Chapter 112: Withdraw to Tongliao
When the pent-up anger is given a chance to be released completely, the power of the angry person is terrifying.
After a while, the owner of the mine, who had been beaten by the miners with their fists and feet, was silent.
Several foremen were also beaten to death by the angry miners.
Compared with the mine owners, these foremen who personally carried out the persecution of the miners are even more hateful, and the miners hate them even more.
It didn't take long for the mine owner and his subordinates to be more than 20 dog-legged Han annihilation foremen who were dragged into the mine by the excited miners.
The cavalrymen hurriedly attached the explosives packs that had been prepared to them to a very long lead and placed them.
Huang Xiansheng instructed the miners to bring some simple tools, got into the car one after another, and drove towards the road.
Zhang Xinghan was just about to order the soldiers to detonate the explosive packs and completely destroy the mine, when a miner suddenly jumped out of the car.
He knelt down in front of Zhang Xinghan with a plop, and kowtowed again and again: "Sir, my cousin Xie Yong is also working all night in another mine of my own, please go and save him." β
"Brother, you get up first, your cousin is working in his own coal mine? What is your name? Zhang Xinghan helped him up and asked.
"In the Niuxintai Coal Mine, it is on the east bank of the Taizi River, about 15 kilometers northeast of Benxi City, which is about 20 miles away from here." The miner choked.
"The scale of Niuxintai Coal Mine is not large, how many miners there are, and how many people I know?" Zhang Xinghan asked.
"The scale is not as big as our Benxihu coal mine, but there are a lot of people, there must be six or seven hundred workers, and there are about twenty doglegs between myself and the mine owner." The miner thought for a moment and replied.
"Hmm." Zhang Xinghan nodded, and asked again, "By the way, what's your name?" β
"Back to the sir, the little one's name is Xie Wu!" Xie Wu hurriedly replied.
"Okay, okay, you get in the car first, and I'll arrange for someone to rescue them immediately." Zhang Xinghan waved his hand.
After Xie Wu thanked Dade for getting into the car, Zhang Xinghan found Huang Xiansheng and said: "Brother Alarm Zhong, there is also a coal mine in Niuxintai, where there are six or seven hundred miners, a lot of people, I decided to rescue them too." β
"Okay, let's just clean all the large and small coal mines in the Benxi area, which can not only rescue a large number of miners, but also give the little devil a little color." Huang Xiansheng's surname was revealed at this moment.
Zhang Xinghan asked Shen Xingye to open the map of the army, and called Xie Wu over, and finally determined the location of various large and small coal mines in Benxi.
After muttering at the map for a while, Zhang Xinghan said to Huang Xiansheng and Shen Xingye: "Brother Alarm Bell, you and Shen Yizhi each led a team of cavalry to sweep your own coal mines from the north and south, solve the miners, and finally come here to rendezvous." β
"Okay." Huang Xiansheng nodded in agreement, and then Shen Xingye and Shen Xingye each led more than 500 cavalry soldiers to start sweeping seven or eight coal mines around Benxi.
About two hours later, Huang Xiansheng and Shen Xingye each led the cavalry back smoothly.
When it didn't pass, there were more than 1,000 cavalry, and when they came, the cavalry team was already followed by a long flow of people, and according to a rough count, there were nearly 2,000 people.
Together with the more than 1,000 miners rescued from the Benxi Lake Coal Mine, the total number of miners rescued this time has exceeded 3,000.
Zhang Xinghan brought more than 100 military trucks and more than 20 tanks and armored vehicles this time, barely enough to pull these miners out at one time.
I had no choice but to give up the plan to load coal and only pull people back.
Before leaving, Zhang Xinghan did not forget to order people to blow up all the largest Benxi Lake coal mines.
β¦β¦β¦β¦β¦β¦β¦β¦β¦β¦ At the Lushun Military Port, a large number of warships have entered the port one after another, and groups of heavily armed Chinese troops are landing on the shore.
The scale and momentum of their numbers far exceeded the scene when the 6th and 20th Divisions arrived last time.
The commander of the Kwantung Army, Minamijiro, was greeting the commanders of the first few divisions to land with a smile.
After some greetings, the division commanders of these divisions boarded the cars that Minamijiro had prepared for them and drove towards the city.
Minamijiro was just about to wait for the bus, when a side three-wheeled motorcycle came speeding from the city.
Before the motorcycle was stable, a second lieutenant in the car couldn't wait to jump down, snapped his feet and saluted Nanjiro: "Your Excellency General, I just got a report from the Benxi garrison that the mines operated by merchants of our empire such as Benxi Lake were attacked by the cavalry of the Shina Army one after another, all the miners were rescued, and all the mine staff were killed. β
"What? Mine attacked? Minamijiro was taken aback when he heard this, "Did you find out that the branch of the Shina Army did it?" β
"Shenyang Garrison Brigade." The second lieutenant replied.
"Shenyang Garrison Brigade? It's this Shenyang garrison brigade again! Damn it. Minamijiro was furious.
"General, now is not the time to be angry, let's go back to the headquarters first, the commanders of the other divisions and regiments are waiting for you." Ishihara stepped forward and persuaded.
"Humph!" Minamijiro snorted angrily and walked towards the car.
Although Minamijiro was angry, he could not send troops to intercept and kill the cavalry troops of the "evildoer" garrison brigade for a while.
Because the divisions and regiments have just landed, everything is not ready, after all, this is more than 300,000 troops, not two or three thousand.
It will take a few days of rest before it can officially enter the battlefield.
However, Minamijiro had already begun to study the next battle plan with the commanders and chiefs of staff of the divisions.
The goal of the War Department this time was not only to capture Shenyang, which was already empty, but also not to pursue and annihilate the Shenyang garrison brigade, which had fled to Tongliao for the most part.
Instead, he attacked the entire three eastern provinces, repelled the various units of the Northeast Army that were now entrenched in the area of Jinzhou in southern Liaoning, and invaded the Guannai.
β¦β¦β¦β¦β¦β¦β¦β¦ At the same time, outside the city of Shenyang, Beidaying.
Zhang Xinghan led the guard battalion directly under the brigade headquarters, the communications company and other directly subordinate troops, as well as Huang Xiansheng's cavalry and the last batch of more than 3,000 rescued miners to evacuate Shenyang.
When passing through Beidaying, Zhang Xinghante got out of the car and walked into Beidaying.
Seeing that the neat military camp in the past is now dilapidated, Zhang Xinghan is inevitably a little lonely in his heart.
After all, this is the first battlefield he came to this world, and it can also be said that it is new to his life.
He said that he would return to Shenyang, and he would build this military camp and set up a monument to the martyrs to commemorate the Pao Ze brothers who died in Shenyang.
"Brigade, the wind and snow are getting heavier and heavier, you better get in the car quickly." Shen Xingye walked over and reminded with concern.
Zhang Xinghan looked back at him, nodded, and walked straight out without looking back.
β¦β¦β¦β¦β¦β¦β¦β¦β¦β¦ After a journey of nearly 20 hours, Zhang Xinghan led the last group of officers and soldiers and miners to Tongliao, the base of the current garrison brigade, on 7 November.
Leaving the arrangements for miners and other matters to Zhao Zhenfan and Huang Xiansheng, Zhang Xinghan rode a war horse and took Shen Xingye to a small courtyard in the town that was not very spacious.
This is the temporary residence of Zhang Xinghan's parents and fiancΓ©e Wang Ruoying.
Moving from Shenyang to Tongliao, Zhang Xinghan has been busy with military affairs and has no time to take care of his family.
Now that the whole army has safely withdrawn to Tongliao, his heart has fallen to the ground, so he took time out of his busy schedule to visit his parents and Wang Ruoying.
The reason why I say that I am busy is because there must be a lot of things to deal with in the future.
Outside the small courtyard, Zhang Xinghan turned over and dismounted and handed the reins to Shen Xingye.
At this time, the people in the house had heard the sound of horses' hooves, and the far door opened.
Wang Ruoying, who had not been seen for a long time, wore a black plush fur coat, a white scarf, a pair of black leather pants underneath, and a pair of long leather boots on her feet.
threw himself into Zhang Xinghan's arms.
Smelling the fragrance emanating from Wang Ruoying's hair, Zhang Xinghan patted her fragrant shoulder and reminded: "Ruoying, there is someone next to ......"
After saying this, Zhang Xinghan looked at Shen Xingye who was tying his horse with an embarrassed expression, Shen Xingye snickered and hurriedly turned his head over.
Wang Ruoying was unmoved, a pair of soft flowers hugged Zhang Xinghan tightly, leaning on his strong chest as if he was afraid that Zhang Xinghan would disappear as soon as he let go.
Zhang Xinghan had no choice but to stretch out his arms to hug her, and comforted her softly: "I'm sorry for worrying you." β
Wang Ruoying shook her head gently, tears welled up in her eyes, and soon the tears fell uncontrollably.
"Xinghan is back?" At this time, the voice of his father Zhang Yuxi sounded from the courtyard.
Wang Ruoying let go of Zhang Xinghan at this time, turned her head and quietly wiped her tears, and a touch of crimson appeared on her pretty face.
"Dad, mother, it's me back." Zhang Xinghan saw his father and mother walking out one after another, and immediately stepped forward to greet him.
"No injuries, right?" Mother Liu Liping walked over and looked up and down with concern and asked.
"Mother, no, I'm fine." Zhang Xinghan gave her a smile to signal that she was relieved.
"Why didn't Xinghua come back with you?" Zhang Yuxi stretched out his head to look around and asked suspiciously.
"Xinghua should be helping to settle the people now, I didn't go to him, I just came back, and I came back alone." Zhang Xinghan said.
"Oh, let's get inside, it's cold outside, don't catch a cold, and that one." Zhang Yuxi pointed to Shen Xingye, who had already tied his horse in the distance.
"Oh, he is my attendant adjutant and deputy commander of the guard battalion, and he is the one who saved my life in Shenyang." After Zhang Xinghan introduced, he waved his hand to Shen Xingye: "Yizhi come here, enter the house." β
As soon as they entered the yard, two tiger-headed little guys ran out of the kitchen and crashed into Zhang Xinghan's arms.
"Godfather, godfather!" The second tiger and the brother Xiaohu shouted in unison.
Zhang Xinghan picked up all the two brothers and said kindly: "Second Tiger, Little Tiger, do you want to be a godfather?" β
"Thought." The two little ones replied at the same time.
"Let's give my godfather a kiss." Zhang Xinghan gestured with a side face.
The two little guys were very cute and obedient, and kissed Zhang Xinghan on the face separately.
Zhang Xinghan said very happily in his heart: "Really good, come down first." β
After putting the two children down, Zhang Xinghan took out three pieces of ocean from his pocket, handed them to Erhu and said: "Here, godfather came in a hurry this time, and didn't bring you anything delicious to eat, you and your sister have a piece of this money, let your mother buy it for you if you want to eat." β
"Thank you, godfather." Erhu stretched out his hand to take the ocean, and ran towards the kitchen with his younger brother full of joy.
After a while, Zhou walked out with his daughter eldest girl wearing an apron, and when he saw Zhang Xinghan, he said very excitedly: "Brother Xinghan, are you back?" How to pay back the money to the babies. β
"I bought snacks for my kids to eat." Zhang Xinghan smiled and nodded.
"Sister-in-law Zhou, it's rare for Xinghan to come back today, please cook a few more good dishes, and our family will have a good reunion dinner." Zhang Yuxi said to Zhou.
"Hey, okay, I'll get ready right away." Zhou gladly agreed, turned and walked into the kitchen.
"Xinghan, you and Dad talk first, and I'll go to the kitchen to help." Wang Ruoying said.
(To be continued)