While the Yue army in Xinmin City sent aid at any cost, in the direction of Shenyang, a large number of Yue troops also began to approach the east bank of the Liao River again, trying to cross the river again.

Ge Quanwu's regiment immediately prepared for battle, and quickly informed Li Zhenyuan, asking him to transfer more than 100 tanks and armored vehicles to strengthen the patrol and vigilance force along the river.

However, the devils on the east bank did not rush to cross the river.

More than half an hour later, a deafening roar of the engine suddenly sounded in the distant sky to the southeast.

Ge Quanwu immediately raised the telescope to adjust the focus and looked into the air, and soon, the target in the telescope quickly became larger, and Ge Quanwu's pupils dilated.

Put down the binoculars, turned his head and shouted: "Enemy planes, enemy planes are attacking, lie down quickly, prepare for air defense!" ”

As soon as Ge Quanwu's order was delivered, dozens of planes swooped down from the sky with a roar.

The dozen or so fighter planes that started with it let out a series of hot and dazzling tongues of fire, and dense bullets rained down on the position of Ge Quanwu's regiment.

Suddenly there were snowflakes and mud splashing everywhere.

The devil fighters swooped and strafed and roared past, followed by more than 20 bombers of various land-based and sea-based air forces.

Wherever the "boom, boom, boom......" bombers passed, there were violent explosions, and huge fires rose up with billowing smoke.

With the arrival of their own air force, the army immediately divided its troops and began a large-scale river crossing operation.

A tank regiment sent by Li Zhenyuan was disturbed by the air raids and bombardments of the Yue army, and had no time to take care of the devils crossing the river.

Soon, a large number of devils crossed the Liao River, which was no more than 100 meters wide, from several locations.

With the wave of the command knife of the devil commander one by one, thousands of devils began to attack Ge Quanwu's regiment from the north and south directions of the west bank.

The purpose of the devil is very clear, first to deal with Ge Quanwu's regiment, seize their field fortifications, and then under the cover of the air force, to repel the armored forces of the Northeast New Army.

In order to open up the connection between Shenyang and Xinmin, and quickly repair the Liaohe Bridge and build a pontoon bridge.

Ge Quanwu shook his head and shook off the dirt on his head and back, raised his head and looked in the north and south directions outside the position.

I saw that there were black ghost soldiers everywhere, and they were rushing towards them with their bayonet 38 rifles.

Ge Quanwu's eyes tightened, and he shouted in a mournful voice: "The little devil is here, ready to meet the enemy!" ”

The officers and men of Ge Quanwu's regiment, who had originally taken refuge in the trench fortifications, got up from the trenches one after another when they heard this, and all kinds of rifles, submachine guns, and machine guns were re-erected.

When the officers and men of Ge Quanwu's regiment were ready, the army was already within firing range, and their light and heavy machine guns and small-caliber mortars were already firing one after another.

"Brothers, give me a hard beating, lose Guanjiabao, the whole regiment is below me, no one can go back to see the commander without the face, in a word, fight to the end!" Ge Quanwu personally picked up an MG34 general-purpose machine gun and roared angrily.

"Da da da......" The general-purpose machine gun suddenly let out a roar, and the hot bullets poured out in a fan shape like splashing water.

Other officers and soldiers also opened fire, and the dense bullets immediately swept the ghost soldiers who charged in clusters to the ground.

…………………… Tieling City, the former enemy headquarters of the Northeast New Army.

"Commander, it's not good, Guanjiabao is in an emergency, and I said that I dispatched a large number of planes, which not only attacked the position of my Ge Quanwu Regiment stationed in Guanjiabao, but also caused great trouble to my two tank divisions.

At the same time, Xinmin, the frontal army in Shenyang, also strengthened its forces and launched several counterattacks against our frontal attacking troops. Li Guocai walked up to Zhang Xinghan with a telegram in his hand and reported loudly.

Zhang Xinghan's expression was stunned when he heard this, and he immediately ordered: "Order the pilot division to attack immediately, be sure to shoot down all the planes that attacked Guanjiabao for me, and telegraphed Ge Quanwu and Li Zhenyuan to hold on to Guanjiabao at all costs, if Guanjiabao is lost at this juncture, Lao Tzu will shoot them." ”

"Yes!" Li Guocai had never seen Zhang Xing's tone so stern, so he immediately stood up and saluted and left.

"Wait."

"Commander, what other instructions do you have?"

"Send a telegram to Wang Yizhe again, the Western Route Army must take all the peripheral positions of Xinmin City before dark today, rendezvous with Ge Quanwu's regiment at Guanjiabao, completely encircle Xinmin City, and tell Commander Wang that this battle is an important turning point in the Battle of Shenyang, and the officers and men of the whole army should do their best to move forward bravely, and those who retreat without an order, regardless of their rank and position, can be executed on the spot!" Zhang Xing's Chinese tone was so cold that Li Guocai shuddered.

"Yes!" Li Guocai stood up again and saluted, and immediately took the order to leave.

…………………… In Zhangwu County, Wang Yizhe listened to the report of the signal soldier, and immediately got up and said: "Guard battalion, gather immediately and follow me to the front line." ”

"Master, you want to go to the front?" The signal soldier asked with concern.

"The commander's order has come down, as the commander of the first division, I should rush to the front line and fight side by side with the officers and men of the whole division!" The king is philosophically righteous and righteous.

"However, Division Commander Gao has personally led the team to participate in the attack, and you are the commander-in-chief of our Western Route Army." The communications soldier looked puzzled.

"What's wrong with the commander-in-chief? The commander said, this battle can't be won, no one can fucking think about taking a step back, violators of the order will be severely punished, you give me this order to immediately convey this order to all regiments, telegraph the whole division, each regiment dares to retreat without permission, the first to take the regiment commander to ask. Wang Yizhe said.

"Yes!" The signal soldier hurriedly saluted and turned to leave.

Wang Yizhe and his guard battalion immediately left Zhangwu and rushed to the Xinmin front line, which was full of artillery fire.

After a while, Wang Yizhe took the guard battalion to the former enemy headquarters and met with Gao Chu, the commander of the 9th Division of Reading Force.

"Senior Commander, how is the situation?" After saluting, Wang Yizhe asked.

"Fuck, don't mention it, the little devil is like crazy, it's a completely lifeless way of playing, our division is about to succeed in several attacks, and the little devil has been beaten down with a lot of troops." Gao Chu was a little depressed.

"You received the strict orders issued by the commander to the divisions, right?" Wang Yizhe asked again.

"yes, got it." Gao Chu nodded.

"How's that, what do you think?" Wang Yizhe raised the telescope and asked.

"From the perspective of the overall situation of the Battle of Shenyang, Xinmin City is extremely important to both myself and us, and it is reasonable for the commander to have such a strict order for the sake of the overall situation." High Chu Dao.

"I know this, I mean you have any good ideas?" Wang Yizhe said.

"The total strength of the devils in Xinmin City is at least no less than 50,000, and after the losses of these battles, there are at least 20,000 or 30,000 people.

Once we suffer too many casualties, then Xinmin City may be gained and lost.

Therefore, I suggest that Li Zhenyuan immediately lead a tank division to make a detour from the north of the city to assist our tank regiments to form a powerful assault group, break through the army from the front, and surround Xinmin City.

The tank division has hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles, and with their joining, the little devils will not want to die, and it will be impossible for flesh and blood to stop the attack of our torrent of steel. Gao Chu Dao.

"Draw Li Zhenyuan's tank division?" Wang Yizhe said worriedly: "Li Zhenyuan's troops were embarrassed by the air raid of the Yue army, and now he himself has concentrated a large number of troops in the storming fort, he and Ge Quanwu are now taking care of themselves, right?" Can you send troops to help us? ”

"Explain the pros and cons to Li Zhenyuan, and I think he will definitely agree to reinforce us." Gao Chu said: "It's just that the Guanjiabao position is much more dangerous. ”

"Anyway, let's try." Wang Yizhe thought about it for a while and said.

……………… Guanjiabao, fierce battles are in full swing.

Li Zhenyuan's two tank divisions had to guard the Yue army in Xinmin City on the one hand, and on the other hand, they had to deal with the air attack of the Yue army.

Fortunately, the fighter groups of our two flying regiments arrived in time, and they were assisting the air force with two armored air defense regiments to attack the air force of the Japanese army.

Two tank regiments guarded Xinmin City, and the other two tank regiments drove to the position of Ge Quanwu's regiment to assist the infantry in resisting the attack of the Yue army.

The officers and men of Ge Quanwu's regiment used 200 tanks as solid shelter and formed a dense and powerful crossfire network with the cooperation of 400 vehicle-mounted general-purpose machine guns.

The devil soldiers who charged in clusters from the north and south fell in pieces under this powerful firepower.

Since the army has already landed on a large scale, there are tens of thousands of troops, and there is also air force cover in the air.

Therefore, it is no longer realistic to drive the devils down the river, although the tank regiment can maneuver to destroy the enemy, but after the devils have landed on such a large scale and approached, the opportunity for mobile assault has been lost.

After all, in the crowd of tens of thousands of devils, 200 tanks are still very small, once they fall into the siege of the army, the consequences will be unimaginable, and Molotov cocktails and cluster grenades may cause the tanks to break down on the spot.

Therefore, Li Zhenyuan made a decisive deployment and used tanks to build a steel defense line around the defensive position of Ge Quanwu's regiment to assist Ge Quanwu in blocking the Yue army.

Heavy fire hit, and from time to time the machine gunners on the tank were shot and killed, or were hit by grenade fragments from devils.

Every time someone died, the infantry in the trenches would climb into the tanks without fear of death, push away the corpses of their comrades, and continue to fire with their side-by-side machine guns.

In the trench, an armored communication soldier quickly came to Li Zhenyuan's side along the trench.

Squatted down and reported: "Commander, General Wang Yizhe is calling. ”

Li Zhenyuan was originally the commander of the armored company directly under the headquarters of the Seventh Brigade of Reading Li, and he was also Wang Yizhe's old subordinate.

"What instructions does the old chief have?" Li Zhenyuan turned his head and asked.

"General Wang asks the commander to bring a tank division over and cooperate with them to break through the frontal defense line of the Yue army first, and then complete the siege of Xinmin City and open up the communication with Guanjiabao." The comm replied with a bowed head.

(To be continued)