Xia Yuan Xiong Mi could not recover this defeat at this time, and the connection between the 108th Division had been cut off. As long as there is a little defense of the scale, it will be dismembered by the subsequent tank armor. At this time, the tank unit had already divided into three teams, each of which was divided again for scattered targets.

The largest unit organized by the 108th Division was the squadron, but in the face of the onslaught of the Central Army and the Vanguard Army, this manpower could not stop an effective defense. One or two charges can be dispersed by the large army coming from all around, and the occasional few nails that stubbornly resist with the help of geographical advantages cannot escape the bombardment of the large and small mortars carried by the Hu Minghe Brigade of the vanguard army.

"Let's ask for support again!" The headquarters of Shimoto Kumanya was also swept by the tank corps once. At this time, there were only a few dozen people around. Chief of Staff Toshishi Suzuki nodded as he hung his injured arm beside him. It seems that this situation can no longer be supported tomorrow, and at this time the consideration is how to leave the seeds of the division and regiment so that the whole army will not be wiped out.

"Commander! Enemy planes are coming! ”

Meng Xiang took the information handed over by Rat Er and looked at it, and he was also taken aback in his heart. More than 50 came from the North China Front. In the south, more than 30 warplanes were sent from Central China. At the same time, the planes of the Kaga at sea also took off early, and more than 30 flew in.

As soon as the 1st and 4th Flying Regiments of the North China Front replenished a batch of aircraft, the Vanguard Army killed 20 planes at a time, which made Terauchi Shouichi also feel very distressed. At this time, there were only 3 or 400 planes of the army in China, and only more than 800 planes of the Shanghai Airlines, but more than 100 planes were destroyed in the hands of the vanguard army. According to reliable intelligence, the Vanguard may also have more than a hundred aircraft in its hands.

At this time, the 108th and 109th divisions were being surrounded, and the anti-aircraft weapons of the two divisions had almost been destroyed, and they could only be passively beaten in the face of the aircraft of the vanguard army. If you want to break through and rescue, aircraft are all issues that must be considered. A little bit of aircraft can't help the vanguard army at all.

After some adjustment and compromise, at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, an agreement was finally reached with Central China and the navy to dispatch planes to attack the vanguard army.

"After several sorties in a row, the pilots are too tired!" Fan Chong rubbed the one-eyed that had been a little astringent after staying up for a long time.

These attacks by the vanguard army were the result of successive sorties by the pilots, but at the end of the day, they were already very tired, and many pilots did not even eat lunch.

"Hit! Still have to fight! If you don't fight, the duck in your hand will fly. Meng Xiang also regretted in his heart that there were only more than 40 pilots reserved by the vanguard army, distributed in Yanzhou, Jinan, and Weifang. I didn't expect the devils to unite so quickly this time, and more than a hundred planes attacked together, which was unprecedented in scale.

"Order Kong Ci to coordinate the air defense forces of all places to cooperate in intercepting enemy aircraft!" The general route of the enemy planes was known through the radar station, and although the anti-aircraft artillery was troublesome, the nearest team could still organize a small-scale air attack. At the battalion level of the Vanguard Army, an anti-aircraft platoon with 3 twin M2HB large-caliber anti-aircraft machine guns was already armed. At the regimental level, an anti-aircraft company equipped with four Bofors 40-mm anti-aircraft guns was formed. The 18th Division of the defense in the north and the 50th Division in the east can organize small-scale anti-aircraft interception, intercept layer by layer, and allow the aircraft of the vanguard army to choose the most favorable blocking battlefield.

"The 3rd Mixed Reading Brigade of the Yellow River Defense Line assumed an offensive posture."

"The 21st Division of the Japanese Army landed in Tianjin! One of the wings was rushing to Yantai. "Rat Er's information keeps coming.

When the devil strikes, it will not simply be supported by aircraft. Terauchi Shou began to mobilize his forces to suppress the vanguard army.

"The enemy forces on the Eastern Front are shelling the positions of the Jiaolai River!"

"Don't pay attention to him in the east, just stick to the defensive line." The vanguard army of the eastern front has retreated to the first line of Gaomi, Zhucheng, and Wulian, and the Fourth Fleet in Qingdao can only stare dryly, and the army of the Jiaodong devils has gathered up at most one wing, and the reinforcements have not yet arrived. It's just that there is not much oil and water there, and with the threat of the devil navy, Meng Xiang is too lazy to attack again.

The threat from the east was not great, and although the 50th Division of the Vanguard Army took over Mengyin and Yishui and other areas in the south, the brigade of Li Tiexia who remained in the east was enough to deal with it.

To the north, only the Reading Power Mixed Brigade was jumping, and with the help of the Yellow River and heavy artillery positions, the 18th Division had no problem holding it.

The North China Front was overstretched and had to transfer the 21st Division, which had only been formed in April. He was up against more than just the vanguard.

"What's going on in Hebei and Shanxi?" Meng Xiang asked with a smile.

"On the Shanxi side, Kou couldn't hold on to it with only a 20th division and a mixed brigade of reading power, and even some of the troops stationed in the tun corps were transferred over. The 21st Division is here, and the biggest target may be there, not us. Fan Chong answered.

Yan Xishan bought a lot of arms from Meng Xiang, and although he lost the arsenal in Taiyuan, he still saved a lot of weapons with the help of his rich family background. A few days later, Aunt Junker flew to Linfen on the ground, loaded with arms.

"The south is tight, and the 3rd, 9th, and 13th divisions of the Japanese army have already launched an offensive with all their might. The 9th and 13th Divisions had already connected Kemeng City and Yongcheng, and the 3rd Division had also occupied Guzhen and approached Suxian. The army has broken through the Central Army's blockade in the Huainan area. At this time, the troops on the south bank of the Huai River of the Central Army were defending on the front line of Huaining, Shucheng, and Beiluqiao, and the troops on the north bank of the Huai River began to move to Taihe, Fuyang, and the south bank of Wuyang. Fan Chong said as he pointed to the map and explained to Meng Xiang.

"The devils in the south are coming, and the trouble is big, tell Hu Minghe and the others to speed up. Strive to kill the 108th Division first. "Although the three divisions from the south are mainly aimed at the Central Army, if they successfully occupy the land of Xuzhou, then the spearhead will be the vanguard army first.

The vanguard army has been driven to the forefront, and it can be avoided by being low-key as before, so the only way to do it is to fight and beat the devil to the pain. If you destroy one division, you will lose one division.

"Niang Xipi, Li Delin actually came together with that vanguard army." Lao Jiang lost his temper in the office, and the battle against the devils in the Zaozhuang area began, and the battle plan of the vanguard army was handed over. Li Zongren simply pushed a passive counterattack. I simply don't take the center in my eyes. But what he didn't know was that Meng Xiang also specially instructed him not to let the central government know in advance. One is that the plan is unlikely to be approved, and the other is that it is easy to leak rumors. The interior of the Central Army is like a sieve, and all kinds of secret information may be known to him at any time.

Compared with his own threat, the Gui family and the vanguard army came together, which made Lao Jiang even more frightened. He knew that the vanguard army had a stable supply of weapons, and there would be no shortage of money in his pocket. These are exactly what the Gui family is in short supply, and if the Gui family takes this opportunity, they can threaten him all of a sudden.

In Zaozhuang's attack this time, most of the troops mobilized by Li Zongren were miscellaneous troops, and without Lao Jiang's nod, his descendants were not so easily mobilized. But the news kept coming that the 108th Division had been crippled, and it could be annihilated if it was not good. If this is won, Li Delin's prestige will be very high. At this time, some swingers in the center swung to that side if they couldn't get it right. Li Delin, who had just eliminated Wang Zhaoming's threat and came out to hold hands with the vanguard army, couldn't help but annoy him.

After turning around twice with his hands behind his back, he said directly: "Order Xue Yue, you must wipe out the 14th Division, and I will send a few more troops to help him." "Fortunately, a 14th Division also rushed into the encirclement of the Central Army. If he can annihilate the 14th Division, then his prestige is enough to overshadow Li Delin's edge.

"Come on! I'm going to do it! Liu Changyou slapped the tank truck and shouted loudly.

Neither the devil's human bombs nor artillery could stop the advance of the tank corps, but the untimely supply of fuel caused many steel monsters to lie on their stomachs.

Meng Xiang and others had already considered the problem of oil in advance, but they could only solve less than half of it. For this reason, Meng Xiang also specially contacted Li Zongren. Li Zongren promised to solve the oil problem for the vanguard army. But he hadn't seen the big appetite of those tank oil tigers, and apparently regarded the fuel consumption data put forward by Meng Xiang as a false report and exaggeration. When the tank troops came to replenish the fuel, they found that the fuel provided by the Central Army could only meet the needs of a dozen tanks.

The battlefield lacked the sweep of tank armored units, and immediately fell into a stalemate, and a small number of tanks could only be used as artillery barrels for attacking fortifications. Fortunately, the devil's artillery unit was destroyed, and the tanks that were lying on their stomachs were parked in place for artillery purposes, and they were not used as fixed targets.

Previously, Meng Xiang had issued a requisition order and requisitioned a large number of civilian vehicles, but these vehicles were okay to transport ammunition, and some conditions for transporting fuel were insufficient. There have already been four explosions and fires due to the problem.

"I'll get some gas from the tanks of your trucks, and you'll make up for it when you get back." Liu Changyou said that he was going to do it. The rampage tank assaulted halfway and suddenly ran out of gas, and it felt like ** stopped halfway through.

"No! We've got a long way to go! What should I do if I run out of oil and lie on my stomach? The truck driver hurriedly stopped him, the nearest supply point for the fuel transported was at the Yanzhou base, running a long way back and forth, and the truck was no bigger than the tank's fuel tank. If there is an accident and there is no gas, it will be even more tragic.

"Attention of all units, follow the guided vehicle to the Shanting area to refuel!" Liu Changyou was annoyed, but he heard the call from the radio.