After Okamura Ningji and Kleist exchanged pleasantries, they were about to return to the headquarters, but a senior staff officer stumbled into the station and reported to Okamura Ningji, Jinan Kinoshita Yonglai urgently called, **Airborne Division suddenly airborne Luokou, ten minutes ago, Luokou was lost,** controlled the bridgehead on the north bank of the Yellow River Railway Bridge, and, General Hatohiko Wang of Asaka Palace happened to enter the airborne site during this time period, at this time he had lost contact, and his life and death were uncertain.? Eighty-one? Chinese ?(一).

When Okamura Ninji received the message, his face turned white with fright, and beads of sweat rolled down his forehead.

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He had always been on guard against Jiang Haoran's airborne division, but he thought that the airborne division had arrived in Lianyungang at this moment, and he never thought that Lianyungang was only a brigade of the special operations division, and he did not expect that Jiang Haoran would have such great ambitions, and he would dare to swallow his three armies in one go, and it can even be said that together with Shanxi, four armies with millions of troops.

Now there is no point in regretting and pursuing, Jinan can't lose it no matter what, and the general of the Hatohiko King of the Chaoxiang Palace must also be saved, even if it is a corpse, it has to be dragged back to the mainland, and the royal nobles are not so easy to lose.

Okamura Ninji did not hesitate, and immediately ordered the staff officer to immediately call the 14th Division, which was on its way to reinforce Shijiazhuang, to return to the reinforcements immediately, and to rush to the front before dawn tomorrow, recapture the important place of Luokou, and find King Hatohiko of Asaka Palace at all costs.

Although the 14th Division of the Island Army had already passed through Dezhou at this time, and Dezhou was still more than 100 highways away from the Yellow River, Shijiazhuang had the Deshi Railway connecting the Jinpu Line and the Pinghan Line, and this railway line had not yet entered the field of vision of the first-class aviation and was still unblocked, which provided a prerequisite for the 14th Division to return to help quickly.

But the combat effectiveness of Jiang Haoran's Airborne Division, Okamura Ningji was still very clear, and he was really not sure about pinning this task on the 14th Division, so he immediately set his sights on Kleist, who had just arrived.

According to the plan, the German army had formed a huge Eastern Expeditionary Army Group, under the jurisdiction of 30 infantry divisions and 20 tank divisions, and the commander-in-chief of the army group was none other than General Kleist.

With his arrival, the vanguard will have two tank divisions and three infantry divisions, and if they are thrown into battle, they can solve the immediate need.

Through the exchange of translators, Kleist informed that all these can be had, and that the two tank divisions and three infantry divisions will arrive at Beiping Station within three days, but the tanks still need to be repaired, and the infantry divisions are also in a hurry because they are temporarily formed, and the island army is in a hurry, and they have not yet completed the comprehensive reorganization and will drive to China, so they cannot form effective combat effectiveness for the time being.

Okamura Ninji was a little dumbfounded when he heard this, this tank has to be repaired before it goes to the battlefield, what kind of tank is this? Also, isn't it an elite infantry division, how did it become a temporary formation again?

Okamura Ninji was a little unconvinced, and immediately sent someone to check.

At this time, there were already weapons and troops on the freight station that had arrived before Kleist, and it was clear at a glance.

Looking at the results, Okamura Ningji fell into an ice cellar, there are tanks, but they are not made in Germany, but most of them are made in the Soviet Union, and there are a small number of Sherman in the United States and Churchill in the United Kingdom.

Soviet-made tanks are also the main battle tanks of the current Soviet battlefield - T34 series, but whether it is T34, Sherman, or Churchill, they all carry all kinds of damage without exception, and some do not even have turrets.

During World War II, both the United States and Britain gave a lot of weapons assistance to the Soviet Union, as evidenced by the appearance of Sherman and Churchill tanks at this time.

In terms of troops, except for a guard battalion guarded by Kleist, which was an all-German army, the rest of the troops were all Soviets, and the troops were filled with a small number of German officers.

Okamura Ninji understood that what first-class weapons and what elite infantry were all Hitler's, except for the first batch of weapons and equipment used to build the Yellow River defense line and now delivered to Texas were made in Germany, the rest was probably to send the spoils and prisoners of the Soviet battlefield.

But the island army really can't find any faults, T34 tanks, Sherman tanks, Churchill tanks, these are undoubtedly the best tanks at present, at least better than the best Type 4 and Type 5 tanks of the Island Army, and the Soviet Red Army is also a relatively brave unit on the battlefield, although the tactical literacy is almost good, but just because they dare to fight and kill, it is reasonable to say that they are "elite".

Okamura Ninji looked at Kleist in front of him and wanted to tear him apart, and then he had an epiphany, this guy in front of him was Hitler's "exile", after all, he had a bad record of anti-Hitler, and it was normal to be abandoned.

Historically, Kleist was indeed dismissed by Hitler shortly after this time, so Okamura's speculation is justified.

Compared with Okamura Ningji's chagrin and anxiety, Kleist behaved calmly, and he advised Okamura Ningji not to care about temporary gains and losses, and not to look down on these tanks and the Soviet puppet army in front of him.

The tanks are the best they have collected from the battlefield, as long as they repair each one can be driven on the battlefield, as for the Soviet puppet army, their combat effectiveness itself is not bad, because they are not fighting on the mainland, a little inducement, there is no sense of disobedience in killing, compared to the puppet Mongolian army and the puppet Manchurian army incorporated by the island army, the combat effectiveness is only higher than the low.

As long as they are given a month or two to rest and recuperate, they will be guaranteed that they will be a force that dares to fight tough battles on the battlefield in the future, and it will be too late for them to build a defense line on the Yellow River, but there will be absolutely no problem in building a defense line between Pingjin and Tianjin.

Moreover, Kleist also assured that the upcoming aircraft will definitely be made in Germany, and they will all be the best performing aircraft.

In this regard, Okamura Ninji couldn't cry or laugh, the matter has come to this point, and he can only choose to trust unconditionally.

Just the current battle situation in the northeast and Shanxi gave him a headache, and he could only hope that the remnants of the Tenth Army and the First Army could block the attack of the first army, and at least ensure that Jinan would not be lost, and he would transfer a division from Beiping to the front line immediately, and cooperate with the 14th division to annihilate the ** airborne division, so that it is possible to ensure the possibility of the formation of the Yellow River defense line, and only in this way can the troops of Shandong and Shanxi jump out of the encirclement.

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At about 8 o'clock that night, on the highway from Pingyin to Jinan, the 65th Division of the First Army of the Island Army was marching rapidly.

It was the end of the month, the moonlight was limited, and the torches lit by the troops were like a fire dragon, which was particularly conspicuous in the dark night.

Although this will cause the threat of the first aviation to the troops, but the island army can no longer take care of it, the rear of Jinan has fallen into the hands of the first one, Kinoshita Yong's urging message will come once in less than ten minutes, and the sealing is urgent, but where there is a way to improve the troops, the island army has used all of them, and they have almost abandoned all the heavy equipment and light equipment to advance.