The officers and men of the Beida Battalion ran away in a panic under artillery fire, did not take away dozens of cannons, did not take away tens of thousands of rifles and hundreds of machine guns in the armory, and did not take away enough baggage supplies for 8,000 people.

At this time, the hundreds of soldiers of the Northeast Army who were defending against the Japanese attack at the east gate in the trench of Beidaying did not know what to do.

The official ran away, and his comrades-in-arms also ran away, did he stay here and wait for the Japanese to surround and kill him? In this case, we should not run now, but when we do not run, while the enemy's shelling is becoming less and less.

As a result, the last few hundred Northeast Army also climbed out of the trenches and ran in the direction of Jinzhou, the south gate.

At this time, the 300 Japanese troops of the 1st Squadron of the Independent Garrison, which was responsible for occupying the Beida Battalion and insisting on guarding it, did not understand why their own reinforcements did not arrive on time.

However, the time for the attack had come, and they had no choice but to attack immediately, although they knew that attacking the 8,000 defenders with 300 troops would undoubtedly be hitting the stone with eggs, but the captain of the Hexi squadron still personally tied a white cloth strip on his head that would surely win.

He raised his command sword forward and shouted, "The time has come to be loyal to the Empire, warriors to strike." Then Captain Kawamoto rushed to the trench of the North Camp with a certain heart of death.

But when his team rushed into the trench, he found that there was no one in the trench to resist, and it was at this time that he found that there were not many people in the broken camp of the northern camp.

He led a team of 300 men to fight from the east to the south, from the south to the west, and then from the west to the north.

"What about people, are they hiding? But who would ambush himself with 8,000 men? And even if it's an ambush, it doesn't seem to have to be so thoroughly hidden, right? The captain of the Hexi squadron was confused, and he didn't understand what tricks the Northeast Army of the Beida Battalion was playing.

At this moment, a soldier ran over and reported to him that just half an hour earlier, all the officers and men of the Beida Battalion had withdrawn, and they had run naked towards the south without a single gun or artillery.

It was not until this time that the captain of the Hexi squadron, who was the vanguard of the independent garrison brigade of the Japanese army, understood that he had made the first contribution and a great achievement.

He shouted happily: "Quickly send a report to the headquarters that the Beida Battalion has been independently broken by our Hexi squadron, killing hundreds of enemies and wounding nearly 1,000 enemies, and we have defeated the 8,000 Northeast Army head-on. Now that the enemy has abandoned his armor and fled south, he is asking for guidance on his next move. ”

The herald said "hi" and immediately went to send a report, while the captain of the Hexi squadron looked up to the sky and laughed a few times: "Hahaha! The martial arts of my Hexi Dream Relics are here. ”

As soon as the telegram from the captain of the Hexi squadron was sent back to the Japanese headquarters, Duomen Eryang, who had been waiting for the news, slapped his thigh happily: "Okay, very good, the whole army reports the combat exploits of the Hexi squadron, and the Hexi squadron of the independent garrison brigade will be recorded as a collective first-class meritorious service." And promoted the Hexi squadron to the Hexi brigade. He was ordered to continue to hold on to the Beida camp and inspect the seized materials.

Then he ordered the Independent Garrison Brigade to immediately join forces with the 29th Wing to attack Shenyang with all their might, and the rest of the troops according to the original plan, each of them to capture their own targets, within three days we will attack Shenyang City, and within a week we must completely occupy Shenyang City and wipe out all remnants of the enemy in Shenyang. ”

In fact, Duomen Eryang looked up to the defenders of Shenyang too much, and at this time, the entire Shenyang actually did not have an organized Northeast Army.

Because Rong Zhen's non-resistance order was issued, the defenders and gendarmes inside and outside Shenyang rushed to flee at the first time.

Not only that, because most of the soldiers of the Northeast Army have families in the city, the soldiers of the Northeast Army do not forget to inform their families when they escape.

In the middle of the night, everyone heard the sound of explosions and shouts of killing outside Shenyang, and some people saw hundreds of people running out of the city from the Dashuai's Mansion to the outside of the city.

As a result, the entire city of Shenyang was in chaos at once, and countless people packed their luggage overnight, and the nurses and daughters began to rush out of the city gate and flee in all directions.

However, there were not many Japanese soldiers who were originally guarding the four gates of Shenyang and were responsible for monitoring Shenyang City and blocking the news of the Northeast Army.

Seeing that so many people rushed out of the city of Shenyang, and there were many soldiers in military uniforms without weapons mixed in, these Japanese soldiers dared to forcibly stop them, so they let these people flee in groups.

If it is said that after the gunfire started, there were no units in Shenyang that formed a form of resistance, that is, the public security corps led by Huang Xiansheng was still a fully organized force.

However, the problem is that not only do the public security forces have no heavy weapons, but also machine guns, only a few rifles for training and short guns for patrol in peacetime.

Moreover, all the men, women, and children of the public security corps went to the battlefield, and there were only more than 2,000 people. Huang Xiansheng had to eliminate the old man and women, and finally left 1,600 young policemen.

However, of the four gates of Shenyang City, only the 1,600 policemen did not even have time to stuff the teeth between the Japanese, at this time.

Tie Dan took a team of men and horses to find Huang Xiansheng, and Tie Dan told Huang Xiansheng that there were nearly 500 men who had received military training in his Tianfang Grain Store, and in addition, there were 500 guards from the Huaxing Escort Team who had arrived in Shenyang in the past few days and had not returned to Shanghai.

In this way, Tie Dan brought a total of 1,000 fully armed militiamen to help Huang Xiansheng defend the city.

Moreover, Tie Dan suggested that the veterans, students from various schools, and workers from various factories should be immediately summoned in Shenyang City, so that everyone could defend the city together.

Huang Xiansheng agreed, but just someone who doesn't have arms can't do it? You can't fight the Japanese artillery with your bare hands, right?

Tie Dan smiled slightly: "Have you forgotten what our Huaxing company started by selling?" ”

Huang Xiansheng was immediately overjoyed: "Arms, do you still have an arsenal in Shenyang City?" ”

Iron Dan nodded, telling him not to be afraid of not being able to use weapons, and told him to immediately summon the young man to come. Not far from the Tianfang Grain Row, there is a granary of the Tianfang Grain Row, where everyone goes to get arms.

So in less than an hour, Huang Xiansheng summoned nearly 10,000 people to the Tianfang granary.

Iron Egg ordered one of the granaries to be opened, and then hundreds of grain men began to carry bundles of new rifles and boxes of rifle ammunition from the granaries.

Looking at Tie Dan's big stroke, Huang Xiansheng first swallowed hard and spat at the mouth: "How did you bring so many arms here." I'm the Public Security Bureau. I should know all the wind and grass in Shenyang? ”

Tie Dan smiled: "How it came about, I don't know." All I know is that the young master told me that there are more than 10,000 spears and millions of rounds of ammunition here.

He also told me that as long as the Northeast Army wants to resist the war, he will support as many guns as he wants, and no matter where you are, our Huaxing Company will be responsible for sending the munitions, even if it is sent to the Japanese headquarters. ”

Huang Xiansheng nodded convincingly: "Li Tie, you are a capable person." ”

With these 10,000 rifles, Huang Xiansheng's resistance forces are finally like a little bit. At this time, the Japanese army not only completely occupied Beidaying, but also launched an attack on several gathering places of the Northeast Army around Shenyang at the same time.

The Northeast Army is like a soulless walking corpse, often before the Japanese army has fired a few shots, the officers of the Northeast Army are the first to flee, and then a group of soldiers who have lost their command flee to death. Just looking at the performance of these Northeast Army generals, no matter how they look, they are similar to those Eight Banners soldiers who were about to collapse at the end of the Qing Dynasty.

So when they met such a weak opponent, the Japanese did not spend much effort at all, and even occupied a city without a few deaths.

The Japanese began to attack a number of important towns from the 19th to the 19th. That is to say, from the explosion of the Wicker Lake Railway to 10 o'clock the next day, it was less than 12 hours, except for Shenyang, 17 towns along the South Manchurian Railway had been occupied by the Japanese army.

Among them, several important strategic places in Liaoning, such as Siping, Yingkou, Phoenix, and Andong, have been occupied, and as for why Shenyang City has not been occupied, of course, it has to be thanks to the 10,000 rifles provided by Tiedan.

It turned out that the frequent reports of good news from various places made the nearly 5,000 soldiers of the 29th Wing and the Independent Garrison Brigade full of confidence in capturing Shenyang City, which was no longer guarded by a single soldier. "Just kidding, huh? Where is this capture? It's just playing. ”

Thinking about the brilliant achievements of these few hours, the myth of defeating 8,000 people with 300 people has been widely spread in the Kwantung Army.

Now that nearly 5,000 people and half a brigade of soldiers are attacking an empty city that is not guarded by any soldiers, what else can't be attacked?

These 5,000 Japanese soldiers had already imagined that they could enter the city of Shenyang just in time to take the opportunity to loot and plunder.

It's a pity that the sky does not obey people's wishes, just when the 5,000 soldiers are marching neatly and preparing to rush into Shenyang City from the north gate with high spirits, they see hundreds of flashes of light suddenly emitted from the north gate of Shenyang, and then they heard a bang of gunfire, and the vanguard of the Japanese army fell in a large area, and then there was a continuous sound of machine gun fire.

The commander of the 29th Wing, seeing that his vanguard was under attack, scolded the intelligence officers of the Kwantung Army for dying.

With so many garrisons defending the city, it is said that there is not a single soldier, and the eyes of these intelligence officers are blind? When I take Shenyang, I must go to the brigade commander to accuse these irresponsible intelligence officers.

The Japanese were well trained, and as soon as they were attacked, the soldiers immediately scattered and fell to their stomachs, and began to shoot at their guns in the light of the fire on the city walls.

It's just that it's only three o'clock in the morning, and it's still dark, and both sides are shooting about the same thing, and the hit rate is extremely low.

At that time, in addition to the first wave of attacks, because the Japanese army was relatively dense, hundreds of guns were fired at one place at the same time, and dozens of casualties were caused by the vanguard of the Japanese army at once, and the subsequent gun battle was completely more than the blind cats on either side.

However, compared with the Japanese army, the public security corps led by Huang Xiansheng and the young and strong workers' student army temporarily summoned are of course more blind cats. Everyone shot at each other for a while, but the casualties were small.

At the time of a large-scale exchange of fire at the East City Gate, several large warehouses were opened in Shenyang City, and no less than 200 cars were driven out of the warehouses one after another.

These car soldiers drove in two ways, one to Fengtian Bank, one to the Marshal's Mansion, and one to the Shenyang Arsenal.

Among them, less than 50 cars drove to Fengtian Bank and Dashuaifu, and no less than 150 cars drove to the Shenyang Arsenal.