Since they agreed to send troops, several division commanders were not ambiguous, jumped into the car after leaving the command headquarters, and galloped all the way away, returning to their respective defense areas to prepare for the attack. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Immediately, only Yin Tonglai and Chen Chen were left in the headquarters.

Yin Tonglai said with a smile: "Commander, you can also go, as long as we are willing to fight, the 40th Group Army has never needed to supervise the battle team, and besides, my headquarters is about to be dismantled, and we don't have a division commander hiding in the rear." ”

Chen Chen cast an approving glance at Yin Tonglai, and said loudly: "Okay, I won't follow the troops, in this way, I will temporarily go to the fifth war zone, and I will never leave until you conquer Mengcheng and Haozhou, so as to ensure that your logistics and second-echelon troops can keep up with your marching speed." ”

"It's so good, then it's annoying Mr. Chen."

"You're welcome, if you're willing to give me face, I also have to escort your safety, then I'll be waiting for your good news behind you."

"Don't worry, we will never embarrass our chief seat and President Chen."

"Okay, we'll make up our minds!"

The two walked out of the headquarters as they spoke, Yin Tonglai sent Chen Chen to the car, and watched Chen Chen's convoy go away before he said loudly: "Order, the troops are all marching forward, and the target direction is Wuyang." ”

The three troops were in the center, with Yuan Dong's new 4th Division on the left flank and the target direction of Maozhou, and Xu Biao's new 1st Division on the right flank and Mengcheng in the target direction.

"Yes!" The herald complied, and then ran away.

In a short time, a loud rallying cry sounded in the camp, and soldiers were surging everywhere, and the troops began to assemble.

Several helicopters immediately took to the air and roared forward, taking on the preliminary search and reconnaissance mission for the troops.

Ten minutes later, dozens of tanks drove out, roaring forward in a line on the vast plain, and a large number of infantry followed the tanks, like a thick grass rolling forward.

The plains have a wide field of vision, there are helicopters searching and exploring the way ahead, and there are tanks on the land to open the way, so there is no need to worry about the enemy planting mines along the way, and the troops are advancing very quickly.

At this time, the troops are actually only seventy or eighty kilometers away from Mengcheng, and according to the current time of four o'clock in the afternoon, the troops will be able to advance to the city of Mengcheng at most tomorrow morning.

But what is surprising is that by midnight, the troops had been marching rapidly for nearly ten hours in a row, walking nearly 50 highways, in front of the Xifei River, across the river is the boundary of Wuyang, and it is only about 30 kilometers away from Wuyang, but along the way, except for encountering small groups of troops intercepted by little devils, even the brigade-level blocking troops have not been encountered.

There must be a demon in the abnormal, Yin Tonglai decisively ordered to stop the advance, and immediately contacted Yuan Dong on the left flank and Xu Biao on the right flank, who knew that the information they got was the same, they did not encounter a large-scale blockade, the whole line was unimpeded, and the first army of the little devils who had fought fiercely with them in Zhoukou and Fuyang seemed to have disappeared out of thin air.

On the defense line of dozens of kilometers, the three divisions are almost in a line and advance in unison, it is possible to say that a small force of dozens or hundreds of people of the little devil has penetrated through them or missed it, but it is impossible for an army of nearly 200,000 troops to disappear out of thin air, is it true that the little devil is really as Bai Chongxi said, and has gone all out to arrange the defense line of Mengcheng and Haozhou?

The doubts were not dispelled, but Bai Chongxi's telegram arrived, inquiring about the current position and progress of the troops.

Yin Tonglai told the truth, but the result was a rebuke from Bai Chongxi, saying that it was their passive resistance to resist the enemy that gave the island army time to calmly arrange the defense lines of Mengcheng and Maozhou, and the three divisions of the outpost should be responsible for this, and at the same time ordered the troops to continue to advance, and they must reach the front line early tomorrow morning and immediately launch an attack posture, and they must not give the enemy any chance to take advantage of it.

The three division commanders all felt that they could not fully believe Bai Chongxi's words, and under the pretext that the island army had blown up the bridge over the Xiqi River, it was impossible to advance today, and the troops could only camp and rest for a while, and at the same time sent special combat teams from various divisions to investigate the truth.

Of course, it is also true that the bridge was destroyed, but this is not difficult for Jiang Haoran's tank division, they are equipped with very professional boat and bridge troops, basically they can build a pontoon bridge to cross the river within a few hours, if they want, there is no problem at all to advance to the line of Mengcheng, Wuyang, and Haozhou before dawn.

At dawn, the news came from the special combat team in front that they had already touched the edge of the enemy's defensive line, and a wide anti-tank trench stretched for dozens of miles.

These people are a little dumbfounded, are their suspicions wrong? The little devils are really ready to concentrate on building the second line of defense, everything is as Bai Chongxi expected, they missed the best fighter plane to pursue the enemy?

At this point, there is no other way, the mistake is caused by them, only to attack with all their strength to cut through the defense line of the little devil and make up for it.

The troops immediately crossed the river on the whole line, because Yin Tonglai's department was in the middle position to form a spike for the main attack, and the tank division acted with them, Yuan Dong and Xu Biao on the left and right flanks mainly guarded against the reinforcements of Mengcheng and Maozhou, and protected the flanks of Yin Tonglai's department as an assist.

At about 8 o'clock in the morning, the new 2nd Division entered the periphery of the enemy's defensive line, Yin Tonglai and Heihu led a group of staff officers and generals to a high ground, and from a distance they saw an endless stretch of anti-tank trenches, all kinds of barbed wire and spurs on the hillside that began to go all the way, and white cement permanent fortifications and even the enemy's machine gun positions could be clearly seen in the telescope.

Putting down the binoculars, Yin Tonglai asked Tong Fulin, the chief of staff on the side, "Chief of Staff, has the artillery position been constructed?" ”

Tong Fulin was born in the 74th Army, followed Jiang Haoran to guard Nanchang together, at that time Xue Yue left Jiang Haoran two divisions of one of the divisions chief, later the two divisions merged into the new Fifth Division, Tong Fulin was transferred to the new second division as the chief of staff, awarded the rank of lieutenant general, another chief of staff Cao Guoliang served as the chief of staff of the new Fifth Division, and has now become the chief of staff of the Yuanyi Group Army.

Tong Fulin said: "It was ready ten minutes ago, and it can be fired at any time." ”

Yin Tonglai raised his wrist and looked at his watch, and said, "Herald, order the artillery regiment and the rocket artillery battalion to open fire, and try to hit a base first." ”

"Yes!" The herald immediately picked up the walkie-talkie and began to call.

In an instant, a dense barrage of shells began to rise into the air, and then the sound of explosions was incessant, and the enemy's forward positions were instantly covered in artillery fire.