Chapter 15
Fengtian, Kwantung Army Headquarters
"Commander, the news has been confirmed. There was indeed an unknown armed force in Jidong County. According to our intelligence, this unknown armed force is called the Northeast Anti-Japanese Army.
Their commander was a young man named Zhao Wenbin. Currently, he had about 4,000 to 5,000 troops under his command. Moreover, they had been training for more than a month and a half.”
The Chief of Staff, Zhao from the small Ji Kingdom, walked up to Muto Shingi with a serious expression and said in a deep voice.
"Humph! What was Nakajima doing? He didn't even take care of the Chinese Resistance in Amur River. Instead, he immediately sent a message to Noaki Nakajima, the 20th Regiment Commander, asking him to immediately send troops to destroy this Chinese Resistance!”
Muto Shingi said in a deep voice.
"Ha ~ Yi ~"
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Haer Bin was located on the banks of the Songhua River. Ever since the construction of the Middle East railway, this city began to appear on this land. With the frequent trade, the city became a famous eastern trading city.
Right now, the 20th division was stationed here.
Nakajima Noaki was the lieutenant general of the Japanese's 20th division. As the lieutenant general of a regular division, his status was still very high.
Ever since Ma Zhanshan was eliminated, his 20th division had been stationed in the Black River to maintain the security of this area.
In fact, their main goal was to maintain the security here and eliminate the anti-Japanese armed forces.
"A Resistance Army has appeared in Jidong County? There were about 4,000 to 5,000 people?”
Noaki Nakajima received the telegram from the headquarters and frowned.
"Thousand Crane Lord, when did the Resistance Army appear in Jidong County? Why haven't we received any news?”
Noaki Nakajima looked at the chief of staff after reading the telegram and asked in confusion.
Chizuru Masutaro shook his head and said,""There shouldn't be any resistance here. Logically speaking, this place was close to the Far East. It was a sensitive area for the Empire and the Slavs. The Empire had only occupied Manchuria not long ago, so they were not very strong in Manchuria. They were still avoiding conflict with the Slavs.
The Slavs were also trying their best to avoid conflict with the Empire because of their international isolation. Moreover, this area was relatively chaotic, so how could there be so many rebels?”
Chizuru Masutaro was also confused. He didn't understand why there was a resistance army here.
"Since the command center has sent us an order, it means that this matter is true. There were only a few thousand Chinese people. I think we should let the 77th regiment handle it. The mission was handed over to the 77th Regiment.”
Nakajima Noaki did not think that Zhao Wenbin's 4,000 people had strong combat power. At most, they were just a mob. Moreover, they had just defeated Ma Zhanshan's Northeast Army this year. Even the regular Northeast Army was no match for them, so how could these motley crew be a match for them?
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Outside Jixi County
Li Ergou and the other four infantry company commanders had already led their troops to the outskirts of Jixi County.
Li Ergou and the other company commanders were crawling in the snow, each holding a pair of binoculars to observe the situation of the guards at the city gate.
"The Japanese have almost no guards, and the ones guarding the door are all puppet soldiers. Moreover, there were not many of them. There was only one Japanese squadron in the entire Jixi County. According to what the commander told us in class, the standard strength of a Japanese squadron is about 181 people. It was equipped with 139 rifles, nine light machine guns, nine grenade launchers, and two to four heavy machine guns.
The difference between their squadron configuration and our infantry company configuration isn't that big, but their forces should be scattered. I think we can wait a little longer and launch an attack in the evening. We should try to get rid of these Japanese in an hour!”
Li Ergou looked at Wang Tiedan, Huang Goudan, and Zhao Tiezhu.
This was the first time they were facing the Japanese, so they were a little nervous. They firmly remembered what Zhao Wenbin had taught them before.
What they didn't know was that the Japanese soldiers stationed in Jixi County were not as strong as they claimed.
There were enough rifles and light machine guns. However, there were only six grenade launchers and one heavy machine gun. There should have been four mortars, but they still did not have them.
This was because this was the 20th division, and Japan was not as strong as it was in 1937.
Currently, Japan's annual steel production was only two million tons, and this was only this year. It had only broken through two million tons after obtaining Northeast China. Last year, their annual steel production was only 1.8 million tons, and the navy had to swallow most of it.
The army could only get a pitiful amount of equipment, so their weapons and equipment were naturally in a state of discontentment. In history, they were able to make full use of the resources in the northeast. The annual production of steel reached more than seven million tons before they reached full use. Now, they were extremely poor.
"Within an hour? I don't think so. We have five infantry companies and four gates. Moreover, there is a train station. Why don't we attack one city gate each and attack the train station?
The Japanese only have a squadron of soldiers, and they still have to send a portion of their soldiers to guard the train station. This way, their forces will be very scattered. If we attack separately, I'm afraid we can take them down in half an hour!”
The commander of the 4th Company, Zhao Tiezhu, looked at Li Ergou and the others.
"En! I agree with Tie Zhu. We have five companies of soldiers. Although Er Gou's method is more reliable, it's still a little slow. If we let the Japanese escape, we won't be able to report to the commander!”
Second Company Commander Wang Tiedan nodded.
Li Ergou wasn't a dawdling person. When he heard everyone say this, he nodded and said,""Good! Since it was already decided! Then let's do it this way! Our companies keep in touch with each other through the radio at all times.”
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"Yuxi! Hua Guliang!"
At this time, in Jixi County, the Japanese squadron leader Naoki Yamauchi was hugging two women and shouting in half-baked Chinese.
The two women had a look of disgust and pain as they dealt with Naoki Yamauchi. Logically speaking, since this lady was unwilling, you should know your place!
However, Naoki Yamauchi seemed to like this. The more unwilling the woman was, the more excited he was.
However, just as he was feeling excited, intense gunfire came from outside the city.
"Boom ~"
"Da ~"
The sound of gunfire coming from afar immediately woke Naoki Yamauchi up. He threw away the two women in his arms and stood up.
"Eight ~ Caw ~ Men! Go and see what's going on!"
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