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At five o'clock in the morning, Vladivostok, the headquarters of the Kwantung Army. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Umezu Mijiro, who couldn't sleep early in the morning, got up and went to the bathroom to wash his face with cold water to clear his mind, and then walked to the war room of the headquarters, standing motionless in front of a large theater map with a serious face.

As the brain of the entire Kwantung Army, the movement of a large division or a small squadron must be finally confirmed here, and the work is extremely arduous under the current situation in which most divisions, brigades, and wings are retreating in great strides while some units are ordered to intercept them.

Yukio Kasahara, the chief of staff who yawned, walked into the war room, saw Umezu Mijiro at a glance, walked up to the commander with some surprise, and asked softly:

"Why did you get up so early? I went to bed after three o'clock in the morning, and now I get up again...... Commander, you haven't slept for ten hours in the past few days, and your body won't be able to stand it if you continue like this! ”

"I can't sleep!"

Umezu Mijiro sighed: "Lying in bed just now, I had heart palpitations, and I always felt that something bad had happened, and I couldn't sleep left and right, so I simply got up and saw where the crisis would be?" ”

Yukio Kasawara followed Umezu Mijiro's line of sight, looked at the Heilongjiang River basin area on the map, and immediately said:

"The Far Eastern front line is indeed in danger! The Anjia army, which had been marching from the direction of Chita, had reached Tigeda and could reach the west bank of the Zeya River in two days at most...... On the other side of Hailanpao, on the Heihe River, the numbers of four or five divisions of the Anjia Army have suddenly appeared in the past two days, and these troops may launch an operation to force the crossing of the Heilongjiang River at any time. Cut off the Trans-Siberian Railway! Because of this. Lieutenant General Seiichi Kita, commander of the Seventh Army garrisoning the area of the Brea Plain, sent several telegrams requesting that the Third Army and the Twentieth Army, which were retreating eastward, withdraw to the Obulu Fortress area in the Brien Mountains west of Boli to build a defensive line!

"After the Anjia army occupied the Heihe, it immediately went south along the Heilongjiang River, and many counties and towns in the south of the Yangtze River fell one after another, according to the confirmation of our riverbank garrison, their forward troops have arrived in Luobei County, as long as they cross the Fosiheng Mountain in the eastern section of the Xiaoxing'an Mountains. You can reach the confluence of the Songhua River and the Heilongjiang River. As long as their main force crossed the river at any stretch of the river, they could encircle the 7th Army Corps, which was between the Zeya and Bureya rivers...... Previously, the Third, Fourth, and Twentieth armies had all failed in the battle with the Anjia Army, and if the Seventh Army failed again, our Kwantung Army would lose face! ”

Umezu Mijiro sighed:

"How did I not know that the Seventh Army was in danger? However, now that the Third and Twentieth Armies have not yet withdrawn, the rout troops that have retreated from Chita are still crossing the Zeya River in a steady stream, not to mention so many expatriates with their children and daughters...... If we take the initiative to give up at this time, how will we explain to the country?

"The few emergency redeployments we had in place died before they could be launched...... The An Jiajun moved too fast, and we temporarily lost air supremacy. It's very difficult to maintain the current situation! Kasahara-kun, in fact, what I'm worried about at the moment shouldn't be the battlefield on the North Road, after all, no matter how dangerous this side is, at least the Anjia army will have to come to the city in two days......"

Speaking of which. Umezu Mijiro took the baton and pointed to the Songhua River on the map: "Come and see, here, the Harbin defense line has been opened with the loss of Xinjing (Changchun) in the south, and the original plan formulated by the headquarters to rely on the Songhua River defense has failed!" Jiro Togawa, commander of the Eighth Army, called three times, demanding that Harbin be withdrawn as soon as possible, otherwise once the Anjia Army marched north or eastward, it would attack the Mudanjiang River. Harbin's troops will face the doom of encirclement......"

The baton moved downward, and Umezu Mijiro poked it heavily:

Look at it again, Siping Street, it is at the intersection of Sitao Railway and South Manchurian Railway, north of Tiaozi River, east of Daheishan, the city is surrounded by hills on the north, east and south. It forms a dustpan-shaped basin, and the whole 'dustpan mouth' faces west, which is the throat of the defense of central and southern Liaoning.

"Okabe-kun led two divisions of the Third Front Army, three ** mixed brigades and four ** garrisons to defend, with a solid three-dimensional city defense system, plus more than 100,000 Manchurian troops and police forces to help, such an almost perfect arrangement, Okabe-kun is still complaining, he said that since the Liaohe Qujiadian defense line was broken through by the Anjia army three days ago, the Anjia Army Air Force has sent bombers to drop bombs on his head every day......"

Umezu Mijiro's face became more and more serious, and the baton moved to the left: "And here, Duolun in Xing'an West Province and Chifeng in Rehe Province have been occupied by the Anjia Army one after another, once Chaoyang is lost, it is only a matter of time before Chengde falls, and now neither the Zhina Dispatch Army nor us can send troops to rescue."

"In the next step, Jinzhou will become the primary target of the Anjia army, originally we were going to stop the threat from the enemy army on the western front in Jinzhou, but with the recent Tongliao, Zhanggutai and other places have been conquered by the Anjia army, Zhangwu, Xinlitun, Montenegro, Dahushan, Xinmin and other towns are threatened, Jinzhou has lost its role as a strategic location, and the troops can only retreat to defend the Liaohe defense line and Shenyang!

"It's hard...... The base camp asked us to withdraw as many troops as possible, but if we withdrew less, we could not achieve the goal of preserving troops, and if we withdrew too much, we could not withstand the front, and once the defensive line collapsed, the orderly retreat of the rear would soon turn into a terrible rout...... The situation is so bad that it is unimaginable! ”

Yukio Kasahara frowned:

"The main thing is that the combat effectiveness of our army is inferior to that of the other side...... In the past two years, the quality of soldiers has declined rapidly, Suzuki-kun took two infantry wings and a tank wing to ambush the Shina army, but after an encounter, the whole army was annihilated, and afterwards the news report in Nanhua said that they encountered only a tank regiment and a reconnaissance company, such a failure is really unbelievable! If it is true as the other side says, then at least our forces must reach 2 to 1 or even 3 to 1 to fight against it......"

Umezu Mijiro gritted his teeth:

"I knew that today, before An Yi was fledgling, I should have tried everything to kill him! The intelligence services are really derelict in their duties, and they are raising tigers for trouble. Finally, today's catastrophe has been caused! ”

Yukio Kasahara sighed. Suddenly remembered something, and asked: "Commander, I don't know when we will be able to regain the aviation, now we are too passive, every move is under the monitoring of the other party, this battle is not easy to fight!" ”

"Not for the time being, if you can't stand it in front, it may not be in the future!" Umezu Mijiro shook his head. Eyes full of worry:

"It will take at least two months for the Second Air Force to recover and accumulate enough fighters. After studying the base camp, it was believed that if a small number of fighters were sent to participate in the battle, the expected effect would not be achieved at all, and on the contrary, valuable pilots, fuel and other resources would be consumed in vain, and it would be better to use them in other battlefields...... It is said that there will be a big move in North America......"

Yukio Kasawara said in surprise: "The capture of Chicago is already very remarkable, can we achieve greater results?" ”

"I don't know!"

Umezu Mijiro stroked his chin thoughtfully:

"Based on what Ishihara knows, if I hadn't been able to make up for the loss of Manchu and the Northern Branch, if I hadn't been able to achieve results in other battles. He's going to make us fight to the death...... In the past few days, I have also been reflecting and discovering more and more the wonders of Ishihara's layout...... He's a near-perfect gambler who gets the most out of his ways! Judging by the current situation. Maybe it's a good choice to avoid direct confrontation with the An Jiajun and open up a new battlefield! ”

When it comes to the grievances of the top level and the strategic direction of the next step, Yukio Kasahara seems to understand it, and just wants to ask a few questions, the head of the communications section, Kajiro Muranaka, stumbles over and says loudly:

"Siping Street...... Siping Street ...... Commander Okabe called. Siping Street was heavily shelled by the Anjia Army, and the general attack of the enemy's Gu Changfeng Department began......"

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Siping Street is a new city, its construction began in the nineties of the last century, when the Tsarist Russia built the South Manchurian branch line of the East Qing Railway, the South Manchurian Railway was opened to traffic at the beginning of this century, and the Tsarist Russia named it Siping Street Station, and built the north-south one, two and three roads in front of the station, and began to build the railway concession.

After the defeat in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan took over the South Manchurian Railway from Tsarist Russia, turning the "railway concession" of Tsarist Russia into a "Manchurian Railway Annex", and the Japanese were in charge of the management of all administrative, economic, street administration, land, housing construction, culture, education, taxation and other affairs in the "dependent territory", and the urban development of Siping Street entered a high-speed channel.

By the opening of the Sitao Railway in 22 years, the status of the transportation hub of Siping Street became more and more obvious, and a large number of buildings rose one after another, and slowly developed into a large number of large cities in Northeast China. After the 918 Incident, this place was managed by the local office of Siping Street of the Manchurian Railway, and in December of the 37th year, the Siping Street Market was established, and two years ago the Northeast was divided into 19 provinces, and Siping Street became the seat of the provincial capital of Siping Province, and the scale of the city expanded again.

Since Siping was located at the throat of the south and north, the Kwantung Army has always paid great attention to its city defense needs, and many of the buildings erected after 918 have been reinforced so that they can change their functions at any time to become a strong city fortress. After years of continuous development, Siping has become a fortressed, semi-permanent fortified city.

At the end of last month, the Anjia Army officially marched into the Northeast and the Far East, and the Japanese army grabbed a large number of laborers from Siping and the surrounding areas to build fortifications day and night.

A week ago, the Second Route Army under the command of Gu Changfeng divided its troops in Liaoyuan (now Shuangliao), and the deputy commander Xiao Wu led the Seventh Tank Army and three infantry divisions to take away most of the combat materials and attack Tongliao to the west. Once the troops continue to advance south, they can move in the southeast direction at Xinlitun in the southwest of Zhangwu, and after occupying Xinmin, they can drive directly to Shenyang.

This division of troops has three advantages: first, it can ensure the safety of the main flank, second, it can play the role of a surprise soldier in the case of an unfavorable attack on the northern front, and third, it can echo the offensive of the Third Route Army, so that the Japanese army's attempt to block the Anjia army under Jinzhou will fail.

In terms of the main force, after the forward troops successfully crossed the Liao River, Gu Changfeng led his troops to conduct another three-day rest and recuperation at Sanjiangkou and Bamian City, and only after replenishing ammunition and fuel did they launch an attack on Siping Street City in the early morning of this day, striving to take the well-defended Siping Street in one fell swoop and open up the road to the south.

At the artillery position of the Anjia Army, 10 kilometers west of the central city of Siping Street, howitzers, cannons, rocket artillery, mountain artillery and field artillery captured from the Japanese army desperately spat orange and scarlet fireballs at the Japanese defense line, and the overwhelming shells were like rain falling towards Siping City.

The first to be hit was the fortifications outside Siping City, where silver fireworks and fire trees rose everywhere, and the sound of violent explosions resounded in the sky one after another.

The artillery shells gradually extended to the rear and shot into the city of Siping Street, and those solid artillery forts made of reinforced concrete were taken care of, and the howitzer shells equipped with the largest caliber of 203 mm equipped by the artillery units of the field army fell and hit the target directly, and those iron-walled fortresses were instantly opened skylights, and the shells penetrated and exploded inside the forts, triggering a violent explosion of ammunition.

Because it was still early, most of the Japanese soldiers were still immersed in sleep, and as a result, they were crushed together with the 203 mm grenade, and the violent explosion blew up the barrels of the cannons of various calibers in the fort hundreds of meters away, which made people marvel at the power of the explosion!

Due to the designation of the intelligence department and the continuous photo-taking and reconnaissance of the air force, almost all the coordinates of the Japanese fortress have been memorized in the minds of the artillery officers and men of the Anjia Army.

However, in a sense, they were lucky, because they died without any pain, and those who were mutilated by the bombing, but because of the artillery fire, the ambulance personnel could not enter the front-line position to rescue, and they had to endure the pain of penetrating their hearts, and they suffered for several hours in the artillery fire before dying.

It seemed that the most frightening thing was the attack of three rocket artillery brigades.

More than 400 130 mm 19-tube rocket artillery vehicles were launched together, and more than 7,000 rockets could be fired at one time, and the momentum could be described as earth-shattering. Pink smoke and dust against the raging fire reached into the sky.

The power of the 130 mm rocket is so great that ordinary people can hardly imagine, and the fortifications that were directly hit were instantly wiped out, even if they were not directly hit, the huge air wave set off by the explosion was enough to destroy most of the fortifications, and the entire Siping Street was in such a terrifying flame hell.

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