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Text Chapter 284 The war resumes

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    In fact, Yang Zhen dared to do this when the war was approaching, and he still had a certain confidence in his heart. His confidence was brought to him by the three main brigades.  [.Com text] He believed that the brigade commanders and political commissars of the three main brigades were absolutely reliable. Even if he was gone, as long as the commander-in-chief and Guo Bingxun were there, the situation would not be disrupted.

    As for the three divisions, in Yang Zhen's opinion, there should be no big problem with the commander-in-chief in charge.  If problems do arise, more likely to occur among the newly formed troops.  What happened to the Luobei County brigade sounded the alarm for Yang Zhen.  It made him realize that expanding too quickly was not a good thing for a young force with a weak foundation.  Especially when the casualty rate of key personnel is definitely not light.

    The reason why Yang Zhen formulated this plan to conceal the truth was to make the Japanese army relax their vigilance.  Secondly, it was also to see if there would be chaos among his own troops if he was unable to command them.  What's more important is whether there will be some cases of fishing in troubled waters with ulterior motives.

    Since you have decided to adopt this plan, it is better to do a general cleaning at once.  The army is expanding too fast and there is an extreme shortage of personnel in all positions.  The recruitment process was too hasty and there was too much desire for educated cadres, which resulted in a mixed bag of good and bad during the expansion of the army.

    Of course, Yang Zhen did not expect that under such a complicated situation, the troops could still be as clear as a pool of water.  Even among the four major field armies of later generations, when it comes to having no secret agents, I am afraid no one will believe it.  Later generations of Yang Zhen once saw a piece of information. It said that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, if there was any abnormality in what happened in Beijing, the other side of the Taiwan Strait would know in three days.

    ¡°What happens on the other side of the strait will be sent to the desks of relevant departments in Beijing that day.  Yang Zhen asked himself that he did not have the methods of the military control and secrecy bureau that had been operating for more than ten years or even decades.

    It does not have the capabilities of the security department after the founding of the People's Republic of China, which has carried out decades of arduous struggle in a long-term and complex environment.  Since before the reform and opening up in later generations, it was known as the Iron Curtain, class struggle was above all else, and the country that guarded against all enemy agents was like guarding against thieves, it was inevitable to leak secrets, not to mention that now I am almost starting from scratch?

    Knowing that it is impossible to completely eliminate them, Yang Zhen at least believes that whether it is the main force or local troops, cadres at all levels, whether they are Japanese and puppet spies or those who belong to certain special departments in Jiangbei, must be eliminated.  Especially Jiangbei, they must not let their hands penetrate too deep into their own troops.

    Yang Zhen has always used Jiangbei, but he is more defensive.  He has always been worried about the big brother in Jiangbei who almost puts on the banner of internationalism, but in fact puts his own interests first. As long as his own interests are threatened, the methods he uses can be said to be omnipotent.  Stretched too far.

    ¡°Once the big brother thinks that his existence poses a threat to his interests, I am afraid that he will fall out of favor faster than turning over a book.  Although Yang Zhen knew that at least until the end of World War II, as long as the Kwantung Army occupied the Northeast for a day, there would not and could not be too many gaps between the two armies that used each other.

    But in Yang Zhen¡¯s opinion, although the possibility of falling out is unlikely, precautions should still be taken.  At least they can't get their hands into their own troops.  Yang Zhen has heard too many things in later generations about this big brother taking the fire under the kettle and adding insult to injury.  Therefore, his vigilance against Jiangbei was no less than that of the Japanese and puppet troops.

    Yang Zhen did not overestimate his own strength, although his absence caused some turmoil in the army.  But judging from Guo Bingxun's almost daily reporting telegrams, overall the three field brigades are still extremely stable.  Several brigade commanders and political commissars made it clear that they obeyed the commands of the political commissar and chief of staff.  Although they almost sent several telegrams a day asking about Yang Zhen's condition.  But they all tried their best to stabilize the mood of the troops.

    Although the first division, led by Chen Hanzhang as commander and political commissar, and the third division led by Zhao Shangzhi also called several times a day to inquire about Yang Zhen's condition, they also sent telegrams expressing their support for the command to the commander-in-chief and the military headquarters.  But there has been no movement in the second division.  Except for the divisional political commissar who sent a personal telegram inquiring about Yang Zhen's condition, the former commander of the Seventh Army never said a word.

    Regarding the delay in expressing a position on the second division, Yang Zhen did not delve into it nor did he make any statement.  He just replied with a telegram to wait and see what happens, without saying a single extra word.  He turned more energy to the new round of offensive that the Japanese army was about to launch.

    Yang Zhen already knew as soon as the Second Division, which was transferred by General Umezu Yoshijiro for a new round of suppression, arrived in Jiamusi.  Yang Zhen attached great importance to this fully-staffed second division, which was still a rare four-regiment formation in the Japanese army and did not dare to relax at all.

    On the fifth day after Yang Zhen pretended to be ill, the Japanese army's all-out air raid on Yang Zhen's control area resumed as it had subsided.?The Fourth Regiment of the Japanese Second Division forcibly crossed the Songhua River as a symbol, and the second phase of the battle, later known as the Battle of Xiajiang, was fully launched.  The sound of artillery that had subsided for less than a few days once again resounded on both sides of the Songhua River.

    On the same day that the Fourth Regiment of the Second Division forcibly crossed the Songhua River, the Artillery Regiment of the 14th Regiment of the Japanese 25th Division, which had been stagnant at the Haoliang River, was reinforced by the division's engineering and search regiments.  Under the cover of the enemy, a fierce attack was launched to the north.  A fierce battle broke out with the three-district core group surrounding it.

    In order to avoid the recurrence of the situation in which the troops were divided and marched northward in the first stage of the battle, they were gradually weakened by the opponent's sniping attacks.  This time, Umezu Yoshijiro did not use the Japanese army's usual tactics of splitting forces and combining flank and frontal attacks.  Instead, all four regiments of the Second Division were put into attack at once.  The tactic of three regiments advancing together and one regiment supporting from behind was adopted.

    As a veteran force of the Japanese army.  The main recruitment site is Sendai. Together with the Sixth Division, the Second Division has become one of the two most powerful divisions in the Japanese army. It is one of the few remaining units of the Kwantung Army under the current situation of a large number of new divisions in the Japanese army.  division.  The combat effectiveness of the Second Division can be described as extremely powerful.

    After the September 18th Incident, it was this Second Division, which was the only active division of the Kwantung Army at that time, that occupied the entire Northeast with a mere division of more than 20,000 troops.  Although there were factors outside the battlefield, the Second Division's ability to defeat resistance across the Northeast in a short period of time also proved that its combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.

    As for the commander of the Second Division, Lieutenant General Anjing Toji, he was an old acquaintance of Yang Zhen.  The two once faced each other directly at the Wudaolingzi Iron Mine.  Although Toji Anjing did not know that the two of them had ever been close to each other, Yang Zhen had seen the majestic appearance of the division commander.

    When Yang Zhen protruded out of Harbin, it was the Second Division troops stationed in Harbin commanded by Lieutenant General Fujiharu Yasui, who had just been transferred to the second division commander, who pursued him.  It's just that the pursuers commanded by Anjing Toji were thrown away by Yang Zhen using clever methods.

    The two armies, which could be regarded as old acquaintances, met again, and great enthusiasm broke out between them.  The intensity of its firepower could not even compare to the most intense Battle of Songhu between China and Japan.

    With the experience and lessons of the 24th Division, Fujiji Yasui seemed a little cautious after crossing the Songhua River.  Not only did they send a large number of top soldiers as scouts to conduct a rigorous search of all forward routes, they even concentrated artillery fire and bombarded them indiscriminately at the first sign of trouble.

    Seeing the behavior of the Second Division, Liu Changshun and Wang Xiaoming, who knew that the Japanese army had suffered a heavy loss and could not be fooled again, had no choice but to give up the tactics they originally planned to adopt.  Continuously resist and engage in head-to-head blocking battles.

    The Second Division of the Japanese Army has a long-standing reputation, and its combat effectiveness can definitely be said to be extremely powerful.  As soon as they came up, under the cover of aircraft and mountain field artillery directly under the division, they launched a wave-like attack on Liu Changshun's blocking position.  The momentum and intensity of its attacks were so fierce that Liu Changshun rarely tried to block them, but instead used roundabout attacks. This was the first time Liu Changshun had seen it.

    Except for a few hills, the mountains from the north bank of the Songhua River to Jiangjunshi in Heli are almost all flat plains. We can only rely on these few hilly terrains to fight hard. On the first day, we encountered  The tough Liu Changshun fought extremely hard.

    After a day of fierce fighting, although the three battalions responsible for the first wave of blocking troops were stationed north of the Songhua River, Wang Guangyu disabled the hillock of the 89th Regiment, but they themselves also suffered a huge price of casualties.  .  After the fierce fighting on the first day, the three battalions could barely form one battalion, with a casualty rate as high as 60%.

    Under the overwhelming superiority of the Japanese army's ground and air firepower, Liu Changshun's brigade mountain artillery battalion was directly deprived of its right to speak, except for firing a few cold shots to slow down the Japanese offensive.  Without fire support, Liu Changshun's troops could only rely on light and heavy machine guns and rifles, and under the cover of a few mortars, they struggled to block the offensive of the second division.

    In order to reduce casualties, Liu Changshun, after discussing with Wang Xiaoming and Ma Chunsheng, tried his best to adopt close combat tactics and used a large number of automatic firearms equipped in his hands to fight the Japanese army in close combat.  But even so, after the first day of fierce fighting, the field fortifications built before the war were almost razed to the ground by the Japanese ground and air fire shortly after the war began. Liu Changshun's troops also suffered an unimaginable price.

    While Liu Changshun was stomping his feet in distress over the casualties in his troops, Toji Ani was also having a hard time.  After a day of fierce fighting, not only was the consumption of artillery shells extremely high, almost half of the artillery shells carried by the Second Division were destroyed, but the two brigades involved in the attack were also disabled.  'At the cost of more than half of the casualties of the two brigades, yet failed to occupy the opponent's first blocking position, it is really frustrating for AnItoji's face was dull.  Although he was mentally prepared, he did not expect that his opponent would be so difficult to deal with.  Your own attacking troops will never fire when they are less than fifty meters away.

    And when the attacking troops advanced to about fifty meters, they suddenly opened fire.  What greeted them was first a barrage of grenades, and then a hail of bullets from a large number of automatic firearms.  Its light and heavy machine guns, mortars, and grenades form long-range anti-personnel firepower, separating the attacking troops from the follow-up troops to facilitate their firepower attack on the attacking troops.  After a day's attack, the two leading infantry brigades were beaten to a pulp.

    Faced with his opponent¡¯s seemingly rogue style of play, Toji Yasui was almost helpless.  Fighting close combat was originally the strength of the Japanese army.  When fighting within the Pass, the Japanese army relied heavily on hand-to-hand combat capabilities to defeat the resistance of the Chinese government forces.  But in the face of an opponent with a huge number of automatic firearms, Fujiharu Yasui discovered that the tactics used by the Japanese army were almost as if he was going to die himself.

    Because they won¡¯t give you a chance to fight hand-to-hand at all. As long as the attacking troops come within fifty meters of their position, the artillery will lose its effect.  They used a large number of automatic firearms to sweep away the attacking troops approaching the position, and defeated their own attack.  The troops that launched the attack several times even broke into the opponent's position, but were driven out by the large number of submachine guns they possessed.

    When the last charge was defeated by the opponent's rogue tactics, the second division's offensive was decisively stopped by Fujiji Yasui, who could no longer tolerate the continued increase in casualties.

    Lieutenant General Toharu Yasui, who looked a little irritable, was sternly reprimanding the three captains of his subordinates who had made almost no progress in their attacks for a day.  Lieutenant General Takushir¨­ Hattori, who was sent by General Umezu Yoshijiro to supervise the battle, secretly shook his head and smiled bitterly for a while. Although he did not want to interfere with the command of Fujiji Yasui, he finally spoke to dissuade him: "Lieutenant General Yasui, please be patient."

    "The opponent's ability to defeat Lieutenant General Nemoto Hiroshi's 24th Division has already shown us its fierce combat effectiveness. Judging from the tactics adopted by the opponent in today's blocking battle, the opponent in front of us is more difficult than we can  Imagine. So, today¡¯s slight setback is normal.¡±

    "There's just one thing I don't understand. The supreme commander has lost command of the troops due to vomiting blood and comatose. Who is it that directs the enemy in front of us to fight against us? I don't believe that this troop is except for that cunning one.  Besides the guy, who else can direct the movement?"

    Speaking of which.  Hattori Takushiro raised his head and said to Lieutenant General Yasui Toji: "Mr. Yasui, did you find anything about the 2nd Cavalry Regiment that you sent out to search for other units of the opponent?"

    Although he was a little dissatisfied because his lecture was interrupted by Hattori Takushiro, Toji Yasui did not show any dissatisfaction on his face.  Regarding Hattori Takushiro's question, he just said calmly: "The search range of my Second Cavalry Regiment has been expanded to thirty kilometers. Except for these cunning opponents in front of us, we have not found any other opponents."

    Hattori Takushiro thought about Yasui Toji's answer for a while, and then said to Yasui, "Sir Yasui, I hope you can expand the search range of your cavalry unit by another twenty kilometers. Especially at night, when our reconnaissance aircraft  If it cannot happen, we must conduct a rigorous search within the surrounding area of ??50 kilometers. "

    Having said this, Hattori Takushiro looked at the reluctant Yasui Toji and said: "Your Excellency Yasui, Lieutenant General Nemoto Hiro suffered the loss of his opponent taking advantage of the night to bypass his flank. Moreover, I also want to use your Second Cavalry Regiment to  The team searches for one thing.¡±

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