The frontline command of the field army entered the northwest of Jin Zhou overnight, about 18 kilometers away from Jin Zhou City. Lin, Luo, and Liu made a decision to deal with Yuan Jin according to the changes in the enemy's situation. The enemy's position in Jinxi reached the eastern and southern mountains southeast of Tashan in the north, and the enemy's position in Jinzhou reached the village near Songshan Street in the south. The gap between the two places was only more than thirty miles. ** The 4th and 11th columns will be in this area, and will take the offensive defense (not mobile defense) to resist and consume the enemy, and control the main force to prepare for a counterattack in front of the position, and take advantage of the victory to expand the victory. The other two independent divisions would attack the rear of the enemy on Jinxi Huludao to delay the enemy.
The enemy in Mukden currently has four to five corps gathered south of Xinmin and east of Liaohe. They will probably only move out after we have officially attacked Jin. ** It was planned to use the 10th and 1st regimental divisions (3rd Division) to fight against the enemy, and the 6th and 2nd regimental divisions (owed to the 17th Division), as well as the 5th and 12th regiments to coordinate with the 10th regimental. Mobile warfare would be adopted to attack the enemy from the side and buy time.
After the end of the battle, the reinforcements from Jinxi might retreat to the original position of Jinxi, or stop at the spot and not dare to enter again. The enemies coming south from Shenyang were in a dilemma. At this time, the main force of the attack on Jinzhou returned to annihilate the enemies coming south to ensure Jinzhou. The next step would be to attack Jinxi. However, if the enemies from Jinxi were cut off before they could retreat south, they would first annihilate the enemies from Jinxi in front of their positions.
The deployment of Jinzhou was generally completed, and the Tang army made a distinction between the attacking forces: Most of the artillery fire of the 2nd and 3rd columns and the artillery column attacked from the north to the south. The 7th and 9th columns were equipped with artillery and some of them attacked from the south to the north. The 8th column was equipped with the 1st column's artillery and attacked from the east to the west. The first step was to eliminate the enemy in the eastern half of the city, then eliminate the enemy in the western half and the airport. The 1st column (owed to the 3rd division) was located between Jinzhou and Tashan, as the main reserve force for blocking and attacking Jinzhou. After surveying the terrain and features of Jinzhou's city walls and the surrounding areas, as well as the enemy's defense system, it was stipulated that the north of the city would be the main assault focus. After clearing out the outer strongholds, they immediately used the cannons to open up a gap in the city wall and quickly attacked. ** He believed that the development of the war situation could lead to an unprecedented decisive battle in the northeast.
The battle at the outskirts of Jinzhou began from the east of the city.
On October 4th, the 8th column, under the command of Commander Duan Suquan and Political Commissar Qiu Huizuo, attacked the big and small Zijing Mountains outside Jinzhou from east to west. The 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion of the 70th Regiment held on tenaciously, repelling the enemy's attacks four times in a row and defending the high ground. The 3rd Battalion of the 68th Regiment summarized the experience of the previous battle and the lesson of losing the small Zijing Mountain. On the 10th, they launched an attack on the small Zijing Mountain again. After a fierce battle, they killed more than 400 enemies and recaptured the small Zijing Mountain.
The North Camp in the northeast corner of Jinzhou was an important stronghold of the enemy. The enemy was the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of the 54th Division. The surrounding terrain was open, the fortifications were strong, and there were many secondary defense facilities. The 70th Regiment of the 24th Division of the 8th Battalion was the main attack, while the 72nd Regiment was the second echelon. At one o'clock on the morning of the 11th, artillery fire was prepared. The enemy bunkers in the northeast corner of the North Camp were destroyed one by one, and the walls were blown open. The assault troops bravely rushed into the gap, ignoring the layers of enemy firepower blockade, and went straight into the enemy's core position. After an hour and a half of fierce fighting, they had all occupied the North Camp and killed more than a hundred enemies. The rest of the defenders had surrendered.
Bajiazi and the clothing factory were the last two strongholds of the enemy in the east of Jinzhou. The 23rd Division was responsible for taking them. The 67th Regiment attacked the Eight Families and the 68th Regiment attacked the Clothing Factory. They attacked at the same time on the morning of the 13th. After more than two hours of fierce fighting, the 67th Regiment occupied Baizi and wiped out more than 500 people from the 3rd Battalion of the 2nd Regiment of the 54th Division. The regiment went out to White Pear Street and approached the city wall of Jinzhou. The enemy immediately organized artillery and fire on the city wall to shoot at them. They also launched several attacks in an attempt to recapture White Pear Street, but they were all defeated by the 67th Regiment. After the 68th regiment launched an attack on the clothing factory, they blew up several bunkers outside the east gate of the clothing factory. The vanguard troops then broke into the courtyard and fought with the enemy for two hours before they occupied the clothing factory.
The 71st Regiment of the 24th Division of the 8th Regiment was at the western mountain of the Northern Camp. The battle was quite intense.
The largest stronghold in the northwest periphery of the city, the Regiment Area, had a higher terrain, with outer trenches, barbed wire, Luzhai, plum blossom piles, mines and other obstacles. Defending the enemy was about a regiment's strength, with two sturdy buildings and bunkers to form a defense system. Liu Zhen ordered the 16th Regiment of the 6th Division to break through from the northwest and southwest, and the 12th Regiment of the 4th Division to choose two points from the east. Then, they attacked together to destroy the enemy. At 18:00 on the 13th, all the troops occupied the regimental area and wiped out one regiment.
Then, Commander Liu Zhen urgently ordered the 4th and 6th divisions to capture the "division area". Just as the troops were nervously preparing to attack, the enemy in the "division area" was frightened by the power of our army and abandoned their position to escape into the city. After the 11th regiment noticed it, they followed up with the 1st Battalion and intercepted the fleeing enemy at the edge of the city. At this point, the 2nd column had seized the enemy's outpost in the northwest of the city and dug through two traffic trenches on both sides of the northwest gate.
The Kuomingtang army had set up two large strongholds at the water distribution pool on the outskirts of the north of the city and the big knot on Liangma Mountain. One east and one west, they formed a horn and covered the walls of Jin City. Especially the water distribution pond stronghold, which overlooked the entire city and controlled a wide road leading to Jin City. During the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese invaders used it as a fortress in Jinzhou City, and built a large number of reinforced concrete fortifications and semi-permanent fortifications with brick structures. For another three years, the Kuomingtang army worked hard to dig two deep trenches inside and outside the White Tower and set up three barbed wires. The barbed wires were filled with large and small secret forts, machine gun bunkers, and single foxholes.
The stronghold was temporarily guarded by a reinforced battalion of the 22nd Division. There were about 800 people, all of whom were veterans with rich combat experience and strong combat strength. The defenders thought that the water distribution pool was an insurmountable line of defense. They wrote arrogantly on the White Tower: " The distribution pool is the second Verdun."" Those who guard the distribution pool are all iron men."
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