Chapter 540: The War of Resistance Honjo Fan also dares to go down (1)
No sooner had Seishiro Itagaki set up his command post than he received a report on the attack on Kita's troops.
First, the good news kept coming.
The two squadrons of Ono and Kawashima, which attacked the northern battalion, went very smoothly at the beginning, and the Northeast Army not only did not return fire, but also did not even have weapons, and even in the face of the killing of the Japanese army, it did not resist at all. After the two squadrons of Ono and Kawashima killed a large number of officers and soldiers in the Northeast, the 621st Regiment, the 619th Regiment and the 7th Brigade Headquarters of the Seventh Brigade of the Northeast Army had fled to the north and south gates of the Beidaying respectively, occupying the Beidaying, and defeating the elite Seventh Brigade of the Northeast Army was just around the corner. No, it would be more accurate to say that the time can be waited.
However, the next news turned into bad news.
Itagaki Seishiro received a report that when Ono and Kawashima were commanding the troops to pursue the Northeast Army, they were suddenly attacked by the 620th Regiment of Wang Tiehan of the Seventh Brigade. Due to the huge disparity in strength, except for a dozen people from the two squadrons who escaped from the North Camp, the rest of the personnel, including Ono and Kawashima, were all broken into the North Camp.
This report made Itagaki Seishiro very angry, and Itagaki was not angry that Ono and Kawashima squadrons had been killed in battle, because he had no delusional idea to defeat the well-equipped 7th Brigade with these two squadrons of about 600 men.
In Itagaki Seishiro's opinion, if these two squadrons attacked the North Battalion, if Ono and Kawashima could be smarter, or if Wang Yizhe could restrain his subordinates more, it would be fortunate that half of them could be left before the main force of the Duomen Division arrived. He just wanted these two squadrons to hold back as much of the Seventh Brigade as possible, so that he and Hua Gu could successfully occupy Shenyang City. At the same time, the jade fragments of these two squadrons were also used to force the Kwantung Army Command to order the entire Kwantung Army to launch an attack on the Northeast Army, and even the jade fragments of these two squadrons would become a bargaining chip to force the cabinet to support the incident.
Although it seems that his two goals have been achieved now, he still can't help but scold Ono and Kawashima in his heart, both of whom are stupid pigs with no brains.
Since the Seventh Brigade does not resist, if it is handled properly, it is very likely that the 7th Brigade will be disarmed en masse with these 600 or so people, although there is one less excuse, but it can also give confidence to the cowards of the Kwantung Army Headquarters and the Tokyo Military Department, and even destroy the military morale of the Northeast Army in one fell swoop.
However, scolding and scolding, annoyance and annoyance, at this time, he must resolutely and quickly extinguish any resistance of the Northeast Army, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable. Fortunately, the main force of the 7th Brigade has been withdrawn, and only the 2,000 or so troops of the 620th Regiment dare to resist.
Itagaki did not dare to slack off, and on the one hand, he ordered the artillery to concentrate artillery fire and bombard the Beida Camp again, and on the other hand, he ordered the Fifth Brigade of the Independent Garrison Brigade stationed in Tieling, which had just arrived, and a temporary artillery unit composed of Hanaya Masa's military police and soldiers in the township, to immediately go to encircle the Beida Battalion and be sure to defeat the 620th Regiment.
At the same time, Itagaki did not forget to send a squadron to occupy the airfield. Since the 620th Regiment dared to disobey Zhang Xueliang's order not to resist, then the air force of the Northeast Army was likely to follow the example of the 620th Regiment and must destroy more than 200 planes of the Northeast Army on the ground.
The Japanese army suffered heavy losses in Beidaying, but the Japanese army's movement in the city was relatively smooth.
Immediately after the Japanese army occupied the Northeast Frontier Chief's Office, the Japanese army first began to receive the various party, government, and judicial organs that had fled from the occupied city.
At the provincial government, the Japanese army smashed the sign of the Liaoning Provincial Government hanging in front of the door and looted all the documents and letters. At the same time, the homes of all the military and political dignitaries of the Northeast Army were also surrounded and controlled by the Japanese army.
Itagaki Seishiro regretted that he only caught the chairman of the provincial government, Zang Shiyi, and there was no trace of the Northeast military and political dignitaries, including Rong Zhen and Wang Yizhe. …,
However, when occupying Zhang Xueliang's marshal mansion, there was still a little accident.
Because the Japanese army was responsible for attacking Shenyang City, there were many targets in the city that needed to be occupied and controlled, and the troops attacking the Marshal's Mansion could only draw out a small team. However, the intelligence obtained from the surveillance shows that Zhang Xueliang and Rong Zhen were ordered to insist on not resisting, since the Northeast Army does not resist, then the strength of a small team is enough, and for the troops that carry out Zhang Xueliang's order not to resist, the Japanese troops sent are not how strong they are, they only need to play an oath role.
Itagaki even suddenly remembered a word in his heart, that is, horse racing, and wherever the Japanese army went, it was the king's land.
Sure enough, after a short exchange of fire between the Japanese troops of this squad and the Shuaifu Guards, the Shuaifu Guards took the initiative to withdraw in the direction of the East Gate.
However, the accident happened at this time, and before the Japanese squad rushed into the Shuaifu, another group of Japanese soldiers rushed to the Shuaifu in dozens of trucks, and suddenly attacked the Japanese squad. According to this military report, these people wearing Japanese military uniforms all spoke fluent Japanese, and they were all Japanese, and they were by no means pretending to be from China.
According to the military report, these Japanese then moved a lot of heavy boxes of various materials from Zhang Xueliang's marshal's mansion, loaded more than a dozen trucks, and then drove away in the direction of the east gate.
As for what these people moved from Zhang Xueliang's marshal mansion, Itagaki Seishiro didn't have to think about it to know that the boxes that were removed were filled with valuable things such as gold, silver and antiques. However, what Seishiro Itagaki was most concerned about, and he was eager to know, which unit dared to act without regard for military orders. The most odious thing is that these people dare to kill their own people in order to obtain money, and such soldiers are the scum of the Japanese Imperial Army, and must be severely punished. Seishiro Itagaki had no time to get out, while mobilizing his troops to pursue in the direction of the east gate, he ordered Hanaya to immediately track down the troops.
After occupying the military and political organs of the Northeast Army at all levels in the city, the Japanese army turned its target to various financial institutions in the city. However, to the great disappointment of the Japanese army, the branches of the Bank of China and the Bank of Communications in Shenyang, as well as the Northeast Frontier Bank, the Guanyin General Account and the Shenyang Branch of the Three Eastern Provinces, and more than a dozen large public and private banks in Shenyang, including the Shenyang branch of the Japanese Zhengjin Bank, had all been looted by people one step ahead.
Itagaki received a report that 'the robbers of the Bank of Shina were all Japanese ronin. In particular, in order to cover up their crimes, these Shina policemen also went on a killing spree in the bank, leaving no one alive, only one guard was knocked unconscious by the Shina police, probably because they forgot this person in their hurry, so they were able to survive. ’
Soon, the squadron sent to pursue at the East Gate reported that although they had not found the Japanese vehicles to be tracked, they had found a convoy of countless trucks near the Northeast Arsenal, heading north. It's just that they were ambushed by a large number of Northeast Army there, and they suffered heavy casualties, and now they have retreated to the east gate, asking Itagaki Seishiro to send reinforcements to pursue them.
The Fourth Route Army had a convoy of weapons and ammunition at the Shenyang Arsenal, and Seishiro Itagaki knew about it, and he got the information as soon as the convoy arrived last night. However, based on his knowledge of the Chinese warlords, he believed that as soon as the guns rang out, the troops of the Fourth Route Army would immediately get on the bus and leave, and they would never take the initiative to wade into this troubled water. But what surprised him was that it had been fighting for most of the night, and this unit of the Fourth Route Army had only left, which surprised Itagaki very much.
The reason why Itagaki did not send troops to attack and occupy the Tohoku Arsenal and Mortar Factory and the Dongta Airport at the beginning of the incident was entirely because of his limited forces, and he was really unable to take care of it. …,
However, now that he has basically controlled Shenyang City, and the commanders of many divisions will soon arrive in Shenyang, the overall situation of Shenyang has been decided, and he can draw more troops, and if the Northeast Arsenal and Mortar Factory do not occupy it again, and let the weapons, ammunition and most important machinery and equipment there be destroyed, it will be a dereliction of duty.
On the one hand, Itagaki sent troops to reinforce the squadron at the east gate, preparing to attack the arsenal; On the one hand, he ordered the Fifth Independent Garrison Brigade, which had been exhausted in Beidaying, to immediately occupy Zhuertun, the only way for the Fourth Route Army to go north, and intercept the convoy of the Fourth Route Army and the Northeast Army......
At 11 o'clock at noon, the Kwantung Army had already completely controlled the whole city of Shenyang, and all the main communication arteries inside and outside the city were full of heavily armed Japanese troops with loaded guns, and all pedestrians had to be unconditionally inspected by the Japanese army. Numerous Japanese military police, policemen, and ronin rampaged through the main streets, wantonly searching and laying for military and police personnel of the Northeast Army, and wantonly looting and killing innocent civilians, and the corpses of innocently killed Shenyang citizens abounded along the roads.
All the captured military and police personnel of the Northeast Army were taken to the Shenyang General Chamber of Commerce for concentration.
Although there was a scene of desolation in the city of Shenyang, because of this incident, it was done by a junior officer of the Kwantung Army, and the South Manchurian Railway Co., Ltd. and the Kwantung Department did not know about it. Moreover, the Kwantung Agency, the top boss of the Manchurian Railway, was directly under the jurisdiction of the Japanese Cabinet, and they did not obey the orders of the Kwantung Army Command, so the South Manchurian Railway was not suspended at this time. And Itagaki Seishiro didn't know what to think about, and he didn't block the city gate, but under strict inspection, he allowed all ordinary citizens to enter and exit.
The people in Shenyang, who were too frightened by the war, rushed to the railway station with their families, and when they saw the train, they got on it, except for the train to Lushun, no one got on, and the rest of the trains were crowded. This also gave the military and political dignitaries in the northeast an opportunity to flee to Jinzhou in disguise and car. Wang Yizhe, who didn't have time to leave the city last night, learned that the Japanese army had captured Dongdaying, and did not dare to go to Dongshanzuizi to look for his troops, but rushed to Beiping directly with his adjutant to make up.
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