Siping is located in the central hinterland of the Zhongliao Plain, located at the junction of Liaoning Province, Jilin Province and Inner Mongolia three provinces and regions, is Jilin, Heilongjiang and the eastern part of Inner Mongolia to the Yangtze River Delta and Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei must pass through, since ancient times is a strategic place that must be fought for. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

That's why the Japanese army invested a division of troops stationed here...... You must know that at this time, the total strength of the Japanese army near Changchun was only two divisions, but Okabe Naosaburo was able to transfer half of the total strength of the capital of the puppet Manchurian State to Siping to garrison, which can also be seen that he attached great importance to Siping.

It should be said that this approach is correct.

The reason was that the internal strength of the Japanese army was extremely empty at this time...... Although the Japanese army in Manchukuo had 300,000 troops, at least 100,000 were scattered in the countryside and difficult to assemble in a short period of time, and about 100,000 were deployed on the Manchurian-Mongolian border...... Needless to say, what this part is used for, a few years ago Japan fought a war with the Soviet Union at Nomenkan and ended in Japan's defeat.

In the end, although the "Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty" was signed, no one knew that the treaty was unreliable in this era...... Therefore, the Japanese army had to deploy a part of its military force along the Manchurian-Mongolian border in case the Soviets suddenly moved south.

In fact, this was also the main task of the Kwantung Army, but as the war deepened, the Japanese army became more and more overstretched, so it had to constantly transfer its troops to the Chinese battlefield and the Pacific theater, and finally caused the Japanese army stationed in Manchuria to become strong and middle-class.

The external strength here refers not only to the bluff of the Kwantung Army...... This is the consistent style of the Kwantung Army, and there was a reason for arrogance in its early days, the elite division, and the occupation of the important strategic Northeast China, which made it possible for the Japanese army to almost rely on the resources of the Northeast without relying on the Japanese mainland to meet the needs of the war of aggression against China, and even plunder resources from the Northeast to feed back to Japan, which can be described as a high degree of hard work.

It is precisely because of this that the Kwantung Army did not even pay much attention to the General Staff Headquarters for a time, and there was a great tendency to coerce them, and the General Staff Headquarters could not do anything about them for a while.

If there is still a reason for arrogance in the early stage, it will be pure bluff in the middle and late stages...... It was also this Kwantung Army that clamored for resolute refusal not to surrender and to resist to the end in the puppet state of Manchuria, but in less than a month, it was beaten all over the ground by the Soviet army and surrendered more than half.

Having said all this, it is actually to illustrate a point...... The deployment of the Japanese army in the puppet state of Manchukuo was basically to deploy well-equipped troops with strong combat effectiveness on the Manchurian-Mongolian border, such as the 63rd, 59th, and 117th divisions, while the Japanese troops deployed internally were basically troops with no combat experience and insufficient training, such as the 122nd Division stationed in Shenyang, the 123rd Division that was killed and wounded on the train, and the 135th Division deployed in Siping, and so on.

The reason for this is very simple, there is not much internal combat demand, what is usually done is just to guard the railway, and then take the puppet army to sweep or something, and to do these things with strong combat effectiveness is to kill chickens with a knife, and even this knife may lose its combat effectiveness because of laziness.

There is only one exception to this, and that is the 39th Division...... This division was used to garrison Xinjing, the capital of the puppet state of Manchukuo, to suppress the puppet army of the Quartet, and also to train the Japanese army.

As a result, at this time, the puppet state of Manchukuo was attacked by the Chinese army, and a serious problem arose: the troops with combat effectiveness were all on the Manchurian-Mongolian border, and they had to be quickly transferred back to defend.

At this time, the importance of Siping is reflected...... Once Siping was lost, the Japanese troops stationed in most areas of the Manchurian-Mongolian border would not be able to reinforce Changchun.

Therefore, Okabe Naosaburo called Lieutenant General Uemura, the commander of the 135th Division, again and again: "Uemura-kun, you must hold on to Siping for three days, understand? In three days, the 63rd Division will rush back to Siping to join you! ”

"Understood! Your Excellency, please rest assured! Lieutenant General Uemura replied.

In the eyes of Lieutenant General Uemura, he felt that Naosaburo Okabe was a little too careful.

At this time, the Japanese army had obtained a certain amount of information that the Chinese army attacking Changchun had only one division.

Is it just a division of Chinese troops? Hold them off for three days?! Jokes, it won't be a problem to block it for three years!

The Chinese army has tanks? Isn't it okay to deal with tanks just by digging tank trenches?!

Lieutenant General Uemura has always believed that the most important thing in war is to look at the spirit...... This is also the result of Japanese militaristic education, which believes that the Chinese army is a sheep, even if it is equipped with the teeth and claws of a tiger, it is still a sheep.

Under this understanding, Uemura actually sent his troops outside the city to deploy defenses.

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General!" The staff officer advised Uemura: "I heard that Chinese has a large number of tanks and artillery, as well as aircraft...... Is it appropriate for us to go out of the city to set up defenses? ”

"Matsui-kun!" Uemura replied confidently: "Don't think of the Chinese troops as too terrible, they just have some equipment, but the Chinese are Chinese, and they will never have enough courage to fight us head-on!" What's more, you also know how Shenyang was lost! ”

As soon as Uemura said this, the staff officer had nothing to say.

Because Shenyang is indeed defended and lost, including the Chinese army, which will use propaganda tactics to oppose the puppet army...... It's a ticking time bomb in the city!

From this point of view, there is still some reason for Uemura to do this, and when he goes outside the city, using two lines of defense with clear warp and weft, it will be easier to control the puppet army.

However, this Lieutenant General Uemura is still an arrogant fool...... The Chinese army, which has an overwhelming superiority in equipment, is not afraid of field battles, nor urban offensive and defensive battles, but most afraid of urban street battles, which is also the weakness of tanks.

Of course, the lieutenant general was a fool, so he used his bayonet to force the people to build fortifications outside the city...... Fortifications include anti-tank trenches, mine belts, barbed wire, pillboxes, etc.

As soon as Zhang Chi saw the deployment of the Japanese troops detected from the front line, he immediately ordered his fellow villagers: "Attack immediately!" ”

"Yes!" Without saying a word, the troops of a regiment of fellow villagers launched an assault on the Japanese defense line.

As soon as this impact came up, Lieutenant General Uemura taught him what modern equipment is...... Aerial shells rumbled, and the trenches and barbed wire that had been painstakingly built were reduced to nothing. The planes in the sky dived down one after another, and then dropped incendiary bombs on the Japanese troops who were full of the "spirit of bushido...... They didn't even see the appearance of the enemy, and one by one they turned into fireballs.

By the time the Japanese had been blown up by artillery fire and incendiary bombs, the tanks of the Chinese army had only driven up in rows......

(To be continued.) )