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Although the victory of this battle was due to the 4th Division's "selling out teammates", the combat effectiveness of the new recruits of the Anti-Japanese Alliance has indeed improved a lot compared to the first battle. This can be seen from the proportion of casualties and the average amount of medicine consumed in annihilating the enemy.
It can be seen from the above, and the enemies we dealt with this time were much easier to deal with than in the Qiqihar battle.
Even the Japanese captured more than a dozen prisoners of war, not to mention the puppet army. They all surrendered less than a day after their death. It is incomparable to the Puppet Manchukuo Xing'an Division who had fought to the death and refused to surrender, but this is exactly what happened.
Normal situation, otherwise the puppet troops will become more and more brave, just like when the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Song Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty destroyed the Ming Dynasty, China would really be destroyed.
It is precisely because of this that the medicine seized after the victory of the Anti-Japanese Alliance was enough to make up for the consumption in the battle, and there was a surplus of guns and weapons. Coupled with more than 20,000 rifles purchased from the Soviet Union, Xu Xiangqian once again fought against the Allied forces.
A substantial expansion was carried out, and the total strength of the regular army alone increased to more than 300,000. The increase
Among such a large number of troops, except for the more than 10,000 people who returned from injury, most of them were recruited from the North Manchu base area. The ratio of soldiers to civilians in the base area has almost reached an astonishing 1:15, which has exceeded history.
During the heyday of Shangsiye (Note 1), to put it bluntly, it was simply "militancy".
However, when Xu Xiangqian served as the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Red Army, the ratio of soldiers to civilians was sometimes higher than it is now, but he was still able to maintain a fairly strong combat effectiveness. Therefore, he was not too worried that the Anti-Japanese Alliance would become a mob due to the rapid expansion of its troops. However,
There are probably not many people in the Red Party or even in the world today who are capable of doing this.
Although there is no need to worry about the military, the economy of the base area will also be affected, or even more seriously. Historically, during the fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign in the Central Soviet Area, the lack of young and strong labor force directly led to the bankruptcy of the Soviet area economy, which then accelerated
The fifth anti-encirclement and suppression campaign failed. However, Gao Yuan, who is the secretary of the Northeast Bureau, has always been known within the party for being good at building base areas. Since he agreed to the old leader's request for further military expansion, he naturally took this factor into consideration.[
From the perspective of the plateau, the situation in the Northeast, especially the North Manchu base areas, is very different from the Soviet areas in the South. First of all, the Northeast has a higher degree of industrialization. Even the relatively backward North Manchuria is stronger than most areas in the mainland.
Compared with those base areas in mountainous areas, they have greater advantages, so they can maintain a higher ratio of soldiers to civilians, and not just a little higher.
Secondly, the Northeast, especially Northern Manchuria, is sparsely populated and fertile. Each agricultural labor force can produce much more food than farmers in the interior. Therefore, it can feed a larger off-the-job population, which naturally includes the army.
More importantly, the per capita cultivated land in the Northeast is much more than that in most parts of the mainland, especially in Northern Manchuria. Especially after the establishment of the base area, land reclamation has been encouraged. Therefore, after the land reform, a farmer can often be allocated dozens or even hundreds of acres.
Because of the lack of mechanization of agricultural land in the Northeast, the farming methods are inevitably more extensive, even though Northeastern agriculture is not yet fully mechanized. At the same time, due to the black soil in the Northeast
The land is extremely fertile and does not even need to be fertilized. Therefore, during the off-season, farmers here basically do not have much to do, that is, they cannot stop raising livestock. However, after the establishment of primary cooperatives, this work can be concentrated and handed over to a few people.
It can even be done by the elderly, women and children, which frees up a lot of young and strong labor.
In addition, the cold winter in the Northeast is extremely long. It would be a pity not to make good use of this nearly half a year. Now let's recruit the young men to join the army and fight for a few battles. Then we can demobilize them when the spring plowing time comes, or directly
Just send troops to help local areas with farm work.
The main force of the Japanese Kwantung Army did not immediately attack the Anti-Alliance base in North Manchuria after withdrawing from Southern Manchuria. After all, forcibly crossing large rivers has always been a global problem. Moreover, due to the heavy losses of the aviation regiment of the Central China Expeditionary Army, the Japanese base camp was forced to send new production
Army aviation and some Hainan Airlines aircraft will be given priority to be resupplied to the Central China battlefield.
Luda, which had been bombed before, and the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, which was also within the combat radius of the North China Air Force, also needed more aircraft, so that the Kwantung Army Flying Group had less than one-third of the aircraft available for the cross-river attack.
Providing air support will undoubtedly further increase the difficulty for the Kwantung Army to break through the Anti-Alliance Songhua River defense line.
Therefore, the operational plan formulated by the Japanese Kwantung Army Staff Headquarters was to wait until the Songhua River was completely frozen before launching an attack. By then, the Japanese army could easily cross any section of the Songhua River, while the Anti-Japanese Alliance was forced to set up defenses everywhere.
Under the current situation of being weaker than the Kwantung Army, it is simply impossible to hold on to a line of defense that stretches thousands of miles.
However, although this plan is very tempting, considering the pain of last winter's battle, the Japanese did not have complete confidence in whether they could sweep through Northern Manchuria after breaking through the enemy's defense lines, so they also thought of an alternative battle plan.
, if the winter offensive fails, the Kwantung Army will temporarily move the main
Forces retreated to southern Manchuria, leaving only one stronghold on the north bank of the Songhua River as an advance base. Due to the gap in overall strength between the two sides and the lack of the Anti-Alliance attack capability, coupled with the overwhelming firepower advantage of the Japanese shallow-water gunboats on the Songhua River, the Anti-Alliance
No matter how hard we attack, it is impossible to remove that stronghold.
When the spring plowing comes next year, the Kwantung Army will launch an attack from here. By then, the Kwantung Army will have longer preparation time and will definitely be able to achieve greater results than the winter offensive. And even if this attack is still not enough to completely "recover" Northern Manchuria,
But as long as the spring plowing in the North Manchu base area is disrupted, the soldiers and civilians in the base area will have no choice but to starve to death in the second half of the year.
However, to the surprise of the Japanese military staff, in mid-December, just a few days after the Songhua River was frozen, Xu Xiangqian led the main force of more than 200,000 people to cross the Songhua River unexpectedly in the lower reaches of the Songhua River, using the Osaka No. 1 troops that were originally supposed to be stationed in Jiamusi.
The 4th Division is still in Harbin and has not yet returned.
The meeting, in one fell swoop, captured the seat of the provincial office (i.e. the provincial capital) of the so-called "Sanjiang Province" of the Puppet Manchukuo. This immediately disrupted the overall deployment of the Kwantung Army. To Xu Xiangqian's somewhat disappointment, the Japanese Army Air Force was very determined to evacuate.
, and therefore failed to capture the first aircraft of the Anti-Japanese Alliance
Note 1: Including local troops, the maximum number of people in the four fields was 1.5 million, while the population of the three eastern provinces dropped from 30 million to less than 25 million from September 18th to the victory of the Anti-Japanese War. There was a slight increase during the Liberation War, but in any case
It cannot exceed 30 million, so the ratio of soldiers to civilians will not exceed 1:20, but it is still unlikely to reach 1:15.