Under the wing protection of these eighteen fighters, the 88th Army, which was divided into six columns and marched rapidly, advanced due north at high speed along the road that had been repaired before. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Nearly 1,000 trucks and tens of thousands of bicycles followed the tank troops, and such a spectacular marching field had never been seen before. The 4th Brigade immediately understood the reason why the Aviation Committee forbade itself to attack the Japanese - like Taierzhuang, the attack was still handed over to the Panzer Corps.

At this time, the armored vanguard had just driven through Dingtao County, and the city wall was full of surprised **** soldiers, and the roadside was full of frightened local people. Looking at this steel brigade that tightened his belt, Song Xilian, the commander of the 71st Army, suddenly wanted to cry - in Shanghai and Nanjing, it was the Japanese tanks that swarmed and crushed themselves, and the front-line officers and soldiers could only rely on flesh and blood, holding Li Hansheng's cocktails and cluster grenades to fight those steel monsters, but today, now, the tanks of the 88th Army are about to rush towards the Japanese, and their shoes will crush those beasts. Brethren, have you seen the fight in the spirit of heaven? They will avenge you.

"Sir, sir, take us! Take us with you! "The male students of the more than a dozen county middle schools were not as afraid of the rumbling steel monster as the others, they ran after the passing tanks, shouting, and two of the students had actually tried to climb into the tanks to accompany them, but the tanks were already full of infantry, and there was no place for them. Seeing that the tank troops were about to pass, the blue sky and white sun flag they were holding had to be handed over to the infantry squad leader on a T26 tank, and the squad leader held the flag high, and the red, blue and white colors were very distinct in the dust stirred up by the tank troops.

The tank unit went around the city, followed by the artillery unit, more than a hundred trucks towing wheeled 120mm heavy mortars, followed by more than a hundred trucks loaded with mortar shells; Between the trucks were artillery men riding pedal bodies and carrying short guns - the trucks were short, and the soldiers who could not sit on the towed artillery trucks had to rely on bicycles to keep up with the advance of the whole army.

"The light pavilion is amazing! Amazing! Who came up with this idea? Song Xilian couldn't help but be deeply shocked when he saw such a self-propelled artillery team. Anyone has tanks, and they can form self-propelled artillery units with trucks, wheeled heavy mortars and bicycles, which is not a combination that ordinary people can come up with. Although the mortar does not have a long range, this is heavy artillery after all; Although the bicycle has no power, it can still keep up with the tank units at a speed of fifteen to twenty kilometers.

"Naturally, there are high-ranking people to guide me." Hou Teng said with a smile. He was sent by Du Yuming to serve as the liaison staff officer of the 88th Army in the 71st Army. Three divisions of the 71st Army will be dispatched after the motorized infantry division to kill the Japanese army more than ten kilometers away.

"Which one is superior?" Song Xilian hurriedly asked. He now saw a motorist pedaling a bicycle, and it was really all over the mountains. It is no wonder that the former enemy headquarters asked him to open up six major roads, in fact, it is still not enough to have these six major roads now, fortunately, eastern Henan is all plains, and bicycles can also be passed on the fields.

"Colonel Lee Kong-yong of the Navy." Hou Teng smiled and said, "The establishment of the armored army was designed by him, and the equipment was also recommended by him. Although he is in the navy, he also knows a lot about the army, and he is even more familiar with armored warfare. Brother Guangting invited him to come to the 88th Army several times, and even promised the post of deputy commander of the 200th Division, but he did not come. ”

"I know this man, but why didn't he come? The ships of the Navy have sunk. "The division commander is a lieutenant general, the deputy division commander is at least a major general, and a naval colonel goes to the first division of the Huangpu department to be a major general and deputy division commander, which is a great thing, so Song Xilian is puzzled.

"He said that it was up to the army to defend the country, but if he wanted to defeat Japan, he had to defeat his navy." Hou Teng recalled Li Kongrong's words when he was in Berlin, as if in his ears. "Brother Guangting and I are both landlubbers, I really don't know the strategy in his chest."

"Strange people, strange people!" Song Xilian sighed. Like Gui Yongqing, he also knew that the Ministry of Military Affairs was about to form the Second Armored Army, and he also wanted to fight, the 87th and 88th divisions were German armor divisions before, and the roots were red and Miaozheng, but unfortunately there were no talents around him.

Song Xilian at the head of the city sighed at the strange people, and the people under the city saw the motorcyclist on the bicycle, and they were no longer afraid but came forward to condole. Eggs, steamed buns, peanut pastries, cloth shoes and towels, these things were stuffed into the arms of the soldiers on bicycles, and the queue next to the county seat was stagnant for a while.

This is the queue of the 1st Motorized Infantry Division of Honor, although the division commander Zheng Dongguo, who was riding on the armored car with no beard, was not happy that the marching army was chaotic, but he still allowed the people to be inserted in the marching army, and even he felt that he was very sorry for them - not to mention that the **** would give up Yudong after this battle, he was worried that the Japanese army would retaliate, and that group of brutes would vent their anger at the slaughter of the local people like Nanjing.

"What time are we going to attack?" Zheng Dongguo looked at the table below, and at 11:18, he asked the chief of staff.

"According to the plan, it was twelve and three o'clock, and the air force was bombing the Japanese positions at that time." Comfort exists in 1 in 50,000 on the map before answering. According to the intelligence, the Japanese forward troops were moving south 14 kilometers directly west of Dingtao City.

"I just want the soldiers to use their lives." The troops were advancing rapidly, and all orders had to be passed back and forth by the heralds, although Zheng Dongguo had the intention of encouraging the whole army to fight to the death before the war, but he did not have such an opportunity.

Unlike history, the Honorary 1st Division was established in December last year, and it received training a month later than the 77th Mobu Division (the previous two divisions were set as the 201st and 202nd Mobu Divisions, but the 77th Division, which was born in the Hunan Army, was unwilling to give up the original number, and the Honorary 1st Division was not willing to lose the word 'honor', so it later continued to use the previous unit number). The 'honor' of the honorary division refers to the wounded soldiers who have returned from injury, although they are all veterans, but everyone is afraid of riding bicycles, and later they finally threatened with military law, and the whole division learned to ride. Only the 77th Division of Taierzhuang participated in the battle, and this battle was the first battle of the 1st Motorized Infantry Division, Zheng Dongguo was very worried, he was not afraid that his soldiers would die, he was worried that the low-level officers would be uneasy about the battle plan.

It was impossible for the Japanese troops 30 kilometers away to be unaware of the rapid march of more than 100 tanks, nearly 1,000 trucks, and tens of thousands of bicycles, but when the Japanese scouts and cavalry who went 10 kilometers ahead saw the dust rolled up by tanks and trucks in the east, the 88th Army's forward was less than 40 kilometers away from the Japanese army. At this time, the Japanese avant-garde troops had not yet arrived at Zhangwan, which was 14 kilometers west of Dingtao, and the rear team was only two kilometers out of Heze City - although the heavy artillery troops were lagging behind, the independent mountain artillery, baggage, hospital, and boat bridge, these reinforced troops made the actual marching army of the Tufei Yuan Department 14 kilometers long, and the length of its baggage troops was 5 kilometers, with an interval of one kilometer from the main team.

It took more than ten minutes for this cavalry squad to complete the confirmation and reconnaissance of the enemy troops under the blockage of the defenders, and another three quarters of an hour when they hurried to the headquarters of the division and regiment headquarters with urgent military information. At this time, the 2nd Wing of the Japanese avant-garde unit that had received the information was being deployed, and at 11:18 a.m., Kenji Dohihara and Tadayoshi Sano finally received a report from the cavalry squad, and their faces instantly turned pale after hearing the news.

"This is that chariot unit in Taierzhuang!" Although the cavalry did not find the chariot, only saw the dust rolled up by the long dragon, but Tu Feiyuan still guessed what kind of army it was.

"Your Excellency......" The cavalry squad leader bowed his head in pain, regretting that he had not found the chariot unit earlier. He rode his horse to the division headquarters to report, and it took him more than 40 minutes to arrive at the 15-kilometer journey, and during this time he also notified the advance guard troops, which was not unpleasant, but it was still a little late.

"Immediately order the troops to deploy and prepare for battle." The excitement after the panic made Kenji Dohihara's face twitch rapidly, and his face turned dark, "Immediately order the right flank Toshimafang detachment to immediately turn to the defense and respond to the west side of our army at the right time." The divisional radio station was immediately launched; Immediately send a report to the headquarters of the 1st Army and urgently request the support of the air force......"

"Your Excellency, the rear team should also be notified immediately, and the chariot and cavalry units should be ...... immediately" Seeing that the division commander only ordered his own team and the Toshima Fang detachment, Sano Tadayoshi immediately reminded him not to forget the rear team behind him.

"No, it's too late, you can only notify the rear team, but you can't send chariot troops!" Tu Feiyuan shook his head helplessly. The advance guard can be deployed in twenty minutes, but the main team needs forty minutes to deploy, and the rear team is not large, but there are many vehicles and supplies, and they can be deployed in forty minutes, which is the blessing of Amaterasu. And it was about seven kilometers from the rear headquarters, and the cavalry would have to run seven kilometers to give the order, and it would take another forty minutes to unfold, which would take at least an hour.

Where is the Chinese army? The Chinese army was thirty kilometers away from itself an hour ago, an hour passed, and at the speed of the march of the chariots, at this time they should be ten to fifteen kilometers away from themselves. Eastern Henan is originally a wilderness, and there is no river in this area, and the Chinese chariot can kill the rear team in half an hour - Tufeiyuan must be the first target of the Chinese army to be their own rear team, otherwise they will not detour from the east, and the avant-garde should also exchange fire with the Chinese chariot at this time, which is a standard roundabout flank attack.

If the rear team is annihilated and scattered by the Zhina chariot, the next step will definitely be more than a dozen Zhina divisions surrounded by the assistance of the Zhina chariot, and the Zhina army will completely annihilate the 14th division. In this case, the only chance for their own side is to use the time when the Chinese army annihilated the rear team to quickly get closer to the Toshimafang detachment, and then take advantage of the fact that the Chinese army has not been encircled, concentrate chariots and artillery to break through to Lanfeng, and quickly capture Lanfeng and Chen Liukou, only by occupying Lanfeng and Chen Liukou can he escape the encirclement and annihilation of the Chinese army.

Tu Feiyuan sweated like rain, and he thought of his own way out of the light and flint - not to retreat to Heze, but to take the risk of occupying Lanfeng Chen Liukou, which is indeed the best choice for the current predicament.

"Order it now!" Seeing that the chief of staff, Tadayoshi Sano, and other staff officers were still stunned, Dohihara immediately yelled.

"Your Excellency......" Everyone present was startled, but Sano was still worried, "Your Excellency, at this time, the enemy forces are all in the east, but what if there are also enemy troops in the direction of Lanfeng?" ”

"We can only predict that there are no chariots in the west, and we should quickly concentrate all the chariots and artillery of the division and regiment to advance westward regardless of casualties!" Tu Feiyuan gritted his teeth and said, "If you can't occupy Lanfeng, then you must also occupy Chen Liukou!" Don't forget, the Toshimafang detachment has a squadron of twenty-four siege howitzers, and they may be able to blast through the walls of Lanfeng. [54]

"Hey!" The division commander had already made the decision to abandon the car and protect the commander, and Sano Tadayoshi had to obey his arrangement. It's just that there is no time left to draft orders, and all that can be done is to give short verbal orders.

Squadron after group of Japanese troops stopped, and the 4,000-meter-long detachment turned back to the detachment at both ends and 500 meters, and opened a defensive position with a length of 3 kilometers and a depth of 1.2 kilometers in the direction of the enemy's attack to the east. The sappers set up all kinds of bunkers, the infantry dug field fortifications under the command of the officers and arranged light and heavy fire points, the baggage soldiers distributed ammunition to the predetermined positions in accordance with the drill rules, the signal soldiers unfolded the radio and carried the telephone lines on their backs to set up telephone lines between the trenches and the command posts, and between the command posts and the command posts, and the artillerymen, they dragged all the artillery to the west of the defense line, the 38-type mountain guns were unloaded and began to assemble, the field guns were placed on the racks, the ditches were excavated, and the shock-absorbing bundles were bundled on the tail pads.

The 14th Division is the main division, the whole army is well-trained, under the stimulation of the enemy attack, the team only took 32 minutes to complete the deployment, which made Tu Feiyuan greatly relieved, he thought viciously: in the face of his own battle, even if the chariot can break through the position, it will cost a huge price.

In the bunker that the sappers quickly set up, Tu Feiyuan kept searching the east with a telescope, but he did not see the chariot of Shina, and there was only an endless field of crops in the field. "What time is it?" He asked, puzzled.

"Twelve o'clock." Tadayoshi Sano's soaked sweat had dried, and his heartbeat was not as violent as it had just been. "Your Excellency, maybe the Chinese army didn't dare to attack, they just ......"

"......" Tadayoshi Sanono spoke, and Tsuchihara waved his hand to interrupt, and he heard the familiar sound of the engine, which was very fast from far and near, and it was just 'buzzing' before, but now it seemed to be roaring.

"Yaga! It's a Chinese plane! Tsuchihara's barely calm expression was distorted and frightened again—the attack was not from the east, but from overhead.

At an altitude of 4,000 meters above the headquarters of the 14th Division, the lost 5th Brigade and the 6th Brigade finally arrived, and they had just flown over Dingtao to see the 88th Army on the move, and only found the 14th Division by relying on the ground indication board. In accordance with the reminder before takeoff, the group abandoned the southernmost Japanese advance guard and rushed to the main team that was deploying the defense and the rear team that was deploying.

In the air, the undisguised Japanese positions on the ground resembled two rectangular rags, the unfurled rags to the south were artillery fields to the west, and three crooked yellow lines to the east; And the rag to the north is still trying to unfold, and a few yellow lines are intermittent, which is the trench that the Japanese are digging. (To be continued.) )