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Text Chapter 527: Angry from Humiliation

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    For the Ninth Division, more than 700 people were killed on the first day alone.  [. Text, this ratio of casualties has almost broken the record of the Ninth Division¡¯s previous battles.  Huang Shengbin felt distressed because he had wiped out two battalions in one day. Here, Kiichiro Kuchi faced such a huge casualty ratio and the hard battle that followed. Although he always said that he was strong-willed, he almost burst into tears.  .

    The heavy casualties on the first day were just the beginning of a battle that would later make Kiichiro Kuchi miserable.  The next day, although he was very reluctant, but urged by a telegram from the Kwantung Army headquarters almost every day, Kiichiro Kuchi could only bite the bullet and continue to launch a frontal offensive that caused huge casualties to the 9th Division, trying to capture the train.  Station or Shuangcheng County.

    It was just after daybreak that neither Kiichiro Kuchi, who continued to forcefully attack regardless of the casualties on the first day, nor Ma Fengqi, who was on the defensive, knew that this day's battle could be said to be the climax of the entire twin-city defense war.  It was also the day that brought the greatest casualties to both sides in this entire eleven-day offensive and defensive battle.

    "Compared to the average offensive and defensive battle in Shuangcheng County on this day, the Shuangcheng Railway Station, which changed hands repeatedly, was the focus of the entire battle on this day.  Sixty percent of the casualties incurred by both sides in the battle on this day came from the fierce fighting around the Shuangcheng Railway Station and the station's freight yard.

    Although Lieutenant General Kiichiro Kuchi had great expectations for the next day's battle, the progress of the second day's battle still continued to disappoint him.  After repeated battles, the 7th Regiment that attacked the station annihilated a battalion of station defenders and briefly captured the Shuangcheng Railway Station, the most critical station on the entire front.

    But the only bright spot in the second day's battle, or the only victory that could stand out, was that the follow-up attacks were weak due to excessive casualties. Before I could sit down at the train station, my opponent took advantage of the night and attacked the entire Western Front.  He launched a counterattack and was driven out of the train station.

    The defenders' counterattack on the station was just one point in a fierce battle that lasted all day and night.  The defenders quickly launched a counterattack while taking advantage of the unstable foothold of the 7th Regiment that captured the station.  Taking advantage of the fact that the Seventh Regiment's main attention was attracted by the battle at the station, they dispatched two battalions of troops to the west of the station and used artillery cover to launch a clean and beautiful counterattack.

    The defenders counterattacked and forcibly separated the two squadrons attacking on the western front from the main force of the regiment.  After completing the encirclement, adopt the tactics of close combat and night fighting.  Before the Seventh Wing could react, these two squadrons were completely eaten up.  When the reinforcements dispatched from the station by Colonel Fujioka Itsoo, the captain of the 7th Regiment, arrived, what greeted him were only corpses on the ground.

    At this time, the station that had just been captured was taken back by the opponent with a fierce counterattack, taking advantage of the reduced strength of the 7th Regiment that had just captured the station.  After a night of fierce fighting, the 7th Regiment did not take advantage of it. Not only was it exhausted from the torment, it also lost its wife and soldiers.

    The fierce battle on the second day can be described as a strain on the Seventh Wing.  Although the train station was briefly captured, one battalion of the defenders suffered casualties, but the 7th Regiment also wiped out more than two squadrons.  Including the casualties on the first day and the annihilation of the two squadrons west of the station, the 7th Wing was already paralyzed after only two days of fierce fighting.

    After three days of fierce fighting, Ma Fengqi wiped out more than one regiment, but the number of casualties of the attacking Ninth Division was even higher than Ma Fengqi's.  In these three days, the entire Twin Cities battlefield became an out-and-out meat grinder for the Ninth Division.  Every Japanese troop that was thrown into the direction of the county town or station would have to face at least one broken muscle or fracture after a day of fierce fighting.

    By the end of the third day of fighting, Lieutenant General Kiichiro Kuchi, who was overwhelmed by the average casualties of two thousand per day, sent a report to the Kwantung Army headquarters requesting a temporary suspension of the attack.  This report can be said to be the first of its kind on the Sino-Japanese battlefield, which has begun full-scale warfare since the July 7th Incident.

    After receiving the report, the commander of the Kwantung Army, Umezu Yoshijiro, could no longer describe his dissatisfaction.  But anger, absolute anger.  Since the September 18th Incident, China and Japan have been fighting, whether big or small, for nearly ten years now.  Arrogant and arrogant, they look down on any Chinese armed forces from top to bottom. The Japanese generals at all levels, who have always been domineering, have always done nothing but expand the situation without hesitation and repeatedly crossed the bottom line set by the military.

    "For these always arrogant Japanese division commanders, there is nothing in the world that they dare not do, and there is no hornet's nest that they dare not poke. It is their custom to attack without authorization and defeat the superior.  But it was unheard of to ask superiors to suspend the attack. It could be said to be the first time in history.

    After receiving the telegram from Kuchichiro Kuchikichiro to suspend the attack and wait for follow-up reinforcements, Umezu Yoshijiro was quite dissatisfied, and he could even express his embarrassment.? to describe.  As a commander of the Kwantung Army who always values ??intelligence work and has a fairly sensitive nose, he still knows how many defenders there are on the front line of the Twin Cities.

    Of course, the battle on the front line of the Twin Cities has been going on for six full days since the 25th Division crossed the Lalin River and entered the war zone.  If he, Umezu Yoshijiro, has not figured out the number of defenders by now, then his position as the commander of the Kwantung Army should be over.

    For Umezu Yoshijiro, the opponent in the Twin Cities only has the strength of a brigade.  Kiichiro Kuchi not only failed to break the opponent's defense for three days, but he himself took the lead in proposing to stop the attack because he had suffered excessive casualties. This is not what an imperial army division commander should do.

    Although General Umezu Yoshijiro has always been known for his iron fist, he has also always been known for his stability among the top brass of the Japanese army.  It is precisely for this reason that he can take over the position of commander of the Kwantung Army with the rank of lieutenant general, which can only be held by senior generals.  But for Kiichiro Kuchi's desire to change his performance to focus on stability, Umezu Yoshijiro can't just describe it as dissatisfied.

    At the end of the first phase of the battle, the 6th, 8th, 10th, and 11th standing divisions were wiped out, and less than 6,000 of the more than 70,000 elite imperial troops escaped.  According to this casualty number, these four divisions can be directly deregistered.  The Fourteenth Division was severely damaged, and less than one-third of the entire division returned.

    And the division in the worst condition, the 29th Division, also suffered nearly half of its casualties.  This was also the division with the smallest losses among all participating troops in the entire first phase of the battle.  So far in this battle, only three lieutenant generals and five major generals have been killed.  There are countless officers below the rank of colonel.

    The losses in technical weapons were unforgettable not only for the Kwantung Army, but even for the entire Japanese Army.  The Kwantung Army's painstakingly accumulated aviation force lost most of it due to the opponents' tricks.  The remaining half no longer have the ability to take the initiative.  They could only allow the army troops to suffer heavy losses under the indiscriminate bombardment of a large number of aviation forces that suddenly appeared from their opponents, while they themselves became a coward.

    As for the tank troops and heavy artillery troops, the losses were even more heavy.  The Kwantung Army's tank regiments and field heavy artillery regiments, which were few even in the entire Japanese Army, suffered almost all losses in this war.  This result made the Japanese army, which had always been stingy, almost vomit blood.

    You know, with the Navy taking away the majority of domestic steel production, especially armor steel production, it is still not possible to restore the vitality of the tank force.  These technical weapons, especially tanks, are almost the lifeblood of the Kwantung Army and even the entire Japanese Army.

    In the first phase of the battle, casualties were so heavy that even the Tokyo base camp, which had never bowed its head, was saying privately: "This battle is actually the most costly battle for the empire since Emperor Meiji created the new army. This battle has a huge impact on the  It is unforgettable for the Imperial Army.¡±

    These words reached the ears of Umezu Meijiro, making him who was already under great pressure feel as if he had reached the crater of a volcano, feeling doubly tormented.  Compared with the previous battle, the losses were heavy. Now that the Binsui Railway is completely interrupted, Mudanjiang, one of the strategic locations in Northeast Manchuria, is already within the range of the opponent's artillery fire. However, for General Umezu Yoshijiro, the losses are still acceptable.  .

    What made him feel even more comforted was that the Twelfth Division in the fortification areas along the eastern border with Manchuria, especially the Dongning and Suifenhe lines, was currently facing an attack with the support of the Fifty-seventh Division.  The fierce attack on the opponent not only defended the fortress group in Dongning area, but also hugged the area south of Muling.  If the battle line can be stabilized on this line, Umezu Yoshijiro's defeat will not be too miserable.

    But just when Umezu Yoshijiro had been thinking about how to mobilize troops and restore the war situation as soon as possible, a bolt from the blue suddenly blinded him.  He never thought at all that his opponent would concentrate a large number of tanks and armored troops, and under the cover of heavy artillery and aviation, they would covertly pass through hundreds of kilometers of mountains and forests in the Lesser Khingan Mountains, which for heavy mechanized troops would be nothing more than a natural chasm.  Unexpected troops were dispatched to capture Harbin, the strategic hub of Northern Manchuria in one fell swoop.

    " Umezu Yoshijiro doesn't care about the loss of Jiamusi.  He doesn't even care about the fact that he can throw away Mudanjiang at any time.  But he couldn't care less about the loss of Harbin.  For the overall strategy of the Kwantung Army, once Harbin, a city that controls several major railway hubs in northern Manchuria, is lost, the harm can be described as the sky falling in half.

    Harbin¡¯s strategic location is too important for the Kwantung Army.  The loss of this strategic stronghold could even be a fatal blow to the Kwantung Army.  Losing Harbin would mean losing the strategic support point of the entire Northern Manchuria region.  If the tens of thousands of imperial expatriates in Harbin are not included.

      The loss of Harbin not only cut off the retreat route of the First Division in Heihe in the north, but also severed the previous unified defense posture of the entire North Manchuria area.  He also controls the entire North Manchuria railway in his own hands, and all railway transportation in North Manchuria will be paralyzed.

    What¡¯s more important is that if Harbin is thrown away, the First Division, which once caused trouble all day long in the country, will become an abandoned son hanging alone.  Although the First Division had enough food and ammunition in the Sunwu area to support two years of operations due to the importance of transportation and strategic location.  But for Umezu Yoshijiro, he did not dare to risk the slightest danger to the First Division.

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