At the same time, Qin Yanzaburo informed the navy of Lushun that he hoped that the navy would return the borrowed gunboats of the puppet Manchurian maritime police force, Hailong and Haifeng, to the puppet Manchurian maritime police force under the control of the Kwantung military, so as to strengthen the coastal protection of Liaodong Bay. △↗, to ensure the safety of the entire Kwantung Army's buttocks, don't be bitten by the enemy from the sea.

Although Vice Admiral Qin Yan Saburo was very unimpressed with the assembled ships of the Anti-Japanese Union in Tanggu Port. Because he believes that landing operations are not an easy task for the enemy forces that do not have a navy at the moment. Relying on a dozen or so captured Japanese landing ships and landing craft, plus some unarmed sailing ships, they wanted to land behind them?

I'm afraid that their fleets will be disrupted as soon as they go out to sea. The actions of the enemy army in Tianjin were nothing more than an attempt to distract the attention of the Kwantung Army. Even if they repaired the captured landing ships of the Empire, they would not be able to carry out large-scale landing operations. If you want to worry about yourself, at least wait until they have the men to fly these landing ships first.

Landing operations require long-term drills and a large amount of climatic and tidal intelligence support. A large fleet is needed to provide fierce fire support. It's not like you can log in whenever you want. The enemy did not have such a support system, and it was purely fanciful to want to carry out a landing operation.

However, Qin Yan Saburo still made certain preparations from Huludao in the west to Liaodong Bay in the east in Gaiping. If you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what happens, whether it is useful or not, it is good to make some preparations in advance. When the freezing of Liaodong Bay begins in late November, he will be able to withdraw the anti-landing forces deployed along the coast.

Anyway, those maritime police forces that nominally belonged to the Ministry of Civil Affairs of the puppet Manchukuo, but in fact belonged to the direct command of the Kwantung Army, and more than a dozen gunboats, large and small, were idle. Let them come out to do activities and move their muscles, it can be regarded as the Kwantung Army did not feed these guys in vain, don't think about what seafood to make money all day long.

However, throughout the first half of October, the northeastern front was still calm. On the contrary, the fleet of the Anti-Japanese Federation concentrated in Tanggu was extremely active, and it was a concentrated training every day, and it was constantly carrying out landing training, which made Qin Yanzaburo constantly doubt whether his judgment was correct.

After consulting General Yamada Otosan, Lieutenant General Qin Yan Saburo transferred the most elite 7th Division of the Kwantung Army from the southeast of Fushun to the Gaiping line to deploy defenses. Because if the enemy really carries out a landing operation in Liaodong Bay and chooses the breakthrough point in Gaiping, then it can directly threaten the Feng'an railway line, and even the entire Liaodong Peninsula will be completely cut off.

The Anbong Railway is the only lifeline of the Kwantung Army at the moment, and once it is cut off, the entire Kwantung Army will have no way back. Even if all other directions are abandoned, the railway line must be defended. If the Anbong Railway was lost, the entire Kwantung Army could only be in Nanman, becoming a group of homeless lonely ghosts.

Therefore, after several considerations, Lieutenant General Qin Yanzaburo still transferred the Seventh Division to the Gaiping coastline to prepare for anti-landing operations. At the same time, the 122nd Division was transferred from the battlefield north of Mukden to replace the 7th Division and was responsible for the defense of the line from Fushun to Qinghe City. At the same time, the two independent heavy artillery wings in the southeast battlefield of Fushun were also strengthened in the direction of Gaiping.

In this way, the entire line from Gaiping to Yingkou, including the area of Dashiqiao in depth, has three divisions and regiments, plus three heavy artillery wings, and a tank brigade. Even if the Anti-United Nations chooses to land from the entire Liaodong Bay, except for the coastal area of Jinzhou, the most suitable line for landing from Yingkou to Gaiping, then he can calmly drive the landing anti-United Nations troops into the sea.

Just because it has absolute superiority at sea, it never thought that one day, the enemy army would land in Liaodong Bay behind its back, but this coastal fortification group is a little too hasty. The Japanese army, which was too short to build a permanent fortification group, had to demolish a large number of civilian houses to build a field fortification group.

However, Lieutenant General Qin Yan Saburo was constantly deploying troops in South Manchuria, especially the Japanese troops who were transferred to the front line of Gaiping and Yingkou, and were seizing the time to build shore fortifications. All the senior generals of the anti-coalition forces in the north did not know what No. 1 was thinking in his heart.

At this time, the battle order has never been issued, not even the battle readiness order. Before this battle order was issued, the time was a little rushed. At present, the weather is getting cooler and cooler day by day, and if the action order is not issued, it is very likely that the parachute operation will not be carried out by the time the autumn monsoon blows in South Manchuria.

It's just that none of these high-ranking generals dared to ask No. 1 when the combat readiness order would be issued. Although ammunition does not need to be delivered for the time being, the front-line soldiers have been secretly stockpiling ammunition and fuel after the previous battle. But it still takes time for troops to send forward, especially heavy equipment.

However, it was not until October 15, 1944, that the headquarters of the Anti-Japanese Union issued an order for the assembly of all troops. All combat orders were not issued by radio, and no mobilization meetings were held before the war. Instead, the headquarters sent staff officers to take small planes and notify all the participating troops except the front-line troops by letter.

In the letters received by each division, the route and manner of the division's march were specified in detail, as well as the designated areas for the combat assembly. At the same time, the commanders of all directions did not take jeeps, but instead took ordinary transport trucks and headed for their predetermined command positions.

In addition to the seven separate tank regiments already on the front line, the 1st, 3rd, 4th, and 3rd Panzer Divisions and three Panzer Brigades were scheduled to participate in the battle, and the 1st Mechanized Infantry Division was under the cover of three separate tank regiments in the DPRK and the 2nd Panzer Division that was moving to the DPRK.

The method of transporting the remaining 80 kilometers by rail from the designated battlefield is adopted, and the remaining 80 kilometers of the route is directly mechanized. All tanks, heavy artillery, and motorized units that need to be driven by rail are strictly camouflaged when transporting them by rail. Adopt the method of taking batches and multi-way circuits.

When the military column loaded with German-made tanks of the Second Panzer Division arrived at the front line of Funing and Gyeongseong in North Korea via Yanji and Tumen, both the Kwantung Army and the Korean Army, including the Japanese base camp, believed that the next key target of the Anti-Japanese Union would be North Korea. In order to cut off the retreat of the Kwantung Army to Korea if necessary.

The so-called fleet of the Anti-Japanese Federation on the Tanggu line was nothing more than a deceptive measure to disperse and contain the forces of the Kwantung Army and prevent it from reinforcing the Korean army. Although all the senior staff officers of the Japanese army believed that the terrain in Korea was not suitable for tank combat. But in the face of this opponent who often played cards unreasonably, the Japanese army base camp, especially the new chief of staff, General Umezu Mijiro, did not dare to take it lightly.

The classic tank interspersed battle implemented by the Anti-Japanese Federation in 42 years crossed the Yinshan Mountain and natural danger that was impossible to climb in the eyes of ordinary people, and directly led to the great rout of the Mongolian Xinjiang army. Sue sù The Japanese army base camp said that anything could happen in front of a strong opponent like himself.

What's more, in the tank splitting battle earlier, the North Korean army was also unable to resist at that time. This opponent, who always comes up with new tricks, is really unguardable. There are no troops in the country, or they don't want to draw troops from the country at all.

While the Chinese Dispatch Army was still licking its wounds, although it was a little cautious, it also transferred one division and one independent mixed brigade from the Kwantung Army in the shortest possible time to the Korean Army. This made both Yamada Otozo and Qin Yan Saburo quite speechless.

You reinforce the Korean army and reinforce the North Korean army, but the Kwantung Army and the North Korean army are connected by mountains and rivers, which can be said to be interdependent. Who can guarantee that the enemy will not attack the Kwantung Army while attacking the Korean army? With so many tank troops, can the narrow terrain of North Korea be put away? As long as the enemy forces attack the Korean army, the Kwantung Army will inevitably be involved.

But the order of the Japanese army base camp was unusually tough. The 51st Division of the Kwantung Army stationed along the Anbong Railway was mobilized and quickly moved into Korea. It is simple for the base camp to give orders, but it is difficult for the Kwantung Army, which always feels that its current strength is insufficient, to adjust its deployment.

In total, Qin Yanzaburo, who was helpless, could only take the risk and transfer back the 108th Division from the Gaiping Line to fill the vacancy left by the transfer of the 51st Division. As for the vacancy left by the transfer of the 108th Division, it could only be allowed to move forward with the 69th Division at Dashiqiao. However, both men believed that it would be more appropriate for the Seventh Division to remain on the Gepin line.

And just when Yamada Otozo and Qin Yan Saburo were in a hurry to adjust their deployment. The anti-United Nations forces opposite them suddenly accelerated their mobilization. The units were either transported by rail or by road, and rapidly advanced to their designated areas. Yang Zhen's order to the divisions was that they must arrive at their designated positions by 20 October.

In fact, no one, including the Military Commission, knew why Yang Zhen's general offensive was launched in late October. Almost everyone agreed that mid-October was the best time to launch the campaign. In the late hour, his feint troops in Tanggu really became a bluff.

This is because by the end of October, although Liaodong Bay will not freeze, the temperature of the sea water is no longer suitable for carrying out landing operations. In mid-to-late November, the entire Liaodong Bay began to freeze. At that time, the Japanese army deployed in the Liaodong Bay anti-landing division will be able to free up its hands and be transferred to other battlefields, which will undoubtedly increase the variables of the entire battlefield.

But Yang Zhen never took action, and it was not until early October that he began to make secret preparations one after another. On 11 October, it was only ordered that all units should not go out, that all vehicles should be filled with fuel and put into a state of combat readiness, and that preparations for large-scale railway transportation should be secretly begun.

This made many people unable to understand what this young regional commander was thinking. In fact, it was not until late October that this battle was launched. In addition to other reasons, there is another important reason. That is, the number of tanks for a quick assault, there is still a big gap. Even if the tank troops stationed in North China are transferred back, the number of tanks in the current anti-union is still somewhat insufficient.

It is necessary to implement the central government's requirements to quickly take down the entire South Manchurian and ensure the industrial integrity of the South Manchurian industry as much as possible. The number of tanks as a rapid assault force was insufficient, and it was impossible to penetrate directly into Xinmin and Anshan from the two flanks of Shenyang while encircling the heavy Japanese army cluster north of Shenyang, cutting off the reinforcements of the Japanese army in the east and west directions of Shenyang, making it difficult for Yang Zhen to accomplish this.

It's not impossible to attack with infantry alone, but the attack speed must be slowed down by more than a little bit. The rapid mobility of the infantry was too poor to advance quickly under the stubborn resistance of the enemy. And with the character of the Japanese, as long as they are given a certain opportunity, it is estimated that these people will not even leave Mao for themselves. On the Fuxin front, which the Kwantung Army voluntarily abandoned, all the coal mines were blown up, which is enough to show this.