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The Eighth Route Army completely occupied Chenyang on the evening of March 27, Yamada Yisan was Changchun on the morning of March 28, and Liu Yimin was the Northeast Bureau meeting held on the evening of March 29. In the morning of March 30, the Northeast People's Anti-Japanese The main force of the First Column of the Democratic Alliance Army has already arrived at Siping City.
The Siping Plain is called Siping Street, located in the central northeast plain, at the intersection of the three railways, Zhongchang, Sitao and Simei, and is a key area leading to the east, west, south and north. Before the Russo-Japanese War, Siping had only more than 7,000 people, but A small market town. Because the Russians opened a commercial port and built railways here, Siping became a fur and grain distribution center in Taonan, Tao'an and Liaohe River areas. Commerce gradually flourished and the population quickly increased to 30,000. After the Russo-Japanese War, Japan People occupied Siping, and commerce became more developed and prosperous, with the population increasing from 30,000 to 60,000. After the September 18th Incident, the puppet Manchukuo district was established in Siping Province, which was the provincial capital, and the population increased to 110,000. The city was long in the north and south. It is 9 miles long, 8 miles from east to west, and has an area of about 20 square kilometers, making it a modern and medium-sized city.
The railway from Changchun to Chenyang passes through the middle of Siping City, dividing the city into two parts: East and West.
Siping's military status is important, but that is what they said about the war between the two sides. Before the September 18th Incident, the Japanese army only had one squadron and another military police detachment in Siping to protect the so-called Manchurian Railway. After the September 18th Incident, Siping is located in Chenyang and Changchun, which is between Fengtian and Xinjing in the eyes of the Japanese and puppet troops. It belongs to the hinterland of the Japanese and puppet rule, and mainly uses the military police to maintain public order. The garrison is just a brigade. Wait until Siping Province Established, in the need of ruling the Siping area, the Japanese army stationed a ** garrison here, which is the ** 3rd ** garrison of the Kanto Defense Army established on the eve of the Japanese-Soviet War.
Before Umezu Mijiro's death, the deployment of troops in the Northeast was actually focused on the outside and the inside was neglected. The focus of defense was still on the Soviet Union. Therefore, he deployed the Third Army, Fourth Army, Fifth Army, Sixth Army and Twentieth Army in Mongolia, the Far East, the northern and eastern areas of Heilong, and Jilin are mainly stationed by Kanto Army troops, while Liaoning is all stationed by Kanto Defense Forces. The puppet Manchukuo Army is stationed according to the original six military-controlled areas.
This deployment now seems to be simply giving Liaoning to the Northeast People's Anti-Japanese Democratic Alliance. However, Meijiro Umezu made such a deployment seriously and was approved by the Japanese base camp. The reason is that the Japanese are determined to completely destroy Mongolia and the Far East. Daily chemicals. It is not enough not to station heavy troops. As for the hinterland of Manchuria, the Japanese believe that after so many years of rule, they have surrendered, and they can only be stationed by the Kanto Defense Army, the Kanto Army's direct-level troops and the puppet Manchukuo Defense Army.
Meijiro Umezu, the devils of the Japanese base camp, who would have thought that Liu Yimin would dare to land in the northeast and directly attack the hinterland of the northeast?
Siping Province was divided into Fengtian Province and Jilin Province, with a total of Siping Street Market, Lishu County, Kaiyuan County, Xifeng County, Shuangliao County, Hailong County, Dongfeng County, Xi'an County, Changtu County, Changling County, etc. The third Japanese garrisons were stationed in these areas in nine counties, and there was no more than one brigade in one county. They relied on the gendarmerie and the police maintained their rule.
At this time, the third Japanese garrison in Siping area had already received information from Liu Yimin's troops to capture Chenyang and had begun to shrink their troops and prepare to defend Siping. When the news of Kaiyuan's fall came, the Japanese army that had not yet completed the contraction of troops* *The third garrison team asked for help from the Kwantung Army Headquarters and began an emergency mobilization in Siping City, arming all the Japanese and puppet officials in Siping City and preparing to participate in the Siping Garrison battle.
When the Plateau took the train to the Siping Front after attending the Northeast Bureau meeting, the Armored Regiment and the First Brigade were already preparing for the battle to capture Siping.
Plateau doesn’t know that during the Liberation War in history, Siping was the two sad place of the Northeast Field Army. The first was the Siping Defense War, which took place in May 1946. The Chairman strictly ordered ** to defend Siping. The slogan proposed was "Chang Siping". For Madrid, the purpose is to gather the main force to fight in Siping, completely defeat the Kuomintang army's offensive in the Northeast, and force it to return to the negotiating table, forming a strategic situation in the Northeast where the Kuomintang occupied south of Shenyang, our party occupied Changchun, and north of Harbin .Successfully. After a month of fierce fighting, after the position of Tazishan, the commanding height in the eastern Siping, was lost, ** decisively ordered the entire line to retreat. In this retreat, our army retreated northward and crossed the Songhua River. The Kuomintang's offensive operations in the northeast achieved phased Victory. Fortunately, Chiang Kai-shek ordered the quest to stop the north of the Songhua River. Otherwise, the Northeast Field Army would be in a dilemma of poor communication and failure of command, and the situation would be even more difficult. The failure of the first Siping Defense Battle was actually to conquer the Northeast. The failure of the strategy proved that the idea of competing with the Kuomintang for big cities and railway lines under the conditions at that time was unrealistic. Our party immediately proposed to leave the road to occupy the two sides, let go of the masses, and establish a consolidated Northeast base, so that the situation in the Northeast gradually stabilized. The second was the Siping Battle, which took place a year later in June 1947. At that time, the Northeast Field Army had already grown to 400,000, and had just won the summer offensive battle. With the power of a great victory, the Siping Battle again launched the Siping Battle to capture Siping. The defending Siping was Chen Mingren's army. Under Chen Mingren's command, he used the steel and concrete structure building in Siping City to repair fortifications. The buildings were made by using the tunnels to understand the tunnels. Electric lights were assumed in the tunnels, turning the entire Siping City into a steel reinforcement. Cement fortress. After our army launched an attack, it broke through the city defense that day and launched a city battle with the Kuomintang army. As a result, as the Kuomintang army launched large-scale reinforcements from both north and south, our army made great sacrifices and captured two-thirds of the urban area. Under the circumstances, we had to cry again and withdraw from the battle. In these two Siping battles, our army did not achieve the purpose of the battle.
The plateau is not a time traveler, so naturally he does not know the sadness of the two Siping battles of the Northeast Field Army. However, he was deeply influenced by Liu Yimin's military thoughts and knew that the true meaning of the city's tough battle was to concentrate all forces to break the city in one fell swoop. Moreover, before setting off, he was under the Staff Office. The combat plan issued was clearly written, and a unit was used to detour to encircle Siping, cut off the connection between Siping and Gongzhuling, and concentrate the armored brigade, the first brigade, the second brigade and all the artillery fire that could be used, and go straight in and break the city in one fell swoop.
The third Japanese garrison team did not have as much time as Chen Mingren used to guard Siping. They mobilized urgently and established defense lines. Even the commanding heights of Tazishan, which were only more than ten kilometers away from Siping City, could not establish defense lines. Because their troops were limited, no matter how urgent they were, they were
With the troops gathered together, all the troops stationed in each county could not be rushed back. In addition, a brigade originally stationed in Siping, there were only two in Siping City at this time. The main forces of the three infantry brigades were the gendarmerie and police.
Japanese and puppet organ cadres and soldiers in the village. Such a small amount of troops were not enough to defend Siping City. Why did you say that you would go to the outer key points such as Tazishan to go to the position of reluctance to leave your position!
After receiving the report from the Siping Guardian, Kanto Army Commander Yozo Yamada ordered Chief of Staff Akira Muto to call the Siping Guardian, asking them to rely on the city defense to defend the enemy to death. After two days of delaying Liu Yimin's troops, they could retreat to the direction of Gongzhuling.
Yamada Yisan originally wanted to order the Siping defenders to retreat to Gongzhuling immediately, but considering that the main forces of the Kwantung Army need time to assemble, Liu Yimin's troops cannot be allowed to attack Changchun so quickly, and they must block and delay along the way, so they decided to defend the Siping defenders and then evacuate.
.The reason for ordering the Siping defenders to hold on for two days is that the Siping defenders are too weak and cannot last long. At the same time, relying on the city defense to hold on for two days should be no problem. If Siping defends for two days, the direction of Gongzhuling will be three.
By five days, when Liu Yimin attacked the city of Changchun, the main force of the Kwantung Army could basically complete the assembly. At that time, use Changchun City as the defensive fulcrum to attract Liu Yimin's main force to attack and annihilate it in one fell swoop under Changchun City!
Liu Yimin wanted to use the besiege of Changchun as bait and surround the point to attack the aid. Yamada Yisan wanted to use Changchun as bait to annihilate the main force of the Northeast People's Anti-Japanese Democratic Alliance in a battle under Changchun City. The two commanders thought of going together. It depends on whose strategy could be realized.
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Chief of Staff Akira Muto knew that Liu Yimin's unit had a fierce firepower, and the Siping defenders were alone and could not hold on for too long. After considering for a while, in order to preserve their strength, Muto suggested that Yamada Yokomoto modify the order and change it to the Siping defenders.
After the battle started, he held on for a day, and then retreated to the direction of Princess Ridge.
At this time, there were aviation reconnaissance and Siping defenders. Yamada Yoshi was already very clear in his heart. Liu Yimin had a big appetite. He wanted to take Changchun directly. Just in time, he annihilated it in one fell swoop under Changchun City, but the Kwantung Army
The main force is stationed in various places and is gathering. The three most elite divisions are also gathering in Qingdao. He needs time.
After Yamada Yoko thought about it, he said to Muto Akira: "In this way, the pressure on the direction of Gongzhu Ridge will be great. Gongzhu Ridge is the last line of defense in Changchun. It must be persisted for more than three days. Otherwise, the main force of the Kanto Army will not be able to assemble, ours
The plan may fail.”
At this time, Muto Jok had confidence and said: "The Fourth Flight Group will arrive soon. It is best for Liu Yimin to reach the city of Changchun. There are direct troops here. We can use powerful aviation firepower to kill Liu Yimin's troops in large quantities for the complete
The encirclement and annihilation of Liu Yimin's Ministry creates conditions."
In this way, the fate of the Siping Japanese Army was destined by the foresight of Kanto Army Commanders Yozo Yamada and Akira Muto.
In Liu Yimin's thoughts, the enemies in Kaiyuan, Siping and Gongzhuling had become corpses or prisoners. Because he knew it, the Japanese army had no time to build a solid line of defense, and even more so, they had no time to gather troops. After our army occupied Shenyang, the Kwantung Army Command also
He dared not draw a large number of troops from Changchun to reinforce Siping and Gongzhuling. They were afraid that reinforcements would be in Siping and after Gongzhuling was eliminated, Changchun would become an empty city. Therefore, Liu Yimin sat firmly in Shenyang, but only activated the army to attack the entire line, let the Gaoyuan and others do their best.
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