"UP TO NOW, THE SOVIET UNION HAS PROVIDED OUR ARMY WITH 20 INFANTRY DIVISIONS, AND 135 PLANES OF VARIOUS TYPES, 100 76MM FIELD GUNS, 80 37MM BATTLE DEFENSE GUNS, AND 80 120MM HEAVY FIELD GUNS HAVE ARRIVED ONE AFTER ANOTHER. More than 900 light and heavy machine guns. In addition, Soviet-style T26 tanks and light combat vehicles are also arriving. ”

"In addition, while increasing the delivery of weapons to our army, the Soviet Union has reduced the intensity of arms imports to the northwest."

In the end, Chairman Chiang heard what he wanted to hear the most. As a matter of fact, the Soviet Union has long tightened its arms imports to the northwest, especially after discovering that the northwest has such a strong ability to develop new weapons, and realizing that the northwest has a lot of say in both tanks and airplanes, and began to tighten the mouth of assistance. Even some equipment imported from the northwest began to be a major part of the transaction. After all, although the Soviet Union wanted to avoid being attacked on both sides in the event of a war with Germany, it also did not want to face a greater threat after defeating the Japanese. To use the Republic of China to restrain Japan, and at the same time, to control the growth of the Republic of China, at least until the German threat is resolved, the situation in the Far East must not be allowed to get out of control.

With the momentum displayed by the Northwest Army at present, even the Central Army in its heyday is much inferior. If they are allowed to develop smoothly in this way, I am afraid that the gap between the two sides will become wider and wider, and their own strength will not be comparable, then it will be better than the outside.

The telegram ordered Sun Tongxuan to take over the post of commander of Han Fuyu's 10th Group Army, and also made every effort to deliver supplies to Xuzhou. Prepare for the battle. ”

In fact, until now, the main forces of the two Japanese armies have fought separately. This was extremely unfavorable in military science, but the Japanese army relied on its superior equipment to win successive victories, making up for its strategic shortcomings.

In order to change this situation, open up the Jinpu Road, facilitate the coordinated operation of the two Japanese troops, and also for the convenience of transporting supplies, the two Japanese armies were connected together, Tian Junliu and Terauchi Shouichi had a total of 9 divisions, another 3 brigades, and a number of aviation and armored troops, totaling more than 270,000 people, and marched north and south in the direction of Xuzhou. The 13th Division of the Japanese Army attacked in the direction of Fengyang and Bengfu in Anhui. Several other Japanese troops also marched together, but the development of the war situation was somewhat unexpected by the Japanese, and the Japanese army, which had been advancing vigorously, with an army of more than 80,000 people, was successively blocked, and the war was not as smooth as the Japanese army imagined.

To the north, the fighting was already raging.

After making great contributions to the capture of Taiyuan, the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, known as the Steel Army, has been transferred to North China after being reorganized. This war machine once again showed its sharp minions at this time, all the way south from Weifang, and successively attacked Yishui, Juxian, and Rizhao. Linyi, one of the two major gateways to the north of Xuzhou.

Woo –

With the long honking of the train, the long car was dragging southward speed. At this time, the northern section of Jinpu Road, which was captured by the Japanese army, played an extremely crucial role in the war.

On the whole train, there were either soldiers or ordnance.

Barking

The fur on the back of the big black dog at the head of the village suddenly stood up, and the ears that had been shrugged were also shaking at this time, barking wildly at the road west of the village.

The big black dog was only the first, and immediately after, several local dogs from the village farmers barked wildly one after another.

"Oh no, no, the devil is coming!"

I don't know who was the first to scream, the village suddenly exploded, adults, old people pulled most of the children into the village, and later generations thought that the degree of mechanization was blank before. Outside, it should be rich in weeds and easy to Tibetan. In fact, this is only affected by some fragments of the Anti-Japanese War Bureau, except for some mountainous areas, or sparsely populated places, which are indeed overgrown with weeds and easy to hide people. Like a densely populated plain area. In the wild, even some withered yellow weeds are harvested very cleanly, after all, most farmers at this time can not afford to burn coal, and basically rely on the trees and weeds that grow in the ground to cook food to keep out the cold in winter. Some of the fields were also cut bare. In the fields, the crops have not yet grown, and there is no way to hide people. Out of instinct, these people went straight to their homes, and at home, there was a place to hide people.

However, to everyone's surprise this time, the Japanese army did not stop in the village at all, and the Japanese soldiers in the brigade walked in neat steps, and some electric donkeys moved further south.

This was the Seya detachment of the Japanese army, which was responsible for attacking Teng County, one of the two major gateways north of Xuzhou.

Bang bang

But not long before the Japanese army left the village, fierce gunfire was heard from the south.

It's time to fight!

"Ge Laozi, kill these animals!" At this time, it was Yang Sen's 20th Army, which was ordered to go north to reinforce Teng County, that was blocked.

"Hongfa, **** immortal board, the gun is on time." Sun Hongfa only fired a few shots, and the comrade-in-arms next to him scolded with a grumble.

"What are you yelling about, I don't see you kill a Japanese soldier." Sun Hongfa replied, and his ten fingers were red from the cold, swollen like ten carrots. According to normal times, Sun Hongfa's shooting is also ranked first in the platoon, but the climate in the north is much colder than in Chengdu, even if it is only northern Jiangsu, it is only more than two months at this time, and the cold wind is still howling, and it is a pity that a considerable number of them are still wearing single clothes.

Sun Hongfa is one of them, before the attack, many people sweated, their clothes were sticking to their bodies to dry, after this battle, I am afraid I don't know how many people will get sick from the cold, after all, although the central side has replenished a batch of winter clothes, but they are all miscellaneous in the Sichuan army, and they want to receive all the supplies, and it is a bit too much to say that they are delusional. Yang Sen's Sichuan army, at this time, even some of them were wearing straw sandals, and many people's feet were already frozen, but it was such a group of respectable soldiers, in the current situation of extreme lack of supplies, resolutely holding the old sleeve in their hands and fighting bravely against the Japanese army armed to the teeth.

"Lie down!"

A scream rang out from inside the blocking team, and before most of the soldiers could react, the Japanese machine guns suddenly rang out. Rows of Sichuan soldiers were swept to the ground.

The weakness of the blocking force surprised the soldiers of the Seya detachment, and it had not been a long time since the beginning of the Battle of Pingjin that they had encountered such weak resistance.

In fact, it was not that the resistance of the Sichuan army was weak, after Yang Sen failed to fight for Sichuan with Liu Xiang, even in the Sichuan army, it was not the mainstream, and the tens of thousands of rifles that Liu Xiang got from the northwest, as well as a large number of machine guns and artillery, were all used to enrich his troops, and they did not benefit Yang Sen's 20th Army.

Tom tom

After a mortar, plus machine guns, the original enemy troops suffered heavy casualties. It didn't even need the Japanese to charge, and it broke up on its own.

"Yo Xi, order Nakata Shangsuke, continue to lead the troops forward, and be sure to block the Chinese army that reinforces Teng County from Teng County." Fukuei Zhenpei, who personally led the detour, breathed a sigh of relief, he has been fighting in the north, and has rarely encountered such a smooth war, but some colleagues in the south mentioned how low the combat strength of the enemy army in the south is, Furong Zhenpei has always held a skeptical attitude, and at this time, he has personally experienced it, and he can be regarded as a little bit of agreement.

However, Fukuei Zhenping's brows furrowed, because the advancing army had encountered many enemy attacks and harassments, and it seemed that the enemy army he had encountered before was only one of them. It is not known how many such squads will be attacked. (To be continued.) )