"Phew!" With a bang, in front of the military headquarters of the 19th Route Army, a weasel assault car with incomparable wind stopped there, Dai Anlan jumped out of the car neatly, patting off the dust on his body, this thing is really cool to sit on, and the feeling of bumps is not comparable to ordinary cars, but it eats dust a little more.

All of a sudden, everyone who entered and exited the military headquarters saw this windy battlefield assault vehicle, especially some officers, who blurted out "Weasel assault vehicle" almost immediately! ”

"Lao Dai, your car is really powerful, haha~"

Some people who knew Dai Anlan came over to take a look at the battlefield assault vehicle that had just been sent to the troops, and the last friend of the same level at the military academy back then, who is now also a battalion commander of the Fourth Division, temporarily borrowed this assault car and prepared to drive it for a trial.

"Be careful not to spoil me, this is the treasure of our group, haha."

With the continuous distribution of new weapons and the continuous northward movement of heavy equipment, the strength of the Southwest Army will be brought into full play, the casualties will be smaller, and the losses of the army will be greater.

"Report!"

When he came to the military headquarters, Dai Anlan was directly taken to the war room by a staff officer of the military department.

"Sit." Jiang Baili returned a military salute and motioned for him to sit, there were not many people in the combat conference room, except for Jiang Baili and Chen Jun, only Ma Wenwu, commander of the Fourth Division, Ye Jianxiong, Ye Jianxiong of the Eighth Division of the Garrison Division, and Xu Geng, commander of the Twelfth Division, and Major Chi Yumin, director of Daxing Airport. Seeing that everyone had arrived, Chen Jun signaled: "Dai Anlan, the commander of the third regiment, has just left Zhengding on the front foot, and there is an accident in the direction of Baoding on the back foot. ”

"Here's the situation. Our reconnaissance plane found that there were traces of a large-scale movement of the Yue army, and at first we thought that Yue himself was going to attack Beiping in a roundabout way, but soon, after more information came back, this possibility was overturned. ”

Jiang Baili turned off the light in the war room, turned on the projection lamp in front of him, and a photo was projected onto the curtain behind him.

"The battle plan of the Yue army was obviously carefully arranged, and they adopted the method of concealing the march at dawn in an attempt to evade our completely superior aerial reconnaissance force and march to the Baoding area. The size of the army is about one division, and it is not known which division it is, but it is likely to be a mixed division.

You see, the strategic location of Baoding is extremely important, as the Jinghan Railway must pass through the north, here is the last gateway to Beiping. I guess what that means, I don't need to say more about it as the chief of staff. ”

Several division commanders and Dai Anlan's faces changed slightly, what does Baoding mean, they know very well that just before, when the Battle of Langfang had just ended, the Southwest Army sternly told Chen Cheng that the Jinghan Railway had become the only lifeblood of the Northbound Army, and if it was cut off by the Yue Army, then the results of the two months would be empty, and the combat situation was likely to be tilted towards the side of the Yue Army.

Chen Cheng also realized the important surname of the Jinghan Railway, in addition to ordering a second-class division to deploy defenses from Zhengding to Baoding, from Baoding to Beiping, a first-class division was also arranged on the distance of more than 100 kilometers, plus a garrison regiment of the Southwest Army, which could be regarded as a heavy guard of the communication line.

And it just so happened that it was the southwest garrison that was stationed in Baoding.

Due to the feeling that the troops guarding the communication line were insufficient, after all kinds of materials went north one after another, some heavy equipment also began to arrive at the Jinjing battlefield, and the air force fighters were transferred and transferred one after another, the balance of victory in the defense of Beiping was already beginning to tilt towards the central [***] team. At this time, the General Staff decided to strengthen the defense of Baoding, and sent Dai Anlan to Zhengding to have an exchange with the Kuomintang troops responsible for defending the Jinghan Line, to find out their bottom line, and to prepare to transfer Dai Anlan, the third regiment, to the Jinghan Railway according to the situation.

It's just that I didn't expect that as soon as Dai Anlan left Zhengding, something happened in the direction of Baoding, which can only show that I was moving too fast.

"Head Dai, let's talk about the situation in Zhengding." Chen Jun named Dai Anlan.

"Yes!" Dai Anlan walked to the podium, and the operational staff officer had already opened a topographical map of the Jinghan Railway, "Due to the important surname of the Jinghan Railway, I was ordered to go to Zhengding this time, mainly to inspect the defensive and operational capabilities of this second-class division. This division was not a local unit in Hebei, but a second-class division transferred from Shanxi, and the documents forwarded from the military headquarters confirmed that this was a division that had been squeezed out by Yan Xishan. Division commander Xiao Xiangyu had a tendency to defect to Chiang Kai-shek in the 30-year battle of Chiang Yan Feng, and was immediately suppressed and excluded by Yan Xishan.

In such a situation, the equipment of this second-class division was very poor, and the grassroots companies could not even handle a single gun per man, and some squads even had bird guns. As for the artillery, there were only a few homemade pine cannons. In terms of soldiers, they are as young as 14 or 5 years old, and they are all in their fifties. Under these circumstances, I don't have much need to analyze their will to fight, and the gap between them and the main divisions of the Chinese army is too great. ”

Everyone couldn't help but gasp, they had a bad prediction of the situation of this division, but they didn't expect it to be so bad, if such a unit was on the right track, they were all not afraid of death, and they would not be able to stop a division of the army with the lives of 5 or 6,000 people. Can't even stop a charge.

Jiang Baili nodded, after receiving the information from the Special Intelligence Department, the General Staff did not have any hope for this second-class division. Although the report admired the division commander Xiao Xiangyu more, believing that although he had a heavy opportunistic mentality, his personal national will was still very strong, and he had mobilized in the barracks before, so that the troops were ready to pull the front line at any time. But at such a time, relying on the will alone, this second-class division deployed along the railway line could not hold the Jinghan Railway.

"Therefore, after urgently ordering the First Regiment of the Eighth Division stationed in Baoding to prepare for battle, we also informed Chen Cheng of this information. It was hoped that Chen Cheng would immediately urge the two divisions stationed not far from Beiping to rush to Baoding. ”

Chen Cheng, who was frightened by the offensive of the Yue army, seemed to be more than stable and not enterprising enough at this time. Although he knew the important surname of the Jinghan Railway, he blindly thought that a garrison regiment of the Southwest Army was enough to play the role of 'at least early warning', so he placed the 21st Division and the 38th Division of the Second Division on the railway line not far from Beiping, thinking that it would be too late to rush to the aid of both sides.

"Report, I have something to say!" Xu Geng, commander of the 12th Division of the Garrison Division, got up and said after receiving permission, "It has been a few hours since the news of the army's march to Baoding came back, and I estimate that their vanguard is likely to arrive in Baoding soon. Although the 1st Regiment of the 4th Division of the Garrison also had an indomitable will to fight, it was very difficult to defend without strong fortifications. Ignoring the Kuomintang's second-class division between Zhengding and Baoding, what they were able to mobilize was the 21st Division of the First Class Division and the 38th Division of General Zhang Zizhong. At present, their garrisons are at least 100 kilometers away from Baoding, and with the marching speed of the Kuomintang army, it is very likely that they will not only be unable to support Baoding in time, but will also be blocked by the army at ease. Therefore, I propose that an urgent method be adopted and that the 1st Regiment of the 4th Garrison Division urgently open a landing site, and that we immediately airlift a group of troops there. ”

"This is also one of the operational contents formulated by Chief of Staff Chiang." Chen Jun nodded, motioned for him to sit down, and then turned to Chi Yumin, director of Daxing Airport, "Director Chi, let's talk about the situation." There is no need to be particularly anxious, when Lieutenant Colonel Dai Anlan rushed to the military headquarters, the military headquarters had already ordered the third regiment to assemble urgently and could set off at any time. ”

Chi Yumin got up and said, "Since there is no airport in Baoding, we finally chose the original Baoding Military Academy's big field as the landing point. Judging from the photos of the reconnaisance plane that had just been sent back and the reply from the 1st Regiment of the 4th Division, as long as it was slightly leveled and weededed, it could be used as an emergency landing site. However, because the quadruple-engined C-31 was too large to land, it could no longer take off, and once Baoding was lost, these planes could only be blown up except to try to take off by all possible means. ”

"The situation is urgent, now is not the time to sparing these equipment, if Baoding is lost, and then recaptured, the price to pay may be greater, with our two regiments here, a division of the army will lose more and win less, and the danger of the aircraft will be much smaller."

Chen Jun and Jiang Baili briefly discussed it, and they made a battle plan.

"Now I announce that the 3rd Regiment of the 3rd Division will immediately rush to Daxing Airport and prepare to board the plane to Baoding.

At Daxing Airport, preparations were immediately made to put in bomber units to provide air support to the defenders of Baoding.

Since the army has withdrawn one division and regiment, the overall strength of the troops in the Beiping battlefield has been reduced by one-fifth, and we must find the weak part of their troops on the Beiping battlefield. After consulting the Southwestern Military Headquarters for instructions, he will decide whether to launch a large-scale initiative offensive to strike a dozen of his own spirits. ”

An hour later, Southwest.

"Report to the chief, Beiping Emergency!"

Zhang Shusheng took the document handed over by the staff officer of the War Department, opened it and looked at it, and couldn't help but be surprised, the problem he had worried about earlier had really happened, but looking at it, he turned his worries into joy.

"At three o'clock in the afternoon of July 2, the vanguard of the Yue army that attacked Baoding was stubbornly resisted by the first regiment of the fourth division, and the current battle situation is in a state of stalemate, and the main forces of the army have arrived one after another, and the chief of staff Jiang Baili and Major General Chen Jun have ordered the third regiment of Dai Anlan, which has a very firm will to fight, to rush to Daxing Airport, ready to board the plane and go to Baoding, and the plane will ......land at the Da Ji Field of the Baoding Army School."

Putting down the document, Zhang Shusheng walked to the side of the big map, listened to the analysis of the staff officer of the Operations Section, looked at the situation, and then said with a smile, "The army actually wants to cut off our supply artery, so we don't have to be polite." Call back to Jiang Baili and Chen Jun, don't be too obsessed with the battle of the Beiping defense line, the battlefield counterattack plan has been canceled, since the Yue army of this division has broken away from the Yue army army, we will not eat it, I am really sorry for my generosity! ”

(To be continued)