It is said that the Army Department is intensively mobilizing troops in an attempt to retaliate against Shenyang and achieve its goal of completely occupying the three eastern provinces.

In Shenyang, Zhang Xinghan is gathering the main force of more than 5,000 city defense troops and is carrying out a comprehensive redress for them.

In addition to military uniforms, all individual equipment such as steel helmets, cowhide military boots, military kettles, aluminum lunch boxes, etc. are included.

All of them will be replaced.

In terms of weapons, the main weapons of individual soldiers have been replaced by American M1 Garand rifles from the 38 Dagai and Liao 13-year models.

The light and heavy machine guns are all replaced with MG34 general-purpose machine guns, and the mortars are unified with authentic German 80mm large-caliber mortars.

Other mortars, such as 60mm imitation mortars, were all eliminated, and the individual equipment, light and heavy machine guns, which had been replaced, were hoarded in the munitions warehouse of the Shenyang Arsenal.

There are no major changes in the artillery unit, and the 75mm Krupp field gun is still able to meet the needs of the battle on the Chinese battlefield for the time being.

Of course, in order to make up for the lack of firepower of large-caliber heavy artillery, Zhang Xinghan replaced a company of the artillery battalion with a 105mm howitzer.

After the weapons and equipment were updated and replaced, Zhang Xinghan once again set about the unified reorganization of the army and air force in Shenyang.

At present, the total strength of the urban defense army and air force in Shenyang is about 6,000 people.

Among them, there are more than 5,000 army personnel, and 6,700 air force pilots and ground crews.

After deliberation, Zhang Xinghan decided to formally reorganize the city defense army into the Shenyang Garrison Brigade, and the three regiments remained the same, with only about 1,000 personnel in each regiment.

In addition to the three infantry regiments, Zhang Xinghan also combined the armored company of the Seventh Brigade of Reading Li and the cavalry company in Shenyang into an armored cavalry company directly under the brigade headquarters, and the strength of the army increased to more than 400 people.

The main reason is the increase in armored tank troops, and the members are drawn from the cadets of the Northeast Lecture and Martial Arts Hall.

Because of the lack of horses, the number of cavalry did not increase for the time being, and there were only about two platoons of troops.

This armored cavalry company also fulfills the mission and responsibilities of a reconnaissance company.

The original guard company was expanded into a guard battalion directly under it, with a strength of more than 500 people.

In addition to a 105mm howitzer battery, the original artillery battalion added an air defense company equipped with six 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns and four 88mm semi-automatic anti-aircraft guns.

The so-called semi-automatic 88 anti-aircraft gun is an early product of the German 88 anti-aircraft gun family.

During World War II, in the later period, the 88 anti-aircraft gun was derived from many models, which were basically self-propelled and reloaded much faster than the earlier models, improving combat efficiency and mobility.

The number of the expanded artillery battalion plus ammunition and baggage has reached 700 people.

In addition to the above-mentioned units directly under the brigade headquarters, Zhang Xinghan also reorganized the communications corps and cooking squad of the former urban defense headquarters into a brigade headquarters communications company and a logistics department directly under the brigade headquarters.

The total number of people is about 400 people.

The commander of the communications company was Xiao Lizi, the former platoon commander of the second platoon of the guard company.

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Lushun, the headquarters of the Kwantung Army of the invasion of China.

Honjo Shitetsu looked at Ishihara Wanji and Itagaki Seishiro who were standing in front of him with a blushing face, and only patted the table for a long time before slapping the table and reprimanding: "It's really unreasonable, after so much careful preparation, you will be planted on a little person who has no name." ”

"My army of nearly 20,000 was defeated by the city defense troops with less than half of our strength, which is the worst loss that my imperial army has suffered since the Meiji Restoration, and it is a shame."

"His Excellency the General reprimanded me for the poor command of Itagaki-kun in this battle, and we are willing to accept any punishment." Ishihara bowed his head and admitted his mistake.

Honjo sighed and said: "Forget it, I can't blame you all this time, and if you want to blame it, we can only blame us for our poor reconnaissance in advance." ”

As he spoke, Honjo took out a top-secret message from his drawer and handed it to the two.

Ishihara and the others were stunned at first when they took the message, and after opening it and reading it, they were immediately overjoyed.

Itagaki Seishiro looked up at Honjo Shigeru even more excitedly and asked, "Your Excellency Commander, is this true?" ”

"Well, the 6th Division and the supplementary troops of our division have already set off by boat, and the 20th Division has also departed from North Korea, and it is expected that all of them will arrive in about three days, and after the assembly is completed, we can re-launch the siege of Shenyang." Honjo nodded.

"Great, this time we will definitely be able to make a shame, after breaking through Shenyang City, there will be no chickens and dogs, I will take the despicable people to pay tribute to the heroic souls of the imperial soldiers who died this time!" Seishiro Itagaki said excitedly.

"Itagaki-kun, don't be too happy, if there is any accident this time, then I'm afraid even I, the commander, will not be able to eat and walk around." Honzhuang Fan said meaningfully: "Therefore, I ask you not to be careless, be cautious, and you must completely win the victory in this battle, completely annihilate Zhang Xinghan's city defense army, and capture Shenyang City, understand?" ”

"Hay!" Seishiro Itagaki and Ishihara suddenly bowed their heads in unison, and then turned around one after another and left together.

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Shenyang Garrison Brigade Headquarters.

Zhang Xinghan is writing a recruitment notice in person: "On the 18th of this month, Kou brazenly launched an attack on my Shenyang Beidaying and Shenyang City, in a vain attempt to annex the three northeastern provinces of our country, and brutalized my fathers and old compatriots in the northeast.

All patriotic compatriots between the ages of 18 and 30 can come to Shenyang to sign up for the army and work with us to defend the borders of the motherland and defend Shenyang!

In the end, what Zhang wants to tell the people of the country is that now that the war has begun, our Chinese compatriots have no distinction between north and south, and people, regardless of men, women, old and young, have the responsibility of defending the land and resisting the war.

The rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the husband, because this is a patriotic battle that is related to the life and death of the Chinese nation.

Then he said that the fall may be Beiping, Tianjin, or Shanghai and Nanjing, and we have no way out, only to pick up the gun and rise up to resist is the only way out for the Chinese nation.

The country is in danger! The nation is in danger! The Northeast is in danger, and Shenyang is in danger! In a hurry, hundreds of thousands of fathers and villagers in the whole city of Shenyang were looking forward to it, waiting for the Paoze brothers to come for reinforcements. ”

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Beiping, Yenching University.

Cao Binghua gathered the students again and said indignantly: "Students, Zhang Xueliang is unwilling to resist. Now General Zhang Xinghan is waiting for reinforcements alone in Shenyang City, and he has issued a special recruitment notice, calling on compatriots across the country to join the army and serve the country, defend Shenyang, defend the Northeast, and defend the whole of China!

There is such a sentence in his essay that says very well, as soon as the war starts, our Chinese nation, there is no distinction between north and south, no distinction between old and young, all have the responsibility of defending the land and resisting the war, and the rise and fall of the country is the responsibility of the husband!

We are young people who have been deeply educated for many years and boast of being intellectually progressive, and now that the national crisis is at the head, we should abandon our pen and go to the battlefield to join the army to serve the country. ”

"Director Cao, you take us to Shenyang, we want to join the army, we want to follow Commander Zhang to fight devils together!" One of the students said excitedly.

"Yes, we want to join the army, we want to fight devils." The other students immediately echoed in unison.