July 5, 1932, 10 a.m.

Baoding, Xushui, which is located at the eastern foot of Taihang Mountain, the county seat of the Jizhong Plain in the middle of Hebei, has been a place for soldiers to fight for since ancient times, after the battle of Baoding encirclement and annihilation station began, with the continuous progress of the war, under the aerial reconnaissance and monitoring of the Southwest Army, two divisions of the Kuomintang finally intercepted a reinforcement division of the army at the foot of Xiangshan Mountain outside Xushui City.

The army was carried by nearly three main Chinese divisions (the third and fourth divisions, and the other two regiments were carried by the rapid march away from Peking. In addition to the Fifth Division, which was surrounded by a Kuomintang Second Class Division, it seemed to have the idea of being saved, and from the slightly slower reaction at the beginning of the campaign to the decisive attack after clarifying the situation, the two divisions were respectively dispatched from the Beiping front line and directly dispatched from Tianjin, and marched into the Baoding battlefield from Xushui in the north of Baoding and Xin'an in the east.

The army tried to rely on two divisions to rescue the 5th Division, which was besieged by regiments. More than 40,000 troops, under the stars and nights, almost threw away any unnecessary equipment except artillery, and armed the fighters to the greatest extent.

The replenished 6th Division, plus a 15th Brigade of Reading Force, which had just arrived in China, was blocked by two Kuomintang Central Divisions in Xin'an, and as soon as the Kuomintang 18th and 19th Divisions came into contact with the Yue Army, fierce fighting broke out.

Because the two armies also lacked sufficient heavy equipment, the Yue army also lost the artillery on the battlefield of Tianjin, and the two sides relied on small-caliber artillery to almost use the method of the first war, relying on the large number of people to charge, relying on the large number of people to defend. The battle was very fierce, and the red-eyed devils, under the orders of Shirakawa Yoshinori one by one, had to show 120,000 points of spirit, and once the action was delayed, the Fifth Division would be wiped out.

After many defeats, Shirakawa Yoshinori had developed a deep fear of the troops in the southwest, knowing that it was not the two divisions of the Kuomintang that besieged the Fifth Division, but the Southwest Army, which had strong combat effectiveness. No division can necessarily defeat the opponent's 'division with three infantry regiments for the time being', let alone being suddenly surrounded by nearly three divisions. As for the strong firepower of the Chinese, it is needless to say.

The 5th Division, which attacked Baoding, was slaughtered by Chinese submachine guns, which almost made him collapse on the spot. The moment he got the news, he knew that his end seemed to be doomed, but he still had to do his best to save the division.

The three strategic points of Xushui, Xin'an, and Baoding formed a triangle, and after the two central elite divisions of the Kuomintang in Xin'an intercepted the Sixth Division and the 15th Brigade of the Devils, the two Kuomintang divisions of Xushui also broke out into fierce battles with the 14th Division of the Yue Army, and the 21st Division of the First Class and the 38th Division of the Second Class Division together did not have more than one division of the Yue Army, and in the case of a few thousand fewer men, they lacked a solid position and defensive artillery support, and a fierce battle broke out as soon as they came into contact.

The 21st Division alone withstood the attack of nearly three wings, and the 38th Division withstood the attack of one multi-wing, regardless of other factors, and in terms of their numbers, both [***] divisions were at a disadvantage.

"Boom ......"

On the battlefield of the Xiangshan blockade, a small grenade fired from a grenadier exploded near a bunker, and the explosion was not too violent, but it still kicked up a cloud of dust.

"Ahem, ahem, ahem......"

Zhang Zizhong, the commander of the 38th Division, was choked with a violent cough, and he did not rest for a whole night, because he was worried about the war, and his brows were deeply locked.

"Division commander, the position of the second regiment is almost unstoppable, there are too many devils!!"

In the bunker, the communications staff officer shouted at him with a phone.

Zhang Zizhong rushed over quickly and took the phone, "Han Bingchen, I'm Zhang Zizhong." ”

On the other end of the phone, although there was no violent explosion of shells, the sound of gunfire and small-caliber shell explosions was full of ears, even through the phone, Zhang Zizhong frowned even more, saying that at least one brigade of the army was attacking the position defended by the second regiment.

When Han Bingchen heard that it was Zhang Zizhong's voice, he immediately cried on the other end of the phone, "Master, let's support a little more, the brothers are fighting too badly, the army is already attacking for the seventh time, and there is no pause at all, and if it goes on like this, it will be fought out sooner or later." ”

"No support!! Han Bingchen, don't be a bad seed for Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu only sent you a support thirty minutes ago, and that was already the last reserve. Zhang Zizhong slammed his fist on the phone table, not to anger Han Bingchen, but to take the opportunity to vent his anger against Yue Jun.

"Division commander, it doesn't matter whether I, Han Bingchen, am a bad breed or not, but if there is no support, the second regiment can only hold out for another fifteen minutes at most."

"Commander, the devil is coming up again."

"Fuck it, fuck the knife and fuck me ......"

“……”

Listening to the busy sound on the other end of the phone, Zhang Zizhong put down the phone dejectedly, in the original battle plan, although it was considered that the army would send many troops to rescue the Fifth Division in Baoding, but he didn't expect the devil to use two divisions.

After the aerial reconnaissance learned that the devil was divided into two routes, the blocking force of [***] also had to be divided into two routes, the main force was responsible for blocking the 6th Division and the Reading Brigade, and the 21st Division and Zhang Zizhong's 38th Division were responsible for blocking the 14th Division.

The battle was actually more tragic than under the city of Beiping, this is what Zhang Zizhong did not expect, he is not afraid of defeat, let alone dying in this Xushui, what he is afraid of is that if the two divisions cannot stop this division of the Yue Army, after letting it go, the encirclement and annihilation troops of the Southwest Army will inevitably divide their minds to deal with it, and whether they can achieve the battle plan of the fifth division of the total annihilation at that time will be a big question mark.

As for the Beiping direction, because it was learned that the reinforcements of the Yue army exceeded expectations, and the reinforcements that had already been ordered to prepare for departure, it was estimated that they would not be able to catch up with the battle.

Zhang Zizhong came back to his senses and asked the operational staff officer, "The battle ahead is too bad, there is no reserve available, ask if the 21st Division can provide a little support." ”

Although he knew that the 21st Division was also in a bloody battle with the Yue Army, he had no other way, with a radius of nearly 100 miles, except for the 21st Division, which was also composed of [***], the two divisions that were also in the bloody battle of Xin'an Blockade Battlefield 20 or 30 miles away, or the main southwest division 30 miles behind.

After thinking about it, he had to try to see if he could borrow some reinforcements from the 21st Division, which was a full-fledged first-class division with more than 10,000 troops, which was not a little bit stronger than the 38th Class B Division with more than 6,000 people, but they had to be responsible for an additional army wing.

After a day and a night of fighting, the staff officer understood that the division commander no longer had even one platoon of reserves in his hands, so he silently picked up the phone and called the command headquarters of the 21st Division.

"Division Commander, Deputy Division Commander Fang Shuhong of the 21st Division asked you to answer the phone." After the staff officer called the phone, he didn't mention the reinforcements, so he frowned and handed the microphone to Zhang Zizhong.

"Hey, I'm Zhang Zizhong."

"Division Commander Zhang, I am Fang Shuhong, the acting commander of the 21st Division!"

Hearing this, Zhang Zizhong sighed in his heart, the deputy division commander acting division commander, it's too bad...... Sure enough, Fang Shuhong's next words shocked him, "Division Commander Zhang, I was about to inform you that Master Huo Shouyi had just been shot and killed in the battle under his personal command on the front line, and sacrificed his life for the party and the state on the spot!"

The attack of the army is too fierce, let's shrink the defensive line. ”

"Killed! Shrink the line of defense! ”

Zhang Zizhong's brain was shocked, Huo Shouyi died like this? Huo Shouyi, who was arrogant and always competed with his peers in everything, actually died.

Shrink the defense line, if the defense line is contracted, then the army only needs to use one to contain [***] two divisions, and it can successfully pass through Xushui and march to Baoding, which is more than 20 miles away.

"Division Commander Fang, you must not shrink the defensive line. As long as we hold the existing positions of the two divisions, the army will not be able to pass through in a short time, and as long as we buy more time for the troops in Baoding, we will be able to achieve the final victory. ”

There was silence on the other end of the phone for a while, and then, Fang Shuhong's voice came, a little low, "Division Commander Zhang, do you think that the two divisions in the southwest can completely annihilate the main division of the Yue Army in one day, if not, perhaps, our sacrifice will become meaningless......"

"I believe it!!" Zhang Zizhong closed his eyes, and seemed to think of the southwestern soldiers he had seen again, they all had a confidence on their faces that the soldiers did not have, and their equipment was far stronger than their own troops, and even their officers and soldiers had a kind of fighting intent that made the soldiers fearful.

"Then let's persevere to the end, and do our best for the party-state and the nation."

Without saying anything more, Fang Shuhong hung up the phone.

Zhang Zizhong also knew that the 21st Division had too many troops to deal with, and he seemed to see the other end of the phone, after Fang Shuhong hung up the phone, he personally carried his gun to the line of fire. Although Fang Shuhong didn't say much, he felt the kind of death in the other party's tone.

As soon as he pulled off his military hat, Zhang Zizhong stood up with a pout, "Let's go, organize all the people in the division headquarters, and Lao Tzu will personally lead the team." ”

He will lead the last reserve of the 38th Division to the line of fire.

"Boom ......"

"Bang ......"

"Da Da Da ......"

The entire Xushui blocking battlefield, the position of the 38th Division was filled with gunsmoke, and the army seemed to have seen the problem of the lack of heavy weapons in the middle of the [***] team, and the grenadier canister could better suppress the backward Makqin machine guns, and constantly launched frantic attacks.

"Commander, why are you here?" When Han Bingchen, who was bandaging his arm, saw Zhang Zizhong personally leading the team to support him, he knew that this division commander had also been driven to a dead end.

"Hung the lottery? You rest for a while, and I'll lead the team for a while. ”

Zhang Zizhong also fought on the battlefield, and now it is the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, which is different from the previous civil war, from him down, the officers and soldiers are very hard.

The arrival of the 'reserves' finally defended the most dangerous part of the 38th Division's position.

"Send someone to pack up, pick up some guns and ammunition and come back."

Thinking that the troops had little ammunition left, although Zhang Zizhong led the team to repel this attack of the army, he was not happy at all, and he organized his men to clean up the battlefield while trying to find a way.

"It's not a way to go on like this, and the position will definitely not be held until it gets dark." Looking at the sun overhead, Zhang Zizhong knew that he could not be stopped by blindly fighting hard and fighting to the death, and if nothing else, when it was dark, the position would be lost.

Taking advantage of the gap between the offensive of the Yue Army, Zhang Zizhong and Fang Shuhong, the acting commander of the 21st Division, met to discuss methods.

"That's the only way, the railway line has not yet been built, and if you want to get support from the direction of Beiping, it is too late to say that the support is also very limited. We need both assistance and the worst-case scenario. ”

"Well, I'll tell you." Although Zhang Zizhong was reluctant to do this, for the sake of the overall situation, he had to call the phone. Fortunately, the three battlefield telephones on the Baoding battlefield were connected. In Xushui and Xin'an, the field telephone is connected, and then in the direction of Baoding, there is a transit point, which is indirectly connected with the southwest troops in Baoding.

"Hey, I'm Zhang Zizhong, commander of the 38th Division, please tell General Ma Wenwu, the commander of your army, that the attack of the army is very fierce, and we will fight at the last moment, but please prepare for the worst." Although he was extremely reluctant to admit that he might face defeat, for the sake of the overall situation, Zhang Zizhong had to inform the Southwest Army of the battle situation, because according to him and Fang Shuhong's prediction, the position would be broken through in the evening. The two divisions could no longer withstand the key attack of the Japanese army.

Subsequently, Zhang Zizhong ordered the communications staff officer: "Send a message to Beiping and ask for support!" ”

"Report, [***] Zhang Zizhong, commander of the 38th Division, called, let's prepare for the worst." The former commander of the Baoding offensive force, Ma Wenwu received the report.

Ma Wenwu pondered for a moment, discussed with Gao Feng, the chief of staff of the Third Division, and then ordered, "The First Regiment of the Eighth Division of the Garrison Division will immediately move in the direction of Xushui, and the Second Regiment will move in the direction of Xin'an, waiting for orders, ready to be put into support of the battle. ”

"The military department is right, [***] is likely to be unable to stop the army."

Gao Feng said with emotion that the military department was worried that the encirclement and annihilation operation would fall short because of the weakness of the troops in this regard, so it mobilized two divisions and two regiments of the garrison division to participate in the encirclement and annihilation. In fact, according to Jiang Baili's calculations, the two main divisions in the southwest have been completely able to eat the fifth division.

And the regiments of these two extra garrison divisions were actually prepared to prevent accidents.

"Well, now that the Fifth Division is surrounded by our regiments, when the bomber group is in place tomorrow, we will be able to launch a general attack and quickly resolve the battle. When the time comes, maybe they will be able to beat the two divisions of Xu Shui and Xin'an. ”

Ma Wenwu gestured on the map, and the two began to discuss the issue of general attack.

"Chief Chief, Beiping Secret Electricity."

Zhang Shusheng was processing a report on the construction of a large hydropower station on the Jinsha River in Sichuan, and when he heard that it was a secret electricity from Beiping, he took out a secret telephone after Mao Yun went out first and closed the door.

"I'm Zhang Shusheng."

"Teacher, I'm Chen Jun."

On the other side of Peiping, Chen Jun picked up a remote intercom at a secret communications office under the charge of agents of the Special Intelligence Department. "We have just received a telegram from Chen Cheng from the [***] Xuzhou and Xin'an blocking troops asking for help, and the four divisions are fighting very hard, and they are almost unable to hold on. Seeing that he meant to let us rescue these two places.

In the situation in Beiping, the two divisions of the Chinese army were frantically attacking the defensive line, specifically attacking the defensive position of the second division, and although the battle situation was not as tragic as the Baoding battlefield, the casualties were also very large.

In the direction of Baoding, the two reserve regiments have already moved in the direction of Xin'an and Xushui, and are ready to plug the gap. They only need to delay the army for a day to complete the task, so it is enough. ”

"Well, the battle of annihilation in Baoding is a surprise to the army, if time permits, mobilize more [***] divisions to carry out blocking operations, and will lose the sudden surname of the battle." Zhang Shusheng understands this truth, not that it is better to mobilize seven or eight divisions to be the blocking troops, but it may slip at both ends of the flat shoulder and the cylinder. So, just secretly pumped out two [***] divisions and two divisions on the railway line.

However, although Shirakawa Yoshinori was too afraid of the main division in the southwest, so he unexpectedly mobilized two divisions to rescue the fifth division, this does not mean that the earlier arrangement was wrong. Imagine, if more divisions had been sent to Baoding before, then the army had adopted the tactic of encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao, and concentrating four divisions to attack the Beiping defense line from which a large number of troops had been transferred, especially if the main force in the southwest went to Baoding, the battle situation might only be more tragic.

"Teacher, for [***]'s request for help, my opinion and that of Chief of Staff Jiang have two main considerations. One is laissez-faire, and the other is rescue. It's up to you to make the final decision. ”

Zhang Shusheng was silent for a while, and he was not surprised that Chen Jun said such a thing. The battle between camps is not absurd, on the contrary, it is a common phenomenon in China's cultural inheritance. From Chen Jun's point of view, as a general in the southwest, while ensuring the ultimate undefeat of the battle, at the same time weakening the [***] forces, and in this kind of savable or unsavable situation, people will not be able to find any fault.

After a long time, Zhang Shusheng still made a decision, "Let the airport carry out air support tasks, and carry out air strikes according to the first-level support standard." In addition, the two regiments in Baoding were also put into it, and they were too anxious to fry each other, and everything would be said after the devil was over. ”

He knew that he was not yet a qualified politician, and if Chairman Chiang received the same phone call, he would probably have given the opposite order. This has been the case since the beginning of history. Although there are different opinions, the chairman of the committee did resort to some conspiracies and tricks that harmed others and did not benefit himself.

At 3:40 p.m., a shrill operational siren suddenly sounded at Daxing Airport, and the bomber formation on the second runway on standby 24 hours a day finally began to take off one after another.

Almost at the same time, at Taiyuan North Airport, on the second newly repaired runway, all kinds of bombers and fighters that had completed the last pre-takeoff inspection procedure began to enter the take-off procedure one after another.

At the forefront were the C-31 medium-range bomber modified from the C-31 transport plane and the H-2 and H-3 bombers.

With a straight-line distance of more than 300 kilometers, the old fighters are no longer very suitable for participating in combat, so in addition to the H-2 bomber, the H-3 bomber, the C-31 bomber, and the Jian-3 fighter with a fairly improved combat radius are the H-3 bomber.

According to the operational arrangements, this group of fighters will support the southwestern troops in Baoding from the air, carry out the first wave of air raids on the Yue army, and provide assistance for the rapid annihilation of the Fifth Division.

The fighters taking off from Daxing Airport will mainly conduct temporary operations and will provide emergency air support to the [***] troops in Xushui and Xin'an.

Four o'clock in the afternoon.

Zhang Zizhong lay in a makeshift trench, his hands trembling and lit a cigarette, the battle had entered the white heat, and the army seemed to find that the resistance of the [***] team had dropped to a dangerous level, and began to launch an even more deadly attack.

As the division commander, Zhang Zizhong had already personally carried the command knife and cut down the two devils, if he hadn't taken the lead, the frontal position that the Second Regiment was responsible for just now would have been lost. And the positions of the other two regiments were not much better, they were in a precarious state.

"Division Commander, Division Commander Fang is injured and has been sent to the field hospital."

The signal corps again brought bad news.

"The general died in a hundred battles, and his loyal bones were buried in the green mountains."

Zhang Zizhong stood up with support, looked at the great rivers and mountains in the distance, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion, "Commission, commission, if I [***] have the strength of the southwest, why not be afraid of people." ”

During this time, he already had a considerable understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Southwestern Army. As far as he knew, although the Southwest Army seemed to perform extraordinarily on the battlefield of Jinjing, it was actually far from their true strength. It is rumored that the reason why their main division is an infantry formation of three regiments is because it is reserved for tank units. I heard that the main divisions of their first few serial numbers even had a tank regiment. Moreover, they also have strong air support, and if the battlefield is in the south, he believes that the army will be blown up by the huge number of air corps in the southwest. In addition, judging from some news in the army and what he himself saw on the railway line, the Southwest Army was transporting artillery to the Jinjing battlefield on a large scale, and during the period when he was stationed on the railway line, he only learned about it in passing and got a very astonishing prediction figure.

He knew that the southwest was subject to logistics, while the party-state was subject to overall strength, and he firmly believed that the victory of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression would belong to China, just because the southwest still dormant China's most powerful military force.

"No matter if the equipment is poor, whether the training is not enough, the battle will be fought after all, I really hope to see the day when Yue Kou surrenders......" Maybe he realized that he was about to die and die in the country, Zhang Zizhong was a little inexplicable.

"Division commander, the army has attacked again."

Zhang Zizhong only glanced at the observation hole in the trench and knew that the time for a decisive battle had come, and as far as the eye could see, the entire two or three hundred meters long hillside was full of troops, and if he looked at the position, less than one-third of the people could fight.

"Brothers, Lao Tzu Zhang Zizhong has never treated you well, but today, Lao Tzu is not afraid of death and accompanies his brothers all the way to the end."

Zhang Zizhong knew that even if the southwest put aside his prejudices to support him, he was afraid that it would be too late.

"Bang ......"

"Da Da Da ......"

"Boom ......"

The battle began again, but the defeat was approaching [***], if you don't choose to retreat in the direction of Baoding, then you can only choose to die en masse or be unfortunately captured.

"Buzz ......"

At this moment, a strange sound began to come from far and near.

"The sound of the propeller !!" Zhang Zizhong was startled, quickly fired the bullet from the rifle chamber, and then looked up.

"Division commander, plane, plane!!"

Just when Zhang Zizhong was worried about whether it should be the planes of the Yue Army, the dense group of planes that had just arrived were already diving or dropping bombs, and the target was not [***], but the attacking Yue Army.

"Whew...... Boom ......"

The aerial bomb pulled a long whistling sound, fell freely, and fell into the offensive formation of the Japanese army, and the 500-kilogram heavy aerial bomb set off a huge explosion, and with the naked eye alone, Zhang Zizhong saw at least twenty or thirty devils being blown away.

Dodging was completely useless, even the Yue army hiding behind the stones was also easily blown away and then torn apart. At this time, the so-called well-trained officers and men could not save these officers and men.

Regardless of whether he is a military officer or an ordinary soldier, whether he is a young or a middle soldier, as long as he is on the offensive route, he will be mercilessly bombed. Some of the soldiers hid behind big rocks in accordance with the soldiers' rituals, preparing to wait for a short air raid to pass, because the planes of the Japanese army had less bomb power and had a short time of fighting in the air.

However, the planes in the southwest are different, and the lightest of the heavy aerial bombs that fall in one shot are 100 kilograms, and this power is far from being comparable to the power of heavy artillery shells.

As far as the eye can see, some of the stumps flew higher than the [***] position, and the two stumps of the army even fell into the trenches of the 38th Division. The violent explosion made the officers and men who had never seen the power of a 500-kilogram aerial bomb explosion in the southwest feel a momentum that was almost heaven and earth angry.

"Da Da Da ......"

The sound of machine guns that was similar to that of the Makqin machine guns, but the much denser machine gun sounds, was the roar of the southwestern fighters that were diving and strafing at low altitudes. The aviation machine gun under the belly of the aircraft constantly plowed two ways of death in the ranks of the army, starting from the foot of the mountain and pulling all the way to the top of the mountain.

Even Zhang Zizhong himself could clearly see the golden dragon flag, the iron-blooded flag and the five-star symbol on the belly of the plane, and some soldiers even saw the mysterious pilot in the cockpit of the plane, whose whole body was blocked by clothes and hats.

"This is the reinforcements...... Brothers, the brothers of the air force in the southwest have supported us, everyone work the last day to block the devils, we will completely annihilate the fifth division and win the final victory!! ”

Zhang Zizhong shouted excitedly and gave the battle order, and the soldiers came back to their senses from the initial shock and continued to shoot at the army.

The arrival of the air force in the southwest made everyone's blood boil, at this time, no one cares about this is a plane in the southwest, no one cares about anything, they just need to know that this is a Chinese plane.

Looking at the devils who were blown up and torn apart, everyone felt a sense of revenge.

Aren't you fucking proud to bully the weak Chinese?

Don't you fucking call us the sick men of East Asia?

Aren't you fucking slaughtering in China?

Look at the fact that you have been slaughtered even more, but you are also helpless.

"There's a kind of fucking fighting back, there's a kind of picking up the plane with your bayonets, hahaha......"

"Devils, I'll your second uncle."

"Hahaha......"

"It's worth it when Lao Tzu dies, hahaha......"

Like some happy and crying soldiers, Zhang Zizhong's eyes were moist, because he saw a huge plane drop a strange bomb, and this bomb actually set off a huge sea of fire after setting off an earth-shattering explosion, and countless soldiers struggled in the fire, rolled, and were burned alive.

Seeing that the army died like this, the general finally couldn't help crying secretly.

"Machine two, prepare to drop the bomb!"

The captain of the fleet gave the order to drop bombs, and a C-31, which had not participated in the battle, began to lower its altitude, and it even only received a preliminary modification and could only drop bombs.

"Roger, Number Two understands!"

The bomb bay of the plane opened, and a 500-kilogram Vulcan incendiary bomb slowly fell from the cabin. This is one of the secret weapons that arrived in Beiping from the southwest, and it was originally intended to be used for the general counteroffensive that would begin soon, but at this time, the arrogance of the army made Zhang Shusheng order the use of this high-power weapon in advance. There is nothing to keep secret, because the Southwestern Air Force will soon be armed with more Vulcan incendiary bombs.

Although this is only an experimental incendiary bomb, it is still a high-power 500-kilogram class.

"Boom ......"

In an earth-shattering explosion, the flames of the incendiary bombs spread rapidly, and a heavy incendiary bomb went down, and the entire radius of hundreds of meters or even wider, the army became one burning man after another.

Vulcan incendiary bomb, this is a new type of bomb that has just gone north in the southwest, the scientific name is napalm aerial bomb, napalm and yellow phosphorus, so that this 500-kilogram heavy incendiary bomb has played an extremely satisfactory effect.

After the bomb exploded, the spilled napalm came into contact with the air and exploded violently, depleting the oxygen in the area.

Almost everyone in the area was stained with napalm, and then it burned rapidly, emitting a disgusting smell of meat.

And because of the extreme lack of oxygen, Yue Jun, who ran with a fire, only ran a few steps before falling to the ground due to suffocation, and in extreme pain, while feeling the death caused by suffocation, and at the same time feeling the pain caused by the burning of his body.

The large-scale killings and injuries were extremely tragic and suddenly set off a burst of cheers on the Kuomintang army's position.

"Hahaha...... Burn them, burn them, and let the devils taste the ultimate taste of death. ”

"Hahaha...... We Chinese also have such powerful weapons! Burn the pig. ”

Seeing that the planes in the southwest were flying deep into the attack of the Yue army, and the bomb carrying capacity of the group was far from being used, Zhang Zizhong shouted with almost all his strength, "Rush!! ”

On the afternoon of 5 July 1932, the Southwest Air Force urgently dispatched air support to the Kuomintang defenders in Xushui and Xin'an; because the Yue troops intending to take the Chinese blocking positions in one fell swoop were unguarded and the offensive formation was too dense, they suffered heavy losses after being attacked by nearly 40 fighters of various types.

On the afternoon of 5 July, almost at the same time as the air raids on Xushui and Xin'an, the 5th Division of the Yue Army, which was surrounded outside Baoding, was bombarded even more violently, and the 500-kilogram "Vulcan" napalm incendiary bombs alone caused heavy casualties among the Yue troops. The Japanese army, which originally thought that it could hold on to and wait for reinforcements, found that it could not break through the encirclement of the main Chinese division, and was even more bombed by the Chinese air force with impunity.

July 6, 1932, eleven o'clock in the morning.

Chen Jun, commander of the 19th Route Army of the Southwest Anti-Japanese Army, and the chief of staff of the Southwest Army jointly issued an offensive order, and the three and fourth divisions of the main force in the southwest launched a complete annihilation attack on the Yue army that was besieged in a narrow area outside Baoding.

The Jinjing battlefield began to enter the stage of a major counteroffensive, the initiative on the battlefield began to shift to the central [***] team, and the all-round victory of the War of Resistance officially kicked off on July 6.

(To be continued)