After eliminating the Japanese puppet army in Liaoyang, Liu Yimin received a secret telegram from Zhao Yonggang, and learned that Duan Lang had succeeded in sniping the commander of the Kwantung Army, Umezu Mijiro, and the chief of staff, Yoshimoto Sadachi, laughed excitedly, stood by the Taizi River, pointed in the direction of Shenyang, and shouted at Qian Zhuangfei, Gao Yuan, Cheng Cuilin and others who were around him: "Zhao Yonggang and Duan Lang have made great contributions!" Umezu Mijiro is dead, Yoshimoto Sadachi is dead, and the Kwantung Army is now leaderless and chaotic. The whole army has it, enter Fengtian City and destroy the little devils! Come on! ”

The commander of the Kwantung Army, the chief of staff died, what does this mean?

The 1st Column and 2nd Brigade left one regiment to be stationed in Liaoyang City, and the other troops all moved with Liu Yimin's roar. This time, Gao Yuan changed his tactics and did not let the armored brigade open the way, and let the fast armored vehicles and cars of the first and second brigades in front of them, driving at full speed, and rushing away along the road like crazy!

Dahean is a big market town that connects Shenyang, Liaoyang, Benxi three places to rush, it was very lively in the past, since the Japanese army carried out the Datun plan, the prosperous market town has become a walled tribe, the villagers go out to string relatives have to report to the village chief, the pseudo "police" inspector, come to a relative and have to register, make the huge market town lifeless. At this time, the weather is still relatively cold. There was no work to do in the fields, and in the afternoon, every family was at home early, and there was not a single figure on the street.

When the Sato Wing of the 52nd Division of the Japanese Army, which had been transferred from Shenyang to Liaoyang, arrived at the south of the river, it seemed to hear the sound of continuous and fierce gunfire faintly coming from the direction of Liaoyang from a distance. Wing Commander Osato Sato immediately ordered the troops to stop advancing. Send a squadron in a car to search and find out what exactly happened.

Before the search squadron had run 10 kilometers, the gunfire in the direction of Liaoyang gradually stopped, and Sato Osa was full of suspicion and began to contact the defenders of Liaoyang on the radio, asking what was going on with the fierce gunfire just now.

The Fifth Brigade of the First Independent Garrison of the Liaoyang Defenders did not call back, and Sato Daisa lowered his identity and sent a telegram to the Puppet Manchurian Mukden Regional Garrison Command to form the Sixth Brigade and Regiment independently. I asked them to report the situation quickly, but there was no call back.

At this time, Sato Osa received an order to stop the advance and return to Shenyang to cooperate with the Eighth Route Army, which was attacking and occupying the railway station.

Sato Osa felt strange that everything was normal on the South Manchurian Railway. The train is running, standing on the highway through the telescope, you can see the sun flag fluttering on the gun tower of the stronghold of the railway garrison and the sentries standing guard, how can the Shenyang railway station be attacked and occupied by the Eighth Route Army?

The squadron sent to search and reconnoiter had not yet returned, and Sato Osa decisively decided to turn around and prepare to return to Mukden. Perform the task of flanking the Eighth Route Army at the railway station.

Sato Daisa sent a telegram to the search squadron, ordering them to report immediately after learning about the situation in the direction of Liaoyang and quickly return to rendezvous with the main forces.

There was chaos on the highway because the Sato team was all in a car. It was necessary to make a U-turn, and the drivers were busy reversing one by one. The horns sounded one after another.

Here, the Sato Wing was reversing and making a U-turn, and the 1st, 3rd, and 4th Brigades of the 1st Independent Garrison of the Japanese Army, which had rushed from Shenyang, Liaozhong, and Benxi to reinforce Liaoyang, and the mixed 4th and 5th Brigades of the Puppet Manchurian Fengtian Regional Garrison Command, had arrived. Several troops were mixed together and chaotic.

As soon as they saw that the Sato Wing was going to turn around and return to Shenyang, the several troops who had just arrived here were confused, and they all panicked and reported to their respective headquarters. As a result, the orders received were contradictory, the 1st Independent Garrison ordered the troops to be transferred back to Shenyang, and the Puppet Manchurian Fengtian Regional Garrison Command ordered the troops to go to Liaoyang to reinforce them, and several troops became entangled on the long road.

At this time, the shadow of the search squadron heading to the direction of Liaoyang appeared in Sato Daisa's telescope, and at first it was like a small black dot, but slowly the black dots gradually became larger, and the number could be seen clearly. Sato Daisa realized that something was wrong, when he went there were five three-wheeled motorcycles, two armored cars, and six cars, and when he came back, the motorcycles were gone, and there were three fewer cars, leaving only two armored cars and three cars.

As if to call the police, the car horn of the devil search squadron has been honking wildly, and it is heard from a distance, like a low whistle.

Sato Osa was stunned, what's going on?

When Sato Osa raised the binoculars again, he found a large convoy on the road, speeding from south to north, and the long line was full of armored vehicles, so many that the tail could not be seen at all.

Sato Osa didn't know that behind the armored car was a car, and behind the car was a tank, and the size of this convoy could scare him to death!

Sato Daisa immediately understood what was going on with the dense gunfire from the direction of Liaoyang that he had just heard, and quickly ordered the convoy to retreat, and ordered the mixed fourth and fifth brigades of the puppet Manchurian army to deploy on the spot, build a front-line position on both sides of the road, and rely on Dahenancun and the south bank of the Shahe tributary to block the Eighth Route Army and cover the retreat of the convoy. The 1st, 3rd, and 4th Brigades of the 1st Independent Garrison were ordered to retreat across this Shahe tributary and build a second line of defense on the north bank of the Shahe tributary.

Sato Daisa's order was conveyed in a timely manner, and the Japanese puppet army was indeed well-trained, and as soon as the order was received, the team that was originally chaotic on the highway began to evacuate urgently to make way for the convoy of the Sato Wing. Moreover, the puppet Manchu army, which had never fought with the Eighth Route Army and did not know how to write the word "afraid", was mixed into the 4th and 5th brigades, and under the orders of the Japanese instructor, they quickly deployed their troops and began to set up mortars and machine guns to prepare for blocking.

By the time the convoy of the Little Devil Search Squadron came to the front, the convoy of the Sato Wing on the highway had basically completed its turn and began to retreat.

It should be said that Sato Daisa's order is correct, if the Japanese puppet army is gathered on the highway in a chaotic manner, then there is no need to fight, when the tanks and armored vehicles of the Eighth Route Army rush up, the Japanese puppet army will become a rout, and will be chased and beaten by the Eighth Route Army. As it is now, let the puppet Manchurian army deploy on the spot and block the Eighth Route Army, so that the Japanese army can quickly deploy positions in the rear.

After Sato Dazuo finished his deployment, he hurriedly sent a telegram to Lieutenant General Kusaba Tatsumi, commander of the 52nd Division, reporting that a large-scale convoy of the Eighth Route Army had been discovered in the Dahean area at the junction of Liaoyang and Mukden areas, and that he had ordered the Mukden Garrison Command of the Manchurian Defense Army, which had rushed here, to mix the fourth and fifth brigades to block on the spot, and ordered the first, third, and fourth brigades of the independent first garrison to set up a second-line blocking position, and asked whether the Sato Wing would return to Shenyang to flank and attack the Eighth Route Army that occupied the Shenyang railway station, or whether to engage in battle on the spot. Block the convoy of the Eighth Route Army rushing towards Shenyang.

The 52nd Division had a tank brigade consisting of two tank squadrons and an armored vehicle squadron, with a total of 24 tanks, 12 armored vehicles and two Type 97 command tanks, which also rushed to Liaoyang with Sato's squadron. The armored vehicle used by the search squadron just now belonged to this tank brigade. It's just that the speed of the tank is a little slower, walking behind the Sato Wing, and when the Sato Wing turned around just now, the tank brigade of the 52nd Division made a U-turn first to make way for the convoy.

Because Sato Osa had this chariot brigade in his hand, he felt that he could sacrifice a killer weapon at any time and launch a counterattack under the cover of the chariot brigade. Therefore, in his heart, he hoped that His Excellency the division commander would order him to command the blockade on the spot. Also because of the existence of this tank brigade, Sato Osa did not give the order to blow up the highway bridge over the river.

Without waiting for Lieutenant General Kusaba Tatsumi to call back, the convoy of the Eighth Route Army caught up, starting with the armored car formation of the 1st Column, 1st Brigade and 2nd Regiment.

Liu Yimin's armored vehicles were all equipped in the first regiment and the second regiment of the first column and one brigade, and now the first regiment has entered Shenyang by train, and all the armored vehicles have been left to the second regiment, and the armored convoy of the second regiment is a little larger.

Sun Manxi, commander of the 1st Column, 1st Brigade and 2nd Regiment, and Wang Chijun, political commissar, had discovered that a large number of Japanese puppet troops had gathered in the southern part of the river, and reported to the plateau through the vehicle-mounted radio. Then he commanded the armored convoy and automobile team of the second regiment to catch up.

Sun Manxi shouted loudly through the car radio: "I am Sun Manxi, all of them, they all heard it clearly for Lao Tzu, pounced on it, tore the little devil apart with a machine gun, and played the majesty of the second regiment!" ”

The second regiment is naturally the main force of the top quack, but because there is a regiment, the second regiment always seems to be suppressed, and now there is a rare opportunity for the second regiment to show its talents, Sun Manxi is naturally able to roar!

The army is like this, and the spirit of competition is strong! Then again, if you don't have a competitive heart, you're in trouble, then it's not the main force, it's a monk who recites scriptures!

After the armored convoy of the 2nd Regiment rushed up, it actually divided into three roads, all the way to an arrow, and rushed along the road, needless to say to seize the highway bridge; The other two roads left the road, one left and one right, forming a battle formation, and the vehicle-mounted machine guns on the vehicles opened heavy fire, splashing ammunition towards the hastily formed skirmish line of the puppet Manchu army.

When the follow-up car team caught up, the 92 infantry guns mounted on the car joined the battle and fired fiercely at the puppet army's defense line, and the infantry on the car also jumped out of the car, with the fire of the armored car and the car, like the puppet Manchu army launched a fierce attack.

The 1st Column and 3rd Brigade followed Ye Ting and Yang Jingyu to advance to the Tongliao area, the 1st Brigade Regiment went to Shenyang by train, and the 2nd Brigade left another regiment to occupy Liaoyang, and the Artillery Regiment was far from catching up with the cavalry brigade, artillery brigade, and air defense brigade units together with the baggage regiment, and the main force led by Liu Yimin now actually only had two armored regiments of the 1st Column Armored Brigade, the 1st Column Engineer Regiment, the 2nd Regiment of the 1st Brigade, the 3rd Regiment and the 4th and 5th Regiments of the 2nd Brigade, the heavy machine gun regiment of the heavy machine gun brigade, and a vehicle-mounted rocket artillery regiment of the artillery column. Heavy firepower relied on vehicle-mounted Type 92 infantry guns, rocket artillery regiments and armored brigades.