In Fengtian, all the brigade and regiment-level officers of the 28th Division of the Beidaying were assembled here by Zhang Zuolin.

"Dashuai, let's fight! Taking advantage of the fact that Feng Delin's first brigade and second brigade had not yet been assembled, he first ate his Fengtian department, and then concentrated on eating the 30,000 veterans who went south. Li Jinglin said with some eagerness. Now that the form of Fengtian is basically clear, Feng Yong and Feng Delin mean to squeeze Zhang Zuolin out of the three eastern provinces with superior forces. However, none of the officers of the entire 27th Division, including Zhang Zuolin, were willing, and Fengtian Province was their foundation, and they had been operating in Fengtian for many years, and if they left here to develop in a strange place, their future could not be guaranteed. Then there is the collapse of Yuan Shikai's government, and Yuan Shikai himself is hanging his last breath in a Beijing hospital, and it is unknown how long he can live. The giants of the Beiyang government are still playing, the domestic situation is not obvious, and it will suffer a big loss if it rashly abandons Mukden.

Zhang Zuolin didn't understand the current situation in Fengtian, if the war started now, he would have a huge advantage, the 1st Brigade and 2nd Brigade of the 28th Division, which had just entered Fengtian, had not yet met the soldiers of Beizhen, and the 28th Division was equivalent to being divided into two parts, and its strength was not as good as the 27th Division assembled in Beidaying. But the attitude of the Japanese is not clear now, and Zhang Zuolin is afraid that he will be impulsive and make wedding dresses for others.

"Report to the commander! North Korea Secret News! "The herald rushed in quickly, this was Zhang Zuolin's order, as long as a telegram came from North Korea, no matter what time it was, it must be delivered to him as soon as possible.

Zhang Zuolin stood up nervously and took the telegram from the herald. When I opened it, I couldn't help but be overjoyed.

"Marshal, did the Japanese agree to our conditions and support us in going to war with the 28th Division?"

"Nope! However, the commander of Japan's Korean garrison has promised not to interfere in Mukden's internal affairs. In other words, whose hands Fengtian finally falls into depends on the means of us and Feng Delin. Zhang Zuolin breathed a sigh of relief in his heart. As long as the Japanese do not support Feng Delin, he Zhang Zuolin has the confidence to fight with Feng Delin.

The generals were also very excited. A great battle to determine the fate of Mukden Province is coming.

"Order Li Jinglin to lead the 1st Brigade and 2nd Brigade as the Southern Route Army, and immediately set off in formal gear to attack the headquarters of Feng Delin in Beizhen."

"Order Tang Yulin to lead the 3rd Brigade and the troops directly under the 27th Division to be the Northern Route Army, and snipe the 1st Brigade and 2nd Brigade of the 28th Division going south."

"Open the arsenal and equip it with weapons and ammunition."

…… As soon as the orders were issued, the behemoth of the 27th Division of Fengtian instantly moved, and the entire Fengtian City immediately became nervous. Although Zhang Zuolin had nothing to announce, there was no shortage of people in the Northeast who paid attention to Zhang Zuolin, and as soon as there was a change in Zhang's department, Feng Delin received the news.

North Town, where the 28th Division was stationed.

"It seems that Zhang Zuolin is determined to fight with us. That's fine. The two of us have been competing for power in Mukden for so many years, just to see if it is your top 27th or my 28th division. Feng Delin said with some excitement, after all, he is an iron-blooded soldier in his bones and is eager to fight.

"Pass my order and send a telegram to the troops going south, telling them to speed up their march, and at the same time expand the reconnaissance range of the scouts by ten miles to prevent a possible ambush by the 27th Division."

"Order all the troops and horses in Beizhen to mobilize, sort out their weapons, and distribute ammunition."

"Secretly ordered the security teams in various places to assemble and stand by, ready to dispatch at any time."

……………… Feng Delin has already smelled the smell of war, for the sake of safety, he moved all the Feng family to civilian areas, although Zhang Zuolin is a hero, but he will not do anything to Feng Delin's family, after all, the two families are still actually in-laws.

The warlords of this period were also rarely exterminated, and the two sides competed, and the losing side was electrified and left or annexed. Moreover, during the Beiyang government of the Republic of China, this situation slowly evolved into a common practice. At the height of the chaos of warlord warfare, warlords often went into the wilderness with power or were co-opted, or went abroad to escape the world. However, it made the press of that period really prosperous.

When Feng Yong received Feng Delin's telegram, he reluctantly gave up the plan he was working on to go west to Mongolia. Whether the 28th Division can beat the 27th Division, Feng Yong has no bottom in his heart. After all, the 27th Division is another time and space cattle fork for decades of Fengjun seed troops, and its combat effectiveness is definitely not bad. With the addition of Zhang Zuolin's command, Feng Yong couldn't imagine what combat effectiveness he would play. And Mukden is an indispensable part of his plan. For this reason, Feng Yong urgently ordered the main forces of the Southeast Military Region, the Southern Military Region, and the Southwest Military Region, totaling 60,000 people, to go south to enter Feng. Feng Yong was also ruthless, he wanted to unite Feng Delin's 70,000 troops and completely drive Zhang Zuolin out of Fengtian with the strength of 130,000 people.

"Ordered the establishment of the Southbound Corps, with Lin Hu as the corps commander and Yan Lei as the political commissar. The Supreme Command Five-Man Regiment was formed. The entire army was jointly commanded by Lin Hu, Yan Lei, Guo Shanhu, Zhen Zhen, and Qian Ding, and Lin Hu was responsible for the final decision. ”

The order was sent to all brigades, except for the Southwest Military Region, which was a little slower, the Southern Military Region and the Southeast Military Region immediately set off for Mukden, after all, they had already received Feng Yong's order and were ready to go south to support the 28th Division.

When Feng Yong mobilized his troops, the 1st Brigade and 2nd Brigade of the 27th Division had already begun to attack Beizhen.

The 27th Division concentrated three mountain artillery regiments and bombarded the not thick city walls of Beizhen. In the face of the strong firepower of the 27th Division, Feng Delin chose to temporarily avoid the front. There were no heavy troops on the walls. So after a round of artillery fire, Zhang Zuolin's troops easily took the outer city wall of Beizhen.

When the soldiers of the 27th Division rushed to the wall of Beizhen, the sound of dense mountain artillery suddenly sounded in the city. Also as a big force in Fengtian Province, Feng Delin has no reason not to have a mountain artillery regiment. It's just that his artillery positions were not arranged on the walls, but inside the city. Zhang's soldiers rushed up the Beizhen city wall and happened to be the target of the artillery of the 28th Division.

This artillery shot down, and the 27th Division lost hundreds of men. Reluctantly, he retreated. Li Jinglin was furious and ordered Zhang's artillery to extend, knocking the Beizhen city wall into a thousand holes, and the city wall collapsed in a large area. Revealing the dense fortifications inside.

It seems that Feng Delin has already prepared. The unsuspecting Zhang Bu suffered a small loss. Because of Japan's neutrality, the Japanese instructors in Feng Delin's unit had already taken off their military uniforms and entered civilian areas before the war, saying that they would not participate in the battle. Feng Delin also got a notice that the Japanese would not interfere in the battle, although he was helpless, but Zhang Zuolin had already called the door, and of course he couldn't count on the Japanese anymore.

Now Feng Yong's troops and the 1st and 2nd Brigades of the 28th Division are also heading south. As long as he holds on for two days, he can gain the strategic initiative, and at that time, the two sides will fight for strength.

Feng Delin's troops were trained by Japanese soldiers. I don't know what the Japanese are fighting, although the training of the 28th Division is extremely strict, but the people who participate in the training are all ordinary soldiers on active duty in Japan, not those military cadets who graduated from military academies. As if the Japanese did not want to spread more advanced tactics to the 28th Division. Therefore, in normal times, these Japanese soldiers rarely involve specific aspects of command, except for basic personal combat and discipline training.

Of course, it does not mean that without the Japanese 28th Division, there would be no war, and over the years, Feng Delin has also promoted a lot of talents, basically all of whom have studied in Japan or the West. With the rise of the Japanese after the Russo-Japanese War, more and more people in Japan choose to study in Japan, so there are many Japanese students studying in Japan. However, few people know that Chinese students are taught separately from Japanese students at Japanese non-commissioned officer schools, and the emergence of this situation has a lot to do with Jiang Baili, China's "flower of famous generals."

In 1901, Jiang Baili studied in Japan, and graduated from the Japanese non-commissioned officer school in 1906, when there were more than 300 Japanese graduates of the ninth infantry department, four Chinese students, and several students from Thailand and other countries. The Japanese non-commissioned officers generally felt unbearable on face, and who knew that the second place was announced next, it was still Chinese, and this second place was Cai Gong, the merry general who now raised troops from Yunnan to oppose Yuan. The commotion caused by this was even worse. So before announcing the third place, the Japanese side checked it first - unfortunately, this time the result is still Chinese! His name is Zhang Xiaohuai. The graduation officer of the Japanese non-commissioned officer school was Prince Fushiminomiya, and he felt that he couldn't explain to the emperor in panic, so he temporarily changed a Japanese student from the back as the third place, thinking that the top four Japanese were only half embarrassed, and a Japanese student was added as the fourth place, and Zhang Xiaohuai won the fifth. Since then, Japanese students and Chinese students have been taught separately in the Japanese non-commissioned officer schools. This also makes it difficult for Chinese students to learn the most advanced military knowledge in Japan.

The fortifications arranged by Feng Delin were basically simple works accumulated with sacks of earth, which looked sturdy, but could easily become a target for mortars.

Compared with the 28th Division trained by the Japanese, the 27th Division, which was mainly trained by the Germans, was more advanced in its combat methods. In particular, these attacking soldiers are veterans of the northern frontier, although they are not rich in experience in war, but their knowledge is also extraordinary, after all, the northern border is not as stable as imagined, and the territory of Tsarist Russia is not stable. Many of the regular Russian troops often disguised themselves as bandits and entered China to plunder. Therefore, the 1st and 2nd Brigades of the 27th Division basically have experience in fighting with the Russian army. In the face of a more rigid system, the 28th Division certainly had the upper hand.

Having collapsed the city wall, Li Jinglin ordered the 1st Brigade to launch a full-scale attack. Faced with the Mukden troops of the 28th Division, he did not think there was a need for a tentative attack. As long as the enemy's artillery is suppressed, with the equipment of the first brigade and elite soldiers, it will definitely be able to put strong pressure on the 28th Division of Beizhen, and then under this pressure, the 28th Division will gradually show its flaws.

Li Jinglin likes to kill with one blow when he fights. Unlike generals who like to wait for opportunities, he likes to create opportunities, and even if he loses some troops while creating them, he thinks it is cost-effective.

After all, he is a veteran who sticks to the border of Heilongjiang, and his combat effectiveness is extremely strong, and the soldiers cannot be said to be fearless of death, but under the order of the commander, they are also in a straggler formation, quickly approaching the city wall of Beizhen. All suspicious locations were solved with grenades. Although Zhang Zuolin has not yet built his own arsenal, the 27th Division has hoarded a lot of military supplies over the years, and of course there are a lot of grenades that are extremely lethal in individual combat. This time, Zhang Zuolin also worked hard, and took it all out to equip the troops. Anyway, if you can't win, you will be squeezed out of the three eastern provinces.

"Order the artillery to advance five hundred meters and look for the enemy's artillery positions!" In a modern battlefield where aircraft have not yet entered the war, whoever destroys the enemy's artillery positions first will gain the initiative in the war. The 28th Division's artillery firing just now had already leaked its own artillery position. If the artillery regiment of the 27th Division advanced by 500 meters, it would be possible to bring the enemy's artillery positions into the fire coverage.

This charge caused great pressure on Feng Delin's front line, especially the fire support of an artillery regiment of the enemy, so that Feng's regiment on the front line was always nested in the artillery position, and the casualties were extremely heavy.

The headquarters of the 28th Division in the rear of Beizhen.

"It's the twelfth regiment, how many people are there in your department, what, there are less than a thousand people. How did you fight, the regiment of more than 3,000 people was only a third of it in less than an hour. What the! Enemy firepower is strong! How your position was built. I didn't mean to dig a trench! Damn it! Be sure to repel this enemy attack! Feng Delin hung up the phone angrily.

"Order the artillery to open fire, delay the enemy's attack, order the Twelfth Regiment to retreat to the second line of defense and join the battle sequence of the Tenth Regiment." Feng Deli looked gloomy, he didn't expect the 27th Division to attack so sharply, and he was reimbursed for a regiment in just one hour. You must know that in Beizhen, Feng Delin only has twelve regiments and a regiment-sized guard in his hands. At this rate, it would have been impossible for his men to hold out for two days.

"Handsome! Otherwise, let's give up Beizhen and avoid the edge for the time being. Wang Jigang, chief of staff of the 28th Division, suggested in a low voice.

"Give up Northtown! Absolutely not, Zhang Zuolin wants to completely wipe us out, no matter how we escape, they will not relax in the slightest, and now the battle has just begun, and it is not yet known who will kill the deer! "Feng Delin has a tough personality, he has never seen any danger, and of course he will not be deterred by the defeat in front of him.

"But it's too bad for us to fight hard like this! After all, we only have twelve regiments left. ”

Feng Delin nodded and said, "Ji Gang, you personally go to the artillery regiment to take charge, remember, after the Twelfth Regiment withdraws, order the artillery regiment to move immediately, and you must not let the enemy lock on." The enemy initially used at least three artillery regiments, but now only one artillery regiment is firing, indicating that two artillery regiments are moving. If our artillery positions do not move, it is easy for the enemy to lock on and be destroyed. Without artillery, we'd lose most of us! ”

"Yes! Mission completion guaranteed! Wang Jigang went in a hurry. Feng Delin looked at the map in front of him, his eyes constantly moving on the border between Mukden and Jilin.

"I don't know where the first brigade and the second brigade have gone! Will they still be able to make it here! "A veteran like Feng Delin can basically judge the size of the enemy just by listening to the sound of gunfire. The 27th Division on the opposite side attacked sharply and was experienced, and at first glance it looked like a veteran soldier from the north. And through the binoculars, I can also see that the enemy is only 50,000 people at most, so there is no need to guess where the remaining 30,000 people went. It must have been sniping the 1st and 2nd Brigades of the 28th Division heading south.

(To be continued)