When Sasaki was formulating this invasion plan, the reason why the Japanese 8th Division troops arriving from the north only dispatched an infantry brigade was actually regarded as a card by him to find out the details of the opponent.
.Com text] It is even more hidden that this Japanese army brigade is used as bait to attract opponents so that they can gather together and annihilate them.
After the Battle of Jingbo Lake, through a prisoner captured in Halba Ridge, Sasaki had a rough idea of how many troops his difficult opponent had. But he still did not believe that his opponent was now
Although they had more than 10,000 troops, they still dared to go head-to-head with the mighty Imperial Japanese Army despite the lack of guns, ammunition, and especially lack of training.
Although he did not believe that his opponent would have the courage to confront the Imperial Japanese Army head-on. However, Sasaki, who knew that his opponent was in urgent need of supplies, knew that even if his opponent no longer wanted to fight, the current situation could only force him to fight.
Needless to say, the weapons and ammunition for these more than 10,000 people are the most direct need faced by the opponent. Without weapons and ammunition, how can he arm his troops? Just rely on the few broken guns captured from the self-defense groups in various places?
This opponent of mine is very cunning and cautious, but sometimes he is very courageous. When necessary, he may not dare to take such risks. You must know that it is necessary to fight with troops that are not well trained and equipped.
No commander with any brains in the world would do such a stupid thing to fight against an opponent who is well-trained and well-equipped.
Although most commanders would not do this, judging from the several battles this opponent has fought since he came out again, this guy has never lacked the spirit of adventure. When necessary, he is very bold.
In the battle in the north of Dunhua, he dared to attack a reorganized brigade of the imperial army with the cooperation of the Manchurian troops when he had less than a thousand troops. Now he had tens of thousands of soldiers and faced an imperial brigade that broke into alone and was in urgent need of supplies.
It doesn't mean that you don't have the courage to give it a try.
Therefore, when deploying to clear out the mountains, we specially made a big move and used an infantry brigade as bait. We tried to lure the opponents to take the bait, making them think they had an opportunity to fish in troubled waters and lure them to the plains or low ground.
Create an opportunity for total annihilation in the mountainous and hilly areas. After all, it is much easier to fight in the plains than to go into the mountains and find them in the primeval forests of Xiaoxinganling.
Moreover, the northern area of Tangyuan has been returned to villages and households. If these people want to obtain food and material supplies, they can only go out of the mountains. As a graduate of the Imperial Army University, how much food is needed every day for more than 10,000 troops?
Sasaki can still estimate it.
He didn't believe that the food his opponent seized from Jingbo Lake could last for too long. So Sasaki made a bet. His opponent knew that it was a hard walnut that couldn't be bitten. In order to survive, he could only bite it hard.
But judging from the firepower and equipment of the opponents encountered by the two Japanese armies sent in the two telegrams, they all looked like their main force. Especially in the telegram sent by the 17th Regiment, it was even stated that the opponent had several heavy machine guns.
Several mortars are described in great detail.
From this point of view, the anti-Manchu forces encountered by the 17th Regiment seemed to be the main force. However, Sasaki did not dare to ignore the telegram with similar content sent by the 24th Regiment.
Which road is the real opponent? If both roads are deliberately releasing smoke bombs? Then what is their real intention? If the opponent's weapons and equipment are really as stated in the telegram, then where did they get it from?
So many weapons coming?
Of course, Sasaki Toichi didn't know that Takeda Hisashi, who had never met his opponent face-to-face, said that he encountered the main force of the anti-Manchurian anti-Japanese armed forces. This was based on the density of mortar shells falling on his head and the number of heavy machine guns used by the opponent.
Calculated.
For Sasaki Toichi, the calmest thing now is that because most of the marching routes are in mountainous areas, he is most worried about encountering an ambush by the Japanese troops on the southern route. Although this route is the most hidden, it is also the most hidden due to the terrain restrictions.
Vulnerable to ambush.
After observing the map for a long time, Sasaki called his adjutant over and asked, "Is there a telegram from Colonel Murata Takao?"
Upon hearing Sasaki's inquiry, his adjutant quickly stood at attention and said: "Your Excellency, there has been no news from Murata Colonel. Moreover, it has not yet reached the specified contact time with them. They are on the march and there is no way at all.
Set up a radio station. Therefore, we cannot get any report from them before the specified contact time."
After listening to the adjutant's report, Sasaki thought for a moment and said: "Don't wait here anymore, go to the telegraph room. If there is a telegram from Colonel Murata, send it to me immediately."
Sasaki, who had placed his hope on the Japanese army on the southern route, did not know yet that the two brigades of Murata Takao he was expecting as a surprise soldier had been completely destroyed by Yang Zhen's intensive firepower.
Murata Takao's desperate struggle could not save the situation. The remaining Japanese troops, which suffered heavy casualties under artillery fire, tried to open a way to break out. The Japanese troops, which had lost all fire support, were defeated in pieces by the opponent's intensive machine gun fire.
During the battle, Murata Takao, who had fought with the most elite so-called German weapon masters of the Chinese government army in the pass, was the first time he saw that the Chinese army had so many machine guns, mortars, and even mountain artillery.
We know that even the German armorers, who were known as the most elite and well-equipped soldiers of the China Army back then, were not equipped with as many light and heavy machine guns as they were here.
The continuous attacks failed. Not only did they fail to open a way to break out, but more than half of their remaining troops were killed by intensive firepower from the front and sides. When Yang Zhen issued the general attack order, the Japanese troops of the two brigades were not able to stand up.
A squadron.
Looking at the remaining squadron, he saw his opponents rushing towards the Japanese troops who were withdrawing their bullets and preparing for a hand-to-hand fight. How could Yang Zhen be willing to fight with them with bayonets? He concentrated all the speed machines and swept across them. Even the one holding a saber was ready to defend the honor of his officer.
Together with Colonel Takao Murata, they became a hornet's nest.
In addition to the excessive consumption of ammunition, this ambush was a thrilling battle. With less than a hundred casualties, two brigades of the Japanese army and one regiment of the puppet Manchukuo army were annihilated. One captain of the Colonel's regiment was killed and the puppet commander was captured.
There were more than 300 Manchu soldiers. Naturally, Yang Zhen was not polite to the wounded Japanese soldiers. With a gesture, each of them received a bayonet.
Sasaki, who still didn't know that the Japanese and puppet troops on the southern front had been completely wiped out, didn't know until one o'clock that when he was giving orders to his adjutant, Yang Zhen left Liu Changshun to lead a battalion with the cooperation of the engineering battalion.
In addition to preparing to launch a large-scale attack on the Jiasui Railway's section between Haolianghe and Chenming, which has not yet been fully completed, the main force has completed its turn. The target is the Taipingchuan area where he is located.
Of course, Yang Zhen didn't know that Sasaki was taking command in Taipingchuan as soon as he arrived. The reason why Yang Zhen changed his battle plan was to target Taipingchuan, which is only fifteen kilometers away from Tangyuan County and is located on the Sanjiang Plain.
It was because after being deployed by Wang Guangyu, he stayed behind with a reconnaissance platoon and a five-watt radio to continue reconnaissance near Taipingchuan. After the main force of the Japanese army began to sweep towards the Liangzi River line, the Japanese army
There were actually two Japanese squadrons left on the Taiping River line. This situation attracted Yang Zhen's attention.
Yang Zhen frowned when he received a report that not all of the Japanese 43rd Regiment had entered the mountains and had left two squadrons in the Taipingchuan area. Although the Japanese troops were divided into three groups, the Liangzi River on the southern slope of Xiaoxinan Mountains was
The mountains and forests on the front line are densely packed, and there is a lot of room for maneuver.
For such a large mountain forest, the strength of a regiment, even with an 800-person infantry regiment of the Puppet Manchukuo Army, is really not sufficient. You must know that last year the Japanese army attacked the anti-alliance forces active in Tangyuan and Luobei.
When the Third Route Army carried out the suppression campaign, more than 20,000 Japanese and puppet troops were used. Among them, three Japanese reorganized regiments were used.
And this time, why did the Japanese army leave two field squadrons on the Taipingchuan line even though their troop strength was not sufficient? What was the reason? Is it carelessness? Or was there a hidden secret in the difference between Taipingchuan and Taipingchuan?
Where is the supply point of the Japanese army's suppression campaign?
After pondering for a while, Yang Zhen decided to find out what was going on here. If it was really a supply point for the Japanese army, then taking this place would be equivalent to cutting off the lifeline of the entire Japanese army entering the mountain.
Moreover, the reason why Yang Zhen made up his mind to touch the Taiping River in the plain area was because the Japanese army had used poison gas many times in the counter-insurgency campaign against the Allied Forces. Who can guarantee that the Japanese army will enter the mountains and lay down their butcher's knives this time?
If the Japanese army is planning to use poison gas this time in the mountains, then with so many Japanese troops deployed in the Taipingchuan area, it is likely that it is a poison gas reserve point for the Japanese army. As long as this area is destroyed, the troops can be reduced invisibly before the battle.
casualties.
So although Yang Zhen hesitated for a while, he finally decided to get a feel for the real situation here. Although it is very close to the Jiamusi area where an entire Japanese division is stationed, Yang Zhen believes that as long as he moves fast enough,
They should be able to kill him before the Jiamusi Fourth Division reacts.
After making up his mind, Yang Zhen led the team to set off immediately. Avoiding the Japanese troops on the middle route who had already reached the Bajiazi front line, they started from the north of Tangyuan County, along the northern mountain, and the Jingchun Tun line went straight into the Taiping River. Now Yang Zhen's headquarters,
Except for the lack of military ranks and collar insignia, it was almost a complete set of Japanese military equipment, including weapons. This made several batches of Japanese military aircraft flying westward in the sky have no doubts about the marching troops below.
In addition, the Japanese army carried out the general settlement and merging of households in the Tangyuan area, and most of the people in the entire Tangyuan area were concentrated into a few large group tribes. There were not many people along the way. Even if there were, you would see them all at once.
When I saw so many Japanese soldiers, I dared to ask them carefully. I had already stayed away from them.
As for the various pioneering groups, Yang Zhen carefully avoided them. For these pioneering groups, Yang Zhen did not want to touch them yet. With the equipment and military uniforms on his body, coupled with Yang Zhen's own caution, before attracting the enemy's attention, Yang Zhen
After dusk fell, Yang Zhen quietly led his army to a forest on the Xin'an line southeast of Taiping River to join Dong Ping.
After meeting Dong Ping, Yang Zhen didn't care about other things. The first thing he did was to order him to report the situation immediately.
After hearing Yang Zhen's order, Dong Ping did not hesitate and immediately reported the situation he had detected to Yang Zhen in detail: "Commander, this morning, Deputy Chief of Staff Wang mobilized some of the battalion subordinates of the regiment to force the troops to attack the enemy."
fired artillery fire and launched a sudden artillery attack on the Japanese troops gathering in Taipingchuan."
"Although we still don't know the results of this sudden artillery attack, judging from the strength of the Japanese army after they set off, it is estimated that at least one squadron of the Japanese army has lost its combat effectiveness. And after the Japanese army's marching group set off, Deputy Chief of Staff Wang ordered me to stay here.
Monitor the follow-up troops of the Japanese army. Because the number of Japanese troops departing and the strength of the troops arriving here are very different, almost a whole brigade of troops is missing."
"After the main force of the Japanese army sets off, I plan to get closer to see how many troops the Japanese army has left here. However, the Japanese army is too heavily guarded and we cannot get close at all. We can only rely on telescopes for long-distance reconnaissance."
"However, although we have not been able to figure out the specific number of Japanese troops here, we found an antenna for a high-power radio station in Taipingchuan Village. Judging from the appearance of the antenna, the radio here is at least fifty watts. And judging from the number of antennas,
Say, there is more than one high-power radio station like this."
"After observing these antennas, I always felt that this should be at least the headquarters of a regiment of the Japanese army. So I tried various methods to sneak in and conduct a careful reconnaissance. Unfortunately, I gave up because the Japanese army was too vigilant."
"However, we captured a Puppet Manchukuo policeman from the Tangyuan County Police Station in Taipingchuan Police Station in Xin'an. According to his confession, after the Japanese troops arrived in Taipingchuan, they killed all the people from the tribe there.
We temporarily rushed to the Shuangtaitun Group in the north."
"Moreover, all the Puppet Manchukuo policemen were moved there. He heard that a high-ranking Japanese official came and planned to use Taipingchuan as their headquarters. In order to ensure confidentiality, the Japanese moved all the people here.
.Even the Puppet Manchukuo police left no one behind."
"He took leave from Shuangtaitun to visit his mother because his mother who lived in Xin'an was ill. Before leaving, the Manchukuo director of the Puppet Manchukuo Police Station in Taipingchuan repeatedly told him not to go through Taipingchuan, but to go from the east side of Taipingchuan.
Go around Jinjiatun. Otherwise, once discovered by the Japanese, they will definitely treat him as a spy spying on military affairs and behead him."
"With the confession of this Puppet Manchukuo policeman and the high-power radio antenna observed through the telescope, I wonder if this is the headquarters of Sasaki Chuichi? At this time, the Japanese troops in Taihei Chunchi should be within two
About a squadron.
"Because I observed through the telescope that after the shelling in the early morning, the Japanese army burned at least more than 70 corpses outside the village. Based on this estimate of the number of casualties, the Japs lost at least one squadron during the shelling. According to this
When the Japanese army set off, one brigade was missing, which means that there are still two Japanese squadrons in Taipingchuan Village."
After listening to Dong Ping's report, Yang Zhen tapped his fingers on the map, pondered for a long time, looked up at the sky, and asked Wang Guangyu about the situation there: "How is Deputy Chief of Staff Wang's place?
?Can you hold back the 24th Regiment of the Japanese?"
"There should be no problem. Deputy Chief of Staff Wang used the tactics you taught yesterday, using cold guns, cold artillery, mines, and traps, which really made the Japanese miserable. Most of the day passed, and there was not even a twenty-mile route.
Come on."
"An hour ago, when I last contacted Deputy Chief of Staff Wang, the Japanese army had just arrived at the Jianshanzi line. This was the result of the Japanese army deploying a large number of aircraft to cover it. Otherwise, they would be enjoying themselves now that they could reach the Xinwang line.
.And the Japanese troops that set off from Heli on the northern route have not yet crossed the Fasi River, confused by the chief of staff's false and true tactics."
"Now the distance between the Japanese troops on the middle route and the Japanese troops on the north route is getting wider and wider. Unless they march overnight, at the current marching speed, it is impossible for them to reach the Liangzi River line before midnight today."
Regarding Dong Ping's report, Yang Zhen pondered for a moment and said, "Look, it's getting dark now. It's impossible for the Japs' plane to appear. No matter what tricks the Japs are doing here? If we concentrate all our firepower
, while the Japanese have driven out all the people in the Taiping River, how about killing him?"
Dong Ping looked at Yang Zhen's eyes staring at him, thought for a moment and then said: "In this case, Commander, don't you still have two platoons of the reconnaissance battalion in your hands? I still have one platoon in my hands. I see.
Shall we take advantage of the cover of night and get as close to the Taiping River as possible?"
"One is to indicate targets for artillery fire. Second, if there is a chance, we can mess with him and thoroughly touch the Japanese here. What do you think?"
"Okay, let's do it like this. But if you go to look for night screws, one reconnaissance company is not enough. So I will choose a company for you, strengthen two heavy machine guns, and put them under your command. But if you have the chance, you can grab him
A handful. None
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