Age of Rebirth

Tang Qiuli couldn't help smiling. The teacher pointed to Chen Feng, the director of the Communication Department. This person who holds the confidential center of the Independent Division and the core figure in the communication power is quite an interesting person. He is usually taciturn. If the telegram he receives is good news , his expression is definitely indifferent. If it is bad news, he will look nervous and serious, so much so that I gave him the nickname "Ominous Bird", but he has a weird expression, which is the first time he has seen arrive.

"Director Chen, I'm used to your two expressions, but I can't figure out the current expression. What happened?" Before Chen Feng could speak, Tang Qiuli half-jokingly said .

After listening to the teacher's joke, Chen Feng also burst into laughter, and shook his head repeatedly and said: "It's really weird. I just received a telegram from Wang Dongshan, the commander of Fengtian's reinforcements. Afterwards, they turned to the direction of Manduhu and defended the [-]nd Brigade of the Shandong Garrison District in Manduhu. After a round of shelling, the Kwantung Army's Liaoxi Assault Corps collapsed without warning, and tens of thousands of people ran everywhere!"

"What?" Tang Qiuli was surprised, and exchanged glances with Ge Zhenzhuang. It was indeed an unbelievable strange thing. Umezu Yoshijiro led more than [-] people, and came in a fierce manner. Before they fought, they dispersed What are you kidding?

It stands to reason that the Kwantung Army's Liaoxi Assault Corps was defeated after a short battle, and it was a good thing to remove the threat to Hantie's troops, but Tang Qiuli had absolutely no sense of comfort in his heart. The battle of Fengtian's aid is not what is needed the result of.Two purposes, to wipe out the Kwantung Army of this unit, and to destroy the hidden strength of the Kwantung Army in Fengtian City.They were all exhausted, and the most important thing was to kill or capture General Umezu Yoshijiro, the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army.

But now the Kwantung Army's Liaoxi Assault Corps broke up in a hurry. The well-planned encirclement battle has turned into a chase, and there will inevitably be fish that slip through the net. What's the matter?Tang Qiuli couldn't help frowning. "What countermeasures did Wang Dongshan take in response to this unexpected situation?" He asked with the corners of his mouth twitching a few times, feeling a little absurd.

Chen Feng replied: "Commander Wang Dongshan is in the telegram. He reported his response plan. The four brigades in the Shandong Garrison Area will immediately press down from their current positions in the direction of Fengtian. And expand the range to the two wings as much as possible. As for the three brigades on the front line of Sujiatun and Hong, each left a regiment of troops, and the rest of the troops rushed forward, also connecting with the troops of the Shandong Garrison on the two wings, forming a huge encirclement, and then gradually compressed to the central area! "

"Well. Wang Dongshan's response plan is very good, and his response is quick. It is deployed properly!" Tang Qiuli nodded in satisfaction and said, "Director Chen, call Wang Dongshan back, and the teacher agrees with your battle plan, and the battle of reinforcements outside Fengtian It is not a battle that is in a hurry to end, but it can be dealt with calmly and steadily, with the principle of not letting any of the defeated Kwantung Army slip through the net!" After pondering for a while, he went on to say: "As for the Japanese chief Umezu Yoshijiro, he can be killed or captured. But there is no need to rush for success because of this, so as to affect the original deployment!"

Chen Feng and Ge Zhenzhuang left one after another. The call back to Wang Dongshan just now, even though he said that, Tang Qiuli felt a little regretful in his heart. Looking at the current battlefield situation, Umezu Yoshijiro probably slipped away in the chaos. The big net, but the fish exploded, could it be that this guy is dying?" He sighed and thought.

Killing or capturing Umezu Yoshijiro was not only because he was the current commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army. The death of this person was the biggest blow to the morale of the Kwantung Army. In real history, this man whose hands were stained with Chinese blood One of the main culprits in the war of aggression against China, he single-handedly concocted the "Ho Mei Agreement" to annex North China. During his tenure as the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, he ordered the creation of the infamous "731" unit.

After Japan's defeat, the Americans were more likely to covet the Kwantung Army's research results on biological and chemical weapons and bacterial warfare when they were in the Northeast for ulterior purposes. Umezu Yoshijiro was one of the important insiders. He was not arrested by the Allied Forces on charges of war criminals. Later, because of the Allied Soviet Procuratorate, according to Umezu Yoshijiro, who served as the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army for five years, and repeatedly planned to launch war against the Soviet Union, he strongly demanded He was arrested as the biggest war criminal, but because of the asylum of the Americans, he escaped the death penalty and his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.

If Umezu Yoshijiro could be killed or captured in the space where Tang Qiuli came, this die-hard militarist would not go to the post-war Tokyo trial court, and his life would end in the summer of [-]. northeast!

The more than 40 Kwantung Army who were encircled in the western Liaoning area, after beating hard for a day, did not move forward, leaving tens of thousands of corpses. Attacking from behind, he had to continue to hide in the original area, waiting hopelessly for a new order from the Kwantung Army headquarters.

The life of the Kwantung Army in western Liaoning was absolutely difficult. The Hantie troops blocked the only way back to Fengtian from Panshan to Beining. When the Jinzhou front line retreated, the supplies they carried were almost exhausted. The soldiers changed from three meals a day to only one porridge a day. In addition to facing the pressure of hundreds of thousands of troops from the Independent Division, they had to find food. It has become a more important thing for the soldiers of the Kwantung Army!

Fortunately, in the western Liaoning area in mid-July, many crops can be barely fooled, and there is no shortage of rivers. Otherwise, the lack of water alone would have killed more than 40 Kwantung Army soldiers. Even so, because the supply was cut off, There is a lack of medical treatment, wounded soldiers cannot receive timely treatment, non-combat attrition is increasing every day, food is insufficient, and the physical strength of the soldiers is deteriorating. Under all these circumstances, let him be ordered to serve as the commander of the Kwantung Army's Liaoxi Combat Group. Lieutenant General Izawa, commander of the Five Armies, was worried all day long.

After another futile attack, when the sky was already full of sunset, Lieutenant General Izawa called four other army commanders together to study countermeasures. Get together, look at each other, no one has any good ideas, the current situation is obvious, it is impossible to break through, and it is not the best policy to stick to it. In another seven or eight days, there is no need for independent divisions to fight. Just being hungry can kill hundreds of thousands of people. Soldiers starved to death.

Originally, in today's breakout battle, the soldiers were still energetic. Commander-in-Chief Meijin personally led the rescue team, but after fighting for a whole day, the breakout troops suffered casualties, and there was no movement at General Meijin's place. This made the five Kwantung Army The lieutenant general felt very uneasy, but he had to face a reality. The Kwantung Army's Liaoxi Assault Corps who came to rescue him might be more or less ominous?

After researching for more than an hour, several lieutenant generals did not come up with any good solutions, so they dispersed helplessly. Lieutenant General Izawa did not give up, and ordered the confidential department to send a rather long telegram to Commander-in-Chief Meijin , reported the difficulties faced by the Liaoxi Kwantung Army, and finally, asked for specific orders from Commander-in-Chief Meijin!

For such an important telegram, Lieutenant Izawa personally guarded the radio station, and there was still no response when the telegram was sent out. He ordered the radio station with a gloomy face to contact His Excellency the Commander-in-Chief all the time. Once contacted, no matter when, Immediately inform yourself, and then leave with a full heart.

On the border battlefield in the northeastern and northwest, Major General Zhao Yuhe, the chief of staff of the independent division and the commander of the directly subordinate corps, commanded the headquarters to encircle and wipe out the remnants of the Kwantung Army's border guards very smoothly. More than 2 remnants of the Kwantung Army were compressed within a radius of On the tens of kilometers of the Gobi Desert, lack of food and water, the scorching sun and hot and dry wind took away the last trace of physical strength of the soldiers of the Kwantung Army. They squatted in the temporary fortifications, looking desperately at the stone-strewn Gobi Desert.

Zhao Yuhe's attack obviously did not intend to use infantry to charge. He ordered the six brigades of the directly subordinate corps and the affiliated Outer Mongolia Field Corps, and all the artillery, to carry out all-round covering bombardment against the Kwantung Army troops within the encirclement. , The earth-shattering artillery fire, bombarded for more than 40 minutes, completely turned over a piece of Gobi Desert several times, and then, the tanks covered the infantry and entered the shelling area. Without any trace of life, the last remaining 2 remnants of the border guards of the Kwantung Army disappeared into the artillery fire, and the Northeast Border Campaign ended victoriously.

In this campaign, the independent division was directly under the corps as the main force and was attached to a part of the Outer Mongolian Field Corps. First, it was the main force of the Kwantung Army's border guards and severely damaged the Ujumqin Grassland in the Northeast. 18 soldiers of the Kwantung Army were buried in the vast Gobi Desert of Outer Mongolia along the line from Halege to Menghehan in the southeast, and even the complete bodies could not be found.

After the Northeast Border Campaign ended, Zhao Yuhe immediately ordered his troops to cross the mountain pass from Hareg to Menghehan, along the south bank of the Kerulun River, and enter the territory of North Manchuria. More than 40 troops marched mightily The northern foot of the Great Xing'an Mountains forest area is directly rushing towards the Far East. At this moment, there is no important Kwantung Army unit in the area of ​​North Manchuria.

During the march, Zhao Yuhe reported the situation of the Northeast Border Campaign to the commander. After receiving the telegram, the division commander Tang Qiuli was overjoyed and immediately called Zhao Yuhe back, "I am glad to hear that the Northeast Border Campaign has ended successfully." , Gathered and wiped out more than [-] Kwantung Army, while the casualties of our army were minimal, very good! Very comforting!"

"This campaign lasted more than a week. The Kwantung Army's border guards have been annihilated. Obviously, the headquarters of the Kwantung Army has heard of it. Therefore, you don't have to hide your intentions on the way to the Far East. The speed, reaching the Far East battlefield, can leave no less than six or seven brigades of troops, and form an offensive posture against Harbin!"

(to be continued) (to be continued...)