After evening, Shunroku Hata began to issue formal orders to the 14th Division and the 9th Division to cross the river, and dispatched artillery units to cover them with all their might.

Since the new division commander of the 9th Division has not yet taken office, the current 9th Division is under the control of Shun Hata.

Compared with the 14th Division, the 9th Division was able to draw more troops for the river-crossing attack.

At 10 o'clock that night, in the dead of night, about 5,000 people rushed to Shenyang from Xinmin City, and after a round with more than 3,000 people of the 14th Division, they immediately divided into two routes.

All the way along the Hunhe River to the west, all the way from the south gate of Shenyang quietly out of the city, the movement to Niujiatun ferry, here is the closest to Sujiatun is also the most convenient ferry.

However, Hata Junroku is extremely cunning, and he only deploys a partial division in Niujiatun in order to attract the attention of the reader nearby.

To provide an opportunity for a real river-crossing force, which was the Nishimura detachment, consisting of two wings of the 9th Division.

The commander was Major General Koichi Nishimura, commander of the 9th Brigade of the 18th Division.

At twelve o'clock in the evening, the 14th Division's river-crossing troops began to cross the river at Niujiatun, and were soon discovered by the scouts of the Reading Division.

Li Zhenyuan immediately led an armored company to stop it, and 18 tanks and 15 armored vehicles lined up along the shore and opened heavy fire on the Yue troops crossing the river.

However, at the same time, the Xicun detachment began smuggling in the direction of Yujia Village, sixty miles away.

Although the scouts of the reconnaissance company spotted them in time, when they rode horses to report this urgent military situation to Zhang Xinghan.

Most of the Xicun detachment had already crossed the Hunhe River, and it was too late for Zhang Xinghan to transfer the armored company to intercept it.

In Sujiatun Station, Liu Jianguo, Shen Xingye, Guo Zhong and others all looked at Zhang Xinghan with anxious faces, waiting for him to find a way.

It's too late, what to do?

"Master, we can't just passively wait for the devil to attack, we should take the initiative to attack, kill the devil by surprise, and maybe we can receive an unexpected harvest." Shen Xingye, who had already tasted the sweetness of taking the initiative to attack, saw that Zhang Xinghan was silent and suggested.

"Take the initiative?" Zhang Xinghan's eyes lit up, yes, he definitely couldn't have imagined it, after all, after the battle with the 12th Division, they would definitely think that even if their troops were not lost, they should be broken.

It's good to be able to hold on, where is there still room to attack?

What's more, in the eastern sector, it is necessary to deal with the feint attack and harassment of the 14th Division.

Under such circumstances, the commander of the army would never have thought that Sujiatun's squadron would dare to take the initiative to attack, and at this point, the effect of surprise could be achieved.

However, the key lies in the deployment and use of troops, otherwise it will not be possible to defeat the Japanese army, but will harm it.

After pondering for a long time, Zhang Xinghan said to the crowd: "Pass my order, the cavalry regiment immediately transferred a battalion to Niujiatun, and the infantry of the guard battalion arrived later and replaced Li Zhenyuan's armored company for me.

In addition, the artillery company carried a large number of poison gas bombs and carried military trucks with the armoured company. ”

"Shiza is going to use poison gas bombs on devils?" Liu Jianguo asked in surprise.

"What, what's wrong?" Zhang Xinghan asked.

"No, it's just that my artillery company doesn't carry many gas bombs this time, I don't know if it's enough." Liu Jianguo said.

"I have my own way to do this, the poison gas bomb is just to cause chaos in the army, and this battle is mainly an ambush war, as long as it causes chaos in the army, our army will definitely be able to defeat this army with armored troops and infantry charges." Zhang Xinghan confidently pointed to the map.

Turning his head to the crowd: "You see, the straight-line distance between Yujia Village and us is about 20 kilometers, and the actual marching distance is definitely more than 60 miles.

Excluding the time it took for the scouts to report, this army is now at most halfway through, so we have at least an hour to prepare. ”

"Shiza, what if this little devil doesn't come to attack, but instead holds the Yujiacun ferry on the spot and prepares to meet the other armies to cross the river? Wouldn't our ambush plan be in vain? Moreover, once the army mobilizes more troops to cross the river, won't our situation be dangerous? Liu Jianguo said with some concern.

"No, I will definitely attack." Zhang Xinghan was confident and very confident.

"How so?"

"Because, it is now less than five hours before dawn, and besides, after a battle with the 12th Division, I will definitely think that we are also suffering heavy casualties, and it is the weakest time.

Therefore, they will definitely not let go of such a golden opportunity, knowing that as soon as the morning dawns, our air force will be able to rush to support, and at that time, they will be subjected to a devastating air attack and a surprise attack by our ground armored forces. Zhang Xinghan analyzed.

"Makes sense." Liu Jianguo nodded.

"Alright, let's hurry up and get ready." Zhang Xinghan waved his hand at everyone.

"Yes!"

…………………… About five kilometers southwest of Sujiatun, there are sorghum fields that are taller than a person.

A dirt road that is not wide passes through it, and this road leads directly to Sujiatun Station.

It is the only way for the people of the Tunzi villages in the southwest of Sujiatun to go to Sujiatun to take the car.

In the past, it was just a country road, but later with the rise of the South Manchurian Railway, people mostly took trains to Shenyang or Liaoyang to do errands.

There are also many businessmen passing back and forth, and the more people walk, the wider the road is, and they come out.

In the sorghum fields on both sides of the road, Zhang Xinghan led the armored company, two battalions of the cavalry regiment, and the artillery company of the 701st regiment had already driven into the endless sorghum forest in advance.

The artillerymen had already set up mortars, adjusted their firing, and boxes of poison gas bombs were opened by the ammunition men, and each master had a 60mm caliber poison gas bomb in his hand.

Just wait for Zhang Xinghan to give an order before he can open fire.

All armored tank crews, cavalry were equipped with gas masks.

In the dark, the cavalrymen put on gas masks, as if they were devils from hell, and they were particularly infiltrating.

After about half an hour, the roar of motorcycles finally came from the end of the field road.

Zhang Xinghan subconsciously shrank his head in the sorghum field, and a scout shuttled vigorously in the sorghum field behind him, and soon came to Zhang Xinghan's side, and reported: "Division, the devil is here, and there are two motorcycles and machine guns at the head, and there are brigades of infantry behind." ”

"Well, I know, before the artillery fires, no one is allowed to act rashly, after the artillery fires, the armored company immediately cuts off the way for the devil to retreat and advance, and then advances in the opposite direction with firepower, and the cavalry assaults in the middle, leaving no one behind!" Zhang Xinghan nodded and commanded.

The scout took the order and quickly disappeared into the sea of sorghum.

Not long after, two side and three wheelers carrying six devil soldiers drove over, and to Zhang Xinghan's surprise, the two crooked machine guns mounted on the side bucket did not even have fire reconnaissance and test firing wherever they went.

After thinking about it, I was relieved that this army had been smuggled in, and their commander must have thought that the attention of Sujiatun's squadron was attracted by the 14th Division.

In order not to startle the snake, the top soldiers of the Yue army did not conduct fire reconnaissance and exploration as usual.

Zhang Xinghan didn't pay attention to these two devil motorcycles at all, and they didn't have any value worth their own hands at all.

His goal is the main force of the army behind.

Sure enough, not long after the three wheels passed by the two devils, the infantry of the brigade drove over in a neat four rows.

Because it was a smuggling person, the devil had no other armored vehicles except for some motorcycle-side three-wheeled vehicles transported in front of him.

When the devil completely entered the ambush circle, Zhang Xinghan immediately ordered.

More than a dozen 60mm mortars, which had been prepared for a long time, suddenly opened fire one after another.

"Tom tom tom tom tom ......tom" A series of muffled sounds, more than a dozen poison gas bombs fell towards the middle of the road with a piercing whistling sound.

The devils reacted quickly, and as soon as the cannon sounded, they fell down one after another and opened fire on the sorghum fields on both sides.

But to their surprise, when the sudden shell fell, it did not explode but smoked.

Soon, some devil soldiers were poisoned to the end, and the other devils were suddenly in chaos.

At this time, the second round of artillery bombardment came, and at the same time, the armored company, which had been in ambush for a long time, also divided into two lines, and appeared in front of and behind the marching army column with on-board machine guns and tank guns.

Sabuli led the cavalrymen wearing gas masks to suddenly kill from the fields on both sides, and all the cavalry first fired fiercely with submachine guns on their chests according to Zhang Xinghan's instructions.

It wasn't until all the 30 rounds of charging ammunition were exhausted that they drew their swords and rushed towards the already heavily wounded and chaotic Japanese army.

As soon as the gunshots rang out, the leader of the devil's detachment, Nishimura Lane, fell from the war horse very alertly.

was guarded by the guards around him, and the guns fired loudly at both ends, and he was also strafed at close range by dense submachine gun fire in the middle.

The subordinates around Xicun Lane fell one after another, and his guard squadron escorted him and retreated, but he was soon overwhelmed by his own men and horses who retreated from the rear.

As soon as Xicun Lane looked around, he saw that in the dark night, I don't know how many chariots were firing fiercely and crushing and attacking this side.

At this moment, the artillerymen of the artillery company had adjusted the firing angle slightly according to Zhang Xinghan's prior arrangement and continued to fire the artillery.

After a round of shelling, dozens of poison gas bombs all fell to the back of the queue where Xicun Lane No. 1 was.

The poisonous gas quickly spread, and the guards and subordinates around him were immediately thrown into chaos.

Nishimura himself accidentally inhaled the poisonous gas, and soon collapsed with convulsions and foaming at the mouth.

"Kill them all, don't leave a single one alive!" Zhang Xinghan stood on an armored car and commanded loudly with a gas mask.

(To be continued)