"Do you get it?" After Qiao Youhua finished speaking, he asked Jiang Haidong and Ma Biao, and they both replied at the same time: "Understood!" ”

"Then hurry up and prepare, let's go immediately!" Qiao Youhua waved his hand.

"Yes!" The two of them puffed up their chests and responded violently, and immediately turned around and ran towards the other fighters.

Qiao Youhua turned back to Zheng Yunshan, the head of the guard regiment, and said: "Yunshan, you go and tell the chief of staff and ask him to pay attention to strengthening the air defense near Wanjiazhuang Airport, now that the air defense brigade has been transferred, I am worried that the Kwantung Army will send an air force to attack here." ”

"Yes, I'll call the chief of staff right away." Zheng Yunshan hurriedly saluted.

Qiao Youhua nodded, turned around and walked towards the group.

In Shanhaiguan, the fierce battle was still raging, and it turned out that when Liu Jianhua led the leading detachment to prepare to take the Beiguan city wall and the railway station outside Shanhaiguan in one go, the main force of the 12th Division of the devil arrived.

The 12th Division was a type A division, and in the War of Resistance Against Japan, its second-line remaining reserve troops formed the notorious 18th Division, which was later reorganized into the 25th Division based on the Kogura Infantry Wing.

The 12th Division, as a type A division, in addition to two infantry brigades, also has a large number of units directly under the division, baggage, engineers, cavalry and other conventional troops.

In addition to this, there is also a field heavy artillery brigade, note that it is a brigade, and it is also a heavy artillery brigade, in addition to an anti-aircraft artillery company and a tank wing.

It is a powerful presence as one of the main forces of the Kwantung Army, mainly responsible for the defense of Jinzhou and other places in Liaoning.

The first to arrive at Shanhaiguan was a field wing of the 12th Division plus some cavalry, although there were a lot of troops, but they lacked heavy weapons that could really compete with the Dragon's Tooth Column.

The air force support was not effective, and Jiang Haidong led them by the nose and flew in a big circle, and finally failed to provide any effective air fire support to the Japanese army in Shanhaiguan.

Therefore, it has been pressed and beaten by the advance corps of the Longya Column, which has been skillful and orderly, and seeing that Shanhaiguan is about to be lost, the main force of the 12th Division has arrived one after another.

The current commander of the 12th Division is named Kiyotaro Uemura, with the rank of lieutenant general, graduated from the Japanese Army Military University, has rich experience and is cunning.

Knowing that Shanhaiguan had lost Nanguan, he immediately ordered a wing that arrived first by train to cancel its rest and immediately plunge into the battle, and then ordered the cavalry wing that arrived later to dismount and join the battle as infantry.

With the addition of thousands of fresh troops from the two wings, the strength of the Japanese army was greatly increased, the morale of the remnants of the army was also greatly boosted, and after the resistance was strengthened, the devils even organized a counter-charge.

The attack force of the Dragon's Tooth Column was taken by surprise, and several companies attacking Beiguan suffered heavy losses and were forced to retreat to the pass.

By the time Liu Jianhua moved the elite forward to participate in the attack, more reinforcements from the devils had arrived, and a large number of Japanese troops continued to enter Shanhaiguan and Guanwai stations.

The battle has become a white-hot stalemate again.

Intuition told Liu Jianhua that there were more and more reinforcements from the devil, and the longer it dragged on, the more unfavorable it would be for his side, so he did not hesitate to send a telegram to Qiao Youhua asking for help, asking for air fire support again.

And at the same time, inside the headquarters of the 12th Division.

Kiyotaro Uemura, an old devil, was angry because his chief of staff had told him that the reason why Shanhaiguan Nanguan would fall so quickly was because the aviation reinforcements that were supposed to arrive early were missing.

Furious, Kiyotaro Uemura immediately sent a harshly worded telegram to the Kwantung Army Command, asking the headquarters to severely punish the pilot leader who served as the pilot leader for this reinforcement mission.

However, not long after, a communications staff officer brought a telegram from the headquarters and reported to him and the chief of staff: "Your Excellency, the Kwantung Army Command has sent a telegram back to say that our land-based aviation reinforcements were ambushed by the fighters of the China Air Force in the airspace near Shanhaiguan and suffered heavy losses, so they were unable to provide timely support to the ground troops.

The 1st Flight Formation expressed regret and apologies for this, and they will go all out to provide us with air support, and now dozens of fighters have already taken to the air and are coming at full speed. ”

Understanding this reason, Uemura Kiyotaro's anger weakened slightly, and he immediately instructed his major general's chief of staff: "The heavy artillery brigade is immediately in position, ready to carry out a devastating artillery bombardment of the Dohachi Road in the pass, and avenge the sacrificed imperial soldiers!" Then order the forward troops, immediately take advantage of the situation to attack and recapture Nanguan! ”

"Hay! ~" The chief of staff of the devil, who was carrying the rank of major general, hurriedly bowed his head and answered, and then turned around and took the order to leave.

"Wait a minute, then transfer our chariot wing to the top, I heard that the Chinese army also has chariot troops, let them taste the power of the imperial army's ironclad torrent!" Kiyotaro Uemura said triumphantly.

The chief of staff of the major general hesitated a little, stopped and turned around: "Your Excellency, I heard that the tank and combat vehicles equipped by the Eighth Road of China are very powerful, and their defense capabilities and firepower are better than the active combat vehicles of the Imperial Army. ”

"Baga, does Your Excellency the Chief of Staff think that after the intensive and covering bombardment of hundreds of heavy artillery pieces of our heavy artillery brigade, the attacking troops in Guannai still have the strength to resist?" Uemura Kiyotaro snorted rather proudly, and continued: "That's a 150mm heavy artillery, covering such a narrow range, limited by the terrain, there is no place to run the road, I don't think that after our fierce artillery fire, there can still be any living creatures in Shanhaiguan!" ”

"Therefore, there is nothing wrong with our tank units and infantry wings attacking in concert to recapture our lost positions, and at a critical moment, they can also contain the enemy's counterattack outside the wall.

This kind of victorious battle must be attended by our chariot troops, so as to restore their courage and confidence to be frightened away, and to convince them that our imperial chariots are no worse than those of the Chinese people, and as long as they are brave enough, they can defeat the dragon's tooth column, the imperial enemy! ”

"Hai, the general is far-sighted, reasonable, and humble, so I will go and deploy." The chief of staff of the major general no longer had any meaning, and after bowing his head in respect, he turned around and walked away quickly.

At the same time, Zhou Zhibing and Ma Yunlong also led the air defense brigade and the heavy artillery brigade respectively to Shanhaiguan in time, and they met Liu Jianhua, who had already retreated from the charging position.

Immediately in accordance with Liu Jianhua's request, air defense and heavy artillery positions were deployed, the former preparing for air defense, and the latter preparing to provide effective heavy artillery fire support to their own troops that were attacking in the Guannai.