"The wind is roaring, the horses are roaring, the Yellow River is roaring, the Yellow River is roaring......" The song of defending the Yellow River was once again sung in the major barracks of the vanguard army.

"Defend the Yellow River, defend North China!" Neat slogans echoed in the pre-dawn barracks.

Bands of soldiers gathered. It seems to be another ordinary training day at this time, but the troops have already received news that they have a mission today. The personal affairs that were supposed to be dealt with yesterday were taken care of, and the barracks had been closed since the day before yesterday.

"Let's go!" The commanders of the units gave the order, and the army began to march. In the vanguard army, there is a competition of military songs during training, but this time there is no singing in the marching procession, only the roar of truck engines and neat footsteps.

No one talks to each other, and it is the duty of a soldier to obey orders to obey. This has become a habit under the leadership of the clones. It seems that the silence of the clones also infects ordinary soldiers, who still choose to accept orders in silence despite their doubts. No matter what is the sea of swords and fires in front of you, as long as the order is given, rushing over is the only choice for the soldiers.

"Yellow River?" Someone whispered, and Zhao Tiedan also heard the roar of the Yellow River and the roar of guns.

"There is a battle in the Yellow River?" As a battalion instructor, Zhao Tiedan only knew that there was a combat mission before, and he didn't know what the specific mission of this battle was.

"Our mission is to cross the Yellow River!" The regimental commander standing on the high place shouted loudly. The previous mission was only known to the regimental level and above, and at this time it was by the Yellow River, so it didn't matter if it was kept secret, but not many people knew about the follow-up plan.

Walkie-talkies and radios have been arranged at the platoon level, and the units only need to carry out orders according to the baton.

"September 30th! After waiting so long, finally waiting for this day! Jiang Baili waited in the hall of the general headquarters of the vanguard army early, looking at the various flags that were constantly moving on the large sand table in the center, and his heart was surging. Fan Chong stood beside him and didn't speak, but his single eye was also full of essence.

Hearing that the No. 1 plan was being implemented, Jiang Baili, who participated in the formulation of the entire plan, directly asked to join the general staff of the campaign, but he refused Fan's abdication of the position of chief of staff, and just followed his disciple as an ordinary staff officer.

But his identity could not be hung up by an ordinary staff officer, so Meng Xiang gave him the title of military chief adviser.

"This is a brand new battle, and many new tactics will be verified one by one, and this is a new type of war that has never been done before." Jiang Baili said excitedly, even he didn't expect that Project No. 1 would become what it is now with the participation of Meng Xiang. There are so many things to think of.

"The vanguard, the vanguard has attacked." Staff Adjutant Furuno Okawa slammed open the door and ran in.

"What's the panic, they haven't built a bridge yet, do they have wings and fly over? Could it be that their plane is coming? The commander of the 78th Wing, Tadashi Murotani, heard the report and said unhurriedly in his coat. He naturally didn't believe that the vanguard army would be able to erect a pontoon bridge in half an hour. While buttoning up his coat, he came to the window and looked at the sky outside, the aircraft of the vanguard army made the devil who had suffered several losses remember it deeply.

"They, their chariots are coming from the water." Gu Ye's still pale face had a hint of surprise on his face.

"What?" Tadashi Muroya was surprised, grabbed his hat and gun, and ran out of the lounge.

"This is, this is an amphibious tank?" Standing on a high place, Tadashi Muroya looked at the Yellow River not far away in surprise. Without binoculars, visible to the naked eye through the glimmer of dawn, one by one black iron metal monsters emerged from the water of the Yellow River with black smoke and drove all the way to the shore. And behind them, there are more chariots that rise and fall in the waves of the Yellow River.

"Stop them!" He commanded loudly.

But on a length of almost a kilometer, more than a hundred T-40A advanced together, how did the 4 75 guns and 4 scattered 70 infantry guns on the shore defense deal with so many moving iron monsters? Before they could fire, the 40-mm guns on the T-20A machine gun turrets began to fire first. Amid the bombardment of more than 100 guns of 20 guns, the T-40A amphibious tank directly rushed through the first line of defense of the devils, interrupting the gunners on the artillery positions. In particular, the anti-aircraft guns placed on the shore were scattered by 20-mm machine guns before they could divert their muzzles.

At the same moment, the roar of the HS attack engine also sounded above the heads of the devils, and the bomb accurately landed on the artillery positions of the devils. This time, although the coordination of the landing tank and the plane was not perfect, it relied on the sudden surname to directly break down the devil's defense.

Although the 6 to 14 mm armor of the T-40A could not protect against the devil's artillery, in the face of the 38 rifles and crooked machine guns on the devil's front, it directly ignored and rushed over, and in the rain of 7.62 machine guns and 20 machine guns, the tracks under the weight of 6.3 tons also crushed the remains of the devil's self-struggle by the way.

"Hit him!" A 70 infantry gun hit a T-40A tank, and several devils cheered excitedly, but then five or six more T-40A rushed in front of them, and the barrels were pointed at it and bombarded together. In a moment, the 70 guns were blown apart.

The T-40A tank group will not be affected by a few tanks at all, and the tank's mission is to charge forward, even if it is a light amphibious tank T-40A, it has the same combat pedigree as to charge forward. They still have water stains on their bodies, like the roaring tide of the Yellow River slapping on the shore, sweeping the entire devil position on the shore.

Behind the T-40A tank, the assembly of pontoon fittings, already produced at the base, began. Not only that, but improvised pontoon bridges made up of many fishing boats on the Yellow River are also being erected, although these improvised pontoon bridges cannot pass through trucks and tanks, but there is no problem for people to pass through at all.

More than a dozen crocodile-class landing craft were mobilized to carry a large number of soldiers towards the north bank of the Yellow River. The ships had received contracts to transport grain two days earlier, and had been secretly mobilized to the edge of the Yellow River. There are subsidies for transporting soldiers, and there are compensation for losses, and many shipowners are naturally not unhappy.

The soldiers rushed to the north bank of the Yellow River, quickly occupied various fortifications, wiped out the remaining remnants of the enemy, and established defensive positions on the shore to protect the safety of the pontoon bridge.

"Pay attention to the coordination with the tanks and eliminate the artillery and anti-tank attack points that threaten them." After receiving the signal from above, Tong Kejie drove the HS-123 that had penetrated the devil's position and circled back for half a circle, continuing to search for the devil's firing points everywhere, cleaning up with bombs from time to time, and the machine gun on the plane was constantly pouring a large number of bullets towards the devil's dense place. Although there are already more advanced strike aircraft, the HS-123 is undoubtedly the most cost-effective aircraft. With a large number of fighters to follow, it does not need to go to air combat, and the little anti-aircraft weapon against the devil is enough.

"What? The vanguard army attacked the Yellow River near Jiyang? "The commander of the 20th Division, Lieutenant General Minoru Ushijima, was shocked when he heard the news. He had to talk to the front every day, and at 12 o'clock last night, he had just spoken on the phone with Tadashi Muroya, who was guarding there, and there was no movement from the vanguard army on the other side, so why was it that the Yellow River was attacked only a few hours later? You must know that it is the Yellow River like a moat, not a small ditch in the field?

"This time it's troublesome! Hurry up and inform the headquarters that there are not many troops in North China to support us. Ushijima muttered and commanded.

"You say they have slogans and shout to recover the whole of Shandong?" Shouichi Terauchi confirmed once again, and Teng Gang, who had already risen back to Osa, nodded hurriedly.

"Their appetite is growing! If it weren't for the fact that the empire did not have an effective way to deal with their planes, and the threat of Chiang's regime, we would have wiped them out a long time ago. Shouichi Terauchi said angrily. The vanguard army has always been an unstable factor, and it has long been a major problem for the empire.

It is said that the people of the vanguard army sent by him have been directly driven out several times, and Meng Xiang does not need to be false and wronged with the devil on this issue, in order to leave hidden dangers in the future, make his position clear, and set up a clear banner is what he has to do.

"Send troops to support immediately!" Although Shouichi Terauchi said, he was worried in his heart. "Which army are you going to send?"

Because of the smooth situation in the Central Plains, the headquarters of the First Army of the Devils has moved to Zhengzhou, and commanded the troops in Xinyang, Yanshi, Kaifeng and other places nearby. The greed of the devils made them sprinkle all their troops in the Central Plains, and they could not help the Yellow River Front this time.

The battle situation in Shanxi has always been arranged by the First Army, and because of the previous losses of the Second Army, they are only responsible for Shandong, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Rehe and other regions, and there are not many divisions under their jurisdiction. A 20th Division guarding the Yellow River Confrontation Vanguard Army, and a 21st Division stationed in Beijing and Tianjin. The 4th Reading Force Mixed Brigade stationed in Shijiazhuang. There is also a 116th Division that was temporarily transferred to the Kaifeng area.

The transfer of the 116th Division made the Yellow River defense line insufficient, and it was impossible to fill it. Originally, it was planned to use the Yellow River moat to defend it, but it was broken by the vanguard army.

"Their heavy artillery has been transferred to the Southern Front, how can they launch a large-scale campaign? Is this their trick to attack the south? "Shouichi Terauchi pondered like this, and Sugiyama Mototo, too.

If the First Army is mobilized to support the banks of the Yellow River, the Central Plains will inevitably be vacant, and will the vanguard army go straight to the hinterland of the Central Plains? Under the heavy artillery arrangement in the south, will they still go directly south to fight the Yangtze River? The devil's forces were stretched, and in the face of the attack of the vanguard army, they hesitated.

"The places north of the Yellow River in Shandong can be thrown to them, but they need to be blocked step by step and blocked in Texas. The Central Plains and the Beijing-Tianjin region cannot afford to be missed. The 116th Division in Kaifeng should not be transferred for the time being, the 4th Reading Force Mixed Brigade is pressing south along the Jinpu line, and the 21st Division in Beijing and Tianjin is paying attention to the movement in Shanxi in the west, and I will contact the base camp, where the Kwantung Army should be able to transfer one or two more divisions. Sugiyama commanded.

"The base camp already has a plan to attack the vanguard army, but various arrangements need to be made until the beginning of next year, before the new supplies of the Russians are in place, under the large-scale attack of the emperor [***] team on all sides, our latest aircraft can land on the airfield in Qidu." Sugiyama Yuan raised his face and said, "Even if they are allowed to occupy some land, how much can they do in Shandong?" ”

"Shandong is too cramped, if you have leisure time, you can develop slowly, thinking that you will follow. But at this time, once he started the war machine, his military strength rose too fast. At this time, they have three aircraft carriers under construction, and one super battleship has started construction last year, and their army is constantly expanding, and a large number of new recruits will join the Chinese battlefield every month. As the weather turned colder, the Kwantung Army was gradually losing the suppression of Soviet Russia at this time, and it would soon be able to roar out of the cage. If they take advantage of the resources of North China and Northeast China and develop for a while, they will expand even more hugely. Meng Xiang said as he tried to think about the record of the strength of the army.

At this time, he found that he was not as strong as he was when he fought with the Americans in the next few years, there were only a few threatening ships in the Combined Fleet at this time, and most of them were guarding the homeland, the famous Zero had not yet appeared, and the current aircraft faced the main aircraft of the Vanguard Army in the middle and late stages of World War II, even if their pilots were highly skilled, they were also abused. It seems that the blood drawn from Huaxia fattened the marauders.

The rapid development of the vanguard army has also exceeded his imagination, and the snowballing development has made the vanguard army already have a huge army of 300,000 and an absolutely superior air force, and the conditions are ripe for carrying out the plan to recover North China.

"Conquer Beiping!" There are only about 30 people who know this secret, and most of them only know that the vanguard army intends to recover the lost territory north of the Yellow River in Shandong, after all, only 18 divisions were sent this time.

"Go ahead and conquer Texas!" At this time, Sun Liren ordered loudly.

"Division commander, you are more majestic than the army commander!" Li Hong leaned over to Sun Liren and smiled.

Sun Liren smiled but did not answer, the current 18th Division has been greatly overnumbered. Externally, it was a division, but at this time it already had five brigades, more than 50,000 people. The attack was carried out with the 18th Division as the vanguard, and the 40,000 men of Zhang Zizhong's 59th Army, which had just been reorganized, also participated in the operation. Many of their soldiers came from the land of Heyan and Jingjin, and they were very familiar with the local situation. This time, in the 18th Division, many soldiers from Heyan, Jingjin, and Tianjin of the original 59th Army were incorporated.

Without the threat of artillery fire from the devils, eight pontoon bridges on the Yellow River had been quickly erected at this time. Three of them are exclusively through tanks.

After the T-40A crossed the river and crushed the defenses of the surrounding devils, more than half of the drivers jumped out of the tank, boarded the T-34 tank, which had just passed the pontoon bridge, and continued to rush forward. Although the T-40A crosses the river is its strong point, after all, the armor is too thin, and the firepower is too weak, and the road speed is only 45 kilometers of assault speed, and its task is only to cross the river by surprise.

But among the advancing armored teams, more than 40 still remained. They cooperated with the formation of 36 strong attack planes in the sky, and the Tuxiao River, the Maji River and other rivers all crossed suddenly, so that the devils who only deployed troops at the intersection of key bridges were caught off guard, and were beaten by the T-40A tanks rushing from the flanks and behind. The vanguard army soon took control of the bridge junctions at various points on the Jinpu line.

The Jinpu line north of the Yellow River still remains, and a captured train from Qihe County has started, pulling the soldiers who crossed the river in the direction of Dezhou.

The Yellow River Bridge in Jinan is also using the remaining piers and iron bridges to erect temporary railway passages. The ready-to-build was delivered to the bridge in an orderly manner, and the devil defenders on the opposite side had already been annihilated by the flanking of tanks and planes. Without the threat of devils, the construction of simple railway bridges was very fast. It is the most convenient for long-distance transportation or rail. There are already three trains waiting to cross the river in Jinan.

"They're coming too fast!" Having heard about the rapid attacks of the vanguard army several times before, the division commander of the 20th Division, Ushijima, who was still a little unimpressed, sighed. Before they had time to prepare, the vanguard of the vanguard army had crossed the Maji River first.

The strength of the 20th Division was dispersed due to the transfer of the 116th Division. The 80th Wing was in the Binzhou area, and there were vanguard troops on the other side of the river, so they did not dare to act rashly. The 78th Wing's defense line on the Yellow River had been dashed by the vanguard army, and there was no news of Tadashi Muroya behind him.

The 77th Wing is under the leadership of Major General Guan Yuan, the commander of the 39th Brigade, attacking Fan Zhuxian in Liaocheng, and Fan Zhuxian, who has already been martyred, has been nailed to Liaocheng with the support of the vanguard army. In order to prevent Fan Zhuxian's attack, the 77th Wing took over the defense line of the 116th Division and stayed there.

At this time, Fan Zhuxian's troops had also begun to attack in all directions, so that the 77th Wing could not be withdrawn.

Only the 79 Wing was left near Texas.

When the 28th Cavalry Wing was ordered to block the Vanguard, more than 80 armored units led by the Vanguard Army rushed away, and the Wing Commander Okazaki Shoichi Nakasa was crushed under the tracks of the T-34.

The tracks of the T-34 tank did not stop and continued to roll forward.

"I want oil, I want parts!" Wang Zhongfa shouted loudly. After running so many roads, something went wrong with his T-40A.

"There's all ahead!" Wu Sanshan said with a smile during the call.

After Pingyuan County, in a dense forest by the Maji River, there are two newly built repair shops and a logistics equipment center, which are used to replenish fuel and provide maintenance for armored vehicles that have traveled more than 100 miles. This is already the most marginal of the direct jurisdiction of the Jinan sub-base.