Chapter 20 Breakthrough Night ()

After nightfall, Honjo Shizuo listened to the summary report of Itagaki Seishiro's overall situation on the Fengtian Incident, and slowly closed his eyes. The 39th Mixed Brigade sent by Lin Xianjuro, the commander of the Empire's North Korean Army, had just crossed the Yalu River when he received an urgent telegram from the military headquarters and was forced to stop at Andong on standby. The Ando Detachment, which was urgently mobilized, was still gathering in Shinyizhou, and had no intention of maneuvering along the railway.

"What a hard night!" Honjo Man sighed long. The atmosphere inside the temporary command post of the Kanto Army front line on the armored train ten kilometers southwest of Beidaying was so low that it was so depressing that it was breathless.

Since the change, there has been a mixture of good and bad news. The bad news is that the Beidaying defenders who had previously ordered the retreat were disobedient.

The rock-stalking in Beidaying caused huge casualties to the Kwantung Army of the Imperial Japanese Empire. The good news is that the Northeast Army in various parts of Liaoning quickly retreated toward Jinzhou, as if avoiding contact with the Kwantung Army. In Changchun and other places, senior generals of the Northeast Army had even contacted the local secret agencies sent by the Kwantung Army, such as Xiqia, the Chief of Staff of the Deputy Commander-General of Jilin Province, and Zhang Haipeng, the Taonan Guard.

Honjo Shizuo looked around the stuffy armored carriage. Whether it was Kenkawa Miji who was as stable as Taishan hidden the emperor's edict and kept drinking tea, or the Kanto Army Chief of Staff Miyake Miyake with an anxious expression on his face, or even the Director of the Staff Office Ishihara Kanir who did not say a word, almost everyone knew that the attitude of the military headquarters to the troops stationed in North Korea had already explained the problem.

The military headquarters was obviously very angry about the issue of the Manchuria Incident. If the Kwantung Army could not turn the world in one fell swoop with its own strength, the military headquarters would not mind cleaning up the mess for them at all. Facing the Chinese army that was swearing to persevere in the Beidaying, Honjo Shin felt extremely bitter.

Hon Zhuang Qian looked at Duomen Erlang who was standing aside and said hesitating: "Domen Jun! It's too late to transport shells from Lushun. No matter what, please capture Beidaying before dawn. The Manchurian Iron Independent Garage Team belonging to Lieutenant General Senlian has boarded the train and started to attack along Andong, Benxi, Gaiping, Anshan, Fengtian, Tianzhuangtai, Changchun, Fushun, Haicheng, Liaoyang, Tieling, Changtu, Gongzhuling, and Kuanchengzi. Before sunset tomorrow night, cooperate with left-behind troops from all over the country to arm soldiers in the village and complete the occupation."

After listening to Honjo Shin's order, Tamen Erro took a deep breath and said, "Commander, the Chinese army in Beidaying has not yet been eliminated and occupied. If the troops are rashly divided into different places, once the Chinese army attacks them, our army will be divided and surrounded, or even annihilated!"

Honjo Shin shook his head and said, "Domen Lord! What we need now is a kind of momentum? A kind of momentum. Since the military headquarters is not determined, we will help them. Either watch our Kwantung Army complete the great achievements in seizing the Manchu and Mongolian lifeline, or just sit back and see our Kwantung Army break up as the whole empire! The domestic economy of the empire has reached the verge of collapse. We eat white rice in Manchuria, while our family eat black beans and mixed rice in Japan. This is a shame for our imperial soldiers. Faced with the Manchu and Mongolian lifeline that is related to the life and death of the empire, we have no reason to sit back and see, either achieve great achievements or sacrifice our lives for His Majesty the Emperor!"

Honjo Shin's words were like a heart-boosting agent, which ignited the fighting spirit in the hearts of everyone in the car! Everyone stood attentively with excitement and raised their hands and shouted three times: Long live His Majesty Emperor! Long live His Majesty Emperor! Long live His Majesty Emperor!

"Hi!" Tamen Jiro put on a military cap with shame, half a week looked around and saluted everyone in the carriage. Except for Honjo Shinobu nodding to his surprise, the rest of the people hurriedly saluted.

Just as Domen Erlang left the carriage, suddenly, there were fierce guns and cannons in the southeast of Beidaying. The flashes of constant explosions made Domen Erlang stagger and fall on the railway base. With the help of the adjutant beside him, Domen Erlang hurriedly stood up with pain.

Honjo Shizuo and others who heard the fierce fire exchange also left the armored carriage. The Japanese military police captain who was responsible for the warning hurriedly extended the first and second cordon lines outwards for 300 meters. The fierce fire exchange in the southeast of Beidaying seemed to be increasing. The staff in the carriage were desperately shaking the front-line phone number.

Soon, the frontier reported that a Chinese army suddenly launched an attack on the Amano Brigade Command, which deployed a squadron to guard forces, without any warning. It broke the Fujita Squadron's blockade in more than ten minutes, and broke through a gap from the Amano Brigade Command. The Tengtian Squadron and the Amano Brigade Command were both severely damaged.

Faced with the strange actions of the enemy in Beidaying, the Japanese generals and staff present looked at each other, clearly leaving a way out for him on the south side, but the other side insisted on striking the key parts of their own defense. Major General Amano, who was eager to make contributions, actually set up the brigade command at the forefront?

What is even more surprising is that the Chinese army left in just over ten minutes from launching an attack to making a breakthrough, which means that the Chinese army only launched a surprise attack, a tactical implementation that is as exquisite as tactical textbook cases. The entire breakthrough operation is no shorter than seconds, and it can also give the enemy the greatest damage. None of the Japanese generals, including Domen, asked whether they would pursue this Chinese army?

Faced with such a strong combat power, equipped with a large number of automatic weapons, and commanders with extremely high tactical qualities, pursuit can only bring greater casualties.

"All the Chinese troops in Beidaying have broken through!" Major General Miji, who was wearing a staff belt, suddenly asked this question.

The captain and staff officer who came to report nodded and said, "Yes, your Excellency, the Chinese army gave up the defending ring position and retreated!"

"Oh!" The Japanese generals present almost breathed a long sigh in unison. The Chinese army that was so breathless that the Chinese army finally retreated. If they could not take over the Beidaying tomorrow and things would change for a long time, then everything would be possible to develop towards the worst.

Honjo Shizuki knew that even the opinions of the military headquarters and the General Staff were not unified on the Manchu-Mongolia issue, let alone those politicians. If it weren’t for the attitudes of the important officials and governments of Nanjing, Beijing, China, Honjo Shizuki might not have made up such a determination to participate fully. As a result, a small accident almost caused a huge disaster that almost caused the Kanto Army to be in crisis.

Looking at the constant gunfire coming from the Beida Camp farther and farther away, Zhang Xuewu knew that it was the Japanese vanguard who was tentatively searching for the circular position. The route that the Japanese deliberately left in the south was very consistent with the Japanese's usual combat method of circumventing three and one. Once he retreated from there, the Japanese army would definitely follow the attack with heavy troops, and his retreat would probably turn into a collapse, or even flee! The Japanese used the clever changes in people's mentality after tense battles and survival. The mentality of fighting hard before on the battlefield would change quietly with the order of retreat. Who would be willing to die if he could survive?

In history, this tactic has made the Japanese achieve great success in the large-scale corps operations in the Chinese war zone. Many times, the Chinese army is defeated by the word "retreat".
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