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"President! President! Commander Li sent an urgent message that the Tenth Division of our army has captured West Dabai Mountain! We have won!"

I saw a young man wearing big black-rimmed glasses hastily walked into the command room, his face was full of joy, he waved the telegram in his hand, and announced the victory loudly in difficult Fujian Mandarin.This young man's name is Chen Boda!Uh, very famous.He had just returned from the Eastern University of the Soviet Union and was assigned to be Mao Zedong's secretary.This time President Mao Zedong came to the front line to supervise the battle, so he was naturally brought along.

Mao Zedong stood up abruptly from his chair, rushed over hastily, and took from Chen Boda the telegram that he handed over with both hands.Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Xueliang, who were holding teacups and sipping tea with their heads bowed, looked at each other.Seeing Mao Zedong's excited and eager look, Zhang Xueliang smiled lightly.Chiang Kai-shek just shook his head slowly with a serious expression.

Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Xueliang have long been familiar with the main points of the mountains, rivers and rivers in western Liaoning. Naturally, they know that Chaoyang County is located in the east of a small basin surrounded by mountains in western Liaoning.On the west side of the county seat is Yimapingchuan. The dangerous terrain is the West Dabai Mountain and the Daling River. However, it is the middle of winter, and the Daling River has already been frozen as hard as steel, so breaking through the West Dabai Mountain is equivalent to breaking through. The entire Japanese defense line has pushed the front line to Chaoyang City, but this does not mean that the Japanese troops stationed in Chaoyang County are safe from danger.There are still two dangerous places on the way forward for the Communist Army and the Northeast Army—Fenghuang Mountain and Qilin Mountain. Ticket for the highway!If these two places are not seized, even taking down Chaoyang County will not help.

Mao Zedong took the telegram, opened it in a hurry, read it at a glance, and then read it carefully.Only then did he let out a long breath, and slapped his hands: "Good! Well done! The People's Army and the Northeast Army are indeed doing well. They captured the West Dabai Mountain in just a dozen hours and opened the fortress to Chaoyang." Dao." Then he turned his head and smiled at Lao Jiang: "This battle can be so smooth, I also want to thank Generalissimo Jiang for his generous help! I don't know, when will the first division of your Kuomintang arrive at the battlefield? You won't wait until Chaoyang County is recovered by us, will it be too late?"

Chiang Kai-shek's face was gloomy, and he probably had fucked all eighteen generations of Matsui Iwane's ancestors in his heart!Hearing Mao Zedong's sarcasm, he gritted his teeth and squeezed out a smile: "Our First Division and Jin Second Division can arrive tomorrow morning at the latest. But...then there will be two former enemy lieutenants on the front line." The commander-in-chief, I don’t know who to listen to? And who should be stationed after Chaoyang County is recovered?”

Hearing this, Mao Zedong's face turned livid, and he calmed down again in a blink of an eye. He took a sip from the teacup and spit out some tea powder by the way.

"General Li Jishen and General Fu Zuoyi are both deputy commander-in-chiefs. It is inappropriate for any one of the two deputy commanders to command the entire army. The most suitable commander-in-chief to recover Chaoyang is the commander-in-chief, General Zhang Hanqing. Who, of course, depends on who is actively fighting against Japan and who has made great contributions. General Hanqing, don’t you think so?”

Zhang Xueliang smiled faintly, cupped his hands and said with a smile: "Since the President has given you such an order, what else do you have to say. This battle depends on our Northeast Army!"

Mao Zedong retreated: "That's right! As long as the three parties work together, are we afraid that we won't be able to defeat the Japanese?"

Chiang Kai-shek just nodded with a sneer, and naturally he was planning a conspiracy to undermine the unity and resistance in his heart.If Chaoyang County was defeated and returned to the Kuomintang, then he could consider letting the First Division sell some strength, but if you look at "contributions", this is always the Communist Party and the Northeast Army. They are already at the gates!What else is the First Division of the Kuomintang doing?

Chapter 0537 Fierce Army in Western Liaoning ([-]) The most reactionary and happiest day for the reactionaries

In the early morning of December [-], [-] AD.

In the forward headquarters located on the top of Dabai Mountain in the southwest of Chaoyang County, Mao Zedong, Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Xueliang were already in place at two o'clock in the morning.This hill is the commanding height to the west of Chaoyang, where you can overlook the real battlefield.On the top of the hill, the guards from the three armed factions all looked nervous, holding submachine guns with faces frozen, not looking at the Japanese positions in the distance, but wary of each other... I don't know if they are here to fight Is it from the devil or from the fire?

Mao Zedong held up the binoculars and looked at it for a long time, but finally put it down helplessly. Although he has extraordinary talent in the overall strategic situation, he has not received formal military education after all, so he feels bad on the battlefield.The sky was also dark, and the terrain was almost the same. To the east were mountains and hills and the county town with a vague outline, and to the west was Yimapingchuan.As for where the terrain is conducive to the impact, where the strength can be deployed, and where the most critical battlefield is, he doesn't know.

However, the great leader's airs still need to be maintained: "Well... yes. The Japanese devils have been pushed back by us, and this battle is almost certain."

Chiang Kai-shek next to him laughed, and when Boss Mao Zedong turned his head to look over unwillingly, Lao Jiang had already put on a serious face, raised his binoculars and pretended to observe the battlefield: "President Mao, look at the direction of 75 in front of you, there It should be the main line of defense of the Japanese army. The battlefield here is open. It is estimated that the Japanese army’s troops should be a brigade with 70 to [-] infantry. It should also be equipped with more than [-] [-]mm mountain artillery and twelve [-]mm infantry. There are even more cannons, machine guns, and mortars... But for your party's elite Fourth Route Army soldiers, as long as they deal with it calmly, there is absolutely no problem. Combined with the powerful artillery of the Northeast Army, and the Chinese National Revolutionary Army Air Force, we can smash the Japanese defense line! Crush it! Let the blood of the Japanese be shed here!"

Standing on the other side of Mao Zedong, Zhang Xueliang and Deng Yanda and Feng Yuxiang all raised their binoculars and looked in the direction Chiang Kai-shek pointed.They have all studied the terrain on the map countless times, and they all nodded in agreement.Mao Zedong held up his binoculars and watched for a long time before slowly nodding his head: "General Hanqing, how do you plan to invite these [-] to [-] Japanese soldiers back to their hometown?"

"This..." Hearing President Mao's question, Zhang Xueliang only felt his scalp tingle. How could he invite these Japanese soldiers back to his hometown?This problem is not difficult to say, let the first division of the Kuomintang hurry up, the plane bombed, the artillery bombarded, and more than 100 tanks rushed over from the front. It is estimated that except for the devils on Phoenix Mountain and Qilin Mountain, the other devils will not be able to drive away. Gotta get away!But this method is obviously not feasible... and it depends on the Fifth Route Army of the Northeast Army and the Fourth Route Army of the Communist Party, which has already suffered heavy casualties, to drive away those Japanese soldiers, unless the sun comes out from the west!Anyway, Zhang Xueliang couldn't figure it out, why did the Japanese give up their outer positions and retreat around Chaoyang County last night?

"What about this and that! The best way to drive the Japanese away is to order the troops to cross the West Dabai Mountain, spread out on the relatively open western battlefield, and then attack the opponent's defense line from the front, relying on the dual advantages of firepower and military strength to drive the Japanese away. The devil is defeated!"

Seeing that Zhang Xueliang was hesitant and at a loss, the impatient Deng Yanda couldn't help but interjected.In fact, the plan he proposed was the battle plan submitted by Li Jishen, Xu Xiangqian, and Liu Bocheng.This is how the forces of the Fourth Route Army and the Fifth Route Army are deployed now.

However, Zhang Xueliang didn't agree with this head-to-head combat deployment. He wanted to speak out against it, but he didn't know how to say it. While hesitating, Chiang Kai-shek's Fenghua official words rang again: "General Zesheng, your plan is too risky!" The Fourth Route Army of the Communist Party of China has suffered more than 1 casualties in the past two days! According to my experience in leading troops for many years, the general army will lose more than 500% of its combat effectiveness when it reaches 70.00% casualties. The casualties were 2000%, and at least [-]% of their combat power had been lost. The Japanese army on the other side had at most [-] casualties. They should have taken the initiative to retreat and shrink their defenses. After they shrunk, their defense lines became tighter than the previous two. Days are even harder to deal with."

"... You must not be impatient to fight such a line of defense. You can only chew slowly with the absolute superiority of troops and firepower. It is better to wait for the first division to come up, and then send the No.11 Artillery Regiment (attached to the eleventh division) from Huludao Also transferred here, as for the command, it will be handed over to the staff officers of the First Division, they are all elites who graduated from the Army University, and they have systematically studied the tactics of positional warfare in Europe, and they are very good at commanding such battles."

To be honest, Chiang Kai-shek's suggestion is very reasonable, and it sounds like he said it from the bottom of his heart.But what answered Lao Jiang's heartfelt words was a room full of doubts, misunderstandings, ridicule, and distrustful eyes!This Chiang Kai-shek must have no good intentions, no one will doubt this, so his proposal must be to mislead everyone, it must be a conspiracy to undermine the unity and resistance!

What the so-called enemy approves, we must oppose!If the enemy opposes it, we must agree!Mao Zedong waved his hand angrily: "We should listen to the opinions of the former enemy commanders, and should not interfere with their command casually! Moreover, it is absolutely impossible for the Japanese army to suffer more than 2000 casualties under the onslaught of our elite Fourth Route Army! At least we must Tens of thousands! If the combat effectiveness of our Fourth Route Army drops, then they won't be much better!"

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In Chaoyang County, in the joint headquarters of Japan's 11th and No. 5 divisions, at this time, they were completely immersed in regret and self-blame.Uh, of course, it is not because I regret and blame myself for launching an unjust war of aggression, but because I find out that I have been deceived! Two divisions with more than 200 people and nearly 92 artillery pieces (including Type [-] infantry artillery) were "defeated" by the Fourth Route Army of the Communist Party of China, which was far inferior in number and firepower to itself!And the reason for the defeat was actually the panic of seeing the Kuomintang and the Communist army fighting side by side!And after interrogating the prisoners, it was finally confirmed that the so-called Kuomintang officers and soldiers were all counterfeit knockoffs!If the reason for such absurd "failure" is known to the people and His Majesty the Emperor, Matsui Iwane and Watanabe Yotaro will most likely have to be "seppuku".

"Your Excellency! Please order the attack! My loyal and brave soldiers of the Imperial Army can never bear the humiliation of being undefeated! Please order the attack!" A staff officer walked a few steps forward to two frowning lieutenant generals and suggested loudly.

Matsui Iwane and Watanabe Yotaro both squinted their eyes and sat listlessly in their chairs, as if they didn't hear the staff officer's return.In fact, the tactical contraction they adopted yesterday was completely carried out according to the order of the Kwantung Army Command. The Kwantung Army Command asked them to actively shrink to the core defensive positions on the front line of Chaoyang County, Phoenix Mountain, and Qilin Mountain after encountering the Kuomintang Army. Standing firm and waiting for help... So these two made up their minds to retreat as soon as they saw the "Kuomintang army" approaching. Even the sound of the success of the troops below did not dispel their determination to retreat.So much so that the two of them have almost become the laughing stock of the whole army at this moment.

The staff officer took another big step forward, almost standing in front of the two divisions, and said in a sharp tone: "Your Excellency, two division commanders! According to investigations, the enemy in front of us is nothing but the Fourth Route Army of the Communist Party of China and the heavy losses. The Northeast China Army with extremely poor combat effectiveness! The maximum number of people is 100 to 11, and more than [-] cannons. This kind of strength is definitely not the opponent of the Seventh Division and No.[-] Division of the Imperial Army!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the surrounding staff also echoed.No one can stand being beaten, let alone being beaten by troops whose strength is far inferior to their own!Now the Communist Army and the Northeast Army on the front line are preparing for the attack after dawn. It seems that they are not prepared for the sudden counterattack of the Japanese army at all, so it is the best time to counterattack!At the very least, the Communist Army and the Northeast Army in front of them can be repelled for a while, and the positions lost inexplicably yesterday can be regained, and at the same time, face can be saved!

The voices of the crowd were so neat that Iwane Matsui and Yodotaro Watanabe raised their heads and looked at each other, then shook their heads at the same time. Matsui sighed and replied: "The suggestion of counterattack is not allowed. I order all departments to stand firm and not take a step back!"

"But Your Excellency..." The eyes of the staff officer in front almost sparkled, and just about to speak to persuade him, Watanabe Yootaro snorted: "Matsui-kun's order is also the suggestion of the Kwantung Army headquarters! The general does not want us to be defeated by the Kuomintang after the Fourth Route Army of the Communist Army and the Fifth Route Army of the Northeast Army! Then the Kuomintang will unify China, and the dream of the mainland of the empire will never be realized!"

As soon as the order from the Kwantung Army Headquarters was issued, the staff officers below were immediately speechless. Matsui Iwane stood up and smiled at the staff officers below whose blood had rushed to their foreheads: "Masters, the soldiers on the battlefield Things can only be grasped roughly, no one can avoid making mistakes, at least so far, the mistakes made by the Chinese people far exceed us, and they will continue to make mistakes today!"

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Chiang Kai-shek's position is an observation post with excellent sightlines. Lao Jiang found a tattered chair from nowhere, and also set up an artillery mirror at the inner horoscope port of the observation post. In the beginning, he sat there comfortably and watched the heroes of the Fourth Route Army and the Northeast Army sacrifice in vain, uh, almost bleed in vain!Although Lao Jiang's fighting skills have not improved much in recent years, his vision has been broadened a lot. Looking at the defensive positions of the Japanese army, he knows that without good teeth, he will never be able to bite down!It seems that today I can collect a lot of reports of the Communist Party's defeat!I don't know if the Fourth Route Army of the Communist Party will be exhausted?If the Fourth Route Army is wiped out and the Eighth Route Army is also wiped out, then China should be able to truly achieve peaceful reunification, right?

boom!boom!boom……

At this time, the scene that Chiang Kai-shek most expected to see had appeared. On the snow below, several waves of stragglers formed by officers and soldiers of the Fourth Route Army of the Communist Party of China were suddenly killed by intensive Japanese artillery fire!Among them should be the shells fired by the 150mm cannon with amazing explosive power.Lao Jiang looked up at the sky again, but fortunately it was empty, without a shadow of an A-1B bomber.Those planes were sent today to provide air reinforcements to the Eighth Route Army and the Seventeenth Route Army in Beipiao. Last night they were attacked by the Japanese all night and 4000 people were killed or injured. The telegram is still in Lao Jiang's pocket!

This round of shelling by the Japanese army was undoubtedly crazy. It is estimated that all the howitzers, mountain artillery, field artillery, mortars, and infantry artillery of the two divisions were used to fire together.The slightly dense mixed skirmish line of the Fourth Route Army and the Northeast Army was immediately submerged by a forest of smoke pillars!Shrapnel representing death flew in all directions, and the infantry soldiers of the Northeast Army and the Communist Party of China screamed and were swept down in all kinds of strange gestures!It seems that after the Japanese army shrank, not only did the density of troops on the defense line increase greatly, but the density of firepower also increased!

Of course the ferocious shelling did not deter the heroic communists!Uh, but the Northeast Army has been intimidated.At this moment, Chiang Kai-shek could clearly see the blue-gray figure charging forward with a gleaming bayonet gritted his teeth, while the khaki soldiers of the Northeast Army were kneeling on the ground one by one with their heads in their hands, trying to avoid this round of death. shelling.If he hadn't stood up and fled, he would have died faster, it is estimated that this round of Northeast Army's charge is over.

Sure enough, as soon as the Japanese bombardment ended, the surviving officers and soldiers of the Northeast Army got up and turned around and fled without saying a word. This speed was many times faster than when they charged just now. Even the rifles were discarded.So there were two streams of people on the battlefield, one was blue-gray charging crowd, and the other was earth-yellow rout soldiers!This scene is really a bit funny.

However, none of the senior leaders of the three parties who witnessed this scene in the forward headquarters could laugh.Mao Zedong's face was livid, his eyes were burning, and he stared fiercely at Zhang Xueliang.Zhang Xueliang, on the other hand, looked anxious and hesitant.Chiang Kai-shek, of course, suppressed his laughter. In this headquarters, he was one of the very few.There were always Feng Yuxiang and Deng Yanda with serious faces over there, and they were already cursing after seeing Mao Zedong's face.

"These shameful cowards! A bunch of cowards who can eat but can't fight! They should all be shot!"

"Who is in command in front? Why didn't the military law be enforced? Why didn't they be shot? Didn't they decapitate? Why are such soldiers still kept?"

"That's right! Those who leave their allies and run away alone and those who delay and delay the fighter plane should be beheaded!"

I don't know who scolded the last sentence?It seemed a little Hunan-like, but Chiang Kai-shek pretended not to hear, and continued to lie in front of the artillery mirror to watch the dead.The attack of the Fourth Route Army of the Communist Party of China seems to have been defeated, but it is not repulsed!These Communists are really brave, and they all fought to the death without retreating!And the skill of fighting bayonets is not bad. Compared with the Japanese who can basically make a two-to-one exchange, they seem to be backbone veterans!

Lao Jiang was thick-skinned and didn't care about others' cynicism, but Zhang Xueliang was ashamed and blushed and ordered loudly: "Order! Pull the regimental leader who retreated just now to the front of the position and shoot him! Anyone who dares to retreat without an order today will be killed." No pardon!"

Following this strict order, the battle became more and more fierce. The soldiers of the Northeast Army and the Fourth Route Army of the Communist Party gritted their teeth and launched attacks round after round against the overwhelming firepower of the Japanese army.The Japanese army who stood firm seemed to be angry, and they would rush out of the position to launch a counterattack whenever they had the opportunity.After the fight, the two sides often started hand-to-hand combat in the middle of the positions of the two sides with shining bayonets. This battle started at five or six o'clock in the morning and continued until after dark.The two sides came and went and made more than a dozen charges, and the corpses were placed almost from the front of the Chinese army to the front of the Japanese army.

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"President, Chairman Jiang! Today's battle was not fought well, and I am sorry for you."

In a dilapidated temple south of West Dabai Mountain, Zhang Xueliang sat dejectedly opposite Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek, reviewing there with tears in his eyes. Today's battle was another catastrophe!The Fourth Route Army suffered more than 7000 casualties, and the Northeast Army suffered more than 6000 casualties. The combined total of the two armies was almost [-]!The entire battlefield is now full of corpses and will-o'-the-wisps.As for the Japanese positions, of course they did not capture an inch!

"I don't blame Brother Han Qing for this. I have already said that your battle plan will not work!" Chiang Kai-shek didn't look at Mao Zedong's serious and unusual face, and justified Zhang Xueliang and the Northeast Army by talking to himself: "Actually, today's Northeast Army The brothers in the army also fought very hard. The main responsibility for not breaking through the positions of the Japanese invaders is not the Northeast Army, let alone Brother Han Qing. It is the Japanese army's defense that is too tight and the positions are too strong. It is better to wait for two more days. Let's start the battle when our first division is pulled up."

With a slap, Deng Yanda slapped the table heavily, and said angrily: "No! I just received information that the Japanese also have a division of troops that is moving to Chaoyang. If you wait for two days, they will arrive by then! It is even more difficult to break through the defense line. Generalissimo Jiang! Can't you make your First Division go faster? Rescuing soldiers is like putting out fire!"

Chiang Kai-shek shrugged helplessly and sighed: "Originally, the first division advanced at a speed of five kilometers per hour, and there would always be forty or fifty kilometers a day. According to the plan, it has arrived now. But... the first two days The teacher has been giving way, almost at a standstill. So... we must wait for another two days. Why don't you just wait patiently."

Chiang Kai-shek held the candlestick and walked to the front of the map, pointing his fingers around Chaoyang County on the map: "These two days, we might as well use it to strengthen the starting positions everywhere, especially Yuantaizi Village and Lijiagou here. This is where the tanks entered Chaoyang County. The throat of the basin where it is located. Most of the area around Chaoyang County is flat land, and the Japanese managed not to stop the offensive of more than 100 tanks. As long as the tanks arrive, Chaoyang County can be taken within a few days at most.”

Chapter 0538 How many people are left in Liaoxi ([-])?

In the early morning of December [-]th, there was a layer of milky white mist floating in the valley, the mountains in the distance appeared and disappeared in the mist, and the sound of artillery in the distance was faint, coming with the first ray of morning light in winter .The road leading to Chaoyang County became busy again. Groups of tanks, trucks, armored vehicles, horse-drawn carriages, cannons, and heavily armed infantry poured into the city where Chaoyang County is located along the winding mountain road. small basin.

A convoy of more than a dozen armored cars and trucks crossed the frozen Daling River, set foot on the land on the north bank, and drove towards the place where the gunfire sounded. Zhang Zhonglin sat on one of the armored command vehicles, holding up binoculars to observe surrounding terrain.He shook his head slightly from time to time, he was really not satisfied with the terrain in front of him.This small basin surrounded by mountains is not a battlefield for tanks at all. Using tanks on this terrain is more of a show of force, right?However, these problems are not what he should consider as a small tank battalion commander. His task is to command more than 60 ten-ton No. [-] tanks and another tank battalion commanded by Xie Jinyuan to form an assault group to break through the Japanese defense line. , rushed all the way into Chaoyang County, disrupted the Japanese army, and the task was completed.

This is a military operation involving more than 20 people, and Zhang Zhonglin's [-]st Tank Battalion and Xie Jinyuan's [-]nd Tank Battalion are the blades and spears of this powerful strike force!

Zhang Zhonglin was a little high-spirited at this time. To be honest, he couldn't figure out why those tanks that were supposed to be used as the spearhead of the attack finally appeared on this battlefield?But fortunately, in the end, it was just being late instead of missing the entire battle, so I had to watch helplessly as the "friendly army" beat Little Japan until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, and then captured Chaoyang.