In eastern Zhejiang, Heshang Town is eight kilometers southwest of Linpu County. The town is at the intersection of the Yongxing River and many tributaries. The Zhuji-Xiaoshan Highway (Zhuji to Xiaoshan) runs through the town and winds to the north. The surrounding areas are mountainous.
The situation was dangerous and the forests were lush. The enemy forces enslaved the local people and cut off the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Highway. They also built extremely strong defenses at the foot of the West Mountain in the south of the town. Together with the artillery positions and air defense positions on the mountains on the left and right sides, it can be said that
It is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and it has a good location.
However, the Anjia Army completely ignored the opponent's defense. In order to open a passage to the north, the New Eighth Army's 68th Division and the 137th Division, under the leadership of Commander Li Jinlong, launched a fierce attack on the enemy.
attack.
A total of 72 120-meter heavy howitzers from the artillery regiments directly under the two divisions were concentrated and the violent shells poured down, causing the Japanese soldiers to fly with blood and flesh, making them tremble in fear.
The enemy didn't know how to move the pitiful twenty-four 75mm mountain guns and field guns to the mountain. As soon as they opened fire, they were bombarded by four bomber groups, the 1st Air Regiment and the 2nd Air Regiment. The enemy's artillery positions
and air defense positions were shrouded in smoke. Anjia Army's ground artillery fire took the opportunity to cover them, and air-to-ground coordination quickly destroyed all the enemy's mountain artillery, field artillery, anti-aircraft machine guns, and anti-aircraft artillery.
Subsequently, the artillery of the Anjia Army ravaged the enemy's positions again and again. Four consecutive trenches with a depth of 1.5 meters were almost razed to the ground in the end.
Before the infantry of the Anjia Army launched an attack, most of the enemy's troops were lost. You know, the Anjia Army not only had heavy artillery, but also a large number of recoilless rifles and mortars, and their strike accuracy was much higher than that of the enemy.
One can imagine the tremendous pressure on my heart.
Now it is no longer the embarrassing situation when An Yi led the independent regiment to attack Yangchun Bridge eleven years ago. The strong Anjia army has enough firepower to attack the opponent and create a safe attack line for the infantry. At the same time, the Southwest Air Force, which has air superiority, has
Troops can be dispatched at any time to ruthlessly attack the enemy's stubborn resistance.
Five days ago, after obtaining the video and audio data of the Anjia Army's grand entry into the city on the 25th, the enemy's base camp immediately issued an order. In view of the failure of the Songhu battle plan across the board, the eastern Zhejiang region will face the Anjia Army with a large number of artillery, armor, and tanks.
In order to avoid unnecessary losses, the eastern Zhejiang Front troops will withdraw from the eastern Zhejiang front line from now on. All participating troops will return to North Korea by boat to participate in the suppression operations against the guerrillas in northern North Korea, consolidate the rear, and prepare for the next battle.
A solid rear.
The enemy has always had a tradition of committing crimes, and those who do not agree with the grassroots troops will be confronted.
This time, the 16th Division, which was greedy for the cultural gathering place in eastern Zhejiang, took the initiative to jump out. Its division commander, Lieutenant General Nakajima Jingo, reported to the base camp that the area currently controlled by the enemy was a land of plenty.
It is a rich land with dangerous mountains and rivers. With only a small army to defend it, you can get a piece of fertile land that is almost the same size as Shikoku Island in Japan and can be used for rest and recuperation, greatly alleviating the food pressure faced by Japan.
Moreover, voluntarily choosing to give up without resistance is a complete sign of cowardice and incompetence, and is a serious irresponsibility to the Japanese people. Therefore, I request that my troops stay and defend the dignity of the Imperial Army of Japan.
The base camp sent a telegram with a stern warning. However, Nakajima also had sympathizers. Tojo Hideki, Muto Akira and others successively interceded on his behalf, saying that his performance only proved the loyalty and bravery of the imperial warriors. Perhaps the Sixteenth Division could be replaced by We must defend tenaciously to see if the Anjia Army is a paper tiger. Otherwise, retreating without a fight may affect the morale and morale of the army.
Later, the teacher commander of the 16th Division, Nakajima Kongo's old boss, and the current Governor of North Korea, General Nanjiro, also put in good words for him. When the base camp saw so many people supporting it, they ignored it and ignored it.
Nakajima's ambition suddenly grew, and he recruited the two commanders of the 15th and 17th mixed brigades, asking them to stay and fight alongside him, so on the night of the 27th and 28th, a large force boarded the ship. After leaving, the Japs from the 16th Division and the two mixed brigades took on the important task of fighting the Anjia Army.
Nakajima is very vicious now. He has recruited 200,000 puppet troops in the eastern Zhejiang region, appointed traitor leaders at all levels who took the initiative to seek refuge, and distributed all the weapons seized in the previous battles in eastern Zhejiang. After changing into the uniform of the Chinese regular army that had to be brought to eastern Zhejiang for a disguised sneak attack, he looked decent for a while.
At the same time, Zhongdao has urgently recruited 300,000 civilians to build fortifications at Tiantai Mountain, Kuaiji Mountain, Siming Mountain and other passes, and use natural dangers to confront the Anjia army.
Unfortunately, no matter how hard we try, the gap in strength between China and Japan cannot be made up by relying on spirit.
Utilizing the Zhejiang-Jiangxi Railway, the steady stream of strategic materials produced in western Guizhou, western Hunan and even Syria can be easily transported to the hands of the front-line troops. The 28th Army, the 49th Army, and the New Eighth Army gathered in eastern Zhejiang. There was absolutely no problem in the supply of food and ammunition. Therefore, Nakajima Kongo's attempt to use solid defenses to inflict heavy casualties on the Anjia Army did not come true, because it was not until the enemy's entire defense line collapsed that the Anjia Army's infantry launched a charge. Soon Then they occupied the positions abandoned by the enemy in panic.
While the New Eighth Army won the victory in Heshang Town, Shi Zhen's two divisions of the 28th Army also took down the fortifications carefully constructed by the enemy forces on the Shipanshan front line, and pressed towards Linpu County from the east. The defense system constructed has no effect, and the entire front is in danger of collapse.
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On the highway.
A total of one hundred tanks, two hundred armored vehicles, and four hundred personnel carriers from the mechanized division directly under the First Corps of the Northeast Army drove toward the city of Kulun in the south.
Lieutenant General Hu Jiyang, commander of the First Army Corps, was sitting in a command vehicle converted from a truck, chatting in low voices with deputy commander He Yifei, chief of staff Tang Wen, chief of operations Hu Ayao and other generals.
In the past few days, various units of the Northeast Army have made smooth progress.
On the 27th, the 10th, 11th and 12th brigades of the 4th Division of the First Army successfully entered the city of Kerulen (today's Qiaobashan City, Mongolia) and took over Kerulen from the officers and soldiers of a regiment of the Far East Red Army. The defense of the city.
That night, the 36th Regiment of the 12th Brigade marched quickly to the south of Kerulen to take over the defense of a battalion of the Red Army stationed there and closely monitor the movements of the enemy forces in Chahar.
After a night's rest, the Fourth Division left behind the headquarters of the 12th Brigade and its two regiments, the division headquarters, the 10th Brigade, and the 11th Brigade. Together with the Far East Red Army retreating to the west, they marched towards Kulun along the Kuhutai Station Road. .
On the 29th, the 10th and 11th brigades of the Fourth Division entered Belutai City. After leaving one regiment to garrison yesterday, the remaining troops set off again and headed towards Khan City in Chechnya. It is not expected to arrive until the day after tomorrow.
The rest of the troops stationed in Mongolia were all concentrated on the Sino-Soviet border. Since Hailanpao was opposite Aihun City and was connected by a railway to the Siberian Railway artery, the headquarters of the First Army, the directly affiliated troops and the Fourth Army became the first batch.
Troops rushing to Mongolia.
This time, the First Army left three divisions of the Fifth Army and six newly formed local guerrilla columns to defend the Greater and Lesser Khingan Mountains base areas, maintain smooth connections between Mongolia and the Northeastern base areas, and engage in tit-for-tat operations with the enemy.
The Group Army Headquarters, together with its directly affiliated troops, as well as the newly formed Ninth Army and Tenth Army, became the second batch of troops entering Mongolia. The First Army stayed in the intersection of Xiaoxinan Mountains and Sanjiang Plain, and was stationed on the east bank of Mudanjiang, Songhua
Together with the Third Army in the area south of the Yangtze River, we ensure the security of the Sanjiang base area.
According to the needs of the war, the First Army and the Third Army were organized into the Third Army of the Northeast Army. Lieutenant General Han Xianzhi, commander of the First Army, served as the army commander and led the soldiers and civilians in the base area to fight against Japan.
After completing the defense engagement with the various departments of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the two armies of the Second Army that took the lead in withdrawing from the Changbai base area walked to Vladivostok and boarded the train heading north on the 29th, becoming the third batch of troops entering Mongolia. At this time, Dong
Jin Ming's Sixth Army and Jin Hongmo's Seventh Army had just withdrawn from the base area and were moving towards the border line.
Regarding the unprecedented large-scale relocation operation of the Northeast Army, the government of the Far East Republic provided strong cooperation. Not only did it dispatch a huge transport convoy along the border, it also put a lot of effort into railway dispatching to ensure that the army could rush to Mongolia unimpeded.
We have to form an army and fight side by side.
On the morning of the 26th, the resolution made by the Kremlin reached the ears of the top leaders of the party, government, and military of the Far Eastern Republic. Originally, a group of generals and officials were rejoicing at the end of the suppression of counterrevolutionaries and a series of wrong lines, believing that the revolution had won.
Start thinking about how to end things gracefully.
Although the senior officials of the Far East Republic had already anticipated the various despicable methods Stalin would use, they did not expect that Stalin would do things so cruelly.
In response to the Kremlin's continuous combined punch offensive, the Far Eastern Republic is in trouble.
Since the night of the 25th, the Soviet Union began to completely interfere with the normal broadcasts of Far East Radio. Now even Central Asia and the Ural regions cannot listen to radio programs from the Far East. At the same time, the Soviet army sent a large number of fighter jets to block the airspace. More than ten of the Far East Republic
The bomber loaded with leaflets was shot down just after it flew over the Ural Mountains. At the same time, the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs stepped up its investigation of suspicious persons. Fourteen underground organizations sent to Moscow to engage in propaganda work in the Far East were uncovered. The public opinion offensive in the Far Eastern Republic suddenly came to a halt.
And stop.
Under such circumstances, the senior officials of the Far Eastern Republic, who knew that they were not Stalin's opponents in conspiracy, unified their understanding and realized that the current battle with the Soviet Central Committee had become a life-and-death situation. Through radio and newspapers, they quickly informed the entire Far East
The citizens of the Republic informed Moscow of the despicable means of framing the case and the Soviet decision to send all the people in the Far East to the gallows. This made the 35 million people who had seen Stalin's iron-blooded methods give up all illusions and completely walk away.
Take the road of armed self-defense.
On the morning of the 30th, the Far Eastern Republic solemnly declared to the world that the independent government of the Far Eastern Republic has been formally established from that day forward, and its territory includes all areas east of the Ural Mountains. Countries around the world are welcome to establish formal diplomatic relations and launch economic and trade cooperation with the Far Eastern government.
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Subsequently, the government of the Far Eastern Republic announced that it would declare war on the Soviet Union from that day forward and fight to defend the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity!
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"Lao Hu, tell me, where will the situation develop in the future?" He Yifei asked.
Hu Jiyang lamented: "The political struggle is indeed cruel, and Moscow has resorted to all possible means. If before, the Far East was still 30 to 40 percent sure of winning the final victory, but since the Kremlin decisively adopted a series of countermeasures
After that, I no longer had even a 10% certainty.
The carriage fell into silence, and everyone felt shuddering.
With the current strength of the Northeast Army, is it possible to withstand Stalin's fierce counterattack? By then, the newly recovered Mongolian homeland will be caught in the flames of war, and all the longings and good wishes will cease to exist.
At this time, the motorcade suddenly stopped.
Lieutenant Colonel Zhuang Yifan, captain of the special forces group directly under the legion, jumped into the carriage: "Report, according to a call from a squadron that went out for reconnaissance in an armored vehicle, there was a sea of people in front of the gate of Kulun City. I don't know what happened."
He Yifei was very surprised: "They are not here to oppose our settlement, are they? Mongolia has left the motherland for so many years, and the government led by Qiao Bashan and others has been pursuing a de-Sinicization policy. We still don't know how bad Kulun City will be.
The situation is in trouble now!"
Tang Wen hesitated: "Probably not. After all, Cullen is still controlled by the Far East Red Army, and they will not allow large-scale riots."
Hu Ayao blushed: "They didn't dare to object to the Red Army's arrival. When they heard we were coming, they came to block the door. It's so abominable! If you don't teach them a lesson, they don't know that the pot is made of iron...
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"Don't be impatient!"
Hu Jiyang raised his hand, frowned for a moment, then suddenly smiled and said: "I didn't say anything, they must be here to welcome us."
Seeing everyone looking at each other with doubts, Hu Jiyang patiently explained: "If we really want to join forces to resist, we have to wait until the Far East Red Army leaves. Moreover, they rashly gathered people to cause trouble without knowing our details. This is very unreasonable.
Therefore, there can only be one explanation for this - they are here to welcome us!"
Having said this, Hu Jiyang ordered: "Order all ministries to cheer up and continue to move forward."
I saw armored vehicles and tanks with blue sky and white sun on the front and red flags on the ground appearing at the end of the road. The dust raised was overwhelming and bursts of warm cheers came from the crowd.