The Fifth Army Group, together with more than 200,000 troops stationed in Mongolia, began almost all of its movements overnight.

Lin Zuoda personally commanded and dispatched, and the army launched a comprehensive attack from Jinzhou, Rehe, and other directions, across a cross-section of several hundred kilometers.

The Japanese had not anticipated this, so when the mechanized corps began to attack the Japanese front, their defenses were almost at a standstill.

In recent years, due to the Pacific War, many units of the Kwantung Army have been transferred to the Pacific theater, and most of the additional troops are stationed around large cities, and at the junction of the battle lines of the two sides, only a small number of troops and fortifications have been deployed.

The Kwantung Army Command believed that the Northeast Corps of the Chinese army was good at large-scale mechanized operations, and that they could resist the opponent's attack only by not sticking to a certain place and integrating their troops.

This kind of guiding ideology is certainly correct, but they did not expect that the opponent's attack speed would be so fast.

Overnight, the Kwantung Army, known as the "flower of the imperial army", was defeated on the front line.

The steel torrent of the mechanized corps rolled up bursts of wolf smoke on the black soil, tearing apart the defense line built by the Kwantung Army with a devastating posture.

Within a few days, their rapid offensive worked, a large amount of lost territory was regained, and the troops on the front line even moved the front line to the Shenyang line.

This major counteroffensive against the Japanese army was like a spring thunder on the calm Sino-Japanese battlefield, which not only shook East Asia, but also shook the world.

The world's attention has shifted its focus from Europe to the black land of northeastern China, as China's mechanized corps is using its strength to create a new speed.

The Kwantung Army Headquarters, which was stunned, reacted at this time, and the other side had already decided to attack on all fronts.

Umezu Mijiro angrily slapped his intelligence staff officer a few big ear scrapers, and then immediately called an emergency military meeting.

There was hardly any discussion at the meeting, and Umezu Yoshijiro immediately ordered the main forces of the Kwantung Army to be mobilized to the front.

There is no doubt that the most important railway line of the war is to be defended, and the railway on the line of Shenyang and Tumen is an important passage through the northeast, and if this line is lost, it means that the Kwantung Army will be cut off.

Umezu Mijiro mobilized eight divisions of the Kwantung Army in one fell swoop and rushed to Shenyang, Siping, Changchun, Tumen, Tonghua and other places, preparing to start a decisive battle with the Chinese army there.

At this time, a major war between China and Japan on the black soil really began.

In this battle, Lin Zuoda had no intention of starting a protracted tug-of-war with the Japanese army, and he was determined to fight a quick victory.

It is impossible to achieve a quick victory through the attack of the mechanized corps alone, so Lin Zuo Datong Nanjing requested that the 326th Division and the 207th Brigade of the 18th Airborne Army come to support.

The commander of the 326th Division is Ji Xingwen, and the brigade commander of the 207th is Huang Zheng, the two are old comrades-in-arms, so there is naturally no need to say much about the relationship, but Huang Zheng is hanging the post of deputy commander of the Airborne Army, which is half a level higher than Ji Xingwen, but when he arrives here, the command is in the hands of Lin Zuoda.

In the tent temporarily set up at the front-line command post, Lin Zuoda, who had just returned from the front, entertained the generals of the Airborne Army who had come from afar with boiled hot milk.

"This milk was brought to me by General Batu from Mongolia. At first, you may not be used to it, but after a long time, you can't do without it, and you can all taste it. Commander Lin picked up a jar of hot milk and tasted it slowly, they hadn't eaten in the morning, the conditions in the battlefield were difficult, and it was very pleasant to drink a glass of hot milk.

Huang is a person who has been in the Soviet Union, milk bread is not rare for him, drinking this boiled milk feels very delicious, he took the magnetic jar handed over by Lin Zuoda, gently blew the foam on it, and drank it.

When the jar was gone, he went to the hot pot and filled another jar.

Although Ji Xingwen was a little unaccustomed to drinking, he was really hungry and thirsty in his stomach, so he drank a jar of grunt, but never drank the second jar again.

The other officers saw that the officers were drinking so refreshedly, and they couldn't taste it anymore, so they had to pinch their noses and drink it.

"Well, it tastes good." After drinking the second jar, Huang Zheng stopped drinking, and he smiled at Commander Lin: "Commander Lin, this General Batu really cares about you, and he sent milk to you when he knew that you were thin." Last time I went to Nanjing, I didn't bring anything. ”

"Not only milk, but also air-dried beef and lamb jerky. Old Batu is very refreshing, but these things are not like gifts for each other in private, you can't make a small report! Commander Lin also replied half-jokingly.

Everyone laughed, they all knew Huang Zheng's identity, so he dared to make such a joke with Commander Lin.

After a few laughs, Commander Lin walked slowly to the large-scale map with milk in his hand, he pointed to it and said, "Judging from the situation of aerial reconnaissance, the Kwantung Army has begun to move. Although the Kwantung Army was stunned in the early stage, and the main force was basically transferred back to the Pacific and the mainland, they still had 500,000 well-equipped field troops in the northeast. In the early stage, we took advantage of the unpreparedness, and then there was a tough battle to be fought. ”

Speaking of the war situation, the relaxed smiles on everyone's faces were retracted, after all, in the face of hundreds of thousands of well-equipped Kwantung Army, no one could get up easily.

"Commander Lin, let's tell me what you think, how are we going to cooperate?" Ji Xingwen said.

Commander Lin took a sip of milk and pointed to a line on the map: "This is the defensive line built by the Japanese army. On this line of defense, they invested hundreds of thousands of heavy troops in eight divisions. These field troops are distributed around the big cities, so to speak, they are interlocking, but if we knock out one of them, this chain of the Kwantung Army will be broken, and this line of defense will be meaningless. This is also one of the purposes of my request to Nanjing to transfer you over for assistance. ”

He didn't say it too clearly, but everyone here naturally understood that this defense line of the Japanese army was connected to several large cities by relying on railway lines, and if one of them could be defeated, it would be equivalent to smashing an iron ring on an iron chain, and the others would naturally be easy to do.

Looking at the cities above, each of them marked the number of troops stationed, from here, Shenyang, Tumen, Tonghua these big cities stationed more Japanese troops, and the surrounding small cities under the wingspan of these big cities, it seems that each city is very tricky.

"The staff officers of the Kwantung Army have two moves, and such a deployment of troops is very reasonable, so that we have no idea where to start." After Huang Zheng looked at the deployment of troops on the map, he casually sighed.

"Yes, the Kwantung Army has been operating in the Northeast for many years, and it goes without saying that permanent fortifications and fortresses are old. To put it mildly, they are more familiar with the Northeast than we are. The chief of staff said as he lifted the military hat on his head.

Commander Lin smiled, "There must be hard bones, but if you work together, you can always gnaw them off." Let me tell you what I think. ”

Then, he laid out his plan, and Commander Lin was not polite, and told him about the deployment of large-scale troops and the direction of the attack. Most of the senior generals in the tent knew that this was the previous plan, and there was not much change from before, but it didn't seem to include the airborne troops.

"Commander Lin, what is our mission?" Huang Zheng asked bluntly.

After Commander Lin thought about it, his emaciated fingers tapped on a place on the map and said, "You guys are airborne here, and the ground troops will respond." ”

Huang Zheng and Ji Xingwen looked at each other, and the place where he pointed was Shenyang.

"Shenyang?!" The two blurted out almost simultaneously. This city was somewhat unexpected, according to their previous assumptions, they thought that their target would be Changchun, Tonghua and other cities, but they did not expect it to be Shenyang, which was close to the front line.

"Commander Lin, the advance of the front-line troops is only a few dozen miles away from Shenyang, is there still a need for a large-scale airborne landing in such a close city in front of you?" Ji Xingwen raised his own puzzles, and apparently the other Airborne Army officers were also the same.

Commander Lin smiled, "If the defense line of the Kwantung Army is an iron chain, then Shenyang is the center of this iron chain. To the north is Siping Changchun, to the east is connected to Tonghua, and Shenyang is an important city, where many command organs of the Kwantung Army are located. Just as Division Commander Ji said, the distance to which our front-line troops advanced was closest to Shenyang, and this was precisely an important advantage for us. ”

"Of course." He thought about it and said, "You can't have any contempt for it, because Shenyang is important, the Kwantung Army has deployed three divisions and nearly 100,000 troops here, plus the recruited puppet army and the like, it is not an exaggeration to say that this city is impregnable." ”

At this, everyone was silent for a moment. There will be another fierce battle to be fought, and the generals of the Airborne Corps will be more able to appreciate the cruelty of war than other troops, because they will participate in it themselves.

"No problem, we are here to wait for the dispatch, Commander Lin has any requirements and deployments, just say." After Huang Zheng and Ji Xingwen glanced at each other, the two of them expressed their positions one after another.

"Good. Follow me. Commander Lin led everyone to the sand table again, which is a topographical sand table map of Shenyang City, with mountains and rivers jumping on it.

"We are scheduled to launch a general attack on Shenyang at the zero point of the day after tomorrow, before that, you must parachute around Shenyang, seize important points for us, and attract large-scale forces on the periphery of Shenyang." After Commander Lin finished speaking, he said, "The troops of other fronts will also launch an attack at this time, the purpose is to prevent the Japanese army from reinforcing Shenyang, and our goal is to take Shenyang in the shortest possible time." ”

Taking Shenyang in the shortest time sounds uplifting, but for anyone present, it is like a thousand pressures in their hearts.

Huang Zheng and Ji Xingwen glanced at each other and said, "Yes!" ”