After a while, Ishihara arrived in a hurry.

On the way here, he had already heard the news about the death of the commander of the 9th Division in attack.

When Ishihara came, Minamijiro was already waiting for him in the war room.

He went straight to the war room, and when he arrived at the door, he stood up and saluted, "Your Excellency General." ”

"Ishihara-kun, come in quickly." Minamijiro waved his hand.

"What do you do now? The commander of the Ueda Kenkichi Division was killed in an attack, most of the large number of logistics supplies escorted by the 9th Division were destroyed, and the supplies carried by the 1st and 5th Divisions were only enough to last for three days. Nanjiro's face was extremely ugly.

"It's very strange, Itagaki Jun has successfully eliminated Zhang Xinghan, and in addition to his reading division in the northeast, that unit also has armored troops?

And since Zhang Xinghan is dead, and the Reading Division is caught in an internal struggle for power, how can he dare to send an armored assault force to attack the attacking troops of the imperial army? Ishihara was also puzzled.

"Ishihara-kun, could it be that Zhang Xinghan is not dead?" Minamijiro broke out in a cold sweat.

"This... Itagaki-kun shouldn't have such a big mistake in handling things, right? Ishihara said with a difficult face: "At present, the imperial army is already ready to be attacked, if only because of an unknown source of the Chinese armored force, we are afraid of the 1st, 5th, and 9th divisions to withdraw, then I say that the imperial army has no face?" ”

Minamijiro was silent when he heard this, indeed, now that the imperial army has become like an arrow, he will definitely not be able to explain to the military department and the entire people of Japan if he withdraws like this.

You must know that the mobilization of more than 100,000 troops at every turn is not as simple as sending a small force to suppress bandits, attacking when they say they are attacking, and withdrawing when they say they are withdrawing.

"Ishihara-kun, at the moment, we still have to come up with a better way to ensure that the logistics supply lines of the imperial army are unblocked before we can carry out the next offensive operation." Minamijiro Road.

"This is more difficult, unless the 14th, 11th, and 12th divisions are all transferred to Shenyang, Xinmin to Zhangwu line, with strong forces to ensure the smooth flow of the logistics supply line of our attacking troops, but in this way, we will not be able to carry out vigilance and attack in the direction of Changchun and Jinzhou." Ishihara thought for a moment.

"When will the additional forces of the 4th, 7th, 8th, 10th and 2nd, 6th, and 20th divisions reach Dalian?" Minamijiro Road.

"It is expected that the mobilization will be completed and rushed to arrive in a week at the earliest, the most important thing is that our docks and airports and other infrastructure have not yet been repaired, in order to prevent another air raid by the Chinese Air Force, even after the arrival of reinforcements, we have to choose to land and land at night, which undoubtedly has a great impact on our build-up speed." Ishihara Wanerdo.

"A week is too long." Minamijiro frowned.

Ishihara Wan'er stared at the map for a while, and suddenly said: "General, judging from the time when the 9th Division and Zhangwu County were attacked successively, the route of action of this armored unit of the Zhina Army from unknown origin should be from west to east, which means that after evacuating Zhangwu again, they should now be in the area of Xinmin Liuhe." ”

"Huh?" Hearing this, Nanjiro hurriedly found Xinmin and Zhangwu and other places on the map, and said in shock: "Ishihara-kun, you said that the next target of this branch of the army will not be Xinmin, right?" The Imperial Army did not have many troops in Xinmin. ”

"Quite possibly." Ishihara said bluntly: "General, in order to ensure that there is an emergency, I suggest that the above three divisions be immediately transferred to Shenyang and Xinmin, and at the same time, the 1st, 5th, and 9th divisions should be ordered to advance eastward from Zhangwu, and strive to encircle and annihilate this branch of the Chinese army in the area of Shenyang and Xinmin. ”

Nanjiro pondered for a while, nodded and decided, "According to what Ishihara-kun said, the 14th Division will be immediately transferred back to Shenyang, and the 11th and 12th Divisions will immediately go north from Panjin to Xinmin to ensure that the supply lines of the imperial army are unimpeded, encircle and annihilate this armored force, and completely solve the worries of the imperial army." ”

"Hay!" Ishihara bowed his head suddenly, turned around and led the way away.

…………………… The Kwantung Army's orders were soon issued to the 14th Division and the 11th and 12th Divisions, and the three divisions began to move towards Shenyang and Xinmin from the direction of Tieling and Panjin respectively.

Look back at Zhang Xinghan's assault troops.

After evacuating Zhangwu, Zhang Xinghan led his troops to move to the vicinity of the Liuhe River south of Daliu Town, about 24 kilometers northeast of Zhangwu.

His strategic purpose is obvious, and now that the army is empty in Shenyang and Xinmin, he is officially taking advantage of the situation to capture these two places.

Just imagine, if even Shenyang was attacked by Zhang Xinghan, how much shock would it cause to the Yue army?

It's just that Zhang Xinghan didn't know for the time being that Nanjiro had adjusted the deployment of troops in time, and the 11th, 12th, and 14th divisions of 60,000 or 70,000 troops were coming towards Shenyang and Xinmin.

"Division, running and fighting overnight, the armored soldiers are fine, but the brothers of the cavalry regiment are already exhausted, especially the war horses, if they don't stop to rest, they are likely to be exhausted and lose their strength." During the march, the commander of the cavalry regiment, Sabuli, rode a war horse to catch up with Zhang Xinghandao.

Zhang Xinghan thought for a while and said, "Okay, order the troops to rest in place for two hours, and send more cavalry guard posts just in case." ”

Zhang Xinghan naturally knew that the soldiers were fast, but there were still more than two hours before dawn, and his own air force would be able to give powerful air support and reconnaissance and early warning.

Moreover, after the 9th Division and Zhangwu County were attacked one after another, Xinmin's army must have been on guard, and it was also a strong attack to Xinmin at this time.

In addition, the troops have been attacking for hundreds of miles, and they have just gone through two fierce battles, but they are exhausted and urgently need to rest.

Therefore, Zhang Xinghan gave up the decision to attack Xinmin at any cost, and decided to wait for dawn to rely on the support of the air force to attack again.

After the troops stopped, Zhang Xinghan got out of the car and inspected his subordinates who were resting and eating, surrounded by Guo Zhong and Shen Xingye.

Since there were only two hours to spare, the troops had to seize the time to rest, so they didn't have time to light a fire to cook, but fortunately, Zhang Xinghan provided them with a full amount of canned beef, compressed biscuits and other food before departure.

After all, such an assault force, in order to ensure its mobility, is generally not equipped with many cooking squad personnel.

It was very cold, and the water in the soldiers' kettles had already froze into lumps, and many of the soldiers ate compressed biscuits and some canned beef with ice residue in the snow, and then fell asleep in the car.

"Master's seat." When inspecting the 701st regiment, the head of the regiment, Liu Jianguo, hurriedly saluted with a compressed biscuit in his hand.

"It's hard work to build the country." Zhang Xinghan stepped forward and patted the old subordinate on the shoulder to comfort him.

"Hehe, it's all devils, there's nothing hard or hard, Shizuo, where are we going next?" Liu Jianguo asked with a smile.

"Capture Xinmin first, attack Shenyang according to the situation, if you can capture the best, if not, lead your troops to cross the Hunhe River south and then make plans." Zhang Xinghan said.

"Shizao, let's rest here, what if the army behind catches up?" Liu Jianguo said with some concern.

"The army has just experienced the battle of Zhangwu, and now the enemy situation at night is unknown, so they don't dare to move easily, besides, even if they want to attack at night, their scouts will be able to reconnoiter our position." Zhang Xinghan said and looked at Shen Xingye meaningfully.

Shen Xingye smiled knowingly and nodded.

At the same time, about ten kilometers east of Zhangwu, a piece of hilly and mountainous land.

Several scouts led by Zhao Long were ambushed here, and as Zhang Xinghan expected, the army sent many scouts out of the city to spy on the situation when they did not know the enemy's situation.

However, they were all blocked by the reconnaissance company that had been prepared for a long time, and nearly half of the more than 100 scouts were used to defend the direction of Zhangwu.

"Head, at six o'clock, there is one, fifty ...... away," a deputy beside Zhao Long held a telescope and whispered after careful observation by the moonlight.

"Roger." Zhao Long raised the sniper rifle in his hand and quickly spotted the sneaky black shadow in the moonlight, and pulled the trigger as he pulled it.

An inaudible gunshot rang out, and about forty meters away, the black shadow fell in response.

At the same time, there was a forest about two or three kilometers away from Zhao Long's area.

Several military scouts were walking through the woods with rifles, when suddenly, several black shadows jumped down from the trunk of the big tree held by the people, and the sharp blades in their hands were fiercely inserted into the bodies of several military scouts.

Occasionally, the scouts were able to escape, but the agents of the reconnaissance company armed with knives quickly bullied them, and after a while, they were all easily eliminated.

After Cheng Bin killed the last army scout, he grinned and said, "Take off all the grenades on their bodies, make them into trick mines, and send them to the little devils who will collect their corpses tomorrow for breakfast." ”

…………………… Two hours passed in a blink of an eye, and it was already more than five o'clock in the morning, the night had faded slightly, the sky was gray, and the visibility had been greatly improved compared to two hours ago.

Zhang Xinghan sat in the cab of the military truck and took a short rest, when Shen Xingye came over and woke him up: "Master, Master, it's almost dawn." ”

"Hmm!" Zhang Xinghan woke up when he heard the sound, rubbed his eyes, and said, "Nothing abnormal, right?" ”

"No, Zhao Long and Cheng Bin reported that a group of devil scouts did want to infiltrate and reconnoiter eastward, but they were all sent away." Shen Xingye said proudly.

"Okay, order the troops, immediately move, at the same time, send a telegram to the chief of staff, the air force immediately dispatch, be sure to reconnoiter the enemy situation within a radius of 300 miles centered on Shenyang and Xinmin, and report immediately if there is anything abnormal." Zhang Xinghan commanded immediately.

"Yes!" Shen Xingye stood up and immediately took the order to leave.

(To be continued)