Through the satellite picture, seeing that the German armored clusters attacking from three fronts did not attack the various defensive lines of the Soviet Red Army as vigorously as they did when they fought Poland, the corners of Cheng Gong's mouth couldn't help but show a playful smile. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Before the German army launched the surprise attack, Cheng Gong had the CIA agents very skillfully reveal Hitler's "Barbarossa" plan to the Soviet intelligence services, and it was not surprising that the German blitzkrieg wanted to achieve the expected victory results.

After the Soviet Union declared war on Germany, Churchill and Hoover sent special envoys to the Soviet Union as soon as possible, and there is no doubt that the British government did not care about the Soviet Union's occupation of Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan, and the Soviet Union officially joined the Allied camp, injecting a shot in the arm for the extremely bad situation of the Central Powers.

In order to actively respond to the Soviet Union's declaration of war on Germany, the Eighth Route Army led by the Chinese Communist Party and the Northeast Anti-Japanese Allied Army also launched a vigorous 100-regiment raid in the four northeastern provinces on the evening of July 16.

At 4:20 a.m. on the 17th, on the border between Vietnam and Guangxi, countless signal flares staggered in the sky and flashed in the night, and in an instant, thousands of cannons fired in unison, which was deafening.

The night sky was burned red by the nets of countless artillery fires, and the entire earth's crust trembled. The six integrated divisions under the jurisdiction of the Third Army and the Fifth Army of the Chinese National Revolutionary Army Expeditionary Force braved artillery fire and crossed the border through the light of artillery fire to launch surprise attacks on their preset strategic targets.

By dawn, the Japanese defense line stationed on the Guiyue border was in disarray. The combination of multiple units was forcibly broken through by the heavy armored forces of the Chinese Expeditionary Force.

In the blue sky of China, a fighter formation composed of 24 Qiang-5 A1 land-based jet supersonic combat attack aircraft, like 24 invincible air lords, easily shot down one after another Type 99 fighters and Type 99 attack planes of the Japanese Air Force.

The flaming wreckage of the plane, which can be seen everywhere on the ground, seems to be crying to tell the Japanese Air Force that you are so fragile and vulnerable.

The fact that the Chinese army dared to take the lead in tearing up the Sino-Japanese armistice agreement and launching a surprise attack was obviously a great surprise to the Japanese government.

The artillery of the Japanese Southern Dispatch Army stationed in Vietnam, which hastily responded to the battle, also used 107 rocket artillery and 150mm heavy artillery to bombard the Chinese Expeditionary Force at the beginning. However, they soon discovered that as long as their artillery fired less than five shells in ten years, their artillery positions would immediately summon a dense artillery fire to cover the attack, as if the artillery of the Chinese Expeditionary Force had clairvoyance.

The little devil would never have known that in order for the "Paradise Island Huamei Secret Treaty" to be implemented smoothly in the future, Cheng Gong sent two special forces carrying counter-artillery radars to the Chinese Expeditionary Force and the North China Eighth Route Army respectively to assist the heavy artillery units of the Kuomintang and the Communist Party in inflicting heavy damage on the Japanese artillery positions.

However, the appearance of the Qiang-5 A1 jet supersonic fighter on the battlefield in China still attracted a strong protest from the Japanese Foreign Ministry against the Donghua Empire.

In this regard, the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Donghua Empire replied very simply: Donghua and Huaxia have the same roots, and they are separated by water, and whatever weapons Huaxia needs, as long as there is money, Donghua will sell them. This was a normal business practice, not the participation of the Donghua Empire in the Sino-Japanese War.

In these days, the truth is always in the hands of powerful nations.

And the military strength of the Donghua Empire is, of course, what they say. Even if the Donghua Empire said that the black was white, the Japanese government could only bear it helplessly.

Shuojiang River has been known as natural danger since ancient times. It is also a military town and strategic point set up by the Japanese Southern Dispatch Army on the border of Vietnam and Guangzhou. It is located about 70 kilometers northwest of Cao Binh, 4 kilometers away from Binh Muang in Gui Province in the north, and 16 kilometers away from Meng Ma Street in Gui Province in the northeast.

The terrain around the Shuojiang River is very dangerous, with dense mountains and many natural caves. The only highway leads southeast from Pingmeng through Shuojiang and Dunzhang to Gaoping, and a winding canyon with a width of several hundred meters and then tens of meters is formed on both sides, which just locks the road.

Judging from the topography of the entire Shuojiang defense line, there is a main highway in the direction of Pingmeng in the northwestern part of Shuojiang, which is more suitable for the frontal attack of the mechanized troops of the Chinese Expeditionary Force, so the Japanese army deployed an elite unit along the highway here.

The 296th Wing of the 15th Division of the 18th Aspect of the Japanese Southern Dispatch Army placed three brigades in the direction of Changpaishan, Shuojiang, and Banyang, and the three squadrons of its mixed artillery brigade were placed in the direction of Boyuan, Banyang, and Nava, and a field brigade was also deployed on the border line in the Pingmeng direction, and the wing headquarters was located in Banyang.

Caves, culverts, passes and gorges along the road, hidden bunkers and various fire points scattered in honeycombs. The trenches and tunnels hidden in the thorns are connected vertically and horizontally, forming a deep defense line with dense firepower.

The areas of Rangyong, Dunzhang and Banya behind the Shuojiang River are mountainous and difficult to navigate, and only a reinforced squadron of the 296th Wing is deployed, and on the border line around Mengma is a brigade of the 55th Brigade that is independently mixed, and the defensive force is relatively weak.

Then there is a simple road from Shuojiang to the south through Nazao, Banli, Maban, and Anle to Gaoping. Shuojiang City is surrounded by mountains on all sides, the southwest and northwest are two large stone mountains, forming a natural barrier, the northeast and south are continuous hills and mountains, the Pingjiang River flows through the north of the city, the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Located north of the Shuojiang River and guarding the border between Vietnam and Guangxi, the Changpai Mountains are steep and towering, densely covered with caves, and dense vegetation, which is also a natural obstacle to the Chinese army's attack on Vietnam. The Japanese troops stationed in Vietnam also built a large number of open and hidden forts here, built ditches and tunnels, and formed a multi-level crossfire network with two ring fortifications as the main body.

Obviously, after the outbreak of the Japanese-American Philippine War, the Japanese army strengthened the defenses of the Vietnam-Guizhou border and the Yunnan-Burma border. But even so, the Japanese army would not have thought that the Chinese army would have the courage to provoke the war between Japan and China again.

July 17, 1941 at 10:30.

The huge steel body of the 59-2A main battle tank appeared on the northern horizon of the Mengma Gorge Highway, rushing all the way at a high speed of 50 kilometers per hour.

The heavy clangle of metal shook the earth.

The 296th Wing of the 15th Division of the 18th Front Army of the Southern Japanese Dispatch Army built a defensive line of three barbed wire and trenches on the road, and faced a double-tank attack formation composed of 12 59-2A main battle tanks.

The 12 59-2A main battle tanks were followed by 48 Type 63 tracked armored personnel carriers with barrier armor.

The Japanese bunkers on the hillsides on both sides of the road were in full swing, but they could not delay the impact of this torrent of steel.

The rockets fired from the 40 rocket launchers dragged a long tail flame from multiple bunker holes, most of them failed to hit the armored vehicles moving at high speed, and occasionally three shots hit three armored vehicles, but before the Japanese soldiers on the mountain could cheer, the three armored vehicles only dropped a few pieces of fence armor, and continued to run forward at a high speed of 45 kilometers per hour.

"Yaga! How is it that the chariots of China are not afraid of the 40 fires of the empire ?! Simply unforgivable! ”

In a bunker on the hillside on the right, a Japanese soldier held a telescope and stared at the Chinese Expeditionary Force chariot sprayed with the blue sky and white sun logo whistling by, gritting his teeth and cursing.

(To be continued.) )