On the morning of 20 September, when Li Tie's team was engaged in an offensive and defensive battle with the Japanese army outside the Marshal's Mansion, Zhang Xueliang's special train had already arrived in Jinzhou.

Not only Zhang Xueliang arrived here, but also more than 20,000 people from the Northeast Army who came from all over Liaoning. There are more than 100,000 refugees who have fled from all directions.

After Zhang Xueliang arrived in Jinzhou, he did not immediately reorganize the army and return to Shenyang, and if he returned to Shenyang at this time, he still had a great chance to defeat the Japanese army.

Because at this time, there were more than 40,000 regular troops in Jinzhou, and Shenyang City was still fighting, so he could come and join forces with the outside and defeat the 6,000 Japanese troops who were besieging the Marshal's Mansion in one fell swoop.

However, Zhang Xueliang, who had illusions about the peaceful settlement of the Shenyang incident, once again played a faint chess, not only did he not lead everyone to attack Shenyang, but instead suppressed the soldiers who gathered in Jinzhou to ask for battle.

And after receiving a huge amount of money, the ministers of various countries not only did not help, but fell into the ground: "Your own army does not resist, why should you help you deal with the Japanese?" ”

When Zhang Xueliang heard that the people who went to lobby had sent back such an attitude as ministers from various countries, he was furious and scolded these foreigners for not being honest, and if they didn't help, they wouldn't accept my benefit fees. It's a good thing now, my money has become a meat bun and a dog and will never go back.

In this way, Zhang Xueliang still did not make up his mind to start a war with the Japanese army, but sent a telegram to the Nationalist Government one by one, asking Commander Chiang to mediate.

On the one hand, he ordered Zhang Xueliang to deal with the Japanese army as much as possible, organize defense on the spot and not let the Japanese army's gains be further expanded, and at the same time stopped the work of suppressing bandits in the south and began to draw most of the troops to prepare to advance to the northeast.

Just when Zhang Xueliang and Commander Chiang had not yet decided how to solve the problem of the occupation of Shenyang, another bad news came, the provincial governor of Jilin, Changchun, was lost.

And it was a great shame to lose it, because Changchun was occupied by a large brigade of cavalry. When this cavalry finally drove to the city of Changchun after a lot of hardships.

The cavalry only symbolically fired machine guns at Changchun for a while, in order to announce their existence. As a result, the defenders of Changchun also did not fire a shot, threw down their weapons and baggage and fled.

As in the case of Shenyang City, only a small number of Changchun local troops and chambers of commerce armed forces spontaneously resisted, but where were these improvised patchwork armies the opponents of the elite Kwantung Army cavalry in the Kwantung Army, Changchun fell in just a few hours.

After that, while reporting the good news to the headquarters of the Kwantung Army and requesting infantry reinforcements, this cavalry was divided into several units to attack the major cities of Jilin. The most ridiculous thing is that just one day later, the defenders of Jilin's major cities fled one after another.

Some of these Northeast Army fled to Heilongjiang, and some fled to Liaoning to Jinzhou, where the young marshal was located, and the result was the same as in the previous life, and on September 21, the whole of Jilin was declared to have fallen.

When the news of the fall of Jilin reached the headquarters of the Kwantung Army, Duomen Eryang finally came out of the gloom of the bombing of the headquarters.

Just as the saying goes, horses have stumbles, people have stumbled, who has not yet memorized the words, more than a dozen battlefield battles, only one or two battlefield defeats, absolutely can not erase his immortal feats of occupying most of the entire territory of Liaoning and Jilin with just one division.

Therefore, when he sent back to Japan the news that the Kwantung Army had occupied most of Liaoning and the entire territory of Jilin, both the headquarters of the War Department in Tokyo and the cabinet caused a strong sensation.

At the same time, the issue of Duomen Eryang's urgent request for reinforcements was brought to the cabinet meeting again. Yes, the territory of two provinces cannot be occupied by just one division.

However, the 10th Division was just ready to go, and no matter how fast Honjo's troops were, it was impossible to reach the northeast in a few days. Once the Northeast Army counterattacks, it will be impossible to hold back more than 100,000 Northeast Army with only one division of less than 20,000 soldiers.

Finally, the cabinet members, who were dissatisfied with the Kwantung Army's invasion of Northeast China, clearly changed, and they immediately ordered another division, a bomber squadron, an aviation group, and two heavy artillery groups to be transferred from Korea to Liaoning. And add another brigade from the mainland to China.

Before the 10th Division led by Honjo Shigeru arrived in China, the post of commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army was still held by Lieutenant General Tamen Nishi.

At the same time, because of the greatly unexpected achievements of the Kwantung Army, the entire Japanese top brass has begun to slowly change their attitude towards China, and their ambitions are now much greater, and they can no longer satisfy their original desire to occupy the land around the South Manchurian Railway.

Since the Northeast Army, which claims to be China's strongest army, is so weak, the armies in other parts of China are even more vulnerable. The Japanese top brass is now beginning to have the idea of occupying most of Tohoku.

Just like the Opium War, once the great powers found out that China was just a paper tiger, everyone wanted to eat China alive.

And the fall of Changchun undoubtedly gave Zhang Shaoshuai a heavy blow, and the fall of Shenyang made him very passive, and now he has lost Changchun quietly.

From the evening of the 18th to the day of the 21st, in less than three days, most of Liaoning was occupied, and the whole of Jilin was occupied. Can he still fight back to Shenyang with these soldiers?

Zhang Xueliang's confidence was seriously hit again, and his head hurt even more as he became addicted to drugs. He didn't dare to attack Shenyang easily, so he lost the only chance to counterattack. laid the groundwork for being driven out of the Northeast in the future.

At this time, the battle for the Marshal's Mansion had entered a fever pitch, and hundreds of Japanese soldiers had completely occupied the houses around the Marshal's Mansion with the help of artillery and tanks.

But their bad luck has only just begun. Because there are still hundreds of members of the Einsatzgruppen hidden under this ruin, these members are elusive one by one, sometimes they come out from under the wall, shoot a few cold guns and take down a few Japanese soldiers, sometimes they suddenly come out of the vegetable cellar in the courtyard and throw a few grenades to kill several Japanese soldiers, and then quickly flee back to the ground. When the nearby Japanese soldiers finally discovered several tunnel entrances.

Often before the Japanese soldiers outside the cave attacked, a few grenades were thrown from an unknown place behind them, and the Japanese soldiers complained bitterly, and even the ten tanks that attacked the ruins did not escape the fate of being attacked.

Because the red-eyed Japanese troops suddenly found that among the high-rise buildings of the Marshal's Mansion not far away, dozens of white smoke suddenly shot out and flew directly towards the Japanese soldiers on the ruins, directly blowing up the ten tanks on the ruins and hundreds of soldiers around the tanks.

All of a sudden, the Japanese soldiers in the ruins were attacked from both underground and aboveground directions, and in just one morning, thousands of soldiers fell on top of the ruins, and fifteen tanks were destroyed.

Aizu Wakamatsu, the commander of the 29th Wing in charge of the attack, saw that such an attack was not a way at all, and at the same time, the huge casualties made him unbearable.

He could only temporarily stop the offensive and send a report to the headquarters asking for tactical guidance, because his superiors had ordered not to damage a single grass and tree in the Great Marshal's Mansion.

It has long been designated by Lieutenant General Duomen Eryun as the future headquarters of the Northeast Kwantung Army. He now has no right to give orders to attack the Grand Marshal's Mansion.

And the staff officers of the Kwantung Army Headquarters were also very annoyed when they learned about Aizu Wakamatsu's request. Such an enemy is really difficult, and there is no choice but to ask Duomen Erlang to give an order in person.

After all, Duomen Erlang also put the lives of Japanese soldiers first, but he was reluctant to blow up the Grand Marshal's Mansion, so he finally gave Aizu Wakamatsu an order to postpone the attack on the Grand Marshal's Mansion.

He will immediately send a heavy artillery brigade to support him, believing that with this heavy artillery brigade he can bury the enemy alive hiding in the ground.

After Aizu Wakamatsu received the order from the headquarters to postpone the attack, he burst into tears with joy, and since entering Shenyang City, the Japanese army, which was full of 7,000, has now suffered more than 2,000 casualties.

He now has less than 5,000 troops, and the number of troops that can really attack the Marshal's Mansion is less than 3,000, and he is really reluctant to add so many soldiers to the bottomless pit of the Marshal's Mansion.

So when he heard that he was going to send a heavy artillery brigade to support, Aizu Wakamatsu finally breathed a sigh of relief, but in order to prevent the enemy in the marshal's mansion from escaping, he ordered the Japanese army to start setting up barricades around it and building temporary pillboxes. This time he's going to work as a turtle in an urn.

And just when the headquarters ordered the support of the heavy artillery team, no one noticed that there was suddenly a Japanese adjutant missing from the headquarters.

The adjutant walked out of the headquarters, came to a large locust tree outside the door, took out a black cloth from his clothes, asked the soldiers guarding the door to help him hang the black cloth on the branches, and then returned to the headquarters war room as if nothing happened.

When he left, the guards at the door asked him curiously why he wanted to hang this black cloth. The adjutant explained.

This is a custom passed down from their ancestors, when their relatives died in battle, they should hang a black cloth on the big tree in front of the door, which can guide the souls of relatives and friends who died in the war in a foreign country to find their way home.

And the soldiers at the gate also knew that the attack on Shenyang was not going well, and they heard that thousands of people had been killed and wounded, but they still did not attack the Dashuaifu.

Why is it that the same Northeast Army, why is the gap between the soldiers so big? The soldiers of the Beida Battalion and the soldiers of Shenyang City ran away without firing a shot, but the Northeast Army guarding the Marshal's Mansion resisted stubbornly?

These soldiers were also puzzled, and while discussing the legend about this black cloth, they guarded the gate of the Kwantung Army headquarters.

And just a few hundred meters away from the gate, in a hidden house, a person according to the prior agreement, every hour with a telescope to look at the big locust tree at the door.

He had been looking at it for almost a day, and he hadn't found anything abnormal, until it was time to check it again, when he suddenly noticed a few more black cloths on the branches at the door.

"It's not good, the Japanese devils want to use heavy artillery." After saying that, the man immediately threw down the binoculars, took out the radio from under the bed, and sent out a telegram with a tick.

Then, a few minutes later, I saw Tie Dan, who was also holding a telescope in the Marshal's Mansion and observing the movement of the Japanese troops in the distance, suddenly received a telegram from the telegraph room, which said that the enemy attacking the Marshal's Mansion was going to attack with heavy artillery, and asked them to pay attention.

Tie Dan looked at this telegram, and then thought about what the Japanese soldiers on the other side had done. Knowing what the Japanese army was thinking, he immediately told the liaison officers around him to send orders to the team members under the rubble to withdraw to the Grand Marshal's Mansion.

Now that it was almost dark, it was impossible for the Japanese to attack again tonight, and they had completed their mission, immediately sending a signal to recall all the soldiers hidden in the ruins.

At the same time, five signal flares were fired into the air to inform the comrades in Shenyang that they could evacuate step by step according to the established plan.

Then, while Aizu Wakamatsu was still deploying the encirclement, they suddenly found the loudspeaker of the Grand Marshal's Mansion opposite, and bursts of singing came from it. And the singing is the song "Loess High Slope" recorded by Li Tie himself from later generations