With an elite cavalry regiment of the Eighth Route Army, it raided the small city of Tuan Town in the middle of the night, and the Japanese defenders naturally died and could not die again.

If measured by the size of the results, this battle is simply not worth mentioning. However, the strategic position of Chengzituan is too important, just like Lang Ting, the political commissar of the Eighth Column Cavalry Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, often said, if you control Chengzituan, you can use the train of the Jinfu Railway to go directly to Jinzhou. As long as Jinzhou is controlled, Dalian and Lushun can go down in one go. The reason is very simple, the Japanese army has not yet discovered that our army has entered the Liaodong Peninsula at this time, and the trains on the South Manchurian Railway can directly drive into Dalian Railway Station and Lushun Railway Station, and go to the heart of the devil to flash the banana fan, and the Japanese fortress facing the sea and the Dalian coastal defense fortifications are useless.

Not only Dalian and Lushun, after occupying Jinzhou, they could control the South Manchurian Railway, intercept the trains of the South Manchurian Railway, and transport the Eighth Route Army directly to Shenyang City. Haicheng, Anshan, and Liaoyang will all fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army without knowing it.

This was originally in the battle plan for the northeast.

When Zhao Shan, the commander of the Eighth Column, Zhao Jie, the political commissar, and Zuo Ye, the deputy commander and commander of the 22nd Brigade, arrived at Chengzi Tuan. Yu Xia, commander of the Eighth Column Cavalry Regiment, and Lang Tingchang, political commissar, were organizing forces to unload a train of trucks parked at Chengzituan Station. Get ready to get in the car and head straight to Golden State.

The railway was built by the Japanese themselves, but the train driver was a Chinese. As soon as I heard that it was the Eighth Route Army in Shandong that descended from heaven to recover Kwantung Prefecture and eliminate the Japanese army in Dalian, the train driver's tears of excitement flowed down.

The Jinfu Railway is a monorail, and you have to drive early, and you may encounter a passenger car from Jinzhou if you are late. I have to give way to the car and delay time.

To Yu Xia's dismay, Commander Zhao Shan did not let the cavalry regiment take the train, but ordered the cavalry regiment to set off on horseback immediately. Attack the stations along the Jinfu Railway, ensure the smooth flow of the railway, and cooperate with the troops by train to attack and occupy Jinzhou.

As for the task of capturing Golden State by train, it was given to the 22nd Brigade of Zuo Ye. Because there was only one train and there were not many people to pull, Zhao Shan could only let the cavalry ride his horse in order to speed up.

Zhao Shan told Zuo Ye that after taking control of Jinzhou, he must block the news and send a train back to pick up the troops.

After the cavalry regiment and the vanguard of the 22nd Brigade led by Zuo Yeqin set off, Zhao Shan waved the main force of the Eighth Column. The soldiers divided their way and marched south. Among them, the cavalry regiment, the 22nd brigade, the artillery regiment, the artillery column heavy artillery regiment, the second air defense regiment, and the second engineer regiment advanced along the Jinfu Road, and got on the train at any time to speed up the journey. The 23rd Brigade advanced along the east side of Jinfu Road and captured key coastal points such as Piziwo. The 24th Brigade advanced along the west side of Jinfu Road and seized the areas south of Pulandian, west of Jinfu Road, and on both sides of the South Manchurian Railway. Zhao Shan and Zhao Jie led the troops directly under the column to follow up with the 22nd Brigade.

The train from Chengzituan spewed white smoke and ran on the Jinfu line.

Jinzhou has a long history, has always been the border and coastal to the sea, known as the "Liaodong Xiongcheng".

The name of Jinzhou originated from the fact that Huacheng County at that time was promoted to "Jinzhou" in the fourth year of Xuanzong Zhenyou of the Jin Dynasty. It is still in use today. During the reign of Liao Xingzong, Jinzhou was the seat of state. For more than 800 years from the Mengyuan Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty, Jinzhou has always been the seat of the government, prefecture and county, and the political, economic, cultural and military center at the southern tip of the Liaodong Peninsula.

If Lushun is the gateway to the Bohai Sea, then this Golden State is the throat of Lushun. Because the Golden State is bordered by the Golden State Bay to the west. It is bordered by Dalian Bay in the east, and the narrowest part of the land between the two bays in the east and west is only three kilometers wide. The whole terrain is like a bee's waist, guarding the back road of Lushun, and it is the throat of the Liaodong Peninsula connecting the hinterland of the northeast with Dalian and Lushun.

If Lushun is attacked from the sea, it will inevitably be blocked by the fire resistance of the Lushun fortress, and the casualties can be imagined. And even if there are heavy casualties, they may not be able to take Lushun.

When the Qing court built a military port in Lushun, the engineering experts who presided over the construction work had seen the importance of Jinzhou and reminded the Qing court that it must pay attention to the defense of Jinzhou, otherwise, once the back road on land was copied, then the fall of Lushun would be in the blink of an eye. However, the Qing court ignored this suggestion, and in peacetime only stationed more than 200 foreign guns around the waist of the Isthmus of Jinzhou, and even after the outbreak of war, the garrison there was only 3,000 troops, and there was a lack of rifles and ammunition. With such a weak army, it was naturally difficult to resist the attack of a large and well-equipped Japanese army.

During the First Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese army also saw the importance of Jinzhou's location and made Jinzhou the main target of the army's landing operation. The generals of the Qing army also saw this, but they were unable to carry out an effective counterattack against the landing operations of the Japanese army due to the lack of troops. invited troops to Beiyang, but was blocked by Li Hongzhang, the head of Beiyang, with a sentence of "each defending place". Therefore, when the Japanese army landed at Huāyuankou north of Jinzhou, the Qing army stationed in Jinzhou fought hard, but Jinzhou was still lost in a short time. At this point, the fall of Lushun was inevitable.

In fact, the small stretch of land from Lushun to Golden State is called the "Golden State Peninsula" by geographers, which also shows the importance of Golden State to the southern tip of the entire peninsula.

After Russia "leased" the Luda area, it also deployed heavy troops in the Jinzhou area. In the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army once again repeated the old plan, landed at Piziwo north of the Isthmus of Jinzhou, copied the back road of Lushun, and after taking Jinzhou, once again turned Lushun into a bag. However, this time the Battle of Arthur was far more difficult than the Battle of Arthur in the First Sino-Japanese War, mainly because the Russian fleet built strong fortified positions in the area around Arthur, relying on the fortress and the artillery fire of the battleships in the military port to put up stubborn resistance, and inflicted heavy casualties on the Japanese army.

However, the experience of the Russo-Japanese War proved in the end. Any besieged fortress will eventually be captured by the attacking side. Unless it can maintain land contact with the rear and occupy a vast space for maneuver, it is impossible for Lushun's lone army to grasp the strategic initiative, and this is precisely where the strategic significance of the Jinzhou Isthmus lies.

At half past seven in the morning, the Golden State Railway Station was already busy.

Jinzhou Railway Station is a large station, which is the intersection of the South Manchurian Railway and the Jinfu Railway.

Due to the Pacific War, the South Manchurian Railway not only undertook the task of transshipment grain, coal, and ore from the northeast to Japan, but also undertook the task of providing part of the food and ammunition supply to the Southern Army, which launched the Pacific War. Although yesterday the planes of the Eighth Route Army sneak attacked the airports and ports of Dalian and Lushun. Heavy losses were caused, but the Japanese himself believed that the Second Flight Group of the Kwantung Army would be able to protect the airspace of the Northeast after regaining its strength. Moreover, the combat operations of the Southern Army to capture Southeast Asia are progressing smoothly. Even the U.S. troops in the Philippines and the British troops in Singapore have surrendered, and the battle is nearing its end, and the Fifth and Fourth Flying Groups of the Kwantung Army, which were transferred to the Southern Army to cooperate in the operation, are about to return to the northeast, and I believe that the planes of the Eighth Route Army will not dare to make trouble again. Therefore, the transportation tasks of the South Manchurian Railway did not stop.

The bus to Chengzituan departs at 9 o'clock in the morning, stops at 11 stations along the way, such as Guangning Temple, Liangjiadian, Piziwo, etc., arrives at Chengzituan at 12 o'clock, and returns in the afternoon. Once a day, rain or shine. Trucks are dispatched according to the needs of the freight, sometimes only a few times a month. Sometimes it's a few times a day.

The devil stationmaster has been busy from yesterday to today. The reason was that yesterday the fighters of the Eighth Route Army attacked Dalian and Lushun, and the garrison ordered him to strengthen the air defense preparations at the railway station. No, early in the morning, the devil stationmaster stood on the platform with a large group of people, urging the transfer of materials stacked on the platform.

At this moment, a train spewed smoke and whirred into the station.

The devil stationmaster took a look, how did he enter the station from the Jinfu railway line? He remembered that there were no wagons coming from the Jinfu Railway at this time!

The devil stationmaster scolded Baga, and walked to the train that stopped at the station with people, wanting to find out which bastard made the wrong dispatch and let the truck enter the station from the Jinfu line at this time.

Where will the devil webmaster know. The train was pulled by the Eighth Route Army, and the little devils at the stations close to Chengzituan along the way were all cleaned up by the Eighth Column Cavalry Regiment. The stations near Jinzhou were all packed up after the Eighth Route Army stopped on the train. It is simply impossible for him to receive a report from the stations along the Jinfu Railway.

The train came to a standstill, and the carriage board was lowered. Only then did the devil stationmaster realize that the trucks were all pulled by the imperial army.

Zuo Ye, deputy commander of the Eighth Column and commander of the 22nd Brigade, saw that the train had successfully stopped at Jinzhou Station, and lightly lit up. He jumped out of the car, and after getting out of the car, he ordered the troops to quickly take control of the station.

Zuo Ye walked over to the devil stationmaster, and with a wave of his hand, an officer wearing a captain's epaulette behind him flashed out, telling the devil stationmaster in fluent Japanese that in order to prevent the Eighth Route Army aircraft from attacking, the imperial army is now taking over Jinzhou Station, and the stationmaster is asked to carry out the order.

The devil stationmaster stretched out his hand to ask the officer for the order paperwork, and the devil captain waved his hand, and the soldiers rushed up and went to the dispatch room with the devil stationmaster.

When he arrived here, Zuo Ye ordered the head of the devil station to immediately cancel the sale of passenger cars, and ordered all the buses and trucks to set off in the direction of Piziwo to pick up the imperial troops coming from Andong.

Zuo Ye told the Devil Stationmaster that these imperial troops were here to strengthen the defense of Jinzhou Bay and Dalian Bay.

This was originally a very normal reason, but what Zuo Ye didn't expect was that Jinzhou was a big station of the Manchurian Railway, and the stationmasters were all well-established, and they were not afraid of them at all, so they had to report to the Manchurian Railway headquarters in Dalian when they picked up the phone.

This devil stationmaster is going to die, and no one can forgive him. When Zuo Ye reached out and pressed the phone, a dagger stabbed into the back of the devil stationmaster.

In this way, the devils at Jinzhou Station could not be left, and the stationmaster and dispatcher were all stabbed with bayonets by the soldiers.

Without the devil stationmaster and scheduling, things are more convenient!