Chapter 339: The Adjustment of the Battle of Liaoxi
It's just that for this battle, the evaluation later is the evaluation of the future . But at present, the entire battle situation between Redong and Liaoxi is a headache for Li Mingfeng and Lieutenant General Eagle Tsu Leadping. Rao is that these two are experienced in a hundred battles, but they also seem to be a little unsure of what to do for a while.
The two opponents who coincidentally took the encirclement point to send reinforcements, but as a result, neither of them had started, but the battle for reinforcements was the first to kick off. The entire battle plan has now been disrupted, and the entire battlefield has become a mess. Faced with the current battle situation, both of them invariably asked themselves how their original good plan could have turned into this situation, and at the same time, they couldn't help but feel a little happy.
If it weren't for this battle, no one would have noticed the other party's offensive, and there were hidden arrows behind the open guns. It wasn't until the troops he sent out to sneak attack and the enemy sneak attack his own troops and fought an encounter in the west of Jianping that he knew that the enemy was also doing exactly the same thing as himself, and he was also sending troops to attack him.
As for the Jianping East battlefield, it was not an encounter. Because the Anti-Japanese Federation had already learned about the Japanese army's sneak attack plan from the deserters of the pseudo-ironstone troops, it was not an encounter. At most, the Japanese army wanted to steal the chicken, but the chicken was not stolen, but he was bitten by the enemy.
But this battle in the Sihan River valley was unprepared by both sides, and neither was in their own plans, but it was really an encounter. The start of this battle means that the sneak attack plans of both sides have been completely exposed. And the outcome of this battle has a far-reaching impact that no one expected at the beginning.
This is very unexpected for Li Mingfeng and Washitsu Leadping. Originally, in the deployment of the two people, no one expected this situation. Therefore, how to deal with this situation has become the primary problem to be resolved between the two opponents. Whether or not the original plan to encircle the point was still carried out according to the plan became the most difficult choice for the two commanders.
After several hesitations, Li Mingfeng still decided to follow the original part of the plan and deal with all changes with the unchanged local battle situation. Continue the original plan, the attack on the county seat of Jianping. Taking advantage of the entire battle situation of the Japanese army, all the attempts of the Japanese army have been exposed, and the main force of its reinforcements is contained in the overall situation of the mountainous area in the northeast of Jianping County, striving to take Jianping City in one go.
Flattening the front with Kulen to the northeast completely drove the Kwantung Army out of this salient, and then fought for a threat to the depth of Liaoxi. Moreover, taking Jianping is equivalent to completely expelling the Japanese army in Redong except for the Chaoyang area. Taking Jianping County is equivalent to completely taking the main vein of Nuruer Hushan, which can make a fairly good progress base for the next move in the future, and completely disrupt the deployment of the Japanese army in western Liaoning.
As long as Jianping County is taken, the remaining Japanese troops around the Sidao Yingzi Mountain, which have become lone troops, can either retreat, or only the fate of annihilation awaits them. In this way, all the chess pieces on his entire battle game will be completely revitalized. Therefore, after several considerations, Li Mingfeng finally decided that the original plan to attack Jianping remained unchanged.
However, his most direct opponent, Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama, commander of the 8th Division of the Japanese Army, who was solely responsible for commanding the counterattack on the Liaoxi battlefield, immediately abandoned the army commander's original plan to attack Xinhui. However, according to Li Mingfeng's judgment, the troops that originally attacked Xinhui were used to reinforce Ye Baishou.
Instead, he immediately turned the forces originally used to attack Xinhuicheng to the mountainous areas east of Jianping, trying to concentrate his forces to defeat the anti-United Nations forces fighting against his 31st Wing first. This time to change the goal, Shizuo Yokoyama is very determined. He believed that as long as he could completely defeat the enemy in the northeastern battlefield of Jianping, he would not have a chance to turn the situation around.
However, although he did not send troops back to Ye Baishou, while transferring the troops of the Xinhui battlefield to the west, he transferred four infantry squadrons to strengthen the defensive operations on the front line of Sidaoyingzi Mountain. Try to firmly grasp this salient before the end of the battle in the northeast battlefield of Jianping.
For Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama at the moment, unless he completely abandons this counterattack, and would rather risk turning the two wings on the Xinhui battlefield and being flanked from the front and rear after being thrown into the northeast battlefield of Jianping. Increasing the strength of the Sidao Yingzi Dashan garrison was an inevitable choice for him to decide to shift the focus of his operations to the battlefield in the mountainous areas northeast of Jianping.
At present, there is a fierce battle in the eastern mountainous area of Jianping, and the direct connection between Sidaoyingzi Mountain and Jianping City has actually been cut off. After the Anti-Japanese Federation infiltrated into the mountainous area northeast of Jianping, the commanding heights of Sidaoyingzi Mountain were actually under the attack of the Anti-Japanese Federation in the eastern mountainous areas of Xinhui and Jianping, and it was the support point of the entire battlefield east of Jianping County.
After he had given up the attack on Xinhui County and shifted the focus of his attack to the northeast battlefield of Jianping. Sidaoyingzi Mountain became a barrier between the northeastern battlefield of Jianping and the Xinhui County controlled by the Anti-Japanese Union. Once Sidaoyingzi Mountain is lost, then he will be in a situation of being surrounded in the northeast battlefield of Jianping.
Because the enemy army on the Xinhui battlefield can quickly join the Jianping Northeast Battlefield at any time. Therefore, after deciding to abandon the attack on Shine, the first thing Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama did was to increase the defensive force against Shidaoyingzi Daishan, which has now become a de facto salient.
Only then did troops be dispatched to reinforce the battlefield in the northeast of Jianping County. In any case, first defeat a group of anti-Japanese alliances, and strive to control the initiative of the entire battlefield as much as possible. As for the reinforcement of the Ye Baishou battlefield, Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama thinks that he is out of reach now, so it is better to hand over that direction to Lieutenant General Washizu to give him a headache.
And at this moment, Lieutenant General Washitsu Leadhei, who is in command in the rear. After learning about the changes in the battle situation on the front line, especially after learning that the enemy army had appeared in the mountainous area southwest of Jianping, and the raid troops deployed by themselves had lost contact. Especially after receiving the latest decision from Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama, the overall deployment was also adjusted in the rear at the first time.
He quickly dispatched two infantry squadrons from the defenders of Chaoyang and Beipiao to take the train to reinforce in the direction of Ye Baishou. Because he knew that the appearance of enemy troops in the mountainous area west of Jianping was definitely not an isolated operation. Ye Baishou is the key point on the Jincheng Railway, once Ye Baishou is lost, the entire western Liaoning will be completely passive. At that time, the Anti-Japanese Federation that penetrated deep into western Liaoning could advance or retreat, and there was considerable room for maneuver.
Although Ye Baishou is located on the flank of his entire western Liaoning defense line, his geographical location is important and must not be lost. Even if the strength is tight, it is necessary to increase Ye Baishou's defenders. Otherwise, with Ye Baishou's only three squadrons of defenders, once the enemy in the Sihancheng River valley moved south, he would be powerless to resist at all.
The Manchurian battlefield is not a battlefield within the Zhina Pass, and the Anti-Japanese Alliance in the Northeast is not an armed force within the Zhina Pass. A brigade of the Japanese army, even if it concentrates the strength of a division, may not be able to solve the problem in a short period of time. You must know that in the battlefield of China, the Imperial Army has never had an infantry brigade completely annihilated.
And this brigade was completely annihilated by the enemy in just a few hours, which is enough to show the strength of the enemy's combat effectiveness in the Sihan River valley. In the words of General Umezu Yoshijiro, it is highly likely that the main force of the Anti-Alliance. Under such circumstances, he could not help but be wary of the enemy's rapid southward attack on Ye Baishou's line after solving the Sihan River Valley.
At the same time as Lieutenant General Washizu was constantly adjusting the deployment in the rear. Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama terminated the attack on Shinhui and completed the turn in the shortest possible time. The main force that crossed the Sidaoyingzi Mountain fought fiercely with the Jianping Northeast Battlefield Anti-Union Headquarters on the front line of the small house and the Wei family's shack.
Li Mingfeng's offensive against Jianping was frustrated, and even his plan to capture Jianping in its entirety in order to level the entire front suffered a failure. In desperation, Li Mingfeng could only temporarily abandon the plan to capture Jianping, and put the participating troops on the Jianping battlefield into the northeast battlefield of Jianping.
The reason why the Jianping battlefield is like this is not that the troops participating in the battle on the Jianping battlefield are not desperate, nor that the troops are cowardly, but that the Japanese defenders in Jianping pulled all the ordinary people in the city to the city as meat shields and hostages. After the attacking troops swept away the outlying strongholds, the final siege operation was like a tiger eating the sky and having nowhere to go.
Hit it, this city is full of people. When a shell goes down, there are many more civilians killed and wounded than the Japanese army. If the city is forcibly attacked, it is a political mistake. Don't fight, the orders from the higher authorities are there. After several hesitations, the brigade commander and political commissar who commanded the advance army that attacked Jianping County finally gave up the direct siege and reported the situation.
Look at the people crying at the head of the city. There is really no way to fight this kind of battle. Everyone is flesh and blood, and those in the city are flesh and blood. In such a situation, who can attack the city? Even if you want to forcibly attack the city, the troops below will not agree.
After receiving the report of Jianping's attacking troops, Li Mingfeng sighed. Faced with this situation, he was helpless. Forcibly ordering troops to attack the city is not to rescue the compatriots in the occupied area, but to blatantly kill people. No matter how urgent the situation is, the people's army cannot ignore the life and death of the people, and this is not just a mistake.
In desperation, Li Mingfeng could only give up the original idea of capturing Jianping City, except for leaving some troops to continue to besiege Jianping. The main force outside Jianping City immediately went to the northeast to reinforce the Northeast Battlefield of Jianping. The troops were divided into two routes, one along the Fanjia Zhanzi straight into the northeast battlefield, all the way to Wollongong as the starting base for the attack, along the line of Wu Zhanzi and Shuangmiao, and directly into the flank of the Japanese reinforcements.
In the original plan, the troops besieging Jianping County would be divided into two routes after capturing Jianping County. All the way to reinforce the battlefield in the mountainous areas of Northeast China, all the way along the line of Wollongong, Jiayingzi, Qianjiawa, and Huangjia's shacks, directly into Chaoyang. A brigade that completed the battle on the four Hanseong rivers on the Western Front, forming a coordination between the two wings and moving south side by side.
However, the despicable tactics of the Japanese army in Jianping County could only allow him to temporarily control Jianping County. Instead, the troops on the Jianping battlefield were transferred to other directions to participate in the battle. At present, he could not put a well-equipped brigade full of 5,000 men under the city of Jianping County, and idly faced the Japanese army at the head of the city.
After receiving a telegram that the brigade commander of the Advance Army had moved south to the periphery of Ye Baishou, Li Mingfeng hesitated for a moment and ordered the Xinhui defenders to abandon the attack on Xinhui on the premise that the Japanese army had changed its deployment. In addition to leaving a battalion to defend Xinhui in order to contingency.
The main force immediately secretly moved south, avoiding all Japanese strongholds, and penetrated directly into the Beipiao coal mine. The focus is on the laborers in the Beipiao coal mine, if possible, to rescue them all. Directly choosing Beipiao as the target of the second phase of the offensive, Lee Myung-bak's ultimate goal was not simply to go behind enemy lines, disrupt the overall deployment of the Japanese army, and cooperate with the Western Front troops to attack Ye Baishou.
It is not because Beipiao is located exactly in Chaoyang and Fuxin, between the two key directions of the Japanese deployment in western Liaoning, and at the same time it is the closest county town to the Jianping battlefield, and attacking there can cut off the connection between the Japanese troops in Chaoyang and Fuxin. He also had another purpose, which was to work as a large number of laborers in the Beipiao Coal Mine.