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    When Sasaki was formulating this invasion plan, the reason why the Japanese Eighth Division troops arriving from the north only dispatched an infantry brigade was actually regarded by him as a card to find out the details of the opponent.  They also secretly used this Japanese brigade as bait to attract opponents so that they could gather together and annihilate them.

    Since the Battle of Jingbo Lake, through a prisoner of war captured in Halba Ridge, Sasaki had a rough idea of ??how many troops his difficult opponent had.  But he never believed that although his opponent now had more than 10,000 troops, he still dared to go head-to-head with the majestic Japanese Imperial Army despite the lack of guns and ammunition, especially the lack of training.

    Although I don¡¯t believe that my opponent will have the courage to confront the Imperial Japanese Army head-on.  But Sasaki, who knew that his opponent was in urgent need of supplies, knew that even if his opponent no longer wanted to fight, the current situation could only force him to fight.

    Needless to say, the weapons and ammunition for these more than 10,000 people are the most direct need faced by the opponent.  Without weapons and ammunition, how could he arm his troops?  Just rely on the few broken guns seized from the self-defense groups in various places?

    My opponent is very cunning and cautious, but sometimes he is also very courageous.  He may not dare to take such risks when necessary.  You know, no commander with any brains in the world would do such a stupid thing, using troops that are poorly trained and equipped to go head-to-head with an opponent that is well-trained and well-equipped.

    Although most commanders would not do this, judging from the several battles his opponent has fought since he came out again, this guy has never been short of adventurous spirit.  He is very courageous when necessary.

    In the battle in the north of Dunhua, he dared to attack a reorganized brigade of the imperial army with the cooperation of the Manchukuo army, with less than a thousand troops.  Now that he has tens of thousands of soldiers, he may not have the courage to fight against a lone imperial army group that is in urgent need of supplies.

    So when we deployed to clear out the mountains, we made a big move and used an infantry brigade as bait.  Trying to lure opponents into taking the bait, making them think they have an opportunity to fish in troubled waters.  Lure them into the plains or low hills, giving yourself a chance to annihilate them all.  After all, it is much easier to fight in the plains than to go into the mountains and find them in the primeval forests of Xiaoxinganling.

    " Moreover, the northern area of ??Tangyuan has completed the reorganization of villages and households. If these people want to obtain food and material supplies, they can only go out of the mountains.  As a graduate of the Imperial Army University, Sasaki can still estimate how much food is needed every day for more than 10,000 troops.

    He did not believe that the food his opponents seized from Jingpo Lake could last for too long.  So when Sasaki made a bet, his opponent knew that this was a hard nut that couldn't be bitten, so in order to survive, he had no choice but to bite it.

    But judging from the firepower and equipment of the opponents encountered by the two Japanese armies sent in the two telegrams, they all looked like their main force.  Especially in the telegram sent by the 17th Regiment, it even described in detail how many heavy machine guns and mortars the opponent had.

    From this point of view, the anti-Manchu armed forces encountered by the 17th Regiment seemed to be the main force.  But Sasaki didn't dare to ignore the telegram from the 24th Regiment with similar content.

    Which road is the real opponent?  What if both sides were intentionally releasing smoke bombs?  So what are their true intentions?  If the opponent's weapons and equipment are really as described in the telegram, then where did they get so many weapons?

    Of course, Sasaki Toichi didn't know that Takeda Hisashi, who had never met his opponent head-on, said that he was encountering the main force of the anti-Manchurian anti-Japanese armed forces. This was based on the density of mortar shells falling on his head and the number of heavy machine guns used by his opponents.  computational.

    For Toichi Sasaki, the most peaceful thing now is that most of the marching routes are in mountainous areas, and he is most worried about encountering an ambush by the Japanese troops on the southern route.  Although this route is the most hidden, it is also the most vulnerable to ambush due to the terrain.

    After observing the map for a long time, Sasaki called his adjutant over and asked, "Is there a telegram from Colonel Takao Murata?"

    Upon hearing Sasaki's inquiry, his adjutant quickly stood at attention and said: "Your Excellency, there has been no news from Murata Murata. Moreover, it has not yet reached the specified contact time with them. They are on the march and there is no way at all.  Set up a radio station. So we can't get any reports from them before the specified contact time."

    After listening to the adjutant's report, Sasaki thought for a moment and said: "Don't wait here anymore, go to the telegraph room. If there is a telegram from Colonel Murata, send it to me immediately."

    Sasaki Toichi, who had placed his hope on the Japanese troops on the South Road, didn't know yet that the two brigades of Murata Takao he was expecting as a surprise soldier were now being attacked by Yang Zhen's intensive firepower.Under the attack, the entire army was destroyed.

    Murata Takao¡¯s death struggle failed to save the situation.  The remaining Japanese troops, which suffered heavy casualties under artillery fire, tried to open a way to break out. The Japanese troops, which had lost all fire support, were defeated in pieces by the opponent's intensive machine gun fire.

    During the battle, Murata Takao, who had fought with the most elite so-called German weapon divisions of the Chinese government army in the pass, was the first time he saw that the Chinese army had so many machine guns, mortars, and even mountain artillery.  You must know that even the German weapon masters, who were known as the most elite of the China Army and had the best equipment at that time, were not equipped with as many light and heavy machine guns as here.

    The continuous attacks failed. Instead of opening a way to break out, more than half of their remaining troops were killed by intensive firepower from the front and sides.  When Yang Zhen issued the general attack order, less than one squadron of Japanese troops from the two brigades could stand up.

    Looking at the remaining squadron, seeing the Japanese troops charging towards them and withdrawing their bullets in preparation for hand-to-hand combat, would Yang Zhen be willing to fight them with bayonets?  All the speed machines were concentrated and swept across, even the commander Koyo Murata who was holding a saber and preparing to defend the honor of his officer became a hornet's nest.

    This ambush battle, apart from the excessive consumption of ammunition, was extremely enjoyable.  With less than a hundred casualties, two Japanese brigades and one puppet Manchukuo army regiment were annihilated.  One of the captains of the Dazuo regiment was killed and more than 300 puppet Manchu troops were captured.  Naturally, Yang Zhen would not be polite to the wounded Japanese soldiers. With a gesture, each of them received a bayonet.

    Sasaki, who still didn't know that the Japanese and puppet troops on the southern front had been completely wiped out, didn't know until one o'clock that when he was giving orders to his adjutant, Yang Zhen left Liu Changshun to lead a battalion with the cooperation of the engineering battalion.  In addition to preparing to launch a large-scale attack on the section of the Jiasui Railway between Haolianghe and Chenming that has not yet been fully completed, the main force has completed its turn.  The target is the Taipingchuan area where he is located.

    Of course, Yang Zhen didn¡¯t know that Sasaki was taking command in Taipingchuan as soon as he arrived.  The reason why Yang Zhen changed his battle plan was to target Taipingchuan, which is only fifteen kilometers away from Tangyuan County and located on the Sanjiang Plain.

    It was because after he received a report from Dong Ping, who was carrying a reconnaissance platoon and a five-watt radio to continue reconnaissance near Taipingchuan after being deployed by Wang Guangyu.  After the main force of the Japanese army began to sweep towards the Liangzi River line, the Japanese army actually left two Japanese squadrons on the Taipingchuan line.  This situation attracted Yang Zhen's attention.

    Yang Zhen frowned after receiving a report that not all of the Japanese 43rd Regiment had entered the mountains and that two squadrons had been left behind in the Taipingchuan area.  Although the Japanese army was divided into three groups, the front line of Liangzi River on the southern slope of Xiaoxing'an Mountains was densely forested and had great room for maneuver.

    For such a large mountain forest, the strength of a regiment is not sufficient even if it includes an 800-person Puppet Manchukuo infantry regiment.  We must know that last year, when the Japanese army carried out a clearing campaign against the Anti-Alliance Third Route Army operating in Tangyuan and Luobei areas, they used more than 20,000 Japanese and puppet troops.  Among them, the Japanese reorganized wing used three.

    And why did the Japanese army leave two field squadrons on the Taiping River line this time even though their troops were not sufficient? What is the reason?  Is it carelessness?  Or is there a hidden secret behind the differences in Taipingchuan?  Is that where the Japanese army's supply point for this campaign is located?

    After pondering for a while, Yang Zhen decided to find out what was going on here.  If it is really a supply point for the Japanese army, then taking this place would be equivalent to cutting off the lifeline of the entire Japanese army entering the mountain.

    And the reason why Yang Zhen decided to touch the Taiping River in the plain area was because he was still worried.  The Japanese army had many precedents of using poison gas in its counter-insurgency campaigns.  Who can guarantee that the Japanese army will enter the mountains and lay down their butcher's knives this time?

    If the Japanese army is planning to use poison gas in this mountainous expedition, then with so many Japanese troops deployed in the Taipingchuan area, it is likely that it is a poison gas reserve point for the Japanese army.  As long as this place is destroyed, the casualties of the troops in the battle can be reduced invisibly.

    So although Yang Zhen hesitated for a while, he finally decided to go and find out the real situation here.  Although this place is very close to the Jiamusi area where an entire Japanese division is stationed, Yang Zhen believes that as long as he moves fast enough, he should be able to kill him before the Jiamusi Fourth Division can react.

    After making up his mind, Yang Zhen led the team and set off immediately.  Avoiding the Japanese troops on the middle route who had already reached the Bajiazi front line, they started from the north of Tangyuan County, along the Beibiaoshan and Jingchuntun lines and went straight into the Taiping River.  Yang Zhen's unit now has almost a full set of Japanese military equipment, including weapons, except for the lack of military ranks and collar insignia.  This made several batches of Japanese aircraft flying westward in the sky have no doubts about the marching troops below.

    In addition, the Japanese army carried out the general settlement and merger of households in the Tangyuan area, and most of the people in the entire Tangyuan area were concentrated into several large group headquarters.falling.  There are not many people along the way.  Even if there were, seeing so many Japanese soldiers at once, they would still dare to inquire carefully.  It has been avoided for a long time.

    As for the various pioneering groups, Yang Zhen carefully avoided them.  Yang Zhen doesn't want to touch these pioneering groups yet.  With the equipment and military uniforms on his body, coupled with Yang Zhen's own caution, before attracting the enemy's attention, Yang Zhen quietly led his army to a forest on the Xin'an line southeast of Taiping River to join Dong Ping after dusk fell.  .

    After meeting Dong Ping, Yang Zhen didn't care about other things. The first thing he did was to order him to report the situation immediately.

    After hearing Yang Zhen's order, Dong Ping did not hesitate and immediately reported the situation he had detected to Yang Zhen in detail: "Commander, this morning, Deputy Chief of Staff Wang mobilized part of the battalion and forced  fired artillery fire and launched a sudden artillery attack on the Japanese troops gathering in Taipingchuan."

    "Although we still don't know the results of this sudden artillery attack, judging from the strength of the Japanese army after they set off, it is estimated that at least one squadron of the Japanese army has lost its combat effectiveness. After the Japanese army's marching group set off, Deputy Chief of Staff Wang ordered me to stay here.  Monitor the follow-up troops of the Japanese army. Because the number of Japanese troops departing and the strength of the troops arriving here are very different, almost a whole brigade of troops is missing."

    "After the main force of the Japanese army sets off, I plan to get closer to observe how many troops the Japanese army has left here. However, the Japanese army is too heavily guarded and we cannot get close at all. We can only rely on telescopes for long-distance reconnaissance."

    "However, although we have not been able to figure out the specific number of Japanese troops here, we found an antenna for a high-power radio station in Taipingchuan Village. Judging from the appearance of the antenna, the radio here is at least fifty watts. And judging from the number of antennas  Say, there is more than one high-power radio station like this."

    "After observing these antennas, I always felt that this should be at least the headquarters of a regiment of the Japanese army. So I tried various methods to sneak in and conduct a careful reconnaissance, but unfortunately they gave up because the Japanese army was too vigilant."

    "However, we captured a Puppet Manchukuo policeman from the Tangyuan County Police Station stationed in Taipingchuan Police Station in Xin'an. According to his confession, after the Japanese troops arrived in Taipingchuan, they killed all the people from the tribe there.  We temporarily rushed to the Shuangtaitun Group in the north."

    "Moreover, all the Puppet Manchukuo policemen were moved there. He heard that a high-ranking Japanese official was coming and planned to use Taipingchuan as their headquarters. In order to ensure confidentiality, the Japanese moved all the people here.  . Even the Puppet Manchukuo police left no one behind."

    "It was because his mother who lived in Xin'an was ill that he took leave from Shuangtaitun to visit her. Before leaving, the Manchukuo director of the Puppet Manchukuo Police Department in Taipingchuan repeatedly told him not to go through Taipingchuan, but to go from the east side of Taipingchuan.  Go around Jinjiatun. Otherwise, once discovered by the Japanese, they will definitely treat him as a spy spying on military affairs and behead him."

    "With the confession of this Puppet Manchukuo policeman and the high-power radio antenna observed through the telescope, I wonder if this is the headquarters of Sasaki Chuichi? At this time, the Japanese troops in Taihei Chunchi should be in two places.  About a squadron.

    "Because I observed through the telescope that after the shelling in the early morning, the Japanese army burned at least more than 70 corpses outside the village. Based on this estimate of the number of casualties, the Japs lost at least one squadron during the shelling. According to this  When the Japanese army set out, one brigade was missing, which means that there are still two Japanese squadrons in Taipingchuan Village."

    After listening to Dong Ping's report, Yang Zhen tapped his fingers on the map, pondered for a long time, looked up at the sky, and asked Wang Guangyu about the situation there: "How is Deputy Chief of Staff Wang's place?  ? Can you hold back the 24th Regiment of the Japanese?"

    "There should be no problem. Deputy Chief of Staff Wang used the tactics you taught yesterday, using cold guns, cold artillery, mines, and traps to make the Japanese miserable. Most of the day passed, and there was not even a twenty-mile route.  Come on."

    "An hour ago, when I last contacted Deputy Chief of Staff Wang, the Japanese army had just arrived at the Jianshanzi line. This was the result of the Japanese army deploying a large number of aircraft to cover it. Otherwise, they would be enjoying themselves now that they could reach the Xinwang line.  . And the Japanese troops who set off from Heli on the northern route have not yet crossed the Fasi River, confused by the chief of staff's false and true tactics."

    "Now the distance between the Japanese troops on the middle route and the Japanese troops on the north route is getting wider and wider. Unless they march overnight, at the current marching speed, it is impossible for them to reach the Liangzi River line before midnight today."

    Regarding Dong Ping's report, Yang Zhen calmed down and thought about it for a moment: "Look, it's getting dark now, and it's impossible for the Japs' plane to appear. No matter what tricks the Japs are doing here? If we concentrate all our firepower  , while the Japanese invaded the entire TaipeiAll the people on the front line have been driven away, how about killing him?  "

    Dong Ping looked at Yang Zhen's eyes staring at him, thought for a while and then said: "In this case, Commander, don't you still have two platoons of the reconnaissance battalion in your hands? I still have one platoon in my hands. I see.  Shall we take advantage of the cover of night and get as close to Taiping River as possible?"

    "The first is to indicate the target for artillery fire. Second, if there is a chance, we can mess with him and thoroughly touch the devils here. What do you think?"

    "Okay, let's do it like this. But if you go to touch the night screw, one reconnaissance company is not enough. So I will choose a company for you, strengthen two heavy machine guns, and put them under your command. But if you have the chance, you can grab him  One handful. There is no chance. Pull back immediately after my artillery fire stops." Yang Zhen agreed to Dong Ping's idea of ??taking advantage of the opportunity to mess with one of his guys without even thinking about it.

    At this moment, Sasaki Toichi, who did not know that his opponent had a sharp sword hanging over his head, was trying to connect the Haolianghe to Chenming line of the Jiasui Railway under construction, which was massively destroyed by unknown armed forces.  They were furious at the news that nearly 10,000 workers who were going to be used in the construction of the Jiasui Railway and the hinterland branch line in the Xiaoxing'an Mountains were abducted by unknown armed forces.

    The Jiasui Railway was cut off, coupled with the previous inability to establish contact with the Japanese troops on the southern route, and the report from the Haolianghe Railway Police of intensive artillery fire coming from the mountains to the north, Sasaki was determined to attack the two infantrymen on the southern route as surprise troops.  The brigade had an extremely ominous premonition.

    Before dusk, after receiving the news that the Jiasui Railway had suffered large-scale damage, Sasaki was quickly dispatched from Jiamusi to search for the southern route. Japanese aircraft were sent back. Traces of the fierce battle were found south of Yuntou Lizi. At the same time, they were found locally.  The report of a large number of corpses of imperial soldiers made Sasaki Daichi fall into shock.

    Sasaki is very clear about what this report means.  He understood that the two brigades he used as surprise soldiers had been completely destroyed.  Only then did he realize that his opponent was no longer the original Wu Xia Amen.

    Sasaki Toichi, who was furious at the annihilation of the Japanese army on the southern route, said angrily to the adjutant beside him: "Baga, where did these people get so many weapons and equipment? You immediately send a telegram to the Kwantung Army Headquarters and ask about the recent news.  No secret warehouse has been attacked. Especially all the arms warehouses located in Tangyuan County, Luobei, and Foyun must be investigated. If not, send someone to check in person. I want the results within the shortest possible time.  "

    "Telegram to the Yilan Military Police and ask them to conduct a thorough inspection of Yilan territory. I want to know who leaked the route of the southern march and allowed those anti-Manchu elements to grasp our deployment so accurately?"

    "In addition, send a report to Takeda Judai, ordering him to stop advancing immediately and prepare for battle. At the same time, send a report to Colonel Kawada Takeshi, telling him that he is surrounded by small groups of anti-Manchu armed forces. Tell him not to get entangled with them and go south immediately  The Jianshanzi line joins the 24th Regiment."
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