Chapter 392: Encountering a Tortoise Shell

The fierce gunfire in Liaoyuan City continued, and the resistance of the Japanese army was also very tenacious, which Wang Dayong and Liao Yaoxiang had long been psychologically prepared for. Anyway, when Hu Lian gave the order, he didn't set a time limit, but he just said that he should hurry up, but to control the number of casualties in the troops, it should not be too large.

Liao Yaoxiang also understood that his 41st Division was a newly formed division, and the combat experience and individual quality of the soldiers naturally could not be compared with the veteran team such as the Fifth Division commanded by Wang Dayong, and the reason why Hu Lian let his 41st Division and the Fifth Division attack Liaoyuan together is to use Liaoyuan City as a whetstone, as for how to sharpen the knife, it depends on Liao Yaoxiang's ability.

After comprehending the meaning of Hu Lian, an alumnus, Liao Yaoxiang was not reckless, anyway, he took out the kung fu of killing chickens and using a knife. Wang Dayong's Fifth Division was a master of art and bold, and divided the troops into small units to form a net to encircle the Japanese army, while Liao Yaoxiang concentrated the troops, divided them into three main attack directions with the regiment as a unit, surrounded his attack area, and slowly advanced towards the city of Liaoyuan.

Liao Yaoxiang commanded three regiments to take turns in battalions to advance toward the center of Liaoyuan like a grinding plate, which not only achieved the purpose of training, but also allowed the troops to take turns to rest. Each battalion fought for eight hours, no matter how much the results were, when the time came, I would withdraw them, the results didn't matter what the results were, anyway, it was a 24-hour non-stop attack, so that the little devils would not be able to live in peace.

Don't say it, Liao Yaoxiang's method of working in three shifts is really good, and the Japanese puppet army defending the city was blinded by such a unique and novel tactic. Originally, according to past experience when it was dark, when both the offensive and defensive sides were tired, they would tacitly stop and rest, and wait for dawn to fight again, which is also an unwritten rule, after all, it is not the twenty-first world of the future generations, and the night vision equipment of individual soldiers is flying all over the sky.

But this Liao Yaoxiang played a new trick, and as soon as it was dark, the artillery units behind him began to shoot flares into the sky. Didn't you forbid me to attack the city with heavy artillery, then I would have no problem firing flares. As a result, the flares lit up the sky all night, and the attack of Liao Yaoxiang's 41st Division did not stop, and the sound of gunfire and fighting became a ring.

The Japanese are also annoyed, I don't believe that you can still sleep, so I will spend time with you to the end.

The battle has been fought for three days, and the gunfire has been ringing for three days, and more than half of Liaoyuan City has fallen into the hands of the Chinese army. In the three days of fighting, the Japanese puppet army of more than 30,000 people had suffered nearly 20,000 casualties, and the remaining 10,000 people retreated to the area of the downtown building in Liaoyuan. Now that the 5th and 41st Divisions have surrounded them, it is only a matter of time.

In an inconspicuous courtyard in Liaoyuan, Liao Yaoxiang and Wang Dayong had already merged the two division headquarters into one, which also facilitated unified command. Although Hu Lian did not say who was the commander-in-chief of the siege before leaving, Liao Yaoxiang consciously put himself in the position of deputy.

Although the commander of the Seventh Theater has reiterated many times that in Chahar there is no such thing as arranging seniority, and that the capable are always on the top and the mediocre on the bottom. But everyone knows that in fact, the army itself is the most serious collective in the world, and Liao Yaoxiang is a newcomer who has only been here for less than half a year, if he really sits on an equal footing with Wang Dayong, or even points fingers, he will be brain-dead. What's more, he also heard such a rumor, among the combat units of the fifty or sixty infantry divisions in the Seventh War Zone, although Wang Dayong and his people cannot be said to be a mediocre talent, but his talent can only be regarded as a medium level among so many division commanders in the Seventh War Zone, but why would Su Tong hand over the Fifth Division, a unit that is considered an old powerhouse in Chahar, to him to command? Without him, be faithful!

It can be said that Wang Dayong's loyalty to Su Tong is counted among so many military commanders in the Seventh War Zone, otherwise there are not no people who are more talented than Wang Dayong, but they can only command a newly formed division-level unit or serve as the commander of the local garrison, this is the secret.

However, although Wang Dayong's talent is not too prominent, this person is very bold and generous, and he often helps colleagues on weekdays, and has an easy-going personality, so his reputation among colleagues is very good. Just like the battle of Liaoyuan City this time, although Liao Yaoxiang made it clear that he was the leader, he did not act arbitrarily, and Liao Yaoxiang discussed it before issuing the order, which can be regarded as giving Liao Yaoxiang enough face.

In the command headquarters, Wang Dayong and Liao Yaoxiang were sitting together discussing the next military action, Wang Dayong pointed to the offensive renderings drawn by the staff officers and said with a smile: "Brother Jianchu, the little devil can't grow a rabbit's tail this time, you see that now the Japanese army has begun to requisition a lot of people from their 'Reclamation Regiment' to help defend the city." In my opinion, we only need to attack for two more days, and it is only a matter of time before this Japanese army is destroyed. ”

Liao Yaoxiang nodded, "The truth is good, but we also have to prevent the little devil from jumping off the wall in a hurry, you must know that there are many of our ordinary people in the control area of the little devil." ”

"Humph!" Wang Dayong slapped the table, "If the little devil really dares to do this kind of thing, we have caught tens of thousands of people from the Japanese 'Reclamation Group', and it is not good-looking, and the gun in Lao Tzu's hand will also kill!" ”

After listening to Wang Dayong's murderous words, Liao Yaoxiang couldn't help nodding secretly in his heart, it is worthy of following Chief Su to kill a few people back and forth from the Siberian battlefield, although he has an easy-going personality on weekdays, he is brave and tenacious in battle, and he is full of murderous spirit!

Just when the 5th and 41st Divisions stormed Liaoyuan, Hu Lian also commanded six infantry divisions and an armored division with a total of 130,000 troops to follow the retreat of the Japanese army to Jinzhou City.

In charge of Jinzhou's defense was Lieutenant General Ryosuke Isoya, the deputy chief of the General Staff of the Kwantung Army, who had suffered a great loss in Vladivostok, and this time he had learned his lesson, and a week earlier he had ordered five divisions in Jinzhou and hundreds of thousands of civilians in Jinzhou to repair the earth on the outskirts of Jinzhou.

Under the pressure of the Japanese army's bayonets and guns, hundreds of thousands of Jinzhou civilians surrounded Jinzhou with barbed wire, anti-tank trenches, and trenches in a week.

At the strong request of Ryosuke Isoya, Umezu Mijiro transferred all the more than 200 anti-tank guns and more than 100 antiaircraft guns, including antiaircraft guns ranging from 20 mm to 75 mm, in the Kwantung Army, except for the few defensive lines in Jilin Province to defend Vladivostok, and built a solid defensive line with a radius of more than 30 kilometers around Jinzhou. In short, Ryosuke Isoya's purpose was to build Jinzhou into a solid turtle shell, which was bound to allow Hu Lian's 41st Group Army to fold its wings here.

Moreover, Isoya Ryosuke did not contain the nearly 300,000 Japanese troops who had been defeated from the Tongliao front, but put them all on the train and sent them all to Mukden. Ryosuke Isoya believed that if the 300,000 newly defeated Japanese troops were allowed to stay in Jinzhou, it would only lead to a decline in the morale of the Jinzhou defenders, and it would be better to let them go to Mukden to rest and recuperate, and they would be a new force again in less than half a month.

In an inconspicuous observation post on the outskirts of Jinzhou, Hu Lian was leading several staff officers from the headquarters to observe the defensive line on the periphery of Jinzhou.

When Hu Lian read it carefully, his brows were tightly locked, and he sighed for a long time, "Brother You Qing, you see that the Japanese fortifications are built like a turtle shell, and even if our heavy artillery wants to knock them open, it will take a lot of effort!" ”

Luo Zhuoying, who was on the side, shook his head, "Not only that, according to the intelligence department's report, the Japanese army also specially transferred a heavy artillery brigade this time, and a total of more than 300 heavy artillery pieces were deployed on the periphery of Jinzhou." It is said that there are also heavy howitzers of the Meiji 45 type 244 mm caliber in it, and the number of artillery alone is almost the same as ours in terms of the number of Japanese troops, which is a hard bone. If we pounce forward, it's hard to say whether we can take Jinzhou, and even if we do, I'm afraid the troops will suffer more than half of the casualties."

Luo Zhuoying didn't say the latter words, but Hu Lian also heard the meaning of Luo Zhuoying's words, if it was really a hundred thousand casualties before Jinzhou was defeated, Su Tong would probably have to eat the two of them raw. Both of them also knew Su Tong's temper, Su Tong was not allowed to have casualties when he fought, but it was absolutely not allowed to fill in people's names. If all the elites of the 41st Group Army were lost here, even if they barely captured Jinzhou, but Umezu Mijiro would definitely order the follow-up troops to continue to counterattack, and not only would Jinzhou not be able to hold it, but even Liaoyuan and Tongliao would be difficult to protect.

Hu Lian raised his head sharply after pacing a few laps in a row, and said with a firm gaze: "The ground forces attack and lose too much, then we will use air power to knock open this turtle shell, I don't believe it, Isoya Ryosuke's turtle shell is really an iron king who can't break iron!" ”

Zhangjiakou Seventh Theater Command

Jiang Baili took a telegram and handed it to Su Tong, "Jianming, this is a plan jointly sent by Hu Lian and Luo Zhuoying to attack Jinzhou, can you see what the problem is?" ”

Su Tong put down the document in his hand, took the telegram and read it carefully, and shook his head a little depressedly, "The Japanese have made up their minds to defend this time, you see, Jinzhou is about to turn into a turtle shell." Even if the 41st Group Army captured Jinzhou, the casualties were definitely indispensable, and the best result was more than half of the casualties! ”

"That's why Hu Lian asked us to send more heavy bombers to bomb the outer defense line of Jinzhou!" Jiang Baili smiled slightly, "The Japanese have a problem for Hu Lian!" ”R