He Zhuguo, who had already arrived at Xinglongtai, immediately transferred a regiment from Zhao Dengyu's department to dismount and change to a truck, commanded by brigade commander Wang Changhai, and then dragged four 130-mm cannons straight to Xinmin, that is, it was only a three- or four-hour drive, and it had already arrived in the evening.

The puppet army deployed on the west bank made a slight resistance, and after Wang Changhai bombarded it with a vehicle-mounted anti-aircraft artillery, he directly scattered like a duck, these guys are very smart, in the end, this is a war between the Northeast Guangfu Army and the Japanese, and they have nothing to do with Mao, since this is the case, it is okay to fool around, and who can stop the machine artillery?

The accompanying artillery of the security division immediately chose a position to set up the cannon, and the roar of the 130-mm cannon in the faint twilight opened the prelude to the Battle of the Juliu River.

The Japanese troops on the east bank were not in a hurry, they had already requisitioned a large number of civilian workers with bayonets, quickly built improvised fortifications, and formed a dense defensive line along the banks of the Juliu River, but even so, the large-caliber heavy artillery that suddenly smashed overhead still made the entire defense line a mess.

The ragtags who had never experienced the battlefield were blown up like a flock of chickens thrown into a cannonball, and everywhere were chaotic looking for hidden volunteers, while the Japanese veterans shouted angrily, and in the midst of this chaos, a dozen tall trucks suddenly burst out of the twilight.

Before the Japanese troops on the east bank could react, one of the soldiers of a battalion jumped out of the truck and rushed down the railroad tracks to the east bank under the cover of a large-caliber machine gun on the roof.

At the same time, the two trucks in the convoy turned around, and the twin 37-mm anti-aircraft guns attached to the rear of the vehicles smashed the dense shells at the opposite bank, while the accompanying artillery observers quickly reported the adjusted coordinates to the heavy artillery positions more than ten kilometers away with the infantry radio according to the landing points of the shells.

Immediately after the readjusted shells. It landed accurately at the eastern end of the Juliu River Bridge, and the Japanese positions stationed here were leveled by heavy artillery shells in just a few minutes.

The charging assault battalion soon set foot on the east bank, and the heavy artillery fire immediately extended to the perimeter, and a group of Japanese troops who were preparing to retake the bridgehead position were instantly engulfed in the smoke of the shell explosion.

The assault battalion did not hesitate in the slightest. Under the cover of artillery shells, they rushed to repair the remnants of the Japanese fortifications as quickly as possible, and quickly established a defensive line to protect the bridgehead, and the armed trucks behind them lined up on the west bank, and more than a dozen large-caliber machine guns and two twin 37-mm anti-aircraft guns formed a second line of defense, one in front and one behind the bridgehead.

At this time another battalion arrived, and this battalion did not cross the bridge, but established a defensive line at the western end of the bridge. Two battalions, one east and one west, protected the entire bridge in the middle.

The Japanese army was naturally unwilling to lose control of the bridge in this way, and then under the cover of the artillery behind the defensive line, the Japanese army began to attack the bridge, and under the cover of night, the Juliu River Bridge trembled in artillery fire.

At this time, a Junker aunt appeared in the night sky, and then on the heavy artillery position on the ground, the coordinates of the Japanese artillery were received, and the four 130 cannons immediately adjusted their muzzles. A barrage of shells smashed into Japanese artillery positions.

This artillery battle was extremely unfair, with 130 cannons with a range of thirty kilometers versus 75 field guns with a range of ten kilometers. There was no suspense in this artillery battle, and a few minutes later the Japanese artillery positions were wiped out in the light of an explosion.

Without artillery support, it was impossible to break through the line of automatic rifles, large-caliber machine guns and machine guns, and the Japanese quickly retreated with heavy losses.

Kenkichi Ueda, who received the news, was not surprised in the slightest, in fact, after knowing that the enemy was dragging a 130-mm cannon, he had already lost much hope for the artillery. Sun Liren's intelligence is not accurate, after the Japanese army occupied the Shenyang Arsenal, it has stopped the production of 105 mm light cannons and 150 mm heavy howitzers, after all, these things are still more assured in their domestic production, and now the artillery produced by the Shenyang Arsenal is mainly 75 field guns and mountain artillery.

Let's talk about facing those 130 cannons that can directly bombard Shanhaiguan from Qinhuangdao. Kenkichi Ueda is also abusing the latest, 24-ton 96-style 150 mm weight.

What he really relied on was Shenyang's Dongta Airport, which had just been repaired, and more than 30 planes transferred from the DPRK could arrive tomorrow, so it would naturally be more cost-effective to bomb them.

He didn't take the loss of the Juliu River Bridge very seriously, and letting the planes get a few bombs tomorrow would solve this trouble, Ueda quickly called off the counteroffensive on the front line, and instead of wasting the lives of the soldiers, it was better to take this opportunity to strengthen the defensive line! Tomorrow when the enemy arrives, a full-scale attack will definitely be launched, and it will not work without adequate preparation.

At this time, mortars became the best weapons, and a large number of mortars of various calibers were moved from the Shenyang Arsenal to the front line. Anyway, the ammunition behind the arsenal is absolutely sufficient, but the number of artillery is lacking, but fortunately, the mortar is simple to use, and even those miscellaneous players can beat the shells out with a little teaching.

At midnight, Commander Ueda, who had worked all day, finally did not bear the fatigue and sat in the command post and fell asleep, after all, he was also a person 60 miles away, and his energy was inevitably a little lacking, but it was a pity that he was awakened by the terrible sound of air defense sirens within a few minutes of closing his eyes.

"What's going on?" Commander Ueda asked Chief of Staff Itagaki who hurriedly walked in.

"Your Excellency, Commander, a plane just flew overhead, but no bombs were dropped." Itagaki said with a solemn face.

"If you don't drop a bomb, it's a transport plane, what is the transport plane doing at this time?" Commander Ueda said as he stared at the map, but then his face changed dramatically.

"Hurry up and reinforce the East Tower Airfield!" He yelled anxiously.

Itagaki also came to his senses all of a sudden, the plane could be airborne in addition to bombing, and now the East Tower Airport was their life-saving straw, this guy immediately ran out of the city, gathered the only remaining squadron guards in the headquarters, climbed into the car and went straight out of the city.

Before they could get out of the city, there were already dense gunfire in the direction of the Dongta Airport, and there was only one squad left there, because they were tired enough to repair the airport during the day, and everyone except the vigilant sentries was sleeping, and after being awakened by the sound of the city's air defense siren, before they understood what was going on, more than 200 heavily armed enemies had already fallen from the sky.

This group of people are all Yang Feng's elite security guards. Automatic rifles, recoilless guns, grenade launchers lacked anything, and even a couple of sets of flamethrowers, and it took less than ten minutes for these guys to hit the ground. The Japanese troops at the airport were cleaned up, and when Itagaki arrived with his people, the bullets that were waiting for them had already turned into a dense barrage.

Just when the battle was raging at the Dongta Airport, another regiment of cavalry arrived on the west bank of the Juliu River, and this group of cavalry arrived with the war horses left behind by the advance regiment and rushed to the army overnight by means of two horses.

Not only them, but the main force under the command of He Zhuguo also arrived overnight, and the two regiments completely made the Japanese army lose hope of counterattacking, and Major General Imamura, who was in charge of the command, immediately gave up the attack he was organizing. The entire line of defense turned to the defensive.

Wang Changhai did not attack, the two regiments were not enough to launch a strong attack, especially the new troops were exhausted from the long-distance attack, and the gunfire of the Juliu River defense line in the original fierce battle gradually fell silent.

But the battle at Dongta Airport is getting more and more intense, and the planes coming from North Korea after dawn are about to land, but the airport is in the hands of the enemy, so how can they land? Itagaki also went out of his way, and when the number of troops was insufficient, he directly organized the Japanese workers of the nearby arsenal. Barely scraping together almost a brigade, they launched a strong assault on the airfield.

But things are not going well. Because he was afraid of destroying the airport, he did not dare to use artillery, and it was indeed difficult to seize the airport from these special forces with only the light weapons in the hands of the soldiers, especially since the Japanese defenders still left a few anti-aircraft guns, which now became the biggest headache for Itagaki.

It's almost dawn. Kenkichi Ueda's worst fear happened, and the fierce battle at the East Tower Airport made the resistance groups in the city unable to sit still.

There were not many resistance groups in Shenyang, and all sides had the power to do so, and the Nationalist Government belonged to the Central Union. The Fuxing Society, the underground party to which Zhonggong belongs, and the troublemakers sent here by Yang Feng, and even some spontaneous anti-Japanese elements among the people, these guys have been holding back for a long time, and now that such a good opportunity is in front of them, they will naturally not miss it.

They all have weapons, and the Japanese expatriates patrolling the streets also have enough weapons in their hands to snatch, and if they can take down the Shenyang Arsenal, then there will be no shortage of weapons.

As a result, when the fierce battle in the East Tower was in full swing, gunshots rang out in the city of Shenyang, and many Japanese military organs stationed in Shenyang were attacked by armed elements, and those responsible for protecting these places were all armed expatriates, and they were all old, weak, sick and disabled, and these people had low combat effectiveness, and they could not stop this large-scale attack at all, and soon several important organs were breached, the most important of which was the prison.

In order to muster as many troops as possible, Ueda sent the city's military police and Japanese policemen to the front line of the Juliu River, guarding the empty prison is naturally the best target, a large number of rescued prisoners, regardless of whether they are anti-Japanese elements or not, anyway, if they are caught by the Japanese again, they will definitely die, these people all joined the riots, and soon the whole Shenyang has been in flames.

Kenkichi Ueda, who was trapped in the headquarters of the Kwantung Army, finally had no choice but to call Lieutenant General Matsushita, the commander of the Lushun Town Guard.

Lieutenant General Matsushita agreed to his request very happily, but the problem was that the railway from Lushun to Shenyang was also bombed, not only the railway was bombed, but even the military airfield in Lushun was bombed.

Although he had a lot of cars, due to road problems and the presence of attackers, it was estimated that it would take at least a day to arrive, after all, it was hundreds of kilometers away!

Since this is the case, Commander Ueda does not count on them, all the Japanese expatriates in Shenyang City are mobilized, and they don't care about any men, women, and children, even the Japanese prostitutes are issued with small southern pistols, and the situation must be controlled, and the entire Shenyang City is disorganized, and the streets are full of Chinese and Japanese civilians who are fighting.

At this time, it didn't matter what anti-Japanese elements or pure chaos were, anyway, they were killing the Japanese, burning Japanese shops, robbing Japanese banks, and the tyrannical emotions that had accumulated on weekdays were fully released on such a night, and it was not only the Japanese who were robbed and burned, but even some European and American countries, and Ueda, which was overwhelmed by the war, had to deal with the condemnation of the diplomatic offices of these countries in Shenyang, and it can be said that he grew old by more than ten years overnight.

The battle at the East Tower airfield continued in the morning, and Itagaki, who lacked enough troops, was never able to recapture the airfield, in fact, he also knew that these airborne troops would definitely not be able to hold for long, they could not carry too much ammunition, and the 7.62 caliber ammunition could not be replenished. It will definitely be withdrawn in a day at most.

But the problem is that I can't wait that long, because there is no airfield to land here, and the plane that has just taken off from North Korea has been called back, and there is no plane to stop the defense line of the Juliu River for how long, which Major General Itagaki really has no bottom in his heart.

But there is good news, the 11th Division is almost here. But because the Lushun section of the South Manchurian Railway and the Jinzhou section of the Jingfeng Railway were bombed, they could only land from Yingkou, which was actually closer.

"Hold on for a day, you must hold on for a day, the 11th Division has entered Liaodong Bay, and the landing can be completed tomorrow afternoon at most, and the enemy will inevitably retreat at that time!" Commander Ueda shouted over the phone in a hoarse voice to Major General Imamura.

Major General Imamura, who put down the phone, felt a little bitter, Nima, how do you let me keep?

The other side of the Mighty River resembles a long stretch of gray-blue wall. Countless cavalry appeared in their field of vision, and the army led by He Zhuguo finally arrived, and the banners of the Northeast Guangfu Army were waving in the wind in the morning glow.

The density of heavy artillery bombardment increased sharply, and the falling shells kept ravaging the Japanese positions, and after a short rest, more than 20,000 cavalry launched a full-line attack on the east bank of the Juliu River under the cover of artillery fire, and the neighing of war horses. The dull sound of horses' hooves trampling the ground sounded like countless war drums.

"Hold your ground!" Imamura yelled through gritted teeth. Now it makes no sense to command or not, what is fighting now is courage.

But it is a pity that those miscellaneous players obviously lack courage, and in the explosion of heavy artillery shells, many people did not even dare to raise their heads, and huddled in the trenches one by one, wailing in fear. Only those regular soldiers still have the guts to lie there and shoot forward.

Originally, the machine guns in their hands should be the deadliest enemy of the cavalry, but unfortunately there were not only machine guns on the opposite side, but they were sandwiched between the cavalry. There are also dozens of on-board machine guns, hundreds of large-caliber machine guns.

These tall trucks lined up on the opposite riverbank, behind the cavalry to the east bank pouring steel, pouring death, the Japanese machine guns in front of them like toys, the fire points were torn apart one by one, even the bunkers could not stop them, these machine guns carried not only grenades, but even some armor-piercing shells, sandbags piled up bunkers, in front of 37 mm armor-piercing shells as fragile as pieces of paper.

The narrow, shallow surface of the Juliu River had little effect on the cavalry, and the Japanese firepower suppressed by heavy artillery and machine guns could not stop their advance, and 20,000 cavalry rushed across the Juliu River like a tide.

The Japanese troops on the defensive line immediately collapsed, this is not an infantry offensive and defensive battle, in the face of the enemy who rushed to their positions, they can also be driven out of the army with courage, this is cavalry, and this is twice as much cavalry as themselves, and what to take? The bayonet was like a toy in front of the saber that was chopped in the air.

The first to collapse were the armed expatriate, who had already begun to flee by the time the horse's hooves stepped on the east bank of the river, and by the time the cavalry had rushed to the defensive line, the whole line was routed.

Even the regular troops could not hold on, no matter how well they were trained, they could not keep their composure in the face of the horses' hooves stepping on their heads, and General Imamura, who was in the rear command post, painfully found that he had not survived a morning, and now his vision was full of the routed Japanese army.

Such a rout was tantamount to suicide, and before he could run a few steps, he was knocked down by the galloping horses of the cavalry and trampled under the hooves, or beheaded by the sabers in the hands of the cavalry, and 20,000 cavalry were slaughtering 10,000 infantrymen.

General Imamura looked at his colleagues around him with a desolate expression, then bowed deeply, and said with a sad face: "Gentlemen, please return to Shenyang immediately to protect the retreat of His Excellency the Commander." ”

A group of officers bowed solemnly, and then watched as General Imamura drew his own saber.

Just when Imamura was seppuku, Itagaki Seishiro unexpectedly discovered that the enemy guarding the Dongta airfield began to retreat, which gave him a headache for most of the night, killed more than 200 soldiers under his command and armed expatriates, and was gradually relinquishing the airport, and then retreating in the direction of Tanglin.

Itagaki was shocked, and hurriedly dialed the headquarters: "Your Excellency, Commander, our army is recovering the airport, and we can notify the North Korean plane to take off." ”

"No need, General Itagaki, the enemy has broken through the defense line of the Juliu River." Kenkichi Ueda's hoarse voice came over the phone.

"What?" The phone in Itagaki's hand fell to the ground, he never thought that Imamura-kun's 10,000-strong army didn't last a morning, and the strength of the enemy was too unbelievable, right?

He had forgotten who the 10,000 men under Imamura were.

The defense line of the Juliu River was breached, which meant that in a few hours, the enemy would be under the city of Shenyang, although Shenyang City was also a strong city, but a strong city in the violent Luan could not be defended.

Itagaki looked at Shenyang City, where smoke was rising everywhere, and confirmed this with certainty, now there is no need to think about how to defend the city, now it is time to think about how to retreat.

He didn't even care about the retreating enemy, and led the rest of the troops to return to the city immediately, but the city was already full of war, and Itagaki had to attack and advance in Shenyang City, and it took more than an hour to return to the headquarters, which had also become a battlefield, and a group of civilian staff officers were blocking behind the barricade in front of the gate, and a group of unidentified militants were fighting fiercely.

Itagaki's arrival immediately dispersed the guys, and then he led people to rush into the headquarters.

"Your Excellency, Commander, we must retreat!" He said to Ueda Kenkichi with an anxious expression.

"The commander of the Kwantung Army, driven out of his own command by his enemies, and then fled like a dog with his tail between his legs? No, it would be a disgrace to the Empire. Ueda Kenkichi, who was looking at the map, said lightly.

"Your Excellency, you are the supreme commander of Manchuria, and your duties do not allow you to abandon your post." Itagaki said as he glanced at several staff officers beside him. (To be continued......)