"Sir, the 1st Armored Division reports that they have arrived in the vicinity of Shenjingzi Town and Wangbin Township according to the scheduled plan, the 1st Division of the National Militia has captured Benxi and Dandong, cutting off the connection between North Korea and the Kwantung Army, and the 2nd Division, 347th Division, 350th Division, 351st Division, 1st Heavy Artillery Brigade, and Air Defense Brigade have also arrived at the periphery of Mukden, and everything is now ready!" Qiu Lihua stood in front of Su Jin and reported in an excited tone. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Good!" Su Jin nodded: "So that means the troops are ready to launch a final general attack on the enemy of Mukden?" ”

"Yes sir!" Qiu Lihua nodded, but then said worriedly: "The biggest problem now is that the ammunition of the attacking troops is generally insufficient, it was originally expected that at least ten to fifteen base ammunition should be prepared, but now the ammunition carried by each unit is less than half, which is only enough for the troops to use for two to three days, if the ammunition of the troops is not replenished within two days, our situation will be very dangerous." ”

"You don't have to worry about this, our logistics troops have just stored enough supplies for the troops to fight for half a month in Jinzhou!" Su Jin waved his hand, you immediately give an order to all troops now, tomorrow at 6:30 in the morning, with the 347th Division as the lead to launch a general attack on the north gate of Fengtian, the 2nd Division of the National People's Militia will launch an attack on the east gate, the 350th Division will launch an attack on the south gate, and the 351st Division, as a reserve, must take Fengtian within three days!

"Understood!" Qiu Lihua took a deep breath and answered loudly, and after saluting Su Jin, he immediately went down to convey the order......

If these days, due to the blockade of Ri I himself, the people in Fengtian City do not know that Mukden has actually been surrounded by the Chinese army, then this morning's air raid made Ri I himself no longer able to hide it. The violent explosions, the flying planes and the skyrocketing fires all clearly told the citizens of Mukden that war had broken out!

"Daddy...... Daddy......"

Qiu Zesheng walked through the dilapidated alley and rushed into his small courtyard, and after he pushed open the courtyard door, he shouted, "Dad...... The national army is coming, our army is coming...... Father...... What are you doing? ”

When Qiu Zesheng ran into the house in a hurry, he saw that the floor of the room was full of newspapers and tabloids, and his own son was rummaging through boxes and cabinets to find something.

"Daddy...... What are you doing? Qiu Zesheng couldn't help but be stunned when he saw this scene.

"What? You little boy knows that there is going to be a war, so why don't you come over and help me pack my things! Qiu Laogen, who was busy, turned his head and scolded.

After more than ten seconds, Qiu Zesheng finally figured out what his Lao Tzu was going to do, and he stammered and shouted, "Dad...... You...... Where are you going, is it possible that you are leaving Fengtian City? ”

"Nonsense...... It's going to be a war, if you don't run and stay here and eat guns! Qiu Laogen saw that his son was still stunned on the spot, and he was anxious to reprimand.

"Dad, now that Fengtian City has been completely surrounded by the national army, where can we go?" Qiu Zesheng said with a smile and a smile, his father seemed to be in a hurry.

"What? Besieged? Qiu Laogen stopped what he was doing, and the whole person immediately froze, and after a while, he muttered: "Doesn't that mean we can't get out?" ”

"That's natural." Qiu Zesheng smiled bitterly: "Dad, why are you so worried. This time it was the national army that came, it was our own team, and I was afraid that it was also the Japanese who was afraid, so why should we be afraid of them. ”

"You baby knows!" After learning that he couldn't get out, Qiu Laogen's whole body seemed to have been drained of the bones of his body, sat on a burden, and said listlessly: "Bullets won't open their eyes when this battle is fought, this thing will be finished if it touches it." You may not know that the Jinmanlai gold shop opened by Boss Wang on the street was destroyed by a bomb this morning, but fortunately there was no one in the shop at the time, otherwise their family would have been destroyed. If we continue to stay here, maybe one day a cannonball will come and send our two to the sky, and if it really comes, what kind of face will I have to see your dead mother! ”

Qiu Laogen's face was full of worry while nagging, and Qiu Zesheng on the side was amused, but then his heart was full of emotion, this is just the most ordinary father in Huaxia. It was this father who pulled himself up with a handful of and urine, and he was so heartbroken for himself, and now he has to worry about his own safety.

Qiu Zesheng walked up to Qiu Laogen and sat down, hugged his arm and comforted: "Dad, in fact, you don't have to worry so much, who are we?" If we can't squeeze out three taels of oil after tearing down the bones, you will ask people to blow up people with bombs, and people will not come, you really don't need money to be a bomb! I've heard the instructor at the school say that a 50-kilogram bomb costs more than 500 oceans. ”

Qiu Laogen thought about it, and he was right. The bombs of the Japanese and the national army were not blown by the strong wind, and all the belongings in his own house were not worth a bomb in total, and people came to blow up their own dilapidated houses after eating it, thinking of this, his heart suddenly settled down a lot, and then he grabbed Qiu Zesheng's hand and said: "Zesheng, since this is the case, you will remember for me these days, you will honestly stay at home for me, and you are not allowed to go anywhere." Now that you're in a mess, if you run around, you might get hit by a bullet flying somewhere, so you can't run around, you know? ”

Facing his own Lao Tzu's solemn expression, Qiu Zesheng naturally nodded again and again, but only God knows how sincere this guarantee can be.

On the same day, there were too many cases in Fengtian City to tell their relatives like Qiu Laogen, and the common people simply thought that as long as they hid at home, they could escape the war, but was it really that simple?

At 6:37 a.m. on August 8, the 31st year of the Republic of China, the battle to recover Mukden began as the heavy artillery brigade fired the first cannon.

The 81 M1 Type 155 howitzers belonging to the 3rd Heavy Artillery Regiment of the 1st Heavy Artillery Brigade, which was responsible for shelling the positions outside the Great South Gate of Mukden, simultaneously knocked 43.1 kg of high-explosive shells out of the barrels, and the shells flew at an initial velocity of 78o meters per second for 22 seconds before smashing heavily on the Japanese positions.

The high-explosive bomb carried nearly 21.8 kilograms of TNT high explosives immediately turned into a dazzling spark of fire after touching the ground, and everything around it was blown into dust and thrown into the air, and the fragments of the shells mixed with a large amount of rubble, bricks and tiles flew high in all directions at kilometer lengths, and the air of the entire Great South Gate was completely shrouded in steel fragments and gravel with a scorching temperature, and with the flying of steel sheets, at any time and shock waves, many officers and soldiers of the 108th Division of the Japanese Army who were still asleep in the trenches were instantly torn into pieces.

The observers of the artillery observation post above the artillery positions could almost clearly see the corpses torn to pieces by the shells, and even occasionally the hideous-looking blown heads that flew into the sky with terrified expressions of horror, of course, this was just a hallucination in the minds of the observers.

The Japanese army, who was awakened by the sudden sound of artillery, responded badly, and soon the artillery fire of the Japanese Type 92 105 cannon deployed near the Great East Gate also rang out.

But it's a pity that in the face of the well-prepared Third Army, the Japanese army's counterattack firepower seemed so thin, dozens of seconds later, with a roar, four P-47s hovering at a high altitude fell from the air, and several bombs of two hundred attacks fell on the Japanese artillery position, and the artillery position that had only fired a few guns was injured in the west, and the six Type 92 cannons on the position were blown up into scrap metal in an instant.

Just after the artillery fire of the 3rd Heavy Artillery Regiment arranged outside the south gate rang out, the artillery fire of the 1st Heavy Artillery Regiment located at the north gate also rang out.

The artillery of the first heavy artillery regiment is not the M1 155 mm howitzer, the first heavy artillery regiment is the oldest artillery regiment under Su Jin, and the artillery it is equipped with is another B-4 type 203 mm heavy gun nicknamed 'Stalin's hammer'. Although it only has a sustained rate of fire of 0.5 rounds per minute, it is more than powerful enough to make up for its lack of rate.

"Woo......"

A sound like an old cow panting came from the air to the ears of the soldiers of the 57th Division of the Japanese Army stationed at the north gate, and then a chromium-vanadium alloy warhead with a length of one meter and a weight of 125.9 kilograms smashed heavily into a pillbox more than ten meters away from a pillbox.

"Boom ......"

An explosion sounded like the sky was cracking, The 52.4-kilogram high explosives in the warhead exploded, and all the people within a radius of more than 200 meters were shrouded in violent smoke and dust, and even many Japanese soldiers within a range of 200 meters were shocked by the violent explosion, and the eardrums of many soldiers were also cracked on the spot; when the smoke cleared, the pilots of the P-47 fighters, who were serving as cover and reconnaissance in the sky, were surprised to find that the original pillbox covering an area of more than 100 square meters had disappeared, leaving only a large crater tens of meters wide and five or six meters deep.

Almost at the same time, the positions of the 57th Division of the Japanese Army stationed at the north gate were also bombarded by dozens of M1155mm howitzers of the Second Heavy Artillery Regiment, and for a time the entire Fengtian City except for the east gate, the three peripheral positions were shelled.

Known as the flower of the imperial army, the Kwantung Army will naturally not sit still, and the artillery positions deployed everywhere also immediately launched a counterattack, the most effective of which is the 96-type 150 mm field howitzer, this kind of artillery has extremely high accuracy and long range, and is called the most perfect 150 mm caliber howitzer by the Japanese army, but because of the cost problem, a small output is not large, only a few elite field heavy artillery wings of the Japanese army are equipped, and the Kwantung Army as the most elite strategic force of the Japanese army is also equipped with two wings, One of the wings happened to be deployed in Mukden.

Located in the artillery position near the Sanxian Temple in the north of the city, the artillery of the third wing of the Japanese heavy artillery began to work up and down, and an artilleryman only heard a heavy sound of "click" at the moment when he pulled the tail away, and a 38.7-kilogram shell was loaded into the gun chamber, and then the gun tail closed the bolt and locked it in place, and finally checked the distance, firing angle, and lateral offset......

The quality of the Japanese artillery was still very strong, and after a minute and 32 seconds of shelling, they opened fire, and with the recoil generated by the shell fire, the gun body suddenly retreated, and the shell instantly flew out of the chamber and flew to the west.

The contest between the Chinese and Japanese artillerymen began, one was wrapped in the power of victory and the anger of recovering the homeland, and the other was carried with the pride of conquering Asia to serve the emperor, and there was only one victor between them, and the only way for the defeated was death.

On the position of the first battalion of the 2nd Heavy Artillery Regiment in the west of Fengtian, the gunners were desperately firing shells at this time, and they couldn't hear the whistling sound of the incoming shells at all.

A Type 96 150mm field howitzer shell exploded next to an M1 gun, and the violent explosion engulfed the eight gunners who were busy, and even worse, it detonated a pile of shells placed around, and the instantly martyred ammunition immediately covered the entire artillery company.

"Bastard, hurry up and find the devil's artillery position and kill these sons of bitches!" Zhao Tianyin, the commander of the 2nd Heavy Artillery Regiment, who was directing the artillery bombardment, was furious and immediately notified the P-47 fighters hovering in the sky, asking them to destroy this artillery position immediately, but then they received a report that there was an air defense position in the western area of the Japanese army, and the fire was very fierce, and the P-47 could not get close to the other side and could not indicate the target for the ground artillery fire.

"This bastard, notify the reconnaissance balloon, immediately report the location of the Japanese artillery formation." Zhao Tianyin gave the order with a dark face.

"Understood!"

The advantage of observing balloons is that they have a long time in the air and stability, and it is easy to observe ground targets more clearly, unlike the timeliness of airplanes. Under the careful observation of the observers, he found that there was still a slight mist in the north direction of Fengtian City, accompanied by dense gunsmoke, but all this could not hide the huge muzzle flame produced by the Japanese artillery when firing and the fog cloud stirred by the muzzle shock wave.

"Report sir, I see it...... The orientation of the Japanese artillery positions was ......"

"All gun emplacements are at my command, bearing 385...... Distance: 1248o...... Bomb type: High-explosive grenade...... Six Rapid Shots ......"

"Putting ......"

The artillery of the 2nd Heavy Artillery Regiment immediately re-shook the gun body after receiving the instruction to observe the balloon, and the gun commanders re-set the firing scale according to the order of the regiment commander.

The shelling began at 6:30 a.m. and continued until 7:20 a.m., with bursts of violent explosions with thousands of degrees of heat and countless steel shards tearing apart the three outer lines of the Japanese army except for the east gate...... (To be continued.) )