March 26 is destined to be a day when the newly established Northeast People's Anti-Japanese Allied Army will create a miracle.

Liu Yimin's original battle plan was to transport troops by railroad and occupy the Lushun Railway Station, attract the main force of the Japanese army to the railway station to eliminate it, shorten the time to capture Lushun, and reduce the casualties of the troops. It's just that the original plan was to secretly capture Jinzhou first, and then march into Dalian and Lushun. As a result, after the bold Zuo Ye entered and occupied the Jinzhou Railway Station, he had a whimsical idea, ignoring the Japanese troops in Jinzhou City and the coastal defense points outside the city, and drove straight in, directly attacking and occupying Lushun and Dalian Railway Stations, holding on and waiting for reinforcements, waiting for the arrival of the main force to annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop.

Zuo Ye's telegram for instructions was supported by Liu Yimin, and this is the legend that Zuo Ye led his troops to capture Lushun and Dalian Railway Stations, and then lured the main force of the Japanese Lushun garrison out of the fortress position, which was wiped out by our army in one fell swoop.

With the loss of the main force of the Kwantung Army's Lushun garrison and marines, the Port Arthur became a ripe persimmon in front of the 22nd Brigade!

The headquarters of the Kwantung Army is located on the northwest side of Anmin Square, Datong Road, Xinjing, the capital of the puppet state of Manchukuo.

Xinjing is the name of the Japanese pseudonym, and the old Northeast people call it Changchun.

The city of Changchun is both old and young. It is said that she is ancient, because the word "Changchun" comes from the Sushen language "tea ah chong" 7,000 years ago, which is the blessing language used by the ancient Sushen people to worship the sky, and it became "Changchun" after the Chinese translation. In 2130 B.C.E. The ancient Sushen Kingdom built a second capital here, using adobe to build walls and palaces, and the population of the city was about 1,000 households, called Xidu. The time of the Western Han Dynasty. Here belongs to the country of Buyeo, the religious belief is Taoism, the city wall and the palace are built with stone, the population is more than 10,000, there are many Erlang temples built in the city, the second son of Li Bing, the hero of the Thousand Autumn Heroes who built the Dujiangyan project, is called Guankou Erlang. In the Tang Dynasty, it was under the jurisdiction of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate. It is mainly used as a place of exile for the prisoners of the literary prison, and the Central Plains people call this place Shushan Mansion, and the famous "Shushan has a road and diligence as a path" refers to the situation when Changchun's literary style was at its peak. In the Jin Dynasty, it was renamed Kuanchengzi. The size of the city has been further expanded. The disaster happened at this time, when the Jin State had three major state religions, Taoism, Buddhism, and Nestorianism, among which Nestorianism was Christianity, and Kuanchengzi became the largest Nestorian holy place in Northeast Asia. When Meng Yuan defeated the Jin Kingdom after becoming strong. Kuanchengzi fought to the death, and it took the Yuan army nearly a year to capture it. Meng Yuan, a general of the Yuan army who believed in Tibetan Buddhism and was annoyed and angry, thought that this was an unknown place for Nestorian and would not be able to attack it for a long time, so he ordered the city wall of Kuanchengzi to be demolished, and the people moved to Liaoyang and the Central Plains. turned this thousand-year-old capital into ruins, and dug the ruins three feet into the ground. Level to the ground. It was not until the Qianlong period that the post station was re-established here. Jiaqing five years. Establishment of local governing bodies. Emperor Jiaqing took the words "long" and "spring" in the poem of his father Emperor Qianlong praising Kuanchengzi "Changbai has been in ancient Xizhou for thousands of years, and the spring is infinite in Kuancheng", and gave it the name Changchun Hall.

The second rise of Changchun originated from the Russians, and from the Tsarist Russia, in 1896, they seized the right to build the Eastern Railway. At that time, the Russians established a Russian settlement here. After the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese replaced Russia's rights and interests, renamed the East China Railway from Lushun to Dalian, and demanded that the Chinese government recognize the right of the former Russian side along the South Manchurian Railway to obtain "the necessary land for the protection of the railway" along the South Manchurian Railway Company in accordance with the "Sino-Russian Joint Eastern Province Railway Company Contract" and transfer it to Japan, and renamed it "Manchurian Railway Annex". Subsequently, Japan purchased 1528085 ping land in the Toudaogou area of Changchun at a price of 10 yuan (0.1 yen) per tsubo (3.3 square meters), named it "Manchurian Railway Changchun Annex", and started municipal construction. Subsequently, the Japanese bought 552 hectares of the Russian Railway Annexation in the Erdaogou area from Russia and merged it with the Manchurian Railway Annex, creating a new concession without the name of a concession.

Before the September 18 Incident, the headquarters of the Kwantung Army were successively set up in Lushun and Dalian. The day after the September 18 Incident, the Kwantung Army Headquarters moved north from Dalian to Shenyang. After the Kwantung Army planned to establish Manchukuo, the puppet Manchukuo established Changchun as its capital, changed Changchun to Xinjing, and established Xinjing Special City, which was directly under the puppet Manchurian State Council. With the support of the Kwantung Army, the puppet Manchurians began the construction of the "Great New Kyoto City Plan", and the headquarters of the Kwantung Army was also moved to Changchun.

At this time, Changchun had become the political, military, economic, and cultural center of the puppet Manchurians, with a city area of more than 80 square kilometers, and a population far exceeding the 500,000 people expected in the "Daxin Kyoto City Plan", close to one million, with 10 city blocks of Shikido, Kuancheng, Changchun, Heshun, Suntian, Dongguang, Xiyang, Anmin, Datong, and Dongrong and 6 rural areas of Helong, Datun, Nanhedong, Beihedong, Shuangdeok, and Jingyue. Manchu, Han, Mongolian, Hui and Korean ethnic groups live in different regions, plus the Japanese, Changchun is indeed the only multi-ethnic city in the north. After the implementation of the "Great New Kyoto City Plan", Changchun has become the largest metropolis in Asia and the little Switzerland of the East.

Although the Japanese puppet is shamelessly boasting, Changchun's municipal construction is indeed very good, and it is built according to several functional areas: administrative center, city center, cultural and educational center, and social center. The city's arterial road network adopts a multi-centric form of radial, circular and lattice combination, and the roads are divided into main roads, secondary roads and auxiliary roads according to different functions. The main road is divided into car lanes, bus lanes, horse-drawn carriage and bicycle lanes by a green belt, and is lined with sidewalks. There is a plaza at the main entrance. Railways are underground, and the main streets are lit and telecommunications are underground. The Japanese puppet even envisaged the construction of a satellite city in Changchun.

The most commendable thing is the greening of Changchun. The combination of road green belts and urban parks has made Changchun's per capita green space area reach 2,272 square meters, more than double that of Washington and five times that of Tokyo, and is the highest among the world's metropolises. Moreover, Changchun's water supply and drainage system is very advanced, and it is the first city in Asia to fully popularize flush toilets at this time.

The Japanese are also planning to build 120 kilometers of subway and tram roads around the city, as well as a highway around the city.

The Kwantung Army Headquarters covers an area of 76,500 square meters, and in addition to the headquarters office building, there are also buildings such as the commander's residence. Among them, the office building of the Kwantung Army Headquarters is a Japanese-style building, with a steel frame structure, the top is covered with copper tiles, with a semi-basement floor, three floors above ground, four floors in the two wings, and five floors in the middle tower. The total construction area is 13,424 square meters, with a total of 221 rooms.

In the whole of Changchun City, only the roof of the building of the headquarters of the Eastern Army is black, and it is covered with black copper tiles.

Opposite the Kwantung Army Headquarters building is the Kwantung Army Military Police Headquarters Building, the two buildings are facing each other from afar, and it is the first group of buildings on the Datong Road leading from the Changchun Railway Station to the main urban area, as if entering and exiting the gate of Changchun.

Since the commander of the Kwantung Army was also Japan's ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Manchukuo and the supreme governor of Kwantung Prefecture, the Kwantung Army Headquarters was also the Japanese embassy in Manchukuo, and even the Kwantung Bureau, which was in charge of the affairs of Kwantung Prefecture, was located here.

At this moment, the interior of the Kwantung Army Headquarters Building, which was originally heavily guarded and seemed quite spectacular, was in a state of panic. The sound of transceivers, the ringing of telephones, and the shouts of staff officers into the microphones rang out. Needless to say, the Kwantung Army Command already knew the news of the Eighth Route Army's attack on the Shenyang railway station, the attack on the outskirts of Jinzhou, and the fall of the Lushun fortress.

It was the Special Operations Command of the Eighth Route Army that attacked and occupied the Shenyang Railway Station, the Second Column and the Sixth Column commanded by Liu Jianli and Zhang Hongtao who attacked Jinzhou, and the 22nd Brigade of the Eighth Column commanded by Zuo Ye who captured the Lushun Fortress.

After receiving a telegram from Vice Admiral Kobayashi, commander of the garrison of the Arthur fortress, the commander of the Kwantung Army, General Umezu Mijiro, and the chief of staff, Lieutenant General Yoshimoto Sadachi, were shocked as if they were petrified.

After reacting, Chief of Staff Yoshimoto Sadachi immediately ordered the chief of staff to cross the Kwantung Defense Army Headquarters and directly contact the major teams and squadrons of the Japanese garrison on the Shanhaiguan line to inquire whether the enemy situation had been discovered.

Yoshimoto Sadachi is worthy of being an old spy, very cunning, and knows the importance of Shanhaiguan.

Although General Umezu Mijiro is not a spy, he is a figure at the level of the strategic commander of the Japanese army, as cunning as a fox and as ruthless as a wolf, as soon as he saw Yoshimoto Sadachi arranging this, he stopped and said: "Yoshimoto-kun, there is no need to contact, Liu Yimin is very cunning, he can attack the periphery of Jinzhou, which means that the Shanhaiguan line has been lost." It is easy for Liu Yimin to decipher the code by sending a report to contact, which is greatly insecure. ”

As soon as Yoshimoto heard this, he felt that what the commander said was right, but he was not reconciled, and reported: "Your Excellency, I want to take a plane to Mukden and Kwantung Prefecture to observe Liu Yimin's offensive route and troops from the air and find out the enemy's situation. Otherwise, the enemy situation is unknown, and it is too passive. ”

Umezu Mijiro also had this idea, and you must know that the most taboo thing in a war is that the enemy situation is unknown. Now that Jinzhou has been lost, Lushun is also going to be lost, Dalian is fighting fiercely, Jinzhou is fighting fiercely, and even Fengtian City is fighting fiercely, and the Kwantung Army Headquarters still doesn't know how many troops Liu Yimin has dispatched, attacking in several ways, and to what extent the battle has progressed, this is terrible!

Umezu Mijiro had already received an order from the base camp at this time. The telegram of the base camp made it clear that the Fifth Fleet and the Fifth Flying Group were ordered to rush to the aid of the Kwantung Army, and the Kwantung Army was ordered to eliminate Liu Yimin's troops who had landed on the Liaodong Peninsula. As for how to eliminate Liu Yimin's department, the telegram from the base camp did not say that it was a matter for the commander of the Kwantung Army, General Umezu Mijiro.

The only fly in the ointment that Umezu Mijiro felt was that due to the unknown enemy situation, the base camp only ordered the 1st, 7th, and 9th Divisions to support the Shandong operation to assemble troops, and did not order them to return to the northeast to participate in the war.

Now the situation has changed, the Eighth Route Army not only landed on the Liaodong Peninsula, but also launched an attack on the periphery of Jinzhou, and even the Shenyang Railway Station was attacked and occupied by the Eighth Route Army, indicating that Liu Yimin really wanted to take advantage of the empty strength of the Kwantung Army in Mukden to seize Mukden in a war. In this case, Umezu Mijiro became more and more eager to know the accurate movements of the Eighth Route Army, otherwise he could only be beaten passively.