Three hundred and thirtieth chapters coincident opponents
Umezu Yoshijiro clearly told Lieutenant General Washizu Sebuhei that the mission given to you by the Kwantung Army must be completed. However, within the entire structure of the Kwantung Army on the battlefield in western Liaoning, the two most complete divisions must not be crippled. Once this happens, The two divisions suffered heavy losses and the entire western Liaoning front was threatened, which will affect the stability of the entire Northeast war situation.
Because the current Kwantung Army can no longer mobilize even a brigade of troops, and the battlefield in western Liaoning is not only about losing the natural barrier of Nuruerhu Mountain, but western Liaoning has become a small area controlled by the Kwantung Army. energy and mineral base.
If the coal mines in Fushun and Benxi cannot be repaired in a short period of time, and the coal mines in Fuxin and Beipiao are abandoned, the entire Kwantung Army will be frozen this winter, and the energy needs of the surviving industries in southern Manchuria will also be completely destroyed. Losing its source, although the coal from Fuxin and Beipiao is not the best thermal coal, it can still be used as fuel coal and chemical coal.
When I think about the hundreds of thousands of troops of the mighty Kwantung Army, together with the hundreds of thousands of Japanese expatriates in southern Manchuria, and the large number of surviving factories in southern Manchuria, they can now only rely on coal from Fuxin and Beipiao, which can only be regarded as small coal mines in Manchuria, to survive the winter. , Umezu Yoshijiro felt extremely uncomfortable.
Xi'an was lost, and its high-quality thermal coal and industrial coal resources were also lost. Several large coal mines in Fushun also had all their machinery and equipment removed during the Anti-Japanese War raid, and some mine tunnels were blown up. It doesn't matter if the workers are taken away, as long as the empire still has the upper hand on the battlefield in China, there will be as many workers as needed.
If it really doesn't work, I will lower my head and send a telegram to the Chinese Expeditionary Forces. They will be able to capture tens of thousands of young men for the Kwantung Army through a few raids on the battlefield in China. But the key thing is that the technical personnel will be captured and the machinery and equipment will be destroyed. The mine tunnel was blown up and recovery will be a long process.
In order to ensure the Liaoxi coal base, which is likely to be the last hope for the Kwantung Army to survive the winter, Umezu Yoshijiro, the commander of the Kwantung Army, had to be extremely cautious. He did not quite believe that North Korea's coal would have to be supplied locally. Next, a share will be allocated to the Kwantung Army.
At this time, the base camp can handle the matter of mobilizing inventory of ammunition. There is nothing that cannot be done. Rather than expecting the base camp to be kind, it is better for the Kwantung Army to make enough food and clothing by themselves and first save the only two coal mines in western Liaoning with high output. , and seize the time to restore the destroyed coal mines in Fushun and Benxi to solve the Kwantung Army's coal burning emergency.
After the Fushun Mine and Benxi Coal Mine were destroyed by the Anti-Japanese War, the Kwantung Army only had two larger coal mines in Fuxin and Beipiao. Now it was really in a hurry to burn coal. If these two coal-producing areas were lost, the Fushun Mine would If there is no way to recover within a short period of time, the entire Kwantung Army will really be frozen this winter.
In order to ensure the energy and mineral base in western Liaoning, Umezu Yoshijiro decided to go on the offensive on the western Liaoning front based on the relatively small number of anti-union forces in Jehol, and after a comprehensive analysis of the entire battle situation. Lieutenant General Washijin Seppei was asked to leave sufficient defensive forces on the Jincheng Line.
The two divisions cannot mobilize across the entire front and cannot leave enough covering troops behind them. Although Western Liaoning is in a hilly area, the terrain where the Anti-Japanese Alliance is currently on the outskirts of Fengtian is the Songliao Plain area. Once the Anti-Japanese Alliance besiege Fengtian, When the long-term attack was ineffective, the troops suddenly turned to tank groups and penetrated directly from Xinmin to Fuxin.
So for the battlefield in western Liaoning where Jiujin Qianping has put all two divisions on the front line of Nuruerhu Mountain and has no troops behind him, it will face the situation of being attacked from both sides. Once these two divisions are in any danger, not only will western Liaoning be unable to Defending it will also threaten the safety of the Beining Railway. Even Shanhaiguan, Jinzhou, and Huludao are under threat from the enemy.
The enemy army has staged a classic scene of deep and roundabout maneuvers on the Mongolian army in Suiyuan. They unexpectedly climbed over the Yinshan Mountains, which the Mongolian army had always considered to be dangerous, and broke into Suidong and Chaxi behind the battlefield, leading to Suiyuan, Shanxi and Shanxi. A strategic surprise attack that completely collapsed the northern and Chaxi battlefields.
From the current location of the Anti-Japanese Alliance on the outskirts of Fengtian to Fuxin in western Liaoning, except for the natural barrier of Yiwulu Mountain, the rest is the Songliao Plain. The terrain is extremely conducive to the enemy's habit of concentrating large-scale armored raids to resist. The Lianhe has always been extremely cunning, so who can guarantee that their offensive in Fengtian is just a bluff.
The Xinmin, Kangping, and Faku front lines are right between Fengtian and Liaoxi. To the east, you can attack Fengtian, Tieling, and Kaiyuan, cutting off the Siping front-line combat troops' retreat. To the west, you can attack Fuxin and Yixian, and to the south, you can attack Fuxin and Yixian. After penetrating directly into Montenegro, the enemy troops suddenly moved south and penetrated directly into Kangping. Faku's attack could be said to have hit the entire Kwantung Army in the waist.
In addition to asking the troops outside Fengtian to cling to the anti-alliance forces in front of them, Lieutenant General Umezu Yoshijiro also repeatedly asked Lieutenant General Washizu Jinpei not to focus all his attention on the enemy forces in the western Liaoning and Red East areas. We must pay attention to our rear, and we must leave enough troops on the front line in Fuxin. The fate of the Mongolian Army should not be repeated again by the Kwantung Army.
In the Northeastern battlefield, General Umezu Yoshijiro adopted an overall strategic deployment of attacking from the west and defending from the east. He feigned resistance in the Rehe battlefield and fought a mountain offensive. However, on the eastern front, he shrank his head and put on a tortoise pose. The Fire Hedgehog formation, like the Anti-League, is gritting its teeth and struggling to support it.
Yang Zhen concentrated the last bit of mobile troops and launched a new offensive. His intention was to defeat the Kwantung Army's ability to launch a counterattack in a short period of time, buy time for the rest of the Anti-Japanese Alliance in the second half of the year, and restore the vitality of the old North Manchu base area, and It strategically cooperated with the war situation in northern Shanxi, allowing the Japanese army to use a defensive weapon when mobilizing reinforcements.
Umezu Yoshijiro set up this formation to consume as much energy as possible from the Anti-Japanese Alliance to ensure the safety of Southern Manchuria before the Kwantung Army regained its strength. At the same time, it also ensured that after the empire completed its southern advance, it restored the strength of the Kwantung Army and finally fully restored Manchuria. The intention of winning a breathing space from the situation.
Try your best to consume the opponent's energy in the final stage of this battle, and make some preparations and pave the way for the future in advance. At this point, the top commanders of both the enemy and ourselves on the Northeast battlefield made the same choice, Yang Zhen and General Umezu Yoshijiro. The purpose of the final stage of this battle is actually the same goal at this point.
On the basis of this same intention, compared to the Siping battlefield where the battle is in dire straits on the surface but is actually a stalemate, the Fengtian western battlefield where the enemy and our participating troops are attacking and defending in a orderly manner, and the coming and going of each other looks very... The Liaodong battlefield is lively, but only in shallow depth.
In the western Liaoning battlefield, Lee Myung-bak, who is currently under unified command of the Rehe battlefield, has only one and a half divisions of anti-alliance troops left. With the cooperation of the two brigades of the advancing army and the support of limited artillery firepower, Lee Myung-bak defended the difficulty in the north. Using offensive tactics, they fought a very exciting but difficult mountain offensive battle with the Japanese army in the Nuruerhu Mountain Area.
Lee Myung-bak did not concentrate his effective forces to compete for the commanding heights of the entire Nuruerhu Mountain War Zone from Sidaoyingzi Mountain to Daqingshan. Instead, he used a strengthened regiment to launch from the northern line and rely on the terrain to block Chaoyang. Beipiao was the starting point for the attack. ground, attacking the main force of the Japanese army heading northwest.
Concentrate a reinforced regiment and forcibly move south to threaten Jianping County. With two battalions and one regiment of the advancing army as a reserve, they secretly penetrate to the front line of Damai Gou in the northeast of Jianping County and wait for cover. Once the Japanese army reinforces Jianping, they will Immediately encircle and suppress the reinforcing Japanese troops.
One of the advancing brigade assumed a posture of attacking Ye Baishou, another brigade was concentrated, a battalion of mountain artillery was strengthened, and the mountainous terrain was used to bypass Zhangyingzi Town behind Jianping County, cutting off the connection between Jianping County and Ye Baishou. The troops spread out along both sides of the mountain road to form a pocket formation, preparing to ambush the Japanese reinforcements from Ye Baishou.
Lee Myung-bak placed the focus of the battlefield on Jianping, focusing on Jianping, a strategic town between Liaoxi and Jehol. On his front, Lieutenant General Jiujin Qianping focused his attack on Xinhui. On the front line, Lieutenant General Washizu Jinpei knew very well that without taking Shine, General Umezu Yoshijiro's order would not be fulfilled at all.
Therefore, he used four infantry brigades to guard the line of Luotuoshan in the northeastern part of Fuxin, which leads from the Liaohe Plain to the hilly areas of western Liaoning. He used one regiment to guard the Chaoyang and Jianping lines. He led three infantry brigades to sit in Beipiao Provide support in the center, gather one and a half regiments, form a group, and launch an attack on the Xinhui front line.
At the same time, two infantry brigades were attached to the original Manchurian Empire army. After a major exchange of blood and being crippled again and again, the only remaining organic structure, which was also the so-called most sophisticated in combat effectiveness, retreated from the Rehe battlefield to the entire strength of the Liaoxi Tieshi Army. , plus a regiment of the railway police force known as the so-called iron-blooded force, all secretly deployed between Jianping and Xinhui. If the Anti-Japanese Alliance reinforced Xinhui from Chifeng, they would immediately outflank the reinforcements.
With a strengthened brigade as the backbone, a detachment was formed plus a special task force called the Iron Man Force belonging to the Iron and Stone Force, with one former Japanese garrison attached to Jianping and Lingyuan as guides, along Ye Baishou, Jianping's western mountainous area, Secretly go north to Chifeng, find where the Anti-Japanese Alliance supplies are stored, and destroy the entire western Liaoning battlefield and the Anti-Japanese Alliance's logistics supply.
Lieutenant General Yoshiojin Seonpyeong tried to use the attack on Xinhui, a place that the Anti-Japanese Alliance must save, to mobilize the anti-Union forces currently concentrated on the line from Xinhui to Chifeng to find fighter planes and encircle and annihilate the first anti-Union unit in the Rehe battlefield. Lee Myung-bak The attack was also focused on the construction of the western Liaoning gateway.
On the battlefield in western Liaoning, both Lee Myung-bak and Lieutenant General Jiujin Zhenping had a tacit understanding of attacking the place where the opponent must save the enemy, trying to take advantage of the opponent's fatal points to fully mobilize the opponent's forces and open up the gap between them. Use gaps in defense to create opportunities for you to encircle and destroy enemy forces.
In terms of tactical application, both of them also invariably took advantage of the mountain trend of Nuruerhu Mountain and the terrain of the mountainous area which is not steep but has sufficient length. They both looked for favorable opportunities to carry out mobile ambush and strive to take advantage of ambush warfare. Reduce your own losses on the battlefield and defeat the opponent's deceived troops as quickly as possible.
On the battlefield in western Liaoning, Lieutenant General Jiujin Qianping's troops had a slight advantage, and some of the elite puppet Manchu troops who had withdrawn from Jehol to western Liaoning cooperated in the fight. There was also a so-called special force, which was specially used to destroy the anti-Japanese resistance behind enemy lines. Plainclothes teams armed with local authorities participated.
These plainclothes teams specially trained by the Japanese are good at makeup reconnaissance, and they have received special training, and are especially good at sabotage and assassination. These plainclothes teams that participated in the large-scale raids in Jidong last year brought great success to the Jidong Military Region at that time. A considerable loss.
In addition, the Japanese army, which has long controlled Liaoxi and Rehe, is relatively familiar with the terrain in this area. From this point of view, the Japanese army at least occupies a superficial advantage in the entire Nuruerhushan theater, even if it has to stay behind He ordered a certain amount of left-behind troops, but the strength he put into the front line was almost equal to the strength in Lee Myung-bak's hands.