Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army and Pang Bingxun's Third Army were also subsumed into the Third Army. But their ranks were basically disabled, and they were asked to replenish new recruits on the spot. Lao Jiang just wanted to let them take advantage of Meng Xiang's coma to pull soldiers from the vanguard army, but he didn't expect Meng Xiang to wake up after a while, and a move of subsistence allowance and pension pulled away the soldiers' hearts.

Meng Xiang took the opportunity to woo Zhang Zizhong, and he had heard a lot about this famous general in later generations.

Zhang Zizhong turned out to be from the Northwest Army, and he was not interested in Lao Chiang, and he was also moved by the Vanguard Army's efforts and some of the Pioneer Army's practices in the Special Administrative Region.

His 59th Army had two divisions and five brigades of the 38th Division and the 180th Division, and originally had more than 20,000 people, but the continuous fighting, especially the continuous engagement with the three divisions in Linyi, caused great losses to his subordinates, less than 10,000 at this time, and there were still many wounded soldiers. It was precisely by relying on the rescue and funding of the vanguard army that Linyi was firmly established.

However, the Pioneer Army's subsistence allowance policy made all the people of Linyi turn to the Vanguard Army. They can't recruit troops, and they can't collect taxes. In the face of the Vanguard Army's wooing, Deputy Army Commander Li Wentian and Chief of Staff Zhang Kexia both suggested that he turn to the side of the Vanguard Army. If not for anything else, the soldier's welfare alone is eye-catching.

Although at that time, the salaries will be paid directly by the vanguard army, and it will inevitably be mixed with manpower, but so what, even if you defect to the Central Army, you will be mixed with sand.

Zhang Zizhong was finally moved and began to contact the vanguard army.

Pang Bingxun was well-informed, and when he heard about Zhang Zizhong's actions, he immediately chose to join the vanguard army.

Although Lao Pang's team is hung with the name of the legion, there is only one 40th Army below, and the other 106th Division hanging under the 40th Army is not under his control. Therefore, his total strength is only one 39 divisions, and there are only six regiments in total.

After fighting Linyi, there were only two regiments left in the six regiments, more than 3,000 people, with this team, self-protection was a little insufficient, I wanted to pull Zhuangding, but I couldn't pull it. Instead, they were driven away by the vanguard army guarding the township, and those who went to negotiate were told that all recruits were to join voluntarily and were not to be forcibly recruited. But on the territory of the vanguard army, how many people have volunteered to join Lao Pang, who has no money and no food?

So after he saw Zhang Zizhong join the vanguard army, he immediately sent his loyalty. As for Lao Jiang's side, as long as there are soldiers at that time, you have to be polite to him, who cares about his background?

Meng Xiang's impression of Lao Pang was limited to the fact that he had been a Han Zhan in the future, but seeing that he fought with the devils in the Battle of Linyi very fiercely, where could he see a little Han Jian's appearance? It seems that it is not a last resort, and many people don't want to do Han Jian. At this time, North China fell, and in order to protect themselves, many people who couldn't leave chose to take refuge in Yue himself. As long as you don't act for the tiger, you won't die for your crimes.

Looking at Lao Pang's performance, Meng Xiang decided to give him a chance, and his little soldiers couldn't make waves.

Negotiations with Pang Bingxun and Zhang Zizhong are ongoing, new recruits are still being recruited, with a population base of 20 million, with the support of the people, there is no problem in transferring 500,000 people, but considering that the cost of the vanguard army is too large, Meng Xiang's positioning is slowly increased to 300,000, and it is expanded into these newly recruited troops.

No matter how much it is, without the support of the clones and without systematic long-term training, the combat effectiveness of the vanguard army will decline. The number of people who have sacrificed will bring heavy pension pressure to the vanguard army.

After five days of preparation, the clarion call for a counteroffensive against Qingdao and Yantai sounded again.

This time, because of the Gaomi base, the front line of confrontation with the devil is outside Jiaozhou City, and the 110th Brigade of the 108th Division of the Devil Division is stationed in Jiaozhou and Jiaonan, and the brigade commander, Major General Kaho Ishii.

Jiaozhou was stationed in the 139th Wing, but on the opposite side was Li Tiexia's brigade. did not participate in the Battle of Zaozhuang, which made him very disappointed. At this time, as soon as he heard that Qingdao was going to be fought again, his brigade, who was familiar with Qingdao, became the first choice.

At the beginning, when the vanguard army evacuated, many railroad tracks on the Qingdao section of the Jiaoji Line were demolished, and after the devils came, they only repaired to Jiaozhou, and no one moved the section between Jiaozhou and Gaomi. This time it was impossible to take the ironclad train assault, but the 2nd Tank Regiment was already ready.

The tank units were readjusted, each tank was a group, 3 tanks were a squadron, 9 tanks were a squadron, 30 tanks were a brigade, 100 tanks were a battalion, and 350 tanks were a tank regiment.

Tiger 2 is the brigade commander of the armored brigade, and Tiger 5 leads the first regiment, Tiger 6 leads the 2nd regiment, and Tiger 7 leads the 3rd regiment. Because of the experience of the last time he fought Yantai, Wu Sanshan, who had been in the punishment training camp for two months, was assigned to the Second Regiment to start as a small soldier.

Military law is ruthless, commanders need to be calm with almost brutality, and two months of disciplinary training taught him a lot of things he overlooked. But he didn't know that this was a punishment training camp specially set up by Meng Xiang for this matter, a training camp that was specially established to cultivate talents that could be created. Not everyone can enter this place, and the only places where criminals usually go are military prisons and death camps.

There is not only physical training to push the limit, but also some things to learn as an officer. Only 16 people were trained in the same batch, but one died in two months and two quit due to injuries.

Wu Sanshan persevered until the re-summoning of the troops, and when he came out, he saluted the ruthless ten clone officers one by one. He also knew that it was not easy for him to get a chance, especially after he came out, seeing those ordinary soldiers training was like children playing.

He got back on the tank, and the tank was still the BT-7 he was familiar with.

The 2nd Tank Regiment, led by Tiger 2 himself, was divided into two, one BT-7 tank battalion and half a T-34 tank battalion went straight to Qingdao, and another BT-7 tank battalion and another half of the T-34 tank battalion raided Yantai.

"There's no one in front of you! Rush over! Xu Heng shouted loudly.

He was originally a cadet of the baggage school, and after Nanjing fell from the ranks, he joined the vanguard army, and with a solid foundation along the way, he has now been promoted to squadron leader.

At this time, he was directing nine T-34/76s to rush towards Longkou, followed by nine BT-7s commanded by Yue Tian, and twelve trucks full of infantry.

They all set off from the vicinity of the Zhaoyuan sub-base, where the tank factory directly produced tanks. For this sortie, more than half of the clones of a battalion stationed in Zhaoyuan also went to the front line. As long as Yantai and Longkou are occupied, coupled with the growth of the vanguard army, the role of the Zhaoyuan sub-base can be ignored, and other bases can be used as backups.

The devils defended only half of the brigade in Longkou, and most of the troops of the 110th Wing of the 110th Division were deployed in the areas of Pingdu and Laizhou, and the devils could not have imagined that the tank troops would rush out of the interior.

It was attacked by eighteen tanks all the way to Longkou Port.

"Boom!" A cannon rang out, and a gunboat moored in the harbor opened fire. Its 57mm cannon hit Xu Heng's tank, making Xu Heng's tank just shake for a while, and the 57mm ordinary shell was not a big threat to the T-34H.

There were eight Stuka Ds flying in the sky at this time, and they were dealing with those three batteries.

Since the last loss, animals and people of all kinds have been forbidden to appear around the fort. But the battery, which did not have much air defense, did not do much to bombard Stuka in the sky. Although the devils have paid attention to air defense, there is not much production of anti-aircraft artillery at this time, and a large number of newly produced anti-aircraft artillery has been transferred to the puppet Manchurians and North Korea because of the crisis caused by Soviet Russia.

The anti-aircraft artillery of the North China Front was concentrated in key areas, but there were only two large-caliber guns in Longkou, and six 20-mm ones, but they were a little powerless against the eight thick-armored Stuka Dstu.

Although one Stuka left in smoke, the battery was destroyed by two in a row. There are only one large and three small anti-aircraft guns left.

The last battery was only in the middle of the Stuka bombardment and firing, and it was too late to bombard the tank targets attacking the port.

"Sink that gunboat!" Xu Heng shouted through the radio that one of the shortcomings of Soviet Russian tanks is that in order to save, many of them did not have radio stations. But Meng Xiang knew that the tank had the advantages of radio command, one was to produce some more command tanks with their own radios, and the other was to install some radio stations to ensure the communication of each vehicle.

"Boom, boom!" The five or six tanks that accompanied him raised their guns and opened fire on the gunboat, which was still at anchor. 76-mm armor-piercing shells were enough to penetrate the armor of these thin-skinned gunboats, and high-explosive shells swept away the devil sailors on the deck who had little protection.

Sawdust was flying, flames were soaring into the sky, two rounds of artillery fire, and the gunboat had four shells in its body, and it had collapsed there with black smoke.

"There's another one over there!" Yue Tian, who was looking at the itching in his heart, pointed to a larger gunboat in the distance.

The gunboat's shells just now landed on this side and destroyed a BT-7 tank, killing two people and wounding one.

"......Fight again" Xu Heng was just about to order to fight the gunboat again, when he saw that the gunboat was lifted out of the water with a bang, and then slammed down, and the splash overturned a small boat, and the sound of crunching steel and twisting could be heard clearly from afar. After being lifted by the water, it fell back into the water and quickly sank.

"It's still our submarine!" Xu Heng shouted. In order to prevent self-injury, it was notified before the operation, and this time there were submarines and planes to cooperate in the operation, "really without fighting!" The gunboat was too small. "The gunboat of less than 300 tons, with torpedoes, made Jiang Dacheng feel a bit wasteful.

The destroyer in Longkou Harbor was not there, there were only three gunboats, and the remaining gunboat was only a hundred tons, which made Jiang Dacheng not interested at all.

But the Yurang next to it had already sent out a torpedo, which exploded with a bang, and the gunboat, which was still a little overwhelmed, was blown up by a torpedo. Under normal circumstances, because the gunboats are small and extremely flexible, they have always been the nemesis of submarines, but this time, the devil did not expect the submarine of the vanguard army to come, and used torpedoes directly against the small gunboat. That 553-mm torpedo was no worse than the gunboat.

At about the same time, the last fort also collapsed in the raging flames.

"Kill the devil's artillery position!" Xu Heng shouted. He shouted a little late, Yue Tian's BT-7 tank squadron had already quickly assaulted in front of a position with two 105mm howitzers, and the close fire of eight 45 guns was enough to make the devil's artillery dodge, plus the strafing of machine guns, the two 105 guns were killed without much success.

In the other two places were placed four 75 mountain guns and four 70 infantry guns. Two 50-kilogram bombs in one Stuka have already destroyed two 75 mountain guns.

Several tanks next to it have begun to open fire, and the devils on the opposite side are also firing back, but as long as they don't hit the fatal part, this ordinary shell still doesn't pose much threat to the T-34 that doesn't assault. After the third round of bombardment, which had already reached less than 100 meters, the devil's artillery was completely wiped out.

"This little cannon is still playing against the tank? Bah! Xu Heng stretched out his head and looked at the devil artillery position that had been blown up all over the place, and sneered.

In the same vein, Tan Baolin was directing a KV-2 tank to move slowly forward towards an artillery position outside the city of Jiaozhou.

It is already a miracle in his eyes that he can still run with a weight of more than 50 tons, not to mention that the speed of nearly 20 kilometers is not slow now.

And this is moving forward against the fire of devils.

The devil's 105 howitzer just now hit the front of Tan Baolin's KV-2 tank directly, but after a loud bang, the shell was bounced off.

The people on the battlefield were stunned.

The devil's three 105-mm guns rang out all at once, and even damaged a T-34 tank, and the shock wave set off by its 105-mm guns hit the hearts of the attacking soldiers, and the attack of the vanguard army was actually stalled here. But now its shells have failed after these three huge tanks rushed out.

All the soldiers present were either soldiers of the vanguard army or soldiers of devils, and there was only shock left in their hearts at this time. The steel of a machine is beyond imagination.

Tan Baolin, who was a little dizzy from the shock, shook his head, made a gesture, and the KV-2 tank continued to move forward.

The devil on the opposite side fired a few more shots without admitting defeat, and the eyes of the people on the battlefield were gathered here.

The huge KV-2 tank tank was a good target for the devil's skilled gunners because of its slow speed. 70 infantry guns jumped, 75 field artillery shells jumped, and a 37-mm anti-tank gun shell hit the side armor also jumped.

Finally, the 105mm shell hit the KV-2 tank that was rushing at it again, and there was another bang, which directly hit the hearts of everyone present, and after the smoke behind the engine roar cleared, the KV-2 tank was still slowly moving forward.

At this time, except for the roar of the KV-2 tank engine, both sides were silent for a second. Just like the shock of the tank appearing on the human battlefield for the first time, what else can everyone say in their hearts except for shouting monsters?

Then, the vanguard army erupted in a burst of earth-shattering cheers. These cheers fell on the side of the devils, but they only added to the fear in their hearts.

"Ahh A devil on the opposite side shouted and rushed forward with a grenade, but before he could reach it, he was crushed by the chain of three unmodified 7.62mm DTMG machine guns on the KV-2 tank.

Geng Yaozhang, who had just heard the sound of large-caliber shells falling and showed pity on his face, was only shocked at this time. Looking at the size of the KV-2 tank, he knew that its protection was very thick, but he had never seen a tank that could survive 105mm shells. Not even in Germany and England, nor in Europe.

Geng Yaozhang, who was later known as the father of armored troops, gave up the way of cavalry and began to systematically study the construction of tank units because he attached importance to the role of tanks in the 20s. Years of research allowed him to accumulate a lot of experience, and later became the founder of the first armored regiment in China and the pioneer of the armored forces in China.

After receiving the invitation of the Pioneer Army and the recommendation of his friends, he promised to come to the Vanguard Army to have a look, but when he came back from Germany and saw the tank cluster of the Pioneer Army, he was tempted by the post of Chief of Staff of the Tank Brigade proposed by Meng Xiang. ”

"Let me show you the real cannon!" Compared with the shocking anti-strike surname of the KV-2 tank, Tan Baolin prefers the 152mm tank gun.

His tank slowed down, and the muzzle of the tank gun slowly adjusted.

The commander of the 110th Field Artillery Wing, Haruji Taniguchi, was so depressed that he was about to vomit blood at this time, and he gave great hope as three 105 howitzers that were temporarily mobilized. But in the face of the three tanks of the vanguard, the 105-mm shells, which had always been regarded as heavy artillery, became bean balls.

He looked at the tank that was slowly driving over, and when he saw the thick barrel slowly adjusting and rushing to this side, he was shocked in his heart, the tank gun could be clearly seen in the telescope with a caliber of 150 mm, although I don't know how powerful it is, but 150 mm is definitely not a decoration.

"Be careful! Watch out for enemy tank guns! He shouted loudly. But there is nothing that can be done, the artillery did not say to move away.

"Boom!" The 152 mm muzzle spewed out a ball of flames, Tan Baolin felt the tank slam violently, he still shook violently after grasping the handle next to him, and the huge recoil force also made the stopped tank creak and retreat a little.