Xinji, Command of the 42nd Army.

Zhang Mingyu was discussing with Zhang Biao and Ling Tianbao to advance the headquarters forward in order to respond to the guard regiment and protect the two wings of the guard regiment.

Hurried footsteps sounded outside the door, and I saw Chief of Staff Liu Chengxing striding in, and said uprightly: "General seat, the guard regiment is calling!" It is said that the former Motai town has been beaten. ”

"Down?" Zhang Mingyu, Zhang Biao and others said with joy on their faces.

"Yes! In the telegram, the guard regiment said that our rocket artillery unit had successfully destroyed the devil's turret and pillbox, and the officers and men of the guard regiment took advantage of the situation to launch an attack, and after an hour of fierce fighting, they completely annihilated the defenders of the puppet army in Qianmotai Town, annihilating more than 2,000 enemies, of whom more than 500 were captured. Liu Cheng also nodded happily.

"Great!" Zhang Mingyu applauded, and immediately said to Zhang Biao: "Zhang Biao, you go and inform Niu Tiangui immediately, and ask him to lead the first brigade to set off immediately to Qianmotai Town to meet the guard regiment!" We will lead the army to follow up! ”

"Yes!" Zhang Biao snapped forward and strode away impromptuly.

"Boss, this rocket artillery is hugely powerful, are we urging the arsenal to urgently produce a batch and equip it with Lai San's Third Division, so that it will be much easier for them to fight Baoding." Liu Cheng asked.

"Hmm!" Zhang Mingyu nodded in agreement: "Chief of Staff." It's up to you! ”

"Yes!" Chief of Staff Liu Cheng stepped forward with a snap, and then happily took the order.

……… Cangzhou, known as the Army Garrison Headquarters.

Okamura Ninji had just had a conversation with Nanzo Yunzi, and as soon as he returned to the headquarters and sat down, Deputy Chief of Staff Hirata Masashi walked in with a heavy face.

Suddenly retracted his feet and stood upright: "General, it's not good, the defense line of Qianmotai Town has been lost, and I say that all the jade of an infantry brigade of this imperial army is broken." ”

"What?" Okamura Ninji stood up abruptly with a look of disbelief on his face. roared: "How could the permanent bunkers and turrets of Qianmotai Town, which are always strong, be well equipped with firepower and troops to fall so quickly? ”

"General, it is true, according to the soldiers of the Imperial Allied Army who have been recovered, the Chinese have used a new and extremely powerful artillery, which is extremely fast and powerful, and can easily destroy our pillboxes and turrets." Hirata said.

"What? A powerful new artillery? What kind of artillery can easily destroy our turrets? Okamura Ninji calmed down and asked.

"Hay! The lowly official only listened to the soldiers of the Imperial Association Army who came back, and the lowly official didn't quite know what kind of artillery the people were using. Hirata said with his head down.

"Yaga! Ordered the special high-tech department to immediately find out what kind of new weapon the people of China were using! Be quick! The sooner the better! Okamura Ninji said angrily.

"Hay!" Hirata Masaki bowed his head suddenly, turned around immediately, and strode away.

………… The next day, Niu Tiangui led the 1st Brigade of the 1st Division, the main force, to Qianmotai Town.

Xu Wen, the head of the guard regiment, hurriedly led the deputy head of the regiment and the chief of staff and others out of the town to greet them, Xu Wen and others had just arrived outside the town, and they saw a group of loaded [***] soldiers walking with neat steps, and outside the queue, a jeep dragged a long tail of smoke and whistled.

The jeep came to a place five or six meters away from Xu Wen's body, braked suddenly, and saw a middle-aged man wearing a neat colonel uniform and a black sunglasses on his face walking out of the car.

Although Xu Wen's current military rank is the same as Niu Tiangui's colonel, Niu Tiangui is the veteran of the original Reading Force after all, and he is also the confidant of Zhang Mingyu's confidant.

Therefore, Xu Wen still respects Niu Tiangui very much, Xu Wen respects not only his qualifications, but also his ability to lead troops, the predecessor of Niu Tiangui's regiment is the reading regiment brought out by Zhang Mingyu from Nanjing, and the predecessor of the reading regiment is the seed army of the former Central Teaching Corps and the 88th Division.

When Xu Wen saw Niu Tiangui coming, he hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "Brigade Commander Niu!" The younger brother has been waiting for a long time. ”

Niu Tiangui returned a military salute and said with a smile: "What Brigade Commander Niu, how old am I older than you, if Brother Xu doesn't care, call me big brother!" ”

"Okay!" Xu Wen was not hypocritical, and immediately shouted: "Big brother! Inside, please, the younger brother invites you to eat the seized canned beef. ”

"Good!" Niu Tiangui smiled and nodded, then waved his hand behind him and said, "All regiments are camped on the spot!" Then he followed Xu Wen towards the town.

At the same time that Niu Tiangui led a brigade to Qianmotai Town to join the guard regiment, Zhang Mingyu and others also left Xinji with the main force and continued to rush north towards Qianmozhen.

Since the 3rd Infantry Division and the 4th Infantry Division currently do not have Qiqiu rocket artillery, Zhang Mingyu ordered them to continue to stand still and wait for orders.

At the same time, Zhang Mingyu also gave Niu Tiangui and Xu Wen an order to wait for an opportunity to attack.

After taking Qianmotai Town, the next target of the guard regiment will be Gongtai, as long as Gongtai is taken, it will be equivalent to knocking on the south gate of Hengshui.

Guards regimental headquarters.

Niu Tiangui, Xu Wen and others were discussing the next military action around the map, Niu Tiangui looked at the map and said: "Brother Xu, your guard regiment has laid down Qianmo Town this time and made the first contribution, I will attack Gongtai this time!" ”

"Big brother! The so-called vanguard is to remove obstacles for the large army, pave bridges when encountering rivers, open roads in mountains, and naturally sweep all the way when encountering enemies, attacking cities and villages. So this time, let's let the little brother take the guard regiment up, with the support of rocket artillery, no matter how hard the little devil's turtle shell is, it will have to be shot. ”

"Alright! Brother, I won't take credit from you, my brother will lead the troops to press for you in the back, and if there is any accident, we can take care of each other! Niu Tiangui said indifferently.

"Thank you, big brother!" Xu Wen said with a smile on his face.

In order to resist the loss of Qianmotai, Gongtai was particularly important, and in order to resist [***], Okamura Ninji ordered the newly formed 28th Division to go to Gongtai to build field fortifications, in an attempt to rely on Gongtai to hold the 42nd Group Army to the death, and then find out the secret weapon of the 42nd Group Army.

The commander of the 28th Division is named Gu Sushi, who is the cousin of Gu Shoufu, the former commander of the 6th Division of the Chinese Army.

This time, the 28th Division was newly formed, and Gu Sushi was elected as the first division commander of the 28th Division, and it happened that the 28th Division was sent to the battlefield in North China.

Gongtai Town is backed by a mountainous area, a road crosses the town and the mountainous area behind the town, and the terrain is far better than the former mill platform, except for the same fortifications as the former mill platform - turrets and pillboxes plus isolation ditches.

In addition to perfecting the sturdy pillboxes and turrets, the 28th Division, under the leadership of Gu Sushi, built a large number of field fortifications along the mountain, and organized sappers to dig many anti-artillery air-raid shelters in the mountain.

After all, the 42nd Group Army knew that it had a mysterious artillery Gu Sushi, so his deployment in Gongtai was that the front was light and the rear was heavy, which was similar to Zhang Mingyu's previous defensive battles.

The front line is supported by isolation ditches, pillboxes, and turrets to form the first line of defense, and the entire Gongtai Town is supported as the second line of defense in the middle.

The third line of defense, which is also the most heavily defended line of defense of the 28th Division, is built against the mountain, and the main forces of the 28th Division are all deployed here.

……… Xu Wen rushed to the outskirts of Gongtai with three infantry battalions of the guard regiment, a machine gun battalion and troops directly under the regiment, as well as the first company of rocket artillery.

After using rocket artillery to bombard two shots, they easily defeated the devil's alert troops.

But then the devil's air force fire retaliated, and four Zero fighters were ordered to rush over, with the obvious intention of destroying the 1st Artillery Company in one fell swoop.

After discovering the Devil Air Force, Xu Wen ordered to request air force support, and at the same time arranged for the rocket artillery company to be transferred quickly.

The devil plane in the sky found the rocket artillery company that was moving fast, although the towing truck had reached the limit, but there was still a big gap with the speed of the plane.

Soon, the two Zero fighters caught up with the two tractors, and the two devil pilots pressed their guns one after another, and the dazzling tongues of fire chased after the back of the truck's butt, and the dense aviation bullets hit the ground and stirred up a puff of dust.

The truck driver hurriedly played the steering wheel left and right, and ran quickly according to the zigzag, and miraculously got rid of the pursuit of the devil plane.

About ten minutes later, the heavy roar of the aircraft motor sounded in the distant sky, and twelve Jian-1 fighter platoon-length models flew towards the guard regiment.

Because he knew that the Zero fighter had a strong ability to fight at low altitudes, Su Dingtian sent twelve of the latest J-1 fighters to reinforce in one breath this time, after all, two fists are hard to defeat four hands, and ants bite elephants to death, and J-1 is not ants, they also belong to the elephant level, but they are only slightly deficient in some places.

Soon the twelve fighters were divided into four ways to pounce on the four Zero fighters, they entangled a Zero fighter in a group of three planes, and then attacked and defended together, covering each other, and the advantage of the Zero was finally neutralized, after all, a Zero fighter had to face the J-1 fighters and Chinese pilots who were not much behind them in terms of comprehensive surname ability and flight technology.

In less than twenty minutes, two of the four Zero fighters were destroyed, and the other two suffered varying degrees of minor injuries and fled in a hurry.

Despite this, they still caused one loss and one injury to the Flying Eagle Division, one fighter plane was destroyed, and one plane was damaged, but fortunately, the pilot successfully parachuted and was not in danger of life.

Of course, twelve besieged four, three times the strength of the devil, or he lost two fighters, which shows that there is still a certain gap between the Flying Eagle Division and the devil's air force.

Of course, this is only at low altitudes, and if you get to high altitudes or medium to high altitudes, then the result is not easy to say.

(To be continued)