"We are soldiers who are dedicated to this thing of protecting the family and defending the country! The devils are coming, if your new 8th Division doesn't dare to face the devils, we will be in the vanguard. Our vanguard army is still in Shandong, and it has not retreated! Zuo Pao Hui shouted loudly towards the bottom of the embankment, and the muzzles of the soldiers of the New 8th Division below had already fallen.

"Be careful!" Someone suddenly shouted.

Then there was a bang, and a shell landed on the embankment.

"The division commander has fired the cannon!" Someone from the new 8th Division shouted below. In the original history, after digging a section of the embankment, Jiang Zaizhen used two flat-fire guns to blast open the embankment at the mouth of the garden with sixty or seventy shells.

The two cannons had already been prepared, and when they heard that the vanguard army in front of them was under heavy fire, they shelled and supported it first.

"Boom" sounded again, and the soldiers of the New 8th Division below shook for a while, and the bomb fell near the soldiers who were charging and falling to the ground in front, blowing up two soldiers on the spot.

"Come, carry these brothers to a safe place, and hurry up to heal them!" Zuo Pao Hui did not hide, but instead stood up, ran to the group of wounded soldiers of the New 8th Division, and shouted to the soldiers on both sides.

"Boom" was another shell, which fell nearby. As soon as the soldiers of the new 8th Division hesitated, more than a dozen soldiers from the vanguard army had already run over to help carry them, and a medical team on the vanguard side began to prepare to start treatment.

The 50-mm mortars of the vanguard also began to return fire, and the six mortars together caused the two 75 guns to pause for a while.

But after all, the distance between the two guns is a little far, and the mortars are bombarding at a long distance, and the accuracy is ridiculously poor. Not long after, while the vanguard was carrying the wounded of the new 8th Division, another shell fell into the crowd. Zuo Pao Hui fell on the spot, and several other soldiers also fell to the ground.

The shortcomings of air transportation were revealed, because of the shortage of manpower, more consideration was given to transporting people, and the lack of heavy weapons, only 50 mm mortars, so that the vanguard army could not suppress two 75 guns. However, the two 75 guns only fired these four guns, and the reconnaissance planes of the vanguard army had already flown over their heads and pulled the machine guns. Although there was only one machine gun on the reconnaissance plane, there was no way for the two guns to deal with each other. The gunners were scurried by the machine guns.

"Send out the manuscript and photos!" Meng Xiang lay there and directly instructed the rat Erdao.

With the arrival of the surrounding people, the conflict over the Yellow River embankment ended. Even Jiang Zaizhen didn't dare to dig the embankment in front of everyone.

In this clashes, five people were killed in the vanguard army, and 11 people were killed in the new 8th division, mainly from the artillery fire in the rear.

"The Central Army wants to dig up the embankment of the Yellow River and retreat from the enemy! Replace the army with water, where are the people of the three provinces of Henan, Hui and Suzhou? ”

"Replacing soldiers with water, Jiang Zhengaxe's helpless strategy, or is it intentional? On the preservation of the strength of the Central Army, what is the intention? ”

"The sorrow of a weak country, where is the civil rights? Who can decide the life and death of a million people with a single word? ”

"If there are 10 million people, who will feed them? Who will they throw themselves to? ”

"The 150,000 Central Army pursued and annihilated the 20,000 troops of Tufeiyuan but could not, and the elite of the descendants abandoned the city and fled, the cause and effect of the embankment breaking incident!"

On June 13, major newspapers published articles about the Yellow River's levee burst. In this era, there are not many secrets in the Central Army, and there are some things, even if some high-ranking officers do not know about them, but the press has long known them. Some orders about the breaking of the levee were turned over, and although there was no name of Lao Chiang, the spearhead was already pointed at him.

Without waiting for the vanguard army to attack, many forces have begun to question Lao Jiang's political axe about the breaking of the embankment, and the bombardment is so fierce that Lao Jiang is directly anxious.

The vanguard army also took the opportunity to shake out the attack of the central army because they were stationed near the embankment of the Yellow River, at the request of the people, worried that the army would sabotage it, and helped protect the embankment, and added another slap in the face.

He Yingqin had to come forward to explain, claiming that these were just a few people's plans and had not been adopted by the central government. The embankment burst incident in Zhaokou was only a personal act, and the incident in Huayuankou was purely caused by misunderstanding and personal friction. The relevant responsible personnel will be severely punished.

In the face of the pursuing Yuekou, the Central Army will defend Zhengzhou and defend the Pinghan Line. He also specially sent people to protect the embankment of the Yellow River and prevent Yukou from destroying Yunyun.

And after hearing these news, the devils also immediately stopped attacking and advancing, and began to move the troops to the higher ground.

Few people believed He Yingqin's words. The surrounding people are still guarding the embankment, and half a year's crops are about to return to the warehouse, so they don't dare to be careless at this time. And the devils couldn't believe He Yingqin's assurance, their spies found out in more detail, and the two divisions almost made underwater fish and shrimp. At that time, the personnel may be able to run some, but a large number of heavy artillery, armored equipment, horses, food and grass will be flooded. After lifting the siege of the 14th Division, they began to rest temporarily and stabilize their positions.

On the 13th, the 13th Division of the Devil occupied Xuzhou, and the three divisions of the Yuejun Army besieging Linyi were still confronting Linyi City, because Junan and Juxian had fallen into the hands of the vanguard army, and they moved their headquarters to Lianyungang. A section of the Longhai line from Lianyungang to Xuzhou has been opened. The 57th Army, which was responsible for blocking the Yue Army, and the guerrillas of the 8th Army, which was mainly composed of the Northern Jiangsu Yan Police, withdrew to the area around Tancheng in Shandong.

After the occupation of Xuzhou, because of the gap between North China and Central China, the three divisions of the Central China Dispatch Army temporarily stopped their footsteps to the north.

The 13th Division of the Devils, which occupied Xuzhou, tentatively sent a wing to attack the ranks of the vanguard army stationed near Taierzhuang, but was beaten back by the eight 203 heavy guns and 16 150 heavy guns placed there. But as soon as the devil retreated, there was news that Niu 13 and the 81st Division stationed in Zaozhuang had started a battle.

There were nearly 100 casualties on each side, and some people had seen the battlefield, and they could still see the broken arms and bodies there.

Tang Yaoshi issued a condemnation of Niu 13, but Niu 13 held high the banner of only obeying Meng Xiang and resolutely refused to listen to the transfer from above, and even occupied a large amount of materials evacuated from Xuzhou, which gave the people of the Central Army who were responsible for handling these items a headache.

Liu Jihei's bandit team is also making trouble everywhere, robbing big households, but unlike Liu Heiqi, Liu Jihei is more disciplined, and the robbers are also some big families who are rich and unkind, although they do not help the poor, but they do not harm the people. Also because of Liu Jihei's banner of revenge for killing his father, some forces that had a holiday with the vanguard army also moved closer to the past. Even said that his own support, Liu Jihei also agreed. He has in his hands the arsenal left by the self-proclaimed Liu Heiqi, and he is not worried about weapons and ammunition, but he is short of food and grass. So as soon as he opened his mouth, he first asked for one million yuan of grain and grass to raise the soldiers.

Faced with his strength of nearly 10,000 people, the devil was very tempted, and the condition of one million agreed.

For several days in a row, it was rumored that the upper echelons of the vanguard army were unstable, and at this time, according to reliable sources, Meng Dashuai was still in a coma from time to time, and the vanguard army was inviting superb doctors from Europe to treat him.

"It's good to ask a few more, it's best to be able to stay here, and improve the level of medical school, our medical level is not very high now. Especially in internal medicine. Meng Xiang also nodded in approval of the matter of inviting doctors, most of the training centers are trained by soldiers, and the auxiliary talents are mainly spies, and the number of doctors has always been in short supply, even if they clone doctors, they are mainly based on battlefield medical skills, focusing on shells. If it weren't for the medical team's generosity, it wouldn't have made a name for itself. Some diseases cannot be cured by relying on amine, and penicillin works immediately as soon as it comes out. But this medicine is more expensive than gold, and ordinary people can't afford it.

But when the base was upgraded to the second and third stages, Meng Xiang obviously saw that the production cost of penicillin had plummeted and was much cheaper.

"Control penicillin, now is not the time for large-scale use, we just got the patent from Fleming. The shadow company has not yet been fully prepared, and the method we have developed according to the ground has not yet made a breakthrough. I hope that this medicine will spread from the hands of the Chinese people. Meng Xiang was quite cautious about penicillin, and it was too early to say that penicillin was resistant to drugs, but the huge role of penicillin in the war was not something that one or two countries could see. Before he gained a firm foothold, Meng Xiang was not sure to resist the devouring of the wolves.

It's better to wait until the wolves are fighting. Now launched, except for a few rich people, the benefits of the Chinese people are not much. The profits of sulfonamides and other drugs are also not low, but they are also in short supply, and the production capacity of the base hospital is limited, and it is not appropriate to release new drugs when the maximum value of sulfonamides and other drugs is not squeezed. The patent is in hand, and after the start of World War II, it is not too late to launch it.

At this time, it was just to treat some rich and noble families, and this Chinese magic medicine was used. The profit is not low at all. But it is precisely because the people treated are either rich or expensive, or some celebrities who are rescued cheaply, that the fame of the Pioneer Army Medical Team and the Pioneer Army Hospital can be regarded as open.

"This method is just to fool the devil for a while, and let's see where the devil will attack next. I'm going to have to hurry up, or I'll be self-defeating, and I'll be in trouble if I mess up internally. In the past few days, the ones who should have come out have also come out, and the ones who should have jumped off the beam have also jumped, and they will be cleaned up in two days. "Jumping out is faster than Meng Xiang imagined, and some plans have to be advanced.

"In addition, the current incident of the Yellow River bursting by Lao Jiang is a good opportunity. If, using this as an excuse, we draw a clear line with the Central Army, do you say that the devils will hit us first, or will they hit the Central Army first? Meng Xiang asked Tang Pharmacist.

"None of this will affect Yue Ko's decision, and what will affect Yu Ko's decision is in their country!" This question is difficult to say, there is no one certainty. He said that there are two roads in front of him, first to fight the vanguard army, or to fight the central army first?

"We must first fight the vanguard army to solve our worries, and only after the north and south are connected can we steadily attack the central army in the mainland." Lieutenant General Higashihiko, who had just taken over as commander of the 2nd Army, said that the 2nd Army was no longer capable of going westward, and he was unwilling to do so, hoping to slowly make up for the strength of the 2nd Army while solving the vanguard army, and finally participate in the feast of the Central Army.

"The Central Army of China has been defeated one after another under our hands, which is an opportunity to be exhausted, and it is suitable to take advantage of the victory to pursue!" Lieutenant General Meilu Yoshijiro, who had just taken up the post of commander of the 1st Army, supported the continuation of the westward offensive against the Central Army, and the 14th and 16th Divisions were already in sight of victory, and had already occupied Kaifeng, although they were resting and preparing because of the impact of the Yellow River bursting. But when it is ready, it can cooperate with the reinforcements attacking on the north bank of the Yellow River to capture Zhengzhou and occupy the intersection of the Pinghan Line and the Longhai Line.

"The vanguard army is also having internal problems at this time, and their commander is in a coma, and the army's heart is unstable, which is suitable for attacking!" Higashihisa said.

"At this time, it was because there was a problem within the vanguard army that it could not send troops, so it was suitable to concentrate on attacking the central army in Zhengzhou. If Zhengzhou is conquered and the Pinghan line and the Longhai line are opened, the vanguard army can be fully encircled. When the time comes, whether it is to fight the vanguard army, or to attack Wuhan in the south, it can be easily decided! Meryu Mijiro didn't give in at all. Both of them have groups behind them, and at this time, the results are the main thing, the 2nd Army suffered heavy losses, and it was impossible to replenish the manpower for a while and a half, and it was the time for the 1st Army to take the lead.

"The vanguard army is not easy to fight, although their military spirit has been affected a little, but their combat effectiveness is still very strong! Two days ago, the 13th Division's probing was not optimistic, and their heavy artillery was very powerful. And their planes, where the sky still belongs to them. Kawabe Shozo, chief of staff of the Central China Dispatch Army, interjected, "According to the analysis of the base camp, it takes at least five divisions to attack the vanguard army to be sure!" And it will take at least three months. Even though the German political axes had promised not to provide weapons to the Chinese no more, their relations with Soviet Russia were much closer. During this period, even if the Central Army of China did not intervene in our attack on the vanguard army, three months later, the political axe of China would be able to arm another 300,000 elite troops with the help of Soviet Russia. If we attack Wuhan again, we will find that it is already an impregnable wall! The Central Army mobilized enough men and horses to turn it into our Verdun. He exaggerated, even he did not believe that the Central Army would fight a Verdun, but three months later, it was certain that the Central Army would be more difficult to fight than it is now.

The goal of the Central China dispatch is to go straight to Wuhan. The rich Yangtze River is their goal, the plundering in Jiangsu and Zhejiang has made them rich, and the Yangtze River is also rich, which is their goal. To open up the domestic upward channel, it also needs the support of money. The soldiers and officers below also wanted to continue their expedition westward to plunder more wealth.