Thanks to the confrontation exercises conducted within the New Second Division every once in a while, the technical and tactical level of almost all officers and men has been greatly improved, and in particular, the tactical quality of commanders at all levels has risen sharply, and the officers at the regimental level have made the greatest gains.

Drawing lessons and lessons from previous confrontations, the commanders of each regiment have found out the strengths and weaknesses of their own units, and then strengthened training in a targeted manner in their daily training to achieve the goal of making use of their strong points and avoiding their weak points. So far, the four main regiments have basically formed their own styles, and what the Han Tiecheng regiment is best at is long-distance sneak attacks and annihilating the enemy in motion, and can always quietly touch the enemy's side to set up an ambush, just like this time.

The annihilation of the two squadrons of Japanese troops would have been overjoyed by other national armies, but Han Tiecheng was not too excited, no matter what, the Japanese army had an absolute advantage, and destroying such a little enemy did not prove anything.

"Buzz—"

Nine planes appeared in the sky to the southeast, rapidly swooping towards the battlefield.

"Quick, the devil fighter is coming, hide immediately"

Han Tiecheng jumped up, and after greeting him, he scolded: "Lao Tzu let you move quickly...... Drag, what's the matter, summoned the little devil's plane...... Fuck, what are you looking at? Hurry up and run."

The devil fighter plane was overhead in a blink of an eye, and the three 96 warships in front of it swooped down from a high altitude, and their movements were as graceful as ospreys, but behind this beautiful and light plane, there was a murderous intention.

"Hurry"

Han Tiecheng shouted while running, but in fact, he didn't need to greet him, one by one, his subordinates were very thieves, and they ran towards the woods where they had been ambushed before.

The area around Pinghu is an endless plain, with no shelter, and the superiority of the Japanese artillery can be brought into full play, and the fighters piloted by the Japanese army and naval aviation are even more like fish in water.

The 96 ship, which adopted the lower wing design, was very fast, roaring like a big bird, and the nose of the plane sprayed a string of tongues of fire, and the three soldiers who fell behind were bleeding and fell to the ground.

Han Tiecheng, who fled into the dense forest, stood under a thigh-thick tree, looking back at the wilderness, his eyes suddenly widened, and his eyes were bloodshot.

The three fallen fighters were the elite of the reconnaissance company.

If the sharp knife company is Han Tiecheng's heart, liver, and liver, then the reconnaissance company is Han Tiecheng's palm. Now all of a sudden, the three warriors who have been tempered are gone, and it hurts for a while.

Han Tiecheng slapped Shu Yu heavily and cursed hatefully: "Little devil of dog day"

The Japanese plane flew over the dense forest, and seeing that the regiment commander was still standing, Fang Shengde pounced forward, knocking Han Tiecheng to the ground, and the two rolled into the dirt pit where they had just been hiding in the dense forest.

"Tutu Tu Tu Tu—"

Where Han Tiecheng was standing, the big tree was punched out of a row of bullet holes, which made people secretly frightened.

"Knock-"

A burst of artillery suddenly sounded in the dense forest, followed by the "click" sound of a heavy machine gun, Han Tiecheng pushed Fang Shengde who was pressing on his body away, stood up and rushed to the open area in a few arrow steps, looking up at the sky.

I saw clouds of black smoke explode in the blue sky, and countless sharp shrapnel burst out of the clouds, swooping down on those Japanese planes like clusters of arrows.

Suddenly, a 96 ship, which was diving and preparing to bomb the woods, suddenly shook, billowing smoke rose from the fuselage, and the plane let out a strange scream, tumbling and falling to the ground.

Soon, the plane collided violently with the ground, exploding a huge fireball.

Immediately afterwards, another 96 warship, which was diving, strafing, was hit by a heavy machine-gun bullet, and several holes were torn open in the fuselage, and the wounded fighter plane dragged the billowing black smoke and fled in confusion to the southeast.

Anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns were spotted on the ground, and the Japanese planes that were raging hurriedly pulled up, trying to dodge the bullets and shells fired from the ground.

One of the fighters did not have time to pull into the air when it was hit by a volley of anti-aircraft shells fired from the ground.

"Boom-"

The shells exploded behind the plane, and the debris shot out like a torrential rain smashed the fighter plane to pieces, and the plane immediately burst into flames and fell to the ground with a mournful roar.

"Bang bang—"

"Da-da-"

The explosion of anti-aircraft shells and the sound of heavy machine gun fire came and went, and a Japanese fighter plane rose into a puff of smoke from its wings, then rolled to the ground and fell to pieces.

Han Tiecheng roared in relief: "Gui Tao, that kid is good, he played well" and then laughed heartily. In order to design this ambush, Han Tiecheng led a battalion, a sharp knife company, and a reconnaissance company to lay in ambush for most of the day, and set up an anti-aircraft artillery position in the dense forest to block Japanese aircraft.

In order to let the anti-aircraft artillery battalion cooperate with the first regiment to fight, at the division headquarters meeting, Luo Yuming, the commander of the first brigade, slapped Luo Changling's table, and only then did Gui Tao come to help with the third company of the antiaircraft artillery battalion.

Another plane was hit in the tail of the cabin by a shell fired from a 40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun and had to descend in altitude, and when it was close to the woods, it was hit again by a rain of heavy machine-gun shells, whimpering and plunging into the sea pond to the west, causing a huge explosion on the surface of the river, igniting a large fire and then quickly sinking to the bottom of the water, and a huge amount of water vapor evaporated upward.

"Boom—"

A heavily damaged Japanese fighter plane fell, slid out of a distance of more than ten meters along the ground, and exploded suddenly, with red flames quickly covering the fuselage.

"Yu Dehao"

Han Tiecheng jumped up and cheered with the officers and soldiers around him who were watching the battle.

In just seven or eight minutes, six Japanese fighters were shot down, one escaped wounded, and the other two fled far away when they saw that the situation was not good.

Guangchen is located in the northeast direction of Pinghu, in the first year of Song Tiansheng, the place was placed in Guangchen field, and the Guangchen Affairs and Luli Inspection Division were set up in the Yuan to the first year, "the fan ship column is here", so the name is Guangchen. Guangchen outstanding figures come out in large numbers, Song Dynasty calligrapher and painter Zhao Mengjian live in seclusion here, Pinghu folk song sings "Dongxiang Eighteen Towns, Guangchen First Town", is the birthplace of Pinghu Flower Drum Opera, Pinghu Cymbal Book.

In the northeast of the town, Shigeharu Suematsu set up the headquarters of the 114th Division in the courtyard of a landlord's house. At this time, Shigeharu Suematsu convened a meeting to discuss how to do his best to attack Wu Ming and the new 2nd Division, and when the news reached that the headquarters of the 10th Army had completely destroyed two Japanese squadrons and that six naval aviation planes had been shot down, there was a dead silence in the headquarters.

"Baga, I must kill Wu Ming, the new second division will not leave the chickens and dogs from top to bottom, and temporarily eradicate the roots" Moji Suematsu Huo Ran stood up and roared loudly. Finally, he walked to the window facing west, pushed it open, and looked in the direction of Pinghu through gritted teeth.

Seeing that Moharu Suematsu was angry, no one dared to step forward to dissuade him, and they turned their eyes to the chief of staff, Mitsuzaburo Akiyama.

Akiyama Mitsuzaburo didn't want to touch Suematsu Shigeru's mold, but the situation didn't allow him to back down, so he had to come behind Suematsu Shigeji and cough lightly: "General"

Shigeji Suematsu turned around suddenly, his eyes were blood-red, like a blood-devouring beast, which made Akiyama Mitsuzaburo startled, and he couldn't help but take a step back.

Shigeharu Suematsu grimaced and asked Mitsuzaburo Akiyama, "Are the wings ready?" ”

Mitsuzaburo Akiyama looked at Captain Daisuke Fujino, the head of the combat section next to him, and saw that Captain Fujino nodded slightly, so he replied: "General, everything is ready"

"Yo West"

Shigeharu Suematsu was an experienced general, and knowing that Michi's eagerness for revenge would only cause his troops to suffer more losses, he took a heavy breath at the moment, stabilized his mood, and took out the gold watch from his arms to look at the card, and then gave an order to Akiyama Mitsuzaburo: "Half an hour later, the 127th Brigade will launch an attack on the enemy in front of it, and I will notify the fleet artillery group to support it."

"Hail"

Akiyama Mitsuzaburo felt relieved, he was very worried that Suematsu Shigeji would lose his mind, and ordered the troops to attack blindly, which would be a disaster for the 114th Division, and now a big stone has finally fallen to the ground.

Unlike the oppressive atmosphere of the Japanese command, the headquarters of the new 2nd Division laughed loudly. After receiving the report of victory, the generals had no reason to be unhappy.

When everyone had laughed enough, Wu Ming waved his hand: "After suffering such a big loss, the little devil will definitely retaliate, and there will be more difficult battles waiting for everyone in the future, let's go and prepare."

The division headquarters suddenly scattered, and Dai Ziran came to Wu Ming's side with a smile: "Division, Han Tiecheng's kid is good, with a battalion and two companies, it took less than half an hour to annihilate two squadrons of the Japanese army, and more importantly, the anti-aircraft artillery battalion hit an ambush by Japanese fighters and shot down six at once

"It seems that the training has been effective...... Even the 36th, 87th, and 88th divisions of the Central Army, as well as the awesome Central Teaching Corps, cannot be compared with our new Second Division. Long Shaogang said proudly.

"yes, yes"

Dai Ziran nodded again and again after hearing this: "The troops trained by the Germans are very dull, they only know how to fight to the death, and their brains make those regimental and battalion-level officers look like marionettes of Chairman Jiang, and they have no subjective initiative at all."

Dai Ziran's words were very vicious, but they summarized the shortcomings of the Central Army.

Chiang Kai-shek started by relying on the Whampoa Military Academy, attached great importance to military power, and looked down on his subordinate generals very strictly, and most of the generals who were reused were obedient and obedient, which caused all the generals who had the ability and ideas to stand aside.

Long Shaogang sighed, and his tone was low: "In the end, Chairman Jiang is not confident."

"Makes sense"

Wu Ming said with emotion, and then looked at Long Shaogang with some surprise, he didn't expect his deputy division commander to make such great progress, and his political sense of smell was much more sensitive, he had never thought about these things before.

In fact, most of China's more than 2,000 years of feudal dynasties slaughtered heroes after the founding of the country, and the most important reason was that the monarch was not confident.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, killed the kings with different surnames, Zhao Kuangyin, the Taizu of the Song Dynasty in the early Song Dynasty, released the military power with a cup of wine, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, burned down the building of the heroes, all of which were manifestations of lack of self-confidence. Confident people such as Liu Xiu, the Guangwu Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, preserved most of the meritorious heroes, and the monarch and the minister gained both, which was passed down as a good story through the ages.

Among them, to put it bluntly, the founding monarch has the confidence to suppress his arrogant soldiers, and Emperor Guangwu and Tang Taizong themselves are great military strategists and commanders of the three armies, so they have this self-confidence, so the two dynasties of Jianwu and Zhenguan have to enjoy their old age, while other dynasties such as Han Xin and others can only be smothered in the hands of women.

Chiang Kai-shek was also not confident, and he did nothing for half of his life, until the establishment of the Whampoa Military Academy, which he did not grasp military power. Since the Xi'an Incident, Dai Li's secret service has been used to monitor the officers of various units, and he has firmly grasped the military power, which will inevitably curb the creativity of the generals under his command. On the battlefield, the fighters are fleeting, and the generals at the forefront are stubbornly abiding by Chiang Kai-shek's orders, how can they defeat the enemy?

Seeing Wu Ming looking at him thoughtfully, Long Shaogang touched his face strangely and asked, "Master, why do you look at me like this?" Do I have flowers on my face? ”

"No, no, I'm just happy, the deputy division commander has changed a lot" Wu Ming patted Long Shaogang's shoulder appreciatively after speaking.

In fact, Wu Ming didn't know what to do, Long Shaogang, Zhang Dongning, Dai Ziran and others often got along with him, and they were all deeply influenced by him unconsciously, broadening their minds and horizons, and it is not an exaggeration to describe progress as a thousand miles a day.