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Chapter 114 Progress

With a slight movement of snow on the ground, an artillery mirror slowly rose up. It swung left and right to bring all the situation on the southern bank of the Liao River into sight. This is the position of the An Meng Army. After a few days, the An Meng Army used the original position of the Japanese army to strengthen and expand it. It built a continuous trench with standing posture and set up a Luzhai Resistance Horse. It stretched into a complete front line. Several commanding heights were transformed into a tightly-defended launching stronghold, and sufficient automatic firepower was set up to cross and shoot the entire front line. Although the artillery positions were not visible, the dense ice pits blown out by artillery shells on the frozen Liao River at the bottom of the company were already silently telling the power of the artillery. There were only a few figures of people on this front line occasionally, and cavalry flew past them from time to time, which seemed to be passing orders.

The person who observed through the cannon was Lieutenant General Dakigaya Kuzang, the division commander of the Fifth Division. His arrogant expression had disappeared in the past few days, and the person had lost weight. His face turned pale, and he didn't know whether it was frozen or angry. A group of Japanese soldiers and staff officers lay in the snow, protecting their division commander. This was within the range of the rifle of the opposite Chinese army! The division commander actually came to the front line to observe the enemy's positions. These little officers and soldiers who regarded the commanders of this class as gods were warm in their hearts.

However, they did not know the troubles of the division commander. The tentative attack of the Fifth Division on the south bank of the Liao River and was expelled to the north bank of the Liao River. It was an unprecedented shock to the Japanese military! They always thought that a Japanese army unit, even if it was not organized in wartime, could deal with the two Chinese army divisions at that time. Unexpectedly, in the tentative operation of the Liao River, the Fifth Division failed to attack and could not defend the defense with two infantry artillery of more than one regiments, which simply overturned the Japanese soldiers' full understanding of this enemy! Thinking of the fierce attack launched by the An Meng army on the position on the south bank of the Liao River, Dashigu Kuzo's face twitched.

What a terrible attack! Their continuous attacks, and their sacrificial attacks to achieve their goals, the soldiers resounded throughout the night sky and were not afraid of death. These Dashiya Hakari had already seen them in the Japanese army. Although they were amazed that the Chinese army also had the same spirit as the Japanese army. But what was most surprised was the clever attack method of this army! They used their superior strength to test the entire line, and the joint attacks of cavalry and infantry were very skillful. As long as they tested the weaknesses of the front, they concentrated their firepower and force with huge momentum Throughout the entire defense line, and the reserves were in good condition, and they always appeared on counter-charges to fight against the Japanese army. They were not in a hurry to expand their results, but cunningly defeated the Japanese army's counter-shoots with firepower. When the Japanese army's reserve forces were exhausted, they would invest in a new force to defeat the entire front! Within one or two nights, the entire Japanese army's front line was destroyed, forcing them to carry out arduous defenders and retreat to the north bank of the Liaohe River. If the An Meng army had not stopped the pursuit and their reinforcements finally arrived, Dashigu Kuzoya would never have imagined the fate of the Fifth Division's troops!

This army has only been more than a year old, so why can we fight like this? He didn't know that the An Meng army used money to pile up the live-fire exercises. In order to practice accurate infantry and artillery coordination, the shells fired were enough to fight two major battles. In addition, they had the maneuvering experience of Mongolian combat and the spirit of enduring hardships. With high morale, they would have a shock to the Japanese army who was self-confidant.

The Kanto Hall has given him the greatest support! In order to maintain the reputation of the division commander and the Japanese Army, the Kanto Hall gave him as much support as possible when the troops were insufficient funds and ammunition were insufficient. This was a tacit understanding between him and the Kanto Governor. Although the Kanto Governor was a steady group of Miyakesaka and did not agree with his behavior, it was necessary to recover the impact of the Japanese defeat at this time! The Japanese army must find a decent ending! Originally, his fantasy was to use the Kanto Army as the Kanto Army alone.

The power of force, by obstructing or defeating the An Meng army and seizing the entire Nan Manchuria, is now completely destroyed. Unless the regular army in Japan also mobilizes! These bureaucrats in the army provinces understand very well that if they achieve results, the army provinces and military departments will abide by, or even add additional troops. If there is no favorable situation, let Japan mobilize large-scale to support itself, the possibility is very small! For the sake of their future and life, they must independently find a way to step down!

Now there are 21st and 41st Regiment of the Japanese Army concentrated on the north bank of the Liao River. The Fifth Cavalry Regiment can almost cancel the number. The 21st Regiment is almost disabled, with only one infantry brigade available, and the 41st Regiment still has more than 1,000 combat troops. More than 2,000 people from the 22nd Infantry Regiment and more than 1,300 people from the two South Manchurian Railway Guards. Although the field supplementary team sent more than 900 soldiers in the village, these people can only be used for defense for the time being and cannot be used.

Come on the attack! Calculate this way, the troops you can use to attack are between seven or eight battalions, with 4,000 people. The An Meng army on the opposite side reinforces another division! If you want to attack and win against such an enemy, you can only use the traditional Japanese tactics that are invincible in the world, and attack at night! Use bayonets and hand-to-hand combat to defeat the opposite Chinese army! As long as you win an attack, the entire Kanto Army can step down with decent amount! This is the only opportunity. If you persist like this for a long time, the first one will be the leader of the division!

The most important strengthening he obtained was artillery. The Fifth Artillery Regiment of the former Fifth Division was almost all concentrated, plus a Lushun heavy artillery brigade. The South Manchuria Railway had all been suspended these days, racing against time to transport these artillery and ammunition. Along the entire front line, sixteen 150mm howitzers, twelve 75mm field guns, thirty-six 75mm mountain guns, plus two and a half-base ammunition, were prepared for a concentrated artillery fire for night combat. Especially the 150mm heavy howitzers can tear open the seemingly solid defense line of the opponent! The Fifth Division and its own destiny depended on this night attack!

Daxi Valley Jiuzang moved his body, which became a little stiff because he stayed in the snow for too long, scaring the soldiers around him to heart. There were many Mongolian sharpshooters in the "Guyanshan" infantry regiment of the 1st Division of the An Meng Army. The cold guns of these days have knocked down many of their frontier reconnaissance officers and soldiers. If there is anything wrong with the division commander, they all had to cut off their stomachs. The colonel captain of the Fifth Regiment, Gao Chuanlu, was seriously injured, which was already a great humiliation for the Fifth Division. You can't give another division commander to let the An Meng Army decorate their achievements!

Fortunately, Dashiya Kuzo was ready to retreat. He had done enough to go to the front line to reconnaissance, so there was no need to persevere here. The group retreated silently, found a hidden shelter, opened the map and the staff of the division and the division headquarters began to discuss. The focus was whether to concentrate on a fire reconnaissance? Apart from the cold gun, the An Meng army almost never exposed their firepower points. After the battle in Mongolia, they were like a group of good hunters, and they would never reveal their voices before they caught their prey. Although the front line was in front of the Japanese army, except for a few obvious mounds, they must have set up

In addition to the sufficient firepower points, the firepower configuration in other places is absolutely necessary. In addition to the observation of scouts, a firepower reconnaissance is absolutely necessary. However, the collective opinion of this staff member was rejected by Dakiya Kuzo to ponder for a long time. His reason was also very sufficient. This night attack, the 5th Division was not as strong as the opponent, and emphasized the suddenness and hoped that there would be a heavy snow on that day. Although the reconnaissance would understand the enemy's firepower system, it would also reveal its intention to attack. So we could only gamble on the night of the attack! Use the Yamato soul and body of the Japanese soldiers to advance to the front of the An Meng army and fight them to the death!

As soon as the division commander's opinion came out, his mind was filled with the night attack to win. Yamato's invincible staff officers accepted Okiya's opinion with conscientious conscience, and the discussion focused on when to take the night attack. This battle was imperative!

The An Meng Army General Command was established on the south bank of the Liao River at this time. Now He Sui finally started to command all the troops under his command with justification. The two divisions had eight infantry regiments and one cavalry regiment, plus two artillery regiments and other subordinate units. The troops were far more than the Japanese army on the opposite side. A long and powerful and deep defense line was built along the southern bank of the Liao River. More than 30,000 people stopped here, and they all felt strange. The Liao River was obviously a place that could be broken through, so why should we wait here? Every day, the brigade commander and the commander came to inquire about the news. Some rogues sat in the headquarters and did not leave. He Sui asked him to write a telegram to ask the commander for battle. Every day, He Sui also had to take care of these people, which made him extremely immense.

The Japanese army on the front line was obviously increasing its troops. Sometimes the cavalry ventured from the flanks and bypassed the Japanese front line from the flanks, and it was possible to find the chariots and horses of the Japanese army's heavy artillery entering the position at night. He Sui and Li Rui had already reached a consensus on the march. No matter how negotiations were made in the rear, the battle on the front line must be fought well, and the Japanese army would also launch an offensive and retaliation! In addition to urging the troops to strengthen fortifications every day, they would send more reconnaissance forces to observe the movements of the Japanese army and determine when they would launch a counterattack. Although the movements of the Japanese army were still not obvious, as a unique intuition of soldiers, a war was imminent. He Sui was eager for this battle

The battle came. He also surveyed the battlefield where the first division fought last time. The frozen blood stains and the rags and rags that the Japanese army had not finished packing, guns and ammunition, a beautiful defense, and a decisive attack. There are also corpses thrown away when the Japanese army retreated on the south bank of the Liao River. He would be stunned for a long time when he looked at these corpses. How could this poor and fierce nation, which had been in the east of our country, suddenly emerge in modern times and become the biggest enemy of this country, bullying us so hard that we could not fight back, ceding the land, and enduring insults again and again? Is it something our nation and country did wrong? Or did we miss something?

He Sui took Shi Zhi of the Second Division's field hospital in the first division. During the attack on the south bank of the Liao River, the An Meng Army's first division also suffered considerable casualties. The two main attack regiments of the Tangnu Wuliang Infantry Regiment and the Fourth Infantry Regiment had three or four hundred casualties. The wounded placed three field hospitals of the First Division. When one division of the other Chinese army had at most one field hospital. Yuchen had no choice but to consider the huge expenditures and imitated the army of advanced countries, each division was equipped with three complete field hospitals. There were doctors recruited in the local area, and there were also some half-baked doctors quickly trained by Major General Mu Xinghe, the head of the Jiangbei Army's Military Medical Office, and it was better than not! The Jiangbei Army was established for too short, and many things were first scaled and then gradually improved.

The field hospital was filled with wounded soldiers in the attack and combat on the south bank of the Liao River. In the houses built with logs, these respectable wounded rarely let out loud moans. The male nurses shuttled back and forth among the injured group, constantly changing the medicine to feed the wounded soldiers. Some of the less injured soldiers were still chatting loudly.

"Hey! I thought the Japanese devils could go somewhere, but they were still scared to death. I killed four Mongolian rebels and two Japanese devils. The one I got was to bite the shrapnel on the thigh. It was so cost-effective!"

"I was very lucky this time. I charged and the bullets were flying around me. I thought I would be done if I die. If I don't die, I can't stop. As a result, I turned into the trenches of the Japanese. Everyone was covered in yellow coats and dark. The Japanese didn't notice me! They were screaming and screaming. I looked back and saw that our squad was lying on the ground to avoid bullets. I didn't know whether it was dead or alive. I rushed in alone! Seeing that the Japanese were holding a dry machine gun and firing in, the brothers who followed couldn't raise their heads. I gritted my teeth and thought, let's fight! Take out the grenade and threw it on the machine gun. The Japanese and the machine gun broke up together, and I didn't know anything. When I woke up, he was in the hospital."

"This time the Japanese died in trenches, and they all looked like everything, and they were so miserable. I was thinking, if they didn't bully us in our country, I wouldn't be able to attack them. Now I shoot us on our land, and my hands are not soft. Unfortunately, this time, I was so unlucky that the Japanese didn't get the killing, and as a result, I let a shell blow up my legs. Now, go to the Hengjun Farm to raise them immediately! Brothers, kill a few more Japanese for me!"

Listening to the discussions of these soldiers, He Sui quietly walked in. Seeing the highest commanders of the An Meng army coming in, the wounded stopped talking, and those who could stand up got out of bed to salute. He Suiya was unwilling to disturb them more, and smiled and pulled Shi Chuan, the commander of the Second Division, and returned the salute while walking into the dean's office. It was actually an over-the-top award here, but it was just a small room separated by a curtain. Mu Xinghe's colleague, also a doctor who was studying in France, and the military doctor Zhang Yunshu, frowned and looked at a medical record of unknown who it was. He Sui patted his shoulder: "Director Zhang, what is the situation of the wounded we have admitted?"

Zhang Yunshu found He Sui in and stood up to salute him. The doctor, who was originally full of foreign style, is now very soldiers: "The treatment is very good. All the wounded can be rescued, and the medicine is also very sufficient. The weather is too cold, and now I am trying to find a way to make a dick in the hospital. These are heroes who fight the national war, so I can't be wronged... Oh, I almost forgot to report to you. Now the wounded are admitted 559. There are less than 200 beds in the hospital. Commander, do you see if you are transporting some wounded to Jinzhou? It would be too insufficient to fight again."

He Sui smiled. Even the military doctor knew that the war was about to fight. It seemed that his army's vigilance was not low. He smiled and said, "You are the chief of the military doctor, you can just make your own decisions. I will ask the military headquarters to do my best to cooperate with your actions... I just come to see the brothers." Shi Chuan next to him muttered, "I have no shame to look at these injured brothers! We were in the independent brigade, and we stayed in Taierzhuang for a year, and we didn't catch up with any battles. Now it's easy for the commander to express our mercy, let us join the An Meng army, and we only care about marching again! Seeing the brothers in the first division in blood, our second division did not help at all, I felt guilty!"

He Sui turned his head and looked at the commander of the Second Division who had been pestering him these days, and didn't know whether he was angry or funny. Finally, he looked at his eyes calmly and said seriously: "Battle, there must be someone you fight! We are here, and we have to teach the Japanese army a lesson!"

Just when the Liaohe Front in Northeast China was dispatching troops and another big battle was about to break out. Shanghai was absolutely uneasy these days. After the official official statement of Japanese Foreign Minister Uchida was issued, the US ambassador to China immediately announced that he was willing to serve as the mediation work of the China-Japan incident in the Northeast. The British and French people couldn't help but wonder if Yuchen had reached a secret agreement with the United States. A few days ago, Yuchen and Cooper closely went back for a few days and talked a lot, but the content was unknown. Although the official authorization of the US State Department has not come yet, I believe this is just a matter of time.

As a strong country emerges, it seems that there is room for a turnaround in this matter. But what conditions will the two sides stop? And under what circumstances will both sides stop? The wave of nationalism directed by Yuchen is now progressing more and more intense. Will he cause trouble in the end? These things are the most concerned issues between the powers of Jiangbei Yuchen and the Japanese side. They have realized that the appearance of Yuchen has indeed affected the changes in the political landscape of East Asia to a considerable extent. But these observers may never dream of how big the future changes will be.

Now the armies of both sides in front are still in a tense confrontation, and they tend to increase troops on the front line. The Japanese side is trying to concentrate the Kwantung Army forces on the Liaohe Front as much as possible, and the Korean army also tends to join the Kwantung Army. The military provinces and military headquarters have no specific instructions, and the navy has no movement at all. The Jiangbei Army is also looking to increase troops on the North China direction and is also strengthening the military station power leading to the front line. Compared with the untensive political atmosphere, the military confrontation seems unexpectedly uneven. This is really a very strange conflict.

"Commander, I'm in Tianjin. I'm going to take charge of something before leaving. I want to say something to you." The person who spoke was Jiang Baili. He was about to take a warship to Tianjin to take charge of the temporary military affairs headquarters, and established the temporary military affairs headquarters headed by him. The staff elites under Sima Zhan also took half of it. The battleship units of the Northern Command of the Beijiang North Army are An Meng Army, Zhang Zuolin's 27th Division, and Duan Zhigui's 15th Division. The two Beiyang Divisions in Henan are also under his command. The two brigades of the 9th Division that are now preparing to enter Tianjin are also under his command.

Yuchen no longer had the nervous and worried look a few days ago, and his current attitude was even a little leisurely. Jiang Baili officially said goodbye to him today. He sat upright in front of his desk, waiting for his reading to Lao Gao’s stack of official documents. He heard Jiang Baili solemnly seem to have some farewell words with him, and said with a smile: "Brother Baili, what are you and me? Just say something! You have less advice to me recently, but you are not such a person! At this time, I rely on the talents of you and Mr. Songpo! This time, you also need your vigorous display in the north!"

Jiang Baili smiled faintly, and the words of his honest friend Cai E had already adjusted his mentality a lot.

"Commander, you have a lot of opportunities to deal with things. You can use the power you can use very well. There is nothing to say about this. I admire it very much! In the north, there are two brigades of the 9th Division, plus the 15th Division, and I believe that they can stabilize the overall situation. I dare to guarantee these... But I am a person who has been in Japan for a long time. Does the commander think that their power can be differentiated? Seeing that they are not uniform in all aspects, they think that there is an opportunity to take advantage of it? Commander, these can be used, but they cannot rely on it! Although Japan has different ways of performing and taking attitudes seem to be strange, in the final analysis, they all represent the interests of the Japanese nation! We should not think too well about the enemy. Sometimes, we can't be lucky, we can only rely on ourselves."

Jiang Baili finished speaking calmly, gave Yuchen a very standard military salute, turned around and walked out. Only Yuchen sat there, with a thoughtful expression.
Chapter completed!
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