Chapter Ninety-Five: Evacuation Begins
In Shenyang, the first batch of more than 100,000 people who moved from the towns and villages east of Shenyang took the lead in evacuating.
Compared with the aborigines of Shenyang, they were more receptive to the order to evacuate to Tongliao.
After all, they can't go back to their home, and it is the same for them in Shenyang or Tongliao.
Moreover, Zang Shiyi, chairman of Liaoning Province and mayor of Shenyang City, has promised them that as long as they withdraw to Tongliao, the political axe will not leave them alone and will provide them with the most basic living guarantees.
Of course, in addition to promises, Zang Shiyi and other political officials also told the people that if the devils captured Shenyang, their lives and property would be very likely to be threatened.
At this time, the people in the northeast were still very simple, and after the outbreak of the September 18 incident, Zhang Xinghan led the garrison brigade to fight to the death and not retreat, and turned the tide, so the garrison brigade was still very popular in Liaoning, especially in Shenyang.
On the one hand, they are the most vicious invaders, and on the other hand, they are the soldiers of their hometowns, and they are the soldiers who protect them with their lives and blood.
Since these soldiers would rather die than abandon them, the old and weak women and children, and flee for their lives alone, they are of course willing to retreat to a safe place with these guardians.
Only when there is a blue sky and white sky and red flags on the ground, and where the soldiers of the garrison brigade are there, will they have a sense of security in their hearts.
More than 100,000 people were evacuated, and even if Zhang Xinghan gathered the garrison brigade and all the cars in the city, it was not enough.
Therefore, they can only go by car in batches, and most of the rest walk out of the city and head towards Tongliao.
During the evacuation, Zang Shiyi strictly followed Zhang Xinghan's orders, and the old, weak, women and children were given priority to take a car to Tongliao.
When the first batch of evacuees arrived in Tongliao by car, all the cars immediately returned, filled with people who were on foot and continued to move forward, and so on until the first batch of more than 100,000 people arrived in Tongliao.
Of course, there was a small force that gave priority to the evacuation of the people in a car and headed for Tongliao.
They were an advance team of engineers, infantrymen, and some engineers and skilled workers who had participated in the construction of Beiling Airport.
Their task was to be the first to arrive in Tongliao and immediately organize the local people to rush to repair an airstrip within half a month for the evacuation and landing of the Shenyang air force and for combat purposes.
After some careful consideration, Wang Yicai, the commander of the third regiment, handed over this task to Du Ting's second battalion and one company, which was the reason for this arrangement.
Naturally, it was taken into account that Zhang Xinghua was in the second battalion and the first company, and fools knew that Tongliao was about to become the rear of the garrison brigade and the base area of the anti-Japanese garrison.
Wang Yicai sent a company to Tongliao first, the purpose of which was to protect Zhang Xinghua.
On the road leading to Tongliao, about two dozen military trucks are winding along the dirt road.
The trucks in front and the trucks in the back were loaded with officers and men of a company of heavily armed men, about 100 people.
More than a dozen trucks in the middle carried dozens of technicians such as sappers and engineers, as well as a number of equipment and tools necessary for the construction of the airport.
In the cab of the leading military truck, Liu Zhenhu, the commander of the first company, personally acted as the driver, and Zhang Xinghan, who was the leader of the sergeant squad, was fortunate to sit in the co-pilot and ride in the same car with Liu Zhenhu.
The reason why Zhang Xinghua has this honor is not because he is Zhang Xinghan's younger brother, but because of the friendship between him and Liu Zhenhu in the bloody battle of Sujiatun.
The two fought side by side in a bloody battle, Zhang Xinghua's performance greatly exceeded Liu Zhenhu's expectations, he didn't expect Zhang Xinghua, a student soldier and a rich child, to dare to fight with the little devil with his life.
Zhang Xinghua used his practical actions to prove to Liu Zhenhu that the Zhang family boy has no greed for life and fear of death.
He will never disgrace his eldest brother or the Zhang family.
"Company commander, how did you learn to drive?" Sitting in the passenger seat, Zhang Xinghua asked boredly.
"During the Second Zhifeng War, I just learned to drive a car, but I didn't drive it very well, and then I entered the Northeast Lecture Martial Arts Hall and studied for a while, so I knew it." Liu Zhenhu replied as he drove.
"Oh, can you teach me when you have time?" Zhang Xinghua said with great interest.
"Okay, when we get a foothold in Tongliao, I'll teach you, not only teach you, but also give our brothers to the church, it's not okay to drive a car in modern warfare." Liu Zhenhu said.
"That's a word."
"Well, it's a deal!"
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In addition to sending Liu Zhenhu's company as the advance team, Wang Yicai sent the first battalion and the second battalion and two other companies out of the city to accompany them to protect the people and retreat to Tongliao.
The third battalion and the troops directly under the regimental headquarters remained in the city to maintain law and order and ensure order in the city, so as to prevent enemy elements from taking advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble.
At the same time, thousands of officers and men, including the 1st and 2nd regiments and the guard battalion directly under the brigade headquarters, rushed to the Shenyang Arsenal one after another.
Help the technicians and workers of the Shenyang Arsenal to start dismantling all the machinery and equipment, including the power plant, the steel mill and all the equipment.
Zhang Xinghan led Shen Xingye to personally go to the arsenal to supervise and command.
And Sabuli's cavalry regiment was transferred by Zhang Xinghan to Sujiatun for a temporary stay, just in case.
"Brigade, we can't just patronize the arsenal, the banks in Shenyang City should also be fully controlled as soon as possible, and all the gold and the current ocean inside should be loaded and prepared, and evacuated at any time." In an office in the arsenal, Liu Jianguo suddenly suggested.
"Banks?" Zhang Xinghan suddenly got up and said, "Yes, why didn't I think of it." ”
"Then bring someone to do it immediately?" Liu Jianguo said.
"Not only the bank, but also Shaoshuai Zhang's Young Marshal's Mansion, Zhang's father and son have been in power in the Northeast for many years, and the wealth accumulated in the Young Marshal's Mansion must be a lot." Zhang Xinghan said: "In this way, Jianguo, you take a team of people to the bank, and Yizhi takes a company to the Young Marshal's Mansion." ”
"Isn't this okay? How can you say that the young marshal's mansion is Zhang Xueliang's mansion, and his mother and his original wife Yu and other family members are in the mansion, is it a little inappropriate for us to trespass into the mansion without permission? Liu Jianguo hesitated.
"The founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhang Xueliang disregards the life and death of 30 million fathers and villagers in the three eastern provinces, and resolutely does not resist, it's time for him to give some money to hundreds of thousands of fathers and elders in Shenyang, hundreds of thousands of people have evacuated and settled, and they are in urgent need of money, if we don't take the money from the Young Marshal's Mansion and leave it to Yue himself, wouldn't it be a pity?" Zhang Xinghan turned his head to Shen Xingye with a firm attitude and said: "Yizhi, if you are blocked when you arrive at the Young Marshal's Mansion, you tell Old Madam Zhang and Miss Yu, just say that the money originally belonged to the people, and it is time to return it to the people." ”
"Yes!" Shen Xingye happily agreed, turned around and took the order.
"Brigade, this, is this appropriate?" Liu Jianguo watched Shen Xingye leave, and said with a worried face.
"There is nothing suitable or inappropriate, only whether it should be or not, if you want to watch hundreds of thousands of people starve to death and freeze to death on the Horqin grassland, then I will let Shen Xingye come back." Zhang Xinghan said.
Liu Jianguo lowered his head when he heard this, and said no more.
"Alright, let's go, I'm in my own measure." Zhang Xinghan waved at him.
"Yes." Liu Jianguo no longer hesitated, and was ordered to leave after saluting.
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More than 100,000 people went out of the city with great momentum, and it was naturally impossible to hide from the agents lurking in Shenyang City.
Some of the agents mingled in the retreating crowd and overheard the conversation of several soldiers of the garrison brigade who were in charge of escorting them, from which they learned the destination of the garrison brigade's retreat.
Moreover, the agents of the Yue Army lurking in Zhangwu and Xinmin also accidentally discovered the traces of the advance team of the three regiments.
The news was quickly reported by the agents of the Japanese army to the headquarters of the Kwantung Army through the radio.
In the headquarters of the Lushun Kwantung Army, Minamijiro handed the intelligence message of the special high school section to Itagaki Seishiro, who had just arrived by order.
After he finished reading it, he asked, "Itagaki-kun, what do you think?" ”
Itagaki Seishiro took the telegram in his hand and muttered: "Zhang Xinghan did not evacuate to Xinmin and Jinzhou, but chose to go farther to Tongliao, his intentions are really intriguing, based on the intelligence analysis provided by our agents around Zhang, it seems that Zhang Xinghan and their young marshal are not in harmony. ”
"I wonder what we should do next, should we just sit back and watch the withdrawal of the Chinese army?" Minamijiro continued to ask.
"Of course not, Your Excellency General, Zhang Xinghan's evacuation operation just gave us an excellent fighter." Itagaki pretends to be a mysterious way.
"Fighters? What fighters? Please make it clear. Minamijiro said solemnly.
"Defeat the Chinese garrison brigade and take the opportunity to capture the fighters in Shenyang."
"Be specific."
"First of all, according to the information provided by our agents, the number of people in China who have withdrawn out of the city to Tongliao is nearly 100,000, and the garrison brigade will definitely send troops to escort such a huge retreat, so that the strength of the garrison brigade in the Shenyang area will inevitably weaken, I think that with the 2nd Division and the 20th Division as the main force, the troops will attack Shenyang again in two ways, and they will definitely be able to win the battle and capture Shenyang." Itagaki Seishiro is confident.
Nanjiro nodded after listening to this, and turned to ask Ishihara, the staff officer next to him, "Ishihara-kun, what do you think?" ”
"Your Excellency General, Itagaki-kun's plan is good, but it's not perfect enough." Ishihara looked at Seishiro Itagaki and said to Minamijiro.
"Oh? What's not perfect? Ishihara-kun, please. Minamijiro said in slight surprise.
"I think that Zhang Xinghan will never send his main force to escort the people to evacuate, so most of their main force must still be in Shenyang, and there is a strong air force, it is difficult to win by rashly attacking the imperial army, if you can send a cavalry mobile force to attack the retreating people of China before attacking Shenyang, and lure Zhang Xinghan to send troops out of the city to rescue, so that if you attack Shenyang again, it will be much greater to grasp the surname." Ishihara said slyly.
"Well, Ishihara-kun's suggestion is very good." Minamijiro nodded approvingly.
"But now that the 6th Division has suffered heavy losses, and local reinforcements have not yet arrived, are our troops a little insufficient?" Minamijiro was a little worried.
As far as I know, the predecessor of Zhang Haipeng's department was adapted from the 32nd Cavalry Division of the Northeast Army, and with the geographical location of Taonan, Zhang Haipeng's cavalry can rush to Tongliao before evacuating the army and civilians in Shenyang, and after occupying it, the task of running can be completely completed by using them. Even if you attack Shenyang, you can use Yu Zhishan's headquarters as the vanguard, let them go to the garrison brigade to fight each other, and after they are both defeated, the imperial army will attack again and win the victory at the smallest cost. Ishihara said with a cunning smile.
"Yo Xi, Ishihara-kun is really resourceful, so let's do it." Minamijiro nodded happily in agreement.
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