Chapter 378: Capture Shenyang

"Boom...... The sudden explosion of the ...... shocked the entire city of Shenyang.

In the commander of the Kwantung Army, Hideki Tojo ran out of the bedroom with a frightened face, only to see most of the staff officers in the courtyard of the headquarters running out in a panic.

"Kimura-kun, where are the dripping cannons?" Seeing the chief of staff, Hyotaro Kimura, Hideki Tojo hurriedly asked loudly.

"Your Excellency General, it's not clear for the time being." Hyotaro Kimura walked over with a summoning face.

"Call the city defense team right away and ask what's going on." Hideki Tojo.

At this moment, a communications staff officer suddenly ran out of the communication room with a panicked expression.

"Your Excellency Commander, no, a large number of Chinese troops suddenly appeared outside the city, and they are carrying out a fierce artillery bombardment of our city's defense and reserves."

"Nani? Where did the Chinese army come from? The defense line of the 200,000 imperial army in Jinzhou is as solid as a mountain, will they not be able to fly? Hideki Tojo's face changed dramatically when he heard this.

"This ......" communications staff officer obviously did not know how to answer.

"Order the city to defend all the troops, resist with all their might, and find a way to figure out the strength of the enemy outside the city." Hideki Tojo commanded angrily.

"Hay!" The communications staff officer hurriedly bowed his head in response, and then turned around and walked briskly towards the communications room.

Hideki Tojo and Hyotaro Kimura walked into the battle conference room together.

"Kimura-kun, what do you think about this?" Hideki Tojo asked as he entered the door.

"Humble speculation that this may be a partial division of the Chinese army, and the purpose should be to attack Shenyang, so as to force the imperial army to transfer reinforcements from Jinzhou, and then take the opportunity to break through the Jinzhou defense line." Hyotaro Kimura analyzed.

"Well, that makes sense." Hideki Tojo nodded and said, "However, judging from the artillery fire of the people of China, their strength is not bad, and if we don't transfer troops from Jinzhou to help, the situation may be very bad." ”

"General, from the point of view of humble duty, should immediately mobilize the imperial troops in Siping, Changchun and other places, and quickly take the train south to reinforce Shenyang, so that the siege of Shenyang will be relieved." Hyotaro Kimura said.

"However, in this way, the defense forces of Changchun and other places will become weak." Hideki Tojo hesitated.

"Your Excellency General, as long as we can keep Shenyang and ensure the existence of the Manchurian Arsenal, so that our Jinzhou defense line will not have any worries, and if we hold on for a month, our reinforcements will continue to flow, and at that time, the imperial army will be able to launch a counteroffensive against the Chinese people." Hyotaro Kimura said.

Tojo Hideki pondered for a moment, and then made up his mind: "Just do this, immediately notify the imperial army in Siping, Benxi, Changchun and other places to immediately transfer two-thirds of the troops and rush to the aid of Shenyang." ”

"Hay!" Kimura Hyotaro bowed his head abruptly, and immediately strode out of the battle room.

…………………… At the south gate of Shenyang, a large number of unprepared soldiers let out a terrible howl in the firelight, and some people were directly blown up and fell from the city.

The sturdy and heavy walls were scarred and devastated by the violent explosion.

As the artillery fire gradually stopped, the officers and soldiers of the armored infantry regiment, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately launched a charge towards Shenyang City under Zhao Ze's order.

A group of Tiger and Leopard tanks assaulted in front, and the officers and men of the armored infantry regiment followed the charge.

The rocketeers aimed their guns directly at the city gates.

The surviving devil soldiers at the head of the city hurriedly opened fire to block the attack, and the bullets rained down for a while.

Dense bullets hit the heavy armor of the tank, bursting into a barrage of sparks in the night.

The tank guns kept firing, and the shells wrapped in flames to launch the fiercest return fire on the army.

With the cover of tanks and infantry forces, the rocketeers were able to quickly approach the city gates and open fire one after another.

Rockets whistled towards the city gate with a blazing tail flame, exploding in an instant.

The scarlet and dazzling firelight instantly enveloped the entire city gate hole, and under the huge shock wave, the huge wooden city gate instantly fell apart and was blown to pieces.

Because Shenyang was regarded as a large rear area by the army, the city gate was not blocked like Shanhaiguan, and hundreds of infantry suddenly shouted like a tide and poured into the city along the city gate.

The devil garrison in the city was caught off guard and hurriedly organized a counterattack, trying to drive the Qiao family army that had entered the city out of the city.

However, the gap between the two sides in weapons and equipment is not ordinarily large, and the devil armed with a 38 rifle is not at all the opponent of the Qiao Jiajun soldiers armed with an MP44 assault rifle.

Even their light machine guns can't compare to MP44 assault rifles, and the ferocious firepower of an assault rifle is enough to block half of the devil's squad.

Moreover, the Qiao family army that broke into the city was also equipped with a large number of MG42 general-purpose machine guns, and the terrifying rate of fire and power of the MG42 general-purpose machine gun provided the infantry with almost never-ending and non-stop super firepower cover.

It is completely possible to make up for the gap time between the magazines of assault rifles.

One can imagine how terrifying the power of hundreds of MP44 assault rifles and dozens of MG42 general-purpose machine guns firing at the same time was terrifying.

The bullets poured down towards the army almost in the shape of a fan, and everywhere they went, the devil soldiers fell in pieces like wheat that had been cut.

The dense rain of bullets sent debris flying from the buildings behind them.

Almost effortlessly, Zhao Ze's armored infantry regiment entered the city of Shenyang from the south gate, and tanks and armored vehicles also entered the city, helping the infantry to continue to expand the gains and advance towards the center of the city.

The city is called the army headquarters.

Listening to the constant sound of gunfire and explosions and shouts of killing in the distance, Hideki Tojo was pacing back and forth in the conference room impatiently.

At this time, Kimura Hyotaro walked in quickly, and said with an anxious face: "Your Excellency General, it's not good, the south gate has been broken through by the Shina army, and they have already attacked the city." ”

"What?" Hideki Tojo was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly said: "Order the garrison to drive out the damned Shina people no matter what, and never let them attack it." ”

"Your Excellency General, this Chinese army is well-equipped, extremely powerful in firepower, and covered by tanks and armored combat vehicles, our garrison is not their opponent at all, they are currently expanding the occupied area, all units of the imperial army are desperately resisting, the situation is extremely critical, General, you better evacuate Shenyang quickly." Hyotaro Kimura persuaded.

"Give up Shenyang? What about the 200,000 imperial troops in Jinzhou? Tojo Hideki only felt a burst of cold possession, he didn't dare to imagine if Shenyang was captured by Qiao's army.

What kind of desperate situation will the 200,000 troops in Jinzhou, who have been cut off from the back road, dare not imagine the consequences of Tojo Hideki.

"Your Excellency General, this is also a helpless move, the people of China have a saying that the green mountains are left without worrying about no firewood, and now Shenyang is in an emergency, and there is no need to hold the Jinzhou defense line anymore, so we can only abandon the car to protect the commander, and at the same time order General Yoshio Shinozuka to withdraw the troops from Jinzhou as smoothly as possible, in order to fight again." Hyotaro Kimura said.

"Can you hold out until Yoshio Shinozuka's Jinzhou reinforcements arrive?" Hideki Tojo was unwilling.

Kimura Hyotaro shook his head with a painful face and said: "Your Excellency General, the combat strength of the Shina army outside the city is very strong, and in less than an hour, they attacked the city, and we were not prepared in advance, the garrison was caught off guard, and it was impossible to hold on to the reinforcements from Jinzhou to the north." ”

"Do you have to give up?" Tojo Hideki's face turned pale, and after a long time, he said with a murderous cold voice in his eyes: "Kimura-kun, pass on my order, you can blow up the Manchurian Arsenal and its industrial and military factories, and not a single machine will be left to the Zhina people." ”

"Blow up all the factories? What about the large number of our technicians in the factory? Kimura Hyotaro looked at Hideki Tojo in surprise.

"Order them to evacuate immediately in the direction of Changchun, and if it is too late to evacuate, they will serve His Majesty the Emperor on the spot, and must not be captured by the Chinese army." Hideki Tojo said.

"Hay." Hyotaro Kimura bowed his head abruptly and strode away.

…………………… After Hideki Tojo decided to abandon Shenyang, he immediately evacuated with his guards in a hurry, but when he had just left the city from the west gate with his guards and was about to escape Shenyang by train.

An armored unit of the Qiao family army suddenly appeared and immediately launched an attack on them.

In the scuffle, Hideki Tojo's guards suffered heavy casualties, and Hideki Tojo himself escaped by luck in the night.

Since Tojo Hideki had withdrawn, the army in Shenyang City was leaderless, and the resistance also decreased rapidly, and the armored infantry regiment quickly captured the whole city.

The 2nd Armored Tank Regiment even broke into the vicinity of the former Shenyang Arsenal, but they came one late.

The frenzied devils had already detonated the factory, and the fire spread rapidly, and soon the largest industrial base in the entire Northeast was enveloped in flames and burned.

As for the technical personnel and some garrisons of the Chinese army who had not had time to evacuate, they became the targets of wanton slaughter by the tank and armored regiments.

The reason why Hideki Tojo ordered that no one should surrender was because he was afraid that these technicians of the book would be captured and used by China.

It's just that what they didn't expect was that Qiao Anbang had already given an order not to take any prisoners of the army, and this time when Zhang Xudong led the armored division to the expedition.

He also did not have the order to leave the surname of the military technician.

Qiao Anbang is not uncommon at all, and he is a so-called scientist and military technician, and how can he be expected to say that he is the rise of the Chinese nation?

Therefore, the armored division did not have any mercy or hesitation at all, and killed him when he saw him, whether he was male or female, old or young.

Overnight, all the soldiers, merchants, expatriates, and workers in Shenyang were slaughtered.

Seven years ago, the Kwantung Army occupied the city of Shenyang with their artillery and bullets, and then swallowed up the entire three eastern provinces.

Seven years later, I finally got the retribution I deserved, and of course, this is just the beginning.

(To be continued)