As soon as Zhang Xinghan gave the order, the 20,000 officers and soldiers of the two infantry divisions began to wait for the train in an orderly manner.

The tanks and armored vehicles of the armored brigade also started one after another, slowly drove out of the Tongliao base area, and advanced eastward.

As for the tactical arrangements for this assault on Jilin, Zhang Xinghan conducted detailed and thorough consideration and discussion with Jiang Baili and others during these three days.

After discussion, an offensive route was decided, that is, from Tongliao to the east, along the Qinghe River, bypassing Shuangliao, and directly attacking the important town of Siping.

Siping is located at the junction of the two provinces of Liaoning, in the hinterland of the Songliao Plain, the South Manchurian Railway runs through the whole territory, once Siping is attacked, he will definitely mobilize heavy troops from Changchun and Shenyang two directions.

When the purpose of mobilizing the army was achieved, with the strong mobility of the Northeast New Army, it quickly took a detour through Gongzhuling and penetrated directly into Jilin through Changchun.

At present, in the northeast region, the total strength of the army is to occupy an absolute advantage, but it is distributed in the three huge eastern provinces, although he himself has concentrated the main force along the South Manchurian Railway as much as possible.

However, compared with the 50,000 Northeast New Army, it is still at a disadvantage locally.

Moreover, in terms of air force, tank armored forces, artillery fire, and infantry rapid-fire firepower, it is even more completely backward with Zhang Xinghan's Northeast New Army.

The only advantage of the Yue Army is that their soldiers are more well-trained than the Northeast New Army, and they have been trained for a longer time.

However, under the command of absolute firepower and Zhang Xinghan's super-era and superb battle, it has disappeared invisibly.

At the same time that Zhang Xinghan led the 1st and 2nd Mobu Divisions and the armored brigade to advance eastward from Tongliao, Jiang Baili and Huang Xiansheng also commanded the 3rd Mobu Division, and the cavalry regiment directly under them moved south from Qinglong Mountain to threaten Zhangwu, Shenyang and other places.

The new army of Tongliao was divided into two routes, and it was naturally impossible to hide from the scouts and agents of the army who were interested in reconnaissance.

The news was quickly reported to the Kwantung Army Command.

Muto Nobuyoshi was shocked when he heard this, slapped the table and said: "Bagaya Road, Zhang Xinghan deceived people too much, and he dared to divide his troops into two roads with his little strength, and wanted to attack Changchun and Shenyang at the same time?" ”

"Your Excellency General, I humbly believe that one of the two Chinese armies must be a feint, and Zhang Xinghan will not be stupid enough to disperse his limited forces and attack the cities and towns that are heavily defended by the imperial army." Hashimoto Toranosuke.

"Oh? Then Hashimoto-kun thinks that the people of China are imaginary all the way, and that all the way is real? Muto Nobuyoshi asked.

"Returning to the general, this is not possible to draw conclusions for the time being, but we can notify all divisions and regiments on the front line in advance, especially the troops in Changchun and Shenyang, to take strict precautions, no matter which direction the people of China attack, the imperial army should be able to ensure that the existing defense line is not broken through." Hashimoto Toranosuke.

"Hmm." Muto Nobuyoshi nodded, paused and said: "Telegraph order, the 2nd and 6th divisions strengthen the defense of Shenyang and Zhangwu, and if necessary, they can abandon Zhangwu and retreat to the front line of Xinmin to rely on favorable terrain for defense."

The 14th and 10th Divisions strengthened the garrisons of Siping and Changchun, and transferred to Zhishan, Jixing, Zhang Jinghui and other Manchurian [***] divisions to cooperate with them, so as to ensure the safety of the South Manchurian Railway defense line. ”

"Hay!" Hashimoto Toranosuke hurriedly bowed his head in response, and then turned around and strode away with his saber.

……………… In order to concentrate its forces to shrink and defend the line of the South Manchurian Railway, the 10th Division decisively abandoned the isolated Shuangliao county town after learning that Zhang Xinghan had led his army from Tongliao.

An infantry brigade stationed in Shuangliao County, together with a regiment of puppet Han annihilation troops, were all withdrawn to Siping.

Li Zhenyuan led the armored brigade to occupy Shuangliao, but soon gave up on the orders of Zhang Xinghan, and the brigade of 200 tanks and armored vehicles quickly advanced towards Siping.

Zhang Xinghan led 20,000 officers and soldiers of the 1st and 2nd Mobu Divisions to follow suit.

On the same day, the New Army Flying Regiment dispatched a large number of bombers to bomb the South Manchurian Railway, Siping, Gongzhuling and other stations, causing a lot of casualties and trouble to the devils.

On August 15 of the 21st year of the Republic of China, Li Zhenyuan, commander of the armored brigade of the New Army, led his troops to the western suburbs of Siping.

Zhang Xinghan then arrived with two motorized infantry divisions.

Knowing that the Northeast New Army was heavily pressurized and the troops were approaching Siping City, Muto Nobuyoshi hurriedly ordered Changchun and Tieling to rush to the aid of Siping along the railway line.

At the same time, the 1st Division of the 2nd Division was also transferred from Shenyang to Siping.

In order to further attract the Yue army, Zhang Xinghan ordered the troops to set up a position in the western suburbs of Siping and began to launch the first onslaught on the Siping defense line of the Yue army.

Dozens of No. 4 tanks guided and covered thousands of infantry of the New Army on a front more than 1,000 meters wide, and under the cover of the fierce fire of their own artillery groups, they launched an attack on the defense line of the puppet army.

Throughout the battlefield, the gunfire was intensive, the cannon rumbled, and clouds of fire and smoke continued to rise from the ground.

In the forward command post, Zhang Xinghan, Wang Yizhe and others were watching the attack of the troops with binoculars in both hands.

"Commander, it seems that I have made a lot of preparations in the past few months." Liu Jianguo, deputy commander of the 1st Mobu Division, put down the binoculars and turned his head to Zhang Xinghan.

"Hmm." Zhang Xinghan held up the binoculars and saw that his attacking troops were fighting fiercely with the Yue army relying on a large number of machine-gun bunkers, and nodded undeniably.

On the battlefield, a large number of officers and men of the First Motorized Infantry Regiment were charging with their own tanks in the rain of bullets.

Tank No. 4 kept firing, but many shells landed on the pillbox, and bursts of dazzling fire bloomed.

However, the devil's bunker is obviously different from the ordinary civil bunker, and after the fire flashed, the machine gun fire in the bunker stopped slightly, and then roared again.

Many motorized infantry regiments were unfortunately shot and fell in pools of blood.

The offensive and defensive hands were stuck in stalemate, and every minute someone was shot and died.

After the attack lasted for half an hour, Zhang Xinghan decisively put down the binoculars and said: "Order the troops to stop the attack and call the air force to bomb." ”

"Yes!" A herald who had been waiting next to him happily stepped forward and walked out of the command post quickly.

After receiving the order, the attacking Mobu Regiment and dozens of tanks stopped their charge and retreated like a tidal wave.

It didn't take long for about a dozen HE111 medium bombers to fly over the battlefield under the escort of five Zero fighters.

Fierce bombardment began at the defensive positions of the army, pillboxes, light and dark fire points.

Coincidentally, a group of military fighters were also ordered to rush to the battlefield at this time.

The five Zero fighters immediately met them, and the devil fighters, who had been frightened by the fighters of the Northeast New Army Air Force, immediately turned around and fled without hesitation.

However, the Zero, which was far faster than them, quickly caught up and eventually shot down two unlucky planes.

In the forward command post, Zhang Xinghan and others held binoculars and looked ahead, and everywhere they looked, they were shrouded in fire and gunsmoke, and they couldn't see the position of the army at all.

Feeling that the ground under his feet was faintly trembling under the violent explosion, Liu Jianguo said excitedly: "This is enough for the little devil to drink a pot, commander, in my opinion, let's attack with all our strength and win four draws in one fell swoop." ”

"It's not that simple, Siping has now become one of the extremely important strategic hubs of myself and the puppet army in the Northeast, which is related to the smooth flow of the South Manchurian Railway and the Zhongchang Railway.

If we really capture Siping, I will definitely not give up and will definitely mobilize heavy troops to counterattack, so that we will fall into a repeated tug-of-war of attrition with Yue himself, unless we withdraw from Siping, but then our previous efforts will be in vain.

Therefore, what we need to do at the moment is to appropriately give the enemy army in Siping a certain amount of casualties, and attract and mobilize more puppet troops to help Siping.

When the time is ripe, to stay with Siping to attract the army, the main force immediately detoured to Gongzhuling and slammed into Jilin City, which is now the capital of the puppet Manchukuo.

After Jilin is taken, we will be able to deal a heavy blow to the puppet Manchukuo.

In order to maintain the so-called Manchurian agreement, the puppet army will certainly counterattack Jilin, and then we will attack according to the situation and rely on our army's powerful mobility ability to break through each of the puppet armies in a mobile war.

Destroy a large number of the enemy's living forces, and finally complete the counteroffensive against Changchun, Siping, Shenyang and other places, and recover the lost territory in the northeast of our country. After Zhang Xinghan finished speaking, he put down the binoculars and turned around and walked to the conference table and sat down, lit a cigarette and began to smoke.

"So, now let's wait patiently for the opportunity to appear, look at it, I can't hold my breath, and the reinforcements will definitely continue to march towards Siping."

…………………… Zhang Xinghan's prediction was good, at this time, most of the troops stationed in the Siping area were mainly the 10th Division, and when the Northeast New Army really used aircraft and tanks to carry out a fierce attack.

The commander of the 10th Division, Hirose Shousuke, and sent several telegrams to Muto Nobuyoshi asking for help.

Muto Nobuyoshi then transferred more than 60,000 people from Manchuria [***], which was reorganized and expanded from Zhishan, Jixing, Zhang Jinghui and other Han annihilation troops, and began to rush from Jilin, Liaoyuan, Xifeng and other places to help Siping.

The 14th Division also drew troops from the direction of Changchun as much as possible, preparing for a melee battle with the Northeast New Army in Siping.

........................ "Commander, a large number of puppet troops are coming towards Siping, Gongzhuling, Changchun direction of the army was also ordered to draw a considerable part of the troops to the south, especially Jilin, to Yu Zhishan led by Manchuria [***] most of the orders were ordered to rush to Siping, now Jilin is an empty city, the time is ripe. That night, Shen Xingye, the commander of the reconnaissance battalion, quietly came to the headquarters of the former enemy of the New Army and secretly reported to Zhang Xinghan.

"Is the information accurate?" Zhang Xinghan asked.

Shen Xingye nodded and said, "Well, the lowly position has already turned a considerable number of reconnaissance battalion brothers into Jilin City as civilians, and the news will never be wrong." ”

"Okay, you go first, I'll order the troops to go." Zhang Xinghan waved his hand.

After Shen Xingye saluted, he quietly left.

Zhang Xinghan immediately found Wang Yizhe, Wang Yicai and others, after discussion, Zhang Xinghan decided to use the second division of the motorcycle to stay in Siping and pretend to be the main force to confront himself, the first division of the motorcycle and the armored brigade immediately evacuated at night, advanced to the north of Lishu County, and then broke through through Gongzhuling and marched to Jilin.

(To be continued)