When it comes to hand-to-hand combat, the ability of Japanese soldiers is more than that of the Huaxia Army, because of the influence of bushido, the Japanese army attaches great importance to the training of hand-to-hand combat.

On the other hand, the Huaxia Army, due to its superiority in weaponry and equipment, did not attach as much importance to hand-to-hand combat training as the Japanese army, but this does not mean that the Huaxia Army ignored hand-to-hand combat, and when the Huaxia Army fought against the Spaniards, the Huaxia Army also achieved a lot of results in hand-to-hand combat.

The Huaxia army and the Japanese soldiers fought hand-to-hand, although the Japanese soldiers had the advantage of individual combat ability, but the number was relatively small, so they were quickly defeated by the Huaxia army, of course, the Huaxia army also had a lot of casualties.

After five or six hours of bloody fighting at Tuanmen Village, the Japanese Fourth Division was almost exhausted, but it was still unable to shake the defensive line composed of the invading artillery and chariots, and the time came to 7 o'clock in the morning of 19 April, and the boat bridge troops finally erected a pontoon bridge over the river.

The width of this pontoon bridge was twenty meters, enough for two large trucks to walk side by side, and as soon as the pontoon bridge was erected, the main 9th Division immediately crossed the river from the pontoon bridge.

As soon as the Ninth Division entered the battle, the entire battle situation immediately underwent drastic changes, the number of troops on the Huaxia Army increased, and the numerical superiority of the Japanese army was wiped out.

As soon as the Ninth Division crossed the river, it immediately marched to the south according to the predetermined plan to attack Liujiapu, which was 15 kilometers away from Tuanmen Village, and was originally the station of the Third Division of the South Korean Army.

The reason why Liujiabao was to be taken was because the opposite side of Liujiabao was the station of the Northeast Fifth Division, and after the Ninth Division and the First Armored Division took here, the Northeast Fifth Division on the opposite side could erect a boat bridge and cross the river to attack.

At 10 o'clock on the morning of 19 April, the 5th Northeast Division completed the erection of pontoon bridges, crossed the Liao River, joined forces with the 9th Division and the 1st Armored Division, and continued to attack to the south, opening up a bridge building site for the 4th Division in the Northeast and other troops.

In the process of fighting, the people of the Qing Dynasty stood up one after another, spontaneously helped the Huaxia Army, or led the way for the Huaxia Army, or sent a letter to the Huaxia Army.

Bandits from all walks of life also stood up one after another, beating up the Japanese soldiers, as well as the "Baomin Group" in each village, the Baomin Group is a kind of puppet army organization formed by the Japanese army, responsible for suppressing the ground, these Baomin groups are usually bullied by the Japanese soldiers, and now they have come forward to retaliate, in short, the Japanese soldiers are beaten everywhere.

Nogi Noshinori in Fengtian City vaguely felt that the general trend had gone, and the Liaohe defense line had been lost, which meant that Mukden was in danger, and the only thing he could do now seemed to be to give up Fengtian, otherwise Nogi Noshinori could only lead his subordinates to shatter the jade in Fengtian.

However, it was not so easy to give up Mukden, because Mukden had a large number of Japanese assets, and the Japanese army had been relying on Mukden after the First Sino-Japanese War, but at that time they had no political power, and the Qing government still had the final say in Mukden's affairs, and Japan only relied on the power of the Japanese army to mine minerals in the Mukden area.

Northeast China is rich in products, especially coal resources and iron ore resources, Fushun is known as the "coal capital" in the era of Lin Fei, Benxi is rich in iron ore, the Japanese have long coveted these resources, with the assistance of the Japanese army, these resources have been mined, and the mined resources are transported to North Korea, and then transferred back from North Korea.

In order to transfer these resources, the Japanese specially financed the construction of a railway connecting Mukden and Korea, which started in Mukden and ended at Uiju (a city on the border between Korea and Qing), known as the "Fengyi Railway", which was also a strategic transportation line for the Korean Japanese army to support the northeast.

Japan not only exploited resources, but also opened various factories in Mukden, including coking plants, steel mills, chemical plants, and so on, and directly used the resources of Northeast China to manufacture weapons and equipment.

On April 2, 19, the Russo-Japanese War broke out, and Japan declared the entire northeast as the territory of the Korean Empire, and then sent troops to occupy the entire Mukden and expelled the Qing government officials.

After the occupation of Mukden, Japan immediately expanded the scale of resource plunder, increased the number of factories, to this day, April 1901, has been two years, if from the first five years, there have been six years, Japan has 35 factories in Mukden, more than 20 mines of various kinds, the annual output of iron ore and coal ore can reach 100,000 tons, accounting for 20 percent of Japan's domestic ore demand (Japan's other ore demand is purchased from the United States).

If Nogi Noshinori gave up Mukden, then so many factories and mines would fall into the hands of Lin Fei, and it would be absolutely impossible for the Japanese top brass to accept this situation.

Although the Japanese army focused on the defense of the Liaohe River, the city was not defenseless, and the Japanese army set up two lines of defense around the city, with a total length of an astonishing 60 kilometers, surrounded the city of Fengtian, and laid a large number of mines and anti-artillery trenches on the battlefield.

Nogi Noshinori's strategy was to hold on to Mukden and wait for reinforcements, which came from Korea on the one hand, and Russia on the other, South Korea was the general rear of the Japanese army in Northeast China, and 500,000 troops could be collected in Korea, and the support route was the Fengyi Railway, which could be reached in about ten days.

At this time, the Russian army is east of the Songhua River, about 100 kilometers away from Mukden, and it can be reached in a month's time.

The Russian army can also mobilize troops from the Mongolian side, and the Mongolian Empire has also declared war on the Huaxia army, and will never do nothing, and when the Mongolian army poses a huge threat to Beijing, China, the Huaxia army will inevitably return to the division to rescue.

Nogi Noshinori ordered the troops to withdraw to Mukden, and then the Huaxia army then crossed the Liao River and arrived at the villages and towns around Mukden, preparing to launch an attack on Mukden.

On April 23, the Huaxia Army and the Japanese army entered the stage of strategic stalemate in Mukden, and at the Supreme Command Headquarters in Dayu City, Lin Fei was thinking about the next stage of strategy.

Now the situation in all directions is like this, the British and German directions, the British fleet and the German fleet are still hiding in the harbor, without a fight, it seems that they are sitting on the mountain watching the tiger fight, waiting for the Chinese army and Japan and Russia to lose both.

In the direction of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing court was in a corner of peace, Lin Fei did not have the ability to defeat them, and they did not have the ability to counterattack Lin Fei, the Qing territory occupied by Lin Fei had already begun a new round of spring ploughing, due to the land reform, the farmers were allocated land, so the planting enthusiasm was high, coupled with the nitrogen fertilizer provided by Huaxia for the production of synthetic ammonia, the original Qing territory was expected to have a bumper harvest.

In the Mongolian direction, both Mongolia and Russia are holding their ground and do not know what awaits them.

In the Japanese direction, Mukden is in a stalemate.

Lin Fei judged that Japan must be waiting for reinforcements, where the reinforcements will come from, it must be from South Korea, of course, Russia may also send reinforcements, but this is difficult to say.

Lin Fei decided, on the one hand, to order the front-line troops to conquer the Mukden defense line, and on the other hand, to order the Monkey King airship to transfer to Lushun and bomb Uiju in South Korea, which was the starting point for the Japanese army stationed in Korea to support the Japanese army in the northeast, and bombing this place would inevitably delay the reinforcement of the Japanese army.

Lin Fei also sent agents to carry thermite made of aluminum powder to sabotage the Fengyi Railway.

Lei Guang on the front line suggested that Fengtian be besieged, surrounded but not fought, and waited until the Japanese army ran out of food, and then attacked Mukden, Lin Fei categorically rejected this suggestion, firstly, because there were still hundreds of thousands of Qing people in Fengtian City, besieging Mukden, they must be the first to starve to death, and the person with the gun would not starve to death by watching others have food.

The second is because the siege of Mukden takes an extremely long time, which will give the Russian army time to reinforce, which is extremely unfavorable to the Huaxia army.

After five days of rest and ammunition replenishment, on 28 April, the Huaxia Army launched a new round of offensive, and the first to attack was the Monkey King airship.

Twelve Monkey King airships took off from Lushun and flew to Yizhou, where they dropped bombs, all of which were incendiary, but there were very few houses in Yizhou made of wood, most of them were masonry, so they failed to cause a fire.

Although it did not cause a major fire, the bombs destroyed the platform of the railway station and several locomotives, and the Japanese had to spend a lot of time repairing them, and the progress of supporting Mukden had to be slowed down.

Agents carrying thermite infiltrated the railway line and sabotaged it, causing a military train transporting troops to orbit and killing and wounding hundreds.

When Mukden Nogi Noshinori heard these news, a chill arose down his spine, and the Huaxia Army was not only cutting off his backup, but also cutting off his retreat.

However, Nogi Noshinori has no choice, now he can only do his best to ensure that Fengtian is not lost, the number of Japanese and Korean troops in the entire Mukden is more than 150,000, so many troops, even if one is exchanged for another, it can also make the Huaxia army suffer heavy casualties, and Lin Fei will not be able to withstand the pressure of huge casualties at that time, and he will definitely withdraw his troops.

What Nogi Xidian didn't expect was that Lin Fei, who is cunning and ruthless, will not compete with you in a dignified manner, Lin Fei has prepared a series of tricks to kill the enemy, with only one goal, to kill all the Japanese, and the Huaxia army will have zero casualties.