Hearing Mu Changqiu's doubts, the detachment leader briefly calculated the distance to the city wall, smiled and said: "Old Mu, don't worry, when we fought inside the pass before, we didn't have artillery, and even if we attacked the city wall that the enemy was holding on to, we wouldn't be able to attack it. This method is adopted to do this thing, and it is a familiar road. If you start taking action now, you will definitely be able to complete it by tomorrow morning."
"Besides, we are not building a city, we are just digging two tunnels for blasting. Coupled with the soil quality in this area, there is absolutely no problem with this speed. As long as you have enough explosives to attract the attention of the Japanese, I guarantee that tomorrow I'll blow up the city wall for you in the morning."
"When it comes to regular large-corps operations, especially tank-inserted operations, our equipment and training are not as good as yours. But you can't play this kind of hole-in-the-hole tactics, and your resistance is not good at this point. Don't worry, we'll see the results tomorrow morning."
Looking at the confident detachment leader, Mu Changqiu touched his chin and said thoughtfully: "Okay, I will do as you say. I will use artillery and firepower to suppress the Japanese troops at the top of the city, and use tanks to cover your progress. As for the explosives, I will I will give you five hundred, no, one thousand kilograms, and I will transfer my divisional engineering battalion to your command."
After the plan was finalized, Mu Changqiu also immediately adjusted his deployment. Except for two companies, all the remaining tanks were mobilized and assigned to a battalion of infantry. They immediately headed east along the Pingsui Railway. Forcibly interspersed to meet the troops personally commanded by Chen Hanzhang in the middle.
He commanded two infantry regiments, a cavalry brigade, and the main force of the Daqingshan guerrilla detachment to launch an attack on Guisui. The focus was the city of Suiyuan in front of him, which was as difficult to chew as a tortoise. He led the 13th Regiment from the east and the 15th Regiment from the east. Feint attack from the north, cover a battalion of the Daqingshan guerrilla detachment in the northeast, and add your own engineer battalion to dig blasting tunnels in the north.
A tank company and a cavalry battalion, the only cavalry regiment retained by the Daqingshan guerrilla detachment, were placed on the Taigmu line in the west of the city to cut off the connection between Guisui and Baotou, and blockade the west of Guisui City to prevent Guisui The Japanese and puppet troops in the city retreated westward.
In order to cover the excavation of the tunnel, Mu Changqiu went to the extreme extreme of bluffing. The sound of gunfire outside the city did not stop all night. After a night of fierce fighting, the Thirteenth Regiment used artillery and anti-aircraft machine gun fire to suppress the enemy fire at the top of the city. Wengcheng, which captured the east city gate, was hindered in its development in depth, but it created a wedge in the defense line of the Japanese defenders of Suiyuan City.
Although the 15th Regiment was in the north of the city where the Japanese army was heavily defending, its continuous attacks were frustrated and failed to enter the city. However, after a night of fierce fighting, the attacking troops had already reached the city wall, and the Japanese firepower points on the northern periphery of the city were basically cleared. It can be said that the troops have completed the attack on Sui Final preparations for the distant city attack.
As for Guihua City in the south, the cavalry brigade in charge of the battle, with the cooperation of the two battalions of the Daqingshan guerrilla detachment, has surrounded the remaining Japanese troops in Guihua City in the Dragon King Temple in the west of Guihua City. The puppet military and policemen all surrendered.
There were even puppet troops in several strongholds, seeing that the situation was not going well, they gave full play to their cunning style and took advantage of their numerical advantage to tie up the Japanese officers and soldiers supervising the battle, or simply kill them so that they could surrender to the Anti-Japanese Alliance and fight. Up to now, it can be said that the entire Guihua City has been occupied by the cavalry brigade.
Only the last remaining hundred or so Japanese troops in the planned city were still trapped in the small temple of Longwang Temple and still resisting. As for the order of Xiyuan Yice to retreat to Suiyuan City, it was already impossible to execute it when it was received. , now it is the last chance, and it has been completely lost.
The reason why the remaining hundreds of Japanese troops were still able to resist was because Mu Changqiu was worried that if the Japanese troops in Guihua City were defeated, the Japanese troops in Suiyuan City would be frightened and use the cover of night to Mu Changqiu broke through the siege and did not want even a single Japanese soldier to escape from the city. In the end, he did not take Guihua City first.
Instead, he issued an order to trap the remaining 100 Japanese troops first, and wait until the general attack on Suiyuan City begins to deal with them together. However, in order to end the battle as soon as possible and reduce unnecessary casualties as much as possible, Mu Chang Qiu strengthened two artillery companies and a heavy mortar company for the First Cavalry Brigade, and told the First Brigade Commander that after the general offensive began, there was no need to attack by force, but to directly use artillery shells to send the Dragon King Temple, together with the Japanese troops inside, back to their hometown in Japan. .
A night of fierce fighting consumed most of the remaining active forces of the Japanese army in Guisui City, creating excellent conditions for the final general offensive. The detachment leader did not break his promise and adopted the method of stopping people without stopping work. After a night of hard work, three tunnels more than 300 meters long were dug in the northeast corner of the city wall, reaching directly to the city wall.
Although almost all the officers and soldiers were exhausted, in the early morning, all the one thousand kilograms of high-explosive TNT explosives allocated by Mu Changqiu had been loaded under the city wall, and all the detonators had been connected, and they were waiting for their superiors The final order given.
After receiving the report that preparations were completed from the tunnel, Mu Changqiu immediately withdrew the two main battalions of the 15th Regiment from the north and secretly detoured back to the northeast. At the same time, he ordered the 13th Regiment to increase the intensity of the attack and attack as much as possible. Advance in depth and draw all the main force of the Japanese defenders in the city to the Yingxu Gate line in the east to cover the breakthrough in the northeast.
As General Mu Changqiu issued the order to attack, there was a loud noise. This road was first built during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. After continuous repairs by generations, the base is built with stone strips, the interior is rammed earth, and the exterior is blue bricks, making it extremely strong. , the northeastern wall of Suiyuan City, which gave Mu Changqiu a headache, was directly destroyed by a violent explosion caused by a ton of explosives.
Not only did the city walls around the explosion point collapse, but also a large section of the city wall north of the east gate and east of the north gate. Nearly half of the entire east and back city walls were completely collapsed. After the explosion, Under the destruction of the force, a huge slope was formed, and a breakthrough was opened for the infantry assault.
Seeing that the breach had been opened, Mu Changqiu did not wait for the smoke to clear, and commanded the two main battalions that had been secretly transferred just before the detonation. Under the cover of four anti-aircraft machine guns and mortar shells, they quickly rushed through the breach towards the Developing in depth, as for the two city walls, the few Japanese troops who survived the explosion only sent two reinforced platoons to sweep along the city walls.
The Japanese troops were caught off guard by the explosions. Within a short period of time, the deep defense line in the northeast was continuously breached. The 13th Regiment at the East City Gate, with the support of the flanking troops of the breakthrough troops, also broke through in one fell swoop. The Japanese defense line in Wengcheng remained unstoppable. Except for one battalion left to control the breach, the main force of the entire regiment broke into the city.
On the southern front, a battalion of the cavalry brigade responsible for cutting off the Japanese connection between Suiyuan City and Guihua City also broke through the south city gate with the cooperation of a regiment of the Daqingshan guerrilla detachment, which had diverted its attack direction. , attacked Suiyuan City from the south and rapidly developed in depth.
Nishihara Issei, who was not very confident about the Puppet Mongolian Army in the city. Due to his own mistakes, he destroyed the fourth cavalry brigade, the main defense force in the city. When deploying the defense, he placed the main effective forces of the Japanese army in the north of the city. In both directions, especially the east of the city, almost half of the Japanese defenders and more than one-third of the puppet Mongolian troops in the city were concentrated.
In the night battle with the 13th Regiment, although they held the defense line west of Wengcheng, they suffered extremely heavy losses. The defenders in the north of the city were tightly entangled by a battalion of the 15th Regiment and were unable to reinforce in other directions. , the entire Guisui City was defended in depth, and the Japanese troops were extremely thin. The troops that broke into the city took advantage of this situation to quickly develop in depth.
Although the Japanese and puppet troops used the houses in the city to put up a desperate resistance, under the firepower of a large number of small-caliber direct-aimed artillery pieces from the anti-alliance equipment, the Japanese resistance quickly collapsed. As for the puppet and Mongolian troops, they surrendered in large numbers and the battle lasted until noon. , the entire Japanese defense in Guisui City collapsed.
With their deep positions continuously being breached, the remaining Japanese troops were worried that their remaining troops would be separated by the enemy, so they ignored the thoughts of the pseudo-Mongolian troops and all of them were dispatched in the shortest possible time. It shrunk to the Chengyuan Manqing Suiyuan General's Mansion.
Although Nishihara Issaku made many mistakes in decision-making during this battle, he was a solid man and was extremely calm without losing the general's demeanor. All the outer city defense lines collapsed, the defenders suffered heavy casualties, and the depth of the city's defenses was continuously penetrated. , did not issue an order to break out to the west of the currently peaceful city, but stubbornly ordered to hold on to the last position.
In fact, it's not that he is really as stable as Mount Tai. He really doesn't want to break out, so he just sits here and waits for death. As early as the first time the city wall was blown down, he already knew that Suiyuan City could not be defended, so he thought about leading the army. He broke out to the west, but he was very worried that the enemy would set up an ambush in the west, waiting for him to take the bait.
Otherwise, why would the Anti-Japanese Alliance only besiege on three sides, while the west side alone is unusually calm? He, Nishihara Yichi, knows something about the tactic of besieging three and attacking one in China's art of war. Although the enemy's troops have not invested much, there are so many. With the tanks and trucks rushing over, is it still difficult for the infantry? This question is almost unnecessary to think about.
At present, the enemy army is only focusing on three sides of Guisui City, leaving the west side without movement. It is strange that there are no ghosts in it. The entire army of the 4th Cavalry Brigade was destroyed before, so Lieutenant General Nishihara Yice really did not dare to attack the city. In a decisive battle with the enemy outside, in his opinion, there is still a glimmer of hope for the enemy. If he breaks away from the fortified city and breaks out, he will definitely die under the pursuit of the enemy's tanks.
After thinking and thinking, Lieutenant General Nishihara Issei decided to stick to the most solid building in Suiyuan City, the seat of the Puppet-Mongolian Joint Autonomous Government, and the most famous historical building in the entire Suiyuan City. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty Building of General Suiyuan Mansion.
At the same time that more than a hundred Japanese troops shrunk into the Dragon King Temple, and this small temple, which was not large in area, was wiped out under the artillery fire of the First Cavalry Brigade, the entire remaining force of the Guisui garrison, together with the Guisui The famous traitors and traitors in the city were all compressed into General Suiyuan's Mansion.
Mu Changqiu, who followed the second echelon into Guisui City, adjusted his deployment according to the battle situation. He transferred the two tank companies on the western front that had originally planned to wait and ambush the Japanese breakout into the city, using one company of T-34 tanks. The heavy armor was used to directly collapse many of the outer walls of General Guisui's Mansion, creating a breakthrough for the infantry to enter.
After the tanks opened a breach, he directly threw in two companies, from the north and south, to encircle and annihilate the Japanese troops who were still fighting desperately. The BT tanks that replaced the T 34 tanks stayed at the breach. At this location, 45mm tank guns and vehicle-mounted machine guns were used to cover the troops entering the courtyard.
When fighting for General Suiyuan's Mansion, Mu Changqiu did not resort to encircling Guihua City to annihilate the last remaining Japanese troops. Instead, he directly covered it with artillery fire and sent the Japanese and puppet soldiers inside together with the buildings directly into the sky. After careful consideration, , still adopted the method of fighting one by one, gnawing hard at each courtyard,