When Chu Yifei's Stinger team achieved fruitful results, other teams also gained a lot. They either ambushed the Japanese army and annihilated the fleeing enemies; or they stormed the bunkers and fortifications left by the Japanese on the mountain roads to destroy them.
They swept them away with force; or they outflanked them and cut off the Japanese's retreat. They all fought vigorously and achieved great results.
It can be said that the arrival of the flood brought disaster to the Japanese troops in Niujiawa, and also gave Huxiaoling a golden opportunity.
As the main force of this sweep, the Japanese independent mixed 8th and 18th brigades suffered particularly serious losses because they were located deep in the depression, where the terrain was flat and there were no shelters to stop the floods. The two brigades had tens of thousands of soldiers.
, in the end, no more than 2,000 people were able to survive the flood, and all heavy weapons and transportation vehicles were lost.
After gathering the remnant troops, the remaining commanders of the two brigades discussed it and felt that at the current situation, if they continued to stay here, they would be treated like slaves, so they ordered the troops to quickly withdraw to Tieling County.
Niujiawa has been submerged by floods and turned into a swamp. It is difficult to walk on the muddy road, so the two broken brigades meandered along the hills on one side, preparing to take a detour back to Tieling County.
However, under the monitoring of micro-satellites, their action route was clearly displayed on the big screen at the Huxiaoling base. Luo Xiao naturally mobilized his troops accordingly and fought a beautiful ambush halfway.
In this battle, the two Japanese brigades were almost completely wiped out. In the end, less than a thousand troops were able to escape. The commander of the 18th Brigade was killed, while the commander of the 8th Brigade was captured.
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The original brigade commander of the independent mixed 8th brigade was Major General Okamoto, but he was killed by Chu Yifei and the others during the revenge operation not long ago, and the newly appointed brigade commander had not served for a month, and he
Became a prisoner.
In this way, the Japanese troops who participated in this sweep were killed and could not escape. The sweep was considered a complete failure.
Luo Xiao was sitting in the headquarters of Huxiao Ridge, listening to the battle reports from various combat units. Almost all of them were good news, and there were also quite a few flying in like snowflakes.
This time, Huxiaoling smashed the Japanese siege, which not only relieved the base's predicament, but also spread its influence quickly throughout western Liaoning, and even the entire Fengtian Province knew about it.
Before this, people thought that Huxiaoling was at best a small group of anti-Japanese forces. Like the Anti-Japanese Volunteer Army, it was unable to withstand the Japanese soldiers' pressure on the territory.
This time the Japanese mobilized tens of thousands of troops to besiege Huxiaoling. Many people were not optimistic about Huxiaoling, thinking that they might not be able to hold on and would eventually be wiped out.
But the final result surprised people as much as they expected. Huxiaoling not only broke the Japanese raids, but also enabled only less than 10,000 of the tens of thousands of troops who participated in the raids to escape.
Compared with the failure of the Northeast Army in fighting the Japanese army some time ago, this victory at Huxiaoling greatly inspired people's confidence and broke the "myth" that the Japanese were invincible.
In less than a month after smashing the Japanese raids, numerous anti-Japanese teams emerged in the three northeastern provinces. These teams ranged from dozens to thousands of people, with all kinds of members, including everyone, but the target
There is only one, and that is to fight the Japanese.
For a time, the three eastern provinces formed a spark that could start a prairie fire.
The Japanese troops in Fengtian, Jilin, and Heilongjiang provinces were extremely busy every day. They were constantly being deployed to suppress bandits or deal with anti-Japanese troops, and they were exhausted.
As for the main culprit of this incident, the Huxiaoling Base, the Japanese had no power to deal with it for the time being, so they had to take measures to deal with it temporarily and defended dozens of nearby county towns in an attempt to curb Luo Xiao and others from expanding outward.
After the sweep, the Huxiaoling base behaved particularly low-key. Instead of making any big plans to expand its troops or occupy territory, it instead shrunk its troops and made little movement. This puzzled many people.
Some major forces in western Liaoning are all talking about it, speculating why Huxiaoling gave up this golden opportunity. You must know that riding on the momentum of the victory, Huxiaoling can expand its army and recruit troops, seize more territory, and make itself
The power expanded rapidly.
However, although I don’t know what the purpose of Huxiaoling’s low profile is, no force dares to provoke Huxiaoling.
Even the tens of thousands of elite Japanese troops could be defeated. Wouldn't it be difficult to find a way to provoke them?
As for the Japanese army, the company commander of the Second Division stationed in the northeast, Jiro Domon, was captured. The remaining troops were leaderless and could not organize any effective attack for the time being. After emergency consultations, the Kwantung Army headquarters decided to mobilize
The newly formed 39th Division and the 41st Division in Japan entered the Northeast, while strengthening their control over the local area, they were preparing to launch a second raid on Huxiaoling at the right opportunity.
However, for the time being, the Japanese army has no plans to offend Hu Xiaoling, lest he take this opportunity to stir up trouble again.
The Kwantung Army had no choice, because the changes in the situation in Northeast China made the Nanjing National Government, which had already given up, prepare to make another move. It once again submitted a complaint to the League of Nations, asking them to urge the Japanese troops to withdraw from the three northeastern provinces and return them to China.
At the same time, the Tsarist Republic also dispatched the First Armored Division of the Far East to Campalin, which is adjacent to China, and it is likely to enter the Northeast at any time.
The Japanese never dare to take this polar bear lightly. They know how powerful this country is, so they must deal with it carefully.
At this time, if there is a stalemate in the clearing of Huxiaoling, it is likely to affect the whole body and make the situation in the three northeastern provinces more complicated. This is unfavorable to the Japanese who have now taken control of the three northeastern provinces.
Although the Japanese don't really take the League of Nations seriously, they also know that they still have to give some face on the surface. Therefore, during the period of the League of Nations' investigation again, they must try their best to create a prosperous and stable situation in the three northeastern provinces.
situation in order to create a more favorable public opinion for themselves.
Because of the entanglement of many factors, the Japanese slowed down the siege of Huxiaoling, which also gave Huxiaoling a good period of development.
If the Japanese knew that their relaxation had caused Huxiaoling's overall strength to rise by leaps and bounds, they would probably regret it so much that their intestines would turn green with regret.
Unfortunately, there is no regret medicine in the world, so the Japanese are still ambitiously dreaming of occupying China, Asia, and even the entire world.
Now that the three northeastern provinces have basically been obtained, they will naturally not be satisfied, so they set their sights on the Shanhaiguan Department, the choke point connecting Northeast China and North China.
If you want to enter North China, you must capture Shanhaiguan. This is the consensus reached by the Japanese cabinet and the military. Because of this, they began to prepare for the next act of aggression.