Due to the huge casualties and chaos during the breakout, when the new encirclement circle was completed, the Japanese army was even more fragmented. The number of troops in each encirclement circle ranged from two to three thousand to only seven to eight hundred. And in
The route behind them was littered with bombed bodies.
In particular, the Japanese troops who needed to cross the Liao River to break out suffered even more heavy losses. Although the Japanese troops took advantage of the night and used the assault boats in their hands and the wooden boats hidden in the reeds on both sides of the river, the original pontoon bridge was bombed by the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
After it was destroyed, more than 300 engineers were gathered and a dozen pontoon bridges were erected by surprise.
But when crossing the river, these dozen pontoon bridges became the most obvious targets for the Anti-Alliance aviation and long-range artillery. The Anti-Alliance ground troops intercepted from both wings also regarded these dozen pontoon bridges as their main targets. Mobilization
All artillery fire, as well as large-caliber machine guns, were used to block the bridge deck and the ferry crossings on both sides.
These dozen or so pontoon bridges were repaired by bombs, and then bombed again after they were repaired. The Japanese troops trying to cross the bridge, together with the pontoon bridges, were constantly bombed into the sky. The troops waiting to cross the river in the east of the river were also constantly covered by long-range rocket launchers from the Anti-Japanese Alliance for more than ten hours.
After the fierce fighting, both sides of the Liaohe River and on the river were everywhere killed by artillery shells and aerial bombs, killed by airborne machine guns in the sky, and the corpses of Japanese soldiers who were washed away and drowned after the pontoon bridge was blown up.
At a bend in the downstream river, due to the slowdown of the water flow, thousands of corpses of Japanese soldiers were densely accumulated on the water. The river was so yellow that the true color of the river could hardly be seen. After the war, the Anti-Japanese War
We organized local fishermen to salvage the fish for a long time, but could not completely recover it.
There were so many corpses that it was almost impossible to catch them. In the following years, no one in the Liaohe River fish, which was famous throughout Liaoning Province, paid any attention to it. Even in the decades after the war, when water conservancy was being built, fish could still be found in the river.
A large number of bones, Japanese-style steel helmets, weapons and ammunition were found inside.
In just 1958, during the overhaul of water conservancy, hundreds of corpses and tons of weapons and ammunition were fished out of the river at one time. Two Japanese-made Type 41 mountain guns and a 50mm anti-tank gun were even fished out.
Nearly a hundred light and heavy machine guns were fished out at one go, and steel helmets and Type 99 rifles were laid out on half an acre of land. According to a local veteran who had returned to work, it was enough to equip a reinforced regiment with weapons.
The Japanese troops who forcibly crossed the Liao River to break out of the encirclement. In the end, the Liao River, which they once regarded as a natural barrier against the anti-alliance tank clusters, eventually became a life-and-death line that was difficult for them to cross. The more than 8,000 Japanese troops who broke out of the encirclement,
Except for more than a thousand people in Hexi who luckily escaped with their lives, the rest were all destroyed on both sides of the Liaohe River or buried in the river.
Originally, before the breakout, the gecko tactics envisioned by various Japanese divisions, such as bayonet attacks and desperate assaults when necessary, were of no use to the Japanese army. Because when they broke through, the resistance
The United Nations did not pursue it at all.
In addition to the tank clusters organized in regiments and camps along the way, the infantry was constantly intercepting and killing, and was tearing off piece by piece from the Japanese troops who broke out. They also took advantage of the number of cars in their hands to deploy the troops at designated locations in advance.
The area was waiting for them. As for the pursuit, it was left to the artillery and aviation, as well as the leveled anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns.
On the contrary, it was the troops who were scheduled to stay behind by the Japanese breakout troops. Because the anti-alliance attack troops only attacked steadily step by step and did not launch a forced pursuit, the pressure they endured was not great. After seeing the tragedy of the main breakout force in front,
Afterwards, the Japanese troops who were left behind simply gave up their intention of following the main force to break out.
Especially the Japanese troops in a divided encirclement in the north, because they never thought about breaking out, they did not take any action at all. After the main forces of the Anti-Alliance were attracted by the Japanese troops breaking out from other directions, they themselves
The pressure has been relieved to some extent.
Lieutenant General Qingshui Juju's plan to disperse and break out failed. Instead, he lost more than half of his troops during the breakout process. His remaining troops were compressed and divided from the Tongjiangkou in the southwest of Changtu in the north to Guchengzi in the west of Kaiyuan, and to the west of Tieling in the south.
Cai Niu in Cai Niu, as well as Shidianfang at the junction with Faku, Cai Niu in Baijiagou and other small areas are surviving.
Although it was originally divided, the relatively intact troops in each encirclement circle had now become completely chaotic. The entire army did not have any troops above the regiment level, and it no longer even had the organization, weapons and equipment at the level of a complete brigade.
It was even more incomplete. There was no longer a single artillery piece in the entire army. There were only a dozen heavy machine guns left, and only a hundred light machine guns left.
At this time, the Kwantung Army was once the leader in strength and equipment among all its affiliated armies. It was reinforced by a division and two independent mixed brigades. At its peak, it accounted for nearly a quarter of the entire Kwantung Army.
The Thirty Army now had less than 20,000 soldiers left, including the lightly and seriously wounded.
At the same time, almost all the heavy weapons and equipment had been lost in the previous dispersed breakout. The entire army's ammunition had been consumed, and the medicines had been exhausted. The food that had been consumed was not much left. Every day, the remaining
For the Japanese army, every day seemed like a year.
Faced with the dilapidated Japanese army in front of him, Chen Hanzhang issued an ultimatum without receiving any answer, and issued a general attack order. He concentrated all the troops on hand to attack the last remaining less than 20,000 people of the Thirty Army.
Launched the final general attack.
While Du Kaishan's troops were fighting fiercely with Hongo Yoshio's breakout troops, Chen Hanzhang's troops had already entered the final solution to the Japanese Thirty Army. At this time, they were still stubborn and silently refused Chen Hanzhang's request to them.
The Japanese army was ordered to lay down their weapons, but their real resistance was getting weaker and weaker.
In fact, it's not that the remnants of the Japanese army don't want to answer Chen Hanzhang's ultimatum, but that no one in the Japanese army can give an answer. After the breakout operation failed and the last bit of vitality was lost, Qingshui Ruijie could no longer bear the heavy pressure in his heart.
The lieutenant general shot himself in a small depression on the edge of the Liao River.
His chief of staff, Major General Kawagoe Shigeto, was spotted by a squadron of attack aircraft from the Anti-Japanese Alliance when he was leading his headquarters to break out of the encirclement. He was attacked with rockets and napalm bombs. The major general, chief of staff, and his thirty-year-old
The military headquarters completely disappeared on the land of northern Liaoning.
Among the Japanese division commanders who participated in the breakout, some were missing on the battlefield, and some died during the breakout. There was also one who was seriously injured and unconscious, and the only remaining division commander, a lieutenant general, was still intact.
, without knowing that he had become the only remaining supreme commander of the Japanese army on the entire battlefield east of the Zhongchang Railway, it was naturally impossible to give an answer.
Chen Hanzhang, who did not know that Lieutenant General Qingshui Juju had committed suicide, naturally regarded the silence of the Japanese army as rejection. Time was running out, and Chen Hanzhang did not have that much time to give the Japanese army another ultimatum. He simply gave the final order to the frontline troops.
Aggregate supply orders.
According to Chen Hanzhang's order, the anti-alliance forces at the junction of Changtu, Kaiyuan, Tieling, and Faku launched a final general attack on the Japanese troops in their respective encirclement circles. As the red signal flares marking the general attack continued to rise on this land,
. The sound of artillery, which had been silent for several hours because of Chen Hanzhang's ultimatum, sounded again over the land.
According to Chen Hanzhang's report to Yang Zhen, the Thirty Army in front of him will be completely and cleanly eliminated within twenty-four hours at the latest. He also asked for instructions on the next operational objectives of the Western Front Corps after completing the battle against the Thirty Army.
Whether to go south to the Xinmin front line and switch to fighting against the Fifth Army? Because his Western Front Corps now has at least two divisions that can be transferred to other battlefields.
After receiving this passionate telegram from Chen Hanzhang, and then the telegram from Du Kaishan, victory already belongs to us. At this time, the former address has been moved from Guojiadian in Jilin to a newly opened location along the Zhongchang Railway.
The original Yang Zhen felt a lot of emotion in his heart.
He did not expect that this battle would go on so vigorously, that it could even be described as exhausting. At this point in the battle, it can be said that the main goal of this battle has been basically achieved. Of course, the entire southern Manchu war is not over yet.
, there is still a certain degree of uncertainty, but at least so far, this battle has been fought to my satisfaction.
However, the "satisfactory" evaluation that came out of Yang Zhen's mouth made Mr. Lin very dissatisfied. He looked at Yang Zhen, who did not have any change in expression on his face because of the frequent reports of good news from the front.
Although Mr. Lin was not happy, he shook his head and said disapprovingly: "You, I don't know if your appetite has been getting bigger and bigger over the years, and your requirements are getting higher and higher. Is this true?"
I have managed to keep my joy and anger invisible."
"The frontline troops fought so brilliantly. Any other senior commander would at least have a smile on his face, but your face is still plain. Look at the expression on your face now,
Those who knew it were victorious, but those who didn’t know thought the troops suffered some losses on the front line.”
"Comrade Yang Zhen, this is not good. If you are too strict with your subordinates, it will easily dampen the enthusiasm of the cadres. The commanders in all aspects have played so brilliantly. Shouldn't you, the leader, at least say some words of encouragement? I've seen your posts these days.
In the telegram exchanges, I have never seen you give these commanders any words of encouragement."
"If you don't fight well, you do need to be criticized. It's right not to express your opinion easily on some things. But looking at the current battle situation, although there are some minor flaws in each unit, they are not subjective. Basically, it can be said that all frontline units have
The commanders in the direction have all demonstrated extremely high military standards."
"Although this battle is not over yet, I can still say that it was a wonderful battle. I only read the battle report of the battle in the first half of the year and it was not favorable. But in this battle, there was a large-scale airborne operation, and the armor
Various strategic applications include forcible penetration of troops through large-scale roundabouts, forced landing operations behind enemy lines, special operations operations, etc."
"There are also centripetal offensives of tank clusters and double-layer artillery barrages on the battlefield. This is a series of dazzling tactical applications. The Western Front Corps' clear and solid blockade, driving pigs into the pen, and the Eastern Front Corps' actions are ahead of the Japanese army. Before that, we strengthened the deployment of troops at the Japanese breakthrough point, the grasp of fighter aircraft, the judgment of local battle situations, the mobilization of troops, firepower, and the most critical thing is the determination."
"Without a group of senior commanders with extremely high military literacy commanding on the front line, it would be impossible to have such a wonderful fight. Although these actions of yours may not seem difficult to implement, in fact they are very difficult for front-line commanders, especially senior commanders. The requirements are too high. This can be solved not only by a tough character, but also by a strong will."
"Without the corresponding military literacy, these operations cannot be directed at all. At least the connection between the battlefields and the cooperation will not be so close. Whether it is a head-on collision, or the use of strategies and tactics on the battlefield, these of yours At least compared to the Japanese generals, my subordinates have caught up with or even surpassed them."