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In fact, when Xu Xiangqian didn't come before, the Anti-Japanese Federation had already learned how difficult it was to fight this city. However, now that Xu Xiangqian, who is better at large-scale corps operations and has a lot of experience in urban fortification, as the commander, the strength of the Anti-League itself has also been greatly enhanced compared with the beginning, so the Anti-League is still eager to try to be ashamed. Xu Xiangqian was originally one of the most offensive generals in the Red Party, and he was somewhat proud of his seven victories in seven battles, so his thoughts were similar to those of his subordinates, and he was unwilling not to try to attack, especially after he learned about the information of the Harbin defenders

At this time, the Japanese troops stationed in Harbin exceeded 50,000, which should be said to be not small, and there were many fortifications to use, but the main force of the defenders was two divisions mainly formed by Osaka people, and the fighting will was a cut behind other Japanese divisions, and the bad deeds of the 4th Division and the 104th Division had long been a joke in the Red Party, so the Anti-Japanese Federation generally believed that there was an opportunity.

However, after receiving the strict order of the Kwantung Army Headquarters, the two Osaka divisions did not dare to flee without a fight again, and in their opinion, Harbin is not a city that is difficult to hold, although the people of Osaka cherish life, but they are still willing to fight a dozen battles that are sure to win, and although the Osaka soldiers are relatively afraid of death, they are more brainy than the Japanese soldiers in other places, and their tactics are more flexible. The Osaka soldiers, who had excellent technical and tactical skills and cherished their own lives, were obviously better at using fortifications to minimize their own casualties than the devils in other places. As a result, the attack on Harbin launched by the Anti-Japanese Federation was severely defeated at the beginning, and it still failed to enter the city at the cost of more than 20,000 casualties, while the Japanese casualties were less than 3,000. Such a disparity in exchange has poured cold water on the heads of those soldiers who have won consecutive victories and are arrogant. also brought the exciting "Seven Battles and Seven Victories" to an abrupt end, and Xu Xiangqian also realized that no matter how many troops there were, Xu Xiangqian also realized that no matter how many troops there were. As long as they did not have air supremacy (Note 1), it would still be difficult to take a well-defended large city, and the argument that "Osaka soldiers are not good at fighting" has been refuted because of the large sacrifices of the soldiers of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, but the strength of the Osaka Division, whose combat style is very different from that of most Japanese troops. Even Xu Xiangqian didn't fully understand it until he fought and dealt with him more times later

After suffering a defeat for the first time since crossing the Songhua River in the south. The fatigue of the main force of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, which had been covered by high morale, broke out all of a sudden, and the number of sick people in the army also surged, coupled with the fact that the Japanese base camp had not stopped sending reinforcements to the northeast, and the ammunition carried by the main force of the Anti-United Nations was also much less than before because of the excessive consumption of the attack on the fortification but the failure to get the slightest capture and replenishment, Xu Xiangqian had to give up the encirclement of Harbin. Fortunately, due to his effective command, the plateau also cooperated well in Jiangbei, and Xu Xiangqian also came up with a clever plan of "wanting to retreat and attack first". Successfully confused the Japanese army, thus bringing most of the troops back to Jiangbei safely, while the Kwantung Army was busy "recovering lost territory" to reduce the guilt of the base camp command, and for a time there was no spare strength to attack the North Manchurian base area of the Anti-Japanese Union, so the main force of the Anti-Japanese Union led by Xu Xiangqian also got a rare period of long repair time.

Although the continuous victory of the Anti-Japanese Federation could not last forever. However, Xu Xiangqian's "Seven Battles and Seven Victories" still wrote a strong and colorful stroke in the history of the Anti-Japanese War, he not only directly wiped out more than 100,000 Japanese troops, but also rescued millions of people trapped in the occupied areas and recovered a large amount of money, food, materials, equipment and talents, while enhancing the strength of the North Manchurian base area, it also weakened the economic foundation of the Japanese-occupied areas in Northeast China. At the same time, the "seven battles and seven victories" of the Anti-Japanese Union also directly promoted the in-depth development of guerrilla warfare in South Manchuria, and the Kwantung Army had to devote more troops to preventing Xu Qianqian from moving south again because of the deepening fear of the main force of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, which made their already insufficient forces more and more overstretched. To a certain extent, although the Japanese Kwantung Army tried its best to "recover" a lot of "lost territory," it was only those large and medium-sized cities and major lines of communication that it was able to basically control, and the vast rural areas of South Manchuria were all turned into the world of the anti-United Nations guerrillas in less than a year. As a result of these two factors, the Tohoku region, which has always been regarded as a rear base by the Japanese, has almost become a burden greater than the income, and this has undoubtedly pushed Japan, which has become increasingly difficult to support economically due to the war of aggression against China, into the abyss

However, if only at that time, the greatest significance of the main force of the Anti-Japanese Union crossing the Songhua River in the south was to force the Japanese base camp to further increase the strength of the Kwantung Army, and its strength was increased to 700,000, and if you count the Japanese troops west of the Great Khing'an Mountains, it almost reached 800,000. Under this premise, no matter how hard the Japanese military department tried, it could only increase the strength of the Central China Dispatch Army to about 1 million before December 1938, of which the total strength of the Japanese army in the Xuzhou area would not exceed 800,000, although this number was still very large, but compared with the devils who threw most of their troops into the Central Plains battlefield, the pressure on the 15th Group Army and the Eighth Route Army was always smaller, and both the difficulty of destroying the enemy and the price to be paid were much smaller

Even if it is 800,000, it is not so easy to eat, and the Red Party is also open this time, not hesitating to risk letting more than 500,000 people of the main force of the Eighth Route Army cross the Yellow River south into the Central Plains, plus the 300,000 troops urgently mobilized in the Central Plains border area and nearly 400,000 people of the main force of the 15th Group Army, the total strength is no less than 1.2 million, and if necessary, it can also recruit troops from Shandong. However, with such a large army and the fact that it belongs to two major systems, how to coordinate and unify has become a big problem, but fortunately, the great man has long thought deeply about this, although Zhang Hao lacks experience in military command, but his qualifications, status, and merits are enough to be qualified for the post of secretary of the former party committee, and on this basis, let Peng General command the mobilization troops of the Eighth Route Army and the Central Plains Border Region be responsible for the western front, and the headquarters of the 15th Group Army be responsible for the eastern front, so as to avoid awkwardness between the Eighth Route Army and the 15th Group Army because of the primary and secondary issues

Note 1: Although considering the factor of mobility, after the heavy artillery captured by the Anti-United Nations, it was directly transported back to the North Manchurian base area without taking it on the road, but during this war, even the light artillery of the Anti-United Nations was destroyed a lot by the air raids of the Japanese aircraft, not to mention the heavy artillery with larger targets. (To be continued.) )