The thirtieth year of the Republic of China, late September.

The 1st, 3rd, 6th, and 9th Theaters of the Central [***] Squadron launched counteroffensives against the troops in eight provinces and regions, including Henan, Anhui, Suzhou, Hunan, Hubei, Fujian, Guangdong, and Zhejiang.

The entire south of the Yellow River is in full swing, and the smoke of gunpowder is filled.

However, just when the fighting in the area south of the Yellow River was in full swing, the 42nd Group Army on the north side of the Yellow River stopped attacking Xinxiang County, and it turned out that Lai San came up with a plan, that is, to attack Xinxiang City by digging in the soil.

By digging trenches, the soldiers could effectively avoid being hit by the permanent fire points of the Yue army, so a very strange picture appeared in the periphery of the entire Xinxiang county.

The whole Xinxiang city is digging everywhere, the whole outside the city is dusty, looking down from the city wall, I can see that the zigzag trenches are constantly digging towards the city wall.

After learning about the situation, Chiaki Shigeto immediately came to the city wall with a few guards, because the city wall had been collapsed by the fierce artillery fire of the 42nd Army in many places, so Shigeto Chiaki could only step on a ruin to the half of the city wall that was still standing.

Picking up the binoculars hanging on his chest, he looked ahead, and through the telescope, Chiaki Shigeto saw a sight that almost drove him crazy. He saw that the entire outside of the city was digging everywhere, and the wanton flying dust had obscured his vision, and he couldn't even see the situation under the dust.

It is hard for Shigeto Chiaki to imagine that once all these trenches are dug under the city wall and dug into the city, the Xinxiang defense line that he has painstakingly managed will be completely useless.

Because the city wall has been destroyed in a large area, the firepower points on the city wall have also been destroyed, and the permanent firepower points in the city have been blocked by the design angle, and it is impossible to fire to stop the middle [***] excavation outside the city.

Thinking of this, Shigedo Chiaki suddenly said with a blue face: "Yaga Yalu!" Order the artillery, open fire! Fire! ”

For several days, Chiaki Shigeto was reluctant to use it, for fear of being retaliated by the [***] team.

This time it is related to the gains and losses of Xinxiang, and he can't care so much about it. Soon, after receiving the order, the only artillery wing of the Shigeto detachment began to open fire, and the artillery group, mainly the Type 92 infantry guns, began to carry out heavy artillery bombardment on the 42nd Army, which was digging outside the city.

"Tom tom!" A sharp and piercing cannon sound rang out, and then the shells exploded one after another, and the scarlet flames suddenly exploded in all directions, and the strong air flow rolled up some of the excavated wet soil, and the entire outside of the city was suddenly plunged into a thick cloud of smoke and dust.

It took a full five minutes for the artillery wing of the Shigeto detachment to stop the shelling, and when the smoke cleared, Shigeto Chiaki saw a scene that made him want to vomit blood.

I saw that the trenches were still throwing dirt outward, and the dirt that was thrown high was blown in the air by the wind, and suddenly flew in all directions.

"Yaga Yalu!" Shigeto Chiaki looked at the outside of the city that was still digging in the earth, and suddenly became angry, jumped up like thunder and shouted to the herald behind him: "Order the artillery, open the artillery, open the artillery, continue to fire!" ”

"Hay!" The herald bowed his head again, then turned and walked away quickly, disappearing from Shigedo Chiaki's sight in an instant.

Soon, the artillery wing of the Shigedo detachment opened fire again, and the shelling was extended, a full three minutes longer than the last one.

However, the two shelling of the army did not receive any good results, and after the second shelling, Shigeto Chiaki still saw the scenes of excavation that made him feel heartwarming.

It turned out that when the various units of the 42nd Group Army were digging trenches, they adopted an extremely interesting excavation method, that is, the cricket excavation method, each trench was bent like a cricket, and the trench was dug narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, which greatly resisted the shrapnel flying everywhere for the soldiers.

Only a few fighters were digging too high, so they were unfortunately injured in the buttocks by a stray bullet, but after a simple bandaging by the medical staff, they pouted their buttocks again and began to sweat.

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One kilometer away from Xinxiang City, on a depression, the three artillery regiments of the three infantry divisions have all been prepared, Lai San looked ahead with a telescope, and said to the artillery commander behind him: "I said, who is it, have you figured it out this time?" ”

"Returning to the sir, through the second observation, I finally discovered the specific location of the artillery position of the army." The artillery commander snapped forward.

"Good! Then there is no saying, give Lao Tzu a hard bang! In the end, the artillery wing of this dog was directly put to an end! Lai San put down the telescope and said with a radiant look.

"Yes!" The artillery commander stepped forward suddenly.

Because the artillery observers were not able to determine the specific location of the devil's artillery position when they first shelled just now, what they didn't expect was that the devil's artillery actually carried out a second shelling.

Lai San immediately ordered the artillery observers to observe carefully, and finally found the exact location of the artillery position.

At the same time that Lai San and the guards were swaggering towards the headquarters with both hands, the artillery position behind him suddenly sounded a roaring cannon.

Immediately after that, in a corner of Xinxiang City, a cloud of skyrocketing fires and large mushroom clouds rose.

Chiaki Shigedo, who was standing on the city wall and observing the enemy's situation, was already shocked when he saw the fireballs flying through the air just now, and then saw the explosions and the rising smoke behind him.

Suddenly, his face changed drastically, and the corners of his mouth twitched continuously. At this moment, a herald ran over with a quick step covered in dust, and suddenly retracted his feet and said, "Report to the general!" Oh no, the artillery wing was attacked by the powerful fire of the Zhina, and all the artillery and artillery were shattered! ”

"Yaga Yalu I!" Chiaki Shigedo suddenly jumped like thunder, and angrily snatched a crooked machine gun from a machine gunner, and fired fiercely at the city! "Da-da-da... Suddenly..."The crisp sound of the machine gun rang out one after another.

After firing a shuttle of bullets, Chiaki Shigeto roared in annoyance, "Order...!" All the warriors of the Imperial Army, prepare for the Jade Crushing Battle! Fight to the death with the people of China! Long live His Majesty the Emperor! ”

"Long live His Majesty the Emperor!" The surrounding devil soldiers followed suit and opened their throats and howled.

Just when the 42nd Group Army launched a massed excavation offensive in Xinxiang, the army was also making active preparations.

Zhengzhou Airport.

Major General Haneda shouted to the 2,500 airborne soldiers in front of him: "Warriors! You are the best soldiers of the Imperial Army, you are the best among all the troops in the past, and I hope that here, you can also prove to the world that you are still the best soldiers of the Imperial Army and the most loyal people of His Majesty the Emperor! ”

"Long live the Emperor!"

"Long live the Emperor!"

"Long live the Emperor!" The airborne troops present raised their hands and shouted in unison.

Due to the constraints of the number of transport planes received, Rear Admiral Haneda had no choice but to carry out airborne operations at three airfields at the same time. The three airports are Zhengzhou Airport, Luoyang Airport and Kaifeng Airport.

Among them, Zhengzhou Airport is responsible for transporting half of the troops, while the other two airports each transport more than 1,000 troops.

Due to the limited number of transport aircraft, only one or two squadrons can be dropped at a time, of which Zhengzhou Airport is larger and can airdrop more than two squadrons at a time.

Soon, the first batch of airborne troops ready to be airdropped was ready, and more than 360 officers and men of two infantry squadrons boarded the transport plane in full armor.

Soon after all the airborne troops had boarded the plane, 36 Type 95 transport planes began to take off one after another, and after all the transport planes were lifted into the air, more than 10 Zero fighters also took off.

Immediately, dozens of planes formed a flight formation in the air and began to fly towards the north bank of the Yellow River.

The combat target of the airborne troops airdropped by Zhengzhou Airport is Laotian'an Station on the north bank of the Yellow River, and their main purpose this time is to take Laotian'an Station as their main purpose!

The combat target of the airborne troops in Luoyang and Kaifeng will be Qinyang County, they will parachute into the vicinity of Qinyang County, and then secretly assemble and launch a surprise attack on Qinyang County.

At this time, the time has entered noon, and the sun is shining in the sky.

The soldiers of the motorized infantry company of the guard regiment patrolled to a forest in the southwest of Laotian Nunnery under the leadership of the company commander Sun Xiucheng, and saw that the sky was very hot, Sun Xiucheng ordered the soldiers to get out of the car and rest, except for two soldiers who were in charge of guarding, the rest of the soldiers all jumped off the motorcycles and trucks, hid in the shade of the trees, and rested.

These trucks belonged to other units of the guard regiment, and since the motorized infantry company had to patrol every day, Zhang Mingyu transferred these trucks to them, so as to ensure that the semi-mechanized unit of the motorized infantry company was truly fully mechanized, and the nearly 200 officers and men of the company no longer needed a single person to run and patrol.

Sun Xiucheng took the kettle handed over by a long row, raised his head and poured it violently for a while, the cool and sweet well water felt comfortable as soon as he entered his stomach, and the heat in his heart suddenly disappeared a lot.

Sun Xiucheng was about to lean on the tree behind him for a while, when suddenly, the two soldiers in charge of the guard screamed: "Company commander, company commander, look!" Something has fallen from the sky! ”

Sun Xiucheng hurriedly jumped up, ran out of the woods with the soldiers around him, looked up at the sky in the distance, and after blocking the dazzling sunlight with his hands, Sun Xiucheng saw small mushroom clouds suddenly appear in the sky.

Moreover, the number of mushroom clouds was gradually increasing, and Sun Xiucheng immediately said to the orderly soldiers behind him: "Telescope!" ”

The orderly hurriedly handed the telescope to Sun Xiucheng, and after Sun Xiucheng took the telescope, his eyes immediately went up. This time, through the telescope, Sun Xiucheng vaguely saw that those white mushroom clouds were hanging with a small black dot.

Although Sun Xiucheng couldn't see clearly what was hanging under those mushroom clouds, that is, the thing! But with a strong sense of vigilance, he still said to everyone: "All platoons are ready to fight!" ”

"Yes!" The three platoon commanders responded in unison, and then each turned around to convey the order.

In the blink of an eye, nearly 190 or so soldiers of the whole company were all ready, and the soldiers picked up their guns one after another to find a favorable position, and the machine gun platoon even set up all the machine guns.

The muzzle of the black hole is aimed at the sky, and it only needs to wait for the unknown objects to come into range before it can fire at them violently.

Soon, those mushroom clouds in the sky fell from a high altitude to a distance that could be seen by the naked eye, Sun Xiucheng looked up again through the telescope, this time he finally saw clearly, the white mushroom cloud hanging under the person turned out to be a person, although I don't know if it is a devil, but Sun Xiucheng still told the soldiers behind him: "All of them!" Get ready for battle! ”

After waiting for about two minutes again, Sun Xiucheng finally saw clearly, and the one hanging under those mushroom clouds was the devil, because through the telescope, Sun Xiucheng also saw that the so-called mushroom cloud was actually an umbrella cloth, and the plaster flag painted on the umbrella cloth was the plaster flag of the devil.

Seeing this, Sun Xiucheng immediately shouted: "It's a little devil!" Brothers, call me! ”

"Hit....!" Several squad and platoon leaders roared in unison, and suddenly hot tongues of fire on the ground flew towards the sky.

The paratroopers who were landing also spotted the [***] people on the ground, and hurriedly swept the submachine gun on their waists below.

For a while, there was a lot of gunfire over the entire grove, but because the paratroopers were in the void, the parachutes swung on both sides due to the influence of the wind, so that the shooting accuracy of the devils was greatly reduced.

On the other hand, the motorized infantry on the ground was waiting for work, and as soon as the dense firepower came up, the devil paratroopers who were landing in the sky were stunned.

Some machine gun bullets penetrated those parachutes, causing the parachutes to whirl and leak, and suddenly staggered, and finally the rift became bigger and bigger, until the entire parachute was useless, and the devil paratroopers on it returned to Toei's hometown to see their Amaterasu before they could land.

The battle lasted less than fifteen minutes, and about a squadron of devil paratroopers had already died before they landed, some of them had been pierced through the parachute and smashed directly into meatloaf, and some had been directly beaten into a sieve by the dense bullets.

And the other half of the rest was after landing, and before they had time to untie the parachute wrapped around their bodies, they were shot into a hornet's nest by the soldiers of the motorized infantry company who were swarming and rushing indiscriminately.

Sun Xiucheng, the commander of the motorcycle infantry company, put his foot on the corpse of a ghost soldier captain and said: "The platoon commander will immediately send someone to report to the regiment headquarters!" Let's just say that we have discovered the airborne troops of the Japanese army. ”

"Yes!" The platoon leader quickly turned away, and Sun Xiucheng turned to the others and said, "Let's go, let's continue to patrol and see if there are still airborne troops with devils in other places." Grandma's is so cool, she killed a squadron of devils in ten minutes! And it's really good to go to this devil squadron with good equipment, all fucking automatic firearms! ”

Soon, the soldiers cleaned up the battlefield, put all the captured devil weapons into the truck, and were about to drive to continue the patrol, when the motorcycle that was suddenly sent to the regiment headquarters to report the situation came from a distance.

Sun Xiucheng took two steps forward, only to see that in a blink of an eye, the motorcycle made a beautiful sharp turn in front of him, only to see the soldier jump down in a hurry, and stood up and said: "Company commander, it's not good, the regiment headquarters was attacked by the devil airborne troops!" At present, the regimental headquarters is in danger, and the regiment commander ordered us to return to help immediately! ”

"What? The regimental headquarters was attacked? Sun Xiucheng was suddenly shocked, there was only one guard platoon of more than fifty people in the regiment headquarters, if the regiment headquarters had any losses, it was really unimaginable.

Thinking of this, Sun Xiucheng hurriedly jumped on the motorcycle and yelled at the soldiers behind him: "Quick! Follow me to save the group! Fast! Don't be damn stunned! After speaking, he said to the soldier: "Hurry up!" ”

The fighter also jumped on the motorcycle, stepped on it with his foot, and with a bang, the motorcycle started on board, and immediately put the gear on the accelerator.

The motorcycle roared and lost in the direction of Laotianan Station. The other soldiers behind him jumped onto the truck and followed.

It turned out that the two squadrons that took off from Zhengzhou Airport did not carry out airdrops in the same direction, and the first squadron was airdropped in the southwest direction, but unfortunately crashed into the muzzle of the motorized infantry company and fell into pieces!

The second squadron that carried out the airdrop in the southeast was lucky, and all the more than 180 people in the squadron landed safely, except for a dozen people who had some accidents in the airdrop and unfortunately died.

Immediately, the leader of the second squadron, Captain Yangami, gathered them all together and launched an attack on the station through reconnaissance.

As Sun Xiucheng thought, Lao Tian'an only had a guard platoon, forty or fifty people, although the attack of the Yue army was discovered by the sentinels in advance, but the Yue army occupied an absolute advantage in numbers, and was also equipped with a submachine gun with strong assault ability.

Therefore, although the guard platoon resisted hard, it was still broken through the defense line by the army little by little. The situation is critical.

In the regiment headquarters, Xu Wen, Shen Jun, Hu Ming and others listened to the gunfire getting closer and closer outside, and were ready to fight to the death, and everyone took out their own matching guns.

Xu Wen gave a grenade to his young female dispatcher, then looked at her meaningfully and said to her, "Keep this one for yourself." ”

"Tuanza, don't worry! There is no one in our guard regiment who is afraid of death, even if I Hu Yan die, I will not let the little devil touch me! "The female reporter is just 19 years old this year, and she is a college student who has asked to join the 42nd Group Army before graduating from Peking University.

It should be Xu Wen's junior sister in the same school, and now the twenty-four-year-old Xu Wen was also a stunned young man who secretly ran out of the academy, and after several years of beating, he was finally able to take charge on his own.

The battle is not chaotic, and he has the demeanor of a general. Although an urgent message had already been sent to the battalions on the front line, since it was still four or five miles away from the front line, and it was not half an hour, the reinforcements could not expect to be able to run to arrive.

Listening to the gunshots outside the door getting closer and closer, Xu Wen said to Shen Jun and the others: "Brothers, fight with the little devil!" ”

"Fight...!" Shen Jun, Hu Ming and others also took out their pistols and shouted loudly.

(To be continued)