After hearing Ma Chunsheng's answer, Yang Zhen did not answer him immediately. Instead, he stood up and walked outside the door to look at the stars in the completely dark night sky. After thinking for a long time, he turned back and said: "Order the second brigade and the third brigade.
Stop the attack and switch to defense on the spot. Seize the time to rest, and at the same time deploy the necessary security forces. [.Com text] tell them that before there is an order from the headquarters, their future combat operations will be mainly based on small-unit trials."
"Order the main force of the first brigade to strengthen a battalion of the headquarters field artillery regiment, a battalion of 100mm light howitzers, and a company of 150mm mortars, all of which will enter the territory of Yilan and Boli and be on standby. All forces will be under the unified command of Wang Guangyu, and
Look for fighter planes in Yilan and Boli."
"Tell him to pay attention to the scale of the battle, control the rhythm of the battle, and not to fight. First, find out the combat effectiveness of the 14th Division of the Japanese Army as soon as possible. Second, if he can't defeat the little devil, let him use the two puppet Manchukuo troops to fight against the human power.
Let me get rid of the brigade. Even if our spearhead has lost its sharpness now, it will become a file. Little by little, we will weaken the strength of the Japanese and puppet troops on the front line. If we bleed the Japanese and puppet troops properly, even if we cannot defeat the little Japanese, we will still be able to do so.
We need to kill those dogs and cut off the little devil’s arms.”
"In addition, order Gao Yumin and Zhang Zhenhua to ascertain the physical conditions of the rescued workers as soon as possible, and select those under the age of twenty-eight and those over the age of seventeen to form a new supplementary group. The rest will be sent to Luo
Relocate to the north and form a new production and construction headquarters with the original reclamation troops."
"Seize the time to complete the screening, education, and physical examination of the 20,000 captured Puppet Manchukuo recruits. Within half a month, I will see new regiments equivalent to at least ten main regiments."
After hearing the order issued by Yang Zhen, Ma Chunsheng breathed a sigh of relief knowing that Yang Zhen was very clear-headed at this time and was not dazzled by the victory in front of him.
Before, he was really worried that the young commander would be dazzled by the previous results and attack with the whole army in excitement. The enemy was now exhausted from the fight. Most of the troops were in disarray and suffered heavy casualties. He had replenished his troops several times, but
For most of the troops that are still under-organized, it is definitely not a good idea to face the Japanese army, which is almost waiting for work except for the 14th Division on the Western Front.
Yang Zhen stopped moving south and reorganized his troops. For the Japanese army, what was unforgettable was not only the number of casualties, but also the loss of Jiamusi, the most important strategic support point in the entire Northeast Manchuria region. They are now
They discovered that the opponents they might have looked down upon before, who in their eyes could only engage in ambushes and did not dare to face the imperial army for a decisive battle, had now become a monster that could threaten their rule in Manchuria at any time.
He is well-trained, well-equipped, and has a tenacious will to fight. Although his technical and tactical skills are still a little raw, he has reached the highest level among all the opponents he has ever encountered. Even the most elite German weapon masters of the Nanjing government were comparable to him.
There is a certain gap between them.
All this, and of course the loss of troops and generals on the battlefield, made the Japanese army regard Yang Zhen's troops as an opponent more difficult to deal with than the Soviet army. To be honest, the Japanese army did not know how to deal with them twice in Zhanggufeng and Nomenhan.
The Soviet troops who took over were not too convinced.
In the eyes of some people in the Kwantung Army, especially some young fanatical officers, the Soviet army, in addition to relying on tanks, heavy artillery, and aircraft to fight tooth and nail, had very poor technical and tactical levels, especially the quality of its individual soldiers. No more.
Supported by powerful firepower, these white guys have big muscles and round bodies, so they may not be their opponents.
These Japanese may have forgotten that if they lose their absolute advantage in fire support, they may not be able to run arrogantly on the battlefield inside the pass when they usually fight with less and more? The Battle of Songhu, from the beginning to the end, was...
Hundreds of thousands of heavy artillery shells alone were fired in the battle. It was not precisely because of the overwhelming advantage in firepower and even poison gas compared with the Chinese ** team, which had poor firepower and a serious shortage of weapons such as anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns.
, they can run rampant in the Guanci Civil War. Regarding the Soviet army's evaluation that it has no other advantages except relying on superior firepower, it can be said that it is a typical crow falls on a pig, and you can see that others are in trouble but you can't see that you are in trouble.
Many actual battles have proven that if the Japanese army can take advantage of firepower to eliminate their opponents, they will never be idiots enough to use bayonets. They can use shells, bullets, and even poison gas to eliminate their opponents, but they will never use hand-to-hand combat.
The Japanese army is indeed extremely tenacious in fighting. This is something that the Chinese people should learn from. But it is not conducive to think that tenacity can replace everything. Otherwise, why would they build so many aircraft, heavy artillery, and tanks? When they go to the battlefield, one person will do it.
Wouldn't it be more enjoyable to have a samurai sword?
I don’t know what’s wrong with the Kwantung Army’s brains. When faced with an opponent with powerful firepower, the Kwantung Army completely forgot how it relied on its superior firepower to bully other weaker opponents. It stubbornly believed that the opponent only relied on strong firepower.
Firepower bullies a vulnerable group like myself. Without the advantage in firepower, I still have the upper hand by relying on my superior individual combat capabilities and excellent officer qualities.
After Zhang Gufeng, the Japanese army once thought that one Japanese division could defeat three Soviet divisions. After Nomenhan suffered a heavy blow from mechanization and ground-to-air firepower, they still thought so. But they added a
The premise is that the firepower of both sides is equal.
It was the Kwantung Army, which believed that the Soviet army had nothing but fierce firepower and a high degree of mechanization, but believed that Yang Zhen's army was too far behind the Soviet army in terms of fire support and had no tanks or aircraft in terms of other combat skills.
But it was to surpass the Soviet army.
An officer of the 11th Division who had participated in the Qunce Mountain battle and was lucky enough to be withdrawn from the front line. In fact, it should be said that he escaped. He once said that the opponent was not the guerrilla-like ragtag group that the Kwantung Army headquarters had always considered before.
A well-trained and well-equipped regular army.
Its infantry and artillery cooperative combat capabilities, individual combat capabilities, battlefield adaptability, and tactical application capabilities far exceed those of the Soviet army that fought hard. The participating troops of the 11th Division have encountered opponent artillery more than once during the battle.
The barrage covers the shooting. Its mortar firepower is not only strong, but also extremely accurate. It can be seen that it is a strictly trained unit.
It was just that these warnings fell on deaf ears during the so-called Autumn Campaign. It was not until after the first phase of the battle that they discovered that their calculations were wrong. It was just that the Kwantung Army realized the mistake, but it judged others by itself, wishfully thinking that it
The casualties are heavy, and the opponent's casualties can only be heavier than your own, not less. Even if you urgently mobilize new recruits to join the battle, everyone knows the true combat effectiveness of untrained recruits.
Although the Kwantung Army received a heavy beating in the second stage of the battle, they had already stopped looking down upon them. However, it was not until the end of the battle that they truly realized their mistakes. This is why Umezu Yoshijiro was killed after the loss of Jiamusi.
, the reason for turning offense into defense.
Three lieutenant generals were killed, and two divisions lost 80% of their strength. Although one division escaped in the end, its strength had dropped drastically to barely one-third of its full strength.
For Umezu Yoshijiro, this kind of loss was like a heavy slap in the face to the Kwantung Army and even the Japanese army who had always looked down on any Chinese army. Not only was it painful, but the most important thing was that it was embarrassing to his hometown.
Went. After this battle, the Kwantung Army, in addition to changing their previous contempt for this unit that appeared under their noses, paid great attention to it. They also developed an excellent mentality.
After this battle, the Kwantung Army was basically immune to losses of less than one regiment of the Japanese army and one brigade of the puppet Manchukuo army when facing this force. Officers below the rank of colonel were killed, and it can even be said that it has been calm.
.This mentality is expressed in the self-deprecating words of Umezu Yoshijiro: "I can be said to be the one with the strongest mental endurance among all the Japanese generals."
Of course, Yang Zhen, who had already made up his mind to stop the offensive and was seizing the time to adjust the defense zones of various departments, did not know about Umezu Yoshijiro's private statement. A considerable part of his attention was attracted by the Japanese 25th Division on the Western Front.
When the gunfire fell on the line at Lianjiangkou, the 25th Division on the Haoliang River line on the western front almost became the only Japanese army north of the Songhua River that was still an organic unit.
In the first stage of this battle, instead of assisting the Japanese troops in the middle route, the 70th Regiment was lost. The 25th Division, which had been severely reprimanded by the Kwantung Army Headquarters, changed its previous dilly-dallying style and almost
For the first time, they concentrated their forces and launched an attack to the north and west. During the attack, the 25th Division made every effort, and it cannot but be said that it cost a lot of money.
However, under the command of the commander Zhao Shangzhi and the political commissar Yi Jianping, who are good at mountain warfare, the three-division basic regiment and the attached troops, which had been expanded before the war, adopted cold guns and cold guns when the enemy and our field forces were roughly equal.
The tactics combined with landmines, frontal blocking warfare and mountain mobile warfare not only successfully stopped several offensives of the 25th Division, but also gave the only remaining 14th Regiment of the 25th Division a huge blow.
Kill.
Frustrated by the opponent's weird tactics, they looked at the dense jungles of the North Manchu mountains, which in their eyes were full of cunning Manchus and full of terrible landmines. They had not received any training in anti-guerrilla warfare, as well as mountain and jungle warfare training.
The 25th Division was helpless. It paid heavy casualties, but at the end of the battle, it failed to play the role that the Kwantung Army Headquarters had hoped for them to play.
After learning that a large number of enemy troops had appeared in Yilan, his original station, Shiro Kuwahara, who was obviously unwilling to repeat the mistakes of Toji Yasui and Hiroshi Nemoto, blew up all the supplies that he could not carry. He did not dare to go the way he came, but headed west.
Crossing the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, I ran all the way until I retreated to Suiling County before stopping.
Although Kuwahara Shiro chose a retreat route that was almost unexpected by everyone, the commander of the third division was almost caught off guard. However, he then launched a pincer pursuit. The core regiment of the third division that had painstakingly trained in mountain marching operations was still there.
Under the command of Zhao Shangzhi, they captured a section of the supply chain of the 25th Division that had been cut off from the rear, as well as the artillery that fell behind due to its bulkiness.
After a fierce battle in the middle of the night, the backbone regiment of the third division, with the cooperation of strengthened troops, encircled and annihilated the Japanese troops surrounded by them. They also seized three 75mm mountain guns, six Type 92 heavy machine guns, and intercepted 20
A large number of baggage was intercepted from the fifth division's baggage regiment.
Although they failed to catch up with the main force of the 25th Division, the Western Front troops captured most of its baggage or blew it up themselves. Except for the small amount of food and ammunition carried by the soldiers themselves, the 25th Division lost almost everything
Got all the baggage.
The remnant troops of the 25th Division, who had never experienced any wild survival, this time actually tried it. During the Third Route Army's western expedition last year, they experienced the fire burning their chests and the wind blowing their backs. After crossing the Xiaoxing'an Mountains,
, when they retreated to Suiling, they were freezing and hungry, and lost two squadrons of troops.
You must know that in the late autumn season of late October, the climate in alpine mountains such as Xiaoxinganling is really not warm. Snow has begun to fall in some higher places. At this time, because there is no time to change clothes, the Japanese soldiers are still wearing autumn combat uniforms.
I deeply felt what it means to be in the world of ice and fire.
With the sound of gunshots falling on the Haoliang River on October 21, it heralded the end of the anti-Japanese encirclement and suppression campaign that had officially started on September 1 and lasted for nearly two months. Although the Jidong Military Region achieved success in this battle
Winning a brilliant victory. But it also paid a heavy price. The three field brigades plus one, three military division cadre regiments and local armed casualties reached nearly 30,000 people. Among them, more than 11,000 people were killed and missing.
According to this number, if averaged, it can be said that almost all the three field brigades before the war were replaced. The heaviest casualties were Wang Guangyu's brigade, which fought bloody battles with the main force of the 24th Division for several days at Jiangjunshi.
When the second phase of the operation was launched, the number of additional troops reached 70%.
The second brigade that took over from the first brigade to block the second division in the second phase was no better than Wang Guangyu's first brigade. At the beginning of the battle, the second brigade had been replenished and it could be said to be a fully equipped infantry brigade.
When a full-line counterattack was launched, a full regiment of troops was replenished to partially restore combat effectiveness. Even for the third brigade with the lightest casualties, by the end of the battle, the replenishment of troops reached 40% of the army.
When a basic regiment faced the Third Division troops of a field detachment of the Japanese army, the casualties reached 70%. Since it was not the main direction of the battle, although the Third Division basic regiment also replenished some troops, by the end of the battle, it was originally equipped as a uniform unit.
The troops supplemented by the full infantry regiment had suffered more than half casualties, and only one battalion remained.
During the counterattack commanded by Guo Bingxun, the three-division basic regiment, which had lost its combat capability due to heavy casualties, could only do some escorting and baggage tasks, and at most served as flank cover.
Holding the casualty figures reported after statistics in his hand, Yang Zhen's distressed hands trembled. These are the basic troops that Qunce Mountain and Xingshan Fortress have painstakingly cultivated. Especially those who have been trained by Qunce Mountain.
Nearly half of the veterans who survived the bloody battle at Qunce Mountain, the First World War at Jiamusi, and the bloody battle at Guanmenzuizi Mountain were all wiped out at once. How could he not feel sad for them?
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