The roaring and violent bombardment shook the rolling mountains, and the echo continued for a long time, and the sound became louder and louder. A quarter of an hour after the bombardment, five bomber squadrons of the Anjia Army Air Force flew over the battlefield and attacked the main peak and two wings of Xing'an Mountain.
The position was intensively bombed.
After several days and nights of fierce fighting, Naojiro Tsuchiya, the former commander of the 135th Brigade, who was urgently promoted to Lieutenant General Commander of the Chita Guard Army by the Japanese base camp, was exhausted, but from this wave of high-intensity shelling, he was sensitively aware of
The difference from the past was that we immediately mobilized our troops and generals, determined to stop the enemy at the main peak position.
The main peak position of Xing'an Mountain is one thousand meters high. Due to the continuous progressive attacks, the battlefield has been moved to a high mountain of 100 meters. Large-caliber heavy artillery cannot be transported to the complex terrain, rugged and steep heights, and can only be transported easily.
The 105mm mountain howitzer and 107mm mountain rocket launcher carried are the main fire output points, and the air force and army aviation cooperate in the operation.
However, when fighting in such a dangerous place, the main force in the attack can only be mountain infantry!
Because the Japanese troops in Ulan-Ude and Petrovsk are accelerating through the Shilok River Valley, fleeing from Chita to Nerchinsk, and the middle and upper reaches of Heilongjiang, Yin Jinan, as the supreme commander of the theater, has ordered the mountain cluster to take action today.
Lower the Xing'an Mountain position, occupy Chita, and completely open the Siberian Railway.
As the artillery fire extended to the left and right flanks of the main peak, Lieutenant General Zhang Hao, commander of the Second Mountain Group Army, looked at his watch, turned his head and issued an order decisively:
"Start the general attack now. All units will attack according to the scheduled plan and strive to seize the position before sunset! Tell Zhang Guosheng, who is responsible for the breakthrough of the center, that I am waiting for his troops to plant the red flag on the main peak of Xing'an Mountain!"
"yes!"
Colonel Duan Zhihe, the director of the communications department, immediately passed on the attack order. Soon, the loud charge bugle sounded, and the mountain soldiers of the Anjia Army all over the mountains and plains, guided by the 79th Army Flag, rushed towards the top of Xing'an Mountain with great momentum.
After several days of fierce fighting, the fortifications, bunker groups, and firepower points below the main peak and the two flanking highlands occupied by the Japanese army had been removed. The only thing standing in front of the heroic mountain soldiers of the Anjia Army was the high peak.
In front of the scorching firepower of the Japanese, the mountain soldiers of the Anjia Army shouted and charged towards the top of the mountain. The sound of guns and cannons and the shouts of killing filled the sky.
At the front of the main peak position of Xing'an Mountain, the Japanese cut out a lateral slope more than ten meters high in the mountain to prevent the Anjia Army's attack. The 1st and 2nd Regiments of the Fourth Mountain Division, which were responsible for the main offensive task, were blocked in front of the lateral slope, at the foot of the mountain col.
The corpses of mountain soldiers lay densely packed.
After an hour of bloody battle, Zhang Guosheng still couldn't win. Zhang Guosheng, with smoke in his face and a hoarse voice, stared at his blood-red eyes and yelled at the group leader through the walkie-talkie: "Old Ma, you son of a bitch, you will kill me even if you die."
Put the red flag on the top of the mountain for me!"
There was silence on the other end of the walkie-talkie. Just when Zhang Guosheng was surprised, Guo Zhenjia, the communications section chief, shouted: "Commander! Commander Ma rushed forward with his troops!"
In the smoke of exploding grenades rained down by the Japanese, forty or fifty general-purpose machine guns covered more than two hundred death squads and rushed towards the slope. In front of the slope, the corpses of Anjia officers and soldiers had piled up into a hill. The subsequent demolition crews continued with
Using the corpses of their comrades as cover, they piled scattered bomb bags into the blasting pits that had been dug under the slope.
In just one minute, one-third of the more than 200 suicide squad members fell. Lieutenant Colonel Ma Yutian, the commander of the regiment, numbly put the blood-stained ** bags one by one into the pit.
The machine gunner, whose eyes were red, used his body to block his regiment leader.
Whenever someone was shot and fell to the ground, someone next to him would immediately pick up a general-purpose machine gun and continue to fire at the Japanese troops. The Japanese soldiers responsible for the defense of the main peak knew that if the slope was blasted, it would only be a matter of time before the main peak position was lost, so hundreds of soldiers
The Japanese soldiers, who were covered in gunpowder, rolled down the slope with a scream, and the smoke from the continuous explosions instantly completely obscured the bottom of the slope.
Zhang Guosheng, who was observing the battle situation with a telescope, was stunned for a moment, and then burst into tears and murmured: "Old Ma, why are you so stupid, leading people up by yourself..."
When Qian Leju, political commissar of the first regiment, learned that the regiment leader and all the officers and soldiers of the first battalion responsible for the assault mission were killed in action, he did not hesitate to tell Wu Liguodao, the combat staff officer next to him:
"Move the second battalion up to take over the first battalion and continue the blasting! I'm going to the third battalion. Even if we wipe out the whole regiment today, we still have to take down the enemy's main peak position."
Major Wu Liguo, who had been on the team with Ma Yutian and Qian Leju for more than two years, also became red-eyed at this time. Without saying a word, he waved his Type II automatic rifle and led the reinforcing second battalion directly towards the place underneath the main peak formation.
Road slope.
While the Second Battalion rushed up, the snipers of the Fourth Mountain Division continued to shoot and kill the enemies on the top of the mountain. The recoilless rifles were aimed at the Japanese army's main peak position and kept bombarding. Mortar shells rained down, and the sky
The bombers assisting in the battle kept swooping down, dropping huge aerial bombs one after another...
Splashing firelight and thick gunpowder smoke always shrouded the main peak position of Xing'an Mountain. However, the Japanese took advantage of the tunnels on the top of the mountain and the complex terrain structure to resist stubbornly. Each blockhouse and bunker continued to spray firepower downwards, imprisoning Anjia officers and soldiers.
Blocked firmly under the top of the mountain!
The battle has reached this point, and neither the enemy nor we have any way out, they can only grit their teeth and persevere to the end.
The battle lasted for more than half an hour, and the situation changed after two waves of helicopter groups arrived one after another!
Forty or fifty armed helicopters were hovering in mid-air on the top of the mountain, covering the assault operations of the Anjiajun mountain infantry. After all the attention of the Japanese army was attracted, more than a hundred transport helicopters rushed to the side of the main peak with thunderous momentum.
An air landing was carried out in a woodland at the rear, and officers and soldiers of a regiment suddenly appeared behind the enemy. Many Japanese soldiers were stabbed to the ground by the Anjia officers and soldiers who rushed up before they understood what was going on.
With the cooperation of armed helicopters, it only took a quarter of an hour for this airborne regiment to successfully seize the summit position. Then it switched its firepower to suppress the mountains on the left and right flanks. At the same time, it sent small troops to use blasting methods to seal off the Japanese tunnels all over the mountain.
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After several reinforcements, the number of Japanese troops stationed on the front line of Xing'an Mountain has reached as many as two Japanese mixed brigades and one border garrison, with a total strength of 25,000. However, after several days of hard fighting, more than half of them have been killed and wounded. In addition, the position is now in chaos.
The Japanese commander, Lieutenant General Naojiro Tsuchiya, realized that the situation was not good.
"I really didn't expect that an aircraft that can hover in the air can directly parachute troops into the battle. It seems that this time there is less danger..."
Naojiro Tsuchiya's eyes were gloomy and his heart was full of helplessness. He was ordered to stick to Xing'an Mountain for a week and buy as much time as possible for the main force to retreat. Anyone who retreated one day earlier would be held accountable. In this case, he could only issue a counterattack order: "
Tell Mr. Saito that we can no longer preserve our strength at this time and must regain the main peak position as soon as possible, otherwise military law will be engaged!"
Saito Shigeru is the commander of the Chita National Defense Force who serves as the reserve team for this battle. His previous task was to fill in the gaps and send reinforcements wherever danger arises. Now this new wave of new troops will be involved in the battle for the main peak.
While the Japanese troops on the main peak and the two flanking ridges were engaged in a fierce battle with the airborne assault troops of the Anjia Army, the Japanese reserve troops hiding in the mountain tunnels were ordered to swarm out. The entire front and back slopes of the main peak of Xing'an Mountain were simultaneously involved in a melee.
Fortunately, the slope had been successfully blasted at this time, and the 2nd and 3rd regiments of the 4th Mountain Division quickly reached the top. At the same time, the 5th and 6th Divisions on the left and right flanks also advanced vigorously, and soon approached the top of the mountain, engaging in close combat with the Japanese army.
The unprecedented melee went beyond everyone's expectations, especially since the Japanese, who were in an extremely unfavorable situation, chose to fight back instead of retreating, which directly led to the rapid escalation of the brutality of the war.
At this time, the artillery suppression had completely lost its effect. The bombers and helicopters in the air no longer dared to spray firepower. They could only rush to the rear of the Japanese army and shoot the Japanese reinforcements.
Sixty to seventy thousand Chinese and Japanese troops surrounded the top of Xing'an Mountain and launched a ruthless battle. The three mountaintops covering an area of more than ten square kilometers became the scene of the most brutal bloodshed since the attack on Eastern Siberia and the Far East.
As the battle became more intense, Yin Jinan even personally called the commander of the mountain group, Lieutenant General Jiao Guangxu, to inquire about the situation.
Jiao Guangxu, who was standing on a big rock at the bottom of the mountain watching the progress of the battle, put down his walkie-talkie, turned around and looked at the sound of gunfire in the sky, and said to the chief of staff, Major General Gao Jinbao:
"Move Wang Huanyan's Third Group Army up. We must defeat the Japanese army before sunset and occupy all positions on the main peak of Xing'an Mountain. We will officially enter Chita in the evening."
"yes!"
Gao Jinbao had no objection and took the order. Not long after, fresh troops from three divisions joined the battle group.
At this time, the battle on the top of Xing'an Mountain has entered a fever pitch. At this time, Naojiro Tsuchiya has realized that there is no hope of regaining the main peak position. But the problem now is that if the fierce attack of the Anjia Army is not withstood, most of the Japanese troops on the defensive will inevitably be defeated.
Being stuck in a tunnel, the consequences are obvious.
Therefore, Naojiro Tsuchiya ordered the troops in the tunnel to counterattack at all costs. At the same time, he led a death squad consisting of guards, signalmen, staff officers, grooms, cooks, etc. to the top of the mountain to echo the operations of the troops on the mountain.
The entire Xing'an Mountain was filled with shouts of killing. The Japanese troops were like mountain rats, constantly emerging from caves in the mountains. The mountain soldiers of the Anjia Army blocked the rats everywhere. Wherever the Japanese soldiers appeared, they rushed towards them. First, they fired with submachine guns.
, then greeted with grenades, and after suppressing the firepower at the entrance of the large tunnel, directly used the flamethrower to spray out fiercely, killing the sky and the earth until it was dark.
Everywhere in the mountains, there were officers and soldiers from both sides fighting hand to hand, fighting each other. However, as the follow-up troops of the Anjia Army continued to rush to the top of the mountain, the balance of victory gradually tilted towards the Anjia Army. The fierce fighting lasted until three o'clock in the afternoon, and the Japanese army finally collapsed.
Most of the Japanese soldiers began to turn around and fled down the mountain desperately. For a time, the mountains and plains were filled with fleeing Japanese soldiers.
Naojiro Tsuchiya pulled out his pistol and killed several deserters one after another. However, too many soldiers fled later. Upon seeing this, several staff officers hurriedly surrounded him and fled together.
This escape could not be stopped. Under the constant fire from the Anjia Army fighter planes in the sky, the Japanese soldiers did not dare to retreat to Chita City in the northwest. They could only flee desperately to the east. The entire Chita front completely collapsed!
...
Along the Siberian Railway, just a few days after the Japanese army moved east, the sound of rumbling and noisy marching footsteps resounded again in the sky and the earth. Groups of troops with neat appearance and high spirits appeared in this silent wilderness.
superior.
The Japanese immigrants who were killed and abandoned by their own troops have been embarking on their journey back eastward one after another in the past few days. The frightened villagers of Russian and other ethnic groups who had just settled down screamed in fear, and one by one they stood in the wilderness.
Amidst the chaos, some villagers who lost their loved ones in the accidents two days ago seemed to accept their fate and hid in their homes without going out, just waiting for the disaster to come.
Unexpectedly, most of the soldiers marched directly along the railway without anyone stopping. About one company of soldiers was ordered to leave the group and command more than ten carriages to enter the village. Most of the carriages were loaded with corn and sweet potatoes.
, potatoes and other grains.
"Folks, don't be afraid. We are the Anjia Army. After five years, we are back! We know that your food has been robbed. This is temporarily distributed from our army. It will probably be enough for you to survive for three to five days.
, starting from tomorrow, a special rescue team will deliver more food and daily necessities..."
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