"Nani?" Muto Nobuyi stood up and said with a surprised face: "The Zhang Xinghan Department of the Chinese Army bypassed Ningcheng and marched towards Chengde? ”

"Yes, there will be no mistake in sending a telegram from the commanders of the 4th and 7th divisions." Toranosuke Hashimoto nodded.

"Bagaya Road, Zhang Xinghan is hateful!" Muto Nobuyoshi was furious and swept away all the office supplies on the desk in front of him.

Documents and other items were scattered all over the place.

"General, what the hell are we going to do? Did the 4th and 7th divisions be ordered to send troops to reinforce Chengde? Toranosuke Hashimoto asked cautiously.

Because he knew that Chengde was the capital of Rehe Province, symbolizing the political and economic center of Rehe, and for the Great Yueben Empire, it was absolutely impossible for the Empire to gain and lose.

Even if the Kwantung Army command agrees, the base camp will not agree.

So, no matter how angry Muto Nobuyoshi was, he still had to ask what to do.

Muto Nobuyoshi roared, and said with a quick breath: "Rushing to aid Chengde, the 4th and 7th divisions will be attacked by the armored troops of the Zhina Army, which is also Zhang Xinghan's cunning, he knows that the imperial army is not the opponent of his troops in the field battle, so he bypassed Ningcheng to attack Chengde, the purpose is to lure the imperial army to be fooled, so Chengde cannot be reinforced, and the reinforcements fell into Zhang Xinghan's trick." ”

"But, general, Chengde is the first important town in Rehe, should you give up like this?" Toranosuke Hashimoto said a little worriedly.

"Zhang Xinghan won't stay in Rehe for long even if he captures Rehe, his purpose is to eliminate the living force of the imperial army as much as possible, not to attack the city." Muto Nobuyoshi became more and more calm and analyzed: "So, immediately call back to the 4th and 7th Divisions, and order them to hold on and wait for the opportunity!" ”

……………………………… On the way to Chengde, Zhang Xinghan was leading his troops slowly.

"Commander, Commander!" Zhang Xinghan was sitting on the roof of a tank and was heading forward, when a shout came from behind.

When Zhang Xinghan heard this, he turned around, only to see Sabuli, the commander of the cavalry regiment, riding a war horse.

Zhang Xinghan ordered the tank commander to stop, and Sabuli caught up, and immediately saluted: "Commander, the army still can't shrink, and there is no sign of leaving the city." ”

Zhang Xinghan frowned when he heard this, and pondered, this little devil is really calm, he would rather give up Chengde than take risks again?

"Commander, look at the humble position, the little devil should be scared by us, what should we do next? Do you really attack Chengde, or go back? Sabuli asked.

"Chengde has no danger to defend, and our goal is to eliminate as many living forces as possible outside the Guanxi Army, and buy us more time for development." Zhang Xinghan groaned and said: "Order the troops, stop advancing immediately, turn around and go back to Ningcheng, since the little devil shrinks into the turtle shell and can't come out, then Lao Tzu will use his absolute strength to smash their turtle shell, see what else the old devil Muto Xinyi can do." ”

"Yes!" Sabuli quickly turned his horse's head and rode away.

A few hours later, it was already dark, and Zhang Xinghan led his troops back and forth, arriving at the outskirts of Ximen in Ningcheng County.

In the vast night, the 90 No. 4 tanks of the tank regiment had been divided into four horizontal formations and lined up.

Next to the tank regiment were more than 5,000 heavily armed infantry of the motorized infantry division, and Zhang Xinghan did not order the tank regiment to blockade the entire city.

He wanted to concentrate his forces on the fiercest blow to the Yue army from one direction, forcing the Yue army to abandon the city and flee, as long as Yue himself escaped from the city, then there would be no suspense in the next battle.

Zhang Xinghan jumped on the roof of a No. 4 tank, pointed to Ningcheng County behind him and said loudly: "The little devils can't shrink back, because we can't do anything about them, brothers, use your strength, let the little devils see the power of our Northeast New Army, use our tank and combat vehicles, smash the turtle shells of the little devils, recover Ningcheng, and annihilate the army!" ”

"Regain Ningcheng and annihilate the army!"

"Regain Ningcheng and annihilate the army!"

"Regain Ningcheng and annihilate the army!"

Thousands of Forces nouvelles soldiers raised their arms and chanted.

The huge sound broke through the sky, and it was clearly audible inside and outside Ningcheng County.

In the county seat, Nobuyuki Abe, the commander of the 4th Division, learned that Zhang Xinghan led his troops to go and return, and he was anxious like ants on a hot pot, pacing back and forth in the headquarters.

Suddenly there was a neat shout outside the city, and Abe Nobuyuki hurriedly stopped and ran out, beckoning the staff officer to ask, "What happened?" Where is the sound coming from? ”

The staff officer shook his head and said that he didn't know, but after a while, Taro Nakagawa, the commander of the 7th Division, who personally led the team out to investigate the situation, came back in a hurry.

"Nakagawa-kun, how's the situation?" Nobuyuki Abe hurriedly stepped forward and asked.

"The Chinese army is all assembled at the West Gate, and there are only some cavalry in the other directions, so it seems that they are planning to attack from the West Gate." Taro Nakagawa said with a solemn face.

"You and I have a total of more than 30,000 troops, and we are defending with all our might, can't we still hold a Ning City?" Nobuyuki Abe seems to be emboldening himself, and it seems that he is asking Taro Nakagawa again.

"No matter what, we have to block the attack of the Shina people." Nakagawa Taro thought that there were still 30,000 imperial troops in the city, and he regained some self-confidence, and the reason why they were so abnormal was because of these words.

was scared by Zhang Xinghan.

First the Battle of Shenyang, and then the Battle of Tongliao, the 17 permanent divisions of the Imperial Army were almost "bullied" by Zhang Xinghan.

Nobuyuki Abe's 4th Division was defeated by Zhang Xinghan not long ago, and it was scattered and fled.

And the two wings of the 8th Division were almost wiped out by Zhang Xinghan under their noses.

Under such a psychological shadow, it is understandable that they all have some tension phobia.

The two had just calmed down, and the Northeast New Army outside had already begun to attack.

The 75mm tank guns of 90 tanks were all aimed at the west gate of Ningcheng, and they opened fire one after another.

In order to completely hurt the army in the city and force them to abandon the city and flee, Zhang Xinghan did not give the tank regiment too many scruples, how could there be immortals in the war?

Timid, you want to kill the 30,000 troops in the city? Wish for the moon.

In short, winning the war at the cost of a small number of sacrifices, in exchange for the peace and happiness of the vast majority of people, is both helpless and very worthwhile.

Because they had no scruples, the tank crews of the tank regiment could open fire as much as they wanted.

The powerful and dense artillery fire soon shrouded the entire section of the city wall within a radius of several hundred meters of the west gate of Ningcheng.

The huge explosion gave the impression of a big earthquake, and the ground under his feet couldn't help but tremble.

As the shelling progressed, the city walls, which had been in disrepair for a long time, began to be overwhelmed and were blown down several sections one after another.

The army guarding the south gate suffered heavy casualties, and more devils hastily withdrew to some houses in the city.

Soon, however, the artillery fire of the tank regiment began to spread from the city walls to the houses in the city.

The devils hiding in the houses were wiped out in the fierce fires, and some were directly buried alive by the collapsed houses.

When the shelling lasted for two hours, almost all the houses near the west gate of Ningcheng had been razed to the ground, and there were ruins and thick smoke everywhere.

Feeling that the fire was almost over, Zhang Xinghan immediately ordered Gao Chu, the commander of the second regiment of the motorized infantry regiment, to lead a battalion, and under the guidance and cover of ten No. 4 tanks, rushed into the city through several gaps in the collapsed city wall, and began to carry out a surprise purge battle in the city.

Ten tank men led hundreds of infantry recruits along the city's three main streets in three directions.

The two vehicle-mounted general-purpose machine guns of the No. 4 tank were on guard in front and on both sides, and as soon as they found traces of the Japanese army, they opened fire fiercely and strafed them.

The infantry kept pushing forward behind the tanks, and the progress was unusually smooth.

At the army headquarters, a disgraced devil Shaozuo rushed in in a hurry, and said before he could stand up and salute: "Your Excellency the two generals, the people of China have broken into the city in three ways, and the imperial army can't resist it at all, and one of them is attacking our headquarters, so the generals should evacuate quickly." ”

'What?' Nobuyuki Abe and Taro Nakagawa were taken aback, got up and said, "Rice buckets, all rice buckets, there are many houses in the city, why don't you occupy the support to stop the advance of the Shina army?" ”

"General, the people of China have no scruples at all, and when they found that the imperial army was hiding in the people's houses, they opened fierce artillery bombardment regardless of enemy and me, and their tanks were equipped with powerful machine guns, and there were infantry follow-up coordination, and the imperial army couldn't help them at all." Shao Zuo hurriedly explained.

"Baga, use the war artillery to block the tanks of the Chinese people no matter what." Nobuyuki Abe said angrily.

Shao Zuo shook his head helplessly: "It's useless, the defensive armor of the Chinese tank is extremely thick, and even if the imperial army's battle artillery can hit, it can't be destroyed." ”

Nakagawa Taro on the side said with a dead face: "Abe-kun, let's quickly withdraw the troops from Ningcheng, the people of China are crazy, so I don't care about the enemy, if we continue to hold on, before dawn, we will be wiped out." ”

Nobuyuki Abe was a little hesitant, he didn't dare to make this decision easily, having suffered Zhang Xinghan's big losses in the field battle.

"If we go out of the city, we may be pursued by the tank forces of the China, and then we will be more passive." Nobuyuki Abe said worriedly.

"We can break through separately, and in the dark of night, it is impossible for the Chinese tank troops to catch up with us." Taro Nakagawa woke up the dreamer with a word.

Nobuyuki Abe immediately nodded happily: "Yo Xi, Nakagawa-kun, you really reminded me that we can drive the people of China from the north gate and the south gate to break through with a small number of troops, and you and I will lead the main force to quickly evacuate from the east gate." ”

"Yo Xi, that's it."

The two old devils smirked triumphantly.

……………… Outside the city, with the deepening of the siege troops, Zhang Xinghan invested two more battalions to meet the troops that had entered the city in advance and to consolidate and expand the occupied area.

"Commander, there is an army going out of the city from the north and south directions at the same time, our regiment commander asks for instructions on whether to intercept?" A cavalry communications soldier galloped on a war horse and asked.

(To be continued)