Chapter 329 Kwantung Army defending from the east and attacking from the west
However, although he had no intention of doing it again, stabbing the Japanese army's flank in a decent manner. However, Yang Zhen was on the front of the Japanese defense on the eastern front, with the Fenghai Railway as the center and dividing line. To the west, the line from Xi'an to Beishan City,
The deployment of troops was strengthened along the line from Nanshan City to Wufeng Tower.
The Sixth Division, one of the first main divisions of the Anti-Japanese War, which had just been replenished and adjusted, was transferred between Beishan City and Nanshan City, and was assigned a howitzer battalion and a Japanese-made cannon battalion. Against the Japanese troops on the Qingyuan front line, they continued to launch tactics
A sexual attack. Constantly using shallow, deep and circuitous methods to pull out the Japanese army's troop assembly points and blocking positions redeployed on the front of Liaodong.
In order to disperse the density of enemy troops in Siping's front, Yang Zhen strengthened the deployment of troops in this direction even though he would rather weaken the limited follow-up troop investment in the front battlefield. He also ordered Wang Xiaoming to command all the troops on the eastern front, from Xinbin to Qingyuan.
, launch a diversionary attack in the direction.
If you can, blow up the Qingyuan Hongtoushan copper mine that was left out in the last Harvester operation. Of course, if you can take it down, that would be the best. If you can't take it down, blow it up completely. Yang Zhen plans to
Taking advantage of the Japanese army's current mentality of making up for the situation before it is too late, the Kwantung Army was given a good lesson in tactical psychology.
Let the Japanese army disperse a certain amount of troops and expose a gap that can be exploited in front of Siping. Although Yang Zhen concentrated the last bit of troops and launched a new round of offensive this time, it was just to coordinate Chen Hanzhang's operations on the western front, but it did not
It means that Yang Zhen really stopped in the direction of Siping.
He does not yet have the ability to completely eliminate the main force of the Kwantung Army. However, he took advantage of the Kwantung Army's current attitude of being overwhelmed on the eastern front and mobilized the Japanese army's deployment on the Siping battlefield on a large scale. He found favorable fighter opportunities and ruthlessly attacked the Kwantung Army.
He was very happy to bite off another piece of fat from his body. His request was not high, just cripple the two main divisions deployed by the Japanese army on the Siping front line.
However, on the entire Siping battlefield, Yang Zhen still adopted the method of using small blades to cut through the flesh, constantly making shallow and deep detours. This tactic is more suitable for the actual situation of the current Anti-Japanese Alliance. Although the progress is slower, there is no big opening at the beginning of the campaign.
Dahe. However, they fought steadily and gradually consumed the Japanese front-line combat troops.
At present, the situation on the entire battlefield has reached a stage where stability is the main priority. Yang Zhen will never take any risky actions. However, Yang Zhen also continued to use feints to mobilize the Japanese troops on the three fronts of the entire Northeast battlefield.
, trying to find fighter planes to deal with another Japanese army while fighting steadily.
I don't know Yang Zhen's follow-up actions on the Eastern Front, he is just bluffing. In fact, I don't need to worry about the Anti-Japanese Alliance replicating the last raid. Indeed, there are some soldiers, and the uneasy Umezu Yoshijiro is afraid that the first sneak attack will be successful.
, will encourage the Anti-Japanese Alliance to try again.
The overly cautious Kwantung Army commander chose to strengthen the overall defense posture in the mountainous areas of Liaodong even though his troops were also insufficient. However, considering the defense in depth posture, General Umezu Yoshijiro's defense focus was on Siping and Fengtian.
surroundings.
Especially in the Siping direction, although some troops were mobilized to strengthen the defense lines of Liaodong and Fengtian, he continued to shrink his position in the Siping direction. All Japanese participating troops in the Siping direction were tightly huddled and arranged.
If you want to fight, I will fight. Anyway, I will not show up.
Umezu Yoshijiro's move in the direction of Siping made Yang Zhen, who still wanted to bite another piece of meat from the Japanese army, unable to do anything. The Japanese army used layers of semi-permanent fortification groups that supported each other to gradually adopt
Resistance. The tortoise tactic, which rarely included even tactical counterattacks, made Yang Zhen, who had his mouth open, never find a chance to speak.
Its cross-firing anti-tank firepower, as well as a large number of anti-tank trenches and anti-tank obstacles, also made the progress of the armored troops put into the battlefield by the Anti-Japanese Alliance relatively slow.
After receiving Yang Zhen's order, Wang Guangyu, who was commanding at the front line, concentrated the main force of the Second Armored Division many times, trying to fight a shallow and rapid penetration battle to separate part of the Japanese army in front of him. However, his many efforts were blocked.
The Japanese army's greatly increased number of anti-aircraft artillery groups and new anti-tank tactics were used to contain it.
The Kwantung Army clearly learned from previous lessons and added air defense cover to the newly repaired fixed anti-tank positions on the battlefield. At the same time, it adjusted the deployment of front-line anti-tank gun positions, strengthened the camouflage of anti-tank gun positions, and adjusted various
Range requirements for anti-tank firepower.
The most heavily equipped Type 94 rapid-fire cannon is not allowed to fire at a distance of more than 100 meters. The most powerful Type 1 rapid-fire cannon is not allowed to fire at a distance of more than 150 meters. The Anti-Japanese Alliance quickly issued various anti-Japanese weapons that had appeared on the battlefield in the Northeast.
There are photos of tanks and strict orders specifying the shooting targets of various anti-tank artillery.
The Type 88 and Taisho 14-year-old anti-tank artillery that he painstakingly collected and transferred to the front line as long-range anti-tank firepower had strict targets for shooting. The Maltida II tank was helpless even with the Type-1 anti-tank artillery.
, and the Panzer IV equipped with a 75mm tank gun.
The German-made Panzer III tanks and American-made light tanks are handed over to the Type 1 anti-tank artillery. As for other types of light tanks, they are handed over to the Type 94 rapid-fire gun. Especially the T-26 and BT, as well as the German-made Panzer II tank, the Czech type
The 38 and 35 tanks were all replaced by the Kwantung Army's Type 94 rapid-fire guns, which had the largest number of equipment.
At the same time, a large number of light machine guns and grenade launchers were deployed around the anti-tank artillery positions as covering fire, specifically used to block the anti-tank infantry fighting with tanks and protect these anti-tank artillery. For this reason, Okamura Neji never abandoned the Fengtian arsenal.
After that, almost all the light machine guns from the already depleted reserves were transferred to strengthen the front-line divisions.
Although this shooting distance is almost equivalent to a suicidal defense, for the Japanese army, it is the best anti-tank method. If it is like before, all anti-tank artillery will fight independently, and it will be more than 300 meters away.
If you open fire, you can only destroy your own anti-tank artillery positions from a long distance, one by one like a target.
In order to make up for the lack of anti-tank guns, Okamura Neiji also distributed a large number of Type 99 magnetic anti-tank mines to the troops in the Siping direction, and made a large number of Molotov cocktail Molotov cocktails. He even ordered the frontline troops to organize
Anti-tank brave team, also known as human anti-tank team.
In order to contain the tank shock wave of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, Umezu Yoshijiro took all the measures that he considered necessary. Although these measures came at a great cost. The too close firing distance allowed the Japanese army to survive for a considerable part of the anti-tank guns.
More than half a day.
As for those so-called meat bomb attacks that use Molotov cocktail Molotov cocktails, Type 99 magnetic anti-tank mines, and even the body covered with grenades or explosive packets, as long as the dispatched brave team is dispatched, they basically have no effect.
No reply. But these methods adopted by Umezu Yoshijiro still played a certain role.
Facing the Japanese anti-tank positions as desperate as fire hedgehogs and various anti-tank methods, the speed and breakthrough strength of the anti-tank offensive dropped significantly. The multiple cluster offensives organized by Wang Guangyu paid a certain price
, the effect is not obvious.
It can be said that in the direction of Siping, in the final stage of the battle, Umezu Yoshijiro's tactics of shrinking and adding fire hedgehogs were quite successful. After paying a heavy price and a long-term stalemate with slow progress, Wang Guangyu had to stop this
The gain outweighs the loss of tactics. Change to conventional tanks to cover the infantry, and adopt the tactic of attacking on both wings and breaking through in the middle.
However, in the direction of Siping and Liaodong, Umezu Yoshijiro's overall strategy was to focus on defense, but in western Liaoning, the order he issued was exactly the opposite. Umezu Yoshijiro clearly ordered the two Japanese divisions deployed on the Xifuxin and Chaoyang lines to use
Due to the mountainous terrain of the local Nuruerhu Mountain, troops were mobilized to fight a limited offensive against the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
In the view of Umezu Yoshijiro, if the Anti-Japanese Alliance can be driven out of the western foothills of Nuruerhu Mountain in the western Liaoning battlefield, the entire Nuruerhu Mountain can be controlled in his own hands, and the overall defensive position can be expanded northwestward to the Laoha River Basin.
, which can change the overall defense posture of the Kwantung Army in western Liaoning in the future.
This not only allows us to achieve a condescending posture when defending the Western Liaoning Corridor. We can also use the hilly areas of Western Liaoning to block layers of attacks, consuming the enemy's effective forces trying to enter Western Liaoning from the direction of Jehol. Securing the Western Liaoning Corridor ensures the connection between the Kwantung Army and the Chinese dispatched troops.
The communication channel between them is smooth.
At the same time, it can also lay the foundation for re-entering Rehe in the near future. Although the current Kwantung Army general commander who currently believes that the best strategy of the Kwantung Army is to defend, he is not too sure whether he can regain Rehe.
Overzealous. In this battle, his defense focus was not on Rehe. Instead, he directly reduced the entire western Liaoning front to the Nuruerhushan line.
The current General Umezu Yoshijiro is no longer enthusiastic about regaining the lost ground of the entire Kwantung Army. His current thoughts are on how to defend South Manchuria. But he still believes that if the northwest front can be expanded to Laoha
River Basin, and controlling all of Nuruerhu Mountain in our hands will change the overall situation of future operations.
Nuruerhu Mountain is connected to the Qilaotu Mountain in the northwest, the Yanshan Mountains in the west, and the Songling Mountains in the hilly areas of western Liaoning. It is located at the junction of the Mongolian Plateau and the Liaohe Plain, and is the barrier of the Liaohe Plain to the east.
To the south, it forms a corner with the hilly areas of western Liaoning, dominated by the Songling Mountains, and the mountains of eastern Hebei.
Although the mountains here are high, they are not steep. If we can fully regain control of the Nuruerhu Mountains and push the western Liaoning front to the Laoha River, we will be in a position where we can advance, attack, retreat and defend. This pair
It is quite beneficial to change the situation of the whole western Liaoning and Jehol battlefield.
At the same time, in terms of strategic situation, if the entire Nuruerhu Mountain area is controlled, it will be more secure to ensure the safety of coal and mineral bases such as Fuxin and Beipiao in western Liaoning. Several major coal mines in Fushun suffered serious damage during this attack.
Since then, the coal in Fuxin and Beipiao has become the only remaining coal production base in southern Manchuria, and safety is of paramount importance.
If the two major mining areas of Fuxin and Beipiao were lost again, the Kwantung Army would really be out of coal. In order to ensure the safety of the mineral resource base in western Liaoning, Umezu Yoshijiro gritted his teeth and fought against the anti-alliance and advance army units on the western Liaoning front.
, started a mountainous offensive battle.
However, he was worried that the two divisions would be drained of their blood in the tug-of-wars in the mountains. He repeatedly told the two division commanders on the front line that the speed of this limited offensive battle must be well controlled.
. Try not to go deep into the Laoha River Basin. The attack stop line is strictly defined on the east bank of the Laoha River.
However, in order to reduce the pressure on western Liaoning, Umezu Yoshijiro instructed the commander of the Fourth Army of the Kwantung Army in western Liaoning, Lieutenant General Washizu Jinhei, to appropriately organize squadron-level reconnaissance troops to penetrate deep into the enemy's army in disguise and attack the enemy's
Baggage and headquarters. However, the strength and quantity of troops invested must be strictly controlled.