Leng Tiefeng shook his head, changed the subject again, and said: "Old Xu, although the effect of the Battle of Fuxing Town was good, it failed to achieve the intended goal. We originally thought that even if the military police force of the Lin Agency could not Come, at least Miura Takayuki's special forces division will definitely come out, but I didn't expect that only a part of them came!"
Regarding the battle in Fuxing Town, Xu Rui had two goals before the war. One was to take the opportunity to annihilate the military police units of the Lin Agency in one fell swoop, and the other was to eat the main force of Miura Takayuki's special operations division! But now, having only eaten half of the special operations division, it can be said that the entire goal has basically failed.
Xu Rui nodded when he heard this, and said with regret: "Yes, such a good opportunity, not to mention the Hayashi Agency that failed to wipe out Asaburo Kobayashi in one fell swoop, and even the special battle that failed to wipe out Takayuki Miura in one fell swoop It’s really a pity for the division, I’m afraid it will be difficult to find such a good opportunity again in the future!”
After a pause, Xu Rui changed his tone and continued: "However, it would be good to be able to kill more than 1,500 masters recruited from the country by the Japanese military leaders! If not, when the Japanese Seventh Army attacks Hunchun in the future, When a large-scale sweep is launched in the Ling base area, these more than 1,500 masters will become a serious threat!"
"That's true!" Leng Tiefeng nodded and said with deep approval, "Although these more than 1,500 masters don't know any special combat skills and their marksmanship is poor, their close combat abilities are comparable. It is powerful and is especially dangerous in jungle battles and night battles. If we fight night battles in jungle terrain, our Langya Brigade may not be able to take advantage."
After a pause, Leng Tiefeng said again: "But Lao Xu, the remaining half of the special operations division is also a threat. Do you want to find a way to kill it too? Otherwise, wait for Miura Takayuki and that old devil to kill the remaining After half of the special operations division has been trained, it is certainly not enough to deal with our Langya Brigade, but it is more than enough to deal with the main force of our new regiment!"
Xu Rui shook his head and said: "At this stage, it is better not to provoke the Japanese for the time being, it is important to repair the fortifications!"
"That's true." Leng Tiefeng nodded, "It's not too late to wait until the construction of Hunchunling Fortress is completed before attacking."
Neither Xu Rui nor Leng Tiefeng expected that after the Battle of Fuxing Town, Hunchun County would enter a three-month period of calm. Yamashita Fengwen was delayed because the special operations division had not been trained into an army. There was no large-scale raid on the Hunchunling base area, and Xu Rui was busy repairing the fortress, so he did not take the initiative to provoke the Japanese.
As a result, it took more than three months.
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Autumn turned to winter, three months passed in the blink of an eye, and time entered December of 1940.
Since entering October, there have been several heavy snowfalls in the entire Changbai Mountains. The average snow thickness in the Hunchunling Mountains exceeds one meter, and the snow thickness in some mountainous areas even exceeds two meters! Due to such heavy snow, all surface fortifications at the eastern foot of Hunchun Ridge have come to a halt, but the fortifications in the heart of the mountain are still under construction in full swing.
There is strength in numbers. With more than 100,000 people in 16 towns in Hunchun, plus more than 100,000 landless refugees mobilized from the three eastern provinces through various channels by the Manchuria Provincial Party Committee, in just three months, , the entire Hunchun Ridge was almost hollowed out, and the sixteen main hilltops have been built into sixteen large fortresses.
Although it is still just an outline, it already has initial defensive capabilities.
When talking about Hunchunling Fortress, we cannot fail to mention the chief engineer Sekiya Yinan!
If it were not for Sekiya Yisao's careful survey of the entire mountain topography of Hunchun Ridge, and a targeted design based on the topography and geological conditions of Hunchun Ridge, it would have been impossible to build sixteen buildings in just three months. It is almost impossible to build a large fortress, even if there are 300,000 civilians, it is absolutely impossible!
For example, Laolongshan Fortress, which is the No. 1 fortress in the entire Hunchunling fortress group, encountered major difficulties when digging the No. 1 main tunnel, because most of Laolongshan's mountain is made of rocks. If you dig hard, you have to dig hard. Digging out a main tunnel from the hard granite is an unimaginably large project, and the time it will take cannot be calculated. Even a conservative estimate would be calculated in years!
It would take several years just to dig a main tunnel that runs through the mountain, not to mention the time it would take to build the entire Laolongshan Fortress. This progress is obviously not good! If it were someone else, they might just give up, leaving a fatal gap in Laolong Mountain for the entire Hunchunling fortress group.
But the good news is that it concerns Gu Yinan, the chief engineer.
Sekiya Yi'nan once again conducted a careful survey of Laolong Mountain, and then found a fault zone in the mountain, and then changed the main tunnel to the fault, which greatly accelerated the progress of the project!
All in all, thanks to a chief engineer like Gu Yinan, the construction of the Hunchunling Fortress Group became very smooth and fast! By the end of December, the outline of the entire Hunchunling fortress group had basically taken shape. Next, there was the expansion of some military facilities, such as dormitories, arsenals, underground command posts, field hospitals and other facilities.
Furthermore, a large number of caves need to be dug and built at the foot of the mountain near the eastern foot of Hunchun Ridge to serve as factory buildings.
Therefore, although the mountain is blocked by heavy snow outside, the construction inside the mountain is in full swing.
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Wujiashan, the new regiment headquarters.
"Dear Comrade Cherev, come and have a cup of hot water." Xu Rui enthusiastically handed a cup of hot water to Cherev.
Cherev stamped his feet vigorously to shake off the ice flakes on his boots. He took off the velvet hat on his head, dusted off the snow flakes on the hat, and cursed: "Comrade Xu Rui, do you have vodka? Please?" Give me a shot of vodka.”
Cherev had just faced a blizzard and drove nearly a hundred miles of mountain roads from Vladivostok. Because the road was blocked by the heavy snow, cars and even horses could not pass, so he could only walk here with the guards. It was very hard. After the Wujiashan Fortress, I was almost exhausted and paralyzed, and my whole body was frozen.
So at this time, Cherev just wanted to drink a glass of strong vodka.
"Vodka?" Xu Rui shook his head like a rattle and said, "I don't have vodka here."
"What are you talking about? There is no vodka to drink?" Cherev immediately became unhappy after hearing this and shouted loudly, "I just had a batch of supplies delivered three days ago, including fifty boxes of vodka, and you actually came with I said no vodka? Could it be that you drank fifty boxes of vodka in three days? Oh, hell, you damn drunkard!"
"You're right, finish the drink." Xu Rui spread his hands and said, but in fact, all fifty boxes of vodka were transferred to the field hospital by Jiangnan and used as alcohol. By the way, Jiangnan was officially transferred to the Northeast Anti-League New Army 1st Regiment, serving as director of the Political Department and a senior official in Yanbian under the leadership of the Manchuria Provincial Committee.
The original Yanbian senior official Ge Qing has died.
Speaking of Jiangnan's journey to the Hunchunling base area, it was really hard.
Jiangnan first transferred from Yan'an to Chongqing, then reached Myanmar via the Burma Highway, then arrived in Singapore, then took a Soviet-flagged merchant ship from Singapore to Vladivostok, and finally arrived at Wujiashan Fortress from Vladivostok. There were at least two journeys along the way. It took three months to travel more than ten thousand miles.
Because of the long journey, Hong Guoer, Pang Dun and Aunt Wang did not follow.
The fifty boxes of vodka that Cherev gave to Xu Rui were all allocated by Jiangnan to the field hospital, so Xu Rui really couldn't bring out vodka to entertain Cherev now.
Cherev had no choice but to accept the boiling water.
After Cherev's body warmed up and his face returned to ruddy color, Xu Rui asked: "Cherev, is it Comrade Stalin who asked you to report to me the status of the Great Patriotic War again?"
"Isn't it?" Speaking of the Great Patriotic War, Cherev's face immediately darkened.
Then, Cherev called the adjutant over, took out a stack of documents from the adjutant's shoulder bag, handed them all to Xu Rui, and said: "The latest battle reports about the Patriotic War are all here. To be honest, the situation in our Soviet Union is very bad right now, Moscow is about to be surrounded by German troops!”
Xu Rui didn't say anything. He just called Du Junjie, Chen Xuedong and other regimental staff officers, and asked Zhuoligetu to take out the topographic map of the Soviet Patriotic War, and then marked the latest progress of the Patriotic War on the map. Seeing that Du Junjie and the others were short of manpower, Cherev and the adjutant also joined in to help.
After a while, all the homework on the map was completed. Looking at the combat map, Xu Rui sighed.
Because his butterfly flapped its wings, the German army launched an attack on the Soviet Union nine months in advance. As a result, the Soviet Union's Patriotic War situation was much worse than in history!
Historically, the German army achieved unimaginably huge results in the first three months of the Blitzkrieg, annihilating more than five million Soviet Red Army troops alone! The Soviet Union was once beaten until its troops were exhausted! At the most critical moment of the Battle of Stalingrad, Stalin discovered that he had no more troops to mobilize!
But in the end, none of the three tactical goals set by the head of state before the war were achieved!
Army Group North failed to capture Leningrad, Army Group Center failed to capture Moscow, and Army Group South failed to capture Transcaucasus.
Then winter came and the German army suffered a disastrous defeat!
But now, Xu Rui flapped his butterfly wings, causing the German army to launch a war against the Soviet Union nine months in advance. Because it was already the end of September when the war started, and winter would soon enter, the German logistics department had stocked up on a large amount of overwintering supplies, and also had Transportation capacity was prepared in advance, and before winter began, cotton coats and other winter supplies were continuously delivered to the front line.