Chapter 104: Destroying the Puppet Army (Part 1)
"What, what did you say? Wang Yizhe mobilized troops without authorization?" Zhang Xueliang couldn't believe his ears and asked with a look of astonishment.
"Come back to Marshal, it's true. The 620th Regiment and the 619th Regiment secretly left the Jinzhou station early this morning. If Marshal doesn't believe it, he can directly send a message to question Wang Yizhe." Rong Zhen answered Zhang Xueliang's eyes firmly.
"Rebellion, betray him, this ungrateful bastard Wang Yizhe, I have cultivated and used him so much in vain, he dares to betray me?" Zhang Xueliang's face was livid with anger and he gritted his teeth and said: "Send electricity to Wang Yizhe immediately, no, directly.
The 619th and 620th regiments sent electricity and ordered them to return to their original positions immediately. No one is allowed to mobilize any soldiers without my order. Anyone who violates the order will be subject to military law!"
"Yes!" Rong Zhen secretly rejoiced, followed the order and turned around to leave.
……………………The 620th Regiment did receive Marshal Zhang’s order, but the commander of the 620th Regiment, Colonel Wang Tiehan, who had long been dissatisfied with him for not resisting the order, sent it to the Marshal in front of Chief of Staff Zhao Zhenfan.
The message was torn into pieces.
Then, Resolute troops continued to advance.
As for the telegram sent to the 619th Regiment, Colonel Zhang Shixian, the commander of the 619th Regiment, did not receive it at all.
Because under normal circumstances, the radio stations of Du Li's 7th Brigade are only equipped to the regiment level.
In order to facilitate the communication between the Xinmin City garrison and the brigade headquarters, Wang Yizhe assigned the direct communication platoon of the 619th Regiment to Regiment Deputy Li Dajun.
Therefore, it was Li Dajun who was far away in Xinmin who received the order from Marshal Zhang.
After receiving the command from the Marshal, Li Dajun was a little confused. If the 619th Regiment was to be withdrawn to its original location, should it be withdrawn to Shenyang North Camp or to Xinmin City?
Confused, Li Dajun took the telegram to find Huang Xiansheng, director of the Provincial Police Department.
In any case, Huang Xiansheng has the rank of major general. Huang Xiansheng, the police chief of Liaoning Province (equivalent to the director of the Provincial Public Security Department in later generations), took the telegram and read it, and said to Li Dajun: "Deputy Commander Li, Marshal
The order is unknown, so you’d better ask your brigade commander and let your brigade commander’s order prevail. After all, it’s rare for someone to overstep his command like this.”
"Well, I think so too." Li Dajun nodded in agreement.
……………………Jinzhou, duli Seventh Brigade Headquarters.
Wang Yizhe had received the inquiry message from Li Dajun. After pondering for a moment, Wang Yizhe immediately called back and asked him to continue to stick to Xinmin. All decisions would be made after the arrival of Chief of Staff Zhao Zhenfan.
As soon as the communications soldier took the order and left, a middle-aged officer walked in.
Wang Yizhe saw clearly what was coming and could not help but smile and greet him: "You are here, Li Chong."
The person who came in was none other than Major General He Lichong, the commander of the 621st Regiment of the 7th Brigade and attached to the brigade.
"Sergeant, I have just received an order from the Marshal. From now on, I will temporarily take over the position of commander of Du Li's 7th Brigade. The Marshal orders you to return to Peiping immediately to report on your duties!" He Li rushed in and gave a military salute casually, saying in an indifferent tone.
"Okay, I understand." Wang Yizhe nodded calmly as if he had expected it.
This was also the reason why he did not send out the 621st Regiment, because in terms of military rank, He Lichong was a major general, one level higher than Chief of Staff Zhao Zhenfan.
If the 621st Regiment is really sent out, once the young marshal learns about it, he only needs a telegram to bring the troops back.
"I've prepared a car for the hostel, please." He Lichong waved his hand outside, and two soldiers walked in with guns.
Wang Yizhe stood up with a smile, straightened his military appearance, and walked out calmly.
……………………Shenyang, garrison brigade headquarters.
Zhang Xinghan rested for a few hours, and as soon as dawn broke, he ordered Gao Zhihang to immediately send aviation troops to Tongliao to bomb Zhang Haipeng's puppet troops.
At the same time, more than ten Stuka dive bombers were dispatched to attack the enemy in front of Sujiatun.
However, due to the advance preparations of the 2nd Division, the results of this air attack were not great.
In the field headquarters of the 2nd Division, given that our own troops were frequently subjected to unscrupulous air raids and bombings by the Shenyang Air Force.
The angry Domon Jiro called the chief of staff and ordered: "Immediately send a message to Commander Nanjiro and ask him to immediately send aviation troops to provide emergency air support. It is time to show off with the China Air Force."
……………… Dalian Lushun Japanese Kwantung Army Headquarters.
After receiving the telegram from Jiro Domon asking for help, Nanjiro immediately ordered all bombers and fighter jets of the Kwantung Army's air force to take off immediately, targeting Shenyang for a decisive battle with the Northeast Air Force in Shenyang.
After the first two air battles, the air force directly under the Kwantung Army now has more than 100 aircraft left, including more than 80 fighters and more than 30 bombers.
This time they all came out in droves, it seemed like an accident, but in fact it was inevitable.
With their Japanese arrogant and arrogant character, how could they be willing to let the Chinese Air Force occupy the air supremacy and fight hard in air raids and bombings every day?
In fact, if it hadn't been for the heavy rain last time, the former commander of the Kwantung Army's plan to mobilize all air power for a decisive battle with the Shenyang Air Force would have been implemented long ago.
Now after Nanjiro took over, although he knew that it would be difficult to win based on the quantity and quality of existing aircraft, in order to capture Shenyang, he completely wiped out the garrison brigade.
He still did not hesitate to take risks with a sense of luck, and he placed his hope on the rich flying experience of the Kwantung Army pilots.
Yaozhen believes that relying on flight experience can make up for the lack of fighter performance.
…………… In Tongliao Town, a cold current from the northwest surged over the Horqin Grassland in the early morning, causing the temperature in Tongliao to drop sharply.
It was heavy with dew in the morning, and my breath was obviously steamy.
Zhang Xinghua felt like he was hit by something, and subconsciously opened his eyes, only to see company commander Liu Zhenhu gesturing towards him not far away.
Zhang Xinghua crouched down quickly, holding a gun and running towards Liu Zhenhu quickly.
"Company commander, what's wrong?" Zhang Xinghua quickly came to Liu Zhenhu's side, squatted down and asked.
Liu Zhenhu reached out and pointed outside the wall. Zhang Xinghua quietly poked his head out and saw hundreds of puppet troops outside the town quietly approaching.
Looking at the black and approaching puppet troops, Zhang Xinghua couldn't help but take a deep breath of cold air, turned around and asked:
"Company commander, what should we do?"
"We don't have much ammunition. Let's move the puppet troops closer and then fight. Try to use the minimum consumption to knock out as many enemies as possible." Liu Zhenhu took a few deep breaths and tightened his grip on the submachine gun in his hand.
"Yeah." Zhang Xinghua nodded and clicked the bolt of the steel gun in his hand.
Outside the town, Zhang Haipeng, surrounded by several regiment leaders, was holding a telescope to observe the progress of the attacking troops.
"What are these grandsons from the Shenyang Garrison Brigade doing?" Zhang Haipeng couldn't help but wonder when he saw that the attacking troops were almost approaching the town, but no defenders were seen opening fire to stop them.
Just as he finished speaking, gunfire suddenly erupted in the silent town.
The puppet soldiers who were cautiously entering the town were immediately knocked down by more than a dozen.
The other conditions reacted by scattering in all directions, looking for bunkers to lie down and hide, and began to fire back.
For a time, Tongliao Town was once again shrouded in intensive gunfire and one after another explosions.
At the beginning, Liu Zhenhu and his men caused greater casualties to the puppet troops by virtue of their superior firepower. However, as ammunition continued to be consumed, the machine gunners had to slow down their firing speed to delay the consumption of bullets.
As a result, the blocking firepower was greatly reduced. With only sporadic firing from rifles, one can imagine how difficult it would be to suppress the numerous puppet troops.
Seeing that the puppet troops were advancing more and more and the situation was extremely critical, Liu Cuigang led more than 20 fighter jets and bombers to arrive in time.
More than 20 fighter planes immediately began to swoop, sweep, and bomb Zhang Haipeng's attacking troops.
Aerial bombs fell one after another, and a dense rain of aerial bombs poured down.
Hundreds of puppet troops who were desperately attacking were suddenly hit, blown to pieces, and some were cut off in the middle by extremely powerful machine gun shells.
The puppet army's attack collapsed, and the remaining puppet troops began to run around in a panic, turning the entire battlefield into a mess.
After Zhang Haipeng's attacking troops were defeated, Liu Cuigang directed his pilots to fly fighter planes to launch air strikes, sweeps, and bombings against Zhang Haipeng's cavalry brigade.
For a moment, the explosion outside Tongliao Town was deafening, and the smoke and fire were accompanied by the miserable howls of the puppet soldiers calling for help, and the frightened neighing of the war horses one after another, intertwined.
Looking down from the air, you can see frightened cavalry running everywhere. Some horses were so frightened that they even dragged their masters and ran wildly, dragging some puppet cavalry to death.
Zhang Haipeng and several regiment leaders only had to run for their lives alone to avoid the bombing. In the panic, they could not care about the life and death of their subordinates.
However, their nightmare was far from over, just as the air force fighter planes of the garrison brigade were about to return from their bombing raids due to range reasons.
After a long and overnight march, more than 20 Renault tanks and armored fighting vehicles from Li Zhenyuan's armored cavalry company arrived on the battlefield in time.
As for Sabli's cavalry regiment and armored company's cavalry, they had long been left far behind.
At this time, Zhang Haipeng's four cavalry regiments were in complete chaos. The battlefield was full of cavalrymen fleeing for their lives and horses scurrying everywhere.
Li Zhenyuan and dozens of armored soldiers did not bother to rest, and immediately drove tanks and armored vehicles to attack the chaotic puppet troops.
Vehicle-mounted machine guns and tank cannons opened fire one after another, and the puppet troops who could not evade them joined the horsemen one after another and were knocked down in small groups.
The tanks and armored vehicles opened fire while moving forward, so many wounded soldiers and horses of the puppet army were directly crushed into puddles of flesh and blood.
These puppet cavalry had seen such a battle before, and they were already frightened and fled in all directions. They only regretted that their parents had lost two legs and were unable to organize any resistance.
Chapter completed!