Age of Rebirth

Chapter [-] West Liaoning Offensive

Surrounded in the Uliasutai area in the western part of the Outlaws, the Zhukov Department of the First Soviet Far East Army had basically run out of food after the fifth day, because the water quality of the wells dug on the spot was too poor. Most of the soldiers of the Soviet army had diarrhea. At this time, the more than [-] soldiers of the First Far East Army were like dying sick tigers.

Zhukov and the Soviet soldiers could only grit their teeth and persist. Their only hope was that the Second Far East Army, with Admiral Timoshenko as the commander and political commissar, be formed as soon as possible and immediately participate in the Battle of Foreign Affairs. The troops of the First Army Only then can there be a glimmer of hope of escape, the premise is that the squadron does not launch an attack immediately.

While besieging Zhukov's troops, Tang Qiuli did not give up paying attention to the movement of the Kwantung Army. Based on his understanding of the Kwantung Army, this is the moment when the Kwantung Army most wants to take action. These wolf cubs , I never forget the Western Liaoning area. For the Japanese, the importance of the Western Liaoning area is equivalent to the Soviets looking at the Western Liaoning area.

Tang Qiuli's march from the north to foreign countries was equivalent to stabbing a needle in the abdomen of the Soviets, and Liu Tiehan's eastward pointing troops to occupy western Liaoning was equivalent to driving a nail into the forehead of the Kwantung Army. Human beings are still human beings, they have trouble sleeping and eating, and they have to be uprooted in their dreams. [

Tang Qiuli's three main corps were transferred north to the foreign military areas, and fought against the Soviets. It is suspected that the Japanese army base camp and the new commander of the Kwantung Army, General Kenji Ueda, created an excellent opportunity and also had the courage to do it. , Ueda Kenkichi ignored the fact that the Kwantung Army troops had not yet finished their reorganization, so he was impatient to take the lead on the front line of Jinzhou.

On August 21, about 11 troops from the three divisions of the Kwantung Army arrived at the Goubangzi and Panshan areas east of the Linghai line in western Liaoning. Xietun, which is more than [-] kilometers away from Linghai, is in an offensive posture.

Liu Tiehan, the deputy commander of the Independent Division and the commander of the East Finger Army, immediately telegraphed Tang Qiuli, the commander of the Kwantung Army's active military operations. Liu Tiehan was not worried about the Kwantung Army's attack. Sun Zhenbang's corps has more than 24 troops, with a total strength of more than 33, and the strength of two or three Kwantung Army divisions with more than 7 troops has not yet been placed in his heart.

The purpose of his telegram was to tell Tang Qiuli that there was no need to worry about the war on the front line of Jinzhou in the northeast, and he could rest assured to fight the Soviet Union outside the army.

Tang Qiuli saw the opportunity from Liu Tiehan's telegram, and Kenkichi Ueda was too impatient. After the Kwantung Army troops passed through the disastrous defeat at Niuxin Mountain in the Shanhaiguan area, they have not yet recovered. The strength of these three divisions should be The first unit to rest and replenish is also the only attacking fist that Kenkichi Ueda can use at present. Otherwise, the Kwantung Army will not only come to only three divisions, but will definitely press the whole line.

He sent a telegram back to Liu Tiehan, saying: "Brother Tiehan, according to the current situation of the enemy and ourselves in the western Liaoning area and the comparison of forces, the Japanese troops of these three divisions are in a prominent position alone. I decided that your department can take this opportunity. , using an absolutely superior force to inflict heavy damage on the Kwantung Army troops, and you can determine the specific combat plan by yourself."

After Liu Tiehan received the telegram from the division commander Tang Qiuli, he understood it. He also felt that the Kwantung Army of the three divisions were fat meat sent to their mouths. In ten minutes, Liu Tiehan launched a sudden attack on the Kwantung Army troops stationed on the front line of Goubangzi and Panshan with eleven infantry brigades, five artillery brigades, two air defense brigades, and three cavalry brigades with a total strength of nearly 22 troops. massive attack.

The No. 11 Division of the Kwantung Army, which was on the prominent part of the Japanese front and stationed on the front line of Xietun, became the first target of attack. Wherever Liu Tiehan's troops went, the No. 11 Division of the Kwantung Army immediately fell into more than 11 people*** In the raging waves of the * team, in less than two hours, the No. [-] Division of the Kwantung Army was wiped out and all were wiped out.

At around [-]:[-] in the morning, Liu Tiehan's troops sent troops to Lingoubangzi and Panshan. First, they used all artillery to bombard the Japanese troops in the two places. After an hour and a half, the troops launched a general attack. By [-]:[-] noon that day, Most of the Kwantung Army troops of the two divisions were wiped out, and the remnants retreated to Tai'an and Liaozhong.

Liu Tiehan continued to command the troops to attack more than [-] towns in Panjin, Panshan, Goubangzi, Tai'an, Liaozhong and other places one after another, and arrived at the west bank of the Pu River. and the Liaodong Peninsula.

The history of the independent division called this campaign the "Liaoxi Offensive," which was a large-scale exploratory attack by Tang Qiuli as a front-line force in Jinzhou to gain a strategic advantage, and to test the Kwantung Army's response and recovery of combat effectiveness.

The Japanese base camp and the Kwantung Army headquarters were extremely shocked. They did not expect to dispatch three fully trained divisions to carry out strategic deployment in western Liaoning. The original purpose was to stand in front of the main force of the Kwantung Army, which provoked such a fierce reaction from the independent divisions. Concentrate heavy troops to carry out ferocious attacks. If this situation continues, the Liaoning area will soon be lost.

General Kenkichi Ueda, the commander of the Kwantung Army, who was extremely angry, immediately asked the base camp whether he should engage in a decisive battle with the Japanese troops in the Liaozhong area?In fact, Kenkichi Ueda did not want to fight this battle. Although the troops in his hands have been replenished a lot, the total strength of the Kwantung Army has returned to about 78, but more than 60 of them are recruits, and their training has not yet been completed.

There are only 10,000+ people he can pull up to fight with Liu Tiehan's troops. More than 5 people have been killed by the squadron, leaving only about 17 troops with combat effectiveness. A large number of heavy preparations, tanks, and aircraft supplemented by the local area, and most of them are not in place. In this battle, he has no idea in the fight. The combat effectiveness of the troops alone is the absolute weakness of Kenkichi Ueda.

On behalf of His Majesty the Emperor and the base camp, Prince Xianyuan Gongzaijin, chief of the general staff of the base camp, replied: "Commander Ueda-kun of the Kwantung Army, the base camp received the order of His Majesty the Emperor. Shenyang is the center of Manchuria. The outposts in the Yellow Sea must not be lost, and the Kwantung Army units must block the Japanese army on the Puhe line, and then completely repel them."

After Ueda Kenkichi received the order from the General Staff of the base camp, his mouth was full of bitterness. If it were the Kwantung Army that had not experienced the defeat of Niu Xinshan, he would have fought there long ago, but the actual situation facing the army now made him worry. After the first battle, I am afraid that the Kwantung Army will be injured again.

The emperor's order must not be violated, so Ueda Kenkichi had to mobilize troops from all over the northeast and concentrate in Shenyang. Panshan, Goubangzi, Panjin area.

Ueda Kenkichi couldn't figure it out, and he couldn't guess the intention of the squadron. Without the order from the base camp, he could only follow the original order and continue to concentrate his troops in the Shenyang area. Ueda Kenkichi was still very efficient. At that time, fifteen divisions of the Kwantung Army, with a strength of about 34 people, were concentrated in the Shenyang area, and other units of the Kwantung Army came continuously.

The large-scale war in the Northeast and Liaoxi areas will break out at any time. Liu Tiehan's troops will face great pressure from the overwhelmingly superior Kwantung Army. During the transfer, stimulate the Kwantung Army and plunge the troops into a dangerous situation of fighting on both sides? [

After Tang Qiuli ordered Liu Tiehan's troops to retreat, he set his sights on Suifenhe and Dongning at the junction of the Northeast and the Soviet Union. There, there was an important chess piece he had placed in advance. A special warfare unit of more than [-] people has been active on the Sino-Soviet border for more than two months.

He ordered Liu Tiehan to command the troops to violently attack the western Liaoning area and intimidate Shenyang and the Liaodong Peninsula, in order to attract most of the troops of the Kwantung Army to this area, to carry out top-secret operations for Tang Qiuquan, and to create a situation. The information provided by the established intelligence network shows that the newly established Second Army of the Soviet Far East Military Region has been rapidly formed in Shuangchengzi, Haishanwei, Khabarovsk and other places. It is estimated that it will be completed in another seven to ten days. .

The combat target of the Soviet Second Army in the Far East will undoubtedly be itself, and the commander and political commissar of the Second Army, General Timoshenko, is definitely a famous Soviet general who is as difficult to deal with as Zhukov. Feng Jiwu from the lake area reported that in the Transcaucasus area of ​​the Soviet Union, the Soviet army was frequently mobilized, and there seemed to be signs of massing heavy troops to attack our troops.

And the first army that wiped out Zhukov did not meet Tang Qiuli's strategic requirements. He didn't want to force the Soviets to the point of fighting him, at least it was not the time yet. In order to face Timoshenko's second The most direct way for the group army and the Soviet Transcaucasian troops reported by Feng Jiwu is to immediately kill Zhukov's troops, which absolutely violates Tang Qiuli's strategic intentions.

Under such circumstances, Tang Qiuli will pull a greedy wolf to join the melee. This wolf is the Japanese who covets and never forgets the territory of the Soviet Far East. The wolves fought each other, and Tang Qiuli was able to use the lives of Zhukov and his 10,000+ Soviet soldiers as bargaining chips to force Stalin to accept his conditions.

Now, the time has come. Tang Qiuli was on the grassland in the western part of the foreign country. After enjoying his afternoon tea, he used a special password to send an instruction to Tang Qiuquan. It was very simple, just four words "the roses are in full bloom!"

At midnight on August 23, [-], in Suifenhe, a small town on the border between China and the Soviet Union, the city was already completely quiet, except for the Japanese army patrols, who walked through the quiet street from time to time. , it was already pitch black.

Dozens of black shadows, mixed with the ground, quietly lay on the bank of the boundary river, their sharp eyes looking in the same direction.

(To be continued)