The night is like ink, and the summer insects chirp softly. In the area of the Phoenix Mountains in eastern Liaodong, near the Yalu River, only occasionally artillery shells exploded above the positions of the Chinese and Japanese armies. In the past 48 hours, the 1st and 4th Divisions of the Japanese Korean Army launched a fierce attack north along the branch line of the South Manchurian Railway, and although they paid a considerable price, they still advanced all the way to the vicinity of Fengshan County. Just as he was preparing to attack the city in one go, the order to suspend the attack was delivered.

Due to the peace conditions privately proposed by the 10th Division of the Twin Cities Fortress and Chang Ruiqing, the Japanese base camp immediately fell into a quarrel. Although no one dared to openly agree to such conditions as ceding Taiwan and replacing the imperial wife, there were still many powerful figures in the base camp who hoped that a ceasefire could be achieved as much as possible, so that the Japanese army would not fall into an even more unfavorable situation on the battlefield -- they also knew that the conditions put forward by Chang Ruiqing were based on the fact that the Japanese Far Eastern Army had not yet collapsed on all fronts, and if the Far Eastern Army collapsed and most of the Far Eastern coastal areas were occupied by the Chinese army, then the Chinese would inevitably raise their asking price!

As for the ambassador of Britain, Japan's theoretical ally, he directly mentioned to Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiichi Tanaka that he immediately accepted all the armistice conditions proposed by China! According to the British ambassador: these conditions are definitely not harsh compared to the shape of the current battlefield! If the Japanese side misses this opportunity, it will definitely regret it in the future!

But Tian also understands that it is unrealistic to accept China's three conditions in its entirety. Not to mention the cession of Taiwan and the indemnity of 200 million US dollars, it is just a condition for the replacement of the Japanese imperial throne. He, the prime minister, did not dare to agree. Otherwise, if he can't wait for Hirohito to be deposed, he, the prime minister, will be "punished by heaven" for the double crime of traitor! However, it should be acceptable to conduct peace talks on the basis of these three conditions. Of course, the peace talks should be carried out on the basis of a comprehensive cease-fire, for which the Japanese army could even unilaterally withdraw the First Army, which had penetrated deep into the territory of North Manchuria, or stop the Shanghai operation that had just begun. Therefore, after some discussion with other high-level officials in the base camp, Tanaka Yoshiichi conveyed to Chang Ruiqing the reply of "first armistice and then negotiations on the basis of the three conditions put forward by the Chinese side" to the British side. At the same time, it issued an order to the First Army of the Japanese Army, the Korean Army, and the Combined Fleet to temporarily stop its advance, and also ordered the Far Eastern Army to seize the time to adjust its deployment and switch from offensive to defensive on the spot, so as to prepare for a new round of offensive launched by the Chinese army.

Let's not talk about how the Far Eastern Army, which received orders, adjusted their already fragmented front. How to deal with the Chinese army's imminent overwhelming offensive. Lieutenant General Yoshinori Shirakawa, commander of the DPRK Army, who had only won the "great victory on the Yalu River," actually felt a sense of relief after receiving the order, and his two divisions had lost more than 15,000 men when they crossed the Yalu River in a "majestic and high-spirited manner." In the fierce fighting that followed, more than 3,000 were killed or wounded, and the cumulative losses of the two divisions had reached 18,000, and only 2,000 soldiers were reinforced, all of whom were Japanese soldiers recruited from Korea. After subtracting and adding, the total strength of the 13th and 14th Divisions was less than 35,000.

From the evening of July 2. The troops that had been on the offensive began to adjust their posture, and one by one infantry brigades were withdrawn from the offensive front, sent to build fortifications on the hills on either side of the railway line, and the six artillery brigades belonging to the two field artillery wings were also moved back from their positions close to the front line. The two divisions that were still south of the Yalu River also received orders to send reinforcements to the north of the river, and in the middle of the night, on the roads on both sides of the Yalu River. It's all reinforcements coming in overnight, wagons and trucks transporting ammunition supplies - the negotiations have just begun, and there are many more variables ahead! You can't go wrong with mobilizing more troops and ammunition!

However, the main force of the Second Group Army of the Chinese National Defense Forces on the front line of Fenghuang Mountain and Xinkailing did not receive any order to suspend military operations. Their counterattack will continue as usual! One heavy artillery cannon raised its long neck on the artillery positions on both sides of Fengcheng County. The ammunition on the battle station was piled to the brim. The infantry of the brigade, mules and horses carrying mountain artillery, mortars, and heavy machine guns have entered the starting positions in the Phoenix Mountain and Xinkailing Mountains in a steady stream. For tonight's raid, Chang Ruiqing's old classmate Xia Wei also showed his determination to break the boat. In addition to the 26th Division, which suffered heavy losses, remained in Fengshan County, the six elite infantry divisions of the First Army and the Seventh Army were all transferred. They are configured with the front of the south of Fengshan County. and flanks on both sides of the South Manchurian railway spur line. Behind them, there were as many as ten artillery regiments to support their attack, and 60 cannons of various calibers were ready to roar at any time, and this number did not count the mountain artillery and mortars attached to the various infantry regiments and infantry battalions.

Due to the lack of troops, the Japanese army's battle line was a long snake formation, which stretched more than 40 kilometers long from Bianmen Town in the south of Fengshan County to Andong County on the Yalu River. However, except for the 10-kilometer front from Bianmen Town, which is close to Fengshan County, to Tangshan City, which is relatively thick, the remaining 30-kilometer front is only a sparse placement of two cavalry wings, two engineer wings, and two infantry brigades, with a total of only more than 4,000 people. Guarding more than a dozen villages and towns along the railway, as for the mountains on both sides of the road, there is simply no way to send troops to sweep them. However, in the past 4 hours of fighting, the Japanese army did not find any numbers other than those belonging to the Ninth Army of the Chinese Army. Moreover, the Chinese side has already accepted the Japanese side's request for negotiations, and it will be only two days since the official ceasefire was established. Therefore, the top brass of the Japanese Korean Army was not too worried that their thin front would be cut off by the opponent, let alone that the squadron would set a fatal trap for the North Korean army on the Yalu River at the same time as the decisive battle on the Eastern Front!

The starting positions of the Chinese army were crowded with nervous soldiers and officers, all of whom had expressions of excitement and nervousness. Some were wiping down their weapons and ammunition, some were chanting and praying for something, others were drinking and eating snacks - their last meal before they went into battle, a little liquor to boost their courage, and a large meat bun. Although it was already cold, it was still very tasty. The junior officers were doing the final agitation work for the troops they led. It doesn't make a big deal anymore. Instead, the reward was announced, and of course, the machine guns of the Overseer team were also set up! Even if the Soviet Red Army fought in World War II in history, it was indispensable to use the supervision team, and the current Chinese defense force of course could not completely abolish the supervision team.

Of course, not all troops had to be pressed by the machine guns of the war team before they could go to the battlefield, and the assault force composed of veterans who participated in the "Four Nations War" before the Chinese New Year had quietly moved forward and touched the Japanese position under their noses at this time! Their tactics were modeled after the Storm Commandos of the German Army at the end of the European War, with small tactical groups armed with Madsen light machine guns, submachine guns, mortars, flamethrowers, grenade launchers, and grenades. Such assault units are not available in all Wehrmacht infantry corps, and only the first few armies have actually formed assault brigades. And the 1st and 7th armies had exactly such troops. So he was sent out to take on the most critical raid mission. Their target was Wulongbei Town in the middle of the Japanese Long Snake Formation, and as long as they captured it, most of the 13th and 14th divisions of the Japanese army would be firmly trapped in the Phoenix Mountains! They quietly advanced all the way until they were only five or six hundred meters away from the Japanese battle line. In front of them was the wall and a shallow trench in Wulongbei Town, where the 26th Division of the Wehrmacht had fought fiercely with the attacking Japanese army two days earlier, and the wall and trench were damaged in many places, and the Japanese army did not have time to repair them. There don't seem to be many troops guarding there, so they can do it lightly! The officers and soldiers lurking one by one

With his eyes wide open, he stared at the porous defensive positions of the Japanese army in front of him, anxiously waiting for the time for the general attack to be launched.

On a hill controlled by the Wehrmacht in the northwest of the Bianmen Formation, where the head of the Japanese Long Snake Formation was located, a shelter had been secretly erected, and the distance from the shelter to Bianmen Town was less than 5,000 meters, and there was no shelter in between. If you can see the Japanese front with the naked eye in the daytime. Bai Chongxi and Xia Wei appeared in the shelter after dinner, which was the former enemy command post where they approached and observed the entire battlefield.

Bai Chongxi stood in front of an observation port with eight characters inside, and used an artillery team to look at the battlefield in front of him. The battlefield in this area was the most lively in the entire Japanese front. Sporadic shelling from both sides continued, with Wehrmacht heavy artillery 05mm and 55mm shelling in a haphazard manner. In fact, it is a school shooting! The Japanese counterattacked with 75mm mountain/field artillery, which was also a change of place. It was constantly shifting gun positions to avoid being covered by Wehrmacht's heavy artillery. And the Japanese 05mm and 50mm heavy guns did not fire, I don't know where they were deployed?

At this time, Xia Wei's loud voice sounded. "Attention all artillery commanders, I am Xia Wei, commander of the Second Army! Ten minutes later, the first round of artillery preparations began! Ten minutes later, the first round of artillery fire preparations began! ”

"Attention all front-line infantry regiment commanders, I am Xia Wei, commander of the Second Army! Artillery preparation began after ten minutes and lasted thirty minutes. After the preparation of artillery fire, the first round of infantry assault began immediately! I order you to make a surprise attack on the Japanese positions with the utmost determination, and to make sure that you achieve a complete breakthrough in the first round of assault! ”

Lai Xia Wei is giving the final offensive order!

Lieutenant General Inoue Kitaro, commander of the 13th Division, the former commander-in-chief of the Japanese army, was at his headquarters in the town of Bienmen when he was in charge of a telegram from the Korean Army Headquarters. Commander Shirakawa Yoshinori told him in a telegram that on the Far Eastern side, the Chinese army's counterattack was not accepted, and after the Japanese army in Shuangcheng was shattered, the Chinese army transferred its forces to the middle of the Xingkaihu Plain and launched a fierce offensive against the 19th and 20th divisions that were moving south to reinforce Shuangcheng! Therefore, Shirakawa Yoshinori estimated that the Chinese side might refuse to negotiate after an armistice, and he demanded that the 13th and 14th Divisions be ready to resume the offensive at any time and force the Chinese side to make concessions with a fierce offensive!

Lieutenant General Inoue Kitaro shook his head slightly. Now the firepower of the Chinese army is far superior to that of the Japanese army, and the training level of the troops is not much worse. The progress of the offensive operations in these five days was completely filled in with the lives of the officers and men of the 13th and 14th Divisions. The front-line infantry of the two divisions suffered almost half of the casualties! Without timely replenishment, it is simply impossible to maintain a strong offensive.

It was when he drafted a telegram to the commander of the Korean Army, Yoshinori Shirakawa, stating the difficulties faced by the 13th and 14th Divisions. Suddenly, I heard someone shouting in my ear: "The shelling of the Chinese army!" They're going to raid! Kitaro Inoue was taken aback. When I turned around, I saw the chief of staff of the division, Toshio Tani, pointing to the night sky outside the window of the division headquarters with trembling eyes.

Inoue Kitaro was just about to follow the direction of Tani Shoufu's finger to find out, when the sound of an explosion suddenly sounded almost simultaneously around the entire Bianmen Town! The whole earth trembled. Inoue's headquarters also landed near the headquarters, and a 55mm shell exploded near the tiled house where the headquarters was located, and the hot shock wave broke through the doors and windows of the house and poured into the room. Everyone in the house was shaken down, and the roof of the tiled house also collapsed, burying Kitaro Inoue, Toshio Tani, and the staff officers of the house all underneath!

"Your Excellency, Division Commander! Your Excellency, Division Commander! Gu Shoufu was the first to crawl out of the rubble, and as soon as he shouted two times, a sharp pain came from his two arms. As soon as he looked down, he saw that the hands and a small arm he had just raised were gone! Blood is spurting out from the wounds of the severed limb! This executioner, whose hands were stained with the blood of the Chinese people in history, now has no hands!

"Ambulance! Ambulance! Gu Shoufu also didn't care about his division leader. Howling, he rushed out of the house, trying to find an ambulance who could bandage him to stop the bleeding. However, the artillery bombardment of the Chinese army had just begun, and the entire Bianmen town was drowned in flames and smoke and shrapnel flying in all directions, and no one dared to come out at all. Gu Shoufu ran like crazy, screaming, and before he could get far, another 75mm shell exploded in front of him. He felt himself being thrown high, and then he lost consciousness as soon as it was dark. At that moment, he actually felt a sense of relief. I can finally become a god, and I am worthy of His Majesty the Emperor! However, his doom did not end so quickly, as a brave Japanese ambulance found him and dragged him behind a half-collapsed wall under Chinese fire. He was bandaged so that he could be captured by the Chinese army who invaded the town of Bianmen more than ten hours later. Later, he spent several years in a prisoner of war camp, learned to eat and write with his feet, and returned to his native Japan in '92, but Japan was completely different from the country he remembered!

The commander of Tani Toshio's division, Kitaro Inoue, was luckier than him. And did not get hit by the fragmentation of that 55mm shell. Not long after Gu Shoufu screamed and rushed out of the house, he crawled out of the rubble. Although his head and face were covered with wounds, they were all smashed and scratched by broken tiles, and there was no danger. After making sure that he was not going to die for a while, Inoue began to rummage through the rubble for the telephone, and when he found it, he sat down against a wall that had not yet collapsed, shook the phone, and in a few clicks it reached the telephone of the rear artillery group. He yelled into the phone headset: "The artillery group will fight back for me!" Target the front line of the Imperial Army's position in Bianmen Town! Don't think about the fire suppression of the Chinese army, and don't skimp on shells! Now it's time for the final showdown! Then he tried to call through the wing headquarters of the infantry wings below, but he was unsuccessful, and the communication between the division headquarters and the front line had been cut off! He shouted: "Signal soldier, check the line!" But no one paid attention to him, he looked around, and there was no second living person in the entire division headquarters! Outside there was another scene like a sea of fire, which was not something that the two artillery regiments of the 26th Division and the 9th Army Headquarters of the Chinese Army could fight! The Chinese army has secretly mobilized a large number of reinforcements to the front line of Fengcheng, at least two or three armies! I'm afraid that my own 13th Division will follow in the footsteps of the 10th Division!

The Japanese artillery group also hardened and began to roar. The 13th Division and the 14th Division each have a field artillery wing, with a total of 24 50mm howitzers, 24 05mm howitzers, and 24 75mm field guns. It was only one-fifth of the firepower of the Chinese artillery group, but 72 cannons fired at the same time, and it still formed an impassable wall of fire around the Japanese front line in Bianmen Town. The Japanese army in Bianmen Town was given a little respite, but for the rest of the Japanese army on the entire front, their end had come.

In fact, at the same time as the shelling began, more than 1,000 officers and men of the assault brigades of the Wehrmacht's First and Seventh Armies jumped up and launched a surprise attack on the town of Wulongbei, a few hundred meters away. It was a surprise attack, and the town was guarded by half of the Japanese cavalry wing, unlike the outnumbered infantry wing. The total strength of the Japanese cavalry wing was only more than 500 people, and half a wing was 250 men and 10 soldiers. It was impossible to defend a large town at all, but half of the officers and soldiers of the cavalry squadron were placed on the wall of the town to post sentry, and the rest were concentrated in the best building in the town, Yaoru Primary School. As a result, the dozens of cavalry guarding the wall were all wiped out during the first wave of the Chinese commando's charge, and the remaining more than 200 Japanese soldiers were blocked in the elementary school, and fought hard for half a night with the Chinese army several times their number, and finally all went to meet Amaterasu!