When Li Yifeng led his armored troops south to Anyang, Qin Yiwu also rushed to Zhengzhou with two paratrooper brigades.

At three o'clock in the afternoon of June 18, 1941, the weather in Zhengzhou was clear and cloudless, and the Yellow River embankment at Huayuankou was crowded with people, all of whom were soldiers with loaded guns. They were a guard unit of the 1st Theater of Operations, organized into a regiment, and they received an order from the Theater Commander's Department in the morning to dig up the Huayuankou embankment when the Japanese troops arrived on the outskirts of Zhengzhou.

Everyone was under a lot of pressure to dig the embankment of the Yellow River, and not to mention the heads and brains above, let's just say that the little soldiers below who were on a mission were also quite uneasy. The Yellow River is the mother river of China, and it has given birth to China's 5,000-year-old splendid civilization. But since ancient times, the Yellow River has not been a peaceful river, and it has brought great disasters to the Chinese. So much so that all dynasties have been working hard to comprehensively manage the Yellow River.

The floods in the lower reaches of the Yellow River have always attracted the attention of the world, and in history, the Yellow River has the saying that "two rupture in three years, and one diversion in a hundred years". The most recent flood occurred in 1933, when 54 breaches were breached, covering an area of more than 1,000 square kilometers and affecting more than 3.6 million people. Prior to that, in 1931, the flooding of the Yellow River had killed more than 3 million people.

Natural disasters are okay, after all, life and death are fateful, but if it is a man-made disaster, and it is such a major disaster, no matter what the reason, the rest of the life will live in self-blame, so although the guard battalion in the First War Zone has already installed explosives, it has been unwilling to give the order to blow up the embankment.

Right now. There was a low buzz in the sky, and a soldier suddenly pointed to the air and shouted in horror: "There are planes in the air"

All the soldiers were startled, and when they looked up, they saw that fifty or sixty huge planes suddenly appeared in the sky above them, and dozens of petite warplanes escorted them aside.

The commander of the guard battalion in the First War Zone panicked, as the guard unit of the Theater Commander's Department, he also knew some secrets, and after many years of war, the Nationalist Government no longer had many fighters, even if there were some. That will only be on the front line in Changsha and Chongqing. It is impossible to get here at all, so it is definitely not the air force of the party state that is appearing here now, the first reaction of this battalion commander is the Japanese fighters.

Before he could think too much, he was awakened again by the frightened voices of the soldiers. Look in the direction of the soldiers' fingers. I saw huge white objects suddenly fall on those large fighter planes. A lot of people don't know what it is.

The battalion commander was a little knowledgeable, and he knew that this was a paratrooper, and when he saw the panic, the soldiers did not listen to the call and shot indiscriminately into the sky. The battalion commander hurriedly stopped the movement of the soldiers.

"Brothers, don't panic, it's the devil's paratrooper unit, and it will take some time for them to fall. We hurried to light the fire, and then and retreated"

However, before the battalion commander's order could be given, a small army green plane suddenly swooped towards them, and then stopped above the embankment, less than thirty meters above the ground, and then a rope was lowered from the plane, and soon a soldier in a dark green camouflage military uniform quickly jumped down from the plane and took a defensive posture on the spot.

Soon, more than 30 soldiers in the same costume all landed on the embankment of the Yellow River, and the guard battalion in the First War Zone was extremely shocked, and few of them had ever seen paratroopers, let alone a helicopter, and of course they did not understand the mode of helicopter combat, so they were all stunned for a while.

The commander of the guard battalion in the First War Zone saw that the embankment of the Yellow River had been occupied, and for a while he did not know whether to advance or retreat, and if he did, he would first kill these 30 or so strangely dressed "enemies", but the risk of doing so was very high, and if the battle could be resolved within three minutes, they would still have time to retreat. On the contrary, this battalion of theirs will be dumplings by "devils".

The battalion commander looked at the frightened soldiers and sighed, there were so many enemies around him, and he knew that his brothers were already afraid. Even if he gave the order, I am afraid that no one would follow the brute force, gritted his teeth and finally gave the order to retreat.

However, to their surprise, there was no one to stop them from retreating, let alone pursue.

At 3:40, the two brigades of Qin Yiwu's headquarters were assembled, and the operation was very successful, except for 39 paratroopers who fell into the Yellow River and were washed away, all the others arrived at the predetermined place at the scheduled time.

However, when the special combat team delivered thousands of kilograms of explosives on the Yellow River embankment to Qin Yiwu, this Sichuan man was directly frightened into a cold sweat. If it is a little later, I am afraid that the Yellow River embankment will not be saved.

Qin Yiwu reported to the headquarters of the commander of the theater, and at the same time ordered the troops to march into Zhengzhou City according to the original plan. The task of going south to Zhengzhou this time is to protect the Yellow River embankment, and in addition to protecting Zhengzhou.

After receiving Qin Yiwu's report, Chen Feng was also scared into a cold sweat on the spot, this Nima is too mysterious. The lives of hundreds of thousands of people were hanging by a thread, and the difference was only a few minutes, and even people like him were scared into a cold sweat.

In fact, Chen Feng and Qin Yiwu didn't know what to say, the reason why the Yellow River embankment was able to hold out until they arrived was entirely because the guard battalion commander couldn't make up his mind and had been hesitating, so he wasted 2 hours of time, otherwise according to the order of the First War Zone Commander's Department, the Yellow River embankment at Huangyuankou would have collapsed long ago.

Keeping the Yellow River embankment is only the first step, and keeping Zhengzhou is the most important thing, and only by keeping Zhengzhou will this southward operation not cause too many people to oppose it, and even if it is to oppose it, it will not be too fierce. But if Zhengzhou can't be saved, it is likely that some people will detain the basin of the fall of Henan on the head of him Chen.

This possibility is really not small, after all, the Eighth Theater went south to Henan to fight without the consent of the Nationalist Government, and on the way south, it also surrendered the weapons of a regiment of the 106th Division, forcing the 106th Division to withdraw from Anyang in disgrace. With such a big formation, if Zhengzhou can't be kept, Lao Jiang will definitely not be able to explain it.

Although Chen Feng was not worried about Lao Jiang turning his face against him, in order not to destroy the current good anti-Japanese atmosphere, Chen Feng still felt that he would save some face for Lao Jiang, the nominal leader of the country.

The city of Zhengzhou was already in chaos at this time, the headquarters of the commander of the First Theater had been moved to Luoyang, and there was only one miscellaneous division left in Zhengzhou, and the division headquarters had also been evacuated from Zhengzhou, in fact, there was only one infantry regiment in the city. With the cooperation of more than 50 tanks, the forward unit of a large group of the Japanese army has already reached the periphery of Zhengzhou and may launch an attack on Zhengzhou at any time.

After learning the news, Qin Yiwu ordered his troops to speed up the march and be sure to enter Zhengzhou City before the Japanese army attacked the city!

In the city of Zhengzhou, the former headquarters of the commander of the First Theater has become the headquarters of the 2nd Regiment of the 196th Division of the 76th Army. After receiving the news that the Japanese army's front troops had arrived at Hanjiazhuang, 10 kilometers from the east gate of Zhengzhou, the regimental headquarters of the 2nd Regiment of the 196th Division was in chaos.

"Report to the regiment, the vanguard of the devils has begun to advance again, and it is expected to arrive at the outer positions of our army in half an hour!" An ensign officer came in and reported.

"Continue to investigate, and report as soon as there is news!"

"Yes!"

As soon as the second lieutenant came out, a lieutenant colonel couldn't wait to say: "Big brother, let's withdraw, it's too late!" ”

"If we retreat without firing a shot, even if we can get away with it, we will be held accountable when we go back!" The colonel said with a gloomy face.

"Hold yourself accountable, the commander and division commander have all been fucking withdrawn, why let us guard Zhengzhou with a regiment, isn't this sending us to death?" The lieutenant colonel said angrily.

"Why? It's up to us to fucking others! The Colonel said angrily.

"Report! It's not good, it's not good."

"Ergouzi, tell the slowly, what the hell happened?" The lieutenant colonel said loudly.

"The group seat, the seat of the ginseng, there are a lot of devils"

The colonel hurriedly asked, "Where are the devils and how many?" ”

"Chengbei, let alone tens of thousands of people!"

"What?"

The lieutenant colonel sat down on the ground dejectedly and said, "It's over, big brother, I can't leave if I want to!" ”

The colonel looked at all the people in the regiment headquarters, and said in a deep voice: "Since we can't go, then don't go, brothers, we are all soldiers, what is the duty of a soldier, to protect the family and defend the country, no matter what those bastards want to do, it is their business to retreat and escape, but we must be worthy of our conscience, since God wants us to fight with the Japanese devils, then we will be heroes, the land of Sanxiang is not a bad seed, Lao Tzu is out of the country today, are you willing to be a hero with Lao Tzu?" ”

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

Soldiers are always so emotional, and the words of the colonel and regimental commander ignited the passion of the entire regimental headquarters!

"Okay, since the brothers are willing to work with Lao Tzu, then now listen to Lao Tzu's order: immediately abandon all positions on the periphery, withdraw the first battalion to the city, rely on the city fortifications to block the little devils, the second battalion and the regimental headquarters guard company and pistol platoon are responsible for the defense of the north gate and the west gate, and the third battalion is responsible for the defense of the south gate, and at the same time draw out a company to organize the people to retreat from the south gate."

"Yes"

"Brothers, you all know how the little devil deals with the captives, we would rather die than be prisoners, and I will send a report to the division headquarters and let them take care of our small family."

"Yes"

Before Qin Yiwu and the others arrived in Zhengzhou City, there was a fierce exchange of fire, and the sound of gunfire and artillery spread far away. Qin Yiwu's face changed, and he immediately ordered the troops to speed up, but he knew that there was only one regiment of the 76th Army in the city, and this 76th Army was originally a battle sequence subordinate to the Hunan Army, and its combat effectiveness was already weak, plus this infantry regiment was still a dissatisfied regiment, so it couldn't last long at all, not to mention that Qin Yiwu didn't think that this regiment of the Hunan Army would fight to the death with the little devils, and it had to advance to the city after the defenders were defeated, and the situation was very critical. (To be continued......)