Minamijiro nodded nondeniably, turned around and put on his shoes and clothes, and then followed Ishihara to the war room.

"How's Kawamoto's surprise attack going?" Entering the war room, Minamijiro stood in front of the map with one hand behind his back and stared at the map, and suddenly turned his head and asked.

Ishihara was about to answer, when a sudden sound of footsteps sounded outside the door.

Ishihara looked back and saw a communications staff officer hurriedly walking in with a telegram in his hand.

When he came to Nanjiro, the communications staff officer suddenly retracted his feet and said, "Report to Your Excellency Commander, I just received a farewell message from the Kawamoto Brigade. ”

"Read!" Nanjiro's pupils tightened.

"Our surprise attack on the airport was unfavorable, and then fell into the heavy encirclement of the Chinese army, after a bloody battle, heavy losses, armed breakthrough, Kawamoto Osa has committed suicide by seppuku, my special combat team officers and soldiers are also all jade for His Majesty the Emperor, the communication soldier Ono Yaji risked death at the last moment to send a message to say goodbye, long live His Majesty the Emperor, long live the Empire!" The communications staff officer said quickly.

After hearing this, Ishihara's face changed drastically, and he looked at Nanjiro, only to see that his face was becoming iron-blue, his fists clenched, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch.

"Yaga Yalu!" Nanjiro gritted his teeth and said: "All the soldiers of the Kawamoto Special Operations Team are excellent emperors, and Kawamoto Daisa is an excellent special operations commander of the empire, but I didn't expect all the members to be shattered like this." ”

Ishihara opened his mouth to say something, but in the end he didn't say it.

I saw Minamijiro take off his military hat and bow his head in silence.

After a long time, Nanjiro raised his head with a calm face, and said in a gloomy voice: "Ishihara-kun, pass on my order, immediately transfer the remnants of the 6th Division, and then transfer an infantry regiment from the direction of Niujiatun to reinforce Sujiatun, and cooperate with the 20th Division to attack at night, and be sure to take Sujiatun." ”

"General, please don't be impulsive, now that Kawamoto-kun's surprise attack has failed and failed to destroy the air base of the Shenyang Garrison Brigade, if we can't defeat the ground forces of the Garrison Brigade tonight, then it is pointless to continue to fight except for wasting troops." Ishihara hurriedly persuaded.

"Do you want the imperial army to sit back and watch the people turn Shenyang City into an empty city? Sit back and watch them retreat to Tongliao safely? Nanjiro looked at Ishihara in a cold tone.

"Of course not, Your Excellency General, since it is difficult to make progress in storming Shenyang, I think that we should divide our troops to bypass Shenyang and attack the retreating Chinese soldiers and civilians to prevent the Chinese from evacuating from Shenyang and wait for local reinforcements." Ishihara Wanerdo.

"Bypassing Shenyang? How easy is it to say? Minamijiro turned to look at the map and shook his head.

Ishihara Wan'er stepped forward and stared at the map, and suddenly his eyes lit up, and he pointed to the map and turned his head to Nanjiro and said, "General, since we can't capture Shenyang, then this place will definitely be able to be captured smoothly." ”

"Xinmin?" Minamijiro looked at Ishihara in slight surprise.

"Yes, from the very beginning, we didn't think much of the resistance in Shenyang City, so we let go of Wang Yizhe's Reading Force Seventh Brigade and gave up the strategic location of Xinmin City.

This was a dereliction of duty, because we overestimated the will to resist and combat effectiveness of the Chinese people, which led to the defeat of our Kwantung Army. ”

Before Ishihara finished speaking, Nanjiro nodded as if he had realized something: "Ishihara-kun, you are right, from the very beginning, our strategic thinking has fallen into a dead end, and the sense of honor of the emperor [***] people prompts us to impatiently want to defeat the garrison brigade that defeated Zhang Xinghan in a frontal offensive battle, take revenge with shame, and prove to the world that I say that this imperial army is invincible, but it also limits the flexibility of tactics." ”

After saying this, Nanjiro said again: "Ishihara-kun, send a telegram to the 2nd Division and the 20th Division, the surprise attack of the Kawamoto special combat team failed, the 2nd Division should adjust the main attack direction to Sujiatun, and the east bank of the South Canal can leave some flank troops to attract the defenders of China, and the 20th Division will immediately withdraw from the battle, bypass Shenyang, and advance to Xinmin City, and be sure to take Xinmin City before dawn." ”

"The general is wise, as long as we take Xinmin, we can attack Shenyang in a roundabout way by bypassing Sujiatun, or we can attack the retreating Chinese soldiers and civilians from Shenyang as the forward base and seize the initiative on the battlefield!" Ishihara hurriedly bowed his head and praised, and then rushed away with the order.

…………………… At Beiling Airport, Zhang Xinghan sat on a military truck smoking a cigarette and waited for his subordinates to clean up the battlefield and count the results.

"Brigade, how do you know that the devil will climb over the East Mountain and attack the airport?" Gao Zhihang looked at Zhang Xinghan puzzled and asked.

"I don't know where the devils are going to attack the airfield, but my gut tells me that the airfield is dangerous." Zhang Xing smoked a cigarette and said indifferently.

"Oh." Gao Zhihang nodded as if he didn't understand.

"Brigade seat, the statistics have come out, a total of 318 people, except for one who committed suicide, the rest were all annihilated by us, and we suffered more than 50 casualties." Shen Xingye and Liu Cuigang walked together, and said excitedly.

"How many MG34 general-purpose machine guns are there?" Zhang Xinghan asked subconsciously.

"Five." Shen Xingye replied.

"Where's the Garand rifle?"

"Fifty strokes, and more than 100 flower traps."

Zhang Xinghan frowned and said, "These quantities are worse than the number lost by a regiment in the Battle of the East Tower." ”

"Could it be that I lost it, or that it was damaged?" Gao Zhihang didn't know why.

Zhang Xinghan shook his head and said: "No, since they can equip so much, it means that the number of their seizures must be more than that, what I am worried about now is that after I discovered the advanced weapons and equipment, I will use the captured weapons as specimens to carry out research, so that it will inevitably stimulate the development of the military industrial enterprises across the surname, which is not a good thing for us in China and even for the world." ”

"Forget it, don't worry about these for the time being, Brother Ziheng, you take someone to deal with the aftermath, and I'll go back to Shenyang to command the overall situation first." Zhang Xinghan cleaned up his mood and jumped off the truck to Gao Zhi Channel.

"Hmm." Gao Zhihang nodded solemnly in agreement.

…………………… When Zhang Xinghan and Shen Xingye led a company of guards back to the brigade headquarters, Liu Guodong, the commander of the second regiment, had been waiting in the war room for a long time.

"Brigade, the airport is not a big loss, right?" As soon as he saw Zhang Xinghan, Liu Guodong hurriedly saluted and asked.

"There was no loss of airport facilities, but dozens of brothers were sacrificed, but fortunately, the little devils who came to sneak attack have been wiped out by us." After Zhang Xinghan finished speaking, he asked, "How is it, how is the defense line of the South Canal?" ”

"After those puppet troops suffered losses, they didn't attack again, and everything was fine on the eastern defense line of the city." Liu Guodong replied.

"What about the direction of Sujiatun?"

"I heard that the founding of the country won another battle and killed no less than 2,000 puppet troops. The devil was unwilling to be defeated, attacked again, and was defeated by a mass of gasoline fuel bombs and poison gas bombs. Liu Guodong replied.

"Well, then I'll rest assured, tell all regiments, battalions, and companies to be vigilant, don't give Kou a chance, persistence is victory." Zhang Xinghan nodded reassuringly.

"Yes!" Liu Guodong hurriedly stepped forward and responded.

………………………… The 2nd Division took advantage of the smooth movement of the night to Sujiatun and took over the heavy task of attacking Sujiatun from the 20th Division.

The commander of the Second Division, Duomen Erlang, left Liao Bichen's regiment in Niujiatun as a suspicious soldier, and Tian Desheng's regiment and Cao Bingsen's cavalry regiment were all transferred to Sujiatun by him.

In order to cover the 20th Division's attack on Xinmin, Duomen Erlang, an old devil, was very cunning and ordered the artillery wing to shell Sujiatun, but did not send infantry to attack.

Instead, they secretly took the opportunity to repair defensive positions and fortifications, especially anti-aircraft bunkers.

Obviously, after suffering a big loss from the garrison brigade air force, Jiro Tamen already had obvious vigilance, and he was prepared to deal with it in advance.

After being continuously shelled, Liu Jianguo quickly ordered the artillery battalion to return fire.

The two sides went back and forth in intermittent artillery battles, but because there were no detailed and precise targets, the artillery bombardments on both sides did not achieve much effect.

In the early hours of the morning, both sides stopped shelling one after another, and entered a temporary truce.

Xinmin City, fifty kilometers south of the Shenyang Battlefield City, was quiet at this time, because the weather was too cold.

The sentries who were supposed to patrol back and forth at the top of the city took refuge in the city gate tower to keep warm.

At about four o'clock in the morning, an assault detachment of the 20th Division, consisting of a fully reinforced infantry brigade and a cavalry wing, quietly arrived on the outskirts of Xinmin.

After some preparations, more than a dozen 60 mortars carried by the Yue army suddenly began shelling Xinmin City.

The sudden sound of artillery and explosions woke up the sleeping soldiers and civilians of the new people.

The soldiers of the Northeast Army in the city gate tower were awakened one after another, but before they could run out with guns to investigate, the city gate tower was hit by the devil's grenade.

Under the impact of the huge explosion, the city gate tower collapsed and turned into a ruin, and dozens of sentry guards inside also died.

After a burst of fire, hundreds of devils charged Xinmin City with rifles.

The cavalry wing also quickly circled to the other directions of Xinmin City and launched a feint attack in order to prepare for the infantry siege.

Because the guards in the east of the city were attacked by the devil's artillery fire, the crowd of infantry who launched a fierce attack from the northeast quickly crossed the moat and rushed to the city gate.

After blasting the east gate open with explosives packs, hundreds of soldiers swarmed through the city gate like a tide.

collided head-on with the 619th Regiment of the Seventh Brigade of Reading Power in the city, and the two sides immediately launched a fierce exchange of fire at the east city gate.

As the fierce battle progressed, the Northeast Army, which had rushed to the battle, suffered heavy casualties, and it was seen that the eastern part of the city was about to be broken through by the Japanese army.

At this moment, a dense burst of gunfire and the deafening roar of horses' hooves suddenly sounded outside the East City Gate.

Outside the city gate, the Japanese army that was attacking frantically was caught off guard and fell down one after another.

A devil Shaozo, who was in charge of commanding the attack, looked back, only to see countless cavalry of the Northeast Army suddenly killing like ghosts in the dark night, and after a round of shooting, I saw that they had drawn their sharp sabers and rushed towards their side.

The devil Shaozuo was shocked when he saw this, and hurriedly mobilized his troops to try to resist.

But it was too late, a large group of cavalry of the Northeast Army swept away in an instant, and a one-sided massacre unfolded immediately.

(To be continued)