Chapter 334: The Battle of Western Liaoning (2)

Originally, Washizu did this and wanted to brake quickly. He believed that although he had weakened the defensive force between Jianping County and Ye Baishou and Chaoyang, as long as he acted quickly, he would take advantage of his forward position Sidaoyingzi Mountain close to Xinhui County to attack the place where it must be saved first. And at the point, sufficient forces were guaranteed, and the enemy could not take advantage of this short gap.

Although he also thought that the no-man's land created by the Kwantung Army last year would bring concealment to the actions of his opponents. However, he did not expect his opponent to move faster than him, and just as he was shrinking his forces, Lee Myung-bak's subordinates, who had taken the lead in action, had begun to secretly infiltrate Jianping's two wings.

In fact, if it weren't for the repeated orders of Lee Myung-bak from his superiors, he would have taken a defensive posture in the Redong area. As for Lieutenant General Washjin Leadping's light front and heavy back, the deployment of combining points and faces has long made Lee Myung-bak's hands itch. This combat operation had already been thought about many times in his mind. His troops have always maintained first-level combat readiness.

If it weren't for the repeated orders from his superiors, and the fact that most of the troops under his command were transferred, the position he was holding on to was too important, and he would have been beaten out with a fist. With his usual militant problem, where would it be so comfortable for Washizu to stay in Liaoxi and Redong? Playing a large corps battle, his troops are not enough to play. He still has the capital to fight a division-level battle.

As soon as he received the order from the headquarters, he finally waited for the order from his superiors, and immediately started to act. Within a day and a half, the troops secretly set out in batches in battalions and companies, concentrating while marching. Within a day and a half, the whole army secretly arrived at the area where the attack was starting and completed the assembly at the same time.

This is much faster than the three days it took for the Japanese army to shrink and gather troops. In addition, the method of secretly mobilizing and assembling troops while marching in batches has also increased the need for concealment. With the battalion and company as the formation and transfer, the Japanese army found out and thought that he was adjusting the deployment at most.

Although he also knew that doing so would leave a lot of gaps in the defense. But his thoughts are similar to those of Lieutenant General Washitsu. He believed that as long as he acted quickly, concentrated his forces to defeat the Japanese army first, and controlled the initiative on the battlefield into his own hands, the Japanese army opposite him would not be able to stir up much wind.

And after the battlefield around Mukden started, Lee Myung-bak was even more confident. Judging from the situation around Fengtian, even if his actions are launched, there will be a lot of blanks behind him, and the remaining forces in his hands can only stick to the three points of Xinhui, Ningcheng, and Pingquan.

But as long as he preemptively moves enough troops to the west, the Japanese army will start on the line from Jianping to Ye Baishou, and the Japanese army will leave a large number of defensive forces on the Fuxin line behind him, if he wants to take advantage of the weakness, I am afraid that he will not have this ability. Unless he really doesn't want Fuxin, Beipiao, or even Montenegro.

It is true that there are not many troops in his hands, but the Japanese army in front of him is only the strength of two divisions. In addition, with the situation of having to protect his ass, even if he found that his defense line was exposed to a large number of gaps, how many troops could he invest in counterattacking?

If the troops in Washizu's hands were sufficient, he would not have put on such a strange defensive formation. According to his self-righteous defensive formation, even if he had half a division of troops at hand, the two support points of Sidao Camp and Jianping City would have been taken down for him a long time ago.

Take Jianping and Sidaoyingzi to level the front, control the entire Nuruer Hushan in their own hands, and the forward enters the Jincheng line, threatening the Bac Ninh Railway, and he will have to jump off the building with Lieutenant General Eagle Jin. It's a pity that he has more than enough troops at hand to protect himself, and his attacks are insufficient, and even if he barely attacks, he has no ability to continue attacking.

Now everyone is half a catty to eight taels in terms of the number of troops, who is afraid of whom. His own troops are insufficient, and his brother's troops have appeared behind his Vulture Lead. Unless they don't want their ass, they simply can't concentrate enough forces to threaten them.

This is also the main reason why after the battle began, he didn't care about the Japanese attack on Xinhui at all. He believes that as long as his troops going south can ensure that their movements are concealed and move fast enough after the battle starts, there will be no suspense about the outcome of this battle.

As a matter of fact, he did. His two interspersed troops arrived at the designated place, and the Japanese army did not notice it. In particular, the troops in ambush in the northwest of Jianping County, although they were placed between Sidaoyingzi Mountain and Jianping County, the Japanese troops at the two points were not aware of it.

In order to avoid the outposts of the Japanese army, the routes he chose for his troops were too hidden, and even many of the routes were the steepest and steepest parts of the Nurur Tiger Mountains. It made it a little hard for the interspersed troops, and they could only take mountain paths. In many cases, the artillery could only be disassembled to open the upper shoulder.

In order to carry as much ammunition as possible, almost all the cadres and fighters had to carry two shells while carrying their own weapons and ammunition. But compared with the sacrifices on the battlefield, this hardship is nothing to the cadres and soldiers of the Anti-Japanese Federation. Although the troops were very tired of doing this, it also ensured the maximum concealment of intersperse.

At this point, the Japanese side did a very poor job. Although their actions are also quite covert, and the Anti-Japanese Union does not have access to intelligence, they are the same. As soon as the plainclothes reconnaissance team, the so-called Iron Man Force, entered the mountainous area northeast of Jianping, some people began to flee in the name of plainclothes reconnaissance and straying.

On just one day of departure, the men ran two-thirds of the way. Although the Japanese troops were interspersed in a roundabout way, they also captured some of them and solved them directly with bayonets. But in the end, these guys still took advantage of the familiar terrain to run away a lot. A few people were directly captured by the alert and reconnaissance detachment sent by Lee Myung-bak.

There is no way, in this uninhabited mountainous area with an area of nearly 100 square kilometers, a few farmers or hunters suddenly appeared, and fools knew what they were doing. Who else could this be but a spy from the Japanese? As for whether these people are deserters or what, it doesn't matter to the Anti-Union.

When he learned that the two infantry brigades of the Japanese army belonged to the ironstone troops of the puppet Manchu army that had escaped from Rehe, they were secretly moving between Xinhui and Jianping, trying to ambush their own reinforcements of Xinhui's troops. Lee Myung-bak has not completely changed the original deployment. The original plan to attack Jianping remained unchanged, and he just retreated his ambush troops to the area where the Japanese army was preparing to ambush him. Take advantage of the terrain there and take the Japanese army by surprise first.

But although Lee Myung-bak's reaction was fast, the movements of Washizu Leadhei opposite him were not slow. Just when his troops arrived at the ambush site of the Japanese army, they happened to encounter the Japanese troops who rushed over to prepare to set up an ambush for the Anti-Japanese Alliance. Originally, they planned to take a siege to send reinforcements, and they wanted to ambush the two armies of the other side, but the original plan fell through.

First, the vanguard of the two armies fought unexpectedly, and as time went on and the follow-up troops arrived, more and more troops were also invested. This encounter, in which both sides were ultimately defeated, turned out to be a scuffle and a scuffle.

The front-line commanders on both sides tried to adjust their deployment and penetrate behind the enemy's forces in order to disrupt the enemy's position in front of them. But no matter how it is adjusted, under the relatively messy terrain in the mountainous area, the troops invested by the two sides are tightly bitten together. No one can get rid of anyone, so they can only fight like this.

The overall positional posture of both sides, you have me, and I have you, is not based on the overall offensive or defensive position. Rather, it was decided on the basis of the order in which the follow-up troops of both sides arrived. First, after an anti-Japanese elite squad and a Japanese search team encountered, they did not hesitate to fight.

A vanguard company of the Anti-Japanese Union and an infantry squadron of the vanguard of the Japanese army, which arrived immediately afterwards, quickly participated in each other. Immediately after that, the Japanese army, with two infantry squadrons and a search squadron of the vanguard force, plus a battalion of the iron and stone troops of the puppet Manchu army, relied on the superiority of troops, and first surrounded the vanguard of the two companies of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.

After the anti-Japanese coalition battalion that arrived immediately defeated a battalion of the Iron and Stone Army with its backhand, it carried out a flanking situation against the three Japanese squadrons with two companies surrounded by the Japanese army. Then the main forces of both sides arrived and began to fight completely. The two armies are fought together with me, and I have you.

Although the focus of the attack was first on the puppet Manchu army, the front-line troops of the Anti-Japanese Union were immediately attacked and quickly attacked, and took the lead in defeating the two regiments of the so-called Iron and Stone Army that cooperated with the Japanese army. He killed the commander of the unit he commanded in person, Major General Awano Shigeyoshi of the Manchurian Army, and captured the commander of the 37th Infantry Regiment of the Manchurian Army, a Japanese colonel of the Manchurian Army.

However, the Japanese army, which was not slow on its hands and feet, took the lead in seizing the commanding heights around the battlefield under the cover of this puppet Manchurian army, which was a threat to the joint combat forces. Although the deputy commander of the mountain division under the front-line command of the Anti-Japanese Union concentrated his forces many times to try to seize the commanding heights, he was entangled by other Japanese troops and failed due to the desperate resistance of the Japanese troops on the mountain.

After failing to seize the commanding heights in a short period of time, the front-line commanders, under the orders of Lee Myung-bak, immediately changed their deployments. Concentrate the troops, spread along the line of the ridge, and only advance to the strength of one battalion to contain the remnants of the infantry brigade of the so-called ironstone troops of the puppet Manchu army participating in the battle. The focus of the attack on the rest of the forces was still on the two Japanese brigades.

First defeat these two Japanese brigades, and then concentrate their forces to deal with the puppet Manchu army, whose morale was low and they were about to collapse. In this battle, this puppet Manchurian army, known as iron and stone, had low combat effectiveness and morale, which made the anti-Japanese alliance that had fought with it in Rehe feel a little incredible.

In the second half of last year, this puppet Manchurian army brought considerable losses to our two base areas behind enemy lines in eastern Hebei and Pingbei. Countless local cadres and local armed forces were lost at the hands of this puppet army. The only four main regiments of the Eastern Hebei Military Region also suffered more than half of the casualties in the battle against this puppet Manchurian armed force.

During last year's anti-sweeping operation, one of the principal responsible persons of the Eastern Hebei Military Region died at the hands of this armed force during the Panshan battle. It is precisely because he knows that his hands are stained with the blood of the anti-Japanese soldiers behind enemy lines, so this armed force, which is based on Chinese and composed of Japanese officers, always fights the battlefield.

Because they know that unlike other puppet armies, because they have done too many evils, their own compatriots will not let them go. In addition, before and after participating in the sweep of the base areas behind enemy lines last year, the Kwantung Army adjusted some of their unreliable commanders in this puppet army.

Major General Guo Wentong, commander of the 49th Puppet Cavalry Regiment, who was considered to have ** tendencies, was shot to death, and a large number of Japanese and Korean officers were involved. As a result, this unit has basically been militarized in Japan, except for ordinary soldiers and some officers below the battalion level who are so-called Manchurians.

During the battle in Rehe, this puppet Manchu army, which was privately called by the Northeast people as the hardcore traitors, once brought a lot of trouble to the offensive of the Anti-Japanese Federation in Chifeng and the offensive of the Advance Army in Chengde. Even many veterans did not fall under the guns of the Japanese army, but fell under the guns of this puppet army.