Chapter 338: Final Preparations
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Although Yang Zhen's tactical intentions have always been incomprehensible, for the 10th Division, Hakuda Shigeichi did not dare not save it, in fact, according to Hata's own idea, the 29th Division, which took over the defense of the 8th Division, blocked the opponent who had broken through the 10th Division on the front line of Muling, and the other divisions and regiments temporarily stood still, waiting to find out the opponent's next move. 【. netbsp; However, the situation of the 10th Division and the current situation did not make him dare to do so, and the Kwantung Army Command, and even the Tokyo base camp repeatedly emphasized that the current front line of confrontation with the opponent was a high-voltage line, and the opponent must not be allowed to break through this line of defense.
Moreover, if the situation of the 10th Division was not changed and the 10th Division could repeat the mistakes of the 2nd Division, the Tokyo base camp would not be able to explain it to itself, although it was somewhat reluctant, but in addition to the reinforcements already sent by the 8th Division, Hakata Shigeichi ordered the 8th Division to reinforce at least one or two more infantry brigades.
The main force of the 13th Wing of the 6th Division, two squadrons of the 23rd Wing, a 120-mm howitzer brigade of the division, two mountain artillery squadrons, the 7th Heavy Artillery Wing, and the 5th Tank Wing were also mobilized to form a fast column to advance eastward in the shortest possible time to reinforce the 10th Division.
At the same time, the 14th Division was ordered to immediately move eastward to replace the 6th Division with the strength of no less than one wing, and to transfer troops from the 6th Division to reinforce the Baoqing line, and after the arrival of the wing, it was transferred to the command of the 6th Division, and immediately made preparations to go north.
In addition to serving as the defense from Mishan to Hulin and closely monitoring the movements of the Soviet troops east of the Ussuri River, he ordered at least one wing to be ready for battle and cooperate with the troops of the Western Front to move north at any time, and ordered the 29th Division, which had already arrived at Muling, to send at least two wings to Mishan in two days.
Under the circumstance that his own deployment as a whole had been disrupted, Harata Shigeichi simply did not stop doing anything, and made a thorough change to the original battle plan as quickly as possible.
Not only did it increase the strength of the 6th Division's eastward advance by a brigade so that it could form an east-west counterattack with the 8th Division's westward advance, and strive to first eliminate the opponents around the 10th Division, but according to Harata Shigeichi's new plan, not only all four divisions of the Japanese army on the front line were dispatched, but also the 11th Division, which had been used as a reserve and had been fully defending the Soviet Union in wartime according to the plan, and was not directly involved in the war.
Shigeichi Hata's adjustment and deployment indicates that Yang Zhen's first tactical intention has successfully achieved the result he wants, and this result will at least look like a pretty good start for Yang Zhen.
Just when Hatian Shigeichi urgently adjusted his deployment, the bandit Yang Zhen, who was scolded in his heart and vowed to personally cut off his head and make a specimen and place it on his desk, was sitting in a small mountain village at the foot of Zhushan outside Yilan County at this time, waiting for him to adjust his deployment.
According to the prior plan, Yang Zhen's two main columns and a large amount of equipment have all been secretly deployed in place, and have been deployed, and can be ordered to go south at any time to reach the final attack area, two columns plus some ** brigade-level local troops, nearly 70,000 troops, thousands of artillery pieces of various calibers, mortars, are like a wolf to prey, waiting for the sixth division in front of them to start action, in order to find an opportunity for themselves.
In fact, for Yang Zhen before, the most difficult thing was not whether Harata Shigeichi was fooled or not, but the problem of arriving at the various departments that were already less than twenty kilometers away from the front line.
In the southern mountainous areas, all the commanding heights are controlled by the Japanese army, except for the remnants of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains in the north of the Jiangbei and a few mountains in the Wuken Hada Mountains on both sides of the Wuken River, most of them are under the terrain of the plains along the Songhua River.
Fortunately, although the Songhua River Plain in Yilan has been opened up in a large area, after all, it is far less powerful than that of later generations, and there are still a lot of birch forests and a large number of shrubs on the Songjiang Plain.
In addition, Yang Zhen's department has received special and strict concealment training, and the concealment and standby time is not very long, and the entire people south of the Songhua River in Yilan have been relocated to Jiangbei, and the entire Jiangnan area has become a no-man's land, so the Japanese army has not noticed any movement.
Although the Japanese army concentrated a large number of aviation troops to repeatedly bomb the front-line positions of the confrontation between the two armies after the start of Du Kaishan, its main bombing targets were concentrated on various lines of communication and targets that had been exposed, and those places that might have become the hiding places of Yang Zhen's headquarters only occasionally dropped one or two small bombs when passing by.
Although due to the appropriate preparatory measures, the Japanese army has never realized that tens of thousands of troops and a large number of artillery pieces are still deployed in a place more than 20 kilometers deep in the opponent's front-line position, but the fact that it has not appeared now does not mean that it will not be able to appear in the future, and tens of thousands of troops are hidden in such a small area, and it is impossible for them not to expose the slightest clue.
After receiving the report that the Japanese Sixth Division had mobilized a reinforced wing to the western front to advance westward, Yang Zhen breathed a sigh of relief and immediately ordered the troops to spread out on the whole line according to the original plan.
Yang Zhen's plan is on the Western Front, if the enemy does not move, I will move first, and on the Eastern Front, although the tactics of attacking instead of defending have been formulated, but the enemy does not move, I do not move, if the enemy moves, I will definitely hit your seven inches.
For Yang Zhen, it is not a question whether the 6th Division on the Eastern Front will reinforce or not the 10th Division, nor will it be a question of how many troops to dispatch, but the key question is whether he can get the first shot and mobilize the original battle plan that has disrupted the Japanese army and basically complete the deployment.
At 7 o'clock on the morning of the 27th, when he received the information that the Sixth Division had dispatched a reinforced wing to the west, Yang Zhen, who knew that the purpose of his first step plan had been achieved, immediately struck while the iron was hot.
The order was concealed in the eastern area of Yilan, which had already been prepared for battle, and that a regiment of the 2nd Brigade and the 6th Brigade of the 1st Column, which could be dispatched at any time, reinforced one 107 rocket artillery battalion, one battalion each of the 105 howitzer artillery battalion, and one battalion of the 105 field artillery battalion, and that the artillery attached to the brigade was under the unified command of Li Mingfeng, commander of the 2nd Brigade, and Xiao Yongzhi, member of the Political Committee, to immediately attack and advance south from the current station of Shihezi, and to force the crossing of the Uken River before 4 p.m.
Immediately after the completion of the forced crossing, with the strength of no less than one reinforced regiment, continue to forcibly penetrate to the south, cooperate with Du Kaishan's headquarters to seize the Qinglongshan line, block the westward advance detachment of the 6th Division to reinforce the 10th Division, and the main force will spread out the whole line after crossing the Uken River to besiege the westward troops of the 6th Division.
After deploying the flank action, Yang Zhen personally issued orders to the two columns of Wang Guangyu and Wang Xiaoming, who were commanding at the front, ordering all units to immediately enter the attack area, complete the final deployment no later than 7 p.m., make final preparations for attacking the Japanese 6th and 14th Divisions in front of them, and launch a full-front attack on the enemy in front of the Japanese army at 1 o'clock in the morning tomorrow.
During the direct call, Yang Zhen repeatedly asked the commanders of the two columns to ignore the threat of Japanese planes and to enter the designated areas of attack as quickly as possible; from now until 3 o'clock tomorrow morning, it will be less than 10 hours, and even if their tactical intentions are exposed, the Japanese army will not have time to change its deployment.
In order to enter the designated area for attack on time in accordance with the requirements of the headquarters, the two columns immediately launched their actions after receiving the order, braving the bombing and strafing of Japanese planes that passed by from time to time, and forcibly marched to the attack area issued by the headquarters.
The main combat area of the Second Column is at the junction of Tonghe and Yilan, which is located at the junction of the mountainous area at the southern foot of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains and the northeastern foot of Lao Yeling.
However, although the entire final march route was not long, most of them were in the plain area, and when they attacked the last area from the hidden area to the south, most of the march route was exposed on the Songjiang Plain, and as soon as the Japanese planes in the sky saw the marching troops and horses of the brigade below, they immediately pounced on them like flies smelling blood.
Fortunately, Xiao Yongzhi, the chief of staff of the column who had been transferred from Guannei and had experienced the Red Fourth Front Army's three crossings of the grassland and served as a regimental-level cadre during the Red Army, had rich experience; before he left, he vacated more than 20 trucks, mounted antiaircraft machine guns and 20-millimeter antiaircraft guns, and converted them into improvised self-propelled anti-aircraft fire points, which accompanied the army brigade so that he could provide air defense cover at any time.
A large number of anti-aircraft observation posts were deployed along the marching route, as well as a fixed fire network composed of regimental anti-aircraft machine guns and heavy machine guns, to closely monitor the Japanese aircraft and provide fire cover at any time.
In addition, most of the Japanese planes were transferred to the front line of Baoqing and Boli to support the 10th Division at this time, and the number of Japanese air forces with the Yilan area as the main combat direction was not large, and most of them were mainly reconnaissance planes and light bombers.
Although the Japanese air force posed a certain threat to the units of the 1st Column, the losses inflicted on the units of the 1st Column were not too great; except for the loss of a 75 mountain gun due to a frightened towing horse, and a car carrying grain was hit by a Japanese bomb, the heavy equipment did not suffer much loss, but on the contrary, it used a fixed and mobile anti-aircraft fire network to shoot down six Japanese planes that were carrying out dive bombing.
Braving the bombardment of enemy planes, the units of the two columns arrived at the large number of improvised positions that had already been built by the forward troops with both offensive and defensive positions as quickly as possible, and immediately carried out the final mobilization and preparations before the battle, distributed the ammunition as quickly as possible, and conveyed the attack order to the company and platoon commanders.
By 10 o'clock in the evening, the two columns and brigades had completed their final preparations, and the artillery units attached to them had also completed their final preparations for carrying out fire strikes, and were waiting for the order to attack the general attack.
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