Chapter 10: Night of 918 (Wednesday) ()

It was already 23 o'clock in the evening when Kawashima once again led his defeated general to climb into the Beidaying from behind the toilet on the north wall. Due to darkness and panic, Kawashima was squeezed into the cesspool by his soldiers. The stinking cesspool almost drowned Kawashima. Thanks to the deputy squadron leader Yamada discovered it in time, a tragedy was avoided. Kawashima, who was defecated like a man in his body, had already dropped his family's treasure knife into the cesspool and had nowhere to look for it.

However, Kawashima's misfortune was not just that. They were firmly blocked by the firepower on the left and right sides of the toilet as soon as they emerged. In addition, the Beidaying defenders also installed two Czech light machine guns on the roof of the repair shop, which made the Japanese army's desire to climb over the wall and return on the same route.

Several Japanese soldiers who tried to forcibly climb over the wall were sieved on the wall, and blood was flowing along the cracks of the bricks, crowded behind the cesspool and shouting that Tiantian was unresponsive. The Japanese soldiers who were calling for trouble quickly discovered a problem, that is, where did their radio station go?

At this moment, there were only two battalions of Wang Chuang and Xu Guohui defending in the Beida Camp. Among them, Wang Chuang's battalion was under the Second Company. The Second Company broke into zero and penetrated into the rear of the Manchurian Railway to explode the railway. The Japanese were fake bombing, but Zhang Xuewu was real bombing.

Because the Xu Guohui Camp had just received the news, the Border Bank actually had a large amount of gold stored in the vault. In addition to the six vaults of the Young Marshal's Mansion, Zhang Xuewu had to draw another company from the Xu Guohui Camp to go. The 619th Regiment and the 621st Regiment, which were unstable, had long been sent by Zhang Xuewu to the military factories of the Three East Provinces to help transport and load vehicles. In Zhang Xuewu's memory, after the 918 Incident, the Japanese army seized a complete set of heavy artillery production equipment imported from Italy from the Three East Provinces Arsenal and had just been installed.

Since the 75mm caliber artillery was considered a heavy artillery in China at that time, Zhang Xuewu could not determine how large the caliber artillery this production equipment produced before he saw it with his own eyes. Anyway, Zhang Xuewu only had one principle, that is, to minimize the losses, and to transport everything that could be dismantled and transported, and to blow up all those that could not be taken away.

In fact, in the face of all this, Zhang Xuewu was also making a big bet, because in history, the Japanese army attacked Shenyang at that time, and had a simple resistance in the 620th Regiment of the Beidaying, Wang Tiehan's troops, and now he at least gave the Japanese vanguard and a painful blow. If it was the same as in history, the 29th Infantry Regiment and the Fifth Independent Guarding Brigade were rushing to the Beidaying to reinforce.

If his resistance changes or shakes the Japanese plan to invade the three northeastern provinces in one fell swoop, then he explodes the Chinese bank vault and transports 40 million taels of silver, blows up the border bank vault and the six gutters of the Shaomai Mansion under the name of Hanqing, transports a large amount of military supplies, and demolishes the arsenals of the three northeastern provinces. If the Japanese army changes its strategic deployment and intentions, the damage it brings to the Northeast will be far greater than that of the Japanese. I am afraid that the first person to be sent to the military court after the incident will be himself.

It can be said that Zhang Xuewu, who looked at the machine gun next to him, fired a string of tracer bullets into the toilet, was caught in extreme contradictions! Will history change? Zhang Xuewu then realized how simple and naive he thought before. People always have selfish intentions. In the face of one or another, the first thing people think about most is themselves, rather than changing the historical process.

The fierce resistance of Beidaying can be said to be completely beyond the expectations of Itagaki Seishiro. Before the incident, Seishiro Itagaki could be said to have used the multi-party relationship in the Nanjing government, and the intelligence of Kenji Doihara's secret service was repeatedly confirmed. The Kuomintang Nanjing Central Government and Peking both tried their best to avoid conflicts. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take advantage of!

Since that is the case, why was the resistance of Beidaying so fierce? Soon, the troops affiliated to the attack on the Arsenals of the Three East Provinces, the Dongling Ammunition Depot, and the Second Independent Guarding Team of Dongta Airport were all defeated?

Seishiro Itagaki stood in front of the map and was already a little restless. Seishiro Itagaki was very clear that the Japanese army attacking each place had only a few more than 100 people, more than 200 more people, and it was reasonable to be defeated by the defenders. In desperation, he had to send a liaison officer to the 29th Infantry Regiment and the Fifth Battalion of the Independent Guards who came from Tieling to reinforce, and asked them to concentrate their troops to attack Beidaying with all their strength and temporarily give up attacking the Arsenal of the Three Eastern Provinces, Dongling Ammunition Depot, Dongta Airport and other places. In Itagaki Seishiro's view, as long as the defenders of Beidaying were defeated, Fengtian's Northeast Army and resistance were not worth mentioning!

There seemed to be problems with the phones in Fengtian City? Even the phones of Fengtian secret service, which had several dedicated lines, were not connected. Seishiro Itagaki even suspected that Ikaro Kobayashi not only cut off the Chinese phone line, but also suffered the murderous hands of this idiot.

However, it was obvious that Seishiro Itagaki's misfortune had not yet ended. He was sent to occupy the Bank of China. The military police squadron of the Border Bank encountered at least one battalion of Northeast Army, and the Northeast Army, which was rushing to transport gold and silver, took the lead in firing. The three squadrons of the military police squadron were all broken on the streets of Fengtian.

After receiving this news, Seishiro Itagaki was already a little numb. The worst result he had previously deduced with Ishihara Kanir, Hanaya and others seemed to have appeared, that is, the Kanto Army, which lacks military strength, is everywhere. Seishiro Itagaki knew very well that if they could not completely occupy the important cities along Fengtian and the Manchurian Railway tonight, it would create a fait accompli! Then all their previous efforts would be wasted.

If the General Staff and the Army Province cannot achieve brilliant results, they will probably not be involved in this crisis. Although occupying Mongolian and Manchuria was the established national policy of the empire, the high-ranking generals would not be responsible for their rash actions, and their own fate can naturally be imagined.

Suddenly, Seishiro Itagaki fought a cold war, and the overall reaction of the Northeast Frontier Defense Force made him almost shudder. Could it be that his action plan had been leaked before it was launched? Who would have done it?

"No! It's definitely not my own!" Those who participated in the formulation of this plan were all samurai loyal to the empire! But except for the early leak of the action plan, Seishiro Itagaki could not find any strong explanation to prove it.

Just when Seishiro Itagaki was already in a state of great trouble, Zhang Xuewu was also in trouble, that is, the 29th Infantry Regiment and the Fifth Independent Guard Brigade of the Japanese army stationed in Fengtian rushed to Beidaying one after another. At this moment, the only Beidaying with empty defense was only Wang Chuang, commanded by Zhang Xuewu, and Xu Guohui, two missing battalions, and some troops from the brigade guard battalion, were organizing defense. Among them, Wang Chuang's troops were dispatched to the Northeast Frontier Defense Force Commander Office to protect the acting commander Rong Zhen.

Zhang Xuewu was actually able to invest in the defense of the Beida Camp, only seven reinforced infantry companies, but Zhang Xuewu also had a trump card, that is, Zhang Tianpeng's artillery battalion. Each company has four gates, and the five companies in the battalion have no cannons, with a total of sixteen Italian latest 75mm fast cannons, which are rare treasures in China.
Chapter completed!