Major General Jin Hongmo, who has been appointed commander of the Seventh Army of the Northeast Army, stood in front of the map with bright eyes and a stern expression. Under An Yi's insistence, all generals of the Northeast Army were awarded the corresponding Anjia Army ranks. Although the Nanjing Government Military Commission
The Ministry of Military Affairs and the Ministry of Military Affairs will not recognize it, but it will be recorded in Anjiajun's files, and his benefits and treatment will be greatly improved. This is also a huge honor.
During this reorganization, Tang Honglei, the former commander of the Communist Army, was appointed as the deputy commander-in-chief of the Northeast Army, and An Jiajun was awarded the rank of lieutenant general; Zhang Jie, the former deputy commander of the Army, was appointed as the chief of staff of the group army, and An Mingqi served as the commander of the group army.
For the position of director of the ** Department, both of them were awarded the rank of Lieutenant General An Jiajun.
The group army headquarters has a total of 11 infantry divisions under the jurisdiction of the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd corps. After the arrival of 500 generals sent again by the Syrian government, a teaching division, a guard division, an artillery division, and an armored division were formed directly under the group army.
In addition, the Syrian government also dispatched a thousand fresh graduates from the Southwest School of Political Science, Xufu Institute of Technology, and South Sichuan Medical College and sent some teaching equipment to establish the Northeastern Military Academy based on the already established Jining Military Academy.
Northeast *** College, Northeast Institute of Technology and Northeast Medical College have completely solved the talent shortage problem faced by the Northeast Army in its development.
The First, Second, and Third armies and the troops directly under the Army Headquarters formed the Northeast Army Central Combat Cluster. Based on the mountains and ravines around the Sanjiang Plain, relying on the convenient material support from the Soviet Far East, they carried out tit-for-tat guerrilla operations against the Japanese army.
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The Fifth Division to save the *** was upgraded to the Fourth Army, and the Sixth Division was upgraded to the Fifth Army. On this basis, the North Manchuria Army of the Northeast Group Army was established. Hu Jiyang served as the lieutenant general commander, and He Yifei, the former commander of the Sixth Division, served as the lieutenant general.
Tang Wen, the deputy commander and chief of staff of the Fifth Division, serves as the chief of staff of the Major General Corps. The North Manchuria Army has six infantry divisions under its jurisdiction and has the most elite armored divisions and artillery divisions directly under the corps of the Northeast Army. The North Manchu Army forms the Northeast Army's northern operations.
The cluster will use the high mountains in the Greater and Lesser Khingan Mountains to skillfully deal with the Japanese army;
The 7th Division of the Rescue Army was upgraded to the 6th Army of the Northeast Army, with three infantry divisions under its jurisdiction. Dong Jinming served as major general and launched guerrilla operations in the mountains and plains between Changchun, Harbin, and Mudanjiang to destroy the Japanese army.
economic construction to contain the effective strength of the Kwantung Army;
Jin Hongmo's Seventh Army and the Army Group also assigned three infantry divisions. The combat area was Changbai Mountain and the surrounding areas. Jin Hongmo made full use of Jin Hongmo's long-term guerrilla fighting here and was familiar with the terrain to carry out movements and raids to attack Japanese transportation.
and supply lines, distracting the energy of its command organs, and creating favorable conditions for the main force to win a decisive victory.
Just as various units of the Anjia Army were celebrating their promotion with great joy, the Japanese troops gathered in Fengtian (Shenyang) had already launched a rapid offensive.
The 13 main divisions, 21 Japanese brigades, and a large number of Japanese troops and puppet Manchukuo troops who came back from North China urgently did not hesitate at all. They immediately divided into two groups. The left army marched along the South Manchuria Railway.
Quickly heading north, with the terrifying construction capabilities of the engineer regiments directly under each main brigade and the five *** engineer brigades, the damaged South Manchuria Railway was repaired in full within a day. By the night of the 22nd, the Left Route Army successfully
Arriving at Xinjing (Changchun), the capital of the puppet Manchukuo, one division and three Japanese brigades were left behind, while the rest of the troops continued northward to urgently support the war in Northern Manchukuo.
On the right, the Japanese army attacked along the Jilin-Fengtian Railway (Shenyang to Jilin City). Although this railway was also damaged in many places by the Seventh Army, the Japanese army's large main brigade was directly under the engineering brigade. With the help of railways and mechanized auxiliary equipment, it rolled forward like a torrent. In just two days, the army quickly consolidated the defense forces of Fushun, Qingyuan, Hailong (today's Meihekou City), Panshi and other cities along the railway. And with superior force strength, the engineering troops built barbed wire fences and defensive fortresses along the railway line.
After the Japanese troops entered Jilin City, they did not continue to go north, but quickly devoted themselves to a large-scale sweep of nearby areas. Together with the puppet troops and the Japanese troops transferred from North Korea, the total number reached as many as 450,000. The troops, like a swarm of locusts, carried out a rigorous sweep of every hilltop in the mountains and plains between the Jilin-Fenghuang Railway and the South-Manchuria Railway.
Jin Hongmo looked at the map and secretly exclaimed, "It's very dangerous." If he hadn't sensed something was wrong and decisively pulled the troops from the plains, mountains, and hilly areas of northern Liaoning back to the east of the Jilin-Fengtian Railway, he would have been trapped by the Japanese puppets by now. The army was surrounded by railways as pillars, roads as chains, and bunkers as locks.
The Hadaling, Molihongshan and Liaohe Plain areas, which are located between the Jifeng-Fenghuang Railway and the South Manchuria Map, are located in the heart of Japanese rule. There are a large number of railway and road networks built, and most of the mountains here are of the three types. The hilltop of 140 meters is not conducive to the hiding and movement of troops. Once the Japanese army finds and bites it, and its air force assists in the battle, there is a great possibility that it will be surrounded and annihilated by the superior Japanese army.
"Lao Jin, the First Anti-Japanese Army came to report that the Japanese army is strengthening the defense along the Beijing-Tumen Line (Changchun-Tumen) railway. Apparently they want to use the same barrier tactics to trap us. Commander Yang Jingyu asked us about our next move ." Major General Hong Yupu, deputy commander of the Seventh Army, strode up to Jin Hongmo and handed him a message.
After a cursory glance, Jin Hongmo turned to look at his close friend who had been with him for four years and asked, "What suggestions do Mr. An and the Fourth Hall have?"
Hong Yupu said: "Commander An is busy with everything and will not notice the situation on our local battlefield. Judging from the information fed back by our secret spies placed in the Puppet Manchukuo Army and the Kwantung Army, the Japanese army will continue to control Ji Feng in northern Liaoning for some time in the future. The mountainous and hilly areas between the railway and the South Manchuria Railway should be sorted out in detail to reconstruct the group tribes. This is the moment when the Japanese army is at its peak. The Fourth Department recommends that we avoid the real situation and attack the weak, and we must not confront the Japanese army head-on!"
Jin Hongmo looked up at the map: "The food supplies we looted from the south are enough for the winter. However, the Japanese Army's Beijing-Turkish Railway lies across the main route for us to communicate with the Soviet Far East. It is like a rope that binds us. Hands and feet, if we don't resolutely destroy it, our contact with the Army Central Cluster and the Far East Red Army will be interrupted in the future, and there will be problems with ammunition, supplies and food supplies. Therefore, even if the Japanese army gathers heavy troops, we must resolutely break the Japanese army's cage .Lao Hong, you see, the area around the Beijing-Turkish Line is surrounded by steep mountains and extremely inconvenient transportation, but it is a good place for guerrilla warfare."
Hong Yupu smiled: "What, the decision has been made?"
The black and strong Jin Hongmo said coaxingly: "Of course, after following Boss An for so long, if I haven't learned even one of his strategies, wouldn't my junior brother be too inferior? I'll give him a try this time. Pinch off the head, cut off the tail, attack the center, and let the devils understand that I, the black blind man, am not living in vain!"
"Commander, Deputy Commander, urgent call from headquarters!"
Colonel Zhu Zhefu, chief of staff of the Seventh Army, who graduated from Jiangnan University of Science and Technology and further studied at the Xufu Military Academy, came to the map, handed the telegram to Jin Hongmo, then picked up the baton and pointed at the line from Jilin City to Tumen:
"The headquarters decided to launch the Beijing-Turkish Railway Battle within the next half month, cut off the transportation between the Japanese Army's Beijing-Turkish Line and the North Korean Line in North Korea, destroy the Japanese Army's bunker groups and trenches, and deprive our two guerrilla zones of
Closely linked together. The initial intention is to mobilize an army from the central cluster to cooperate with our Seventh Army. A total of more than 60 regiments will be mobilized to attack from the north and south to capture any big city in Tumen, Yanji, and Dunhua to attack the Japanese army.
His arrogance forced his main force to divide his forces and move south, reducing the pressure on the central group of the Army Group.
"This is what heroes think alike!"
After listening to Zhu Zhefu's explanation, Hong Yupu's face was full of smiles. Jin Hongmo took the telegram from Zhu Zhefu's hand, read it carefully, and read out the part that Zhu Zhefu did not say:
"Also: Yesterday, the Japanese Seventh Division, with the cooperation of more than 40 fighter planes of its air force, launched a large-scale attack on the Daqingbei Mountain line of the Binsui Railway. We intercepted the Sixth Brigade of the Second Division of the Second Army from the front. After tenacious resistance, all the fortresses and positions were captured.
When the Japanese army was destroyed, they took the initiative to evacuate. Last night, our troops along the Binsui Railway launched a brave counterattack. The Japanese 7th Division was surrounded by our troops in Wandaoshi Town, and was later relieved by the Japanese 108th Division, which rushed to the scene.
We got out of trouble just now. In addition, due to the Tujia Line (Tumen-Jiamusi) railway, the highway was completely destroyed by our army. At the same time, on the way to Linkou by the Japanese army, our First Army laid mines everywhere, and the Japanese Eighth Division and
The 21st Division is struggling and is still lingering between the mountains of Laoye Ridge to the north and south of Wulin River."
After finishing reading, Jin Hongmo praised loudly: "I don't know how Mr. An cultivated talents. These young people are full of wits and flexible tactics. Originally, the comparison of the strength of the Chinese and Japanese armies seemed to be one-sided. Now,
The little *** was dragged so hard that he couldn't make any progress. I estimate that in ten and a half months, the little *** wouldn't even be able to enter Linkou County, let alone Jining. Maybe we can keep the Sanjiang Plain area for a long time!"
Colonel Zhu Zhefu, chief of staff, shook his head: "Commander, I think the situation is not as optimistic as you think. According to the latest report from the headquarters, Xie Wendong, commander of the Eighth Anti-Japanese Army, surrendered to the enemy in Jiangjialu, west of Fangzheng County yesterday, and Zhao Shangzhi, the third
The army did not know what was going on. On its way to join the Eighth Army, the army was ambushed by the Japanese 12th Division in the Erhongshan area west of Daqingshan and suffered heavy losses.
"Now, the Japanese army, with the cooperation of the traitors and the Kwantung Army's Harbin spies, has firmly controlled the upper reaches of the Songhua River, and may attack Yilan County in the middle reaches along the Songhua River at any time. The Fourth Anti-Alliance Army
Army Commander Li Yanping, Deputy Army Commander Wang Guangyu and Ninth Army Commander Li Huatang have urgently requested help from our group army headquarters. Two divisions of the Third Army of our Central Group have taken an urgent train to Jiamusi via Linkou, striving to arrive before the Japanese army arrives.
To Yilan, otherwise the expanded Anti-Alliance Fourth Army and Ninth Army, with a combined force of less than 10,000 guns, will not be able to stop the Japanese offensive."
"Xie Wendong surrendered to the enemy?"
Jin Hongmo was stunned for a while!
In fact, Jin Hongmo had long seen that Xie Wendong was not resolute in his will to resist Japan, and he had two different attitudes. He was the kind of villain who would cheat and sneak around, take advantage and run away when faced with tough battles. However, Southern Manchuria, Dongmanchuria, and Kyrgyzstan
Dong, the Songjiang (Northern Manchuria) Provincial Committee, the Harbin Special Committee and the top leaders of the Anti-Japanese League always insisted that all forces should be united to resist Japan and meet Xie Wendong's various unreasonable demands, but they turned a blind eye to his passive resistance to Japan, which finally led to today's tragic disaster.
Hong Yupu suddenly thought of something, glanced around, approached Jin and Zhu, and whispered:
"There is news from the fourth hall that Moscow has sent people to Harbin and is contacting various departments of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. The Kwantung Army's Harbin spy agency has actually noticed it a long time ago, but turned a blind eye and allowed its activities. As you also know, now the Far East Red Army and Moscow
There is a stalemate on both sides, and the conflicts are becoming more and more acute, and there will always be an outbreak. However, our interests are firmly tied to the Far East Red Army. If there is a fire in the backyard while we are fighting the Japanese invaders, it will be quite troublesome.
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Jin Hongmo and Zhu Zhefu looked at each other and felt the seriousness of the problem.