Chapter 291: Interspersed (3)
After handing over the command of the entire Zhongchang Railway frontal attack force to Chen Hanzhang and Du Kaishan. Yang Zhen hesitated for a moment, after discussing with Mr. Lin and Guo Bingxun. A column of Jin, Hebei, Luyu and Yu in the reserve in his hand was thrown into the northwest direction of Xinmin. Cooperate with Sui Changqing, who is stuck in the first line, to outflank the Fifth Army of the New People's Army.
Pin down this cluster of Japanese forces so that it is unable to reinforce in either direction. At the same time, the search for fighters to encircle and annihilate this Fifth Army, which has now become the reserve of the entire Kwantung Army, has actually become the reserve of the entire Kwantung Army, because it is only subject to a diversionary attack. Guarantee other battlefields and be able to smoothly achieve strategic goals.
And on the same day that the main force commanded by Chen Hanzhang seized Xinchengzi and immediately launched an attack to the north. After crossing the Liao River on the Sanchuantai line, the whole army marched rapidly to Shenyang in a mechanized way, without any entanglement with a small group of Japanese troops along the way. Mu Changqiu's headquarters, which the whole army quickly attacked in the direction of Shenyang, also broke through the periphery of Shenyang City on the 25th.
After rushing into Shenyang City from the Huanggutun and Yuhuakou lines west of the Zhongchang Railway, his headquarters first defeated the Japanese Shenyang Independent Garrison on the spot, stationed in the training ground and the consulate, and served as the guard force of the Tiexi Industrial Zone. It quickly seized almost half of Shenyang's industry, and it is also the most concentrated industrial city in Shenyang, and the industrial area west of the Zhongchang Railway.
At the same time, with the strength of two infantry regiments and the cooperation of a tank battalion, they quickly moved south around Shenyang City and defeated the two infantry brigades of the 80th Independent Mixed Brigade. It successively seized two key points in the south of Shenyang, Sujiatun and Taoqianhu, and cut off the route for the Japanese troops in the city to flee south by railway. And almost completely seized Sujiatun Station, which can be called the largest railway dispatching station in the whole of China at present.
However, Mu Changqiu only had two infantry divisions and one armored division in his hands, and it was naturally impossible to encircle the entire Shenyang City, and his first key attack could only be placed in the industrial areas on the east and west sides. Before leaving, Chen Hanzhang repeatedly told him that he could not ask about the Japanese puppet army in Shenyang City, but if there was a screw missing from the Shenyang Industrial Zone, he was the only one who asked.
With Chen Hanzhang's order, Mu Changqiu's first target was naturally the two industrial zones of Tiexi and the east of Shenyang. The Tiexi area, which concentrates the essence of Shenyang's industry, is his first choice. However, after seizing the entire Tiexi District, Mu Changqiu did not stop.
Du Kaishan's headquarters, which was scheduled to cooperate, were responsible for attacking two divisions from east to west, but they had not yet arrived. Mu Changqiu simply took the two tank battalions of the 4th Armored Division as the lead, plus the division's mechanized infantry regiment and a reinforced infantry regiment. Take advantage of the east-west streets in Shenyang to pass through the outer city that had collapsed as early as the end of the Qing Dynasty.
Ignoring the suppression of the Japanese fire at the head of the city, he directly smashed open the two gates of the inner city, the small west gate and the big west gate. Along the east-west main road of the inner city of Shenyang, the two streets of Yide and Yixin, quickly cross the entire inner city of Shenyang. Before the Japanese army reacted in Shenyang, they seized part of the industrial area in the east of Shenyang, as well as the Shenyang East Tower Airport. The entire main industrial zone of Shenyang is safely controlled in your hands.
But under the situation of insufficient troops and still having to hold the front line of Sujiatun, what Mu Changqiu can do now is to seize the various industrial zones in Shenyang as much as possible. As for some units of the 80th Brigade Regiment in the north of the city, they could only take the initiative to attack with small clusters of tanks first, so as to contain their inability to counterattack at Tiexi and Dadong.
As for the independent garrison of Shenyang in the city, it could only be controlled by firepower first, and he did not dare to act rashly other than that. Although the Hushi Terrace, which is only thirty kilometers away from him, is Chen Hanzhang's main force, he doesn't have to worry about it at all in the north. However, the Japanese troops in the areas south and east of Shenyang City still had to be guarded against by him.
If their main force is entangled inside and outside the city, once the enemy army in the Fushun area east of Shenyang, the Japanese puppet army in the Liaoyang area south will counterattack Shenyang with all their might. Judging from the distance between these two places and Shenyang, it would be bad to catch yourself off guard. If Sui Changqing was not afraid of the field battle, but the delay that might be brought about by the street battle made him choose to focus on stability.
But fortunately, Du Kaishan's department did not let him wait long. Just when Mu Changqiu had just finished seizing the Dadong Industrial Zone, it was less than eleven hours. Under Chen Hanzhang's supervision, the troops of the two divisions of the Du Kaishan Division and one armored brigade had already rushed to the front line of Fuling, Bajiazi, and Ertaizi in the eastern suburbs of Shenyang.
After the reinforcements arrived, Mu Changqiu was not in a hurry to launch an attack on Shenyang City. Instead, he took control of the front line of Chen Xiangtun with a force, formed a complete defense line with the troops who seized Sujiatun, and cut off the Anfeng Railway, the last external passage in Shenyang.
Only then did they concentrate their forces and begin a full-scale attack on the urban area of Shenyang, and clear the Japanese troops at various points outside Shenyang into the 80th Brigade and Regiment independently. However, according to the unified deployment of his superiors, when attacking the urban area of Shenyang, Mu Changqiu did not use any artillery except for some recoilless guns, rocket launchers and tank guns.
There was just one thing that made Mu Changqiu regret, just before the arrival of reinforcements on the Eastern Front. However, the headquarters of the Third Front Army of the Kwantung Army, which was in Shenyang City, took advantage of the only time in this space. Mu Changqiu slipped out of the gap left in the southeast of the city because of the lack of troops.
In fact, Mu Changqiu hit the west of Shenyang so quickly, and swept the entire Shenyang Industrial Zone at the first time. The harem general Chun, who was in Shenyang City, panicked while feeling quite surprised. He didn't expect that the defense line of the 30th Army in the northwest direction of Shenyang would be broken through so quickly. The only division around Shenyang City has already been sent to the battlefield west of the Zhongchang Railway.
As early as the tenure of General Umezu Mijiro, the Kwantung Army, which knew the power of the anti-alliance armored clusters. A large number of anti-tank fortifications were built on both wings of the medium-long railway. After General Yamada Otozo took office, in view of the armor superiority of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, he continued to shrink his forces and further strengthened the construction of anti-tank fortifications.
The entire northwest direction of Shenyang, because of the topography, has always been the top priority of construction. From Faku to Changtu and the western plains of Kaiyuan, an anti-tank fortification group was formed based on several large-depth anti-tank trenches and laid a large number of anti-tank mines. On both sides of the Liao River, a considerable number of permanent fortifications have also been constructed.
According to the judgment of the last battle example, the entire northwest direction of Shenyang can at least withstand the enemy's army, and more than four armored divisions will attack in turn under the cover of ground-air firepower. But General Harem Jun didn't expect that this line of defense, which he thought was extremely strong, would be broken through in such a short period of time.
If he knew that every armored division of the Anti-Japanese Union was now equipped with tank bridge-erecting vehicles, which could build bridges for rapid passage on the anti-tank trenches built by the Japanese army in a short period of time. At the same time, each armored division was equipped with an engineer battalion that specialized in solving anti-tank trenches, and specially practiced the tactics of how to quickly let the tanks rush through the anti-tank trenches.
It's just that at the moment, facing the anti-Japanese alliance that has reached the city of Shenyang at high speed, there are no troops to adjust and no troops to defend, except for the independent 80th mixed brigade on the periphery, there is only one Shenyang independent garrison of less than 2,000 people in his hands in the city. Wanting to confront one of the armored divisions and two infantry divisions of the Anti-Japanese Federation, Harem Chun didn't have the heart to wonder how his opponent could quickly pass through what he thought was an impregnable defense line in such a short period of time.
At the same time that Mu Changqiu was busy seizing the Tiexi Industrial Zone, and rushed through the inner city with a force to seize the Dadong Industrial Zone. This harem Chun general is worthy of serving at the top for a long time. Knowing that in the face of the enemy's armored mechanized cluster that was rushing quickly, the only independent mixed 80th Brigade was not an opponent at all.
Major General Nomura Kamee Noboru, commander of the 80th Independent Mixed Brigade, was immediately appointed as the commander of the Shenyang garrison to command the defensive operations of Shenyang City. And the independent garrison responsible for the security of Shenyang City was also handed over to the command of this Major General Nomura, so that he could be used as a substitute for the dead ghost.
He took his own headquarters of the Third Front and threw away everything that could be thrown away. When it was too late to destroy the documents, he simply set a fire and burned all the headquarters of his front army, as well as the large amount of materials and documents that had not had time to destroy them.
With the radio station and all the personnel of the front army headquarters, I didn't even have time to see if the headquarters was completely burned down. Using a group of buses controlled in his hands, loaded with all the personnel and equipment of his front headquarters, under the cover of two guard squadrons, he withdrew directly from the Great South Gate of Shenyang City.
Under the circumstance that the Sujiatun front line had been seized by the Anti-Japanese Federation, this old man took his headquarters and took advantage of the fact that there was no enemy situation in the southeast direction, and ran all the way in a car. Turning to the southwest through the line of Chen Xiangtun and Yaosuotun, they directly withdrew to the direction of Liaoyang, where the enemy situation had not yet appeared at the moment.
As for the puppet Manchu emperor and the ministers in the city, and all the central institutions of Manchukuo at present, they were all abandoned by him in Shenyang. The general, who was broken through the defense line in a short period of time by the Anti-Japanese Union and directly hit the headquarters of the front army, knew that if he did not retreat, he would become the turtle in the urn.
Fortunately, for General Harem Jun, who was eager to flee for his life, after General Yamada Otozo took office, he moved the headquarters of the Kwantung Army from Shenyang to Andong, which made him feel much less pressure. If the Kwantung Army was still in Shenyang at the moment, he would not dare to leave the Kwantung Army Headquarters alone if he lent him three courages.
But this harem general has the entire so-called puppet Manchukuo head in mind. And except for the president of the Manchurian Railway, who was in his headquarters at that time, all the high-ranking officials and a large number of businessmen of the Japanese in Shenyang were all lost in the city of Shenyang, and I am afraid that he will not have any good fruits to eat when he returns.
The departure of General Harem Chun made Major General Nomura Kamee Deng, who was in charge of the defense of Shenyang City, worried. His independent 80th Mixed Brigade, in addition to the two squadrons in the city that served as guards for the front army headquarters, were packed and taken away by General Harem Chun, and the two stationed in Sujiatun have also been defeated.
The remaining three infantry brigades, one of which was cut off at three platforms, took over from the transferred division as the outer line of defense. The other brigade stationed in Hushitai, as well as the brigade artillery team and the engineer team, have lost contact with each other at the moment, and I am afraid that it is already more than lucky. The only brigade in Shenyang City was also taken away by General Harem Chun with two squadrons.
And the only remaining infantry brigade that was divided into three platforms can't rush at all, let alone at the moment. Just rush over, what problem can an infantry brigade solve in the face of a large number of enemy troops with a tank division? Even if you rush over, I'm afraid it will be sent under someone's knife.