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Chapter 1583: Kwantung Army¡¯s Counterattack (3)

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    After learning that the Japanese army was preparing to encircle Lu Zhanwu's headquarters, Li Guoyao personally called the headquarters of the Sixth Reorganized Division and inquired about the situation of the troops, especially the amount of supplies and ammunition reserves, and decided to let Lu Zhanwu's headquarters defend Phoenix Mountain.

    According to the reply from Lu Zhanwu¡¯s headquarters, there are currently about 73,000 troops in the Fenghuang Mountains, including more than 50,000 troops with combat experience. The rest are all prisoners of war during this period and newly recruited recruits.

    In addition, through the trophies seized from previous operations to encircle and annihilate the 108th Division and conquer Shulan, Jiaohe, Dunhua and other places, the troops have accumulated more than 1 million kilograms of food, more than 8 million rounds of bullets, and artillery shells on the front line of Phoenix Mountain.  More than 30,000 rounds and more than one million grenades.

    In addition, the troops also have more than 200 tons of explosives and a large number of empty shells. If there is enough time, these explosives are enough to reload 15 million rounds of ammunition.

    "Some people have guns, ammunition and food, and they also occupy an absolute terrain advantage. Moreover, Phoenix Mountain is not an independent hilltop, but a large mountainous area. There is enough strategic room for maneuver, and you can definitely fight the little devils here.

    Of course, it is unrealistic for all the more than 70,000 troops to stay in Fenghuang Mountain. At that time, Li Guoyao ordered Wang Lijuan to command the elites of 8 regiments to evacuate Fenghuang Mountain urgently, pass through the Fenghuang Mountain Grand Canyon, and move to the primeval forest of the crater southwest of Mudanjiang to wait for cover.  .

    In addition, Lu Zhanwu personally commanded the remaining more than 50,000 troops to deploy defenses along the northeast, southwest and northwest directions of Fenghuang Mountain, using the mountainous areas along the way to continuously block the Japanese attack and exhaust the strength of the Japanese and puppet troops.

    In Li Guoyao's view, although the pressure on Lu Zhanwu's command was considerable in this battle, if the Japanese army wanted to reach the main peak of Phoenix Mountain, the price they would pay would definitely be beyond imagination.

    ¡° And Li Guoyao also believes that with Lu Zhanwu¡¯s combat experience in recent years, the Japanese army is still a little overwhelmed in positional offensive and defensive warfare with its current strength.

    The most important thing is that once so many Japanese and puppet troops are attracted to Phoenix Mountain, there will not be many little devils in the vast area from Mudanjiang south to Jilin to the west. There are at least twenty counties and districts in this line.  There¡¯s a lot to be done!

    So when the Japanese army plotted against the Jiujiu Army, Li Guoyao also plotted against them!

    The Japanese army planned to annihilate some of Li Guoyao's troops, while Li Guoyao wanted to spread the fire of the Ninth Army throughout the Northeast.

    At this time, the fighting in the northeastern periphery is still continuing!

    ¡°However, both General Li Guoyao and General Yamada Yisan knew that the peripheral battle was basically meaningless, and continuing to fight would only increase casualties.

    It is a foregone conclusion that the Ninth Army will conquer Rehe, but it is impossible to break through the front line of the Outer Great Wall and enter the pass. After all, the North China Front Army is not a vegetarian. Tens of thousands of elite troops are stationed at various passes of the Great Wall in a fight to the death.

    If a forceful attack is carried out regardless of the consequences, it will inevitably affect the fighting in the rear. Moreover, the Kwantung Army has also mobilized reinforcements from Changchun, Fengtian and other places to southern Manchuria. The next focus of both sides is to fight for the passages inside and outside the pass.

    Therefore, after several days of fierce fighting along the Great Wall, the enthusiasm began to fade. Chow Tai Fook's troops did not take any advantage, and the Japanese did not have the ability to counterattack Jehol, and the battle entered a stalemate.

    But both sides know that withdrawal of troops is inevitable. The reason why they are still fighting and fighting is entirely due to the fighting in the hinterland of Northeast China.

    In the Chaoyang and Fuxin front lines, although the national army occupied these places, Japanese reinforcements also arrived one after another. In addition, there were many troops stationed in Jinzhou itself. Soon the number of Japanese and puppet troops on this line reached three divisions.  In addition to two mixed brigades, there are also a large number of puppet troops, with a total strength of more than 60,000.

    Although the strength of Gao Hu's troops is not much worse than that of the Japanese army, they are not sure of defeating the Japanese army. The two sides started a confrontation on the front lines of Yixian and Qidaoling Town.

    On the contrary, Zhang Shaolin's troops on the Qiqihar front line have been making a lot of noise in the past few days. After completing the infiltration into Longjiang, Gannan and other places, Zhang Shaolin gave full play to the troops' advantages of being flexible and good at mountain warfare, and continued to attack.  Qiqihar went to the Japanese and puppet army strongholds on the Hailar front line to provoke the Japanese and puppet troops in the border areas.

    The headquarters of the Japanese 4th Army stationed on this line was immediately overwhelmed. With fewer troops dispatched, it was easy to be attacked. Once heavily encircled and suppressed, the opponent disappeared into the mountains and forests in an instant.

    ¡° Mobilizing one or two brigades or even more troops to venture deep into the mountains and forests for the hundreds or thousands of enemy troops, let alone whether it was worth it, the mere defense loopholes exposed made the Japanese army even more frightened.

    You must know that not far from Hailar is the border between China and Mongolia. The Japanese suffered a big loss there a few years ago.He was pinned to the ground by the Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces and rubbed hard for several months, resulting in the loss of 50,000 to 60,000 troops.

    At present, the Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces have assembled a large number of elite troops there, and they have been conducting exercises from time to time, constantly irritating the Kwantung Army's nerves. At this time, it is impossible for them to mobilize too many troops to encircle and suppress Zhang Shaolin's headquarters.

    In desperation, the Japanese army could only order the defenders in various places to strengthen defense and ignore the provocation of the Chinese army.

    ¡° In this way, the Japanese army virtually abandoned the rural areas on this front line, and Zhang Shaolin¡¯s troops quickly expanded their influence to the vast countryside between Qiqihar and Hailar.

    On the front line of Shuangyashan, Wu Tiancheng's troops continued to play the role of "stirring sticks" and kept jumping up and down on this line. Today they would hit a coal mine, tomorrow they would clean up a forest farm, or they would sneak attack on a station.

    In short, there was no big movement, but it was so exciting that the little devil almost vomited blood. He could only continue to mobilize troops to encircle and suppress the headquarters.

    "But once the Japanese army attacked heavily, Wu Tiancheng's troops would retreat to the mountainous area southwest of Jiamusi, and then they would not be able to get out.

    The terrain on this line is steep and the Japanese troops have limited strength and cannot attack by force, so they can only stop outside the mountainous areas.

    The two sides were chasing and fighting. Although it was lively, there was no substantial progress.

    Therefore, in the Northeast battlefield at this time, what really attracted everyone's attention was the encirclement and suppression operations on the Phoenix Mountain front line. Once the Japanese army completely annihilated the national troops on this front line, tens of thousands of the main force would be freed up, and then concentrate all their efforts to defeat the national troops in the Northeast region.  The troops were defeated one by one and restored to the previous situation.

    However, just when the Jiujiu Army and the Kwantung Army Headquarters were locked in a deadly fight, regrettable news came from the battlefield inside the Kwantung River. Changning was lost. In addition, Okamura Neji was transferred from North China.

    Since the Japanese army launched the operational plan to open up the mainland's communication lines in February this year, the national army has been defeated almost across the board. Although the situation in North China was due to Li Guoyao's full-line counterattack to stop the decline, the situation in Central China was not so lucky.

    Originally, Li Guoyao hoped that the Chinese army could make a breakthrough in the defense of Hengyang. After all, their side had indeed greatly restrained the main force of the Japanese army and affected the mobilization of the Japanese army in Central China.

    Especially the Japanese 12th Army, which was originally going to move south from Henan, had to stick to Luoyang due to the comprehensive counterattack of the national army and was unable to fight south at all.

    But it is a pity that the national army is still the same national army, and the war situation has not changed at all.

    In early August, Commander Fang Xianjue, who had led his troops to bravely fight against the Japanese for 47 days, surrendered to the Japanese. By this time, his 10th Army had been besieged by the Japanese at multiple levels.  The ability to go down.

    The Tenth Army began to defend Hengyang on June 28, and on the same day severely wounded Lieutenant General Sakuma, the commander of the enemy's 68th Division.  At that time, there were still green crops everywhere in the rice fields around Hengyang.

    But when Hengyang was stained with blood as the army continued to fight without foreign aid until early August, the surrounding rice fields unexpectedly turned golden.

    At this time, the 10th Army had fought to the point of exhaustion, and most of the remaining soldiers were seriously injured and seriously ill. However, there were still thousands of people who could still fight, and they were only 15 kilometers away from the reinforcements to the west.

    Under such circumstances, the army did not break out in order to maintain its honor of defending Changsha, fighting bravely in Changde, and blood-staining Hengyang. Instead, it took a step that is not allowed and unforgivable for Eastern soldiers - laying down its weapons.  , stop resisting.

    On the evening of August 7, the army sent personnel to contact the positions of the enemy's 116th Division and 68th Division.  However, the personnel of the 116th Division were referred to the headquarters of Tsutsumi Mikio of the 68th Division.

    ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Intsumi Mikio, Iwanaga Ou, and Mori Suehiro are all division commanders, but have different qualifications.  Tsutsumi Mikio graduated from the 22nd class of the Army Military Academy in 1910, while Iwanaga Ou graduated from the 24th class of the Army Military Academy in 1912. Mori Suehiro was also junior than Tsutsumi Mikio, having graduated from the Army Military Academy in 1911.  Graduation of the 23rd class.

    The personnel system in the Japanese army places great emphasis on seniority.  Although Tsutsumi Mikio had just become the division commander from the brigade commander, due to his seniority, this matter had to be handled through him first.

    On August 8, after Fang Xianjue and Tsutsumi Sanshunan held discussions in the Catholic church in the south of the city, the four defenders' divisions soon stopped resisting.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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