Dandong, the most important city on the border between China and North Korea, is still called Andong. It is bordered by Sinuiju City in North Korea across the river in the east, the Yellow Sea in the south, Anshan in the west, Dalian City in the southwest, and Benxi in the north. It is an important city that integrates three lines of sea, land and river.

When Japan invaded Tohoku in 1915, the first to capture it was Anton. By the beginning of 1916, Japan was still entrenched in this small and beautiful city. Because of its proximity to the rivers and seas, the heavy snow in other northeastern regions has become much softer in Andong, and the snow is not very deep, that is, it looks like it is just below the surface of the feet. Such a crisp and comfortable winter should be perfect for residents to go out and walk, but Anton's doors are closed, and the whole city is not alive at all.

Not only is it lifeless, but the streets of Anton are now murderous, and Japanese soldiers in black uniforms are all over the streets, and everyone looks solemn. Two months ago, the cavalry units of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army blew up the Yalu River Bridge, and the Japanese troops defending the bridge naturally did not need to say any more, and the commander was immediately dismissed from his post and sent to a military court for severe punishment. The troops near the Yalu River bridge were also severely reprimanded.

The words of reprimand alone did not really affect the Japanese defenders too much, and being scolded by the boss was too common in the Japanese army. Anyway, he was not punished, and his boss scolded him twice, but although the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, which existed as an enemy, did not curse, they really wanted people's lives. From the time the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army blew up the Yalu River Bridge to the days before the snowfall, because the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army cut off the telegraph line, the Japanese army could only rely on the traditional way of delivering information by manpower. It was not that the Japanese army repulsed the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, but that the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army wiped out all the Japanese forces in all the areas it could reach. When it snowed, even the distress messages were completely cut off.

The Japanese army is also a serious army, and the silence of the message makes them feel not peace, but danger. Before the People's Party entered the Northeast, Japan relied on the Manchurian Railway and the Treaty on the Garrison in China, and relied on the Manchurian Railway and the garrison on the Liaodong Peninsula to effectively exercise control over the Northeast. Gone are the days when there were nodes in the Japanese network everywhere.

A high watchtower was erected in Anton, and Anton's "warmth" was also relative, with a temperature of about minus 10 degrees, and it was impossible not to make people jump from freezing anyway. The Japanese soldiers on the watchtower were frozen and stiff, and their noses were red. But with a task on their part, the Japanese soldiers were still trembling and trying to observe. On the snow-covered Northeast Plain in winter, a series of small slender black dots appeared from the direction of Mukden. This immediately caught the sentinel's attention. He hurriedly picked up the binoculars. It was a train of Japanese soldiers in black uniforms. At least look at the military uniform, which is a Japanese military uniform. The sentinels immediately sent a warning message. The last time the Yalu River Bridge was raided, it was a group of Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army wearing Japanese military uniforms, and Japan paid great attention to this. The Japanese troops below immediately became alert, and while they were gathering, they sent small groups of cavalry to investigate.

It turned out to be a false alarm, and the new Japanese troops were a detachment transporting the wounded. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army sent the wounded of the 20th Division to Mukden, and then began to storm the Manchurian stronghold. The Japanese troops in Mukden were afraid that if they transported the wounded, they would be stopped halfway, and many of the wounded also needed to continue treatment. Therefore, the work of transporting the wounded back to their home countries has only now really begun.

This batch transported about 500 "lightly wounded" in total, and the cart was full of people, and as soon as they arrived in Anton, both the wounded and the escort team had a glow on their faces. As long as they cross the Yalu River, these people will be considered to have returned to China.

"How's Fengtian going?" Stationed in Andong was the Japanese Takahashi Wing, and the wing commander Yoichi Takahashi inquired about the situation in Mukden.

The captain of the escort team shook his head slightly, "The situation is not good. ”

Until the snowfall, the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army had been attacking Manchurian strongholds everywhere, and had the experience of being besieged last time, and the Japanese garrison in Mukden, which was under-armed, could only be rescued with small troops, and as a result, it was ambushed several times and lost a lot of troops. As a last resort, the Japanese had no choice but to withdraw the surviving Manchurian strongholders to Mukden and Anshan from various places.

Knowing that Mukden's situation was similar to Anton's, Captain Takahashi's expression also darkened. He has heard many times that China is preparing to increase troops in the northeast, but now that the northeast and North Korea are entering winter, it is not easy to increase troops. Because of the destruction of the Manchurian railway stronghold, the entire Liaodong Railway has basically stopped operating, and it is too to rely on two legs to maneuver in the snowy days of winter.

"Oh? The wounded convoy of the Japanese army has already entered Anton? "In the snow more than ten kilometers away from Anton, some comrades wearing white cloaks and snow camouflage uniforms were struggling to translate the information dropped by the plane.

The Japanese army's communications were cut off, and the workers' and peasants' revolutionary army was not much better. The only advantage was that the Air Force of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army carried out the airdrop of intelligence transmission.

"Captain, do you want to try harassing you?" Although the team members knew that the purpose of this trip was not to fight, they still couldn't help but itch their hands.

"Don't talk nonsense, hurry up and do your work against the map. We'll have to be guides in the next battle, and we'll be able to identify the white expanse in this snowy field. Go through all the places and see if there are any big potholes or something. The captain said angrily.

The pre-war work was so boring, the commando was very loud and powerful, and the actual work was to go through the roads and water sources and places where the action might be carried out in a dragnet style. The closer you get to the enemy's area, the more careful you must be. The Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army would play ambush warfare, and the Japanese were not fools, and they had to look carefully near their distances. After the snow, transportation was inconvenient, and the Japanese army rarely came out, so it was possible to go to a place very close to the Japanese army to conduct reconnaissance.

The captain was right, and the day after the assault team began to investigate, the Japanese routine patrol team realized that something was wrong. Suddenly, there was a large number of human walking and sledding trails in the snow. The news was immediately transmitted back to the Anton stronghold. Captain Takahashi frowned and listened to the report of the reconnaissance force, and looked at the map for a long time without saying a word.

"Shall we send someone after us?" The staff officer suggested.

"Someone must be sent, but how many?" Yoichi Takahashi asked. The reply of the Japanese reconnaissance team was very clear, and the area where the enemy's traces appeared was very wide, and it was roughly estimated that the enemy must have as many as three or four hundred men. It is simply impossible for ordinary people to act in such a large place, and this must be the vanguard of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army.

"Are they ready to fight us in the winter?" Yoichi Takahashi couldn't help but ask. In fact, the fact that the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army was able to cross hundreds of miles of snow from Panjin to Andong in the winter was already a great surprise to Takahashi Yoichi.

"Let's expand the scope of our investigation, right?" The Japanese staff advised. After all, it is backed by the Yalu River, and the Japanese army has already sent three divisions to Korea, one of which is stationed in Sinuiju across the Yalu River. Relying on railway transportation, this unit is logistically well supplied and can cross the Yalu River at any time to fight. If there was a fight in Anton, the Japanese army thought that they were sure of victory.

"Yes. Starting tomorrow, the scope of the investigation will be expanded. No, send a brigade to act with the reconnaissance team. "Yoichi Takahashi finally decided that safety should be the priority. In this tense situation now, if he is ambushed, Yoichi Takahashi will definitely be punished.

But the luck of the Japanese army was not too good, and as soon as this decision was issued, it snowed again in the northeast. The snow covered all traces on the ground, turning the earth into a pure white world.

The comrades of the 18th Army now welcome the snow, after all, the Northeast is not the legendary Arctic, there is an endless amount of ice and snow that can be drawn. The last time we built an ice house, we basically ran out of snow and ice that could be collected, and now the sky is back to provide building materials, which is really a good thing.

On the one hand, Mu Husan ordered the expansion of the camp, and on the other hand, he ordered the troops to repair the Manchurian stronghold near the Beijing-Harbin line and build a new garrison. The General Staff immediately felt the smell of gunpowder before the war. The soldiers and horses did not move the grain and grass first, if it were not for the war, the current 18th Army's reserves of materials would probably be able to survive this winter.

"If you fight now, what is the goal of the campaign? Relying on winter warfare, I am afraid that I will not be able to complete the original campaign concept. The chief of staff suggested.

"If we don't have enough, we will pull the 14th Army as well." Mu Husan said with a smile, "Anyway, the comrades of the 14th Army have also come to us recently and gained a lot of experience. There is a big gap between experience and practice. ”

The chief of staff obviously did not have such a good mood, "Army commander, we lack heavy artillery, and we are afraid that we will not be able to defeat Shenyang City." ”

"Why are we going to take Shenyang City? Why don't you let the enemies of Shenyang City come out and fight us? Mu Husan asked rhetorically.

"Huh?" The chief of staff was somewhat surprised.

"The Japanese came to us with a surprise and played a game of anti-guest. Now we should pay homage to them once. Mu Husan explained.

"But logistics supply ......" the chief of staff just finished speaking, and said no more, the initial arrangement of Mu Husan was to maximize the reserve of materials and improve the logistics supply capacity.

"When will the commandos who went to Anshan come back?" Mu Husan asked.

Anshan is rich in resources, and the iron and coal alone give the area the foundation to become an important industrial area. Since the Russo-Japanese War, Japan has been fully engaged in the management of Anshan minerals and industry.

The commandos sent to Anshan by the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army encountered problems in this regard. There should be no pedestrians in the northeast in winter, especially in the days after the snow, as long as you don't enter the village, you shouldn't meet people at all. As a result, the Anshan area is obviously not the same thing, there are not only people in the mining area, but also many Japanese guards in the mining area, these days, the Japanese are frightened by all kinds of news, so the number of mining guards has increased a lot.

As a last resort, the assault team had to avoid these areas as much as possible and began to operate around the outside of the mining area.

"Wow! Woohoo Woo! The sled dog suddenly deviated from its target and barked towards a nearby spot. The scout team sighed and pulled a long pole from the sleigh and poked it there a few times. As expected, the end of the pole shook violently, and the sound of metal snapping came from under the snow. It was an animal trap.

If it is a normal action, it is natural to take the big road. Hunters don't set traps on the road. However, the commandos did not follow the usual course of action, which greatly increased the possibility of encountering various dangers. Despite the fact that the comrades of the logistics department had long thought about this problem, and the commandos had two or three pairs of boots, one of which had a lot of protective measures on them, two comrades were injured in the foot and now had to ride on a sled to act with the commandos.

Release the trap from the long pole head. The troops continued to advance, and not long after they had gone, suddenly a gunshot was heard. It was the sound of the earth-fire fire. The front-loading gun, loaded with iron sand and gunpowder, is a very old-fashioned weapon. Close hunting is good, and long-range combat can only be described as "cute".

The person who fired the shot was clearly not meant to hurt anyone, but the comrades of the commando team were still nervous. Everyone was ready for battle, and the dog trainers also forbade the sled dogs to bark.

The place where the guns were fired was a sparse wood, and the local dialect came from the other side, but there were a lot of Shandong accents in it, "What the hell are you doing?" ”

"What do you do?" The Shandong comrades in the commando team immediately responded.

The man behind the tree paused for a moment before continuing to shout, "Did you break a lot of my clips?" ”

The commandos breathed a sigh of relief, and it seemed that the man on the other side was a local hunter.

"We passed by here and accidentally broke my fellow's things, so let's give you a company. We didn't mean to, though. The commando shouted.

The hunter on the opposite side was silent for a while, and then shouted, "Are you the People's Party that killed the Japanese?" ”

These words immediately alerted the troops, although the People's Party was also famous, but it was called out by a hunter, which was not right.

"What do you do?" While the comrades were ready for battle, they continued to deal with the people opposite.

"Are you the People's Party, if you are the People's Party, I will come out!" The person on the other side continued to shout.

The reconnaissance captain became even more vigilant, and while ordering the two wings to send troops to outflank, and on the other hand, he told his comrades to be ready for battle at any time, and then he stood up and continued to shout: "We are the People's Party, come out, fellow countryman." ”

Hearing this, a man with a weapon came out from behind the tree, and the commando leader was about to speak, when he saw two more people coming out from behind the other trees. I didn't expect so many people on the opposite side, and several fighters almost opened fire.

Fortunately, things didn't come to this point, and the three hunters arrived at the commando. The leader is tall, and he is also a Shandong man in appearance. Maybe it wasn't long from Shandong to the Northeast, and there was still a lot of Shandong flavor in his words.

The hunter led by the leader first made a gesture to the commando team with a fire hammer on his back, and then said excitedly: "We have long heard that the People's Party is fighting the Japanese, but now we have seen it." ”

While he was talking, the screams of children suddenly came from the woods, and the outflanking comrades had already arrived in the woods, and now two and a half children were dragged out of the woods.

"Don't be rude!" The captain and the hunter shouted almost simultaneously.

Half an hour later, the people built a bonfire and began to talk. The two little children, who had recovered from their fright, leaned over their elders and looked curiously at the commandos of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army, and soon their attention was drawn to the husky dog sitting next to the breeder. These tall dogs sit there very calmly, and in addition to their huge size, their eye movements are not intimidating.

"Don't make a fuss." The hunter caught a glimpse of the children's thoughts and pulled them to their side, and the hunter continued to talk to the commando leader.

Hunter This is a family with the surname Zhu. Anshan natives. The leader said excitedly: "We have suffered all these years, and finally someone dares to fight the Japanese!" This boss, do you want someone to join the gang? ”

On August 27, 1904, the Second and Fourth Armies of the Japanese Army and the First Army, the Second Army and the Fourth Army of the Russian Army fought on the first line of Shangshiqiaozi, Xiashiqiaozi, Tanggangzi and the Sifangtai in present-day Haicheng in the present-day Qianshan District. On August 28, Japan started from Liu Erbao, Nansha River, Zhujia Furnace, Lime Kiln, Xiangshanzi, Sifangtai, Xiaolingzi, Liziyuan, Shizuizi to Yingshoubao in the west.

This 19-day war brought great disasters to the people of Anshan and Liaoyang. Wherever the Japanese and Russian invading armies passed, these bandits and beasts burned houses when they saw them, killed people when they saw them, robbed them when they saw things, robbed them when they saw money, and raped women when they saw them, and did all kinds of evil; the Japanese and Russian sides treated the captured prisoners with great hospitality and released them in time, but after the Chinese were arrested, they were severely tortured and killed. In the Battle of Liaoyang between Japan and Russia, hundreds of rich villages were destroyed, trees were cut down, and pigs, chickens, cattle, and sheep were all looted and killed.

More than 30,000 refugees from Anshan, Liaoyang, were homeless and fled to Fengtian City in fear.

The Zhu family was originally an immigrant from Shandong who came to Fengtian from outside the Guan, and also had some land. Being tossed in such a way can be regarded as a complete end. When the war ended, when he returned to his hometown, even his house was demolished. When the Zhu family was trying to restore the family business, the Japanese mining personnel came again, first abducting the Zhu family's people to go to the mine to open a mine. Being tossed in such a way can be regarded as a complete end. When the war ended, when he returned to his hometown, even his house was demolished. When the Zhu family was trying to restore the family business, the Japanese mining personnel came again, first abducting the Zhu family's people to go to the mine to open a mine.

The Zhu family was originally an immigrant from Shandong who came to Fengtian from outside the Guan, and also had some land. Being tossed in such a way can be regarded as a complete end. When the war ended, when he returned to his hometown, even his house was demolished. When the Zhu family was trying to restore the family business, the Japanese mining personnel came again, first abducting the Zhu family's people to go to the mine to open a mine.