Mizukawa Juncao and the others could clearly see that at the moment when the soldier was about to approach the tank, several short strings of fire flew out from the rear of the tank, and the firelight flashed obliquely to block the soldier who was running forward with his leaning body. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 The soldier was staggered, his head jerked back, his chest seemed to be pressed against the shining firelight, and then the whole man was knocked backwards several steps and fell heavily to the ground. As soon as the man landed, a violent explosion blew the body to pieces, and Shui Chuan, who was hiding behind the breastwork, could even clearly see that one of the brave soldier's thighs was only a few meters away from him.

"Yaga!"

Just when Shuichuan Jun Cao was scolding, another swarthy figure rushed towards the front of the tank, and was about to rush to the tank, only to see the turret of the tank shoot a hot tongue of fire, dozens of powerful 7.92 mm bullets mercilessly tore the figure in two, and detonated the explosive bag behind him, with the sound of a violent explosion, a thick black smoke wrapped the tank.

"Great!"

Mizukawa Juncao happily waved his fist.

"No, the chariot of the people of China is still moving!"

Before Mizukawa could finish his rejoicing, a soldier pointed to the tank and shouted in horror. Everyone looked over again, only to see a blackened No. 4 tank staggering out of the smoke and continuing to drive towards the position.

"This bastard, he didn't blow up!"

Seeing that the tank was unscathed, Mizukawa Juncao was so angry that he even blackened, it turned out that the soldier was still a certain distance from the tank when he was killed, and the explosive pack was in front of the tank with the strongest defense, so the shock wave of the explosion did not blow up the No. 4 tank.

As soon as Mizukawa Juncao's scolding fell, another black shadow burst out. Everyone fixed their eyes and saw that it was the young private who had just been slapped by the Shuichuan Army, only to see that the thin body of the private burst out of the crater of the black hole and immediately rushed a few meters, and then lay on the ground, bowed up and shrunk into a ball, saying that it was too late, and then it was too late to see the young private rolling in the smoke with his thin body towards the behemoth in front of him towards the territory of the tank.

"Boom!"

I heard a violent explosion, and the No. 4 tank shook violently, and then a thick black smoke fountain came out from the rear of the tank, and the No. 4 tank, which was attacked by three Japanese soldiers with meat and eggs, finally stopped. The Japanese soldiers who were hiding in the trenches after seeing the tank destroyed by a meat bullet were all excited, and these fanatical soldiers and officers shouted "Half loaded!" at the same time. ”

Amid the frenzied voices of the Japanese soldiers, more and more soldiers jumped out of their bunkers and rushed towards the oncoming tanks......

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

Hurried footsteps sounded in front of Umezu Mijiro, and when Umezu Mijiro raised his head, he saw Takei Seitaro, a staff officer of the chief of operations, with an anxious expression, hurriedly coming to him and said loudly: "Your Excellency Commander, the people of China have broken through our two lines of defense in the west gate in a row, and now they are rushing towards the third line of defense, and our outer defense is about to be lost!" ”

"I see!" Umezu Mijiro glared at Kiyotaro Takei angrily, leaned back in his chair, stretched out his left hand and rubbed his bloodshot eyes. The battle had been going on for more than 20 hours, and the Huaxia people had told the Kwantung Army from the Great Kwantung Army what a saturation attack was in the heavy artillery fire and bombardment, and the staff officers in the war room calculated that in these 20 hours or so, the Huaxia Army had dropped no less than 3,000 tons of bombs on the outer positions of Mukden.

Under the overwhelming bombardment, most of the positions hastily built by the Japanese army were bombed into ruins, and the reason why they can still be encouraged to support them now is completely supported by human lives. In particular, the West Gate defended by the 57th Division was in danger several times, and the 52nd Wing Commander Kawahara Link has been Dasa, and the 117th Wing Commander Tanaka Quandasa were all killed, if it were not for the division commander Lieutenant General Minoru Kusumoto personally led the engineer wing to support the 132nd Wing stationed in the third line of defense, I am afraid that the West Gate would have been completely lost.

"Your Excellency Commander, you can think of a way, if you continue like this, the outer position of the West Gate will be completely lost." Kiyotaro Takei pleaded with a cry.

"Yaga Yalu, now that I have no troops in my hands, how can you let me think of a way?" Umezu Mijiro stood up and pointed at Takei Seitaro and scolded loudly, "Is it possible for me to personally lead the guards of the headquarters to assist Minoru Kusumoto?" ”

Seeing Umezu Mijiro angry, Takei Seitaro didn't dare to say anything, as the chief staff officer of the war room of the headquarters, he naturally knew that Umezu Mijiro really didn't have troops in his hands now, at best, there were more than 10,000 armed Japanese Ihonben expatriates and ronins, but these guys used to suppress the unarmed people was okay, and it would only be a joke for them to deal with the Third Army armed to the teeth.

After thinking for a while, Kiyotaro Takei said tentatively: "Your Excellency Commander, why don't you ...... Why don't you send some troops from the 108th Division and the 71st Division to support Ximen? ”

"No way!"

Before Umezu Mijiro could speak, a resolute voice came from next to him. Takei Seitaro turned his head and looked, it turned out to be the chief of staff, Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi, who walked over with a telegram, only to see Yoshimoto Sadachi said sharply: "According to intelligence, it is the 347th Division of China that is attacking the north gate now, this unit is one of the oldest and most elite troops in Su Jin's hands, and the attack on the south gate is the 2nd Division of the National Militia of China, although this unit is a newly built unit that has been built for less than three years, but its combat effectiveness is not to be underestimated." Now that the north gate and the south gate are already struggling to support, if any more troops are drawn from them, it is very likely to cause the defense line of the three city gates to collapse at the same time, which is absolutely not allowed! ”

Yoshimoto Sadaichi is very old and has great prestige, and when he said this, Takei Seitaro didn't dare to say anything.

Seeing Yoshimoto Sadachi's arrival, Umezu Mijiro waved his hand and motioned for Takei Seitaro to go down, and then turned to Yoshimoto Sadachi with a gloomy face and asked, "Yoshimoto-kun, is something wrong?" ”

"Yes!"

Yoshimoto Sadachi said with a calm face: "Yes, I just received a telegram from the First Division, the people of China have just dispatched the Air Force to bomb the railway from Harbin to Mukden, and the section of the railway in Changchun has been blown up, and now the First Division is stuck there, and it is estimated that it will take at least two or three days to repair!" ”

Umezu Mijiro let out a long sigh: "I have long expected that the Shina, who have the air superiority, will not let us get reinforcements so easily. By the way, what about reinforcements elsewhere? ”

"It's all the same!" Yoshimoto Sadami gritted his teeth and said: "The people of China are simply crazy, these days their planes are flying around, desperately bombing our railway and road transportation lines, Changchun, Tongliao, Shanhaiguan and even Sinuiju in North Korea have been bombed by China planes, according to the front line report, those planes will drop bombs as long as they see railways, bridges and our reinforcements, and our troops can only march at night now." This is simply a great shame for the imperial army! ”

Looking at Yoshimoto Sadachi, who gritted his teeth and rattled, a wave of anger also surged in Umezu Mijiro's heart, and he shouted indignantly: "What about our army aviation, why don't you stop the planes in Shina?" ”

Hearing this, Yoshimoto Sadachi shook his head gloomily: "Of course it was stopped, but the performance of our aircraft is not comparable to that of Shina's fighters." Even the latest Zero is not their opponent, the battle loss ratio between the two sides has reached an astonishing 13:1 or even 15:1, and now those guys in the army aviation say that they will not take off, they make it very clear that they will not send planes to fight the people on a large scale before they have the best aircraft to equip the troops, at most they will command and send small-scale planes to harass or attack the station. ”

"These bastards!"

Umezu Mijiro gritted his teeth and didn't know if he was scolding the guys from the Army Airlines or the manufacturers of Nakajima and Mitsubishi.

After thinking for a while, Umezu Mijiro said in a deep voice: "Yoshimoto-kun, you prepare, immediately call Nogi Matatsu Daisa of the Mukden Arsenal, and ask him to pile up explosives in all the important machines of the arsenal, and once he receives the order from the headquarters, he will immediately blast the arsenal!" ”

"Nani?"

Yoshimoto Sadachi's whole person was stunned, and at this moment he couldn't believe his ears, and muttered: "Your Excellency, Commander, you ...... You're going to blow up the Mukden Arsenal? ”

Founded in 1921, the Fengtian Arsenal was formerly known as the Fengtian Ordnance Factory established by Zhang Zuolin, and when the expansion was completed in 1928, it became the largest arsenal in China. By 1937, the Mukden Arsenal had become one of the largest arsenals in Asia with more than 8,000 machines, more than 30,000 workers, and could manufacture light weapons and even heavy artillery, providing 5,000 rifles, 300 machine guns, and dozens of artillery pieces every month.

Since the beginning of the war of aggression against China, in order to reduce the dependence on the Japanese mainland, the Mukden Arsenal has become the main supplier of weapons to nearly one million troops invading China, and 60% of the weapons of the Japanese army invading China are provided by the Mukden Arsenal, which shows the importance of the Mukden Arsenal to the Japanese army, and now Umezu Mijiro is actually proposing to blow it up, which frightened Yoshimoto Sadachi. The Mukden Arsenal is so important, what if it really blows up the millions of troops in China? Do all the weapons and ammunition have to be supplied locally? This is the rhythm that is going to exhaust the local arsenal!

"No...... Absolutely not! Yoshimoto Sadachi raised an objection without thinking, "Your Excellency, Commander, I don't mention the importance of the Mukden Arsenal, but you also know, if it is really blown up, what will happen to the 700,000 troops of the Kwantung Army?" What about the hundreds of thousands of troops in the Guannai, is it possible that they all have to rely on the local area to provide them? The base camp would go crazy if they found out about your plan! And you'll ...... too"

Speaking of this, Yoshimoto Sadachi stopped talking, but Umezu Mijiro understood at a glance that the Mukden Arsenal was so important that no one could afford to lose it, not even Umezu Mijiro, the commander of the Kwantung Army.

Umezu Mijiro seemed to be several years old, and he sighed and said, "Yoshimoto-kun, why am I willing to do this." But you can also see the current situation, the Chinese are desperately bombing our bridges, railways and transportation lines, and it will be difficult for our reinforcements to arrive as scheduled for a while and a half, once the Chinese occupy Mukden, the Mukden Arsenal will also fall into their hands, if it really comes to this point, then we might as well blow him up in advance. ”

Yoshimoto Saduichi gritted his teeth, still shaking his head and said, "Your Excellency Commander, if we really come to this point, we might as well give up the Fengtian Arsenal to the Zhina." ”

"Nani?" Umezu Mijiro glared at Yoshimoto with wide eyes, "Yoshimoto-kun, do you know what you're talking about?" ”

"Of course I do." Yoshimoto Sadachi looked at Umezu Mijiro without showing weakness: "I don't think it's okay even if the arsenal falls into the hands of the Shina people, at least it's still intact." Later, we can still mobilize a large army to recapture Mukden and snatch the arsenal back, but if we blow up the arsenal, what is the use of us taking Mukden back in the future, can we still restore the arsenal to its original state? ”

"This ......"

Umezu Mijiro hesitated for a moment, what Yoshimoto Sadachi said was not unreasonable, even if Fengtian was really occupied by the Third Army, he could still lead the troops to recapture it, but if the arsenal was blown up, then it would never be able to come back, but he was a little unwilling to give the arsenal to the Huaxia people in vain, and he fell into hesitation and struggle for a while.

As soon as Yoshimoto saw the expression of his boss, he knew that Umezu Mijiro was moved, and he said, "Your Excellency, Commander, the Art of War has also been said. It is impossible to count the gains and losses of one city and one place, and now that the situation is so urgent, what if we really give up the arsenal to the people of China? At best, it's just a matter of letting the people keep it for us for a few days, and when the army arrives, we can retake it, but if the arsenal is gone, your sin will be great, and the base camp will not let you go!" ”

With Yoshimoto Sadachi's status, it is already reassuring to be able to say these words to Umezu Mijiro. Umezu Mijiro thought about it carefully for a long time, analyzed the gains and losses, and found that things were really as Yoshimoto Sadachi said, if he really bombed the Mukden Arsenal, then the troops in China would fall into an unsustainable state in the short term, and there would be no good results for him as a commander. But if he could take the arsenal back when he could, then the consequences would be much better.

After a while, he sighed: "That's it, just follow Ji Benjun, we won't blow up the Fengtian Arsenal!" ”

PS: I just received a call, an old man in Ah Ding's family has passed away, Ah Ding has to rush over overnight to help, and he can't update it tomorrow, so I specially asked everyone for a leave!