Wang Guangyu in the middle line used various tactics to ravage Genbo and his 24th Division to an extraordinary degree, but he was never bitten. The casualty exchange ratio was almost negligible. [.Com text] And in the west
On the front line, the Liu Changshun Brigade and the Du Kaishan Brigade commanded by Yang Zhen, with the cooperation of the three-district backbone regiment, have secretly completed the deployment of Kuwahara Shiro's troops.
The battle plan formulated by Yang Zhen was very simple, which was to concentrate superior forces and use firepower to target the 25th Division of the Japanese Army on the Western Front. The tactics were to advance head-on, first to the east and then to the west, and to divide and annihilate them.
First concentrate the main forces to deal with the enemies crossing the river from Yilan on the east route, that is, the 70th Regiment, the main force of the Japanese army on the west front, and the 16th Brigade in the Fourth Military Area. Then turn around to the west to encircle and annihilate the other ten troops crossing the river from Fangzheng.
Two infantry brigades of the Fourth Regiment and two other brigades of the puppet Manchu Army.
The reason why Yang Zhen adopted this tactic was because the 70th Regiment of the Japanese Army crossing the river from Yilan played a central role in supporting the Japanese army when they moved north. It could coordinate the actions of the 25th Division to the east, and could coordinate the actions of the 25th Division to the west.
Support the 14th Regiment that crosses the river from Fangzheng, passes through Tonghe, and heads north to Fengshan. Destroying this 70th Regiment will completely cut off the direct connection between the Japanese troops on the east and west fronts.
In fact, for the 70th Regiment to be placed in such an important, even critical position, after experiencing the Jiamusi Battle, the impression of the Fourth Division has been extremely bad, and the 70th Regiment from the Fourth Division has
Kenji Doihara, the commander of the Fifth Army who was also very cold, disagreed.
Lieutenant General Kenji Doihara has proposed several times to use the 40th Regiment from the 10th Division, or the 14th Regiment from the 12th Division, which is recognized as one of the strongest combat capabilities in the Japanese army, as the central support
Use. As for the 70th Regiment, it's better to let them stay behind.
But no matter how he tried to persuade him, the insane Umezu Yoshijiro still insisted on using the 70th Regiment. In the eyes of General Umezu Yoshijiro, who had not suffered the hardships of the Fourth Division, there was no way the imperial army could not fight.
Soldiers can only be cowardly generals. Although the 70th Regiment was born in the recognized quagmire of the Fourth Division, it does not mean that the 70th Regiment cannot fight.
General Umezu's reason is very normal. At present, the Nomenhan area still needs to deploy heavy troops to prevent the Soviet counterattack. The Kwantung Army's current strength is tight. There is no reason to keep such a fully equipped infantry regiment behind. Since the Seventh
The Tenth Regiment is the most combat-effective unit among the old divisions of the Fourth Division, so maybe it should be good, right?
In the view of General Umezu Yoshijiro, as the most powerful regiment in the original Fourth Division, the 70th Regiment from the relatively poor Sasayama area of Osaka has a far more powerful fighting style than his colleagues in the Fourth Division.
There are many. At the very least, he will not save his life first like them, at least he will not do anything to ignore the danger or abandon friendly forces.
Among the original four commanders of the Fourth Division, Colonel Masao Iwabe, his commander, is also the most powerful one. He can be called a famous warrior of the Fourth Division. Of course, at least on the surface, this Seventy Regiment
Their commander looks much better than the 4th Division, which is so bad that other companies can't pull it out.
It’s just about whether the 70th Regiment, who was born in the Fourth Division, can take on the role of General Yoshijiro Umezu, commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, Lieutenant General Kenji Doihara, commander of the Fifth Army, and Kuwahara, commander of the 25th Division.
That's two things to say about the important responsibility assigned by Lieutenant General Shiro.
It's just that Lieutenant General Kenji Doihara agreed with General Umezu's reason in front, but the one at the back might be good, right? But it almost scared Lieutenant General Kenji Doihara's jaw off.
"Maybe"? How can something as serious as combat be decided by maybe? Even though Kenji Doihara, who has spent most of his military career as an agent and is only half a soldier, knows that this is extremely unserious.
matter.
Of course, General Umezu placed high hopes on whether the 70th Regiment, which had been entrusted with the important task, could shoulder this responsibility. Masao Iwabe, who didn't know that he had become Yang Zhen's first choice, was of course chest-thumped. Facing Doihara
When Lieutenant General Kenji questioned him, he almost took out his ancestor, the most famous samurai in Toyoda Hideyoshi's era, who had been dead for hundreds of years and swore an oath.
It’s just a question of whether his subordinates, who have been hanging out with the vendors of the Fourth Division for many years, especially nearly half of the officers coming from the urban area of Osaka, which has a higher level of education, can give him this voice and save the Osaka people.
It's a notorious reputation, so it's really hard to say.
However, the offensive momentum of the 70th Regiment was indeed very strong at the beginning, which can even be described as a triumphant song. First, they conquered the important town of Bamboo Curtain in the north of the Songhua River without a fight, and then occupied Tangyuan County, which had become an empty city, without any blood.
It was only after occupying Tangyuan County that the 70th Regiment discovered that they were in a very bad situation. Apart from going to the Tangwang River outside the city to fetch water, they searched the entire Tangyuan County and could not find a single well.
The most deadly thing is not that there are no wells, because outside Tangyuan County is the Tangwang River that flows continuously and has a huge amount of water. The problem of drinking water is easy to solve. With such a big river and running water, you don’t have to worry about what your opponent will do.
Hands and feet. The most fatal thing was that the hungry 70th Regiment could not find a single citizen, a grain of grain, or even fodder for horses in the huge Tangyuan County.
In desperation, Iwabe Masao could only contact Lieutenant General Shiro Kuwahara, the commander of the electric division, to urge the rear baggage to be replenished as soon as possible. At least some food should be transferred to meet the urgent need.
I don’t know why, but Lieutenant General Shiro Kuwahara only allocated part of the food to Masao Iwabe’s request. In total, it was just enough for the 70th Regiment and the 16th Puppet Manchukuo Mixed Brigade assigned to its operations for two days.
As for the others, using insufficient transportation capacity as an excuse, Masao Iwabe was allowed to take advantage of the situation and collect goods on the spot.
In fact, in Yilan County at this time, the food and other materials that had just been replenished were not only not lacking, but also abundant. The transportation capacity was not as scarce as Lieutenant General Shiro Kuwahara said.
In addition to the 25th Division's own baggage regiment, there is also a car brigade in Yilan County specially transferred by General Yoshijiro Umezu, who has some foresight in the opponent's tactics of fortifying walls and clearing fields, specifically to ensure logistical supplies.
Lieutenant General Kuwahara Shiro's strange order made even the Chief of Staff of the 25th Division curious about why the division commander, who had been behaving strangely and often distracted since his wife and daughter were kidnapped, would make such a decision.
This order also meant that if Masao Iwabe wanted to feed himself, his subordinates, and the puppet Manchukuo officers and soldiers who were fighting together, he could only go north as quickly as possible to find the common people hidden by the other side.
As for those businessmen who want to do business but have no other comrades in the regiment, in addition to running a small business, the biggest source of wealth is to rob civilians with nothing during the war to make a fortune.
The most painful thing is not having nothing to eat.
Because in their opinion, food can be transported from the rear at any time. For them, they cannot find women to vent their anger, and they cannot find people to rob. They cannot make money, which is the most painful thing for them.
The Seventy Regiment is actually not as good as General Umezu Yoshijiro imagined. If compared with other regiments of the Fourth Division, the main difference between these people is that they are less business-minded, but they are not as good at getting rich for nothing as robbery.
But it is far more interesting than fighting.
The food from the rear was only delivered for two days, which could not meet the needs of the imperial army. In desperation, Masao Iwabe could only urge the troops to speed up their march northward, hoping to find the hidden people as soon as possible in order to obtain supplies.
It's just that the march route given to them by General Meijin was from Tangyuan County directly to the north, passing through the old battlefield of Miaolingzi Mountain and then straight into Heli. In other words, after leaving Tangyuan County, their subsequent combat itinerary was all in the mountains.
Colonel Masao Iwabe was arrogant, but he was not stupid. After getting in touch with the 14th Regiment on the Western Front, which had already reached the Holiang River line at this time, and ensuring the safety of his left wing, he gathered the troops into a group and headed north.
Scroll over. Their attack starting point is in Yilan, southwest of Jiamusi. They are already too far away from the main force in the middle.
Masao Iwabe, who was in a hurry to join Lieutenant General Hiroshi Nemoto, did not know that in the mountains on both sides of the Jianshanzi line directly in front of him, Yang Zhen had concentrated the main force of two infantry brigades, plus a field artillery regiment.
The main force of the rocket artillery regiment deployed a pocket formation waiting for him.
As for the main force of the 14th Regiment on the Western Front, Yang Zhen put the 2nd Brigade, 5th Regiment and the 3rd Division Basic Regiment under the unified command of Zhao Shangzhi, using guerrilla tactics to delay its eastward reinforcements. Yang Zhen drew a blocking line for Zhao Shangzhi
It is the Daliangzi River. In other words, no matter how Zhao Shangzhi fights, the 14th Regiment must not be allowed to cross the Daliangzi River and join the 70th Regiment.
In an extremely hidden mountain col in the northwest of Jianshanzi, except for the constant ticking sounds of several radio stations indicating that this is a relatively high-level headquarters, there is no sound indicating that this is the place chosen by Yang Zhen.
The location of the front finger?
In the sky, Japanese aircraft kept flying, roaring northward over this carefully concealed mountain col. Occasionally, they dropped a few bombs randomly on several surrounding hills, hoping to arouse the enemy and test the vastness of the mountains below.
Is there an enemy ambush?
The headquarters security troops and the direct anti-aircraft machine gun company were very nervous about the bombs that exploded on the hills around them from time to time. The machine gunner's finger was tightly pressed on the trigger. As soon as the Japanese aircraft discovered this place, they would dive downwards.
They will fire without hesitation.
Military Region Guard Staff Officer Han Renhe, who was called over by Yang Zhen from the First Army, also raised his binoculars from time to time and looked at the Japanese aircraft flying in the sky. Han Renhe has been serving as the military commander since he was called over by Yang Zhen from the First Army.
The security minister of the military region is also the security staff officer of the headquarters and the head of the security regiment.
Although there is only one subordinate in name only, in fact there is only one guard company, a guard regiment directly under the close guard platoon and a newly formed anti-aircraft machine gun company. The entire security department only has two or three kittens, which is a serious shortage of manpower. But this is not
It does not hinder his enthusiasm and meticulousness in his work.
It is necessary to ensure the safety of Yang Zhen and others. This was something he repeatedly emphasized when Wei Zhengmin, the political commissar of the First Army, talked to him before he was transferred from the First Army to the Jidong Military Region. He has a strong sense of responsibility and has served as a political commissar in the First Army Guard Brigade for a long time.
He immediately started working as soon as he took office. He did not lack enthusiasm for work because of the lack of manpower.
Having collaborated with Dong Ping in combat, he had always been full of praise for the capabilities of the reconnaissance battalion directly under the military region. After several requests from him, and repeated mentions by Li Mingrui and Dong Ping, Yang Zhen finally agreed with his idea and agreed to form a guard regiment.
, and a platoon was transferred from the reconnaissance battalion to serve as the backbone of the newly formed guard regiment. Moreover, the training of the guard regiment must also be conducted in accordance with the reconnaissance battalion.
It's just that after working next to Yang Zhen, he fought with Yang Zhen for the first time, and the situation he faced was completely different from when he was in the First Army, so Han Renhe was a little nervous. When he was in the First Army, he faced more of the Japanese during combat.
The puppet army is a small force, no more than a few thousand people at most. This is the first time we have encountered such a large number of aircraft in the sky, at least in the form of a wing, on the ground.
Compared to the highly nervous security forces and Han Renhe, Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun were not nervous in a wooden shelter in the mountain col. The two of them easily made final modifications to the battle plan on the map.
Although the 70th Regiment gathered all its troops to march together, it still sent out scouts consisting of two infantry squads in accordance with the Japanese army's tactical requirements. Now that its scouts have appeared in the Jianshanzi area, it means that
The main force of the 70th Alliance is not far away.
After completing the final assignment on the picture, Yang Zhen dropped the red and blue pencils in his hands and said to Guo Bingxun with a smile: "It seems that the letter from the political commissar was not written to Kuwahara Shiro in vain. The speed of the entire Japanese and puppet army's advance from the Western Front is as fast as
Judging from the progress, although this guy did not fully comply with our requirements, he at least made some adjustments."
"To be honest, there may be some Japanese who are afraid of their wives, but to be honest, this is the first time I have seen someone as afraid of their wives as this dignified Lieutenant General. For the safety of his wife and children, he actually dared to bring an infantry regiment here.
Negotiating with us, such a person can be considered the ultimate."
Regarding Yang Zhen's emotion, Guo Bingxun smiled and said: "There is no harm in betraying the 70th Regiment to Kuwahara Shiro. First, it can ensure the safety of his wife and children. Secondly, this 70th Regiment was originally in the 20th
The Fifth Division is very disliked by others, and there is even a tendency for one fish to make the same soup. Lieutenant General Kuwahara must be happy to take this opportunity to change the blood of the 70th Regiment."
"What's more, Iwabe Masao messed up. It can be said that he underestimated the enemy and rushed in. It had nothing to do with him, Kuwahara Shiro. With the 70th Regiment as the central support, Kuwahara Shiro did not fail to report to Umezu Yoshijiro and ask for his replacement.
If the 70th Regiment is surrounded and annihilated by us, it will be caused by the wrong decision of General Umezu Yoshijiro, and it has nothing to do with him."
"The 70th Regiment came out of the Fourth Division. Even if it is the most capable fighter in the Fourth Division, I am afraid that after staying in the mud pit of the Fourth Division for so many years, its combat effectiveness is still lower than that of other Japanese troops.
It's a big difference. It's gratifying that the 70th Regiment won, but it was also a disadvantage for us in the battle. Shiro Kuwahara did not violate the secret agreement with us."
"If we lose, even if we meet our demands, Shiro Kuwahara can find a hundred reasons to shirk his responsibility. As long as the secret agreement between us and him is not exposed, this guy can say that he has no scruples."
"If we don't do it well, we will create a reputation in Tokyo as an emperor who puts his interests above all else and would rather kill his relatives for the sake of his so-called imperial interests. I just don't know if his father-in-law, who came from a famous plutocrat in Tokyo, will spare him."
Regarding Guo Bingxun's answer, Yang Zhen said with a smile: "No matter how Kuwahara Shiro explains to his father-in-law, or how he plots, if we don't eat this plate of food delivered to our mouths, we will be sorry for his hard work.
Wang Guangyu's side is fighting very smoothly, and it's really hard for the basic game, so we two military chiefs can't lag too far behind, can't we?"
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