"I don't move slowly!" Meng Xiang sighed, he really wanted to wipe out the 13th and 10th Divisions. However, he reacted quickly, not only did the 13th Division retreat, but the 10th Division also went north to join the 116th Division.

The 116th Division, which had received the evacuation order, also came to lose the car to protect the commander, left a wing, and covered the rest of the division's men and horses to evacuate south to join the 10th Division. At this time, the Yellow River was still frozen. The 10th Division was also elite, and they took advantage of the darkness to cross the Yellow River. Although the vanguard sent planes to bomb it, most of the centaurs of the 10th Division joined up with the 116th Division.

After repeated battles, the 116th Division still had six or seven thousand people left. It didn't take long for the 133rd Wing to be wiped out by the 2nd Mountain Division, but the 116th Division retained some of its seeds and wing flags, which was not completely annihilated. But the 74th Division on the other side directly annihilated the 120th Wing.

These two divisions broke through the blockade of the 2nd Mountain Division overnight and entered the territory of Shanxi. When the 10th Division evacuated, it also left two brigades on the south bank of the Yellow River, and when crossing the river at night, it was bombed by aircraft, and it also lost five or six thousand people. They didn't dare to stay in Jiyuan, which didn't have much supplies, and retreated directly into Shanxi.

The 13th Division bought off a group of ruffians and hooligans to annihilate and plunder the silver in Kaifeng City, and took advantage of the vanguard army to suppress these people, and quickly retreated to the area of Fugou Taikang, and formed a new line of defense with Xuchang defended by the 27th Division in the west, and Maozhou and Huaibei defended by the 3rd Division in the east. They lost just over 3,000 people, which is the least damaged.

With the retreat of the Yue himself, the offensive of the vanguard army was also temporarily eased a lot. They are now busy with the reception of the occupied areas. Meng Xiang and others have already formulated a strategy, which is to push all the way through steadily. This can prevent any accidents behind the scenes.

The 27th and 14th Divisions in the south had gained a firm foothold, the 13th and 3rd Divisions had also come together, and the 5th Division had been redeployed to guard behind the 101st Division; The mountains in the west hindered it, which equalized the advantage of the more firepower vanguard army. These lines of defense could not be breached all at once, and besides, the battle lasted for three or four days, and the soldiers were a little tired physically and mentally, and needed a little rest.

Zhengzhou has been reached, the Pinghan railway needs to be opened, and the railway bridge over the Yellow River needs to be repaired. The most important thing is that Meng Xiang wants to move the base in Xinxiang forward. When the battle line was pushed to the vicinity of Xuchang, the base buildings such as the giant artillery behind were too far away. The threat of a cannon can greatly reduce casualties.

In this battle of Zhengzhou, more than 40,000 devils were eliminated, while the vanguard army lost more than 8,000 people. If the logistics supply behind is not timely, I am afraid that this loss will be even greater. There is an advance base, and Meng Xiang can push it directly, and he can squeeze himself out of Huaxia.

At this time, the war slowed down a little, but it did not stop, and the sound of gunfire was heard from time to time in various positions. The southwestern front had just subsided, and the flames of war along the southern front had rekindled.

The 41st and 22nd Divisions used the flat push tactic at this time.

Four hundred heavy guns took turns bombarding forward. Step by step, I pressed south. This style of play does not require any skill, it is purely based on strength.

The vanguard army occupied kilometer by kilometer, 200 heavy artillery bombarded for a while, other artillery shelled for a while, the infantry followed, and the other 200 heavy artillery followed. This simple way of playing, but it is very practical. At the end of the day, twenty kilometers were advanced. The 3rd Division and the 101st Division on the other side were stunned and did not have any effective countermeasures.

The fortress did not work, it was directly bombarded with heavy artillery.

Mines didn't work, the devils didn't have many mines in the first place, and the vanguard army directly used heavy artillery to open the way. After the heavy artillery bombardment, most of the few minefields planted by the devils have been destroyed.

On the smoke-emitting road and turning over the reddish-brown new soil, more than 30 KV-2 tanks slowly pushed forward.

The devil's 75 mountain artillery and 70 infantry artillery were ineffective against it, and when I saw the KV-2 tank still moving forward slowly after two or three artillery shots, I said that my heart was constantly flooded with a feeling of powerlessness. Its 152-mm tank gun directly smashed the hard-shelled targets on the ground one by one. This relatively inexpensive tank, although not fast, has few forces that can stop it on the battlefield. Only the wide anti-tank trenches slowed its advance slightly.

"What's that?"

Wing Commander Kato Keyhei Osa, Wing Commander of the 68th Wing of the 3rd Division, held a telescope and looked at a dozen steel monsters driving in the distance. It wasn't a tank, there was a thick steel plate in front of it, and the machine-gun bullets just clanged on it.

He didn't know that this was a bulldozer converted by the vanguard army, a sharp weapon for the engineer battalion. Unlike regular bulldozers, they have been modified to have a flat blade that is extraordinarily wide and much thicker, and the cab above them has become a fully enclosed turret. They were originally converted from tanks, and there were still two machine guns on the turret.

At this time, their role was still bulldozing, but they were moved to the battlefield.

"Don't let it come!" Komatsu shouted loudly, directing his team to concentrate on the approaching bulldozer. Although bulldozers have been around for a long time. But it's not very popular, and Komatsu is seeing it for the first time. But deep down, he was terrified of this unknown steel monster.

The bullet clanged against the bulldozer's blade in front of it, but it didn't stop it from moving forward.

"Boom!" Grenades and grenadiers were also being thrown, but the shrapnel was blocked by thickened blades. At this time, the bulldozer in front of them had already rushed to the trench that Komatsu was defending, and the tall steel monster looked even more hideous from the trench.

There was a sheltered mound of dirt in front of the trench, and Liang Sangen drove a bulldozer directly to the ground, piled up a high mound of dirt, and pushed it towards the trench with the roar of the engine.

"Oh no, run!" Before Komatsu could finish shouting, the mound had already been buried in the trench. Several howls were directly interrupted and buried in the earth. Komatsu was buried waist-high in the soil, and he vigorously picked up the floating soil on his body, and the two surviving soldiers beside him were also helping to drag him out.

"Where are the others? Gather! He looked around with no regard for the dirt on his body, only to find a great shadow again overhead.

Another flat shovel of dirt was piled into the trenches.

"Poof!" Komatsu desperately picked up the floating soil on the top, spit out the soil particles that rolled down his mouth, and greedily gasped for the air that he usually didn't care about, if he hadn't reacted quickly just now, he was afraid that he would have been buried under the ground like those two soldiers.

However, this is still very dangerous, and it is very difficult for people to breathe when they are buried in their chests. Must climb out. The direction of his eyes was just in time to see the distant bulldozer bulldozing another trench. Along with it were a dozen bulldozers, perhaps still in a place he couldn't see.

But his gaze met a shadow again and never turned again, and when he turned his head to look, a KV-2 tank's wide tracks were running over him.

"No!" He screamed at the top of his throat. But the roar of the KV-2 tank engine mrows everything out. Including the sound of "popping" like a rotten persimmon being crowded.

These bulldozers followed the path that had been carved out towards the wide trenches that blocked the tanks, and when they touched the trenches in the middle, they ignored the clanging sound of the bullets of the devil's machine guns in the trenches, and bulldozed the earth directly. The KV-2 tank in the rear was compacted directly on top again, and from time to time the accompanying vanguard infantry saw a hand or other severed arm or stump sticking out of the mound of dirt in those trenches, and occasionally saw a bleeding head with a staring eyeball.

In order to prevent the heavy artillery of the vanguard army, he dug deep anti-artillery holes, some of which could accommodate dozens of people, but they were also reburied by the soil, and everyone suffocated inside. Even if there is a vent, it is easy to be directly damaged after being bulldozed by the bulldozer. It seems that the devils have not yet learned the elite of tunnel warfare, and the high water level of the Lianghuai Plain is not suitable for the tactics of digging deep holes.

"The vanguard army is these few tricks, but they can't help it!" The commander of the 3rd Division, Lieutenant General Fujita, said a little bitterly.

There is no heavy artillery to compete with, and there is no air superiority to bomb, and if the problem of heavy artillery is not solved, the offensive will not work, and the defense will not work either. The vanguard army is also determined, no matter what kind of defense you have, the intuitive artillery bombardment is enough.

"The main thing is that the gap between us and the vanguard army's weapons and equipment is too big!" The chief of staff of the 3rd Division, Saito Masarui, was also a little depressed, the vanguard didn't care about your tactics at all, and with absolute strength, he pushed it over. The 3rd Division is also the elite of the army, but the individual weapons are not as good as others, they are Suomy, and they are 38 style; Artillery is inferior to others, others are heavy artillery, and they are mountain artillery and infantry artillery; The tank is not as good as others, and if they have a random one, they are stronger than Peewee.

What's more, airplanes are not as good as others. Even anti-aircraft weapons are significantly inferior.

Don't look at the fact that most of the aircraft of the vanguard army were concentrated elsewhere, but there were numerous anti-aircraft artillery units in ambush near the heavy artillery array. As long as the devil's plane flies over, it will inevitably be all the cannons fired in unison. During this period of time, more than 20 planes flying from Nanjing had been bombarded by the anti-aircraft guns of the vanguard army. Artillery is easier to train than pilots.

On the positions of the vanguard army, 88-mm and 40-mm anti-aircraft guns became the mainstream, and these were not comparable to the 25-mm anti-aircraft guns newly adopted by the devils.

The most infuriating thing is that the number of soldiers of the devil is much worse than that of the vanguard army that has expanded its army.

There are more than 30,000 people in a division of the vanguard army, which is much more than a division of the devils. The total is 700,000 to 300,000, which is twice as much.

He said that he was at a disadvantage everywhere, and in the face of the attack of the vanguard army, how could he not be deflated?

This assertion is something that I have to admit in my heart. Although Saito Masarui only said that the weapons of the vanguard army were good, the average level of the tactical literacy of the soldiers of the vanguard army was not much worse than that of himself. It's just that I don't even want to admit it.

"The vanguard is much stronger than myself. Wang Jingwei's regime will not last long! At this time in Nanjing, a student said hopefully. After the establishment of Wang's puppet political axe, he felt the desolation of Nanjing and moved some people from other places. Several universities have also opened, and with the geographical location of Nanjing itself, the city has begun to regain popularity. There is never a shortage of people in China.

"Since the vanguard army has such a strong strength, why don't you attack Nanjing and recover the capital?" Another student complained. In their eyes, it is natural that since they wish the Ming Dynasty woke up, they would be defeated and surrendered. Young people have plenty of passion to squander, to accelerate catalysis, and to get the fruits of hope early.

"You can't become fat in one bite, hasn't the vanguard been regaining lost territory?" Although the original student was also eager in his heart, he still defended the vanguard army.

At this time, domestic public opinion did not need Meng Xiang to send people to agitate, and had already focused on the vanguard army.

The complete annihilation of an elite division of devils again, coupled with the move of the vanguard army to march into the Central Plains, has begun to tilt in the balance in the hearts of many people. People in some of the occupied areas also changed from looking forward to the Central Army coming to rescue them to waiting for the vanguard army to come.

"Don't be in a hurry, occupy a place, take care of a place. In terms of employing people, it is better to lack than to abuse. At this time, Meng Xiang's focus was no longer on the battlefield, but on people's livelihood management again. The vanguard army itself does not have enough talents, and those political cadres and clone soldiers have limited energy after all. For this reason, the theater management committee still used some of the original officials.

When they were in the Special Economic Zone, there were already such examples, Li Shuchun, He Siyuan and others all took over from Han Fuyu. These original officials are naturally not ordinary figures who can emerge, but they are also mixed. It's not that you can change the court and become good people. The unspoken rules of officialdom are still in force, making the people in some places basically the same. The way to subsistence allowance has been greedy for ink by those people as if they were eating empty salaries.

"Yes. Their whole team is already in trouble. The local mineral resources are monopolized by a few local tycoons. The entire team in the county was bought. Among them, there are three trained student cadres of political work. money, beauty, and dragged them into the water. Under their protection, the three townships appeared to eat subsistence allowances. "Xiong Niandong, who is the second person in the vanguard army police agency, is reporting to Meng Xiang at this time about several [***] cases in the war zone. Among the miners that year, only he, Zhao Shuxing, and Li Ting stood out. has been following Meng Xiang's footsteps step by step. Most of the others are limited by their own level and can only maintain a stable position.

Because they were mostly in policing the area, they were largely transferred to the police system. The former miners in the police have become a system. However, because most of them are from around Qidu, Meng Xiang naturally won't let them become a township party, and the constant addition of the student department, the original police factions in other places are diluting their influence, and it is the clone family that balances all this.

Clones may not be able to deal with ordinary people, but they are still very good at normative supervision, and it is with the existence of these strict standards of police inspectors that the police system on the territory of the Vanguard Army is relatively clean.

"There are no people to complain?" Meng Xiang asked as he suppressed the anger in his heart.

"Sue it. When he got to the county, he was stopped. After one person was killed, no one sued. Xiong Niandong was facing Meng Xiang at this time, and he was no longer as comfortable as before, and he always felt some pressure in his heart. Usually when he saw Meng Xiang, he felt a little unangry and powerful, but at this time, Meng Xiang's anger was exposed, and under the accumulation of power, he felt even more trembling.

Meng Xiang was silent when he heard this.

Don't expect the common people who will shout the blue sky when they see the officials, for the people who have only counted on passive charity and grace for a long time, and are accustomed to being obedient, the official is the heaven in their lives. Another day, it will not have much impact on them, but if the sky collapses a hole and hits their heads, they will have a little intersection with the high-ranking officials and masters.

Suing officials requires procedures one after another, and few people can have the energy to do such nonsense. The scruples of the family made them stop at a few words of abuse in their hearts. Even if there are a few people who come out of the way, once they are sued by a higher-level official, they are often directly blocked. How can a flat-headed person compare to the intimate relationship between superiors and subordinates who are always in contact? The Taoism on the official website is not something that an ordinary person can easily pull.

As for the supervision of Ming Cooking, it is often empty talk. The intimidation of the ruffians and hooligans, the bribery of petty profits, many deputies can only represent their own greed and stupidity in the end.

Those who came out of the world eventually became a grain of dust in history in the grinding of hundreds of years, and the sweat and green pen of the royal literati did not leave much imprint.

"We can't go on like this! That's not what I wanted. ”

Meng Xiang knew that if this trend was not stopped, it would be enough for any powerful country to rot from within and eventually collapse. For some people, it's just another change of court, one more opportunity to shuffle and speculate. But for Huaxia, I'm afraid it's another nerve-wracking toss. Even when you are terminally ill, it is possible to completely perish after unbearable tossing. During World War II, if it weren't for his greed, it was not impossible for China to be enslaved again.

"If in the end it is another reincarnation, then even if I quickly occupy the whole country, what is the difference between it and Lao Chiang's rule? Just defeating himself is considered a revival? Even if this war is won, if it still falls into reincarnation, I am afraid that there will be more life-and-death wars torturing the Chinese nation. What the people need is real benefits, not empty slogans, and the emperor's new clothes are false. Huaxia is the China of all Chinese people, not the China of a few privileged classes. Meng Xiang's heart kept churning.

That's what he's always wanted to do. It is also the dream of countless people. Only by becoming the real home of all Chinese people will people not rely on the mountains to eat the mountains and the water to eat up the Chinese people.

It's hard to do that.

Lao Jiang's personal life is quite light, but he can't stop the tossing of his subordinates and the people around him. If it weren't for the fact that he had a group of students, I was afraid that he would not have to leave the capital. He just as much hopes that Huaxia will be strong, and he just as much as he hopes that there will be no [***], but the truth is far from hope.

There are many other examples in Meng Xiang's mind. In the long river of history, ten years is just a moment. The path that people explore can only be seen more clearly when it has been precipitated by time and the fog has faded. Meng Xiang's golden finger ability is not only the base, but also the precipitation of more than 70 years, which makes him see more far-reaching than others.

The case is not only in peacetime. Because some contradictions are not the main contradictions, they are suppressed and ignored in special periods, and until they collapse, no one will reach out to cut them. Naturally, it is impossible to have enough energy to care about these "little things" when managing a big country, but these "little things" are bigger than the sky in the eyes of the common people.

It was these various examples that appeared shortly before the Battle of Zhengzhou that made Meng Xiang no longer pursue blind territorial expansion. Without digesting these territories, allowing all kinds of maggots to continue to multiply on the carrion can only ruin the image that the vanguard army has built up with great difficulty. When people turn from hope to disappointment, they will turn to the other extreme, so that others can take advantage of it.

Meng Xiang first received the news that it was caused by a riot among some people who could not receive the subsistence allowance. The word "basic", which basically enjoys the subsistence allowance policy, does not cover everyone.

"For those cases of embezzlement [***], investigate to the end and deal with them strictly."

"As long as we occupy a place, we must first implement the subsistence allowance, so that the people will no longer die of hunger and cold! Let everyone know that they have the right to live. ”

"If there is a problem with the election of deputies, then universal suffrage. Don't be afraid of trouble. Since someone wants to bribe the election, if he can bribe all the people and make all the people satisfied, it will be considered his success. ”

"Even if there are not enough people, there can be no abuse. Concentrate a group of personnel to deal with each county one by one. Deal with a county well, it will benefit the people of a county, there are only a few counties on our territory, and it is worth it to open a generation of fashion after ten years of work. Meng Xiang gave these instructions one by one.

In a short period of time, he could now rely on clones who were more incorruptible than the Puritans. The revelation of these [***] cases is all due to the work of these clones. Although their ability to analyze and judge this information is somewhat lacking, and some regions are weak, they cannot prevent those things from happening. But that doesn't prevent them from being a competent ombudsman, a competent law enforcement officer.

Since they can bring the atmosphere of the vanguard army in the army, they can also erect a kind of style in the officialdom.

The only flaw is that even if the number of these clones in the administrative field has reached 5,000, it will not be enough to reverse the millennia trend.

"Since there is a shortage of managers, let's recruit talents from all over the country."