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Yodotaro Watanabe approached Matsui Iwane and lowered his voice: "Nagata Tieshan made a fuss at the recent one-night party. There are many options for the expansion direction of the empire, the Soviet Far East, the British, French and Dutch colonies in the South Seas, and even Australia. It's all possible, it doesn't have to be..." Watanabe's voice became lower and lower, and finally Matsui could hardly hear anything.

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"President, there's news from Chaoyang that the Japanese army has entered Chaoyang County and is now engaged in street fighting with the Kuomintang army! Luo Yaoguo asks us to transfer the siege corps to Chaoyang."

Chen Boda hurried into the headquarters of the Liaoxi Military Region in Taipingfang Town.The headquarters was full of smoke, Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, and some senior cadres from the Western Liao Military Region and the Manchuria Provincial Party Committee gathered here.

Hearing Chen Boda's words, Mao Zedong glanced around the room and saw that everyone's faces were filled with joy: "These Kuomintang reactionaries now know that they need our help? Hehe, what did you do?" He took out a cigarette from inside, lit it up and took a puff, showing a satisfied smile: "Order Li Jishen to ignore the battle in the Chaoyang direction, his task is to reach the north of Beipiao City as soon as possible, and cooperate with the Eighth Route Army and the Seventeenth Route Army to break through the siege! After the breakout Don't go back to Liaoxi again, but move to Chifeng, you must be quick!"

Liu Shaoqi nodded slightly, he had already recognized the meaning of Mao Zedong's words.The plan to establish a base area in western Liaoning has been abandoned, and this place will soon become a battlefield for a decisive battle between the Kuomintang army and the Japanese army.However, the CCP’s plan to develop the base areas in the Northeast remains unchanged, except that the access to the Northeast has been shifted to the Rehe Mountains and the Horqin Grassland in the north.

Mao Zedong thought for a while, then smiled and said: "Give Comrade Zhu De an electric power, and ask him to prepare for the breakout immediately, and the battle to break out will start at noon tomorrow at the latest! In addition, he ordered Li Jishen and Feng Yuxiang to send elite troops to the west to occupy the Aohan Banner immediately. Luo Yaoguo called back, telling him that our siege corps will return soon, and ask him to hold on for a while." After saying this, he stood up abruptly, and glanced at Liu Shaoqi, who was a little surprised: "Comrade Shaoqi, arrange the transfer immediately, we Let’s retreat in the direction of Chifeng as well.”

"President, but..." Liu Shaoqi wanted to say something, but he didn't know where to start.Mao Zedong had already walked to the door of the headquarters at this time, and was about to leave when he suddenly remembered something, turned his head and said to Chen Boda: "Give Zhang Xueliang another power, and tell him that the battle in western Liaoning has been taken over by the Kuomintang, and victory is in sight. The biggest danger now is to fight with Chen Boda. Tang Yulin, who is in collusion with the Japanese imperialists, wants his Northeast Army First Army and Sixth Route Army to approach Chengde immediately!"

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Luo Yaoguo and Qiu Qingquan couldn't sit still in the headquarters anymore, they pulled out the field phone and lay down on a small mound next to the headquarters to observe the front line.Beside them is a huge crater blasted by a 150mm howitzer, which is still steaming at the moment.But the two of them couldn't take care of that much anymore, and the staff members under them held up binoculars and looked at the place where the flames were rising in the south of the city.Now Fu Zuoyi is commanding two Jin army divisions who suffered heavy casualties to fight street battles with the Japanese army there.Shells from both sides continued to explode in the south city. Luo Yaoguo could clearly see rising sun flags erected on various positions through the flames of the explosions. After a while, the Jin army's blue sky and white sun flags replaced them, and the whole battle seemed to be at a stalemate.

"The CCP called back. General Li Jishen has led the relief corps to the south for reinforcements. It is expected to arrive in Chaoyang County after dawn. Please stick to it." Natalie yelled loudly under the mound, waving a telegram.

"Great! Teacher, once the CCP's reinforcements arrive, this battle will be a big victory!" Qiu Qingquan's voice was a little excited: "Tonight, the Japanese army invested at least [-] infantry. We still resisted. Our first division will be able to regain the initiative later, if the CCP’s [-] troops arrive, these three Japanese divisions should be hit hard!”

Luo Yaoguo's face was gloomy, he gritted his teeth and watched the fierce battle on the front line, and nodded emphatically after a long while: "I hope so, order General Yu Yuqi to send the first brigade to the south of the city to reinforce Fu Zuoyi, and the second brigade assigned to Xu Yunfei's armor Cluster. Order Xu Yunfei to launch a counterattack before four o'clock, the target is... Yu'an, tell me?"

"It should be the Japanese heavy artillery on the front line of Changbao Yingzi. It is less than ten kilometers away from us, and it can just bombard the city wall." Qiu Qingquan selected the Japanese heavy artillery that had been confirmed by the artillery group sound test company after a little thought. s position.This location is a little far from the heavy artillery positions of the Kuomintang army, and the wind is a bit strong tonight, so it seems that several artillery counterattacks were organized but failed.

"Okay! Order Xu Yunfei not to be afraid of losing tanks. The attack must be resolute and fast. He must insert behind the Japanese line without hesitation and take out their heavy artillery." Luo Yaoguo looked up at the sky, and the snowflakes flying all over the sky did not decrease. Signs, it looks like the snow won't stop till dawn.At that time, the plane still cannot be dispatched, and the heavy artillery group will become the master of the battlefield.

With Luo Yaoguo's order, the steel column, which had been waiting impatiently for a long time, did not even wait for the second brigade to be in place, and immediately rushed towards the flank of the Japanese attacking troops. More than 100 tanks lined up in six columns, like a team of heroic iron cavalry galloping and crushing on the flat ground in the east of Chaoyang City. They rushed towards the galloping tanks as if they were sending them to death with explosives. Most of them were smashed into honeycombs by various automatic firearms on the way, and only a few could rush to the front of the tanks and explode themselves.

"Tanks go! Go! Don't worry about the infantry, just throw them to the brothers behind!" All the tank commanders were shouting similar words. The scene that happened yesterday morning seemed to be repeated again. The assault made the Japanese army panic. The commanders had no way to reorganize the defense line. They could only watch helplessly as the Chinese army rushed over. When they reacted, Xu Yunfei's armored group had already rushed through the short ten-kilometer battle line and killed them all the way. In front of the Japanese heavy artillery positions.

Chapter 0542 is the turn of Feng Yuxiang

Sato Isamu, the captain of the Seventh Japanese Artillery Regiment, was bald and yelling at the artillerymen under his command who didn't know that the catastrophe was imminent, muster their last energy, and then threw more shells at the Kuomintang army in Chaoyang County.This fierce artillery battle has been going on for four hours. The North Korean coolies who transported the ammunition even died of exhaustion. The entire artillery position is covered with yellow craters.Several cannons were damaged in the Kuomintang artillery counterattack just now, and several bloody corpses lay there in disorder, and no one went to clean them up.There is only one idea in everyone's mind, which is to fire as fast as possible, even if all the 36 cannons after the war are scrapped due to excessive firing frequency, it doesn't matter.This is no longer the time to worry about these things. The infantry on the front line have already risked their lives and launched a desperate attack. If they lose, the entire war may be lost!

Isamu Sato's bald head was still steaming, he vaguely knew that today's night attack was a key battle in the Manchurian Incident!If they are defeated, the empire's continental dream can continue, just in case... er, there is no just in case!With more than 30 imperial soldiers in the three divisions and such powerful firepower, it is absolutely impossible to lose.Artillery observers on the front sent back news that the infantry had broken into Chaoyang County and was now fighting in the streets with the Chinese army. The collapse of the Chinese army was imminent!It was just what he said three hours ago, and he said it just now. He vaguely knew that he was not optimistic, so he was a little irritable and excited. In any case, his more than [-] heavy artillery will kill more Chinese soldiers!

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack..."

A soldier of an infantry squadron guarding the periphery suddenly let out a scream.This security squadron was sent by the No.19 Division, most of them were Koreans, and their military quality and discipline were not as good as those of genuine Japanese soldiers.I don't know what these Korean pigs saw?Some artillerymen who heard the exclamation sounded numbly, but they soon realized that something was wrong. Amid the deafening cannons, there was a loud noise similar to the roar of a motor!Then dozens or hundreds of tanks appeared in front of these unarmed Japanese artillerymen as if falling from the sky.As these tanks rolled over, they continuously spewed streams of fire in all directions, harvesting the lives of the stunned Japanese artillerymen, like a group of steel death gods!

Even Dazuo Sato was stunned by the scene in front of him. Where did they come from?Has the infantry group in front completely collapsed?What should I use to resist these iron bumps that are moving and killing people?Grit with your teeth, or hit with your bald head?The entire artillery position suddenly became chaotic.The North Korean coolies transporting the shells were running around, the artillerymen were frantically looking for light weapons, and some gunners tried to turn the 150mm heavy howitzers to fire at the tanks!But how could these well-trained Kuomintang armored soldiers give them the opportunity to practice cannons and tanks?The tanks spread out to attack completely freely, and the infantrymen who followed the tanks also used grenades, submachine guns, machine guns, and explosives to attack or massacre the Japanese artillery, and... North Korean coolies!Uh, they are the Kuomintang!Not much about policy.A large number of Japanese artillery and Korean coolies fell on the artillery positions, but these tanks tried not to damage the precious Taisho four-year-style 150mm heavy howitzers. Although the Japanese artillery killed many Chinese officers and soldiers tonight, these The cannons are innocent, and the tank soldiers are half artillery, and they can be used to bombard the Japanese later.As for the leader of the group of sinful Japanese artillerymen, Isamu Sato, I don’t know which tank was crushed into meat paste, and his soul should have gone to Kudanzaka!This can be regarded as the best home for this Japanese officer, right?

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"Impossible!" Lingjialong cried out with a pale face. The telegram in his hand had been squeezed into a ball. The three divisions fought against one Kuomintang division and two Jin army divisions, and it was still a surprise attack, but they didn't win!In just one night, 8000 people were lost, and the heavy artillery brigades of the three divisions also gave the Kuomintang tanks a pot!Is the war really lost?Takashi Hishikari didn't believe it anyway, it's so surprising!It's too incredible!

There was complete silence in the headquarters, no one dared to speak, and no one dared to look directly at Lingjialong who was about to go berserk.

"Ishihara! Tell me, what's going on here?" Hishicari Takashi's blood-red eyes rolled, and finally fixed on Ishihara Waner, the advocate of the Manchuria Incident.

Ishihara Waner looked up at the furious Hishigai Takashi, and opened his mouth, not knowing how to answer.The three divisions couldn't defeat one Kuomintang division (the two Shanxi divisions were ignored), and the Manchurian incident seemed to be unstoppable. As one of the culprits, I didn't know whether to apologize in the end?Hishikari Takashi's eyes turned to Itagaki Seishiro, who advocated attacking the first division of the Kuomintang with three divisions. Seeing that he was about to explode again, Miyake Mitsuji hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Your Excellency, I think it is time to resolutely give up attacking the first division of the Kuomintang. The plan of the division is to withdraw the troops to Beipiao, and then establish a defense line along Beipiao, Yixian, and Jinzhou. Then...request reinforcements from the country."

There was silence in the room, and now Japan has invested more than 40 troops in Manchuria!Fifteen of the seventeen permanent divisions had already been thrown into battle.If you want to send troops again... I'm afraid there will be no soldiers to send for a while, right?Takashi Lingjie was stunned for a moment, then asked in a calm voice: "Will sending more troops guarantee the victory of the Manchurian Incident?"

Facing Takashi Hishikari's question, Miyake Miyake nodded heavily: "Your Excellency, the Chinese Nationalist Party has not many troops in Manchuria, and their land line of communication is blocked by the Chinese Communist Party, the only reliable line of communication is by sea through the Bohai Bay. As long as the Imperial Navy is determined enough, they will be able to cut off their lines of communication, and then the Empire may win the war."

This plan is almost a replica of the plan proposed by Wanji Ishihara a few days ago. The premise is that the Kuomintang will occupy the mountainous area of ​​western Liaoning, and the Communist Party will be severely damaged and then expelled from western Liaoning.The key to this plan is to what extent should the Communist Army be weakened?

Takashi Ryokan thought for a while and figured out something. The battle report sent by Matsui Iwane did not mention the Communist Army and the Northeast Army from the beginning to the end. It is obvious that this part of the army is no longer in Chaoyang. They should take a detour to the north. The ticket was released to the besieged Eighth Route Army and No.17 Route Army of the Chinese Communist Party...to what extent should they be hit?

Takashi Ryokai walked around the room for a few steps with his hands behind his back, and finally walked in front of Waner Ishihara: "Mr. Ishihara, tell me what it should look like at Beipiao?"

Ishihara Wan'er was stunned for a moment, then he hesitated and said: "The humble officer's suggestion is to let go of the siege in the north of Beipiao, and let the Chinese communist army flee to the northwest, but the imperial army should chase them all the way and drive them to Chifeng, no, it should Expel them to a place farther west...to keep them away from Manchuria, and then secretly support a neutral force to rule Rehe, so as to block the Communist Party's eastward advance. In this way, the conflict between them and the Kuomintang will intensify."

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The heavy snow is still fluttering down the ground, and it has become bigger and more urgent than last night.The wind of white hair blows on the face in gusts, like a knife cutting.

Standing at the head of Beipiao City, Zhu De looked around and saw a vast expanse of whiteness.The Communist officers and soldiers of the brigade carried only rifles, bullets and personal equipment, and staggered slowly northward along the ice-covered official road.All the supplies were discarded at the front line, and the artillery deployed behind the front line was also destroyed and abandoned!The relatively light "heavy weapons" such as mortars and heavy machine guns were carried on horseback and retreated with the troops on their shoulders.From cadres to soldiers, everyone was shivering in the wind and snow, but they didn't stop at all.The blue-gray team stretched from the county town to the end of the horizon, as if there was no end.

boom!boom!boom……

A few pillars of smoke rose suddenly in the long marching ranks, and shrapnel whizzed and danced in all directions. Every time there was an explosion, a mass of flesh and blood rose up.However, the officers and soldiers of the Communist Army who were marching slowly did not seem to be afraid of death at all, nor did they seem to have seen or heard the flames and loud noises of the explosion, and they were still advancing step by step on the snowy field under artillery fire!Fortunately, the artillery fire of the Japanese army was not too violent, and the accuracy was not high.

Except for this inefficient shelling, the Japanese troops of the three divisions around Beipiao City did not take any action.The surrounding battlefields had been ringing with gunfire for eleven days, and at this time, it gradually became thinner.A brigade that originally blocked the north of Beipiao City also withdrew this morning, making way for the retreating Chinese Communist Army!It's also fortunate that these Japanese soldiers made such a move out of nowhere, otherwise the Eighth Route Army and Seventeenth Route Army, whose vitality was severely injured after fighting hard for many days, would not be able to fight at all!

"Let's go." Zhu De took one last look at Beipiao City, and then got into the car. Peng Dehuai, commander-in-chief of the Eighth Route Army, was in the same car with him. General Peng also had a gloomy face and said nothing. repressed.

"Commander-in-Chief, there are heavy casualties!" Peng Dehuai couldn't help but speak first: "After this battle, our Eighth Route Army has lost more than [-]%, and they are all veterans. This time they hurt their vitality! These bastards The KMT agreed to fight for seven days, but it ended up fighting for eleven days! Eleven days!"

Zhu De glanced at the fireballs constantly rising outside the car window, and shook his head: "This time it wasn't the Kuomintang who came here. They are still in Chaoyang and haven't moved their nests. This is the little devil who deliberately let us go."

Peng Dehuai was taken aback when he heard the words, thought carefully, and nodded in agreement with Zhu De: "But what is the purpose of the Japanese? Could it be that they set up an ambush halfway to annihilate us and... the Third Route Army and the Fourth Route Army?" ?”

"It's possible." Zhu De shook his head again: "Maybe not. The Japanese may have other conspiracies. Maybe they want us to fight a civil war with the Kuomintang? Who knows?"

"Fight the Kuomintang?" Peng Dehuai murmured, "The Japanese are stronger? Or the Kuomintang?"

Soon after Zhu De left, more than 20 people from the Second Division of Wang Erzhuo No. [-], who was in charge of the rear, also withdrew from Beipiao and retreated northward. The Japanese army immediately attacked Beipiao County.

After occupying Beipiao, the Japanese army dispatched the Third Division, the Fifth Division, and the First Cavalry Brigade to form a pursuit corps, and the commander of the third division, General Kawashima Yoshinaka, commanded the pursuit northward.In Dahei Mountain, about 26 kilometers northwest of Beipiao City, the Japanese pursuit corps was stubbornly blocked by the Third Route Army, Fourth Route Army and Fifth Route Army under the personal command of Li Jishen and Feng Yuxiang.Another bloody battle between the Chinese and Japanese armies has begun!

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Shells overturned the frozen land time and time again, leaving huge craters on the snow field. Thick gunpowder smoke permeated the entire battlefield. The shelter shook violently amidst the sound of explosions. , the hastily dug trenches on the forward positions have almost been blown flat.Feng Yuxiang and Li Jishen's siege corps marched lightly and did not carry heavy artillery, so that they fell into a complete disadvantage in artillery fire. The only three mountain artillery regiments were forced to fire cautiously, and they had to quickly shift positions after a few shots.

"Boom..." Another 150mm shell exploded nearby, and Feng Yuxiang's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that the Japanese invaders discovered his command post? "The headquarters is transferred!" Feng Yuxiang yelled, and rushed out, his huge body running so fast that even the young staff officers in the headquarters couldn't catch up.As soon as everyone ran out of the shelter, a burst of artillery fire hit the civil shelter and razed it to the ground.

When Feng Yuxiang arrived at the reserve command post, the Japanese infantry attack had already begun, and hundreds of khaki figures were scattered on the entire hillside, appearing very sparse.Halfway up the climb, the artillery fire of the Third Route Army began to fire. The 80mm mortars and the mountain guns of the Army Artillery Regiment fired together, and a row of smoke columns instantly covered the charging Japanese army.But it didn't take long before the artillery of the Japanese army started shelling frantically again. This time, the target was the artillery positions and firepower points of the communist army that had just been exposed in the firing!The artillery shells from both sides are coming and going in the sky, and the artillery positions in front of the two armies and the rear of the communist army are fighting with smoke and dust, and shrapnel is like rain!After a burst of artillery battle, the battlefield returned to calm, and the Japanese soldiers who charged were either killed or retreated in a hurry.

"Report! The position of my Third Artillery Regiment was covered by Japanese heavy artillery! Seven 75mm mountain artillery were destroyed, causing more than 100 casualties." A staff officer put down the phone in his hand, his voice trembling.

"Damn! What's going on? Didn't they tell them to fight for three minutes before transferring? Why didn't they listen!" Feng Yuxiang couldn't help but scolded: "Damn, what kind of battle is this? Put Lao Tzu's troops at bay. Consumed in the front, Li Renchao is avenging his personal revenge! I want to report to the organization..."

Feng Yuxiang's scolding was like turning on the valve of a faucet, and the officers in the headquarters began to complain, accusing Li Jishen of intentionally draining the strength of the Third Route Army.Some people simply pointed out that this Li Jishen deliberately made such an arrangement to avenge the No.19 Route Army's annihilation in the Battle of Xugou...

"Enough!" Feng Yuxiang heard that his subordinates said that he was becoming less and less like a revolutionary army, and the political commissar Nie Rongzhen's face was getting greener and greener, and he quickly stopped: "We are revolutionary soldiers, and we must unconditionally obey the organization's arrangements and orders! Organization The order from the superior is that we defend the Dahei Mountain and buy time for the safe transfer of friendly forces. Now you have to think about how to defend the Dahei Mountain and prevent the Japanese invaders from taking a step! Understand!"

"Understood!" All the officers dared not say anything more. Nie Rongzhen looked at Feng Yuxiang, but he didn't say anything... This man in the CCP is famous for his good temper, so the group of old officers in the Third Route Army who have not been reformed They dared to say so many strange words. If Zhang Guotao was still there, they would not dare.

Feng Yuxiang gave him a wink, and the two walked out of the headquarters, lit cigarettes in a leeward place, and just smoked silently.

"Comrade Huanzhang, only our Third Route Army is intact among the three Route Army Corps." Nie Rongzhen smoked for a while, and finally said: "So it is reasonable for Commander Li to let the Third Route Army stand in front .And Commander Li is a democrat, not a member of the Communist Party, which is different from us, do you understand?"

Feng Yuxiang was slightly taken aback, looked at Nie Rongzhen's serious expression, and unconsciously nodded a few times.Although he joined the Communist Party a long time ago, he has never set his position right... and the comrades who came into contact with him on the Communist Party of China also treated him as a democrat, and did not really regard him as a party member.