Age of Conquest Reborn

The battle to encircle and annihilate the Western Manchukuo Assault Corps of the Kwantung Army ended in an unexpected way. After the 670,000 to 70,000 officers and soldiers of the Puppet Manchukuo Army slaughtered the Kwantung Army officers at all levels who were sent to the army to monitor them, all

surrendered, and Western Manchuria launched a reinforcement war, which ended with zero casualties among the five mechanized brigades of the Outer Mongolia Field Corps participating in the war!

Division commander Tang Qiuli also gave specific instructions on how to deal with the 70,000 to 80,000 prisoners of war. However, Colonel Ge Zhenzhuang, the director of the division's staff office who was responsible for conveying the order, did not quite understand the division commander's intention and transferred a corps commander to serve as a prisoner of war.

The position of captain of the management battalion is obviously wasteful and unnecessary. The tone of his voice implies that he wants to fight for the injustice of the transferred commander of the 29th Corps, Major General Li Honggang!

As for what the division commander said, after Li Honggang received the order, not only would he not be resentful, but he would also be happy. Ge Zhenzhuang didn't believe it even more. He knew that the 29th Corps had just been dispatched to the Indochina Peninsula to participate in the campaign to recapture the Northeast.

A battle was not won, but the troops were transferred to pieces by the division commander. Now, they have been transferred away from the battlefield on the Korean Peninsula. Seeing that the battle to regain the Northeast has entered the extreme of general attack, whoever is blamed will be full of resentment!

In a happy mood, Tang Qiuli explained a few more words, "Director Ge, I am not just talking nonsense. There are 70,000 to 80,000 prisoners of war from the Puppet Manchukuo Army. After all, they have also received training and have a certain military foundation. The 20th

The Ninth Corps has the smallest number of troops in the independent division's combat order. If all these prisoners were given to Li Honggang, do you think he would be so happy that he could not sleep? I would send him soldiers from at least three brigades!

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Ge Zhenzhuang suddenly realized it and was happy at the time. Tang Qiuli continued: "In the telegram, tell Li Honggang that the screening work of prisoners of war must be meticulous, rather than indiscriminate. For the specific work in this area, I will order Shen Jun, Director of the Investigation Department.

Shen Jun is an expert at cooperating with him!"

Several consecutive reinforcement battles have emptied all the Kwantung Army garrison forces in Fengtian and Xinjing. Now, only the direction of Harbin is left, and there is no movement yet. Tang Qiuli certainly hopes that the Japanese will continue to move.

Faint move, such as

French troops prepared several reinforcement battles in the areas around Harbin, with six mechanized brigades in the hands of Chief of Staff Wang Jun of the Outer Mongolia Field Corps and more than 6,000 cavalry in the hands of cavalry commander Liu Chun. Several major battles were fought.

No problem!

However, Tang Qiuli's idea was obviously in vain. Lieutenant General Matsuda Kenjiro, the Chief of General Staff of the Kwantung Army, who was sitting in Xinjing and waiting for news from the Kwantung Army's Western Manchu Assault Corps, received a telegram from the commander of the Kwantung Army, Major General Hamasaki. He was immediately stunned.

My hands were shaking, and cold sweat was dripping down my forehead. There were more than 80,000 people, and they didn't even have a formal attack. They collapsed at the first touch. The defeat was unbelievable?

Whether you believe it or not, the Kwantung Army's Western Manchurian Assault Corps, with more than 80,000 people, was surrounded by independent division troops in the triangle area of ​​Gongzhuling, Yushutai, and Daheishan. This is an indisputable fact. Chief of Staff Matsuda has nothing to use.

Even if there were any troops coming to rescue, he was very clear about it. He could get in as many as he wanted. The only thing he could do was to order the commander, Major General Hamasaki, to command the troops to break out of the encirclement and return to Xinjing as much as possible.

After the telegram was sent, there was no reply. Chief of Staff Matsuda knew that Major General Hamasaki had died at the gunpoint of the mutinous Manchukuo army soldiers, and not even a single body could be found.

At dawn, on the battlefields of Gongzhuling, Yushutai, and Daheishan, groups of soldiers of the Puppet Manchukuo Army, following the orders of the soldiers of the Independent Division, put down their weapons and gathered at the designated place. From the faces of these soldiers, there was nothing visible.

What an expression of fear, but now there are only more than 60,000 people left in the Western Manchuria Assault Corps of the Kwantung Army with more than 80,000 people, and more than 20,000 soldiers fell under the fire of the independent division artillery.

The living soldiers of the Puppet Manchukuo Army were dazzled when they saw the independent division troops coming from all directions, with roaring tanks, cannons, light and heavy machine guns, and mortars. They were all secretly glad that they did not follow the Japanese orders. They were so stupid.

Let's keep fighting, otherwise, we just don't have enough people to blow them up with one cannonball!

According to Jing Zhanqi's order, the Seventh Brigade of the Outer Mongolia Field Corps was responsible for escorting the prisoners to the port of Anton. Therefore, on the land of Western Manchuria, more than 60,000 puppet Manchukuo army prisoners lined up in several long lines to go to An.

Walking towards the east, people along the way, old and young, came out and stood on the side of the road to watch the strange things. The Xinjing reinforcement campaign was over, and Jing Zhanqi's attention was once again focused on the more than 400,000 Kwantung Army troops in the Western Manchuria area.

On the body.

Lieutenant General Matsuda, the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army who had not received any response from the Western Manchuria Assault Corps of the Kwantung Army, no longer dared to organize any combat units such as the corps. In his opinion, this was an unknown designation.

None of the "corps" troops ended up well. Lieutenant General Kobayashi, the commander of the Harbin garrison of the Kwantung Army, sent a telegram, once again urging the headquarters to determine the operational policy in the direction of Harbin as soon as possible!

Chief of General Staff Matsuda immediately called back, "As far as the current war situation in Manchuria is concerned, our imperial troops have been defeated whenever they go out to cities with strong fortifications and fight against independent division troops in the wild. Therefore, the Kwantung Army troops in the direction of Harbin are defeated.

Focus on defending the city and do not leave the city to fight under any circumstances. This is the core point of the Harbin defense plan stipulated by the headquarters!"

In a word, the Kwantung Army troops and Manchukuo troops in the direction of Harbin are defending the city. No matter how the independent division troops are tossing around and fighting, they will not leave the city. If they leave the city, they will die. After determining the combat policy in the direction of Harbin, I feel panic

Chief of Staff Matsuda left Xinjing and hurried back to the Kwantung Army Headquarters in Fengtian. After the whereabouts of the commander-in-chief General Yoshijiro Umezu became unknown, the Kwantung Army Headquarters was leaderless and was anxiously waiting for him to return to take charge of the overall situation!

The six mechanized brigades commanded by Colonel Wang Jun, chief of staff of the Outer Mongolia Field Corps, and more than 6,000 cavalrymen of the independent division cavalry commander Liu Chun met in the Zhaodong area. The North Manchu Combat Corps was formed. Later, Wang Jun and Liu

Chun discussed and deployed the troops outside Harbin in a full-scale offensive posture in an attempt to lure the Kwantung Army's garrison out of the city to fight and annihilate the enemy in the wild!

Hundreds of thousands of troops bluffed around the outskirts of Harbin for a whole day, and even attacked several small counties in the outskirts. However, the Kwantung Army garrison in Harbin didn't even show their faces.

If you are determined, you just won’t come out.

Wang Jun, the commander of the North Manchuria Combat Corps, and Liu Chun, the deputy commander, had no choice but to report the situation to the division commander. According to their ideas, they might as well just take down Harbin. The corps now has this capability, but there is no division commander.

Ordered, the two did not dare to take action.

After receiving the report, Tang Qiuli was very disappointed. It seemed that it was not always his turn to take advantage. He suffered losses one after another. The commander of the Kwantung Army learned his lesson and stayed behind closed doors to attack Harbin.

The time was not yet ripe, so he gave Wang Jun

He telegraphed back to Liu Chun, "In view of the fact that the time to attack Harbin has not yet come, your regiment's current operational objectives should be placed in the surrounding areas of Harbin, to clear out the Kwantung Army and the puppet Manchukuo garrison in the outlying towns, and to encircle Harbin."

situation!"

Subsequently, the following order was issued to the four mechanized brigades of the Outer Mongolia Field Corps that were resting in the west of Xinjing after the war.

Once the troops are completely exhausted, the next main task of your troops is to encircle Xingjing and clear out the Kwantung Army and the puppet Manchukuo garrison forces in the outskirts of Xingjing and its surrounding areas!"

In the direction of Fengtian, Wang Dongshan, Chief of Staff of the Marine Corps of the Independent Division, who was still resting in place after the reinforcement war to the west of Fengtian, issued the same order. As a result, the entire Northeast battlefield formed the following situation. In western Liaoning

In the area east of the Daling River, Panshan, and west of Beining, the Niangziguan garrison of the Independent Division and the Western Liaoning Combat Corps, dominated by the Marine Corps, encircled the Kwantung Army's more than 500,000 troops in the Western Liaoning region.

In the vast area east of Tongliao, Siping, and west of Shuangliao, the Independent Division's North China Field Corps and the Western Manchu blocking force of Jingzhan Banner surrounded the Kwantung Army's more than 400,000 troops in the Western Manchu area.

Part of the force encircled Harbin, Fengtian and Xinjing, adopting the strategy of encircling without attacking and cleaning up the periphery. As a result, the main force of the Kwantung Army and the three central cities in the Northeast were all under Tang Qiuli's control!

Two days later, Sun Zhenbang, commander of the Outer Mongolia Field Corps of the Independent Division, commanded the main force of the corps to arrive at the line from Siping to Shuangliao. At this point, the encirclement of the Kwantung Army troops in the western Liaoning and Western Manchuria areas was formally formed. Each encirclement circle had

The two main corps plus the other attached corps, the independent division troops have the prerequisites to launch a general attack on the encircled Kwantung Army troops, both in terms of strength and equipment.

On the same day, Tang Qiuli, commander of the Independent Division, issued an order to establish the Western Manchuria Operations Command of the Independent Division. Major General Sun Zhenbang, commander of the Outer Mongolia Corps, served as the commander-in-chief, and Major General Yuan Jinghao, commander of the North China Field Corps, served as deputy commander-in-chief.

Major General Jing Zhanqi, commander of the 1st Brigade of the 19th Corps, served as the chief of staff of the headquarters. At the same time, the designation of the Western Manchuria Interceptor Corps of the Independent Division was revoked, and the subordinate units were assigned to the Western Manchuria Regional Combat Command.

The independent division's Western Liaoning Regional Combat Command was established. Major General Feng Jiwu, commander of the Niangziguan Garrison Corps, served as the commander-in-chief. Major General Han Tie, commander of the Marine Corps, served as the deputy commander-in-chief. Colonel Zhang Hansheng, chief of staff of the Niangziguan Garrison Corps, served as the staff officer.

Commander, at the same time, the designation of the Liaodong Peninsula Combat Group of the Independent Division was revoked.

The military strength of the Western Manchurian Regional Combat Command has reached 43 mechanized infantry brigades, with a strength of more than 700,000 people. The military strength of the Western Liaoning Regional Combat Command has reached 56 mechanized infantry brigades, with a strength of more than 900,000 people.

With human strength, the overall pattern of the Northeast battlefield has been officially formed!

(To be continued)