Fair 130 early in the morning of December 12.

More than 20 famous A1B light dive bombers once again greeted the morning glow and staggered into the sky. These biplanes are equipped with the latest mBw-129B engines, which can carry four 30-kilogram bombs, and their speed and range are also greatly improved compared to the original A-1A. All twenty planes were painted silvery-white, and the wings and fuselages were painted with the blue sky and white sun markings representing the Kuomintang. Leading these planes in battle today was Major General Ye Qiu, deputy division commander of the Second Air Aviation and commander of the Second Bomber Aviation Regiment. He was wearing goggles, a thick woolen scarf wrapped around his neck, and a leather jacket with excellent cold protection and warmth, and he was flying his car in the direction of Chaoyang County. What to do in Chaoyang County?

According to intelligence, the Japanese troops there were all lightly armed, no heavy artillery, only a small number of mountain guns, as well as infantry guns, mortars and machine guns. Can you find such a target in mid-air? As soon as Ye Qiu received the order, he immediately raised an objection. In fact, compared to the battle in the direction of Chaoyang, the Eighth Route Army and the Seventeenth Route Army, which were trapped in Beipiao, really needed these dive bombers to provide air support!

To this, Luo Yaoguo's answer was: "The bombing of the Japanese position in Chaoyang County is a request put forward by the Chinese side, and they just need to throw bombs on the Japanese position." ”

He received his student Ye Qiu very politely, but he didn't listen to his reasonable advice. Regarding the extremely chaotic command system of the squadron on the current battlefield in western Liaoning, Luo Yaoguo seems to have given up, and only strictly ordered his army to guard the Huludao fortress. Most of the time is just spent with Natali, who just arrived from Wuhan, maybe it's also a kind of mindset that is out of sight, right?

"Air raids! Hidden..."

As soon as the twenty rickety biplanes approached the Japanese position south of Chaoyang County, they were discovered by the Japanese sentries in charge of watching, and then the shouts of early warning immediately sounded and quickly spread throughout the trenches. The Japanese officers and soldiers who had been waiting for the battle held their heads in their hands and knees on their chests, and curled up to the bottom of the cold trenches.

Rumble! Rumble! Rumble......

The roar of the planes divening and the loud explosion of bombs did not arrive until all the Japanese troops had found their hiding positions. Bombshells exploded on the Japanese positions, raising puffs of smoke and dust that rushed into the sky, blowing up gaps in the Japanese front. Some of the civil fortifications were blown up, and occasionally human bodies were thrown high into the sky. However, the planes did not leave immediately, still with a fierce whistling sound, tearing through the smoke and spitting strings of flames, repeatedly passing over the Japanese positions. It raged wildly again, until all the bullets were gone, and the group gathered high in the air and headed south.

At the same time as the Kuomintang army's air attack, with a loud charge, the soldiers in the starting position of the attack of the Fourth Route Army of the Chinese G Army also launched a charge. This was the first time that the Chinese and G armies fought under the cover of the air force, and although the mere 20 light dive bombers with a bomb load of just over 100 kilograms did not pose much of a threat to the long and long Japanese front, the attacking infantry was obviously encouraged. Tens of thousands of infantrymen in blue-gray uniforms, led by the officers, held bright bayonets and shouted revolutionary slogans, forming a huge wave and rushing towards the various positions of the Japanese army.

Li Jishen stood on the hill opposite the Japanese battle line, holding a telescope and looking at the Japanese defense line on the other side that seemed to be about to be overwhelmed by the crowd of G soldiers, but there was a hint of mockery on the corner of his mouth. Zhongg seems to have done his best to save the besieged Eighth Route Army, and he tried a little too much. If he is Mao Zd, the best strategy at this moment should be to use the air force to support the Eighth Route Army in Beipiao, and let the Fourth Route Army continue to wait for the heavy artillery of the Northeast Army and the Kuomintang tanks in the south of Chaoyang City, as long as these two arrive, the Japanese defense line is completely vulnerable. But the heavy artillery of the Northeast Army had not yet arrived on time, and the Kuomintang tanks were even more ordered to give way. Now the Fourth Route Army has no choice but to use the Kuomintang Air Force assigned to them as artillery and use aircraft to blow up a bloody road for attack!

However, Li Jishen clearly knew that it was impossible to accomplish this task by relying on a mere dozens of light bombers with a bomb load of just over 100 kilograms!

"Has the 10th Division already started moving?" Li Jishen looked at it for a long time and then turned around and asked Xu X

Former.

Xu Xqian held a telescope and looked at the rising plumes of smoke in the distance, and a smile appeared on his face: "They have quietly gone to Xidabai Mountain." ”

Li Jishen didn't say anything, and Liu Bcheng on the side took a deep breath: "In this battle, we don't have enough troops, and the firepower is not enough, and the Kuomintang's bombing doesn't seem to have much effect, so I'm afraid that the tasks assigned by the organization can be made to let the Kuomintang First Division find a way to send a capable army to come up first?" ”

"Alas" Li Ji sighed deeply, looked at Liu Bcheng and said with a wry smile: "Chief of Staff Liu, do you think that I, the teacher of the first division of the Kuomintang, have not greeted them?" He shook his head: "At present, our people's army is led by the party, while their reactionary army is taking the road of nationalization, and everything must be done according to regulations and systems. ”

Mr. Li waved his stick.

Liu Bcheng was a little anxious, he and the Japanese army had only fought for more than two months, so he naturally knew the depth of the opponent, if he could defeat such an attack by the Fourth Route Army in front of him, then the previous bloody battle of Yalinghe would not have been defeated: "The Japanese army did not win by firepower alone, their individual soldier quality and infantry tactical organization were excellent, much stronger than ours......

"B Cheng!" Li Shuoxun, the political commissar of the Fourth Route Army, hurriedly pulled Liu Bcheng and said in a low voice: "Pay attention to the influence." ”

Liu Bcheng had a wry smile on his face, and shook his head to stop doing anything. He naturally knew that Li Shuoxun had good intentions, but the current atmosphere in the party was probably because Comrade Mao ZD was eager to save the Eighth Route Army, right?

Mao ZD was indeed a little concerned about it, and the Eighth Route Army had been besieged for several days, and urgent telegrams were flying like snowflakes. Last night was another night of bloody fighting, and the casualties reported by the Eighth Route Army alone reached 3,000! There were still more than 2,000 in the Seventeenth Route Army. These are the elites who have been trained for a long time! And it's also the Eighth Route Army......

Seeing these numbers, his eyes almost popped into sparks. Looking at the Chiang Kai-shek who was snickering with a telegram on the side, Mao ZD had the urge to throw the teacup in his hand and smash the bald head!

Chiang Kai-shek naturally did not know that his bald head was in danger of blooming, and now he only had in his eyes an urgent telegram sent from the northern ticket. These newspapers are so cute! Be sure to bring them back and collect them, and take them out every day before going to bed to see them, so that you can have a good dream. Belch! By the way, the telegram that the Fourth Route Army has lost the battle should arrive later, right? These GCD people really don't know much about fighting, they only know how to fight tough battles, and at first glance, they are the style of the first division of Guangdong, which must have been broken by Deng Yanda! Thinking of Deng Yanda, Lao Jiang unconsciously raised his bare head and glanced at the Chief of General Staff Deng who was sitting next to Mao Zd and was smoking a smoky cigarette, he arrived with the Third Route Army last night. The frowning appearance at this time is also flattering, why haven't you seen it in the past? Oh, there is also a Feng Yuxiang who also came with him, the size of the iron tower, always with a righteous and awe-inspiring face. This appearance has deceived many people! I don't know who I want to deceive this time?

"Great President! Let's go up to the children of the Third Route Army! Feng Yuxiang snapped a straight upright, and respectfully saluted Mao Zd: "Give us three days to save the comrades of the Eighth Route Army, if you can't complete the task, my old Feng will come to see you!" Mao 20's answer was a blank eye, "Victory on the plains", how did the main force of the Red Second Army run out? Moreover, at present, the army of more than 100,000 has long blocked the highway to death, and the Third Route Army is at the rear. By the time they reached Chaoyang, the Kuomintang tanks and artillery had already climbed in, and those Japanese probably should have fled, right?

"Captain Jiang Chui." I only heard Mao Zd put down the tea cup in his hand and said with a smile: "There is a reluctant invitation below, I don't know ......"

Chiang Kai-shek hurriedly stuffed the telegram into his pocket and hugged his fists: "Brother Run, but it doesn't matter, as long as I, Jiang Someone, can do it, go to the soup and fight the fire!" ”

Mao Ru gritted his teeth and smiled slightly: "There is nothing too difficult to do, we GCD just want to borrow thousands of steel helmets from the first division of your party and a hundred and ten blue sky and white sun flags, this request is not too difficult, right?" ”

Chiang Kai-shek moaned his head, his eyebrows gradually wrinkled, he naturally guessed Mao Zd's plan at once, but since he had promised to go out with "Chrysostom Yuyan", it was not good to break his promise in front of the public, right?

"Okay, I'll give General Yu Weiqi an order to give you three thousand helmets and one hundred military flags, is that enough?" Mao ZD nodded with a smile: "Enough, enough." That is on behalf of our party, and I would like to thank the chairman for his generosity. He turned his head to look at Zhang Xueliang again: "General Hanqing, can the heavy artillery regiment rush to the front enemy south of Chaoyang before dawn tomorrow?" Zhang Xueliang lowered his head and thought about it carefully, and smiled: "I will definitely be able to arrive before four o'clock tomorrow morning!"

If I can't get there, I'll shoot Wei Yisan! Mao ZD slapped his face and laughed: "Okay! Good! Good! It looks like Chaoyang City will be able to fight tomorrow night! "Despite the preparations, the stubbornness of the Japanese defense was still beyond everyone's expectations. After the frustrated attacks of the various units were reported to the front enemy headquarters, the headquarters was gloomy.

The first setback was the feint attacks of the 11th and 12th Divisions on the southwest and southeast sides of Chaoyang, with the Japanese placing an infantry brigade on each of these two fronts, and dozens of 75-mm mountain artillery and 70-mm infantry guns providing fire cover. Under the command and supervision of officers and political cadres at all levels, the officers and men of the G Corps launched six attacks from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at just five o'clock, each of which became larger and larger, but did not achieve any results, except for the corpses that were almost piled up at the front of the Japanese position. By 1 p.m. on 12 December, the 11th Division had lost more than 800 dead and more than 500 seriously wounded: the 12th Division had lost more than 1,000 dead and more than 800 seriously wounded: another 2,300 people were missing in the two divisions, and the total losses in one morning exceeded 3,600 men!

If the losses of the 11th and 12th Divisions were "setbacks", what happened to the 10th Nose Division at five o'clock this morning was definitely a disaster! There are not too many devils stationed in Xidabai Mountain, but a wing of floating models is equipped with four 75mm mountain guns and four 70mm infantry guns. However, such a defense is by no means something that the 10th Division of the Fourth Route Army, which came lightly, can defeat. In particular, the feint attack of the other two divisions of the Fourth Route Army on the Japanese frontal could not be regarded as "Ji Lie" at all, and did not attract the Japanese reserves.

As a result, the Japanese army in the West Dabai Mountain was soon reinforced by a whole brigade. After easily repelling the attack of the 10th Division, the Japanese simply switched from defense to attack and launched a fierce attack on the 10th Division. Until one o'clock in the afternoon, the Japanese offensive showed no signs of stopping, and the 10th Division, which had retreated to the front line of the North Mountain, was under great pressure and lost four or five hills in a row! Xu Xqian, the commander-in-chief of the Fourth Route Army, was furious and strictly ordered all the officers who had lost their positions to be shot in front of the formation.

"All officers and men of the 10th Division must hold their positions, and those who lose their positions will be shot on the spot! Tell the comrades! The comrades-in-arms of the Eighth Route Army and the Seventeenth Route Army are still waiting for us to rescue, and we must not take a step back! To take a step back is to commit a crime against the revolution! Crimes against the party! ”

The Fourth Route Army is also a descendant of the Central G, and the cadres and fighters have received a comprehensive ideological education from the Central G, and their consciousness is very high, and the task assigned to the party is to sacrifice their lives and resolutely complete it. After Xu X's strict order was issued, the officers and men of the 10th Division did not retreat again, and after repelling several Japanese attacks, they turned to the offensive again.

The battle became more and more fierce, the G Army went forward one after another, the cadres and party members took the lead in launching a white-knuckle charge, and the Japanese troops on the position also resisted desperately, both sides showed rare bravery, no one refused to retreat, no one dared to retreat!

"Our Fourth Route Army will be coming soon!" Zhu D's expression was grim, and he stood at the head of Beipiao City while watching the battle, and gave an order loudly: "Perseverance to the end is victory, the devils are now the last madness, and their attacks will not last long." Chief of Staff Cai, tell the troops, don't just be beaten passively, dare to fight back, and beat down the arrogance of the devil! ”

The battle situation on the 12th was extremely dangerous for the Eighth Route Army and the Seventeenth Route Army trapped in Beipiao. Since the Kuomintang Air Force was sent to bomb the Japanese army in Chaoyang, the G Army in Beipiao lost air cover again. In the afternoon of this day, the Japanese planes appeared in groups again in the sky over Beipiao, and a string of bombs exploded one after another on the positions of the G Army around Beipiao County, and at the same time, there was no threat from the air, and the powerful Japanese artillery group also began to pour tons of shells onto the main positions of the G Army such as Beidashan and Chaheyingzi, almost leveling the positions!

The ensuing Japanese infantry charge also became more violent, and tens of thousands of Japanese devils, in large brigades, launched round after round of attacks on various positions around Beipiao County.

Rushed up hill after hill.

The G Army also did not show weakness, often facing the Japanese army's charge to organize death squads to counterattack, the two sides on the hillside, at the foot of the mountain, strangled together, Ji battle one after another, and later, it often evolved into a pull battle everywhere. I just received a call to regain a mountain, and within a few minutes, I received another call, and the recaptured mountain was lost again.

"The 22nd Division suffered nearly 2,000 casualties, the 23rd Division lost more than 1,500 men, and the 24th Division also lost more than 1,000 men...... The Eighth Route Army and the Seventeenth Route Army suffered a total loss of nearly seven thousand! Cai Tingcuo, chief of staff of the Eighth Route Army, frowned tightly, and reported the casualty figures of each department to Zhu D, who was supervising the battle.

"Boss, the casualties are too great, are you shrinking the troops into Beipiao City?" Cai Ting closed the folder and tentatively faced Zhu D.

Zhu D let out a long sigh, the Eighth Route Army and the Seventeenth Route Army had already gone through more than two months of continuous fierce fighting before Beipiao was besieged, and the troops were greatly consumed. In particular, a large number of experienced officers and veterans have sacrificed their lives, and the newly recruited officers and men obviously lack training. Otherwise, it would not have lost more than 20,000 men in three days of defensive battles! If the loss continues at this rate, it is estimated that by the time the reinforcements arrive, the Eighth Route Army and the Seventeenth Route Army will almost be wiped out! However, shrinking to the core defense area around Beipiao County can certainly make the defense closer, save troops to a certain extent, and reduce the attack surface of the Japanese army, so as to achieve the purpose of delaying time...... But in the same way, the Japanese army can also use fewer troops to besiege the Eighth Route Army and the Seventeenth Route Army, and draw more troops for reinforcements! What's even more troublesome is that once the troops are contracted, there is no way to firmly control the road to Chaoyang, and the Japanese troops deployed in Chaoyang can be supported by heavy weapons. Now our troops are less than 80,000 people, if we don't shrink again, when the reinforcements arrive, I'm afraid it will already be ......" Cai Tingcuo hesitated for a while, gritted his teeth and said: "We have also learned the combat effectiveness of the Japanese, I am afraid that we will not be able to defeat it by relying on the Fourth Route Army and the Third Route Army!" In the end, the Kuomintang reactionary dispatch was required...... Are they still afraid of that little bit of heavy weapons of the Japanese? And then the losses will be the Kuomintang army......"

A hint of surprise flashed on Zhu D's face, and he said silently: "Okay, order the troops to shrink tonight."