Chapter 20: The Night of the Breakout

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After nightfall, after listening to Itagaki Seishiro's summary report on the overall situation of the Mukden Incident, Honjo Shigeru slowly closed his eyes, the 39th Mixed Brigade dispatched by the commander of the Imperial Army in Korea, Hayashi Mijuro, had just crossed the Yalu River, when it received an urgent telegram from the military headquarters and was forced to stop at Andong to stand by, while the urgently mobilized Ando detachment was still assembled in Sinuiju and had no intention of maneuvering along the railway.

"What a hard night!" Honjo let out a long sigh, and the atmosphere in the temporary command post of the Kwantung Army front line on an armored train ten kilometers southwest of Kita-Camp was so low and depressing that it was almost breathless.

The bad news is that the defenders of the Beida Battalion, who had previously ordered to retreat, disobeyed the order.

The good news is that the Northeast Army in Liaoning quickly retreated in the direction of Jinzhou, and seemed to be avoiding contact with the Kwantung Army, and in Changchun and other places, there were even senior generals of the Northeast Army in contact with the Kwantung Army's local secret services, such as Xiqia, chief of staff of the Jilin Provincial Deputy Commander's Office, and Zhang Haipeng, the guard of Taonan Town.

Honjo Shigeru looked around the stuffy armored compartment, whether it was Miji Kenkawa, who was as steady as Mount Tai and drank tea with the emperor's edict, Miyake Koji, chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, who was pacing back and forth with an anxious expression, and even Ishihara Waner, the director of the staff office who did not say a word, almost everyone knew that the attitude of the military headquarters in issuing orders to the troops stationed in Korea had already explained the problem.

On the issue of the Manchurian Incident, the military department was obviously very angry, if the Kwantung Army could not turn the tide in one fell swoop with its own strength, then the military department would not mind cleaning up the mess for them, and in the face of the squadron [***] team in the Beida Battalion, Honjo felt extremely bitter.

Honjo looked at Jiro Tamon, who was standing aside and didn't gnaw, hesitated for a moment and said, "Tamen-kun! It is too late to transport artillery shells from Lushun, in any case, please capture Beidaying before dawn, and the Manchurian Railway Reading Force garrison to which Lieutenant General Sen Lian belongs has all boarded the car and began to attack along the lines of Andong, Benxi, Gaiping, Anshan, Fengtian, Tianzhuangtai, Changchun, Fushun, Haicheng, Liaoyang, Tieling, Changtu, Gongzhuling, and Kuanchengzi, and cooperate with the troops left behind in various places and armed soldiers in the township to complete the occupation before sunset tomorrow night. ”

After listening to Honjo Shigeru's order, Domen Jiro gasped and said: "Your Excellency, the [***] team in the North Battalion has not yet been cleared and occupied, if you rashly divide the troops in various places, once the [***] team attacks it, our army will be divided and surrounded, or even annihilated!" ”

Honjo shook his head and said, "Duomen-kun! What we need at this moment is a momentum, understand? A monstrous momentum, since the military department is not determined, then we will help them, either watch our Kwantung Army complete the great achievements of seizing the Manchurian and Mongolian lifeline, or sit back and watch our Kwantung Army for the entire empire! The economy of the empire has reached the verge of collapse, we eat white rice in Manchuria, and our family eats black bean mixed rice in Yueben, this is the shame of our emperor [***] people, in the face of the lifeline of Manchu and Mongolia related to the life and death of the empire, we emperor [***] people have no reason to sit idly by, either to achieve great causes, or to sacrifice their lives for His Majesty the Emperor! ”

Honjo's words were like a shot in the arm, and the fighting spirit in the hearts of everyone in the carriage was ignited! All of them excitedly raised their hands and shouted three times in a row: Long live His Majesty the Emperor! Long live His Majesty the Emperor! Long live His Majesty the Emperor!

"Hey!" Jiro Tamen put on his military hat with a ashamed face, and looked around for half a week to salute everyone in the carriage, except for Honjo Shigeru who nodded in surprise, the rest of the people hurriedly saluted.

Duomen Jiro had just left the carriage, and suddenly, a fierce gunfire sounded in the southeast direction of Beidaying, and the continuous flash of light made Duomen Jiro stumble and fall on the railway foundation.

Honjo Shigeru and the others, who heard the fierce exchange of fire, also left the armored compartment, and the military police captain who was in charge of the guard on the side hurriedly extended the first and second cordon lines by 300 meters. The staff officers in the carriage were desperately shaking the front-line telephones.

Soon, news came back from the front that a squadron [***] suddenly launched an attack on the Amano Brigade Headquarters deployed a squadron of vigilant troops without any warning, and broke through the resistance of the Fujita Squadron in more than ten minutes, and tore a gap from the direction of the Amano Brigade Headquarters to break through, and the Tengtian Squadron and the Amano Brigade Headquarters were severely damaged.

In the face of the strange behavior of the enemy troops in the Beida camp, the generals and staff officers of the army who were present looked at each other one after another, obviously leaving a way out for them on the south side, but the other party wanted to shake the key parts of their own defense, and Major General Amano, who was eager to make contributions, actually set the brigade headquarters at the front?

What's even more surprising is that from the launch of the attack to the breakthrough of the Chinese [***] marched away, it took only more than ten minutes before and after, which means that the Chinese [***] only launched a surprise attack, a superb tactical implementation that can be called a tactical textbook case, the entire breakthrough operation is not bad in seconds, and it can also give the enemy the greatest damage, including all the generals of the army, including Domen Jiro, no one has asked whether to pursue this [***]?

In the face of such a force, equipped with a large number of automatic weapons, and the commander has a high level of tactical literacy, the pursuit can only bring more casualties.

"All the middle [***] in the camp of Peking University have broken through!" Major General Miji Jianchuan, who was wearing a staff tape and a ceremonial uniform, asked like this.

The captain's staff officer, who came to report, nodded and said, "Yes, Your Excellency, Zhong [***] has given up the entrenched circular position and retreated!" ”

"Oh!" The generals of the Yue army present let out a long sigh of relief almost in unison, this force that overwhelmed them finally retreated, if tomorrow in the North Battalion, things change for a long time, then everything may develop in the worst direction.

Honjo Shigeru knew that on the Manchurian and Mongolian issues, even the opinions within the military headquarters and the staff headquarters were not unified, let alone those politicians, if it were not for the attitude of Itagaki Seishiro who swore to provide important officials and political axes in Nanjing and Beiping, Honjo Shigeru probably would not have been able to make up his mind to fully participate in it, and as a result, a small accident almost led to a huge disaster that almost threatened the existence of the Kwantung Army.

Looking at the gunshots coming from the Beida Camp farther and farther away, Zhang Xuewu knew that it was the top soldiers of the Yue army who were trying to search for the circular position, and the road deliberately left by him in the south was very much in line with his usual combat method of encircling three and leaving one, once he retreated from there, the Yue army would definitely follow the attack with heavy troops, and his retreat would likely become a rout, or even a rout! He said that he took advantage of the clever change in the mentality of the people after the intense battle and survival, and the mentality of fighting to the death before the battlefield would quietly change with the retreat order, who would want to die if he could live?

Historically, this tactic has made him achieve great success in the operation of the large corps in the Chinese theater, and many times the [***] team was defeated by the word retreat.

Therefore, Zhang Xuewu chose a key point for the heavy defense of the army, and previously observed that the antennas there were at least a command headquarters above the wing level, so while sending sharp soldiers to the south to search for the advance and paralyze the army, he launched a surprise attack in one fell swoop, and caught the army who was preparing to follow the attack by surprise.