In late April, all parts of the Northeast are mourning!

In addition to the earlier Shenyang massacre, there were also the 317 tragedy in Harbin, the bloody massacre in Qianshanzhuang in Jilin, and the bloody case in Siping Mine...... A series of tragic incidents finally made the vast majority of Chinese understand the cruelty and horror of Yue himself; newspapers all over the country reported on the tragedy in the northeast almost every three days, and some patriotic reporters even went deep into the enemy-occupied areas to cover the incident; among them, two reporters from the Southwest Yue Bao even obtained ironclad evidence of these crimes against humanity by the Yue army, and a series of photos recorded the process of the Harbin tragedy.

The whole nation is mourning, the whole nation is roaring, the whole country is up and down, the voice of the war of resistance is coming and going, and every day many college students and workers petition in front of the Kuomintang Nanjing political axe, asking the national political axe to mobilize more troops to go north to resist.

However, the Kuomintang only symbolically announced the mobilization of the Ninth Division to the north, and refused to disclose more military movements on the grounds of military secrecy, only promising that there would be a larger-scale anti-Japanese war operation, and the Nationalist political axe would not sit idly by and watch the Northeast issue cloud clouds.

After more than two months of fierce fighting, the entire Jinzhou has been bombed into ruins, and under the repeated admonitions of the officers in the southwest, Zhang Xueliang insisted on defending Jinzhou to the death, repairing while fighting, at this time outside the city of Jinzhou, fortifications were everywhere, and the army blew up a machine-gun fortress today, and it was possible to rebuild one the next day. In the two months of more than two months of operations, the entire Northeast Army has reached a terrifying more than 60,000 casualties, and this is still because the army is getting more and more fierce, and the soldiers of the Northeast Army who do not want to die have grown rapidly in the war. Many companies of the Northeast Army have completed the replacement of soldiers, and one grassroots company after another has been supplemented by new recruits.

And the army was not having a good time, and after paying nearly 30,000 casualties, it was no longer able to launch a large-scale attack.

In this battle of Jinzhou, in addition to heavy casualties, the loss of war materials was also huge. Every day, trains or automobiles braved the flames of war to bring supplies to the Jinzhou area, because the railway station in the city had been blown up, and the trains could only stop at the temporary field station built by the southwestern engineers to unload their goods, and then be taken into Jinzhou by the northeastern officers and soldiers in horse-drawn carts.

I have to say that although Chiang Kai-shek did not send troops to directly participate in the war for the time being, he was also making more and more moves in supporting Zhang Xueliang in the War of Resistance. With the continuous improvement of the production capacity of military factories in Nanjing and other places, and the Northeast Army's own military factories in the Pingjin area, they have been able to support the Northeast Army's operations. Chiang Kai-shek's greatest contribution should have been to accept the proposal of the southwest, and the southwestern autonomous political axe, the national political axe, and Zhang Xueliang raised funds from the three parties, adopted the method of giving a share of the southwest, and purchased a batch of Jian-1 fighters in the southwest at a discounted price.

It has to be said that the fact that the Ningjin defense line has not yet been breached at this time has a huge relationship with this batch of more than 60 Jian-1 fighters.

It was when the southwest army attacked Hong Kong, and in order to respond to some domestic criticism, Zhang Shusheng ordered to take the initiative to contact Nanjing and Zhang Xueliang, and actively contributed to this purchase of aircraft. Open the arms reserve warehouse and sell this batch of replacement planes that were originally going to be sold to the South American country Chile to Zhang Xueliang at a discount, so as to express the determination of the southwest to fight an all-out war of resistance.

However, it is a pity that Chiang Kai-shek resolutely opposed letting the pilots from the southwest fly these fighters, and the southwest did not agree to let the Kuomintang pilots fly these fighters, and the final result was that the pilots of the Northeast Army and the pilots of the overseas Chinese volunteers were responsible for piloting them.

The first air battle brought a huge surprise to Zhang Xueliang. On 21 March, the aircraft carrier task force of the Chinese army took off fighter planes for the last time to attack Jinzhou, and after being discovered by coastal scouts of the Northeast Army, they quickly reported it to the command center. For the first time, the J-1 fighter formation participated in actual combat.

On that day, the first large-scale air battle since the beginning of the war was staged over Jinzhou, and nearly 50 fighters of the Chinese army were blocked by more than 30 fighters of the Northeast Army's Jian-1 fighter formation that had taken off from several field airfields.

Although the pilots of the military have higher tactical literacy, the overall level of the aircraft is far inferior to the J-1 fighter in the southwest more than ten years ago, this classic Messerschmitt BF109 fighter in World War II as a template modification of the fighter, although the combat surname can not be as good as the BF109, but it is cheaper and easier to manufacture. Compared with the backward Nakajima Type 91 fighters and Kawasaki Type 92 fighters that are commonly equipped by the Japanese army, it is at least one generation advanced. Moreover, the intrusive aircraft group of the Chinese army was mainly bombers, and the air raids of more than two months had already shot down all the planes of the Northeast Army, which gave them nothing to fear.

The careless army once again tasted a huge defeat.

In the air battle, which lasted for half an hour, the first to be shot down was the old carrier-based bombers of the Chinese army, which were heavy and backward, and in the face of the new fighter formation that suddenly appeared in the Northeast Army, even though the pilots of the Northeast Army and the overseas Chinese volunteer pilots had low tactical qualities, they were still caught off guard. During the entire air battle, all 20 Type 87 bombers and Type 88 bombers of the Chinese army were shot down, and only 13 of the more than 20 fighters escaped in the end.

After all, this aircraft purchase operation is a top secret of the three parties, and the operation code name 'Shooting Down Sakura' has been jointly kept secret by the three parties. Even the plane did not pass through the hands of a third party, and flew directly to Jinzhou in the northeast in successive transfers at several field airfields.

Of course, the Northeast Army also paid a huge price, even though there were only more than 20 fighters of the Yue Army, but as many as 15 Jian-1 fighters were shot down, but fortunately, unlike the pilots of the Yue Army, who were captured, these pilots all fell on the positions of the Northeast Army, and only two of them were killed on the spot by the machine gun bullets of the Yue Army planes, and the others were only slightly and seriously injured. Moreover, the pilots who have been baptized by war have also grown up rapidly.

Compared with the large-caliber aviation machine guns and small-caliber aircraft guns equipped with the Jian-1 fighters, the fighters of the Chinese army are already too far behind. All they could bully was the Northeast Army Air Force and the Kuomintang Air Force, which were once even more backward than them.

Although the Northeast Army suffered heavy losses, it greatly encouraged the momentum of the War of Resistance, and compared with the ground defense line that only maintained an undefeated ground defense line with heavy casualties, this sudden air battle was already a huge victory. The aircraft carrier task force of the Chinese army also retreated again and again.

Although Zhang Xueliang, who had received the benefits, could not continue to buy fighters from the southwest, he had already asked Chiang Kai-shek to help import fighters from Britain, and in view of the situation, Chiang Kai-shek also agreed, after all, the strengthening of the air force made the Jinzhou campaign turn a certain turn for the better.

In the northeast, Jinzhou, Zhang Xueliang's underground command bunker won the air battle victory for more than half a month, and it was late April. The war has entered the stage of fierce battle, and the stalemate battle is already competing for the stamina of both sides.

"Commander-in-chief, all kinds of intelligence show that the Yue army is going to land in our rear, and as the supreme person in charge of the southwest and northeast this time, I have to tell you one thing on behalf of General Zhang, the landing site of the Yue army is very likely to be in the area of Tianjin."

In the command post, Huo Dingguo, who was full of scumbags, said to Zhang Xueliang, who was drinking liquor, that the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Resistance was also tired after months of fierce battles.

"It seems that my landing is imperative, but if it is Tianjin, Chairman Chiang should not sit idly by." Zhang Xueliang shook his head, he had also heard the staff officer talk about the possible rear landing plan of the Yue Army, and he had even been prepared for it.

However, it was the first time he heard the news that the army general might choose to land in Tianjin, because after all, Huo Dingguo represented the southwest, so the news should be very reliable. However, even if the intelligence is reliable, the Northeast Army is too weak to deal with it.

"In the current situation, the 200,000 Northeast Army relied on rotational battles and repeated replenishment of new recruits to not collapse, once even one division was withdrawn, or the reserve division behind was transferred, the Ningjin defense line was in danger in an instant. Dingguo, as you know, although we have wiped out nearly 30,000 Japanese troops, there are still more than 60,000 Japanese troops on the opposite side, and we have also paid a huge price of nearly 60,000 people. The combat effectiveness of the army is too strong.

The Ningjin defense line must not be discarded today, otherwise, I will become a national sinner. As for the war in Tianjin, let Chairman Chiang's 18th Division go to the battle, the war of resistance against the war, the whole people are responsible, how can Nanjing stay out of the matter. ”

Huo Dingguo heard some complaints from Zhang Xueliang's mouth, too, the Northeast Army suffered huge casualties, and Zhang Xueliang was struggling to support him here, although he has become a national hero and is sought after by the Chinese people, but only those around them understand how hard Zhang Xueliang insisted.

He still remembered that on the most difficult night, a regiment of the Northeast Army could not hold out and was about to rout from its position, which led to a division of the Northeast Army running along.

At this time, it was useless for any supervising team, and in the end, Zhang Xueliang knelt there, pointed a gun at his head, and knelt on the retreat road of the defeated soldiers, shocking all the defeated soldiers, and finally blocking this rout frenzy.

He still remembers Zhang Xueliang's words that day, "Brothers, everyone is afraid of death, and I, Zhang Xueliang, only have one life." But I didn't run, but lived and died with my brothers in Jinzhou.

Because I know that the whole nation needs us to stand in the way. Brothers, look outside the gate, where there is a lot of mourning, where your wives and children and parents are being ravaged and even slaughtered, once these beasts are released into the gate, we are all national sinners. Whoever wants to leave will kill me first, so that I will die a hundred times. I must not watch the Northeast Army become a deserter in the face of resistance. ”

In this way, under Zhang Xueliang's example, with the help of southwest advisers, staff officers and instructors, and engineering experts, Zhang Xueliang fought hard, recruited new soldiers, and built a defense line to hold the Ningjin defense line.

No one knows how long the war will last, but everyone knows that from the young marshal down onwards, they will fight to the death.

Huo Dingguo nodded, "Once the army lands in the Pingjin area, our pressure will be reduced, but we will also face the great danger of the back road being cut off, and I hope that the young marshal will focus on the overall situation at that time." We will also have relevant actions in the southwest, and we will have to cooperate with the young marshal at that time. ”

"Don't worry, if the situation reaches that point, the Northeast Army will not sit idly by. On my behalf, I expressed my gratitude to General Zhang and told him that although Zhang Xueliang is not a great talent, he also knows that the soldier dies for his confidant, as long as General Zhang sincerely resists, that is, one day the entire Northeast Army will advance and retreat with him, and I will also agree. "Zhang Xueliang is not a fool, he understands some of the hints that Huo Dingguo's adviser in Pingyu said, but the war is too tight, he can't be distracted from those post-war things, but today, when the situation changes again, he has to take a position appropriately.

After all, from the beginning, the Southwest's support for him is even more thorough than that of the National Political Axe, you know, if the Southwest wants to support him, it is very difficult. What Chiang Kai-shek did not expect was that Zhang Xueliang, the young marshal of the Northeast, actually had a different mind.

Huo Dingguo also knew that Zhang Xueliang was under great pressure, and he also had a lot of dissatisfaction with the domestic situation, and the southwest was strong, but thousands of miles away, Chiang Kai-shek had as many as 10 elite divisions and as many as 20 or 30 integrated divisions, but he did not send them to the northeast, but prevaricated on the pretext that various places needed to be garrisoned and strictly prevent people from landing and encroaching on the coast.

Many times, he was thinking that the southwest, which was supposed to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, was vigorously supporting the northeast under the resolution of General Minister Zhang. And Chiang Kai-shek, who was supposed to fully support the Northeast, support Zhang Xueliang's resistance, and even send a large army to the Northeast, was sitting and watching the Northeast Army being weakened, and sent troops to Pingjin himself, turning the Pingjin area into his own sphere of influence.

As a southwestern soldier at the level of a division commander, Huo Dingguo would have a strange feeling every time he fell asleep listening to the sound of those cannons at night. As if he was an ancient general, in the sound of Jin Ge's iron horse, he reorganized thousands of children and killed the army.

A soldier is born for war, and people like him are especially. If he could concentrate the strength of the whole country to resist the war, he would not even hesitate to die on the front line.

Defending the family and defending the country and serving the country may not be understood by many people in this era, because they are still struggling for survival, but more people, like Huo Dingguo, regard defending the family and defending the country and serving the country as their ideals.

This can be seen from the steady stream of young people from all over the country who have gone to the northeast to join the army, they may not be excellent soldiers, but their will to fight is absolutely strong, and in the face of the tactical superb army, they all relied on their patriotic determination to hold Jinzhou. You must know that at this time, nearly one-third of the Northeast Army was already recruits trained for battle.

On the day of 27 April, under the thick darkness of the night, Zhang Li Zongren of the Southwest Foreign Ministry walked into Chiang Kai-shek's official residence.

On 31 April, the long-planned Yue Army officially launched the Tianjin Campaign, and the three divisions of the Yue Army, with the support of the Yue Army's special task force, landed in the vicinity of Tianjin with lightning speed.

The Battle of Tianjin began, and the Great War was staged again.

The whole person is extremely tired, and he has to accompany the old woman who only has one day off a week during the day, and he has finally completed the second chapter at night. The update of 2 points, the second chapter did it. The latest update, it's really not good, sorry brothers.

(To be continued)