On October 4, about 25,000 people of the Third Army of the First Front Army of the Kwantung Army were urgently stationed in Shuangliao, and at the same time, a large number of troops were urgently assembled in the Shuangliao area, and all units of the Eighth Division of the Japanese Army in the encirclement were also actively preparing for war.

Kailu. Xinhua Town. Mobile Corps Command.

Li Bin and Wang Jiming are also old acquaintances, Wang Jiming has been serving under Li Bin before he was transferred to the deputy commander-in-chief of the mobile corps, and the two know each other very well.

"Lao Wang, the little devil is planning a decisive battle with our army in the Shuangliao region! Grandma's! Li Bin said with a smile.

"A decisive battle? What do they use to fight a decisive battle with us, just rely on those Japanese puppet troops who came in a hurry, is it really a joke, it is exactly what the commander said, the ignorant are fearless! Wang Jiming sneered.

"Lao Wang, I'm worried that the little devil won't go west to rescue the Eighth Division, do you want to add more fire to the dog day?" Li Bin said.

"Kezuo Zhongqi and Naiman are okay, where the city fortifications are not very strong, as long as the heavy artillery troops are transferred, they can kill the devils and two devils in the city in two days at most, but Kailu County and Tongliao City were seriously damaged due to the previous wars, so after the old devil of Honda Zhengcai took office, he began to rebuild the city fortifications in these two places on a large scale, and it is said that hundreds of thousands of Chinese people were requisitioned for this purpose." Wang Jiming's department has always been dealing with the Japanese army in this area, so they are still relatively familiar with the Japanese puppet army, and they have heard of some secrets that are not secrets.

"Oh. What is the specific protection capability of the Japanese army's fortifications, have you ever tried it? ”

"I have tried it, it is indeed very powerful, an infantry regiment and an artillery regiment fought for three days and three nights with the cooperation of the army aviation unit and failed to take Kailu County, but lost more than 1,000 people. The fortifications of Kailu County and Tongliao City are mainly composed of trenches and permanent fire points, stretching for dozens of miles, and it is said that in order to build these fortifications, the Japanese devils specially transferred a large number of civil engineering experts from China. If you attack strongly, I am afraid that the casualties will be very large. ”

"Since it won't work to attack, then don't attack. Since the daily moving average is divided and surrounded by our army in 4 places. Then gnaw off those two easy bones first. Lure the Japanese army to reinforce Tongliao, and when the time comes, its reinforcements will be wiped out, presumably the morale of the Japanese puppet army in the city will be greatly reduced, and how to deal with it will be discussed at that time. Li Bin said.

"That's good. I'll order the troops to take Naiman and Kezuo Zhongqi! Wang Jiming said.

"Okay!"

With the order of the forward command was given. The 17th Infantry Regiment of the 2nd Division, the 3rd Regiment of the 3rd Division, and the Artillery Brigade, which besieged the Naiman Banner, immediately launched a fierce attack. In order to achieve the effect of deterring the enemy army. The headquarters of the reorganized 17th Division transferred the only artillery regiment in its hands to Naiman.

With the roar of heavy howitzers, more than 12,000 Japanese puppet defenders of the Naiman Banner were beaten and could not even lift their heads, and the integrated 17th Division almost did not charge. From beginning to end, it was a tank charge and artillery fire.

The battle lasted from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., with heavy losses on the Naiman garrison, supreme commander Takeda Osa seriously wounded, and chief of staff Ogasawara Nakasa killed in battle, and now in charge of the command was Sasaki Shosa.

Outside the city, the artillery fire continued, Sasaki Shaosa's mood had sunk to the bottom, the city fortifications they had high hopes for could not withstand the shelling of the Chinese army at all, in the face of countless heavy artillery, those fortifications with only concrete and no steel bars were simply scum, and they would collapse after withstanding the blow of 10-15 shells at most.

The heavy casualties of the troops are secondary, and what makes Sasaki Shaoza feel most uneasy is the mood of the Imperial Allied Army in the city, even if the morale is low, the most important thing is that the eyes they look at the Imperial Army are no longer as respectful as before, which is not a good phenomenon.

You must know that although there are still more than 10,000 defenders in the city, the real imperial army only has two infantry brigades plus an artillery squadron, with a total strength of only 2,500 people, and the rest are all imperial troops, a full infantry division plus a cavalry regiment. If the Imperial Coalition Army really had a different heart, it would be disastrous for the Imperial Army.

Although Sasaki Shosa had never seen the betrayal of the Imperial Allied Army, according to the battle reports sent by the Kwantung Army and the North China Front Army, in the battle with the Chinese army, many Chinese armies rebelled on the battlefield, causing extremely heavy losses to the Imperial Army, and even causing the death of many high-ranking imperial officers.

The more Sasaki Shaosa thought about it, the more worried he became, and at the instigation of his subordinates, he made a stupid move, and even ordered all the officers above the regimental level of the 5th Infantry Division of the puppet Mongolian Army who were fighting together to immediately go to the Kailu Garrison Headquarters for a meeting.

After everyone arrived, Sasaki Shaosa actually ordered the soldiers to take the guns of these puppet army officers, and let them command the troops to fight at the garrison headquarters, obviously taking these people hostage.

Sasaki Shaoza's approach quickly aroused the dissatisfaction of the puppet army officers, this Nima is naked distrust! Although the filthiness between the Japanese puppet officers has existed for a long time, they are tacitly aware of this, and no one will be stupid to make this matter public, after all, it is not good for both parties to do so, I didn't expect this Sasaki to do such a thing at this time, it is really a death.

If you don't die, you won't die, and those who die won't end well, some puppet army officers who originally had a grudge against the Japanese army planned to see the opportunity to order the troops on the battlefield anyway, after all, continuing to resist stubbornly will only lead to a dead end, it is better to fight to the death, it is said that Commander Chen is still very good against the puppet army that rebelled on the battlefield.

But the luck of the Japanese puppet army was really not good, and before they could make a move, the Japanese Kailu Garrison Command was bombed by the bomber group of the 4th Army Aviation Brigade that cooperated with the mobile corps, and a bomb happened to fall into the operational command room of the garrison headquarters, which made everyone including Sasaki Shaosa sad.

Of course, the reorganized 17th Division did not know that they had directly reimbursed all the middle and senior officers of the Japanese puppet army in the city with one aerial bomb, anyway, they suddenly found that the strength of the defenders' resistance had decreased, and Colonel Li Gang, who was in charge of the command, judged that there was a problem with the command system of the Japanese army, and immediately ordered the troops to charge.

At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, the county town of Naiman was breached, and more than 12,000 Japanese puppet troops were annihilated, of which 7,000 were captured and more than 5,000 were killed.

At the same time, the Japanese puppet army of the Kezuo Middle Banner was also besieged by the first brigade of the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division, and after 3 hours of attack, more than 4,000 puppet troops in the city revolted on the battlefield and besieged the Japanese army in the city, and the 4th Mechanized Division soon captured the Kezuo Middle Banner.

The capture of two cities in one day shocked Lieutenant General Honda Masashi in Tongliao Castle, and immediately sent a report to the headquarters of the Third Army, requesting reinforcements to immediately reinforce Tongliao, otherwise the Eighth Division would become the second infantry division of the Kwantung Army to be completely annihilated by the Chinese army.

Originally, the headquarters of the Third Army had just been stationed in Shuangliao City, and there was no plan to reinforce Tongliao, mainly because although Shuangliao City was important, because the defending generals were short-sighted and did not repair the city defense facilities in advance, which caused a lot of trouble to the headquarters of the Third Army.

According to the idea of the Third Army Headquarters, it was hoped that the Eighth Division would be able to rely on the city defense fortifications in Tongliao for more than half a month, and they would also use this time to repair and deal with the city fortifications in Shuangliao City. I didn't expect Chen Feng's attack to be so sharp, and in less than a day, Naiman and Kezuo Zhongqi were occupied, and the defenders lost more than 17,000 people, and now there are less than 28,000 defenders left in the Tongliao area, and the situation is very critical.

In desperation, the headquarters of the Third Army had no choice but to order the 71st Division, the 1st Division, the 77th Division, the 69th Mixed Brigade, the 9th and 11th Mountain Artillery Brigades, the 19th Field Heavy Artillery Brigade, the 12th Tank Brigade, and the 4 puppet infantry divisions and 2 cavalry divisions to march westward and penetrate deep into the Tongliao area to save the 8th Division.

Fortunately, the commander of the Japanese Third Army, General Saito, had just been appointed commander of the First Front, otherwise the Eighth Division would not have been able to wait for reinforcements.

The Japanese army sent 3 divisions, 5 brigades and 6 puppet army divisions with a total of 110,000 people, and an air force to cooperate in the operation, which was the largest military group sent by the Kwantung Army since its establishment.

The Japanese soldiers were divided into two routes, starting from Shuangliao, killing each other to Tongliao, the mighty and magnificent, plus the fighters that did not fly in the sky, it was quite spectacular.

After receiving the cheers of the headquarters of the Eighth Theater Mobile Corps after the main force of the Japanese First Front Army advanced westward to reinforce the Eighth Division, Li Bin immediately ordered all units to immediately assemble in the vast area between Tongliao and Shuangliao, except for the two infantry brigades left behind in Kailu and Tongliao City, where he would start a decisive battle with the Japanese army.

At six o'clock in the morning of October 5, the 18th Division sent a report to the corps headquarters that they had arrived at Menda Town, less than 100 kilometers away from the Japanese forward troops.

Li Bin ordered the 18th Division to immediately occupy strategic points on the spot, and at the same time build fortifications and wait for the arrival of the main force. In the following five hours, the 17th Division, the 19th Division, the 3rd Artillery Division, the 7th and 8th Artillery Brigades, the Corps Guard Brigade, the Logistics Support Brigade, and other units arrived at the battlefield one after another, and built a defensive belt 20 kilometers long and 120 kilometers deep between Tongliao and Shuangliao.

At the same time, Li Bin ordered the 4th Mechanized Infantry Division and the 4th Armored Brigade of the Corps to assemble in Xiedai Sumu in the Kezuozhong Banner and wait for the order of the Corps Headquarters.

Lieutenant General Isamu Yokoyama, who was in charge of the forward command, quickly made a decision after receiving the news that the main force continued to advance to the front line of Damen Town, while at the same time it dispatched the most elite 1st Division with a brigade to make a detour to Tongliao. (To be continued......)