Age of Conquest Reborn

Chapter 141: Eastern Manchuria Strategy - Mudanjiang Attack and Defense

Muto Nobuyoshi couldn't believe that all this was true. This ghostly Chinese armed force mysteriously disappeared once again amid his encirclement.

Even if there were loopholes in his big net, there should be clues at the checkpoints and checkpoints along the way! However, there was nothing. The Bloody Hands just disappeared without even a trace.

They also took the opportunity to wipe out Anton's defenders, plunder all of Anton's wealth, blow up Anton's port into ruins, bury two navy warships at the bottom of the sea, turn the marines into water ghosts, and turn the garrison into water ghosts.

North Korea's Suzuki Division was severely damaged and...

He didn't dare to think about it anymore. He sat in the dark office, thinking about how to explain to the base camp tomorrow, how to negotiate with the navy, and how to communicate with the supreme commander of the North Korean garrison. He needed to explain too much.

In the early morning, he rubbed his groggy head, steeled himself, and sat behind his desk. Confidential staff members hurried in and put several telegrams in front of him.

Muto Nobuyoshi picked up the telegram listlessly and froze suddenly. The telegram in his hand slipped quietly to the ground, and just like his mood at the moment, it kept sinking.

Ning'an, Hualin, and Hailin in the Mudanjiang area sent telegrams asking for help almost at the same time, claiming that they had been violently attacked by the main force of the Blood Hand Regiment and that the situation was critical.

It is the main force of the Bloody Hands Regiment. So, which Bloody Hands Regiment captured Anton? Based on the analysis of several battles, it is clearly the main force of the Bloody Hands Regiment. Otherwise, it would not have such strong firepower and combat effectiveness.

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So, it is impossible to besiege these three places at the same time without sufficient troops. This should also be the main force.

They are all the main force. How strong is the Blood Hand Group? Where is the main force? One is in East Manchuria, the other is in West Manchuria. They are thousands of miles apart. Muto Xinyi feels that he has fallen into a fog and can no longer tell the direction.

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But he knew clearly that he had been tricked by Xue Shou Qiu Li again, and the days for this office to change its owner could be counted down.

After receiving Tang Qiuli's order, the three detachments of the main force of the Blood Hand Regiment, which had been hiding and waiting in the Mudanjiang area of ​​​​Eastern Manchuria, plus an artillery detachment, totaling more than 10,000 troops, quickly pounced on the already greedy soldiers.

target for the day.

During the more than twenty days of hiding in the Dongman area, these detachment leaders were exhausted. They only ate and had no work to do. They all gained weight. Their hands were itchy and their bones were sore.

Chief of Staff, run away.

Liu Tiehan sent a battle report of the Battle of Anton to Feng Jiwu every day. Several people saw in the battle report that Li Honggang's detachment had killed thousands of Japs today, and would fight with the Japs Marines tomorrow and kill them.

The two Japanese warships finally fought with the Japanese from North Korea, and finally took away two large ships of good stuff.

Everyone was so jealous that their eyes turned blue, and they all said that this guy Lao Li had a good life, why couldn't he share in this good thing? If his own detachment went to fight, the custody would be better than Lao Li's detachment, and they all complained in the end

The commander is partial, the team is his own, we are all picked up.

Later, I simply said that if the Chief of Staff did not proactively request combat missions, he was afraid that our detachments would not be able to fight well, which would affect the reputation of your Chief of Staff. If I had known this, it would be better to follow Deputy Commander Liu and fight every day.

He also said that why did the commander become so cowardly, leaving nearly ten thousand people to work here and eat, and pestered Feng Jiwu every day, asking him to ask the commander for a mission, and to attack Mudanjiang now.

Feng Jiwu was so annoyed that he didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He pointed at their noses and asked: "How dare you say this in front of the commander?" These guys shrank their necks, look at me, I

Look at you, you are speechless, I thought to myself, don’t look at the commander who is young and gets angry, if he doesn’t have calf muscles, maybe Dean Zhang won’t be afraid.

After receiving the order to attack, he was holding back his energy, howling, and pounced like a hungry wolf.

Muto Nobuyoshi had depleted Dongman's mobile garrison strength. Every point was attacked, and it was difficult to protect himself. There was no spare power to reinforce other places, so he could only hope for luck.

With almost no effort, Hailin, Ning'an, and Hualin were captured. Tang Qiuli stipulated that the battle should be resolved within eight hours. It took them less than four hours, and the footprints of the soldiers were already there.

Spread across these three outlying towns of Mudanjiang.

It is a little regrettable that because the troops were not familiar with the terrain, were afraid of exposing their targets, and did not dare to conduct frequent reconnaissance, some 800 Japanese soldiers guarding the enemy in Hualin escaped from the encirclement along a dark ditch and ran into Mudanjiang.

For this reason, Yuan Jinghao, the leader of the fourth detachment, regretted his youth and gave the special operations detachment leader who was assigned to the fourth detachment responsible for pre-war reconnaissance a good training, and then wrote a letter of apology and handed it to Chief of Staff Feng

Jiwu, the captain of the special warfare unit, also wrote a letter of apology to his superior, the group captain Fu Qiang.

This small incident did not affect the mood of the troops. A small number of troops were left to deal with the aftermath. Most of the main force went straight to Mudanjiang and surrounded Mudanjiang.

When attacking Mudanjiang, the troops were unexpectedly blocked by the solid city defenses built by the Japanese. The troops failed to attack twice in a row and suffered some casualties. In view of this situation, Chief of Staff Feng Jiwu ordered

Stop attacking, turn to siege, and seek effective solutions.

When Tang Qiuli arrived at the battlefield outside Mudanjiang after a long journey, the army and the Japanese were about to form a confrontation.

Mudanjiang is the transliteration of the Manchu word Mudanwula, which means crooked river. Mudanjiang City is a young city. It was originally a sparsely populated Huanghuadian. In 1903, when the Middle East Railway was being built, Tsarist Russia set up a station here. Because it is located in Mudanjiang

On the bank, Gu named it Mudanjiang, and later became the capital of the Japanese and puppet Mudanjiang Province.

After the Japanese invaded the Northeast, in view of its strategic value as it was located at the strategic hub of waterway transportation, they carried out large-scale transformation and reinforcement of the city's defenses, forming a relatively complete modern defense system.

There are two protective trenches around the city that are five meters deep and six meters wide. Water from the Mudan River is drawn into the trenches to form a moat. Between the two trenches, fifty meters apart, a large number of mines are laid and two barbed wire fences are laid.

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To enter and exit the city, you must pass through a four-door suspension bridge. About a hundred meters away from the inner moat, there is a group of solid bunkers and bunkers, all of which are reinforced concrete structures and equipped with light and heavy machine guns and mortars.

When the troops attack, they first have to deal with two trenches, minefields, and barbed wire. Then when they approach the open area, they will be hit by intensive crossfire from the Japanese.

The total strength of the Japanese Mudanjiang garrison in the city is 1,300 people. Including the more than 800 people who escaped, the total strength now is more than 2,200 people. The weapons and equipment are: an artillery squadron with four mountain cannons.

Ten Type 92 infantry guns and several light and heavy machine guns.

Garrison Captain Hiroshi Takahashi, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, was originally a staff officer at the Kwantung Army Headquarters. He took over his current position a year ago. As soon as he took office, he organized all the young and middle-aged men among the Japanese expatriates in the city into reserve forces.

Soldiers serve the people in peacetime and soldiers in wartime.

If this part of the force is added, the total strength of the Japs in the city reaches more than 5,000 people. There is also a Manchukuo security brigade with more than 800 people, as well as police stations, secret services, puppet Manchukuo railway employees, etc.

When Feng Jiwu, several detachment leaders, and several division chiefs from the headquarters saw that the commander and deputy commander were back, they were so happy that they almost ate Tang Qiuli, and they were all surrounded by people.

They spread out and looked at him up and down, as if checking if there were any missing parts on his body.

No wonder everyone is like this. In the blink of an eye, they haven't seen each other for nearly a month. During this period, Tang Qiuli was seriously injured and went on an expedition to Anton. Everyone was worried and worried to death.

Now I see that nothing is wrong with the commander, but his face is a little pale. That doesn't matter. He just needs to recuperate for a while. During this time, the army has obtained a lot of good things, which will be sent to the commander later.

Su Jingfeng had the loudest voice, saying that he had some good old wild ginseng and Hericium mushrooms, and he would take them to the commander immediately. Zhou Yushan poked Su Jingfeng in the waist and pouted at Xiaoling, this guy

The response was quite fast, and I knew that the commander would definitely not want anything from everyone.

He hurriedly said to Xiaoling: "Dean Zhang, this task is left to you. On behalf of all the soldiers in the army, you will take care of the commander for us. All these things will be sent to you!" Xiaoling smiled and said nothing.

He looked at Tang Qiuli with shining eyes.

Her man was so loved by everyone, and she felt full of pride in her heart.

Tang Qiuli knew that it would be useless if he did not collect these things. Everyone's kindness and enthusiasm made him feel a long-lost familiarity. It was the feeling of going home. It had been a long time since he had a free chat with these old guys.

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After hearing the news, some captains also rushed to Feng Jiwu's temporary headquarters. The small headquarters was packed to the rafters, vying to shake hands with Tang Qiuli and say hello. There was a lot of commotion for a while.

Most of the soldiers also knew the news. The commander had returned to the army. They were all in high spirits and seemed to have a backbone. It was not that Feng Jiwu and the others were not good at their status among the soldiers, but mainly because of Tang Qiuli's invincible image.

, has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the soldiers.

Especially some veteran soldiers, who have fought many victorious battles with the commander, but they are still just taking advantage of the battle. The new soldiers who just joined the army not long ago are even more anxious. They all want to see the supreme leader of the army, the legend.

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When Tang Qiuli saw that everyone was there, he also had a preliminary understanding of the battlefield situation, held a combat meeting on the situation, and analyzed the current situation between ourselves and the enemy.

Taking advantage of the fact that the main Japanese troops were drawn to the Andong front line in Western Manchuria, we won a buffer time of ten to twelve days. Now the Japanese troops in Eastern Manchuria are empty, and the defensive points cannot protect themselves, let alone reinforcements.

This creates good opportunities for us to defeat each one.

Two sets of combat plans can be adopted. One is to besiege the city and mobilize reinforcements. It would be best if the enemy reinforcements are nearby. You can eliminate the enemy reinforcements on their way to take advantage of his emptiness, and then take away his lair.