On the highway from Mengcheng to Huaiyuan, the 3rd Division of the Tiger Ben Army was advancing rapidly along the highway.

Because Huaiyuan is not yet in the sphere of influence of the Tiger Army, the road from Mengcheng to Huaiyuan has only been repaired to the average, and when the huge convoy got off the cement road, it immediately raised a continuous layer of dust on the dirt road.

When they saw the three divisions of the Tiger Ben Army marching to the front line in an orderly manner, the eyes of the people were full of puzzlement, because their hometown had fallen, and the [***] there had collapsed, and the devil was not far behind.

In the eyes of the people, the garrison [***] will always run faster than their people, but the [***] in front of them actually went to the front line to meet the enemy without fear, which made the people fleeing along the way can't help but take a few more looks.

But it was just a few more glances, and after watching the people, they dragged their families and continued to flee north.

This is a typical grain of rat feces spoils a pot of soup, and the flight of individual [***] troops in fear of the battle has caused the people in the areas where they are stationed in the defense zone to be extremely disappointed in all [***], because of the lack of geography and communication, these simple people naturally do not see that most of the [***] soldiers are fighting bloodily on the front line, shedding blood and sacrificing.

When this group of people and the passing army passed by, just wanted to continue to flee along the road, suddenly, the road once again raised thick dust, a black and huge steel beast rumbled and drove quickly, the people have not seen so many tanks and combat vehicles, it is inevitable that some panicked, many people are so frightened that they hurriedly retreat to the fields and ditches on the side of the road.

Qiao Anbang sat in an armored car, casually turned his head to look at the scene outside the car, and when he saw the crowds of fleeing people on the side of the road, he immediately ordered the driver: "Stop." ”

The armored vehicle stopped abruptly when it was moving fast, and the tanks and armored vehicles that followed behind also quickly stopped.

Qiao Anbang kicked the car door open, strode out of the car, came to the side of the road and looked at a few people and asked, "Folks, where are you from?" What the hell is going on up ahead? ”

Seeing that Qiao Anbang looked like an officer, still sitting in an ironclad car, the people did not dare to slack off, and a middle-aged man hurriedly replied: "Boss, we are from Huaiyuan, and I heard that the devil has hit the south bank." ”

"I still heard there, I have seen the devil's shells coming from the south bank to the north bank, and I estimate that Fengyang City has already been captured by the devils, and they should all cross the river if they don't make trouble." A person next to the middle-aged man took over and said with some horror.

"yes, I see." Qiao Anbang nodded, then turned to look at the people along the roadside, there were thousands of people, and immediately turned his head and asked, "Hey, fellow, ask again, where are you all going?" ”

"Report to the chief, we are going to go to Pheasant and Ji, there is a tiger army stationed there, and the devils can't hit there......" another young man said timidly.

Qiao Anbang heard this, his nose was sour, as an army, to be able to gain the trust of the people, to be able to be relied on by them, what an honor? As the founder of this army, I was not only moved by the pride and pride of it, but also felt that the sense of honor and responsibility of the soldiers doubled. "Adjutant Liang!" Qiao Anbang shouted.

"Yes!" Liang Jiahan, who had been following Qiao Anbang, immediately stepped forward and stepped forward.

"Inform the Third Division and send a company to escort these people to the base area!" Qiao Anbang commanded with a wave of his hand.

"Yes!" Liang Jiahan stepped forward again, and immediately turned around and walked towards the armored car.

Several people looked at Qiao Anbang with some doubts, and Qiao Anbang smiled heartily when he saw this: "Folks, we are the Tiger Army, don't worry, with us, the little devils can't beat it, don't worry!" With that, Qiao Anbang also turned around and strode away.

A few people were left looking at each other in surprise.

…………………… About an hour or so later, Qiao Anbang led the armored brigade and the third division to Huaiyuan County, when he saw that there was still a blue sky and white flag fluttering on the head of the city, Qiao Anbang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, fortunately, Huaiyuan County has not been lost, indicating that the army has not yet crossed the river to the north.

After entering the city, Qiao Anbang learned that because the 11th Army blew up the pontoon bridge built some time ago when it retreated, it was able to temporarily block the offensive of the devils and keep Huaiyuan County.

Due to the tightness in Xuzhou, the main forces of the 11th Army and the 21st Group Army had already been transferred north to Xuzhou, so Li Pinxian only left half of the regiment behind and waited for the Tiger Army to come to hand over the defense of the north bank of the Huai River.

Qiao Anbang set up his headquarters in Huaiyuan City, and Li Jupeng, the commander of the Third Division, led the main force of the Third Division to take over the defensive positions along the river.

In the headquarters, several orderly soldiers were hanging the combat map, Qiao Anbang was silently smoking, at this time there was a deafening roaring cannon sound from time to time in the distance outside the city, Qiao Anbang threw away half of the cigarette in his hand and said to Liang Jiahan beside him: "Let's go, let's go to the front line to see." ”

"Hmm." Liang Jiahan naturally did everything, and nodded softly.

Qiao Anbang and Liang Jiahan had just walked out of the threshold of the headquarters when a lieutenant colonel officer walked over with heavy steps, and before he arrived, he saluted Qiao Anbang and said, "Hello, sir." ”

"You are?" Qiao Anbang looked the lieutenant colonel in front of him up and down and asked in surprise.

"Back to the commander, Li Zide, lieutenant colonel and battalion commander of the second battalion of the 54th Regiment of the 43rd Division of the 45th Army of the 11th Group Army, was ordered to lead my second battalion and an engineer company at the division headquarters to blow up the pontoon bridge and wait for the commander to lead the army to hand over!" The lieutenant colonel officer hurriedly stepped forward and replied.

"Oh." Qiao Anbang nodded, the lieutenant colonel battalion commander before meeting was tall, his face was like a heavy jujube, his lips were greased, his appearance was dignified and majestic, and he faced himself as a small lieutenant colonel and battalion commander without the slightest restraint, neither humble nor arrogant, and suddenly had a heart of love for talent, the 11th Group Army was not all incompetent, but Li Pinxian couldn't make good use of it.

Let's talk about the battle of Dingyuan, a division of the 45th Army, a small number of people, even a squadron of devils could not stop it, the whole division from the division commander down, the whole division fled without a fight, resulting in the entrance of the Huainan portal, and the situation suddenly took a sharp turn.

In front of him, the lieutenant colonel battalion commander led a battalion and an engineer unit that also belonged to the 45th Army, and dared to stay behind to cover the withdrawal of the main force of the whole army, and finally successfully completed the task of blowing up the bridge and blocked the army on the south bank.

There are many things worth thinking about, if the whole division defending Dingyuan does not retreat, not to mention a squadron of the army, that is, the entire sixth division is here, and they don't want to capture Dingyuan County within half an hour, as long as they block the attack of the Yue army, Li Pinxian will definitely immediately send reinforcements to reinforce it, so that the situation in the entire Huainan will definitely not become what it is now.

Huainan, which had just been recovered for less than a few months, was lost again in less than a day, and hundreds of thousands of compatriots were ruined and their families were destroyed.

After a pause, Qiao Anbang took the lead and said, "Battalion Commander Li, are you interested in going to the front with me to have a look?" ”

"However, sir, according to Shangfeng's order, after the handover between our department and the Tiger Ben Army is completed, we should immediately go north to Xuzhou to join the main force of the division." Li Zide was a little embarrassed.

"I'm going to Xuzhou for hundreds of miles, and with your foot strength, it will take three or five days at the earliest, right? Maybe the battle of Xuzhou has ended in three or five days, and the main forces of the 11th Army and the 21st Group Army have gone up, and there is no shortage of people in Xuzhou now. Now I have gathered hundreds of thousands of troops in Huainan, and its vanguard is across the river from us, and if you want to kill devils to serve the country, why go north to Xuzhou? Where is it not the same to kill devils? Jo Anbang said.

Li Zide hesitated for a moment with a sad face, nodded solemnly: "Okay, just listen to the chief, we will stay to assist you in fighting devils together!" ”

"Well, very good, Battalion Commander Li, in order to show my sincerity, I decided to give you a full set of German-style equipment, with German-style equipment, you can beat him hard." Qiao Anbang nodded with satisfaction.

"German-style equipment? Is what the chief said true? Li Zide asked with some surprise. Li Zide has been in Rong for many years, so he naturally knows that the [***] elite German division is the ace of the Central Army, so he can't help but be surprised.

"Of course, I've always been a man of words." Qiao Anbang patted Li Zide on the shoulder and said, "However, now let's go to the shore defense position to inspect first." ”

"Yes!" Li Zide suddenly stepped forward and immediately followed Qiao Anbang and Liang Jiahan out of the headquarters compound.

Out of the compound, Qiao Anbang got into a jeep and took Liang Jiahan and Li Zide straight out of Huaiyuan County and galloped towards the front line of the Huai River.

Along the way, you can also see the fleeing people who have withdrawn from the front line from time to time, and the closer you get to the front line, the more clear and deafening the sound of artillery becomes.

The jeep soon drove to the shore defense position of the Third Division, and after getting out of the car, Qiao Anbang and others successively entered the headquarters of the Third Division set up behind the position, and after entering the division headquarters, they saw that the chief of staff of the Third Division hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, but Qiao Anbang did not see Li Jupeng, the commander of the Third Division.

After Qiao Anbang saluted back, he asked suspiciously, "Where is your master?" ”

"Go back to the military seat, and the division seat will go to inspect the front line." The chief of staff hurriedly replied.

"Oh?" After hearing this, Qiao Anbang turned around and walked: "Let's go, let's go to the front line too." ”

Liang Jiahan and Li Zide hurriedly followed, and the chief of staff did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly followed out with a guard.

Along the traffic trench, Qiao Anbang came to the forward position of the third division, in order to prevent the devil from crossing the river, the forward position of the third division was set up along the river, and all the soldiers along the way saw Qiao Anbang have raised their spirits and saluted.

Qiao Anbang went straight to a trench at the forefront, and had not yet seen Li Jupeng, the commander of the third division, when suddenly a soldier in the trench pointed to the opposite bank and exclaimed: "Devil, look! ”

Qiao Anbang and the others hurriedly came to the side of the soldier, raised the binoculars and looked at the opposite bank, only to see that the entire shore on the opposite bank was almost full of corpses, most of them were ordinary people, and occasionally the corpses of several [***] fighters could be seen.

Qiao Anbang moved the telescope upwards and saw that hundreds of devil soldiers on the other side were building fortifications on the bank of the river, and the corpses lying on the bank were directly thrown into the Huai River one by one, and even the bodies of some soldiers who died in the last battle of the Huai River were dug up by the devils.

Seeing this, Qiao Anbang was immediately dumbfounded, turned around and shouted angrily at the chief of staff of the Third Division behind him: "Artillery, order the artillery, immediately fire the cannon for me, and bombard the group of dog-called mongrels on the other side!" ”

The dead are the greatest, and the most taboo thing for the Chinese is to dig up people's ancestral graves, and although the compatriots on the other side who died tragically under the devil's bayonets and machine guns were not the ancestors of Qiao Anbang and the soldiers of the Tiger Army, they were Chinese, and Qiao Anbang would never allow those heroic souls who died in battle to suffer the whipping corpses of devils after death.

"Yes!" The chief of staff of the Third Division was also extremely sad and indignant, and immediately stepped forward to respond to the promise, and immediately turned around and left.

After the chief of staff left, Qiao Anbang gritted his teeth and said angrily: "Battalion Commander Li, do you know that the devils on the other side are from the army unit?" ”

"13th Wing of the 6th Division." Li Zide hurriedly replied.

"The 13th Wing of the Sixth Division?" After hearing this, Qiao Anbang couldn't help but raise his head and laugh, and said in a sarcastic tone in his helplessness: "A wing of the Yue Army actually drove the entire 11th Army out of Huainan!" The 11th Army is 100,000 pigs, and let the devils of the 13th Wing kill them side by side, and he can't kill them all in a day and a night! Disgrace! Shame on the country! Shame on the nation! It is a great shame for our soldiers! ”

Li Zide was ashamed of Qiao Anbang's words, although Qiao Anbang's words were ugly, but this is a fact, an indisputable fact, as a soldier, this is indeed a great shame.

"Adjutant Liang!" After Qiao Anbang finished speaking, he turned his head to Liang Jiahan and said.

"Humble duty." Liang Jiahan snapped forward and responded.

"Pass the order, immediately erect a pontoon bridge, the whole division is ready to attack, and drive the 13th Wing and the 6th Division out of Fengyang City for me!" Qiao Anbang was very annoyed at this time, just a wing of the army, it was not worth his own main division and an armored brigade to retreat and defend, even if there was still the 6th division of the army on the south bank, Qiao Anbang was not afraid, and Li Yifeng's first division arrived later.

As a hot-blooded young man in the 21st century, Qiao Anbang has an absolute hatred for the 6th Division of the Chinese Army. In just one week, this Sixth Division slaughtered no less than 60,000 of our [***] people in the Nanjing area alone, and in addition to the forcible annihilation and looting of countless others, such a beast unit is the place of death for all my Chinese sons and daughters, but no Chinese with a blood surname will let them go.

"Yes!" Liang Jiahan did not hesitate at all, stood up and saluted at the moment, and then turned around and left.

Seeing Liang Jiahan leave, Li Zide was shocked and said, "Sir, you want to take the initiative?" Counterattack on the South Bank? Li Zide can't help but be surprised, now that the army in Central China is moving north, the top priority at the moment should be to stick to the north bank and block the army with the Huai River, but the world-famous national hero in front of him should not defend the counterattack.

"What? Are you scared? If you're afraid, I can leave your troops on the North Shore to look after the family. To tell you the truth, a few months ago, I was able to lead the army to counterattack Huainan and annihilate the three main divisions of the army, and now I can also lead the troops to fight across the Huai River, not only to fight across the Huai River, but also to eat the 13th Wing of the Yue Army, and to be ashamed of all the soldiers who resist the war! Qiao Anbang said loudly.

"Sir, Li Zide is willing to lead the officers and soldiers of the battalion to serve as a vanguard commando and take the lead in crossing the river to attack the south bank!" Li Zide felt that his self-esteem had been insulted, and immediately said with an awe-inspiring expression.

"Good! I'll equip your battalion with all German-style weapons! Tell your men what this battle is for. Qiao Anbang said this, pointing to the other side, his eyes were red, and said: "It's for those robes and brothers who died tragically under the butcher's knife of the Yue army, fellow villagers, fathers and elders!" Fight for our dignity, the dignity that a soldier deserves! ”

After a pause, Qiao Anbang pointed to the blue sky white emblem above his head and said sharply: "Fight for this!" Because we are soldiers! Not a coward, not a bastard! ”

"Yes! Fight for honor! Fight for the people! Fight for the dead robes! Li Zide responded with a solemn expression.

At this moment, a piercing whistling sound suddenly sounded in the sky, and when I looked up, I saw that behind the position of the Third Division, the artillery shells swept away under the wrapping of flames, dragging a long tail flame and smashing towards the opposite bank.

"Boom, boom...... Boom ......" one after another violent explosions began to come one after another, as far as the eye could see, the opposite bank was already filled with gunpowder smoke and flames, and in the explosion, many devils who were caught off guard were torn into severed arms and limbs one after another.

In the roaring shelling, those devil soldiers who were originally digging fortifications unscrupulously began to turn around and flee, and some of the devil soldiers even ran away with the sapper shovels in their hands.

Dozens of 105 German-style howitzers of the artillery regiment directly under the Third Division did not hesitate to pour shells on the south bank, and as the devils began to escape, the artillery fire of the Third Division also began to extend, and the firing range of the German-style 105 howitzers of more than ten kilometers was fully exerted at this time.

At the same time as the artillery bombardment, the engineering units of the 3rd Division also began to build pontoon bridges.

……………………………… In Fengyang City, the headquarters of the 13th Wing of the Army.

As early as not long ago, after capturing Fengyangcheng, the commander of the 13th Wing, Nakano Hidemitsu, personally led the main force of the wing to enter Fengyang County, and the main force of the Sixth Division also arrived in Dingyuan under the leadership of the division commander Gu Shoufu at this time.

In the command of the wing, Nakano Hidemitsu was gathering with several subordinates to discuss crossing the river to attack, and suddenly, a second lieutenant of the army hurriedly ran into the headquarters, and before he could stand upright, he reported to Nakano Hidemitsu: "Your Excellency Wing Commander, it's not good, the third brigade was heavily shelled by the North Bank China Army, and the losses were heavy, and now the third brigade has withdrawn!" ”

"Baga, order the artillery brigade directly under the wing to return fire and suppress the artillery fire of the Zhina people!" Nakano Hidemitsu was furious when he heard this, his 13th Wing, as the most elite main wing of the Sixth Division, was exceptionally equipped with an artillery brigade, with more than a dozen 75mm mountain guns and Type 92 infantry guns.

However, the second lieutenant of the devil lowered his head with an ugly face and said: "Your Excellency, the people on the opposite side are using heavy artillery with a caliber of more than a hundred, and the artillery of the imperial army cannot suppress it. ”

(To be continued)