Among them, the 72nd Infantry Wing is one of the strongest infantry wings in the Kwantung Army and even among all the Japanese troops, and even the infantry brigades under the jurisdiction of some permanent divisions may not have won it, in addition, the combat effectiveness of the puppet Manchurian Xing'an Division is also close to the level of the Japanese Army's permanent divisions, and the elite of them are sent out, with these two as the backbone, plus the 20,000 troops with relatively strong combat effectiveness drawn from the puppet Manchurian Xing'an Army, Komatsubara Michitaro thinks that it is enough, even if the rescue is not enough, he should always be able to retreat

In Komatsubara's view, even if the Anti-Japanese Federation received a large number of Soviet aid, the quality of the soldiers would only decline rapidly in such a short period of time due to the substantial expansion, but Komatsubara Michitaro did not know that the Northeast Anti-Japanese Federation had quietly changed generals, and even if he knew, he did not know about Xu Xiangqian, who had been relatively low-key since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, but it was precisely the lag and ominousness of the intelligence that directly cut off the more than 30,000 people and the more than 10,000 Japanese puppet troops in Qiqihar

Among the main generals of the Red Party, the most adept at quickly converting enemy prisoners of war, and the ones who can fight more and more in a single battle and become stronger and stronger are undoubtedly Hu Weidong and Su Yu, who have been his partner to this day, and the fact that the 15th Group Army can develop to today's scale and strength is a good proof; However, Xu Xiangqian was the only one who could still exert strong combat effectiveness in the battle with a group of new soldiers, which was fully proved both in the battle to recover Shanxi in this time and space, and during the Jinzhong Campaign in history, and it is no wonder that Taizu praised him as "having the wind of Han Xin" (Note 1). It is precisely because of this that when Xu Xiangqian annihilated more than 30,000 people of the Japanese army's Ouchi detachment with 200,000 of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, who were mostly recruits. Taizu and Hu Weidong, who knew more about it, were not surprised at all.

However, although the Anti-Japanese Federation won the largest victory in the war of annihilation since its establishment, the bravery and tenacity of the enemy still left a deep impression on the officers and soldiers participating in the battle, not only the 72nd Infantry Wing of the Japanese army, but even the thousands of people of the puppet Manchurian Xing'an Division did not surrender. The reinforcements were completely annihilated, which dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the Japanese puppet army in Qiqihar City. And Xu Xiangqian's sapper blasting tactics were a fatal blow to the Qiqihar Japanese puppet army that originally wanted to rely on the city defense to wait for reinforcements, but the desperate Japanese army and the puppet Manchurian Xing'an Division still fought to Zuihou alone, and once again caused a lot of casualties to the Anti-Japanese Union.

After two fierce battles, the Anti-Japanese Union killed more than 8,000 Japanese soldiers and did not capture a single prisoner; More than 21,000 puppet soldiers were killed (including those who died of serious injuries) and more than 17,000 were captured. Such a result made the Anti-Japanese Federation excited, but the Anti-Japanese Federation also paid a considerable price for it, with more than 60,000 casualties, of which no less than 20,000 were killed or disabled; And because the Japanese army and even part of the puppet army resolutely destroyed weapons and destroyed ammunition before dying. The weapons captured in this campaign were only slightly more than their own losses, and the captured ammunition was less than half of the consumption. Such a tenacious Japanese soldier Xu Xiangqian has seen it before. But the puppet army is also so crazy, but it is the first time he has seen it, "The war of resistance outside the gate is really much more difficult than the inside of the gate!" ”

However, the fighters of the old Anti-Japanese Federation are all jubilant, they are not afraid of death, they are only afraid of not winning, the hundreds of thousands of anti-Japanese volunteers in the northeast were almost all wiped out, and Zuihou has not been able to eliminate many devils, that feeling of despair is far more painful than dying in battle, "As long as the battle is won, the sacrificed commanders and fighters did not die in vain." We have 40,000 people in China, how many little devils are there? If we continue to fight like this, we will definitely be able to drive the devils out of the Northeast! ”

Xu Xiangqian was very encouraged by the spirit of sacrifice of the officers and men of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and he saw the shadow of the Red Fourth Front Army in these new subordinates, so he was more confident than when he first came to lead this army into an iron army that was as good at fighting tough battles as the Red Fourth Front Army. But for now, the seriously attrition of the anti-United still has to be repaired for a period of time, but because of the arrival of the new manager. The time required for recuperation is much faster than before, which is also one of Xu Shuai's specialties, and it is quite similar to Su Yu's ability to fight continuously, but it is not exactly the same. Su Yu's continuous battles. It basically does not rest in the middle, and completely relies on the willpower and physical strength of the commanders and fighters of the troops to survive; What Xu Xiangqian is good at is to recover quickly between battles, so that the troops can launch multiple battles in a short period of time; Lin Zong's style is just the opposite, the duration of the repair is very long, often half a year to repair and half a year, but with each round of repair, the combat effectiveness of the troops can be raised to a higher level, and this is often based on the premise of the rapid expansion of the size of the troops

The loss of Qiqihar completely connected the North Manchurian base areas of the Anti-Japanese Union, and there were dangers to defend in all directions, which was undoubtedly an extremely favorable situation; However, the Japanese army was greatly shocked, and even had to transfer the Japanese puppet army west of the Great Khing'an Mountains to the North China Front Army. Otherwise, once the Anti-Japanese Federation crosses the Great Khing'an Mountains to the west and continues to attack, if the remnants of the 23rd Division of the Japanese Army and the puppet army under its control cannot resist the enemy, and they cannot get rescue from the main force of the Kwantung Army that is far separated by the North Manchurian base area of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the problem will be very serious, although even if they are not in the same system, they can also ask for help from the North China Front Army adjacent to the defense area, but the cross-establishment joint operation, after all, the coordination is much worse, and there is also a mountain-based doctrine among the Japanese army. If the Kwantung Army and the North China Front Army did something to seize merit or shirk responsibility, the consequences would be serious

Note 1: For the "Battle of Jingcheng", one of the most classic examples of Han Shin in history, most people only noticed the "backwater formation", but the biggest difficulty in this battle was actually that almost all of Han Shin's troops were new soldiers, and the strength was less than one-fifth of the enemy's. In fact, Han Xin's most powerful two main points, one is that no matter how difficult it is to use (whether it is the poor quality of the soldiers, or the short time to form the army. The troops can exert good combat effectiveness in his hands; Second, no matter how many troops there are, he is equally comfortable in commanding. Judging from these two points, there is indeed no general in the Red Party who is more like Han Xin than Xu Shuai, although in terms of generals, there are still several famous generals in the party who can match him

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