Chapter 321: The overall situation has been decided
The war has been going on for so many years, and many junior officers on the battlefield, especially those at the level of squad leader and squadron leader, died inexplicably. Mu Dafu knew that if he persisted, he might not be able to bear the consequences of those who did not want to bear the consequences.
A veteran who is accused of being a traitor to the country and refuses to surrender openly will be shot in the back and die in an unknown manner.
Although he is already a colonel officer, in the eyes of these people at this time, he is probably not as good as a second lieutenant. And once a person's will to survive reaches a certain level, let alone a colonel, he is probably a general. These people will also dare to do it.
Black hand.
Even the best forensic doctors could not find any traces of what these people could do to silence people on the battlefield. A classmate of Colonel Mu Dafu's at the Army Sergeant School, when he was the squadron leader, was
He died inexplicably on the battlefield in Songhu. In the end, no investigation was found about who fired the shot in the back.
If he doesn't want to repeat the same mistake and die in the hands of his own people, it's better to go with the flow. Since all his subordinates have no intention of fighting, then why force them to die. When the time comes, he will die inexplicably, and he will not know who hit him.
That shot. Although I had already made up my mind to die, I couldn't accept the death being so inexplicable.
He was completely disappointed in his heart, but he felt sorry for his emperor and the empire because he allowed his subordinates who had no intention of fighting to surrender. So he chose the most painful way to die, which was to commit suicide by committing seppuku.
At that time, there was not even a single person around me to correct my mistakes.
All the remnants of the Japanese army in Huludao surrendered voluntarily, which heralded the complete end of the entire Western Liaoning battlefield. After more than half a month of fierce fighting, Wang Guangyu broke through the mountainous areas of Western Liaoning, surrounded and annihilated nearly half of the Fourth Army in Yi County, and completely defeated Iida.
Xiang Erlang was determined to fight on. Although the progress was a little slow, Wang Guangyu fought steadily and completely captured the entire Western Liaoning Corridor.
The strategic significance of seizing the entire western Liaoning this time is extremely important. Seizing the western Liaoning Corridor also means opening up the Beining Railway. And opening up the Beining Railway means that the Anti-Japanese Alliance has completely opened up the railway connection between the inside and outside of the customs, which is of great significance.
It facilitates transportation inside and outside the customs.
There is no need to take a detour to transport various materials from the northeast to the Guanhai Pass. There is no direct railway. The only way is to transport materials from Tongliao to Chengde by road. From Chengde, take the railway to Peiping. Personnel exchanges inside and outside the Guanhai Pass can be directly carried out through the Beining Railway.
Quickly arrive at Tianjin and Beiping.
This is undoubtedly very convenient for transporting large-scale industrial equipment and equipment. It also saves a lot of trucks and gasoline for the Anti-Japanese League. Just by opening the Bac-Ninh Railway, the Anti-Japanese League can free up four cars for group transportation.
Used on the battlefield, tens of thousands of tons of fuel can be saved every year.
The complete capture of the Western Liaoning Corridor truly means the complete opening up of transportation links inside and outside the customs. Of course, the Jinzhou section of the Beining Line, which has been severely damaged by the war, especially the severely damaged bridges, still needs a lot of repair work before it can be restored to use. Chapter 2
When the Fourth Army was shrinking, it completely destroyed the entire Beining Railway.
After Wang Guangyu captured Jinzhou, Yang Zhen immediately dispatched four regiments of the Anti-Japanese Railway Corps, carrying a large amount of equipment and a set of fully mechanized bridge-building equipment imported from the United States. He went to western Liaoning to repair the Beining Railway in the shortest possible time.
This artery will be re-opened within a few seconds.
The current railway corps has been expanded from a column to a branch during the Anti-Japanese War. In addition to the Jitong Railway under construction, it is also responsible for the emergency repair of war-damaged railways inside and outside the pass. At present, it is only in Jinpu and Pinghan within the pass. , on the Tongpu Railway, there are five regiments plus a directly affiliated bridge regiment, with thousands of troops and technicians working on repairing the railway.
Just after Chen Hanzhang completed the encirclement and annihilation of the 30th Army, Du Kaishan compressed the remnants of the 44th Army to the eastern mountainous area of Kaiyuan. The three regiments that had been transferred to the Changtu Railway Corps immediately went south and began to repair the battle between Changtu and Shenyang. Damage to the China-Changchun Railway to ensure that the China-Changchun Railway is completed and opened to traffic as soon as possible.
The central government greatly appreciated and supported Yang Zhen's approach of militarizing the establishment of railway corps to carry out railway construction and maintenance. All railway corps are both combat troops and railway engineering construction troops. Since 1943 From the beginning, they made every effort to ensure the personnel of the Anti-Union Railway Corps. They even transferred some troops and organized them into the Anti-Union Railway Corps.
This time, in addition to ensuring the troops of the Jitong Railway, which was being built with all their strength, Yang Zhen also transferred all the railway troops southward to repair the damage to the railways caused by the war in the entire southern Manchuria hinterland. He hoped that in the shortest time possible, , completed the emergency repair of the war-damaged railway.
Among them, the Beining Railway, which connects the inner and outer parts of the pass, is the top priority of the entire emergency repair task. Even before the war in western Liaoning was completely over, the anti-union railway troops had already started emergency repairs on the Beining Railway, striving to repair it before the freezing weather. , completed the emergency repairs on the Heishan to Suizhong section of the Beining Line and opened it to traffic. As for the Yixian to Chaoyang section of the Jincheng Railway in the north, we are also seizing the time to repair it.
After receiving the report from Wang Guangyu that he had completed the battle against the enemy in western Liaoning, Yang Zhen urged the railway corps to speed up maintenance. On the other hand, he ordered Wang Guangyu to immediately hand over the entire western Liaoning defense to the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei border troops. Wang Guangyu commanded the main force without waiting for rest, and exerted the spirit of continuous operations to immediately seize the Panshan and Yingkou lines to the east, cut off the last possible escape route of the Fifth Army on the Xinmin line, and serve as a strategic reserve for the entire South Manchu battlefield.
Just three days before the Huludao War came to an end, Chen Hanzhang, who was on the western front battlefield in northern Liaoning, had also completely eliminated the 30th Army of the Kwantung Army. Du Kaishan, east of the Zhongchang Railway, also defeated the 44th Army. The last 3,000 people of the remnant army are surrounded at the front line of Chaihe Fort and are conducting the final encirclement and annihilation. At this point in the entire South Manchu campaign, it can be said that the overall situation has been completely decided.
The complete resolution of the 30th Army of the Kwantung Army made Yang Zhen completely relieved. He knew that even if the Kwantung Army received reinforcements from ten divisions, and even if the entire Korean army was dispatched to reinforce the Kwantung Army, it would not be able to change the situation of the war. .At this moment in this battle, victory is already certain.
As for the two divisions of the Fifth Army that had become isolated on the Xinmin front line, Sui Changqing, who was reinforced by Chen Hanzhang, inserted a column from the Shanxi-Hebei-Luyu Military Region diagonally from the Zhangwu front line. With the cooperation of flank attacks, they were trapped in Xinmin The narrow area between Liaohe River and Juliuhe River.
By the time the Thirty Army was encircled, the Fifth Army had already been bitten by Sui Changqing. Although Lieutenant General Murakami Keisaku tried to retreat to the southeast countless times after finding himself alone, Sui Changqing was like a It was like a plaster, applied to the Fifth Army so that it could not advance or retreat.
The Fifth Army did not move, and Sui Changqing only launched a diversionary attack in a small area. He was entangled with the two divisions of the Fifth Army as closely as possible. But as soon as the Fifth Army moved, Sui Changqing immediately became sticky like plaster. Go up. After Chen Hanzhang completed the battle to capture Shenyang, Sui Changqing, who was reinforced by some armored forces, had an advantage in troop mobility.
Murakami Keisaku made several retreats, but he stopped him by throwing himself to the left and right. If he hadn't been ordered to launch a general attack, Sui Changqing would have already attacked the Fifth Army after receiving part of the reinforcements from Chen Hanzhang. , where can he wait until Chen Hanzhang completes the battle against the Thirty Army?
Lieutenant General Keisaku Murakami had almost no way to deal with this difficult opponent in front of him. No matter how much thought his combat staff put in and how many retreat plans they drew up, they could never escape the rapid attack of enemy tanks. Impact and pursuit. Once bitten by the resistance tank group, the retreating troops will lose their skin even if they die.
These tanks have almost become a nightmare for Keisaku Murakami. He knows that if he were not in the area at the intersection of the Juliu River and the Liao River, the relatively dense water network is not conducive to the rapid advancement of mechanized troops. I am afraid that with his current strength, The enemy tank group had already rushed over.
I can still persist at the moment. With only two troops, the division has been greatly weakened. It is not worse than Qingshui's 30th Army, but it still takes advantage of the terrain. Of course, Yang Zhen will mainly He put all his energy into the two armies of the Japanese army in northern Liaoning, so that his fifth army was still alive until now.
Whether it is Murakami Keisaku or Sui Changqing, one is bitten to death and cannot advance or retreat. The other is that he has not received the order for a general attack, so he can only bite his opponent tightly and prevent him from retreating to other battlefields. And he continues We penetrated with a small depth to compress the Fifth Army's defense area as much as possible.
However, although they never received an attack order, due to Sui Changqing's painstaking deployment and multiple attacks, Murakami Keisaku's Fifth Army was gradually compressed between the Liao River and the Juliu River. And not only was it compressed to a corner, , at the same time, the main force of the army also suffered nearly one-third casualties in the continuous fierce battles.
After Chen Hanzhang's troops completed the encirclement and annihilation of the Thirty Army and moved all troops south, the Fifth Army was also in a precarious situation. Faced with the predicament at hand, Lieutenant General Murakami Keisaku was helpless. He sent all the telegrams to the Kwantung Army asking for help. , only received a reply that they would withdraw with all their strength in the direction of Liaodong, and there was no other news.
Regarding the Kwantung Army's reply, Lieutenant General Murakami Keisaku could only smile bitterly. As early as the beginning of the battle, he had repeatedly requested that he could withdraw to the direction of Shenyang and get closer to the 30th Army and the 44th Army. But the Commander of the Kwantung Army However, they always used the important position of the army as an excuse and refused to agree to it.
After the enemy attack was launched, Lieutenant General Murakami Keisaku's suggestion was once again rejected. His Fifth Army is located at the junction of the Thirty Army and the Fourth Army. It is not only located at the key point of the entire Western Liaoning battlefield. It was also a barrier to the northwest of Shenyang. He abandoned the defensive area on the flank of the Fourth Army in the West without permission, and the entire army shrank to Xinmin.
The Western Front Cluster of the Anti-Japanese Alliance penetrated directly into the flank of the Fourth Army and formed an encirclement on Yixian. This directly caused the Fourth Army to be attacked from both sides and lost nearly half of its troops in the battle of Yixian. The Kwantung Army did not withdraw from his post. , I have given him a lot of face, will they allow him to evacuate directly to Shenyang?
If he withdraws directly from Xinmin to Shenyang, the flanks of the Thirty Army will be exposed. This will undoubtedly create a very advantageous fighter opportunity for the enemy's tank interweaving operations, which he has always been good at. When the Kwantung Army headquarters found out that something was wrong, he ordered the third While the Fifth Army spared no effort to rescue the Thirty Army, his Fifth Army was powerless.
After Chen Hanzhang completed the encirclement and annihilation of the Thirty Army, Yang Zhen directly ordered the army to go south immediately. In addition to using most of the troops and the First Armored Division to immediately sweep the entire line from Shenyang to Yingkou. The main force of the Fourth Armored Division and no less than A division of troops immediately joined the Xinmin battlefield to encircle and annihilate the Fifth Army.
Strive to annihilate the entire battlefield west of Shenyang in the shortest possible time. The last Japanese army in the battlefield to the west of Shenyang is the Fifth Army. Completely eliminate all remaining Japanese troops in southern Manchuria outside the Liaodong battlefield to complete the attack on the entire south. Control of full industrial zones.