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Chapter 1,496: Iron and Stone Troops (please vote for me)

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    Soon, the casualties and losses of the troops were counted.

    When Lieutenant General Gao Pinbiao got the casualty data, he was shocked. 532 soldiers were killed and 376 wounded. 27 mountain guns were lost and 9 field guns were lost. The entire artillery regiment only had 12 guns left. A reinforced regiment  The team instantly transformed into an artillery brigade.

    Of the 112 tanks of the tank regiment, 94 were destroyed, and only 18 were withdrawn from the forward position unharmed.

    Although the casualties of the soldiers were not small, they were bearable, but the losses of those technical units were a bit painful.

    Especially the artillerymen and tank crews, each of them is an elite trained by the Empire of Japan who spent a lot of manpower and material resources. Unexpectedly, they were beaten to pieces after the first battle.

    What frightens Gao Pinbiao the most is that he encountered established US-made and Soviet-made equipment on the battlefield in Manchuria. The problems reflected behind this are unimaginable.

    Therefore, after the forward troops withdrew, Gao Pinbiao did not continue the attack. Instead, he treated the wounded and reported the situation to the Kwantung Army headquarters.

    After receiving the battle report from Gao Pinbiao from the front, Yamada Otsuzo and others were shocked. A large number of American-made and Soviet-made anti-tank weapons appeared on the battlefield. Could it be that the Soviets and Americans have also entered the game?

    This is not good news. They all know the current situation in Japan. All Japanese troops transferred from the Kwantung Army, the China Expeditionary Force, the Korean Army, and Japan to Southeast Asia and the Pacific have been blocked by the U.S. Air Force and Navy due to sea transportation.  Interrupted, a large number of transport ships were sunk, and many established troops and equipment were drowned or sank to the bottom of the sea without returning.

    In order to cope with the war situation in the south, the base camp continuously mobilized elites from the Chinese battlefield to go south. Especially as the largest strategic group of the Imperial Japanese Army abroad, the Kwantung Army was the most blood-sucked.

    According to the order issued by the base camp to the Kwantung Army Headquarters, it is planned to transfer 11 infantry divisions and one tank division from the Kwantung Army this year alone to strengthen the defense in the Pacific and participate in the operation to open up the mainland's communication lines.

    At present, 6 divisions have moved south, which has greatly weakened the Kwantung Army's combat capabilities.

    ¡°If the Soviet Union and the Americans interfere in Manchuria¡¯s military affairs at this time, or even take the initiative to launch an attack on the Imperial Japanese Army, the consequences will be disastrous.

    The Japanese have always been in a contradiction when it comes to dealing with the Soviet Union. First of all, the Soviet Union is the core of Germany-Japan relations. That is to say, the core focus of the strategic axis between Germany and Japan is the Soviet Union. However, there are fundamental differences in the current position of the Soviet Union.  contradiction.

    Germany hopes that Japan will actively contain the Soviet Union, while Japan, on the contrary, takes maintaining peace and tranquility with the Soviet Union as its basic policy.  It is natural for Germany, which is engaged in two frontal wars, to have such hope, and it is natural for Japan, which is investing its main military power in the war against the United States and Britain, to want to avoid irritating the Soviet Union as much as possible.

    So a long time ago, the Japanese had hoped that the Soviet Union and Germany would shake hands and make peace, and they conducted mediation for a period of time.

    But unfortunately, this plan ultimately failed. Faced with Germany's request to attack the Soviet Union northward, the base camp also gave a clear answer in Showa 18. Japan adhered to its established policy on the northern issue and made complete preparations.  On the one hand, we tried our best to prevent war with the Soviet Union.

    ¡°However, we will try our best to devote all our efforts to the battle to force Britain to surrender, and move towards the goal of completing the common war between the three countries.

    In other words, it is impossible for Japan to go to war with the Soviet Union before it ends the southern war. Yamada Otsuzo is very clear about this.

    Therefore, after receiving a telegram from Lieutenant General Gao Pinbiao from the front line, Yamada Otsuzo and his staff carefully discussed the possibility of the Soviets participating in the war.

    The final conclusion was that the Soviets may have secretly supported the anti-Japanese forces in China, but it was unlikely that the Soviet Red Army would personally participate in the war.

    The reason is that the Soviet Union is conducting a continuous counterattack against the German army. It has invested more than 7 million counterattack troops on the Western Front. It is simply impossible to invest troops to open a battlefield on the Eastern Front at this time. This is not in the national interest of the Soviet Union.

    In view of this, General Yamada Otsuzo immediately ordered the 29th Division to continue the attack. It was necessary to defeat the Chinese army facing them and rescue the 14th Division from the encirclement.

    In order to strengthen the frontline troops and ensure the flanks of the 29th Division, General Yamada once again sent a stern telegram to Major General Sakurada, the general adviser of the Iron and Stone Forces, ordering the troops to speed up and be sure to arrive in Linxi before 12 o'clock.  front.

    At the same time, the Kwantung Army Headquarters issued assembly orders to the Japanese and puppet troops in Fengtian, Jinzhou, Chengde and other places. Once the front lineWhen the war situation became unfavorable, troops from these places immediately sent reinforcements to the Western Front.

    Of course, Yamada Otsuzo did not forget to report the situation in Manchuria to Tokyo. After all, some things really needed to be confirmed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, otherwise the Soviet-Japanese Neutrality Treaty would really become a piece of waste paper

    Dividing line

    After receiving a call back from the Kwantung Army headquarters, the Japanese troops on the Linxi front line immediately continued to organize troops to launch an attack on Linxi County.

    But at this time, the Linxi garrison had received a large number of reinforcements, especially the addition of artillery and anti-tank troops, which fundamentally changed the firepower comparison on the battlefield. The national army turned from a disadvantage to an advantage, so next  In the attack, the Japanese army was obviously not as skillful as before.

    At 12:30 noon, the 29th Division finally received reinforcements - the Iron and Stone Troops.

    The Iron Stone Force is the general name of this force, but it is not the Japanese army, but a puppet army.

    In everyone¡¯s impression, the puppet soldiers are traitorous Japanese traitors who live in an ignoble existence for their own selfish interests, defecting to the Japanese and working as dogs for others.  Although these traitors and traitors are extremely vicious when they treat their compatriots, their weapons, equipment and combat effectiveness are very poor.

    Most of the puppet troops do not have heavy weapons, and can only serve as local troops to maintain public security. They have no ability to fight in the field. They will disperse when encountering the elites of the national army and will be defeated in an attack.

    But this is not absolute. Among all the puppet armies, there are still several "elites". The three most famous ones are the "Yellow Guards", the "Wu Ministry of Culture" and the Iron and Stone Troops.

    Xiong Jiandong, the commander of the "Yellow Guards", once worked under Dai Li. He was captured by the Japanese army in March 1939 and later surrendered to the enemy.

    Under the guidance of the Japanese army, Xiong Jiandong organized the puppet army "Yellow Guards", and there were many Huangpu students in the army.  For example, Zou Pingfan, the director of the General Staff Department, graduated from the sixth phase of Huangpu and was already a major general in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War. He was dismissed from his post for some reason and defected to the puppet army.

    In June 1941, the "Yellow Guards" encountered the Wan Fulin Department of the 116th Division of the Kuomintang Army when they were heading to Bailuo Airport.  These puppet troops with a large number of heavy weapons showed no mercy when facing the troops of their compatriots. Wan Fulin's troops suffered heavy casualties after a fierce battle.

    Half a month later, Wan Fulin's troops launched another attack on the "Yellow Guards", but still failed miserably and retreated.  In the winter of the same year, Xiong Jiandong led his troops to launch an active attack on the Kuomintang army, and together with the Japanese army, they destroyed the Kuomintang army's positions. This shows that the combat effectiveness of this puppet army is indeed extraordinary.

    The Ministry of Culture and Culture of Wu should not be underestimated. Wu was a subordinate of Feng Yuxiang in his early years. After the Central Plains War, he defected to the Chiang Army. Later, he became the commander of the 4th Independent Brigade in the Sulu Theater.  However, as the Shandong National Army troops fell into trouble under the Japanese attack, Wu began to collaborate with the enemy the next year and turned a blind eye when the Japanese attacked friendly forces.

    In January last year, Wu Huawen openly surrendered to the enemy after receiving Dai Li¡¯s secret edict to ¡°save the country through curves¡±.

    Wu Hua's Ministry of Culture and Culture, who surrendered to the enemy, helped the Japanese army defeat Zhou Guanglie's 51st Army and Liu Guitang's troops. The Sulu Theater, which was already in trouble, collapsed in an instant.

    "But these two Japanese armies are dwarfed by the iron and stone troops. Whether it is military strength, firepower or loyalty to the Japanese army, they are not on the same level at all.

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