"They can't get past our defenses! We can hold them back for at least seven days, and after seven days, it's time for us to surround them. Terauchi Shouichi said in a contradictory mood, originally confidently said that he would block the vanguard army for half a month, but after receiving the loss of Cangzhou, it was changed to seven days. In fact, he made up his mind for three days.

The offensive of the vanguard army was too fierce, with this point of manpower blocking, it was impossible to be sure that it could be blocked, and the only thing to rely on was the concession of Tianjin to make the vanguard army scruples, but the melee weapons of the vanguard army were also brought into play in Cangzhou. Under such a fierce attack, Terauchi Shouichi still shortened the time for reinforcements to arrive in three days.

Although the troops from other places could not arrive in time, the way to save Zhao from Wei was possible. On October 31, at 5 a.m., he launched an attack on the southern and western fronts.

The 13th Division of the Southern Front was still cowering in Xuzhou City at this time, and although Meng Xiang was busy in the past two days, the French artillery, which had reduced the frequency of attacks a lot, still did not stop bombarding, and directly numbed their nerves. Even when they received the order to attack, they did not gather their troops and rushed out of the city, and the soldiers who claimed to be heroic were reduced to ashes in the artillery fire.

The 6th Division and the 101st Division, which had already rushed over, received the order and launched the attack on time. But the attack of more than 200 heavy artillery pieces brought their pace to a standstill, and no one could face the roar of heavy artillery without changing their faces.

The replenished 10th Division also attacked Heze from the Western Front at this time. The 10th Division, which had suffered successive losses at the hands of the Vanguard, was no longer the ferocious elite division, at least not in front of the Vanguard. Especially those remnants of the veterans, facing the vanguard army, no longer have that kind of sharpness, but those recruits who are full of vigor and vigor are waving the banner of bravery, one after another rushing to the machine gun and artillery fire of the Hu Minghe Brigade of the 41st Division of the vanguard army, and then fall neatly.

Hu Minghe's brigade did not have too much heavy artillery, but in front of the 10th Division's charge, there were still more than 100 artillery pieces, including 70 Soviet-made ZIS-3 76mm cannons.

This later standard configuration of the socialist camp was superior, and it was still old and strong after World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.

Because it only appeared in 42 years, Meng Xiang did not equip the troops at the beginning for the sake of surname and price ratio, and the troops still used a large number of low-cost artillery during the First World War. But later in weapons experiments it was found that it was pieced together with the gun carriage of the ZIS-2 and the barrel of the F-22USV. These guns were undoubtedly much more profitable, so in the arsenal of the Vanguard Army, these guns were assembled according to the samples of the ZIS-3 cannon and produced a 76-mm cannon of its own production. Other parts were cobbled together to create another 57-mm gun, which was sold directly to warlords and warlords everywhere.

The self-assembled ZIS-3 cannon quickly replaced the 75-mm field artillery in the vanguard army by virtue of its excellent surname advantage, of course, due to the weight advantage, the position of the 75-mm mountain gun remained unshaken.

The ZIS-3 76mm cannon directly overwhelmed the artillery of the 10th Division, and the charging devil recruits could only use the heroic tissue paper shells hanging in front of the ** to block the machine guns of the vanguard army.

Lacking experience, they became good targets on the battlefield, and the commander of the 10th Division, Major General Yoshio Shinozuka, painfully stopped this almost suicidal attack.

Hu Minghe did not order a counterattack, the focus of the vanguard army's attack was not here, what he needed here was to hold on.

Similarly, the attack of the 116th Division was also blocked by Zhang Lingfu's brigade. It was still the suppression of the ZIS-3 cannon, and there was more bombing of Stuka. The offensive momentum of the 116th Division was curbed.

Unconsciously, a brigade of more than 10,000 people of the vanguard army had the qualifications to compete with an ordinary division and regiment by virtue of its superiority in weapons.

"You're s***!"

Zhu Tingwen had just passed the checkpoint where the devil was on duty, and after nodding his head, he touched his back and scolded in a low voice.

As an inspector on the Gyeongbong Railway, he had to walk around the railway every day, especially every time he passed through those checkpoints, he had to be troubled by the captain of the pig-headed squad who was interested in watching his jokes.

For more than a year, I actually developed the habit of nodding my head and bowing my waist, but I was so tired that my back hurt, but fortunately, no familiar people saw it, and if I was seen by my classmates, I would never believe that the student leader in the school was so low-voiced.

The roaring sound came, and when Zhu Tingwen looked up, he saw dozens of planes flying in the sky. The sun was a little dazzling, and I couldn't see what the plane was.

"What's that?" Zhu Tingwen has seen the plane a few times, which is not unusual, but it is strange that there are a lot of white flowers floating down behind the plane.

Not only Zhu Tingwen is strange, but even the person who saw these himself felt a little strange. The paratroopers, a well-known branch of the army, had not yet stepped onto the stage of history at this time.

"That looks like a parachute?" Ichiro Hashimoto guessed with some uncertainty. He had seen a pilot parachute after an accident on a plane, but he was hesitant to drop so many parachutes on one plane. However, he had a bad feeling in his heart, and he always felt that those white flowers were like spiritual flowers placed in front of the grave, which made his heart tremble. couldn't help but let him clench the 38 rifle in his hand.

These planes without logos are not like the planes of the Empire, but the Huaxia have such planes?

As the squadron leader, Takemoto Yamada naturally has more knowledge, and after receiving the report below, he immediately judged that something was wrong. Although there was still a little hesitation in his heart, he immediately ordered his subordinates to take precautions.

"Some soldiers!" Under the telescope, when Takemoto Yamada saw a face with a tight mouth and a hard face, and the guns hanging on his body, his first thought was that this was an army.

"Defense! Defense! ”

Although everyone shouted for defense, they didn't know whether they were friends or enemies, but none of them shot at those paratroopers, and even Yamada Takemoto didn't expect that this was a soldier of the vanguard army. There were no obvious markings in their clothing, and even the shadow of the Chinese people that passed in Yamada Takemoto's heart was drowned out by the ridicule in his own heart. Far away from Shandong, they did not feel the pressure brought by the vanguard army, and after facing the poorly armed local resistance groups for a long time, they seemed to have a fixed pattern of poverty and backwardness for the Chinese people.

Three plaster flags suddenly appeared in the air, which made Yamada Takemoto's somewhat uneasy heart relax a lot.

"With well-armed yellow skin and faces, it can only be the Emperor [***] team. Could this be the Empire's secret army experiment? Why didn't you get any notification from above? He thought to himself, and beckoned to Hashimoto Ichiro and the other three soldiers, telling them to go over and ask. Even if it is a secret experiment of the Empire, since it is under his jurisdiction, he needs to intervene and fulfill his duty.

"It's really a shame to pull this plaster flag!" Huang Wenhua was carrying a plaster flag because of his quick hands and feet, and after it was unfolded in the air, he couldn't help muttering with some annoyance. But he also knew that for paratroopers, a safe landing was a life-and-death hurdle, and they could only be used as targets in the air, and they had little power to fight back.

"Soldiers don't get tired of cheating!" He comforted himself.

He watched the paratroopers land on the ground like this, and there was not much reaction except for the vigilance, and even a few paratroopers who fell directly on the city wall, they only sent two soldiers over to inquire. After all, this is the first collective appearance of paratroopers, and it is inevitable that they will be overwhelmed.

"Who are you?" Ichiro Hashimoto walked up to Huang Wenhua, who was untying his parachute. The muzzles of the two soldiers behind him were already pointed in this direction.

"What?" Huang Wenhua pretended to be stupid and said, he could only speak a few words, but this sentence with a very authentic standard Tokyo accent would not be exposed for the time being.

This sentence made Hashimoto Ichiro relax, he took a step forward, pointed at Huang Wenhua and said, "Who are you?" ”

Huang Wenhua glanced around, and many paratroopers had already landed, untied their parachutes, stood up and waited for the order to attack.

"Don't shoot! We are airborne in the first regiment! A loud and fluent voice in the paratroopers made the devils a little stunned.

"The 1st Airborne Regiment? What kind of troops is this? Ichiro Hashimoto, who heard this shout, was also wondering.

"The one who wants your life!" Huang Huawen, who received the order to attack, quickly stretched out his right hand, stuck Ichiro Hashimoto's throat, twisted and turned.

With a "click", Ichiro Hashimoto fell to the ground with his eyes crooked and his neck crooked, and the dust that fell to the ground had not yet been raised, and the somi in the hands of the surrounding paratroopers had already sounded. The firepower was more than a step behind, and the muzzle of the gun, which had already been lowered a little, immediately fell in pieces.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!" Seeing those tall figures, the uneasiness in Yamada Takemoto's heart became stronger and stronger, and finally got the final verification at the moment when the gunshots rang out, but it was too late, and the paratroopers of the vanguard army who had fallen everywhere had quietly occupied the points everywhere. Even a dozen soldiers fell on the top of the city, and Suomy, who relied on 70 rounds of drums, pressed down the two machine gun positions of the devils at close range.

He reacted quickly and launched a counterattack. Some quick-eyed devil veterans fired a quick shot, but at close range, more devils reflexively picked up their bayonets and rushed forward, but this style of play never won when it encountered the submachine guns and pistols of the vanguard.

With the fire support of the growing number of paratroopers, the battle lasted less than seven minutes. A five-star red flag fluttered on the head of Shanhaiguan, and under the corner of the wall outside the city, several burning plaster flags with a few footprints were fluttering into ashes in the fierce cold wind outside the pass.

"The fight went so smoothly that when we came down, the devil was still in a daze! It was probably the first time they had seen so many soldiers falling from the sky, right? Huang Wenhua ran into Mu Xuanzhu, who was particularly prominent, and the two had known each other for a long time, sitting there chatting. An MG-42 machine gun sits at the foot of the pillar and he is sorting out his ammunition. In this attack, the vanguard only opened two weapon boxes, but a few hundred Suomi submachine guns were enough to wipe out an unsuspecting squadron.

"Who will be stunned by this kind of fighting, the devils are good, they are at least on guard with guns." Mu Xuanzhu couldn't help but think of the stunned look he had when he saw the paratroopers, and he was also amused in his heart.

"Those plaster flags also have a bit of an effect, and the devil didn't fire a shot." Huang Huawen said proudly, "At that time, my heart was pounding, and I wished I could still use that kind of German umbrella." Although it is fast and easy to sprain your foot, it can land faster after all. ”

Mu Xuanzhu smiled, this new parachute is a lot slower and easier to master.

"I don't know how the battle is going at Shanhaiguan Station?" Huang Wenhua tightened the Corcoran all-leather paratrooper boots, and the M-42 paratrooper uniform on his body were all authentic American goods made in the base. Most of the paratroopers are now equipped with new M-43 combat suits, and even the shoes are raw cowhide combat boots with leggings. But Huang Wenhua didn't like that kind of green, and still wore the M-42 paratrooper uniform that he was equipped with at the beginning. However, I heard that the paratrooper regiment will be fully unified after the expansion of the parachute regiment in the next step.

"It shouldn't be difficult there!" Mu Xuanzhu looked at the Shanhaiguan Station to the south, where the second and third brigades were in charge of the attack.

The 1st Battalion was responsible for this attack on Shanhaiguan. Of the more than 400 people who landed, two brigades were responsible for attacking and occupying Shanhaiguan Station, and one brigade was responsible for occupying Shanhaiguan City. Shanhaiguan was easily taken, but compared to the more tightly guarded railway station, it encountered stubborn resistance from devils.

The devils on the station are widely distributed, although the vanguard army also landed smoothly, but at the beginning of the firefight, the vanguard army relying on Suomi alone faced the devils who stubbornly resisted by relying on the complex terrain and fortifications of the station, and it could not be quickly solved for a while.

"Find the weapons box first and attack with machine guns and mortars!" Squadron Leader Li Hanwen shouted loudly. The unfamiliarity with the terrain of the station was also one of the reasons for the disadvantage of the attack. Even if a few of them were locals who knew the map by heart, there was a gap between the map and the actual situation.

"Our Huaxia army has fought back!" Zhu Tingwen got out from behind a train car, and there was no adulteration in the Chinese dialect of those soldiers, and there was no adulteration in the achievements of fighting devils. He stared blankly at the five-star red flag held behind them, and couldn't help but burst into tears, he knew that this was the banner of the vanguard army after listening to the radio many times, and they were the team of Huaxia.