Changchun, as the location of the original headquarters of the Kwantung Army, naturally has an extraordinary size and tightness of defense. Now, although due to the war, the Kwantung Army headquarters has moved to Jinzhou, which is closer to the front line of the Great Wall, but it is stationed in the Kwantung Army near Changchun. The army still has as many as two divisions and an independent brigade. If we also include the Korean Communist Army and Japanese troops that are constantly coming from North Korea, the total enemy force near Changchun basically remains at 200,000. In the early days, sometimes there were even as many as 300,000 people.
The Great Wall War has progressed to this day, and after the stimulants have lost their effect, the emergency method Tojo came up with is to adopt the human sea tactic. In Tojo's words: "There are as many troops in China as there are in total, and our Korean Communist Army alone has more than Four million people. Even if these four million people are exchanged for one in ten, it means that they can be exchanged for at least 400,000 Chinese troops. Didn’t Ouyang Yun of China put forward the so-called slogan of liberating and rebuilding one place? I want to see it. How can he fulfill this promise after losing so many young troops?"
Hideki Tojo was not the first among the senior Japanese generals to propose the human wave tactic, but due to his temperament, he was the only one who could really bring this tactic to its extreme.
Fujita has some knowledge about the number of enemy troops near Changchun, so in his opinion, if they go to attack Changchun with such a small number of people, no, they are going to Changchun to fish in troubled waters. It is no different from committing suicide. However, what can the Japanese deserters in the independent detachment do? Nowadays, there are only a few people who keep such a cool head. Zhang Xuyun is very good at controlling these Japanese deserters. On the one hand, he has established strong authority through a series of victories. On the other hand, he behaves very well when distributing captured supplies. The generosity has enabled all the Japanese deserters to gain considerable gains. In this way, under the inertia of victory and after tasting the sweetness, the Japanese deserters now don't care at all about what they will do next. They now think that as long as they follow General Nervous That's enough.
The work efficiency of the Kwantung Army Headquarters Staff Headquarters was still very "high". At about 11 o'clock that night, they finally knew where and what went wrong with those trains. Three trains There were two and a half squadrons of nearly a thousand people in the escort force of the military column. All of these thousand people have been confirmed to have been killed. In addition, the combined value of the materials carried by these three military columns is almost an astronomical figure, and now The Kwantung Army was far from being as wealthy as it was in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, so the matter was inevitably brought to Otsuzo Yamada's side.
This news is definitely worse for Yamada Otsuzo. It has been almost a week since the desertion incident occurred. The Kwantung Army almost cast a huge net in Jilin and along the Songhua River, but the deserters seemed to be hiding underground. With no trace of their whereabouts, Yamada Otsuzo was like an ant on a hot pot when faced with increasingly severe questioning telegrams from the Tokyo base camp. He felt as if he was being roasted. The deserter incident had already made him very anxious. It just happened that this afternoon, as Ding Yi and Wang Changyun led their troops to Harbin, the true situation of the Heilongjiang battle was finally exposed. It was like a knife stabbing Yamada in the heart. The old Japanese almost lost his temper the first time he received the news. I was not provoked to the point of vomiting blood.
"Your Excellency, the missing train has been found." When the chief of staff, Lieutenant General Qin Hikosaburo, reported the matter to Yamada Otsuzo, what he saw was Yamada whose hair had turned half gray overnight.
"Finally found it." Yamada didn't take it too seriously at first. After all, compared with the fact that Heilongjiang was about to fall and Heilongjiang's last remaining force was about to annihilate the entire army, the train accident was a trivial matter. Of course, it might also be compared to the fact that the old Japanese had suffered a lot in the past few days. Nerves that are stimulated too much have become numb.
"Yes, the three trains are all at Wangfu Station, which is the small station west of Changchun. All the people on the train, from the train driver to the escorting soldiers, have been confirmed to have been killed, as well as all the supplies loaded on the train."
"Everything." Yamada Otsuzo suddenly raised his throat and said, the old Japanese was not confused. Hearing this, he had already realized the seriousness of the matter.
Qin Yansanlang took a deep breath and said softly: "Everything was stolen."
Yamada also took a deep breath and asked in a low voice: "Have you found out who did it? Aren't Jiucun and other Changchun defenders searching for deserters? They should have units nearby, but they didn't find anything at all. .”
"The objects of our suspicion are those deserters."
"Eight grids." Yamada suddenly scolded in a sharp voice, and then swept all the documents and phones on the table in front of him to the ground: "Pigs, a group of pigs, no, stupider than pigs, this is the same as having someone's underwear removed under your nose. What’s the difference if I take it off, Ba Ge Ya Lu.”
"Sir, what should we do now?"
"What should I do? What does your staff do for food? Can't you devise a plan? Bage, these scum of the Yamato nation. If I catch them, I will skin them all and light up the sky lanterns. No, skin them." Lighting sky lanterns is not enough, I will also kill their entire clan."
"Hai, Your Excellency, we have formulated a plan. Take a look. If you agree, please sign it."
Yamada took the plan and looked at it with a gloomy face, then raised his head and looked at Qin Yanzaburo coldly, and asked in a cold voice: "Do you have to use the aviation force? You should know that our aviation fuel reserves are limited. This is to cover the main force at the last moment. Prepared for the evacuation of troops."
"Your Excellency, the deserters are so cunning. Moreover, we are now certain that they have hijacked a military column and are moving along the railway line. Your Excellency, we must prevent them from escaping to the combat area through the railway. If they are really caught, If you successfully escape, the impact will be too bad."
Qin Hikosaburo didn't know that just when he persuaded Yamada Otsuzo to dispatch the aviation force on a large scale, he and the so-called national scum in Yamada's mouth had already got off the train and were advancing hand in hand with a Japanese search force.
This Japanese search force came from the 123rd Division in Changchun. Its commander was a major named Goro Matsumoto. Zhang Xuyun and the others took the train all the way to Changchun. They encountered many Japanese search forces along the way. They were not far from Changchun. About 50 kilometers inside Nong'an County, because he was worried that the hijacking of the Japanese military column would be discovered, he decided to get off the car and walk. Then, after walking about 15 kilometers, they encountered the Japanese army.
At this time, the independent detachment was pretending to be a search force from another division near Changchun, the 149th Division. After Zhang Xuyun came into contact with Matsumoto Goro, he claimed that he had discovered a group of suspicious people who were tracking each other. It was easy. He gained the trust of Matsumoto Goro and agreed to pursue him together.