Chapter 81: The rain finally stopped
Shouting exciting and passionate slogans, six thousand recruits left the playground in batches, and one regiment headed to Sujiatun to replace Liu Guodong's regiment, which had suffered heavy losses.
A regiment rushed to the east gate to set up defenses along the west bank of the South Canal to prevent the Japanese army from sneaking across the South Canal again and launching a sneak attack.
One regiment went to the main position outside the south gate to serve as a reserve force.
At the same time, Zhang Xinghan transferred the second regiment that had been transferred from Sujiatun to the west of Shenyang to garrison.
Wang Yicai's third regiment held the second line of defense on the west bank of the Hun River, Liu Jianguo's first regiment and two battalions were stationed in Shenyang City, and the other battalion was all transferred to Beiling Airport.
When the garrison brigade finished all this, it was already broad daylight, and both sides were burying pots to make rice. From the Sujiatun forward position, both sides could even see the smoke rising from the rear of the other side's position.
The Japanese army, which believed they were sure of victory, did not rush to launch an attack, which gave the officers and soldiers of the 1st Recruitment Regiment stationed in Sujiatun a valuable buffering opportunity.
Zang Shiyi did not disappoint Zhang Xinghan. He equipped most of the officers and soldiers of the garrison brigade with basic personal items such as raincoats, and organized the people in the city to help the garrison brigade rush to repair the South Canal and the defensive positions in the west of Shenyang City.
Outside the headquarters compound in the city, Zhang Xinghan dragged his tired body out of the jeep. In a daze, he suddenly looked up and realized that something seemed to be missing.
"Travel seat, what's wrong?" Shen Xingye on the side stepped forward and asked with concern.
Zhang Xinghan stretched out his hands and looked up at the increasingly clear sky, and couldn't help laughing: "Haha, the rain has stopped, the rain has finally stopped, hahaha!"
"Shen Yizhi!" Zhang Xinghan suddenly stopped laughing wildly and shouted coldly.
"The humble duty is here!" Shen Yizhi hurriedly stood up and responded.
"Pass my order to the artillery battalion to immediately gather all the poison gas bombs in storage. If the Japanese army attacks again, they will immediately use poison gas bombs to stop them." Zhang Xinghan ordered coldly.
In the melee last night, although the artillery battalion lost a lot of equipment, especially the artillery company directly under the second regiment, which was completely wiped out, the officers and soldiers transferred by Zhang Xinghan to support the Sujiatun artillery battalion did not suffer much loss, and they escaped in time. .
For Zhang Xinghan, it doesn't matter if weapons and equipment are lost. As long as the people are still there, he can immediately replace all the lost equipment for them.
Not to mention that his watches can mass-produce weapons and ammunition, even the artillery stockpiled by Shenyang Arsenal is enough to equip several artillery battalions.
"Yes!" Shen Xingye accepted the order and was about to leave.
Zhang Xinghan waved his hand to stop him: "Also, notify Gao Zhihang and prepare for battle immediately. The Japanese army mistakenly believes that our air force has been wiped out. In the next battle, they will use all their strength to bomb and air attack our defensive positions. The air force can take advantage of the situation and attack, and they will definitely be able to Caught the Japanese army by surprise."
"Yes." Shen Xingye agreed loudly, turned around and took the order to leave.
September 30, eight o'clock in the morning.
As the supervisor and commander-in-chief of this operation, Seishiro Itagaki simultaneously issued orders to attack Sujiatun via telegram to the 6th, 2nd, and 20th Divisions in Liaoyang.
At the same time, he called Honjo Shige to dispatch dozens of bombers and fighter planes to Shenyang to assist the ground troops in the attack.
At 8:30, the enemy's 6th Division in front of Sujiatun gathered about a regiment of troops and launched another fierce attack on Sujiatun under the cover of artillery fire.
At the same time, the main force of the 2nd Division also began to cross the South Canal in the direction of Niujiatun, and the Second Regiment of the West Bank Garrison Brigade's new recruits fought back.
A brigade of the 20th Division was left in the direction of Sujiatun to assist the 6th Division in the attack.
Itagaki Seishiro relied on his own absolute air superiority and mastered the air superiority. He was determined to capture Sujiatun first and then encircle Shenyang.
He wanted to avenge his humiliation and defeat Zhang Xinghan, who had humiliated him step by step, from the front, completely defeat him, and completely conquer Shenyang, a city that had not dared to surrender.
Therefore, until Sujiatun was not captured and the South Canal defense line was not broken through, the 20th Division had to temporarily serve as a reserve force.
The first was the 6th Division, which suffered a lot last night, but the 6th Division's attack was quickly repelled.
It wasn't that the new recruits' regiment was more effective than Liu Guodong's regiment, but that the artillery battalion that came to help fired a large number of poison gas bombs at the attacking Japanese troops.
The entire battlefield was filled with poisonous gas, and the Japanese troops who were caught off guard suffered heavy losses. The first wave of attacks immediately failed.
An extremely angry Sakamoto Masaemon ordered the logistics department to distribute gas masks to the frontline combat troops, while urging the air force to come in for support.
At nine o'clock in the morning, an air raid group consisting of about 20 bombers and more than a dozen fighter jets flew over Sujiatun.
Immediately launched a frantic dive, strafing, and bombing attack on the Sujiatun garrison position.
The entire Sujiatun was soon plunged into a sea of flames, and the casualties of the soldiers increased greatly.
However, the Japanese bombers were not able to show off their power for long, as a harsh engine roar suddenly came from the northern suburbs of Shenyang.
The soldiers and civilians in Shenyang City looked up and saw brand-new fighter planes taking off one after another over the northern suburbs.
There were dozens of them, and then they flew toward Sujiatun in the southeast of the city, covering the sky and the sun, under the watchful eyes of hundreds of thousands of Shenyang soldiers and civilians.
"Captain, I feel great, this is a real fucking fighter plane!" Liu Cuigang, captain of the first high-altitude detachment, said very excitedly while flying a brand new BF109 fighter plane.
"Yes, it is very powerful and its flying speed is much faster than our Gao Longde." Gao Zhihang was also very excited.
"Okay, it's time to let the little devils have a taste of our power. Target Sujiatun and attack freely!"
"receive……"
"Received..." the wireless communicator sounded the responses of dozens of pilots.
"Whoosh...whoosh...whoosh..." Fighter planes flew over Shenyang one after another.
The maximum speed of BF109 is close to 700 kilometers per hour. For pilots such as Liu Cuigang and Gao Zhihang, it seemed that it only took the blink of an eye to take off from Beiling Airport to Sujiatun.
They discovered a group of Japanese aircraft that were bombing and strafing their own positions in Sujiatun unscrupulously.
Without any pause, under the leadership of Gao Zhihang and Liu Cuigang, dozens of pilots flew fighter planes towards the Japanese aircraft.
"Click, click, click..." The BF109s with dual aircraft and double cannons opened fire one after another, and the dense rain of bullets quickly knocked several Japanese aircraft that were caught off guard into the air and exploded.
The Japanese pilots were shocked, and they all tried their best to pull up and turn around to prepare to meet the enemy.
However, the BF109 is far superior to the Japanese aircraft at this time in terms of speed, firepower, and armor defense capabilities.
Moreover, Gao Zhihang and Liu Cuigang were caught off guard, so no fewer than five Japanese planes were directly shot down in just one encounter.
Other Japanese planes were also bitten by Northeastern Army fighters one after another. Due to their speed disadvantage, they could not escape at all. They were quickly hit one by one and fell from the sky with black smoke.
Chapter completed!