Liuhe County, the headquarters of the Japanese Far Eastern Army.
Kobayashi Asaburo angrily reported to Yamashita: "Your Excellency, Commander, I just received a farewell message from Yamazaki Isamu, deputy commander of the 180th Infantry Regiment, saying that they were in a triangle ten miles south of Wujiashan Fortress.
Shan was ambushed by the main force of the new regiment, and after half an hour of fierce fighting, the 180th Infantry Regiment was collectively shattered!"
"Nani?" Yamashita Fengwen said in shock, "The 180th Infantry Regiment was ambushed by the main force of the new regiment on the triangular mountain ten miles south of Wujiashan Fortress?"
"Hai!" Asaburo Kobayashi paused and said, "The 180th Infantry Regiment, it's over!"
"Baga!" Yamashita Fengwen shouted sternly, "The main force of the new regiment has just entered Hunchun County. It is at least nearly a hundred miles away from Wujiashan Fortress. How could it possibly go to Triangular Mountain to ambush the 180th Infantry Regiment?"
After a pause, Yamashita Fengwen asked again: "Could it be that Xu Rui's troops can fly into the sky and escape from the ground?"
Kobayashi Asaburo sighed and said: "Your Excellency, Commander, Xu Rui's troops certainly can't fly into the sky and escape. If I guessed correctly, it should have been the ones who attacked Wujiashan Fortress before, not just the Langya troops, but
There was also a new regiment of infantry units acting in coordination. Although the Wolf Fang troops left the fortress this time, this infantry unit did not leave, and it was probably this infantry unit that ambushed the 180th Infantry Regiment.
"
Yamashita Fengwen said solemnly: "Mr. Xiaolin, do you mean to say that the one who ambushed the 180th Infantry Regiment was just a small infantry unit of the New Regiment?"
"Hai!" Asaburo Kobayashi paused and said, "Commander, you should have heard of the Battle of Nantong, right?"
"Of course!" Yamashita Fengwen nodded and said, "In the battle of Nantong, Xu Rui defeated the Chongteng detachment with only more than 500 remnant soldiers. This battle was a great shame for the imperial army!"
Kobayashi Asaburo said: "So, it is not unimaginable that the 180th Infantry Regiment will be collectively shattered."
Before he finished speaking, the commander of the third flying regiment, He Zhongzhi, walked in quickly and reported to Yamashita dejectedly: "Your Excellency, commander, the aviation reconnaissance team still has not discovered the whereabouts of the main force of the new regiment, but our third
The Third Flight Group has really tried its best because the vegetation in Hunchun County is so lush."
Yamashita Fengwen waved his hand and said: "Congratulations, sir, I know, I can't blame you."
Yamashita Fengwen once traveled to Hunchun County for inspection and knew that the forest vegetation coverage there was extremely high, so he actually already knew that after the new regiment moved to Hunchun County, their Far East Front Army's encirclement and suppression operation would be
In fact, it has failed, and the only hope for a comeback is that the 180th Infantry Regiment can recapture the Wujiashan Fortress.
But just now, the 180th Infantry Regiment was ambushed and collectively shattered. So far, the Far East Front Army's encirclement and suppression operation against the New Regiment has completely failed!
Kobayashi Asaburo sighed: "Your Excellency, Commander, although I hate to admit it, our Far East Front Army's encirclement and suppression operation has indeed failed, a complete failure!"
Yamashita Fengwen waved his hand and said: "Xiaolin-kun, a failure is not terrible. What is terrible is that if you fail to sum up after the failure, you will make the same mistakes again in the next combat operation!"
"Hai!" Asaburo Kobayashi paused heavily and said, "I will definitely lead the staff of the staff department to carefully and comprehensively summarize the gains and losses of this encirclement and suppression operation, and then come up with a battle plan for the next stage as soon as possible!"
"Yo Xi!" Yamashita Fengwen nodded happily and asked, "Where is the Pursuit and Annihilation Corps now?"
Asaburo Kobayashi replied: "The forward pursuit of the Annihilation Corps, the 38th Division has entered Hunchun County, and the following three divisions have also arrived in Tumen County."
"Yo Xi." Yamashita Fengwen nodded and said, "Order, the 38th Division will be stationed on the spot in Hunchun County, the 39th Division will be stationed in Tumen County, the 46th Division and the 4th Division will be stationed in Tumen County.
The 18th Division bypassed Hunchun County and entered North Korea to garrison at Luojin and Luoxian respectively. As for the 57th Division, it was rebuilt on the spot in Yanji."
After a pause, Yamashita Fengwen continued: "Call the base camp again, and the above five divisions will reorganize the Seventh Army to encircle and suppress Xu Rui's new regiment."
"Hai."
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Hunchunling.
The officers and soldiers of the third battalion who stayed behind at Wujiashan Fortress were already waiting for the main force of the new regiment.
"Captain!" Huang Shouxin led the commanders of the third battalion to greet him enthusiastically and lined up to salute Xu Rui.
Xu Rui returned the military salute and asked with a smile: "Shou Xin, I heard that your boy won a big victory. One guy wiped out the Japanese and an entire infantry regiment?"
Huang Shouxin chuckled and said modestly: "It's just a fluke."
Xu Rui said: "One battalion ate up an infantry regiment of the little devil, this one is not a lucky one!"
Huang Shouxin laughed again, feeling a little embarrassed by Xu Rui's remarks, and quickly changed the subject: "Captain, I asked the brothers to prepare hot water and hot meals. The main force should hurry up the mountain."
"That's right." Xu Rui turned around and waved his hand, saying loudly, "Brothers, let's go!"
At that moment, Xu Rui led the main force of the new regiment up the mountain and entered the fortress.
At this time, including Huang Shouxin's third battalion and Shi Changqing's fifth battalion, the total number of people in the entire New Regiment was less than 5,000, including nearly 2,000 non-combatants, because as mentioned earlier, the New Regiment
When the regiment evacuated in the spring, it brought a large number of non-combatants, such as the Japanese engineer Yuzo Kitani.
This means that there are only more than 3,000 combat troops left in the new regiment.
The only good thing is that these three thousand people are all veterans who have experienced hundreds of battles.
In addition, it should be noted that most of the 5,000 people who were transferred to Wujiashan Fortress were wounded. Fortunately, there are complete medical facilities in Wujiashan Fortress. After entering the fortress, these wounded or sick people were immediately treated effectively.
For example, Wang Husheng, the political commissar of the regiment, had a high fever for several days before arriving at the Wujiashan Fortress, and it seemed that everyone was already dying. However, after entering the fortress, a few bottles of salt water were hung up, and the condition was greatly relieved immediately.
When Wang Husheng woke up, he saw Xu Rui sitting on the bedside and wanted to sit up.
"Old Wang, don't move." Xu Rui quickly stopped him and said with concern, "Just lie down peacefully."
Wang Husheng lay back on the bed, looked up at the chandelier above his head, and asked, "Old Xu, where is this?"
"Wujiashan Fortress." Xu Rui said, "You are now lying in the field ward inside Wujiashan Fortress."
"Have you arrived at Wujiashan Fortress?" Wang Husheng breathed a sigh of relief and asked, "Have all the troops withdrawn?"
"They've all been evacuated." Xu Rui nodded and said, "Not a single one of the units has been left behind, they've all been evacuated."
"Just withdraw, just withdraw." Wang Husheng nodded happily, and then the expression on his face dimmed again, and then asked, "What about the casualties of the troops? Have they been counted?"
Xu Rui sighed and said: "We have already calculated that there are nearly 5,000 people left in the entire regiment, including almost 3,000 combatants."
"There are only more than 3,000 combatants left?" The expression on Wang Husheng's face became increasingly gloomy.
"Fortunately, most of our experts and engineers are here." Xu Rui said happily.
"Well, these experts and engineers are the most valuable assets!" Wang Husheng nodded and asked, "By the way, how are things going in Hetao and North China?"
Xu Rui sighed softly and said: "The Hetao was temporarily held, but in North China, the previously recovered large and medium-sized cities and most of the county towns were lost again. The situation has returned to before we launched the blitzkrieg. To some extent, it is even worse than before.
It will be worse before the blitzkrieg."
Wang Husheng frowned and said, "Why do you say that?"
Xu Rui sighed and said: "Because the hundreds of thousands of Japs who went south from the Siberian battlefield have been incorporated into the North China Front Army. This means that the North China Front Army has not only supplemented more than 200,000 Japs soldiers who have experienced the Far East Campaign, but also
More than ten additional armored divisions have been added, and the strength has been completely improved compared to before!"
Wang Husheng said solemnly: "In other words, the pressure faced by various base areas behind enemy lines in North China has become even greater?"
"Yes, the pressure is greater than before!" Xu Rui nodded and said, "Fortunately, the armed forces in various base areas behind enemy lines in North China are also stronger than before, otherwise they really wouldn't be able to sustain it."
Wang Hushang let out a long sigh and said: "Old Xu, in other words, we have been busy these past few months, but in the end we have accomplished nothing?"
Xu Rui said: "On the surface, we have not lost much in the past few months of fighting, but this is only a superficial phenomenon. In fact, after these few months of fighting, we have still caused heavy losses to the Japanese.
The attack, especially the heavy industry in Fengtian, has been basically destroyed by us."
During the Anti-Japanese War, the heavy industrial base in Northeast China played a great role.
In particular, the intact Fengtian Ordnance Factory left to the Japanese by the Zhang family and his son continued to produce various types of firearms and ammunition for the Japanese invaders, making great contributions to the entire Japanese invasion of China! But now, Fengtian Ordnance Factory
But it has been reduced to rubble by the Xinyi Group. Not only was the factory gone, but tens of thousands of pieces of equipment were also destroyed.
But Wang Husheng's next words immediately silenced Xu Rui.
Wang Husheng said: "Although we destroyed the heavy industrial base in Fengtian, the Japanese government obtained the heavy industrial bases in Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk. So strictly speaking, the Japanese actually made a profit."
After a long silence, Xu Rui added: "But the Japanese army lost more than 200,000 people in the Far East Battle and our two blitzes. This is indeed real, and this makes their troop sources even more depleted!"
Wang Husheng sighed and said, "I've been busy for a few months, and I'm afraid this is all I've gained."
