Chapter 553: Purpose
The 320th Division of the Japanese Army is a division that has just been formed in Korea. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
This division is not so much a Japanese division as a Korean division...... Most of its soldiers are Koreans, but because Korea has been under Japanese colonial rule for decades, a considerable part of them have been brainwashed into fighting for the Japanese willingly as if they were Japanese.
The division commander of this division was Major General Nishizaburo Yasumi.
(Note: The commanders of Japanese divisions are generally lieutenant generals, but as the war heats up, the number of lieutenant generals and generals of the Japanese army has decreased greatly due to war deaths and retirement, so most of the commanders of the divisions that were hastily formed in the later period were major generals.) )
After being bombed by the Chinese Air Force, Yasumi Nishizaburo scolded in annoyance: "Bastard! Where are all our Air Forces, and what's going on? Is it bombing to transfer us?! ”
From this, it can also be seen that Yasumi Nishizaburo can be said to be ignorant of the war situation in the puppet Manchukuo.
This is not surprising that the 320th Division did not belong to the command of the Kwantung Army, and its transfer to the puppet state of Manchukuo was an order issued by Hideki Tojo in his capacity as chief of staff when he was in office, and at this time Hideki Tojo had already stepped down, and the newly appointed chief of staff, Umezu Mijiro, was bent on planning a decisive battle with the US army in Leyte Gulf, and he did not care about the 320 Division at all.
This made the 320th Division like a lone army with no one to command, and there was no information except for a few orders from Okabe Naosaburo occasionally.
Not long ago, Yasumi Nishizaburo was very arrogant and shouted to his subordinates: "Everyone, speed up the march, think of the Chinese women and countless treasures of Manchukuo!" They are waiting for us! ”
Hearing this, the subordinates couldn't help but burst into laughter, in their minds...... The Chinese troops are the kind of enemy who can be driven down with a single charge with bayonets, so this reinforcement is regarded as a tour from top to bottom.
But when I think of it......
As soon as they entered the sky of the puppet Manchukuo, a field of bombers and fighters appeared, and at first they thought that this must be the plane of the Imperial Army, except for the Great Japanese Empire, what other troops could have air power! So the Japanese even waved their military caps at these fighters and cheered.
But soon they realized that they were very wrong, and the fighters and bombers were bombing them one by one.
At this point, these fighters and bombers became a nightmare for the 320 Division...... They flew in every 30 minutes, and every time they came, they bombed them without exception, and what was worse was that the location of the 320th Division was still full of wilderness, and there was no hiding place in the white expanse, so more than 2,000 people were killed and wounded in just one day.
This forced Yasumi Kinzaburo to march at night, but the night march was not easy, and from time to time he would be hit by artillery fire from an unknown direction...... What makes people angry is that the Japanese troops who were blown up on their backs did not know where the artillery fire came from, let alone why they were so accurate!
This artillery fire is naturally a harassment detachment of the Chinese troops, a harassment detachment formed by half-track armored vehicles with howitzers.
The reason why they would shoot so accurately was that they had selected several artillery positions during the day and calculated the Zhuyuan, and even completed the test firing, and at night, after discovering that the enemy had entered the section, they could open fire according to the corresponding Zhuyuan.
This made the 320th Division the slowest of several attacking units, so much so that in the end they chose to retreat before they even reached the Yingkou...... According to the words of Yasumi Kinzaburo, that is: more than half of the 320th Division was killed and wounded before it reached its destination, and we had no food or ammunition, so do we really want to fight with teeth and stones?
The two Japanese divisions attacking Shenyang were the fastest.
Zhang Chi deliberately made them fast, so they were basically not harassed by the Chinese Air Force.
But the life of these two Japanese troops was not easy, because the 53rd Army was already ready to meet the enemy...... Wu Xuexin, commander of the 53rd Army, has completely mastered Zhang Chi's operational idea of "taking attack as defense" and is free to retract and release on the battlefield, and Shenyang is like turning into a meat grinder...... A group of Japanese troops attacked and occupied the position, and before they could gain a foothold, a group of tanks rolled up, and then repeated such tug-of-war again and again, each time at the cost of a large number of Japanese casualties.
There are still risks in the direction of Siping, mainly because to the west of Siping is the endless Kolbi grassland, which is not dangerous to defend, and this is precisely the offensive direction of the Japanese 117th Division.
But it was precisely because the direction of the Japanese army's attack was the Kolbi steppe that the mobile units of the 53rd Army could penetrate to the rear of the 117th Division at any time to cut off its supplies and surround it.
So......
Looking at the map, Zhang Chi believes that the most difficult and dangerous to fight are Qiqihar and Harbin, especially Qiqihar, which is the farthest away from Xinjing but has to face two divisions of the Japanese army.
"Sixth Army position?" Zhang Chi asked.
Staff Officer Liang read the telegram and replied: "After Dehui, it's almost time to Buyeo!" ”
"Why is it so slow?" Zhang Chi couldn't help frowning.
"Japan is prepared!" Staff Officer Liang replied helplessly: "Their means of destruction have escalated, planting mines and breaking roads during the day, infiltrating and sabotaging at night, and sometimes even launching small-scale attacks on our rear...... If you accidentally build a bridge, it will be blown up, and in addition, they are constantly organizing people to camouflage and sabotage the railway. ”
Zhang Chi secretly said that the Japanese have learned wisely, and their way of playing is more like the practice of the "railway guerrillas" in the past, but now it is the other way around...... The Japanese who protect the railways become the sabotage of the railways, and the Chinese who sabotage the railways become the protection of the railways.
"Master!" Then Staff Officer Liang handed Zhang Chi a telegram and said, "I just got the news...... The Japanese offensive on Chiang's side on the southern front not only did not weaken, but intensified! ”
"Oh?" Zhang Chi looked at Staff Officer Liang with some surprise.
Zhang Chi's purpose in attacking the puppet Manchukuo was to copy the rear route of the Japanese army so that the Japanese army had to return to defense, but now, it is ...... But the Japanese army did not return to defense!
Why?
Then Zhang Chi quickly figured out that Okamura Ninji was going to break through from another direction, that is, Okamura Ninji chose to fight in Vietnam to join the Japanese army in Vietnam.
As for this puppet Manchukuo, Okamura Ninji never wanted to come back from the beginning.
Thinking of this, Zhang Chi couldn't help but sigh...... He had hoped to save some of the soldiers and civilians who had died in the Battle of Yuxianggui, but now it seemed that this goal could not be achieved.
(To be continued.) )