"You see, the devil passed quickly." Meng Xiang smiled and said to Fan Chong, "Sure enough, they fainted first when they saw the more than 200 heavy artillery. ”

"Even when I saw more than 200 heavy guns, I didn't know what to do with them. If it is an attack, there are many artillery that can block it? They don't have the power to attack from the air, so what do they rely on to stop them? Fan Chong nodded, imagining the bombardment scene of more than 200 heavy artillery, he couldn't sit still anymore, and his single eye kept scanning the large combat map on the wall, walking back and forth with his hands behind his back.

On a 100-kilometer front, on 16 artillery positions, the constant roar of heavy artillery swept across his defensive line.

The temporary fortifications that had been laid out were directly overturned and smashed by heavy artillery shells. The two wings of the 13th Division could only lie on the ground, facing the monotonous scene of thunder, artillery fire and gunsmoke, and in the tremor of the heavy artillery shaking the earth, they shrank as much as possible and waited for the end of the disaster.

"The heavens are shaking!" Xiao Gu Cungang's mind was already full of this word at this time, he was lying in a crater, and with him were two half-mutilated corpses, full of eyes, the smoke of gunpowder had covered the sky, and the sun in the sky could not be seen. The ground was full of scorched black from the flames and a brownish yellow with dust soaked in blood.

He couldn't tell which direction the artillery fire was coming from, as if there were heavy artillery sounds all around, and the roar that was a little closer made people unable to even stand, and the smell of scorched corpses came over one by one, so that he could not eat the rice balls he was carrying.

A black shadow flashed, and a ghost soldier rolled in from outside, he got up, glared at Xiao Gu Cungang and took a look, then began to crawl to the two corpses, found out the lunch box that one of them was carrying, opened it and chewed it directly with his hand full of sand, the blood on his arm dripped down, mixed in the white rice ball, but he ignored it and stuffed it directly into his mouth, making Xiao Gu Cungang turn his stomach and want to vomit.

Yoshinobu Hasei glanced at Kogu Cunoka with contempt, and at first glance, he knew that he was a rookie. Under such artillery fire, if you don't fill your stomach quickly, no one will bring food when you are hungry. He's lost everything on him halfway, he's gone so long, he hasn't eaten breakfast, his stomach is growling, it's time for lunch. How can you run without filling your stomach?

Seeing what Yoshinobu Hasei said on the other side, Xiao Gu Cungang couldn't hear it, and when he touched it, blood oozed from his ears, which was probably similar to Ryoshin Hase's ears dripping with blood.

Yoshinobu Hasei gestured a few times and raised his hand in Chinese, and Koguro recognized that this was to find the wing command post. He shook his head, the original command post had long been destroyed by artillery fire, and at this time he couldn't even find his squad leader.

Yoshinobu Hasei glanced at him in disappointment, he needed to quickly find the wing headquarters and pass the news on. The telegraph is different, the telephone is not bombed, and it can only rely on the legs and feet of the herald.

Yoshinobu Hase, who had drunk some water, untied the kettle on the corpse of another devil and filled it with water, hung it on his body, and after sneering at Kokokoka, he crawled out of the crater.

Xiao Gu Cungang saw his mocking smile when he left, and was about to scold back with some unwillingness, but he heard a scream from the sky and hurriedly crawled to the ground.

After a loud "boom", Xiao Gu Cungang moved his arm that was buried in the floating soil and climbed up. First of all, Yoshinobu Hase's body was missing an arm, and the document he was carrying had been nearly shattered into pieces, and a black scrap of paper with the words removed covered Yoshinobu Hase's somewhat gray left eye.

"Pull it off!" Major General Danji Yamada, commander of the 103rd Brigade, ordered to the commander of the 65th Wing, Ryokakuye Osaku, with some helplessness.

The command post of the 104th Wing could no longer be contacted, and the few communications troops sent could not find any news.

Under the precise guidance of several reconnaissance planes constantly circling in the sky, the achievements of the heavy artillery were more than just deterrence.

Danji Yamada also received an order from above, such a retreat is inevitable, and it is not their fault to be able to retreat under the bombardment of more than 200 heavy artillery pieces on the front line. The country's elite Reading Field Heavy Artillery Wing only has 24 150-mm howitzers, and only on the opposite side of their defensive line, there are no less than 30 150 howitzers, and there are also 12 203 heavy guns.

He needs to face the artillery power of at least four elite artillery wings, so how can he stop it? At this time, he only had three 75-mm mountain guns left in his hands, and the rest were blown into parts scattered in the floating soil of the front line.

"What we need now is time, reinforcements used to need time, to withdraw from that dangerous place, the heavy artillery of the vanguard army needs to be pushed over little by little, and by the time they get to our new position, our reinforcements have arrived." Ogisu Libing yelled, "The lives of Imperial soldiers can't be wasted in that place. ”

"The retreat from outside Xuzhou City into the city, relying on the buildings in the city to resist the attack of the vanguard army, even if Xuzhou City becomes a ruin, we will not let the vanguard army get it in vain." He hated, and in response to him was the occasional roar of French cannons.

The chaotic bombardment continued, but the interval between the bombardments was longer, and the targets worth bombing became fewer and fewer, and gradually became a cannon fire every two or three minutes. Correspondingly, the automatic maintenance and repair of the cannon is also much easier.

"Don't stop and keep banging! Bombard for a day first! The city of Xuzhou is in no hurry to occupy it. Meng Xiang instructed. also needs a piece of chicken ribs so that the devil can't give it up.

On the Longhai line, under the heavy artillery bombardment, the soldiers of the vanguard army rushed forward and soon occupied the line east of Xuzhou to Lianyungang. The sappers in the rear rushed over to repair and lay new railroad tracks. and connected two newly built tank factories next to the railway.

There was no need for dispatch from Xuzhou station, and the newly produced armored train went directly to the Longhai line. Relying on the Longhai line, it is much more convenient to use armored trains to transport ammunition and materials. The front-line troops who have crossed more than 10 kilometers of the Longhai Line only need to complete the last step of transportation by car.

The huge artillery in Xuzhou City continued all night. The personnel who worked on it had been replaced by other clones, and they only needed to bombard according to the entered coordinates.

The reconnaissance planes in the air have been replaced with a night combat type with infrared devices, although the infrared devices of World War II are not yet advanced, but it is still possible to see the activities of the brigade. But the devils didn't know at all, and took advantage of the night to come out to concentrate on activities, and were bombarded by the huge cannons that came from the guide, and suffered heavy casualties.

At first, the devils just thought it was an accident, but when transporting ammunition, after being bombed two ammunition points in a row, the devils began to suspect that there was a small number of soldiers in the city. Although there are no more residents in Xuzhou City, there are many vacant houses to hide, and it is not ruled out that agents of the Vanguard Army may infiltrate. But at this time, the cannon is roaring, how can there be time to search? All the people who had gathered together became the targets of the huge artillery, and the manpower of the formation could not be organized.

At that time, how many people could think of infrared devices that could see objects at night? There is no doubt that his devils stayed awake all night in the roar of the cannon, and spent the night in the screeching of the cannon that had been holding on to their hearts and the concussion sound coming from the ground.

"They have at least six giant cannons." Numata Shigetoku was still thinking about the need to constantly change the barrels and bombard in turns, and at least six guns would be needed to maintain the non-stop bombardment.

"Six cannons!" He sighed with palpitations. In this era, in the absence of air superiority and other means of long-range counterattack, it is normal for one giant cannon to collapse a city, let alone six.

"Can this Xuzhou City still be defended?" The thought was constantly churning in his mind.

"Guard, you must guard!" Chief of Staff Ji Yuanju said categorically, "Even if Xuzhou City is in ruins, it is not ours." ”

"How could I be willing to turn all the city of Xuzhou into ruins? You look at this urban planning map of Xuzhou, this is the old city of Xuzhou, and we have not moved some buildings that need to be preserved, after all, Xuzhou City is ours. Most of these bombarded areas are in need of reconstruction. Meng Xiang smiled and said to He Siyuan, who came to blame, He Siyuan was begged by some squires in Xuzhou City to come and ask questions, after all, it was very distressing to see the city where he had lived for a long time being destroyed.

"After all, compared to these buildings, the lives of our soldiers are more precious! Those buildings that are not important have to be violently demolished in order to deal with the devils. Meng Xiang kept thinking in his heart that a similar [***] was the only one.

"And when is the general going to attack?" He Siyuan asked, you can't keep tearing it down like this.

"We are not in a hurry to recover Xuzhou, but the devils are even more anxious." Meng Xiang said with a smile.

The attack of the vanguard army on the Longhai line made the momentum of the devil's attack in Wuhan stagnate. In particular, the devils of Central China, who attacked Wuhan along the Yangtze River, had to consider the safety of Lianghuai when the vanguard army pressed south. At this time, the two Huai were not affected by the bursting of the Yellow River, and the coal in Huaibei and Huainan and the grain on the Huaihe Plain could not be thrown away. Moreover, if the vanguard army attacks rapidly, once the land of Lianghuai, which has only three divisions and regiments, is captured, the vanguard army is likely to approach Nanjing, and then threaten the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas.

The devil immediately mobilized his troops, but the reading division of the vanguard army suddenly became active, and frequently attacked the surrounding counties. Hangzhou, Wuxi and other places have been affected. The Central China Army, which was defending in the area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, was immediately overstretched. As a last resort, the attack of the Sixth Division and other units had to be delayed, and even troops were transferred to protect the two Huai.

The 10th Division stationed in the Central Plains also pressed towards Xuzhou.

But seeing that the threshold of Wuhan had already stepped into one foot, the unwilling Sugiyama Gen ordered the Yue army in North China to intensify the attack. At this time, the cold snap in Siberia swept through the north, the pressure of Soviet Russia was eliminated, and the Kwantung Army could be flexibly mobilized. Even if the army in North China pressed in on a large scale, it did not have to worry too much about security.

"Really? Devils are just too confident sometimes! Meng Xiang sighed, as soon as the pressure on Soviet Russia decreased, the devil's nerves immediately relaxed. In the face of the attack of the Central China Dispatch Army, it stalled in the area of Tianjia Town. The devils in North China intensified their attacks, and when they heard that the heavy artillery of the vanguard army was concentrated on the southern front, the devils defending the Yellow River also transferred the 116th Division defending the Yellow River to Kaifeng.

"Under our watch, it is impossible for them to erect a pontoon bridge over the Yellow River overnight, there can be no miracle bridge here!" Lieutenant General Minoru Ushijima, commander of the 20th Division, directly asserted after hearing someone say about the miracle bridge when the vanguard army was evacuated from Nanjing.

"The vanguard army has no heavy artillery, and we can break as many pontoon bridges as they build." Wing Commander of the 26th Field Artillery Wing, Hosokawa Tadayasu Osa, also swore that he was still surprised that the vanguard army threw out more than 200 heavy artillery pieces in one go. If these cannons were concentrated on the side of the Yellow River, they would have braved the artillery fire to build pontoon bridges, and the devils would not have much to stop.

At the same time, the SAR has been hung with orange warning signs, and some areas in the south are already red signs. A large number of soldiers of the vanguard army gathered to the south by various means of transportation, and many of them still had immature smiles on their faces.

"This is the army of the Vanguards, why do I see it like some Boy Scouts? Without a bit of murderous aura on the battlefield, how can they all be recruits? Could it be that the vanguard army won the battle with weapons? Luo Donghe said with some disappointment. He had just returned from abroad, and when he heard of the prestige of the Vanguard Army and planned to join the Pioneer Army, all he saw was a new regiment that had not experienced the smoke of artillery fire.

No matter what kind of soldiers they are, the 100,000 troops with the name of the vanguard army gathered on the southern front, which made the devils afraid and did not dare to slack off.

But at this time, something happened that made the devil even more worried, another border incident suddenly occurred on the side of the puppet Manchurians, and there was a fierce clash between the Soviet Russian garrison and his own patrol, and the two sides opened fire, killing and wounding more than a dozen soldiers.

"Okay, the east wind is here. But that's not what we rely on. Whether there is or not, our plan to attack North China must also be carried out. Whether it is to attack the north from the south or from the east wind, in the end we rely on our own strength. Meng Xiang said and stood up.

"Wow!" There was a neat sound, and more than thirty senior officers below also stood up at the same time.

"I order, Project One is officially begins! Attack, for the revival of China! ”