But if there really are no new reinforcements from the Japanese army, then Kanji Nishihara has such great courage, even abandoning his own flanks and rear and dispatching all troops? You must know that once the front line of Shuangjingdian is captured by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, then it is equivalent to
His route of retreat was completely cut off. In addition, his flanks were breached. By that time, he and his last troops, who were already surrounded on all sides, could only end up with the entire army annihilated.
The attack force of only three infantry brigades, without follow-up support and offensive operations from the surrounding areas, facing a well-equipped unit is no different than seeking death. Every regiment commander understands this truth, and those who graduated from the Japanese Army University
Is it unclear where the Japanese division commander and division chief of staff are?
If this move, which is similar to breaking a jar, was done by a different Japanese regiment captain or a bold combat staff officer, Yang Zhen might still believe it. But as a division lieutenant general and commander of a division,
, Kanji Nishihara still does this.
Yang Zhen believed that it was basically impossible to pull off this empty city strategy when the retreat had not yet been cut off, and he knew that the counterattack had very little hope of success based on the current strength of his troops. He, Kanji Nishihara, did not
So crazy, his superiors would not allow him to completely defeat the entire 23rd Division.
After all, the Japanese army at this time was not at the end of its rope a few years later. It was prone to a decisive battle. If a division was completely destroyed, it would be very detrimental to the morale of the entire Japanese army. Moreover, the entire battle situation,
For the Japanese army, it was far from that point. Therefore, Yang Zhen believed that the counterattack of the 23rd Division on the Sunjiayingzi front line, including the previous Twelve Tu front lines, would definitely not be the forces that had been exposed.
If the sound of artillery fire on the Twelfth Front line has stopped, it is considered that a breakthrough has been made here and the reinforcements of the Anti-Japanese Alliance have been defeated. I am afraid that even a fool will not believe this, let alone Kanji Nishihara? And he thinks that the Japanese troops on the Twelfth Thousand Front Line have been defeated.
Having the upper hand and leaving his flanks and rear undefended, Kanji Nishihara's mind would not be so simple.
So since this can't be the problem, what on earth did Kanji Nishihara do? Is he really audacious and set up an empty city plan for himself? To attract the anti-alliance reserve team currently on the front line of Twelve Tu and attack his own
Are you on the front line of Shuangjing Store in the rear, buying time for yourself to make a breakthrough on the front line of Sunjiayingzi? Or is there really some other conspiracy involved?
The senior operational staff officers at the Kwantung Army Headquarters, even if they were very aggressive and didn't care about the life and death of the troops below, would not place their bets on such an attack that was destined to fail without backup. They would force a division to fight with
The price of annihilation of the entire army was to consciously die. Even Umezu Yoshijiro could not bear this responsibility. No one in the Kwantung Army dared to bear this responsibility.
And if the counterattack of the 23rd Division can only be short-lived and ultimately fail due to lack of strength. It cannot meet the requirements of the Kwantung Army Headquarters to hold back Wang Guangyu's troops. Then the entire follow-up combat plan of the Japanese army has not yet been launched.
The danger of failure.
Because he had to consider whether his counterattack force, especially the counterattack force on the southern front, would suffer a pincer offensive from two sides. In the Battle of Nomonhan, the Soviet army had already suffered a big loss.
The Kwantung Army will not fail to take this into consideration. Considering the Japanese people's always calculating character, they will not fail to take this change into consideration.
Two brigades of nearly 600 tanks and armored vehicles providing air cover and support, plus two cavalry brigades and two motorized infantry divisions, as well as the powerful impact of a large number of artillery, can be placed on any Japanese division alone.
It will undoubtedly be a huge disaster. Especially for the Japanese army with large-scale maneuverability and effective anti-tank weapons, it will be even more difficult to resist. But what exactly is the 23rd Division relying on to ignore the rear and go all out?
These three connected ifs raised a big question mark in Yang Zhen's heart. As these three question marks rose, his eyes turned from the Linxi battlefield to the Wengniute flag in the east. And in his hand
With red and blue pencils, I drew a large circle on a large area to the west of the Wangye Mansion where the Wengniute Banner administrative seat is located at the southeastern border with Linxi, to Guangde Gong in the south, and to the south bank of the Xilamulun River in the north.
The junction of Wengniute Banner and Keshiketeng Banner and to the north is the junction of the southernmost edge of the Greater Hinggan Mountains and the Qilaotu Mountain. It is the junction of the Zhongshan platform terrain and low mountains and hills. Due to the sparse population, the vegetation there is better than that in the Horqin Sand
The eastern part of the western edge of the earth is much denser.
If the Japanese army mobilizes heavy troops from Jianping here regardless of Chen Hanzhang's headquarters in Tongliao in the north and the anti-alliance offensive in other directions, there will be no problem at least hiding one Japanese division in this area. Let alone one division, even one
As the backup of the 23rd Division, the regiment also played a considerable role in the Japanese army's entire tactical plan.
Could it be that the reinforcements secretly mobilized by the Japanese army are hidden here? But that place was the activity range of two detachments of the reconnaissance brigade directly under the military region that Wang Guangyu had spread out as soon as the battle started. If the Japanese reinforcements were really hidden there,
It shouldn't be discovered all the time. Even if there are thousands of troops, there won't be any clues.
Yang Zhen's fingers kept wandering from the western mountainous area of Wengniute Banner to Linxi and Keshiketeng Banner. Regardless of whether the 23rd Division has follow-up soldiers, it is better to be cautious in the face of such a cunning opponent as the Japanese army.
.Since the Japanese army has been thinking of ways to conceal their true strength, then I will give them a way to lure them out of the hole and let them take the initiative to expose their true intentions.
The Sunjiayingzi front line is located at the strategic point of the entire eastern part of Linxi, and its geographical location is extremely important. To the northeast, you can attack the Bahrain Right Banner, to the southwest, you can control Linxi County, and to the west, you can penetrate into the entire Linxi territory, and attack Linxiji directly.
Chaosing the depth of the entire Linxi battlefield.
Although the number of defenders of the roundabout troops in this aspect is not as good as that of the Japanese army, and the number of artillery is also not as good as that of the Japanese army. However, not only is the unit firepower density far higher than that of the Japanese army with a similar number, the four 107 rocket launchers it is equipped with can fire in one salvo.
, which is equivalent to all the artillery that the Japanese army invested in the front line of Sunjiayingzi. What's more, there is still a certain number of troops deep in the front line of Sunjiayingzi, that is, his second line.
If the 23rd Division wants to rely solely on these three infantry brigades, it will be like breaking through the front line of Sunjiayingzi. The casualty ratio may not be too light. Even if it breaks through the frontline of Sunjiayingzi, I am afraid that it will no longer be able to develop in depth. At this time,
If the 23rd Division really has hidden troops, then if they want to achieve their tactical goals, they will have no choice but to hide their presence.
After pondering for a long time, and seeing that Wang Guangyu had not responded to his call, Yang Zhen raised his head and said to the operational staff: "Immediately draft a telegram and order the defenders on the front line of Sunjiayingzi to adopt a gradual contraction strategy after persisting for six hours and abandon Sunjiaying."
On the front line, we will shrink our troops to the three key points of Longping, Dajing, and Subutai Temple."
"Tell Wang Guangyu that the second-line troops cannot be used easily. Now we mainly rely on the first-line defense troops to kill the Japanese troops as much as possible. As long as the first-line defenders can hold on, the second-line troops should not be invested. Also, let him organize artillery and aviation as much as possible.
Provide fire support to the defenders on the front line of Sunjiayingzi. In a word, we can kill as many Japanese troops as we can."
"Since we can't figure out the real reason why Kanji Nishihara is taking such a risk at the moment, let's give them a way to lure the snake out of the hole. I want to see if Lieutenant General Kanji Nishihara really has the courage to play the empty city strategy, or if there is someone behind him.
Is he backing me? Since they continue to cover up their true intentions, then I will let them expose themselves. Look at what kind of medicine he is selling in Nishihara Kanji's gourd."
"In addition, the aviation force was ordered to dispatch aircraft to conduct detailed reconnaissance of the area west of the Prince's Mansion in Wengniute Banner, north of Guangde Gong, and south of the Xilamulun River in the southwest of Linxi. Any disturbance must be reported. In fact,
No, dispatch a few light bombers and bomb this area several times close to the highway. At the same time, order the aviation force to closely monitor the highway from Wengniute Banner to Shuangjingdian."
At this point, although he hesitated at first, Yang Zhen finally said firmly: "Telegraph the headquarters and the troops in all directions on the front line to be prepared for a full-scale counterattack by the Japanese army, especially Chen Hanzhang's troops in Tongliao direction. There is also a message
The aviation force and the Japanese army may take actions to sabotage the Songhua River embankment, and I am afraid that they will start today and tomorrow. Let them be ready to fight at any time."
"In addition, let the chief of staff control the speed and intensity of Ma Chunsheng's attack north of Xinjing. He must not let this guy go too far alone. The fist must be able to be extended and withdrawn at any time. Especially Ma Chunsheng
Watch his left wing, it's too empty right now."
"At the same time, let the chief of staff consider, as appropriate, whether to take back all other tank units other than those assigned to Ma Chunsheng's headquarters, form a temporary brigade, and transfer it to Qiqihar as the total mobile reserve of the entire army, so as to be ready to deal with the West at any time.
Full of changes in the war situation."
When the staff officer quickly recorded Yang Zhen's order, he had just left and had not gone five meters away. The combat staff officer who had sent a telegram to Wang Guangyu hurried over and handed the telegram in his hand to Yang Zhen and said: "No. 1
, Commander Wang called. He said that after the roundabout troops entered Linxi, the Japanese army not only suddenly arrested a large number of laborers from the surrounding areas and entered the mountainous area west of Wengniute Banner, but also transported a large number of laborers from Jianping, Xifuxin and Zhangwu.
.”
"It's just that these workers were all taken to Wengniute Banner in batches of thousands. Judging from the information provided by the reconnaissance team, the workers captured in Wengniute Banner had obvious origins in Tangshan and Liaodong areas within the Guanhai Pass.
Accent. It’s just that the Japanese soldiers were under strict control, and these laborers spoke very rarely. Most of them did not dare to speak during the escort process."
"However, they found out through a captured straggler escort that these laborers were because the 23rd Division was currently on the battlefield and there were insufficient troops in Wengniute Banner. In order to prevent our army's roundabout troops from breaking through the Linxi line
, and threaten the Jianping and Kulun lines through the Wengniute Banner."
"In order to complete the defense fortifications that had been built as early as May in the western mountains of Wengniute Banner as soon as possible, the Kwantung Army urgently transferred some laborers from other areas to Wengniute Banner. Because the train line only goes to Chifeng,
So these workers got off the train at Chifeng and walked to Wengniute Banner."
"Because it was indeed discovered that the Japanese army had built some fortifications in the west of Wengniute Banner, Commander Wang only sent a detachment from the reconnaissance brigade directly under the military region to conduct surveillance there. Because the number of these workers was only about 5,000, and it was
They were assigned to be escorted to Wengniute Banner. The number of puppet Manchukuo military police escorted was only a few hundred, so Commander Wang didn’t pay much attention.”