At the same time, Qin Yansaburo notified the navy in Lushun, hoping that the navy could return the borrowed gunboats Hailong and Haifeng of the Puppet Manchukuo Maritime Police Force to the Puppet Manchukuo Maritime Police Force controlled by the Kwantung Army to strengthen the protection of the coastal areas of Liaodong Bay and ensure the entire
The Kwantung Army's butt is safe, don't be bitten by the enemy from the sea.
Although Lieutenant General Qin Yansaburo was very dissatisfied with the anti-Japanese warships gathering in Tanggu Port, because he believed that landing operations would not be an easy task for the enemy who currently did not have a navy. It took only a dozen ships to capture the Japanese
Landing ships and landing craft, plus some unarmed sailing boats, they just want to land behind them?
I'm afraid that their fleet will be disrupted as soon as they go to sea. The enemy's actions in Tianjin are just to distract the Kwantung Army. Even if they repair and capture the imperial landing ship, they will not be able to carry out large-scale operations.
Landing operations. If you don't want to worry about it, at least wait until they gather the manpower to drive these landing ships.
Landing operations require long-term drills, and also require a large amount of intelligence support on climate, tides, etc. It also requires a large number of fleets to provide fierce fire support. You can't just land when you want. The enemy has no
With such a support system, it would be sheer fantasy to implement a landing operation.
However, Qin Yansanlang still made certain preparations in Liaodong Bay, which starts from Huludao in the west and ends in Gaiping in the east. Don't be afraid of anything but just in case. Regardless of whether it is useful or not, it is still good to make some preparations in advance. Wait until you get through it.
When Liaodong Bay begins to freeze in late November, you can withdraw the anti-landing troops deployed along the coast.
Anyway, those nominally belonging to the Puppet Manchukuo Civil Affairs Ministry, but actually belonging to the Maritime Police Force directly under the Kwantung Army, more than a dozen large and small gunboats are idle. Let them go out and exercise, and the Kwantung Army is not in vain.
These guys, don't just think about making money from seafood all day long.
However, throughout early October, the Northeast Front remained calm. On the contrary, the Anti-Japanese Alliance fleet concentrated in Tanggu was extremely active, with intensive training and continuous landing training every day, which made Qin Yansanlang constantly doubt himself.
Is the judgment correct?
After consulting General Yamada Otsuzo, Lieutenant General Qin Yanzaburo transferred the seventh division, currently the most elite of the Kwantung Army, from the southeast of Fushun to deploy defenses along the Gaiping line. Because if the enemy really carries out a landing operation in Liaodong Bay, it will
If the breakthrough point is chosen at Gaiping, it will directly threaten the Feng'an Railway Line, and even the entire Liaodong Peninsula will be cut off.
The Anfeng Railway is the only lifeline of the Kwantung Army at the moment. Once it is cut off, the entire Kwantung Army will have no way to retreat. Even if all other directions are abandoned, this railway line must be defended to the death. If the Anfeng Railway is lost, the entire Kwantung Army will be
They can only become a group of homeless ghosts in southern Manchuria.
Therefore, after much consideration, Lieutenant General Qin Yansanlang still transferred the 7th Division to the Gaiping coastline to prepare for anti-landing operations. At the same time, he transferred the 122nd Division from the battlefield north of Fengtian to take over the responsibility of the 7th Division from Fushun to Fushun.
The first-line defense of Qinghe City. At the same time, the two independent heavy artillery regiments on the southeast battlefield of Fushun were also strengthened to the direction of Gaiping.
In this way, the entire line from Gaiping to Yingkou, including the deep Dashiqiao area, has three divisions, three heavy artillery regiments, and a tank brigade. Even if the Anti-Japanese Alliance chooses to recruit troops from the entire Liaodong Bay except Jinzhou
Outside the coast, the most suitable area for landing is the line from Yingkou to Gaiping, so he can easily drive the landing anti-alliance troops into the sea.
Just because they have absolute maritime superiority, the Kwantung Army never thought that one day the enemy would land in Liaodong Bay behind them. This coastal defense fortification group was a bit too hasty. The time was too short to build a permanent fortification group.
The Japanese army could only demolish a large number of civilian houses to build field fortifications.
However, while Lieutenant General Qin Yansanlang continued to mobilize troops and generals in southern Manchuria, especially the Japanese troops transferred to Gaiping and Yingkou lines, they were seizing the time to build coastal defenses. All the senior generals of the anti-alliance forces in the north,
No one knows what exactly No. 1 is thinking about.
It's already this time, but no battle order has been issued, not even the battle preparation order has been issued. If this battle order is not issued, time will be a bit rushed. The weather is getting colder day by day. If the action order is not issued, by then
When the autumn monsoon blows in southern Manchuria, it is very likely that parachute operations will not be possible.
But none of these senior generals dared to ask No. 1 when the combat readiness order was issued. Although ammunition did not need to be sent forward for the time being, various military stations on the front line had been secretly stockpiling ammunition and oil after the previous battle. But the troops
Sending forward, especially forward sending of heavy equipment, will take time after all.
But it was not until October 15, 1944, that the Anti-Alliance Headquarters issued an order for the troops to assemble. All combat orders were not issued by radio, and no mobilization meeting was held before the war. Instead, the headquarters
Staff officers were dispatched on small planes, and all participating troops except the frontline troops were notified by letter.
In the letter received by each division, the route and method of the division's advance are specified in detail, as well as the designated combat assembly area. At the same time, commanders in each direction will not take jeeps, but instead take ordinary transport trucks to their respective areas.
Reserve a command position and proceed.
In addition to the seven independent tank regiments already on the front line, the 1st Armored Division, 3rd Armored Division, 4th Armored Division and three armored brigades scheduled to participate in the war need to be mobilized from the rear. The 1st Mechanized Infantry Division is in North Korea.
Under the cover of three independent tank regiments in the territory, as well as the Second Armored Division pretending to move into North Korea.
Take the method of transporting 80 kilometers from the respective designated battlefields by railway, and directly adopt the method of mechanized advance on the remaining 80 kilometers of route. All tanks, heavy artillery, and motorized troops that need to be moved by railway will all be transported by railway.
Strict disguise. Adopt a method of advancing in batches and multiple circuitous routes.
When the military column loaded with German tanks of the Second Armored Division passed through Yanji and Tumen and arrived at Funing and Jingcheng in North Korea, including the Japanese base camp, both the Kwantung Army and the Korean Army believed that the next step for the Anti-Japanese Alliance was
The key target of the attack will be North Korea to cut off the Kwantung Army's retreat route to North Korea when necessary.
The so-called fleet of the Anti-Japanese Alliance on the Tanggu front line was nothing more than a confusing method to distract and contain the Kwantung Army's forces so that it could not reinforce the Korean army. Although all senior Japanese staff believed that the terrain in North Korea was not suitable for tanks
Combat. But facing the Japanese base camp, an opponent who often acted irrationally, especially the new chief of staff, General Yoshijiro Umezu, they simply did not dare to take it lightly.
The classic tank penetration battle carried out by the Anti-Japanese Alliance in 1942 went straight into Baotou over the Yinshan Mountains, which was impossible to climb in the eyes of ordinary people, and directly led to the rout of the Mongolian army. Tell the Japanese base camp that in this powerful country,
In front of an opponent, anything can happen.
What's more, in the earlier battle where tanks entered the battle, the North Korean army was unable to compete. This opponent, who was always coming up with new tricks, was really hard to guard against. There were no troops available on the mainland, or they simply couldn't.
A base camp that does not want to draw troops from the mainland.
While the Chinese dispatched troops were still licking their wounds, although they were a little more cautious, they transferred a division, an independent mixed brigade, and seven troops from the Kwantung Army in the shortest possible time.
The anti-tank gun squadron was assigned to the Korean army. This made both Yamada Otsuzo and Qin Yanzaburo quite speechless.
You reinforce the North Korean army, but the Kwantung Army and the North Korean army are connected by mountains and rivers. They are closely interdependent. Who can guarantee that the enemy will not attack the Kwantung Army while launching an attack on the North Korean army? With so many tank troops, North Korea has so many tank troops.
Can this kind of narrow terrain be overcome? As long as the enemy forces attack the Korean army, the Kwantung Army will inevitably be involved.
However, the order from the Japanese base camp was extremely tough. The 51st Division of the Kwantung Army stationed along the Anfeng-Fenghuang Railway was mobilized and quickly moved into North Korea. The order from the base camp was simple, but the Kwantung Army always felt that its current strength was insufficient.
, but it is difficult to adjust the deployment.
The calculations came and went. In desperation, Qin Yansanlang could only take risks and transfer the 108th Division back from the Gaiping front line to fill the vacancy left after the 51st Division was transferred. As for the transfer of the 108th Division
The vacancy left by the regiment could only allow the 69th Division at Dashiqiao to push forward. But both of them believed that it would be more appropriate for the 7th Division to remain on the Gaiping front line.
And just when Yamada Otsuzo and Qin Yanzaburo were hurriedly adjusting their deployment, the anti-alliance forces opposite them suddenly accelerated their mobilization. Each unit was either transported by railway or maneuvered by road to their designated areas.
Advance quickly. Yang Zhen's order to each division is that each division must reach the designated position before October 20th.
In fact, no one, including the Military Commission, knew why Yang Zhen's general offensive was launched in late October. Almost everyone believed that mid-October was the best time to launch this operation. When it was too late, he was in Tanggu
The feint troops really turned out to be a bluff.
Although Liaodong Bay will not freeze by the end of October, the temperature of the sea water is no longer suitable for carrying out landing operations. By mid-to-late November, the entire Liaodong Bay begins to freeze. By that time, the Japanese army deployed in Liaodong Bay to counter-landing operations
The division can be freed up to be transferred to other battlefields, which will undoubtedly increase the variables of the entire battlefield.
But Yang Zhen never took any action, and it was not until early October that he began to make secret preparations. On October 11, he only ordered all troops to strictly prohibit going out, and all vehicles must be filled with fuel and put into combat readiness, and the secret preparations began
Make preparations for large-scale railway transportation.
This makes many people confused about what this young regional commander is thinking. In fact, why did he not launch this battle until late October. In addition to other reasons, there is another
A very important reason is that there is still a big gap in the number of tanks used for rapid assaults. Even if the tank troops stationed in North China are transferred back, the number of tanks currently used by the Anti-Union Alliance is still insufficient.
It is necessary to implement the central government's requirements to quickly capture the entire South Manchuria and ensure the integrity of South Manchuria's industry as much as possible. The number of tanks as a rapid assault force is insufficient to encircle the heavy Japanese army group north of Shenyang and at the same time, penetrate directly into Xinmin from both wings of Shenyang. , Anshan, cut off Japanese reinforcements from the east and west directions of Shenyang, making it difficult for Yang Zhen to accomplish this.
It is not impossible to rely solely on infantry to attack, but the attack speed must be slowed down by more than a little bit. The infantry's fast mobility is too poor, and it is difficult to advance quickly under the tenacious obstruction of the enemy. With the character of the Japanese, as long as Give them a certain chance, these people probably won't even leave Mao behind for them. The Fuxin front line that the Kwantung Army voluntarily abandoned, and all the coal mines were blown up, are enough to illustrate this point.