On the evening of November 27, Lin Junxiong and Feng Zhansong went to the place where Wang Lianfang had withdrawn, watched the soldiers tired and a little depressed, and when they saw the two commanders coming, they stood up one after another and lowered their heads a little sadly.

Wang Lianfang pursued and bandaged his wounds expressionlessly, felt the movement behind him, and immediately stood up and turned around, "Commander Lin, Commander Feng, I'm sorry, we didn't complete the task." ”

Lin Junxiong personally helped Wang Lianfang bandage his unwounds, and then patted Wang Lianfang's uninjured hand, and said loudly to the soldiers: "Brothers, raise your proud heads!" You are all good, although you only held on for two days, although the 111th Division suffered nearly 10,000 casualties, creating the largest casualty since the New First Army started the war, but in just two days, you eliminated nearly 60,000 devils, this achievement is also the greatest result achieved by our New First Army since its establishment, I am proud of you. ”

After Lin Junxiong finished speaking, Feng Zhansong also applauded, and soon the soldiers also raised their heads and applauded, and the low morale of the soldiers instantly turned around.

"Lian Fang, hard work, in fact, you have completed the task very well, if my expectations are good, the devil will not dare to attack again tomorrow, and the three-day defense task given to you before the war is completed."

Wang Lianfang's previous depressed mood has improved, listening to Lin Junxiong's words, thinking about it carefully, he quickly understood, and said with a miserable smile: "I can complete the task without destroying the commander's plan, I am relieved." It's just that nearly half of the 111th Division was damaged, and nearly 2,000 people were sacrificed by the 112th Division, which made me feel very uncomfortable. ”

"Since I feel that I owe you a favor, I will select 2,000 people to support the 112th Division and help complete the next battle, and the rest will withdraw to the inner city to rest, how about it?" Although Feng Zhansong felt sorry for the serious attrition of his troops, he also knew that this was not the time to worry about this, and Changchun must be defended.

Wang Lianfang stood up excitedly, "Commander Feng, I personally brought five thousand people to assist Senior Commander Zhang, please approve it!" ”

Feng Zhansong checked Wang Lianfang's bandaged wound, glanced at Lin Junxiong, and said with a smile: "Okay, I approve it!" ”

Wang Lianfang was so happy that he almost jumped up, signaled to Lin Junxiong and Feng Zhansong, and quickly went to arrange reinforcements for the inner circle formation and retreat to the inner city.

"Commander, the head of our column is a commander, you should be called the commander-in-chief." As soon as Feng Zhansong spoke, he felt a little awkward, and couldn't help but say.

Lin Junxiong shook his head and said firmly: "Lao Feng, although the New First Army has made some achievements recently, which is worthy of pride, but I do not forget to introspect myself, the achievements of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army in the long-term and arduous battles are what our New First Army needs to look up to, they are an important force in the resistance forces of Little Japan's failure to occupy China in a short period of time." Therefore, the New First Army should learn from the glorious troops of our party, and in our party, there is only one commander-in-chief, and that is Commander-in-Chief Zhu! ”

Feng Zhansong nodded a little embarrassedly, "I wrote it down, Commander Lin." By the way, yesterday you said that Changchun City should be calm, and Lotus Mountain should be lively, could it be that the devils will not attack Changchun City in the next step, but attack Lotus Mountain with all their might? ”

Lin Junxiong shook his head with a smile and said: "The devil wants Changchun City to be calm for the time being, wait until the reinforcements from Fengtian and Rehe arrive, take Lotus Mountain in one fell swoop, and then concentrate all our forces to storm Changchun City, how can we let them get their wish?" Our troops have all withdrawn to the periphery of the inner city and concentrated within 15 kilometers of the inner city, and tomorrow the reconnaissance troops of the devils will definitely be able to find out, and they may be afraid of an ambush, but there must also be the idea that our army has suffered heavy casualties and has to shrink the defense. ”

On the morning of November 28, the other two divisions of the devils reinforcing Lianhua Mountain and the first two divisions converged, concentrated the strength of the four divisions and regiments to the defense of the 102nd Division and began a fierce attack.

When Kasahara Yukio was about to run out of ammunition and food, he received the news that reinforcements were rushing to the front to wipe out more than 1,000 new armies, and he immediately called the high-ranking officers of his two divisions and regiments over, issued operational arrangements, and held back for a few days.

"The strength of the troops of the New First Army at Lianhua Mountain is obviously insufficient, and the troops besieging us head-on have only one division of strength from the perspective of many days of duel, and our two divisions have been forced into such a desperate situation by them, which is really insulting to the reputation of the elite troops of the Japanese Empire. Now that the four divisions that have arrived from Changchun have arrived, in order to wash away our shame, I order all troops to give orders to fight to the death, and regain the momentum of our elite Kwantung Army of Japan. ”

After hearing that reinforcements from four divisions had arrived, and that the New First Army on the opposite side had only one division of troops, several officers swept away the haze for many days, smiled on their faces, and expressed their intention to fight to the death with the New First Army, showing the momentum of imperial soldiers.

Yukio Kasawara led the remaining more than 20,000 people of the two divisions to break out of the siege and join the reinforcements before the reinforcements arrived, but when they rushed over with full morale, except for some organs arranged by the New First Army that killed hundreds of troops, there was not a single shadow of the New First Army, and it was not until more than ten minutes later that the reconnaissance troops sent back the news that the New First Army besieging them was retreating to some dangerous places southeast of Lotus Mountain.

"Finally, it's our turn to be hunters, immediately contact the reinforcements, and when they arrive, we will pursue together and hit the lair of the new army!" Yukio Kasawara felt that today was the happiest day in these days, and his lifelessness had finally turned into high spirits.

In less than half an hour, Yukio Kasawara received a message from the commander of the reinforcement force that they were chasing about a division of the New First Army to the southeast of Lotus Mountain. Yukio Kasahara checked on a simple map and found that the reinforcements were less than three kilometers away from his own troops, so he had no worries in his heart and immediately organized his troops to pursue and advance to the southeast of Lianhua Mountain.

At noon on November 28, Umezu Mijiro was pacing back and forth in the war room, but his brow was not relaxed by the good news from Lotus Mountain. The news just came was one joy and one worry, but after thinking about it carefully, it turned into one joy and two worries, the four divisions of Lotus Mountain marched forward and wiped out more than 2,000 new armies, and the two divisions of Kasahara Yukio also lifted the siege, which was a rare happy event in a few days, but the nest of the new first army would really be so easy to break, and Lin Junxiong had no deployment? He felt that the progress of Lotus Mountain was too smooth, which made him feel unsteady.

There is not a single new army in the outer city of Changchun, and it is the same after searching several times, what kind of trick is this of the new first army, or is the new first army guarding Changchun insufficient? Do you want to compress your defenses?

Umezu Mijiro pondered for a long time before issuing an operational order: The troops at Lotus Mountain were under the unified command of Yukio Kasawara, slowed down the pace of pursuit, first let the reconnaissance troops reconnoiter carefully, and then advance, so as to be safe and every step of the way, and avoid being greedy for merit.

In Changchun City, he thought again and again, believing that the New First Army had suffered heavy losses and had lost the support of artillery fire, so it had to tighten its defenses, and that the New First Army's range of activities could be appropriately compressed, and the encirclement of Changchun could be compressed to a central range of 15 to 20 kilometers.

Near noon, Lin Junxiong received a Changchun Civil Self-Defense Force that five or six people were wounded in yesterday's battle with the devils, and they were in a building in the outer city to the south. Lin Junxiong ordered the troops from the south to attack five kilometers to the outer city, and asked Wang Bangzi to lead the team to escort Yang Shujiao and a few medical personnel to treat the wounded of the Self-Defense Forces and bring them back.

Several men arrived in the building and dealt with the four lightly wounded, and another with more serious injuries had to be operated on immediately, and just as the operation had begun, a soldier rushed in and said that the devil had come up.

Yang Shuyao is in the operation, the operation is terminated, the person's life can not be saved, she insisted on finishing the operation, Wang Bangzi had no choice but to order the others to withdraw first, and protect Yang Shuyao after the operation, maybe the three of them have a smaller goal and will not be discovered.

When the devil approached, the troops in the south had to withdraw in order to carry out the general battle strategy, and the devil saw the retreat of the new army, and reported the situation to Umezu Mijiro, who was more sure of his judgment and asked the troops to be compressed to 16 kilometers from the center of Changchun City to arrange defenses on the spot.

Seeing that the devil took the bait, Lin Junxiong patted Zhang Rubi's shoulder and said, "Senior Commander Zhang, it's up to you next, Commander Feng and I will go back first." ”

After Lin Junxiong and Feng Zhansong left, Zhang Rubi immediately issued an order, and the artillery arrays in eight directions were divided into four directions, aiming at the east, west, north and south, and half an hour later, the defense arranged by the devils was shelled.

Umezu Yoshijiro got troops from all directions to get to the designated position smoothly and was laying out fortifications. He immediately ordered artillery to cover the deployment of troops everywhere and intimidate the new army from making any moves.

The officer of the logistics department stepped forward with some trembling, "Your Excellency, General, due to the haste of the fourteen divisions and regiments on the northern border, the number of artillery shells brought with them is not much, and now the number of mortar and mountain artillery shells in our army is less than 100 rounds, except for some grenadier shells. ”

"Yaga!" Umezu Mijiro slapped the officer hard, "Why didn't you say it earlier, even if it is transported from the northern border immediately, it will be too late now, get out!" ”

Zhang Rubi inquired that everything was ready, and immediately ordered 200 long-range cannons to open fire, and quickly changed positions after ten consecutive shots.

The fortifications that the devils had just arranged quickly turned into ruins under the artillery attack of the new First Army, and the troops suffered heavy losses under the surprise of the new army, and they immediately chose to retreat without asking for instructions.

When Umezu Mijiro received the news that four directions were shelled at the same time, and nearly 5,000 people were killed and wounded in less than ten minutes, he felt a panache in his chest, spat out a mouthful of blood, and said slowly after a while: "Lin Junxiong is too cunning, I was fooled!" The troops were ordered to retreat five kilometers to standby. ”