Chapter 513 Attack on the Kwantung Army

"What are the Vanguard doing here?" Lao Jiang couldn't help but be surprised when he received such news.

The vanguard's attack on Hangzhou was expected by everyone, but many people did not understand the move of attacking the puppet Manchurians. In the eyes of many people, the vanguard army has not yet driven away the devils in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, how can they attack the puppet Manchurians again? When the Huaxia dispatch army has not been cleaned up, it is a little unwise to provoke the Kwantung Army again. Breaking each one is king.

"Are they going to reclaim the Northeast?" Lao Jiang had some expectations and some loss in his heart.

After a long time, he asked, "How is the battle going in the north?" ”

He was more concerned about Jinzhou in the north than about Hangzhou.

"The ranks of the 35th Army have passed Chifeng." Bai Chongxi stared at the huge military map on the wall, and said while thinking about the calculation. In front of Lao Jiang, no one said that the vanguard army was called by the serial number of the Central Army.

"Chifeng?" Lao Jiang frowned, constantly pondering the intentions of the vanguard army.

"Don't stop the siege, keep moving forward. Each unit is outflanked in place according to its own goals! Fu Zuoyi's voice was calm and did not roar. Everything is almost the same as a normal exercise, and even easier than the confrontation during the exercise. Only at this time, on the side of the road where his armored command vehicle stopped, the body of a devil dragging his intestines that was interrupted by a large-caliber heavy machine gun, and patches of dark brown soil soaked in blood, indicated that war was on the horizon.

A -34/76 tank drove past them, and the traces of the 37 anti-tank shelling on the turret were particularly obvious, and the body was covered with many potholes, but this did not affect its movement in the slightest, only the left track was clearly newly repaired, which is why it fell behind.

Fu Zuoyi watched it leave, and without him asking, the staff officers next to him had already gotten some details of the battlefield from their mouths. And the convenient radio communication also made it easy for him to grasp the latest battle situation of the tank troops that rushed to the front line.

"Report to the commander, the county ahead is undefended!"

"Leave it alone that the county town there is undefended, leave a few people to organize the local people, and wait for the guerrillas to come and take over. Others move on. Tanks are for charging, not for siege. Continuing to move forward, the devils in front of him have no embankment. Before they could react, quickly burst through their fortifications. Fu Zuoyi said confidently. At first, he was a little puzzled when he received the order to charge at maximum speed, but when he later learned that behind the devil's defensive line was the 4th Division taking over the defense, he understood the intention of the order from above.

People are also aware of the glorious traditions of this Fourth Division, and they do not worry about putting them on the front line at all. After a trip to soy sauce after the Battle of Xuzhou, he transferred it back. Later, in the Japanese-Soviet War in Manchuria, they once again played a glorious tradition, belatedly overdue.

Because the Fourth Division not only has a glorious tradition, but they are also one of the oldest Class A divisions with deep backgrounds. This makes the base camp feel a headache, then they can't help it, there is nowhere to place. to the north, not to settle them with confidence; At the junction with the vanguard army, they did not dare to resettle; Even on the border of Korea, because of the frequent guerrilla activities of Wei Hanchao in Changbai Mountain, Longgang Mountain and other places, the Kwantung Army Headquarters was worried about making a joke about annihilating a wing for the guerrillas, so it did not place them in place.

However, the Fourth Division, an old division, was not suitable for garrisoning in a big city, and after only a few months in Changchun, the commissary of the soldiers of the Fourth Division had already opened to Fu Yi's palace.

The Kwantung Army Command had no choice but to send it to the vicinity of the front line. It was precisely because the 11th Division was transferred to Nanjing to stabilize the defense, so the 4th Division was pushed up and served as a reserve guard in Beipiao, Fuxin, Daqintala and other areas. Protected them behind the front line of the confrontation between the devils and the vanguard army.

"People think they're French? The Maginot Line was easily bypassed by the Germans, not to mention these small bean fortresses! Sun Lanfeng laughed.

"This is mainly because the Kwantung Army's energy is still concentrated on the border line of Soviet Russia and the Shanhaiguan and Suizhong regions, and the area around Chifeng is vast, although it can also build fortresses with the help of mountains. With just the 24th Division's men, we still can't stop us! Dong Qiwu nodded.

The 24th Division, also from Kumamoto, was built last year, but it fought fiercely. Helplessly, they defended Chifeng all the way to Linxi, and the long defense line made them useless. The vanguard army of the multi-head attack quickly cleared the passage, and by the time the chariots of the vanguard army rushed out of the valleys of the Xilamulun River, the Yin River, and the Xibe River, everything was already a foregone conclusion.

Although Chifeng has not yet been breached, the chariot troops of the vanguard army with the smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield have galloped in front of the fourth division near Xinhui.

"The vanguard is coming!"

"The chariots of the vanguard are coming!"

While the tank armor of the vanguard army was still rumbling forward, some rumors were already spreading on the various lines of defense of the 4th Division. The teams that had been sent to carry out the mission suddenly lost their way and began to turn to the east, and the number of people who advanced gradually increased. However, the troops defending in the Beipiao and Fuxin areas are getting fewer and fewer. The guerrillas in the vicinity of Great Black Mountain were able to pass through their lines with ease.

Umbrella flowers were floating in the sky again, but the men of the 4th Division were busy turning in, and few of them could turn around to attack the paratroopers who were unstable.

The white umbrella flowers fell all the way, slowly gathering around Beipiao and Fuxin.

"The vanguard army has conquered Xinhui and Daqin Tala, and at this time one of them is rushing towards the Eight Immortals, could it be that they want to take Tongliao?" Bai Chongxi received the news from the front while staring at the map to deduce the intentions of the vanguard army.

"What about their intention to avoid the more heavily defended Suizhongdi, and to attack Fuxin and Beipiao first, and finally take Chaoyang? Or attack Zhangwu to the east, connected to Tongliao through Ganqika? This was where the Japanese forces were weakest, and it was also suitable for the mechanized assault of the vanguard army. So where are they going to hit? Are they going to fight to the Liao River? Bai Chongxi's mind was full of questions, at this time, the battle plan of the vanguard army had not yet been delivered, and it was delaying on the road.

"In the first battle of the Wehrmacht, we must not only practice the ability to quickly assault and penetrate, but also depend on your hard work!" Meng Xiang once again emphasized to the artillery unit.

"Commander, the cannon is already sounding!" Kong Ci's voice was no longer young, it was a little hoarse and mature from the smoke of gunpowder, and then there was a deafening sound of shelling in the earpiece, which stirred the current of the earpiece and sent out a noise of Dada.

"Be careful, watch out for artillery fire on the front line!" Meng Xiang smiled slightly and admonished.

Between Ling Yuan and Jianping, at this time, hundreds of heavy guns of more than 105 mm were congested, and they had already spewed out roaring flames.

In the Suizhong area, which was defended by the 12th Division, there were hundreds of heavy artillery pieces of more than 150 mm that smashed shells on the defensive line of the devils. The heavy attack of thousands of heavy artillery rounds caused cracks in the walls of Suizhong behind the defensive line and collapsed in two places.

"Fire support! We need fire support! "Lieutenant General Yukio Kasahara, who took over the position of Shozo Kawabe in advance, the 12th Division, could only ask for support from his superiors in the face of the overwhelming firepower of the vanguard army.

The 12th Division, which had been continuously damaged in contact, remained on the front line after resting and recuperating because it had the most combat experience with the vanguard army. And the size of the artillery unit was strengthened by the Kwantung Army Headquarters, and only the heavy artillery had 1 independent field heavy artillery wing under it, with 24 Taisho Type 4 150mm field howitzers; 2 field heavy artillery wings, armed with 16 Taisho 14 105mm cannons and 16 Type 92 105mm field cannons; 2 separate heavy artillery brigades with eight Type 89 150mm field cannons each.

Originally, these 72 heavy guns, together with other mountain artillery and field artillery, could also block a burst of attacks by the vanguard army, but unexpectedly, as soon as the battle began, more than half of the attack planes and bombers of the vanguard army were blown up. At this time, the sky was full of planes of the vanguard army soaring, and from time to time you could still see Zero planes coming from Jinzhou and Shenyang, dragging black smoke into the sea.

The 12th Division was also equipped with anti-aircraft artillery, but only three or four scattered anti-aircraft guns of more than 50 large and small were left at this time, and they were the focus of the Vanguard Army's aircraft attack. After the attack of the heavy artillery of the vanguard army, nearly 100 Il-10 and Ju-88 came in turns, and at the cost of 1 plane crash and 2 aircraft damage, the muzzle of the devil's anti-aircraft artillery was completely drooped.

Having eliminated the threat of anti-aircraft artillery, the rest became a complete show of attack aircraft of the Vanguard. The Ju-87G also made its debut in the attack.

This special anti-tank aircraft was hung with a 37-mm Type 18 anti-tank anti-aircraft gun hanging from the lower wing on each side, although due to the weight, there were only 12 shells, but the 12 Ju-87G performed well, accompanied by 12 Ju-87D-5 equipped with 20 mm guns, directly bombarded the Devil's fortifications, and the Devil people turned on their backs.

The two BR23mm cannons of the Il-10 are also ringing non-stop, and some of the improvised fortifications of the devil can be easily blown away, and the 400 kg bombs it carries can also drown all the hard bones in one go.

However, more than 30 Zeros of devils were besieged by more than 60 Thunderbolts and Hellcats, and they could not break through.

The two 20mm cannons of the Hellcat F6F-5 and the meter machine guns are intertwined, strangling their operating space.

"The time of artillery is over, look at our blizzard!" Song Yihui laughed, and then pressed a red launch button.

2 M8 rockets sprayed a long tail of flames, from the Thunderbolt-47N he piloted, straight to the formation of eight planes of the devil, directly exploded a Zero at the same time, but also broke up their formation at once, the four Thunderbolts next to them relied on the rough skin and thick flesh to rush in, the large-caliber machine gun fire was full of fire, and they hit randomly. The two Zeros couldn't dodge such a dense attack, and black smoke rose from them.

"Boom!" One exploded and disintegrated in the air without waiting for it to fall, and fragments of large and small parts flew everywhere.

"What's the big deal! We have that too. Zhang Changhai snorted twice, although he said so, his hellcat didn't bring anti-air rockets, but with 6 VR rails, but because it was mainly used for fighting, so the VR high-speed rockets only brought two, but they were never launched.

He looked around for a long time, only to find that not far away was a reinforced pillbox of devils set up in the mountains, because it was hidden, it had not been affected by artillery fire, and on the side of the pillbox that had been blackened by the explosion, there were three machine guns constantly spraying, and one of them was a flattened 20-mm anti-aircraft gun. It may be that the anti-aircraft artillery mount was somewhat damaged, and the devils were not stupid and moved it to the fortress, although it could not be in the air, but the armored vehicles used to pass through it were still fine.

Not only was the artillery bombardment unfavorable because of the blockage of the mountain, even the tank guns below could not bombard, but the 80-mm mortars that hit there did not have much impact on it, although it gave it a machine gun.

"Coordinates, air support is needed!" The squadron leader's voice sounded in time.

Because the open space has just begun to cooperate, some of the cooperation is not very proficient. When encountering some difficult bones, although the high-level leaders of the two sides of the open space also want to compete for their own merits when the wolves are more and less meaty, under the suppression of the clones, this kind of cooperation still often appears.

"Look at me!" Zhang Changhai couldn't help but frown, and as soon as he pushed the operating lever, the hell cat swimming around the periphery swooped down, and rushed down against the fortress.

"Launch!" He thought silently in his heart and pressed the button.

The 1.83-meter-long VR rocket dragged its long tail and rushed straight towards the fortress, and in the corner of Zhang Changhai's eyes when he pulled it up, he already felt that it was about to hit.

"Boom!" With a loud bang, Zhang Changhai, who was circling back, had already seen the VR rocket hitting the target, and he was sure that the fortress must be finished. During the exercise, a 127-mm VR rocket could penetrate a 1.2-meter-thick fortress.

"The power of this spear rocket is really strong, and the steel plate they say penetrates 38 centimeters is really terrifying." Zhang Changhai saw that the smoke of the flames gradually faded away, revealing the ruined fortress, and couldn't help but think, "However, it is said that there are still spear rockets more than three meters long and 300 millimeters, what should it look like?" ”

There are not many opportunities left on the battlefield for VR rockets, and the fortress fortifications of the devils are not too difficult because of the rush of time, and some difficult fortresses have also turned into a pile of ruins under the bombardment of self-propelled guns.

And in the ground battle, the devil's zero plane is even more incompatible, although they can throw bombs, but during the battle at this time, they can only protect themselves.

"Aunt Anote, bless!" Koichi Takano, under the tugging of his companions, finally relied on his superb skills to pass through the two lightning strikes and rushed behind the two Il-10s.

A barrage of 20mm cannon bullets was drawn on an Il-10. But there was no explosion as Gao Ye imagined, and in the afterglow of Gao Ye's eyes, the Il-10 was still flying slowly. Gao Ye's Zero instantly swept over their heads, and he was about to circle back when he suddenly saw a red light in the corner of his eye, and before he could react, a fireball exploded on the fuselage.

"What's that?" Takano's last thought in the Zero-Style's aerial disintegration explosion was to guess what was going on in him.

"Our blizzard works very well too!" Zhao Mingshu looked at the two remaining R-82 rockets that were still hanging on the wings of the Il-10 attack plane, and couldn't help but smile at the corners of his mouth.

"The new army has captured Suizhong and is attacking Xingcheng!" Lao Jiang, who had been paying attention here, received a new battle report.

"They're fast. But didn't the people, planes and naval guns make a sortie? Lao Jiang flipped the urgent report and handed it to Bai Chongxi. The intelligence agencies of the Central Army transmitted far less timely and detailed information than the Vanguard Command.

"The planes of the men are not superior, and their ships are threatened by the giant cannons and guns on the shore. I heard that two heavy cruisers and one aircraft carrier of the Fifth Fleet also passed. A Nagato-class battleship with people there was also no advantage. "Bai Chongxi has accumulated a lot of information in his hands. He was also analyzing the motives of the vanguard army to attack the northeast this time.

"Is it too early to directly attack the Northeast? Originally, the Kwantung Army and the dispatch army in the Kannai were two systems, and as long as they were not moved, the southern provinces could be slowly recovered. In the end, it is better to clean up the Northeast, why is Meng Ribai so eager? It was not an easy task to face the pressure of the Kwantung Army and Soviet Russia. ”

In the General Headquarters of the Vanguard Army, Meng Xiang was also waiting in the headquarters hall.

"How is it that in front of the vanguard army, the Kwantung Army has become weaker?" Yan Xishan couldn't help but sigh and joke.

The strength of the Kwantung Army, he understands. When the devil entered Shanxi, three or four divisions occupied his nest. At this time, the vanguard army attacked in three directions, fully blossomed, and the four divisions of the devil retreated step by step.

When the sun was in the west, Beipiao and Fucheng had already fallen into the hands of the vanguard army. The Fourth Division did not have the habit of holding on to the death, and after the vanguard army was overwhelming, the devils of Beipiao gave up the blocking defense in the area of Daheishan and turned eastward. The 28th Division had already lost Jianping, and at this time it was shrinking to Chaoyang, resisting the artillery bombardment of the vanguard army, and it was too busy to take care of itself.

At this time, the 12th Division had already retreated to Xingcheng, and did not dare to be sloppy or rescue at will. The devils of the 29th Division stationed in the Panjin area were in a hurry to rescue the 12th Division at this time, and they couldn't take care of the devil's front in other places.

The devils were in an emergency on all fronts, and the urgent telegrams from the base camp of the Kwantung Army were one after another, and some of the radio waves requesting support were already calling in clear code. However, they had just withdrawn two divisions to defend the Yangtze River defense line, and the two hastily mobilized divisions had to face the destruction of the railway by the guerrillas.

It's just that when I arrived, I didn't know what the result was.

There are more and more Zeros rushing to support in the sky, and even the planes on the Soviet-Russian border are rushing back, but there are more and more Zeros falling in the sky. It was not only they who deployed their forces, the vanguard army was more prepared.

"They're out of luck when they meet us!" Meng Xiang said with a smile.

This time, although the attack of the vanguard army was a little sudden, it was forced to overcome it by strength. In this way, the momentum of the first battle of the Wehrmacht will be brought out, and in the years to come, the morale of the Wehrmacht ignited by this momentum will bring more gains than more sacrifices.

"People have suffered this time!" Although Lao Jiang has a lot of opinions about the vanguard army, he hates people even more. When I heard the battle reports constantly flying from the front line, I still smiled.

But then he straightened his face, turned around and asked, "How is the talk there?" ”

"Today, they made some more concessions!" Qian Dajun, who was standing beside him, said respectfully. Because last year he cheated on the cost of the Air Force and was cut by Lao Chiang. This year, because of the lack of reliable candidates around Lao Jiang, he was reinstated. This time the secret negotiation with the person was presided over by the old squire director.

"What do people say?"

"In principle, people have agreed to gradually retreat outside the border, and the matter of the puppet Manchurian can also be put on hold and discussed!" Next to him, Qian Dajun said.

Lao Jiang was silent in thought with his hands behind his back.

Such good conditions certainly made him tempted. At this time, the vanguard army expanded rapidly, and he could not refuse. If we really want to watch the vanguard army regain the land little by little, I am afraid that there will be no part of the Central Party singing.

"Can't wait any longer!" Lao Jiang said decisively in his heart.