Chapter 467: Dying Struggle (I)
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It is precisely because he is well aware of the strength of the Central Plains Field Army that Mr. Lin of Huaye did not send troops south to support when the Battle of Luda began, but only sent a small number of suspicious soldiers to contain them, and at the same time to prevent the defeated soldiers of the devils from fleeing north and endangering the people in the liberated areas. At the same time, with Lin in general, he naturally could not see that the Northeast War situation ushered in a major turning point after the victory of the Battle of Luda, and without waiting for the order of the central government, he personally led the army eastward, and wanted to seize the current favorable opportunity to work with Dongye to completely wipe out the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Kwantung Army, but at this time he received an urgent report of Dongye's setback
The Kwantung Army Headquarters, which had been hesitant before the brigade issued an urgent order, finally made up its mind and sent Shinozuka Yoshio's mecha First Army out, on the one hand, to relieve the siege of the Japanese puppet army in Changchun, and on the other hand, it was hoped that Wei would be encircled to save Zhao and attract the main force of Huaye in Shenyang to reduce the pressure on the brigade Japanese army. However, they did not expect that the PLA would achieve great success in carrying out the landing operation for the first time, and that the strength of the Central Plains Field Army, especially the ability to attack fortified positions, would be even stronger than they expected. In this way, unless Yoshio Shinozuka has the ability to wipe out the main force of Higashino. Otherwise, no matter how great the victory is, it will not be enough to turn the tide of the war in South Manchuria, and no matter how powerful an armored army is, it is absolutely impossible to completely annihilate a powerful field army with a total strength of more than 600,000 troops and brave and tenacious combat. This sortie of the Japanese armored forces can actually only be regarded as the dying throes of devils
After realizing this, General Umezu Mijiro, commander of the Kwantung Army, could not help but regret that he had not decisively sent the armored army to fight before, but later historians generally believed that with the modern mobilization system and the rapidly developing military industry that had been formed in the major liberated areas at that time, let alone one armored army, even ten armored armies. Nor can it compete with the People's Liberation Army, which is fighting more and more and is getting stronger and stronger
But. For Dongye, who was besieging Changchun, the sudden arrival of the Japanese armored army did cause them a lot of losses, especially Dongye's Xu Zong, who has always been good at fighting tough battles and daring to take risks. I actually wanted to rely on only the three columns in my hands, which were mainly infantry and had a total strength of less than 200,000, to encircle and annihilate the armored army of the devil. As a result, even with the help of anti-tank trenches. After all, it was still inferior to the agility and strong impact of the armored forces on the Great Plains, and the carefully arranged encirclement was also pierced by the central breakthrough of the Japanese army, if it were not for the timely arrival of reinforcements from Dongye. The number of casualties is probably much more than 30,000.
However, it was Yoshio Shinozuka, the commander of the Japanese First Mecha Army, who was even more frustrated by the results of the battle, because even after the encirclement was broken, the majority of Higashino's commanders and fighters still did not collapse in the front, but continued to stubbornly persist in the battle, and made full use of all kinds of improvised field fortifications and anti-tank weapons to continuously inflict losses on the Panzer Army. This scene reminded Shinozuka Yoshio of the "Star Scattering Ancient Array" set up for him by Hu Weidong, who was still in the Red Army at the time (Shinozuka Yoshio always thought that it was Hu Weidong's intention, but he didn't know that this was a coincidence. But it was even more shocking to him, because it was the elite of the enemy army that blocked him at that time, and now the enemy who is not defeated can only be regarded as an ordinary field unit in the People's Liberation Army, "Since when did the Chinese have surpassed us Japanese?" ”
In fact, this is of course because with the deepening of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Chinese nation is becoming more and more awake, and the People's Liberation Army is becoming more and more fearless of death with the tempering of the war, and it is also because of the different mentalities of people in the two periods. At the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War in North China, except for a few wise men, the future of the Anti-Japanese War was not very optimistic, at that time, although the Chinese army was brave and tenacious in the war against Japan, but with a very heavy tragic color, so although there were many people who were not afraid of death, most of them were like devils who simply fought their lives like a ghost board charge, and there were not many who were not afraid of death and could remain calm and rational. Therefore, only the elite soldiers of the elite can still calmly and calmly choose the most appropriate combat mode to deal with the enemy to the end when the front collapses.
And now even the hardcore traitors who can only follow the devil all the way to the black because they are full of evil, most of them believe that China's War of Resistance is about to win, let alone those anti-Japanese soldiers and civilians. With the support of such confidence, what only elite soldiers and strong generals could do at the beginning can now be done by ordinary officers and soldiers. Historically, the German and Japanese fascists were like a bamboo in the early stage, but they were defeated in the later stage, of course, because the quality of the soldiers was indeed not as good as in the early stage of the war, but the loss of confidence obviously had a greater impact, after all, if there were too many recruits, the combat effectiveness declined, so the expansion of the United States and the Soviet Union was greater, are those different recruits? To say that the veterans have lost too much, no matter how much they can surpass the Soviet army?
Due to the death-defying battle of more than a dozen officers and men of the three columns of the East Field, although the Japanese First Mecha Army successfully penetrated the front, it also paid a very heavy price, and more than 300 of the more than 1,000 combat vehicles of the whole army were completely destroyed. As the backbone of the armored army, the total number of tanks in Liliang is less than 200, and the assault capability inevitably declines sharply. Even if the main force of Huaye did not advance eastward in time, even if the Japanese army in Changchun still had the ability to attack with it inside and outside, Yoshio Shinozuka was not sure that the 600,000 troops of Dongye would be completely defeated, and now seeing that the enemy's two major field armies would meet again, the total strength would not be more than one million
Yoshio Shinozuka's wise choice avoided the risk of being annihilated by the enemy's million-strong army due to the lack of supplies, and at least half of the chariots and no less than eighty percent of the personnel were saved, and nearly 40,000 people were killed and wounded in Higashino and tens of thousands of enemy troops were killed. But Yoshio Shinozuka is soberly aware that Japan has lost this war, not to mention Manchuria next, and even the preservation of North Korea is completely uncertain, and if you take into account the collapse of the domestic economy, the ocean-going war conducted by the Chinese Navy, and the heart-to-heart war conducted by Chinese by treating prisoners of war well, even the Japanese mainland will become no longer safe (to be continued......