After staying at home for a few days, Huang Ke received information from the northeast front, and after a period of friction between China and Japan, a large-scale exchange of fire finally broke out, and the armies of the two sides launched large-scale battles in Shenyang and Siping, and the war once entered a white heat.

In the days leading up to this, both sides were making final preparations for war. After Jiang Xianyun arrived as commander-in-chief of the Northeast Theater, he began to dispatch the Central Army to join Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Frontier Army. With Zhang Xueliang in the Northeast Theater as deputy commander, and 100,000 troops in the Northeast Frontier Army, 200,000 troops gathered together, and air support from more than 200 fighters of various types of the Air Force, Jiang Xianyun and Zhang Xueliang both believed that it was just around the corner to drive out the Japanese.

Similarly, when the Chinese side was hurrying to dispatch troops, the Japanese Kwantung Army was not idle.

The commander of the Japanese Kwantung Army, Shigeru Honjo, urgently requested the Tokyo base camp that the two divisions of the first division be transferred to Northeast China and join the Japanese Kwantung Army; In addition, the Kwantung Army also rapidly reorganized its troops in the northeast region, and the garrison troops originally stationed on the Lushun and South Manchurian railways were also expanded to full strength, and the strength of the army was expanded to as much as 100,000 for a time.

Both sides are strong and strong, so it is natural to start a fight. Jiang Xianyun and Zhang Xueliang decided to strike first, so the Northeast Theater Staff quickly drew up an operational plan and it was approved.

The plan of the Northeast Theater General Staff was to divide the troops into three routes and attack Harbin, Shenyang, and Lushun respectively. Zhang Xueliang took the initiative to ask for help, and the Northeast Frontier Army allocated 11 mixed brigades plus a grassland cavalry division, which was personally commanded by Zhang Xueliang to march to Shenyang; In the direction of the South Road, Liu Jian led the field troops in the original Jinzhou area to attack in the direction of Lushun; The northernmost road was Xue Boling and Lin Zuoda, and the two young generals simply took his armored army to attack in the direction of Harbin, Heilongjiang.

At the same time, the reinforcements of the Kwantung Army were basically in place, and the arrogant Kwantung Army was naturally unwilling to go on the defensive, so the General Staff Headquarters of the Kwantung Army formulated a decision to attack from Siping and enter the pass directly in Jinzhou, which was personally approved by Commander Shigeru Honjo, and Major General Okamura Ninji, deputy chief of staff of the Kwantung Army, personally led a division and two independent brigades to set out from Siping and attack in the direction from which the Chinese army came.

The first to come into contact with the Kwantung Army was the troops led by Zhang Xueliang, who had just conquered a few small county towns and exchanged fire with the 18th Brigade of the Kwantung Army, the vanguard of Okamura Ninji, in front of Siping.

On the day of the Northeast Incident, he received an order to "evacuate quickly and not prove a conflict with it", but he was angry but helpless.

After the incident, he met with the commander-in-chief Zhang Xueliang many times and begged him to send troops to resist Japan, and it was not until soon after that Zhang Xueliang agreed to resist Japan, and appointed him as the commander of the new Seventh Army of the Northeast Frontier Army.

It is worth noting that the Seventh Brigade was the unit stationed in Shenyang on the night of the Northeast Incident, and the elite of the Northeast Army fled because of the Northeast Incident and were scolded by the common people as a "rabbit army." The officers and men of the Seventh Brigade were mainly in the vicinity of Shenyang.

There may be some truth in the saying that the mourning army will win, and the Seventh Army, under the command of Xuezhong, advanced all the way to the east, connecting many county towns and recovering many lost territories.

Unexpectedly, not far outside Siping City, he met the Japanese vanguard composed of the 4th Wing and the 16th Wing of Okamura Ninji's Second Division, the Second Division, also known as the Sendai Division, was the main force of the standard Kwantung Army.

The enemies are very red when they see each other, not to mention two armies with a deep hatred of blood! But at the beginning, the two sides didn't take each other seriously, because the two sides marched faster, so they didn't know that the other party had reached this position, and they didn't know that the enemy on the other side was their enemy.

The officers and men of both sides inadvertently exchanged fire, and at first they thought that the other side was a small force, but they did not expect that the more troops were gathered on both sides, and finally they found that the other side was the vanguard of the attack.

Although the Northeast Army, which had lost a large amount of heavy equipment, had an advantage in numbers, compared with the two fully formed wings under the well-trained and well-armed Second Division, their advantage was quickly evaporated, and a bloody battle was staged outside Siping City, with both sides constantly charging and counter-charging.

A reinforced battalion of the Northeast Army and two Japanese infantry squadrons fought fiercely, and after the artillery fire, the officers and soldiers of both sides actually started a white-knuckle battle.

It was already late autumn weather, and the land in the northeast had already reached below zero, and the remaining more than 300 northeastern men in the reinforced battalion of the Seventh Army refused to retreat, they threw off their clothes and confronted the soldiers of the Kwantung Army who occupied Shenyang on the opposite side.

This is a confrontation between steel and flesh, but also a confrontation of wills, the white-knuckle battle between the two sides is extremely fierce, not long after the battle, the reinforcements of the first division of the steppe cavalry arrived, the cavalry brandished machetes and cut off the heads of those Kwantung Army soldiers, and for a time blood flowed all over the ground, and the heads were rolling.

In Siping, the large forces of the two sides continued to gather, and the exchange of fire on the front line gradually turned from a field battle to a positional battle. The powerful Kwantung Army relied on superior firepower not only to disintegrate the offensive of the Northeast Army, but also to launch a counteroffensive, the cavalry division from the grassland did not show the slightest advantage in the urban fortification, but became a burden, a division of the Kwantung Army quickly counterattacked, resulting in heavy casualties in the Northeast Army and the First Cavalry Division, and later the air force rushed to support and suppressed the Japanese attack, otherwise it was really possible to rout all the way to Jinzhou.

Even the small city on the other side of Jilin was not defeated, Zhang Xueliang stopped a division of the Japanese army and two brigades along the way, naturally his face was not light, but this is not surprising, his troops are mainly based on the Northeast Army in addition to the cavalry division, and the Northeast Army has always been established in imitation of Japan, and people are very familiar with your set.

Zhang Xueliang fought extremely hard all the way, Liu Jian fought in the direction of Dalian is not easy, Lushun is the base camp of the Japanese army stationed in the northeast, not only the troops are sufficient, but also the artillery units and the navy with firepower superiority can give artillery support, even though Liu Jian is resourceful in fighting, but in the face of the fierce firepower of the Kwantung Army, he is still a little unbearable, and he has paid a lot of casualties for every step forward, but with sufficient air force support, the battle is also smooth.

In contrast, Xue Boling's attack on the Harbin area of Heilongjiang was much easier. Harbin was originally the territory of the Soviets, but the aggressive policy of the Kwantung Army drove the Soviets away, and the First Army of Xue Boling was killed before it could be completely digested.

This is a completely mechanized army, and the Kwantung Army, which only advocates force and accurate shooting, originally wanted to rely on positional warfare to eat this army, but the other side did not play its cards according to common sense at all, and directly launched an armored group charge on the northeastern plains, hundreds of new tanks rolled up bursts of smoke, and Rao's carefully constructed defense line also collapsed in an instant.

The front line is bleeding in battle, and the rear is also urgently deployed, and the railway built by Huang Keli before has played a full role at this moment, and the guns, ammunition and reinforcements in the rear are continuously transported to Jinzhou through the railway, and then transported from Jinzhou to various battlefields.

As soon as the war began, there were many telegrams from the front, and generally speaking, the situation on the front line was under control, and at least the three northeastern provinces would not be lost.

At this time, Huang Ke really wanted to go to the Northeast Front, but after thinking about it, he gave up this idea. He is now the chief of the military staff and a powerful faction, so it is not appropriate to go to the northeast front at this juncture.

It happened that Wang Maocai and Cui Wu came to Nanjing for a meeting, and Huang Ke hadn't seen his old subordinates for a long time, so he rushed to get together with a few old subordinates, chose an ordinary small restaurant, and a few people changed into civilian clothes and went.

I originally wanted to sit in the box, but the boss said that the box was gone, and Huang Ke was not angry, he pointed to a table in the hall and said, "Just sit there." Boss, clean up the table. ”

The boss is a person with eyes, judging from their dress and gestures, several of them are people who eat public meals, so they just cleaned up the table and let a few sit down, Fourteen wanted to stand outside to guard, Huang Ke greeted him and said that they are all his brothers, you can also come and sit.

Fourteen Tsai, Cui Wu and Wang Maocai are all old acquaintances, and the place where Xiguan is played has been very familiar from the beginning, plus they all have the same background and knowledge, so they are not strangers to sit down.

"During this time, I have been busy training troops, what kind of mechanized army formation, I learned from scratch a little bit, just because of this, I haven't eaten a decent meal for a month, and the birds are about to fade out of my mouth, today the old commander is about to entertain our brothers, I see that the delicacies of the mountains and seas have to be ordered, I have heard that Nanjing people like to eat ducks, first get a few tricks to taste."

Wang Maocai took the menu first, drew a few dishes on it and handed it to the boss. The boss took the list with a smile, he guessed correctly, several of them were in the army, and it seemed that they should all be small officers.

"Less! Who in the Northwest Army doesn't know that your Wang Mazi is delicious, to be honest, Gansu is inseparable from roasted whole sheep, I think the Northwest Army's military expenses have been wasted by you, I suggest that the old commander let people check him and check the details of this kid. ”

Cui Wu, who has always been not good at talking, made a joke, Wang Maocai shook his head and said that Cui Wu was not a simple boy, and he hooked up with a college student without saying a word. "Lao Cui, I said that you are not kind at all, I just thought that my Lao Wang was a merry person, but I didn't expect you, a person who can't beat a fart with three sticks, is also a slut, haha!"

While chatting, the wine and food were also served, and everyone's cups were filled with wine. Huang Ke took a drink and asked, "Do you know much about the Yangtze River flood?" ”

Cui Wu said that he knew that in the past, when he hit the middle road, he took Wuhan, so there were many subordinates in the Yangtze River valley in the army. "I've heard from them that the impact of the flood is not small, and I've heard that many people have been displaced. But it should be much better now. ”

Huang Ke sighed, he had always wanted the army to assume the disaster relief function, but in this situation at that time, this proposal was still far away.

"Old commander, there's something you want to pay attention to." Wang Maocai put away his hippie smile and said to Huang Ke in a serious whisper.

"What's the matter?" Huang Ke asked.

"Xiguan Military Academy is moving." Wang Maocai said word by word.