Chapter 191: Luring the snake out of the hole
Xing Yuan of the tiger head has been busy for a day and a night, and at five o'clock in the morning, he finally completed all the arrangements, whether he can annihilate the Japanese army in Hulin is today.
Dong Ku's injuries are no longer serious, although he can't exercise vigorously, he can walk, his ears have also recovered his hearing, and the discomfort has completely disappeared. He got up early, and after checking the injuries of the guards and the five soldiers, he began to arrange for the student soldiers to assist the Jiamusi management personnel recommended by the dark hall to take over Jiamusi and do pacifying work.
At the same time, the soldiers were ordered to dismantle dozens of Makqin in Wang Wu's secret tunnel, transport them out of the tunnel, and transport them back to Harbin at dawn together with the bullets and the Japanese army supplies here.
At the same time, he ordered Mishan, Jixi, and Mudanjiang to recruit horses to climb the plough and assemble in Dahe Town, with no limit on the number and carrying grain for one month.
The tense scheduling arrangement here, Yamaguchi Junyi of Hulin has also gotten up, the barracks are shaking, and the soldiers are eating breakfast.
At six o'clock, the Russian attack came.
Toshiyoshi Yamaguchi hurriedly drank the sea vegetable soup and stood outside the door in the cold air and listened intently.
The 38-type 75 field artillery or the 94-type 75 mountain artillery was changed to the ......
Toshiyoshi Yamaguchi, who was quite familiar with artillery, listened quietly, judging the type of artillery from the sound of explosions, and inferred the distance and scale of the enemy's attack.
Type 38 105 field howitzer...... Type 38 150 howitzer......
"The enemy is within five kilometers......"
Yamaguchi Toshiyi muttered, and then ordered: "All warriors are waiting for orders in the barracks, and they are not allowed to move around at will!" β
He had just finished giving the order when several explosions sounded one after the other made his heart skip a beat.
Although he couldn't judge the distance of these explosions in the distance, he couldn't be wrong about the explosions near the fortress, it was a cannon, and it was a cannon of 105, 120, 150, and 240 calibers. He wouldn't have heard it wrong.
The enemy has field artillery of this caliber to storm the fortress? How did they get there in the snow? Or has it already arrived?
Just as he was guessing, the sound of a heavy machine gun suddenly sounded, and it was not difficult to judge that the faint dense sound was the sound of more than ten shots from Makqin, followed by the sound of gunfire like bursting beans.
"It's coming!"
Yamaguchi stood up handsomely, putting on a fox fur neck cover. Put on an overcoat. He wants to personally go into battle to supervise the battle, he will not stay in the rear and fight with Soviet Russia, this is what he has been looking forward to for a long time, how can he stay at home and control it remotely?
Just as he was standing up, the phone rang.
"Yamaguchi-kun."
Kumataro Ikeda on the other side said in a hoarse voice: "The scale of the attack of the Soviet Russian army exceeds that of the division, with large-caliber howitzers and cannons, and our defense line is covered by the enemy's fire within ten kilometers......"
Toshiyoshi Yamaguchi listened to the hoarse voice that was about to break at any moment, and knew that this was Ikeda's condition that was getting worse. I couldn't help but interrupt anxiously: "Ikeda-kun, do you need reinforcements from now?" β
"No, no!"
The other end of the phone said affirmatively: "Yamaguchi-kun, the other party doesn't know the number and range of artillery I have, I don't know my artillery position, I'm waiting, waiting for the opponent's artillery position to be exposed, waiting for the coordinates of the reconnaissance team in front to report, waiting for the opponent's troops to enter my coverage range." We're going to have a beautiful battle of annihilation! β
"Good!"
Hear the hoarse, but confident words of the countryman. Toshiyoshi Yamaguchi seemed to see a picture of victory.
In the Tiger Head Fortress, all kinds of artillery from 75 guns to 305 caliber are quite complete, and the secret artillery positions are all in the mountains, forming a network of fortress batteries that block the line of sight and block the enemy's attack, and the firing distance is from two or three thousand meters of mortars to more than ten kilometers. Ranging from twenty kilometers, it can be said that once the battery is powerful, it will be a nightmare for the enemy.
As for the ground forces attacking the fortress, under machine-gun fire from the Bright Fort. He had reason to believe that even the first-class troops of the World Realm would not be able to attack it.
At Tiger Head Fortress, groups of miners and veterans were lying on their stomachs in the icy snow, shooting into the woods ahead.
"Aim for the tree! Your muzzle is up to the sky! Look at the crosshairs! β
The company commander, a veteran of the Northeast Army, stood next to a miner and cursed.
"Battalion Commander Li pays attention to attitude!"
A young warrior stepped forward and shouted.
"Oh......"
Battalion Commander Li, who was full of beard, looked back at the gunfire and saw that it was an instructor sent from above, so he replied: "Get used to ......."
The student soldier didn't say anything more, and crouched down to instruct the miner who had never touched a gun on the essentials of shooting.
Maxim, Type 92, crooked handles, and Czech machine guns continued to sound in another position. These are the original machine gunners of the Northeast Army, and they are carrying and touching guns. or new and old fighters who have never touched a gun practice reloading and shooting. The target is also the forest in front, and the task is to break the trees that are more than a meter thick.
"What a luxury! Lao Tzu has been a machine gunner for six years, and it is the first time that he has practiced guns so casually......"
"It's just that we don't even need more bullets for a month, and we don't use more than dozens of machine guns......"
Several veterans chatted as they pulled the trigger, tried to hold down the muzzle of their guns, and kept shooting at a large tree.
Hulin, Yamaguchi Toshiyi couldn't hear the sound of artillery, it seemed that the enemy just bombarded the fire point exposed by the fortress last night, maybe he was afraid that he would find their artillery position here, and chose to attack, or he continued to try to find the fire point, anyway, the sound of artillery was gone, but the sound of machine guns and rifles has been interrupted.
In the barracks, all the Japanese soldiers were sitting on their knees, their guns standing at their sides. They all knew that after a few months of comfort, the battle finally came, and it was a big battle with the old enemy Soviet Russia. Everyone did not speak in the excitement and apprehension before the big war, and in the tense atmosphere, the camp was quiet.
Just then, the phone rang.
"Yamaguchi-kun, I have locked on the opponent's four artillery groups, the distance is all within ten kilometers, and the opponent's army is also pressing up when there is no artillery on my side, and they are all within two kilometers of the position, completely under the cover of my artillery."
"Great!"
Toshiyoshi Yamaguchi stood up again excitedly, and he knew that since the cautious and well-thought-out Ikeda had called, he was ready to eat the other party.
"Come on, Ikeda-kun, what's your plan next?"
"Quack ......"
Ikeda smiled strangely in his voice, "Yamaguchi-kun, your troops are outflanked from the right flank. My side outflanks the left flank, and after the enemy launches a full-scale offensive, and I destroy their artillery positions, I will cover the position with artillery for the first five kilometers, saturated and covered, and then we will have an encirclement! β
"Yo Xi!"
Yamaguchi's eyes lit up. He knew how dense the artillery coverage was in the fortress. The barrels sticking out of the mouth of those caves could turn over all the pre-set firing elements within ten kilometers of the opposite side like a cultivated field. Not to mention that the other side does not have tanks, and even if there is, in front of large-caliber artillery, it is papier-mΓ’chΓ©.
"Yamaguchi-kun, your troops can set off, bring two days of marching food, we may be able to directly take the defensive position on the opposite side!"
"Good!"
As soon as Ikeda's words fell, Toshiyoshi Yamaguchi shouted excitedly.
"Yamaguchi-kun, your troops are gathering for Area Five. Complete the assembly before 11 o'clock, complete the encirclement of the enemy at one o'clock, and launch a general attack at two o'clock! Kumataro Ikeda on the phone said firmly.
"Good! The No. 5 area is assembled, and our department must be in place before nine o'clock! β
Across the river bank in Area No. 5 is the only town in Soviet Russia, 'Dalishrechensk', and a coordinate point not far from the main defense of the Tiger Head Fortress, and it seems that Ikeda is preparing to piggyback on the town there and eat it, even if he does not occupy it. Destroy, and the tiger head will also be free of war for the next few months!
With Yamaguchi ordered. The Yamaguchi Mixed Division, which was only a dozen kilometers away from Area No. 5, was launched.
The Japanese troops were all lightly armed, except for grenadiers, each squadron carried only one mortar and two light machine guns, in order to speed the march, after all, the snow march was different from usual. Marching in snow, with such heavy snowfall, even if you choose to march on a hillside with snow of about half a meter, at best, it will be three or four kilometers an hour, so. The distance of ten kilometers is not easy to cover in five hours.
As the Japanese troops left the barracks, there were only a few hundred people left in the huge barracks next to Hulin, and a wing originally stationed in Hulin was still alive, and the rest were not far from the camp of the Yamaguchi Division to recuperate and recover the frostbitten Jiamusi reinforcements.
Although the army was transferred, the guards of Hulin still could not be underestimated, and an infantry wing should have more than 2,000 people, which was reduced after the restoration of the system.
The divisions of the mountain pass waded out six snow roads on the snowfield, and marched straight to the mountains and forests on the snow shells that were already able to support people to walk, where the march was difficult and the snow was soft.
At the moment when all the Japanese troops left the camp, a small antenna was erected in the snow, and with it, the radio waves flew into the sky.
"Good! Dog's Day is finally out! β
Xing Yuan lined up the message on the table, his eyes lit up with excitement.
He is an executor, and he is already familiar with this interlocking plan, and at the same time, he has an irreversible worship of Dong Ku, which is more firm than the worship of Dong Ku by the members of Huya at that time. For no other reason, he is a soldier, and he can deeply understand how difficult it is to seize an impregnable fortress and destroy a division head-on, especially a fortress and division that are armed to the teeth. Dong Ku did it, he didn't spend a single shot on the fortress, he came with more than 20,000 unarmed guys, and directly received the change, he no longer cared about how to capture the fortress, what he had to do was to complete the strangulation task given by Dong Ku.
"The 1st and 2nd Brigades can set off, move quickly, be hidden, do not shoot, and do not have bullets in the guns until they arrive at the place without an order!"
"Yes!"
The two newly promoted veterans of the Northeast Army who survived the battle in the Qitaihe mining area shouted their orders and turned to leave.
One group, you can also go
Inside the fortress, the gunfire continued, mixed with the explosion of grenadiers and grenades.
Naturally, this is the same way as when he was in the mining area, and the recruit Danzi is practicing shooting, bomb throwing, and the use of grenadiers, in order to continue to attract Yamaguchi's attention and avoid him becoming suspicious.
However, the shooting of these thousands of people made the Yamaguchi division, which was getting closer and closer to the target in the distance, listen to it, and it turned into a fierce battle picture, and they all knew that the will to fight there did not stop, so the speed of movement was extremely fast.
Soon after the Yamaguchi Division left the camp, Ueda Kenkichi, who was far away in Xinjing, also received several telegrams, one was a telegram that Jiamusi had lost Yamada and was afraid that the jade would be shattered, and the other was a report sent by the Russian army from the Tiger Head Fortress that the fortress and the Yamaguchi Mixed Division were encircling and suppressing the enemy.
'Kenkichi Ueda' desperately needs a victory, no matter who the enemy is. The loss of Jiamusi was already expected, and he didn't care, but the battle of Hutou was definitely won, not to mention whether his position could be kept, even in China, real news of victory was needed to calm the hungry and cold people who were tossed by the operation of the war machine.
After receiving the telegram, he hesitated and sent a telegram to Kumataro Ikeda, telling him to win the battle, sending a telegram to Toshiyoshi Yamaguchi asking him to fully cooperate with Ikeda in this battle, and sending a telegram to the defenders of Torabayashi to prepare logistics and food and make all preparations for treating the wounded after the end of the war.
As the telegram was sent, the tigers immediately flew and the dogs jumped, and the Japanese troops squatting in the barracks were dispatched one after another, and each family forcibly requisitioned meat, what materials for the New Year, and what wintering reserves, were all food for their army.
The people of Hulin were already in dire straits, and it was even more difficult to survive after the continuous arrival of the army, but all they could do was to be patient, let the Japanese army search for the only food at home, protect the children and the elderly, and stand silently in the courtyard, looking like the bandits, and even the Japanese army turned over the cabinets. They all reassured themselves in their hearts that as long as they lived, everything would be fine.
There is only one place in Hulin at this time, which is relatively quiet, and that is the Northeast Old Restaurant.
It is still quiet and peaceful as before, and in the expanded restaurant, the area belonging to the Chinese dining area has expanded again, and although it is morning, there is already a steady stream of diners walking in, or eating breakfast, or occupying the elegant room to drink tea and wait for lunch. The turmoil outside did not affect these businessmen or young people dressed as hunters in the slightest.
This also shows how harmonious the relationship between the shopkeeper and the Japanese here is, so noisy, this place is a paradise, not disturbed by the outside world at all.
Pressing down on the noise in the tiger forest, Toshiyoshi Yamaguchi led the army all the way to the goal.
In the mountains and forests, it is not just his team, there are four other regiments of troops moving towards the No. 5 area, depending on the speed, in another hour, you can reach the No. 5 area.
There was also a team carrying more than 300 light machine guns, passing through the mountains and forests, and advancing towards the tiger forest in the thick snow.
At this time, Dong Ku is not in charge of those miscellaneous things, management, is not his strong point, there are people recommended by the dark hall to take over the management of the city, he is more happy, he is cleaning up the wounds on his body at this time, the medicine that has lost its effect, while guarding the radio station, waiting for the results of Xing Yuan's battle.
At the same time, Du Fei, who had secretly rushed to Nanjing a few days ago, was also waiting, waiting for Dong Ku's telegram. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )