After capturing Hailar, Chen Feng ordered Qin Yiwu's troops to build fortifications on the spot to prepare for the Japanese army's counterattack on Hailar, and at the same time ordered the reorganized Seventh Division to immediately send troops to Chen Balhuqi, attack from east to west, and flank Manchuria together with the troops on the western front. Subsequently, Liu Li, commander of the reorganized 7th Division, personally commanded the troops to advance in the direction of the Chen Balhu Banner.

Garrisoned by Chen Bal Tiger Banner is an infantry squadron of the Ninth Division of the Japanese Army and a cavalry regiment of the puppet army, the total strength is only 1,300 people, after receiving the news of the loss of Hailar, the defenders of Chen Bal Tiger Banner panicked, they are worried that Chen Feng's troops will attack from Hailar to the west, then they will be in trouble, although more than 1,000 people stationed in a county town is not considered an empty force, but the problem is that the vast majority of these more than 1,000 people are cavalry, and there are not many real infantry.

Cavalry cavalry, only the cavalry on horseback can be regarded as a real force, in order to exert 100% combat effectiveness, the dismounted cavalry can not even play half of the original combat effectiveness, with these troops to defend the city is simply a joke.

In desperation, the garrison commander of Chen Balhuqi, Uehara Shaozuo, had no choice but to send a report to the headquarters of the Ninth Division, requesting operational guidance.

There are also quite a few complaints within the Kwantung Army about Yano Otozaburo's abandonment of the city and fleeing, but in view of the sharp attack of Chen Feng's department, there are also different opinions within the Kwantung Army on this matter, and some people believe that Yano Otozaburo abandoned the city and fled, which directly led to the loss of Hailar City, making the imperial army extremely passive in future battles.

Others believe that Otozaburo Yano made a decision on the spot as a high-ranking commander, and it turns out that Otozaburo's judgment is correct. If the more than 5,000 imperial troops still stubbornly remained in Hailar, I am afraid that the 23rd Division, including the division headquarters, would be erased from the battle sequence of the empire by the Shina army.

Lieutenant General Kiichiro Higuchi knew that something was wrong when he received a telegram from Otozaburo Yano, and that the 23rd Division had suddenly abandoned Hailar, but the troops from Manchuria were under the greatest pressure. Because of the current strategic situation, as long as the commander of the people of China is not a fool, he will definitely send troops to attack Manchuria.

Sure enough, before they could make any moves, Chen Feng's subordinates began to surround Manchuria. It is clear that the lone army of the Ninth Division will be completely annihilated.

Originally, the Japanese army in the direction of Manchuria was at a disadvantage. If it weren't for the fact that Lieutenant General Kiichiro Higuchi had a lot of combat experience, he placed his position outside the city and used a reasonable terrain layout to block the battlefield, which caused great trouble to Chen Feng's department. Increases the difficulty of the attack. Otherwise, the city of Manchuria would have been defeated long ago.

Now Chen Feng's department is attacking Manchuria. That is tantamount to cutting off the back road of the Ninth Division, and now there are only two roads in front of the Ninth Division, one is stubborn resistance. The other is to immediately abandon the city and break out.

Of course, Higuchi Jiichiro still has a choice, that is, to immediately surrender to Zhang Jingjun's troops outside the city, but this choice Higuchi Jiichiro will definitely not choose, because Higuchi Jiichiro will never dare to tarnish the glory of the Ninth Division, the imperial army division.

It is important to know that the 9th Division of the Ninth Division, also known as the Kanazawa Division, is organized in Kanazawa in northwest Japan, and is one of the most elite divisions of the Imperial Japanese Army. The 9th Division, which consisted mainly of soldiers from Toyama, Ishikawa, and Fukui prefectures, fought on the front line from the beginning of the Russo-Japanese War to World War II. In the eyes of the Japanese army base camp, the 9th Division was fierce and well-equipped, and its combat effectiveness was second only to that of the 2nd Division and the 6th Division.

Whenever there was a bad battle or a tough battle, the base camp thought of this division, and in the army, the 9th Division and the 18th Division (Kurume Division) were considered to be a double gem. More importantly, the commanders of the Ninth Division were all famous generals of the Japanese Empire, and in the Russo-Japanese War, the Ninth Division was subordinate to the 3rd Army of General Nogi Noshinori and participated in the Battle of Arthur.

In the Lushun Siege, the 9th Division attacked three times, and the commander of the infantry wing to which it belonged was either killed or wounded. After suffering such a large loss, the division immediately plunged into the Battle of Mukden without much adjustment.

With such a force, even if it abandons the city and flees, it is a great shame, let alone surrender voluntarily. Besides, the most he can do if he surrenders will keep his name, but Lieutenant General Kiichiro Higuchi is sure that as soon as the news of his surrender is transmitted back to Japan, the Higuchi family will suddenly lose face, and the honor accumulated over the past hundred years will also be in vain, and more importantly, the family that he left in China will also be persecuted and attacked, this kind of thing happens from time to time in Japan, so he does not dare to take this risk.

After consulting with the chief of staff, Lieutenant General Kiichiro Higuchi decided to order all the Japanese puppet troops near Manchuria to move closer to Manchuria in case they were broken by Chen Feng's troops.

Under the response of the Ninth Division, more than 8,000 Japanese puppet troops of the Chen Balhu Banner, the Balhu Left Banner, and the Right Banner took the initiative to abandon the city fortifications and retreat into Manzhouli, and since then, the Japanese puppet army in Manzhouli has reached more than 34,000 people.

After all the troops withdrew into Manchuria, Higuchi Jiichiro revised the plan to defend the city, there were still three lines of defense outside the city, and three lines of defense were also built inside the city.

After receiving the telegram from Zhang Jingjun, Chen Feng smiled, this Higuchi Jiichiro is really a tough bone, he didn't break through, let alone surrender, he planned to use Manchuria City to resist stubbornly, or he still wanted to hold on and wait for help.

Chen Feng would not leave him this vacancy, and immediately ordered the three infantry divisions of the Mengbei Military Region and a large number of technical and technical arms to complete the most rear-end encirclement of Manchuria, and the four gates of Manzhouli City were impenetrable by 60,000 troops, and under Chen Feng's instructions, a large number of heavy artillery units were mobilized to Manchuria.

Chen Feng's meaning is very clear, as long as the puppet army takes the initiative to do it, it can not be blamed in the past, as for the Japanese army, if it is the execution of the ninth division, there is no need to report to the command.

The reason why Chen Feng issued this order was entirely because the 9th Division was one of the main culprits in the Nanjing Massacre in history, and after the outbreak of the Lugou Bridge Incident, the 9th Division was transferred to Shanghai by the Japanese base camp to participate in the Battle of Songhu. At the end of September 1937, the 9th Division landed at Wusong.

Most of the defenders of Shanghai were the elite Central Army of the Kuomintang, and the Japanese encountered stubborn resistance. For a long time, the Japanese army fell into a bitter battle, and the national army fought one advance and one retreat, attacking and defending each other, and the battle line was in a state of stalemate. On November 4, the 10th Army led by Lieutenant General Yanagawa Heisuke successfully landed in Hangzhou Bay, which was tantamount to a stab in the back of the Nationalist army's defensive line. The defense line of the Nationalist army, which had been held for nearly three months, began to crumble and retreated to Nanjing.

The 9th Division and other Japanese troops immediately followed in the Battle of Nanjing, and the 36th Infantry Wing, which was part of the 9th Division, arrived at Guanghuamen in Nanjing on December 9, but was unable to advance by the 13th due to the stubborn resistance of the Nationalist army. However, with the fall of Yuhuatai and Purple Mountain outside Nanjing, the Nanjing defense line collapsed, and the Japanese army immediately occupied Nanjing. After the Japanese occupied Nanjing, in the following month or so, the Nanjing occupation army led by the 6th, 9th, 3rd and 16th Divisions committed the most humiliating crime in the history of mankind in the thousand-year-old capital, and more than 300,000 innocent people were slaughtered.

Chen Feng remembered this account for everyone in them, and today the Ninth Division was unlucky enough to meet him, so the fate of destruction would be inevitable.

In order to prevent long nights and dreams, Chen Feng ordered Zhang Jingjun, the commander-in-chief of the Manchurian side, to immediately launch an attack on the Japanese army in Manchuria, and all the troops attacked in turn, never giving the Japanese army a chance to breathe until it collapsed directly.

Beginning on the afternoon of 27 July, all units of the Northern Mongolian Military Region launched the most fierce attack on the Japanese garrison of Manchuria, with hundreds of large-caliber artillery guns firing shells at the Japanese positions without interruption, while ground tanks and helicopters also launched three-dimensional attacks on the Japanese positions, and the Japanese troops outside the city had to pay an extremely heavy price every moment.

The attack of Chen Feng's headquarters began at one o'clock in the afternoon, and there was no sign of stopping until late at night on the 27th, which made Lieutenant General Higuchi Jiichiro's heart suddenly sink to the bottom.

In the underground headquarters of the Manchuria Garrison Headquarters, Kiichiro Higuchi threw the sake bottle to the ground and asked angrily, "General Yamada let us hold on for a week?" ”

"Hay! His Excellency the Division Commander, His Excellency Commander Yamada, said that it would take at least seven days to open the road from Qiqihar to Manchuria, and even longer, so he ordered our troops to hold out for a week anyway! Staff Officer Shaozo replied loudly.

"Baga, Baga, Ya Lu! Hear it, hundreds of heavy artillery of the Zhi Na people are constantly bombarding our army's position, and the heavy chariots of the Zhi Na people are constantly attacking the defense line of our army, do you know how many warriors the Imperial Japanese Army lost in today's one-day attack? ”

"There are 1,400 dead in the war, and as many as 2,600 wounded, these are the real elites of the imperial army, and they are gone, and we have to wait for a week, whether those bastards are here to collect our corpses or to reinforce them, bastards!"

When Zhang Jingjun's troops were besieging Manchuria, Chen Feng ordered the defenders of Hailar to clear the remnants of the enemy in the city as soon as possible, repair the airport facilities damaged by the war, and the army would continue to increase troops to Hailar in preparation for the capture of the entire Hulunbuir grassland.

With Chen Feng's order, a large number of troops from the Northern Mongolian Military Region were assembled, and then quickly transferred to Hailar by large transport aircraft. (To be continued......)