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Section 6 Northeast Wolf Smoke (2)

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    After several days of fighting, the Japanese army still suffered from increasing casualties, but Muto Nobuyoshi was extremely dissatisfied with the few results achieved.  "Your Excellency, Commander! The current war situation is at a stalemate. If our army can outflank Zhang Xueliang's retreat and cut off the Northeast Army's ammunition and food supply lines, then Zhang Xueliang's troops will be unstable and their will to fight will be greatly reduced. Then our army can completely capture Liaoyang.  ." At the meeting, Yotaro Watanabe, commander of the 8th Division, suggested.

    Muto Nobuyoshi, who was eager to break this stalemate, immediately agreed to Watanabe Yodotaro's plan to "attack by a bypass to capture Wanjiatun, the important town on the flank of Liaoyang."

    Wanjiatun, 20 kilometers west of Liaoyang, was originally a northeastern town that the 8th Division, a group of Japanese soldiers recruited from the Hirosaki area of ??Japan, never knew about. However, because it guarded the main transportation route to the rear of Liaoyang,  Therefore, the generals and soldiers of the 8th Division knew that this place must be trampled under their feet.

    Guarding this place is the 109th Division of the Northeast Army, composed mainly of Zhang Zongchang's Lu Army, which originally surrendered to Zhang Xueliang, with a total of 5 regiments of about 17,000 people.  However, the war in Liaoyang was tense the day before yesterday. Zhang Xueliang saw that Wanjiatun had been calm, so he transferred two of Zhang Zongchang's main regiments to participate in the defense of the city. At this time, Zhang Zongchang only had three regiments and some clerical guards.  At dawn on November 14, when Zhang Zongchang was still busy recovering the energy he had lost from being intimate with his 19th concubine, he was awakened by a bombardment by the Japanese army. The 8th Division assembled more than 10,000 infantry and cavalrymen, more than 30 artillery pieces, and tanks.  More than 10 vehicles and 4 aircraft launched a fierce attack on the defenders of the 109th Division in the town, vowing to capture them in one fell swoop.

    Zhang Zongchang, who understood that the Japs had arrived, quickly jumped out of bed and took the guard platoon to the battle to direct the battle. Most of the 109th Division were veterans who had fought with Zhang Zongchang for many years in the civil war. In addition, they were equipped with new equipment, and each one fought fiercely with their marksmanship.  Diao, relying on the solid fortifications built during this sufficient rest period, managed to hold on until nightfall under three times the enemy's attack.

    On the 15th, Major General Shinichiro Takeda, chief of staff of the 8th Division, ordered the troops to outflank and attack Wanjiatun in three directions. The numerically disadvantaged 109th Division gradually couldn't stand the shrinking. The anxious Zhang Zongchang led the guard platoon everywhere to supervise the battle and boost morale.  At this time, a group of Japanese troops rushed in from the dead grass in the west of the town. Zhang Zongchang and his guard platoon rushed up and fired a 29-type rocket launcher. All the large weeds outside the town were ignited, and the Japanese troops hiding inside were  Burnt to a pulp.

    The 109th Division fought hard until noon on the 15th. At this time, the situation in Wanjiatun was like a broken iron ball thrown into the water, leaking everywhere. Zhang Zongchang finally couldn't stand the beating and called Zhang Xueliang: "Young Marshal! Wanjiatun  There are more and more Japs! Our 109th Division can't hold on any longer. Without support, we can only hold on until nightfall! Please Marshal, for the sake of Lao Zhang and I have no qualms about fighting Japs, please save some of my subordinates to survive. Anyway,  I want to leave some seeds for the Lu Army back then, and I am also grateful to the young commander for his great kindness." Zhang Zongchang was a rough man, and his words for help were forceful, but there was an air of sadness in them.

    "If Liaoyang is the southern gate of Shenyang, then Wanjiatun and Xiaotun Town are the two windows." After learning about the Japanese 8th Division's roundabout attack on Fangjiatun, Yu Xuezhong pointed to the two places in Liaoyang on the map.  The two inconspicuous town boys on the side said to Zhang Xueliang, "If we miss one of the three points, our defense line will be over. Young Marshal, we must save Zhang Zongchang!"

    Originally, Zhang Xueliang was not very relieved about Zhang Zongchang. Most of the nearly 50,000 Lu troops under his command were dismantled, leaving only more than 10,000 in his hands. In order to prevent him from becoming restless again, Zhang Xueliang arranged for him to enter the military academy.  After studying hard for a while, the 109th Division's ammunition supply was only 60-70% of that of other troops (this is one of the reasons why the 109th Division did not last very long in Wanjiatun).  But the current situation has forced him to put away his wariness and contempt for Zhang Zongchang.  Zhang Xueliang immediately transferred a reinforcement regiment from the 102nd Division and deployed an artillery battalion. By the way, he also sent Wu Songlin's independent 5th Cavalry Brigade, which had been idle in the rear, to reinforce Zhang Zongchang like a spark.

    At this time, the situation in Wanjiatun was extremely bad. Zhang Zongchang's unit was divided into two by the Japanese army. Zhang Zongchang sent a guard platoon to escort the four or five concubines he brought to Wanjiatun and a pile of gold and silver.  Go north to Shenyang.  Zhang Zongchang, who had solved his worries, was squeezed into the center of the village with less than a thousand people by the Japanese army, which was several times larger than the Japanese army. The other more than 3,000 people in his unit were firmly blocked by the Japanese army on the outskirts of the village. The two groups were less than 500 meters apart.  However, they were separated by the Japanese army and could not support each other.  The Japanese army already knew from the lieutenant general uniform on Zhang Zongchang that he was a big fish. As long as they caught him or killed him, the Northeastern army resisting here would collapse.  Several Japanese tanks took turns squeezing Zhang Zongchang, forcing Zhang Zongchang into a small corner of the village where a bullet could penetrate.

    Seeing that the Japanese army had begun to approach, Zhang Zongchang hurriedly called Zhang Xueliang again: "Young Marshal! Have the reinforcements arrived?"

    Zhang ???Started to cross the river on a large scale.  The 105th Division in charge of the rear defense was ordered to rush for reinforcements. Division Commander Huang Xiansheng stood on a high wall, calmly commanding the battle regardless of the bullets whizzing around him. Suddenly, a shell exploded next to him. The guards with quick eyesight and quick hands suppressed Huang Xiansheng at the last moment.  The body was protected, and when they got up, everyone was shocked. They saw a piece of shrapnel the size of a palm hit Huang Xiansheng and was inserted into his chest, and he was bleeding profusely.  Deputy division commander Guan Yuheng ordered the guards to help the division commander down for rest and treatment. Huang Xiansheng flatly refused and said: "Tens of thousands of soldiers below are fighting bloody battles. As the division commander, I am supposed to be the first to take the lead. How can I get off the line of fire so easily?" He endured the severe pain and continued to command the troops to counterattack.  .  When the officers and soldiers of the 105th Division saw their division commander injured and stained with blood, his whole uniform still insisted on commanding the battle, they were inspired by the division commander's spirit. Their morale increased and they fought back against the Japanese army, firmly suppressing the Japanese army on the Liaohe River.

    Just when the two sides were fighting to the death, the buzz of aircraft appeared in the sky again. Eighteen fighter planes appeared in six squadrons in the sky. The Japanese troops on the ground waved their sun flags and shouted long live. Unexpectedly, the fleet of aircraft in the air circled several times.  Later, they fired violently at the Japanese positions and threw bombs. The panicked Japanese troops suddenly ran around in panic.  At this time, the Northeastern officers and soldiers discovered that what was sprayed on the wings of the aerial fighter planes was not the Japanese sun flag that had been common these days, but the black tomahawk logo of the Northeastern Army.  On Zhang Xueliang's order, Gao Zhihang, captain of the First Aviation Battalion of the Northeast Army Air Force, personally led his troops to participate in the war.  The appearance of our own air force made all Northeastern officers and soldiers cheer excitedly, and their morale was unprecedentedly high.  After dropping the bombs, the Northeastern Army aircraft group passed over the north bank defense zone at low altitude. All the fighter planes shook their wings lightly, and the pilots saluted together to pay tribute to the army officers and soldiers fighting bloody battles below.

    At this time, 24 Japanese fighter planes also appeared in the sky over Liaoyang at the same time.  The pilots of the Northeast Army were not afraid to fight against the enemy.  Fighters from both sides fought and strangled in the air from the clouds to the ground. For a while, bullets roared in the air and artillery shells flew across the sky.  After a moment of fierce fighting, captain Gao Zhihang took the lead in shooting down an enemy plane.  Seeing the Japanese plane plummeting into the sky dragging thick smoke, the Northeastern officers and soldiers cheered thunderously, and for a time, their morale was like a rainbow and they attacked the Japanese army.

    Dong Mingde, a 21-year-old Northeast Army pilot (a real historical figure), was accidentally hit on the tail by another Japanese plane that emerged from the clouds when he was clinging to an enemy plane. Seeing that the plane was about to lose balance and teeter,  Looking at the proudly smiling face of the Japanese pilot who flew next to him specifically to watch him crash, Dong Mingde did not follow Gao Zhihang's order to parachute but instead violently reversed the direction of the plane and collided with the Japanese plane.  It turned into a fireball and rolled down into the Japanese-controlled area on the south bank.

    Seeing this, Wang Tiehan, commander of the 620th Regiment of the 107th Division, raised his arms and shouted: "Brothers! Get our air force brothers back!" The enthusiastic officers and soldiers of the 620th Regiment shouted together: "Get our air force brothers back!" There were two thousand people in the regiment.  The rest of them rushed towards the other bank with great force. Seeing the ferocity of the attack, the Japanese army did not dare to block the way and allowed the 620th Regiment to rush to the south bank, just in time to hit Muto Nobuyoshi's command room. Immediately, all the senior Japanese generals were in chaos and hurriedly evacuated under the cover of the guards.  While Wang Tiehan sent a company to find the crash site of Dong Mingde, pry open the cabin door and drag out Dong Mingde's body, he also commanded the troops to fight fiercely with the Japanese troops who had woken up and gathered around them. At this time, a section of the 105th Division also crossed the river, and the Japanese troops  The structure of the high-level command post was suddenly disrupted, and the Japanese troops fighting on the front line suddenly lost their command. The Northeastern Army on the north bank seized the opportunity to suppress it and returned to the south bank. After a fierce battle until late at night, not only were all the Japanese troops driven back to the south bank, but the Northeastern Army also captured four  One-third of the Japanese-occupied area.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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