Among them, the 72nd Infantry Regiment is one of the most powerful infantry regiments in the Kwantung Army and even among all Japanese armies. Even the infantry brigades under some standing divisions may not win it. In addition, the combat effectiveness of the Puppet Manchukuo Xing'an Division
It is also close to the Japanese Sixth Army's permanent
The level of the division was high, and the elites sent out were even more elite. With these two as the backbone, plus the 20,000 troops with relatively strong combat effectiveness drawn from the Puppet Manchukuo Xing'an Army, Komatsubara Michutaro believed that it was enough, even if the rescue was not possible.
, we should be able to escape unscathed.
In Michutaro Komatsubara's view, even if the Anti-Japanese Alliance received a large amount of Soviet aid, the quality of its soldiers would only decline rapidly due to the substantial expansion in such a short period of time. However, Michutaro Komatsubara did not know that the Northeast Anti-Japanese Alliance had quietly changed its generals. Even if he knew
, he did not know much about Xu Xiangqian, who had kept a relatively low profile since the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, but it was precisely the lagging and unknown intelligence that directly ruined these more than 30,000 people and the more than 10,000 Japanese and puppet troops in Qiqihar.
Among the main generals of the Red Party, the ones who are best at quickly transforming enemy prisoners of war are undoubtedly Hu Weidong and his partner Su Yu who can fight more and more in one battle and become stronger in each battle. The 15th Group Army has been able to develop to the scale and scale it has today.
Strength is the best proof; but Xu Qianqian is the only one who can display strong combat effectiveness with a group of new recruits. In this regard,
Whether it was during the battle to regain Shanxi in this time and space or during the historical Battle of Jinzhong, it was fully proved. No wonder Taizu praised it as "having the style of Han Xin" Note 1. [gunm] It is precisely because of this that when
After Xu Xiangqian wiped out more than 30,000 Japanese troops in the Ouchi detachment with 200,000 mostly new recruits, Taizu, Hu Weidong and others who knew him well were not surprised at all.
However, although the Anti-Japanese Alliance achieved the largest victory in the war of annihilation since its establishment, the bravery and tenacity of the enemy forces still left a deep impression on the officers and soldiers participating in the war. Not only the 72nd Infantry Regiment of the Japanese Army, but also the puppet Manchukuo
Not one of the thousands of people in the Xing'an Division surrendered. This somewhat surprised everyone. The puppet army actually had such a strong will to fight. In addition to the brainwashing carried out by the Japanese, it may only be explained as
These traitors knew that they were guilty and did not dare to surrender. The reinforcements were completely wiped out, which dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the Japanese and puppet troops in Qiqihar City. Xu Xiangqian was good at using engineer blasting tactics, which gave the original plan of relying on city defense a hard time.
The Qiqihar Japanese and puppet troops who came to the rescue dealt a fatal blow, but the desperate Japanese army and the puppet Manchukuo Xing'an Division still fought to the last man, and once again caused a lot of casualties to the Anti-Alliance.
After two fierce battles, the Anti-Japanese Alliance killed more than 8,000 Japanese troops without capturing a single prisoner; they killed more than 21,000 puppet troops, including those who were seriously injured and died, and captured more than 1,700 people. Such results excited the Anti-Japanese Alliance, but the Anti-Japanese Alliance
It also paid a considerable price for this, with more than 60,000 casualties, of which no less than 20,000 were sacrificed or disabled;
Before the death of the Japanese army and even some of the puppet troops, they resolutely destroyed weapons and medicine. The weapons seized in the Anti-Japanese War were only slightly more than their own losses, and the medicine seized was less than half of the consumption. Such tenacity
Xu Xiangqian had seen the Japanese army before. But it was the first time he saw the puppet army being so crazy. "The war of resistance outside the Pass is really much more difficult than inside the Pass!" [
However, the old anti-Japanese warriors were all rejoicing. They were not afraid of death, but they were afraid of not being able to win. The hundreds of thousands of anti-Japanese volunteers in the Northeast were almost completely wiped out. In the end, they were not able to eliminate many Japanese soldiers. That feeling of despair
It is ten times more painful than dying in battle. "As long as we win the battle, the sacrifice of the commanders and soldiers will not be in vain. We have 40 million people in China, how many little Japs are there? If we continue to fight like this, we will definitely be able to drive the Japs out of Northeast China."
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Xu Xiangqian was very inspired by the sacrifice spirit of the anti-union officers and soldiers. He saw the shadow of the Fourth Red Army in these new subordinates, and therefore was more confident than when he first came to lead this unit to become as good as the Fourth Red Army.
The iron army fights tough battles.
But for now, the Anti-League, which has been severely downsized, still has to undergo a period of repairs. However, due to the arrival of the new coach, the time required for repairs is much faster than before. This is also one of Xu Shuai's strengths.
Compared with Su Yu's expertise in continuous combat,
There are similarities, but not exactly the same. Su Yu's continuous battles basically did not rest in the middle, relying entirely on the willpower and physical strength of the unit commanders and soldiers to survive; Xu Xiangqian was good at recovering quickly between battles, so that the troops could survive at any time.
Many battles can take place in too long a period of time; Mr. Lin's style is just the opposite. The training lasts for a long time, often half a year and half a year, but with each round of training, the combat effectiveness of the troops can reach a higher level, and this
It is often based on the rapid expansion of the size of the army.
The loss of Qiqihar completely connected the anti-alliance base areas in North Manchuria, and there were dangers to defend in all directions. This was undoubtedly an extremely favorable situation; but the Japanese army was shocked and even had to move the areas west of the Greater Khingan Range.
The establishment of the Japanese and puppet troops was transferred to the North China Front Army. Otherwise, once the Anti-Japanese Army crossed the Greater Khingan Mountains to the west and continued to attack, the remnants of the Japanese 23rd Division and the puppet troops under its control would not be able to resist the enemy.
The problem would be serious if the main force of the Kwantung Army, which is far apart from the Allied North Manchurian base area, could get rescue. Although they could ask for help from the North China Front Army adjacent to the defense area even if they were not in the same system, but cross-organizational joint operations,
After all, the coordination is much worse, and there is also hilltopism among the Japanese army. If the Kwantung Army and the North China Front Army do something to grab credit or shirk responsibility, the consequences will be serious.
Note 1: Regarding the "Battle of Jingxing", one of Han Xin's most classic battles in history, most people only noticed the "backward formation", but the biggest difficulty in this battle was that almost all of the troops in Han Xin's hands were new soldiers, and their strength was
There are less than one-fifth of the enemy. In fact, Han Xin is most powerful for two reasons. One is that no matter how difficult it is to use, no matter how hard it is to use soldiers
Troops with poor personnel quality and short-term formation time can display good combat effectiveness in his hands; secondly, no matter how many troops there are, he can command them with ease. From these two points, the Red Party
There is indeed no general who is more like Han Xin than Xu Shuai. Although in terms of general talent, there are still several famous generals in the party who can match him.