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Chapter 1613: Japanese Counterattack (8)

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    The progress of this battle was far beyond the expectations of the Japanese army. The most important thing was that the Kwantung Army Headquarters misjudged the strength of Li Guoyao's troops and did not expect that Li Guoyao's troops would be able to defeat Li Guoyao in such a short period of time after just experiencing the "disastrous defeat" in Rehe.  launch a counterattack within the time limit.

    Secondly, they did not expect that Li Guoyao's counterattack would be so sharp. More than 200,000 troops were mobilized to participate in the battle, which completely exceeded the expectations of the Japanese and puppet troops.

    Of course, the Japanese army made some strategic mistakes, but what is more important is Li Guoyao's arrangement.

    This plan was formulated by Li Guoyao as early as when the Japanese army launched a counterattack. Previously, he would leave the door open for the Japs to attack, draining their vitality. He would retract his fists while accumulating power, and wait until the Japs exposed all the loopholes in the defense.  In front of the national army, he suddenly exerted force, so the fist hit the little devil's body hard.

    "And in order to catch the little devils off guard, Li Guoyao's troops made very good pre-war preparations. In order to conceal the action, the actions of each unit were strictly kept secret.

    Firstly, the entire plan was only notified to division-level combat units. None of the brigade commanders and regimental commanders below knew what the troops were going to do. Secondly, all radios went silent before the troops arrived at the predetermined position to prevent the troops from leaking their marching route.  .

    Secondly, when the troops were marching, they all stayed day and night. Everyone in the army prepared camouflage nets, so they could avoid detection by Japanese reconnaissance planes during the day.

    ¡°Furthermore, in order to divert attention, Li Guoyao also asked the Sixth Front Army to send a large number of elite squads to the front lines of Changchun and Shenyang to cause trouble, blowing up trains, setting up strongholds, etc., so that the Kwantung Army Headquarters had no time to take care of it.

    Taking advantage of this opportunity, the national army units finally arrived at the outskirts of the main battlefield without the Japanese army expecting it at all, and suddenly launched an attack.

    Late at night on April 5, Li Guoyao and the frontline command post took a bus to Niutun, northwest of Jinzhou, and set up an observation command post in Maoshan, northwest of Jinzhou.

    On the morning of the 6th, Li Guoyao, Xu Hu and others drove to Laohugou Village at the foot of the mountain, and then rode up to Maoshan to conduct a detailed survey of the terrain outside Jinzhou.

    However, Li Guoyao had some difficulties in how to conquer Jinzhou according to the combat strategy. Although they had captured six counties near Jinzhou, Jinzhou City was still a tough nut.

    First of all, Jinzhou City is too strong. As an important town on the Beining Line, the terrain of Jinzhou City is high in the north and low in the south, surrounded by mountains on three sides.

    To the northwest are Jiguan Mountain, Beiputuo Mountain, Erlangdong Mountain, etc., with an altitude of more than 300 meters, which is the commanding height in the north of the city; to the east are the Big and Small Bauhinia Mountains, with an altitude of 370 meters, blocking the east exit of Jinzhou with the southeastern mountains.

    On the south side, crossing the Xiaoling River and Nerv River, is the southern highland of the city, which runs slightly from northeast to southwest. It is composed of Jiajia Mountain, Hanwangdian Mountain and Dajia Mountain. With an altitude of more than 200 meters, it is the southern barrier of Jinzhou.

    In addition, the urban area of ??Jinzhou is surrounded by water on three sides. The Xiaoling River loops around the city from the northwest to the south, the Nerv River runs from the southwest to the south of the city, and there is the Baigu River on the east side of the city.

    ¡°In addition, there are not only more than 4,000 elite Japanese troops in the city, but also many Japanese expatriates. These expatriates can become the armed forces of the Japanese army at any time when necessary. This number is difficult to estimate.

    More importantly, Japanese reinforcements in the direction of Fengtian, Shanhaiguan, Qinhuangdao and Rehe also began to move.

    According to the news coming back from the front line, after realizing that Jinzhou was in danger, the Kwantung Army headquarters was deeply aware of the seriousness of the situation and strictly ordered Lieutenant General Hongo Yoshio in Fengtian City to immediately send troops to reinforce Jinzhou, and sent Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Qin Yanzaburo to Fengtian to supervise the battle.

    So starting from the 4th, the Japanese troops in Fengtian City began to gather, and their vanguard had already moved south. However, due to the concentration of a large number of troops to attack Li Guoyao's headquarters some time ago, the entire Fengtian area was empty of troops. Therefore, in a short period of time, Hongo Yoshio  Only two infantry regiments were assembled.

    As a last resort, Yoshio Hongo could only form a joint detachment from these two infantry regiments plus a tank brigade and an artillery regiment, and appointed Major General Kitaro Taro as the commander of the detachment as the commander of the 44th Army.  The leading forces went south to reinforce Jinzhou.

    At the same time, the Japanese 107th Division and 117th Division in Chengde also received orders to assemble immediately and then return to Jinzhou with the main force.

    On the afternoon of April 6, Li Guoyao and Xu Hu summoned officers at the division and brigade commander level to gather in Maoshan to survey the terrain and study the main attack direction.  On the basis of a comprehensive analysis of the terrain, enemy situation, etc., the frontline command post was finally formulated to formulate specific deployments for conquering Jinzhou.

    That is, the main forces of the 2nd and 3rd brigades of the 3rd Division and the artillery will move from north to south.In the attack, the 1st and 3rd brigades of the 4th Division and the 3rd Artillery Regiment attacked from south to north, while the 2nd Brigade attacked from east to west.  The first step is to destroy the enemies in the eastern half of the city, then the enemies in the western half and the airport.  The first brigade of the 3rd Division and the cavalry brigade from the headquarters serve as the general reserve force and are deployed in the Gaoqiao area.

    The siege battle began in the early morning of the 7th. At five o'clock sharp, the troops attacking Jinzhou issued combat orders to their affiliated units and launched a battle on the outskirts of Jinzhou. They successively captured the southern highlands of the city, Zijing Mountain, the synthetic fuel plant, the regiment area, and the 12th Army.  Acres of land, water distribution pools, "Da Qiao", Beidaying, Dongdaliang, clothing factory and other key areas compressed the encirclement to the outer periphery of urban defense.

    At the same time, Zhou Dafu's troops on the southern front also continued to attack southward after capturing Suizhong. Their troops advanced directly towards Shanhaiguan, cutting off the Liaoxi Corridor and completing the siege of Jinzhou and Yixian.

    At this time, several regiments of national troops remaining in the west of Rehe were also constantly launching large-scale attacks on the Japanese and puppet strongholds in Fengning, Longhua and other places, with the intention of counterattacking Rehe.

    Under such circumstances, the Japanese troops on the Chengde front line were in trouble. If they had returned to Jinzhou to aid according to the original plan, then Rehe would probably have turned into a complete mess, and the territory they had so easily won before would have been handed over to Li Guoyao's command.

    But if Jinzhou falls, the consequences will be even more serious.

    In the end, it was Yoshio Hongo who made the decision, and the Chengde garrison immediately returned to aid Jinzhou. At the same time, more than 10,000 troops originally stationed in Chifeng and nearby counties immediately abandoned their stations and went south to Chengde with all their strength.

    In this way, the Japanese army was equivalent to exchanging Chifeng for the safety of Jinzhou. This deal was still a good deal.

    However, what the Japanese army did not know was that just as the Japanese army in Chengde gathered on a large scale and marched towards Jinzhou on April 7, more than 50,000 people belonging to the Lu Dashan Division had already set traps in the Jinxi area.  , waiting quietly for the little devil to crash in.

    The Japanese troops in Chengde spent a lot of money to reinforce Jinzhou. In addition to the 3,000 men who stayed in Chengde, they concentrated almost all the troops of the remaining three divisions. There were 9 infantry regiments plus a large number of technical troops, with a total strength of 10,000.  There are more than 9,000 people, and there are only more than 6,000 people left in one division. This shows how much the Japanese army suffered some time ago.

    In order to rush for time, the Japanese army chose the fastest route and divided all troops into three marching parts: front, middle and rear.

    The distribution of the troops on the three routes was very unfair. The ones leading the way were Japanese soldiers from an infantry regiment, totaling more than 2,000 people.

    In the middle is the headquarters and main force of the Japanese army. There are about more than 12,000 people, while the Japanese soldiers in the rear are only more than 4,000 people.

    On the afternoon of the 8th, after two days of rapid march, the Japanese army finally arrived at the line of Baimu Mountain in Jinxi, less than 100 kilometers away from Jinzhou City.

    Although this road is not long and has many potholes along the way, it is very difficult to walk. However, since this is the fastest route from Chengde to Jinzhou, Lieutenant General Abe Takayoshi, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army in Rehe, chose this route.  road.

    However, just when the Japanese vanguard, about an infantry regiment, arrived at the front line of Yuanbaoshan, they were suddenly ambushed by the national army and the troops were in danger.

    After receiving the report from his subordinates, Abe Takayoshi immediately led more than 10,000 main troops to the front-line battlefield for reinforcements. As a result, his troops were also ambushed by the national army on the front line of Jiguanzi Mountain.

    Lieutenant General Suzuki Keihisa, the commander of the Japanese 117th Division in charge of the rear, was suddenly a little confused. In an instant, more than 15,000 people were trapped by the national army. There were less than 5,000 people under his command who could move now. Was it reinforcements or reinforcements?  Escape?

    And just when he was struggling, the Japanese army discovered that a large number of national troops suddenly appeared around them, and then they were surrounded on the line of Cypress Mountain.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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