Chapter 868 is easy to do

After learning that Liu Tiehan's troops had seized Mukden by Shun, Tang Qiu's telegram from his departure made it more clear the direction of the troops' next move and the key points they should grasp.

To be honest, Liu Tiehan's campaign to seize Mukden had nothing to say, and there was nothing to look at, and even Liu Tiehan, who commanded the troops, did not take this battle seriously, not because he didn't pay attention to it, but because he couldn't mention it.

Six field brigades, three artillery brigades, and two air defense brigades with nearly 100,000 troops, plus a tank brigade transferred from the directly subordinate corps, rushed out of the Jinzhou defense line in a frenzy, and more than 300 tanks opened the way, attacking the city all the way.

In one day, the Dongzhi troops captured more than 80 large and small towns along the way, annihilating more than 4,000 sporadic Kwantung Army garrison troops, and those strongholds and towns along the line defended by the second-rate troops of the Kwantung Army, and the defending Kwantung Army troops wanted to resist desperately, but a cannonball, fragments of the city wall and the corpses of the Kwantung Army soldiers flew into the sky together, besides, when the troops captured these strongholds, the main force did not make any stop at all, and at about 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, the forward troops arrived under the city of Mukden.

This is Liu Tiehan's style of play, flamboyant and domineering, he didn't hide his intentions at all, he played with great fanfare and fierceness, just to let the Japanese know that we are going to fight Fengtiancheng.

Liu Tiehan has a tank brigade and three artillery brigades in his hands, but the commander of the garrison of the Fengtian Kwantung Army, Yuo Ono, does not have so much capital in his hands, and the Kwantung Army troops guarding Mukden are the formation of a brigade and regiment, and it is a second-rate brigade.

The Ono Brigade, when fully staffed, has only more than 8,200 troops, and it also has to defend the surrounding areas of Mukden, and the defenders in Mukden City are only more than 3,000 people, plus the military police of the military police headquarters and the armed personnel of other Japanese puppet organs, the strength of the full battle is less than 6,000 people.

As for the equipment, it is even more influential, because it is a second-rate garrison force, and the Kwantung Army Command does not intend to pull it out for field battles, there is only one artillery brigade, which is said to be artillery, which is nothing more than a dozen mén 92 infantry guns, more than 20 mén mortars, and even heavy machine guns are counted as heavy firepower, is there still a way to fight this battle?

For the northeastern region, which the Kwantung Army has always regarded as a stable rear base, the troops stationed in a brigade and regiment are already absolutely important; even Xinjing has a garrison of the size of a wing; as for other towns, at most one squadron of soldiers can be dispatched, or even only one instructor and one gendarmerie squad can rule over tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of Chinese, and no Chinese dare to say "no" if they want grain for grain and labor.

But now these have become the fatal point of the Japanese army in Mukden, looking at the tanks of the ** squadron outside the city, and countless cannons, Ono took the telescope in his hand, and he couldn't control the trembling, he knew very well in his heart that as long as the ** squadron attacked bō times, Fengtian City would be lost immediately, and there would be a city wall as a fart, and as long as the cannon of the Zhina army was a Qi shè, these city walls would become a pile of broken bricks and tiles.

It's not that Ono doesn't want to fight, but when it was the Kwantung Army during the Manchurian Incident, Ono not only had confidence but also courage, so he used a few thousand people in his hands to fight with the invading Shina army for seven or eight days.

After several battles, including the two southbound corps formed by the Kwantung Army, especially the Battle of Niuxinshan, the Kwantung Army's Jīng Rui troops were almost completely lost, and the soldiers who were replenished later, the level of training, and the will to fight, compared with the previous Kwantung Army soldiers, are not the same.

The troops who recovered a little vitality were all pulled by Commander Kenkichi Ueda to the Far East battlefield, and the Soviets were stumbled, and the remaining old and weak soldiers, Ono did not have the confidence to be able to hold Fengtian City, although Ono was arrogant, but he was not stupid, and he did not intend to be a deserter, so he gave up Fengtian City to flee, he issued an order, the troops around Mukden immediately moved closer to Mukden, broke the encirclement of the peripheral Shina army, and entered the city to wait for reinforcements.

The Kwantung Army troops, who received the order, immediately left their original garrisons and rushed to Mukden day and night, which played into Liu Tiehan's hands, and he sent three field brigades and all tanks to set up an ambush around Mukden to reinforce the Kwantung Army troops in Mukden, and dealt the heaviest blow, although the elimination of the living forces of the Kwantung Army troops was not the main purpose of this campaign.

Even if all the Japanese troops around Mukden are concentrated, there are only about 20,000 people, and as for the combat effectiveness and equipment, they are not as good as a fraction of the Dongzhi troops.

At the same time, Ono sent an urgent telegram to the commander of the Kwantung Army, General Kenkichi Ueda, truthfully reporting the dangerous situation facing Mukden and the strength of the ** squadron.

Ueda Kenkichi, who was commanding more than 300,000 troops in the Far East and storming the troops of the First Army of the Far East of Timoshenko, was taken aback after receiving a telegram from Yuo Ono.

Kenkichi Ueda attacked Arseniev, but he couldn't attack for a long time, and the spirit of the Kwantung Army had been lost, and similarly, Timoshenko was gritting his teeth and struggling to support, the Japanese and Soviets were fighting in one breath, and the First Army of the Kwantung Army blocked the Soviet Transcaucasian Front reinforcing Timoshenko in Khabarovsk.

The Second Army was in a stalemate with the Soviet Kamchatka Front in Kamchatka, and he commanded the Third and Fourth Armies to besiege Timoshenko.

What Ueda Kenkichi needs now is time, the newly formed Far Eastern Front units of the Soviet Union are assembling in the Far East one after another, as long as he is given another four to five days, the exhausted Second Army of the Soviet Far East will be wrung out by him to the last drop of blood and fall to the ground with a bang, at this critical juncture, Ueda Kenkichi will never withdraw his troops from the front line and return to aid Mukden, even if he loses Mukden.

This, of course, is the battlefield situation, Ueda Kenkichi is not allowed to withdraw his troops, more is a personal vanity, according to the time calculation, even if it is to return to the army to rescue Mukden, it will be too late, and once part of the troops from the Far East battlefield Chōu return to aid Mukden, only half a breath of Temoshenko will be able to breathe, and it is difficult to predict what the next battle will be.

That is, if Mukden is lost, Temoshenge's troops can't all be killed, such an ending makes Ueda Kenkichi, who is bent on writing the glory of the Great Japanese Emperor, accept, so the order he gave to the Fengtian defenders is Yuo Ono, "At any cost, defend Mukden for more than seven days." ”

The meaning of the order is very clear, Ono, you are ready to leave your life in Mukden, Ueda Kenkichi also knows that this order is tantamount to a life talisman for Ono and his second-rate troops, he hates, hates that the devil Tang Qiuli, and at the most critical time, he stabbed him in the back, hating the root of his teeth and hating his heart.

Ono, the commander of the Fengtian Kwantung Army, after receiving the order of Ueda Kenkichi, could only sigh and organize resistance, outside the city, the guns and cannons of the Shina army slaughtering the Japanese Imperial Army made Ono realize what a stupid thing he had done, so that the imperial army troops around Mukden would come to Mukden City to send them to death.

After thinking about it for a long time, Ono still risked violating military regulations, and truthfully telegraphed the dangerous situation faced by Mukden to the general staff of the base camp.

In fact, the Kwantung Army troops in Ono and Mukden City did not hold out even overnight, at about nine o'clock that night, Liu Tiehan commanded the troops to launch a general attack on Mukden City, three artillery brigades of more than 2,000 mén large-caliber artillery, bombarded Mukden for an hour and a half, the Japanese defensive positions on the periphery of Mukden, dusty, firelight, dark forts and fortifications, barbed wire and deer firewood, accompanied by the stumps and broken arms of the Kwantung Army soldiers, flew into the air.

Later, the independent division aviation unit, a bomber group and a fighter group, carried out a deep attack on the Japanese army's deep defensive position, and the city of Mukden was shrouded in a bloody storm.

By about 6 o'clock in the morning, the troops entered Fengtian City, and after more than three hours of street fighting, the Dongzhi troops had already taken control of the whole city, and the garrison of the Kwantung Army, more than 5,000 people from Major General Yuo Ono, the commander of the brigade, were all annihilated, and at about 10 o'clock in the morning, Fengtian City was completely captured.

Liu Tiehan, deputy commander of the independent division and commander of the East Command Force, and Zhao Yihe, chief of staff, studied together how to better complete the task given by the division commander Jiāo, Zhao Yihe looked at Liu Tiehan and said: "Deputy division commander, the division commander's telegram has been very clear, two tasks, but the task of transferring Ueda Kenkichi back is probably a bit difficult. ”

Liu Tiehan raised his eyebrows and said, "Oh, how do you say, yùhe, what do you think?" Zhao Yihe said: "Judging from the war situation in the Far East, Ueda Kenkichi is obviously reluctant to give up the piece of Temoshenko, otherwise, Mukden has been lost, why is there no sign of the Kwantung Army's main force coming back?" ”

Liu Tiehan dropped the pencil in his hand, smiled coldly and said: "This can't help Ueda Kenji, let's not fight hard enough, convey my order, the troops immediately attack the Liaodong Peninsula according to the plan, remember, you must beat hard, not an inch of grass is left, until the little devil hurts." ”