"I want to say that it should be the lifelong wish of my generation of soldiers to break through Mt. Fuji and attack the city of Tokyo!" Xiao Zhang Fei and Zhang Yichun immediately took the case and echoed.

"Well, Uncle Jing is right!" Zhang Zizhong, the former commander of the 59th Army, the current commander of the 6th Division of Huben and Zhang Yichun's fellow countryman, and a classmate of the Baoding Military Academy, nodded in agreement.

He also proposed: "I don't think it's as good as this, and now we can make a joint vow here that in our lifetime we will expel the Kou, return my rivers and mountains, attack the city of Tokyo, and break through Mount Fuji as our own responsibility, and go to the soup to fight the fire to achieve this ambition!" ”

"Well, I think it's doable!" Pang Bingxun, commander of the Seventh Division of Huben, also nodded in agreement.

Li Pinxian, Wei Yunsong, Li Yifeng and others also agreed, and it was difficult to resist, Qiao Anbang immediately took the lead in standing up, turned around and swore to the blue sky and white military flag hanging in the headquarters: "Today, our soldiers swear here, in their lifetimes, they should exhaust their life's energy to fight bloodily and fight hard for the rise of our China and the prosperity and strength of our country, and strive hard, may my Chinese ancestors and ancestors be blessed, and our generation of soldiers can be said to attack and destroy Yue Kou as soon as possible, and he said that when he breaks through Tokyo City, he will sacrifice my Chinese ancestors and ancestors on the top of Fuji Mountain!" ”

A number of senior generals of the 11th Group Army led by Li Pinxian, Zhang Zizhong, and Pang Bingxun swore an oath one after another.

Among the participants in this meeting, there were later ten great generals of the Chinese Empire, three two-star generals, and this meeting was also called the Jiaoxian oath by later historians, which was recorded in the annals of history and passed down through the ages.

After the meeting, all divisions of the 11th Group Army received orders to attack one after another, with the 1st, 3rd, and 5th Huben Divisions as the main force of the frontal attack, and began to storm Jiaonan County, with the 2nd, 4th, 6th, and 7th Divisions and Liu Guodong's provisional 8th Brigade as the follow-up reserve troops.

The 31st Army and the 48th Army of the original 11th Group Army were ordered to attack Xiaozhushan in Jiaonan and Huangdao along the coastline, and were responsible for clearing the right flank of the Huben Army.

The main forces of the other Fifth Theater continued to move north, attacking and recovering Gaomi, Weixian (now Weifang City) and other hinterlands in central Shandong, and completed the isolated encirclement of the Qingdao army!

………………………… At Xuzhou Airport, hundreds of Tiger Army fighters are making emergency pre-war preparations, refueling trucks are shuttling back and forth on the airport tarmac, and ground staff are busy doing the final inspection for the fighters, and the entire airport is very busy and nervous.

As early as a week ago, the Xuzhou airfield had been completely repaired, and the two main fighter groups of the Huben Army Flying Regiment were also ordered to be stationed in batches.

After receiving Qiao Anbang's order from the Jiaozhou front to attack to cover the attack of the ground troops, Gao Xiang, the commander of the flying regiment, quickly ordered the pilots to prepare for departure.

About half an hour later, the first batch of more than 80 BF109 Tiger Ben fighters had all been prepared, and under the leadership of Gao Xiang, the commander of the flight regiment, they began to take off one after another.

After about half an hour of flight, the first wave of fighter groups led by Gao Xiang finally arrived at the Jiaoxian front line, which was already under heavy artillery fire.

On the ground, the powerful artillery groups of several divisions of the Huben Army had already covered the Jiaoxian defense line of the Yue Army with fierce artillery fire for more than half an hour.

Looking down from the sky, the entire Jiaoxian area was shrouded in gunfire and gunsmoke, and the scarlet fire almost covered the sky.

"Attention of all units, they have entered the combat area, and all wingmen should pay attention to cover to prevent enemy aircraft from raiding!" Gao Xiang transmitted the order to the fighters through wireless communication equipment.

And just when Gao Xiang's order was delivered, dozens of planes suddenly appeared in front of him, flying towards him like locusts.

"Enemy aircraft spotted!"

"Enemy aircraft spotted!" The vanguard fighters issued warnings one after another, and then led their wingmen to pounce on the oncoming Japanese fighters.

It is not the first time that the pilots of the air combat flight regiment have been very calm and comfortable, and the air combat of this era is not like the later generations that can detect the other side through radar dozens of miles away and conduct over-the-horizon air combat.

The fierce aerial battle between the two sides is completely a hand-to-hand combat between fighters and fighters.

"Da-da-da... Tom ...... "The machine guns and airborne machine guns of the fighters of both sides in the sky opened fire violently one after another, and the dense and brilliant bullet rain shuttled back and forth, dazzling and thrilling.

On the ground, tens of thousands of soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army have already been waiting for the rest of their lives, the huge artillery group has begun to extend its artillery fire, and the most tragic offensive and defensive battle is about to be staged.

At the same time, the large ships of the various fleets of the Yue Army Navy anchored in Jiaozhou Bay are desperately evacuating to the far side of the sea, and the Chinese fighters that have appeared have made the Yue Navy generals feel the danger, and in order to ensure the absolute safety of the fleet, they must retreat to a complete distance, so that when the Chinese Air Force attacks, their own fighters and anti-aircraft firepower can have sufficient time to deal with and prepare.

However, there were also a number of gunboats that were ordered to venture to stay, and their task was to provide powerful artillery reinforcements to the defenders on the ground if necessary.

Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka, the new commander of the 10th Division, who was entrusted with the heavy responsibility of the Sugiyama Yuan Army, picked up the dusty telephone with a disgraced face, and shouted angrily: "Hey! Feed! The onslaught of the Chinese has begun, the intensity of the artillery fire is unprecedented, where is the artillery support fire of our navy? Hurry up and fire support! ”

Putting down the phone, Yoshio Shinozuka spit out a mouthful of mud-stained spit, and sighed: "I never thought that now the despicable Shina people have become so powerful, and such fierce artillery fire is difficult to match even the field artillery brigade of the imperial army!" ”

"Yes, Your Excellency General, as General Itagaki said in Beiping, it seems that the Imperial [***] team really needs to upgrade the current weapons and equipment, otherwise it will be difficult for us to compete with the advanced Chinese army!" The chief of staff on the side did not have a deep sympathy for Gui Dazuo.

While the two were talking, there was a sudden shouting of murder outside.

"The people of China are attacking! Quickly, order all the major teams to fight with all their might, and fight to the death for His Majesty the Emperor! Yoshio Shinozuka changed color when he heard this, and immediately instructed the embankment.

Di Bugui bowed his head in response, and quickly picked up the telephone.

................................................ "Rush! Kill! Tens of thousands of tiger soldiers roared in unison, and the sound of killing surged from the various attack positions, surging towards the defense line of the army like a tide.

The 2nd Battalion of the 1st Regiment of the 1st Huben Division charged at the forefront of the whole regiment as a sharp knife unit, and the 1st Company, which was the first-class main infantry company of the 2nd Battalion, charged even more forward under the personal leadership of the company commander Zhao Quan.

Soon, Zhao Quan and his subordinates rushed to the effective range of the light and heavy machine guns of the Yue army, and for a while, dense bullets rained down on them.

Many soldiers were unfortunately shot and martyred, while more soldiers went forward one after another under Zhao Quan's angry shouts and continued to charge desperately.

"Quick, rush up to Lao Tzu! Machine gunner, hit Lao Tzu hard, suppress the fire! Mortars, fuck you, kill that Type 92 heavy machine gun for me! Zhao Quan brandished his pistol and shouted at his subordinates.

The soldiers of the first company quickly began to return fire, and a general-purpose machine gun was the first to burst out with a life-threatening roar, and its terrifying rate of fire and power instantly suppressed the machine gunners on the devil's defensive line.

Although the devils in the devil's defense line still pushed aside the corpses of their comrades and continued to shoot without fear of death, they were still greeted by a sudden rain of bullets.

In particular, the mortar men who advanced with the army also braved the rain of bullets and skillfully and quickly set up the guns, and quickly calibrated the target, and with a muffled tom, a grenade with a sharp and piercing whistling sound dragged a long tail flame towards the defense line of the army.

......Several deafening explosions rang out one after another, and a Type 92 heavy machine gun, along with two principal and deputy machine gunners, was torn apart in the explosion, and the corpses were killed on the spot.

And the tenacity of the devils is far greater than before, a few devil soldiers have just died, and soon other devils will take over, and they will continue to resist stubbornly.

The two sides launched a fierce tug-of-war and war of attrition.

At the same time, in the sky, the battle between the fighters of the two sides has also reached a white-hot stage, although the BF109 fighters equipped by the Tiger Army are slightly better than all the sea and land-based fighters in service in the army, but the combat experience and flight quality of the pilots of the Yue army are slightly higher, and the devils continue to send more fighters to join the battle.

Therefore, the first wave of fighters led by Gao Xiang was never able to achieve an overwhelming victory, in fact, this is also the inevitable situation that will happen after the base camp is determined to hold Qingdao.

Although in the fierce battle between the two sides, the military planes were shot down by Chinese fighters one after another, the devil pilots and fighters, who have always been more expensive than gold, did not flee in defeat, but continued to fight bloody battles with Chinese fighters.

Because the maximum range of the BF109 is 700 kilometers, and the straight-line distance from Xuzhou Airport to Jiaozhou is more than 600 kilometers, it is impossible for the fighters of the Tiger Army to stay in the air for a long time to engage the army.

Otherwise, even if they are not defeated by the fighters, they will all fall due to running out of fuel.

Fortunately, Gao Xiang and other pilots had already anticipated this situation before the start of the war, so they divided the two major fighter groups into three groups to strive for uninterrupted sorties in order to contain the army's navy and air force and provide cover for their own ground troops.

Just when the situation was extremely critical, the second batch of fighters led by Lieutenant Colonel Jiang Hao, deputy commander of the flight regiment, arrived in time.

As soon as the second batch of fighters joined the battle group, the battle situation that had been stalemate immediately tilted, and Gao Xiang led the first wave of fighters to take advantage of the situation to break away from the battle and began to return quickly.

(To be continued)