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Chapter 1,609: Japanese Counterattack (3)

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    After receiving the order from the general headquarters, Lu Dashan did not dare to neglect and immediately ordered troops from Lingyuan and other places to immediately move eastward to reinforce the South Manchurian Front.

    At the same time, defenders from all over the country were immediately mobilized to repair fortifications and actively prepare for war.

    With the reinforcements from the Lu Dashan Rehe Front Army, Xu Hu's troops could finally take a breath. The Japanese attack was so sharp.

    Although Xu Hu¡¯s troops had an absolute advantage in the terrain, they were still beaten back by the Japanese army. There was no other way. Yamada Otsuzo used his capital this time to make a desperate move!

    On March 14, the Japanese army occupied Fuxin and the defenders retreated in full.

    Just one day later, the two sides fought in Wangfu Town and Laodaoshan. After a bloody battle for a day and night, the defenders left more than 800 corpses. In exchange for 2,600 casualties, the Japanese army voluntarily evacuated Wangfu Town and evacuated to Qijia Town.

    However, the progress of the Japanese army in the direction of Laodao Mountain was not very smooth. The battle started on the afternoon of the 14th and lasted until the early morning of the 16th before the main position of Laodao Mountain was captured. By this time, the Japanese army had already lost three soldiers under this small mountain.  Sixteen hundred men and 27 tanks were destroyed.

    But the defenders were not feeling well either. One of the main regiments defending Laodao Mountain was wiped out by half of its troops, and the casualties totaled more than 2,000 people.

    But compared with the casualties of the Japanese army, the losses of the defenders were still much less.

    In this way, after a week of hard fighting between the two sides, and after the Japanese army suffered more than 16,000 casualties, the two armies on the eastern and northern fronts finally met at the foot of Chaoyang City.

    Xu Hu¡¯s headquarters deployed three divisions with a total of more than 90,000 people outside Chaoyang City. The Battle of Chaoyang also kicked off on the evening of March 19.

    The Kwantung Army's actions in Southern Manchuria really attracted the close attention of China and the Soviet Union, especially the Soviet Union. When they learned that the Kwantung Army had assembled more than a dozen heavy divisions in Southern Manchuria, the target turned out to be Li Guoyao's command.  , everyone showed incredible expressions.

    Although the working group sent to Li Guoyao's headquarters has reported the department's combat capabilities to Moscow, the vast majority of Soviet generals still believe that Li Guoyao's headquarters is just a warlord force and its combat effectiveness will not be too high.

    The main reason why it was able to achieve good results was that the main force of the Kwantung Army was not on the southern front, and it was not used to deal with Li Guoyao's troops. In addition, with the support of a large number of Soviet-made weapons, it caught the opponent by surprise.

    To put it bluntly, there are too many accidental factors, and combat effectiveness is not very convincing!

    But now the Japanese army is obviously anxious. It is obviously unreasonable to use so many field troops to deal with the national army in southern Manchuria.

    You must know that there are only about 28 Japanese field divisions in the entire northeastern region. Now less than half are used to deal with Li Guoyao's troops, and not all of Li Guoyao's troops, just one of their fronts. This is completely killing  Chicken with a beef knife.

    "But the result of the battle was far beyond everyone's expectations. Both the Soviet Union and Chongqing believed that this must be a devastating battle. After all, the Kwantung Army had already adopted a desperate posture.

    However, the result was that the Japanese army of more than 100,000 troops fought for a week and only occupied the territory of 6 counties. The main force was blocked on the Fuxin front line.

    Although it seems that it is surprising to occupy a county in one day, people who know the power of the Kwantung Army know that at its peak, this army occupied the entire three eastern provinces with less than 20,000 troops, and 150  It only took three months to cover multiple counties and districts, which works out to an average of 1.5 counties per day.

    The most important thing is that those counties are spread over a million square kilometers. Not to mention fighting, even a visit will take more than this time.

    But the Kwantung Army did it, and you can see the difference by comparing the two!

    What's more, in some of the counties and districts captured by the Japanese army this time, most of the territory was originally under the control of the Japanese army. Li Guoyao's troops only occupied part of them, such as Yixian and Beizhen. In fact, the Japanese army really  Only Xinqiu, Fuxin, Qinghemen and other places were occupied, and only Fuxin was important.

    At present, more than 100,000 Japanese troops are gathered in Chaoyang. Once they occupy Chaoyang, the Japanese army will inevitably re-implement the strategy of 1933 and attack in the direction of Rehe.

    For a time, the attention of many Chinese people was attracted to the Chaoyang area.

    Just when everyone thought Chaoyang was bound to be a fight between dragons and tigers, with blood flowing everywhere, something strange happened.

    The main force of the Japanese army only attacked Chaoyang for three days before Li Guoyao's troops retreated.??The Chaoyang area was ceded to the Japanese army.

    After occupying Chaoyang, the Kwantung Army headquarters immediately issued an order to attack Jehol. More than 100,000 elite Japanese troops were divided into three groups and attacked in the direction of Chengde.

    In less than three days, the main force of the three Japanese armies captured Lingyuan, an important town east of Chengde!

    ?Then the Japanese army divided their forces again, heading north along Ningcheng to attack Chifeng, one way towards Chengde, and the other heading south from Pingquan to attack Kuancheng.

    As of March 25, the Japanese army had conquered all counties and districts east of Chengde and Chifeng in just 13 days. Not only did they drive all Li Guoyao's troops out of the South Manchuria area, they also recaptured most of Rehe, and  The main force is attacking Chengde, the core city of Rehe.

    On March 26, the Japanese troops on the northern front captured Chifeng, an important town in Rebei. The troops on the middle route arrived in Chengde. The troops on the southern route captured Kuancheng and other places and actively moved closer to Chengde.

    "The national army still seems to have no good response strategy. Although multiple lines of defense have been deployed outside Chengde, they do not seem to have much effect.

    After the Japanese siege started on the 27th, the defenders continued to retreat!

    The Chengde Defense Battle lasted less than three days, and the Chinese army lost two-thirds of its peripheral positions. The Japanese army arrived outside the east gate of Chengde on the afternoon of March 30 with great momentum.

    However, the defenders did not retreat as before, but relied on the Chengde city fortifications to launch a bloody battle with the Japanese army.

    The strength of Chengde City also exceeded the expectations of the Japanese army. The Japanese army only used 128 cavalry to defeat this important town, but it turned out to be a hard nut to crack.

    Because the troops' attack outside the city gate was frustrated, the Japanese army had to mobilize troops from the northern and southern fronts to reinforce and encircle Chengde City.

    This battle lasted until April 8. The Japanese army was blocked under Chengde City for ten days. Finally, after paying extremely heavy casualties, they reoccupied Chengde.

    After the Japanese army reoccupied Chengde, Li Guoyao's troops retreated from Chengde to the southeast. It seemed that they had suffered heavy losses and were preparing to withdraw to Zhangjiakou to rest and recuperate.

    On April 9, all newspapers and media in the puppet Manchukuo controlled by the Japanese army rushed to report on this glorious military victory of the Kwantung Army. At the same time, the Japanese and puppet media in Japan and China also boasted about this action of the Kwantung Army.

    According to the data released by the Kwantung Army, this large-scale operation personally commanded by the Kwantung Army Commander Yamada Otsuzo finally achieved a brilliant victory after 28 days of fighting.

    In this battle, 130,000 elite Kwantung Army troops faced off against 200,000 Nationalist troops. With a small victory and multiple losses, Li Guoyao's troops achieved a brilliant record of killing 40,000 elite Japanese infantry, capturing 4,000, and injuring at least 100,000 Japanese infantry. Li Guoyao's  The most powerful South Manchurian Front under his command was almost completely wiped out.

    However, the Kwantung Army Headquarters did not mention their own losses in this battle. They simply said, "The Imperial Army's losses were also quite heavy."

    It was not just a coincidence or intentional. After capturing Chengde, the Japanese army did not continue to attack westward. They did not even attack along Chifeng toward Tongliao as the outside world speculated. Instead, they shrank their troops from various places and waited in Chengde.  Building new fortifications on the ground has the meaning of turning offense into defense.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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