"Leave them alone, keep the assault! Beware of the devils in front of you who sabotage the railway. Seeing that the two trains behind him also followed, Li Tiexia, who was sitting in the armored train, shouted loudly.

The men in the two cars behind and the infantry on the armored train were from his brigade. Deng Dayan shouted directly to Qingdao just now, which was his idea. At this time, since the remaining little devils have no influence on the train, fast passage is the main thing. After they left, even if the devil dismantled the railway, it would be fine, and when they went back, they would take a car.

"Get through quickly!" Niu Shi ordered directly. No more than one brigade was stationed at one place, and the thousand men were not enough for the armored train to disperse after a burst of shelling. The skirmishers couldn't get close to the train, and even the troop carriers were equipped with machine guns, so that the devils couldn't get within a hundred meters.

The armored train continued to move forward, and the machine guns on both sides continued to fire at the scattered devils in all directions.

After separating the safe distance, the personnel carriers behind followed closely.

"More than 30 meters of damage was found in the 1.5 kilometers ahead!" After dawn, the reconnaissance plane, which flew over their heads at high speed, reported directly.

"Roger!"

After the armored train rushed through three devil stations in a row, it encountered devil sabotage in front.

"Squadron of sappers ready! More than 30 meters of damaged railroad tracks were found ahead. Niu Shi ordered directly through the communicator on the train.

"Yes, the 50132 Engineer Squadron is ready!" Pig Five Hundred replied loudly. The men had prepared spare rails and tools.

The armored train gave a signal to the two personnel carriers behind it, and after receiving a response, the speed slowly slowed down, and finally stopped more than 50 meters in front of the damaged tracks.

"Boom!" The tank guns on the first section opened fire first, blowing away a few of the devils who were lying on the lower slope and were preparing to bombard them with mortars. Immediately after, the M2 machine gun also began to fire, and the dozen devils in the ambush were directly smashed into pieces.

"The devils of the squad dare to join in the fun!" Li Tiexia snorted coldly, he seemed to have forgotten that when he was in Nanjing, his crippled battalion was chased and beaten by a team of devils.

The soldiers on board the armored train jumped down one after another, keeping watch around them. The men of the engineering squadron carried the rails together with the help of the carrying soldiers, and quickly changed them. The efficiency of the cart is not as good as the power of the crowd at this time.

The devil did not damage it seriously in a hurry, only three sections of the railroad track were too damaged and directly replaced, and the others were no problem.

"Keep going!" Niu Shi ordered calmly.

"Chiba United can't be contacted?" Shigeharu Suematsu, the commander of the 114th Division, asked. He now understood why Seishiro Itagaki of the Fifth Division was so worried about the vanguard.

The 114th Division had a total of four wings.

The 115th Wing had already moved south and was still confronting the 41st Division of the Vanguard Army in Yishui.

Major General Obaof, commander of the 128th Brigade, led the 150th Wing, and two brigades of the 1st Cavalry [***] Brigade and the 120th Field Artillery Wing were preparing to continue southward in Zhucheng.

Only the 127th Brigade remained in the vicinity.

The commander of the 127th Brigade, Major General Akimitsu Saburo, set up his headquarters in Jiaozhou, which has now fallen. Among them, the 102nd Wing defended near the Weihe River, and the 65th Wing was deployed on the front line of Gaomi, Jiaozhou, and Yangcheng.

The reason why a regiment of the Vanguard Army attacked Gaomi so easily was also related to the fact that the 65th Wing had less than 2,000 people in Gaomi.

Jiaozhou, which had less than 1,000 people, was quickly breached, and Akimitsu Saburo also committed suicide by caesarean section after sending the news that Yamada Tsuneta who was guarding Gaomi had been killed in battle.

At this time, there were no more people to send around him, except for the guards directly under the division. He was unable to compete with Itagaki Seishiro in Qingdao, so he had to covet the military merits of the south, and as a result, more than half of his men were mobilized to the south.

"Call the Texas Command and tell me the details!" He could only helplessly ask for support, but far water could not quench his thirst, and at this time the vanguard army had already attacked Jiaozhou, what could he do?

"I wonder what Itagaki will do?" He couldn't help but think.

Seishiro Itagaki is still arguing with the people of the navy, the people of the navy have occupied the Weihai area, a brigade of the Fifth Division occupies Yantai, and the two sides are arguing over Qingdao, the biggest fat meat. For this reason, a large number of goods stolen by the army were piled up in Qingdao, but the navy personnel deliberately delayed and could not transport them.

"The Kou Navy preached the Qingdao-centric theory in North China in Qingdao, while the army seized on Tianjin, which had not been bombed by the war, and released the Tianjincentric theory. In general, Qingdao is still a stronger naval force. Pharmacist Tang explained.

"How many ships does the devil's fourth fleet have in Qingdao at this time?" Meng Xiang asked the rat twice.

"The Navy has just adjusted its strength a week ago, and the number of ships in the Fourth Fleet has been greatly reduced. The mines laid by the Jing Ke and the Yaoli submarines in the channel sank two cargo ships and one freighter with mines, which caused most of the Fourth Fleet of the Fourth Fleet to follow the traces of the submarines to the Weihai area. There are also their ports there. At present, the main ship in the harbor is the Okishima, which is a newly commissioned laying ship in 36 years. It's not the original old Okishima! Rat Er deliberately pointed out that this Okishima was not the old warship captured from Russia during the Russo-Russian War. But Meng Xiang also didn't know anything about Lao Chong Island.

"The 3rd Diving Squadron and the Ball Mill are still in port, and the 2nd Gunboat and the 15th Destroyer are on their way to pursue our submarine with the flagship Ashigara."

"The devil still attaches great importance to our submarines?" Meng Xiang couldn't help but laugh. Tune the tiger away from the mountain, and I didn't expect the effect to be so good. But he didn't know his own troubles, and if he allowed the submarines to constantly harass near the harbor and on the shipping lanes, then this route to the mainland would be in great trouble. The recent series of incidents of sinking cargo ships have annoyed them. This time the submarine was discovered, can it not make them anxious? You must know that Qingdao has been designated by the navy as their central base in North China.

"Just asking them to be safe!" What Meng Xiang is talking about is those submarines, in the vigorous pursuit of himself, they are easy to be besieged and sunk if they are not careful.

"Keep searching!" The commander of the 4th Fleet, Vice Takeshi Toyoda, ordered with a calm face. Along the way, the shadows of submarines were constantly spotted, but unfortunately they were never able to catch their tails.

"At 10 nautical miles in the direction of 18 o'clock in the left front, an enemy submarine was spotted surfacing the surface!" The staff officer came over and reported.

"Oh?" Vice Takeshi Toyota feels that something is wrong, the speed of this submarine is a little too fast!

"How many are there?" He asked after a moment's silence.

"Four!" This is in line with the four ships in the intelligence. It's just that they just disappeared from this search area when they came out of another place. They can reach at least 16 knots underwater.

"This is a new technology that is far beyond the level of the Reich, and not just an ordinary submarine for the Germans. Be sure to grab them. Thinking of this, not only did his heart heat up, according to the volume of those submarines, reaching 16 knots underwater means that if the Imperial Navy gets this technology, it will be another big leap.

Under a series of orders from Vice Toyoda, more than a dozen large and small ships surrounded him.

"Almost, they found out!" The new captain Zhong Shuqian couldn't help but be a little afraid, just now, although the Jing Ke and the other four ships were hiding at the bottom of the sea, they had been locked in the general position by the experienced devil navy. One of the depth charges from the Itsukushima laying ship landed directly on them, not far away. The nearest Zhuhe suffered some injuries, and one pipe was broken. If it weren't for the fact that they appeared in time, I am afraid that they would be exposed.

Fortunately, this is the Yellow Sea, if it was still in the shallow Bohai Sea, I am afraid that it would have been exposed long ago.

"I've received a signal from the Shogun. They're going to Area 18! Xu Shengping reported. As soon as they surfaced, they began to send signals. This time, in order to quickly cover Jing Ke and them, the Zhuan Zhu was a little closer. They need to dive quickly to escape and dodge.

"Let's go to Area 20 to meet them!" Zhong Shuqian quickly gave the order, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth, "I definitely haven't heard the joke that Commander Meng said about triplets racing against people!" Let them find it slowly! ”

Meng Xiang also thought of that joke by chance, and only then did he have a plan to delay the submarine. For this reason, he deliberately produced four identical Type 2B submarines to confuse the devils, but he didn't expect to make Toyota's vice president misunderstand that it was the new technology of this submarine, and he only wanted to capture them alive, but these submarines received a lot less damage.

"The Marine units of the Fourth Fleet are also in port, probably three or four squadrons." Rat Two continued to converge.

Meng Xiang didn't care about this, the devil navy was powerful, but on land, it was absolutely impossible to stop the attack of the vanguard army, not to mention that they were only a brigade.

"How's that Okishima?" Meng Xiang asked, not having the slightest impression of him.

"The Xinchong Island has an estimated displacement of more than 4,000 tons, has two twin three-year 140 mm L/50 guns, two single-mounted three-year 76 mm L / 40 anti-aircraft guns, the specific mine-laying capability is unknown, and a catapult was found and carried a water reconnaissance aircraft."

"Well, it's not very strong!" Meng Xiang said in his heart, he didn't know that the Okishima was the earliest large-scale professional laying ship in this book, and it was used for minelaying full-time.

"Continue with Plan B! The Air Force has already passed Jiaozhou, and the armored train should be about to arrive in Qingdao, right? ”

A steel dragon suddenly appeared in front of the defenders of Qingdao.

The defenders of Yangcheng were still the sporadic strength of the 65th Wing, and although they had set up many obstacles on the tracks, and there were bunkers and sandbag fortifications on both sides of the railway, they could not stop this behemoth armored train. The front end of the armored train is equipped with a special obstacle clearer to deal with roadblocks, which directly and effortlessly breaks through the blockade of the devils and crushes the devils' defense line to pieces.

"It's already Qingdao City ahead! We're in Qingdao! Deng Dayan peeked out from the front of the tank turret and shouted, although he had now been quickly promoted from captain to lieutenant colonel, he still did not want to stay in the command room of the third carriage, but chose to run to the front.

"Watch out for their fortress cannons!" Meng Xiang instructed again. Although there is already a follow-up attack plan, once there is a plan that is disjointed, it will have a big impact on the attack behind.

Most of the fortress guns in Qingdao were destroyed when Shen Honglie evacuated, and after the devil's repair, a small part was restored, but after all, there were not many, and most of the guns were facing outward. This is also one of the reasons why Meng Xiang dared to run to grab food.

Only a few fires could cover the city of Qingdao, which would be the focus of the Vanguard attack.

"Look, there's two dogs there!" Jiro Koike pointed to a corner not far away and said to Saai Inoue next to him.

"I saw it earlier." Inoue, who is accustomed to getting up in the morning to exercise, casually moved his wrist and said.

"Haven't you heard? Dog chaos in Kanagawa, Tokyo and other places. The gun in Koike's hand couldn't help but clench, and his sister's letter was terrible.

"Every year there are mad dogs biting people, what's so unusual."

"But a lot of people have died from rabies there!" Koike couldn't help but think of the news that his sister said that most of the people in a village in Kanagawa were sick and died. People who have been bitten by dogs in Tokyo are constantly flocking to major hospitals, causing doctors and beds to be strained. There are days when it goes night, and there are not many people in sight on the bustling streets of Tokyo. Dogs in every household were beaten to death or imprisoned. Even his own Shiba Inu was beaten to death by someone outside.

"Please, this is Zhina, didn't you see that those people outside are all right?" Inoue shook his head helplessly at him, and pointed to a few sentinels outside with his hand.

As the two spoke, the two dogs had disappeared into the weeds that had scurried to the side.

A few days ago, dogs were found around the fort forts that had been repaired by several devils. At first, the devils were a little worried, but when they saw that the dogs were just catching rabbits in the mountains or something, and after killing a few dogs that were too close, they were no longer nervous. If it weren't for the domestic influence, I'm afraid they would have to catch a few dogs and come back to eat dog meat.

"Why are there a little too many dogs around today?" Koike, who has been having nightmares these days, came together in the morning and saw that the number of dogs around the fort seemed to have doubled.

"Attention all radio stations, synchronously transmit signals to attack Qingdao!" Meng Xiang kept listening to the news coming from everywhere, and couldn't help nodding at Fan Chong and ordering.

The armored train, which had just cleared a checkpoint, sounded its whistle as it rushed without slowing down.

"Woo! Woo! Woo! Three long train whistles echoed through the city of Qingdao.