Daping Yima believes that it is not appropriate for the second-line troops to dispatch before the enemy's next move is clear. Otherwise, once an abnormality occurs, the entire front army will no longer have any ability to respond. According to Major General Daping Yima's prediction and judgment, the enemy's This time on the center-line battlefield, its main target is likely to be Shenyang, the industrial and transportation center of southern Manchuria.
Major General Daping Yima suggested that it is better to fight steadily for the time being. Don't always think about keeping the enemy outside the defensive circle and not giving in an inch of ground. The entire battle plan at the moment should focus on Shenyang. The battle has just begun now, so It is really inappropriate to transfer all the reserve teams.
However, General Harem Chun, as the commander of the front army, insisted that this counterattack must be launched. General Harem Chun's reason was very clear. If the gap opened could be closed and the assault of the enemy cavalry mechanized group could be contained, the overall defense of the entire north of Shenyang would be There is a risk of total collapse.
At present, among the defense forces north of Shenyang, only one division was formed in 40 or 3 years, and the rest are mainly newly formed divisions. These divisions are second-rate in terms of combat effectiveness and equipment. If they cannot be deployed in time, If the assault of the enemy's mechanized cavalry group cannot be contained, the entire defense system will be in danger.
Once Tieling is captured by the enemy, the entire Third Front Army is in danger of collapse. In the area north of Shenyang, the entire Kwantung Army will no longer be able to defend. No matter what the enemy's goal is, the entire front north of Shenyang must Maintain stability. This is not only related to the entire central Liaoning battlefield, but also involves the connection between the two battlefields in western Liaoning and eastern Liaoning.
Faced with the insistence of General Harem Jun, Major General Otsubo Ichima had no choice but to issue orders in accordance with the requirements of the front army commander. This is the difference between the chief officer and the chief of staff. Even in the Japanese military system, the power of the chief of staff is greater than that of the chief of staff. , but must also obey the orders of the military commander.
After receiving the order from General Harem Jun, Lieutenant General Shimizu Noriaki of the Japanese 30th Army west of the Zhongchang Railway was beaten to the left and right. He could only take the risk of mobilizing an infantry division from the second echelon, plus an independent mixed unit. The troops of the brigade launched an all-out siege against the intersecting detachment of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
At the same time, an independent mixed brigade located in the area of Faku Niangniang Temple in the southwest of Jinjiatun was mobilized. Under the cover of one regiment each of artillery and tanks, they crossed the Liao River to launch a counterattack against Jinjiatun at all costs. He was responsible for Major General Shun Teng Shunzang, commander of the 134th Independent Brigade, who was on the front line of the counterattack against Jinjiatun, issued a death order to retake Jinjiatun in the shortest possible time and re-seal the breach.
Lieutenant General Qingshui Juju and General Harem Chun still have the same view on the possible subsequent impact of a breakthrough on the Jinjiatun front line. Moreover, this anti-league cavalry mechanized group is rampaging within his defense zone. If If the penetration of this force is not contained, his Western Group is likely to collapse immediately.
Moreover, after the front line of Jinjiatun was captured by the enemy, his Thirty Army has been divided into two. If Jinjiatun cannot be recaptured, his defense zone will be torn apart across the board. The most critical thing is Lieutenant General Qingshui Ruju The headquarters of the Thirty Army is located at Qingyun Fort east of Laokaiyuan.
Once Tieling is occupied by the enemy, his Thirty Army Headquarters will have no way to go to heaven. So even if he is reluctant, he can only bite the bullet and launch a counterattack. So he can only mobilize the troops west of the Liaohe River on the one hand,
He immediately withdrew across the Liaohe River. On the one hand, he also transferred all the two independent mixed brigades that Lieutenant General Qin Yanzaburo temporarily assigned to his Fifth Army at the last moment before the battle began.
But what faced Lieutenant General Qingshui Rules was that the wish was beautiful, but the reality was extremely cruel. Just as the independent mixed 134th Brigade followed the orders of Lieutenant General Qingshui Rules, they completed their assembly under the cover of night and prepared to cross the border.
When they crossed the Liaohe River to launch a counterattack on the front line of Jinjiatun, they were discovered by the Anti-Japanese Alliance troops moving to the southwest of Jinjiatun to defend themselves.
After receiving the report of the enemy situation from the ministry, Yang Zhen immediately ordered a group of eighteen B-24 bombers that had just taken off to bomb the Japanese army in the area west of Xinmin. At this moment, a group of eighteen B-24 bombers flying in the airspace west of Changtu changed the bombing target.
It is the 134th Brigade heading southwest of Jinjiatun.
Under the guidance of the ground anti-alliance combat troops, the bomber squadron dropped more than a dozen illumination bombs on the heads of the 134th Brigade. All the bombers formed a dense formation and carried high-altitude bombs at an altitude of 500 meters.
All the explosive bombs were thrown on the heads of the 134th Brigade who were waiting for the engineers to set up a pontoon bridge to cross the river.
The more than 100 tons of bombs dropped by the eighteen B-24 bombers were undoubtedly a catastrophic blow to the 134th Brigade who were concentrated on the west bank of the Liao River waiting to cross the river. They fell on the troops of the 134th Brigade.
The dense bombs in the column blasted the 134th Brigade with blood and flesh everywhere. The carpet bombing left the Japanese soldiers with no way to the sky and no way to the ground.
Before the 134th Brigade could wake up from the carpet bombing carried out by these heavy bombers, the Anti-Japanese Night Flight Air Force over the entire battlefield west of the China-Long-Shanghai Railway was like flies smelling the smell of blood.
They arrived, guided by illumination bombs, and dropped all the high-explosive bombs and napalm bombs they carried on the heads of the 134th Brigade.
In the first attack by the B-24 bombers, half of the 134th Brigade was blown away. It could withstand the attacks of so many aircraft in turns. At dawn, this group was under air attack.
The 134th Brigade, which was destroyed by the bombing and lost two-thirds of its combat troops, could only retreat to the southwest under the command of the only remaining brigade captain.
As for Major General Shunto Shunzang, who Lieutenant General Qingshui had placed high hopes on, together with all the officers of his 134th Brigade Headquarters, the remaining parts that were bombed could not even be put together as a body. Across the Liaohe River from Jinjiatun
On the shore, there were pieces of bombed and torn corpses of Japanese soldiers everywhere.
A tank regiment attached to the brigade was destroyed by the Anti-Japanese Alliance attack aircraft group with rockets and napalm on the way before it could even enter the battlefield. Lieutenant General Shimizu laid down a heavy blow.
The counterattack they were determined to launch was stopped by the bombing before it could fully launch.
As the saying goes, good fortune never comes alone, and misfortune never comes alone. At the same time that the 134th Brigade was bombed and suffered heavy casualties. After his Thirty Army fell on the east and west banks of the Liaohe River and the Jinjiatun line, the remaining areas from Manjing, Mazhong River, Faku to Tong
The defenses along the Jiangkou also collapsed under the all-out assault of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
The battered Lieutenant General Qingshui Juju had no choice but to give up his plan to re-seal the breach. He sent a report to General Harem Chun, requesting the entire Thirty Army to shrink to Zhonggu between the Faku Empress Temple and Tieling Kaiyuan. The three positions on the front line of Pingdingbao were fortified. At the same time, the front army was requested to add at least one division to the Thirty Army.
Receiving the telegram from Lieutenant General Qingshui Rules, General Harem Chun was quite happy. He knew that once the direction of the Thirty Army was breached, the entire battlefield north of Shenyang was in danger of collapse. Compared with the mountainous areas on the east side of the Zhongchang Railway, the west To the side is the vast Songnen Plain. Once the enemy forces deploy a large number of tanks in this direction, they might hit Shenyang City directly.
After hesitating for a moment, General Harem Chun transferred all the reinforcements from the Kwantung Army Headquarters to him from the Fifth Army before the war. The last division defending Shenyang was given to Lieutenant General Qing Shui. For the Third Front Army, the Thirty Army The strategic position it is in is too important. If the Thirty Army collapses, it means that his entire front army will completely collapse.
After such an adjustment by General Harem Chun, the entire defense force of Shenyang City was reduced to an independent 80th mixed brigade, plus a more security-oriented brigade with only more than 2,000 troops. It was basically used by the Kwantung Army to control the city of Shenyang. The Shenyang Independent Guards are safe and guard the major military factories in Shenyang City. They do not have any firepower above heavy machine guns.
Compared with Lieutenant General Moto Shimizu, who was more resolute in executing orders, Lieutenant General Hongo Yoshio on the eastern front seemed much more cunning. He did not use any reserves, but directly gave up on Shangyang Fort after the loss. Weiyuan Fort, Diao Pi Tuen, and Eight Trees Line were controlled by the Japanese army.
The general shrank his main force to the south of Weiyuan, from Zhonggu to Chaihebao, with the Shahe River Basin as the second line of defense. Even the old and new counties of Kaiyuan were directly abandoned by him. At the same time, he shrank the entire force together. , adopted a posture of intensive defense. As for the order of General Chun of the Harem, he only ordered a mobile regiment located south of Shangyang Fort to deal with the problem.
Lieutenant General Yoshio Hongo, who had just been appointed as the commander of the 62nd Division, which had lost all his capital in the first half of the year, and was promoted to the commander of the Kwantung Army, knew very well that under the enemy's absolutely superior ground and air firepower suppression, and Under the impact of the tanks that kept launching attacks, his own counterattack would only result in more losses than gains.
When he first took office, Lieutenant General Yoshio Hongo, who had studied the anti-Japanese tank combat rules, believed that although his defense area was in the mountainous area east of the Zhongchang Railway, it did not mean that the enemy would not use tanks in this direction. Because this The area is covered with mountains and hills. Although the terrain is a bit more complex, it cannot be said that it is absolutely impossible to use tanks in combat.
The super-large-caliber heavy howitzers used by the enemy also made the permanent fortification group repaired by the Kwantung Army before the war lose the role that the Kwantung Army expected to play. If you attack the front line of Shangyang Fort at this time, you will send yourself to the enemy. In your hands, this is undoubtedly worth the loss.
Relying on his keen sense of smell developed over many years of service in the aviation force, he believed that instead of being overwhelmed by the enemy's superior firepower and tank clusters in a counterattack, the troops invested in the counterattack would gradually be exhausted. Such a hard-fought fight would definitely not work. It fits the current war situation.
Instead of taking the initiative to attack you, you might as well rely on the favorable conditions of the mountainous terrain where you are, adopt the tactics of constant resistance, and drag down the enemy little by little throughout the eastern mountainous areas of Kaiyuan and Tieling. The enemy's large-caliber
The heavy artillery moves slowly, and if you withdraw to the second-line position, their heavy artillery cluster will be unable to exert its power. In this way, you can rely on the second-line defensive position to hold back and consume the enemy.
Facts have proved that Lieutenant General Hongo Yoshio's approach was still an appropriate choice. When the Thirty Army, in accordance with the orders of the front army, launched a full-line counterattack on the Jinjiatun front line, and concentrated the heavy troop groups of the second echelon, to attack those who broke into the depth of their defenses.
The anti-alliance mechanized cavalry group was engaged in anti-encirclement operations.
From the two wings of the central battlefield, the two interpenetrating corps commanded by Chen Hanzhang and Du Kaishan respectively took advantage of the opportunity of the main force of the Japanese army being attracted on the frontal battlefield. With the armored troops as the forerunner, they launched a rapid attack behind the heavy Japanese army groups on both wings of the central and long railway.
interspersed.
The troops commanded by Chen Hanzhang of the Western Front Corps took the 1st Armored Division as the vanguard. They bypassed the depth defense focus of the 30th Army and chose its joint with the Fifth Army on the Western Front. Currently, because the defense forces have been transferred to other areas, the defense strength is already considerable.
Vulnerable areas. Passing through Kangping, Shuangtaizi to the west of Faku, Dingjiafang is on the front line. The Thirty Army, which is rushing to the Qingshui Rules, has not had the opportunity to withdraw in this direction, and quickly penetrates along the Liaohe River.