Chapter 135: The First Guards Division

Zengcheng is not well known, because it occupies the main transportation route from Guangzhou to all parts of eastern Guangdong, so it occupies an important position in the defense system of Guangzhou City.

These days, nearly 100,000 troops from the Han and Japanese sides gathered around Zengcheng, fighting fiercely and fighting for every inch of land. The commanders on both sides understood that the gains and losses of Zengcheng determined the ownership of Yangcheng Guangzhou to a certain extent.

One side is determined to win, the other side is stubbornly defending, and the small Zengcheng has become a place where the Han and Japanese armies are fighting to the death. The 26th Army of the Youzhou Army fought a bloody battle for two days, and only captured the first line of positions outside Zengcheng dominated by the puppet army. Wan Fulin, the commander of the Youzhou Regiment who was a private in the Jingwei Army, personally went into battle and commanded the 27th Army to replace the 26th Army, which suffered heavy casualties, and stormed the second line of Japanese positions with trenches and hidden forts as the main fortifications. Lieutenant General Wan Fulin, known as Wan Ban Lazi, is also a former general of the Northeast Army, and under Zhang Shaoshuai, he served as the governor of Heilongjiang Province and the chairman of the Liaoning Provincial Government. At the time of the Middle Road incident, Wan Gongtou failed to see the international situation and the strength of the Soviet army, and recklessly displayed his troops, resulting in a crushing defeat and public resentment. After the Lugou Bridge Incident, Wan Fulin served as the commander of the 53rd Army. The coup d'Γ©tat in the west was resolved peacefully, the Northeast Army was collectively retired, and Commander Wan also took off his **** general uniform and came to Nanhua with the ship!

During the reform of the Han Army, General Wan was appointed by His Majesty as the commander of the Youzhou Military Region with the rank of lieutenant general. This made him very happy, in the ancient Han Dynasty, Youzhou refers to the northern part of China, Wan Fulin became the commander of Youzhou, called himself back in charge of the Northeast Army, and returned to his hometown!

This time, he led the team to China, and Wan Ban Lazi was holding back his strength, and he wanted to show the chairman of the committee: The masters of our Northeast Army are not bad breeds wherever they go. But in this small Zengcheng, the Youzhou Army was blocked alive, which made Commander Wan, who was more than half a hundred years old, furious, regardless of the obstruction of his subordinates, and took the 27th Army to the front line in person. However, the battle of Zengcheng was not a morale problem, and the Japanese defenders were all elite divisions, and the commander of the Ten Thousand Army Corps personally commanded them, and they did not make much progress. Before the war, the criss-crossing trench array dug by the Japanese army and the people became an insurmountable moat for the Youzhou army.

The offensive forces were increased and the battlefield area was expanded, but the Japanese army had already prepared, and there were many trenches on the flanks. Zengcheng is like a hedgehog blocking the east gate of Guangzhou.

The situation of the Dongguan and Zhou armies was not much better, and the simplest and most practical trench warfare of the Japanese army kept both Han armies out of the defensive circle of Guangzhou.

According to the battlefield briefing sent from the Hong Kong North Cluster Command, the Yizhou and Liangzhou regiments have successfully landed in the southern part of Taiwan Island, and within a week, they have successively conquered Kaohsiung and Tainan, which are important towns in northern Taiwan, and are approaching Chiayi, an important town in Taiwan. The Moro Islamic Kingdom and the Sultanate of Sulu jointly formed the Mosu Legion, and in the coordinated operations with the Royal Navy and Air Force, they crossed the Bass Strait, fought a bloody battle in Dulan Bay, and successfully landed in eastern Taiwan. Lieutenant General Lin of the whole country, commander-in-chief of the Taiwan Front, has even issued a military order to His Majesty to liberate the entire territory of Taiwan within a month.

In contrast, the Northern Cluster has lost a lot of people, and after the two major armies of Youhe and the two major armies landed, they couldn't even take Guangzhou. The war is unfavorable, General Wang Yizhe is anxious, and has just sent a telegram to Yu Xuezhong, the 77th Armored Army is loading, and it will still not be counted on for a while! After smoking three cigarettes in a row, there was really no good way, Wang Yizhe picked up the phone, "Give me the Huizhou Guards First Division!" ”

The 1st Guards Division is the only armored force that can be used by the Northern Cluster Army at present, although this Son of Heaven pro-army let Wang Yizhe use a mouse trap, in case there is a loss, he can't explain it to His Majesty. But now there is no way to do this, even if it is a risk, you have to give it a try, otherwise Zengcheng will have to fight a meat grinder-style battle. The 26th Army has been disabled, and the new 27th Army has also suffered heavy casualties, and the old man is so anxious that his throat is swollen.

Unlike the indecision of the commander-in-chief, the commander of the 1st Guards Division, Senior Colonel Huo Lu, was about to go crazy. It was easy to unload the tanks and armored vehicles, rolled up his sleeves and prepared to do a big job, Huo Shi was notified to be stationed in Huizhou, waiting for orders. This is ten days, knowing that Zengcheng is lively, but there is no matter of the first guard division, every time I call the Hong Kong North Cluster Command, the commander-in-chief always answers to stand by, recuperate, and fight Kumamoto.

The Sixth Division of the little devil is definitely going to fight, but the guy Inaba Shiro is still wandering around Changsha slowly, and the **** Ninth War Zone blocked the Japanese reinforcements on the north bank of the Xiangjiang River. Guan Linzheng commanded the 15th Group Army to resist step by step, and greatly killed and wounded the Japanese army. Even the Japanese army itself admitted that the first Battle of Changsha was even more tragic than the Nomenkan with the Soviet Army.

"Even the national army can't beat it!" Huo Lu pursed his lips, he still has to single-handedly challenge the Guards for this goods, besides, when this Kumamoto Division comes, the tanks of the 1st Guards Division must not be rusted?

Finally waiting for the call from the commander-in-chief, Commander Huo, who jumped out of the Tiger tank, happily threw away his armored cap, "Yes!" Resolutely complete the mission! Hey, hey, you're good to go! ”

Wang Yizhe on the other side of the phone smiled bitterly, these officers of the Guards are like this, hippie and smiling, that is, they can only have a positive shape when they see His Majesty and Jiang Yunzhi. I hope that this time, the combat effectiveness of the 1st Guards Division will be as good as their reputation!

Outside the city of Huizhou, at the station of the First Guards Division, none of the officers above the regiment were left behind, sitting around a table of broken eight immortals, and if they couldn't sit down, they simply stood outside with a water glass! Master Huo in the middle has long lost the hippie smile when he answered the commander-in-chief's call, "Mention the spirit of Lao Tzu!" This is the first battle of our first division and our entire Guards in China, and everyone knows that we have come out, not only on behalf of ourselves, but also on behalf of the First Army of our empire, on behalf of Your Majesty's face. If anyone drops the chain in battle, even if the Japanese can't kill you, I will kill you! Before leaving, Commander Chiang told me that if the 1st Division was to be disgraced in China, we would have to drive tanks into the South China Sea. If you want me to say, if you really disgrace Your Majesty, let's not waste those tanks, let's just change a rifle and fight with the little devil with a bayonet! Do you dare? ”

"Dare!" Everyone roared in unison, almost piercing the roof!

"Good!" Huo Lu slapped the table and stood up, "It is said that our first division borrowed the light of His Majesty and Commander Jiang, today, let's let them see, what is the pro-army of the Son of Heaven?" Why are we the only ones worthy of the 'Son of Heaven'...... Army'?"

Four hours later, in a farewell letter sent to the base camp by Lieutenant General Nagashi Naichi of the Japanese 18th Division stationed in Zengcheng, he used the following sentence to describe the 1st Guards Division: It is extremely arrogant, but it is indeed a unit that is qualified to be arrogant!