"Those are the chariots of the Shina people?" Mitsuo Nakajima put down his binoculars in disbelief.

"That's them!" That day, Goro Makino, who witnessed the destruction of the two brigades of the army on the other side, gritted his teeth and hated.

At this time, the same thing happened again, and when the tanks of the vanguard army ran over, he himself had just crossed the pontoon bridge and suffered another bad luck.

The vanguard army on the other side did not directly wipe out the Yue troops on the pontoon bridge, but let them go and hit them halfway through, without heavy weapons and without building fortifications, another tragedy.

"Stop crossing the river!" Nakajima quickly made up his mind to stop the attack, and without effective strike weapons, under the cover of more than two dozen chariots, crossing the river was only a suicide. They had already expected the tanks of the Vanguard Army before, but guessed that there were not many of them, so they had a unified opinion before, and when they encountered the tanks of the Vanguard Army, they could stop the offensive and avoid unnecessary losses.

If the artillery brigade was here, it might have been able to cross the river and try it, but most of the artillery at this time had been transferred to the west.

"They don't seem to have tanks yet!" Goro Makino held the binoculars and kept observing.

Meng Xiang did have a reserve of eighteen tanks in his hands, and the tanks were vulnerable to heavy shelling by the army on the other side of the river, but after crossing the river, the tanks far away from the threat of artillery fire were easier to play an advantage on the plain. Moreover, not far from Jinan City, there is also a military brigade that is shrinking its defense. Tanks are a greater threat to them.

Now that the Yellow River is fighting, the tactics they used to drag on time no longer work. Staying in the hinterland is also a potential threat.

"Attack!" Meng Xiang directly gave the attack order to the third regiment.

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"They even have planes!" On the north bank of the Yellow River, Segu Kai of the 33rd Brigade muttered to himself.

"I saw that they had a lot of tanks that day, and I already thought they were strong, but I didn't expect them to have planes." Yukio Reverse Segawa next to him also interjected next to him.

"Large-scale arms transactions, the empire will be very concerned. If you look at the sky, you will know that they will not have many planes. Seya Kei looked at the sky opposite and whispered, "However, their plane is strong!" ”

A few minutes after the two of them were talking, another plane that said they were falling with black smoke in tow.

"That's the new plane of the Germans, how did they get it? Could it be that the Reich and the Germans had not yet made peace? Or did the Germans lose their trust behind their backs? There was no one else here, so Yukio Reverse Segawa said bluntly.

"Probably bought it a long time ago. The big dealings of the Germans with the Chinese, the empire knew about it. Seya Kai shook his head slightly and said, "The empire also has new aircraft, but unfortunately they have not yet been equipped in the army. ”

Another plane fell, and at the same time, one of the Vanguard planes was also shot, emitting black smoke.

Chen Shilie wiped the blood flowing from his forehead, and he had already seen something in his red vision. He'd tried three times, but the engine still didn't respond. Seeing that the plane continued to fall towards the river, he swerved sharply and swooped towards a pontoon bridge over the river.

"Father, mother, the child has avenged you!" He shouted.

"Don't!" Dong Changhe, who interrupted his studies with him to join the army, shouted.

"Boom!" Even the troops defending the pontoon bridge kept shooting into the sky, but they did not have many anti-aircraft weapons and could not stop Chen Shilie's dive impact. The huge impact ignited the aviation gasoline in the fuel tank and ignited the bombs in the fuselage, and the earth-shattering loud noise directly tore the pontoon bridge in half, and the splashed oil fire also ignited the half of the pontoon bridge floating on the river, and the soldiers on it left seven or eight corpses and retreated one after another.

Almost at the same time, a pontoon bridge in the section defended by Hu Minghe was also directly hit by the two stuka that dived.

"There are also two pontoon bridges, come on and kill them!" Hu Minghe shouted loudly.

But the military planes in the sky had gradually surrounded them, and another plane fell, and the pilot Feng Jiu directly parachuted, and one of the planes rushed over and kept shooting at him. Soon a blood flower bloomed from the sky, and Feng Jiu fell from the sky with his head down.

"Beat this dog!" Deng shouted with big eyes, and the muzzle of the gun was directly aimed at the plane, and without hesitation, the plane also dragged up black smoke and flew towards the opposite shore with a shaky look.

"I still want to run!" Deng stared at him with big eyes and continued bombardment.

"Boom!" The plane, which had already flown across the river, finally exploded at low altitude and dispersed into clusters of flames.

But after all, he himself had an absolute superiority in numbers, and even if the planes of the vanguard army were a little more advanced, the casualties gradually increased under the intensive attack.

"Retreat!" Feng San calmly ordered......

After blowing up another pontoon bridge, he received an order from Feng Yi to retreat.

Relying on their speed and the cooperation of ground anti-aircraft artillery, the seven planes got rid of the entangled attack of the planes and flew to the base airfield.

When the planes were concentrating on pursuing the air force of the vanguard army, the two 75 guns that had been hidden for a while suddenly changed the final battle situation, and the two guns that had been aiming for a long time broke the last pontoon bridge with a salvo. Although his own artillery fire quickly destroyed the two guns, which had not had time to be transferred, it was a foregone conclusion that all the pontoon bridges on the river would be destroyed.

Under the blockade of large-caliber heavy machine guns and mortars that constantly guerrilla, less than half of the nearly 100 small boats that crossed the river remained. Not daring to commit a large number of troops to the top, he finally ordered the half-crossed boats to return to the north shore.

Dusk had come, and the army, which was about to lose its planes, gave the order to stop the attack.

In this battle, the vanguard won the first aerial duel victory 5-13. Three of the Stuka were shot down, one plane crashed into the Yellow River, and the wounded pilot parachuted out and was rescued under the cover of anti-aircraft guns; One exploded and disintegrated in the air; After a forced landing, the pilot was rescued.

The anti-aircraft artillery on the ground also performed well, and the results of 12 aircraft were a bonus compared to the twenty-six anti-aircraft guns they lost.

"How many people did the ground forces lose?" Seya Kai knocked on the table and said in a deep voice.

"635 people were shattered, and 421 people were injured!" Yukio Fukuda, the adjutant of staff, bowed his head and reported.

"Hmmm! They're strong! ”

At the same time, Huang Huamin was also counting the number of casualties.

"How much?" Meng Xiang couldn't help but ask again.

"512 people were martyred and 751 were injured." Huang Huamin's voice couldn't hide a trace of excitement. In this battle, the devils on the other side must have died more than them.

"How can there be so many sacrifices?" Meng Xiang still couldn't help but ask. Nanjing lasted for so long, but it lost more than 1,000 people, and it lost more than 500 in the first battle here, how could it not make Meng Xiang feel distressed?

The other two fronts also stopped their offensives. In total, less than 500 people died in the vanguard armies of the two routes, but at least 600 people were annihilated by the enemy. The losses along the way outweigh the other two?

"The devil on the other side is so powerful! Most of the casualties were caused by artillery fire. "Huang Huamin is also extremely hateful, why is the devil's artillery concentrated here, why is it more fierce than in front of Guanghuamen?

"There was artillery support from a division, as well as aircraft support, which this time did not break the vanguard and cross the Yellow River. It seems that they are really strong! Seya Kai shook his head slightly.

"Their support was prompt! We can quickly find our focus. However," Seya Kei looked up at Fukuda Road again, "Today is just a test, which also proves that the vanguard army is not very strong, and today it is almost at their limit." Moreover, today's situation has also confirmed that the strategy proposed by the division and regiment to divide the light and heavy troops and cross the river with multiple heads is also correct. ”

"On the opposite side is the main force of the 10th Division, judging by the intensity of today's attack, they did not exert all their strength! Otherwise, the line of defense could be dangerous today. Fan Chong also pointed to the sign on the sand table at the command and said.

"Tomorrow, their attack will be more intense, and it is likely that a few more river crossings will be opened. It's hard to spare more people to test their focus. Tonight, two new battalions must also be sent out to change guards with a regiment. The attack from the east may be just a virtual one, and the threat from the east may not come from the Yellow River, but from the sea. ”

"At sea?" Meng Xiang immediately thought of Qingdao.

"The 2nd Army was originally in North China to defend against a Russian attack, but with the fall of Nanjing and the colder weather in Siberia. They could mobilize all their forces to go south, and there was only the 10th Division on the other side at this time, but there was still the 5th Division that had withdrawn from Shanxi and had not moved. Fan Chong frowned and said. He had seen Itako Seisishiro, who was very powerful in military affairs and a dangerous person.

At the same time, Chen Guan, who was entertaining Yang Bo, was scolding hatefully: "It's a pity! Pity! Shen Honglie, this old thing, didn't have the courage to fight. ”

"What's wrong?" When Yang Bo heard Shen Honglie, he guessed something.

"Alas! The Third Fleet sank without a fight. Chen Guan lamented.

"Ahh All? Although Yang Bo guessed this result, it was not clear how it was, and he was also taken aback when he heard it.

"Zhenhai, Yongxiang, Jiangli, Chuyu, Tong'an, etc. have all sunk themselves in the harbor channels of Qingdao and Weihaiwei, and they don't even have the courage to fight with the Yueben Navy!" Chen Guan was familiar with these ships and said them casually.

Yang Bo was silent.

A scorched-earth strategy can sometimes be a helpless choice. The country is weak, and even the courage is small.

When Chen Guan accompanied him in silence, he didn't notice that the Third Fleet was missing a transport ship.

"I sold the Dinghai for 100,000 yuan, isn't it too much of a loss!" Adjutant Shen Ke asked, he was a nephew of Shen Honglie's clan, and he was clever and was taken by Shen Honglie.

"Sold to the Vanguard, even if it is cheaper, it is better than sinking!" Shen Honglie seemed to be much older all of a sudden. For more than ten years, how much effort has he poured into the Third Fleet! This time, it's all ruined!

"Then why don't you sell them all?" Shen Ke couldn't help but ask again.

"Can they hold Qingdao? Can you hold the coastline? Shen Honglie sighed and asked, but did not say the answer.

(Tomorrow will continue three watches)