Hiss, Long Xiaotian put down the binoculars, gasped, took out a large Cuban Havana cigar and put it in his mouth, took out the American Zhibao brand lighter, lit it, took a deep breath, and puffed out a puff of smoke. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

He was fully armed, wearing a German steel helmet, a camouflage uniform, a rhinoceros leather armed belt around his waist, a dozen magazines buckled on it, six wooden-handled grenades hanging from his waist, a shell gun and a water bottle, a cowhide satchel crossbody, a backpack on his back, and a 6×30 (that is, 6x magnification, objective lens diameter 30mm) binoculars produced by Zeiss in Germany in both hands. Needless to say, these supplies were provided by Miss Yoshiko, who almost made Long Xiaotian lose his s.

He also carried a 38-cap rifle on his shoulder, with a scope on the butt. This is a good gun that Long Xiaotian picked after attacking a devil convoy. A piece of equipment with a stiff posture and a strong temperament is really awe-inspiring. If you hold the pointed golden hoop stick in your hand again, it will make ordinary ghosts and gods dodge.

Long Xiaotian is now standing on the top of a mountain in Chihe Town, Anhui Province, looking into the distance. After being surprised, he picked up the binoculars again to observe, and the scene of the fierce battlefield appeared in the lens.

The meandering Chi River became a battlefield. The west bank of the Chi River was defended by the Chinese army, and the east bank was attacked by the Japanese army.

Dressed in yellow and white uniforms, British-made helmets with wide brims and Hanyang-made rifles, Gui Jun lay behind sandbags and fired in trenches, a Maxim heavy machine gun and three Czech light machine guns angrily spewing fiery snakes.

The Japanese troops on the east bank also lay in the fortifications and fired with dozens of heavy machine guns and light machine guns. The sound of thudging, clattering firing continued. When it hits the national army, it emits a cloud of blood mist, and when it hits the sandbag, it kicks up dust.

Eighteen field and infantry guns bombarded the west bank one by one, and the screams of the shells and the explosion of the landing were moving, the flames were soaring into the sky, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the earth and rocks and human stumps flew together.

Four Japanese fighter planes roared and dived and strafed, clicking, bullets like rain, and where they passed, the Gui soldiers turned on their backs.

Seven bombers flew over the Gui army, dropped bombs in dense numbers, landed and exploded, many fortifications disappeared without a trace, many bones did not exist, and the earth trembled.

In the middle of the river, there were dozens of devils lying on their stomachs in the three small boats, rowing while shooting, and they were beaten by the Gui army and fell into the river one after another.

This battle is known as the Battle of the Chi River. The defender was the 31st Army of the Gui Army, and the attacking side was the 13th Division of the Japanese Army.

Soon after the capture of Nanjing, the Japanese 13th Division attacked Anhui. On December 20, 1937, it occupied Chuxian County, Anhui Province, and the first line of Quanjiao. At this time, the Japanese army decided to seize Xuzhou, which is located at the junction of Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces, and is the intersection of the east-west Longhai Railway and the north-south Jinpu Railway, so its strategic position is very important. The Japanese army planned to coordinate the operations of the North China Front and the Central China Dispatch Army, and advance from the north to the south.

Shunroku Hata, who succeeded Matsui as commander of the Central China Dispatch Army, ordered the 13th Division to move north along the Jinpu Railway.

This 13th Division is a division that has just participated in the Nanjing Massacre, and it is also one of the elite divisions of the Japanese Army. At that time, the commander of the division was Lieutenant General Ogisu Libing.

However, since the landing in Songhu, the 13th Division has been fighting continuously for two months, and there have been certain casualties, officers and men are quite fatigued, and their combat effectiveness has decreased to a certain extent.

In addition, the division advanced all the way to the north through the Jianghuai hills of Anhui, which were full of rolling hills and large and small rivers, which were not suitable for offensive operations. The 13th Division advanced slowly.

Li Zongren, commander of the Fifth Theater of Operations, mobilized the 31st Army of the Gui Army to intercept the 13th Division of the Japanese Army.

The Gui army is known as the most powerful unit of the Chinese warlord army, surpassing the Hunan army and the Qinghai Majia Muslin cavalry, which is not for nothing. The Gui army is very good at mountain warfare and jungle warfare, and its officers and men are extremely brave in combat, have various tactical forms, and have strong individual combat capabilities; they can fight large regiments of entire brigades and divisions, and can also be dispersed into battalions and regiments to fight small-scale guerrilla warfare. The Gui army's first performance in the Anti-Japanese War was in the Battle of Songhu, but the result was quite unsatisfactory, with considerable casualties and several brigade commanders. This is not because the Gui army is incompetent, but because the Battle of Songhu is a positional war that the Gui army is not very good at, and the characteristics of the Gui army cannot be brought into play.

The 31st Army of Liu Shiyi, a famous general of the Gui Army, did not participate in the Battle of Songhu, but drove directly from Nanning to Xuzhou.

As the main force of the defense of the southern front of the Battle of Xuzhou, the 135th Division, the 173rd Division, and the 174th Division under the 31st Army were very full and their morale was quite high.

This 31st Army was a unit that had just been expanded and formed before the Anti-Japanese War, and it was composed of a small number of backbone troops and a large number of new recruits. Therefore, there are too many recruits in the 31st Army, and sixty or seventy percent of the troops are recruits who have just been recruited from Guangxi after the Anti-Japanese War.

Although the Gui Army was very strict in selecting soldiers at that time, only tens of thousands of soldiers were selected from the 900,000 strong men who voluntarily signed up in the province, and the quality of the soldiers was very good, but after all, the recruits did not have any combat experience, and their combat effectiveness was still insufficient compared with the 7th Army of the Gui Army.

Liu Shiyi himself recalled: Our army was temporarily recruited by young people from all over the country. The training has been less than a month, and not only are people doubting their combat capabilities, but I am also deeply worried. Fortunately, the cadres are all students of the Nanning No. 1 Branch, and I want them to use the month-long transportation time to explain the names and functions of the various parts of the guns on the train. At that time, there were pauses due to traffic congestion to wait for the passage of other troops, and every time he stopped, the commander of the unit was ordered to lead his subordinates to get off the train and conduct on-the-spot training near both sides of the railway, and also pay attention to the technical exercises necessary for combat, such as the use of automatic firearms and firing and other actions, so that they could fight as soon as they encountered the enemy, and all formal operations were dispensed with, so as to save time. Therefore, it took more than a month to transport them to Xuzhou by Yuehan Road, Pinghan Road, Longhai Road, etc., and the troops also received more than a month of on-the-spot training, so they could fight as soon as they got off the train.

The only rotten artillery pieces of the Gui army can be put into the museum. The Gui army had a small number of heavy machine guns, which were like treasures.

The 31st Army of the Gui Army and the 13th Division of the Japanese Army met at Mingguang, and a battle broke out.

Liu Shiyi, nicknamed Wu Xiucai, was a professional soldier who analyzed the overall situation and changed his combat methods according to Li Zongren's suggestions. The 31st Army of the Gui Army did not adopt a simple positional warfare, and he took advantage of the undulating hilly terrain of Anhui, coupled with the small rivers and lakes dotted around, to successfully entangle the Japanese army.

The Gui army swore to the death in front of the Gui army, but the strength was not large, so as to avoid being killed and wounded by the heavy weapons of the Japanese army.

At the same time, the Gui army used a large number of troops, with battalions and regiments as units, to attack and harass the Japanese army from the flanks and even the rear.

The flank attacking troops of the Gui army did not fight hard, but made effective use of the terrain and skillfully attacked the Japanese army.

The Guangxi Gui Army is very good at fighting in complex terrain, they have accurate marksmanship, dare to fight hand-to-hand in close combat, and march extremely fast, and are very brave and resourceful in battle.

During the day, the Gui army intercepted head-on, and it was not suitable for a large force, but only held on to a few points and guaranteed to hold out until night.

At night, the Gui army launched a large-scale night attack to recapture some of the positions lost during the day. The Japanese army was not good at night fighting, and was often repelled by the Gui army.

This method of warfare made the Japanese army unrestful day and night, and after only 10 days of fighting, they were quite tired, and many Japanese soldiers slept for 2 or 3 hours a day.

The Japanese 13th Division had a great headache in the face of this stalking tactic, it was quite difficult for them to advance, and because of the difficult terrain, it was also difficult to march with heavy weapons. Most of the bridges over the river were destroyed by the Gui army, and the Japanese army could only rely on a few bridges and river crossing squadrons to transport.

In the end, it took a full month for the Japanese army to completely occupy the Mingguang line, 50 kilometers north of Chuxian, which is equivalent to only advancing 1 kilometer a day. After the capture of Mingguang, the Japanese army was still more than 200 kilometers away from Xuzhou.

At that time, the Japanese army on the northern front had already fought fiercely in Taierzhuang, and Hata Shunroku had no choice but to order the 13th Division to attack in an all-out way, speed up the march, and add a large number of heavy weapons.

The 13th Division began to attack northward with all its might, and the Gui army had little room to retreat, so it desperately blocked it with the help of the Chi River.

Although the 31st Army of the Gui Army had very strong combat effectiveness, its equipment could not be compared with the Japanese army at all, and the number of Japanese troops in artillery alone was dozens of times that of the Gui Army.

Moreover, the strength of the 31st Army was only one army, and the strength was not as strong as the 30,000 men of a division of the Japanese army, so the battle was extremely fierce.

Putting down the binoculars, Long Xiaotian was shocked. He began to be in the city of Nanjing, and the Japanese army attacked the city, so he hid at home. He used to use light weapons to fight devils. Now it is the first time to see the battlefield where aircraft artillery and heavy weapons enter the battle, and it is really shocking. He couldn't imagine what it would be like to be on the battlefield.

Seeing the tragic appearance of Gui Jun's flesh and blood, Long Xiaotian was very sad, clenched his fists hard, and was moved by Gui Jun's spirit of not retreating. After smoking his cigar and chewing on a piece of Wrigley gum, he walked down the hill to the halfway point of the mountain. The white dragon horse stood here quietly.

Long Xiaotian took out the pointed golden hoop stick and made it bigger, dug out a big pit, put two suitcases and a saddle in it, and buried it.

"Xiaobai, you just stay around here and don't make a noise. I'm going to fight devils. Long Xiaotian touched the head of the white dragon horse and said.

The white dragon horse lowered his head and rubbed Long Xiaotian's body, snorting lightly, reluctant to give up.

"Xiaobai. The battlefield is too dangerous. If you get hurt, that big beauty will be with me, obedient. Long Xiaotian comforted it.

The white dragon horse shook his head, as if he understood what he meant.

Long Xiaotian strode down the hill and felt towards the Japanese position.