In fact, the Battle of Shenyang was more tragic than Alice's notes recorded.

You must know that he still has more than 100,000 people in Shenyang, and Shenyang City is already their last retreat, so the degree of resistance can be imagined.

The most tragic battlefield is located on the opposite bank of Sujiatun in the south of Shenyang, and the battlefield on the north bank of the Hunhe River.

In order to completely encircle the city of Shenyang, Zhang Xinghan transferred Wang Yizhe West Route Army to attack the south gate under the cover of the air force.

Although the Hunhe Railway Bridge was destroyed, he was unwilling to give up the South Gate, and Hata Shunroku knew that once he gave up the South Gate, his 100,000 army would be completely turned into a turtle in the urn and there was no way to escape.

Therefore, both sides invested an astonishing number of troops at the south gate and launched a desperate battle.

Several regiments of Wang Yizhe's 3rd Reading Division took turns to go into battle, using artillery regiments and tank regiments as cover, and engaged in extremely fierce offensive and defensive battles with the Yue army.

Liu Zhenhu, deputy commander of the 3rd Division and commander of the 1st Infantry Regiment, went to the front-line trenches several times to supervise the battle, and even directly led the death squad to charge once.

At the same time as the fierce battle in Shenyang, on the Sujiatun and Lighthouse battlefields on the south bank of the Hunhe River, Niu Erzhu, deputy commander of the 1st Division of Reading Li, also led the main force of the division to launch an attack on Sujiatun's army to prevent it from crossing the river to reinforce Shenyang.

At the same time, in the direction of Panjin, the assault troops led by Li Zhenyuan were also storming Panjin City in order to attract troops from Jinzhou and Dalian, so that they would have no time to take care of anything else.

Dalian, inside the headquarters of the Kwantung Army.

The chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Toranosuke Hashimoto, had an extremely solemn face, came to Muto Nobuyoshi, and saluted with a snap: "Your Excellency, General Shunroku Hata has sent an urgent telegram again, the offensive of the Shina Army is very urgent, the Imperial Army lacks effective anti-tank weapons and air supremacy, and the losses are extremely heavy, please send troops to help as soon as possible!" ”

Muto Nobuyoshi frowned: "Have the two divisions of Lighthouse and Sujiatun been transferred?" ”

Hashimoto Toranosuke shook his head helplessly, and sighed: "Not yet, a new army from the Northeast suddenly appeared from the area east of Sujiatun, and the imperial army stationed in Sujiatun is fighting fiercely with it, and it will not be able to support Shenyang in a short time."

Moreover, the Hunhe Railway Bridge had been destroyed and damaged by the air force of the Chinese people, and if the reinforcements wanted to support Shenyang, they had to cross the river, and they were easily threatened by the artillery and air force of the Chinese army during the day. ”

The corners of Muto Nobuyoshi's mouth couldn't help twitching, and he said, "What about the direction of Panjin?" ”

"The armored troops of the Chinese Army are attacking the city urgently, and the 1st Division and the 9th Division of Jinzhou are rushing to help." Toranosuke Hashimoto replied weakly.

"How long can Shunroku Hata last?" Muto Nobuyoshi asked subconsciously.

Hashimoto Toranosuke shook his head again: "I don't know, now that the Hunhe Railway Bridge has been destroyed, and the new army in the northeast of China is storming the south gate of Shenyang, once the imperial army loses the defensive position of the south gate, then the entire Shenyang will be completely surrounded by the [***] team."

Reinforcements from the lighthouse and Sujiatun, as well as Jinzhou and Dalian, were attacked again and could not be reinforced north.

If this situation continues, perhaps they will only need to surround Shenyang City for more than half a month without the attack of the Zhina army, and the imperial army will have a catastrophic consequence due to the exhaustion of food supplies. ”

Muto Nobuyoshi was silent, what Hashimoto Toranosuke said was the truth, if this situation continued, the consequences, Muto Nobuyoshi couldn't imagine it.

Once the more than 100,000 troops of Hata Shunroku in Shenyang were completely annihilated, the balance of strength between the Kwantung Army and the Northeast New Army would immediately change dramatically.

At that time, I am afraid that there will be more than one Shenyang City, but the entire Nanman.

Thinking of this, Muto Nobuyoshi inevitably remembered what Ishihara said yesterday.

"Hashimoto-kun, you go and summon Ishihara Waner immediately and ask him to come to see me quickly, his prediction yesterday is extremely accurate, he must have a way to save the current crisis." It is a matter of life and death for the entire South Manchurian region and hundreds of thousands of imperial troops, and Muto Nobuyoshi doesn't care about his old face.

Hashimoto Toranosuke also had no choice, so he immediately took the order and left.

Soon, Ishihara was brought over.

Seeing Ishihara Waner this time, Muto Nobuyoshi changed his indifferent face yesterday and said eagerly: "Ishihara-kun, now that the battlefield situation has changed suddenly, I hope you and I can abandon our previous suspicions and tide over the difficulties together!" ”

Ishihara immediately stood up and said, "Ishihara is happy!" ”

"Good." Muto Nobuyoshi nodded appreciatively, and hurriedly walked to the map with Ishihara.

Pointing to the map, Muto Nobuyoshi simply and quickly introduced the battlefield situation to Ishihara, and asked urgently: "Ishihara-kun, how is it, do you have any good ways to help Toshi-kun Hata with the current predicament?" ”

Ishihara Wan'er stared at the map for a long time before he silently shook his head and said to Muto Nobuyoshi: "General, there is no way, Shenyang can no longer hold on, to put it mildly, if Shenyang continues to hold on, then the 100,000 troops of Commander Shun Hata will be wiped out in Shenyang, a small place." ”

"What?" Muto Nobuyoshi's heart sank, and he said unwillingly: "Is there no way at all?" ”

Ishihara Wan'er nodded: "General, the Imperial Army of the Battle of Shenyang has lost since Xinmin was lost, even if we don't want to admit it, but this is indeed a fact." ”

The meaning of Ishihara's words is very clear, after the loss of Xinmin, Muto Nobuyoshi was unwilling to lose, and he was unwilling to admit that the Battle of Shenyang had actually failed.

However, at this moment, Muto Nobuyoshi was already in a mess, and he had no intention of blaming Ishihara for his slightly sarcastic words.

Almost out of control, he shouted: "No, the more than 100,000 imperial troops in Shenyang must not be lost like this, and South Manchuria and the Liaodong Peninsula must not be lost, otherwise we will all become sinners of the entire Yamato nation." ”

Ishihara Wan'er pondered for a moment, and said seriously: "Your Excellency General, now we have one only chance. ”

"The only chance?" Muto Nobuyoshi said eagerly: "Say it quickly, what a chance." ”

Ishihara Wan'er stepped forward and pointed to Shenyang on the map and said: "Now that the Hunhe Railway Bridge has been destroyed, the imperial army in Shenyang will have to cross the river if it wants to retreat south, so the imperial army will be frantically strangled by the air force of the China Army, and there is also a new army in the Northeast on the south bank, plus we don't have so many ships for the troops to cross the river, so the imperial army has no chance to evacuate from the direction of Sujiatun."

Now the only chance is to evacuate from the east of Shenyang along the Hunhe River to Fushun, which is the only chance for the imperial army, because the main forces of the Zhina army are deployed in the north and west of Shenyang.

The strength of the Chinese army in Fushun will not be too large, so this is the weak point of their encirclement. ”

Muto Nobuyoshi was noncommittal, looked at Ishihara with some bitterness and said, "You mean to abandon Shenyang?" ”

"Yes, this is the only chance for the imperial army, only by abandoning Shenyang, can we avoid the terrible consequences of being completely annihilated, and the battle of Shenyang is now beyond anyone's power to return to the sky." Ishihara nodded firmly.

"And how many troops can we withdraw?" Toranosuke Hashimoto suddenly asked.

Ishihara groaned slightly, looked up at him and said, "Half." ”

"What? Only half of it can be withdrawn? Toranosuke Hashimoto was taken aback.

"Yes, if we want to stop the pursuit of the Northeast New Army, we will have to sacrifice at least half of our troops." Ishihara nodded.

"Half of the troops." Toranosuke Hashimoto obviously couldn't accept such a cruel reality for a while, half of the troops, that would be at least 50,000 people, or even more.

At this time, Muto Nobuyoshi suddenly spoke: "Ishihara-kun, tell me, how do you know that the direction of Fushun is the weak point of the encirclement of the Shina people?" If, where did the Chinese army deploy heavy troops, and we abandoned Shenyang, and could not advance or retreat in the field, wouldn't the consequences be even worse? ”

"General, please imagine where the Chinese army that is now attacking Sujiatun and the lighthouse came from.

If they were composed of the Western Route Army of the Chinese Army, then they should have appeared from the west of the railway line and attacked, you know, if the Chinese crossed the railway on such a large scale, it is impossible for our garrisons along the line not to know.

And now, they are attacking from the east of Sujiatun and the lighthouse, that is, they can only come from the northeast. ”

Saying this, Ishihara Wan'er pointed at Fushun and continued: "Combined with the news of the loss of Fushun a few days ago, it is not difficult to guess that this branch army should come from Fushun.

The strength of the two divisions of the imperial army that can contain it will never be a minority, so it can be seen that the strength of the Chinese army in Fushun will not be too much.

As long as we take Fushun, bypass the Hunhe River, and retreat south through the Salhu Mountains, we can withdraw our troops to the Liaodong Peninsula.

At the same time, the imperial troops along Sujiatun, Dengta, Liaoyang, Haicheng, Anshan and other lines can also retreat, so that we can finally maintain 150,000 or 60,000 troops, and it will not be a problem to hold on to the blockade of the Liaodong Peninsula. ”

Muto Nobuyoshi couldn't help but nod when he heard this, and after glancing at Toranosuke Hashimoto, Muto Nobuyoshi finally made up his mind and said, "Just do what Ishihara-kun said, Hashimoto-kun, you go and inform Shunroku Hatakera immediately." ”

"Hay!" Hashimoto Toranosuke suddenly bowed his head in response, and immediately took the saber and hurried away.

……………………………… Shenyang City, known as the army headquarters.

The roaring artillery outside the city, the sound of shouting and killing, the dense gunfire, and the sound of explosions were already clearly audible in the army headquarters.

All the devils are very busy and nervous.

As the commander-in-chief of the Shenyang Army, Shunroku Hata is sitting like a statue in front of the giant sand table in the war room, still holding his saber in his right hand.

"Report to Your Excellency General, Commander Muto has an urgent telegram." Suddenly, a devil messenger walked over quickly, suddenly retracted his feet and stood up in salute.

Shunroku Hata looked up at him, and then at the chief of staff, Noda Bugu, who understood and hurriedly stepped forward to take the telegram from the signal soldier.

After waving his hand to signal the communications soldier to leave, he respectfully handed the message to Shunroku Hatata.

(To be continued)