Chapter Thirty-Five Schemes

  A Wolf stared at the Japanese army as they retreated like a tide, he heavily pounded his fist on the ground. After this brutal battle, facing the Japanese army's crazy attack with superior forces, his own army was left with less than three hundred people, sacrificing nearly half! These men were the elite of the anti-Japanese military team!

  "Continue to lie in ambush!" Ah Lang reluctantly ordered.

  Hirata Yoshihiro called Honjō Shigeru again and reported the situation here to the commander.

  "Bastard!" Ben Zhuang Fan cursed: "Now there are only 7,000 people and horses left! Our army of 10,000 has almost been eaten away by the enemy by one-third! And lost all the big guns! Bah! Bah!"

  "Hey! Hey!" Hirata Yukihiko explained helplessly: "The enemy's ammunition is too abundant! Our equipment can't compare to theirs!"

  "Good! Very good!" Benjō Manabu also got angry, "Tomorrow morning, General Hayashi Tadataka's 39th Mixed Brigade will arrive, and he will go to support you then!"

  Honzō Motoki hung up the phone, and Hirata Yukihiro reluctantly ordered his soldiers to disperse and rest while strengthening their guard.

  Honjō Isamu slammed down the phone and immediately ordered Itagaki Seishirō: "Order all troops to retreat to the Nanmen line!"

  "Your Excellency!" Itō Hirobumi wondered: "Didn't we lay in wait outside the other three city gates?"

  "Hmph!" Ben Zhuang said coldly, "With so many cannons, planes, and tanks inside Fengtian City, do you think they can escape?" Ben Zhuang took a sip of tea and then sighed, "If we open up a gap to let them escape, wouldn't it be easy for us to take Fengtian?"

  "But! Commander! Do you know the principle of 'raising a tiger and inviting calamity'?" Itō Seiichirō immediately reminded.

  " Bah!" Ben Zhuang Fan angrily said: "Nanjiro Taishin has already set a deadline for us to take down Fengtian, now we not only suffer losses but also have doubts about whether we can take down Fengtian, why don't we think of ways to lure them out of Fengtian first and then plot against them?"

  "Ah! Commander, you are wise!" Itō Seiichirō immediately stood at attention and bowed.

  "Besides! Wait until we take down Mukden and shut the stinking mouths of those anti-war politicians at home, then we'll slowly clean up these bandits!"

  "Hi!"

  Zhao Xiaofeng now understood everything. Sakura's obedience was just a ploy to get close to him and assassinate him - was she an assassin?

  "No!" Zhao Xiao Feng understood that this Sakura was completely powerless, because her scissors had not stabbed into his vital parts, and the wound was not very deep.

  "What are you doing!" Zhao Xiaofeng shouted as he stood up.

  "Ah!" Sakura cried out in surprise, even dropping her scissors. She couldn't believe that her scissors hadn't killed the demon after all.

  "Hmph!" Zhao Xiao Feng covered the wound that was still bleeding, hastily put on his pants and rushed out the door, he didn't want to bleed to death.

  "Huang Baoshan! Huang Baoshan!" Zhao Xiaofeng called out the driver's name.

  "Arrived!" Huang Baoshan suddenly appeared out of nowhere, "Ah! Commander! What's wrong with you?"

  "Hurt by the Japanese!" Zhao Xiao Feng said casually.

  "Ah! The Japanese have come in?" Huang Baoshan exclaimed and immediately looked around.

  "Go to the hospital quickly!" Zhao Xiaofeng roared.

  "Yes!" Huang Baoshan immediately started the car quickly and sent Zhao Xiaofeng to the Fengtian Military Hospital. What Zhao Xiaofeng did not expect was that the doctor who received him was actually Ma Xiaoling.

  "How did you get hurt?" Ma Xiaoling looked at this strange wound and asked coldly.

  "Wounded by the Japanese!" Seeing the commander didn't speak, Huang Baoshan immediately replied.

  "Haha!" Ma Xiaoling said disdainfully: "Fighting with Japanese people with bare arms and scissors!"

  Zhao Xiaofeng happened to see Ma Xiaoling's disdainful gaze and immediately explained: "I!......"

  "Alright! I don't need your explanation!" Ma Xiaoling immediately bandaged him and said, "There are many wounded now, Commander should go back first!"

  "Wait!" Zhao Xiaofeng suddenly remembered he should tell Ma Xiaoling about Hong Shan's situation.

  But Ma Xiaoling just turned her head and smiled slightly at him, then immediately turned around and left.

  Zhao Xiaofeng had already seen through it, Ma Xiaoling's smile was not sincere at all, but just a skin-deep smile that slightly curled up the corners of her mouth.

  "Cough!" Zhao Xiao Feng immediately grabbed a piece of clothing and said: "Let's go! We're going straight to the temporary military department!"

  "Commander! The sky is about to brighten up, and the gunfire from the south city wall has been quiet for a whole night. Aren't you going to take a look?" Huang Baoshan asked.

  "It's all right!" Zhao Xiao Feng sighed and said: "Ah Lang won't let me down! It's just that I don't know what's going on with Hong Shan over there!"

  The temporary military department of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Army was actually in the Daqing Building of Shao's Mansion. After entering the house, Huang Xiansheng immediately reported to Zhao Xiaofeng about what happened that night.

  "Good!" Zhao Xiaofeng smiled and said, "It seems that Hirata's reinforcements are about to arrive! Immediately order all troops to enter a state of full combat readiness!"

  "Yes!" Zhao Zhenfan said: "Last night, Chongqing and the Communist Party both sent several telegrams. Also, on September 21st, more than 3,000 students from Northeast China who fled to Beiping established the Northeast Student Anti-Japanese Society and organized a dare-to-die corps, determined to fight against the Japanese bandits. Now they have set out and are preparing to come to Fengtian to join the commander!"

  "Good!" Zhao Xiaofeng said: "As long as the people of the country are willing to resist Japan, Chiang Kai-shek and Zhang Xueliang will not dare to disobey!"

  "Commander!" Zhao Zhenfan said: "There has been no news from Hongshan for a long time. Should we send a telegram to ask?"

  "No way!" Zhao Xiao Feng said resolutely: "Absolutely do not reveal any information about Hongshan, they are likely still in the tiger's den now. Now it is definitely inconvenient for them to send us telegrams, but some of our combat messages are not confidential, you can send a few times appropriately, I think they will definitely receive them!"

  "Yes!" Zhao Zhenfan continued, "There is already a clue that proves the Japanese army on the Korean side will arrive tomorrow morning, and all the Japanese troops in Northeast China now have signs of moving towards us to Fengtian! Commander! What should we do now?"

  "What? The entire Northeast garrison of Japan is gathering towards Shenyang?" Zhao Xiaofeng exclaimed.

  "Yes, about twenty-seven thousand people! Not including the five thousand cavalrymen who rushed over from the Korean battlefield!" Zhao Zhenfan sighed.

  "Hold on!" Huang Xian shouted: "The Japanese are now starting to transfer all the soldiers outside the city gate to the vicinity of the South Gate, it seems they want to fight us to the death!"

  "A fight to the death?" Zhao Xiao Feng repeated, then asked: "How many people do we have now?"

  "After two days of fighting, our elite troops have lost nearly 2,000 out of over 4,000. Even with the recent recruits and those who just defected to us, we now have only about 4,000 seasoned soldiers and more than 3,000 new and weak wounded soldiers in Fengtian City!" Zhao Zhenfan said.

  "How many more civilians are left in the city?" Zhao Xiao Feng asked with a sigh.

  Huang Xiansheng immediately said: "I have already made statistics, since September 18th, a large number of civilians leave the city every day. Now there are only more than 30,000 people left in Fengtian, and many of them are old, weak, sick and disabled."

  "Cough!" Zhao Xiao Feng sighed deeply and said: "Now we have no reinforcements, can only fight alone! Right!" Zhao Xiao Feng continued to ask: "Isn't there still a lot of planes in Fengtian? What kind of planes are they?"

  "All that's left are some transport planes and passenger planes! Does the commander want to convert them into fighter jets? We don't have the capability for that!" Huang Xiansheng said with a helpless smile.

  "No!" Zhao Xiao Feng immediately stood up and said: "Fortunately, our pilots are very abundant. Immediately order them to transfer the people in the city to the Shandong direction. This way, we can ensure the lives of the people and also move the planes away from Fengtian to avoid being occupied by the Japanese!"

  "Good idea!" Zhao Zhenfan immediately ordered a telegram to be sent to Zheng Shan, requiring him to fill all transport planes and passenger planes that could take off with civilians and fly them to the Shandong area within the pass.

  "In this way, about half of the old, weak, women and children in Fengtian City have been evacuated, and we can start a big battle! Zhao Xiao Feng smiled triumphantly: "We are outnumbered, so we will fight the Japanese in close combat!"

  "Good!" Zhao Zhenfan continued, "I think we should send all the old and weak soldiers, wounded soldiers, and the remaining civilians to nearby counties. This way, they can contact local anti-Japanese forces while ensuring their own safety, and also leave a spark for our Northeast Anti-Japanese Army!"

  "Haha! You little scamp speaks as if we're going to die!" Huang Xiansheng laughed.

  "No!" Zhao Xiaofeng stood up and said: "What Comrade Zhao said is correct, but who should be sent to lead them in establishing anti-Japanese organizations in various regions?"

  Zhao Xiaofeng's gaze swept across everyone present, and suddenly, a light bulb went off in his head. "I've got it!" Zhao Xiaofeng suddenly remembered the five people he had sent to recruit! These five were all big shots during the War of Resistance against Japan! If he sent them out, a large number of soldiers would definitely emerge under his command! But... Zhao Xiaofeng again felt a twinge of doubt. What if they became famous and no longer acknowledged him as their commander? After all, they had only just joined his Northeast Anti-Japanese Army.

  "Got it!" After a moment of contemplation, Zhao Xiaofeng immediately thought of a countermeasure. He immediately commanded: "Next, I will announce the appointment of officers for each unit after this breakout!"

  "Yes!" Everyone present stood up.

  "Huang Xiansheng!"

  "Agreed!"

  Zhao Xiaofeng ordered: "Appoint you as the commander of the Northeast Anti-Japanese Army's First Military District! Zhang Haitian as deputy commander, Zhao Zhenfan as chief of staff in charge of commanding the entire anti-Japanese armed forces of the First Military District! The headquarters is located in Qianshan, but the troops must be developed in Panshan, Tai'an, Haicheng, Liaoyang, Benxi, Liaozhong, and Yingkou!"

  "Yes!"

  "Han Zhang Chen!"

  "Agreed!"

  Zhao Xiaofeng ordered: "Appoint you as the commander of the 1st Division of the 1st Military District! Qi Yong as deputy division commander, Pu Ye as chief of staff, lead the troops to fight in the area around Jingpo Lake and other border areas between Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces."

  "Yes!"

  "Wang Guangyu!"

  "Agreed!"

  Zhao Xiaofeng ordered: "Appoint you as the commander of the 2nd Division of the 1st Military District! Jin Zhanguo as deputy division commander, Sun Yaozu as chief of staff, lead the troops to fight in the Jilin Dehui area."

  "Yes!"

  "Also!" Zhao Xiao Feng continued, "Send a telegram to Zhong Ba Tian of the Front Slope, ordering him to change his title to Commander of the Third Division of the First Military District! Hong Shan will be Deputy Commander and Ma Zi Dan will be Chief of Staff."

  "Yes!"

  "Alright!" Zhao Xiao Feng said: "I command each of you to lead three or four thousand civilians, five hundred veteran soldiers, and one hundred elite martial artists from the Lecture Hall that I have assigned to each of your divisions. Bring all weapons, ammunition, food, and set off immediately!"