readx; Zhong Fangjun walked at the front of the team, constantly urging the big man who opened the road in front of him to swing his knife and slash, at this time, it had been three hours since the team set off, but even a quarter of the way had not been completed! Listening to the sound of 'whooping' in his ears, Zhong Fangjun realized that his troops were indeed too weak, and although the morale of the officers and soldiers who were accustomed to a pampered life was high, their bodies could not withstand such a long-distance attack. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

After confirming his location on the map, Zhong Fangjun gave the order to move forward at full speed: "Throw away everything except ammunition and water bottles, and the whole battalion will move forward lightly!" Those who are physically exhausted will follow, and the others will continue to move forward, and in any case they will reach Fuyong before six o'clock! ”

The fighters immediately complied, and the speed of the procession's advance immediately increased considerably, however, after two hours, the troops slowed down again!

At this time, the corners of Zhong Fangjun's mouth were already full of blisters, he looked anxiously at the undulating hills and mountains in front of him, suddenly made up his mind, and ordered loudly: "When you go downhill, roll down, slide down!" With that, he got out of the way.

When the fish belly white had just appeared in the east, the interspersed troops finally arrived in Fuyong, and at this time, there were still thirty minutes before the attack time! The uniforms of the officers and men were all torn, and the exposed skin was blue and purple, and several soldiers fell to the ground as soon as they arrived at the designated position, never to get up again.

At six o'clock, the interspersed troops launched a surprise attack on the defenders of Fuyong, and after a short battle of more than ten minutes, a squadron of the Yue Army stationed here was completely annihilated, cutting off the retreat of the defenders of Bao'an.

At the same time, the newly armed 78th Division of the armored division launched an attack on the Henggang Army: First, after ten minutes of artillery preparation, the position of the Army was suddenly flooded with gunpowder smoke and firelight, and then more than 100 M2A4 tanks swarmed up and crushed the Army's position. Although the army had already received the information of the armored forces of the Ninth Army Corps, they did not expect that the opponent would adopt the tactics of cluster charge, and the soldiers in the anti-tank fire point looked at the dense tanks on the opposite side, and felt powerless in their hearts, and jumped out without hesitation and rushed to the back, so more and more soldiers jumped out of the trenches and joined the ranks of the rout.

This was the first time that the Ninth Army had its own tanks, and the first time that a relatively large tank operation was carried out. For Yu Wenzheng at the beginning, he already had a dream-like feeling.

Yu Wenzheng stood on top of the command vehicle, commanding his steel division to quickly break through in depth, not caring about the infantry around him, behind the tank battalion, the motorized infantry quickly outflanked the two wings, firmly encircling the enemy who fled on two legs.

When the armored troops advanced to the bank of the Shahe River, the demolition personnel sent by the Bao'an army were hurriedly planting explosives under a stone bridge, and the tanks in front immediately accelerated, dragging thick black smoke monsters and rushing onto the stone bridge, and using machine guns to knock all the troops into the river. Suddenly, a flash of fire flashed behind the opposite hillside, and a 37-mm anti-tank shell landed accurately on the turret, and the tank immediately burst into flames, completely blocking the narrow bridge deck.

Yu Wenzheng's tank guns fired five shots in a row, eliminating the anti-tank fire points that had exposed their positions, and at this time, all the follow-up tanks had come to the east bank of the Shahe River. Yu Wenzheng immediately made a decision and ordered the driver to drive the tank to the bridge deck and crash the still burning tank into the river, clearing the way for the troops to advance.

The torrent of tanks finally rolled to the outside of Bao'an County, and then lined up, opened artillery in turn, and bombarded the city fortifications of the Yue army with heavy artillery fire, while the Yue army relied on the city wall and returned fire with dense artillery fire.

The masonry city wall collapsed under the continuous shelling, and more than a dozen openings tens of meters wide appeared, and hundreds of soldiers were buried alive before they could dodge.

The tank immediately roared and rushed through the gap, chasing the Japanese army through the streets.

The cunning commander of the army immediately organized a group of death squads, suddenly approached the tanks under the cover of houses, and then detonated the bombs on their bodies, and with the sound of explosions one after another, the dozen or so tanks that rushed into the city first were all destroyed and turned into a pile of steel wreckage. Like beasts smelling blood, the remnants of the Japanese army immediately rushed out of their hidden locations howling and launched a suicide attack on the tanks of the [***] team.

Faced with waves of surging death squads, Yu Wenzheng had no choice but to order a retreat, the tank reversed and retreated, and at the same time used parallel machine guns to fire wildly to stop the approach of the Yue army.

In the half-hour street battle, the 78th Division lost 21 tanks, and the troops only lost one tank from the launch of the attack to the attack on Bao'an County!

Yu Wenzheng was annoyed and angry, and hurriedly ordered the infantry brigade to advance quickly, reinforce it as quickly as possible, and then retreat the tank to a place hundreds of meters away from the city wall, and use tank guns to cover the city.

Dense shells continued to fall into the city, the thick smoke of gunpowder blocked all the sunlight, everywhere was the sky-high fire, the army quickly collapsed in the torment of gunpowder smoke and fire, nearly a thousand soldiers fled from the west gate to the direction of Fuyong, and hundreds of fierce soldiers under the leadership of the wing commander, holding all kinds of explosives from the gap in the city wall and the city gate rushed out wildly, straight to the steel monster outside the city.

Yu Wenzheng learned the lesson of belittling his opponent, and while strangling his opponent with dense machine-gun fire, he commanded the tank group to retreat slowly, always keeping a distance of several hundred meters from the army.

Rows of soldiers fell in a dense rain of bullets, machine gun bullets detonated the explosives on their bodies, causing a series of explosions, and finally less than fifty soldiers stepped on the corpses of their comrades and rushed through the pool of blood, however, they were still greeted by a stormy strafing, and a few minutes later, the last soldier fell, and the nearest tank was still fifty meters away!

At this time, the motorized infantry brigade had already rushed over, and Yu Wenzheng ordered them to clear the Yue army in the city, and he led the armored group to bypass outside the city and pursue the fleeing Yue army.

There was no way forward, there were pursuers behind, and the army, which knew that it was going to die, launched a decisive charge to the position of the 153rd Division!

The soldiers of the army all took off their shirts and rushed up with bayonets howling!

The 153rd Division, which was eager to wash away the shame, used dense machine-gun fire to strafe fiercely, and at the same time constantly threw grenades, pressing the Japanese army to the front of the position, and soon corpses several meters high were piled up in front of the trench, and the ground was covered with black bloodstains!

The number of the army became smaller and smaller, and the offensive became weaker and weaker, and finally, only one officer remained, holding a sword and screaming, and at this time, the squadron suddenly stopped firing, and the soldiers looked in amazement at the enemy who had fallen into a state of frenzy.

Zhong Fangjun jumped out of the trench and raised his pistol as he looked at the Yue army who was getting closer and closer.

The officer of the army stopped four or five meters away from Zhong Fangjun, looked down at the corpses all over the ground, turned around silently, and plunged the war knife into his abdomen!

"Commander Zhong, how can you lose so many tanks?" Looking at the remains of the tank in the middle of the street, Xiao Hanliang's face showed an expression of disbelief.

Yu Wenzheng scratched his head in embarrassment and said: "I didn't expect the little devil to be so crazy, scrambling to be the first to be a death squad, and the tank couldn't move quickly in the city, so it was exploited by the enemy." "The loss of a tank company at once, even he himself found it unreasonable.

Xiao Hanliang asked bitterly: "How can you use a tank to fight street battles?" Isn't this the strength of attacking the enemy with one's own shortcomings! The main role of the armored forces is to choose a relatively weak part of the enemy's defense line to break through, open the gap, and then do their best to advance into the enemy's depth, cut off its supply lines, and threaten its flanks. Tanks are not designed to be used as a weapon for attacking fortifications, and in street fighting, the role of a tank division cannot even reach half of that of an infantry division! ”

Seeing Yu Wenzheng's dejected appearance, Xiao Hanliang couldn't help but ask again: "Attention! The use of armored forces is described in great detail in Tank, haven't you read it at all? ”

Yu Wenzheng hurriedly defended: "I've been reading the book, and when the war first started, I also strictly commanded the battle in strict accordance with the tactics of the armored forces, but after the city fortifications were destroyed, the army turned around and ran, and I was afraid that the 153rd Division, which was blocking behind, would not be able to resist, so I rushed in." Yu Wenzheng was afraid that Xiao Hanliang would continue to blame him, so he hurriedly changed the topic and said: "Let's annihilate the Bao'an defenders, the army will definitely come to retaliate, let's discuss how to deal with it first!" ”

Xiao Hanliang's surname was straightforward, and after listening to Yu Wenzheng's words, he immediately commanded his troops to build shore fortifications five kilometers from the beach, preparing to meet the counterattack of the 21st Army, and at the same time, Fuyong's 153rd Division was also on standby. However, to people's expectations, there was no movement in the Yue army in Guangzhou, and even the warships of the Fifth Fleet of the Navy were honestly docked at the pier and had no intention of attacking.

After receiving the report from the front, Gao Fei analyzed that the army may have thought that it would not be able to hold such a vast area with its current strength, or it may have not figured out how to deal with the tank group, but since the enemy had made up his mind to be a turtle with a shrunken head, it was just an excellent opportunity for him to reorganize and train the 12th Group.

After consulting with Yu Hanmou, Gao Fei ordered the 153rd Division to send a regiment to defend Bao'an, the division headquarters and other troops retreated to Huiyang to deploy defenses, the Nanyang Army and the 78th Division withdrew to Yingde for rest, and the 154th and 157th Divisions advanced to the area near Zengcheng to attack the Yue army.

Although the army stationed in Zengcheng has only two brigades of infantry and an artillery squadron, it is only a few tens of kilometers away from the downtown area of Guangzhou, and the reinforcements can arrive within an hour by car.

In light of the above situation, Liang Shiji, commander of the 154th Division, and Huang Tao, commander of the 157th Division, discussed and decided not to take the initiative to provoke a large-scale war for the purpose of training the army in accordance with the operational principles of the Theater Commander's Headquarters: The 157th Division deployed the main force in the Laohushan area, which was about 10 kilometers northwest of Zengcheng County, and arranged three battalions to monitor the three city gates in the southeast, south, and south; The 154th Division divided its troops into two parts, with one regiment to monitor the Yue army in the direction of Guangzhou, and the rest of the troops as battalions to sweep the strongholds of the Yue army around the county town and destroy the roads

Zhang Xinxin was lying on the hillside with a piece of bluestone on his pillow, holding a grass stalk in his mouth, chewing boredly, as if he wanted to squeeze out a trace of sweetness inside. The lazy winter sun walked slowly in the sky, and the withered yellow weeds on the hillside bent lifelessly, and a gust of wind blew, and a few dry leaves fluttered and fell from among the green branches, tumbling in the air, up and down, and then disappearing into the north side of the hillside.

Next to the hillside is a gravel road, the road leading from Zengcheng to Guangzhou, where Zhang Xinxin and two soldiers monitor the movements of the Yue army. In the past few days, the 154th Division has uprooted more than a dozen strongholds set up by the Yue army in the surrounding towns and villages, captured hundreds of puppet soldiers, and destroyed the roads around Zengcheng. However, not only did the Yue army in Guangzhou not make any movement, but even the Yue army in Zengcheng also closed their doors, as if they were determined to be a turtle with a shrunken head. As a result, the daily close monitoring has become routine, and the number of reconnaissance personnel has gradually decreased, and today there are only two people, Zhang Xinxin and Wu Guitu, because it is Zhang Xinxin's class, so Wu Guitu is lying in the shade of the tree behind the hillside to sleep in his endless nap.

Suddenly, Zhang Xinxin felt a slight vibration from under his body, and he slowly propped up his upper body, poked his head out of the weeds that had submerged his body, and looked around. After a while, the shaking of the ground became more and more intense, and the sound of horses' hooves could be heard in the air, and then two tall horses galloped out of the middle of the trees in the distance, dozens of birds soared into the sky, and then more and more cavalry appeared on the road.

Zhang Xinxin hurriedly turned over and lay on the ground, and then shouted in a low voice: "Wu Guitu, get up quickly, the devil is coming!" But there was still an even snoring behind him!

Zhang Xinxin was so anxious that she was sweating profusely, and she picked up a stone and threw it behind her, but she only stopped snoring for a few seconds.

At this time, the cavalry of the army was only a few hundred meters away from the hillside, and behind the cavalry were military trucks full of soldiers, and heavy artillery was towed behind the trucks.

Zhang Xinxin saw that there were nearly 1,000 cavalry in the army alone, and all the cavalry of a division of the army was only four squadrons, so it seemed that the enemy was ready to fight! It's definitely too late to run back and report now, and the only thing I can do is call the police with gunshots.

"Lose his mother, fight!" Thinking of this, Zhang Xinxin turned his heart sideways, pulled the bolt, pushed a bullet, and then squinted his eyes and aimed at the Yue Jun at the front.

A gunshot rang out, the earthy yellow military hat fell to the ground, the soldiers on the horse hurriedly pulled the reins, the front hooves of the war horse were raised high, and then smashed to the ground and stopped. The soldiers turned over and dismounted, crawled into the grass on the side of the road, and fired their pistols at the hillside.

The cavalry reacted quite quickly, from the time they were attacked to the time they fired back, it took less than twenty seconds before and after, while the troops behind stopped far away, dismounted and quickly dispersed, fanning towards the hillside.

The fierce gunfire finally woke up Wu Guitu in his sleep, and as soon as he staggered out of the woods, he saw Zhang Xinxin waving his hand frantically at him, and before he could react, three bullets hit his chest in a row! Looking at the gushing blood, Wu Guitu tried in vain to block it with his hands, and then fell on his back with an expression of disbelief.

"Wu is on his way home!" Zhang Xinxin shouted loudly, then turned around again, staring at the gunman with blood-red eyes.

The army had already judged that there were not many people in the middle [***] team that blocked them, so they left two squads to continue to attack upward, and the rest of the people all returned to the war horses on the side of the road, ready to continue to advance.

At the foot of the mountain, the Yue army fired two light machine guns in turn, crushing Zhang Xinxin dead behind a rock, unable to move, and could only watch as the cavalry of the Yue army turned over and galloped towards the foot of the mountain, and at the same time, more than 20 Yue soldiers quietly touched up from both sides.

Zhang Xinxin turned over slightly, got down on his back, took out a grenade, estimated the distance, and threw it out. The grenade exploded only a dozen meters away from the rock, and the charging soldiers hurriedly lay down, and the thick smoke of gunpowder blocked the view of the machine gunners, and Zhang Xinxin took the opportunity to roll to the right.

After crawling in the grass for dozens of meters, Zhang Xinxin moved to the right side of the hillside, from where he could condescendingly attack the Yue army on the road, for the sake of safety, he did not aim at the Yue army on horseback, but aimed his gun at the war horse. After a few shots, the galloping horses tumbled to the ground, and the cavalry was thrown far away.

The brief attack exposed Zhang Xinxin's position again, and the dense bullets kept beating around him, and the flying rubble cut blood marks on his face.

After draining the bullets in the chamber, Zhang Xinxin threw out another grenade, blowing up four or five cavalry companies and horses into a blur of flesh and blood, however, before he could retract his hand, a bullet hit the palm of his hand. At this time, Yue Jun had already rushed towards his hiding place, and without caring about bandaging his wounds, Zhang Xinxin quickly climbed up more than ten distances, and then stood up abruptly and ran towards the woods.

The first bullet flew over Zhang Xinxin's head with a whizze, and the long bullet pierced the glass-like quiet sky, and then, dense machine gun bullets continued to fly down the mountain, the screams of the bullets scattered like a fan, and the broken branches and leaves kept falling from the trees, so frightened that he hurriedly buried his head and ran at the limit speed that his body could bear.

Although the army fired hundreds of bullets in just five or six seconds, none of them hit the target, Zhang Xinxin ran to the edge of the woods like a divine help, and as soon as the feeling of ecstasy came to his heart, a sharp pain in his butt knocked him to the ground.

Zhang Xinxin struggled to get up with a rifle on the ground, and then staggered through the trees. Dozens of meters away, the monster rushed up with a scream, lined up in a loose formation and entered the woods to search. The woods, which were no more than a hundred meters wide, were quickly searched, and a cliff appeared in front of them, and a few clumps of wild grass on the edge of the cliff were stained with red blood, and then the army found a smashed rifle next to a rock.

The military cao who led the team took off his military hat in the face of this cliff, bowed deeply, and then led his troops down the mountain.

Not long after the army entered the woods, a few drops of blood fell from a large tree on the edge of the cliff, and immediately after, a heavy and abnormal wheezing sound sounded on the top of the tree!

(To be continued)