Chapter 185: The Silence Before the Great War
Before dawn, Dong Ku finally received a telegram from Goudan to complete the task, and while relieved, he did not forget to tell Goudan again that he must camp in the upwind valley. At the same time, I pray that the Soviet side will not have thoughts because of the smoke cannons. There is no way to do this, even if the Russians attack now, he can only retreat and give up the fortress to them. It's full of poisonous gas, and it won't volatilize in three or five days. This is also the reason why he chose liquid gas bombs instead of oil-based gas bombs, if it is oily, the fortress basically does not have to worry about staying in, it is not ten and a half days and a half months can be cleaned.
When the fortress was in hand, his heart was steady, and he fell into a deep sleep at the dawn of the day.
All the high-ranking Japanese troops did not think that the fortress could be lost, and they gathered their forces to Xinjing in a tense arrangement, and they also thought that after the army was assembled, the troops of the fortress would attack the enemy's rear and attack from both sides, so as to ensure victory.
The Japanese army did not move, just what Dong Ku needed, in the three days of the strong wind, Harbin was built like an iron barrel by Liu Defeated City, and all the anti-aircraft machine guns in the inventory were racked, and the anti-aircraft guns were then used, so that Dong Ku rejected his plan.
Dong Ku remembered that during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Chinese Volunteers were repeatedly bombed because they were unable to compete with the United States for air supremacy, and the antiaircraft artillery positions could not protect the transportation lines along the Qingchuan River.
Liu Weicheng praised this plan, so the original machinery and workers of the Japanese army in Harbin came in handy, and one by one the trucks were lifted off the large boxes, and after a little modification, the anti-aircraft guns were mounted, and the walkie-talkies were installed on each truck extravagantly, and a special code code was set up.
After Qiqihar got the news. At the same time as the defense system was built, the anti-aircraft guns were driven to the trucks, which became mobile anti-aircraft artillery positions in the city.
After three days of Qiqihar, the fighters of the South Manchurian Anti-Japanese Federation arrived in the wind and snow, and even those who rushed to Harbin also rushed to Qiqihar during this time.
The continuous convergence has made Qiqihar's strength soar unprecedentedly. With enough guns, all the fighters of the Anti-United Nations were replaced with 38 big covers, plus the 5,000 modified semi-automatic versions given by Dong Ku to General Zhao, as well as more than 300 heavy machine guns and light machine guns, plus mortars, and the 20 mountain guns given by Dong Ku before, not to mention that the Japanese army's strength was not enough, even if there were 108,000 Japanese troops, it would be difficult to cross Qiqiharna.
The Japanese army is now in a hurry. But the strong wind made the transportation of troops extremely difficult, and 'Ueda Kenkichi' personally rushed from Mukden to Xinjing, but he could only look at the snow and sigh.
At this point, the war seemed to be silent, both sides were gathering momentum, transport ships gathered in Dalian and other ports, and troops and material resources continued to advance to Xinjing. Both sides are also waiting, waiting for the wind to stop. After the wind stops. A big war will break out.
The wind blew more and more fiercely, on the fourth day after the capture of Harbin. The wind reached its heaviest since the beginning of winter, and the north wind howled, rolling up all the unobstructed snow in the plains into the sky, leaving the entire Heilongjiang River under the cover of gray and snowy particles. The original road is gone, and the ravines are all flat.
The gale-strong winds killed all the walls. Anyone can go up the snow shell directly to the city wall. Walking in an almost flat urban area, you may step on the roof of someone else's house if you are not careful.
At this moment, what offense, what defense, is a matter of no clothes. In such a gale, no one can do anything.
Mishan and other occupied cities were affected by the great war, and the pacification work was in place, and the poor families received food, firewood, or coal, so that the violent winds did not freeze to death.
After receiving the order, the reinforcements who went straight to Hulin were more than 100 kilometers away, and it took more than two days to finally arrive at Hulin. However, none of these Japanese soldiers were free from frostbite, and more than a thousand corpses were thrown along the way, and when the food they carried was about to be eaten, they finally reached their destination, avoiding the doom of freezing to death in the heavy snow.
It's just that this combat power is not much, many of their feet are disabled, and their hands are swollen like steamed buns, and it is impossible to hold a gun, but it has only added more than 10,000 mouths to the defenders of Hulin.
Attack, even if the wind stops, it is impossible to attack in Jiamusi, Fujin, Hulin and other places, such a heavy snow, ten days and eight days can not clear the road, not to mention the number of people dare not take risks, even if there is a large army, what will be used to attack?
On the 6th of January, the gale finally stopped. In the morning, all the cities and towns are in action, and that is to start clearing the snow.
Harbin and other occupied cities were fully mobilized, and after dawn, both new and veterans, except for the accident on duty, all laboriously pushed open the doors, cut out the passages under the heavy snow, exposed the daylight, and began the work of clearing the snow.
Huge snowdrifts slowly formed, and streets like traffic trenches slowly appeared. After a busy day, the streets of the entire city can be considered smooth.
The next day, the road out of the city was dug up, trucks roared, and truckloads pulled the snow out of the city and into thin snow. It is estimated that in three days, the entire urban area will be exposed with houses exposed, revealing complete streets.
At this time, Qiqihar's defense system entered a period of high-speed construction, piles of bonfires were indifferent, and individual bunkers that could squat down appeared one by one, and a series of communication trenches were set up, and they began to be paved with wood.
"Coal ash slag is transported here!!"
A section of the pavement had just been roofed and someone shouted.
Then the mule-drawn plough went straight in that direction. The dust drifted, and it was soon covered with more than a meter thick coal ash slag, and cut out the frozen soil, and then, the river bank lined up with buckets of buckets, a load of river water splashed on these coal ash slag, with the sound of Zilala, most of the river water could not penetrate to the end and was frozen, so that the coal ash slag formed a honeycomb shape, and then the frozen honeycomb eye was filled with river water, so that the covered trench became a solid fortress comparable to cement watering.
When the water was saturated, the soot slag was spread again......
As layers of soot slag were filled with water and frozen, in the snow, a trench four or five meters high stretched across the bank of the river, like a gray-black dragon, coiled on the bank of the river.
Qiqihar is a tense and busy defense system here, and General Zhao doesn't have much time to know it. His agreement with Dong Ku was to block the Japanese army for ten days, and after ten days, there would be no more fighting in the whole territory.
The Japanese army was also busy, and the army drove the laborers like ants to clear the roads, along the highways, and the railways cleared four feasible lines. The two heavy slopes are like earthworms, winding on the snowfield.
The actions here did not affect Dong Ku, and while clearing the snow, he had already led the team to set off. His target was Jiamusi, and that would be the place he was going to capture. Shunzi led more than 600 people, carrying grenadiers and machine guns, and marched to the five permanent members.
Halbin home. Liucheng did not focus its defense on Qiqihar, because there are direct trains and highways from Xinjing to Harbin, which will also be the focus of the Japanese army's attack, and the biggest possibility is that the Japanese army will divide its troops into two routes, all the way to attack Qiqihar and all the way to Harbin. When it is the fifth constant, the road is closed by heavy snow. Without the logistical supply of the railway, the Japanese army would definitely not go deep alone in this season. If you want to attack, it will be after the snow has melted away in the spring and the dirt road can be driven.
Before Dong Ku set off with confidence, the two talked in detail all night, and in the end, Liu Yucheng determined that Dong Ku would lead the advance army to fight alone before the Japanese invaders were driven away. And only after cooperating with the Anti-Alliance, which had a good reputation, he agreed to Dong Ku's invitation, and then put together the entire defense plan.
At this time, Dong Ku realized the depth of Lu Daoliu's calculations. He himself did not throw the focus of defense on Qiqihar because of the Battle of Jiangqiao, Harbin was not attacked at the same time, and the number of Japanese troops was not large at that time. It is not only Qiqihar that has a road to enter Heilongjiang, but also that Changchun to Harbin is closer than to Qiqihar, and the pressure on Harbin will be greater.
After returning to Harbin for a detailed discussion, Dong Ku learned that Shuangcheng was the focus of the defense of Liucheng City, and it was a horn with Acheng to defend Harbin.
Liu Chengcheng has been operating in Harbin for many years, plus some familiar management talents have taken up posts, and the mobilization of the people has Liu Canghao, their movements are not much slower than Qiqihar, and Shuangcheng has already begun to march there when Dong Ku left Harbin to rush to Jiamusi.
Compared with their busyness, the Japanese army has a better bottom in their hearts. The fortress and secret warehouse sent a telegram to the Kwantung Army headquarters every day to announce their safety, which made them very reassured. As long as the fortress is in hand and the secret warehouse is not discovered by the enemy, it is easy for them to turn the tide of the battle. But where did they know that these messages to report safety were all sent from the snow kiln outside the base, and the power generation was naturally not the Japanese soldiers guarding it, but the student soldiers left behind by the dogs.
Xing Yuan's reorganization had already ended in the gale, and after the wind stopped, nearly 10,000 veterans led the way by Oroqen warriors, and the veterans who performed more prominently in training were ordered to rush to Harbin to supplement the shortage of troops there. The rest of the men divided into several routes, led by Oroqen warriors, waded through the thick snow and rushed to the deserted, gas-emitting fortresses to take over the defense and train the old recruits and miners. At those secret bases, only a platoon of Oroqen fighters was stationed, waiting for the internal poisonous gas to dissipate, and was responsible for guarding them.
At the same time, a slippery crowd of people on the snow flocked to Harbin. The recruited recruits, along with those veterans of the Northeast Army, trekked hard in the heavy snow, opened up snow roads, and used horses to climb plows to assemble Japanese supplies from Mishan, Jixi, and Mudanjiang to Harbin.
Although they are recruits, but before departure, these people already know that they are shouldering the heavy responsibility of regaining the territory occupied by the Japanese army, and when they learned that Harbin and Qiqihar were recaptured, they had no fear, and they were even more enthusiastic, in the cold, no one complained, no one left behind, and they opened up a big road in the thick snow. Although those roads are not based on highways.
Dong Ku led a thousand people straight to Jiamusi, bypassing Fangzheng and Tangyuan, he had to take Jiamusi as quickly as possible, as for these small places with only a few hundred Japanese troops, they would be handed over to the Oroqen warriors to raid in the snow.
At this time, after gathering more than 20,000 new Oroqen warriors gathered in the wind and snow on Yanwo Island, the army of Goudan divided its troops into several routes and went straight to Raohe, Fuyuan, Tongjiang Fujin and Mohe.
Although these Oroqen hunters who came later were not trained, they had the kind of toughness and awareness in their bones for fighting, and they were naturally far superior to the Han people for concealing their whereabouts in the snow, and they were not specially trained warriors. Attacking a town with only a few hundred or thousands of Japanese troops in one place will not have much suspense for the fierce Oroqen warriors.
At this time, Dong Ku also rushed to the vicinity of Tangyuan when it was dark, and they did not continue to advance, because, if they wanted to capture Jiamusi, they had to wait until dawn to have a chance, otherwise, if they forcibly attacked, they were not superior in number to the Japanese army, and there was a force of more than a wing here, and it would be difficult for his 1,000 men to easily break through the defense line if they held on.
In the snow kiln, Dong Ku inquired about the situation of the various departments with a telegram, and learned that everything was still stable, and the Japanese army had no offensive action there, but was just clearing the road for the march and gathering troops.
The twin cities had built a rudimentary defense in one day, and in three days at most, all positions would be connected. More than 10,000 new soldiers from Mudanjiang rushing to Harbin will arrive tomorrow afternoon. The number of recruits recruited locally in Harbin has reached 30,000, and although there are too few instructors to train, the basic training has been carried out with the assistance of the martial arts people in the dark hall. By the time Junzi returns from the Five Constants tomorrow, all of this will be resolved.
At the same time, the Kikutsuki had already passed through the Strait of Malacca and headed straight for the Suez Canal, from where it would rush to Italy, and the Iron Arhat would go overland to Germany with samples and drawings. As for the Kikutsuki, there will be no trouble staying on the high seas, although this will scare the countries along the way, but there is no flag, no sign, and no one will rashly attack the warship without knowing the situation, that would be too irrational.
The wheels of time were turning forward in an orderly and steady manner, and Dong Ku would attack the Japanese by tomorrow night at the latest. Godan's army is not far from Fujin and Mohe, and the time is almost tomorrow, and it will be possible to launch a general attack on the Japanese army, take these towns, and clear the remnants of the territory.
And the base and the fortress, at this time, the gates have been opened, and the soldiers wearing chemical protective suits have been in and out for a few days to ensure the operation of the generator, so that the poisonous gas inside is almost dispersed, and the pheasants and rabbits that have been put in it have been in it for a day, and they are still alive and kicking, depending on the situation, and when Xing Yuan's troops arrive, they can move in. (To be continued.) For mobile phone users, please go to read. )