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Text Chapter 537 The Difficult Eastern Front

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    In order to develop and open up the Binsui Railway, the main artery for east-west transportation in the future, we must capture Ning'an, Mudanjiang, and Muling.  Otherwise, raw materials and products will only be transported by road or Songhua River water transport.  And when the supply of gasoline is definitely tight during wartime, Yang Zhen is willing to do it if the trains with large transportation capacity and which can fully meet the power raw materials are not used.

    This is why Yang Zhen first decided to terminate the operation on the western front, while the two columns of Du Kaishan and Wang Xiaoming on the eastern front still needed to continue fighting for a while.  Therefore, Yang Zhen decided that in the final stage, the east and west fronts would adopt a battle plan of attacking in the east and defending in the west, while stably expanding in the middle.  Place the focus of the next battle plan and the main effective forces in the middle and east.

    Fortunately, the Japanese army really gave them face, whether it was a bluff or a desperate struggle, after launching another day of attacks during the day.  When the sky gradually darkened, after the planes hovering above their heads were evacuated, they abandoned all the uncarryable baggage as quickly as possible and retreated across the board.

    Although Yang Zhen has decided to stop there, in order to prevent the Japanese army from seeing his true purpose, he still has to do what he needs to do.  According to the original plan, the First Brigade and the Third Independent Brigade concentrated armored brigades and cavalry brigades from the east and west respectively, each assigned an infantry regiment, and pursued the Japanese troops southward.  The play needs to be adequate, so some things should be done as well.

    What Yang Zhen didn¡¯t expect was that the Japanese troops, who were focused on retreating, had no intention of fighting at all.  Except for leaving a small group of troops to block the attack, the other ministries had no idea about the pursuit of Yang Zhen's troops and just retreated.  After evacuating to the south bank of the Lalin River before dawn, they stopped to blow up the Lalin River Bridge and built fortifications on the spot to prepare for resistance.

    The Japanese army retreated across the Lalin River regardless of the situation. Naturally, Yang Zhen would not continue the pursuit without a wink.  After the pursuit troops arrived at the north bank of the Lalin River, Yang Zhen issued an order to stop the pursuit and garrison on the spot.  After receiving Yang Zhen's order, Wang Guangyu stopped on the north bank of the Lalin River and confronted the Japanese army across the river.

    At this point, Yang Zhen commanded two columns with a total of eight brigades, plus one armored brigade, one cavalry brigade, and the reconnaissance brigade directly under the military region. They fought fiercely with three Japanese divisions for half a month and completely annihilated the Japanese 51st Division and the Independent Division.  The fourth garrison severely damaged the Japanese 1st and 9th divisions.

    Although most of the 1st and 3rd regiments of the 1st Division escaped, the division headquarters led by Kanichiro Ueno, commander of the 51st Division, also escaped.  However, this battle liberated the entire Puppet Manchukuo Binjiang and Longjiang Provinces from the Daxingan Mountains in the west to the east bank of the Nenjiang River to the Qiangarroshou Banner and Shuangcheng in the south, as well as Heihe Province except Mohe and Oupu.  .  It has laid a good strategic raw material supply base for the future.

    Of course, the entire war did not end just because the fighting on the Western Front ended.  Three days after the end of the entire Western Front campaign, Wang Xiaoming defeated the resistance of a regiment of the 29th Division of the Japanese Army in a fierce battle, and captured Mudanjiang, an important Japanese town in Manchuria in the Northeast after the loss of Jiamusi.  And a force was inserted directly into the flanks of the Japanese 12th Division in Suiyang and Muling.

    After Wang Xiaoming captured Mudanjiang, in order to support the Eastern Front, he was successively attacking several large fortress groups built by the Japanese army in the northeastern Manchuria area.  Ma Qichang immediately organized railway workers in the Harbin area to seize the opportunity to transport the materials stored in Harbin by the Japanese army for repairing the Binsui Railway to the east.

    After five days of hard work, the Binsui Railway was barely repaired, which had not been repaired due to the harassment of the First Army.  The captured train artillery was driven to the Muling front line. Under the guidance of the reconnaissance brigade directly under the military region in coordinated operations, the vehicle-mounted 240mm cannon with a range of up to 50 kilometers was used to cooperate with the already scooped-up viewing platform and Suifenhe fortress group.  , the three columns that are attacking the Japanese Lumingtai Fortress Group are conducting long-range fire strikes on the Japanese Dongning Fortress Group and the Lumingtai Fortress Group.

    In the Suifenhe area, the Japanese army built several major fortress groups and so-called border positions such as Luming Platform, Suifenhe and Guanyue Platform, which were indeed extremely strong, but they could not withstand the direct attack of 240mm artillery shells.  A 240mm cannon shell fired within thirty kilometers can directly penetrate the fortifications built by the Japanese army with the best protective performance.

    While Ma Qichang used the 240mm train gun, he also managed to transport four 240mm heavy cannon and a 240mm heavy howitzer captured in Harbin to the Muling front line.  Ma Qichang organized these heavy artillery into a group of heavy artillery from far and near.

    Under the bombardment of these heavy artillery groups, the Japanese 12th Division guarding the Dongning Fortress Group, Suifenhe Fortress Group, and Lumingtai Fortress Group suffered heavy losses.  The firepower points they built only faced forward, and the protection behind them was far inferior to the permanent fortification group on the front. They were blown up one by one by the heavy artillery groups they made.

    In addition to the core fortifications of Tianchang Mountain in the Suifenhe Fortress Group, the MiaolingFortress mode, use air fuel bombs and ton-level aerial bombs to destroy.  The remaining Dongwangshan and Longtoushan positions of the Lumingtai fortress group, and the Dijiu Mountain, Darishan, and Jingguoshan positions of the Suifenhe fortress group were successively destroyed by these heavy artillery on their sides and rear.

    If we say that in the Suifenhe, Guanyuetai, and Lumingtai fortresses, the ones who fought against Du Kaishan were mainly the Japanese Border Guards and the so-called Border Gendarmerie.  When the three columns reached Dongning and Suiyang, the main force of the Japanese 12th Division was the ones who fought against them.

    In the battle with the main force of the 12th Division, despite the cover of the heavy artillery group, the battle in Du Kaishan was still extremely difficult.  Moreover, as the most important part of the Japanese army's attack on the Soviet Union, the entire eastern Muleng, Suiyang, and Dongning areas are almost full of secret fortifications built by the Japanese army.  The three major fortress groups are just the three largest ones.

    With Japanese fortification groups everywhere, it would be strange if Du Kaishan could fight easily against the old Japanese division, the Twelfth Division.  Especially the battles in Suiyang and Dongning were even more difficult in the face of almost countless large and small fortifications built by the Japanese army.

    Sanchakou, Daduchuan, Miaogoukou, Foyegou, Baidaozi Mountain, and Zakwood Terrace, these are the transportation arteries and strategic strongholds where the Japanese army accumulated heavy troops. Almost all of them were taken down by Du Kaishan one by one.  Although a large number of workers were rescued, the casualties of the three verticals themselves were not light.

    Although after the war on the Western Front, all aviation forces transferred to the repaired Muling Bamiantong Airport to provide nearby air support to Dukaishan and provide fire cover with super heavy artillery for the Anti-Japanese Alliance.  However, the battles in Dongning and Suiyang still caused the three verticals to suffer a lot.

    Fortunately, it took a lot of hardships, but under the guidance of former Second Route Army veterans who had fought guerrillas in Dongning recruited by Yang Zhen, and with the cooperation of the First Army, the outer strongholds were eventually destroyed one by one.  down.  The battle ended on September 11. The main force of the three columns led by Du Kaishan, with the cooperation of the second column led by Wang Xiaoming, finally reached the main position of the Dongning Fortress, the largest Japanese fortress group in the entire East Manchuria.

    Looking at this large-scale fortress group in the telescope, which has a depth of fifty kilometers and a width of 110 kilometers from north to south. The main fortifications occupy a full eleven hills. Du Kaishan, Huang Yuqing beside him, and Wang Xiaoming who arrived specially  , Ma Qichang, Li Mingrui, Xia Boxun and others couldn't help but take a breath of cold air.

    Compared with this large-scale Dongning fortress group, the Miaoling fortress group, Guanyuetai fortress group, Lumingtai fortress group and Suifenhe fortress group that were successively captured before are simply insignificant.  The three verticals suffered a lot just by clearing out its periphery.  Now that the Japanese 12th Division has all retreated into the Dongning Fortress Group, plus the originally assigned border garrison, how should this battle be fought?

    Turning his head, Du Kaishan said to the people around him: "Let me tell you, old guys, how should we fight this battle? Just from the fortifications exposed by the Japanese army on the surface, it means that this will probably be our last battle.  It¡¯s a tough nut to crack. It¡¯s definitely not possible to fight hard, at least our three verticals don¡¯t have the confidence now.¡±

    "Although I had the cooperation of Lao Ma's long-range heavy artillery and Lao Xia's aviation before, my three columns also lost half of their teeth this time. Now one-third of the regiments under my command have suffered casualties. Again.  No matter how hard you try, my three-column army has been completely wiped out before it even takes shape."

    "If this Dongning Fortress is similar to the Miaoling Fortress or the Guanyuetai Fortress Group, or even if it is like the Suifenhe or Lumingtai Fortress Group with the main defenses concentrated on the front, I would have an easier time. But this Dongning  The fortress group is too large. If we attack according to the method of attacking the Miaoling fortress, the attacking troops may not even touch the edge of the core position under the enemy's cross fire. "

    Speaking of this, Du Kaishan looked at the Japanese fortresses not far away with some irritation, and couldn't help but cursed: "These little devils are all fucking tortoises, they know how to build fortifications. They have built the entire Suiyang and Dongning  Caught up in the spider web. Then, like a bastard, he couldn't get out. Damn it, they're all eggless."

    Looking at Du Kaishan, who was a little impatient, Huang Yuqing, the political commissar of the third column, frowned and said: "Lao Du, don't worry. Now while Lao Wang and the others are here, let's take a look. Now in this Dongning Fortress Group, not only are there  The strength of the two Japanese regiments, and from interrogating Japanese prisoners, we also learned that there are still many laborers trapped inside. Judging from the current situation, it is definitely not possible to fight hard. "

    After Huang Yuqing finished speaking, Wang Xiaoming beside him also shook his head and said: "The key problem now is that we have never been able to effectively grasp the structure of the Dongning Fortress. Whether it is the interrogation of Japanese prisoners of war or the rescued part of the laborers,  Everyone talks about YunshanIt's foggy and there's no useful news.  "

    "The only thing I know now is that Lao Ma used the train gun that played a decisive role in the battles of Lumingtai and Suifenhe to test-fire two shells at Xunshan Fortress. Now it seems that it can't penetrate its main firepower point. Grandma  The 240mm heavy artillery has no effect. I really don¡¯t know how to destroy these fortifications. "

    At this point, Wang Xiaoming turned to Xia Boxun and Li Mingrui, the aviation chiefs of staff who came specifically to direct the ground attack, and said: "Is Lao Xia considering focusing on aviation this time? Or adopt Lao Li's tactics at Hutou and Hormojin.  , use nighttime to infiltrate and fight from the inside out? "
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