Age of Conquest Reborn

Tang Qiuli couldn't help but smile. The teacher pointed at Chen Feng, the director of the Communications Department. This person who controls the important center of the independent division's secrets and communications power is a very interesting person. He is usually taciturn. If the telegram he receives is good news,

, he definitely has an indifferent expression. If it is bad news, he will look nervous and serious, so much so that he gave him the nickname "Ominous Bird", but the weird expression on his face is the first time he has seen it.

arrive.

"Director Chen, I have become accustomed to your two expressions, but I can't guess your current expression. What important thing happened?" Tang Qiuli said half-jokingly before Chen Feng could speak.

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After listening to the division commander's joke, Chen Feng also burst into laughter. He shook his head and said: "What a weird thing. I just received a telegram from Wang Dongshan, the commander of the Fengtian reinforcements force. The Kwantung Army Liaoxi Assault Corps from Fengtian is here.

After being frustrated in Liaozhong, they turned to the direction of Manduhu and defended Manduhu. After a round of artillery fire, the Second Brigade of the Shandong Garrison Area suddenly collapsed without warning. Tens of thousands of people fled in all directions.

yes!"

"What?" Tang Qiuli exclaimed in surprise, and exchanged glances with Ge Zhenzhuang. It was indeed a strange thing that the master couldn't believe. Umezu Yoshijiro led more than 50,000 people, and they came with great momentum. They dispersed before they could fight.

Are you kidding me?

Logically speaking, it is a good thing that the Kwantung Army Liaoxi Assault Corps was defeated after a short battle and the threat to the Korean Railway Force was eliminated. However, Tang Qiuli felt absolutely no sense of relief in his heart. This was not what was needed in the Fengtian reinforcements battle.

The result was two goals: to completely annihilate the Kwantung Army and to exhaust all the Kwantung Army's potential military strength in Fengtian City. The most important thing was to kill or capture the Kwantung Army's commander-in-chief, General Yoshijiro Umezu.

But now the Liaoxi Assault Corps of the Kwantung Army has dispersed in a hurry. The well-planned siege has turned into a chase. It is inevitable that some fish will slip through the net. What is going on? Tang Qiuli couldn't help but frowned. "Targeted."

What measures did Wang Dongshan take to deal with this unexpected situation?" He asked, twitching the corners of his mouth a few times, feeling quite ridiculous.

Chen Feng replied: "Commander Wang Dongshan reported his response plan in the telegram. The four brigades in the Shandong Garrison Area immediately pressed forward from their current positions in the direction of Fengtian and expanded the range to both wings as much as possible.

The three brigades on the Sujiatun and Yuhong front lines each left a regiment of troops. The rest of the troops rushed over and connected with the Shandong Garrison Area troops on both wings to form a huge encirclement, and then gradually compressed towards the central area!

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"Yes. Wang Dongshan's response plan is very good, his response is astute and his deployment is appropriate!" Tang Qiuli nodded with satisfaction and said, "Director Chen, call Wang Dongshan back. The commander agrees with your battle plan, and we will launch a reinforcement battle outside Fengtian.

, this is not a battle that ends in a hurry, it can be done calmly

Deal with it, attack it steadily, and take the principle of not letting any of the defeated Kwantung Army soldiers slip through the net!" After pondering for a while, he continued: "As for the Japanese Chief Umezu Yoshijiro, you can kill him or capture him, but there is no need to rush for success because of this.

As for affecting the original deployment!"

Chen Feng and Ge Zhenzhuang left one after another. Even though they called Wang Dongshan just now, Tang Qiuli felt a little regretful in his heart. Looking at the current situation on the battlefield, Umezu Yoshijiro probably took advantage of the chaos and slipped away. "We are well prepared."

He used a big net, but the fish exploded. Could it be that this guy is not exhausted yet?" he thought with a sigh.

Killing or capturing Umezu Yoshijiro was not only because he was the current commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army. His death was the biggest blow to the morale of the Kwantung Army. In real history, this man's hands were stained with the blood of the Chinese people.

One of the important culprits in the war of aggression against China, he single-handedly concocted the "Ho-Mei Agreement" that annexed North China. While serving as the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, he ordered the creation of the infamous "731" unit.

After Japan's defeat, because the Americans had ulterior motives, it was more likely that they coveted the research results of the Kwantung Army in the Northeast when it came to biological and chemical weapons and germ warfare. Umezu Yoshijiro was one of the important insiders, and he had rare goods.

He was not arrested by the Allies on charges of war criminals.

Later, because the Allied Soviet Procuratorate, according to Umezu Yoshijiro, served as the commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army for five years and had repeatedly planned to launch war against the Soviet Union, they strongly demanded that he be arrested as the biggest war criminal. However, because the United States

Asylum, he escaped the death penalty and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

If in the space where Tang Qiuli arrived, Umezu Yoshijiro could be killed or captured, this die-hard militarist would not have gone to the post-war Tokyo Tribunal, and his life would have ended in the summer of 1940.

northeast!

The more than 400,000 Kwantung Army troops who were surrounded in the western Liaoning region fought fiercely for a day. They did not move forward, leaving tens of thousands of corpses behind. Facing the copper and iron walls of the Korean Iron Army, their heads were bruised and bloody, and they were afraid of Feng Jiwu's regiment.

Attacked from behind, they had no choice but to continue to huddle in the original area, hopelessly waiting for new orders from the Kwantung Army headquarters.

The life of the Kwantung Army in western Liaoning is definitely not easy. The Han Railway troops are blocking the only way back to Fengtian from Panshan to Beining. The Feng Jiwu Corps, which is pursuing from the direction of Daling River, is constantly compressing and encroaching on its battlefield space.

When the Jinzhou frontline retreated, the supplies they carried were almost exhausted. The soldiers went from three meals a day to only one porridge a day. In addition to facing the pressure of hundreds of thousands of independent divisions, they had to find food.

It became a more important thing for the Kwantung Army soldiers!

Fortunately, in the western Liaoning region in mid-July, many crops could barely make ends meet, and there was no shortage of rivers. Otherwise, the lack of water alone would have killed more than 400,000 Kwantung Army soldiers. Even so, due to the lack of supplies,

, lack of medical treatment and medicine, wounded soldiers cannot get timely treatment

treatment, non-combat attrition is increasing every day, food is insufficient, and the physical strength of the soldiers is deteriorating. All these circumstances make Lieutenant General Izawa, the commander of the Fifth Army who was ordered to serve as the commander of the Liaoxi Combat Group of the Kwantung Army, spend the whole day

Price is worried.

After another futile attack, it was already dusk in the sky. Lieutenant General Izawa called together the commanders of the other four armies to study countermeasures. The five Kwantung Army lieutenant generals who decided the fate of more than 400,000 Kwantung Army soldiers,

come together

They stood up and looked at each other. No one had any good ideas. The current situation was obvious. It was impossible to break through and it was not a good idea to stand still and wait for help. In another seven or eight days, there would be no need for an independent division to fight. Just hunger alone would kill hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

starve.

Originally, the soldiers were still energetic in today's breakout battle. Commander-in-Chief Umezu personally led the rescue team, but after fighting for a whole day, the breakout force lost many troops. There was no movement at all from General Umezu, which made the five Kwantung Army soldiers

Lieutenant General, I feel very uneasy, but I have to face the reality. The Kwantung Army Liaoxi Assault Corps coming for rescue may be in danger.

After studying for more than an hour, the lieutenant generals could not come up with any good ideas and dispersed reluctantly. Lieutenant General Izawa did not give up and ordered the confidential department to send a long telegram to Commander-in-Chief Umezu.

, reported on the difficulties faced by the Kwantung Army in Western Liaoning, and finally requested specific orders from Commander-in-Chief Umezu!

For such an important telegram, Lieutenant General Izawa personally guarded the radio station. When the telegram was sent out, there was still no reply. He ordered the radio station with a gloomy face to contact the Commander-in-Chief all the time. Once contacted, no matter when,

Notify yourself immediately, and then leave with your heart full of worries.

On the border battlefield in the northwestern part of the Northeast, Major General Zhao Yuhe, chief of staff of the independent division and commander of the directly affiliated corps, and the command post encircled and annihilated the remnants of the Kwantung Army's border garrison very smoothly. More than 20,000 remnants of the Kwantung Army were compressed into a small area.

On the Gobi Desert for dozens of kilometers, the lack of food and water, the scorching sun, and the hot and dry wind took away the last bit of physical strength of the Kwantung Army soldiers. They squatted in the temporary fortifications and looked at the Gobi Desert covered with stones in despair.

Zhao Yuhe's attack obviously did not intend to use infantry to charge. He ordered the directly affiliated corps and the six attached brigades of the Outer Mongolia Field Corps, and all the artillery, to carry out all-round artillery bombardment against the Kwantung Army troops in the encirclement.

, the earth-shattering artillery fire lasted for more than forty minutes,

After thoroughly plowing through the Gobi Desert several times, the tanks covered the infantry and entered the shelling area. Apart from the blasted sand and broken stone debris, no traces of life could be seen. The Kwantung Army Border Guards finally

The remaining more than 20,000 remnant soldiers disappeared into the artillery fire, and the Northeast Border Battle ended successfully.

In this battle, the independent division was mainly composed of directly-affiliated corps and was attached to the First Division of the Outer Mongolia Field Corps. First, it was the main force of the Kwantung Army's border garrison, which severely damaged the Ujimqin grassland area in the northeast. Later, it gathered its remnants and annihilated them in Outer Mongolia.

One hundred and eighty thousand Kwantung Army soldiers were buried in the vast Gobi Desert of Outer Mongolia along the line from Haleg to Menghehan in the southeast. Not even their intact bodies could be found.

After the Northeast Border Battle, Zhao Yuhe immediately ordered his troops to cross the mountain pass from Haleg to Menghehan, along the south bank of the Kerulen River, and enter North Manchuria. More than 400,000 troops marched in a mighty manner.

Passing the northern foot of the Greater Khingan Mountains forest area, they rushed directly to the Far East. At this moment, there were no significant troops of the Kwantung Army in the northern Manchuria area. Zhao Yuhe's troops were almost in an uninhabited country!

During the march, Zhao Yuhe reported the situation of the Northeast Border Battle to the division commander. After receiving the telegram, the division commander Tang Qiuli was very happy and immediately called Zhao Yuhe back, "I am happy to hear that the Northeast Border Battle has ended successfully.

, we gathered together to annihilate more than 100,000 Kwantung Army troops, but our army suffered very few casualties, which is great! What a relief!"

"This battle lasted for more than a week. The news that the Kwantung Army's border garrison was completely wiped out has obviously been informed by the Kwantung Army headquarters. Therefore, when your troops march into the Far East, there is no need to conceal their intentions and strive to move as quickly as possible.

With such speed, when we reach the battlefield in the Far East, we can leave no less than six or seven brigades of troops behind to form an offensive posture against Harbin!"

(To be continued) (To be continued..)