The battle for the attack on Changchun began in the early hours of the next day. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The battle was preceded by only ten minutes of artillery preparation...... The shells were mainly aimed at the outside of the city in order to blow up anti-tank mines and some roadblocks to clear the way for tanks and infantry to advance.

If you don't know where to go with this artillery fire, you don't know if the whole Changchun is a civilian house, and the enemy is still well hidden, if there is no Japanese shooting, you don't know whether the enemy or the people are hiding in the civilian houses...... It's impossible to blow up all the houses!

However, the expeditionary force still had to attack...... Changchun is a must-attack place for the expeditionary force, not only because Changchun is the capital of the puppet Manchukuo and the "royal paradise", and the occupation of it will give a heavy psychological blow to the Japanese and puppet armies who are trying to resist stubbornly, but also because if they skip the attack when they encounter this situation, then the next battle will not be able to fight...... It was not difficult to retreat into the city, the 39th Division in Changchun could do the same, and the Japanese troops in other cities could do the same.

So Zhang Chi decided that Changchun must not be bypassed.

Zhang Chi pinned his hopes on one point, that is, "three rounds and one ...... This tactic was commonly used by the Japanese army, and I remember that the Japanese army used it during the Battle of Tonggu in Burma, and its strategic idea was to leave a way for the enemy to retreat, so that the enemy would be divided, disintegrated and finally fall apart.

Under this strategic thinking, Zhang Chi placed the three regiments on the east, west, and south sides, and then the Sixth Army, which had caught up, was used as a reserve...... The north side was left empty for the Japanese and puppet troops to escape, to be exact, it should be left for all the people in Changchun City to escape, and the escape of the people was also what Zhang Chi wanted.

Zhang Chi stood on a "Sherman" tank, holding a telescope and looking at the open space north of Changchun from afar...... Perhaps because of the threat and control of the Japanese army, not a single person escaped.

So Zhang Chi could only nod helplessly to the staff officer next to him.

Under the order of Staff Officer Liang, a cannon shell soon whistled towards Changchun City, and then there was a chaotic "boom", which finally broke the silence of Changchun...... Soon there was a whistling and commotion in the city, and the occasional explosion could be heard, as if something had been detonated by a fire.

Zhang Chi's purpose was to put some pressure on the people in the city and the puppet army, so that they could choose between resistance and escape.

Zhang Chi believes that even if Changchun is built into a "royal paradise", a considerable number of the people and puppet soldiers in it are thinking about how to escape from Changchun...... After all, life is more important, if even life is gone, no matter how good the environment is, you can't enjoy it. On the other hand, those with vested interests who are pampered all day long do not have the courage to help the Japanese defend Changchun together.

The bigger factor why no one has escaped so far is that the Japanese army has kept them under control with bayonets and rifles.

Therefore, Zhang Chi wants to shoot a cannonball into the city...... This shell was not intended to blow up a certain target or kill many enemies, but to create a riot in the city so that the Japanese army could not effectively control the people.

Zhang Chicai did not believe that the 700,000 people of Changchun would stay in the room with the same heart as the Japanese army to the death, and obey the orders of the Japanese.

After waiting for a while, it seemed that the riot was not big enough, so Zhang Chi ordered another batch of shells to be fired.

This was a bit bigger, and several groups of civilians had already poured in from the north, but the Japanese machine guns knocked them down on the way to escape.

Seeing this, Zhang Chi simply gritted his teeth and squeezed out a few words from between his teeth: "Molotov cocktail!" ”

Staff Officer Liang couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and then responded: "Yes!" ”

With the roar of cannonballs, the city soon burst into flames, and the flickering screams also rose.

Then, with another wave of his hand, the expeditionary forces stationed in the east, south, and west rained down bullets and shells at the frontal target at the same time.

These bullets and shells didn't actually cause many casualties, because they were all targeting the nearest buildings, and they were actually trying to tell the people of the city and the puppet army...... There was no one to attack to the north, so it was a good way to escape.

At the same time, rows of tanks also covered groups of fighters heading towards Changchun City, and several fighters and bombers also "rumbled" over Changchun City, and from time to time they swooped down to strafe or drop a few bombs.

This is a demonstration.

Although the fact is that the expeditionary force is passive in the upcoming siege battle, on the surface, it seems that the tanks, planes, and artillery of the Chinese troops are pressing the Japanese army...... The common people did not understand military affairs, and they would only draw one conclusion from these intuitive phenomena: the Japanese had been defeated by the expeditionary force and were helpless, and there was only one way to die in the city.

As a result, the riot that Zhang Chi hoped for finally appeared...... First of all, there was a burst of gunfire in the city, and it was not necessary to guess that it was a riot in which the Japanese army tried to use bullets to force the people.

However, the firepower of the Japanese army is obviously a drop in the bucket compared to the firepower of the Chinese army, not to mention that many Japanese troops do not have enough ammunition...... The Japanese arsenal was on the front line of Shenyang, and the bullets were still transported to the south, and because there was no operational demand in the north of Shenyang, only a few ammunition were left for training and defense, and all the bullets saved were used for the "Operation No. 1" plan against the national army.

Therefore, the Japanese army in Changchun intended to save ammunition from the very beginning, and they were not willing to spend too much ammunition on meaningless civilians...... This made more and more people join the ranks of fleeing, and finally formed a crowd to the north, the Japanese puppet army could not stop it, and even some Japanese soldiers who were in the way were trampled to death and injured by the fleeing people, only to be so angry that the Japanese army was a burst of "wah-wow-wow-la-la".

Zhang Chi looked at the crowd in the north with satisfaction...... This strange Japanese army is too big, they want to trap all the people of Changchun in the room as their meat shield, but there is a saying called "the dog jumps over the wall"...... If the people find that they are dead anyway, they will burst out with unimaginable energy.

Of course, in the short term, these are not very helpful for the expeditionary force...... It is impossible to run away for their lives in this way, and there will still be a considerable number of people who do not even have the courage to gamble because they are afraid of the brutality of the Japanese army.

Unless it's a long-term siege...... Wear out the people's fear of the Japanese army little by little and finally make up their minds to escape from the city, even the puppet army may do this, and at the same time, this will also reduce the morale of the Japanese army in stages, so this is a good siege method.

But the reality in front of Zhang Chi is: Zhang Chi does not have so much time to grind slowly, he must capture Changchun as soon as possible, otherwise the Japanese army north of Changchun will have time to assemble and cause greater trouble to the expeditionary force.

(To be continued.) )