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    Almost at the same time, Yang Zhen launched a devastating attack on the Japanese army on the South Road, which was composed of two brigades of the 11th Division.  In the middle, starting from Jiamusi, Captain Takeda Hisaru of the 43rd Regiment of the 43rd Regiment of the 12th Division, which was the main force in the three-pronged suppression of the Japanese army, compared with Colonel Takao Murata who was struggling in pain, but  It's very depressing.

    Without him, since the 43rd Regiment set out from Taipingchuan, although they did not encounter a tenacious blockade from their opponents, they were tortured by cold guns and cold guns.  The opponent did not meet him at all, but only talked to him with guns and cannons.

    Even before the 43rd Regiment left Taipingchuan, when they were gathering, they were hit by a solid rain of mortar shells for a while.  Dozens of mortar shells falling from the sky caused considerable casualties to the 43rd Regiment that was gathering.  Although it cannot be compared with Murata Takao's treatment, an entire squadron was bombed and lost its combat effectiveness.

    When I frantically searched for these despicable attackers, except for a few empty boxes used to hold mortar shells in the southwest of Taiping River, I didn't find even a ghost.

    What is most unacceptable to Colonel Takeda Hisashi is that the mortar that attacked him and the mortar shell that fell on his head were both products of the Imperial Arsenal.  The Japanese markings on the shell boxes abandoned at the crime scene seemed to be mocking him.

    Colonel Takeda Hisashi, who returned to life carrying a few empty shell boxes as the only trophy, looked at the gloomy face of Lieutenant General Sasaki, hesitated for a moment, and swallowed back the suggestion that he had better clear the area around the Taiping River first.  Leaving two squadrons of troops for Sasaki as guards, he led the Japanese and puppet troops to march to Qingheishan and began to sweep them away.

    Sasaki¡¯s order to him was very clear. He must rush to the Liangzi River area that afternoon to clear out the anti-Manchu armed forces that might be hiding there.  In cooperation with two other Japanese armies, the anti-Manchu armed forces, which posed a huge threat to the empire, were surrounded and eliminated in the Liangzi River area.

    In fact, the straight-line distance from Taipingchuan to Liangzihe area is not that far.  As a veteran of the 12th Division, he has been stationed in Northeast China with the 12th Division since 1936, and led the 43rd Regiment to participate in last year's Sanjiang Crusade against the Anti-Japanese Alliance.  Not unfamiliar.

    Because this area was one of the main guerrilla base areas for the activities of the Anti-Allied Third Route Army and Sixth Army, which was his main target last year, he is also familiar with this area.  Last year, he led his troops to conquer this area many times and achieved many so-called brilliant achievements.

    But this time, looking at the vast mountains on both sides of the marching route, maybe it was the early morning attack that made Takeda Shou suddenly feel a faint feeling of uneasiness in his heart.  The ensuing march, for all the soldiers of the 43rd Regiment, including Colonel Takeda Hisashi, can be described as excruciating.

    ¡°Compared with the extreme enthusiasm and the constant intimidating treatment they received along the way, they realized that the shelling in the morning was just an appetizer.  They encountered almost endless and ever-changing attacks along the way. Even when the entire 43rd Regiment was still far away from the Liangzi River area, they were already overwhelmed.

    As soon as they entered the mountain, the 43rd Regiment stepped on the mine array.  That's right, it's a mine formation, with hundreds of mines connected in series.  When the 43rd Regiment was halfway through the march, hundreds of landmines suddenly exploded in the marching group.

    These landmines are not ordinary landmines, they are also surrounded by bullets, grenades, broken glass, etc.  He was even strapped with a few mortar rounds.  The damage caused by the explosion of this unconventional explosive in the marching group can be imagined.

    An entire infantry squadron was blown up by these mines, leaving only a few people alive.  Broken limbs and broken arms flew everywhere, and the mountain artillery squadron, including men and horses, was blown up into the sky.  Of the four mountain cannons, not even one was left for him.  In other words, the 12th Division lost half of its support firepower, and it was the main support firepower, before it officially met its opponent.

    Before the 43rd Regiment could recover from the explosion, another dense rain of mortar shells hit the mountains on both sides of the road, knocking down the Japanese troops who had just regrouped after the mine explosion.  The first down and then up attack gave the Japanese soldiers of the 43rd Regiment a good taste of what it means to be in a world of ice and fire.

    But for the Japanese troops of the 43rd Regiment, the nightmare has just begun.  Just as Colonel Takeda Hisashi was regrouping the troops that had dispersed to avoid the shelling, a squadron as the vanguard suffered heavy casualties under the dense rain of bullets from at least six heavy machine guns that suddenly swept over. Within just a few minutes,  An entire squadron was lost within a few seconds.

    The severe blows suffered by the vanguard, coupled with the shelling in the morning and the mines and shelling just nowThe 43rd Regiment had not even formally entered the mountains to launch a clearing campaign. It had casualties of two and a half infantry squadrons and a mountain artillery squadron without even seeing the opponent.  In other words, by this time, the 43rd Regiment had almost lost a brigade of troops.

    The angry Colonel Takeda Hisashi looked at the dead and injured Japanese soldiers everywhere and the piles of wreckage left in the mountain artillery squadron, and he almost bit his teeth.  What kind of opponent is this?

    Not to mention that he doesn¡¯t have the guts to have a face-to-face contest with him like a samurai, but he is just playing dirty tricks.  He lost nearly a third of his troops without even seeing what his opponent looked like.  If we continue at this speed, how many people will be left in our 43rd Regiment when we reach our intended target?

    Where did these anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese elements get so many landmines and mortars?  Aren't they always short of ammunition?  How could he be so generous and tie so many bullets and grenades to the mines?

    Afraid of being beaten, Takeda Hisashi was worried about what tricks his opponent would play again, so he opened up the marching brigade, and he did not dare to concentrate all the troops on the road and march.

    He changed his previous method of concentrating his troops and divided his troops into three groups.  In addition to mortars, heavy machine guns and other heavy weapons, as well as the main force walking along the road, other troops were placed on the hills on both sides, with a squadron on each side, marching along the ridges on both sides.  One is to disperse the troops, and the other is to prevent the vanguard incident from happening again.

    In order to avoid being ambushed again, and because of the obstruction of the mountains and forests, the marching speed inevitably slowed down.  In the opinion of Takeda Hisashi, marching as slowly as possible is better than being hit by another sap at some unknown time.

    Although Sasaki cannot make it to the designated place at the scheduled time, he will not be too happy to go to No. 1 Middle School.  But if the losses of the 43rd Regiment were too great, his own division commander, Lieutenant General Seitaro Uemura, might not be able to spare him.

    Sasaki was unhappy when he arrived at Lieutenant General No. 1, but he was not his direct superior. The most he could do was file a complaint against him to the Kwantung Army Headquarters.  If Lieutenant General Seitaro Uemura is unhappy, then he will really be in trouble.

    After receiving several blows in a row, Takeda Hisashi was much more cautious.  They would rather slow down their marching speed, search all suspicious places, or use artillery fire to cover them, than continue to be beaten like this.

    "What Takeda Hisashi didn't expect was that no matter how cautious he was, he would still fall into other people's ways.  Not long after setting off again, the newly selected vanguard team fell into an extra-large pit.  The extremely sharp wooden stakes cut into the pit made the death of the soldiers in this team extremely painful.  The two squadrons that marched on the ridge instead could not escape the damage of landmines and stepped on many mines.

    The various attacks along the way made it almost impossible for the Japanese troops of the 43rd Regiment to defend themselves against.  Mines, traps, and even a very simple booby trap made of one bullet. The entire ground looked ordinary, but as soon as you stepped on it, the bullet passed through the instep.

    "Compared with other attacks that can bring death at any time, this kind of booby trap is not very lethal and has the heaviest psychological shadow on the Japanese army.  Because as long as this immoral thing is stepped on, death will not happen, but the pain afterwards will be difficult to bear.

    Although Takeda Hisashi was extremely furious due to the successive attacks, he had no solution to the problem.  He did not carry sappers, nor did he think of carrying sappers.  Who the hell would have thought that these extremely hateful and despicable guys not only laid all kinds of seemingly endless booby traps on the mountain roads, but also laid mines on the mountain ridges.

    Wang Guangyu and Li Mingrui can be said to have used the guerrilla tactics handed over by Yang Zhen to the extreme.  When the troops were about to be divided, Yang Zhen hesitated for a long time before changing the deployment of troops.  Guo Bingxun commanded two battalions of the first regiment to bluff against the Japanese troops on the North Road.

    Wang Guangyu led a battalion and most of the reconnaissance battalion to use various cold-gun tactics and mine warfare to harass the main force of the Japanese army in the middle and reduce its marching speed.  When necessary, the terrain can be used to fight a blocking battle.

    Yang Zhen knows that if it is a regular battle, whether it is a blocking battle or a positional battle, let alone two battalions, even if he concentrates his entire main force on three regiments, he may not be able to defeat a regular Japanese field unit.  .

    In order to reduce casualties, delay the Japanese troops in the middle as much as possible, and complete the predetermined combat objectives, Yang Zhen could only rack his brains to formulate some unconventional combat methods.  Fortunately, among the training subjects that Li Mingrui's reconnaissance battalion had completed were rapid minelaying and the laying of various booby traps.

    In order to ensure that Wang Guangyu could use this kind of warrior well, Yang Zhen talked with Wang Guangyu and Li Mingrui all night.  Use this method you know?Every experience is taught to the two of them.  I even took an hour to practice a few times.

    The reason why Yang Zhen adjusted the deployment of troops was to confuse Sasaki as much as possible so that he could not figure out his true intentions, and to delay the march of the main force of the Japanese army, widen the distance between it and the Japanese army on the northern route, and create opportunities for the next battle.

    As for whether these two ideas can be finally achieved, it is still unclear.  But one thing is done.  Even after entering the mountains, the 43rd Japanese Regiment on the middle road had not gone twenty miles for most of the day.

    The helpless Takeda Hisashi had no choice but to send a report to Lieutenant General Sasaki Tsuichi. After reporting what he encountered along the way, he asked Sasaki to send him some engineers from Jiamusi. Not only did he not receive a positive reply, he also encountered  A stern reprimand.

    With desperation, Colonel Takeda Hisashi had no choice but to place the accompanying puppet Manchukuo troops who were originally used to transport baggage but fell behind at the front of the marching column to serve as spearheads and to protect the Japanese army from mines.

    As for what the Japanese army encountered along the way, the puppet Manchukuo army behind them had long seen it.  At this time, who dared to accept such trust from the Japanese army?

    But even though he hesitated not to go, under the threat of Takeda Juxueliang's saber, the commander of the Puppet Manchukuo Army led the team cursed in his heart that these Japanese soldiers were despicable.  After praying to the Buddha, Guanyin Bodhisattva and Taishang Laojun in the East, they could only bite the bullet and lead the team to accept Takeda Shou's trust.

    In fact, the reprimand Takeda Shou received was not because Sasaki Toichi intentionally did not send engineers to them.  But Sasaki really didn't have any engineers on hand. Who would have thought that those anti-Manchu forces with crude weapons and equipment would produce so many landmines at once.  Takeda Shou couldn't figure out where his opponent got so many landmines, and Sasaki was also confused.

    Although Sasaki knew no more about the true strength of this anti-Manchu armed force than Takeda Hisashi did.  But what Sasaki is sure of is that this anti-Manchu armed force, which does not even have the most basic arsenal, should never have landmines on hand.

    If they have some explosives on hand, Sasaki has received a letter.  Because after the Jingbo Lake Hydropower Station construction site was attacked, a large amount of explosives stored in the entire construction site disappeared.  But having explosives does not mean that they will have mines if they do not have an arsenal.  Because it is not easy to change from explosives to landmines.

    To be honest, when the Anti-Japanese Alliance was carrying out clearance operations in the past, the Japanese army had never encountered landmines, a weapon that the Japanese army considered immoral and unsamurai-like.  So Sasaki didn't come out with engineers at all.

    How do they know that when Yang Zhen's arsenal started production, the first arms production order Yang Zhen issued was to produce landmines.  Use the captured explosives to produce as many mines as possible in the shortest possible time.

    Although due to time constraints, only two thousand were produced when Yang Zhen went to Liangzihe for training, but it is better than nothing.  But two thousand landmines were produced in seven days, which was astonishing when the arsenal had just started production and its production capacity was severely limited.

    "It's a pity that due to the production process and technology, we can only produce pull-fire and trip-fire thunder.  Pressure mines and electronically controlled mines will still be out of reach for a while.  Especially the pressure-generating thunder cannot be created now.  However, for the Japanese army, which always despised landmines, the pull-fire mines and trip-fire mines were enough.

    Although Yang Zhen brought out all these landmines, he left them all with Guo Bingxun when the troops were divided, and he did not bring any of them.  Guo Bingxun gave 70% of these landmines to Wang Guangyu.  There were more than a thousand landmines, and Li Mingrui's reconnaissance camp used Professor Yang Zhen's method to make many bullet mines from local materials.  Therefore, the Japanese army did not want to be unlucky.

    After receiving Takeda Hisashi¡¯s telegram asking for help, Sasaki Toichi was more shocked than angry.  An entire infantry regiment, what does this mean to the always arrogant Japanese army?  On the battlefield in Guannei, it is not uncommon for an infantry regiment to defeat a division of the China Army.  Now, before even seeing the opponent, nearly a brigade of troops has been killed or injured.  If this spreads out, wouldn¡¯t the imperial army lose face?

    "The hateful and cunning Chinese people, and this stupid, damn Takeda Hisashi." Sasaki cursed fiercely in his heart.

    But he also knows that cursing can¡¯t solve any problems.  These days, the Kwantung Army headquarters has gradually become extremely impatient with his teacher's ineffectiveness.  General Ueda Kenkichi severely reprimanded him several times.  Even the Prime Minister of the People's Republic of China specially sent him power, conveying the emperor's serious dissatisfaction with the lack of success in his campaign of suppression.

    Ueda Kenkichi¡¯s reprimand to Sasaki was enough that he could not ignore it, but Prime Minister Lu¡¯s telegram made him have to pay attention to it.  He almost overturned the entire Xiajiang area.Despite all efforts, they could not find this anti-Manchu armed force that had almost become a thorn in the heart of the empire.

    Now that we have finally found it, Sasaki will not waste time because of re-deployment of troops.  Because he knew that this anti-Manchu armed force was so elusive and slippery as a loach.  Now that they have finally been caught, will Sasaki waste time by re-mobilizing troops and let this damn anti-Manchu armed force slip away from his nose again?

    After sending the telegram to Takeda Hisashi, a telegram sent by the infantry brigade of the 8th Division from Heli to participate in the campaign confused him.  This telegram clearly stated that the First Battalion of the 17th Regiment of the 8th Division, which participated in the campaign, was on the north bank of the Fasi River south of Miaoling Mountain when it was crossed by a large number of troops armed with heavy machine guns.  The anti-Manchu anti-Japanese armed forces fired artillery attacks.

    Looking at the telegrams sent by Takeda Hisaru and Kawada Takeshi, both of whom claimed that they had been attacked by the main force of the anti-Manchu anti-Japanese armed forces, Sasaki frowned deeply.  Both troops in the invasion said they were attacked by anti-Manchu and anti-Japanese armed forces. Which one was their main force?
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