Chapter 10 6. Blood Fight Kuanchengzi

When it comes to the "September 18th" incident, the reason why the Japanese army won easily, "surprise attack" is a phrase that is often used.In fact, this statement is somewhat one-sided, because before the attack on the Northeast Camp, the upper echelons of the Northeast Army were not completely ignorant of the movements of the Japanese army.When the battle started, the officers and soldiers knew that the situation was wrong, but they were helpless under the order of "no resistance". However, the Japanese attack did sometimes catch the defenders by surprise. At 4:30 a.m. on September 19, the main force of the 4th Regiment of the Japanese Army (Regimental Commander Rikutaro Oshima), including the 1st Battalion, Machine Gun Squadron, Infantry Artillery and Mountain Artillery Squad, launched an attack on the Kuanchengzi barracks outside Changchun City, Jilin Province. At that time, the defenders were caught off guard by the Japanese army.Judging from the photos left by the Japanese side, when the defenders of Kuanchengzi were attacked, they could only cover the windows with quilts covered with water and used them as bunkers to fight hastily.It was indeed enough to be caught off guard.The garrison of the Kuanchengzi Barracks is the Second Battalion of the 663rd Regiment of the 23rd Brigade of the Northeast Army, with a total of more than 600 people.When the Oshima Regiment had begun to break in, the battalion commander Fu Guanjun was still trying to negotiate with the Japanese army.Regarding the Japanese army's request for the defenders to surrender, in fact, Battalion Commander Fu Guanjun, like most Northeast Army officers who had already received the order to "avoid conflict with all their strength", did not dare to stand up, but just wanted to hold the last bottom line.Battalion Commander Fu said that the land can be withdrawn, but the guns cannot be handed over - guns are the second life of soldiers. Battalion Commander Fu may think that the Japanese who advocate Bushido will sell the Northeast Army's face anyway.

The answer of the Japanese army was to shoot immediately.Battalion Commander Fu was tall and tall. He was shot and seriously injured immediately, and died soon after. Seeing that the battalion commander was shot, the defenders were excited and immediately opened fire to resist (it is speculated that battalion commander Fu still made some combat deployments before negotiating).Unprepared, the defenders of Kuanchengzi had neither trenches nor forts in the camp area, only the barracks were solid Russian-style buildings. The method of pouring water on the quilt to prevent bullets has been used by both China and Japan in battle.The best one used is the Tuba Road in Jizhong. When they attacked the Japanese strongholds, they poured quilts with water, covered them on the carts, and the soldiers pushed them underneath, and placed explosives behind the Japanese artillery towers. They were called earth tanks, and the results were not good. vulgar.However, the Japanese army that Kuanchengzi defended against was not the Japanese garrison equipped only with light machine guns, but the Kwantung Army equipped with cannons.Relying on quilts to resist cannons, the effect is nothing but better than nothing.After the battle, it can be seen that most of the houses in the Kuanchengzi barracks collapsed under the shelling of the Japanese army, and the defenders suffered heavy casualties.

On the second day after the war, a reporter visited Kuanchengzi barracks, and what he saw was as follows—— At 7:20 am on the 20th of this month.I saw that the walls of our barracks had been reduced to scorched earth, and the soldiers' dormitories in the east, west, north, south, and north were also bombarded and collapsed.Among the dead bodies of our soldiers in the camp, some were naked, some were half-naked, some were wearing jackets but not buttons, and some were only wearing jackets but not belts... See two corpses in the left and right watchtowers, lying on the ground, bloodstained dripping everywhere.Knowing that when the Japanese army sneaked into our camp, they were stabbed to death in the watchtower with a bayonet.Beside the gate of Guanying, there is a corpse in blue cloth, with a fat body, bald head and big ears, wearing riding boots and breeches, lying under the wall.Immediately took a closer look, it was the battalion commander Fu whom he had known before his death...

They went into battle without even wearing military uniforms, which shows the haste of resistance. The Kwantung Army was well-equipped and well-trained, and Oshima Rikutaro Osawara, who served as the commanding officer, was the military attache of the Japanese Emperor. He was one of the best Japanese military officers. In this case, the battle seemed to be one-sided. However, with such hasty resistance, the defenders of Kuanchengzi abruptly blocked a regiment of the Japanese army from the door. After the battle began, the Japanese army took the No. 3 Squadron as the far right wing, part of the No. 2 Squadron in the center, and No. 1 Squadron as the left wing. At the same time, they attacked the three buildings guarded by the Northeast Army.At around 6:30 in the morning, the Japanese army occupied a corner of the barracks on the east side, but when the follow-up troops passed through the open area south of the barracks, they were blocked by fierce firepower from officers and soldiers of the Northeast Army, and their progress was slow.After another two hours of fierce fighting until 8:30, the first and second brigades of the Japanese army broke through the southeast corner of the barracks.However, due to the narrow entrance, it was blocked by the firepower of the Northeast Army, and the casualties continued but it was impossible to go deep.At this time, the rigid command of the Japanese army changed a little, and sent a small team to detour behind the barracks. As a result, the defenders saw through and were shot violently. The commander of the detour troop, Lieutenant Xiongchuan, was also killed.

It is estimated that Oshima, the Japanese commander at this time, must have regretted it very much, because the Kuanchengzi barracks strangled the gate of Changchun, and the Japanese army was eager to occupy this place. For this reason, the Sun Xilin Battalion in Changchun eventually withdrew without disarming).Now the Japanese army's capture of Changchun is not progressing smoothly, and the first garrison battalion attacking Nanling was also held back by the defenders and could not be conquered.If the upper echelon of the Northeast Army changed its policy after learning about the situation, and took Changchun as an opportunity to resolutely resist, there would still be more than 100,000 Northeast Army troops in various parts of the Northeast, and the Japanese army plus cross-border reinforcements would only have 40,000 Japanese troops stationed in North Korea. Danger in the belly of the dead.

Da Dao simply ordered the flag of the regiment to be raised, and approached until 100 meters behind the skirmish line to supervise the battle.However, there was still not much effect, and the Japanese army continued to be suppressed.It was not until 10:10 in the morning that the Japanese army who came to help the battle came with three large-caliber flat-fire guns, and they took advantage.At this time, Sun Peichen, Director of the Changchun Police Sub-station, was ordered by Xi Qia, Chief of Staff of the Deputy Commander of the Northeast Frontier Defense Army, with an urgent order to "avoid conflict", and came to persuade the defenders to retreat.The defenders asked their superiors for instructions many times before, and all they got were orders not to resist. So far, they were extremely disappointed. At 11:00 noon, they rushed northward to break through the barracks.

According to the Japanese army's own statistics, there were 57 casualties in this battle, and the Northeast Army killed 70 people. Although one side rushed to fight, the damage caused to the Japanese army was not small. The Kuanchengzi garrison fought to this extent, firstly because of the same hatred. Before the war, because the Japanese army was rampant in the Northeast, the seeds of hatred had been planted in the hearts of many Northeast Army officers and soldiers.Judging from the information obtained so far, the nationalist education within the Northeast Army is also quite climate, and with the battalion commander killed, the defenders have a firm determination to resist.The second reason is that the equipment of the Northeast Army was still good at that time. A regiment had six flat-firing guns, six mortars, light and heavy machine guns were reasonably equipped, and had a certain combat effectiveness.The third is that although the Japanese army had good training and equipment at the beginning of the "September 18th" Incident, it was still in the transition from peacetime to wartime, and its command ability and combat level had not yet reached their peak.

At the beginning of "September 18th", the Northeast Army, which had a superior force and a military system, failed to carry out effective resistance, and lost the best opportunity to curb the frenzy of Japanese invasion of China, and the battle of Kuanchengzi also made people feel sad.