Chapter 145: Soldiers Coming to Xinjing

Muto Nobuyoshi intuitively felt that he must have the shadow of Nanjiro, an old guy, behind his resignation this time, and he was indignant in his heart, this is a typical politician and bureaucrat, but not quite like a soldier.

Even within the military circles, Minamijiro is not famous for his outstanding military talents, but has maintained today's high position with his superb political skills.

The base camp actually used such a person to serve as the supreme commander of the Kwantung Army, and the situation in Manchuria can only be worse, it's just a joke, when I return to the mainland, I must appeal, maybe there will be a day when I return.

Muto Nobuyoshi did not get a chance, soon after returning to Japan, because of repeated defeats in Manchuria, the situation was eroded, the Kwantung Army was shouting and killing, in order to calm the anger of the public, the Japanese army base camp ordered him to transfer to the reserve, and since then he has withdrawn from the military circles, and the scenery is no longer beautiful, but he escaped the severe trial of the Far East Military Tribunal after World War II.

And Nanjiro did not make the situation in Manchuria worse as he estimated, this old devil made full use of his own advantages, using all kinds of tricks, mainly military encirclement and suppression, supplemented by surrender, division, and inducement, and used the main force to encircle and suppress the anti-Japanese alliance, and for other anti-Japanese forces, he used all means.

During his tenure as supreme commander of the Kwantung Army, the anti-Japanese armed forces in the northeast were sharply reduced from more than 45,000 to more than 13,000.

Since then, this old devil has actively promoted the autonomy of North China and eastern Hebei, and has been the vanguard of Japan's all-out invasion of China.

Nanjiro did not get valuable information in his conversation with Muto Nobuyoshi, and Muto Nobuyoshi did not even have the most basic information about this so-called bloody hand group, which made Nanjiro full of contempt for Muto Nobuyoshi.

It's just a warrior, his defeat is inevitable, he doesn't understand that in the land of Manchuria, military strikes and political means are equally important, Nanjiro looks at the military map left by Muto Nobuyoshi, and feels that the strength of the Kwantung Army is still not enough, in such a large area, hundreds of thousands of troops, like a few stones thrown into the sea.

After Muto Nobuyoshi left in disgrace, he immediately sent an urgent telegram to the base camp, in addition to enumerating Muto Nobuyoshi's mistakes, the most important thing was to request an increase in troops from the mainland to Manchuria, at least four divisions, more than 150,000 people.

Then, he began to solve the East Manchurian problem, and instead of immediately mobilizing the main forces of the Kwantung Army on the front line of West Manchurian Andong like Muto Nobuyoshi, he convened several military meetings at the rank of wing commander and above.

In addition to reviewing the military defeats of the past, the comprehensive reflection of the devil officers at all levels in Tongguò, Lieutenant General Nishio Shuzo, his chief of staff, summed up the operational characteristics of the Bloody Hand Regiment, and in every battle, he would encircle and annihilate our outstanding Kwantung Army troops with absolutely superior forces, and he was extremely ferocious in firepower, and he was good at long-distance raids to attack our weak links.

Not to mention, Nishio built this old devil, his military literacy made up for Minamijiro's weakness, and the points he summarized were generally reliable.

Subsequently, Nanjiro merged all the spies and intelligence agencies in Manchuria and established the Intelligence Headquarters of the Kwantung Army, which commanded the intelligence work in Manchuria in a unified manner, extended its tentacles to all corners of the northeast, and went all out to collect all the information related to the Bloody Hand Regiment.

Tang Qiuli, who was training troops in Mudanjiang, did not know his opponent yet, and he had already changed Nanjiro, who was not good at military literacy, but was good at playing with political skills.

He was planning a larger military operation, taking advantage of all the mobile forces of the devils, and still staying on the front line of West Manchuria, and the empty troops in other areas, he took it by surprise and captured the so-called capital of the puppet Manchukuo, Xinjing (now Changchun City, Jilin Province).

He now has more than 20,000 troops in his hands, and he has the strength to do so, so he has not yet determined the next direction of the bloody hand regiment in command of the devil, and then beat him severely.

After the combat plan was decided, he ordered all detachments of the special detachment operating around Xinjing to go all out to collect all the intelligence on Xinjing, and at the same time, to get in touch with Qiusheng who remained at the base, and activate the Xinjing intelligence network to collect military information on Xinjing for the troops.

Three days later, the second, third, and fourth detachments of the Bloody Hand Regiment, as well as the cavalry detachment, artillery detachment, and special detachment, totaling more than 23,000 troops, left the Mudanjiang area and rushed to the periphery of Xinjing.

The recruits recruited from Andong, coupled with the recruits recruited in the East Manchurian Campaign, now the total number of recruits trained at the base has reached more than 14,000 people, which is a great pressure on the training of recruits at the base.

Out of secrecy, the goal of the unit's operation this time was only passed to the level of captain, ordinary soldiers, and they didn't know where to fight, but their feelings were very high, more than 20,000 people, and they were afraid of little devils

The troops crossed the Zhang Guangcai Ridge, crossed the Songhua River and the Yinma River, and along the way, uprooted the Japanese pseudo-strongholds, what they wanted was this kind of momentum, the main force of the devils was far away, and the time difference was to fight, and Liankeshulan, Jiutai and other places, five days later, arrived at the periphery of Xinjing.

At this time, Xinjing was already in a panic, since Muto Nobuyoshi transferred all the mobile troops in various places in order to encircle the main force of the Bloody Hand Regiment, and now Xinjing, there is only a reinforced wing of the Devil Xinjing Garrison, about 5,000 people, and the strength of the puppet Manchukuo Capital Division of about 8,000 people.

The rest is a military police headquarters under the jurisdiction of two military police brigades, with a strength of about 1,800 people, and the rest are armed with police, spies, and so on.

Minamijiro and Nishio, who are nervously planning to restore law and order in the East Manchurian area, did not expect the bloody hand group to come to this hand, and they were so anxious that they were about to vomit blood, what kind of place is Xinjing, they know better than anyone else the symbolic significance of Xinjing in Manchukuo, and the main force is still in the Andong area, even if it is to fly with wings, it is too late.

The sudden move of the Bloody Hand Regiment was not only unexpected by Nanjiro, an old devil, but also disrupted Nanjiro's overall deployment, he did not expect that Bloody Hand Qiuli would have such a bold move and dare to attack the capital of Manchukuo, at this time, he somewhat understood Muto Nobuyoshi's mood.

In addition to ordering the defenders of Jilin, Dehui, Nong'an, Gongzhuling, Siping, Yitong and other places around Shinkyo to abandon their current strongholds, and to reinforce Shinkyo at any cost, Nanjiro also negotiated with the commander of the Kwantung Army Air Force to send planes to support the Shinkyo front.

This is exactly what Tang Qiuli wanted, originally to fight Xinjing, in order to attract devils from all over the country to come for reinforcements, so as to achieve the goal of eliminating the devils' living forces, otherwise, they would not attack Xinjing with great fanfare.

Xinjing can be beaten down, and if it can't be beaten, it will be fought in the surrounding small towns, in short, this battle of Xinjing is to eliminate the living force of the devils, and at the same time, to cause greater political influence and disrupt the deployment of the devils, which is Tang Qiuli before the troops set off. Words to commanders at all levels.

The reinforcements of devils from all walks of life were originally relatively small, and the two largest of them were from Jilin and Gongzhuling, each with more than 2,000 people, and under the strict orders of Nanjiro, they advanced in the direction of Xinjing regardless of a qiē.

Halfway through, they entered the ambush circle that had been arranged by the Bloody Hand Regiment long ago, and with a fierce artillery fire and the concentration of absolutely superior troops, in less than four hours, more than 4,000 devils were wiped out.

The other devils who reinforced Xinjing also suffered the same fate, after Su Jingfeng came back, he was still very dissatisfied, swallowed it in one bite, and before he could taste anything, the little devils were all finished, and this battle was not enjoyable.

After cleaning up the devil's reinforcements, the troops surrounded Xinjing, and the cities in the northeast, due to the late establishment, almost did not have city walls, which was not like in the Guannei, where all the slightly larger cities had ancient city walls, which caused great difficulties to the attacking troops.

In addition to the fact that Xinjing has no city walls, his urban defense system is almost blank, because this is the capital of Manchukuo, and no matter which devil senior commander, he never thought that there would be anti-Japanese forces who would dare to attack the capital.

The captain of the devil's Xinjing garrison, Yoshio Minda's mouth was bitter, he finally spent a lot of money last year, and he also took his wife's body to make a beautiful difference in the base camp, and went to Xinjing to be the commander of the city defense.

This place is really good, you don't have to go to the front line to fight with the Anti-Japanese Union, the headquarters of the Kwantung Army is in Mukden, far away from here, on this ground, I, Yoshio Minda, am the emperor.

Don't look at the Manchukuo Emperor Puyi here, that's a decoration, what's up to me to say, these big and small officials in Manchukuo, no less filial piety, less than a year of hard work, not only earned back the capital, but also got a few concubines, these days, the gods

But how can I think about it, I don't know how to fight the anti-Japanese forces that came out, this anti-Japanese armed force still has so many troops, and then look at these soldiers under his command, either the children of rich families, or the relationship is trusted, and they come here through the back door to gild and enjoy happiness, they are all young masters' lambs.

None of them have ever fought on the front line, and the common people who usually bully and bully Manchuria are still successful, if they really go to the battlefield, they will not have to be numb, as for the Manchurian soldiers, they can't even point to it, and it is estimated that they can't even use guns.

According to the meaning of Yoshio Minda, all the troops withdrew from Xinjing and moved closer to Harbin, which also saved the need to be wiped out by the anti-Japanese forces

But looking at the telegram in his hand, how dare he, Commander Nanjiro said a few words in the telegram: "Defend Xinjing, if you lose it, shoot it with your own hands" Look, even a decent suicide by disembowelment.

There was no way, Yoshio Minda, who had never fought at all, hurriedly convened a joint meeting, and after that, all the armed forces that could be mobilized were rushed to the fortifications on the periphery of Xinjing, saying that they were fortifications, which were temporarily dug trenches, and fortunately, the Shina armed forces did not attack immediately, otherwise, it would not even be possible to fix this shallow ditch.

Yoshio Toshida stood at a vantage point, holding a telescope to observe the situation, and when his lens turned to the southeast direction of Shinjing, his face was gray, and the beads of sweat on his head came down......

(To be continued)