Lishu County is less than 30 miles away from Siping, because all my troops are deployed in the towns of the Nanban Railway Line, and now it is under the control of the puppet army of Manchukuo, and there are about 300 puppet troops stationed here.

The night is like ink, and I can't see my fingers.

Hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles marched forward in the night, and it took less than an hour to arrive at the southern outskirts of Lishu County from Siping.

In order to avoid startling the snakes, Zhang Xinghan ordered all tanks and armored vehicles to turn off their lights and move slowly, and detour from the area of Sikeshu and Baishan to the west of Lishu County.

Arrived at Princess Ridge three hours later.

Gongzhuling is also called Princess Mausoleum, which is the tomb of the third daughter of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty and Princess Jinggulun.

Because it is located in the middle of Changchun and Siping, the army still left a considerable number of troops to garrison here.

In addition to a wing of the Yue Army, there were thousands of puppet troops, distributed in large and small pillbox machine gun fire points near the Gongzhuling Station.

The main forces of this wing were deployed on the north and south banks of the East Liaohe Railway Bridge south of Gongzhuling, because this railway bridge was directly related to the smooth flow of the South Manchurian Railway.

It is an extremely important strategic location.

Zhang Xinghan led his troops to detour from Lishu County, and if he wanted to break through Gongzhuling, the railway bridge between Caijia Town and Nanweizi Town became the only way.

In order not to damage the railway bridge, ensure the smooth passage of your own armored forces.

After discussing with Li Zhenyuan, Zhang Xinghan and Li Zhenyuan decided to use the antiaircraft machine guns and 88mm anti-aircraft guns carried by the armored vehicles of the air defense regiment as fire cover to mobilize infantry to seize the Dongliao River railway bridge.

To this end, the air defense regiment dispatched more than 20 armored vehicles, 10 88 antiaircraft guns, and 20 antiaircraft machine guns to take the lead in launching a rapid fire attack on the pillbox group of the Yue army guarding the south bank.

The rapid firepower of the 88mmg anti-aircraft gun suddenly hit the devil's bunker, and the fire was ignited in all directions, and the earth and rocks were splashed.

Although the high-explosive shells of the 88 anti-aircraft guns could not directly destroy the bunkers of the devils, the continuous bombardment and explosions shook most of the devils inside to death.

Some of the raging shrapnel penetrated through the shooting holes, causing serious casualties to the devils.

Niu Erzhu, who had been promoted to the commander of the 1st Mobu Regiment, personally led two companies of infantry to take advantage of the situation to launch a charge against the Devil's Bunker firepower group.

The armored vehicles of the new army continued to suppress the pillbox group of the devils with intensive firepower, and some armored soldiers even drove the armored vehicles directly in front of the devil's tank, blocking the rain of machine gun bullets that were desperately shooting with heavy armor.

Taking advantage of the situation, the infantry of the motorized infantry regiment rushed forward, pulled grenades and threw them through the firing holes on both sides.

There was a "boom" explosion, the fire flashed, and all the devils in the bunker were killed.

With this style of play, the Mobu group quickly cleared the devils on the south bank.

Immediately, five armored vehicles were used as the front to attack the north bank.

The army on the north bank had already been alarmed by the battle on the south bank, and the large and small machine gun bunkers on both sides of the railway opened fire one after another, and dazzling tongues of fire shot out, which was particularly dazzling in the dark night.

The defensive armor of the two armored vehicles at the front was hit by a continuous burst of bullets, making a series of clanging crunches and sparks flying everywhere.

"Rush!" A second lieutenant of the new army held a machine gun and roared angrily, and the machine gun in his hand did not forget to fire a burst of fire.

Hundreds of Forces nouvelles infantry kept moving forward behind the armored vehicles.

In order to block the continuous approach of the New Army armored vehicles, the devils on the north bank began to send death squads to rush out of the fortifications with explosives bags and rush towards the New Army armored vehicles along the railroad tracks.

The machine gunners on the two armored vehicles quickly spotted it and immediately turned their guns and began to fire at the fast-moving devil soldiers.

The devil soldiers dodged left and right, and although they were experienced and obviously well-trained veterans, the dense rain of bullets composed of the terrifying rate of fire of the four anti-aircraft machine guns still knocked them to the ground one by one.

Some of the bullets even hit the explosive bag in the devil's arms, and suddenly there was a violent explosion, and after the fire flashed, several ghost soldiers were instantly blown to pieces.

"Rush!" The new officers and soldiers roared angrily and took advantage of the situation to attack, and the five armored vehicles also accelerated in vain, and soon roared in front of several fire bunkers of the devils.

Those who followed rushed up from both sides of the armored car, and used grenades to clear the devils trapped inside one by one.

The whole battle took less than half an hour, and the first motorized infantry regiment captured the railway bridge over the Dongliao River under the cover of the air defense regiment, and the armored brigade immediately took the lead in crossing the river and advanced along the railway towards Gongzhuling.

The main force of the 1st Mobu Division followed to cross the river.

The news of the sudden attack on the railway bridge in Gongzhulingnan was quickly reported to Muto Nobuyoshi.

Muto Nobuyoshi was shocked, and hurriedly ordered the main force of the 14th Division, which had just left for Siping, to return to Gongzhuling.

However, it was too late, and by the time Muto Nobuyoshi's order was issued, Zhang Xinghan had already commanded his troops to cross the South Manchurian Railway through Gongzhuling and advance eastward towards Jilin.

Therefore, when the main force of the 14th Division hurriedly returned from Siping to Gongzhuling, Zhang Xinghan's assault force was nowhere to be seen.

The news returned to the Kwantung Army Command.

Muto Nobuyoshi frowned and said to the chief of staff, Hashimoto Toranosuke: "Hashimoto-kun, the people of China did not attack Gongzhuling, it seems that their goal is Changchun, what do they want to do?" ”

Hashimoto Toranosuke looked at the map, shook his head again, and said: "Zhang Xinghan is a guy who doesn't play cards according to common sense, and he can't predict it. ”

At this moment, a communications staff officer walked in with a telegram in his hand, suddenly closed his feet and saluted: "General, the 2nd Division has called, the Tongliao Army of South Road China has entered Zhangwu County, and its cavalry troops have bypassed the Xinmin defense line of the Imperial Army and are attacking the Shenyang-Tieling section of the South Manchurian Railway, and the 2nd Division and the 6th Division are expelling with all their might. ”

Muto Nobuyoshi suddenly had a sense of helplessness from exhaustion, what kind of person is Zhang Xinghan, since Shenyang was born, he has caused heavy losses to the imperial army one after another, and this person has almost become the nemesis of the imperial army of the Great Empire.

Counting him Muto Nobuyoshi, the Kwantung Army is already the commander of the three changes.

After taking a few deep breaths, Muto Nobuyoshi said: "Order the 6th and 2nd Divisions to stick to the Xinmin defense line and ensure the smooth flow of the Shenyang section of the South Manchurian Railway!" ”

"Hay!" The communications staff officer bowed his head abruptly, and then turned around and strode away.

"General, what about the direction of Changchun?" Toranosuke Hashimoto asked.

"Order Changchun, Siping and all departments to immediately send cavalry reconnaissance troops to detect the traces of the Zhina Army attacking the railway bridge on the East Liao River." Muto Nobuyoshi said.

"Hay."

………………………… Zhang Xinghan led his troops from Gongzhuling interspersed, and then through Shuangyang, Yongji rushed into the south of Jilin.

Jilin is located in the middle of Jilin Province, the Songhua River flows through the whole Jilin City, Jilin City is surrounded by mountains on all sides, bad water on three sides, it is a dangerous place, if there are sufficient troops to garrison, it is not so easy for any enemy to capture it.

However, due to the urgency of Siping, Muto Nobuyoshi transferred all the tens of thousands of puppet Manchurian [***] originally deployed near Jilin to Siping.

The main force of the army was also dominated by the South Manchurian Railway, and at this time Jilin was garrisoned by less than 10,000 puppet troops, and the troops were extremely weak.

Zhang Xinghan attacked with powerful assault firepower and took Yongji County, known as the southern gate of Jilin.

Jilin has opened the door, the news has reached Jilin, Pu Yi, who has just become the head of state and is still dreaming of re-ascending the throne, and other Manchu remnants are in a big turmoil.

Pu Yi packed up overnight and wanted to flee Jilin, but Kenji Dohihara, the head of the Kwantung Army's secret service agency who was ordered to monitor Pu Yi, stopped him on the spot.

"As the ruler of the puppet state of Manchukuo, how can your excellency easily abandon the capital of your country and flee in a hurry? In that case, how will you serve the people in the future? ”

"However, Mr. Tu Feiyuan's rebel army is menacing, and Jilin City is empty, I'm afraid it will be difficult to hold on!" Pu Yi said with an embarrassed face.

"Your Excellency, don't panic, I will send a telegram to the Kwantung Army Headquarters to ask for reinforcements, the Imperial Army will not sit idly by and watch the rebels capture the capital of your country." Kenji Dochihara.

"So good, so good." Pu Yi nodded again and again in shock.

…………………… It was just dawn, and Muto Nobuyoshi had just fallen asleep before he was awakened by a quick knock on the door.

"Your Excellency General, Your Excellency General, it's not good!" An anxious voice from Toranosuke Hashimoto came from outside the door.

Muto Nobuyoshi dragged his tired body and got up from the bed, opened the door and hurriedly asked, "Hashimoto-kun, why are you so anxious?" ”

"General, Kenji Tu Fei Yuan just sent an urgent telegram from Jilin, a branch of the army and the early morning assault captured Yongji County, and now the army has come to Jilin City, now Jilin City is empty, in order to protect Jilin not to lose, Tu Fei Jun asked for reinforcements to be sent to support it." Toranosuke Hashimoto hurriedly handed the telegram in his hand to Muto Nobuyoshi.

"Nani?" Muto Nobuyoshi was shocked when he heard this, and after quickly taking the telegram and reading it, he suddenly roared angrily: "Baga Yalu, Zhang Xinghan is so cunning, he actually wants to capture Jilin?!" ”

"General, what should we do? Jilin City is now the capital of the Manchurian Empire, and it cannot be easily lost, otherwise it will cause an immeasurable blow to the existence of the Manchurian Empire. Toranosuke Hashimoto said with a worried face.

"Order the 14th Division, Manchuria [***] Yuzhishan, Jixing and other departments to immediately rush to the aid of Jilin City, hurry up!" Muto Nobuyoshi commanded coldly.

"General, what about Siping?" Hashimoto Toranosuke.

"The real goal of the people of China is Jilin, not Siping, leaving the 10th Division to defend is enough, hurry up and carry out the order." Muto Nobuyoshi urged.

"Hay." Toranosuke Hashimoto lowered his head, turned around and strode away with his saber on his shoulder.

………………………… In Yongji County, Zhang Xinghan has set up his headquarters here.

In the headquarters, Zhang Xinghan was deploying combat missions to Wang Yizhe, Liu Jianguo, Li Zhenyuan and others.

"The 1st Mobu Regiment launched an attack from Erdaoshan in the south of the city, the armored brigade sent a tank battalion to assist in the attack, and the 3rd Mobu Regiment went around to the west of the city, first captured the Dasuihe Station, and then attacked Jilin City. The 2nd Mobu Regiment served as a reserve, and the main force of the armored brigade was responsible for assaulting from the north of the city. Zhang Xinghan pointed to the map and said to everyone.

Liu Jianguo, Li Zhenyuan and others stepped forward at the same time to answer the promise, and then they each took their orders.

(To be continued)