Seeing that the Liaohe River was still frozen, Division Commander Lei Guang secretly rejoiced, and immediately ordered his troops to prepare to launch a general attack, but at this moment, an old peasant suddenly appeared and changed the entire battle situation.

On 7 March, the Huaxia Army began to make preparations before the attack, and the most important preparatory work was reconnaissance, and the scouts set up observation equipment on high places to observe the Japanese positions and fortifications, and the scouts also found local villagers to understand the situation of the Japanese troops on the other side of the river.

A newly commissioned Monkey King airship also took off from Jinzhou to reconnoiter the Japanese army's in-depth defense zone and found two artillery positions.

Division Commander Lei Guang also came out of the headquarters and observed the terrain along the Liao River, the width of this river was about 200 meters, the land on one side of the Huaxia Army was higher than the opposite side, the Japanese army's position was four or five hundred meters away from the bank, and between the position and the river bank, two wide and deep trenches were dug.

Division Commander Lei Guang was scouting, and suddenly two guards twisted an old man over, the old man was dressed in tatters, his face was wrinkled, his skin was tanned, and he looked like an authentic peasant, such a peasant may only be in his forties, because of extreme hard work, he looks like he is sixty or seventy years old.

The guards reported to Division Commander Lei Guang: "Division Commander, this old man is a spy and an assassin. ”

The old peasant was so frightened that his whole body trembled, his lips trembled vigorously, and he couldn't say a word, so Master Lei Guang laughed and said to the guards: "Where does this old man look like a spy and an assassin?" ”

"Report to the division commander, our secret sentry has found this old man sneaking around in the nearby woods, sneaking around, if not an assassin and a spy, why would he be hiding in the woods?"

Lei Guang smiled: "Maybe he has something to ask us for, you let him go first." ”

The two guards let go of the old farmer, but still pointed their guns at him, the old farmer was still trembling with fear, and the division commander Lei Guang comforted the old farmer a few words, and the old farmer relaxed a little and asked, "Master Jun, are you going to cross the river?" ”

"You don't need to call us 'military masters', we are just soldiers, not 'masters', you can call us soldiers, that's right, we just want to cross the river."

"Are you going to cross the river by boat?"

Division Commander Lei Guang and the guards around him all laughed, and Division Commander Lei Guang pointed to a frozen river surface with his finger, and said with a smile: "The river surface is sealed, just go over directly, why use a boat?" ”

The old farmer hurriedly waved his hand, "No, you can't cross the river on the ice, I saw that big thing of yours, and the movement is so big, it will definitely ......."

Master Lei Guang took over: "It will definitely alarm the Dragon King, right?" Fellow, don't worry, there is no dragon lord in this world, it's all a lie. As soon as Master Lei Guang's words came out, everyone laughed again, these fellows are convinced of ghosts and gods, and they have all heard of it.

"No, no, no, I don't want to say that it alarms the Dragon King, I mean to say that your big thing will fall into the river."

Master Lei Guang suddenly put away his smile and said suspiciously: "You said that our big thing would fall into the river, how could this be?" The ice is clearly sealed. ”

"This year's weather is evil, much hotter than usual, the ice looks solid, but it has been loosened, a few days ago the naughty boy of the East Village Zhang Laosan's family ran to the ice to play, almost let the ice hole swallow."

Master Lei Guang frowned, and asked, "Fellow, is what you said true?" ”

"If there is half a lie, my whole family will be captured by the water ghosts."

Division Commander Lei Guang's heart hung in the air, and he ordered someone to give this fellow some money, and then immediately returned to the command headquarters and sent scouts in the command headquarters to reconnoiter the ice situation.

The next day, March 8, the whole reconnaissance battalion came back early in the morning to report that the ice thickness of the Liaohe River was very low, and people walking on it would cause cracks, and the plundering artillery and combat vehicles would definitely not be able to move on it.

No wonder the Japanese army did not intercept the Huaxia Army on the way, it turned out that the Japanese army had long known that the ice surface of the Liao River had thinned.

The ice surface of the Liaohe River became thinner, the artillery and combat vehicles of the invasion could not move, and the pace of attacking Mukden could only be stopped, which was quite unfavorable to the Huaxia Army, and the five divisions of the First Armored Division and the Northeast Division had a total of nearly 90,000 people, so many people had to consume a lot of military rations every day.

The Japanese army looted almost all the grain of the local people, there was no surplus grain at all, and the military rations of the Huaxia Army could not be purchased from the local area, and they had to rely on the support of the rear, and the time dragged on too long, and the rear could not support it at all, so the Huaxia Army could only retreat and declare the battle a failure.

When Lin Fei marched into the northeast, he told the world that this time he must drive the Japanese army out of the northeast and recover the rivers and mountains, if the Huaxia army retreats, it will be a slap in the face to Lin Fei.

On the night of 8 March, the ice surface of the Liaohe River, which had been scorched by the sun for a day, began to melt slowly, and the Huaxia Army was fortunate enough to see the spectacular scene of a large river breaking through the ice -- the sound of "clicking" ice breaking was endless, and large pieces of ice broke off from the ice surface, floated along the river, and hit the ice layer downstream, making a "bang" sound, and some ice blocks rushed onto the ice surface, forming ice mounds that were not big or small.

If this is the case on the ice, even the boat bridge can't be erected, and if you want to cross the river, the only way is to fly over from the sky, Commander Lei Guang came up with a crazy idea, let the Monkey King Airship lift the Monkey King artillery chariot and fly across the river, but the commander of the Monkey King Airship Force told Commander Lei Guang that this is completely impossible, the total combat weight of the Monkey King artillery chariot is as high as fifteen tons, and the total load of the Monkey King Airship is only four tons.

On 9 March, Emperor Meiji said in a meeting with foreign journalists that the sudden melting of the Liao River was the result of Amaterasu's blessing of the Japanese Empire, and that if Lin Fei knew the times, he should immediately stop his aggression against the territory of the Great Japanese Empire.

Emperor Meiji has already said that the northeastern part of China is Japanese territory, which is really shameless! However, Lin Fei had nothing to do with Emperor Meiji, at this time the bombing power of the Monkey King airship had weakened, the reason was very simple, it has been more than two months since the Monkey King airship bombed Tokyo for the first time, more than a dozen cities have been bombed, the Japanese are not fools, it is impossible to wait to be bombed by the Monkey King's airship, and the Japanese have also come up with countermeasures.

The first countermeasure was to strengthen reconnaissance, and the Japanese set up observation posts around various cities, and as soon as they found that the Monkey King airship was flying, they would immediately notify the whole city.

The second is to strengthen the ability to evacuate personnel, the Japanese immediately came out of their homes after learning that the Monkey King airship was coming, went out of the city, and went to the mountains to take refuge, because the Monkey King airship has a large target, slow speed, and large flight altitude, it is usually discovered by the Japanese an hour in advance, and such a long time is enough for the people in the city to escape from the city.

The last is to strengthen the ability to extinguish fires, most of the incendiary bombs thrown by the Monkey King airship are filled with a mixture of oil and aluminum powder, so the fire caused by this is difficult to extinguish with water, so the Japanese prepared a lot of sand, and immediately covered it with sand when they found that the building was on fire.

In urban fires, the fastest way for the flames to propagate is to burn the heat, for example, building A is on fire, and there is no need for sparks to burst into building B, the high temperature of the fire in building A is enough to roast building B, so that the roasted house can be completely extinguished with water, so the Japanese have prepared a large number of water wheels and high-pressure water guns.

Under the various countermeasures of the Japanese, the bombing power of the Monkey King airship has weakened a lot, and Lin Fei is also thinking about new bombing methods.

Lin Fei wanted to punish the Japanese, and the best way was to break through the defense line of the Liaohe River, lay down Mukden, and end the Japanese army's nest in the northeast, but the Huaxia army was trapped on the west bank of the Liaohe River and could not move.

Japan was happy, the Japanese army was even more happy, the commander-in-chief of the Qing garrison army and the commander-in-chief of the Huaxia Expeditionary Army, Nogi Noshinori, even held a small celebratory banquet, inviting high-ranking officers to attend, and Dashanyan, who had just returned from the defeat of the Lushun fortress, was also invited.

Oyama Iwa was quite resistant to participating in this celebration banquet, because the Lushun Fortress had just been defeated, and it seemed a little inappropriate to celebrate it now, but Nogi Noshinori told Oyama Iwa: "I want to announce a good news at the celebration banquet. ”

Oyama Iwa heard Nogi Noshinori say this, so he agreed to attend this banquet.

Everyone at the banquet was very happy, Nogi Noshinori also invited the best kabuki from the country to dance for everyone, and when the banquet reached the **, Nogi Noshinori walked on the stage and signaled everyone to be quiet, and everyone quickly quieted down.

Nogi Noshinori raised the wine glass in his hand and said calmly, "Everyone knows about the Plundering Artillery Chariot, right? ”

Everyone's countenances darkened, and everyone's hearts remembered the fear and humiliation of being dominated by the marauding artillery chariots.

Nogi continued: "Do you remember the humiliation brought to us by the plundering artillery chariots? ”

Everyone complained in their hearts about Nogi Noshinori, why was he so happy today, why did he mention the artillery chariot of invasion and swept everyone's interest.

Nogi Noshinori said in a deep voice, "I ruined everyone's fun, didn't I? ”

Everyone acquiesced to Nogi Noshinori's words with expressions, and Nogi Noshinori suddenly laughed and said excitedly: "Don't be sad, everyone, because our Great Japanese Empire also has its own artillery chariot of invasion!" ”

The audience was shocked, everyone stood up, looked at Nogi Noshinori in a daze, and asked, "General, is it true that our Great Japanese Empire has its own artillery chariot for invasion?" ”