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Chapter 1152: Fierce Confrontation (5)

Li Yongjia, commander of the New Second Brigade of the Independent Division, walked up to the non-commissioned officer whose head was broken and the first to drive the vehicle to the river, took out a pack of cigarettes, lit one and put it in the mouth of the old driver who was sitting on the ground and looking up and smirking:

"The old steward of the dog day, if I knew that it was your grandson who drove, I would not agree to kill him...... You're directing the car to drive well, why are you running here to join in the fun? What if you have three long and two short, and you have a lot of wives and children? ”

The bearded old pipe head held a cigarette in his mouth and said with a smile: "Brigade commander, the fortune teller has said, brother, my life is hard, so I killed my parents and all the brothers and sisters in the family. If it weren't for the military seat and the brigade commander who took me in, let me learn to drive, and was promoted to sergeant, and married my mother-in-law and gave birth to a child with a military salary that I have never had in my life, where would I be loyal today?

"If it's really dead, it's nothing...... I have enjoyed the blessings of my life, I have face, I live a frank and happy life, what is there not to be satisfied with? My wife is virtuous, and my son has a lot of them, so I have enough to live...... I firmly believe that as long as the 17th Army is still there, as long as the An Jiajun is not falling, my wife and children will be properly taken care of, so what are you worried about? Ha ha! ”

Li Yongjia was extremely moved in his heart, but there was a look of disdain on his face, he stood up and gave the old man a kick in his ass, and then strode away happily. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

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Forty-five minutes later, the first armored combat vehicle "rumbled" onto the embankment, and under the personal command of Zhou Baoqing, commander of the engineer battalion of the new 2nd Brigade, it slowly slowed down, carefully drove up the slightly shaky new bridge, and drove smoothly all the way across the bridge under the nervous gaze of nearly 1,000 brothers.

The armored vehicles that had successfully reached the other shore accelerated happily to the celebration of the sapper brothers, and roared along the improvised road to the southwest.

The high ground on the north bank was full of surprise and inexplicable officers of the new Second Brigade, and the brigade commander Li Yongjia waved his clenched fist vigorously, laughed, and said loudly:

"Grandma's coalition army, you're in trouble now! Ha ha...... Passing on my order, the special service company and the guard company all set out to slam the artillery positions on the flanks of the 4th Brigade of the New 17th Division as quickly as possible, and at the same time ordered all regiments to throw themselves into reserve and hit me hard! Lao Tzu wants to see how long the new 17th Division can withstand without artillery! ”

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4:40 a.m., Zhengzhou Airport.

More than 100 oil drums on both sides of the take-off runway were suddenly ignited, and the blazing flames illuminated the airfield in red and brightness, and the 12 fighters of the attack aircraft squadron of the 2nd Regiment of the Southwest Air Force, which had been warming up for 10 minutes, rushed out of the hangar, drove onto the runway one by one, and took off into the air and flew up for nine days under the stunned gaze of nearly 1,000 officers and men of the Central Air Force and the garrison.

Lin Fei, chief of staff of the Southwest Air Force, and several German and American advisers smiled with satisfaction, saying that the squadron of attack planes that took off from Zhengzhou Airport was the last batch of combat units to take off from the four surrounding airfields, and the bombers, attack planes, and reconnaissance planes of the two groups fully met the requirements of the plan and made a good start for the first large-scale night combat exercise.

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At 5:30 a.m., north of Zhangde City, the Red Joint Command.

The telephones in the headquarters rang one after another, and one after another, emergency calls, distress calls, and emergency information came one after another, and the footsteps in the chaotic hall were hurried, and all the commanders and staff personnel were extremely nervous.

Pang Bingxun gave the retreat order to the western line, which suddenly turned sharply, and sat on the chair very tiredly, looking at Wan Fulin who was standing opposite, and no one spoke.

It has been less than five and a half hours since the exercise officially began, and under the rapid attack of the Black side, the entire front has been riddled with holes and crumbling, which has shocked everyone and felt a chill in their hearts.

As soon as the Black Panzer Regiment, which could not find a trace anywhere, had already broken through the defensive positions on the Western Front, rushed into the position of the 4th Brigade of the New 17th Division of the 40th Army with an unstoppable momentum, and formed a flanking attack with the opponent with strong firepower on the north bank with great ease; The artillery regiment located in the easterly direction between the two main brigades of the new 17th Division immediately sent an urgent report of attack, and the opponent had already killed the section of the river that everyone thought was the most impossible to break through, and the entire western front was thus cut into three sections by the tough and cunning opponent, if it could not quickly retreat according to the order just issued by Pang Bingxun, not only would the whole army be wiped out, but even the red joint command would be exposed to the attack of the black armored forces.

The urgent report said that the air raid had lasted for five minutes, and several of the bombers dropped live ammunition and blew up the Baibi Bridge on the road where reinforcements must pass, and together with the two high ground on the east bank, they were also attacked by more than a dozen high-power incendiary bombs dropped by the planes, and the woods on the slope were ablaze with fire, even if you want to go over the mountains and bypass the past, you can't do it. ”

Adjutant Zhao came in a hurry, his tone was hurried, and his face turned blue.

"What? No way! No way! It's not dawn yet, how can a plane fly over, ah? Wan Fulin exclaimed excitedly.

Pang Bingxun shook his head and stood up with a wry smile: "Brother Shoushan, when it comes to five o'clock this season, the sky will start to light, even if the ground is not bright, the sky is already bright." Brother An told me before that at this time of year, at an altitude of more than 5,000 meters, the visibility of the plane is already very high.

"Alas! When he said it at the time, I just thought it was strange and didn't pay much attention to it, but now it seems that Brother An is turning a corner to remind us to be on guard! Let's go, if there is really such a big fire in the east, you can see it from more than ten miles away, let's go out and have a look. ”

Wan Fulin hurriedly followed behind Pang Bingxun, strode out of the main gate of the headquarters, stood in the middle of the courtyard and looked at the east, only to see that the sky ten miles away in the east had been dyed red by the fire, and the columns of smoke were soaring in the flames, and it seemed that the situation was far more severe than what Huang Xiansheng reported in the emergency telegram.

Ma Fawu's face turned pale, and he looked up to the sky and sighed: "It's over, it's over!" The New Third Brigade of the Independent Division has already attacked, and only one regiment of our army can help guard the position, how can it stop the strong New Third Brigade? If the eastern front is lost, the middle lane will inevitably not be guaranteed, and this battle will no longer be able to be fought! ”

Wan Fulin was furious, turned to Adjutant Zhao and ordered: "Pass my order, the instructor will do whatever it takes, quickly rush to the established position, even if the opponent has already occupied, take it back for me!" ”

"Yes!"

Adjutant Zhao wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, turned around and ran towards the lobby.

Pang Bingxun smiled admiringly: "Brother Shoushan, Gao Yi! Knowing that the defeat was imminent, he also had to drag the main force of the Black side for our 40th Army, and this friendship was remembered by the younger brother.

"It's just that there are seven referee teams on the Eastern Front position, and they will make judgments based on the current battle situation, as long as the new third brigade of the black side leaves two regiments to block the attack, and the remaining troops even if there are only one or two battalions to attack our middle defense line, we will not be able to withstand it for long, the independent brigade of the younger brother has been fighting with a brigade led by Lu Xiong, the fierce general of the independent division, for more than two hours, the black side only needs to transfer the planes to bomb a few rounds, and the armored assault regiment on the western front will force a breakthrough, A brigade that followed behind could easily crush the defensive positions that our remnants of the defeated would rush into.

"That's it! We lost this battle, but despite this, we have to let go and fight, and we have no other choice but to fight to the end and be disabled. ”

Wan Fulin nodded sadly, said a few words apologetically with Pang Bingxun, and walked back side by side, but before he reached the door, the head of the Intelligence Department of the 40th Army hurriedly ran out:

"The military seat, the commander of the committee, the chairman of the committee and more than 100 generals of the observation group have arrived at the scheduled observation point. Chairman He General An just called and asked his subordinates to convey to the military commander and Commander Wan that no matter how the battle situation changes, they must still concentrate on commanding, fight the battle well, and wait for the exercise to end and then talk about it together and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of the gains and losses. ”

Pang Bingxun and Wan Fulin looked at each other and smiled bitterly, understanding what Chairman Chiang and An Yi meant by "concentrating on commanding and fighting well", and knew that under the current situation, only by fighting to the death could they save the face of the two armies and preserve the dignity of the soldiers and soldiers.

As for the defeat, it was irretrievable, and for Chairman Chiang and all the generals and colonels who were observing, the result was actually not important, but the important thing was to see the performance of the 40th Army in the knowledge that it would be defeated.

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The morning sun that is about to erupt is full of radiance, and the floating clouds in the eastern sky, under the smoke of steaming gunpowder, reflect the illusory and blurred colors.

The second line of positions that the Red side voluntarily abandoned before dawn was now empty and silent.

When dawn came, dozens of bombers and attack planes suddenly pounced and launched a thrilling and indiscriminate bombardment of the deserted positions, and the ground after 15 minutes of wanton destruction was riddled with holes and unrecognizable, and the defensive positions and firepower points that had been painstakingly managed for 30 days became incomplete, the vegetation and trees were burning on the ground, and thick smoke was billowing and gunpowder lingering.

Outside the observation bunker in the high ground on the south bank of the Zhanghe River, Chiang Kai-shek and more than 100 generals looked at the endless defensive line from afar, silent, and all of them were heavy and extremely worried.

The 20,000 officers and men who painstakingly built a defensive line for 30 days were wiped out under the fierce attack of the independent division for several hours, and the more than 28,000 officers and soldiers of the Red side who "survived" could only retreat to the last weak line of defense outside Zhangde County and fight to the death.

So far in the exercise, the remaining 16,000 elite troops of the three independent divisions of the simulated Japanese army's first-class division have launched a circular encirclement, and the artillery regiment's heavy artillery, mountain artillery, and field artillery, which are rapidly moving forward, are in a tight position for attack. Dozens of armored vehicles of the armored assault regiment had moved three kilometers east of the city to briefly engage the defenders before the final battle.

The instructors of the 53rd Army, reinforced on the Eastern Front, not only did not regain their positions as they wished, but were forced to rest and recuperate after paying "one-third of the casualties," and were still blocked by the two infantry regiments of the Independent Division on the east bank of the Baibi Bridge.

At this point, the Red side was at the end of its rope.