Chapter 339: A Beast Army That Lives Up to Its Name

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At 10 o'clock in the evening, when Li Mingfeng's headquarters, which had completed the forced crossing of the Uken River, were on the Daqingshan line and the 63rd Wing of the 63rd Division of the Japanese Army, which was advancing westward, Yang Zhen received a report that the columns had completed their final preparations. 【. netbsp; At 1 a.m. on 28 May, Yang Zhen, who had already led the military region to move forward to Toudaogang, did not hesitate in the slightest and in accordance with the predetermined plan, neatly and neatly issued an order to Wang Guangyu, commander of the first column, Yi Dangping, member of the political committee, Wang Xiaoming, commander of the second column, and Chen Hanzhang, member of the political committee, who had already completed the final preparations.

With Yang Zhen's order, the two columns, together with the artillery attached to the headquarters, from the 37 guns to the 155 howitzers and cannons, as well as a large number of 81 and 90 mortars, 120 and 150 heavy mortars, roared at the targets already marked on the map almost at the same time.

Thousands of large and small caliber artillery pieces smashed the overwhelming shells on the 6th and 14th divisions of the Japanese army on the front line of Fangzheng, Yilan, and Boli, as well as the puppet Manchurian troops who fought with them.

Although the 6th and 14th Divisions had already been prepared in advance after receiving the order from Shigeichi Hatada, they were still caught off guard by this dense artillery fire when they were deployed for the offensive, and although the price they paid was not as great as that of the 10th Division, the heavy artillery and chariot positions, which were the key targets of the first wave, still suffered heavy losses in the forward positions.

It is obvious that although these two divisions have a certain degree of psychological preparation for the possible offensive of the other side, they still did not expect that the opponent's firepower will be so strong, although they have carried out a certain evacuation of heavy equipment such as heavy artillery and chariots, but in the mountainous area, under the limited terrain that can place these equipment, the heavy artillery and chariot wings are still hit by Yan zhòng.

After last year's bloody battle and the painstaking efforts of the Japanese prisoners of war who were born in artillery, Yang Zhen's use of artillery by various units is no longer unfamiliar and can only be described as unsatisfactory, whether it is firepower coverage or shooting accuracy, it has been extremely proficient, especially the level of blind shooting by the artillery group according to the map, which has passed the level of the Japanese army.

After completing the preparation of the artillery fire for an hour, as the artillery fire gradually shifted to the depth of the Japanese army, a loud charge horn sounded in the night sky before dawn, and under the guidance of colorful signal flares and flares, the main forces of the two columns launched a fierce attack on the Japanese positions according to their predetermined plans.

At the same time that the western front was in full swing, on the easternmost line of Mishan and Raohe, after the battle of Du Kaishan, more than 10,000 troops of the four regiments that forcibly penetrated to the junction of Mishan and Baoqing were forcibly interspersed, and under the command of Tao Jingfei, after three hours of hard fighting, the reinforcements of the Japanese Eighth Division and the 63rd Wing of the 10th Division, which was rushing back to help, were blocked on the line of Nadan Hadaling, and could not move forward.

With the artillery sound of Yang Zhen personally commanding the troops on the Western Front to attack the 6th and 14th Divisions, apart from the occasional sporadic gunfire, the entire area of confrontation between the two armies, which had been calm for half a year, was once again resounding in the entire area of confrontation between the two armies hundreds of kilometers from Fangzheng in the west to the Raohe River in the east.

Yang Zhen's two main columns, six field brigades, plus three ** brigades and six ** regiments, more than 100,000 troops, and the Japanese army's four complete divisions, one division and one puppet Manchu army, nearly 110,000 people broke out in an unprecedented bloody battle that was evaluated in later generations as changing the situation in the northeast and the balance of forces between the enemy and us.

From the beginning to the end of this battle, which is called the turning point of the Northeast War, the two sides, including the reserve soldiers, invested a total of more than 400,000 troops, more than 2,000 large and small artillery pieces, and nearly 1,000 combat vehicles of various types.

Of course, at this time, no matter whether the winner of this battle Yang Zhen or the loser Shigeichi Hata did, no one expected that this battle would affect the trend of the entire Northeast war situation, and what Yang Zhen did not expect was that this battle not only allowed him to play a bigger world, but also successfully attracted the attention of a country that almost acted as a nurse in the world in the future.

When the campaign was in full swing, less than a week after the Soviet army formed a military observation group headed by Major General Grigorenko, chief of staff of the Far Eastern Military District, and arrived in Luobei, an observation group composed of military attachés from the US and British embassies in China who had arrived in Yan'an.

Two months after the end of the campaign, that is, half a month after the Japanese army suddenly dispatched troops to Indochina in late September, the Americans immediately sold to Yang Zhen the C46 and 47 military transport planes that they most urgently needed and which the Soviet side had not yet vomited, in the form of low-interest loans, despite the opposition of the Nationalist Government.

and 180 of the latest A20 attack planes that were originally ordered by the French Air Force but were detained by the United States after the end of the French campaign, and 300 P39 and P40 fighters, all of which were drawn by the Americans from the planes ordered by the Sixth Army or detained by the French.

Moreover, the Americans were all responsible for transporting these planes to Vladivostok, that is, Vladivosk, the headquarters of the Soviet Pacific Fleet, and the training work was also carried out by six instructors sent by the US Sixth Army as civilians, and even the high transit fees charged by the Soviet side were paid by the Americans.

After the situation in Southeast Asia deteriorated, the Americans not only urgently provided loans to Yang Zhen's subordinates, but also provided Yang Zhen's subordinates with a batch of planes that Yang Zhen's subordinates needed the most as soon as possible.

Moreover, in the course of the campaign, with the assistance of the assistant military attache of the US Embassy in China, in the name of a civilian company, Yang Zhen's department sold a large number of urgently needed automobiles, high-quality steel, smokeless gunpowder, especially high-quality electron tubes produced by American companies, as well as a large number of strategic materials such as military machinery.

Although the $150 million needed to purchase these materials consumed two-thirds of the funds obtained by Yang Zhen from selling penicillin's synthetic technology to the Americans, among these materials, high-performance American automobiles, smokeless gunpowder, military steel, and especially new military machine tools can be said to have solved the biggest problem in Yang Zhen's operations and military production, and ensured the high demand for materials needed at the front line.

Compared with the Americans, the Soviets, who were more concerned about the success of Yang Zhen's operation, were much more stingy than before, and only sold Yang Zhen smokeless gunpowder worth 10 million rubles, TNT**, more than 10,000 tons of steel for artillery shells, and indirect combat materials such as fuzes, detonators, and gasoline in the form of loans.

Although the Soviet Union was not as generous as before, it reduced or exempted a large number of transit fees for the transportation of American materials during the war, and even used military trains free of charge to transport the materials sold by the Americans to the Soviet port opposite Luobei in the fastest possible way, especially the urgently needed military materials such as American automobiles, smokeless gunpowder, and steel.

Of course, this is a later story, at this time, Yang Zhen didn't care about what benefits this battle would bring to him, but his current attention was all attracted by the appearance of the Japanese Sixth Division after all the attacks were raised.

In the end, it is known as the 6th Division with the strongest combat effectiveness in the Japanese army, and in the end, it is the Beast Division known as the Beast Army, although a reinforced wing was transferred away, and the remaining troops suffered heavy losses in Yang Zhen's artillery bombardment, but after the first-line position was broken through by a column, the 6th Division was much better than the 10th Division in terms of reflexivity and counterattack strength.

After the first-line position was broken through, the 6th Division immediately dispatched the 45th Wing, and with the cooperation of the 14th Division and the 1st Division, which had taken over from the 23rd Wing, and under the cover of the fire of the 10th Wing of the Combat Vehicle, the 23rd Wing of the Field Heavy Artillery, and the 6th Brigade of the ** Field Heavy Artillery, which had suffered relatively small losses in Yang Zhen's artillery attack, immediately launched a counter-charge against Yang Zhen's headquarters.

Although after the enemy launched the offensive, the tactical radio stations of the units under the 6th Division still suffered the deaf and dumb disease committed by the 10th Division the day before, and all the wings of the 6th Division lost direct radio contact with the subordinate brigades, and the telephone lines were also blown up due to artillery fire, and most of the wired communication lines could not be used.

However, after the Sixth Division was broken through on the front line, the units that survived the artillery attack were still able to quickly assemble under the command of trumpets and signal flares, and even launched counterattacks against the enemy forces that broke into their positions on their own without unified command and fought separately.

The Sixth Division is the Sixth Division, both its responsiveness and complete will to fight are rare for Yang Zhen since he fought with the regular divisions of the Japanese army, and its combat effectiveness and extremely high military quality are not only far from being comparable to the Fourth Division, but also the other standing divisions of the Japanese army, such as the eighth, eleventh, and twelfth divisions that have been in contact with before.

The Sixth Division, with its excellent reflexes, swift counterattacks, extremely tenacious fighting style, and skillful infantry and artillery coordination and infantry coordination tactics, made the 1st Brigade of the 1st Column Main Attack extremely difficult.

Unlike the 10th Division, after the first line was broken through and divided, most of the squadrons just stuck to wait for reinforcements or retreated, after the units of the 6th Division were separated, they immediately followed the training on weekdays, regardless of a single qiē, desperately approached each other.

As soon as these Japanese troops had completed their close approach, they immediately launched a counterattack on their own without waiting for orders from their superiors, and once they had completed the assembly of a squadron, they would start a counterattack at the squadron level, and after they had completed the assembly of a brigade, they would launch a counterattack on the scale of a brigade.

Almost every hill, even if it was just a small hill, was fought over and over again and at great cost to be taken, and often before the attacking troops could gain a foothold, the Japanese troops who had been beaten down before often pounced on them in the shortest possible time under the cover of chariots.

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