Chapter Ninety-Seven: Street Fighting (1)
The sky was still gray, bleak and hazy, and it made people feel depressed. At this time, a level 8 northeast wind was blowing, although it was not very violent, but the cold wind was biting, which added a lot of chill. Everywhere the cold wind passed, the trees and weeds let out a low whimper, as if there was an indescribable desolation and solemnity.
"Your Excellency, Commander, report in advance!" there was a knock on the door outside.
"Come in, what's new in the situation over there in Fengtian?" Sanguang Zhaizhi couldn't wait to stand up at this time, picked up the telegram and glanced at it, his face was both surprised and happy.
"Your Excellency Commander, Ishihara-kun, Itagaki-kun, there is good news and bad news. The ** Second Garrison Brigade attacking Beidaying has lost contact, while the 29th Wing has broken through the city of Fengtian, and has now occupied the Fengtian Bank of China, the head office of the Northeast Bank, and is now attacking Zhang Xueliang's Marshal's Mansion. Bank of China alone, and Northeast Bank, there are more than 40 million taels of cash in it. A steward at Zhang Xueliang's mansion, where Gu escaped, said that there were at least dozens of tons of gold bars in Zhang Xueliang's marshal's mansion. β
Hearing such a huge amount of gold and silver, everyone present changed their faces greatly, such a large sum of money is enough for the empire to expand several divisions, and the current situation in the northeast, Ishihara Waner and others can completely control the situation in the northeast with two divisions at most.
"**The Second Garrison Brigade has lost contact? It seems that most of the time it has happened to you, Ishihara-kun, Itagaki-kun, it seems that things are not going as smoothly as you described. Honfanzhuang glanced at Ishihara and Itagaki Seishiro meaningfully.
The sound of leather boots on the floor was very fast.
"Your Excellency Commander, Staff Officer of the Operational Staff of the Kwantung Army, Ishihara Waner. Seishiro Itagaki and Mitsuji, chief of staff, asked to meet with the commander in person! In addition, a telegram was sent from the head of the Tohihara office, saying that the Northeast Army had blown up the wicker lake section of the South Manchurian Railway and attacked our army's base in Mukden. However, the Northeast Army of all walks of life is dispatching troops and sending generals, and his Excellency the commander is requested to send troops as soon as possible to support the fighting troops and horses of all departments. β
The soldier said aloud, with a look of fanaticism on his face, and looking at his expression, he was eager to put on his wings and immediately fly to the place of battle to participate in this great war.
"It seems that the Wicker Lake Incident has been launched as originally planned, and the base camp has not agreed to this plan recently, and specially sent Jianchuan Miji over to end this plan and prevent the officers below from acting privately, but I didn't expect them to launch the incident in advance and bring them over!"
Ben Fanzhuang pressed his forehead, feeling a little big at the same time, there was no excitement in his heart, as early as the Sino-Japanese War in the First Sino-Japanese War, RB had the heart of swallowing the Northeast, and the Treaty of Shimonoseki also mentioned the cession of the Liaodong Peninsula, if it were not for the intervention of Britain, the United States, Russia and other countries, from which to make a hindrance, even if it could not get what it wanted, half of the Liaodong Peninsula was also stable. Later, in the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army lost tens of thousands of casualties, paid the price of more than 100,000 wounds, and won the initiative in the Far East. In the past few decades, seeing that the Northeast is becoming more and more fat, the RB high-level has long had the ambition to get involved in the Northeast territory, but they are afraid of the interference of Britain and the United States and other countries, and there are hundreds of thousands of Northeast Army. If it were the previous Zhang Zuolin, Ben Fanzhuang would never agree to this reckless action.
As the guy from Ishihara Waner said, Zhang Xueliang, this kid smokes a lot and is lustful. Compared to his Lao Tzu, he is a few ranks worse. It is far from being able to crumple the Northeast into a ball, and Zhang Xueliang's arrogance was broken in the Middle East Road War, and now there is no arrogance left, what is the use of such a person, how to resist the big RB empire just like the rising sun?
"I've seen Your Excellency the Commander!" Seishiro Itagaki, Kenji Dohihara, and Miyake Mitsuji entered one after another and saluted Honfanso.
"Well, I have understood your intentions, how sure are you about taking the Northeast?" Now is not the time to be polite, Ben Fanzhuang is also a resolute person, and every second of delay may change.
"Seventy percent sure, Your Excellency Commander, Zhang Xueliang is a spineless warlord, and he has no guts to fight against the Empire. There was also the chairman of the Nanjing Committee, according to the reliable information obtained by the empire, both the Nanjing side and Zhang Xueliang had issued an order to the troops stationed in Fengtian not to resist at this time. Shiguan Guanger smiled slightly.
"Up to now, the 29th Wing has attacked Fengtian City, and when our army entered the Beida Battalion, it did not encounter any resistance. The Northeast Army did not have the courage to resist the Empire, Your Excellency Commander, the base camp was too far away from Shina and was not familiar with the situation here, so he sent General Kenkawa Miji to end the operation. But there is no shortage of people in the base camp to expand the territory of the empire, our army has captured the provincial capital of Fengtian, as long as we add more strength, the northeast of China is at your fingertips!"
**When the Second Garrison Brigade Qu began to attack Beidaying, he was cautious and found that the Northeast Army did not resist, so he believed that the orders issued by the Nanjing government and Zhang Xueliang were true, and these Northeast Army also carried them out seriously, and the Japanese army immediately sent people back to report the good news.
And Ishihara Waner and Itagaki Seishiro were on their way to Lushun, carrying out the most crucial part of the whole plan, dragging Ben Fanzhuang, the commander of the Kwantung Army, into this plan. Ben Fanzhuang held the power to mobilize the entire empire's garrisons in the northeast. No matter how much Ishihara and Itagaki Seishiro agitated, they would never be able to mobilize the entire Kwantung Army.
"Your Excellency Commander, even if the Northeast Army resists, it will only be a small force in it, after all, most of the Northeast Army will not dare to disobey military orders. This is just the private action of a small number of people, didn't the 29th Wing gain a lot in Fengtian City, it can be seen that the Northeast has accumulated over the years, even if it pays some losses, as long as it can take the Northeast, not to mention a ** second garrison brigade, even the price of the entire Kwantung Army is completely worth it. Seishiro Itagaki said in a sonorous voice.
"Your Excellency Commander, everything we can do has been done, now it is right or wrong, after all you are alone, please make a decision quickly!" Time is pressing, there is not much to delay, and the changes in the North Camp have cast a shadow on Ishihara's heart. Ishihara felt intuitively that something was wrong, so he could only urge Ben Fanzhuang to send troops as soon as possible!
"Your Excellency Commander, please make a quick decision, all for the sake of the Empire!" Miyake Mitsuji said solemnly.
"It's okay, for the sake of the great cause of the empire, I will accompany you to go crazy and pass on my orders: (1) The 2nd Division immediately leads the main force of the division to concentrate on Mukden and attack the army of the local China. (2) The commander of the 3rd Infantry Brigade commanded the 4th Infantry Wing and the 2nd Cavalry Wing to garrison Changchun and prepare for an attack on the nearby Chinese army in the area. (3) ** The commander of the garrison led the 1st and 5th garrison brigades to rush towards Mukden. (4) The 3rd Garrison Brigade attacked Yingkou. (5) Garrison the 4th Brigade to guard Phoenix and Anton. (6) The 6th Garrison Brigade sent two squadrons to Mukden. (7) Immediately call the DPRK Army Headquarters to report the battle situation in Shenyang, and please immediately send troops to reinforce Mukden! Prepare the carriages and horses, and I will immediately go to Mukden to personally command this battle!"
Ben Fanzhuang patted the table and got up, although there were some minor problems, but the good situation in the Northeast at this time also made Ben Fanzhuang quite excited. The entire Northeast is more than three times the size of the empire, rich in resources, and habitable. It is also a springboard for swallowing the entire China, and being able to win the Northeast will become the most important achievement in his entire military career.
"Your Excellency the Commander is wise, the Kwantung Army is launched as a whole, and the Northeast is at your fingertips!" Ishihara Wan'er and Itagaki Seishiro were overjoyed when they heard this, the plan to swallow the Northeast had been completed by more than half at this time, and everything they could have done was almost done, and the rest depended on how the Kwantung Army and the North Korean Army came to support performed well.
"By the way, since the ** Second Garrison Brigade attacking the Beida Battalion has been collectively shattered, then there is no need to throw a rat bogey, Your Excellency the Commander can order the artillery group and super-heavy artillery of the Second Garrison Brigade to open fire, directly raze the Beida Battalion of the Chinese Army, and hit their morale to resist the Empire. Ishihara added.
"Well, issue that order as well. Ben Fanzhuang nodded, using a 240mm super-caliber mortar gun, and the shock was undoubtedly huge. So far, RB has only used larger-caliber artillery in the Russo-Japanese War and the Qingdao War. And fighting against the Republic of China is the first time. In order to deal with the Northeast Army of China, Ishihara Waner and Itagaki Seishiro partnered with the top level of the military department, and together they engaged in two 240mm super-caliber mortars, one aimed at the Beida Battalion, and the other aimed at the equally threatening Dongta Airport. At this critical moment, the role of these two mortar cannons came out. It's also thanks to Ishihara Waner and Itagaki Seishiro who have the audacity to dare to act like this.
The situation is urgent, and in the course of the September 18 incident, unlike Zhang Xueliang who was watching the play, the entire Kwantung Army's top brass is turning, including Ben Fanzhuang, who has not yet participated in this plan, is also paying close attention to the progress of this incident. The departing carriages and horses, the train at the station had already been prepared, and they could transfer the army of Lushun directly to Mukden as quickly as possible. Opportunities are always left to those who are prepared, and maybe the RB people are cruel and murderous, but they do pay a lot for this plan. Just like the First Sino-Japanese Naval War, the Japanese army and the whole country were working hard for that national war, and Cixi was still concerned about her birthday, extravagant and wasteful, and embezzled military funds for herself.
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"What are you doing? Come back quickly!" Qiu Qiuxing didn't hold on, and hurriedly pressed the door and shouted.
Luo He waved his hand backwards, his 1903 sniper rifle in his hand, dodged behind a stone pillar that had been shattered by a cannonball, and raised it to aim ahead.
Yu Baoguo didn't need to be instructed, he consciously raised the 9-caliber 1921 Thompson submachine gun and stopped a meter behind him, vigilantly guarding the right front, ready to respond to sudden attacks.
"These two servants!" Qiu Qiuxing clenched his fists and slapped his thighs fiercely, reluctantly took out his Mauser pistol and hunched his waist to follow, seeing Luohe concentrating on the left and right there, he couldn't help muttering, "It's so dark, you can't see clearly." β
As soon as he finished speaking, Luo He suddenly whispered: "One hundred and seventy meters, at the corner of the street, there is an armored car, two machine guns, and seven Japanese soldiers can be seen; β
"You know so much?!" Qiu Qiuxing looked surprised, in such a dark sky, do you have night eyes?
Yu Baoguo also wondered, he used that sniper rifle once, and he didn't find anything special about the scope, it was exactly the same as what he saw in Germany!
Luo He smiled silently, of course he wouldn't say that the helmet has built-in lenses with infrared night vision function, this is the equipment he carefully built to save his life, how can he not take into account various combat environments?
"Keep up, let's touch!"
Luo He greeted in a low voice, put away the gun sideways and strode forward against the messy street wall, his heavy body and equipment were two hundred and forty or fifty pounds, but he landed as light as a tanuki, and he couldn't hear much movement, and was even covered by the "crackling" sound of the flames burning not far away.
With this hand alone, ordinary people can't compare. Yu Baoguo became more and more depressed in his heart, it seemed that he was not as good as a genuine German ** student!
In contrast, Qiu Qiuxing is obviously a little worse, and the more he looks at the two people in front of him in the end, the more incomprehensible he feels, how can there be such a freak in the Volunteer Army?!
After several days of firefighting, the area around Tiantongan Road, which is the central theater of operations, has been in ruins, the shops and warehouses that were incomparably prosperous in the past are now scattered, the signboards are almost impossible to find a piece of silk, the doors have long been unrecognizable, the collapsed foyer pillars and broken glass and wooden planks are all over the ground, it is almost difficult to find a flat ground with plugs, and the continuous shelling from time to time blows up tons of debris from a nearby building, which are scattered in a sparse manner, and the lit wooden windows and cloth are scattered in the wind, and the light and shade illuminate the whole street like a ghostγ
Not far behind, the reorganized mortar positions were slowly firing, bombarding the positions behind the Japanese troops, but the number was too small, and the target could not be seen clearly at night, the explosion sounded very blind, and the Japanese army was the same.
In this case, it was undoubtedly a very risky thing to attack forward, Qiu Qiuxing was sweating vigorously in the cold weather, and the palms of his hands holding the Mauser box cannon were wet, which was very uncomfortable. Keluohe seemed to be completely unaffected by the environment, and he could always find a stable and safe landing point under his feet as if he had eyes, and he rushed into sixty or seventy meters in one breath, without breaking a piece of glass and wood, and without making a strange sound, which made the two people who followed him greatly admired.
Flashed to a relatively wide gap in the building again, Luo He leaned against the wall, and raised his gun again to check, Qiu Qiuxing finally ran into the dark shadow, gasped a few times, and dragged Yu Baoguo to ask in a low voice: "What are you two going to do?"
Luo He turned his head, the big white fangs were particularly conspicuous in the shadows, and said, "Go and catch two living little devils back." β
"I'll pick!" Qiu Qiuxing blurted out and scolded, looking at him like a ghost, not knowing what to say.
Ran to the front line to catch the live mouth? Is there any mistake! If that devil was caught so easily, would our 78th Division still have to fight so hard for so many days? What a whimsical idea!
Yu Baoguo also felt surprised and incredible, this idea is really a bit unexpected, and the feasibility is so low that it almost does not need to be calculated! Although he has never fought with the Japanese army, he has heard from the German instructors that although the quality of the Japanese army can only be regarded as second-rate compared to the Germans, they are very difficult to deal with on the battlefield, and this thing is not very reliable!
Luo He didn't explain, after observing for about two minutes, he dodged and rushed out, the two shook their heads and continued to follow, and when they rushed forward for about sixty meters, Luo He suddenly braked his body, and with a stroke of his long arm, he directly picked up the two of them and turned around to hide behind the collapsed wall.
"What are you doing....... Qiu Qiuxing's bones were almost broken, and he just wanted to scold, but his mouth was immediately covered by Luo He, and when he glared at him angrily, he saw Luo He raise his index finger at the corner of his lips, and gently "shh
There are four enemies on it!
The two of them immediately understood what he meant. Yu Baoguo made a serious retreat action, Luo He shook his head, raised his neck and looked left and right, suddenly jumped slightly, climbed the brick crack on the wall with one hand, and hung his body up in the air with only the strength of two fingers, and threw the gun to Yu Baoguo with the other hand and buckled the brick joint, so alternately like a big gecko on the top of the four-story building in a blink of an eye.
Yu Baoguo and the others were dumbfounded! What kind of kung fu is this? Gecko swims against the wall? His fingers are made of iron, such a great power!
Luo He cautiously came out of his head and glanced at the two Japanese soldiers who could be seen on the other side of the building about twenty meters away, seeing that they had no reaction, he shrugged his shoulders and jumped up, pulled out two pistols with 1911ax for 13 rounds of double hundred magazines with both hands, and rushed ten meters before the small brisk step against the base of the fence wall, and suddenly raised his hand to the two of them, "Puff puff" Four shots, respectively hit him in the throat and heart, and when he turned over in the air, he threw the gun at the other two people lying on the side, and four more shots, killing them from behind on the spot!
The four Japanese soldiers did not react at all, and they were killed without even having a chance to say a word, only one person leaned out a little more, and when he was dying, he let go of the gun to cover his throat, Luo He grabbed a step and grabbed it, carefully placed it in its place, and then looked carefully at the barricade not far from the street below and the Japanese soldier on the opposite floor.
The Japanese did not perceive.
Secretly relieved, he bowed back to the other end, took out a sniper rifle, and whispered to the two of them: "Be careful next, there are very likely to be more Japanese troops hiding in the shadows! Later, I will kill the three diagonally opposite, and the two of you should not rush forward again, launch a feint on the spot to attract Japanese firepower, and I will solve the rest of the matter!"
"No, it's too dangerous!" the two objected. Luohe didn't argue at all, took out a Thompson 1921 from behind and threw it to Qiu Qiuxing, stuffed him with four 30-round magazines and four K2 grenades, and went to the wall with his gun on his back to the place where the Japanese soldiers were killed, when he heard the sound of dogs barking from the Japanese fortress thirty meters away!
In order to prevent being raided by the defenders, the Japanese army actually brought a dog to help the realm, enough thieves!
Luohe didn't dare to slack off, aimed his spear at the three Japanese soldiers on the third floor in front of him, took a deep breath, slowly spit it out, and pulled the trigger at the moment of exhalation!
"Poof!" A rapid flame flashed, and the head of a Japanese soldier wearing a steel helmet suddenly tilted back, and his head exploded with a "bang"!
"Enemy attack!" The Japanese soldiers next to him reacted amazingly, and with a scream, they raised their guns and lowered them downward, and Luohe pulled the bullets on the bolt at a speed that was so fast that it was difficult to see that they aimed and shot, and "poof" fired two more shots to kill them.
But in just two or three seconds, the Japanese soldiers below discovered his muzzle flame, and immediately realized that something was wrong, and with a terrible roar, a machine gun suddenly turned around and fired at the roof of this side "suddenly"!