Chapter 332: Yang Zhen's Trick
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The Japanese army, which was too large and empty, did not know that when the 6th Division of the Fifth Division continued to be deployed, Yang Zhen's artillery units, which had been concentrated on the front line of Qunce Mountain in the western region of Tangyuan, were collecting equipment in a concentrated manner, and within two days, these artillerymen who were still unarmed before had been fully armed. 【. netbsp; Yang Zhen's planning, which was profoundly influenced by the PLA's artillery doctrine in later generations, established an artillery regiment directly under the headquarters of the military region alone to establish two artillery regiments under its jurisdiction each equipped with 24 155-type M1917 heavy howitzers obtained from Jiangbei, a Japanese-style artillery regiment equipped with 12 Japanese-style Taisho 14-year 150 howitzers and 12 96-type 150 howitzers, and a battalion directly under the command equipped with two **-type 150 cannons and six 92-type 105 cannons.
In addition, Yang Zhen also used the 68 Polish imitation 105 field guns transferred from Jiangbei and the captured Japanese heavy mountain artillery to form two field artillery regiments and a heavy mountain artillery regiment.
Not counting the artillery directly under the headquarters, Yang Zhen also organized a 107 rocket artillery regiment for each column, and strengthened the two 105 field artillery regiments to two columns, as well as a 100-millimeter howitzer regiment with 24 guns each, and organized them into artillery directly under the column, so that the artillery of more than 100 millimeters directly under each column reached 48 pieces, not counting the 36 107 rocket launchers.
On the other hand, each of the six field brigades, which was actually nine, used the Japanese-style mountain artillery captured on the front line of the Lianjiang Estuary, the Japanese-style mountain artillery originally equipped by the troops, the 12 French 75-mm mountain guns proposed in Ma Chunsheng's secret warehouse, and the Czech Skoda mountain artillery and Schneider field artillery transferred from Jiangbei to form the brigade artillery.
The three brigades of the First Column are all equipped with all wave-made French-style Schneider mountain guns and Polish imitation Russian-style 75-style field guns; each brigade of the Second Column is equipped with Czech-made mountain artillery and wave-made French-style field artillery; and the three ** brigades are all Japanese-style mountain artillery; in addition to the 75-mm mountain artillery, each brigade is also equipped with an artillery regiment composed of eight 100-mm howitzers.
Among the four military subdivisions, in addition to each military subdivision being equipped with a Japanese-made 150 heavy mortar battalion, each military subdivision is also equipped with an infantry artillery company and a Japanese-style 37 artillery company.
Except for the 1st Division, which had only one mountain artillery battalion, the 2nd and 3rd Divisions, which were directly confronted by the Japanese troops, were each equipped with two Polish imitation French Schneider 65-mm mountain artillery battalions, and the 4th Division was equipped with a 75-mm Japanese mountain artillery battalion and a 100-mm howitzer company.
In fact, they are said to be local armed forces, but their equipment is not bad, and the total number of local armed artillery pieces has reached 68 mountain artillery, 12 field artillery, 4 100-mm howitzers, 72 150-heavy mortars, 36 Type 92 infantry guns, and 36 Japanese-style 37-gun guns.
Not counting the 16 155 howitzers, 112 100 mm howitzers, 140 75 mm Schneider 75 mm field guns purchased or copied by Poland transferred from Jiangbei, 48 105 mountain guns of the latest French type, 96 Czech Skoda 75 mm mountain guns, and 60 Bofors anti-tank guns.
The artillery of the two field columns and nine field brigades alone is equipped with 48 155 howitzers, 24 150 howitzers, 120 100-mm howitzers, 72 105-mm heavy mountain field guns, and 216 75-mm mountain field guns.
The regimental artillery was equipped with a 70-mm infantry battery, a 120-mm mortar battery, 12 37-7 Bofors anti-aircraft guns or Japanese-style 37-gun guns, self-made rocks or imported Deshka anti-aircraft machine guns, or 12 French 13-mm anti-aircraft machine guns.
Each battalion is equipped with six 81-millimeter Polish imitation French mortars or 90-millimeter Japanese mortars, and at present, each battalion has 18 individual anti-tank rocket launchers.
The most important thing is that after learning that the actual strength and equipment of the Japanese army is expected to go north this time, Jiangbei will still be in their hands, and all the captured French-style weapons purchased by Poland that were originally prepared for their own use because they are much more sophisticated than those imitated by Poland were urgently transferred to Yang Zhen's department at one time.
This batch of weapons is mainly artillery and ammunition, including 600,75 mm mountain artillery shells, 221,100 mm howitzer shells, and 101,55 howitzer shells, and mortar shells of various calibers are not many, and the total number of 120,000 plus 150 mm mortar shells is less than 100,000.
In addition to ammunition, this batch of equipment also includes 12 M-1917 155 cannons, 1917 howitzers, 9 1916 120 howitzers, 260 120 and 150 mortars, and 460 81-mm mortars.
and 44 M 1928 75-mm mountain guns, 110 75-mm field guns, 24 105-mm heavy mountain guns, 180 105-mm Schneider field guns, and some German-style equipment from the three Baltic countries.
In addition, there were 2,500 French M-1922 8-mm light machine guns, 1,000 Hatch 1931 heavy machine guns, 120 13-mm anti-aircraft machine guns, 200 25-mm anti-tank guns, 78 37-7 anti-tank guns and 60 anti-aircraft guns, 10,000 Lebor 1916 rifles, and a large quantity of 8-mm ammunition and 79 ammunition.
Except for a small amount of French-style equipment captured in the three Baltic countries, most of the French-style equipment in this batch was urgently imported from France by the Polish government, which had already felt the strong smell of war before the German invasion of Poland, and used the gold reserves in Paris as collateral to use the gold reserves in Paris as collateral.
As a result, when France pulled out of the stockpile of weapons, just arrived on the coast of Poland and had not had time to unload the goods, the war had already broken out, and a fleet of eight freighters transporting this batch of equipment could not return because of the German blockade and had to find another place, but they did not expect to be directly detained by the Soviet Baltic Fleet on the way to Lithuania.
These weapons were originally intended for the Soviet army's own use, but at the repeated requests of General Abanashenk and with Stalin's approval, the People's Commissar of Defense Timoshenko agreed to transfer all of them to the anti-coalition forces in the form of loans.
In fact, the French did no better in this matter than they did when they fulfilled the Franco-Polish Treaty, and all of the equipment was second-hand, except for a small number of 75-mm mountain guns and 25-mm anti-aircraft guns, and the light weapons were eliminated after the French army had begun to re-equip.
However, Poland only provided 30 H35 tanks and 25 R35 tanks, and not one fighter plane, but Poland did not provide 200,000 steel helmets that Poland did not urgently need, all of which were French stocks after World War I.
The French slaughtered the Poles and collected 21 tons of gold from Poland's reserves in Paris, typically taking advantage of the fire, but the British generously provided forty of the latest Vickers tanks and seventy Cardenloyd light tanks.
However, the French are not authentic, which has nothing to do with Yang Zhen, but this batch of equipment, which is mainly artillery and machine guns, is greatly cheaper, especially the total number of tanks in Britain and France is as high as 165, which greatly complements their armored brigade, which is not a tank for most of its equipment, although the seventy Cardenloyd are not tanks at all.
Although a considerable part of these equipment were delivered during the campaign due to the late arrival time, and did not play a big role, it was precisely by relying on this batch of equipment and the original inventory that Yang Zhen survived the most difficult four years after the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, when all the purchase channels were cut off and the new US aid arrived.
These are all things that the Japanese army that is still ridiculing the opponent's artillery battalion with only four mountain and field guns does not know, and what they don't know is that after these artillery pieces have been replenished and secretly tested in the mountains west of Tangyuan, they have already traveled south at night to return to the building, and it is obvious that Yang Zhen's trick has successfully deceived the intelligence department of the Kwantung Army.
What Mijiro Umezu, who urged the Eighth Division to speed up the defense, and Lieutenant General Shigeichi Hatada, the new commander of the Fifth Army, who was in charge of the command of the attack, did not know that on the night when all the Fifth Divisions arrived in Dalian and officially began to board the ship, thousands of artillery guns of all sizes that the other side had been hiding their strength were about to fall on the heads of the Japanese divisions and regiments on the front.
Although after the 24th, the Kwantung Army Command and the Fifth Army Command 6 continued to receive information that the other side at the front had strengthened the deployment of troops and carried out large-scale transfers, neither Umezu Mijiro nor Harata Shigeichi paid attention to it, and in their opinion, this was a preparation for the defense of the other side.
This is because anyone with some military knowledge knows that if the other side notices such a large number of troops, it will be impossible at all, and no matter how good the secrecy work is, such a large deployment of troops will not be able to conceal anyone.
The Kwantung Army believed that the other side should be preparing for a defensive battle by mobilizing its forces at this time, and the results of the reconnaissance of the front-line troops and the reconnaissance of the aviation also showed that the other side was hurrying to build fortifications and was obviously not preparing for an attack, and the Kwantung Army still stubbornly did not believe that the other side, which had grown significantly stronger, had the ability to take the initiative to attack itself.
After studying the tactics adopted by Yang Zhen's headquarters in previous operations, as well as analyzing and judging various intelligences, the General Staff of the Kwantung Army believed that Yang Zhen's headquarters, which lacked attack power and was more adept at field warfare and mobile ambushes, would replicate the pattern of last autumn's operations in this battle and would not take the lead in attacking, because they lacked combat vehicles and artillery.
The confusing measures taken by Yang Zhen successfully confused the intelligence department and the combat department of the Kwantung Army, so that the Kwantung Army, which had misjudged the true strength of Yang Zhen's department, fell into a situation of comprehensive passivity at the beginning of this battle, and this passivity was not reversed until the end of the battle, and the final outcome was a complete loss.
After the so-called Spring and Summer Campaign, the Kwantung Army, which returned from a great defeat, not only lost Dongning, Hulin, Mishan and other important strongholds against the Soviet Union, but also lost the entire Binjiang Province and most of Longjiang Province, Harbin, Mudanjiang, Qiqihar and other important cities, and the defense line against Yang Zhen retreated to the west of the Nenjiang River, Wuchang, Shuangcheng, and Hunchun.
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