"It's almost the New Year!" Meng Xiang sighed.

February 18 will be the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve. But the seventh theater of operations was not only the sound of firecrackers, but also the sound of gunfire.

From the 15th, he launched an all-out attack on the vanguard army.

The bombing of Kyushu Island by the vanguard army was a naked slap in the face. Under domestic pressure, the base camp had to move everything forward.

Their original plan was to start the battle to attack the vanguard army with the arrival of troops from the mainland in China, but the first expeditionary army lost most of it before it could set off. When the people heard this, they immediately caused an uproar and unanimously demanded a counterattack against the vanguard army.

Not only the people, but also the military and politicians inevitably took this as an opportunity to fight.

"Our homeland is no longer safe, and the Vanguard bombers can fly over our heads. We must build a better air defense system on our homeland. Those anti-aircraft guns of the new production should have left a part to lay out the defenses of the homeland. And our new aircraft, which also need to be left behind to defend our airspace. ”

"But the front line needs more anti-aircraft guns and new aircraft. We don't have many new planes in the first place, and at this time there are less than a hundred. If the power is concentrated, it will be more powerful. ”

"What about the natives? And what about the air defense of our homeland in the event of another attack by the Vanguard? ”

"The range of their planes is limited after all......"

"Don't talk about that, even if they can't get to Tokyo, they can at least fly to Kobe and Osaka. If they reduce their ammunition, they might be able to fly to Tokyo, but what if they don't care about the return trip and attack the palace with all their might? Can you guarantee that their planes will not fly to Tokyo? ”

"The best defense is offense. As long as we destroy the vanguard army's airfield in Jiaodong, their bombers will not work. At this time, we must not hesitate to attack the vanguard with all our might. ”

In the end, the advice of the base camp was to attack the vanguard army with all its strength first. This is revenge on the Vanguard.

"Relying only on those people in Huaxia, the number of troops is a little small."

"There's no way around that, it will take time for the local forces to be transferred. And under the pressure of the outside world, we can't wait that long. The war needs to start immediately, and an immediate retaliatory operation against the vanguard army is needed. ”

At this time, the ranks of the Mongolian army had collapsed, and the troops in Shanxi also needed to deal with the pressure of other Chinese forces around them. The base camp didn't expect much from them in the first place.

The operation of this sortie was changed to a north-south flanking attack.

In the south, the Chinese army was mainly attacked, starting from Zhengzhou, Huaibei, Huaiyin and other places; In the north, the three divisions of the Kwantung Army were the main ones, attacking from Chengde and Shanhaiguan.

However, the premise of all this attack must be to eliminate the air threat of the vanguard army. Under the threat of the vanguard's planes, airships, and cannons, it was difficult for him to make a difference in his attack.

This kind of large-scale attack is not a surprise attack, and since the Vanguard attacked the island of Kyushu, most of the Vanguard Army's warning signs have been changed to orange. Under the defense of all sides, it is difficult for his sneak attack to be effective. said that he was also trying to save face, and at the beginning he also trumpeted revenge, and the army began to mobilize and surround him.

The vanguard army also directly assumed a defensive posture. But the defensive formation made him vomit blood.

The southern line of Shangqiu, Xuzhou, and Lianyungang is still heavily artillery defense. Although they have not yet figured out the specific location and number, after losing many agents and a dozen reconnaissance planes, they have learned that the vanguard army has no less than 300 heavy guns of more than 105 mm caliber arranged on several lines of defense in that area.

This move is so simple, directly use artillery to block the attack of the Yue army, but the lack of artillery himself has no way to crack it.

In the 41st to 45th years of its original history, he produced more than 600 heavy artillery pieces with a caliber of more than 100 mm, and although this is related to the fact that it is biased towards naval production and the army is not under much pressure, it is obvious that the production capacity of the company itself is insufficient. At this time, there were only about 200 heavy artillery wings gathered on the southern front from all over the country, so how could they break through the defenses of the vanguard army?

"Concentrate on breaking through one place first." This is my own strategy.

The area they chose was Xinxiang.

The Xinxiang area is facing a two-sided attack from Zhengzhou and Shanxi devils.

After Datong was occupied by the vanguard army, the passage of the devils in Shanxi to the north was completely blocked. They only had some contact with the outside world in the area of Gongxian and Jiaozuo to the south, where transportation was inconvenient, and they could only rely on local resources in Shanxi to replenish ammunition. However, some of the machinery of the Taiyuan Arsenal has been transported, and there are not enough personnel and machines, and their ammunition supply is not guaranteed normally.

Many things in Shanxi cannot be produced, especially heavy artillery firepower, and after a long time, Shanxi is afraid that it will not be able to keep it. So this time, in addition to attacking the vanguard army, it also has the meaning of opening up this channel.

But the vanguard army's Yellow River defense line in Zhengzhou was also full of artillery ports and fortifications. Even if the Yellow River was frozen, he still didn't dare to rush into it. So many guns pointed at the location of the Yellow River, trying to cross the river through the frozen water, unless the personnel of the guards of the vanguard army were asleep. The guards were asleep, and the dogs were waiting attentively.

"Da-da-da-da." As soon as a group of lurking devils reached the other side of the river in the dark, they were swept down by the MG-42 machine guns that had been waiting for a long time. More than a dozen dogs in the dark night swarmed up and immediately bit the throats of several devils lying on the ground. After several suicide actions by the devils with hand-to-hand grenades, in later attacks, the vanguard no longer needed prisoners.

He said that he sent a team of scouts over, but few of them returned. Immediately, I knew that the defense over there was tight, and I was fully prepared.

Except that they knew that the other side was defending by the 74th Division, and the defense was relatively tight, they didn't know much other information.

It is precisely because only the 74th Division, the original third-rate division, is defending here, that he came up with the idea here.

Although they knew that the 74th Division had changed its commander, they ignored that even if a lion led a pack of sheep, it was possible to defeat the wolves. What's more, there was still a group of lions in the 74th Division at this time.

In order to form combat effectiveness as soon as possible, when Zhang Lingfu was transferred to the 74th Division, he had already transferred his 112th Brigade in the 41st Division with him. As an old unit of the vanguard army, the 41st Division, which has experienced the war, has been trained into a group of fierce lions. The 122nd Brigade followed Zhang Lingfu and fought several vicious battles, although the vanguard army was well-armed, but the grinding of the battle was the same as after experiencing the influence of the war, a large number of veterans have grown.

It was the addition of this group of veterans and the backbone of the clones that the 74th Division quickly grew.

If this is not enough, the Xinxiang sub-base, which has not moved the place, has gathered all the surrounding defense lines within the direct jurisdiction of the base. It was with the participation of the base in the defense that Meng Xiang was so relieved about the Yellow River defense line, which was only defended by one 74th Division.

But he didn't know that they played a trick to attack the west, and after putting on a posture of preparing to attack Xuzhou, they suddenly began to attack the Yellow River defense line in Xinxiang on the 16th.

The 10th, 16th, and 13th Divisions attacked Xinxiang from Zhengzhou. After a period of rest, the three divisions, which had been repeatedly defeated in the hands of the vanguard army, had just recovered their strength.

This time, the attack was launched along the Yellow River, which was less than 200 kilometers, and the ranks of the three divisions seemed too dense.

"Will they use a blizzard?" Although the commander of the 16th Division, Lieutenant General Keisuke Fujie, had not been in office for a long time, he was very concerned about the power of the Buran rocket artillery.

The main thing is that those staff officers in the division and regiment nag too much. The last time after the rocket artillery strike, facing the vanguard army, they all had a little shadow. It is no wonder that in just three salvos, the more than 10,000 familiar comrades-in-arms around them have become cold corpses. The kind of fury that the heavens and the earth are about to be destroyed makes everyone who meets it unforgettable for a lifetime.

"Probably! The density of this attack must not be too large. "The possibility that the commander of the 13th Division, Lieutenant General Ogisu Tatsubing, said has become a reality.

It was not they who were attacked this time, but the 116th Division that was deployed to Shanxi to support. In this attack, the 116th Division attacked from Jiaozuo to Xinxiang at close range.

In order to confuse the vanguard, the 16 division was not transferred. However, the backbone veterans of the 16th Division were moved to the 116th Division little by little, and at the same time, the reserves of the 116th were mobilized back to the 16th Division. After all, the grade of the 116th Division was one level worse than that of the 16th Division, and they tried to strengthen the strength of the 116th with this way of exchanging personnel, so that the vanguard army would give the vanguard army a surprise attack after miscalculation.

At this time, the strength of the 116th Division was not inferior to that of a Class A division. But whether it is type B or type A, the vanguard army doesn't care, and we will destroy it when it comes.

The sudden attack of the 116th Division did not hide from the eyes of the vanguard army, not to mention the reconnaissance planes at high altitude, even if the radar of the base was within the direct jurisdiction, it could be marked.

There may be very few people, and the base can't distinguish them, but with so many people gathered together, the base radar can still detect it through infrared detection, and show a red warning area.

That was enough, the raid of the 116 Division did not surprise the Vanguard.

When the newly formed 116th Division rushed over and did not wait for it to unfold, it was greeted by the whistling of rockets dragging their long tails through the sky.

"Blizzard!"

"A swarm of bees!"

For a while, the faces of those devil veterans in the 116th Division changed, and there was a trace of despair and helplessness in their voices. These veterans, including those mobilized from the 16th Division, have experienced the last blow. After experiencing that hellish blast of flames, there are few people who can maintain normalcy at this time.

"It's over!" In the face of the overwhelming flames, the fragility of human beings is revealed, and the devils can only lie down in the field, praying for the company of luck.

A hundred Katyusha rocket launchers were placed in the Xinxiang area. Meng Xiang planned to use this weapon to stimulate the unfortunate memories of several divisions on the opposite side.

There are more rocket launchers, but there is a lack of relevant crews. The territory of the vanguard army was larger, and the growth of gunners was far less than the arrangement of gun emplacements brought about by the increase in defensive areas. For this defense, even the first batch of artillery cadets who had studied in military academies for less than a year were pulled to the front. Although their compressed school system is only one year, this time they didn't even graduate, so they could only hand in their graduation works in the war.

The artillery cadets who were arranged here handed in a good answer sheet. Under the unified command of the radio, the rocket artillery bombardment that determined the coordinates in advance directly shattered the lucky tablets of the devils.

The continuous roar of the tiger stirred in the sky, the flames rolled on the ground, and the ground under the smoke of gunpowder was covered by the cries and howls of the devils.

"The blizzard of the Vanguard has appeared!" Lieutenant General Tada, who was in charge of the commander-in-chief of the Zhengzhou side, immediately received information from the front.

"Order the heavy artillery units to find and destroy them!" After the last attack, he tried all kinds of ways to find out the news of rocket artillery. They sent professionals to secretly go to the scene to simulate the positions of the two sides, which roughly determined the firing distance of the rocket artillery at that time, and the huge smoke when the rocket artillery was fired could be seen from a distance. They also bribed some of the artillerymen of the vanguard who had been kept up by the warlord troops, although most of them had refused and kept it a secret. However, they used the names of various warlords in China to bribe, and several artillerymen did not know the identity of their agents, and under the temptation of various favors and money, they also leaked a lot of parameters of rocket artillery.

Although I don't know a lot, I at least know one of the shortcomings of rocket artillery, its range is somewhat short. The maximum range of the earlier model was only 9.05 km. Most of the rocket artillery of the Vanguard Army is of this type, after all, the role of rocket artillery is mainly reflected in intensive attacks.

However, its bright fire and huge smoke when fired, as well as its short range, meant that it was vulnerable to artillery counterattacks.

This time, he secretly moved 150 heavy artillery pieces to the vicinity of Zhengzhou, and they planned to avoid the heavy artillery groups in Shangqiu, Xuzhou, and Lianyungang, and concentrate their firepower to deal with the defenders of Xinxiang.

Before the attack, their heavy artillery units were already scattered and ready. Even within the 116th Division, 16 150-mm Type 89 field cannons followed. They were formed by the merger of two heavy artillery brigades, which were specially designed to suppress the artillery and rocket artillery of the vanguard army.

The devil's army tactics are very ordinary, but the artillery is very powerful. As soon as the rocket launcher was launched, the devil's heavy artillery began to adjust its coordinates and began to bombard.

Although the caliber of the Type 89 field cannon is only 149.1 mm, it is very powerful, and the firing range can reach 18.1 km. At this time, they were only twelve or thirteen kilometers away from the position of the rocket artillery, and at this distance, this heavy artillery produced in 29 years easily reached the position of the rocket artillery.

At this time, the rocket artillery of the vanguard army had just finished abusing the infantry of the 116th Division when a warning was heard. The interval between the reloading of rocket artillery is long, and most vehicles are reloading at this time. Hearing the warning, he immediately stopped reloading in accordance with the drill procedure and began to start the vehicle and evacuate backwards.

For the artillery counterattack of the Yue army, the vanguard army was also prepared, but they didn't expect the devil's blow to come so quickly. He attacked according to the direction of the smoke, and although the accuracy of this long-range attack was not high, the combined attack of 16 guns was also extremely powerful. Caught off guard, the rocket artillery that the vanguard hastily withdrew was hit by artillery fire and affected seven or eight vehicles.

"Rush forward!" Lin Zhongguo shouted.

Their group of rocket artillery vehicles didn't have time to turn around, and the devil's artillery came over. Retreating, at any time under the extension of the devil's artillery fire, it may be hit again. Of course, the risk of moving forward is also very large, and Lin Zhongguo took a gamble. Driven by him, the five blizzards next to him also rushed forward together.

Sure enough, after dropping two shells, the army began to adjust and extend.

Under the shroud of smoke, they could only estimate the approximate location.

But after they fired only three shells, their artillery fire weakened. Not only they had heavy artillery, but also the vanguard army.

The vanguard army also did not have heavy artillery along the Yellow River, but they were all fixed positions, and at this time they were bombarding the other three divisions of the devils who were feints on the opposite bank. There are not many of them arranged in the direction of Jiaozuo, and the 24 105-mm howitzers at a distance are not very effective in suppressing the 150 heavy guns of the devils.

But the vanguard also had two French cannons around the base. Meng Xiang, who was paying attention here, heard that the rocket artillery unit had been attacked, and immediately ordered the giant artillery to turn its muzzle and aim at the devil's heavy artillery unit.

The place of the exchange of fire was within the direct jurisdiction of the base, and the radar station quickly determined the specific coordinates of the devil's heavy artillery. Tiger One and Tiger Four each made a door and directly named them.

"Be careful, there's a cannon!" The devils of the Type 89 150mm cannon were bombarding, and suddenly heard the warning of the observation post, which often listened to the bombardment of the 150 heavy artillery, but this time the scream sounded more shocking than the 150mm one, like the sound of a train coming down from the sky. Experienced sentries immediately knew that there were larger caliber artillery attacking them.

The bombardment range of the giant cannon shell is large, and there is no running around the bullet point, and the only thing you can hope is that its error deviates from itself. But the devils didn't know that within the direct jurisdiction, their coordinates had been locked, and under the guidance of radar and smart brains, it was easy to bombard shells above their heads at such a close distance.

After two loud bangs, a heavy cannon had disappeared from each of the devil's two heavy artillery positions. There is only one deep pit where they are located. The heavy artillery next to one of them was also affected, and a twisted 150 barrel smashed into the gun carriage, causing it to roll on its side and fall to the ground.

"Quick, evacuate!" At this time, the devil didn't care about bombarding the rocket artillery of the vanguard army, and he had to move the place first to avoid the bombardment of the opponent. This large-caliber cannon is at least more than 280 mm, which is far from what they can withstand. Stay where you are, just wait for death.

The Type 89 150mm cannon of more than ten tons was not just a walk-away, and before the devils were busy with their work, the second round of giant cannon shells came again.

Meng Xiang used the rate of fire for one minute without scruples this time, although there was no actual image on the big screen, but the dozen or so red dots locked by the radar station just now were vivid. Except for the two targets that have been bombarded, all other targets will be quickly named by the cannon.

No accident, two more 150-mm guns were blown into the sky, and only fragmented parts and dark red blood mud soaked in the shallow groundwater on the banks of the Yellow River seeped out in the large crater on the ground.

The other devils hurriedly packed up the heavy artillery, and the large frame of the heavy artillery could not be put away in a while, especially the 150-mm heavy gun.

And so the third round of cannon shells came again.

"Boom! Rumble! There were two loud bangs, and immediately two more heavy cannons were gone, and the devils who were busy putting away the gun carriage were gone.

Matsushita Benming was so anxious that he was about to cry at this time, as the captain of the Reading Heavy Artillery Brigade, he could only watch those heavy artillery and his own artillery disappear in big pits. He didn't expect the shells of the vanguard's giant cannons to come so quickly and bombard so accurately. It took more than ten minutes for a single artillery to evacuate the artillery position, and less than five minutes later, three of his eight heavy guns had disappeared.

"Quick, quick, faster!" He could only shout, but his voice was immediately drowned out by the familiar screams overhead.

"Boom!" Another heavy cannon disappeared in front of the large pit in front of him, with only broken parts and a broken barrel stuck upside down in the dirt at the bottom of the pit.

Matsushita shook his buzzing head, and a lot of dirt fell from his head, mixed with some blood. Looking at the constantly moving mouths on the frightened faces of his men who ran in front of him, his ears did not hear at all, as if there was only the ticking of blood around him. The blood that flowed from his ears dripped directly to the ground, but even then he was stronger than the owner of the half of the large intestine that he had torn off his shoulder.

"Should we evacuate the personnel first?" There was a trace of hesitation in his heart, but he immediately vetoed it directly, "These heavy cannons are the great wealth of the empire, each heavy cannon is more precious than our lives, how can they be easily discarded?" ”

The heavy artillery that was dropped there became a living target that did not move, and eventually it was destroyed by the huge cannon shells little by little.

"Faster!" He shouted loudly, the artillerymen were already busy with their lives, and the artillerymen who were so shocked by the loud noise that their ears were woodened that they could not necessarily hear his shout. It's just that his expression and the majesty of his words restrain those artillerymen from still being busy in their respective duties.

"Boom!" There was a large pit and blood flowing down the walls of the pit.

"Quick!" Finally, there was a cannon that could be moved, and Matsushita Motomei immediately organized people to move it intensively. But he didn't go ten meters before there was another loud bang, and a twisted wheel hung on the edge of a large pit, still spinning on a bearing inserted in the earth.