Almost at the same time, Yang Zhen launched a devastating attack on the Japanese army on the south route, which was composed of two brigades of the 11th Division. [.Com text] On the middle road, starting from Jiamusi, he led the three-way attack on the Japanese army.
The captain of the 43rd Regiment of the 12th Division, Colonel Hisashi Takeda, was very depressed compared to Colonel Koyo Murata who was struggling in pain.
Without him, since the 43rd Regiment set out from Taipingchuan, although it did not encounter any stubborn resistance from its opponents, it was tortured by cold guns and cold guns. The opponents did not even meet him, but only talked to him with guns and cannons.
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Even before the 43rd Regiment left Taipingchuan, when they were gathering, they were hit by a steady rain of mortar shells. Dozens of mortar shells fell from the sky and hit the 40th Regiment that was gathering.
The third squadron caused a lot of casualties. Although it cannot be compared with Murata Takao's treatment, an entire squadron was bombed and lost its combat effectiveness.
When I frantically searched for these despicable attackers, except for a few empty boxes used to hold mortar shells in the southwest of Taiping River, I didn't find even a ghost.
What was most unacceptable to Hisashi Takeda was that the mortar that attacked him and the mortar shell that landed on his head were both products of the Imperial Arsenal. The Japanese labels on the shell boxes abandoned at the crime scene read:
As if mocking him.
Takeda Hisashi, who returned to life carrying a few empty shell boxes as his only trophy, looked at Lieutenant General Sasaki's gloomy face, hesitated for a moment, and swallowed back the suggestion that he had better clear the area around the Taiping River first.
Two squadrons of troops were left for Sasaki to serve as guards, while he led the Japanese and puppet troops to march towards Qingheishan and began to sweep them away.
The order given to him by Sasaki was very clear. He must rush to the Ryoko River area that afternoon to clear out the anti-Manchu armed forces that may be hiding there. He also cooperated with the other two groups of Japanese troops to bring this huge force to the empire.
Threaten the anti-Manchu armed forces to besiege and eliminate them in the Liangzi River area.
In fact, the straight-line distance from Taipingchuan to Liangzihe area is not far. As a veteran of the 12th Division, he has been stationed in Northeast China with the 12th Division since 2006 and led the 43rd Regiment to participate.
Takeda Hisashi, who led the Sanjiang Crusade against the Anti-Japanese Alliance last year, is no stranger to this place.
Because this area was one of the main guerrilla base areas for the activities of the Anti-Allied Third Route Army and the Sixth Army, which was his main crusade last year, he is quite familiar with this area. He led his troops to conduct crusade against this area many times last year, and he was also familiar with this area.
Many so-called brilliant achievements have been achieved.
But this time, looking at the vast mountains on both sides of the march route, perhaps because of the early morning attack, Takeda Hisashi suddenly felt a faint feeling of uneasiness in his heart. And the subsequent march would have a profound impact on the people including Colonel Takeda Hisashi.
For all the soldiers of the 43rd Regiment, it can be described as miserable.
Compared with the extremely enthusiastic treatment they received along the way, which often made them jump all over the place, they realized that the shelling in the morning was just an appetizer. What they encountered along the way was almost endless.
Well, the various and ever-changing attacks made the entire 43rd Regiment completely invincible even when it was still far away from the Liangzi River area.
As soon as they entered the mountain, the 43rd Regiment stepped on the mine array. Yes, it was a mine array. Hundreds of mines were connected in series. By the time the 43rd Regiment was halfway through the march, hundreds of mines were
A landmine suddenly exploded in the middle of the marching group.
These landmines are not ordinary landmines. They are also surrounded by bullets, grenades, broken glass, etc. There are even a few mortar shells tied around them. This kind of unconventional explosives are used during the march.
The damage caused by the explosion in the brigade can be imagined.
An entire infantry squadron was blown up by these mines, leaving only a few people alive. Broken limbs and arms flew everywhere, and the mountain artillery squadron was also blown into the sky, including men and horses. Four mountain cannons, one company
There was no door left for him. In other words, the 12th Division lost half of its support firepower, and it was the main support firepower, before it officially met its opponent.
Before the 43rd Regiment could recover from the explosion, a dense rain of mortar shells hit the mountains on both sides of the road again, knocking down the Japanese troops who had just regrouped after the mine explosion. First
The attack from bottom to top gave the Japanese soldiers of the 43rd Regiment a good taste of what it means to be in a world of ice and fire.
But for the Japanese troops of the 43rd Regiment, the nightmare has just begun. Just as Colonel Takeda Hisashi was gathering the troops that had scattered to avoid the shelling again, a squadron as the vanguard was suddenly swept over by at least six heavyweights.
The heavy rain of bullets from the machine guns caused heavy casualties, and an entire squadron was lost in just a few minutes.
The severe blows suffered by the leading troops, coupled with the shelling in the morning and the casualties caused by the landmines and shelling just now, the 43rd Regiment has not officially entered the mountains to launch a clearing campaign, and has not even seen the opponent's face.
Two and a half infantry squadrons and a mountain artillery squadron were injured or killed. In other words, by this time, the 43rd Regiment had almost lost a brigade of troops.
The angry Colonel Takeda Hisashi looked at the dead and injured Japanese soldiers and the piles of wreckage left in the mountain artillery squadron. He almost bit off all his teeth. What kind of opponent was this?
He didn't have the guts to have a face-to-face battle with him like a samurai, but he was just playing dirty tricks. He didn't even see what his opponent looked like, so he lost nearly a third of his troops. If he continued at this rate
Go down and wait until you reach the predetermined target. How many people are left in your 43rd Regiment?
Where did these anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements get so many landmines and mortars? Aren't they always short of ammunition? How could they be so generous and tie so many bullets and grenades to the landmines?
Afraid of being beaten, Takeda Hisashi was worried about what tricks his opponent would play again, so he opened up the marching group and did not dare to concentrate all the troops on the road and march.
He changed his previous method of concentrating his troops and divided his troops into three groups. In addition to mortars, heavy machine guns and other heavy weapons and the main force walking along the road, the other troops were placed on each side of the mountain with a squadron and marched along the ridges on both sides.
One is to disperse the troops, and the other is to prevent the vanguard from happening again.
In order to avoid being ambushed again, and because of the obstruction of the mountains and forests, the marching speed inevitably slowed down. In the opinion of Takeda Hisashi, the marching speed is as slow as possible, which is better than not knowing when to get hit by another sap.
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Although Sasaki will not be too happy to arrive at the No. 1 Middle School if he fails to reach the designated place at the scheduled time. But if the 43rd Regiment suffers excessive losses, his division commander, Lieutenant General Seitaro Uemura, may not be able to spare him.
No matter how unhappy Lieutenant General Sasaki is, he is not his direct superior. The most he can do is report his complaint to the Kwantung Army Headquarters. If Lieutenant General Seitaro Uemura is unhappy, then he will really be in trouble.
After receiving several sap blows in a row, Colonel Takeda Hisashi was much more cautious. He would rather slow down his marching speed, search all suspicious places, or use artillery fire to cover them, rather than continue to be beaten like this.
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But what Takeda Hisashi didn't expect was that no matter how cautious he was, he still fell into someone else's trap. Not long after setting off again, the newly selected vanguard team fell into an extra-large pit. The inside of the pit was extremely sharp.
The wooden stakes made the soldiers of this squad die extremely painful. The two squadrons that marched on the ridge instead could not escape the mines and stepped on many mines.
The endless attacks along the way made it almost impossible for the Japanese troops of the 43rd Regiment to defend themselves. Landmines, traps, and even an extremely simple booby trap made with one bullet made the entire ground look like
It was very common, but as soon as I stepped on it, the bullet went through the instep.
Compared with other attacks that can bring death at any time, this kind of booby trap, which is not very lethal and is not fatal, has the heaviest psychological shadow on the Japanese army. Because as long as this immoral thing is stepped on, death will occur.
It is impossible to die, but the pain that follows is unbearable.
Although Takeda Hisashi was extremely furious by the successive attacks, he had no solution to the problem. He did not bring engineers, nor did he think about bringing engineers. Who would have thought that these extremely hateful, despicable guys,
Not only were a variety of seemingly endless booby traps laid on the mountain roads, but mines were also laid on the mountain ridges.
It can be said that Wang Guangyu and Li Mingrui used the guerrilla tactics handed over by Yang Zhen to the extreme. When they were about to divide their troops, Yang Zhen hesitated for a long time before changing the deployment of troops. Guo Bingxun commanded two battalions of the first regiment to bluff against the Japanese troops on the North Road.
Wang Guangyu led a battalion and most of the reconnaissance battalion to adopt various cold-gun tactics and mine warfare to harass the main force of the Japanese army in the middle and reduce its marching speed. When necessary, the terrain could be used to fight a blocking battle.
Yang Zhen knows that if it is a regular battle, whether it is a blocking battle or a positional battle, let alone two battalions, even if he concentrates his entire main force on three regiments, he may not have the strength to defeat a regular Japanese field regiment.
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In order to reduce casualties, delay the Japanese troops in the middle as much as possible, and complete the predetermined combat objectives, Yang Zhen could only rack his brains to formulate some unconventional combat methods. Fortunately, Li Mingrui's reconnaissance camp had already completed the training subjects
There are quick mines and the laying of various booby traps.
In order to ensure that Wang Guangyu could use this kind of warrior well, Yang Zhen talked with Wang Guangyu and Li Mingrui all night long. He taught them all his experience in this area. He even spared an hour,
Practiced several times.
The reason why Yang Zhen adjusted his troop deployment was to confuse Sasaki as much as possible so that he could not figure out his true intentions, and to delay the march of the main force of the Japanese army, widen the distance between it and the Japanese army on the northern route, and create opportunities for the next battle.
As for whether these two ideas can be finally achieved, it is still unclear. But one thing is that it was achieved. After entering the mountains, the 43rd Japanese Regiment in the middle did not go out for more than 20 miles for most of the day.
The helpless Takeda Hisashi had no choice but to send a report to Lieutenant General Sasaki Toichi. After reporting the encounters along the way, he asked Sasaki to send him some engineers from Jiamusi. Not only did he not receive a positive answer, he also encountered
A severe reprimand.
In desperation, Colonel Takeda Hisashi had no choice but to move the accompanying puppet Manchukuo troops, who were originally used to transport baggage but fell behind, to the front of the marching column to serve as vanguards and to evade mines for the Japanese army.
The encounters of the Japanese army along the way have long been seen by the puppet Manchukuo army behind them. At this time, who dares to accept such trust from the Japanese army?
But even though he didn't want to go, under the threat of Takeda Juxueliang's saber, the leader of the Puppet Manchukuo Army yelled in his heart that these Japanese soldiers were despicable.
After praying to the Buddha, Guanyin Bodhisattva and Taishang Laojun in the East, they could only force the team to accept Takeda Shou's trust.
In fact, the reprimand Takeda received was not because Sasaki deliberately refused to send engineers to them. It was because Sasaki did not have engineers on hand. Who would have thought that those anti-Manchu forces with crude weapons and equipment would suddenly produce so many
Mines. Hisashi Takeda couldn't figure out where his opponent got so many mines, and Touichi Sasaki was also confused.
Although Tsuiichi Sasaki doesn’t know much more about the true strength of this anti-Manchurian armed force than Hisashi Takeda does. But Sasaki Joichi is certain that this anti-Manchurian armed force, which does not even have the most basic arsenal, will definitely not have enough on hand.
There should be mines.
If they say they have some explosives on hand, Sasaki is convinced. After the attack on the Jingbo Lake Hydropower Station construction site, a large amount of explosives stored in the entire construction site disappeared. But having explosives does not mean that they will have mines without an arsenal.
Because it is not easy to change from explosives to landmines.
To be honest, when the Anti-Japanese Alliance was conducting clearance operations in the past, the Japanese army had never encountered landmines, a weapon that was considered immoral and unsamurai-like in the eyes of the Japanese army. Therefore, Sasaki did not bring any engineers with him when he arrived.
They knew that when Yang Zhen's arsenal started production, the first arms production order Yang Zhen issued was to produce landmines. Use the captured explosives to produce as many landmines as possible in the shortest possible time.
Although due to time constraints, only 2,000 mines were produced when Yang Zhen went to Liangzihe for training, it was better than nothing. However, 2,000 mines were produced in seven days, and the arsenal had just been put into production. The production capacity
Even when it's severely limited, it's amazing.
It's a pity that due to the production process and technology, only tension mines and trip mines can be produced. Pressure mines and electronically controlled mines will still be out of the question for a while. Especially pressure mines cannot be made at all now. But for
For the Japanese army, which had always despised landmines, the pull-fire mines and trip-fire mines were enough.
Although Yang Zhen brought out all these landmines, he left them all with Guo Bingxun when the troops were divided, and he did not take any of them. Guo Bingxun gave 70% of these landmines to Wang Guangyu. More than a thousand landmines, in
In addition, Li Mingrui's reconnaissance battalion used Professor Yang Zhen's method to make a lot of bullet mines from local materials. Therefore, the Japanese army refused to do it even if it was not unlucky.
After receiving Takeda Hisashi's telegram asking for help, Sasaki was shocked rather than angry. A whole infantry regiment, what does this mean to the always arrogant Japanese army? On the battlefield in the Kanai, an infantry regiment
It is not uncommon for a division of the Chinese Army to be defeated. Now, nearly a brigade of troops was killed or injured before even seeing the opponent. If word of this spread, wouldn't the imperial army lose face?
"Damnable and cunning Chinese people, and this stupid, damn Takeda Hisashi." Sasaki cursed fiercely in his heart.
But he also knew that cursing could not solve any problems. These days, the Kwantung Army Headquarters had gradually become extremely impatient with his senior commander's incompetence. General Ueda Kenkichi severely reprimanded him several times. Even the Prime Minister of the land jumped over the hierarchy to give him power.
It conveyed that the emperor also expressed serious dissatisfaction with the delay in success of his campaign of suppression.
Ueda Kenkichi's scolding of Sasaki was so insignificant that he could not ignore it, but Prime Minister Lu's telegram made him have to pay attention to it. He almost turned the entire Xijiang area upside down, but he could not find this army that had almost become a man inserted into the empire.
The anti-Manchu armed forces were a thorn in my heart.
Now that they have finally been found, Sasaki will not waste time because of re-mobilizing troops. Because he knows that this anti-Manchu armed force is so elusive and slippery as a loach. Now that he has finally caught their traces, Sasaki
Where will he waste time by re-deploying troops, and let this damn anti-Manchu armed force slip away from his nose again?
After the telegram to Takeda Hisashi was sent, he was confused by a telegram sent by the infantry battalion of the 8th Division from Heli to participate in the campaign.
The First Battalion of the 17th Regiment of the 8th Division
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