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After Chen Hanzhang's troops crossed the Liaohe River in three-sided boats and Gongzhutun, the troops split into two groups. Sui Changqing commanded an attack in the direction of Xinmin along the way, directly inserting into the flank of the Kwantung Army's Fifth Army, cutting off the Fifth Army's route back to Shenyang and reinforcing the Thirty Army. . Ensure that the main force completes the encirclement of the Thirty Army and seizes Shenyang City, the center of southern Manchuria.
He personally directed the troops all the way to Hushitai and Xinchengzi, and cooperated with Du Kaishan of the Eastern Front Corps to complete the encirclement of the heavy Japanese troop cluster north of Shenyang. After arriving at the front line of Hushitai, Chen Hanzhang personally deployed, and Mu Changqiu commanded two The infantry division, plus the main force of the 4th Armored Division, advanced at full speed to attack Shenyang City.
Compared with the high-speed advance of Chen Hanzhang's troops, Du Kaishan of the Eastern Front Corps encountered Yoshio Hongo's 44th Army who were huddled together after setting off, and strengthened part of an independent mixed brigade at Chaihe. The front line of the fort was set up along the mountainous area to resist tenaciously.
The frontal attack troops along the Zhonglong Railway moved too slowly under the mountainous terrain because the heavy artillery moved too slowly. Although they fought hard for several times, the enemy made little progress due to the tenacious resistance of the enemy relying on a large number of permanently prepared fortification groups. This As a result, it directly affected the flanks, and Du Kaishan's intersecting route formed an obstruction on the Chaihebao front line.
The highway from Xifeng to Shenyang is the most important passage in the eastern mountainous area of the entire China-Changchun Railway. Although Chaihe Fort is not as good as Weiyuan Fort in terms of the original defense system of the Japanese army, in this small mountain village that serves as the eastern gateway to Tieling, it is just right Just at the key node on this line.
After Yoshio Hongo gave up the line from Weiyuan Fort, this was the only barrier for the Forty-fourth Army to contain this highway and the barrier to ensure the safety of the eastern line of Tieling. The Japanese army gave up the line from Diaopitun to Weiyuan and turned to death. The dead head was pressed against Chaihe Fort, causing Du Kaishan's penetration speed to slow down.
Du Kaishan did not expect Lieutenant General Hongo Yoshio's reaction to be so quick. After losing the front line of Shangyang Fort, instead of making any counterattack, he took the initiative to abandon Weiyuan Fort and Diao on both wings. Pitun adopted the tactic of relying on the terrain to fight with one force, while the main force alternately provided cover. The entire army withdrew directly to the second-line position in the direction of Zhonggu and Chaihe Fort.
The entire attack route of the Eastern Front Corps is basically located in the hilly areas east of the Zhongchang Railway. The terrain is far more complex than that of the Western Front Corps. The mountain road from Xifeng to Shenyang is the most complex area for his attack troops. An important offensive route. It is also the best route for him to implement the headquarters' operational plan.
After the front line of Shangyangbao was captured, he thought that the Japanese army would stick to the key points at the junction of Kaiyuan, Xifeng, and Changtu to prevent the Anti-Japanese Alliance from attacking Kaiyuan, an important town on the Zhongchang Railway in the Kou River Valley. It was the entire eastern barrier of Kaiyuan. Weiyuan Fort is only more than 20 kilometers away from Kaiyuan New City. He can bypass it to the east of Weiyuan and use the front-line gap in Shangyang Fort opened by the frontal assault troops to advance quickly.
However, Hongo Yoshio's sudden full-scale retreat made all his tactical plans come to nothing. The enemy troops were stuck on the front line of Chaihe Fort. It was Du Kaishan who had many ulterior motives. After the enemy troops had already retreated to Zhonggu, To the front line of Chaihe Fort, relying on the mountains of Chaihe Fort, the stubborn resistance caused the circuitous route to be blocked.
A forced attack will only delay time and will affect the headquarters' strategic plan to encircle the entire Japanese army north of Shenyang. However, the Western Front Corps is advancing at a high speed and has already finished forcibly crossing the Liao River. If it is on the front line of Chaihe Fort, it will be fought over one hilltop after another. If so, it will consume a lot of time and affect the entire strategic deployment of the headquarters.
In order to cooperate with the Western Front Corps and complete the encirclement of the Japanese Third Front Army north of Shenyang as soon as possible. Under the overall situation that the frontal assault was stubbornly resisted by the Japanese army and the attacking troops were not making smooth progress, Du Kaishan decisively adopted the tactics of dividing his troops and used one force to The troops were placed under the command of his deputy, Xiong Botao.
With the strength of one mountain infantry division and two infantry divisions, they tried their best to entangle the main force of the 44th Army from Chaihe Fort to Zhonggu. He commanded two units equipped with 85mm artillery produced by the Anti-Japanese Alliance. The armored brigade of t34 tanks, the main force of five infantry divisions, only carries artillery with a caliber below 105 mm and some trucks.
Bypassing the Chaihe Fort line where the Japanese army was heavily fortified, they chose the mountainous area east of Kaiyuan and Fushun to forcibly penetrate. With no roads to rely on and maps that were not very accurate, Du Kaishan simply sent out scouts and headed directly to Please invite guides from nearby villages to lead the way.
Two engineering battalions were used to forcibly open the road, and they followed the mountain road used by lumberjacks all the way over the mountains and ridges, passing through the eight trees in the east of Kaiyuan, the fertile land, and the Huangqi Village to the south. It was forcibly cut into the vast forest sea in the mountainous area in the east of Kaiyuan. After forcibly breaking out of a road and marching for more than twenty hours, they broke into the Fan River Valley at the eastern foot of Beida Mountain, which is more than 500 meters above sea level.
After arriving at the front line of Fu'an Fort, Du Kaishan learned that Chen Hanzhang's main force had completed seizing the front line of Hushitai. After a short period of thinking, he believed that it was meaningless for his entire army to go south at this time. He reported it and received Yang Zhen's approval. , changed the plan of his main force to go south to Hushitai to join Chen Hanzhang.
He commanded three infantry divisions and one armored brigade to outflank Chaihe Fort from Fanhe northward to the enemy's back road on the Zhonggu front line. He cooperated with the troops who were fighting fiercely with the main force of the 44th Army in the front, and adopted the tactic of flanking attack from both sides. Encircle the 44th Army in the mountainous area east of the Zhongchang Railway. The focus of the attack is the Zhonggu line to cut off the connection between the 44th Army and the 30th Army.
The remaining two infantry divisions plus an armored brigade were directly assigned to the command of Chen Hanzhang. They followed the Fan River and passed through Yantong Mountain and turned to Hushitai. After heading towards Xinchengzi, they ignored the blocking of some Japanese troops along the way and headed towards Hushitai at full speed. , quickly crossed in the direction of Xinchengzi, and merged with Chen Hanzhang's Western Front Corps.
Although there was a delay in opening a road in the forest in the mountainous area to the east of the Zhongchang Railway, his troops were marching in and out because they were in weak areas behind the 44th Army. With tanks as the guide, they did not fight with the troops along the way. A small group of Japanese troops were entangled. Therefore, the speed was quite fast, only twelve hours later than the time when Chen Hanzhang's Western Front Corps arrived at the front line of Xinchengzi.
The battle ended at noon on October 26, when the two divisions and an armored brigade rushed to the front line of Qipan Mountain west of Xinchengzi. The last gap in the entire battlefield north of Shenyang was completely closed. The Anti-Japanese Alliance was at Hushi Terrace The success of the continuous assault on Xinchengzi heralded that the entire Japanese army north of Shenyang, south of Changtu, and along the Zhongchang Railway was trapped in the encirclement of the East and West Anti-Japanese Alliance.
At this time, Chen Hanzhang commanded the Western Front Corps. As early as the first opportunity to seize Hushitai, he did not wait for Du Kaishan's Eastern Front roundabout troops to arrive. Although the troops in his hands were slightly weak, they were already protected from counterattacks with armor. The division acted as the leader, heading straight into the direction of Tieling along the Zhonglong Railway, and forcibly attacked the front line of Luanshishan and Deshengtai.
After receiving the latest order from Yang Zhen and the arrival of Du Kaishan's troops, although he currently only had one infantry division and one armored division in his hands, Chen Hanzhang still did not hesitate at all and ordered these two divisions plus an armored brigade to immediately go south at full speed and belong to Sui Changqing. Command and prepare for possible rescue operations by Japanese troops in southern Liaoning and other directions in central Liaoning against the urban area of Shenyang.
Chen Hanzhang's fierce attacks from behind and on the flanks sharply worsened the situation of the Japanese Thirty Army, which was already attacking the troops from the front and was barely holding on under constant attacks. All the heavy equipment of Du Kaishan's command was lost in Chaihe Fort. To the north, Chen Hanzhang's Western Front Corps had almost no natural obstacles along the way except the Liao River. Not only did they have all the artillery, they also brought a Soviet-made 203 heavy howitzer battery.
Qingshui's regular counterattack, although it barely blocked the penetration of Yang Zhen's mechanized cavalry group towards Tieling, temporarily ensured that the connection between the 30th Army and the 44th Army was not cut off. However, in order to block the multiple frontal resistance forces, In the interspersed attack and the intersecting of this force, Shimizu Rules has used almost all the troops at hand.
Behind it, in the direction of Hu Shitai, except for some military station guards, there were no longer any organic Japanese troops. Chen Hanzhang's intermittent participation, as well as the fierce attack led by tanks under the full cover of artillery, became the decisive factor that crushed Qingshui's rules. The last straw.
Chen Hanzhang, who was attacking the Thirty Army from the rear and left wing, moved his main force from Xinchengzi northward, directly inserted into Deshengtai and approached Tieling County. Before crossing the Liaohe River, Chen Hanzhang left him behind and marched eastward from the Niangniang Temple line. One of the divisions, also coordinated by an independent tank regiment, forcibly launched an attack from the flank to the east. In conjunction with the fierce battle with the main force of the 30th Army, the cavalry mechanized group forcibly penetrated from Jinjiatun towards Tieling.
Under the command of the division commander Ma Chunsheng, the division continuously broke through the three lines of defense of the Japanese army between the Niangniang Temple and Pingdingbao, and reached an area of less than five kilometers behind the blocking Japanese army. There was a tight gap between the two armies. The Liao River is a natural dividing line.
After Chen Hanzhang also turned around and attacked fiercely, the three-sided siege plunged the entire front of the Thirty Army into chaos. The sound of guns and artillery in the fierce battle between the three troops and the Japanese army could be clearly heard. In 1942, from the second half of 1943 to the beginning of 1944, Two consecutive major battles have allowed the large armored group assaults of the Anti-Union Army to become increasingly mature. Under the cover of the armored units, each unit advanced at a very fast speed.
Although the Thirty Army, under the command of Qingshui Ruju, resisted extremely tenaciously, facing the offensive of the anti-alliance tank mechanized group, as well as the overall situation of being attacked from both sides, and being besieged on three sides, Lieutenant General Qing Shui Ruju and his Thirty Army were increasingly overwhelmed. The more difficult it became to support, the entire defense zone was washed to pieces.
After Chen Hanzhang completed the U-turn, the regiment personally commanded by Yang Zhen, who launched a frontal assault, also successively cleared the entire Changtu. The remaining Japanese enemies west of the Kaiyuan Zhongchang Railway were heading south at full speed along the Zhongchang Railway. They combined a force and mainly It was a heavy artillery unit that joined forces commanded by Xiong Botao to launch an attack in the direction of Zhonggu.
At this time, Yang Zhen placed all the battlefields west of the Zhongchang Railway, including the front-line troops at Jinjiatun and Manjing, under Chen Hanzhang's command. At the same time, the entire Liaozhong area, including Shenyang, was also placed under Chen Hanzhang's command. .As for Du Kaishan, Yang Zhen placed the two frontal attack divisions under his command and asked him to concentrate on dealing with the 44th Army west of the Zhongchang Railway.
The front command led by Yang Zhen and Guo Bingxun was completely free to deal with the entire South Manchu war situation. In this battle, the entire attack launch line was hundreds of kilometers long from east to west, and the stalls were a bit too big for the Anti-Japanese Alliance. Yang Zhen could not
It may take a long time to focus all your energy on one battlefield.
Yang Zhen decided to divide the work and cooperate with Guo Bingxun. One of the two was responsible for coordinating the entire western theater, including the central Liaoning war zone. The other was responsible for coordinating the Liaodong and Korean battlefields. As for the position of chief of staff, he obviously had a strong influence on the anti-union tactics and tactics of this battle.
Mr. Lin, who was extremely interested, volunteered to take over the job temporarily.
Regarding Mr. Lin's volunteering, Yang Zhen, who was somewhat aware of his thoughts, had no excuses and nodded happily. Moreover, he asked a future marshal to serve as his chief of staff. Even though it was only temporary, Yang Zhen felt good in his heart.