Just to ensure that the Shun Lì of the Western Manchurian Battlefield achieves his strategic goals, Yang Zhen now needs the Xinjing direction too much to disperse the new forces that the Kwantung Army may reinforce. If an important strategic point is not chosen, the Japanese army will not disperse the forces invested in the direction of West Manchuria.

If the Xinjing side does not make a good show, it will not be able to attract part of the reserves of the Kwantung Army, which will not be a good thing for the entire Ximan battlefield. The Kwantung Army still has a large number of reserves south of Xinjing, but at present, most of the living forces of the Anti-Japanese Federation have been put into the front-line battlefield.

Now in Yang Zhen's hands, except for some guards and local troops that cannot be mobilized, there are almost no reserves. If the Japanese army continues to invest troops in Ximanchu regardless of casualties, then the first to be unable to withstand the use of troops to the extreme is the Anti-Japanese Alliance, not the Kwantung Army, which is still quite sufficient in reserves.

Indeed, on the battlefield in West Manchuria, which occupies 70 percent of the current armored strength of the Anti-Japanese Union, 60 percent of the ground support capability of the air force, and 60 percent of the large-caliber artillery and rocket artillery, the Anti-Japanese Union has an absolute superiority in equipment. In particular, the number of tanks and cavalry far exceeded that of the Kwantung Army. The number of trucks deployed in the West Manchurian region alone almost exceeded the number of trucks of the Kwantung Army.

However, against an army like the Japanese army, which was mostly formed by outlaws who had been trained in the spirit of strict bushido and had received strict vocational training, the advantage in equipment could only be relative. That is to say, at least in terms of the quantity of the current equipment, I am afraid that it will not play a decisive role for the time being. The Anti-Japanese Union is not as rich as the Soviet army, and it is not a matter of losing nearly 1,000 tanks.

At present, if the Soviet side delays opening the transit channel for a long time, the reserves of aviation fuel and diesel and gasoline for vehicles in the anti-Japanese alliance have bottomed out, and the consumption of aerial bombs and rockets is also close to bottoming out. In the case of planes and tanks without gasoline and weapons, they are actually a pile of scrap metal, and the advantage in equipment can turn into a disadvantage at any time.

In terms of troops, it must be at least relatively equal, even if it is slightly at a disadvantage, but this disadvantage must not be too much. Otherwise, once the Japanese army has an absolute superiority in troops, it will be difficult to defeat the opponent by relying on the superiority in equipment alone. Yang Jicai's battle case is just a special accident, and it is definitely not a real level comparison between the enemy and our armies.

In fact, in the course of operations, Yang Zhen has always deployed with two main divisions with a large number of composite forces to deal with the strength of a three-wing division of the Japanese army. Of course, there are a few examples of fighting a division against a division of the Japanese army, but that is mostly a diversion action.

Indeed, except for the fact that the number of the main regiment of the Anti-Japanese Union is slightly less than that of a wing of the Japanese army, it is not inferior to a regular field infantry wing of the Japanese army in terms of combat effectiveness and equipment. But taking a division of the Anti-Japanese Federation to encircle and annihilate a division of the Kwantung Army, Yang Zhen was not arrogant enough to do that. It is not uncommon to have a crushing battle, but a war of annihilation is almost impossible.

Therefore, after receiving Wang Guangyu's report, Yang Zhen believed that Yang Jicai's battle example today could only be a special result under special circumstances. The defeat of two field wings of the Japanese army with a reinforced regiment, even with the cooperation of a large number of heavy artillery, was undoubtedly a special case.

In fact, when receiving Wang Guangyu's report, Yang Zhen thought that this battle seemed to be Yang Jicai's thoughtfulness, as well as his strong ability to adapt to battlefield situations, and at the same time he had considerable tactical vision. But there is no doubt that Qiu Jintang's role in this battle is the foundation of success.

There was no acquiescence or even secret support from Qiu Jintang for his adventure. How could he, the chief of staff of a small condensed division-level unit, mobilize all the heavy artillery units in the territory of the Alukorqin Banner to participate in the battle? Without Qiu Jintang sending the most effective combat staff officers around him to cooperate, how could he straighten out the command relationship in such a short period of time?

If Qiu Jintang hadn't acquiesced to his plan after discovering that he had been overshadowed, then even with the help of his fellow countryman and classmate, he would not have been able to command all the artillery units. In fact, at that time, Qiu Jintang wanted to take back the command, and it was just a matter of one sentence.

Most of the heavy artillery units transferred to the battlefield of the Alukorqin Banner were units directly under the artillery of the headquarters. Qiu Jintang, the deputy chief of staff of the artillery, wants to take back power, it is just a matter of phone call. And it was Qiu Jintang's acquiescence to his actions, as well as his strong support in secret, that created this miracle.

But it absolutely cannot be said that a regiment of the Anti-Japanese Federation already has the strength to compete with the two wings of the Japanese army. The infantry tactics of the Japanese army, as well as the combat qualities of the infantry, were first-class even in the world. You can underestimate the artillery of the Japanese army, the armored troops of the Japanese army, but you must not underestimate the infantry of the Japanese army.

Therefore, under the current situation that the reserves of the Kwantung Army are still relatively sufficient, and they can put a large number of troops into Ximan again at any time, Yang Zhen must find a way to distract his attention from Ximan. And there is no more suitable place for this point than Shinkyo, the symbol of the Kwantung Army's rule in the Northeast.

After adjusting the deployment in the Xinjing direction before, the pincer offensive of Ma Chunsheng in the Xinjing direction and Wang Xiaoming in the Jilin direction did not attract too many effective forces of the Kwantung Army to invest troops in the Xinjing battlefield. It can even be said that not even a single division of troops was attracted.

At present, in the entire Xinjing defensive circle, in addition to the previous Ninth Division, the reinforcements of the Kwantung Army that have entered Xinjing one after another are less than one independent mixed brigade. The Japanese army not only abandoned the periphery of Xinjing, but also gave up the direction of Jilin, and withdrew almost all the troops on the periphery. Such a result undoubtedly made Yang Zhen very worried.

And what worries Yang Zhen the most is that it is the table of the Kwantung Army when it retreats from Jilin. When the Kwantung Army retreated, it gave up Jilin almost completely. Even the 60 percent of the dam that has been completed in the Fengman Reservoir has not been blown up, only the spillway dam. Even the eight large hydropower generating units that had been transported to Jilin Station were completely abandoned.

They used the time gained by releasing water from the Fengman Reservoir to create an artificial flood zone. The young and middle-aged young and middle-aged workers who were re-replenished after Yang Zhen occupied the Fengman Hydropower Station construction site and took away most of the laborers were evacuated, and all the loads and trains of the Fenghai Railway and Jihai Railway were transported to South Manchuria.

In the case of tight time, it is too late to transfer all of them. The remainder, in a hurry, could not be withdrawn. Or tens of thousands of laborers, who were old and infirm and had no use value, were all shot dead in two ravines next to the Fengman Hydropower Station. These tens of thousands of laborers, except for a few dozen who pretended to be dead and escaped under others, were all slaughtered by the Japanese army.

In order to prevent the Anti-Japanese Union from relying on laborers to obtain supplementary soldiers, the Kwantung Army slaughtered all the tens of thousands of laborers that could not be taken with it before retreating. It did make Yang Zhen grit his teeth with hatred, but the appearance of the Kwantung Army when it retreated from Jilin undoubtedly made Yang Zhen very worried.

Jilin is an important hub station of the Xintu Railway, connecting Hailong and Mukden in the south, connecting Tumen in the west and reaching Xinjing directly to the east. Such an important hub was given up so lightly. And it is definitely no accident that even the Fengman Reservoir, whose main body has been completed, and the eight most advanced generating units in the world, have been abandoned.

Judging from the strength of the Japanese army in Jilin before retreating, with the help of the artificially created flood area, even if it could not hold Jilin. But it's still possible to stick to it for a week, or even longer. Judging from the situation reported by Wang Xiaoming's department, his retreat was quite orderly.

As for those generator sets, they were not carried away because the Japanese army had to concentrate wagons to transfer equipment, personnel, and materials under the situation of anti-coalition air raids. As for those hydroelectric generating units, which weighed an average of several tons each, they were abandoned because they were too heavy.

The transfer of these generator sets to the Japanese army was troublesome, and the transfer of the Anti-United Nations was not easy. Under the circumstance that both sides are making every effort to ensure the means of transportation necessary for the operation, even if these hydroelectric generating units are temporarily abandoned, as long as the shape is reversed, it will still be the Kwantung Army's.

However, Wang Xiaoming's department was detouring the area due to the man-made floods created by the Japanese army, and it was far from forming an encirclement. Although Jiutai had fallen into the anti-Japanese alliance, Shuangyang in the southwest of Jilin was still firmly in control of the Kwantung Army, so it suddenly abandoned Jilin, a military town.

Yang Zhen believes that the Kwantung Army has abandoned such an important strategic point and constantly shrunk its troops, which can only be said that their purpose is not simple. It is a planned and well-thought-out contraction of forces. But it is definitely not for the purpose of building a new line of defense in the southeast and southeast direction of Xinjing, Shuangyang and Yitong.

Because the Japanese troops who retreated from Jilin directly withdrew into the new capital. And not for the sake of the new line of defense, retreat to Shuangyang. What the strategic intention of the Kwantung Army was next, Yang Zhen could not judge in a short period of time. Therefore, he needs to increase pressure on the Xinjing direction to find out the true intentions of the Kwantung Army.

If the offensive in the direction of Xinjing is not strengthened, only the current semi-high-pressure situation will be maintained. Not only was it unable to attract the Kwantung Army reserves, but it even made the Kwantung Army defenders in Xinjing, who were able to cooperate with the Japanese army constantly cooperating with counterattacks, harass the direction of Changling.

The only way to change the current situation in the direction of Xinjing is to intensify the attack on Xinjing. The Japanese army in Xinjing could only really shrink all its forces into Xinjing, and could not draw troops to cooperate with operations in other directions. At least ensure the safety of Ma Chunsheng's roundabouts and interspersed flanks.

And only by beating the Kwantung Army in the direction of Xinjing can we better understand what is the real intention behind the Kwantung Army's abandonment of Jilin? Because if the Kwantung Army abandoned Jilin in order to concentrate its forces to strengthen the defense of Xinjing, Yang Zhen did not believe it at all.

Not only is its strategic location important, but it is only more than 120 kilometers away from Xinjing, and there was Jilin connected by railway before. When fighting against Xinjing in the defense of the north, they were each other's horns. Giving up Jilin is equivalent to giving up a strategic barrier in Xinjingdong.

The staff officers of the Kwantung Army would not be so stupid and leave a few divisions south of Shinkyo unused and abandon a strategic location. The defenders there were sent to reinforce the Xinjing defenders, who were not small enough to defend a city. At this time, the Kwantung Army gave up Jilin and definitely had another plan.

Only in Xinjing, a direction that the Kwantung Army would not give up easily, hurt the Japanese army, can the Kwantung Army take the initiative to expose their intentions. Therefore, strengthening the offensive against Xinjing is extremely important to Yang Zhen, both in terms of tactical and strategic intentions.

However, for this kind of battle, how to fight, the ability of front-line commanders to comprehend is also quite important. The pressure was not enough to attract more Japanese reinforcements. If you go too deep, then it is easy to put yourself in a passive situation in the next battle. If you don't even get it right, you may be made dumplings by the Japanese army.