Nanjing, the headquarters of the Central China Front.

"General, our convoy was bombed again by the Air Force of the Tigers of China half an hour ago, most of the trucks were destroyed, the personnel and materials were lost heavily, and the logistics supply of the 3rd and 9th divisions was seriously insufficient. Shozo Kawabe, chief of staff of the Central China Front, reported to Shunroku Hata with a telegram in his hand.

"Kawabe-kun, tell me, can the 3rd, 9th, and 6th divisions attack the enemy in front of them now?" Toshiroku Hata asked with a grim face.

Kawabe Shozo shook his head in frustration and said: "General, we have more than 200,000 people on the front line, and the daily consumption of food alone is an astronomical amount. ”

Hata Junroku pondered for a while and said coldly: "Hebian-kun, we can let all divisions and regiments raise military rations on the spot!" ”

Kawabe Shozo naturally understood what Shunroku Hata meant by raising food on the spot, and immediately said with a look of embarrassment: "General, most of the people in the Huainan region fled north with their families long before the arrival of the imperial army, and now most of them have fled to the northern Anhui base of the Tiger Ben Army. Today's Huainan is mostly empty of ten rooms and nine empty, and it is obviously impossible for our army to raise the military rations needed by the 200,000 troops on the spot. ”

Hata Junroku was furious when he heard this: "Yaga, the hateful Shina people, his conscience is greatly broken, and he must be killed all!" ”

Kawabe Shozo was solemn when he heard this, he naturally knew that what Hata Junliu said was angry, a huge China, if they really killed all the Chinese, it would be unrealistic, immediately frowned and pondered, after pondering for a long time, Kawabe Shozo raised his head and said: "General, I think that now we can only postpone the attack, from now on, the imperial army should change the logistics transportation to night transportation, and order all divisions and regiments to send competent troops to escort the transportation along the way, so as to prevent the New Fourth Army of China, which is active in the Huaihe River Valley, from waiting for an opportunity to attack the transport troops of the imperial army!" In addition to this, we should also replenish all divisions and regiments with sufficient anti-aircraft weapons, and in addition, we should immediately urge the base camp to replenish the fighters and pilots of our Central China Front as soon as possible, so as to deal with the threat of the powerful air force of the Chinese Tiger Army to our logistical supply lines! ”

"Hmm!" Hata Junroku thought about it when he heard this, and nodded helplessly: "Just do what you say by Hebian-kun." "In fact, it was only at this time that Shunroku Hata really felt how stupid the base camp's decision to continue to expand the scale of the war was, and the most hateful thing was the war maniacs of the Imperial War Department, who never knew how to accept what was good.

If the Imperial Army, after capturing Nanjing, had stopped expanding the scale of the war and had consolidated the occupied areas first, the situation would have been much better than it is now.

There is not a single land-based air force of hundreds of thousands of troops in the Central China Front that can compete with the Chinese Air Force, which has sprung up in a new force, and the sea-based air force to which the navy belongs is very strong, but this is an inland war, and the sea-based air force cannot help at all. Moreover, the discord between the army, the army, and the navy is well known.

As a matter of fact, Shunroku Hata did not know exactly what type of fighter the Tiger Army Flying Regiment was equipped with, because his land-based aviation unit of the Central China Front had not been able to shoot down a single Tiger Army fighter so far, and as for the air battle that broke out over the Tiger Army base area last time, although several BF109s were unfortunately shot down, the wreckage of the plane fell within the sphere of influence of the Tiger Army, and the military aviation units that participated in the war were completely wiped out.

Therefore, up to now, the military has not been able to obtain specific information on the new fighters of the Tiger Army.

Kawabe Shozo bowed his head in response, and then turned to leave.

Just as the front foot of the riverside Zhengsan left, a communications soldier hurriedly walked in, and saluted Shunroku Hata, "General, Sichuan Guangzuo has called from Hefei." ”

"Huh? How did Chuanguang get to Hefei? Shouldn't he have planned an attack on the Tiger Benjun airfield in northern Anhui? The assault on the airfield was successful? Shunroku Hata asked suspiciously.

"Your Excellency General Hui, no, Chuan Kusa reported in the telegram that their attack on the airport failed, and more than thirty outstanding agents of the empire, including Kobayashi Ichizumi, were all shattered, and he was the only one left who escaped by luck!" The communications soldier replied truthfully according to the message.

"What?" Hata Junroku was shocked when he heard this, and then roared like thunder: "Yaga Yalu! Kawahiro, this idiot! It's a rice bucket! ”

Seeing that Shunliu Hata was furious, the communication soldier trembled in his heart, and hurriedly stood up and bowed his head.

After a long time, Hata Junroku gritted his teeth angrily and said: "Send a telegram to Chuanguang and let him come to Nanjing to see me immediately!" ”

"Hay!" The signal soldier hurriedly bowed his head in response, and then quickly turned around and left as if he had been amnestied.

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In the north of Suxian County, a battalion defended its position.

"Brethren! Attendees lead people to reinforce us! Give Lao Tzu a hard beating! Tian Jin, the commander of the regiment, roared angrily, raised the MG34 general-purpose machine gun in his hand, and fired fiercely at the rushing Japanese army.

The surviving officers and men of the first battalion also shot desperately, and for a while, their morale was greatly boosted.

"Quick, enter the position, grenadiers and mortars will bombard me hard, and snipers in each squad will specialize in fighting devil light machine guns and grenadiers! MG34 machine gun fire! Kill all these devils for me! Liang Haoyao took the lead in jumping into the traffic trench with a pistol, and shouted a sharp order to the officers and soldiers of the second battalion behind him.

The officers and men of the second battalion jumped into the trenches one after another, and quickly moved to the front-line trenches, relying on the trenches and began to shoot, and the grenadiers and light artillerymen also quickly set up artillery and shelled the crowd of Japanese troops who were charging intensively.

The snipers also found their own cover, relying on the cover and began to lock on to the "prey".

The most morale-boosting is the machine gunners of the second battalion, the original standard establishment of the Tiger Ben Army is eight machine gun shooters per squad, two light machine guns, but now the troops have been fully replaced with fast rate of fire and great power MG34 general-purpose machine guns, the original eighteen heavy machine guns equipped with machine gun companies directly under each battalion have also been replaced with MG34 general-purpose machine guns, calculated with six MG34 general-purpose machine guns per platoon, the nine infantry platoons of the battalion are fifty-four general-purpose machine guns, plus eighteen directly under the battalion headquarters, A battalion of the Tiger Army now has a staggering seventy-two machine guns.

However, the number of machine guns is more than twice that of a brigade of the Chinese army, and if the power of the machine guns is discussed, it is even more comparable to a wing of the Japanese army, and the whole battalion is equipped with automatic weapons such as semi-automatic rifles and submachine guns, so the firepower of a battalion of the Tiger Army is very powerful.

It is precisely because of this that the 1st Regiment of the Fifth Division plus Chifengcheng can only hold back the 20th Division of the Yue Army, which has as many as tens of thousands of troops, and the 20th Division was originally one of the 17 permanent divisions of the Yue Army, because of the combat mission of the surprise attack on Haizhou, the North China Yue Army Headquarters even equipped the 20th Division with an additional 105 howitzer wing, and this howitzer wing was drawn from the heavy artillery unit of the North China Yue Army.

Therefore, its combat effectiveness can be imagined, of course, the combat effectiveness of the remnants of the Chifeng City Division after replacing with German-style weapons and equipment is also multiplied geometrically, otherwise the new regiment of the five divisions and one regiment alone, even if it is well-equipped, will definitely not be able to stop the 20th division of the army.

The powerful firepower composed of more than 70 general-purpose machine guns, nearly 1,000 Garand semi-automatic rifles and hundreds of submachine guns was so spectacular that the density of the bullets was close to that the barrage was pouring water into the crowd of devils.

Various types of bullets are sprayed out in tens of thousands every minute, and the devil soldiers who charge in a dense formation are like wheat straw falling in pieces, and the bullets hit the human body, blooming a puff of blood, and the bodies of many devils were even swooped into a sieve by the swishing dense bullets and then pierced, and the bullets that penetrated the human body told the rotation to hit the devils behind.

Some devil light machine gunners and grenadiers tried to counterattack and suppress, but they were killed one by one by the snipers who had been eyeing them for a long time, and everyone could find out from which corner of the battlefield the occasional cold bullet or two was fired from in the smoke of gunpowder and the hustle and bustle of the battlefield.

All the devil could see was that his companions kept falling.

Under this almost massacre type of dense bullet strafing, Rao is ghost soldiers who were brainwashed by the spirit of bushido also began to be timid, no one could survive under any dense barrage, and all those who rushed forward fell one after another with three shots.

The brave devil soldiers began to retreat, first one or two, then more than ten, then hundreds, and in the end, the remaining ghost soldiers stopped charging one after another, only hating their parents for having two legs and turning around and fleeing in a hurry.

On the positions of the 78th Wing and the 77th Wing of the Army, the Wing Commander of the 78th Wing, Kobayashi Hengichi, suddenly roared angrily when he saw this: "Baga Yalu, whoever told them to retreat, they are not allowed to retreat, attack, attack!" "Kobayashi Hengichi can't help but be annoyed, originally responsible for the main attack after the shelling should be the 77th Infantry Wing of Changden Lixing, it was he who ran to the brigade headquarters and finally won the opportunity to attack the main attack, I wanted to pick up a big bargain, take the peripheral position of the Tiger Army, capture Suxian, and achieve the first achievement of this battle, but he never expected that his elite subordinates would be strewn all over the field in front of the position of the [***] team, and the blood flowed like a river of fiasco.

Standing beside Kobayashi Hengyi, Changden Lixing quietly sneered at the corners of his mouth, in fact, he knew that although the artillery unit had caused a lot of damage to the middle [***] team outside the city, the Chinese defenders in Suxian County were far from being seriously injured and their elites were lost, so this attack would still be a vicious battle, and it was precisely because of this that he did not go to fight with Kobayashi Hengichi for the opportunity to attack this time.

But now it's okay, the 78th Infantry Wing has drawn out the middle [***] team in the city, and the time has come for the artillery to be reckless. Changden Lixing knew very well that the Imperial Army could not be compared with the Tiger Army in terms of individual weapons and automatic firepower, and only by using superior artillery firepower to inflict maximum damage on it, and then it was the time for the infantry to attack with all its might.

(To be continued)