In Jinzhou City, when Zhang Zuolin and his 713 Regiment followed 2 tanks to attack a street, they found that an ancestral hall on this street was heavily protected by Japanese soldiers, and they attacked several times, and even the tracks of 1 tank were blown up by the Japanese death squad with explosives packs!

Zhang Zuolin spat out a mouthful of phlegm and said: "The Japanese in this place are crazy!" Grab the explosives bag and rush to the tank! ”

A battalion commander under Zhang Zuolin also scolded and said, "Damn! An ancestral hall has so many troops released by the Japanese army! Could it be that this is the command of the Japanese army! ”

The speaker had no intention of listening, and Zhang Zuolin reacted suddenly, this is very likely to be the command headquarters of the Japanese army at a certain level, and this posture is at least a brigade headquarters.

Thinking of this, Zhang Zuolin suddenly became excited, picked up a rifle and shouted: "Brothers! Let's Dingbei Army can still scare the Japanese! If you are not afraid of death, follow Lao Tzu and rush up! ”

After speaking, Zhang Zuolin took the lead in rushing forward, and the soldiers of the Dingbei Army of the 713 Regiment saw that the regiment commander had taken the lead in rushing, and immediately rushed to the ancestral hall with a roar.

The intact 1 tank also rushed to the ancestral hall again to cover the infantry of the Dingbei Army, and the tank whose tracks were damaged also continued to fire at the ancestral hall with tank guns and machine guns to suppress the fire of the Japanese troops in the ancestral hall.

Zhang Zuolin rushed to the position close to the ancestral hall with the soldiers of the 713 regiment, and Zhang Zuolin immediately shouted: "Throw grenades!" "The black grenade was thrown into the ancestral hall.

"Boom-boom-boom-" After the grenade exploded, Zhang Zuolin shouted: "Brothers! Kill the Japanese criminals! After speaking, he was the first to rush into the ancestral hall with a bayonet.

Under the leadership of Zhang Zuolin, the soldiers of the Dingbei Army who rushed into the ancestral hall launched a bloody white-knuckle battle with the remnants of the Japanese army.

Zhang Zuolin relied on a ruthless and skillful bayonet technique to stab 2 Japanese soldiers to death one after another, and then found that there were no living Japanese soldiers in the courtyard of the ancestral hall! And already the soldiers of the 713th Regiment have rushed into the ancestral hall house.

After a burst of fierce gunfire and the sound of fighting bayonets, a battalion commander of the 713 Regiment poked his head out of the door of the ancestral hall and shouted to Zhang Zuolin in surprise: "Regiment commander, this is the division headquarters of the Japanese army, we killed a Japanese lieutenant general, division commander and 2 Japanese major generals, and several Japanese soldiers!" ”

Zhang Zuolin hurriedly walked into the ancestral hall house a few steps, and sure enough, he saw the corpses of several senior Japanese officers in the corpses of the Japanese soldiers in one place!

This headquarters was the division headquarters of the Japanese Ninth Division, and the division commander Fujita Masao and most of the senior officers of the Ninth Division were killed.

Zhang Zuolin asked urgently: "Have you captured the Japanese flag?" ”

The battalion commander of the 713th regiment said regretfully: "No! The Japanese can't hold it anymore! Burn all the flags! ”

Zhang Zuolin felt very sorry when he heard it, the Dingbei Army had already wiped out tens of thousands of Japanese troops, but so far, not even a single Japanese army flag has been captured.

At the time of the bloody battle between the Dingbei Army and the Japanese Southern Route Army in Jinzhou City, the Japanese Northern Route Army in Shengjing, in addition to the more than 1,000 people of the Japanese infantry wing left behind in Shengjing City, more than 40,000 people of the Japanese North Route Army, under the order of the commander Yama County Youpeng, raised troops and left Shengjing City, quickly passed through the western Liaoning area, and went straight to the Shanhaiguan Pass in the south.

The march speed of the Northern Route Army was very fast, and there was almost no Qing army in the entire western Liaoning, and the Japanese army was under the Shanhaiguan City in less than 2 days!

When they arrived at the city of Shanhaiguan, the Japanese army had almost no rest, and under the order of the commander Yama Prefecture Youpeng, they launched an attack on Shanhaiguan, which is known as the first pass in the world!

The commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan, Iktanga, was shocked when he saw the Japanese army overwhelmingly pressing towards Shanhaiguan, didn't the Japanese Northern Route Army rest in Shengjing and wait for reinforcements from the Japanese mainland! Why did he suddenly kill under the Shanhaiguan Pass.

On the one hand, Yiketanga hurriedly organized the Qing army in Shanhaiguan to use the dangerous pass to resist the attack of the Japanese army, and on the other hand, he reported to the imperial court that the Japanese Northern Route Army was attacking Shanhaiguan, and asked the imperial court to send reinforcements to support Shanhaiguan.

The terrain of Shanhaiguan was very dangerous, which brought great difficulties to the Japanese attack, and the commander of the 1st Division, Motoji Yamachi, said to the commander Aritomo of Yamaguchi: "It is really too many casualties to continue fighting like this!" The first line of Shanhaiguan deserves to be called the first pass in the world, and the terrain here is very unfavorable for attack! ”

Youpeng of Shan County said expressionlessly: "I know that the troops have suffered heavy casualties!" But we must do our best to take Shanhaiguan, otherwise the battle situation in the entire Liaodong will become more and more unfavorable to us! ”

Youpeng of Shan County was very worried about the defense of Jinzhou City by the Southern Route Army, and according to the latest news, the Dingbei Army dispatched a new weapon, a steel chariot equipped with artillery and machine guns. Under the attack of this powerful steel chariot, the Southern Route Army has lost all the positions on the periphery of Jinzhou City, and has now retreated into Jinzhou City, and has started a street battle with the Dingbei Army!

Although the Southern Route Army has 7 divisions and more than 80,000 actual troops, there is a hunch in Youpeng in Shan County that Jinzhou City will not last much under the attack of the Dingbei Army!

Under the non-stop attack of the Japanese army day and night, although the defenders of Shanhaiguan had the advantage in numbers, in the face of such a ferocious offensive, the mental defense line of some green battalion soldiers of the Qing army collapsed first!

On the night of the second day after the Japanese Northern Route Army attacked Shanhaiguan, a section of the Green Battalion on the Great Wall on the right flank of Shanhaiguan broke and fled, and the Japanese army immediately climbed the Great Wall.

Youpeng of Shanxian County, who supervised the battle overnight, saw that he had broken through the defense line of the Great Wall of the Qing Army, and was immediately overjoyed, and immediately ordered the follow-up troops of the Japanese army to attack both sides from the breakthrough!

When Iktanga learned that a section of the Great Wall's defense line had been breached, he immediately organized 3,000 elite Lao Huai troops to storm the Japanese troops who had climbed the Great Wall under the leadership of Zhang Xiluan, the Minister of Northeast Military Training.

However, after the entire Shanhaiguan defense line knew the news that the Japanese army had broken through a section of the Great Wall defense line, the green battalion soldiers began to be impetuous, and the green battalions of various departments continued to desert, and finally under the leadership of several green battalion generals to escape, the entire Shanhaiguan defense line collapsed, and the green battalion soldiers and the newly recruited recruits rushed to escape from the position and fled to the rear.

Although the guards of Shanhaiguan Yiketang'a, Nie Shicheng, Qingyu and Zhang Xiluan led the elite troops of various departments to run around the entire Shanhaiguan defense line, it was a pity that they could not save the collapse of the green battalion of the entire defense line and could not stop the Japanese army from ascending the Great Wall!

By early morning, the entire Shanhaiguan defense line had fallen into the hands of the Japanese army. Zhang Xiluan, the minister of Northeast Military Training among the Shanhaiguan guards, was shot in the chest and martyred in the battle. When Shengjing's general Qingyu stopped the rout from escaping, he was hit in the head by a stray bullet and died in battle. Nie Shicheng escorted Iktang'a, who was wounded again, and evacuated Shanhaiguan with the remnants of the troops.

When Shanhaiguan fell into the hands of the Japanese army, the street fighting in Jinzhou City entered the 5th day!

Lin Daxin sat in the forward command with a gloomy face, listening to the report of Zhao Hu, the commander of the second division: "Principal, the 4-day attack has caused the second division to lose 17 armored vehicles and 4 tanks, the tanks are all tracks that have been blown up, and the 4 tanks have been dragged back. ”

Lin Daxin said in a deep voice: "What about the casualties of each division? Lin Daxin did not expect that the Japanese army in Jinzhou City would be so tenacious, and in the face of the attack of the 5 divisions of the Dingbei Army, which was well-armed and well-trained, it actually resisted for 5 days, and it brought great casualties to the divisions of the Northern Army.

Zhao Hu said: "Principal! The divisions suffered heavy casualties! Our second division has already killed more than 1,400 people! With the addition of the other 4 divisions, our Dingbei Army will have nearly 10,000 casualties alone! ”

Lin Daxin sighed, knowing that the casualties were very large, and he didn't expect that there were almost 10,000 people killed in battle, and he then asked, "What is the situation of the Japanese army in the city?" ”

Zhao Hu said: "The Japanese army is now mainly concentrated in two areas in Jinzhou City, one in the north of the city and the other in the west of the city, and the Japanese troops in the other cities have been basically cleared!" Now the Japanese position north of the city is attacked by the 3rd Division! The Japanese position west of the city was attacked by the 6th Division! ”

Lin Daxin nodded and said, "Sue the third and sixth divisions, increase the attack!" Just now there was news from Weihaiwei that the Japanese Northern Route Army had occupied Shanhaiguan! ”

Zhao Hu exclaimed when he heard this: "What! Shanhaiguan is lost! The 100,000 army has lost the first pass in the world in just a few days! ”

Lin Daxin is also very aggrieved in his heart, he is about to annihilate the defenders of Jinzhou City here, if the Qing army in Shanhaiguan can block the Japanese North Route Army, which is already a remnant, he can send 2 or 3 divisions of troops, go straight to the Shanhaiguan defense line, flank the Japanese North Route Army before and after, and annihilate the remnants of the Japanese North Route Army under Shanhaiguan, so that the Japanese army attacking Liaodong on the 2nd Route will be annihilated, leaving only a Japanese division along the Yalu River and North Korea.

This war between the Qing Dynasty and Japan can basically be declared the victory of the Qing Dynasty! But now the defenders of Shanhaiguan are too unlucky, in the face of a Japanese army that can be said to be a lone army, in the case of geographical advantage and numerical advantage, within a few days the Shanhaiguan known as the first pass in the world was lost!

Hearing Zhao Hu's exclamation, Lin Daxin said with some interest: "I didn't expect that the 100,000 Qing troops defending Shanhaiguan would be defeated by more than 40,000 Japanese troops in 2 days!" Even after we cleared the Japanese army in Jinzhou City, we also lost the opportunity to encircle and annihilate the Japanese North Route Army under the Shanhai Pass! ”

Zhao Hu frowned and said: "After the Japanese army captures Shanhaiguan, they can go straight to Beijing City!" ”

Lin Daxin thought that this opportunity to encircle and annihilate the Japanese Northern Route Army was lost, and he was very depressed, and said to Zhao Hu: "You go and inform the Third and Sixth Divisions!" Let them wipe out the Japanese army in Jinzhou City first, and then we will make the next step for the Northern Army! ”

Zhao Hu nodded: "Yes!" Headmaster! Then he walked out of the command.

After Zhao Hu left, Lin Daxin picked up the telegram given to him by Ding Ruchang of Weihaiwei and read it again, and then put down the telegram with a wry smile.

Now the imperial court has asked Li Hongzhang to invite the British minister, the Russian minister, the French minister, the German minister, and the American minister to come forward to mediate the war between the Qing Dynasty and Japan!