In the evening of that day, at the headquarters of the 2nd ** garrison brigade of the Fengtian North Japanese Army's South Manchuria Railway, the current garrison brigade captain Shimamoto Masaichi was making a phone call with a solemn expression.

Behind him, two Japanese ronin carrying samurai swords were waiting on thin ice. They were the two people who had been taught a lesson by Zhang Xinghua in Fengtian City during the day.

After being beaten, the two men immediately left Fengtian by train and came to the station of the Second Military Guard Brigade. They reported to Shimamoto Masaichi that they were beaten in public by the Japanese in Fengtian City.

After Shimamoto Shoichi learned about it, he knew that this very sensitive period was of great importance, and he could not make up his mind. He immediately asked Kanto who was urgently planning a detailed operational plan against the Northeastern Army, to be precise, against the Chinese defenders of Fengtian City and Peking University Camp.

The new senior chief of staff of the army, Seishiro Itagaki, and the director of the operations department, Kanji Ishihara, and others reported.

The call got through, and Shimamoto Shoichi reported the incident in detail to Ishihara Wanji, who answered the phone.

After Ishihara Wanji finished listening, there was silence on the other end of the phone for a while before a voice came.

However, the person speaking this time was not Kanji Ishihara, but Seishiro Itagaki. On the other end of the phone, in the Operations Department of the Japanese Kwantung Army Headquarters in Lushun, Seishiro Itagaki said in a serious tone: {Shimamoto-kun, listen, the current situation regarding China Fengtian and

The battle plan of Beida Camp is still being urgently formulated.

However, we are not fully prepared yet. Please don't worry about this matter for the time being. I will notify the diplomatic and consulates to let them test the pressure on the Chinese, so as to attract and distract the attention of the Chinese people and prepare for our next attack.

Provide effective cover and response. Do you understand?}

{Hai! I understand.} On the other end of the phone, Shimamoto Masaichi nodded quickly. After hanging up the phone, he turned around and said coldly to the two ronin with a dark face: {The superiors have handed over this matter to the consulate.

You can go down now.}

{Hai!} The two Japs bowed their heads at the same time, then turned around and left together.

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In the conference hall of the Japanese Army Kwantung Army Staff Headquarters in Lushun.

Itagaki Seishiro, who had just finished talking to Shimamoto Shoichi, put down the phone, his face became more fierce and gloomy, and smiled at Ishihara who was sitting in front of him: {Ishihara-kun, the Chinese soldiers are so arrogant that they dare to beat our Chinese citizens in the street. It’s really true.

This is extremely arrogant. I agree with the battle plan to launch an attack on the Northeastern Army the day after tomorrow.}

{Itagaki-kun, you don’t need to be angry. The day after tomorrow, we can punish those arrogant and despicable Chinese people and let them know that the consequences of offending our Imperial Japanese Army will be death.} Ishihara Kanji

Ting immediately stood up and said with a sneer.

In fact, Itagaki Seishiro, Ishihara Kanji and others had long been ambitious and secretly planning how to launch battlefields, stir up trouble, and provide opportunities and excuses for the Japanese army to invade Fengtian and even the entire Northeast.

It's just that they haven't made up their mind for a short period of time. After all, with their current military strength in the Northeast, they are at an absolute disadvantage, and rashly provoking a war would be extremely risky.

If nothing else, just say that near Fengtian City, they only have the 29th Infantry Regiment of the Second Division and a ** garrison. The 29th Infantry Regiment has about two to three thousand people, and Shimamoto Masaichi's ** garrison.

The brigade has only 600 people and consists of four squadrons.

In addition to the large number of military police stationed in the entire Fengtian City, the Beida Camp more than ten miles north of the city is stationed with at least 10,000 elite Northeastern troops.

The one closest to the 7th Brigade of the Northeastern Army of Beidaying was Shimamoto Masaichi's 2nd Guard Brigade. The disparity in strength was so great that a hasty war was full of unknown variables.

Moreover, if they want to attack, the Japanese army can only divide their troops into two groups to attack Fengtian City and Beidaying at the same time, because neither Itagaki Seishiro nor Ishihara Kanji are sure whether all the Japanese troops concentrated near Fengtian City can attack in the northeast.

Before the arrival of military reinforcements, the **7th Brigade of the Northeastern Army stationed in Beidaying was defeated.

Because he is the ace among the aces in the Northeastern Army. The elite troops of Zhang Xueliang's direct lineage are well-equipped and well-trained, and their combat power cannot be underestimated.

After all, once the Japanese army gathers more than 3,000 troops to attack Beida Camp, no matter whether the battle situation is stalemate, or the Japanese army pays a huge price to capture Beida Camp, will they still be able to conquer Beida Camp in one go before the reinforcements of the Northeast Army arrive, having suffered heavy losses?

We have already taken precautions, and the city has high walls and is built to serve as a heavenly city?

The answer is definitely no.

Therefore, Seishiro Itagaki, Kanji Ishihara and others decided during discussions that if they launched an attack, they would have to divide their forces into two groups and use the 29th Infantry Regiment with more troops and stronger combat power to launch a surprise attack on Fengtian City.

Capture Fengtian City with superior combat power.

Shimamoto Shoichi's Second Garrison Brigade was responsible for carrying out night attacks on Beida Camp. They did not seek to defeat the Northeastern Army in Beida Camp, but only wanted to contain them and buy time for the main force to capture Fengtian and for the arrival of reinforcements.

In this way, as long as the 29th Infantry Regiment captures Fengtian City in time and reinforcements arrive in time, it will be much easier to deal with the 7th Brigade of Beida Camp.

However, whether a mere 600 people could contain the tens of thousands of troops of the 7th Brigade was something Seishiro Itagaki and Kanji Ishihara were very worried about, so they were unable to make up their minds.

Zhang Xinghan's beating of two Japanese ronin in the street today just increased Itagaki Seishiro's determination to provoke a fight. Of course, even if Zhang Xinghan had not happened, Itagaki Seishiro and others would have made up their mind sooner or later. Maybe it would only be a day or a few days later than now.

Maybe an hour.

Because the history of the September 18th Incident broke out on September 18th, it is inevitable now.

What Zhang Xinghan did only played a slight role in promoting and guiding it, just like a pile of dry firewood that was about to burn when it reached the critical point. What Zhang Xinghan did only made it burn a little earlier.

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At the same time, the Beidaying Military Camp.

Zhang Xinghan separated from Wang Ruoying as early as the afternoon and returned to the military camp. After dinner, Zhang Xinghan took deputy battalion commander Liu Jianguo and several subordinates to the vegetable field outside their camp defense area.

Speaking of this vegetable patch, we have to mention General Wang Yizhe, the current commander of the 7th Brigade. Since the 7th Brigade was stationed in Peking University Camp, he has been trying to improve the troops' food and strive for self-sufficiency to reduce the financial burden on Shangfeng (Zhang Xueliang).

First, a military factory was opened. Soldiers with skills and learning ability were selected from the brigade officers and soldiers, and various factories for leather shoes, toothpaste powder, footwear and socks were established.

In addition to the goods produced by the factory for the personal use of the officers and soldiers of the 7th Brigade, the excess is also sold to some small traders in the form of wholesale, or by special personnel to the market in Fengtian City for sale. In this way, after half a year, all battalions of the officers and soldiers of the 7th Brigade have

Made money.

All the money was used for the officers and soldiers of the 7th Brigade themselves, or was added to the military salary and distributed to the officers and soldiers, or used to improve their food and living standards.

Later, Wang Yizhe mobilized the officers and soldiers of the entire brigade to reclaim all the gaps between the barracks of each battalion and company in Beida Camp, as well as the overgrown wasteland outside Beida Camp, and planted various fruits and vegetables to improve the food of the officers and soldiers.

Therefore, most of the open space outside Beida Camp and the main road outside the military camp gate has been reclaimed and utilized.

There are vegetable and fruit fields everywhere, and what Zhang Xinghan and his party came to was the cabbage field in their camp reclamation area.

After walking back and forth in the cabbage field a few times, Zhang Xinghan set his sights on the woods in the distance of the cabbage field. It was about seven or eight hundred meters away from the camp of Beidaying. Over there was the South Manchuria Railway, which was not far away.

The Japanese Second Army Garrison Brigade is stationed here.

If the Japanese army comes to attack, this forest will provide the Japanese army with excellent natural cover, which will help them quickly approach the 7th Brigade camp.

Seeing Zhang Xinghan staring at the woods ahead without saying a word for a long time, Deputy Battalion Commander Liu Jianguo asked doubtfully: {Battalion, is there anything wrong there?}

{Jianguo, you immediately summon all the engineers in our battalion, gather all the mines and weapons in our battalion, and bury a large number of mines densely in that forest and in our cabbage field. If there are not enough mines, use more.

Grenade instead.} Zhang Xinghan did not answer Liu Jianguo, but gave him instructions.

{Landmines laid? Why? Wouldn't it mean that our people wouldn't be able to get out? There are cooking teams picking the cabbage fields every day.} Liu Jianguo was even more confused.

{You don’t need to ask about this. You will naturally know when the time comes. Just do as you are told. I will go to the group headquarters to find a group seat.} Zhang Xinghan said calmly.

{Oh, okay.} Liu Jianguo nodded in agreement, and turned back to the camp with Zhang Xinghan.

Ten minutes later, the 620th Regiment was at the headquarters.

Wang Tiehan, the leader of the Zhang Xing Han Dynasty, paid a standard military salute and said: {Regiment leader, I wonder if I have disturbed your rest.}

{Haha, no, no, I am reading a book.} Seeing Zhang Xinghan being so serious, Wang Tiehan smiled and waved his hand and said: {Come on, sit down.}

Zhang Xinghan sat down as he was told, and Wang Tiehan asked: {Why, you came to see me for something?}

Zhang Xinghan sat upright, looked at Wang Tiehan intently, and said in a serious tone: {Master, Xinghan came to you late at night to tell you something important.}

{Oh? What's the matter?} Wang Tiehan put down the book in his hand and asked curiously.

{According to intelligence, the Japanese military Nanman Railway Security Guard stationed not far from our camp has been mobilized frequently recently, and its troop strength has increased. The military police in the streets and towns along the railway have also changed their defenses. In addition, Nanman Station (

Japanese businessmen near Shenyang Station also put on military uniforms.

I guess that the Japanese may want to provoke a war, and we have to guard against it.} Zhang Xinghan said the words he had prepared before, because he could not tell Wang Tiehan directly that the Japanese would attack him on September 18th, which is the day after tomorrow.

Shenyang and Beida camp launched attacks at the same time.

Therefore, we can only say that these are things that actually happened in history, in order to remind Wang Tiehan to consolidate his defense and increase his vigilance.

Although there are three regiments stationed in the Peking University Camp, it is obviously unrealistic for a lieutenant colonel and battalion commander in Zhang Xinghan District to ask the other two regiments to strengthen their vigilance and prepare for the battle.

Therefore, Zhang Xinghan could only place his hopes on Wang Tiehan's 620th Regiment, the only one that had resisted in the battle at Beidaying.

The total strength of the 620th Regiment is more than 3,000 people. Not counting its third battalion, there are still more than 2,000 people. If these two thousand people can be put into battle and stay with the third battalion to defend the Beida Camp, not only can they

It would not be a problem to hold on to Beida Camp and even wipe out a few hundred invading Japanese troops.

Only by first holding the Beida Camp and eliminating the Japanese 2nd garrison brigade, Zhang Xinghan could proceed with his next plan.

However, Wang Tiehan's answer made Zhang Xinghan somewhat unexpected. After Wang Tiehan listened to Zhang Xinghan's report, he was not surprised at all. Instead, he said very calmly: "Oh, I thought it was something important. I also understood what you said."

We got it and reported it to the brigade. After discussion, everyone agreed that this was a normal change of defense by the Japanese army and there was nothing to make a fuss about.
Chapter completed!