After sending Gao Zhihang away, Zhang Xinghan instructed Wang Yicai: "Yicai, you immediately mobilize the public security police in the city, and set up the safety of the lives and property of the fathers and elders of the whole city of Shangyang, and now urgently call on the retired soldiers of the whole city, the male surnamed the prime of life from 18 to 40 years old to enlist in the army to expand the military strength, swear to defend Fengtian City to the death, and fight to the death with himself!" ”

"Okay, I'll do it right away." Wang Yicai nodded happily.

As soon as Zhang Xinghan's recruitment notice came out, it immediately caused an uproar in Fengtian City, and countless Shenyang fathers and elders who had long been awakened by last night's war took to the streets, gathered around the notice, and began to discuss.

"Erwa, you are just eighteen years old this year, go and be a soldier, don't embarrass Lao Tzu." A middle-aged uncle selling pork in the crowd said to his slightly obese son, who was over 18 years old.

"Dad, I'm leaving, who will help you sell pork." The fat boy said with a simple face.

"You pig brain, let me enter the city, and don't you rob all our pork? At that time, I really can't continue to sell pork. The middle-aged uncle patted his son's shoulder and said earnestly: "Go, thirty years ago, I was as old as you, and I also participated in the Xiangyong to fight Lao Maozi and the little devil, no matter when we have to let foreigners know that our Northeast masters are not of bad race, they are all fucking men with blood surnames!" ”

"Well, I'll sign up for the army later, and strive to kill more devils, and I will never embarrass your father, and I will never embarrass our Northeast people." The fat boy said with an innocent and innocent face.

If a pork vendor is still like this, the reaction of the enthusiastic patriotic youth, students, and people from all walks of life in Fengtian City can be imagined.

For a time, a large number of young and middle-aged people flocked to the recruitment offices set up by Zhang Xinghan in the streets of various urban areas, and the recruitment offices were overcrowded.

Among them, what Zhang Xinghan did not expect was that the workers of the Shenyang Arsenal, the steel mill and other military factories went to the recruitment office in an organized manner, and resolutely asked to join the army to defend Shenyang and the factories on which they had paid countless efforts for their livelihood.

Of course, Zhang Xinghan knows that almost all of these workers from the factories of the military industrial system can shoot guns, and some of them are even far more familiar with firearms and weapons than active soldiers.

However, in order to plan for the future, Zhang Xinghan still personally came forward to persuade the workers to return to the factory and perform their duties, preparing to produce more guns and ammunition for the defenders, so as to directly support the hard fighting that followed.

By eight o'clock in the morning, Zhang Xinghan had recruited about 2,000 qualified recruits in Shenyang, half of whom were retired soldiers of the former Northeast Army, and the recruitment continued.

In order to deal with the possible attack of the Yue army, Zhang Xinghan gathered 2,000 recruits, more than 500 guards of the Guards Battalion, more than 1,600 students of the 11th Lecture Hall of the Lecture Hall who had withdrawn from the Dongda Camp into the city, as well as his subordinates of the 703rd Battalion, and the 3,000 military and police officers left by Huang Xiansheng.

At this time, together with the 2,000 newly recruited recruits and the more than 1,600 students of the Lecture Hall, the number of defenders in Shenyang reached nearly 8,000, not counting the armored company of the Seventh Brigade of Reading Li and Gao Zhihang's air force that had just entered the city.

After the troops were assembled, in order to unify the command, Zhang Xinghan announced that the 8,000 garrisons would be reorganized into three infantry regiments, a guard company directly under the city defense headquarters, a reconnaissance company, and an artillery battalion.

The three infantry regiments are all standard equipment of the 27th platoon of the 9th company of the 3rd battalion, but the number of people in each platoon is over-quoted, reaching about 60 or 50 people, which is comparable to a full squad of the Japanese army.

To sum up, each of the three regiments has about 2,000 people, and the first regiment is composed of Zhang Xinghan's 3rd Battalion as the backbone, supplemented by a group of newly recruited recruits and trainees of the Lecture Martial Arts Hall, and the regiment commander is Liu Jianguo, the former deputy commander of the 3rd Battalion.

The second regiment was formed by Zhang Xueliang's guard battalion and some military and police officers, supplemented by some Wutang students serving as grass-roots officers, and the regiment commander was Liu Guodong, commander of the first company of the 3rd battalion, and the deputy battalion commander of the former guard battalion, who was most qualified to serve as the commander of the second regiment, was transferred by Zhang Xinghan to his urban defense headquarters as an operational staff officer.

Mingsheng actually descended, in order to elevate him, so that he could completely master Zhang Xueliang's elite guard battalion.

The third regiment was formed by a large number of military police and newly recruited recruits left by the former Huang Xiansheng, and the head of the regiment was Wang Yicai, deputy director of the Fengtian Police Bureau.

As for the guard company, reconnaissance company, and artillery battalion directly under the headquarters, most of the members of these three units directly under the reading force are the current students of the Jiangwutang and the loyal veterans drawn from the 3rd battalion by Zhang Xinghan, as well as the artillery brought out from the Beida battalion.

The reason why they chose to use the trainees of the Jiangwutang to form a guard company and a reconnaissance company is because all of them can be regarded as elite men who are both civil and military; before entering the Jiangwutang for further study, many of them were outstanding officers and soldiers at the middle and grassroots levels of various units, and after studying and studying in the Jiangwutang for more than half a year.

They have greatly improved their tactical command ability and individual combat capability, and it is perfectly suitable for such people to be used to form guard companies and reconnaissance companies.

Of course, among these trainees, they had relatively large official positions before entering the school, and Zhang Xinghan sent them to each regiment as battalion and company commanders with special care, and did not stay in the above three directly subordinate units.

As a traverser, Zhang Xinghan knows that mastering an important surname of an elite lineage will be the last guarantee for his future life.

Therefore, Zhang Xinghan will not leave those people with higher military rank in the directly subordinate troops like the guard company under any circumstances, not to mention whether they are willing or not, even if they are willing to give in, Zhang Xinghan is still afraid that they will form a small group and form a faction and eventually make himself gradually lose the command of the reading force.

At this point, Zhang Xinghan basically took the defenders in the city completely into his own hands, and overnight, the defenders of Shenyang City completed the reorganization and were ready for a new battle.

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At the same time, the army was not idle.

First of all, the cavalry wing of the 2nd Division took advantage of the night to sneak attack and capture Xinmin Town, cutting off the last retreat of the defenders in Shenyang.

At the same time, under the strict orders of Seishiro Itagaki , the Japanese army, which had already succeeded in attacking the towns along the South Manchurian Railway, mobilized the main forces to assemble in the Shenyang area.

In order to strengthen the combat strength of the attack on Shenyang, Ishihara even suggested to his good friends to postpone the attack on Changchun, transfer back the imperial army that had entered the territory of Ji Province, and concentrate all his efforts on attacking Shenyang.

However, Itagaki Seishiro believed that the troops attacking Yoshitsu Province had already arrived at the city of Changchun, and that they would not be able to arrive at the time and a half of the time they returned, so he did not adopt Ishihara's suggestion.

Of course, the main reason is that Itagaki Seishiro thinks that he has enough troops in his hands to be fully qualified for the task of capturing Mukden, and there is no need to transfer troops into Ji Province, which will delay the original battle plan of the imperial army to capture Changchun.

To put it bluntly, it is not enough to swallow elephants with greed, and Itagaki Seishiro is eager to include the entire three eastern provinces into the territory of the Great Empire in one go.

By 9 o'clock in the morning, from Yingkou, the reinforcements of the Yue army from Siping had arrived one after another, and so far, the number of the Yue army gathered in the Sujiatun area had reached more than 9,000 people, and thousands of reinforcements were coming from the direction of Dalian.

Sujiatun said that the army was in the front command of the Kwantung Army.

Seishiro Itagaki and Ishihara Waner were worried about one thing, that is, they had just received a report from the reconnaissance unit, and the elite of the Northeast Army retreated from the Beida camp to Dongshanzuizi, and the 7th Brigade of Reading Force suddenly left Dongshanzuiko, and marched in the direction of Xinmin.

"Ishihara-kun, what do you think we should do? Whether to attack Wang Yizhe's Reading Force Seventh Brigade with all his strength or let them go and continue to attack Shenyang City. Itagaki Seishiro couldn't make up his mind for a while, and suddenly looked up and asked Ishihara Waner, who had been pondering for a long time.

Facing Itagaki Seishiro's gaze, Ishihara Waner groaned slightly, and said: "As far as I know, Zhang Xueliang has the grace of knowing Wang Yizhe, and it is impossible for Wang Yizhe not to obey Zhang Xueliang's retreat order, so that if we resolutely block Xinmin, then Wang Yizhe will have an excuse to start a war, and he will inevitably launch a fierce attack on Xinmin, in order to break through the encirclement of our army and retreat in the direction of Jinzhou."

You must know that Wang Yizhe's reading power of the seventh brigade is the trump card elite unit of the Northeast Army, with a large number of troops, if we send fewer troops, we may not be able to defeat it, if we attack with all our strength, then if the branch army in the city takes the opportunity to attack and attack our army on both sides with Wang Yizhe's department, the consequences will be unimaginable. ”

"What does Ishihara-kun mean?" Seishiro Itagaki asked uncertainly.

"Let Wang Yizhe evacuate smoothly and concentrate all his forces to capture Shenyang City." Ishihara Wan'er hit the nail on the head and said: "Wang Yizhe has no intention of resisting in his bones, he is bent on retreating, if we stop him, he will be desperate, if he is allowed to pass, Shenyang City will completely become a dead land, and it will become the bag of the imperial army." ”

"Yo Xi, just do as you say." Seishiro Itagaki nodded in realization.