The establishment of the puppet state of Manchukuo did not change the situation of the war in the northeast, Zhang Zuolin's Northeast Army still struggled to resist the attack of the Japanese army, and Zhang Zuolin, who was not fully prepared, was not the opponent of the Japanese army at all, and the Japanese invasion greatly surprised him.

The Japanese army that had broken through Hunchun was rushing towards Yanbian, their goal was the provincial capital of Jilin Province, and their next stop on their way to the provincial capital was Yanbian. In fact, the Japanese army could go to Jilin City by bypassing Yanbian, but they were proud that they would not be afraid of the Northeast Army, and their task also included the elimination of the Northeast Army, so they deliberately passed through Yanbian.

In fact, even if the Japanese army does not pass through Yanbian, the Northeast Army will go to them, and the Northeast Army will not let the Japanese army rush to Jilin, which is the heart of the Northeast Army, and Zhang Dashuai is also there, and the Japanese army must not be allowed to pass through Yanbian.

The Northeast Army under Zhang Zuolin was less than 500,000, and when the border defense line collapsed, it had already lost more than 100,000 troops, and then heavily guarded several important places where the Japanese army must have passed, so there were less than 200,000 Northeast Army troops in Yanbian at this time, and those troops who returned from Hunchun were still added.

There were 150,000 Japanese troops rushing towards Yanbian, and the overall strength of the well-trained Japanese army was much stronger than that of the Northeast Army, but this time they did not have the help of the navy, so the Northeast Army was still sure that the Japanese army would stay in Yanbian.

After Xu Qiang retreated to Yanbian, he was strictly ordered by the commander to go to the military doctor to treat the wound, and now he has a bandage on his head, but the military hat covers the strap well, and the whole thing looks like nothing is the same.

Many of the remaining soldiers of the Hunchun army that retreated to Yanbian were in chaos at this time, so they were reorganized after Zhang Zuolin's consent, Xu Qiang's excellent command on the battlefield and many enemies were promoted, from colonel to colonel, and also from regiment commander to deputy commander of the first division of the 21st Army of the Northeast Army.

The news of the establishment of the Imperial Northeast Military Region has also reached Yanbian, and they have also directly changed from the Jilin Army to a member of the Imperial Northeast Army, and the Northeast Army is under the jurisdiction of the National Defense Force, so they are also considered a member of the National Defense Army. They were very excited to change from a local army to an imperial elite army, and the reputation of the Wehrmacht in defeating the Tsarist Russian army in Outer Mongolia spread all over the world, and they were all proud to join the Wehrmacht.

In Yanbian, the camp of the Northeast Army, a group of senior officers were discussing the battle plan around the sand table, each saying their own opinions.

"If the Japanese army wants to attack the provincial capital, they will definitely pass near Yanbian with their pride, but we are not sure whether they will come to attack Yanbian, where we have set up defenses, let's discuss it and try to prepare before the Japanese army arrives." Zhang Zuoxiang took the baton and clicked on the Yanbian on the sand table. The attack on Hunchun's side is the main line of attack of the Japanese army, which is very important, and it is related to the entire battle situation, so Zhang Zuolin asked his brother Zhang Zuoxiang to come to the town in person.

"Commander, according to the intelligence, there are 150,000 Japanese troops attacking this time, and although our army has an advantage in numbers, our soldiers are not as experienced as the Japanese soldiers, and their training is slightly weaker than that of the Japanese army. So I built yì to ambush the Japanese army, you see, the terrain here can still be ambushed, but the army has to do it to lure the Japanese army to come. After saying that, the staff officer pointed to a small valley with his baton, and there were only two exits to the small valley, and if the Japanese army was really lured here, they might be able to ambush them.

"It's not good, this valley is too obvious, during the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese army has figured out a lot of the terrain in the northeast, Yanbian is so close to North Korea, it is impossible for the Japanese army not to know that there is a valley here, and it is very likely that the Japanese army will counter us. And it's still a question of whether the Japanese army will come here, so I don't think this plan is feasible. Another staff officer thought for a moment and then said.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you see, we might as well garrison our army near the main transportation road near Yilan, which is the only way for the Japanese army to rush to the provincial capital quickly, and if we deploy there, we will not worry about the Japanese army bypassing us. And we planted mines there to stop them, with their bushido spirit will definitely fill the minefield with the lives of soldiers, judging from the war between the Empire and Tsarist Russia and the process of the Japanese attack on Vladivostok, mines do have a great effect, at least they can delay the advance of the Japanese army and their reinforcements, and we can wait for the arrival of the imperial army. Xu Qiang said very nervously, this is also the first time he has faced so many high-ranking people of the Northeast Army, and sweat has seeped out of his forehead.

Zhang Zuolin has a lot of mines here, some of which he bought from those Tsarist arms dealers, all of which were simple mines from the Russo-Japanese War. In addition, the Chinese Empire also copied and manufactured a lot of mines after obtaining the Russian ones, some of which were thrown to him by the Empire during the first confrontation between Zhang Zuolin and the Japanese army.

After hearing this, everyone looked at Xu Qiang, they had never seen Xu Qiang before, and Xu Qiang didn't wait for the boss to finish speaking, and he rushed to say his opinion, and his division commander sweated for him. But when these bosses looked at Xu Qiang, they were not dissatisfied, but flashed appreciative eyes.

After Jilin joined the National Defense Force, they also had to change their concepts, and besides, they were not pedantic people, so these bosses were also very happy to see that there were their own geniuses in the Northeast Army, and in the future, they would have to rely on these young talents to compete for more interests and glory in the National Defense Force.

"That's right, the young man has a good idea, so let's do what he does. Well, by the way, we can't sit still, so I'm going to send troops to attack the Japanese when they attack us. Zhang Zuoxiang didn't know what Xu Qiang's name was, so he didn't call his name, he agreed with Xu Qiang's idea very much, he didn't think of using mines to block the Japanese army before, and he didn't indicate which army to send to sneak attack.

"Then disperse, hurry up and arrange people to prepare, the Japanese army will arrive soon, there is not much time left for us, I hope the reinforcements of the Japanese army will not be so fast, otherwise the situation will be troublesome." Zhang Zuoxiang saw that no one continued to analyze, so he asked them to prepare.

Xu Qiang, who was out of the camp, breathed a sigh of relief, and the division commander who walked side by side with him gave him a thumbs up, Xu Qiang looked scared, which made the division commander smile.

Soon after Xu Qiang returned to his division's camp, he received an order to attack the Japanese army, and the 21st Army was designated as a sneak attack army, because they had fought with the Japanese army in Hunchun and had more experience than the army that had not fought with the Japanese army, and Xu Qiang was also a member of the 21st Army.

After the border war, the Japanese army found that the Northeast Army was not as weak as they imagined, and it was able to resist them for a few days, which made the Japanese high-level even more firmly believe that attacking the Northeast now was a good decision, and if Zhang Zuolin was given more time to develop, they would have to pay a strict price if they wanted to occupy the Northeast.

Although the strength of the Northeast Army was not as weak as the Japanese army imagined, the Japanese army did not take the Northeast Army seriously, especially those newly reinforced Japanese troops, who still knew the Northeast Army during the Russo-Japanese War.

A large number of Japanese soldiers thought that an army of 150,000 would be able to reach the capital of Jilin Province, because their predecessors had driven the Manchu army in the northeast with tens of thousands of men, and they had annihilated a lot, so they could have succeeded.

Soon the Japanese army arrived near Yilan like Xu Qiang, originally they thought that the Northeast Army would be waiting for them in the center of Yanbian, but they didn't expect the Northeast Army to wait for them in Yilan.

When the Japanese army saw Yilan's Northeast Army, they immediately attacked, and under the command of officers who spoke Japanese and shouted to kill chickens, they launched a fierce attack on the Northeast Army, and the sound of killing chickens was endless.

"Dada...... Dadada......"

The Northeast Army in the trenches frantically strafed the rushing Japanese troops with machine guns, and because the nearby bunkers were cleared by the Northeast, a large number of Japanese soldiers were knocked down, but the Japanese did not relax the rhythm of the attack.

"Open fire, kill all their machine gunners, and let these pigs know how powerful the Imperial Japanese army is!"

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

The Japanese artillery was quickly reloaded and fired under the order of the commander, and one shell after another fell to the position of the Northeast Army, and many machine gunners were concentrated by the shells, and the accuracy rate of the Japanese artillery was very high, and after a while, the machine guns of the Northeast Army were destroyed a lot, and the pressure of the Japanese soldiers became lighter.

"Damn, have you found the location of the Japanese artillery, hurry up and return fire, so that our machine guns will be gone, and the accuracy rate of dog days will be so high." A senior officer of the Northeast Army ran to the artillery and asked.

"We've found it, we're preparing to fight back, don't worry, sir!" The artilleryman saluted and said.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! ”

As soon as the artilleryman finished speaking, the Northeast artillery began to counterattack, and the officer also ran away with his ears covered, and those artillerymen stuffed cotton in their ears, but the officer did not.

The artillery of the Northeast Army is obviously better than that of Japan, and the range and power are a little larger than that of Japan, and they use the cannons and shells that the Chinese Empire has only recently given them, which Zhang Zuolin asked for the last time he fought against them. Zhang Zuolin's army had soldiers who went to the Imperial Military Academy to study, and they came into contact with these cannons, and they strongly recommended that Zhang Zuolin buy some, and Qin Yu bought some for him, which is about the number of cannons of the three armies.

The artillery shells of the Northeast Army rushed frantically towards the location of the Japanese artillery, and the Japanese artillery looked at the shells flying over in horror, they did not expect that the range of the artillery of the Northeast Army was so far, obviously much farther than in Hunchun, miscalculated!

A cannon was hit by a shell of the Northeast Army, and it was torn apart with a bang, and the nearby Japanese artillery was directly cut into pieces by the fragments of the shells and artillery, and the sky was filled with blood mist. One cannon after another was hit, and the Northeast Army killed more than a dozen cannons in the first round, which made the Japanese army very heartbroken.

"Quick, move quickly, retreat again, and withdraw from the range of the Northeast Army!" The head of the Japanese artillery quickly reacted, there was a problem with their intelligence, and they didn't even know that the Northeast Army had such a powerful artillery, and there was a mistake in the guide.

"Damn the intelligence department, what are they doing, where did the Northeast Army get this kind of artillery? Why didn't it appear in Hunchun? "The officers of the Japanese army were complaining about the negligence of the intelligence services.

"Boom! Rumble! ”

The artillery of the Northeast Army began to exert its might again, and this time the Japanese artillery that was being transferred lost several more cannons.