Li Bin would never let his soldiers make unnecessary sacrifices, he just used the Jinzhou street battle to tie down the enemy.

  When the main force began to withdraw, Li Bin started arranging: he ordered a part of the street block to be blown up, making the Japanese-held Jinzhou map become waste paper; some solid reinforced concrete buildings were transformed, windows were blocked, leaving only one shooting hole, thus becoming a fort; while those not very solid brick and earth structures, some were blown away, and some were left to be transformed into temporary firepower points.

  Many ordinary people have fled, and the houses have become uninhabited. The remaining houses were renovated by Li Bin, some of which were dismantled, with stones and bricks used to build fortifications.

  There were also some citizens who did not leave, and quietly helped Li Bin and others to renovate their houses. Since the devils are about to arrive, their homes will soon fall into the hands of robbers, so it's better to let the Righteous and Brave Army turn them into strongholds to strike against the devils.

  Many houses and buildings had holes knocked through their walls, allowing the defenders to move from one house to another without having to cross streets that were under enemy fire.

  Some of the wider streets were blown up and rubble was piled on the ground, Li Bin had people pile up the rubble to form a defensive fortification.

  Li Bin also ordered the few landmines they had to be laid out in various streets, which were produced by workers who escaped from Shenyang Arsenal. On one hand, time was pressing; on the other hand, a large number of landmines were consumed at Gouzhengzi and Daling River, so Li Bin did not have many landmines left.

  Li Bin, who was directing the warriors to set up city defense works, suddenly heard a familiar voice behind him. Li Bin turned his head and saw that it was Hong Biao, Jing Hu, Wu Congyu, Fang Juntian, Ma Linqiang and Huang Hua, as well as more than a dozen snipers and more than twenty special forces warriors standing behind him.

  "How did you come again?" Li Bin asked in surprise.

  "Big brother! If you don't leave, we won't leave either!" Hong Biao said resolutely. "We will never leave Jinzhou! We'll always be here!"

  "Where's your fleet?" Li Bin asked.

  "They're gone! I let them go, I have to stay and share life and death with Big Brother!" Hong Biao replied.

  Wu Congyu also said: "Commander, my elder brother has sacrificed himself. From now on, you are my elder brother! I must stay behind and fight with Elder Brother you! Huang Hua, Jin Hu and more than a dozen soldiers also volunteered to stay behind. The other soldiers have all retreated to Shanhai Pass according to your order."

  Fang Jun Tian said: "Big brother, please allow me to call you big brother! We have more than 20 comrades who stayed behind and fought side by side with you. The others have already retreated safely."

  "Alright, since you're staying, all actions must be under my command! Now, go help Xiao Bo and the others set up the city's defensive fortifications! Snipers, find your own suitable sniping spots! Let's move!" Li Bin gave the order.

  "Yes!" Everyone answered in unison loudly.

  Li Bin was carefully deploying troops within the city of Jinzhou, while on the other side, the Japanese used their naval fleet's heavy artillery, carrier-based aircraft and ground-based heavy artillery to unleash a massive firepower that completely destroyed a large part of the Da Linghe River position.

  Looking at the raging fire and thick smoke on the battlefield, Ishihara Kanji put down his binoculars and turned to say to Honjō Shigeru with a smile: "Commander, not even an old mouse can survive on the Chinese position now! Even if they hide in underground fortifications, our 41cm heavy artillery will still shake them to death!"

  Yes! What a concept is the 410mm heavy artillery? One shell weighs 1.5 tons, dropped from high altitude, and even the most solid fortifications are flattened. There's also the 365mm heavy artillery, 152mm heavy artillery, 140mm heavy artillery, and 127mm destroyer guns, a fleet bombarding for two hours, plus three aircraft carriers bombing intensively. If Li Bin hadn't ordered a timely retreat, I'm afraid the Righteous Brave Army on the front line would have lost more than three-quarters of its strength!

  After the warship's gunfire ceased, Japanese infantry on the riverbank began to advance forward. At the same time, transport ships loaded with the 8th Division also started lowering small boats and transporting troops in batches to the beach.

  Hordes of devils, carrying 38 rifles with bayonets attached, climbed up the fragmented and bombed-out position, only to find that this broken position was already empty!

  Ben Zhuang Fan was furious and scolded the naval reconnaissance plane pilots for being blind, but it's not their fault. Li Bin's position was originally designed in multiple layers, and during the retreat, they withdrew in batches in an orderly manner, leaving some people on the position to lure the enemy. When the Japanese reconnaissance plane arrived, the withdrawn personnel looked for places to hide, while the soldiers who stayed on the position pretended to be flustered and looked for cover everywhere. At the same time, some soldiers set off smoke bombs to interfere with the line of sight, thus confusing the Japanese reconnaissance plane.

  Ishihara Kanji stormed onto the lunar surface-like stage, furious and shouting: "Baka! The Navy is a bunch of good-for-nothings!"

  However, when Navy Commander-in-Chief Admiral Takijirō ōnishi heard of this, he flew into a rage against the Army: "Fools! How many Imperial Navy shells have been wasted on an empty position!"?

  Takashi Matsuoka was heartbroken for those shells! Just the 410mm shells alone fired nearly a thousand rounds! And then there were other various caliber shells, plus the aerial bombs dropped by planes, all of which were made of steel! Japan lacked resources and had to import steel from America; if every battle was fought like the Battle of Taierzhuang, how could Japan afford it?

  The naval and army forces were abusing each other behind their backs, but Navy Commander Takaaki Goto received an order from his superiors to immediately set sail for the south with his fleet, as a clash between Japanese monks and worker patrols suddenly broke out in Shanghai, resulting in the death of one Japanese at the hands of enraged Chinese workers.

  At that time, it was the nationwide anti-Japanese movement. The Japanese Consul General in Shanghai made four unreasonable demands to the Shanghai Municipal Government: apology, punishment, compensation and suppression of the anti-Japanese movement.

  History has a strong tendency to repeat itself. It seems that the 128 Incident is going to erupt after all! Li Bin is fundamentally unable to hold back the Japanese fleet!

  "Let the navy go south if they want to! Our biggest obstacle is the Dalinhe River fortifications, and now that's gone! From now on, it's up to our army!"

  "Hahaha!" Ishihara Kanji laughed loudly, "The Navy's expedition to the south is even better! At that time, we can also attribute the war in Shanghai to Li Bin and say that it was because of him that Japan had to make up its mind to use the fleet! In that case, even if Zhang Xueliang doesn't kill him, I think He Yingqin will!"

  The Japanese next step was to say they would launch an attack on Jinzhou City.

  After crossing the Daling River, the Japanese army divided into three routes and arrived outside Jinzhou City on January 19th in the afternoon.

  After nearly a day and night of preparation work, the Japanese army began to attack Jinzhou City from three directions at noon on January 20.

  In the headquarters of Li Bin in Jinzhou City, he sat calmly in front of his own hand-drawn street battle map of Jinzhou. The map was drawn with red, blue and black colored pencils to show various traffic routes, identifying fixed firepower points and the location of forward command posts. His headquarters and each basic command post were also connected by telephone lines, allowing him to calmly issue orders to each unit to block the enemy.

  But Wu Congyu and those snipers did not have fixed positions, on the map, there were only large circles drawn with a black pencil to outline the general activity areas of each sniper.

  Fixed firepower points are drawn with red pencil, temporary firepower points are drawn with blue pencil, and as the firepower point changes, it can be erased with a eraser at any time and redrawn.

  "Report, sir! The devils have formed an attacking formation and are about to attack the city!" a soldier came in to report.

  "Pass on my order, all troops enter the city, don't let the devils bombard us for nothing from the city head! We won't defend the city wall, but lure the devils into the city and annihilate them in a street fight! Let one battalion of reserve troops guard the southern gate position where there is no devil attack, to ensure our retreat route! The rest of the troops will take separate actions!" Li Bin gave the order.

  The devils launched an attack from three directions, and with a loud shout from the second lieutenant, hundreds of various artillery pieces poured dense shells onto the city head, and the rain of stars fell into the city head and exploded, setting off large and small fireballs on the city wall. The city tower collapsed in the bombardment, and the city gate was blown open with a big hole.

  After ten minutes of artillery bombardment, large numbers of Japanese troops began attacking Jinzhou City.

  "Strange, why didn't the Chinese open fire?" Seeing that his attacking troops did not encounter any obstruction, Ishiwara Kanji felt very strange.

  Suddenly, Ishihara Kanji seemed to think of something and shouted loudly: "Let each infantry regiment pay attention! The Chinese are very cunning! Don't fall into the trap set by the Chinese! Advance steadily step by step!"

  This time, the first to lead his troops into the city was Heitaro Hirata's 29th Infantry Brigade. His troops had suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Goubangzi and, in order to restore the "honor" of this "9/18 Hero Unit", Major General Hirata insisted on taking the opportunity to attack the city, so that his brigade could regain its former glory.

  The 29th Infantry Regiment, which originally had less than two thousand people, now has only about one thousand people after the Battle of Goubangzi and the recovery of the wounded.

  From 800 meters outside the city wall, they charged into the city and all the way to the east gate that had been blown up, without being subjected to any firepower.

  "The timid Chinese must have run away with their tails between their legs! Charge!" shouted Hirata Yukihiko excitedly.

  Those devils all let out bird sounds: ?

  "Charge into the city! Kill all the Japanese!"

  "Rush in! Go inside and find Flower Maiden!"

  Soon, this brigade, which was actually only one full-strength regiment, charged into the city. After entering the city gate, the Hirata Brigade still did not encounter any resistance.

  "Hahaha! That Ishihara Chūsa is also too timid! I suppose the Chinese have already fled! They don't have a solid defense line, what can they use to stop our brave warriors of the Great Japanese Empire?" Hirata Yukihiko burst out laughing.

  However, after advancing about 500 meters, the team felt that something was wrong: the street ahead had been completely transformed, with many brick and earth buildings knocked to the ground, blocking the way. The more solid stone buildings and reinforced concrete buildings also appeared to have been modified, with bricks blocking the doors and windows on the first floor.