"What do you say? Tada Jun and those division commanders were all killed during the meeting? When Sugiyama heard the news, he only felt a black color in front of him. If it weren't for his tenacious and stubborn heart, he would have fainted directly. To be able to hang up the title of the poop, it is definitely not just a simple foolish smile that can ignore everything with thick nerves.

"Didn't you intercept it? What do so many observation posts do for food? But when he heard that something like an airplane flew straight over, he couldn't help but yell.

"They're so fast! Before he could react, he hit the headquarters and exploded. The intelligence staff officer hung his head vigorously.

"Too fast? How fast? The observation post has been arranged since Xuchang, and it is a hundred kilometers to Luohe? Sugiyama continued to roar, and only then would the anguish in his heart emanate.

"It's estimated to exceed the speed of sound. The observation post there said that the strange planes flew by, and the loud rumbling sound reached the ears. Kenji Tohihara, who was next to him, explained with a frown.

"More than a voice?" Sugiyama Mototo gasped. Later generations were known as the first person in the army aviation, and he was very familiar with aviation. It was precisely he who laid the foundation for the tactics and education of the army aviation, and it was precisely because of his unremitting efforts that the army aviation was able to develop into an effective combat force.

So he, naturally, knows the difficulties of flying at supersonic speeds. He has also done a lot of experiments, but the speed does not exceed the speed of sound, and the aircraft generally disintegrates first.

"They actually have the secret of flying beyond the speed of sound?" Sugiyama Mototo, constantly pondering.

"Those people are very brave, but this way is also good." Kenji Dohihara is also pondering this type of attack. According to reports from the front, those flying machines fell from the sky and landed accurately to their destinations, and he couldn't think of anything that could be so precise except for manned pilots.

"It's a good idea to use a dead man to control a fast plane and go straight to the target. Twenty dead soldiers in exchange for a dozen generals, such a price is acceptable. "Kenji Dohihara always thought that the vanguard army launched a suicide attack by a dead soldier.

"However, this method is more powerful in naval warfare, and if a fast plane rushes to the ship, it may be able to change the outcome of a naval battle. If a few people and a few planes can be exchanged for a battleship, this method is not bad, it is more suitable than the Huitian torpedo, and it is worth studying! Kenji Tsuchihara suddenly broadened his thinking. Thus, the rudiments of a kamikaze were sketched in his mind.

"I'm going to Luohe!" Sugiyama Moto's shout woke him up, at this time, there was still a lack of senior commanders in the Central Plains Theater, and whether it was offensive or defensive, he would be very passive.

But it's still a little late.

"What, the vanguard has begun a counteroffensive?" Before Sugiyama had prepared the list of personnel who would accompany him, he received news that several divisions of the vanguard army were counterattacking together.

"Hurry up and prepare! Contact me with the divisional headquarters! Sugiyama suppressed the distracting thoughts in his heart and tried to unify the troops in the shortest possible time. Without the supreme command, the divisions and regiments sometimes fight on their own, not to mention the cooperation of several divisions and regiments.

"What? All tank troops? That's impossible? Sugiyama's roar could be heard in the corridor of the headquarters.

"This can't be?" At this time, Major General Naoji Sakai, commander of the 16th Infantry Brigade of the 19th Division, also shouted. After receiving the news that the high-level commanders had all been wiped out, he propped up the command of the 16th Division in the Xuchang defense line. But this line of defense was breached in less than an hour.

"There are too many chariot troops in the vanguard, we can't stop it!" The staff officer's voice was a little choked. The corpses of the soldiers on the line were crushed under the wheels of the sea. The vanguard led the charge with 150 mm tank guns, and the 105 mm guns arranged in the fortifications were helpless against their thick armor, and those fortifications were directly smashed one by one. Those machine gun fortifications were even more useless, and they were directly destroyed by 76mm tank guns.

The trenches were quickly filled with earth and corpses by construction vehicles, and the minefields were detonated by covered artillery to create safe passages. The barbed wire was torn like a piece of paper in front of the thick armored combat vehicle. Even though the soldiers of the army howled and blew up one or two chariots at the cost of hundreds of lives, everyone could see that there were still chariots rolling forward everywhere in front of and behind, and a sense of powerlessness arose.

"Rush! Rush forward! Li Tiexia finally received a battle and shouted excitedly.

After guarding Jiaodong for nearly a year, his troops are almost becoming local defense troops. If he hadn't trained the soldiers under his hands ruthlessly, I'm afraid they would have grown fat all over their bodies. At this time, there was finally a chance to charge, and all the depression that had been spent for so long suddenly broke out with the roar of the tank engine.

Under the torrent of steel, nothing can stop it!

"To withdraw or not to withdraw?" Sakai Naoji hesitated a little, the chariot units of the vanguard army had torn the defense line of the 16th Division to pieces, and they could no longer organize an effective counterattack. But this withdrawal from the front made him a little unwilling.

"What about the men of the 9th Division?" The 9th Division has also arrived in Xuchang, but it has not yet begun to deploy its positions.

"They are relying on the defense of Xuchang County!" Adjutant Staff Officer said. There are more veterans in the 9th Division. They didn't panic too much, and they were more calm than the 16th Division, which had replaced most of the recruits.

"The 9th Division? This time, they can't run away, and they must avenge the revenge of Nanjing. Li Tiexia suddenly thought of his comrades-in-arms who died under the city of Nanjing, and his eyes couldn't help but be a little ruddy.

"We can't go!" Naoji Sakai said a little tired as he looked at the information that kept coming. As soon as he hesitated, the 16th Division was already encircled.

Somehow, a tank unit of the vanguard army composed of more than 200 tank fighting vehicles emerged from the Funiu Mountains and penetrated directly into the rear position of the devils in Xuchang. The sub-base in Xinmi can cover the Pingdingshan area. A tank factory and a logistics equipment center were built on Mount Funiu. As long as someone comes, they can immediately pull up an ironclad division.

It is difficult to get tanks and equipment, but personnel can bypass the national control area. Scattered into Funiu Mountain, and did not bring much supplies, there will be no trace of the border of the army at all.

Because of the liquidation of the army, Tang Enbo's troops had moved westward, so he did not pay much attention to the vanguard guerrillas who were close to here. After a long time, he also knew that although the guerrillas of the vanguard army were better armed, they did not fight much, and they mainly focused on collecting intelligence. But who knows, at this time, the guerrillas suddenly turned into a regular army.

In the Funiu Mountains, there are not only tank teams that caught the devil off guard, but also the vanguard cannons that make them tremble.

"Boom!" "Boom!"

When the earth-shaking cannon sound resounded in the ears of the devil, he suddenly thought of the scene of being depressed on the bank of the Yellow River waiting to be bombed. Against the vanguard cannon, you can only be helpless.

"It's a pity that I fell into someone else's trap in the first place, otherwise I would ......" Sakai Naoji sighed as he looked at the fighter plane in the sky.

When the attack of the vanguard army began, his own plane still wanted to give the ground troops of the vanguard army a little taste, but when more than 300 fighters suddenly flew over from the direction of Zhengzhou, he realized that the strength of the vanguard army was even greater than they imagined.

"Where did they get these fighters?" If the number of more than 500 fighters in the vanguard army were added to more than 300, the result would be different. In the vicinity of Xuchang alone, the number of aircraft of the Vanguard Army has reached almost four hundred. Directly chased the military planes there to the ground.

From time to time, Ju-88 bombers flew out from behind the fighters of the vanguard army, and under the escort of the fighters, they went straight to the airfields of Xuchang and Luohe. This time, the main force of Yu Yu almost ran into the sky, intending to do a miracle in one fell swoop, and the protection of the airport was not very strong. However, there were not many bombers in the Vanguard Army.

The elite pilots all ran to fly the fighters, and even some of the elite bombers temporarily changed careers. Greatly reduces Attack Damage. They only went from the oil depots and runways of the airfields, and the bombers parked on those airfields were also attractive targets. However, the news from my airfield was very fast, and although the protection was not strong, most of the bombers flew early.

However, even if those bombers were to take off, they did not have the fortress protection of the B-17. Without the escort of fighter jets, they are just some targets in the air, and they are more suitable for beating people and planes together.

"How do they have so many planes and pilots?" Sugiyama Moto, who heard the news, was stunned for a while, a little incredulous. He knows the hardships of training a pilot, and the cost of building a flying team.

"It's a trap, they've been ready for it for a long time!" Kenji Dohihara said a little angrily, saying that his information was lagging behind again.

"I've been busy for more than a month, and I've finally got some results." Meng Xiang said with relief.

Since arranging this situation, Meng Xiang has shifted his energy to the construction of the Air Force. Without the support of the Air Force, everything is nonsense. In particular, he felt that it would be difficult to build the navy for a while, so Meng Xiang decided to focus on the air force. Even aircraft carriers need a large number of pilots to form combat effectiveness, so Meng Xiang tilted the quota of the training center towards the air force. In a little more than a month, a hundred more pilots were added.

Among the recruits, more than 200 people have been trained hard. Although the combat experience is a little worse, the technique has basically improved to the level of proficiency. Moreover, Meng Xiang still had a hundred skilled pilots hidden in his hands, and they had not been activated, and they were all scattered at this time.

The sky from Xinzheng to Xuchang is full of thunder and lightning and hell cats. And only half of my 300 planes are zero-type. An air chase, the range gradually expanded, running to the Yellow River in the north and flying to the Luohe River in the south. There are battlefields in the sky, and most of them are still entangled. But the ground was overwhelmingly falling to one side.

The armored units of the vanguard army had already cut through the defense line of the 16th Division and attacked Xuchang, and they did not entangle the defending troops holding Xuchang more, but directly crossed them and continued to the south and began to attack the multiple lines of the 9th Division.

In the other direction, the ironclad elite of the 41st Division is using another way, advancing step by step. Due to the fact that there were several rivers, their advance was relatively slow, but they crushed the outer defensive line of the 13th Division step by step, forcing their defensive circle to become smaller and smaller.

"Our reinforcements have arrived!" When the Fifth Division heard the news, it hurried to the two wings and helped the 13th Division to stabilize the front, which made the faces of the devils much lighter, and there was only one division on the opposite side.

"There are many of us, and there are rivers blocking us, so we are not afraid of them!" Although they were apprehensive about the impact of the steel chariots that the vanguard had just rushed over, the devils quickly made an excuse for themselves to be reassured. With the arrival of the 5th Division, the troops of the Japanese army, which were constantly gathering near the river bank, had made the river defense as tight as iron.

"What's that?" The inquisitive soldiers of the 5th Division looked at the tank units on the other side of the river, but suddenly saw the entire field of fire and clouds rising from the other side of the river.

"Run! Snowstorm! As soon as the veterans of the 13th Division, who had already experienced the power of Katyusha rocket artillery, saw the familiar scene, they immediately ran towards the rear with wild shouts.

The only way to encounter such a bombardment with wide coverage is to dodge. Even fortifications could hardly withstand the power of such heavy artillery attacks.

The 13th Division bombed the camp at once, and the soldiers of the 5th Division were still at a loss.

But a red cloud in the sky immediately let them know what it felt like to dump the molten from the sky. By the time they wanted to run along, the roaring explosion of thunder and tiger had already rushed in front of them. So the sky collapsed and the earth cracked, and there were furious flames everywhere, and the devil's steely river defense front was melted by the flames of war in just a few minutes. In many places, tanks rushed along the rapidly erected pontoon bridges.

"Hurry, hurry, do it again! I can't get enough of it every time! Deng Dayan danced excitedly. Every blizzard launch is a shocking one. Ever since he saw this, he felt that the 150mm guns that were placed in the door could not attract him. As soon as he heard that the swarm was going to attack this time, he came early.

Xia Dayu, the commander of the rocket artillery next to him, rolled his eyes, the rocket artillery was enjoyable to fire, but it was troublesome to install ammunition. This time, there were only 100 rocket launchers, and there were still many rocket launchers who did not have any extra people to work on, and more gunners were transferred to support anti-aircraft artillery, and there was a shortage of drivers because of the establishment of motorized divisions.

At this time, a large number of drivers drove trucks carrying soldiers and dragged artillery to the battlefield in Xuchang. The rails of the Pinghan Railway, which had been damaged on the battlefield in the rear, were also being repaired. At this time, it was already the other way around, and the devils were afraid that the vanguard army would carry out a surprise attack from the railway, but wherever there was a railway at the junction, they carried out sabotage.

But the vanguard army still came with the wheels of trucks and the tracks of combat vehicles.

"I'm going to the front!" Sugiyama roared.

"You can't go, the vanguard army has already controlled the sky, it's too dangerous to fly." The adjutant and his subordinates blocked his dangerous move. The latest intelligence suggests that the Vanguard has the upper hand in that area. Once Sugiyama Moto's plane was shot down, it would be even worse.

"None of you can replace me! I have to go, or the situation there will collapse. Sugiyama said anxiously. Indeed, the success of the Vanguard Army's attack had a lot to do with the lack of senior commanders in the Army. If it weren't for the rigorous training of the army in peacetime, I am afraid that it would be even worse at this time.

But even so, under the heavy fire of the vanguard, there were already teams that collapsed.

When part of the tanks of the 50th Division of the Vanguard Army cut into the defense line of the 13th Division from the northwest, part of the troops of the 13th Division, which was driven by the second round of rockets, suddenly collapsed, and also broke up part of the defense line of the 5th Division in the rear.

If the infantry collapses, facing the pursuit of the armored forces behind, just like the previous infantry rout was pursued by the cavalry, it is difficult to escape a dead word. The two legs of a man cannot outrun the four legs of a horse, let alone the tracks and wheels.

The mechanized brigade of the 50th Division followed behind the 13th Division and overwhelmed the defensive line of the 5th Division step by step.

Under the joint attack of the 41st Division and the 50th Division, the 13th Division and the 5th Division of the Devil retreated step by step, and had withdrawn from Taikang, Fugou and other places. The road to Xuchang had been cut off by the 50th Division, and they had to withdraw to Huaiyang, Zhoukou and other areas.

The vanguard attacked from the north, west, and east together, leaving only the southeast direction, giving hope to the fleeing devils. But this would cause more collapses, and only those wing commanders would not be able to face the onslaught of the vanguard army alone.

So, Sugiyama had to take this risk.

"You can go! But it is necessary to transfer all the planes from Huaibei to Xuchang, otherwise I am afraid that the situation will not be stabilized. And with these fighters escorting, the commander is also safer. Kenji Tsuchihara, who was silent for a while, said.

"That's it!" Sugiyama Yuan decisively issued an order for Huaibei military planes to support Xuchang and Luohe.

Huaibei's planes were trapped in the defense of anti-aircraft artillery and could not open up the situation for a long time, while the Xuchang area was only an hour's journey from Huaibei, and they could still rush to the rescue.

"The plane of the Huaibei army rushed towards Xuchang!" Meng Xiang also quickly got the information. The news from the radar station conveyed the movements of the military planes in a timely manner.

"There are three air defense blockades, let them break through first!" Huang Zhenqiu received the news and said confidently.

With the advent of the vanguard aircraft, some of the anti-aircraft artillery deployed near Zhengzhou and Xinzheng began to be towed and transferred by trucks, and were quickly deployed in the areas of Xuchang and Fugou, and at this time, the first line of anti-aircraft artillery deployed near Mangshan began to intercept. The radar station provided the route for the arrival of the military planes in a timely manner. Therefore, as soon as some of the planes passed there, the anti-aircraft artillery took advantage of their unpreparedness and shot down four fighters of the Japanese army.

He also said that his plane had already lost 14 fighters after passing the second line of defense arranged in Fugou and the third line of defense in Xuchang. Together with the 26 fighters they lost in Huaibei and the 11 planes shot down near Xinzheng and Zhengzhou, the air defense forces alone had a record of more than 50 planes.

Huaibei's support planes had already shot down 39 fighters by the Vanguard Army's planes in Huaibei, and only 200 of them flew over Xuchang at this time. And there were a hundred planes chased out by the vanguard army behind.

After a battle in Huaibei, the Pioneer Army also lost 22 fighters, and at this time the Pioneer Army still had nearly 100 planes there, mainly to guard against the planes on the Tianlong aircraft carrier.

The Type Zero on the Draco also made a round of sorties, but only lost 3 Zero carrier-based aircraft. It didn't hurt their vitality, and at this time they were still cruising on the sea off Lianyungang.

"Such a big light bulb, if you don't hit it, I'm so sorry for your enthusiasm!" Meng Xiang saw that the Nagato-class battleship on the screen was shining, and it was particularly dazzling.

At this time, the sub-base in Tancheng had a chariot factory near Lianyungang, and after hearing the news that the Changmen class was coming, Meng Xiang produced two V3 rocket cars, and three more were transported through the Longhai Railway. At this time, the target was already on the sea.

Because there are also heavy artillery and giant artillery near Lianyungang, his ships are relatively far away from the coastline, a distance of 80 kilometers. But this did not affect the combat of the aircraft on the Wyvern. This time, Nagato only followed as a super thug. There were also destroyers and light cruisers to deal with submarines and torpedo boats.

The reconnaissance planes of the vanguard in the sky flew quickly, leaving the Zero carrier-based planes that came to drive him far behind, and constantly reported the distance and direction of each ship. At a higher place, at an altitude of more than 10,000 meters, a B-17 reconnaissance plane is constantly correcting the changes caused by the fleet's navigation.

The Nagato-class battleships are still named after the names of the ancient Lingguo of the people. Because the Izumo was sunk by the Vanguard, it was salvaged and given to the Central Navy, and the name of the Izumo is still hung. But in order to wash away this shame, he named one of the new Nagato-class battleships Izumo and drove out. also showed off his might in Shanghai for a while.

At this time, it was accompanied by the aircraft carrier Wyvern, and the Izumo battleship became an excellent signal source for the positioning of the V3 rocket.

"According to the time, those Hainan Airlines planes are about to go back, and a new batch is about to take off, so it is appropriate to bomb them at this time. v3 Ready, Start Attacking! Target, Wyvern! ”