Toranosuke Hashimoto nodded silently, saluted, and was ordered to turn around and leave.

……………… Tieling City, the headquarters of the Northeast New Army.

Jiang Baili said to Zhang Xinghan: "Commander, Li Zhenyuan has led his troops to Liaoyang City, and launched an attack according to the plan, according to the report of the air force reconnaissance plane, Liaozhong, Anshan, Benxi and other places have already driven out of the city, and are rushing towards Liaoyang for reinforcements. ”

"What about the army in the direction of the lighthouse and Sujiatun?" Zhang Xinghan asked sideways.

Jiang Baili shook his head lightly: "Don't move." ”

"It seems that the little devil has learned well." Zhang Xinghan said angrily: "Since the little devil refuses to come out, then call Li Zhenyuan and ask him to make a big deal for me, and before the devil reinforcements arrive, knock down the little devil in Liaoyang, and then immediately go south and march to Yingkou Dalian, as for the devil reinforcements in Anshan, they will defeat him!" ”

"Yes!" Jiang Baili saluted and left.

…………………… In Liaoyang City, four tank regiments, under the command of Li Zhenyuan, had been shelling the western gate of Liaoyang and the city head for no less than half an hour.

Ichiro Izumi's garrison squadron has been killed and wounded, but reinforcements from the city have also arrived under the leadership of Commander Kuizumi Daisa.

Compared with Ichiro Linquan, the old devil of Jiuquan Dazuo is much more flexible and changeable, and he did not continue to use his limited forces as cannon fodder in the city.

Instead, they were all deployed in the houses on both sides of the streets in the West Gate City, preparing to fight street battles with the Northeast New Army outside the city to delay time and wait for reinforcements to arrive.

Outside the city, more than 1,000 officers and men of the two infantry battalions had all disembarked and were ready for battle, with mortars, infantry guns, and general-purpose machine guns with tripods for use as heavy machine guns.

Just wait for Li Zhenyuan to give an order, and then he can launch a charge attack on Liaoyang City, where the smoke of gunpowder is billowing out.

Next to an armored car, Li Zhenyuan, surrounded by two guards, was holding a telescope and looking at the head of Liaoyang City.

At this time, a communications soldier pushed the door out of another armored car and rushed towards Li Zhenyuan.

When he came to the front, the signal soldier stood up and saluted: "Commander, the commander-in-chief is calling." ”

"Read!" Li Zhenyuan put down the binoculars and ordered.

"The headquarters telegraphed that Liaozhong, Anshan, and Haicheng have been dispatched to attack the army, and it is expected that they can arrive one after another in an hour, and after your department attacks Liaoyang as appropriate, you can leave Liaoyang before the enemy reinforcements arrive, go south to Yingkou, and defeat the enemy reinforcements in Anshan." The Signal Soldier read.

"Got it, call back to the headquarters, please rest assured that Zhenyuan has resolutely carried out the orders of the headquarters." Li Zhenyuan handed the binoculars to the guards and said.

"Yes," the signal soldier saluted, turning to leave.

After the signal soldiers left, Li Zhenyuan said to one of the guards: "Order the troops, stop the shelling, and prepare to transfer." ”

The guards complied with the promise and took the order.

Soon, all the infantry were on board, all the artillery was re-attached to the back of the trucks and armored vehicles, and the last four tank regiments swaggered and slowly evacuated Liaoyang.

It wasn't until Li Zhenyuan led the troops completely away that the army in the city dared to climb to the top of the city.

"Linquan-kun, are you alright?" At the head of the city, Jiuquan Dazuo looked at Ichiro Linquan, whose arm was wrapped in gauze and couldn't stop bleeding, and asked with concern.

"Back to the sir, it's okay to be humble, and the branch army has withdrawn like this?" Ichiro Linquan was flattered, and looked at the empty road outside the city with a confused face.

"I don't know, immediately send cavalry scouts to secretly reconnoiter the movements of the Chinese people, and at the same time inform the reinforcements of this information and remind them to be careful." Jiuquan Dazuo Road.

…………………… On the railway from Anshan to Liaoyang, several ironclad trains are rumbling forward, and on both sides of the railway, a large number of devil infantry are also moving forward on foot.

This is the devil reinforcement army in Anshan, with a total of 2,000 troops, almost pouring out.

Due to the lack of sufficient train wagons, most of the two thousand devils marched along the railway on foot, except for some of them on ironclad trains.

The ironclad locomotive, armed with heavy artillery and machine guns, opened the way, and they followed.

Of course, in order to ensure that they did not get too far out of touch with their brigade of infantry, the devil's ironclad train was not fast.

The commander of this unit is the garrison commander of the army stationed in Anshan, Masato Ikui, and at this moment, Masato Ikui, an old devil, is sitting on the ironclad train with his eyes closed.

Suddenly, a communications soldier reported to him with a telegram in his hand: "Your Excellency Dazuo, Liaoyang is in an emergency. ”

"Oh? How's the situation in Liaoyang? Hearing this, Masato Ikui asked.

"The Chinese army attacking Liaoyang has been evacuated and its whereabouts are unknown, and Jiuquan Dazuo reminds us to pay close attention in case of accidents." The communications soldier replied.

"The Chinese army has already evacuated Liaoyang?" Hearing this, Masato Ikui groaned for a while, and said: "Since the people of Zhina have been evacuated, then it is meaningless for us to go to Liaoyang again, order, the rear team of the army will be changed to the front team, and it will be Anshan." ”

"Hay." The Messenger bowed his head abruptly and turned to leave.

Not long after, the ironclad train that was rumbling forward let out a piercing brake sound, and the group of devil infantry following behind the ironclad train also stopped advancing.

They turned around and went back the way they came.

The ironclad train also started again, and the front of the locomotive spewed out puffs of white steam and started slowly.

At this moment, Li Zhenyuan led a tank regiment to arrive first, and the two No. 4 tanks led by him fired in vain at the devil's ironclad train that had turned around from a distance of 1,000 kilometers.

"Boom...... Boom" two loud bangs, two high-explosive bombs accurately hit the front of the ironclad train, the flames immediately swallowed it, and several devil drivers in the front of the train were shocked to death on the spot.

The entire ironclad train shook violently, and Ikui Masato, who was sitting in the back, was almost shaken off his seat, and stood up in a panic, Ikui Masato was shocked, holding the carriage of the ironclad train with one hand, and pressing his adjutant knife with the other, and asked urgently: "Yaga, what happened?" ”

At this time, the devil machine gunner outside had already discovered the anomaly, and responded in horror with a raised voice: "The Chinese army is the tank group of the Chinese people." ”

Masato Ikui came to the window of the car in a panic, stretched out his head and looked out, only to see a large number of Chinese tanks appear behind the front of the car at some point.

They were rumbling towards them, and the barrels of the tank's guns were constantly adjusting to aim at them.

Ikai Masato's pupils suddenly dilated, and he yelled angrily: "Yagaya Road, abandon the car immediately!" Hurry up and drop! ”

After speaking, Masato Ikui jumped out of the window with his dexterity.

Almost at the same time as he jumped out of the window to escape, dozens of anti-aircraft shells had already flown in with dazzling flames, and smashed into the front and carriage of the ironclad train, causing a violent explosion.

The violent explosion of "Boom Boom Boom ......" shook the heavens and the earth, and the dazzling fire directly wrapped the ironclad train in it, and the huge explosion shock wave overturned the ironclad train directly out of the tracks.

Nearly 100 devil machine gunners, gunners, and guards and communications personnel in the car were all killed on the spot.

Masato Ikui, who jumped out of the window to escape, was not very lucky, he jumped out of the window, and hit a sharp rock corner, and his head was hit on the spot and the blood flowed nonstop, and the red and white mixture flowed out with the blood uncontrollably.

The shrapnel from the explosion blew his back into a bloody blur, and the old devil died on the spot before he could scream.

Suddenly attacked, the infantry of the devil brigade scattered in a panic, lay on the ground, set up machine guns, raised rifles and began to shoot.

However, these bullets were not enough to pose any threat to the rumbling Tank Four.

The devil's ironclad train was killed, and at such a close distance, their infantry, who lacked anti-tank weapons, would inevitably become meat on the chopping block if nothing happened, and there would only be one end, to be slaughtered.

However, at this moment, a large number of military planes suddenly appeared in the sky.

Li Zhenyuan was surprised, and hurriedly ordered the tank troops to stop the attack and quickly disperse to dodge.

At the same time, he urgently sent a telegram to Zhang Xinghan requesting air force support.

The devils dispatched more than 20 planes this time, more than 10 fighters, and the rest were all bombers.

When the Northeast New Army tank and combat vehicle group on the ground was discovered, they immediately dived down, and all kinds of machine guns and course machine guns opened fire one after another.

Bombers also began to drop bombs one after another.

For a time, the entire railway line was full of fires, thick smoke and violent explosions resounded in the sky.

In the thick smoke, Li Zhenyuan was leading the tank unit to quickly withdraw, and at the same time, the vehicle-mounted general-purpose machine gun was also swooping into the air at a certain angle to carry out a fire counterattack, and the antiaircraft machine guns and antiaircraft guns equipped with the armored vehicles were even more fiercely opened fire to defend the air with all their might.

The heavy armor of the No. 4 tank could not be penetrated by the machine guns and machine gun shells of the devils alone, and the only threat was the aerial bombs dropped by several bombers of the devils.

However, the military did not have dive bombers, and its bombers all dropped bombs in free fall, and there was no comparable surname with the dive bombers of the Northeast New Army.

Therefore, as long as the tanks of the No. 4 Tank Group were not extremely unlucky and were directly hit by the aerial bombs, they were generally unscathed and quickly shuttled and dodged in the smoke and fire.

"Commander, the Air Force won't be able to catch up for a while, so it's not a way for us to dodge like this." The anxious voice of the commander of a tank regiment sounded over the intercom.

"Lao Liu, do you have any good ideas?" Li Zhenyuan asked calmly with a walkie-talkie.

There was silence on the walkie-talkie for a while, and the voice of the regiment commander came again: "Commander, if you don't do anything, let's attack the devil's ground forces directly, as long as we are strangled with the devil's infantry, the devil's plane will be a mouse, and it will be difficult to threaten us." ”

When Li Zhenyuan heard this, his eyes suddenly lit up, "Yes, why didn't I remember it?" I was thinking about how to dodge the air attacks of the devils and reduce losses, but I forgot what the commander often told us, that the best defense is to attack. ”

Li Zhenyuan paused, and immediately ordered aloud into the walkie-talkie: "Now I order, all regiments, battalions and companies immediately turn around, and launch a surprise attack on the devil infantry in three ways, remember to pay attention to scattering, don't drive in groups!" ”

"Received... Received ......" response came from the walkie-talkie.

Immediately, tanks and armored vehicles turned around with a bang, and the rear of the vehicles spewed green smoke and rushed towards the devil infantry who were preparing to evacuate.

(To be continued)