Ten miles southeast of Jincheng City, on the highway from Jincheng to Jiaozuo, the convoy of the First Brigade is moving slowly, and the First Brigade has already crossed Yushan Mountain after half an hour's journey, and will enter the Henan border if it goes forward for 30 miles at most.

Lai Changqing dispatched a platoon of leading soldiers to take a truck to maintain a two-mile distance with the large army to conduct reconnaissance; although the 42 nd Group Army was menacing this time, it could not fail to guard against the devils' half-way ambush and sneak attack, so fire reconnaissance was still necessary.

The reconnaissance platoon in front set up two Czech light machine guns on the trucks and fired at some places on both sides of the road where the trees and grass were more dense!

To prevent an army from laying in ambush, in some places where the terrain is dangerous, a few soldiers will personally touch it and reconnoiter it, and only after making sure that it is safe will they continue to move forward.

At this time, Zhang Mingyu had also led the follow-up troops to Jincheng, this operation, Zhang Mingyu did not plan to go to the front line to command, there were 100,000 troops fighting in front, he only needed to command remotely in the rear, so he set his command in Jincheng.

In addition to the guard regiment, the rest of the second, third, and fourth divisions began to advance towards Jiaozuo one after another, and the 100,000-strong army marched towards Jiaozuo.

In Qinglong Gorge, Dawang Township, the people of the village are working in the fields, hoeing the newly planted wheat. Suddenly, an old man saw dust covering the road in the distance.

I saw that a large truck full of soldiers was speeding towards them, because the road passed by the side of Dawang Village, so they were no strangers to the car people.

Usually, the devil's car is not less, and every time he passes here, the car is either full of stolen cattle and sheep and other materials, or I don't know where to snatch the girls and women.

But somehow, during this period of time, there were fewer devils in Jiaozuo City who suddenly came out, and in addition to the strongholds outside the city, you can still see devils around, and you can't see devils at all.

At this time, the convoy of the brigade suddenly appeared, which frightened the old man and the other people, and the old man saw that the soldiers on the car were all wearing strange military uniforms, and couldn't help but exclaim: "Oh no, the devil is coming!" Run, everybody! ”

More than a dozen people in the field hurriedly ran away, but how could anyone have a car run fast, and soon the convoy surpassed the frightened people, and those people saw clearly that the plaster flag hanging on the truck was not the plaster flag of the devil, but the blue sky and white flag of [***], and the soldiers on the truck did not look like themselves.

He said that he was short, and the soldiers on the truck were all big men, burly, and heroic, which was what the obscene devil could compare.

At this time, the old man said to his wife: "Child, mother, do you think this is me?" ”

"Look at it, it should be us Chinese, did you see the military flag?" That's not the plaster banner of this devil. ”

At this time, a soldier in the car smiled and waved his hand at the old man and shouted: "Uncle, auntie, hello!" We are [***]! We hit back! ”

"The child is too mother, did you listen, they are [***], he just spoke to us, and they called back!" The old man said with some excitement.

"Uh-huh! I hear you! It's really [***], it's been five years, [***] has finally come back, and it seems that the little devil is finally going to be driven away! We can finally settle down in a few days! The old lady also said a little excitedly.

At this time, more than a dozen villagers stopped, looked at the rolling convoy, and watched a team of heroic [***] soldiers drive in front of them, and these simple people waved to the convoy.

Lai Changqing sat in the passenger seat, watched more than a dozen people in the field waving at them, and immediately ordered the driver to stop, get out of the car by himself, and not walk towards the field.

The old man and a dozen villagers saw a person suddenly getting out of the car, it seemed that he should be an official, although he was a little nervous and scared, but he was not so frightened that he ran away.

At this time, Lai Changqing strode over, carefully crossed the wheat field under his feet, came to the old man, and saluted with a military salute: "Fellow! Hello! The contemptible person is Lai Changqing, the 1st Brigade of the 3rd Division of the 42nd Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army, our troops are going to attack Jiaozuo County, and today we want to spend the night outside your village, do you think it's okay? ”

The old man nodded again and again: "I am the chief of this village, sir, you are here to fight the little devil this time, right?" ”

"Yes! This time, we are here to beat the little devil and drive the little devil out of Henan completely! Lai Changqing nodded.

"Oh! Great, you guys finally came back, the little devil is not a person, and he has ruined the villagers! The old man said excitedly.

"Uncle, don't worry! We must eliminate all the little devils this time, and give the villagers justice, and let the little devils pay for our people with blood! Lai Changqing said.

"By the way, what do you call you?" Lai Changqing asked.

"Oh! My surname is Yang, this is my wife, and her surname is Wang! Yang Laohan pointed to his wife next to him.

"Oh!" Lai Changqing nodded and said, "Uncle Yang, we will camp in your village, do you think this is okay?" ”

"Yes! The west end of the village is a place where wheat is usually threshed, and it is now empty, which can be used for camping. If you don't dislike it, sir, go to our house! Uncle Yang nodded happily. (Note that the field used for threshing wheat is the flat land used in the countryside to thresh wheat and crush it.) This is collectively referred to as "field" in Henan, Anhui and other places)

"Uncle! On behalf of the 42nd Group Army, I would like to thank you for your kindness, our army has rules, and we can't take a stitch from the common people, just live in the barracks! Lai Changqing said with a smile.

At this time, a guard stepped forward and strode over, and said uprightly: "Brigade seat, all the troops have arrived, can each regiment ask for instructions to set up camp?" ”

"Set up camp now! Order all regiments to send more guard posts to prevent sneak attacks by devils, and order the officers and soldiers of all regiments not to disturb the people, and dare to steal the common people's things without authorization! Lai Changqing said with a cold expression.

"Yes!" The guard snapped to his feet, then turned and strode away.

And those people are in their eyes, happy in their hearts, this [***] is different from the previous [***], the previous [***] some locals joined the army is good, if it is a soldier from other provinces, then it is like a bandit in the village, this is also requisitioned, that is also requisitioned, some people with bad military discipline if they fancy someone's girl will pretend to be a bandit at night to rob her, and what they do is even more hateful than bandits.

Yang Laohan and the villagers were thinking, how nice it would be if all the [***] soldiers could be like the [***] army in front of them! The people's words should be better.

……………

Zhengzhou, known as the Army Garrison Headquarters.

Major General Muto Akira strode into the headquarters, and the commanders of the 6th Division, the 101st Division, the 17th Division, and the 21st Division were all ordered to rush over.

Looking at Muto Zhang, whose military rank was one level lower than himself, the eyes of several division commanders were full of contempt. I wondered how the General Headquarters had sent such a junior officer to command them.

Muto Zhang completely ignored everyone's disdainful gaze, but strode to the first place, first bowed down to everyone, and said in a sincere tone: "Generals, on the orders of General Tada Jun, I have come to discuss with you the combat matters of resisting the 42nd Group Army of the Chinese Army, and I also ask you to cooperate!" ”

"Humph!" The new division commander of the Sixth Division, Hatohiko Asamiya, snorted disdainfully and said: "At present, the people of China have advanced to the area of Jincheng, and they will launch an attack on the Jiaozuo area before they say it, and it is impossible for the Shigeto detachment alone to block the attack of the people of China, so I think we should immediately reinforce the front line!" ”

Although the Sixth Division was almost annihilated by the Reading Li Army (42nd Group Army) in the Battle of the Yellow River last time, it was later reorganized in Nanjing, and although the number remained the same, the veterans of the original Sixth Division had lost very little, and now the officers and men of the unit are all reservists, and there is still a big gap in combat effectiveness compared with the original Sixth Division.

And the royal family of Asaka Palace Hatohiko may be the leisurely son of the royal family, and he wants to experience military life, so he will take the initiative to ask to be the new division commander of the sixth division.

With the rank of lieutenant general, he holds his own status as an imperial family, so he naturally looks down on Muto Zhang, a front-line commander with a lower rank than himself.

He had already scolded Tada Jun more than a hundred times in his heart, how could this stupid guy send such an incompetent person to serve as the commander-in-chief of the front.

Since his arrival, except for commanding the Sixth Division to pursue the southern Anhui guerrillas (New Fourth Army) led by [***], he has hardly had a head-to-head confrontation with [***].

That is, he ordered his Sixth Division to start a killing game, and there were no less than 100 villages slaughtered around the 6th Division's station, and there was no one to talk about it within 100 miles, and there was a lot of mourning.

This murderous maniac was met with crazy resistance, and the guerrillas in southern Anhui grew rapidly, and finally under the pressure of the army base camp, Hatohiko Chaoxiang was forced to suspend his killing game, but it was common to connive at his subordinates to slaughter the village from time to time.

"Hmmm! I think what King Hatohiko of Asaka Palace said makes sense! We should immediately send troops to reinforce the Shigeto detachment, otherwise the situation is not optimistic. The commanders of the other divisions hurriedly echoed their words.

After all, Hatohiko of Asaka Palace is a royal family, not something they can compare, once the royal family is unhappy, then his military career may come to an end.

Seeing that everyone didn't plan to give themselves a chance to issue an order, Muto Zhang coughed embarrassedly and said, "What Chaoxiangjun said is right!" I agreed to immediately send additional troops to the front. ”

At this time, Hatohiko stood up and said with an extremely disdainful expression: "Muto-kun, you are waiting for my good news in Zhengzhou, I am responsible for the war at the front!" With that, he stood up and turned around and walked away.

The rest of the division commanders also turned around and left, leaving Muto Akira alone in a dark daze.

was made unable to step down by Hatohiko of Asakamiya, and after everyone left, Muto Akira said fiercely: "Yagayalu, hateful moth, you dare to do this to me, and you actually take the order of Chief Tada Jun as a deaf ear, it is simply a big drop of hateful!" Dead, dead, dead! "As he spoke, a hint of fierceness flashed in Muto Zhang's eyes.

At that time, Hatohiko of the Asahika Palace issued an order to the commanders of all divisions to go to the front line, and nearly 80,000 people from the four divisions of the army marched towards the Jiaozuo Xinxiang area in this way.

And at this time, the headquarters of the Shigeto detachment of Xinxiang City.

The detachment commander (brigade commander) Major General Chiaki Shigeto was anxiously pacing back and forth in the command headquarters, when a communications staff officer strode in and suddenly retracted his feet and said: "General, Jiaozuo's Eighth Division of the Imperial Allied Army is calling, and they have found the line head unit of the 42nd Group Army of the Zhina Army in the area of Dawangzhuang!" ”

"Huh? Vanguard? How many people are there? Chiaki Shigeto asked.

"There is about the strength of one division, and the total number should be around 10,000!" The communications staff officer bowed his head suddenly.

"What? The strength of a division? Yaga! How could it be the vanguard, and when did the people use a division as the vanguard? When Shigeto Chiaki heard this, he was so angry that he scolded, and he originally wanted to take the opportunity to sneak attack and take the 42nd Army by surprise, but when he heard that the other side had a division, he immediately dispelled his thoughts.

"Hay! This is how the Eighth Division of the Imperial Allied Army reported, because their scouts found that there were at least nine divisions of the Squadron [***] behind this Chinese Army, so this Chinese Army must be the vanguard! The communications staff officer bowed his head again.

"Baga Yalu! Nine divisions? Plus the vanguard, that's ten divisions? Shigedo Chiaki suddenly gasped, ten infantry divisions are not something he can shake, although he has two infantry wings and an artillery wing, plus the signal corps and the engineer corps have a total number of more than 10,000, but the real combat personnel are less than 7,000, he is not sure that he can defeat the 100,000 army of the 42nd Group Army with 6,000 people, he knows that he is not Banheng Zhengshiro, and Zhang Mingyu is not Yan Xishan and Wei Lihuang.

Chiaki Shigeto pondered for a while, and said to the communications staff officer, "Send a telegram to Commander Tada Jun immediately, requesting that reinforcements be sent as soon as possible!" ”

"Hay!" The communications staff officer bowed his head suddenly, then turned around and walked away quickly.

…………

Jincheng, the former enemy headquarters of the 42nd Group Army.

Zhang Mingyu, Lai San, Ling Tianbao, and Wang Tiehan gathered around the edge of the map, discussing the next battle plan.

Lai San pointed to the map and took the lead and said, "Total seat!" At present, our third division has all entered the boundary of Qinyang (now Jiaozuo City), and the second and fourth divisions are also being deployed, and at most this afternoon they will all be able to reach the designated position, as long as you give an order, you will be able to launch an attack on Jiaozuo County! ”

"Oh! Qinyang is the army that unit? Zhang Mingyu asked thoughtfully.

"Back to the general seat, the defenders of Qinyang are the Eighth Division of the Imperial Allied Army of the Wang puppet regime in Nanjing, and the division commander Luo Dazhong." Lai San put away the command pole and said.

"So, there are no devils in Qinyang?" Zhang Mingyu asked in surprise.

"Yes! There are no devils in Qinyang County, but there is a detachment of the Yue Army stationed in Xinxiang, seventy kilometers away from Qinyang, which seems to be called the Chongteng Detachment! Lai San nodded and replied.

"What? Shigedo detachment? Zhang Mingyu immediately said with an awe-inspiring expression.

"Yes, it's this Shigedo detachment!" Lai San nodded in the affirmative and replied.

"The Shigedo detachment raised by the son of a bitch, I can't run away from you rabbit cub this time! Lao Tzu has to split this dog's heavy vine Chiaki alive! Zhang Mingyu gritted his teeth and said: "Lai San, I order you to lead the third is to take Qinyang for me, Ling Tianbao." Wang Tiehan, the two of you led the second division and the fourth division to bypass Yuntai Mountain and directly attack Xinxiang, and you are limited to take Xinxiang within three days, otherwise military law will be engaged! ”

"Yes!" The three of them stood up at the same time, snapped up and said yes.

After seeing the three of them leave, Zhang Mingyu clenched his fists and waved twice towards the void, Zhang Mingyu is no stranger to this heavy vine detachment, in the original history, it was this heavy vine detachment that blocked the retreat of 700,000 soldiers and civilians in Nanjing in one fell swoop.

And participated in the Nanjing Massacre, from the Songhu battlefield all the way to the city of Nanjing, what made Zhang Mingyu feel the most painful is that many soldiers in this Shigeto detachment are Taiwanese, but these Taiwanese are all fucking assimilated by devils, completely forgetting that they are a member of the Chinese nation, and they actually came to kill their compatriots in their motherland with these beasts.

So this time, Zhang Mingyu decided to eliminate this dog's Shigeto detachment in one fell swoop no matter what, and peel the old devil Chiaki Shigeto with cramps!

For Qinyang, Zhang Mingyu doesn't have to worry at all, a puppet military division, it should be easy to take Qinyang with the strength of the third division.

The only thing Zhang Mingyu was worried about was when the devil reinforcements in the direction of Luoyang and Zhengzhou would arrive, if he couldn't take Xinxiang before the devil arrived, it would be empty talk to annihilate this heavy vine detachment.

At this time, Xu Wen, the head of the guard regiment, strode in, snapped and said: "General seat, Minister Jin sent a message from Taiyuan that our security department personnel sent news from Luoyang and Zhengzhou respectively!" ”

"Oh? How so? Zhang Mingyu suddenly came to his senses and asked.

"According to intelligence, the 101st Division of the Yue Army in Luoyang has been deployed! On the Zhengzhou side, the three divisions of the army have also been urgently deployed, and the four divisions of the army have all come by train! Xu Wen opened the message and replied.

"What? By train? Zhang Mingyu was taken aback, knowing that if you take a train from Zhengzhou, you can reach Xinxiang in less than five hours, and even if the 101st Division in Luoyang also takes a train, then you can come to Xinxiang in two days at most, and you can reach Qinyang in a day and a half.

In this case, it would be impossible for the 2nd and 4th Divisions to take Xinxiang in such a short period of time and eliminate the Shigeto detachment!

Thinking of this, Zhang Mingyu immediately said with an awe-inspiring expression: "Xu Wen, immediately send a telegram to the air force and order them to immediately dispatch to bomb the Zhengzhou Yellow River Railway Bridge, and be sure to completely destroy it!" ”

"Yes!" Xu Wen stood upright, and was about to turn around and leave.

"Wait!" Zhang Mingyu waved his hand to stop him, and said: "Even if the air force destroys the Yellow River Bridge, the army can cross the Yellow River by boat, so that even if there is no train, they can walk for a day at most to Xinxiang, which is still not possible." Therefore, I must personally lead the guard regiment to the north bank of the Yellow River to block the crossing of the river by the Yue army, and buy time for the second and fourth divisions! ”

"Total seat! I'll take the guards with me! Promise not to let a single devil cross the river! Xu Wendao.

"No! I have to go this time, because the devils are not one or two brigades, but three divisions and seventy or eighty thousand people! So I had to go in person! Zhang Mingyu waved his hand.

"But...!"

"There's nothing to do, go and gather the troops immediately!" Zhang Mingyu directly interrupted Xu Wen's words.

"Yes!" Xu Wen stood upright, and then quickly turned around and left.

(To be continued)