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； Four o'clock in the afternoon, Jinzhou. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info the front headquarters of the Kwantung Army.

After the Japanese army made significant progress in the attack on the southern route, the pace of advance slowed down, and the three divisions of the Japanese army on the northern route suddenly launched a fierce attack on the Chifeng line in the morning in accordance with the instructions of Muto Nobuyoshi.

The Japanese troops occupying the line from Marin Town to Yuanbao Mountain, a few kilometers east of the city, under the order of the commander Sato Konosuke, left a brigade, a puppet infantry brigade, and a Harada cavalry brigade.

Muto Nobuyoshi was satisfied with the current progress of the offensive, and the units of the 6th Division on the Southern Front had arrived at the established location and assembled separately, and soon attacked the squadrons in strategic points beyond the Great Wall, and the Chinese defenders in the Chengde area of the Western Front would lose their strategy in the east due to their stupid rout, and the pressure would increase greatly.

Muto Nobuyoshi finished reading the various strategic points marked on the map, slightly collared, turned his head to look at the busy staff officers around him, gently rubbed his sour eyes, returned to his seat and closed his eyes to rest for a while, after opening his eyes, he was full of energy again, and just picked up the tea cup and took a sip, the head of the intelligence section, Itakawa Seishiro, came in and reported urgently:

The independent division of the Central Army has driven out of the Great Wall and marched northward, the division is equipped with about 36 artillery pieces, all of which are pulled forward by trucks, and about one anti-aircraft tank battalion is following, and it is preliminarily judged that its destination is the line of Kuancheng.

The commander of the Kwantung Army, Nobuyoshi Muto, the chief of staff, Kuniaki Kolum, and the deputy chief of staff, Ninji Netura, all became nervous, and the ace division, which belonged to the Central Army and was almost as numerous as a division of the Japanese army, was finally dispatched, and it was also equipped with an air defense tank battalion that even the Kwantung Army was not equipped with. This means that the flank of the 8th Division occupying Pingquan is seriously threatened, and under the condition that the enemy situation is unknown, the three southbound brigades and one cavalry wing commanded by Nishiichi will definitely have concerns about the strongest and most elite troops of this Anjia Army, and will not dare to rashly drive straight into the onslaught to attack the defenders on the periphery of Chengde.

Muto Nobuyoshi looked at the map again and again. After a brief discussion with the small alum country Showa Wangcun Ningji, he ordered this information to be reported to the 6th and 8th Divisions, and ordered the 26th Cavalry Wing to stop advancing. On the spot, he was on alert, and then convened a cadre of the headquarters to discuss urgently.

The generals had not yet reached a consensus, and the emergency from the front came again.

The acting chief of staff of the Sixth Division, Saito Daisa, reported urgently: The cavalry reconnaissance squad of the forward unit of the headquarters encountered the cavalry reconnaissance team of the enemy's Third Army Corps in the Qingsongling area, 21 kilometers northeast of Tiemen Pass of the Great Wall. Since the trail has been exposed, the service brigade has lost the fighter plane that quickly descended to attack the enemy's flank in Kuancheng, and the service brigade has stopped advancing and is waiting for the next order from the headquarters.

Muto Nobuyoshi clasped his hands in front of his chest, frowned and thought, and before he could figure out his head, Itagaki Seishiro came to report again: Lu Yixuan's 17th Division, which was subordinate to the Central Army, suddenly went north, followed the route of Hu Jialin's Independent Division, and always maintained a distance of about 20 kilometers from Gaobei's Independent Division.

In addition, the Beiping Intelligence Station reported urgently that the operational meeting of the Beiping Military Branch ended this morning, and the generals and colonels of the Central Army Corps rushed to the Tangshan Headquarters to preliminarily judge that the Central Army Corps would have important military operations; At two o'clock in the afternoon, the 11th Air Force of the Central Army at Nanyuan Airport began to evacuate in batches, and all of them flew south an hour ago, and the destination is not yet clear, and there are only four planes left at Nanyuan Airport, all of which are small fighters that are being repaired and cannot take off.

In the face of the sudden large-scale transfer of the squadron, the first cadre of the Kwantung Army Command looked at each other, and they all felt that these measures of the squadron were full of conspiracy, and the battle situation became complicated and full of variables.

Seeing that the generals were arguing with each other, Muto Nobuyoshi frowned, raised his hand to signal everyone to be quiet, lowered his head and pondered calmly for a moment, and quickly grasped the key:

"Gentlemen, I would like to put forward two points for you to divide: first, the two main divisions of the Central Army of China unexpectedly went out of the pass to meet the battle, which made the huge loopholes between the fourth and fifth legions of the enemy defenders suddenly disappear, and the first line of Kuancheng, which was originally connected to Qinglong in the east and Chengde in the west, was weak and full of loopholes in the defense, but now not only is the defense of sufficient strength and the defense has become thicker all of a sudden, but also the combat strength of these two main divisions is extraordinary, and it is the only elite unit in the enemy army in North China that has fought with our army and remains undefeated. It suddenly went north and penetrated directly into the connection point between our two main forces, directly threatening the 8th Division attacking Chengde in the west and the 6th Division in the east, disrupting the layout and offensive rhythm of the troops on the southern route of our army, prompting our army to have to deal with it. It can be said that we still underestimated the determination of the Chinese army to resist and neglected their active defense capability, and several of us are responsible for this, and the intelligence department should seriously review it. ”

Everyone was uneasy, and Seishiro Itagaki stood solemnly, his face full of shame.

Muto Nobuyoshi continued: "Second, since the war started in the direction of Shanhaiguan, the aviation unit of the Central Army of China has caused us a lot of trouble, and what is especially worthy of your attention is the new air defense brigade under the famous general An Yi of China! Three days ago, two battalions of this air defense unit were hiding in an area about 15 kilometers west of Qinhuangdao, and when a mixed formation of bombers of our air brigade attacked ground targets, they suddenly launched a fierce attack, and the intensive fire of German-made antiaircraft artillery shot down three bombers and one escort destroyer of our army within a few minutes, and one of the bombers exploded violently in the process of escaping back wounded, and the bombs and wreckage fell on our army's own position, and the ground troops lost a squad. Immediately after that, eight new enemy fighters suddenly appeared, forcing our mixed fighter formation to quickly withdraw from the battle, and if it were not for the fighters of the second group taking off quickly to meet the fight, the enemy planes would have launched a strike in depth on our eastern front. It's frustrating! By the time the fourth-class Kaigong planes of our army flew into the airspace of the battle, the enemy planes had already fled, and the air defense combat vehicle unit on the ground had disappeared without a trace. Post-war inspections revealed that two of the six aircraft withdrawn to Jinzhou airport were damaged. It can be seen from this that although the enemy's aviation units are not large in number, they are superior in equipment and tactics to our army, and there are certainly advisers from Europe and the United States behind them in command, which has already formed a powerful deterrent to our Japanese air force and greatly affected the morale of our army. ”

All the generals nodded one after another, deeply agreed. Muto Nobuyoshi stopped, his gaze swept over each of his cautious faces, smiled faintly, and solemnly asked the question:

"Today, the question of how to deal with the enemy's air defense forces, aviation and other issues have not yet been resolved, and the enemy army is one. The sudden retreat of the aviation brigade to the south is definitely a major conspiracy in this! So, what exactly is this conspiracy? What exactly are the enemy trying to do? In connection with the two main divisions of the Central Army Corps, which suddenly rose above the pass, and perhaps also with the nearly 10,000 officers and men of the Anjia Army, who were hiding in the mountains west of Chaoyang, struggling and trying to extricate themselves from our heavy encirclement, all of these are all considered by you: Do you think that the enemy's hasty large-scale movement is too sudden? Are they reactive or proactive? What are they trying to achieve? What are the key points in a series of frequent transfers and a battle situation that has suddenly become complicated? As long as we think about these problems, everything can be easily solved, and we can regain the initiative. ”

The generals' eyes lit up, their thoughts suddenly brightened, and they all cast admiring glances at Muto Nobuyoshi.

An hour later, the chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, Koalum Kuniaki, came up with a complete set of relatively perfect plans, Muto Nobuyoshi nodded with satisfaction after looking at it, put on his military hat, calmly sorted out the discipline, and strode away with his chest up. Okamura Ninji, deputy chief of staff of the headquarters, personally walked to the front of the large map, took the marker pen in the hands of the staff officers, and quickly worked, and in the blink of an eye, two red arrows flew away like two leaping red snakes, both aimed at the big black circle marked with the word "Chengde."

Meanwhile. Konoki Kuniaki, chief of staff, issued an order to the air force command by telephone: stop all combat operations on the Eastern Front, retain only the necessary aerial reconnaissance capabilities, and immediately make all combat preparations for the first and second air brigades and follow the orders of the headquarters to take to the air at any time. The Fifth Air Brigade stationed in Tongliao suspended all military operations and submitted to the unified command of Lieutenant General Konosuke Sato, commander of the Northern Route Army.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, in the afterglow of the sunset in the west, three silver-white fighters with the blue sky and white sun emblem and the flying fox mark flew to the airspace of Banghammer Mountain west of the rising sun, two of them continued to move eastward, and the remaining one began to slowly reduce the altitude, hovering in the air, flying round and round over the snow-capped mountains and forests, and finally saw the liaison sign paved with battle flags in the open space of the valley.

The plane is like a human nature, raising its head and flying high happily, drawing a beautiful arc in the direction of due north, turning south again, slowly reducing the altitude, at this time the square plexiglass window in the back seat of the cabin has been opened, and an orange-red object flies out of the window, and in the process of flipping and falling in the air, it quickly opens its small white umbrella coat and staggers towards the area of the valley covered with red flags.

At the edge of the valley, under the snow-covered Dajiao, hundreds of heavily armed soldiers looked excitedly at their warplanes and their slowly descending communication sacs. After smoking the cigarette, Gu Changfeng, who could only roll the horn tube to smoke the cigarette, was full of praise for his pilot's technology and the fall of the communication bag, and was about to shout loudly to the subordinates who got the communication bag from 100 meters away to send it over quickly, when he was startled by the sudden dense gunfire in the sky.

Liang Zhenyu rushed out of the woods, climbed the snow-covered stone hill and shouted, "Put away the flag, all are hidden and strictly forbidden to move." Seeing thousands of brothers returning to the forest after a brief period of confusion, Liang Zhenyu let out a sigh of relief and looked up at the sky.

Gu Changfeng and Yang Jiuxiao threw away their cigarette butts, walked briskly onto the stone hill, stood beside Liang Zhenyu, who was stunned and looked at the sky like a fool, raised his head and looked at it for a moment, and the two of them also had the same stupid expressions on their faces as Liang Zhenyu.

In the sky northeast of this sea, the smoke of gunpowder from aircraft machine guns surged with the wind, the sound of aviation machine gun fire and the piercing sound of screaming were constantly heard, and six green Japanese fighters and two silver-white fighters were entangled and opened fire on each other.

After the two took a look, the two warring sides narrowly passed by, and a green plane that had been shot staggered and roared down, and soon emitted thick smoke and made a sharp noise, crashed headlong into the ground, swept more than 200 meters above the stealth of the large army, and rushed towards the low mountain to the south. The sound of the explosion shook the snow in the dense forests near and far like rain, and the faces of nearly 10,000 people hiding nearby turned pale, dizzy and tinnitus.

The plane that turned its nose in the southern airspace just turned its nose and rushed to the battlefield, when it saw two enemy planes roaring towards it, and it was too late to change course to avoid it, so it could only quickly rise high, bravely meet the enemy plane, and fire fiercely, and the Japanese planes also fired at the silver plane at the same time, and the three planes with red flames spitting out red flames from the nose attacked each other almost straight to each other, and when they were about to collide together, the Japanese planes on the west side suddenly rolled over and changed direction, and the remaining Japanese planes had been beaten to the cockpit split, the wings flew one after another, and the nose of the plane suddenly fell down, and flames and smoke came out. Immediately the volley exploded, and with a "bang", the brilliant flames burst out, and the huge explosive force shook the silver fighter plane flying above it into continuous rolling, like a leaf in a storm, frightening the three Gu Changfeng on the stone hill and the thousands of soldiers watching the battle at the edge of the woods exclaimed in unison.

The silver hair machine rolled and fell sharply under the gaze of countless pairs of worried eyes, and it was only after falling for hundreds of meters in a row that it could control its posture, but it still couldn't stop the humble head of the violent fall.

Just when the soldiers on the ground were extremely desperate, two large black dots flew out of the rapidly falling body, and after falling for a few seconds, they finally succeeded in opening the two white parachutes, and slowly floated towards the top of Gu Changfeng and the others under the blowing of the north.

The runaway fighter plane fell into a deep valley hundreds of meters out of the northeast, and a huge explosion was released, raising a burst of gunpowder smoke and flames.