"I said that I was almost in Yulin!" Zhang Zizhong, who was ordered by Meng Xiang to personally sit in Baotou, received such information.

The Mongolian army of the devils planned to enter Shanxi from Hequ, Biguan and other places. However, Sun Liren's 18th Division was constantly expanding outward, in addition to firmly blocking the counterattack of Shanxi devils within Yanmen Pass, it also conquered the important passes on the Great Wall, and forced Ningwu Pass and Baode County. This made the devil's attempt to cross the river from Fugu also dispelled. They had to continue south.

For four or five consecutive days, the devils and the vanguard army were fighting against the harsh natural environment. Most of the fixed and semi-fixed sand dunes in the Mu Us Desert are concentrated in the northwest, while the mobile sand dunes near the Great Wall are dense at this time. It was only at this time that the vanguard really realized the power of the desert.

The area from Baotou to Dongsheng can only be called sandy land, and at this time the Mu Us Desert can be regarded as having the power of a desert. A storm bulldozed several sand dunes. Tanks and other vehicles are also powerless in the desert, and when a storm blows, a lot of vehicles and supplies are buried in the sand. The vanguard army also began to suffer heavy casualties, and in a storm, more than sixty soldiers were lost at once. In the end, only about two dozen people were found through airships, and 44 people disappeared into the sand.

Even the men of the northwest are powerless in the face of the desert. The storm forced the Kirov airship in the sky to rise to the stratosphere to take shelter.

After Meng Xiang heard this, he was also very distressed. In the face of nature, man is still small after all. He thought he was ready to pass through the desert. Thinking about the operation in North Africa again, he thought that the T-34 tank could break through the blockage of the dunes. But nature gave him a slap in the face, which made Meng Xiang secretly wary of the power of nature.

The other severe cold and heavy snow did not stop the vanguard army, and they were more prepared than they were. Although the accompanying vehicles often broke down, they were able to ensure the supply of supplies for the 113th Brigade of the Vanguard Army. During this period, three Junkers planes also airdropped medicines once. The airship also landed and transported more than eighty wounded.

This is incomparable. The plane flying from Taiyuan did not wait for them to be guided for two days before it was bombed down by the Thunderbolt plane of the Pioneer Army. For the remaining three or four days, they bumped into the desert like headless flies for a few days before rushing out. At this time, the vanguard army was not far behind them. Along the way, hundreds of corpses of devils were also counted.

Not long after, Meng Xiang got the good news that Deng Baoshan, who was guarding Yulin, accepted the invitation to cooperate proposed by the vanguard army.

Although Deng Baoshan has the name of the newly formed First Army, it has always only had the strength of the New 10th Brigade and the New 11th Brigade, and is laughed at as the New Half Army. But he didn't have many men, but he fought bravely.

At this time, the title on his head was the commander-in-chief of the Jin-Shaanxi-Sui Border Region, but the number of troops did not increase much, but the new 10th Brigade was also taken away by Lao Jiang. Although he also controlled Gao Shuangcheng's 22nd Army defending in Yulin, the 22nd Army only had 86 divisions.

His task was to defend the army in the north and the Red Party in the south.

Born in the Northwest Army, he really had little interest in the civil war.

At this time, in the face of the attack of the Mongolian army, they were ready to fight. When the devils left the desert, they attacked Yulin directly, trying to occupy Yulin and get more supplies. Deng Baoshan was very struggling in the face of more than 6,000 troops, and at this time he received telegrams from Zhang Zizhong, Fu Zuoyi and others, and also received the vanguard army to come over to negotiate suitable personnel for cooperation.

He hesitated for a moment, then agreed. He is not a central descendant and does not have much ambition. He has also heard a lot about the Pioneer Army, and since Zhang Zizhong is alive and well in the Pioneer Army, it doesn't matter if he joins the Pioneer Army. What's more, this is a critical moment, if you are not careful, you will be attacked by the army, and the people of Yulin are afraid that they will suffer.

The vanguard of hundreds of people of the 113 Brigade followed in the footsteps of the devils. Before he had time to rest, he began to join the attack.

"Bypass Yulin, strike inside, look for places with a large population, and let the vanguard army have some scruples about air attacks." The commander of the garrison corps, who was already a little unkempt, gritted his teeth. At this time, the attack on Yulin, the resistance there is very tenacious, and it will not be able to attack for a while, and the brigade of the vanguard army behind is about to arrive, if the airship is not guiding the brigade of the vanguard army to hurry, I am afraid that it will have arrived a long time ago.

All the way to the march, Liannuma Fan has figured out that the current conditions cannot deal with the airship of the vanguard army, and only mixed with the place where there are many people in China, as for whether it provokes the revenge of the vanguard army, he has long been concerned. If you can't save your own life, where can you take care of someone else's surname?

The devil quickly withdrew, and hundreds of soldiers of the vanguard army followed the devil's ass and continued the pursuit, which made Deng Baoshan's troops a little dumbfounded. It has always been a small number of devils who can run away with a large group of central troops, but at this time, it is reversed, and it becomes a devil brigade running in front, and hundreds of soldiers of the vanguard army dare to chase after them, and they have been chasing them far away before stopping and returning.

Without the support of the large army and Yulin Deng Baoshan's troops, the devils will turn around and eat them at any time. Heroism does not mean recklessness.

"The Vanguard Army really deserves its name!" Deng Baoshan approvingly. He saw their weapons and equipment and mental strength, and thought of the miscellaneous arrangements for defecting to the vanguard army, they generally did not lose much power, but expanded the army, and the treatment and equipment were first-class, and he couldn't help but be tempted. Gu Xiushan, who came to negotiate next to him, had already seen Deng Baoshan's envy, and couldn't help but feel a little more confident in persuading them to join the vanguard army.

"Bai Qi discovered the whereabouts of the Yue army. Attack? The intelligence officers who came to search for the airship sent back the information, and the personnel on the ground immediately reported it to Zhu Chunfang and Zhang Zizhong.

Meng Xiang naturally would no longer use Kirov's name, and the name of the ancient Chinese warrior would be added to each airship in the future, so that their heroic spirits would continue to gallop and float in the sky.

The first two airships, one was Sun Wu and the other was Bai Qi. A soldier saint, a killing god. They sometimes take advantage of the high altitude and long-range view to do some reconnaissance work. The third airship that had just been produced was named Yue Fei. There are many famous generals in China that can be named, and there will be more airships cruising in the sky in the future.

The command of the airship is still in Meng Xiang's hands, and Feng Jiu also informed Meng Xiang of the news early.

"Warning, warning, the army enters the space-time alert area."

When Meng Xiang was about to give the order to bombard the devil, Xiaohua's hurried warning suddenly sounded in his ears.

"Space-time alert area?" Meng Xiang couldn't help but be surprised, where did such a place pop up, and then he suddenly thought of the holy area of the Red Party, and remembered the restriction that he could not take the initiative to attack the Red Party.

"Little flower, delineate the warning range of time and space." Meng Xiang, who hurried to the command center, ordered in a deep voice.

Since Xiaohua began to prompt, there will naturally be a more clear explanation.

After a while, the range of space-time alert appeared on the big screen. Sure enough, as Meng Xiang guessed, the area of the Red Party's core special administrative region was surrounded by a conspicuous cordon. It is south of Yulin of the Great Wall in the north, the Yellow River in the east, Chunhua and Fuping in the south, and Yanchi, Huanxian and Qingyang in the west. As the commander of the base of the later republic, according to the procedural restrictions of the base itself, his army could not take the initiative to attack and enter the above-mentioned areas.

Just now, the white airship followed the devil across the Great Wall, so it got this warning.

Meng Xiang knew that if he forcibly violated the warning of the base, there would be some unpredictable situations. If he loses the support of the base at this time, he is afraid that the vanguard army will collapse in a short time, not to mention driving him out, and even self-protection will be a problem. There was no ammunition supply, and the guns were burning sticks.

"Are there any other space-time alert areas?" Meng Xiang said calmly. When it comes to the end, what's the point of following the rules of the base? The surrounding forces are intricate, and there is not only the vanguard army.

"Yes." Xiaohua replied very simply, which made Meng Xiang's heart sink, but then he couldn't help but smile easily when he saw the demarcated place, in the entire Huaxia region, only those places around Jingshan could not be entered casually, and there were no other places.

"Is there a space-time warning area abroad?" Although Meng Xiang had long known that the base of the later republic would not care about the Red Square of Soviet Russia, he still asked a special question.

"Nope. No, you don't. Meng Xiang didn't care about the words behind Xiaohua Duojia, but the vast territory abroad could be used at will, which made him feel a lot more at ease.

"Let the 113th Brigade stop the pursuit." Meng Xiang ordered, "Ask Deng Baoshan from Yulin if he needs to cooperate?" ”

After walking a few steps back and forth in the command center, he instructed: "Contact the Red Party and ask if the vanguard army is allowed to work together to destroy the enemy?" ”

The news soon came that the Red Party itself would clean up the entry of the Koukou, and politely refused the intervention of the vanguard army. At this time, everyone knew that the vanguard army was going all the way to occupy all the way, and Chahar, Suiyuan, and Jinbei were all occupied by them. If you swallow it, you won't spit it out, who will dare to let them in? Just like when Lao Jiang chased the Red Party all the way to clean up the warlords, everyone was afraid that the drunkards of the vanguard army did not mean to drink.

Meng Xiang only smiled bitterly. After crossing the Yellow River, the 113th Brigade of the Pioneer Army pursued the Mongolian army stationed in the devil's army, and there were only two or three sporadic battles of a few dozen people, during which the army died three or four hundred people in the storm and ice and snow, but there were still more than 6,000 people for them. This strength is not in the eyes of the vanguard army, but for other forces that lack weapons and ammunition, this is a very powerful force.

Meng Xiang just felt that there was some accident in history, and after the devil attacked it, the people might suffer, so he offered to help, and he didn't mean anything else. The limitations of the base made it impossible for him to have other meanings for the time being. But it was still rejected.

Meng Xiang didn't bother to pay any attention to it, and instead ordered: "Suspend the attacks in various places and clean up the remnants of the enemy." ”

He had already received the news that the local army had been assembled, and he was about to prepare to board the ship and rush to China.

"Operation Heavenly Punishment No. 1 can begin." After looking at the latest information sent by Rat Er, he ordered directly.

It was 3 a.m. on Feb. 13.

After processing documents in the car for more than three hours and only sleeping for an hour and a half, Meng Xiang was woken up by Rat Er, and saw a brilliant light outside the window. The empty finger center built in one of the places in Weihai has arrived.

In Weihai, two airports have been artificially built at the center of the two air fingers. At this time, a hundred B-17 Flying Fortress bombers were parked at these airfields ready to take off.

They are all one-color B-17Ds, which are a quarter of the cost of the pre-Pearl Harbor attack. As for the first dozen or so Y1B-17s, they were mainly used for training, because they were cheaper and more affordable with only 16 times the original cost.

But in actual combat, Meng Xiang did not dare to be sloppy, and directly chose the D-type known as Fortress I, which was considered the most advanced until the Pearl Harbor incident.

As for the F type, there is only a half-price discount, but the surname can not be improved much. Just a hundred B-17 bombers cost more than six million dollars, about 20 million oceans. If you use the F-shape, the cost of 40 million will be a little unmanageable. Now there is not much money left in the account of the base, and as soon as he has enough spare money, Meng Xiang invested in the construction of Yamato-class battleships. Now the construction of the third Yamato-class battleship has begun.

Coupled with the large amount of ammunition consumed and the sale of other arms, if Meng Xiang had not demarcated the construction fund in advance, I am afraid that the money for the construction of the aircraft would not be enough.

The main source of bases is bases in the Middle East. Although the oil production rate of the oil wells that are the oil energy base has accelerated again after the upgrade of Mengxiang, as Aladdin's power grows, the demand for other buildings is also increasing, so the number of oil wells has not changed much, and the revenue in a quarter is less than 100 million. Coupled with the mining income in other regions, if it were not for the preferential policies of the base, I am afraid that the expenditure on weapons and ammunition may not be enough.

If it weren't for the submission of the gold-swallowing behemoth of war, the extravagant firepower of the vanguard army would have been unable to support it.

You can still smell the unique smell of the sea water at the airport, and there seems to be the sound of waves faintly coming from the night.

In an open space at a brightly lit airport, a hundred pilots had just assembled.

"It's coming!"

A few snow-white lampposts flashed, and three identical cars parked at the side of the venue.

This is a Hongqi sedan produced by the Special Economic Zone itself, and it is a sketch drawn by Meng Xiang himself. It is made of aero engines and is purely handmade. China's large-scale industrial production may not be good, but when it comes to handmade manufacturing regardless of cost, it is also world-class. So far, only 10 units have been produced. Now, there are many occasions in the vanguard army, and it seems inappropriate to simply use barrel cars, and the Mercedes-Benz 770K sent by Hitler is too conspicuous. As a result, the ten newly produced cars were used as ceremonial vehicles.

Someone put forward a proposal to equip Meng Xiang with a special car, but Meng Xiang also vetoed it. Some things are hard to control once they start. Meng Xiang still stays in the base and headquarters most of the time, and he doesn't have much time to use the car, as long as it is not a formal occasion, he can just sit in a bucket car.

"All of them! Attention! Shen Dexie shouted loudly.

The clones' standard stance affects the other, more casual pilots. A hundred pilots immediately stood in a more standard posture.

Shen Dexie looked at the B-17 bomber named Tianlei with emotion, this huge plane with a bomb load of 8 tons was simply unimaginable before, and the appearance in the Chinese army made him still have a feeling of dreaming.

When he saw Meng Xiang's Heavenly Punishment No. 1 plan, the sense of fantasy was even stronger, until he saw dozens of Tianlei bombers, he couldn't suppress the excitement in his heart, and he got drunk after returning home that day.

Seeing that today, that plan is about to come true, his heart is still beating violently.

And the man who pushed this plan step by step into reality has arrived.

As soon as the car stopped, Meng Xiang didn't need anyone else to open the door, and directly pushed the door and walked down. As soon as he stepped out of the car, Meng Xiang worked hard to make his daily diligent military posture more accurate.

When he walked to the front of the pilots of the group, Meng Xiang raised a sharp military salute to the corner of his eyebrows, and his right hand was never lowered, and he strode forward to meet the eager eyes of the watchers.

Although Meng Xiang was disgusted by this ritual of waiting for the leader, he had no more time to wait for the pilots to assemble. When the pilots were about to rush to the field, he only wanted to see them off in person. Some of them may never come back. And the only thing he can do is to show his respect for them with a military salute.

Each B-17 had ten crew members, but not all of them were pilots, and five of them were machine gunners, who were transferred directly from the Army. Communicators, bombardiers, observers, captains, pilots, etc., are also needed among the rest. Sometimes the captain also acts as a pilot.

Because of the lack of personnel, the communicators and bombardiers were also drawn from some army personnel. Whether it is land or sea, or sky, horse warriors are the best communication soldiers. The Tiger Warrior's bombing level can be fully exploited even at high altitudes.

At this time, there were a thousand soldiers in the clearing. Meng Xiang stood on a high platform in front of them.

"Soldiers, your exploits are on the other side of the sea." Meng Xiang pointed in the direction of his native land and shouted loudly, "Those who offend my Huaxia Tianwei will definitely be punished." No matter how far away they are! And you are about to set out on an expedition to bring with you the wrath of China. Today, your exploits will surely go down in history and become your glory and the pride of our China! ”