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Chapter 1,630: The Last Battle (13)

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    The Japanese army planned to fight stubbornly on the northern front, but they underestimated the combat effectiveness of the Soviet army and the combat courage of the Chinese army.

    After the Soviet offensive in the eastern region began, they crossed the Hengguang front in multiple ways. Under the cover of a large number of artillery, tanks, and aircraft fleets, they advanced in depth and quickly destroyed the hastily organized first-line defenses of the Japanese army and bypassed them.  It destroyed the Dongning, Suifenhe, Hutou and other solid fortification areas that the Japanese army had built for many years.

    The focus of the Soviet attack in the east was to occupy Mudanjiang along the railway line westward along the Suifen River.  The Japanese 124th Division defending this area, its 271st, 272nd, 273rd Infantry Regiments and the artillery of the division were originally deployed in the Suiyang area before the war began.

    However, in late June, it was ordered to move its defense area to the Muling Town area. When the Soviet army attacked, the division deployed its 271st Regiment in the area south of the railway. The 272nd and 273rd Regiments, 15 cm caliber howitzers, and 30  Artillery units such as centimeter-caliber howitzers and 15-cm-caliber cannons are deployed north of the railway in Muling Town.

    In order to strengthen the defense strength of the division, the 5th Army also took two infantry brigades from the 135th Division under its command.

    On the morning of August 11, the Soviet army first fired destructive fire at the position of the 124th Division with fierce artillery fire, and the air force carried out violent bombing. By noon on August 12, the Soviet army had invaded the enemy's 124th Division.  The main position of Tuan Muling Town.

    Due to the continuous bombing of the Soviet aircraft fleet, the fierce shooting of the artillery units, and the coming and going of tank units and infantry, the enemy's artillery position north of Muling Town Road had been destroyed and most of the artillery pieces were blown up.

    Due to the strong attack by the Soviet army on three dimensions and two planes, the enemy's 124th Division suffered heavy casualties. For example, the captain of the 273rd Regiment and three battalion captains were all killed.

    By August 13, in only two days, the division was no longer able to organize resistance. Before the division was about to be destroyed, the captain of the 272nd Regiment actually asked to gather all remaining personnel and use the military flag to clear the way for the last battle with the Soviet army.  A desperate charge to kill.

    But at this time, Lieutenant General Shiina Masaki knew that the situation was over, the entire division had been defeated, and the rear was also cut off by the Soviet army. Therefore, he decided to withdraw from the battle and led the remaining troops to sneak into the forest areas on both sides of the railway and retreat.

    While the 124th Division was fighting a fierce battle with the Soviet army, the commander of the 5th Army, Qing Shuigui, was mobilizing troops to strengthen the defense of Mudanjiang City.

    The 135th Division, which was transferred to the Mishan area, was transferred to the Hualin area near the northeast of Mudanjiang City; the 126th Division, which was transferred to Bamiantong, was transferred to the Sidaoling area on the railway line east of Mudanjiang, and faced the 135th Division organization.  Defense.

    When the first part of the 126th Division arrived at the designated area on the evening of the 11th and the first part of the 135th Division on the evening of the 13th and were digging single-man bunkers and communication trenches, the 124th Division in front of Muling Town had been annihilated, and the Soviet army  One section has detoured to Whetstone Station.

    In order to prevent the Soviet army from continuing to advance when they reached the Whetstone, Qingshui quickly mobilized a cadre education brigade of his military headquarters of about 1,000 people and a logistics cadre education team of about 600 people. They were also equipped with a 15-cm-caliber howitzer squadron and  The 135th Division reinforced the two infantry brigades of the 124th Division, commanded by Colonel Kobayashi, captain of the 3rd Field Fortification Team, and deployed on both sides of the railway west of Whetstone.

    Due to poor telephone and radio communication, it was not until midnight on August 14 that the enemy's 5th Army's combat plan to defend Mudanjiang City was reported to the front army headquarters in Dunhua. However, Kita Seiichi ordered the 5th Army to fight hard to stop it.  The Soviet army had no choice but to retreat to the Hengdaohezi and Dunhua areas.

    The 5th Army was in a hurry to organize the defense of the Sidaoling area.  The 126th Division, which arrived first, formed a semicircular defensive zone with Yehe Station as the center and east and south.

    The division headquarters is located at the weapons factory south of Yehe Station, the 277th Regiment is located south of Yehe Station, the 278th Regiment is located southeast of Yehe Station, and the 279th Regiment is on both sides of the front of the Sidaoling Railway and sends a unit  Guard the high ground on the north side of the railway.

    The 135th Division, which was originally in Mishan, arrived late at the new position between Hualin and Sidaoling in the northeast of Mudanjiang. When it received the emergency transfer order, its 368th Regiment was still in Hulin Town, and the regiment was still in Hulin Town.  The team still has troops scattered along the Songaca River, Dumu River on the Ussuri River, and in Raohe County. At this time, part of the railway has been controlled by the Soviet army. The 368th Regiment will gather the troops north of the railway.  West, walk to Pei Decai and the 369th Regiment, go to Jixi to meet up with the 370th Regiment, take a train to the east of Mudanjiang, and then enter the new position.

    After the Japanese 135th Division withdrew from the Mishan area, there was no main force of the Japanese army in the Jixi, Mishan, Hulin, and Raohe areas. At this time, there was only the 15th Border Guard in Hutou.

    According to the stipulation that the 1st Front Army "is not allowed to retreat without other orders", it continued to resist stubbornly based on its fortification area, but the garrison knew nothing about the surrounding military situation at this time.

    In fact, on the first day after the Soviet army launched a sudden large-scale offensive on August 9, everywhereAlmost all the Japanese troops on the battlefield were in chaos. Not only the regiments and their divisions, but also the army and the front army were difficult to contact. In this way, each unit did not know the current general situation, and its commanding authority did not know the location of the troops.  And what state it is in, so it is impossible to understand and report the situation, and orders and instructions cannot be issued.

    Before the two divisions of the Japanese 5th Army deployed from Sidaoling to Hualin had established their positions, the Soviet army, in cooperation with the air force, carried out a forceful attack at noon on the 13th and eliminated about 100 troops including the training team commanded by Colonel Kobayashi in the Whetstone area.  After 3,500 people, they continued westward along both sides of the railway.

    At this time, the Soviet aerial reconnaissance force, through visual reconnaissance and aerial photography, knew the Japanese defense situation east of Mudanjiang City.

    Therefore, the Soviet army attacked Sidaoling along both sides of the railway, and detoured to the front of the 369th and 370th Regiments of the enemy's 135th Division in the northeast of Mudanjiang, and soon launched a joint air-ground attack. After two days of fierce fighting, the two Japanese troops  Most of the division's casualties were on the defensive positions.

    In addition to direct siege of these two divisions, the Soviet army also carried out large-scale operational detours in areas far south and north of the railway to attack the enemy's 5th Army and Mudanjiang City.

    The north road goes from Bamiantong to the west through Xinxing, Zixing, Liushuhezi, and reaches Zhujiagou on the railway line north of Mudanjiang City; the south road runs from Muling Town through Sanchatun, Dashitou River, and the west of Tianling.  Arrive at Ning'an on the railway line south of Mudanjiang City.  At this time, Qingshui's 5th Army realized that the situation was quite serious.

    Qing Shuijun and Chief of Staff Heyue Chongding are both people who have experienced the battlefield, and they have fought in the Chinese customs.

    After the Soviet army started a large-scale offensive on August 9, both Qingshui and Kawagoe felt that the biggest difference between this and the opponents they had encountered before was: the multi-channel maneuvering and detours in tactics; the infantry and artillery in combat actions.  The close coordination of tanks, aviation, and aviation; the fast and brave fighting style; tanks and artillery became the main body of ground forces in combat; on the battlefield, the air force fleet carried out concentrated bombing on targets within a limited range to achieve complete destruction.

    Since the beginning of the war, the 124th Division of the 5th Army, which had been fortified, was basically wiped out from the 11th to the 13th. Now the Soviet army has used multiple routes to bypass the two wings and deployed two divisions east of Mudanjiang.  , the battle lasted only one day, but heavy casualties occurred again.  By August 14, the casualties of the 5th Army were as high as more than 20,000.

    Qingshui and Kawagoe analyzed the serious situation facing them and believed that the current purpose of the Soviet army was to seize the important military location of Mudanjiang with heavy troops, encircle and annihilate the Japanese troops there, and then march westward to Harbin, the center of Manchuria.

    Due to the unfavorable situation, disparity in strength, and heavy casualties, Qingshui decided to withdraw the remaining troops of the 126th and 135th Divisions and the 124th Division from the Mudanjiang area and retreat westward along the railway to Hengdaohezi, 80 kilometers away.

    Subsequently, the main force of the Soviet 5th Army entered Mudanjiang City, while the 5th Army retreated westward to the Hengdaohezi area.

    Compared with the battle on the northern front, Li Guoyao's troops made very smooth progress on the southern front. After eight hours of fierce fighting, Lu Zhanwu's troops easily captured Jilin City and arrived outside Changchun City at two o'clock in the morning on August 10.

    At this time, the puppet Manchukuo regime was on the verge of collapse. Its senior officials had already withdrawn from Changchun, and only a part of the troops remained near Changchun, fighting stubbornly.

    At three o'clock in the morning, Li Guoyao's four infantry divisions, plus five artillery regiments, and a large number of technical troops arrived on the outskirts of Changchun and launched an attack on the city.

    The battle lasted until 8 a.m. on the 11th. In the battle that lasted for more than 30 hours, the Chinese army finally occupied all the peripheral positions on the outskirts of Changchun and pushed the battlefield into the urban area after paying huge casualties.

    Even so, the Japanese army still had no intention of retreating, but at this moment, the two puppet infantry regiments in the city announced an uprising at the same time, launched an attack on the Japanese army from the city, and cooperated with the troops outside the city to capture the east gate of Changchun.  .

    Subsequently, the Sixth Front Army entered the city and the street fighting began!  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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