the entire Western Liaoning Corridor.

The seizure of the entire western Liaoning this time is of extremely great strategic significance. The seizure of the Liaoxi Corridor also means the opening of the Bac Ninh Railway. The opening of the Bac Ninh Railway means that the Anti-Japanese Union has completely opened up the railway connection between inside and outside the Guan, which greatly facilitates the transportation inside and outside the Guan.

From the northeast to the Guannai transfer of all kinds of materials, there is no need to detour without direct railway, can only be transferred from Tongliao to Chengde by road, and take the railway from Chengde to transfer Beiping this line. Personnel exchanges inside and outside the customs can directly and quickly reach the first line of Tianjin and Beiping through the Bac Ninh Railway.

This is undoubtedly quite convenient for transporting large-scale industrial equipment and equipment. And for the anti-union, it also saves a lot of trucks and gasoline. By opening up the Bac Ninh Railway alone, the Anti-Japanese Union can free up four automobile regiments to be used on the battlefield, saving tens of thousands of tons of fuel every year.

The complete acquisition of the Liaoning West Corridor really means that the transportation links inside and outside the customs are completely opened. Of course, the Jinzhou section of the Bac Ninh Line, which is currently devastated by the war, especially the severely damaged bridge, still needs a lot of emergency repair work before it can be restored. The Fourth Army, while contracting, carried out complete destruction of the entire Bac Ninh Railway.

After Wang Guangyu captured Jinzhou, Yang Zhen immediately transferred four regiments of the railway corps under the Anti-Japanese Federation, carrying a large amount of equipment and a set of fully mechanized bridge-building equipment imported from the United States. To go to western Liaoning to repair the Beining Railway is to reopen this artery in the shortest possible time.

At present, the railway troops have been expanded from a column to a branch of the armed forces in the anti-Japanese alliance. In addition to the Jitong Railway under construction, it is also responsible for the emergency repair of the war-damaged railways inside and outside the Guanxi Railway. At present, there are five regiments and one bridge regiment directly under the Jinpu, Pinghan, and Tongpu railways in Guannai alone, and thousands of troops and technicians are rushing to repair the railways.

Just after Chen Hanzhang completed the encirclement and annihilation of the 30th Army, Du Kaishan compressed the remnants of the 44th Army to the mountainous area east of Kaiyuan. The three regiments that had already been transferred to the Changtu Railway Corps immediately went south and began to rush to repair the battle-damaged Zhongchang Railway from Changtu to Shenyang, so as to ensure that the Zhongchang Railway was completed and opened to traffic as soon as possible.

The central authorities have quite appreciated and supported Yang Zhen's method of setting up railway troops to carry out railway construction and maintenance, and all railway soldiers are both combat units and railway engineering construction units. Since the beginning of the fourth or third year, he has made every effort to ensure the soldiers belonging to the anti-union railway soldiers. Even some troops were transferred, and the formed ones were assigned to the anti-United Nations railway troops.

This time, in addition to ensuring that the troops of the Jitong Railway, which were being built with all their might, Yang Zhen transferred all the railway troops to the south to repair the railway damage caused by the war in the entire hinterland of South Manchuria. It is hoped that the emergency repair of the battle-damaged railway will be completed in the shortest possible time.

Among them, the Bac Ninh Railway, which connects the inside and outside of the Guanxi Customs, is the most important task in the entire emergency repair task. Even before the war in western Liaoning was completely over, the railway soldiers of the Anti-Union had already started the emergency repair of the Beining Railway. Strive to complete the emergency repair and opening of the section from Montenegro to Suizhong of the Bac Ninh Line before it freezes. As for the Yixian to Chaoyang section of the Jincheng Railway in the north, it is also rushing to repair it at the same time.

After receiving the report that Wang Guangyu had completed the battle against the enemy in western Liaoning, Yang Zhen urged the troops of the railway corps to speed up the maintenance on the one hand. On the one hand, he ordered Wang Guangyu to immediately hand over the entire defense of western Liaoning to the Jin-Cha-Ji exit troops. Wang Guangyu commanded the main force not to wait for rest and recuperation, but to give full play to the spirit of continuous combat, and immediately seize the front line of Panshan and Yingkou to the east, cut off the last possible retreat route of the Fifth Army of the Xinmin front, and serve as a strategic reserve for the entire South Manchurian battlefield.

And just three days before the battle of Huludao came to an end, Chen Hanzhang, who was on the battlefield of the western front in northern Liaoning, had also completed the complete settlement of the 30th Army of the Kwantung Army. Du Kaishan, east of the Zhongchang Railway, also surrounded the last 3,000 people of the remnants of the 44th Army on the front line of Chaihe Fort, and was carrying out the final encirclement and annihilation. The entire South Manchurian Campaign has been fought to this point, and it can be said that the overall situation has been completely decided.

The complete solution of the 30th Army under the Kwantung Army made Yang Zhen completely relieved. He knew that even if the Kwantung Army received reinforcements from ten divisions and regiments, even if the entire Korean Army was sent to reinforce the Kwantung Army, it would be impossible to change the tide of the war. At this moment, the battle is already in hand.

As for the two divisions of the Fifth Army, which had become a lone army on the Xinmin front, Sui Changqing, who had been reinforced by Chen Hanzhang, was trapped in a narrow area between the Xinmin Liao River and the Juliu River under the cooperation of the flank attack.

By the time the 30th Army fell into the encirclement, the Fifth Army had been bitten by Sui Changqing. Despite finding himself alone, Lieutenant General Keisaku Murakami tried numerous times to retreat to the southeast. But Sui Changqing was like a plaster, sticking it to the Fifth Army so that it could not advance or retreat.

The Fifth Army did not move, and Sui Changqing only launched a diversionary attack in a small area. and the two divisions of the Fifth Army, as closely entangled as possible. But as soon as the Fifth Army moved, Sui Changqing immediately stuck to it like a plaster. After Chen Hanzhang completed the capture of Shenyang, Sui Changqing, who was reinforced by some armored troops, had an advantage in the mobility of troops.

Murakami made several retreats, but he was stopped by blocking left and right. If it weren't for the fact that he hadn't been ordered to attack, with Sui Changqing's temperament. After receiving some of Chen Hanzhang's reinforcements, he had already attacked this Fifth Army, and where did he wait until Chen Hanzhang completed the battle against the Thirty Army?

For this difficult opponent in front of him, Lieutenant General Murakami Keisaku has almost no choice. No matter how much effort his combat staff spent and how many retreat plans he drew up, he could not get rid of the rapid onslaught and pursuit of the enemy's tanks. And once bitten by the tank cluster of the Anti-Union, the retreating troops will have to shed their skin if they do not die.

These tanks almost became a nightmare for Murakami, who knew that if it weren't for his area, it was at the confluence of the Juliu River and the Liao River, and the relatively dense water network was not conducive to the rapid advance of mechanized troops. I'm afraid that with my current strength, the enemy's tank cluster would have rushed over long ago.

I can still hold on at the moment, with the only two forces that have greatly weakened the division and regiment, it is not mixed up worse than the 30th Army of the Qing Shui Rules, and it still takes a little advantage of the terrain. Of course, Yang Zhen put his main energy on the two armies of the Japanese army in northern Liaoning, so that his Fifth Army is still alive until now.

Whether it is Murakami Qizuo or Sui Changqing, one is bitten to death and cannot advance or retreat. One is that he has not received the order to attack for a long time, so he can only bite the opponent to the death and prevent him from retreating to other battlefields. And constantly interspersed with small depths, as much as possible to compress the defensive area of the Fifth Army.

However, although he never received the order to attack, he was painstakingly deployed by Sui Changqing and attacked from multiple ways and little by little. Murakami's Fifth Army was gradually compressed between the Liao River and the Juliu River. And not only was it compressed to a corner, but at the same time, the main force of the army, in the continuous fierce fighting, also suffered nearly a third of the casualties.

With Chen Hanzhang's troops completing the encirclement and annihilation of the 30th Army and moving south, the Fifth Army was also in a precarious position. Faced with the predicament in front of him, Lieutenant General Murakami was at a loss. All the telegrams to the Kwantung Army asking for help only received a reply to retreat in the direction of Liaodong with all their might, and there was no other news.

Regarding the reply of the Kwantung Army, Lieutenant General Murakami Keisaku could only smile bitterly. As early as the beginning of the campaign, he repeatedly demanded that he could withdraw to the direction of Shenyang and move closer to the 30th and 44th armies. However, the Kwantung Army Command always used the important position of the army as an excuse to disagree with life and death.

After the enemy attack was launched, Lieutenant General Murakami's suggestion, which was repeated in the same old words, was once again rejected. His Fifth Army was located at the junction of the 30th Army and the Fourth Army, which was not only located in the key part of the entire western Liaoning battlefield, but also served as a barrier to the northwest of Shenyang. He arbitrarily abandoned the defensive area on the flank of the Fourth Army in the west, and the whole army shrank to Xinmin.

The Western Front cluster of the Anti-Japanese Union penetrated directly into the flank of the Fourth Army and formed an encirclement of Yixian. As a direct result, the Fourth Army suffered from the enemy on its back and lost nearly half of its troops in the Battle of Yixian. The Kwantung Army did not remove him from his post, it already gave him face, and there would be an agreement that he would withdraw directly to the direction of Shenyang? want

If he withdrew directly from Xinmin to Shenyang, the flanks of the 30th Army would be exposed. This will undoubtedly intersperse the tanks that the enemy has always excelled at, creating a fairly advantageous fighter. By the time the Kwantung Army headquarters found out that something was wrong and ordered the Fifth Army to rescue the Thirtieth Army at all costs, his Fifth Army was powerless.

After Chen Hanzhang completed the encirclement and annihilation of the 30th Army, Yang Zhen directly ordered the department to immediately move south, except for the largest part of the troops and the first armored division, which immediately swept the entire line from Shenyang to Yingkou. With the main force of the 4th Armored Division and the strength of no less than one division, it immediately joined the Xinmin battlefield and encircled and annihilated the Fifth Army.

Strive to completely annihilate the entire battlefield west of Shenyang in the shortest possible time, and the last of the Japanese troops to become a formed force, the Fifth Army. Completely wiped out all the remnants of the Japanese army in South Manchuria outside the Liaodong battlefield, in order to complete the control of the entire South Manchurian industrial area.