Regarding Major General Watanabe's more reasonable analysis and suggestions, although Lieutenant General Washitsu thought that his analysis and judgment were reasonable, he was unusually hesitant when he made up his mind. This is undoubtedly a very difficult choice for him.

Although Lieutenant General Washizu did not want to die in the North Ticket, it was an impossible choice to give up the North Ticket. The order of Admiral Umezu Mijiro, where is there. But he didn't want to, and he couldn't leave Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama in Chaoyang City, so he didn't care. That's a lieutenant general, not a lieutenant general.

But the current situation is that you want to have both, and you are likely to face both. But if he finally decided to give up on that one for the time being, it would undoubtedly be a difficult choice for him. But in his heart, he also thought that Major General Watanabe's judgment was at least partially quite accurate. For his chief of staff, Washizu is still very satisfied.

It's just that I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm afraid of what if, if the enemy army is frustrated under the North Ticket Castle and attacks Chaoyang with all his might, then what should Shizuo Yokoyama do? It's okay to mobilize reinforcements, but the enemy is not stupid, so they just stay outside Beipiao City and wait for reinforcements to arrive. Although the straight-line distance from Beipiao to Chaoyang is close, the hilly terrain between the two places, coupled with several tributaries of the Daling River, is not conducive to a rapid breakthrough.

Leaving a lieutenant general and a division headquarters under the encirclement of the enemy army in this way undoubtedly made it difficult for Washizu to accept. Although the enemy in front of him was only the strength of a regiment, who could guarantee that no new enemy forces would be rushed out of the Nurul Tiger Mountain?

As for Lieutenant General Washizu's concerns, Major General Watanabe was not too concerned, because he never believed that the enemy still had mobile forces in his hands. In the opinion of Major General Watanabe, even if the troops invested by the Eighth Division on the Jianping battlefield were defeated, judging from the strength of the Eighth Division, the enemy would certainly suffer heavy losses. At least in a short period of time, it is simply impossible to have the strength to go south to reinforce the Chaoyang battlefield.

Of course, if Lieutenant General Washizu was really not at ease, Major General Watanabe felt that he could use the two armored trains currently deployed by the Kwantung Army on the Jinzhou front line to forcibly rush to Chaoyang City. With the powerful firepower and defense power on the armored train, strengthen and cooperate with the defense of Chaoyang City.

At the same time, on the southern battlefield of Beipiao, as long as the connection between Beipiao and the Yixian railway line is opened, the armored train transferred by Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama from Chaoyang, and even the two infantry squadrons, can be completely returned to Zhao. In this way, the three armored trains are deployed on the Jincheng Railway, which can support each other and cooperate with the defensive operations on the Chaoyang battlefield.

At least along the railway line, you can break the enemy's encirclement of Chaoyang City. As long as Chaoyang can persist in the Beipiao battlefield to solve the enemy army in front of him, he can sit back and relax at that time. It really doesn't work, Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama can be withdrawn to the armored train to command. Even if the situation reaches the point of no return, it can cover Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama to retreat first.

Regarding Major General Watanabe's latest suggestion, Lieutenant General Washzu hesitated for a long time, but finally nodded and agreed. Because he knew that if the limited reinforcements that could be mobilized were assigned to two battlefields, he would only be defeated by each one in the face of an opponent with strong combat effectiveness. Rather than displeasing both sides at that time, it is better to concentrate one force to deal with one enemy first.

Although the strategic position of Beipiao City is not as good as Chaoyang City, Beipiao, as an important coal production area in western Liaoning, currently occupies a major position on the chessboard of the Kwantung Army. Although these coal mines have now been lost to the enemy army that suddenly appeared, as long as the county town of Beipiao is still in the hands of the Kwantung Army, then the enemy army will not be able to stand even if it occupies the various coal mines in Beipiao.

Although the temporary output will be affected, these coal mines are still in the hands of the Kwantung Army after all. Ensuring control of the Beipiao Coal Mine is the first to solve the apparent cause of the enemy forces around Beipiao. As for the other, other reasons for not being able to say it explicitly, there are many of them. At least one corps command is much more important than a division or regiment command. Whether it is internal or external factors, it is determined that the Beipiao battlefield must be given priority.

After making up his mind, Lieutenant General Washizu Leadhei, on the one hand, kept urging Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama to immediately withdraw all the troops on the Jianping battlefield. Especially at present, when the main forces of the enemy army are currently concentrated in the eastern mountainous area, and the number of enemy troops outside Jianping City is not large, the county town of Jianping is abandoned and the original defenders are immediately withdrawn.

Taking advantage of the overall situation that the main force of Ye Baishou's enemy army has now advanced to the battlefields of Chaoyang and Beipiao, and the defensive forces left by Ye Baishou are not much, he concentrated his forces to the south to recover Ye Baishou, so as to create a two-sided attack on the enemy of Chaoyang, so as to reduce the defensive pressure of Chaoyang City as much as possible.

At the same time, the Jinzhou garrison was ordered to immediately collect all the garrisons on the front line of Jinzhou, Xingcheng, Jinxi, and even Huludao, and immediately take a train to reinforce the Beipiao battlefield. The point is that the river crossing engineer wing, which has four squadrons, has been completely withdrawn. Open the arsenal in Jinzhou and fully arm this engineering wing.

His order to Jinzhou was to gather all the troops that could be used on the battlefield, including all the military police, the Japanese armed railway police force, and so on. As for the two armored trains stored in Jinzhou and Huludao before the troops were gathered, they were loaded onto the two railway squadrons in Jinzhou, and immediately went north to cooperate with the Beipiao battlefield to immediately open up the big board.

As for whether the river-crossing engineer wing, which is under the command of the Fourth Army at the moment, but in fact all transfers still require the authorization of the Kwantung Army Headquarters, and whether the river-crossing engineer wing, which he does not have this authorization to mobilize at the moment, can obey his orders, Lieutenant General Washzu Iupei is not worried.

Because he firmly believed in the loyalty of the Imperial soldiers to His Majesty the Emperor, and the determination to open up territory for the Empire. Of course, he didn't believe these words, but it should be no problem to coax those young officers who are full of meritorious deeds.

Moreover, at present, these forces belong to the formation of the Fourth Army, although they only have the right to manage and not to move. But after all, he is also their direct superior, and his own mobilization of them into the war is not considered to be disobeying orders and acting without authorization. Even those high-ranking military officers did not have much reason to object.

After giving a series of orders in succession, after hesitating for a moment, he sent a secret telegram to Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama alone, informing Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama of the entire battle situation and his own countermeasures. Let him defend Chaoyang City to the death, and don't leave Chaoyang City for a single step until reinforcements arrive.

As a military commander, he can give orders by force. Tell the junior brother of the Army Non-commissioned Officer School that I can't save you in a short period of time now, and now you can only find a way to save yourself. Whether or not reinforcements can arrive is up to you. But this seems a little inauthentic, and it will hurt each other's friendship.

Therefore, Lieutenant General Washitsu Leadpei, who had considered a lot and was also very comprehensive, in order not to hurt the feelings between the two people, finally wrote a secret telegram to Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama. On top of this secret message, Washizu explained his determination very clearly, hoping that Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama would be able to understand him.

Receiving this half-explanation, half-order, Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama could only shake his head. Except for giving the Jianping battlefield the troops participating in the battle, once again giving the order to retreat immediately at all costs, nothing was done.

Because now, in addition to the telegram, constantly urging the Jianping front-line troops to return to reinforcements immediately. He has been demoted from division commander to brigade commander in a straight line, and he has basically nothing to do. Unless he went up to the city to personally direct the defensive operation, he basically had nothing to do now.

All the troops in his hands have been dispatched, and now they are all trapped in various battlefields, and there is only such an infantry brigade by his side. All he could do now was to command this infantry brigade to defend the rising sun. Even in order to ensure the safety of Chaoyang City, he sent all the soldiers of the division and regiment headquarters to the city wall as long as they were panting.

Those who have guns take guns, and those who don't have guns give two grenades. In order to scrape together enough guns, this old man collected all the police weapons in the city and distributed them to his sappers and baggage soldiers. And use these forces to urgently build fortifications and barricades in Chaoyang City.

At present, in addition to this little force in Chaoyang City, there is actually no army to command Yokoyama Shizuo, the only thing he can do now is not to let the enemy army, he Lieutenant General Wastsu Leadhei does not know when to rush over, and before the so-called reinforcements arrive, he will bring his old nest to him.

It's no wonder that Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama was so nervous, and the reinforced regiment of the advance army outside the city did not attack the city with all its might. But outside the city, instead of digging tunnels, it is a posture of forcibly attacking the city. From time to time, he put a few cannons on the city, or set up a large number of light and heavy machine guns, and shot wildly at the defenders on the head of Chaoyang City.

Especially when he was about to set off, the two large-caliber machine guns that Li Mingfeng strengthened for him, plus the two double-23 anti-aircraft guns, were extremely powerful. The bullets fired from the top of the castle were within striking distance of the machine guns, and could easily pass through the thick bricks used to build the walls. If it weren't for the small number of reinforcements, I'm afraid there would be no people standing on the city.

For the Japanese troops defending the city, although the casualties caused by these weapons were not many, the psychological impact was huge. The city bricks on the head of the city are so thick that they can easily pass through, and they can be directly cut off by hitting people, and their power can be described as extremely amazing. Coupled with a higher rate of fire than the Japanese Type 92 heavy machine guns, the Japanese army had almost no means of defense against these two machine guns.

The greatest psychological trauma to the Japanese army was the oblique firing of the Double 23 anti-aircraft guns. Although there are not many of them, there are only one or two. But it is extremely fast and incredibly powerful. As soon as the fire was fired, as long as it was targeted, the defenders were basically beaten to pieces. Even hiding behind bricks is useless.

The tremendous power of the twin 23 anti-aircraft guns and the 14-mm and 12-mm anti-aircraft machine guns made Shizuo Yokoyama somewhat frightened. The bricks are useless, and what fortifications can protect against these weapons. If the enemy forces forced the siege of the city, the city would not be able to resist it at all.

Although the enemy army in front of him only opened up the position, it did not really attack the city. But this kind of situation between fighting and not fighting is the most nervous for the opponent. Although the overall situation is not favorable at the moment, Lieutenant General Shizuo Yokoyama does not want to be loyal to the empire now.

Although the brigade commander who advanced to the army did not know what psychological warfare was. And at this time, there is no such thing as psychological warfare. But the hand he made before he marched eastward, which was obviously a demonstrative intention, did make it quite difficult for Shizuo Yokoyama to sleep.

Even in this battle, although his troops never attacked the city. But after seeing the enormous power of these weapons with his own eyes, it had an indelible impact on the Japanese army lieutenant general for a lifetime. Until decades after the war, even though he had returned to his home in Fushan Prefecture. From time to time, his subordinates, who were torn to pieces by these weapons, woke up from the nightmare brought about by the tragic situation.