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Text Chapter 339 The well-deserved beast army

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    At ten o'clock in the evening, when Li Mingfeng's troops had completed the forcible crossing of the Woken River and were fighting the 63rd Regiment of the Sixth Division of the Japanese Army that was rapidly advancing westward at the Daqingshan line, Yang Zhen received the news that each column had completed its final preparations.  Report.  ¡¾.Com text¡¿

    At 1 o'clock in the morning on May 28, Yang Zhen, who had led the military region's West Point to move forward to Toudaogang, did not hesitate at all. According to the scheduled plan, he neatly reported to the commander of the first column Wang Guangyu and the political commander who had completed the final preparations.  Commissar Yi Dangping, commander of the second column Wang Xiaoming, and political commissar Chen Hanzhang issued orders to immediately attack the enemy in front of them.

    As Yang Zhen's order was issued, the line from Tonghe in the west to Boli in the east, which had been relatively calm for nearly half a year, was filled with intensive artillery fire. The two columns, plus the artillery attached to the headquarters, fired small-caliber 37 rapid-fire cannons.  Almost at the same time, thousands of artillery pieces, including 155 howitzers and cannons, as well as a large number of 81 and 90 mortars, 120 and 150 heavy mortars, headed towards the marked points on the map.  The target roared.

    Thousands of large and small caliber artillery pieces hit the Japanese 6th and 14th divisions on the Fangzheng, Yilan, and Boli lines as well as the puppet Manchukuo troops who were cooperating with them. In the early summer of North Manchuria,  The night sky was filled with beautiful arc-shaped trajectories drawn by artillery shells of various calibers, and the flames trailed by the tail wings of the 107 and 122 rockets added a beautiful scene to the night sky.

    Although the Sixth and Fourteenth Divisions had been prepared in advance after receiving Juichi Namada's order, they were still caught off guard by the intensive artillery fire despite being deployed for the offensive.  Although the cost was not as high as that of the 10th Division, heavy artillery and tank positions, which were the key targets of the first wave of strikes, and frontline positions still suffered heavy losses.

    It was obvious that although the two divisions were mentally prepared for the possible offensive launched by the other side, they still did not expect that the other side's firepower would be so powerful, even though heavy artillery, tanks and other heavy equipment had been evacuated to a certain extent.  , but in mountainous areas, with limited terrain where these equipment can be placed, the heavy artillery and tank regiments still suffered serious blows.

    After last year's bloody battles and the painstaking efforts of Japanese prisoners of war who were artillerymen, the use of artillery by Yang Zhen's ministries is no longer unfamiliar or can only be described as unsatisfactory, whether it is fire coverage or  The shooting accuracy has been mastered extremely skillfully, especially the artillery group's ability to blindly fire according to the map, which has exceeded the level of the Japanese army.

    After completing an hour of artillery preparations, as the artillery fire gradually moved deeper into the Japanese army, bursts of loud charging horns resounded through the night sky before dawn. Under the guidance of colorful signal flares and illumination flares that kept rising into the sky, the two  The main force of the column launched a fierce attack on the Japanese positions according to their respective plans.

    While the western front was in full swing, on the easternmost front line of Mishan and Raohe, after the start in Dukaishan, four regiments with more than 10,000 troops were forcibly inserted into the junction of Mishan and Baoqing. Under the command of Tao Jingfei,  After three hours of hard fighting, the Japanese reinforcements from the 8th Division and the 63rd Regiment of the 10th Division, which was rushing back for reinforcements, were blocked at the front line of the Danhadal Ridge, unable to move forward.

    As Yang Zhen personally directed the Western Front troops to launch an attack on the Sixth Division and the Fourteenth Division, except for the occasional sporadic gunfire, the entire front line from Fangzheng in the west to Raohe in the east had been quiet for half a year.  In the hundreds of kilometers of confrontation between the two armies, deafening gunfire sounded again.

    Yang Zhen's two main columns, six field brigades, plus three independent brigades and six independent regiments, more than 100,000 troops, together with four complete divisions of the Japanese army, one division and one division of the Puppet Manchukuo Army  Nearly 110,000 people broke out in an unprecedented bloody battle that was later evaluated as changing the situation in Northeast China and the balance of power between the enemy and ourselves.

    From the beginning to the end of this battle, which is called the turning point of the Northeast War, both sides, including reserve troops, invested a total of more than 400,000 troops, more than 2,000 large and small artillery pieces, and nearly a thousand tanks of various types. In addition,  , the Japanese army also unilaterally invested more than 300 aircraft.

    Of course, at this time, no matter whether the winner of this battle, Yang Zhen or the loser, Juichi Namada, no one expected that this battle would affect the direction of the entire Northeast War. What Yang Zhen did not expect was that this battle  The battle not only opened up a larger world for itself, but also successfully attracted the attention of a country that would almost serve as the wet nurse of the world in the future.

    As the battle was in full swing, the Soviet army formed a military observation group headed by Major General Grigorenko, Chief of Staff of the Far East Military Region, and flew to Luobei. In less than a week, the American and British troops arrived from Yan'an.  Military observation groups composed of military attach¨¦s from the Chinese Embassy in China also flew to Luobei one after another.

    Two months after the end of this battle, in late September, the Japanese army suddenly sent troopsHalf a month after Indochina, the Americans immediately sold to Yang Zhen the most urgently needed C-46s in the form of low-interest loans, despite the opposition of the Nationalist government, and the Soviet Union was still reluctant to release them, with a total of sixty C-46s.  , Type 47 military transport aircraft.

    As well as one hundred and eighty of the latest A-20 attack aircraft that were originally ordered by the French Air Force but were detained by the United States after the Battle of France, which the United States refused to deliver, and a total of three hundred P-39 and P-39 attack aircraft.  Type 40 fighters, this batch of fighters, bombers and transport aircraft were all drawn from aircraft ordered by the Americans from their own army or ordered by the detained French.

    Moreover, the Americans were responsible for transporting all these aircraft to Vladivostok, the headquarters of the Soviet Pacific Fleet, and the training work was also carried out by six instructors from the U.S. Army as civilians. Even the Soviet Union charged a high price  The transit fees are also paid by Americans.

    After the situation in Southeast Asia deteriorated, the Americans not only provided emergency loans to Yang Zhen¡¯s headquarters and provided a batch of aircraft that Yang Zhen¡¯s headquarters needed most as quickly as possible.

    Moreover, during the battle, with the assistance of the Assistant Attach¨¦ of the U.S. Embassy in China, a large number of urgently needed automobiles, high-quality steel, and smokeless gunpowder totaling US$100 million were sold to Yang Zhen's headquarters in the name of private companies, especially  American companies produce high-quality electronic tubes, as well as a large number of military machinery and other strategic materials.

    Although the US$150 million required to purchase this batch of materials consumed two-thirds of the funds Yang Zhen obtained from selling penicillin synthetic technology to the Americans, this batch of materials included high-performance American cars,  Smokeless gunpowder, military steel, and especially new military machine tools can be said to have solved the biggest problem in Yang Zhen's department's operations and military production, ensuring the demand for high-value supplies needed on the front line.

    Compared with the Americans, the Soviets, who were more concerned about the success of Yang Zhen's operation, were much more stingy than before. They only sold Yang Zhen smokeless gunpowder worth 10 million rubles in the form of a loan.  tnt explosives, more than 10,000 tons of steel for artillery shells, and indirect combat materials such as fuzes, detonators, and gasoline.

    Although the Soviet Union was not as generous as before, it waived a large amount of transit fees for the transportation of American supplies during the war, and even used military trains for free to transport the supplies sold by the Americans to the Soviet port opposite Luobei as quickly as possible.  Especially urgently needed military supplies such as American cars, smokeless gunpowder, and steel.

    Of course, this is something to talk about later. At this time, Yang Zhen couldn't care about what benefits this battle would bring to him. His current attention was completely attracted by the performance of the Japanese Sixth Division after Yi Zong launched the attack.  passed.

    After all, it is the Sixth Division, which is known as the most powerful fighting force in the Japanese army. It is the Beast Division known as the Beast Army. Although a reinforced unit was transferred away, and the remaining troops suffered heavy losses in Yang Zhen's shelling, but in the  After the first-line position was breached, the Sixth Division performed much better than the Tenth Division in terms of reaction speed and counterattack intensity.

    After the first-line position was breached, the Sixth Division immediately dispatched the Forty-fifth Regiment. With the cooperation of the First Division of the Fourteenth Division, which took over from the Twenty-third Regiment, the Sixth Division immediately dispatched the troops that had suffered less damage from Yang Zhen's artillery fire.  Under the fire cover of the 10th Vehicle Regiment, the 23rd Field Heavy Artillery Regiment and the 6th Independent Field Heavy Artillery Brigade, they immediately launched a counterattack against Yang Zhen's headquarters.

    Even after the enemy launched the offensive, the various tactical radio stations of the troops under the Sixth Division still suffered from the same deaf-mute disease that the Tenth Division had suffered the day before. All the regiments of the Sixth Division lost direct radio contact with their subordinate brigades.  , telephone lines were also blown out during the artillery fire, and most wired communication lines were also unusable.

    However, after the Sixth Division was broken through on the front line, the various units that survived the artillery attack were still able to quickly assemble under the command of bugles and signal flares, even after losing unified command and fighting independently.  Next, he launched a counterattack on his own against the enemy troops that broke into his position, fighting for every inch of land and launching successive battles with the various units of the first column.

    The Sixth Division is the Sixth Division. Both its reaction speed and complete fighting will are rare for Yang Zhen since he grew up and fought against the Japanese regular divisions. His combat effectiveness and extremely high military literacy  , not only is it far incomparable to the Fourth Division, but it is also slightly inferior to other standing divisions of the Japanese army such as the Eighth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Divisions that it has had contact with before.

    The Sixth Division, with its excellent reaction speed, swift counterattack, extremely tenacious combat style, and skilled infantry-artillery coordination, and infantry-armor coordination tactics, made it extremely difficult for the first brigade to attack.

    Unlike the 10th Division, where most of the squadrons just stood there waiting for reinforcements or retreated after the front line of the 10th Division was broken through and divided, the various units of the 6th Division immediately followed their usual training and desperately followed the usual training after being divided.  Desperately trying to get closer to each other, in the melee, the various units of the Sixth Division, which had been scattered on the front line, had many experiencesThe two wars came together again.

    Once these Japanese troops completed their approach, they lost contact with their superiors and immediately launched a counterattack on their own without waiting for orders from their superiors. After completing the assembly of a squadron, they launched a squadron-level counterattack. After completing the assembly of a brigade, they launched a counterattack.  In a brigade-scale counterattack, the first brigade encountered stubborn resistance and fierce counterattacks from various units of the Sixth Division almost every step forward.

    Almost every hilltop, even just a small hilltop, had to be captured after repeated battles and at considerable cost. Often, before the attacking troops could gain a foothold, the Japanese troops who had been defeated before were often again under the cover of tanks.  , and pounced on him in the shortest possible time.

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