On a hill with dense vegetation on the outskirts of the main position of the Xingshan Fortress Group, which is located in the Xingshan area of Heli County and is more than 20 kilometers long from Qingling to Xilin River, the Japanese army is stepping up its construction. On a fully equipped
Under the tight protection of the submachine gun guard squad, after arriving here, Liu Changshun and Ma Chunsheng, who moved forward without taking any rest to grasp first-hand the enemy's situation, carefully observed the enemy's situation.
Heli is an important coal mine producing area in northern Manchuria. It not only produces large quantities of high-quality coal that is extremely important for military production, but is also an important part of the so-called Northeast Manchuria defense line of the Japanese army. [.Com text] For Yang Zhen, a large number of people are gathered here.
He regarded them as various kinds of labor to supplement his troops.
Yang Zhen's first target for Liu Changshun's northward march was the Xingshan Fortress that was under construction. However, Yang Zhen destroyed the Japanese fortress project not only because of the workers. More importantly, the fortress' geographical location was extremely
Important, like a road tiger, it just blocks Yang Zhen's northward passage. It is a great threat to Yang Zhen's future plans.
If this fortress is not destroyed, even if he opens up a direct line with the Soviet Union, it will be difficult to ensure smooth communication of this traffic channel. Moreover, Yang Zhen also has the idea of moving the base camp to Xingshan. The Qunce Mountain base has been exposed, and the location is somewhat
It's far south and too close to Jiamusi.
According to Yang Zhen's strategic plan, the line of Qunce Mountain should only be used as a strategic support point. If Liu Changshun can successfully capture the Xingshan Fortress, the straight-line distance is not far, and the two places connected by mountains can coordinate and support each other.
Although the battle at Qunce Mountain was a great victory, it also exposed the problem of troops gathering in one place and lacking strategic support points. In particular, the lack of strategic depth exposed the dangers.
For Yang Zhen, the strategic depth he wants is not simply room for maneuver. What is more important is to lay the foundation for future development. Under such circumstances, the Xiaoxing'an Mountains in the west, with high mountains and dense forests and sparsely populated areas, will naturally not be a
The right choice.
If the Xingshan Fortress can be successfully captured, Yang Zhen will not only have one more strategic support point, using Luobei to the north of Xingshan as his strategic depth. It will also have one more reliance on the front line of Qunce Mountain.
The scope of activities is much larger.
It was out of such a strategic intention that Yang Zhen chose the Xingshan Fortress, which was nearly completed by the Japanese army, as the first target of the northward march. According to the history that Yang Zhen knew, although the Xingshan Fortress was close to completion at this time,
However, the Japanese army has not yet started garrisoning troops. Its so-called 14th Border Guard Corps will not be established until next year.
If we don't take advantage of this rare opportunity to seize this huge Japanese garrison fortress with only a small number of Japanese guards guarding laborers and a small number of Puppet Manchukuo military police. After the Japanese army officially enters the station, with our current situation
In the absence of effective attack methods, it will be difficult to win.
Moreover, once the Japanese army officially enters the station, it will also be a great threat to their own communication line to the north. The Japanese army stationed here can move westward or northward to cut off their intended lifeline at any time. On the contrary, if they capture the Xingshan Fortress, this strong
The fortress group will provide itself with a defensive barrier to the south.
After receiving his first order to march north, Liu Changshun did not dare to take it lightly. Although the first reconnaissance battalion that sneaked in first had provided some necessary intelligence. But before launching the attack, Liu Changshun and Ma Chunsheng thought twice and decided to go to the front to observe.
once.
As soon as the two people arrived at the outskirts of Xingshan Fortress, they were stunned by this large-scale fortress group. Just the ground exposed in the mountains and the semi-underground military facilities stretched for several kilometers. And the underground ones
How many buildings there are can only be carefully investigated after the battle is over.
Liu Changshun and Ma Chunsheng observed extremely carefully. They even observed the number of guards on the construction site through their telescopes, whether they had guns or not, and how many machine guns they had.
Beside them, Dong Ping also introduced to them the situation that had been detected: "We once captured a local who was delivering food to the mountains, and got some information from his limited confession. Although not much
, but some situations can be inferred.”
"He learned from his mouth that the local residents who were forcibly recruited by the Japanese army to deliver food to the construction site estimated from the amount of food delivered every day that there were about 20,000 workers in the entire Xingshan area, and most of them were fraudulently recruited from or within the customs.
A small number of prisoners of war were so-called anti-Manchurian and anti-Japanese elements captured from the local area. He once saw people wearing tattered military uniforms coming to carry food."
"But he doesn't know exactly what is going on inside. He doesn't even know what is going on here. He only knows that there are Japanese troops stationed in the mountains in this area. As for why these Japanese troops are stationed here, he doesn't know.
I don’t know anything anymore.”
"The Japanese army has very strict vigilance on this area. Local people can only send food to the blockade in the south. After the blockade, the Japanese army will organize labor transportation. Once the locals enter without authorization, they will be killed. This number is only from the food supply.
The quantity is roughly estimated.”
"Furthermore, the Japanese army is extremely cunning. The rice specially provided for the Japanese soldiers is specially transported from Jiamusi by truck and is never collected locally. As a result, no one knows how many people the Japanese army has in the garrison. All they can transport is to
The laborers ate sorghum rice and acorn flour.”
"The most valuable part of his confession is that because of the different locations where the food was delivered, it can be concluded that these workers were not detained in a centralized manner. Instead, all workers were detained in several areas according to the different construction locations."
"Except for a few special workers who were called stubborn by the Japanese army and were imprisoned near the Xingshan Police Station in Xingshan Street for fear of their murder, most of them were locked up in caves."
"I have led the reconnaissance company around here for a week, but I still can't figure out how big it is. I have organized a small-scale infiltration reconnaissance activity, but it is too big here. I can only touch the lime trees.
Izumi had no choice but to return. I just found out that all the Japanese supervisors lived in Linden Tree Spring. Also, except for the erection of three barbed wire fences around the place, no mines were laid."
"But one thing that is certain is that since the 37th Regiment of the Fourth Division originally stationed in Xingshan Street was concentrated in Jiamusi, there are not many Japanese troops stationed here. Mainly the Japanese troops stationed in Xingshan Street
gendarmerie and some Puppet Manchukuo police.”
"The internal guards are served by the Japanese army and Japanese personnel in the Puppet Manchukuo police. The so-called Manchurians and Koreans in the Puppet Manchukuo police can only serve as peripheral security and blockade. The interior is absolutely not allowed to enter. Once discovered, they will be reported to the bandits.
He will be punished without mercy and shot to death."
"However, at the place where the Japanese army discarded the corpses of laborers in Dongshan, we rescued a laborer who was thrown alive into a mass grave by the Japanese army because he was too ill to work. He was a prisoner of war, so he provided us with some information that we can use.
.It’s just that due to the scope of his activities, he can only provide the work shed and the place where he is forced to work.”
"In other words, based on the number of people in custody from his mouth, we calculated that in the entire project, the number of Japanese guards was not too many. The construction site where he was located had the largest number of people in the entire construction site, and there were only more than 50 people in the construction site with more than 3,000 people.
There were three Japanese guards and more than a hundred Japanese civilians recruited as overseers."
"The Japanese guards and supervisors supervise these workers very strictly. Workers at different construction sites are not allowed to talk to each other even if they meet. If they are found to be talking, no matter who is talking, both people will be bayoneted.
They were picked to death or beaten to death with sticks."
"Judging from this situation and the size of this fortress, there should not be too many Japanese guards here, and they will be very scattered. After all, this is not just a construction site for them. Many of his labor groups are
Laborers transferred from other places.”
"But one thing we must pay special attention to is that he personally said that the proportion of light and heavy machine guns among the Japanese guards was very high. More than fifty guards alone were equipped with two crooked machine guns."
After listening to Dong Ping's introduction, Liu Changshun put down the telescope in his hand and said to Ma Chunsheng beside him: "Old Ma, no matter how many Japanese guards there are, since the commander has issued an order to capture this fortress, we will
It needs to be executed. And you have also seen the terrain here. Once the Japanese army moves in with heavy troops, even if we open up transportation to the north, we will be blocked again by the Japanese army at any time."
Regarding Liu Changshun's judgment, Ma Chunsheng frowned slightly and said: "We have to fight, but we must carefully discuss how to fight. The most important thing for us now is not knowing where the Japanese guards are stationed. We can't find them.
How to attack the enemy's position? For such a huge project, with a radius of dozens of square kilometers, we can't search everywhere."
After thinking for a while, Ma Chunsheng picked up a branch, drew a simple fortress map on the ground and said: "In this way, I just took a rough look at the distribution of the projects here. Now the main projects are concentrated on the Zhanjiang Mountain.
The line to Dajiao Mountain is the section in front of us."
"During the observation just now, I found that most of the workers are concentrated in this section. Only a few workers were seen in other places. Maybe in other places, the Japanese army has moved the project underground. But at least from the surface
It seems that the Japanese army is now focusing its main energy here."
"We will mainly attack here, and at the same time lay out ambushes in other directions on both sides. Once the Japanese army reinforces in other places, we can wipe them out in one go. In this way, the battle can be ended in the shortest time, and it can also avoid the Japanese army from losing. In order to
Suppress the news to keep the secret and kill the workers."
After saying that, Ma Chunsheng threw away the wooden stick in his hand and said: "Since we can't find them, let them come to us. Lead the snakes out of their holes, gather together and annihilate them."
Regarding Ma Chunsheng's plan to lure the snake out of the cave, Liu Changshun thought for a moment and then nodded in agreement. But he added one more point: "Since we have decided to take action, we will take action here and at Xingshan Street at the same time. The Japanese army will now move most of its troops to
Concentrate on the Xingshan Fortress project, and there will not be too many troops on Xingshan Street except for the Puppet Manchukuo police."
Regarding Liu Changshun's addition, Ma Chunsheng nodded: "I think it is okay. However, there are many coal mines in Xingshan Street. In addition to the ordinary Puppet Manchukuo military police, there are also a large number of armed mine protection police. Although these mine protection police are equipped with
Generally speaking, most of them are old-fashioned rifles, and there are no heavy weapons such as machine guns. But the combat effectiveness must not be underestimated."
"I have had some contact with these mine protection policemen. Most of them are former Northeastern Army veterans Youzi and Mountain Beard who were recruited after the Japanese army occupied Xingshan. They have very strong combat capabilities. Not to mention their dirty hands, their marksmanship is also very accurate.
.The anti-alliance forces operating in this area have suffered a lot at their hands."
"Moreover, the Japanese worked hard to win over them and gave them very high treatment. Not to mention one month's salary is twice that of the average Puppet Manchukuo policeman, and even other treatment is much higher than that of the average Puppet Manchukuo policeman. Even, every
People are also rationed five kilograms of rice every month. This kind of treatment is not available in other places."
"Because of the high salary, these people are dedicated to serving the Japanese. When fighting Xingshan Street, you must be wary of these people."
Regarding Ma Chunsheng's reminder, Liu Changshun thought for a while and said: "In this way, we will divide the work among the three of us when we go back later. Political Commissar Wang Xiaoming will lead the first battalion with four mountain cannons to attack Xingshan Street. He is a smart man and has fought in
He has many years of experience in guerrilla warfare. It is absolutely fine to leave Xingshan Street to him."
"And you and I will lead the main force to attack this Xingshan Fortress. We will attack from two directions at the same time. We will concentrate our forces and try to win it in one go."
Regarding Liu Changshun's troop arrangements, Ma Chunsheng could not comment. Since the dispatches had been taken out, how to arrange the troops was a matter for his military chief. As the temporarily transferred chief of staff, it was better not to interfere, not to mention the two sides.
The regimental troops understand that they are far inferior to the guy in front of them. He is still responsible for the distribution of troops.
Wang Xiaoming was also a straightforward person. He did not express any different opinions on the division of labor that Liu Changshun had decided. Even though he expressed support, he only made some modifications to the battle plan. He believed that Dajiao Mountain should be abandoned and Yang Zhen should be adopted.
The tactics used when seizing the Japanese secret warehouse at Qunce Mountain were to concentrate the main force and attack the mountain first with the cooperation of Dong Ping's reconnaissance company.
It can be seen from the simple structural diagram Dong Ping brought back that the Position Mountain is the core position of the entire Xingshan Fortress. As long as the Position Mountain is captured, the Japanese army in the entire Xingshan area will definitely reinforce them desperately, and the entire chess game will be alive.
.If two fronts attack, attacking Dajiao Mountain and Position Mountain at the same time, the troops will be scattered, which is not conducive to concentrating troops to set up an ambush.
Regarding the improvement suggestions proposed by Wang Xiaoming, Ma Chunsheng thought for a long time, opened the distribution map of Japanese military fortifications that he had redrawn by himself, and said: "I think it can be modified according to the opinions of the political commissar, and the main force will be put into the position mountain. However,
We must cut off the connection between the main peak of Zhanji Mountain and Dajiao Mountain in the shortest possible time."
"You see here is Position Mountain. After detailed observation, apart from the road at the foot of the mountain, there is only a low ridge connecting them on the surface. But the actual situation is definitely not that simple. Position Mountain is the main defense point of the Japanese army.
It is also the main support point of the entire Xingshan Fortress. The Japanese army would not fail to notice the reinforcements to Dishan during the war. I think the Japanese army must have built underground passages under these two mountains or built a large number of tunnels between the two mountains.
Communication trenches to facilitate rapid reinforcements during war."
"So I want to use Dong Ping's reconnaissance battalion to quietly touch it in the middle of the night, try not to shoot, and use bayonets to solve the problem. After Dong Ping completes the mission, we must quickly find out the Japanese military fortifications in this position in the mountain
configuration."
"We don't need to worry about other directions. We only need to find out the passage between the position mountain and other hills. In addition, we must take down the lime tree spring. It is in the Japanese blockade area. Dong Ping once penetrated and conducted reconnaissance.
.Although there are not many Japanese defensive troops stationed there, most of the Japanese army supervisors live there. I think there must be a structural diagram of the entire Xingshan Fortress. If we capture it and can get the structural diagram, our next step will be
The battle will be much smoother."
Having said this, Ma Chunsheng looked at the watch on his wrist, then raised his head and looked at Liu Changshun and Wang Xiaoming and said: "In addition to Dong Ping's reconnaissance company infiltrating in to provide support in advance, I wonder how we can launch an attack at two o'clock in the middle of the night.
Sample?"
Regarding Ma Chunsheng's arrangement, Liu Changshun and Wang Xiaoming looked at each other and nodded slowly in agreement.
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