Colonel Chen Qixia, the leader of the 6th Group, flew in the front, and the plane he piloted made a turn to determine whether the three squadrons behind him had formed an attack formation. The pen "Fun" www.biquge.info turn off the engine cooler, then step on the horizontal rudder, and finally push the rod, the plane suddenly dived at a glide angle of 70 degrees, and the speed gradually accelerated from 350 kilometers per hour to 460 kilometers per hour, and after reaching the maximum speed, the dive brake of the aircraft opened, and the turbulent air flow made the body tremble.

Chen Qixia didn't care about speed and noise, all his attention was on the target in the telescope sight tube directly in front of the cockpit. As the planes got lower and lower, the targets in the sights grew larger, and the black dots on the ground began to transform into cars, cannons, horses, and panicked crowds. Facing a four-artillery position that was aimed straight at it, Chen Qixia pressed the bomb drop button on the control stick when the plane reached an altitude of 1,000 meters, and the bombs that broke away from the fuselage roared towards the target.

Chen Qixia didn't have time to see his results, he pulled up the plane hard, made the plane turn, and then continued to climb higher, only then did he find that the Japanese artillery position behind him was full of flames and loud noises.

Under the leadership of squadron leader Chen Weiwen, nine bombers lowered to a height of more than 20 meters, and while the two 7.92mm machine guns strafed, the engine speed increased to 1,800 rpm, and the strange scream like a heavy machine gun suddenly swept across the entire battlefield. This immediately caused panic among all the Japanese troops, and the pack horses were frightened into fleeing in all directions, and the baggage wagons they were pulling were immediately overturned, and the cars in the queue had to turn to the sides in an attempt to avoid the sound. Twenty-seven dive bombers carried a total of one hundred and eight fifty-kilogram bombs, which could not inflict a fatal blow on the entire Japanese army, but they were enough to cause serious confusion for the Japanese army.

While the planes were disrupting the enemy position, two armored brigades ten kilometers to the east took advantage of the confusion of the Japanese army and began to assault. The tanks were lined up in a line formation with great impact force, in which one hundred and eighteen tanks were lined up in a row of about forty, with a gap of sixty meters between each vehicle, and staggered rows from row to row, so that all tanks had twenty meters wide space to fire. In order to prevent collateral damage to the infantry from the rear cannons, they were strictly required to follow the infantry tactics after disembarking from the vehicle.

The planes were still bombing overhead, but the armor was hitting in front of them. Finally, the Japanese soldiers lying on the ground felt the shaking of the ground, and some of the soldiers saw the dense and terrifying armored array, and screamed, and at this time, the armored troops finally fired red flares into the air to stop the aircraft attack. For a time, the group of aircraft that was raging against the Japanese army quickly pulled up and circled, and the 37mm tank guns of the first row of PZKPFW-35 tanks began to connect and bombard, and two 7.92MM34 machine guns also began to fire at the Japanese troops in front of the confusion.

Artillery rained down, bullets were like nets, because the Japanese troops who disrupted the formation of air raids could not organize an effective defense at all, they could only run westward like a tide, but even if there were vehicles and heavy obstacles, these people could not escape the pursuit of the tanks, the machine guns and infantry on each tank were shooting rapidly, knocking down all the Japanese soldiers who could not escape, and then, the pursuing tanks crushed over these undead devils, screams and flesh burst out from under the car, and then disappeared and were silent, leaving only the monotonous roar of the engine and machine guns.

The 2.4 km wide torrent of armor passed through the Japanese rear almost without loss, and the few Japanese soldiers who wanted to die together were also killed by the infantry on board. After passing through the rear team and pursuing for one kilometer, Major General Hu Xianqun, who was located in car No. 076, 40 meters in front of the queue, began to ask the convoy to turn left collectively on the radio, and fired a green signal flare in the air asking the air force to suppress the Japanese army. At this time, the armored corps was not only to attack the front end of the Japanese rear, but also to attack the Japanese army itself, which had already begun to form in the south.

Each tank bought back from the Czech Republic was equipped with a radio station, and the Soviet-made T-26 was also equipped with a radio, and although the Fug.SPR. vehicle-mounted radio was only 700 meters long, or even less than 700 meters, Hu Xianqun's orders were still transmitted to every vehicle. Following the previous sweaty and bloody training, the previous linear queue quickly transformed into a giant wedge-shaped queue. On the east side of the rear team, taking advantage of the opportunity that the attention of the Japanese army was attracted to the left by the armored corps, the division's 120mm heavy mortar group began to be put down and taken off the shelves, and the air group once again pulled down and dived, strafing and dropping bombs on the Japanese position, suppressing the Japanese artillery group.

The mountain artillery was suppressed by enemy aircraft, so the only thing that could repel the Shina tanks was 37mm anti-aircraft guns and cluster grenades. In the Chinese Air Force's lower strafing again and again, the Japanese soldiers tried their best to concentrate their anti-aircraft guns in the northwest direction, which was the position where the Chinese tanks were going to break through.

Compared with the mountain artillery, the mortar is not troublesome, it does not need to dig a ditch, it only needs to install the seat plate at the end of the gun, the tripod and the aiming equipment can be fired, but the difference with the mountain artillery is that the mortar shell consumption is very dramatic, Li Kongrong believes that each gun needs to fire at least 100 shells during the preparation of artillery fire, but now the tank has to impact the field fortifications temporarily built by the Japanese army, according to the code of 50 shells is enough.

Fifty rounds is indeed enough. Twenty minutes later, the division's 120mm heavy mortar group began to test-fire at the Japanese position, and in the next 10 minutes, under the rapid fire of the artillery, more than 5,000 rounds of 15-kilogram mortar shells smashed on the Japanese position, which was thin and only two kilometers wide. In the continuous explosions, the earth was churning and burning, and the unprecedented and unparalleled intensive artillery fire destroyed all the Japanese personnel, anti-aircraft guns, and improvised fortifications on the ground. After the shelling was completed, the Japanese soldiers were still in a wailing dizziness, the sound of the tank's tracks pierced their eardrums, and the wedge-shaped armor torrent rushed into the Japanese position without hindrance, and the tank guns and machine guns continued to roar and strafe, and the Japanese army that had been waiting for the battle earlier also fell into the same chaos as the rear team just now, although there were soldiers who continued to rush to the tanks in a vain attempt to die together, but they were either knocked down by machine guns or killed by the motorcycle infantry who got off the car and accompanied them.

Assault from the north side, the queue of the team was three kilometers long, but these three kilometers, the Japanese army could not stop it at all, even if the tanks were destroyed by the hidden 37mm anti-aircraft guns, but the five or six or a dozen that appeared afterwards still crushed everything. When the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery was about to open fire, several tank main guns had already fired first, and the battle anti-artillery positions were blown to the ground. In less than half an hour, the armored iron stream pierced through the three-kilometer position of the team, leaving only corpses, fires, and continuous explosions in its wake.

"He. . . Damn, rejoice! The tank passed through the three-kilometer-long enemy position, and the voice of Qiu Qingquan, the commander of the 2nd Brigade, appeared on the radio, which was his first battle in armor, and the original nervousness turned into indescribable excitement now, and he involuntarily scolded on the radio.

On the other hand, Hu Xianqun, who had actual combat experience in Shanghai and Taierzhuang Pass, always felt that something was wrong, and he asked over the radio: "Who saw the Japanese tank?" Did anyone see the Japanese tanks? ”

Hu Xianqun didn't say that it was okay, but as soon as he said it, the commanders realized that they had not encountered Japanese tanks at all. It is impossible for the Japanese tank to disappear, and if it does not meet it, it may only run away. Hu Xianqun, who received the news, immediately sent the information to the army headquarters that was still in Beiguan Town: The Japanese cavalry units and tank units had not been annihilated, and it was expected that they would flee to the Japanese wing on the west side with the division commander Kenji Dohihara.

"Tu Fei Yuan should have run away!" Du Yuming wondered. An hour and a half has passed since the tank assault, and the Japanese air forces are fighting fiercely for air supremacy in the skies on the battlefield -- the 5th and 6th Brigades have already returned home, and now the third wave of planes taking off from Zhengzhou is engaged in a fierce battle with Japanese planes. Because the Japanese planes were in a hurry, the number was less than three squadrons, and there was also a squadron of bombers, while the Chinese side dispatched the 7th Group and the Soviet Air Force to aid China, and more than 50 planes completely mastered the air supremacy over the battlefield, but this was only temporary, and soon the second wave of Japanese planes would attack.

"What then?" failed to kill and capture the division commander Tu Feiyuan alive, Xu Tingyao was worried that Chang Kaishen would not be able to explain.

"There's no way." Du Yuming shook his head, "In half an hour at most, the Air Force will return." Tanks and trucks had to be concealed immediately, and the rest of the battle had to be fought by the infantry divisions. ”

"Did you just let Tu Feiyuan run?" Liao Yaoxiang was very unwilling. Now he found out that the number of Japanese troops was less than expected, and there was not a single wing of Japanese troops in Heze City, there was only one brigade in it, and now Heze had been recovered by the motorized infantry division.

"He can't run! To the west is the Yellow River, where it is a dead end. Du Yuming said, "Immediately order the tanks to hide on the spot, otherwise the tanks will fight one less one, we can't produce it, it's better to save some." ”

The armored division was formed entirely from outside. Du Yuming's concerns Xu Tingyao also had concerns, and he immediately nodded and said, "Yes, there were ten cars lost on the road, and I don't know how many were lost on the battlefield." Tanks, vehicles, and trucks were immediately ordered to cover on the spot with camouflage nets, and whoever did not have good cover would be dismissed. ”

It had only been more than an hour of fighting and it was necessary to hide, and of course the tank crews on the front line had opinions. But the military order was like a mountain, and it was still dismissed -- now that the 88th Army had become famous in World War I, and a fool knew that it was the strongest army of the party-state, no one dared to take this risk to let the Japanese planes drop bombs, and for a time the tanks on the ground rumbled again, and the well-designed camouflage net was draped over the tanks. In less than half an hour, the tank drove into a one-meter-deep pit, and then covered the new soil dug up with a camouflage net, and for a while the tank disappeared without a trace, only the destroyed Japanese vehicles were still burning, and then the sporadic fighting continued to be carried out in the west where the Japanese army fled.

The belated Japanese aircraft group covered the sky, this is all the planes that can be mobilized in the Chinese battlefield, the planes are very unwilling to scan this battlefield with only corpses, fire, and black smoke, but they can't find the existence of the chariots, and a few planes are still pulled down and swept through the thick smoke, but the pilots found nothing, they had to turn the nose and go to the west to support the remnants of the 14th Division that were being pursued.

Under the cover of his own huge fleet, the commander of the 50th Infantry Wing, Nagayama Noborisa, who had kept in mind the instructions of Tohihara before retreating westward, led hundreds of remnants of soldiers to find the Toshimabo detachment four hours later. Looking at Kenji Dohihara, who came out to greet him in person, Enyama wanted to cry without tears.

"Yuanshan-kun, you have worked hard!" A few hours ago, it was Yuanshan Deng who volunteered to stay behind, and he thought that His Excellency the division commander must not stay here.

"Your Excellency, we... We ...... "Yuan Shan Deng was covered in blood, his lips were dry and cracked, he was lucky not to be surrounded by the Chinese bicycle troops, and the other remnants of the Chinese chariot troops who escaped the attack of the Chinese chariot troops were still difficult to escape even if they were covered by aircraft.

"Needless to say, we must capture Lanfeng immediately, otherwise the whole army will shatter the jade here." Tsuchihara grabbed the hand of Toyama Deng. At this time, the Japanese army that crossed the Yellow River and went south from Heze still had the 59th Wing plus a brigade and cavalry wing, which was the previous avant-garde unit, plus more than 600 people from Yuanshanden and heavy artillery and other reinforced troops, the Japanese army was less than 7,000 people.

"We're going to attack?" Yuan Shan Deng's dead face finally had some reaction, it was obviously a fugitive army, but now it was going to attack Lan Feng, which was heavily guarded.

"Yes." Tsuchihara regained his previous self-confidence, and just now, the Toshimafang detachment and the cavalry chariot wing, which were rushing westward, routed the advance troops of the Shina Army, because there were cavalry and chariots in pursuit, and hundreds of prisoners were captured, and for a while the morale of the Japanese army rose again. "Yuanshan-kun, you rest first, the siege battle is about to begin, and we must take Lanfeng within two hours, that is, before dark."

"**** Your fucking Gui Yongqing! Gui Yongqing!! ”

In Lanfeng City, Lieutenant General Chen Ruihe, the commander of the 36th Division, who dropped the phone, was scolding his mother loudly. He's unlucky. The 106th Brigade sent out to the city last night actually encountered the Japanese tank cavalry unit, and under the impact of the Japanese army's death, the 106th Brigade that was caught off guard quickly collapsed, and the brigade commander Li Zhipeng ran back to Lanfeng with only more than 1,000 people.

The 106th Brigade outside the city was defeated, and seeing the appearance of the Japanese army about to attack the city, Chen Ruihe asked the army commander Gui Yongqing to send the 106th Division that was close at hand to enter the city for reinforcements, but he didn't expect Gui Yongqing to say that all the previous plans were cancelled, and the forward troops of the 46th Division and the 106th Division had already returned to their original positions. Obeying Gui Yongqing's order and suffering a miserable loss, and now he wants reinforcements and does not give them, Chen Ruihe, who has always been gentle, is so angry that he scolds, of course he knows that withdrawing is just Gui Yongqing's excuse. The 88th Army did not go in its own direction at all, and now that the 106th Brigade has an accident, this bastard doesn't want to take responsibility and pushes all the things on himself.

"Division, it's better to ask for others than for yourself, let's strengthen the city defense immediately, after all, there are still 195 divisions in the city, and the division commander Peng Jinzhi is also easy to speak. Stay in Lan Fengcheng tonight, and ask the chairman for guilt tomorrow. Chief of Staff said to Xianju.

"That's all there is to it." Chen Ruihe patted his head helplessly, although he felt that the 195th Division could not fight at all, but the basket had already been stabbed, so it was important to defend the Lan Seal City first. (To be continued.) )