Chapter 218: Conquering Yanzhou

"A hundred miles! We're going to have to go a hundred miles! Break through the devil's defenses! Zhang Lingfu brandished the Luger pistol in his hand and shouted loudly as he stood on the platform erected in the armored car. Once the battle starts, this man, who usually looks like a weak scholar, will immediately turn red-eyed and crazy.

In the Battle of Dongping, his regiment lost more than 700 people, although he captured the county town of Dongping, but the street fighting caused the inexperienced recruits to suffer a little loss, and the casualties were mainly concentrated here. However, Zhang Lingfu took the lead in killing the enemy and the backbone of the clone soldiers, and the recruits who had experienced the blood of the war at the beginning took advantage of the victory in front of the tank to summon up their confidence, and even in the tragic street fighting, they did not flinch, and finally completed the grinding of the recruits.

After this battle, Zhang Lingfu, who thought he had won a battle, was also very satisfied. The enemy was annihilated by 3,000, the 119th Wing was destroyed, and only 700 were lost, which was an out-and-out victory for the Central Army.

But when Meng Xiang and the others heard it, they didn't say anything, just passed with an "oh", which made him a little depressed.

The battle loss rate of the vanguard army is still an undisclosed secret, although the commanders of each unit know the battle loss rate of their own troops, but the report to the central political axe is generally maintained at one to one. After all, the battle loss rate between the vanguard army and the devils sometimes even reached 1 to 10, which was too appalling.

If you look at these things carefully, you can find out, but since the vanguard military uniform is deaf and dumb, the Central Army will not hype up the might of the vanguard army.

After Zhang Lingfu easily defeated the devil's first team, his heart immediately became eager. There are not many losses in the regiment, and the battle can continue. So the letter of invitation was sent to Meng Xiang again.

"This Zhang Lingfu!" Meng Xiang shook his head, "Let him attack south!" ”

There is also a squadron of devils in Dongping on the west side of Dongping Lake, near Yinshan Town at the junction of the canal and the Yellow River. Zhang Lingfu planned to exterminate this first, but Meng Xiang's order made him point to the south.

The performance of the thirty Renault tanks was very satisfactory to the buyers, although four of them were damaged, but it did not affect the transaction of the other twenty-six, although they were second-hand, but the price was low, and it was quite affordable.

After processing, the 3rd Tank Battalion was left with only about fifty BT-7s.

Tasting the sweetness of tanks, this time to the south of the assault, Zhang Lingfu found Tiger Shi, and after Meng Xiang's acquiescence, he asked for the command of thirty tanks.

The trucks carrying the infantry were all transferred to rush supplies, and the rest had to walk. In order to keep up with the pace of the BT-7, Zhang Lingfu began to search for vehicles around Dongping and Feicheng that could quickly break through, and even got more than 40 donkeys. However, because the vanguard army was not allowed to forcibly requisition, the final means of transportation were still not enough to carry the entire regiment.

"You guys follow slowly, let's go first!" Zhang Lingfu instructed the rat 32 ways. He divided the team into three echelons.

The first echelon was the thirty tanks and the eleven trucks that had been recruited. Zhang Lingfu's armored transporter also accompanied him.

The second echelon is a unit composed of various means of transport, which can meet the first echelon at any time.

The third echelon is the follow-up sweep of large infantry units.

"Climb to the tank, let's speed up!" After learning about the high speed of the BT-7, Zhang Lingfu directly asked the soldiers to climb onto the tank, tied their bodies with leggings, and assaulted together.

Three hours later, it attacked Wenshang County, where a squadron was stationed.

But at this time, the 16th and 109th divisions of the devils were concentrated in the area of Qufu, Yanzhou, Jining, and north of Yanzhou, the devils had already arranged a defensive line.

"Don't wait for the second echelon behind, the soldiers are fast, let's continue to move forward, take advantage of the devil's unpreparedness, break through his defense line, and approach Yanzhou City." The high speed of the BT-7 tank made Zhang Lingfu like this kind of assault, and what was needed for this assault was speed.

"It's only a hundred miles here!" Zhang Lingfu used a red and blue pencil to point heavily at Yanzhou City.

The defense line north of Yanzhou was relatively loose, and he didn't expect such a rapid advance of the vanguard army at all. At this time, Zhang Lingfu only had twenty-eight available tanks in his hands, and he did not intend to entangle with the devils, he could break through the three lines of defense of the devils in an hour and a half, and twenty-four tanks came to Yanzhou City. The unprepared devils didn't even close the city gates, and they were rushed in by tanks.

Gu Chengyun has vomited all the way from sitting on the BT-7 tank from Dongping County to Wenshang County. The speed at which the tank was speeding up made some specially selected soldiers unbearable, and their bumpy appetites churned, and they vomited directly.

Spit and spit and get used to it. Although he did not participate in the battle to capture Wenshang County, after passing through the city, when he broke through Yanzhou, Gu Chengyun, who had adapted to it, could already shoot with a gun.

As the first tank broke into the Yanzhou City Gate, Gu Chengyun's Suomi had already shot at the devils who were howling around him very smoothly.

"Don't stop, keep rushing in!" Hearing Zhang Lingfu's shout, Gu Chengyun's tank did not stop, and continued to rush along the avenue towards the inside. The tanks in the rear rushed in, and the four fighters on top of him also began to strafe.

After emptying a magazine, Gu Chengyun couldn't help but turn around and look at his comrade on the left who had lost his breath after being shot in the head, although his upper body was still firmly bound by the legging cloth, but his two feet were swaying outside with the speeding tank, and he didn't know when a shoe had been lost, but his Suomi was still tightly clasped in his hand. His corpse had just blocked a bullet from the front for Gu Chengyun.

Gu Chengyun didn't have time to be sad, he reached out and took out a 70-round drum from his comrade's hanging bag, quickly pressed it, and continued to strafe. On this first assault tank, only he and Niu Chitose on the other side of the five soldiers were left, listening to the constant gunfire of Suomi over there, he grinned with satisfaction, and continued to cooperate with the machine guns on the tank to shoot at the devils rushing in the street.

At this time, the second echelon had just arrived in Wenshang County, where three soldiers led the local people to guard.

"Yes, this Zhang Lingfu still knows how to jam Yanzhou, where the defense of the army is weaker!" Fan Chong nodded slightly.

Meng Xiang couldn't help but laugh, Lao Zhang is also a famous general after all, not just the courage of a horseman. One of the two divisions of the devil has its headquarters in Qufu and the other in Jining, but Yanzhou in the middle has become the combination of the two divisions. Directly captured here, although the pressure will be greater, but the main attack force of the 16th Division seems to have been biased towards Shen Honglie, Sun Tongxuan and others on the other side of the canal. The losses of the 109th Division left behind in Qufu were relatively serious, and at most two wings were scraped together.

"Then let Hu Minghe go south to capture Qufu, here we have long planned to occupy! After all, it is the hometown of Master Confucius! Meng Xiang couldn't help but think of the descendants of the Confucian family who had avoided Lao Jiang, without righteousness in hand, this banner was not so good, in this era of sharp conflict of ideological contradictions, if you are not careful, you will suffer from it.

The Eastern Front has shrunk the defense. Although the Jiaolai River was still occupied in the north, Jiaozhou County in the south had given up. Retreat all the way to Gaomi. But when the 50th Army withdrew, under the order of Meng Xiang, Huang Baitao broke through all the way to the south, conquered Zhucheng and Wulian all the way, and the 41st Division also crossed the river to occupy Yishui County. The rear troops of the 114th Division of the devil retreated to Juxian and stabilized their positions with the men of the Fifth Division.

"Dig now! Ge Lao Tzu. The little devil is coming, and he wants to dig quickly! If you dig the fortifications, you have a good chance of survival! Li Dazhi shouted loudly, and glanced at Niu Chitose who was silent next to him depressedly. Niu Chitose himself took the lead in hard work, and the officers and soldiers of the entire platoon also worked quietly.

"This stuffy gourd!" Li Dazhi muttered, and the sapper shovel in his hand flew quickly again.

When you become an official, you naturally have to enjoy some blessings. Li Dazhi has been a soldier in the Sichuan Army for thirteen years, and when he was a veteran, he often instructed the recruits to do that, and later became a captain and company commander, and he learned from the previous company commander to enjoy a period of happiness. Some time ago, Li Dazhi, who was separated from the team, joined the vanguard army, and because of his excellent skills, he soon became a platoon commander.

But what made him a little depressed was that the vanguard army implemented the same system and concept for officers and soldiers, and a lot of the dirty work was done by the officials. As the backbone, the clones in the position of grassroots officers have played a good role in taking the lead. This made Li Dazhi, who originally wanted to be more comfortable, a little uncomfortable, especially when Niu Qiansui, who was the deputy platoon commander, took the lead and worked hard, which made Li Dazhi even more embarrassed.

"Let's do it! It's just a matter of moving your muscles. Anyway, there is a lot of money every month, which is more than when he is the breath-holding company commander, and the food is not bad, which is not bad. Li Dazhi comforted himself.

Yanzhou was under the sudden attack of Zhang Lingfu, and the strength of a brigade arranged here by the 109th Division was much larger than the number of vanguard troops that rushed in, but under the rapid charge of the tanks, it directly broke into the headquarters of the devils, killed the captain of the devils, and captured a brigade flag.

After waiting for more than two hours, as soon as the vanguard of the second echelon arrived, they immediately swept away the stubborn enemy in the city and occupied the county seat of Yanzhou.

But the reinforcements of the devils from Qufu and Jining are not far away.

Zhang Lingfu stabilized his position, arranged the tanks outside the city, and began to build fortifications. It is not enough to just defend the city, with the help of the remaining twenty-one tanks, the scope of the defense needs to be expanded, otherwise it will be a waste of the high-speed attack of the tanks to hold it in the city.