North of Yingkou City, the tank regiment commanded by Li Zhenyuan was storming the field defensive positions of the Yue Army.

Hundreds of tank guns still occupy an absolute superiority in artillery fire, and are bombarding the defensive positions of the Japanese army.

The devils hit by the fierce artillery fire could not raise their heads at all, and were completely suppressed in the position.

Next to an armored car, Li Zhenyuan was holding a telescope and calmly watching the performance of his tank gunners.

With the experience of the last attack on Liaoyang, this time Li Zhenyuan was particularly calm, he concentrated the armored vehicles and did not participate in the shelling and fire suppression.

All anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns were prepared for air defense and awaited the arrival of the army's air unit.

It is necessary to be well prepared.

In order to save shells, the shelling lasted less than half an hour, and then a motorized infantry battalion, which had been waiting for a long time, launched an attack on the Japanese army under the guidance of dozens of tanks.

The number of the Yue army in Yingkou was a little more than that in Liaoyang, with more than 5,000 people, close to the two fully formed field wings.

However, the more than 1,000 troops deployed outside the city, in the absence of anti-tank weapons, were undoubtedly easily repelled by the Northeast New Army's infantry and Tan coordination.

After losing hundreds of men, they hastily withdrew into the city and refused to defend it, which was the best and only way to deal with tanks and armored vehicles.

As soon as they seized the field defensive positions of the Japanese army, the Devil's air force arrived as scheduled, but this time, the Devil's fighters and bombers failed to be as majestic as they were last time.

Dozens of 88 anti-aircraft guns and nearly 100 anti-aircraft machine guns, which had been waiting for them for a long time, opened fire one after another.

The dense anti-aircraft fire immediately caught the devil pilot by surprise, and one plane was hit by continuous bullets on the spot, directly detonated in the air, and turned into a brilliant fire.

…………………… Shenyang, Beidaying battlefield.

The head-to-head exchange between the Northeast New Army and the Yue Army continued, in order to completely defeat the Yue Army, seize the defensive position of the Yue Army outside the north gate of Shenyang, and truly complete the three-sided encirclement of the Shenyang Yue Army.

The 2nd, 4th, and 10th divisions, under the same command of Zhang Xinghan and under the full cover of air force fighters, took turns to launch a fierce attack on the positions of the Yue army south of Beidaying.

In order to secure the last defensive position in the north of the city, the army also invested a large number of troops to repeatedly compete with the new army in the northeast.

From the very beginning, the battle between the two sides entered a white-hot tug-of-war, and although the Yue army suffered heavy casualties, it had an absolute superiority in strength.

Therefore, the two sides fought fiercely from the morning to the afternoon, and the battle line was barely maintained.

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

Jiang Baili put down the phone and said, "Commander, Division Commander Zhao called, and an attack organized by the 10th Division failed again. ”

Zhang Xinghan lit a cigarette disapprovingly, and said: "It's nothing, we still have time, this battle of Shenyang can train our troops well, baptize the recruits in the troops, and increase their rich combat experience, which is precious." ”

"Hmm." Jiang Baili nodded thoughtfully, "Not only are we training in actual combat, but the same is true for Xiao Yueben, their so-called 17 permanent divisions and regiments, in fact, there are not many soldiers who have really had combat experience."

After all, more than 20 years have passed since the Russian War, and most of the officers and men on active duty in the army are composed of trained recruits, and those veterans of those years have either retired or have already been promoted to officers.

This is probably one of the reasons why the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army is stronger than ours; not only have their recruits undergone formal training, but most of the most important thing is that most of their middle and low-level officers are veterans with actual combat experience, and most of these people are from the noncommissioned officer school of the Chinese army, and they are the backbone of the active force of the army. ”

"Therefore, in this battle, we must annihilate the Shenyang army as much as possible, otherwise it will be to let the tiger return to the mountain, leaving a group of veterans with combat experience to the devil, and there may be one more powerful opponent in the future." Zhang Xinghan answered.

"The commander is right, but at the moment, the little devils have deployed two divisions in the area of Sujiatun, and although Li Zhenyuan led the armored troops to go deep behind the enemy and attack everywhere, the devils in the direction of Sujiatun and the lighthouse have no signs of mobilization, how should this be?" Jiang Baili said worriedly.

"This chief of staff must not be in a hurry, the time has not yet come, and I will have my own way to cut off the retreat of the army." Zhang Xinghan said confidently: "The strategic purpose of transferring Li Zhenyuan to lead his troops south is not all to mobilize the army in the Sujiatun area to come back and help. ”

Zhang Xinghan's voice fell, and Li Guocai strode over with his head held high, and saluted: "Commander, chief of staff, Li Zhenyuan is calling, they have surrounded Yingkou City and thwarted the attacking Yuejun Air Force. ”

"Very good, send a telegram to Li Zhenyuan, don't fall in love with war, we must pay close attention to the movements of the reinforcements of the army, avoid being entangled by the enemy as much as possible before their arrival, and we must give full play to the advantages of our mobility ability." Zhang Xinghan praised and commanded.

"Yes!" Li Guocai snapped forward and responded, and immediately turned around and took the order.

........................Your Excellency General, Yingkou City has fallen into the heavy encirclement of the Chinese Army, and the air force has also been ambushed by the enemy's anti-aircraft fire, losing several fighters, and has now returned. "In the Dalian Aircraft Headquarters, Toranosuke Hashimoto reported to Muto Nobuyoshi.

"Where has the 1st Division arrived?" Muto Nobuyoshi asked anxiously.

"Dalian is more than 200 kilometers away from Yingkou, and the 1st Division will not be able to arrive for a while and a half, and it is still in the Pulandian area." Toranosuke Hashimoto replied.

"Bagaya Road, order the 1st Division to speed up the march, and must arrive at Yingkou within five hours!" Muto Nobuyoshi was furious when he heard this, and it had been almost three or four hours since he reported the urgency at Yingkou.

The 1st Division actually arrived in Pulandian? The march was so slow that they weren't on foot, they were on train.

"Hay." Toranosuke Hashimoto bowed his head abruptly.

The order was quickly conveyed to the 1st Division, but the 1st Division, which had already suffered a heavy loss from the Northeast New Army, especially the 1st Division of Zhang Xinghan's armored troops, had already been scared.

After the current division commander Sen connected to the order, he did not urge his subordinates to speed up the march, but deliberately delayed the time to march to Yingkou on the grounds that the train needed to be filled with coal and water.

Therefore, let alone five hours, until the early hours of the night, nearly seven or eight hours passed, and the reinforcements of the 1st Division did not arrive in Yingkou County.

Li Zhenyuan easily led his troops to evacuate at night, and was ordered to march all the way west, advancing in the direction of Panjin and Jinzhou.

By the time the 1st Division arrived at Yingkou late after dawn, the positions of the Northeast New Army outside the city were already empty.

Sen Lian, the current commander of the 1st Division, was glad and hurriedly reported this information to the Dalian Headquarters.

In the headquarters, after listening to Toranosuke Hashimoto's relayed report, Muto Nobuyoshi was taken aback and slapped the table and said, "What? The Chinese army withdrew again? What the hell are they doing? ”

Toranosuke Hashimoto shook his head slightly, indicating that he didn't know: "I really can't guess what this branch of the army is going to do. ”

"Telegraphed the 1st Division to find out the whereabouts of this branch as soon as possible, and at the same time send aviation reconnaissance planes to coordinate reconnaissance." Muto Nobuyoshi immediately made a decision.

…………………………………… The middle section from Yingkou to Panjin, on the west bank of the Da Liao River.

Li Zhenyuan's tank unit had stopped at the west bank and had set up airdrop guidance signs in the wide open space.

It didn't take long for a deafening roar to be heard in the sky.

"Commander, here they are." An adjutant put down his binoculars and turned his head to report to Li Zhenyuan, who was smoking.

When Li Zhenyuan heard this, he jumped out of the armored car, raised his binoculars and looked, only to see a group of planes suddenly emerge from the clouds in the sky in the distance.

As the distance approached, Li Zhenyuan clearly saw that the leaders were several Zero fighters.

Li Zhenyuan spit out the cigarette butt in his mouth and instructed the adjutant next to him: "Inform the brothers, get ready, the transport plane is coming." ”

"Yes!" The adjutant suddenly complied and immediately took the order.

About ten minutes later, about a dozen C-47 military transport planes, escorted by five Zero fighters, began to circle and airdrop.

Barrels of gasoline and diesel and boxes of artillery shells were dropped.

The whole process lasted nearly half an hour, and it took more than a dozen C-47 transport planes to drop all the ammunition and fuel they carried.

Due to adequate preparation, most of the airdrops fell accurately within the range of the airdrop point, and the occasional deviation was not too far, and they were quickly recovered by the armored troops.

After receiving supplies of oil and ammunition, Li Zhenyuan immediately led his troops to march towards Dawa County, the eastern barrier of Panjin.

Dawa County is located in the middle of the Da Liao River and the Liao River, which is the affiliated county seat of Panjin and an important barrier in the eastern part of Panjin.

Li Zhenyuan's whereabouts of leading his troops to cross the Daliao River to the west were soon discovered by the scouts of the Yue Army and immediately reported to the Kwantung Army Headquarters.

Muto Nobuyoshi and Hashimoto Toranosuke and others were shocked when they heard the news, and hurriedly ordered the Panjin and Dawa County armies to take strict precautions to prevent a surprise attack by the Northeast New Army.

Two hours later, Li Zhenyuan led his troops to the city of Dawa County, and saw that the army had already closed the city and was prepared.

Li Zhenyuan was not polite to the devils, and used more than 300 75mm tank guns to form a powerful artillery group, and began to rain high-explosive bombs and incendiary bombs on Dawa County.

After the shelling, Li Zhenyuan personally commanded the troops to launch a charge attack on Dawa County.

Due to the urgency of time, the army did not deploy many troops in Dawa County, and in less than half an hour of fighting, the devils in Dawa County lost more than half, and the rest were forced to withdraw from the city and flee westward.

However, he was soon chased and annihilated by a tank regiment led by Li Zhenyuan's relatives on the east bank of the Liao River.

After taking Dawa County, Li Zhenyuan immediately made an offensive posture towards Panjin in order to attract troops from other places to come to help.

Muto Nobuyoshi was afraid that Panjin would be lost, so he hurriedly ordered the 1st Division and other units in Yingkou, as well as the army in Jinzhou, to rush to the aid of Panjin.

The news of the frequent movements of the army naturally could not hide the eyes and ears of Zhang Xinghan's air force reconnaissance plane and Shen Xingye's hidden agents who had infiltrated various cities in the South Manchurian region in the past six months.

The news was quickly fed back to Zhang Xinghan.

Tieling City, the General Headquarters of the Northeast New Army.

As soon as Zhang Xinghan listened to Shen Xingye's secret report, Chief of Staff Jiang Baili walked in with a telegram in his hand, saluted Zhang Xinghan and reported: "Commander, Li Zhenyuan has called, he has led his troops to capture Dawa County, annihilated more than 1,000 enemies, and is preparing to continue to advance westward and attack Panjin and even Jinzhou. ”

"Well, Li Zhenyuan did a good job." Zhang Xinghan nodded and said happily: "Chief of Staff, now that the time is ripe for a general attack on Shenyang, I have decided to launch a general attack on Shenyang immediately." ”

"A general offensive now? Commander, isn't it a bit too hasty? Jiang Baili was a little stunned, and said: "Now Sujiatun is still under the control of Yue, even if we take Shenyang City at any cost, the Yuejun army can also be evacuated from Sujiatun, and our strategic goal of encircling and annihilating the Yuejun army and Shenyang will not be achieved." ”

Zhang Xinghan smiled mysteriously and said: "Chief of Staff, regarding cutting off the way for the army to flee south, it is not necessarily necessary to capture Sujiatun, as long as we destroy the mixed railway bridge, and then quickly advance to the banks of the Liao River and the Hunhe River with effective troops, we can cut off the southward escape route of the Shenyang army." ”

"I am not satisfied with you saying that the reason why I sent Li Zhenyuan to lead a mobile force to the south is not to attract the troops of Sujiatun and Lighthouse to reinforce other areas, so as to achieve the plan of mobilizing them and facilitating our army to take the opportunity to capture Sujiatun." Zhang Xinghan said.

Jiang Baili was a little puzzled and said, "What is the commander's intention and arrangement?" Please also be explicit. ”

"I asked Li Zhenyuan to attack Liaoyang first in order to confuse the Yue army, and by the way, to explore the reaction of the Yue army, of course, it is better to mobilize the Yue army in Sujiatun and the lighthouse.

Facts have proved that the high-level of the army is not confused, Liaoyang and Anshan have been in a hurry, and they have not called the nearest lighthouse and Sujiatun army.

The next thing is the point, after a small victory in Anshan, I telegraphed Li Zhenyuan to lead his troops to continue southward and attack Yingkou, which is the barrier of the Liaodong Peninsula, and it is impossible for the little devil to sit idly by.

Sure enough, Muto Nobuyoshi, an old thing, mobilized the troops of a division from Dalian to rush to Yingkou.

Immediately, I ordered Li Zhenyuan to lead his troops to withdraw from the siege of Yingkou, march westward to attack Dawa County, and threaten Panjin.

Now Muto Nobuyoshi has mobilized reinforcements from all around Panjin, such as Jinzhou, Yingkou, Haicheng and other places, ready to rush to the aid of Panjin, so far, my strategic purpose has been achieved. ”

After speaking, Zhang Xinghan smiled and asked, "Chief of Staff, do you understand why I did this now?" ”

Jiang Baili pondered for a long time before he raised his head and said uncertainly: "Could it be that Commander Fei's move is to attract and contain the Kwantung Army south of Shenyang?" ”

"By the way, you must know that before the war, the total strength of the Kwantung Army had swelled to 300,000, and Shunroku Hata invested about 200,000 people in the Battle of Shenyang, so that the Kwantung Army still had at least 100,000 troops left in South Manchuria.

What I am worried about is that once Shenyang is in an emergency, if Muto Nobuyoshi sends these 100,000 troops north to reinforce at any cost, then it will be difficult for us to achieve our operational goal of encircling and annihilating the six divisions of Toshishi Hata in Shenyang.

Therefore, I sent Li Zhenyuan to lead a lone army into the depths, the purpose of which was to contain and mobilize the 100,000 troops of the Kwantung Army in the South Manchurian region, so that they would have no time to look north, so as to facilitate our siege of Shenyang. Zhang Xinghan said.

Jiang Baili suddenly realized, and praised repeatedly: "Commander Gaoming, this trick is really beautiful." ”

"Then we can attack next, right?" Zhang Xinghan said with a smile.

Jiang Baili nodded again and again.

Zhang Xinghan was no longer polite, and immediately ordered: "Order the 1st and 2nd Flying Regiments of the Pilot Division to immediately dispatch all fighters and dive bombers to target the Sujiatun Hunhe Bridge, and at the same time order the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 9th, and 10th divisions of Reading Power to attack Shenyang at the same time an hour later."

The 1st Division of Reading Li was responsible for pinning down the Yue army at Sujiatun and Lighthouse, so that they were unable to cross the river to support Shenyang! ”

(To be continued)