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Text Chapter 423: Overly Cautious Interludes

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    At this point, Yang Zhen looked at his watch and said: "Yuan Bin should have made preparations. Several of their planes are already conducting reconnaissance over Miaoling and Banjiehe. [.Com text] And in ten minutes  Their bombers are about to arrive in the Miaoling area. Tell your troops not to tell anyone what they see or how they feel."

    "Originally, I planned to use these bombs on the Camel Peak front line, but now that your penetration troops have entered, they can only be used on the Japanese heavy artillery fortifications in the direction of Miaoling. Don't worry, although these bombs are not as destructive as those  Large-tonnage aerial bombs are large, but they are very suitable for dealing with such fortresses. Do you really think that the headquarters has no place to throw away the bombs, and I can tell you that the headquarters is not so generous.  People are always cautious."

    "But here, since the Japanese army has blown up the passage to the upper level, the few companies you left inside the Japanese fortifications are no longer of much use. Tell them to leave one company on guard and withdraw all the rest of the troops.  Come out. Reorganize a detachment and prepare to receive the first detachment. If the battle starts in the direction of Camelback, your second detachment will set off immediately to support the first detachment. "

    "According to what you said, the entire Honey Mountain Japanese fortress group has about 1,500 troops. Judging from the current troops deployed by the Japanese army on the ridge and the casualties caused by previous battles, there are still 1,000 combat troops.  It¡¯s already a lot, and it also has to bear the defense of the entire area from Miaoling to Honey Mountain.¡±

    "According to estimates, the Japanese army is now estimated to have reached its extreme strength on the entire Camelback front line. Most of its so-called troops should now be involved in the 458th Highland. If they can take advantage of the empty troops behind them to seize Camelback in one fell swoop,  It will be of great help to you in future battles.¡±

    Du Kaishan nodded when he heard this and said: "No. 1, we have also considered this situation. However, there has been no response from the intervening troops, and there is still no movement in that direction. I have been worried about whether they will appear.  What an accident. After all, that direction was almost entirely exposed to Japanese artillery fire."

    Hearing this, Yang Zhen smiled and said: "Why are you so restless today? Don't be anxious, just wait and see. Since there is no movement over there, it means that their detour has not been discovered by the Japanese army.  You chose a good time. You chose the time to insert the outflanking troops when you basically captured the surface of the 458th Highland and the leading company had already reached the edge. "

    "This caused the Japanese army's main attention to be attracted to the front. There shouldn't be any big problems on their detour route this time. Wait a minute, the time should be almost there. If nothing unexpected happens, they will start.  Just for a while."

    Yang Zhen¡¯s prediction was quite good. During the entire roundabout process, the troops did not encounter any big trouble.  Wu Ruofu, who was leading the team, did not cross the river at full speed for the sake of caution.  Instead, they move in platoons, fifty meters apart, and use the large rocks scattered on the river as cover to pass quickly in batches.

    Although this temporarily disrupts the organization, the speed of insertion is also relatively low.  But it greatly reduces the chance of being discovered.  Even if the Japanese army deploys a firepower ambush of bunker groups on the intersecting route, it will not cause too many casualties and make the roundabout troops lose their combat effectiveness.

    After the two companies were all back in position, Wu Ruofu was in trouble.  The battle for the ridgeline of the 458 Highlands over there is fierce. If the two companies in hand attack their anti-slope positions along the ridge from behind, they can greatly assist in the frontal battle.  At least it can significantly reduce the casualty rate of frontal attacks.

    But looking at Camel's Peak, which was not far away, the importance of taking the commanding heights overlooking the entire Japanese honey mountain fortress group was placed in front of Wu Ruofu again.  As long as the Camel's Hump is taken, it will block the retreat of all Japanese troops on the 458th Highland.  At the same time, it also cut off the routes for Japanese troops to reinforce the 458th Highland in other places.  Moreover, occupying this commanding height can overlook the entire Honey Mountain Fortress Group, which can bring great convenience to subsequent operations.

    Wu Ruofu, who understood that time is life on the battlefield, knew that he would not have much time to hesitate.  Looking back at the 458 Highlands where the fierce battle was taking place, Wu Ruofu gritted his teeth and made up his mind to hit the camel's hump to seize the commanding heights, cut off the Japanese reinforcements route, and seize the commanding heights.

    Since the ongoing fierce fighting on the 458 Highlands attracted most of the Japanese army's attention, they were unable to discover in time the alternate cover along the ridge between the 458 Highlands and Camelback toward Camelback.  This roundabout force led by Wu Ruofu.  In order to prevent Japanese radio monitoring, Wu Ruofu ordered all walkie-talkies to be turned off.

    Although the attention was attracted by the 458 Highlands,The Japanese army did not detect the intervening troops, but Wu Ruofu still acted cautiously.  He led the roundabout troops to carefully follow the ridge between the two mountains, forming an offensive formation, and used the cover of vegetation to carefully march towards the Camel's Peak line.  Because he did not believe that the Japanese army did not build cover fortifications on this extremely important ridge.

    The Japanese army¡¯s caution after penetrating deep into the Honey Mountain, coupled with the caution when making detours and Wu Ruofu¡¯s brief hesitation, caused the battle in the direction of Camelback to be delayed as planned, which aroused Du Kaishan¡¯s worry.

    But there are always two sides to things.  Wu Ruofu's caution and radio silence, although the superiors behind him did not know his progress, succeeded in making the Japanese army, whose main attention was attracted by the fierce frontal battle on the 458th Highland, not discover or even notice his detour action.  .

    In fact, Wu Ruofu didn't know that it was right to be cautious when using the dry river channel that had been cut off by the Japanese army as a roundabout route to reach the 458 Highlands.  Highland 458 serves as the outpost of the entire Japanese Honey Mountain Fortress Group, and all projects have been completed.  In order to ensure the safety of the flanks of the 458th Highland, a large number of bunker groups and firepower points were indeed deployed on the roundabout route chosen by Wu Ruofu.

    "It's just that when Wu Ruofu made a roundabout way, the fortifications inside the 458 Highland Mountains that controlled and used these bunkers had been cut off by the troops rushing into the Japanese tunnels. These bunkers had become a decoration for the ears of the deaf.  But on the ridge from Highland 458 to Camelback, the Japanese army did not have time to build protective fortifications.

    As the first batch of so-called eastern border fortresses built by the Japanese army, it was the last one to start construction. It was also the smallest one, and the latest one to complete the first phase of the project.  The general construction of the Honey Mountain to Miaoling fortress group was completed last winter, and only the main work was completed.  That is, the fortifications on the 458 Highlands facing the Manchu-Soviet border, as well as the artillery positions and attack points from Luotuofeng to Miaoling.

    As for the protective fortifications on the flank positions and various traffic points, due to the huge change in the combat targets, the Soviet army has now turned to the Anti-Alliance, and they are adjusting the design and have not yet had time to build them.  The underground passages between the 458 Highlands and Camelback Peak and most of the ancillary facilities, such as power generation equipment, water storage and heating buildings and equipment, have been completed, but the remaining supporting facilities have not yet been built.

    The reason for this is not only that the fortress group from Miaoling to Honey Mountain was built the latest and was completed the latest.  What's more, since the autumn campaign of that year, there have been considerable differences of opinion within the Kwantung Army and the Tokyo base camp regarding the changes in the situation and whether to change the original strategic deployment. This has caused the second phase of the project, which was originally planned to start in the spring of this year, to temporarily stall.  .

    The Kwantung Army believes that the top priority is to shift its financial and material resources to annihilating the growing resistance alliance.  In order to ensure this premise, in addition to the fortress groups in Manchuria, Hailar and Heihe in the west, the fortress groups in East Manchuria from Hunchun to Hulin need to be functionally improved.  In other words, these fortress groups not only had to deal with the Soviet troops confronting each other across the river, but also had to guard against the increasingly large resistance coalition in Northern Manchuria.

    "But the Tokyo Base Camp has always believed that the Kwantung Army's biggest enemy in Manchuria and the main opponent of the empire's subsequent strategic goals is still the huge Soviet army with a large amount of modern equipment.  Instead of being just a bunch of stragglers in their minds.

    Due to differences in the overall strategic deployment, not only the Honey Mountain Japanese fortress group, but also the follow-up projects of all the fortress groups on the entire East Manchu border starting from Hunchun Wujiazi Fortress to Hulin Fortress, except for half  The river stopped outside the fortress for quite some time.

    Of course, the differences between the two sides are only changes in the combat targets in the future. The ultimate goal has not changed, and their opponents are still locked in the Soviet army.  As for the threat posed by the unexpected emergence of Yang Zhen's unit, in the eyes of General Umezu Yoshijiro and the Japanese Army Ministry, although it cannot be said to be irrelevant to the overall situation, it is far from becoming a serious concern.

    However, under the increasing pressure of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, and the Hulin Fortress, Miaoling Fortress, Banjiehe Fortress and Dongning Fortress Group in the East Manchuria area were already within the attack range of Yang Zhen's troops, the Kwantung Army insisted on  Make adjustments to the second phase of these fortress projects.

    In other words, the Kwantung Army believes that the combat targets of these fortress groups should not only be the Soviet troops in front of them, but also the anti-alliance forces behind them.  And if some adjustments are made to the functions of the fortress group that has basically completed the main project and is spread across the entire East Manchurian border, it means that the entire fortress group plan needs to be re-implemented, and many places will need to be significantly modified.

    It also means that the funding needs to increase significantly.  All of this is precisely what the Army, which is currently rapidly expanding its military structure and has already been under considerable pressure, cannot accept.  ?In addition to funding, the Army's modification of the fortress's functions also caused unacceptable delays in the construction period.

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