He clenched his hands into fists and slammed them down on the conference table. With ferocious eyes wandering over the faces of his subordinates, General Ueda Kenkichi said grimly:
"In just a few days, the whole front of Northern Manchuria was in emergency, and more than a dozen towns fell. Even if tens of thousands of pigs were put into such a large place for slaughter, it would still take ten days and a half, right? With so many imperial soldiers
, and with the assistance of the Manchurian army, why did it behave so badly? Has our powerful Kwantung Army degenerated into something worse than a pig?"
The generals were as silent as a cicada, and no one dared to disobey Ueda Kenkichi's wrath.
After a while, Ueda Kenkichi sat down on the chair, touched the long mustache under his nose, and glanced at the generals standing upright on both sides of the conference table: "Gentlemen, the Chinese army suddenly appeared and attacked Beimanchu.
Town Aihui (today's Heihe), and the Eighth Division originally stationed in Aihui has been transferred to the Mudanjiang front line, and now the mixed third brigade stationed in Aihui is stationed. Do you think Major General Tamura is sure to defend Aihui?"
Major General Jun Imamura, deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, replied respectfully: "Major General Tamura Hara has the 4th and 29th Infantry Regiment, the 1st Squadron of the 2nd Engineer Regiment, plus the 16th Brigade of the Imperial Border Guard Brigade, with a total strength of 5,000
With more than 900 people, plus a division of the Manchurian Army guarding it, there shouldn't be much problem in defense. I think the Imperial Army's attack in the areas around Suihua was more serious.
"Since the afternoon of the 10th, the Chinese army blew up the railway line from Baichai Town to Xinglong Town, and then more than ten towns around Suihua were frequently attacked. Although there is no evidence that this was done by the main force of the Chinese army, I always have a bad feeling.
I have a premonition that once the Red Bandits form a climate in this area and become connected with the Anti-Union base areas around Harbin, they will be a serious problem for our Kwantung Army!"
Major General Ayabe Tachibana, the first section commander and operational staff officer of the Kwantung Army, shook his head repeatedly: "Imamura-kun is overly worried. It is precisely because Suihua is only more than a hundred kilometers away from our central city of Harbin in northern Manchuria and is under attack by our army at any time, so there is no need to worry.
.The bombed railway is expected to be repaired tomorrow. By then our army will be on the border and the banditry around Suihua will disappear.
On the other hand, Aihun is different. Opposite Heilongjiang is Hailanpao, the third largest city in the Soviet Far East. It can get support from the Soviet Red Army at any time. If the Chinese army is allowed to gain a foothold here, it will be a real trouble. I suggest,
Immediately dispatch the 13th mixed brigade from Bei'an City to support, otherwise it will be too late."
At this time, Major General Tengjiang Keifu, commander of the Kwantung Army military police, strode into the conference room. Under the slightly surprised look of Ueda Kenkichi, he quickly walked to the large map of Northeast China hanging on the wall of the conference room, picked up his baton, and pointed to the northeast of Changchun.
Direction to the north of Shulan County:
"Two hours ago, a small group of Chinese troops attacked Ping'an Town, 20 kilometers away from Shulan County. The Ninth Garrison Brigade stationed in Shulan County immediately went to the rescue. Not wanting to be ambushed by the superior Chinese troops on the way, most of the troops were lost, and the remaining troops retreated back to Shulan.
When they arrived at the county seat, they discovered that the county seat had been occupied by the Chinese army and was once again under heavy fire.
The captain, Major Gao Shan, had no choice but to lead more than 20 imperial warriors to retreat to Chaoyang Town, requesting tactical guidance. In addition, half an hour ago, an urgent call for help from the garrison captain, Major Sasaki, came from Huadian County, south of Jilin City. He was waiting to call for details.
At that time, there was no reply. It is estimated that all the troops were in pieces, and Huadian County was most likely to have fallen into the hands of the Chinese army."
Ueda Kenkichi took a breath of cold air, quickly stood up and came to the large map covering a wall, looked at it carefully, and after a while, he asked with some uncertainty:
"Gentlemen, how do you explain the changes that have occurred in the north and south? When did the Chinese army have such a strong combat effectiveness? One brigade of our imperial army is enough to deal with the tens of thousands of poorly equipped bandits of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
Only the regular army can pose such a big threat to our Kwantung Army. Have the Soviet Union's claws already extended to Manchuria?"
The more Ueda Kenkichi thought about it, the more worried he became, and for a while his forehead was covered with beads of sweat. The entire Northeast now has less than 200,000 troops in total, but the Soviet Far East Military District has nearly 700,000 equipped with a large number of tanks, armored vehicles and giants.
Once the Soviet Union clearly sees the strength of the Kwantung Army and launches an attack suddenly, Manchuria, which the empire has managed for a long time, will become someone else's wedding dress, and it will become the sinner of the Yamato nation.
Lieutenant Colonel Michio Yamaoka, who replaced the beheaded Kyouji Tonaga as the head of the intelligence section, said bravely:
"General, it should not be the work of the Soviets. The relationship between the Soviet Far East Military Region and the Soviet Central Committee is now very tense. I heard that Stalin has banged the table at high-level meetings many times and cursed Marshal Blucher, the commander of the Far East Military Region, as a **
*The thief is a thief. He and his subordinates should have been sent to the gallows long ago. The current situation in the Soviet Union is serious.
The counterattack was very vigorous. Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov, who was originally somewhat out of favor, proved the correctness of his expansion of the suppression of counterrevolutionaries due to the sudden rebellion in the Far East Military District, and once again gained Stalin's trust. Now in the Soviet Union,
The wave of purges grew stronger and stronger, and many generals died in the basement of the Ministry of Internal Affairs building in Moscow.
"Under such circumstances, I don't think Blyucher dares to use the troops he relies on to save his life in the direction of Manchuria. According to the intelligence reports we sent to Mongolia, the Far East Military Region has assembled at least 300,000 troops in the Lake Baikal area.
Now a large number of Mongolian herdsmen have been organized to dig defense fortifications in the Soviet Union. The people there are miserable, but under the high pressure of the iron fist of the Communist Party, they cannot
Dare to resist, for this reason the intelligence agency even suggested that the empire should give up the attack on China, and make every effort to seize the Far East of the Soviet Union, so that the Sea of Japan truly becomes the inland sea of Japan. Then this huge land bordering the empire will become the world for the Yamato nation.
strategic base, and after ten or twenty years, this land will truly surrender, and then the empire will have endless war potential."
Ueda Kenkichi looked at the map, nodded repeatedly, his two beards trembling: "Yoshi! Yamaoka-kun, your analysis is well-founded and detailed, which is reassuring! The empire needs capable young people like you.
You've done a much better job of taking on important responsibilities than that bastard Toonaga! Then Yamaoka-kun, can you tell me what we should do next?"
Yamaoka Michio was deeply encouraged and quickly bowed and said: "My opinion is to focus the attack and defeat them one by one. Although the Red Bandits are coming with ferocious force at present, I think that most of them are miners and farmers who have just put down their shovels and hoes, so they will definitely be affected.
It cannot withstand the test of a long war.
"We gave the Chinese people too much time to wait, and let them forget about it and dare to launch an attack on the Imperial Army. My opinion is to order the Eighth Division of Mudanjiang to immediately launch a fierce attack on the enemy on the other side.
If he can break in at one go, that would be great. Even if he can't, it can still involve a lot of energy and not dare to attack everywhere.
"In addition, the 12th Division stationed in Harbin should immediately march along the Songhua River towards Fangzheng and Tonghe counties where the red bandits are causing a serious disturbance. After recapturing the two county towns, they should rush towards the lower reaches of the Songhua River with thunderous momentum and re-enter the Songhua River.
Bring Yilan, Jiamusi and other places into the embrace of the empire.
"As long as we continue to put pressure on the Red Bandits, the logistics of their troops that attack everywhere will be tight. At that time, we will close the door and beat the dogs, and cut off their claws extending into the hinterland of Manchuria. When Manchuria is covered with ice and snow, the Red Bandits who have exhausted their resources will
It will be defeated."
Kenkichi Ueda thought carefully about the map, and he was convinced. He immediately made a decision: "Ayabe-kun, please convey my order immediately and telegraph General Toshiga Maeda of the Eighth Division. I don't care what method he uses. I will send you a message before tomorrow."
I hope he can launch a few decent attacks on the enemy on the other side of the Mudanjiang River. If he can do it in one fell swoop,
After defeating the opponent, I asked him to take credit from the base camp; I ordered General Yamada Otsuzo to collect a large number of military vehicles and pack horses, and bring the Harbin Tank Brigade with him, concentrate my elite forces, and defeat the enemy in the square and across the river in one fell swoop. Remind Yamada Otsuzo,
The terrain along the Daqing Mountains is steep, so be careful of attacks by the Chinese guerrillas."
"Hi!"
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Aihuicheng is the largest port city along the Heilongjiang River. Because it faces the Soviet Union's third largest city in the Far East across the river, and the terrain along the coast is flat, it has always been a key defensive place for the Japanese army.
Since the Japanese army occupied Aihun City, after years of construction, this border town has become a huge reinforced concrete fortress. The city is surrounded by high walls, and the five hundred meters outside the city are covered with criss-crossing trenches.
, there are densely packed bunkers and bunkers surrounding the city wall. The city wall is covered with various bunkers, and even many places in the belly of the city wall were hollowed out by the Japanese army and became various hidden firepower points.
Since the defeat of the Japanese army in Wuyun, Chike, and Xunhe showed that the Chinese army had a large number of Soviet tanks, in order to deal with this steel beast, Major General Tamura Haraichi, the commander of the third mixed brigade of the Japanese army guarding the county, attached great importance to the city walls and trenches.
A large number of "Death Team members" were deployed, striving to deliver a head-on blow to the Chinese *** team.
The total number of Japanese and puppet troops guarding the county was more than 14,000. If it had been in the past, Tamurahara would have led the Imperial Army troops he thought were heroic and invincible to attack early in the morning, but he received a fatal order from the Kwantung Army headquarters to wait for reinforcements.
, he reluctantly chose to defend, but he did not think that the Chinese army could pose a threat to him at all. After all, after all the construction of Aihui City over the years, it was no problem to deal with the Soviet army, not to mention that he had always
The despised Chinese guerrillas.
Hu Jiyang, who had been officially appointed as the commander of the fifth division by the rescue headquarters, commanded the troops to prepare for the siege outside the city. After hearing that all the ministries were ready, Hu Jiyang looked at his watch and then gave an order:
"start!"
The combat order was quickly transmitted by the staff using radio waves. Various Japanese and Soviet-style artillery of the artillery regiment were set up. After the artillery regiment commander Major Luo Yaomin checked the shooting points set by the rookie gunners one by one, he nodded with satisfaction.
, gave an order: "Fire!"
Forty Soviet-made 1910-type 152mm cannon howitzers, thirty Type-90 75mm field cannons, and forty Meiji-41-type 75mm mountain cannons that had just been smuggled over from the other side of Heilongjiang last night spewed out angry flames.
Amidst the noise, shells were overwhelming, like a meteor shower from the sky, and they rushed towards the defense line of Aihun City crazily.
When the dense artillery shells landed, they made an earth-shattering sound, and the smoke flew straight into the sky. The entire Aihun City shook violently as if it had been hit by an eight-magnitude earthquake. The barbed wire fences and wooden fences disappeared instantly, and the trenches were razed to the ground.
The light and dark bunkers set up everywhere also disintegrated in the deafening explosion, and the broken bricks, rubble, rocks and mud rushed into the sky and splashed in all directions.
The Japanese and puppet officers and soldiers who were watching all this in stunned silence, before they had time to think about whether they needed to take shelter, were transformed into broken limbs and broken arms flying in the sky in the balls of fire. After being lifted into the air by the air waves, they were torn into pieces again.
Pieces of minced meat.
Major General Tamura Haraichi, who was hiding in the underground command room under the city wall, was almost going crazy. Is this still the Chinese army in his memory that didn't even have rifles? How come the artillery fire was so inferior to that of the Second Field Artillery Regiment that he once had charge of?
The team's saturated artillery bombardment was ten times more ferocious?
Now that the Second Field Artillery Regiment has been transferred to the pass to participate in the North China War, the entire Mixed Third Brigade only has six 75mm mountain guns and six field guns each. How can it deal with such a ferocious artillery attack?
The artillery regiment that rescued the 5th Division did not give the Japanese commander any chance to think. The overwhelming bombs continued to fall on the heads of the Japanese troops, destroying all suspicious targets.
The commander of the artillery regiment, Luo Yaomin, had a smile on his face and led the artillery regiment for ten minutes. His face was already blackened by the smoke, and then he regretfully ordered the artillerymen he had single-handedly led to stop the bombardment.
This 30-year-old artillery major, who comes from a Fujian navy family and graduated from the Second Artillery Course of Huangpu Military Academy, has had a torturous experience. Luo Yaomin was admitted to the Second Phase of Huangpu Military Academy at the age of sixteen, graduated at the age of eighteen, and was assigned to Li Jishen's Fourth Army.
, deeply loved by Li Jishen, he was sent to study abroad at ***Etajima Naval School. After graduation, he returned to China
During the Great War in the Central Plains, Li Jishen, who was the commander of the Eighth Route Army against Chiang Kai-shek at that time, immediately entrusted him with an important task and assigned him to serve as the artillery battalion commander directly under the Route Army Headquarters. Unfortunately, before this position became popular, Li Jishen was defeated and resigned.
Labeled as a faction, he had no choice but to join the 19th Route Army, which also belonged to the Guangdong Army, and participated in the Shanghai War in 1932.
During the Anti-Japanese War, he was promoted to artillery battalion commander again due to his meritorious service. Luo Yaomin originally thought that he could use what he had learned to show off his talents, but he did not want the Fujian Revolution to happen. When the Central Army entered Fujian, he was once again beaten to the end. Just when Luo Yaomin was discouraged,
Cai Zhonghuang, commander of the Second Artillery Brigade who was sympathetic to talents, accidentally learned of his experience and forced him to enter the Xufu.
He served as an artillery instructor at the Military Academy. After two years of hard work, Luo Yaomin finally had the opportunity to lead troops to fight. Although he didn't know what he would face when he arrived in the Northeast, he still joined the officer corps heading north without hesitation and came to the Northeast to join the Anti-Japanese Relief Force.
***, finally got his wish and became an artillery regiment commander.
Touching the huge barrel of the 152mm cannon howitzer, which was so hot to shoot, Luo Yaomin smacked his lips and said to himself that even the large-caliber heavy artillery on land was so enjoyable to fire, but he didn't know that the cannons on the warships were so good at firing.
What does it feel like? It is a pity that China does not have a strong navy, so this wish may not be realized in this life. Thinking of this, Luo Yaomin sighed with regret, and his eyes fell on the dilapidated Aihui City again.