Chapter 1269: Retreat
The efficiency of a meal is sometimes higher than the time spent sitting in the office for half a day, of course, it is not a formal office work, but there are some issues discussed.
After all, it is a group of people who run the country, and it is another group of people who really decide the direction of the country, and some people decide the direction of the country and also manage the country.
Mr. Song's role in Luoyang is to stabilize the morale of the army, of course, those people are not soldiers or soldiers, but with Minister Song and Jiang Gongzi here, the people who give the country a reassurance pill are indeed reassuring.
And Minister Song didn't want to meddle in Liao Fan's affairs, first of all, although Minister Song cared about the soldiers, she didn't want the layman to meddle in the insider, the country already had enough military personnel, as long as it was not Hu Guoshan's command error, these military personnel were enough in a short period of time.
Secondly, the war situation in the Northeast has begun, Liao Fan did not intervene, but organized a war analysis team, in the professional aspect, Liao Fan chose a bystander, obviously this shows that the management of Liao Fan is very clear, at this time the focus is to manage the country, and managing the country is more important than winning a battle.
For Liao Fan, there was really nothing he wanted to participate in on the Northeast Battlefield, it was a battle that was bound to win, but he still hoped that their troops could win at the lowest cost.
The little devil is already at the end of the crossbow, but the lethality is still there. It can be seen from the telegrams sent back from the front line in the past few days that the progress on the battlefield has been much smoother than Liao Fan expected.
As for why Hu Guoshan put his main strength on Fengtian, Liao Fan can also guess a rough idea, but he is pitiful of the troops who are mainly attacking Fengtian, and I am afraid that more than half of the casualties will be able to take Fengtian.
Of course, the troops attacking Mukden were not just one army, in order to end the battle in Mukden as soon as possible, the main forces of the four armies attacked the city of Mukden from four directions, and according to Liao Fan's estimate, they had to pay the price of 100,000 casualties to be able to wipe out nearly 500,000 Japanese troops in Fengtian City.
Combined, more than a million troops are fighting around Mukden, and for many people, this is just a string of numbers, which has no life, just a number that is counted from beginning to end.
However, even if the names of 100,000 people were written on a square telegraph and then stacked on top of them, it would be a book of about 300,000 words.
What's more, they don't just have names, they have flesh and blood, and they have families and relatives behind them, and Hu Guoshan thought of a way to bring them back from the battlefield alive.
Hu Guoshan tried all means to make the Japanese troops in Fengtian City give up resistance, from leaflets to soldiers with food to lure them down, but until now, the prisoners of war in the prisoner of war camp are only 10,000 little devils.
10,000 prisoners of war is really a lot in the eyes of others, but Hu Guoshan is still not satisfied, according to Hu Guoshan's thoughts, half of them would have surrendered, they may only suffer 50,000 casualties or even 30,000 or 40,000 people to take the entire Fengtian.
But the effect of persuasion and inducement is not ideal, of course, they have not shown mercy to the little devil's subordinates, after all, only if the little devil is hurt, they will be able to surrender.
There are more and more corpses in Fengtian City because of the outbreak of war, and the Chinese army is okay, after all, there are more victories in the battle, and the logistics troops can transport the corpses back to the rear in time. But the little devils are different, of course, the areas controlled by the Chinese army are cremated by the Chinese army, and the areas occupied by the Japanese army do not have so much energy to deal with.
Every night when the two sides stopped exchanging fire, they could hear the screams of the wounded Japanese soldiers in a corner of the city, and sometimes the artillerymen couldn't help but send a shell to the screaming area.
The battle to attack Mukden was not going to be smoother and smoother, on the contrary, the more they went to the core area, the more the space for the little devils to move around, and the Japanese army resisted more and more fiercely.
Casualties among troops on the front line are also increasing, and sometimes some companies even pay the price of a platoon of casualties in order to capture a small building.
Hu Guoshan also began to realize that they couldn't continue to fight like this, fighting hard with the little devils would not do them any good, and if they continued like this, they might have to pay the price of tens of thousands of casualties when they captured Mukden.
"Retreat! Let the attacking troops retreat! ”
"Retreat?"
A group of staff officers in the headquarters looked at Hu Guoshan, every house and street was bought by their soldiers with their lives and blood, and they retreated like this?
"Let the troops of the main attack retreat tonight, build a defensive line on the second street, and the special forces continue to penetrate!"
Of course, Hu Guoshan did not want all the troops to withdraw from the city, once the little devils re-established a defensive line in the city, they would inevitably pay an even heavier price if they wanted to attack the city.
The reason for the retreat was not only to create a false impression for the Japanese army that the Chinese army's attack was not going well, but also to relax the tense nerves of the Japanese army in the past few days.
Second, he wanted the special operations forces to continue to infiltrate the Japanese troops, and strive to find out the location of the Japanese command headquarters through the little devils, as long as the Japanese headquarters was defeated, it would inevitably deal a morale blow to the Japanese troops who were cowering in the city, and it would be more able to promote the surrender of the little devils.
"Lao Hu, what if the little devil doesn't move forward?"
Once Hu Guoshan's troops retreated, they would definitely give way to some vacuum, and neither side would have occupied them, if the Japanese did not know about their retreat or knew that the Chinese army was retreating and did not attack.
"If they don't move forward, we have nothing to lose, move forward, and we earn!"
Yes, if the Japanese army does not move forward to regain the lost position, Hu Guoshan and they will have nothing to lose, so it is a big deal to let the troops rest and re-attack.
After the command gave the order, the units involved in the offensive at the front began to prepare intensively and hestably.
"Leave some souvenirs for the little devils, remember, remember the place where the explosives were buried for me, don't let the little devils blow up when they come, we will blow ourselves up when we come back!"
Of course, they didn't retreat quietly like this, since they were luring the little devils, they had to let the little devils know that they had retreated.
Before retreating, the troops launched a fierce attack on the little devils, and the soldiers almost shot out all the ammunition they were carrying.
Of course, the little devils will not be fooled right away, after fighting for so long, after paying a few costs, they are becoming more and more aware of how cunning their opponents are, and one carelessness can make them suffer a big loss.
The Chinese army just retreated, and they did not dare to pursue it, for fear that the Chinese army would set a trap for them and ambush them somewhere.
However, in this retreat, the Chinese army retreated for two days, which means that there was not a single shot or shelling in the city of Mukden for two whole days.
The little devils even thought that the world was peaceful, as if the fighting of the past few days seemed to be non-existent, and if it weren't for the ruins and corpses of their comrades everywhere around them, they would have even thought that they had gone back a few years ago.
But everything in front of them reminds them that everything that happened two days ago is true, but where did the Chinese army go in these two days?
Some of the little devils finally began to be impatient, and began to take the initiative to go out to find out if the Chinese army was still in the city, and the commander of the little devils also issued several orders, strictly ordering their troops not to go out of the bunker, but they still sent scouts to reconnoiter the movements of the Chinese army.
After scouting a few streets, they still found no trace of the Chinese troops, and the vacuum left by the two armies was dead silent, and they did not find anything alive, not even a single body.
The scouts of the little devils have reconnoitred several streets in a row, and this area has one-third of the area where the little devils are active.
"Bang"
A gunshot rang out, and the Chinese soldiers who had been waiting for two days finally saw the figure of the little devil again, and the soldiers on the sentry did not hesitate at all, and directly killed a Japanese scout on the spot.
"Da Da Da"
After a dense burst of gunfire, the Japanese soldiers abandoned more than a dozen corpses and fled in a hurry, and the city fell silent again.
After dozens of reconnaissance and hundreds of corpses, the Japanese finally determined that the Chinese army had indeed retreated, but they had not withdrawn from Mukden.
Now that the Chinese army has really withdrawn, the little devils naturally have to move forward, because the smaller the compressed activity area, the more unfavorable it is for their survival, at least the more unsafe their headquarters is, anyway, there are more than 300,000 troops in their hands, enough for them to defend the city of Fengtian.
Soon the little devil and the Chinese army formed a new confrontation area again, and the same little devil was also disturbed when he stepped into this area, that is, before the Chinese soldiers withdrew, the various traps left behind only caused part of the losses to the little devil's troops, and it was not even as many as the loss of the little devil scouts.
The renewed confrontation between the two sides gave the soldiers of the special combat team almost the ability to infiltrate the little devils, and many of the soldiers of the special combat team did not withdraw from the vacuum area at all, they changed into Japanese military uniforms, spoke fluent Japanese, and quickly disguised themselves completely.
The battle has been fought so far, it is a mess, many of the little devils' troops have been wiped out in the battle, and the Japanese army has no way to find out which unit the soldier is from, anyway, as long as it is their people, just pull them into their own team.
It is precisely because of this that the little devils gave the special operations forces a chance to take advantage of, and they quickly mixed up with the little devils.
On the afternoon of the third day, the Chinese army launched another attack on the Japanese army, which had just gained a foothold, this time the attack was not much different from the previous days, and the soldiers on the front line were already familiar with the area, although there were still losses, but the losses of the Japanese were even greater.