Chapter 257: The Battle Ends

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Listening to Ma Chunsheng's answer, Yang Zhen did not answer him immediately, but stood up and walked outside the door to look at the stars in the night sky that had completely darkened, and after pondering for a long time, he turned back and said: "Order the second and third brigades to stop attacking and switch to defense on the spot. Seize the time to rest and recuperate, and at the same time arrange for alert troops. 【. Tell them that without an order from the headquarters, their future combat operations will be mainly tentative by small units. ”

"Order the main force of the 1st Brigade to strengthen one battalion of the headquarters field artillery regiment, one company of 100-mm light howitzers, and one company of 150-mm mortars, all of which will enter the territory of Yilan and Boli to stand by. All forces were under the unified command of Wang Guangyu, looking for fighters in Yilan and Boli. ”

"Sue him to pay attention to the scale of the battle, control the rhythm of the battle, and don't fight big. The first is to find out the combat effectiveness of the 14th Division of the Japanese Army as much as possible. Second, if you can't beat the little devil, let him solve the two brigades of the puppet Manchurian army. Even if our spearhead loses its sharpness now, it will become a file. Little by little, the strength of the front-line Japanese puppet army was weakened. Bleed the Japanese puppet army, even if you can't beat the little devils, you have to beat those dogs and cut off the arms of the little devils. ”

In addition, Gao Yumin and Zhang Zhenhua were ordered to find out the physical condition of the rescued laborers as much as possible, and select those under the age of 28 and over the age of 17 to form a new supplementary group. All the rest were sent to Luobei for resettlement, and a new production and construction headquarters was formed with the original reclamation troops. ”

"Hurry up and complete the screening, education, and physical examination of the 20,000 puppet Manchurian recruits who have been captured. Within half a month, I will meet at least 10 new regiments of the main regiment. ”

Hearing Yang Zhen's order, Ma Chunsheng, who knew that Yang Zhen was extremely sober at this time, and was not carried away by the victory in front of him, breathed a sigh of relief.

Before, he was really worried that the young commander would be carried away by the previous results, and he was excited to attack the whole army. That would be for the troops that are now exhausted, most of the troops are already in disarray, have suffered heavy casualties, and have been replenished several times, but most of them are still incomplete. In the face of the Japanese army, which was almost waiting for work on the Western Front, except for the 14th Division on the Western Front, it was definitely not a good strategy.

Yang Zhen stopped his footsteps to the south and took in the heart to reorganize the troops. For the Japanese army, this time it was not only the casualty figures that were unforgettable, but also the loss of Jiamusi, the most important strategic support point in the entire Northeast Manchurian region. They are now, and they may have disdained before, and in their eyes they could only fight ambushes and dare not fight face-to-face with the imperial army, but now they have become a monster that can threaten their rule in Manchuria at any time.

Well-trained, well-equipped, and stubborn in battle, although the technical and tactical level is still slightly jerky, it has reached the highest level of all the opponents he has encountered. Even compared with the most elite German mechanics of the Nanjing government back then, there was a certain gap.

This qiē, of course, was the loss of soldiers on the battlefield, so that the Japanese army had regarded Yang Zhen's troops as an enemy more difficult to deal with than the Soviet army. To be honest, the Japanese army was not too convinced by the Soviet troops who had fought with them twice at Zhang Gufeng and Normenhan.

In the eyes of some people in the Kwantung Army, especially some young fanatical officers, in addition to relying on tanks, heavy artillery, and airplanes to fight to the death, the Soviet Army's technical and tactical level, especially individual soldiers, was very poor. Without the support of powerful firepower, these white people with big shoulders and round bodies are not necessarily their opponents.

These Japanese may have forgotten that if they lose their absolute superiority in fire support, they may not be able to go on an arrogant rampage in the situation that they usually fight more with less on the battlefield in Kannai? The Battle of Songhu, from the beginning to the end, only heavy artillery shells fought hundreds of thousands. It was not precisely by relying on the absolute superiority of firepower and even poison gas compared with the squadron with weak firepower and a shortage of weapons such as anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, that they were able to rampage on the battlefield in Guannai. For this evaluation of the Soviet army, which has no advantages other than relying on superior firepower, it can be described as a typical crow falling on a pig, and seeing others black and not seeing their own black.

How many actual battles have proved that if the Japanese army can use its firepower superiority to destroy the opponent, it will never be so idiotic as to fight bayonets. Able to destroy their opponents with shells, bullets, and even poison gas, they will never use hand-to-hand combat.

The Japanese army is indeed extremely tenacious in combat, which is worth learning from the best people. But there is no reason to think that a tenacious spirit can replace a qiē. Otherwise, what are they doing with so many planes, heavy artillery, tanks? Wouldn't it be more refreshing to have a katana on a person when he goes to battle?

I don't know what happened to the Kwantung Army's brain mixed with water. When faced with an opponent with strong firepower, the Kwantung Army, which had completely forgotten how it relied on its firepower advantage to bully other weak opponents, stubbornly believed that the opponent only relied on strong firepower to bully its own weak group. Without the superiority in firepower, he still has an advantage by virtue of his superior individual combat ability and excellent officer Su zhì.

After Zhang Gufeng, the Japanese army believed that one Japanese division could defeat three Soviet divisions. After Normenhan was beaten with a mechanized and ground-to-air firepower, they still thought so. It's just that a premise has been added to the front, that is, under the equal firepower of both sides.

It was the Kwantung Army, which believed that the Soviet army was useless except for its fierce firepower and high mechanization, but it thought that Yang Zhen's unit was too far behind the Soviet army in terms of fire support, and that it did not have tanks and aircraft, but it was superior to the Soviet army in other combat skills.

The officers of the 11th Division, who had participated in the Qunce Mountain operation and were lucky to withdraw from the front line, should actually be said to have fled back, once said that the opponent was not at all a rabble that the Kwantung Army Command had always considered to be guerrillas. Rather, it is a well-trained and well-equipped regular army.

Its infantry and artillery cooperative combat capabilities, individual combat capabilities, battlefield adaptability, and tactical application capabilities are far superior to those of the Soviet army, which fought hard to the death. The participating units of the 11th Division encountered barrage fire from the opponent's artillery more than once during the battle. Its mortar firepower is not only high, but also extremely accurate, and it looks like a highly trained unit.

It's just that these warnings were taken as wind in the wake of the so-called autumn invasion, and it wasn't until after the first phase of the operation that I realized that my calculations were wrong. It's just that the Kwantung Army realized its mistake, but it treated others with its own will, wishful thinking that its own casualties were heavy, and the opponent's casualties could only be heavier than its own, not less than its own. Even if recruits are urgently mobilized to participate in the war, everyone knows how much the real combat effectiveness of which untrained recruits really have.

Although the Kwantung Army, which had been beaten in the second phase of the campaign, had already put away its contempt. But it wasn't until the battle was over that the mistake was truly and thoroughly recognized. This is also the reason why Umezu Mijiro turned the offensive to the defensive after the loss of Jiamusi.

Three lieutenant generals were killed, two divisions lost eighty percent of their strength, and although one division ran out in the end, its strength had dropped dramatically to one-third of its full strength.

This loss was like a heavy blow to the face to Umezu Mijiro, to the Kwantung Army and even the Japanese army, which had always looked down on any Chinese army. Not only did it hurt badly, but the most important thing was that everyone was embarrassed and thrown to their hometown. After this battle, the Kwantung Army paid great attention to the troops under their noses. It's about developing a great mindset.

After this battle, the Kwantung Army was basically immune to the losses of one wing of the Japanese army and less than one brigade of the puppet Manchu army in the face of this army. The officers below the rank of Ozuo were killed, and it can even be said that they have been undisturbed. This mentality is described in the self-deprecating words of Umezu Mijiro: "I can be said to be the one with the strongest endurance among all the Japanese generals." ”

Umezu Mijiro's private statement has already made up his mind to stop the offensive, and he is seizing the time to adjust the defense areas of various departments, and a considerable part of his attention is attracted by the 25th Division of the Japanese Army on the Western Front, Yang Zhen naturally does not know.

When the gunfire on the first line of the Lianjiang Estuary fell, the 25th Division on the front line of the Haoliang River on the Western Front almost became the only Japanese army unit north of the Songhua River that was still in formation.

In the first stage of this campaign, instead of playing the role of assisting the Japanese army in the middle of the battle, the 70th Wing was lost, and the 25th Division, which was severely reprimanded by the Kwantung Army Headquarters, changed its previous style of abrasiveness and concentrated its forces to attack the north and west several times. In the midst of the attack, the 25th Division could be said to have made no effort to die, and it could not fail to say that it had spent a lot of money.

However, under the command of Commander Zhao Shangzhi and Political Committee Member Yi Jianping, who were good at mountain warfare, the backbone regiment of the three divisions and the subordinate units that had already completed the expansion before the war, were under the condition that the field forces of the enemy and us were roughly equal. The tactics of combining cold guns and cold artillery with mines, and combining frontal blocking warfare with mountain movement warfare, not only successfully stopped several offensives of the 25th Division, but also inflicted great casualties on the remaining 14th Wing of the 25th Division.

Puzzled by the opponent's strange tactics, the 25th Division, which had not received any training in counter-guerrilla warfare and mountain and jungle warfare, was at a loss when they looked at the Manchurians who were full of cunning and the dense jungles of the northern Manchurian mountains, which were covered with terrible mines. They paid a heavy price for casualties, but the end of the battle did not play the role that the Kwantung Army Command had hoped they would have played.

After learning that a large number of enemy troops had appeared in Yilan, his original station, Shiro Kuwabara, who was obviously unwilling to repeat the mistakes of Yasui Fujiji and Hiroshi Nemoto, blew up all the materials that could not be carried, and did not dare to go the way he came, but crossed the Kohingan Mountains to the west. Running all the way, he stopped his footsteps when he knew that he had withdrawn to Suileng County.

Although Kuwabara Shiro chose a retreat route that almost surprised everyone, the commander of the third division was almost caught off guard. However, after the pincer pursuit, the basic regiment of the 3rd Division, which had been painstakingly trained in mountain marching operations before, was still under the command of Zhao Shangzhi, biting the first part of the baggage wing of the 25th Division Regiment that had been broken and the artillery that had fallen behind due to its bulkiness.

After a fierce battle in the middle of the night, the backbone regiment of the 3rd Division, with the cooperation of the reinforced troops, surrounded and annihilated the Japanese troops who were surrounded by themselves. They also captured three 75-mm mountain guns, six Type 92 heavy machine guns, and a large number of baggage intercepted together with the baggage wing of the 25th Division.

Although it failed to catch up with the main force of the 25th Division, the troops of the Western Front captured most of its baggage or blew it up on its own. Except for the small amount of food and ammunition carried by the soldiers themselves, the 25th Division lost almost all its baggage.

The remnants of the 25th Division, which had not survived in the wild, really tried to burn their chests and cold in the wind during the Third Route Army's westward expedition last year. When they crossed the Xiaoxing'an Mountains and withdrew to Suileng, they were even frozen and hungry, and they lost the strength of two squadrons.

You must know that at the end of October, in the late autumn season, the climate of the alpine mountains of Xiaoxinganling is really not warm. Some of the terrain is higher and some places have already begun to snow. At this time, because they had not had time to change their clothes, the Japanese soldiers who were still wearing autumn combat uniforms naturally deeply felt what it meant to be called ice and fire.

With the fall of gunfire on the front line of the Haoliang River on 21 October, it indicated the end of the anti-Japanese encirclement and suppression campaign that had lasted nearly two months since the official start on 1 September. Although the Jidong Military Region won a brilliant victory in this campaign. But it also paid a heavy price, with nearly 30,000 casualties among the three field brigades, the backbone regiments of the first and three military subdivisions, and the local armed forces. Among them, more than 11,000 people were killed or missing.

According to this figure, if it is averaged, it can almost be said that almost all of the three field brigades before the war have changed their crops. The casualties were the heaviest, and Wang Guangyu's 1st Brigade, which had been fighting with the main force of the 24th Division for several days on the first line of General Shi's first line, replenished 70 percent of its troops after the second phase of the operation began.

The 2nd Brigade, which took over the 1st Brigade to block the 2nd Division in the second stage, was no better than Wang Guangyu's 1st Brigade. At the beginning of the second phase of the campaign, it has been replenished, and it can be said that it is a fully equipped infantry brigade. At the time of the counterattack on the whole front, the strength of a full regiment was replenished, and the combat effectiveness was partially restored. Even the three brigades, which suffered the lightest casualties, had replenished forty percent of the troops by the end of the campaign.

In the face of the 3rd Division of a field detachment of the Japanese army with a basic regiment, the casualties reached 70 percent. Since it was not the main direction of the operation, although the basic regiment of the 3rd Division had also replenished some of its troops, by the end of the battle, the troops that had been replenished according to a fully equipped infantry regiment had already suffered more than half of the casualties, and only one battalion remained.

During the counterattack operation under Guo Bingxun's command, the basic regiment of the 3rd Division, which had lost its combat capability due to heavy casualties, could only do some escort and baggage duties, and at most served as flank cover.

Holding the casualty figures reported after the statistics in his hand, Yang Zhen's distressed hands trembled. These are all the backbone cadres who have been painstakingly cultivated by Qunce Mountain and Xingshan Fortress. Especially the veterans who survived the bloody battle of Qunce Mountain, Jiamusi and Guanmenzuizi Mountain trained by Qunce Mountain, nearly half of them were wiped out at once, how could he not feel distressed.

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