In fact, Yang Zhen dared to do so when the Great War was approaching. He still has a certain amount of confidence in his heart. His confidence was brought to him by the three main brigades. He believed that the brigade commanders and political commissars of the three main brigades were absolutely reliable, and even if he was gone, as long as the commander-in-chief and Guo Bingxun were there, they would not be in a mess.

As for the three divisions, in Yang Zhen's opinion, there should be no big problem with the commander-in-chief. If there is a problem, it should be more in the newly formed units. The incident in the Luobei County Brigade sounded the alarm for Yang Zhen. It made him realize that the rapid expansion was not a good thing for a young army with a thin foundation. Especially when the casualty rate of the backbone is definitely not light.

The reason why Yang Zhen formulated this plan to hide from the sky and the sea was to let the Japanese army relax their vigilance. The second is also to see if there will be chaos in their own troops when they cannot command. More importantly, there will be some cases of fishing in troubled waters with ulterior motives.

Now that you've decided to take this plan, it's better to do a big cleaning all at once. The expansion of the army has been excessively fast, and there is an extreme shortage of personnel at all posts. The recruitment of troops was too hasty and the desire for educated cadres was excessive, which made the army mixed up in the process of expansion.

Of course, Yang Zhen didn't expect that under such a complicated situation, the troops would be as clear as a pool of water. Even among the four major field armies in later generations, when it comes to the absence of agents of the national army, I am afraid that no one will believe it. Yang Zhen had seen a document in his later life, which said that after the founding of the People's Republic of China, what happened in Beijing, if there was anything abnormal, the other side of the strait would know in three days.

What happens on the other side of the strait will be sent to the desk of the relevant departments in Beijing on the same day. Yang Zhen asked himself that he did not have the means of military command and secrecy bureau that the national army had been operating for more than ten years, or even decades.

There is no such thing as the ability of the old revolutionaries who fought hard for decades in a long-term and complicated environment after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Since the later generations were known as the Iron Curtain before the reform and opening up, the class struggle was greater than one qiē, and the country could not avoid leaking secrets by guarding against one enemy and special elements like a thief, not to mention that he is almost self-made now?

Knowing that it is impossible to completely eliminate it at all, Yang Zhen at least thinks that whether it is the main force or the local troops, whether it is a Japanese puppet spy or a person whose identity is a certain special department in Jiangbei, it must be eliminated. Jiangbei, in particular, must not let their hands penetrate too deep into their own troops.

Yang Zhen has always been used in Jiangbei, but he is more precautionary. He has always been very worried about Jiangbei's almost international banner, but in fact he puts his own interests first, and as long as his own interests are threatened, the means he uses can be described as the all-encompassing big brother who stretches his hand too long in his own troops.

Once that big brother thinks that his savings are a threat to his interests, I am afraid that he will turn his face faster than turning the page. Although Yang Zhen knew that at least until the end of World War II, as long as the Kwantung Army occupied the northeast for one day, there would not be, and could not be, too much estrangement between the two armies that used each other.

But Yang Zhen seems that although it is unlikely that he will fall out, he still needs to be vigilant. At least not to let them put their hands in their own troops. This big brother took a salary from the bottom of the kettle, plus Yang Zhen had heard too much about the matter of falling into the well in later generations. Therefore, his vigilance against Jiangbei is not inferior to that of the Japanese puppet army.

Yang Zhen did not overestimate his strength, although his absence caused a certain amount of turmoil in the troops. However, judging from Guo Bingxun's almost daily report telegram, on the whole, the three field brigades are still extremely stable. Several brigade commanders and political commissars have made it clear that they obey the command of the political commissar and chief of staff. Although they sent several telegrams almost a day, asking about Yang Zhen's condition. But they all tried their best to stabilize the feelings of the troops.

Although the 1st Division, which Chen Hanzhang took over as commander and political commissar, and the 3rd Division, led by Zhao Shangzhi, also sent telegrams to the commander-in-chief and the military region headquarters expressing their support for the command. It's just that the second division has not moved. Except for the telegram sent by the political commissar of the sub-district in his personal name to inquire about Yang Zhen's condition, the former commander of the Seventh Army, of which he was the commander, never said a word.

Regarding the delay in the second division's statement, Yang Zhen did not delve into it, nor did he make any statement. He only replied to a telegram that was waiting to see what was going on, and he didn't say a word more. He turned more of his energy to the upcoming new offensive of the Japanese army.

As soon as the Second Division, which had been transferred by General Umezu Mijiro to carry out a new round of purges, arrived in Jiamusi, Yang Zhen already knew. For this second division, which is fully equipped and is still a rare four-wing organization in the Japanese army, Yang Zhen attaches great importance to it and does not dare to relax in the slightest.

On the fifth day of Yang Zhen's pretended illness, with the resumption of the all-out air raid on Yang Zhenkong's area by the Japanese army, which had been quelled, the forced crossing of the Songhua River by the 4th Wing of the 2nd Division of the Japanese Army was marked by the 2nd phase of the battle of Xiajiang. After calming down for less than a few days, the sound of artillery once again resounded on both sides of the Songhua River.

On the same day that the 4th Wing of the 2nd Division and the 4th Regiment forcibly crossed the Songhua River, reinforced by the Divisional Engineer Wing and the Search Wing, the 14th Wing of the 25th Division of the Japanese Army, which had been stagnant on the front line of the Haoliang River, launched a fierce attack to the north under the cover of artillery. There was a fierce battle with the backbone regiment of the three divisions around it.

In order to avoid a recurrence of the situation in the first stage of the battle, due to the division of troops to the north, the opponent led to snipe layer by layer to weaken the situation again. This time, Umezu Yoshijiro did not use the tactics that the Japanese army used to combine with each other, flanking and frontal attacks. Instead, all four wings of the 2nd Division were thrown into attack at once. The tactic of three wings marching together and one wing responding to each other was adopted.

As a veteran powerhouse of the Japanese army. The 2nd Division, which together with the 6th Division, became one of the two divisions with the strongest combat effectiveness of the Japanese army, and was one of the few four-unit divisions in the Kwantung Army under the current situation of a large number of new divisions and regiments in the Japanese army. The combat effectiveness of the Second Division can be described as extremely strong.

After the September 18 Incident, it was the Second Division, which was the only division of the Kwantung Army at that time, that occupied the entire northeast with more than 20,000 troops in one division. Although there were factors outside the battlefield, the fact that the 2nd Division was able to defeat the resistance of all parts of the Northeast in a short period of time also proved that its combat effectiveness should not be underestimated.

As for Lieutenant General Anjing Toji, the commander of the Second Division, he was Yang Zhen's old acquaintance. The two of them once faced each other directly at the Wudaolingzi Iron Mine. Although Yasui Fujiji didn't know that the two had ever been close to each other, Yang Zhen had seen the dignity of His Excellency the division commander.

When Yang Zhen was highlighting Harbin, it was the troops of the Second Division that were still stationed in Harbin at that time under the command of Lieutenant General Yasui Toji, who had just been transferred to the commander of the Second Division. It's just that the pursuers commanded by Toji Yasui were thrown off by Yang Zhen using ingenious means.

It can also be regarded as an old acquaintance that the two armies met again, and great enthusiasm broke out with each other. The intensity of its firepower was not even comparable to the fiercest battle of Songhu between China and Japan.

With the lessons of the 24th Division, after crossing the Songhua River, Yasui Fujiji appeared to be a little cautious. Not only did they send a large number of sharp soldiers as scouts to conduct a rigorous search of all the advance routes, but they even concentrated artillery fire and bombarded indiscriminately whenever there was a disturbance.

Seeing the style of the Second Division, Liu Changshun and Wang Xiaoming, who knew that the Japanese army had suffered a big loss and could not be fooled, could only give up the tactics that Wang Guangyu had used to set up a mobile ambush, which they had originally planned to adopt, and could only rely on the terrain to resist and fight a tough blocking battle.

The Second Division of the Japanese Army has been famous for a long time, and its combat effectiveness can definitely be said to be extremely strong. As soon as they came up, under the cover of the planes and the mountain artillery directly under the division, they took a wave-like attack on Liu Changshun's blocking position. The momentum and strength of his attack are so fierce that he still rarely fights and blocks, and more often takes a roundabout attack for the first time Liu Changshun has seen it.

From the north bank of the Songhua River to the Jiangjun Stone in Heli territory, except for a few Mangang, almost all of them are plain areas, and they can only rely on these few Mangang terrain to fight hard, and Liu Changshun, who encountered the hard-nosed Liu Changshun, fought extremely the first day.

After a day of fierce fighting, although the three battalions serving as the first wave of blocking troops held the north of the Songhua River, Wang Guangyu disabled the earthen hill of the 89th Wing, but they also suffered a great price of casualties. After the fierce fighting on the first day, the three battalions could only barely cobble together into one battalion, and the casualty rate was as high as sixty percent.

Under the overwhelming superiority of the Japanese army's ground-to-air firepower, Liu Changshun's brigade mountain artillery battalion was directly removed from the right to speak, except for pumping cold shots and firing a few cold cannons to slow down the Japanese offensive. Liu Changshun's unit, which had lost fire support, could only rely on light and heavy machine guns and rifles, and under the cover of a small number of mortars, it was difficult to block the offensive of the Second Division.

In order to reduce casualties, Liu Changshun, after consulting with Wang Xiaoming and Ma Chunsheng, tried his best to adopt close combat tactics and used a large number of automatic firearms equipped with his hands to fight close combat with the Japanese army. But even so, after the fierce battle on the first day, the field fortifications built before the war were almost razed to the ground by the Japanese army's ground-to-air firepower soon after the battle began, and Liu Changshun's troops also suffered an unimaginable price.

When Liu Changshun was stomping his feet in distress about the casualties of the troops, Yasui Toji's life was not easy. After a day of fierce fighting, not only was the consumption of artillery shells extremely great, almost half of the artillery shells of the second division were destroyed, and the two brigades involved in the attack were also crippled. 'Paying the price of more than half of the casualties of the two brigades, but failing to occupy the opponent's first line of blocking position, it really made Yasui Fujiji look gloomy. Despite his mental preparation, he didn't expect his opponent to be so difficult. At a distance of less than fifty meters, their own attacking troops absolutely did not shoot.

And when the attacking troops advanced to about fifty meters, they suddenly opened fire. They were greeted by an overwhelming barrage of grenades, and then a rain of bullets from a large number of automatic firearms. Its light and heavy machine guns, mortars, and grenadiers form long-range lethal firepower, separating the attacking troops from the follow-up units, so as to facilitate their fire strikes against the attacking troops. After a day's attack, the two infantry brigades in the vanguard were brutally crippled.

In the face of his opponent's almost seemingly scoundrel style of play, Yasui Toji was almost at a loss. Fighting close combat was originally the strength of the Japanese army. During the battle in Kannai, the Japanese army did not rely on the ability of white-knuckle warfare to defeat the resistance of the government forces in China. But in the face of an opponent with a huge number of automatic firearms, Yasui Fujiji found that the Japanese army's usual tactics were almost like sending themselves to their deaths.

Because they don't give you a chance to fight a white-knuckle battle at all, as long as the attacking troops are within fifty meters of their position, and the artillery is useless. They used a large number of automatic firearms equipped with a large number of automatic firearms to sweep at the attacking troops approaching the position, and forcefully routed their own attacks. The troops who had launched several attacks had even broken into the opposing positions, only to be driven out by the large number of submachine guns they had.

When the last charge was defeated by the rogue tactics of the opponent, the offensive of the 2nd Division was decisively stopped by Fujiji Yasui, who could no longer bear the continuous increase in casualties.

Lieutenant General Yasui Toji, who looked a little irritable and was severely reprimanding the three wing commanders who had barely made any progress in the next day's attack. Hattori Takushiro Nakasa, who was sent by General Umezu Mijiro to supervise the battle, secretly shook his head and smiled bitterly for a while, although he didn't want to interfere with Yasui Fujiji's command, he finally spoke up to dissuade him: "Lieutenant General Yasui, please calm down." ”

"The opponent's ability to defeat Lieutenant General Genbo's 24th Division has already shown its fierce combat effectiveness like ours. Judging from the tactics adopted by the opponent in today's blocking battle, the difficult Cheng dù of the opponent in front of us is beyond our imagination. So, today's small setbacks are normal. ”

"It's just that I don't understand one thing, the supreme commander has lost command of the troops because he vomited blood and fell into a coma, and who is the one who directs the enemy in front of us to fight against us? I don't believe that there is anyone else in this force who can command this force except that cunning fellow? ”

Speaking of which. Hattori Takushiro raised his head and said to Lieutenant General Toji Yasui: "Your Excellency Yasui, did you find anything in the Second Cavalry Wing that you sent to search for the opponent's other units?" ”

Although he was a little dissatisfied because Hattori Takushiro interrupted his lecture, Yasui Fujiji did not show any dissatisfaction on his face. Regarding Hattori Takushiro's question, he just said lightly: "The search range of my Second Cavalry Wing has been expanded to a range of thirty kilometers. Apart from these cunning opponents in front of us, we have yet to find any other opponents. ”

Yasui Fujiji's answer, Hattori Takushiro pondered for a while, and then said to Yasui Fujiji: "Your Excellency Yasui, I hope you can expand the search range of your cavalry wing by another twenty kilometers. Especially at night, when our reconnaissance planes cannot appear, we must conduct a close search within a radius of 50 kilometers. ”

Speaking of this, Hattori Takushiro looked at the reluctant Yasui Fujiji and said, "Your Excellency Yasui, Lieutenant General Nemoto Bo just suffered the loss of the opponent who took advantage of the night to detour his flank. And, I also figured out guò your 2nd Cavalry Wing search to determine one thing. ”