novelhk Chapter 407
Chapter 407
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: 0.277s Scan: 0.305sIn history, there is a question that has always made people curious during the Anti-Japanese War: If the Northeast Army had adopted a policy of resistance and fought to the end when the Japanese army attacked the Northeast, what would the outcome of the battle be?
There is no answer to this question, because the Northeast Army at that time adopted a policy of non-resistance under the order of Zhang Shaoshuai, and 300,000 troops withdrew into the interior of the country, handing over the Northeast to others!
However, if we compare the battles of other Chinese armies with the Japanese army in the same era, we may be able to roughly deduce the outcome of the battle.
After the September 18th Incident in 193, the young army of the army became more courageous, and they tried to provoke a bigger war and invade the Celestial Empire in an all-round way.
So, on January 28, 1932, the foot basin provoked the January 28 Incident and sent 70,000 troops to provoke the Songhu War.
This battle lasted for about a month.
The Celestial Empire’s army fought against the attack of 70,000 Japanese troops with an inferior force of 50,000.
With the equipment and manpower at a disadvantage, they held their positions and did not let the Japanese army get too much advantage.
After paying more than 3,000 casualties, the Japanese army failed to achieve its goal and had to withdraw its troops to cease fire, and the young and strong faction who walked alone was also punished by the foot basin headquarters!
From this battle, it can be seen that if the Celestial Empire’s army resolutely resists, even if the equipment is not as good as the other side, it is not completely without room for fighting back!
Moreover, the Northeast Army is much stronger than the 19th Route Army in the January 28 Incident in terms of equipment and manpower, so if they resolutely resist, the price that the foot basin will pay will definitely be greater.
Originally, the war provoked by the foot basin was the sole action of the young and vigorous faction below.
Once the war situation was unfavorable, these young and vigorous people did not get the credit, but they had to share the black pot.
With their status, it was a foregone conclusion that they would be punished!
So as long as the first wave of the Japanese attack could be thwarted and they could realize that invading the Celestial Empire was not so easy and would cost a huge price, then the Japanese army would most likely retreat and punish the corresponding perpetrators!
But unfortunately, the 300,000 Northeast Army did not resist to the end, but handed over their hometown, which led to the Japanese army easily annexing millions of square kilometers of land in the Northeast. Not only did it not satisfy their ambitions, but it also boosted their determination to invade the Celestial Empire.
After all, attacking a country that does not fire a single shot and implements non-resistance, this kind of good job, no one can resist it, right?
Resisting foreign enemies can never rely on concessions, but on guns and unyielding will. Expecting the enemy to show mercy is probably a wrong calculation!
However, things that could not happen in history were staged in this era!
Compared with Zhang Shaoshuai, Zhang Zuolin’s attitude is obviously tougher. At this time, the revolutionary army in the south has not marched north, and the Northeast has not changed its flag, so he does not need to obey the orders from Nanjing, and there is no territory in the south for him to retreat.
Therefore, whether it is for Zhang Zuolin or the entire Northeast Army, they have only one choice, that is, to fight to the end!
This is related to their life and death. If they lose the Northeast, the place where they can settle down, then they will become rootless duckweed, and even survival is impossible. Therefore, the foot basin people sneak attack the Northeast, which is to take their lives!
Facing someone who wants to kill you, you can only take up arms and fight to the end with the other party!
“Fight, fight to the end, tell Sun Liechen to hold on for a week, I will immediately dispatch troops to rescue the Northeast!”
Sun Liechen is Zhang Zuolin’s old brother and his most trusted confidant.
Originally in history, Sun Liechen died of illness as early as 1924, but in this time and space, because of the emergence of Johnson & Johnson’s penicillin, many diseases that were originally incurable have been cured.
So, Sun Liechen took a boat to receive treatment in 1922. In Eagle Sauce, he received the latest special medicine for treatment, and his disease was miraculously cured.
After recovering from the illness, Sun Liechen immediately returned to the Celestial Empire and continued to help Zhang Zuolin guard his hometown. When Zhang Zuolin led his troops south to fight the direct warlords, Sun Liechen had been stationed there. Staying in the Northeast and taking care of everything in the rear for him, this alone shows the closeness of the relationship between the two!
If it wasn’t for someone he absolutely trusted, Zhang Zuolin would never dare to entrust his hometown to the other party. After all, as long as the other party was not determined and was bribed by the enemy, he would immediately become a stray dog and homeless!
Even without Zhang Zuolin’s telegram, Sun Liechen was ready to fight to the end.
Faced with the threat of the Japanese army’s continuous increase in troops in the south, he has ordered the mobilization of troops from the five surrounding provinces, and transferred all the garrisons in the five provinces around Fengtian to Fengtian to relieve the siege of Fengtian!
The Northeast in 1926 was not like the later generations with only three provinces. At that time, there were a total of nine provinces in the Northeast. The area of each province was not large, but there was at least one brigade stationed.
The intelligence of the foot basin showed that the Northeast Army had a total of 10.15 million troops in the Northeast, and this information was basically correct.
But they thought that these troops were second-line troops without combat effectiveness, or even miscellaneous troops, but this information was wrong!
In fact, Zhang Zuolin has always been extremely vigilant about the foot basin, so the troops he left behind in the Northeast were not only not miscellaneous troops, but also elite troops drawn from the entire army!
At this time, after receiving the transfer order, these troops quickly completed the assembly in the shortest time, and then quickly went south along the roads and railways to support Fengtian!
Thanks to Zhang Zuolin’s insistence on establishing industry and building infrastructure, the basic conditions in the Northeast are very good, there are many railways and roads, so these troops arrived at the battlefield almost within two days and joined this A big melee!
The Japanese army has already dispatched four divisions and mobilized more than 100,000 troops. However, after the Northeast Army received reinforcements, their troops increased to 120,000. In terms of troops, the Japanese army has no advantage.
Unless they transfer the army they deployed in Guandong Province to fight, they will even face a situation of disadvantage in troops! Moreover
, completely different from their plan, the Celestial Empire Army is not a kind of ragtag army with little combat effectiveness. It will collapse as soon as it encounters them! On the contrary, the Celestial Empire Army opposite them is a well-equipped, well-trained and extremely tenacious army.
The Japanese army has taken down several positions with great difficulty along the way. On each position, a large number of bodies of Celestial Empire soldiers who died in battle can be seen. Just from the bodies, they estimated that the casualties on the opposite side may have exceeded 10,000!
If the injured soldiers are counted, they think that the defenders of Fengtian have lost at least 20,000 people!
After losing 20,000 people, the Celestial Empire’s army did not collapse or even show any signs of disarray. They were still full of fighting spirit, rushing to the battlefield with a roar, fighting back and forth with the Japanese army, making the Japanese army pay a heavy price for every attack!
They did not know the specific casualties of the Celestial Empire’s army, but they knew exactly how many casualties they had suffered!
In addition to being dizzy and suffering heavy losses from the fierce artillery fire of the defenders in Beidaying, the Japanese casualties were also very high on other battlefields.
The battle lasted only one day, and the Japanese army had paid a heavy price of more than 1,000 deaths and 7,000 injuries!
Even if their estimate of the number of casualties of the Celestial Empire’s army was accurate, the comparison of their casualties with the Celestial Empire’s army was an exaggerated 1:1.7!
As for the Japanese army, they looked down on the Celestial Empire. During the Sino-Japanese War 30 years ago, they had no advantage in equipment but still had a casualty ratio of 13. At this time, their equipment was far ahead. It was normal for them to have a casualty ratio of at least 1:5 or even 1:10, but in the end, they didn’t even have the casualty ratio of 30 years ago!
This made the Japanese army begin to doubt their lives: Is it worth it to fight this war?
If they failed to capture Fengtian at the cost of more than 12,000 casualties, how many casualties would they have to pay if they wanted to conquer such a large territory one by one when the Celestial Empire was so big?
No one could answer this number, but if we look at the intensity of the current battle, even if all the young people in the Foot Basin were sent to the battlefield, it would still be far from enough!
So, in the face of heavy casualties, the Foot Basin people began to retreat!
In the Foot Basin capital, Dong Jing, Tian Huang was finally persuaded by Kato Kanji.