The 11th Army of the Little Devil attacked south in 3 routes. On the left flank were the elite 3rd and 13th Divisions, which moved south from Tongcheng, followed by the 27th Division; On the east bank of the Xiangjiang River, the 68th and 116th Divisions were divided into 6 routes to forcibly cross the Xinqiang River, and the 34th and 58th Divisions followed up one by one; On the west bank of the Xiangjiang River, the 40th Division was the main force and set off from Huarong and Shishou.

The left wing troops of the Japanese army from Chongyang to the south, more than 4,000 people all the way to the southeast of Tongcheng, and more than 2,000 people all the way to the southwest of Tongcheng, respectively, encountered the stubborn resistance of the new 15th Division and the new 13th Division of the 72nd Army, but this time the little devil came prepared, using firepower to open the way, when the army arrived at the close position, it did not immediately attack, but used artillery wings and aircraft bombing to launch fierce fire coverage on the positions of the new 15th Division and the new 13th Division!

"Army commander, army commander, the little devil turtle son is too hard to fire, our army's position can't stand it at all, ask for reinforcements, ask for reinforcements immediately!" After half a day of fierce fighting, Tang Xunbo, the commander of the newly formed 13th Division, saw that his position was filled with gunsmoke and heavy casualties, and immediately shook the phone to ask for reinforcements.

The little devil's artillery fire is extremely fierce, not the same as the little devil in the past, Tang Xunbo remembered that in the last war, there were only 24 75mm mountain guns in an artillery wing of the little devil, but the little devil he encountered this time had 36 120mm howitzers, and after the shell exploded, there was no live mouth in a range of dozens of meters!

Landing near the shell, even a strong trench is useless, and the huge shock wave will cause people to die in an instant.

Coupled with the bombardment from the air by the little devils, the casualties of the newly formed 13th Division on several square kilometers of positions exceeded one-third in half a day!

This is really unbearable! Tang Xunbo knew that it was difficult for the army commander, and now the position of the newly formed 15th Division was also attacked by the little devils, and the entire position was not far from him, but he had no choice, if he did not ask for reinforcements, his position would not be able to be kept today.

After being bombarded indiscriminately by the little devils, his position not only suffered heavy casualties, but also suffered very heavy losses in weapons. As a protrusion, machine guns and heavy machine guns were hit more, and the rate of losses on the position was quite high.

In terms of the equipment of the newly formed 13th Division, machine guns and heavy machine guns are their most powerful counterattack weapons, and now they have also lost more than half of them by the shelling and bombing of the little devils.

As the sound of the little devil's shelling slowly weakened, Tang Xunbo knew that the little devil's infantry was about to start charging. As he asked for reinforcements, he ordered his only reserve to be pulled into position.

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"How so? How so? In the headquarters of the Ninth Theater, Chief Xue watched the little devil launch an attack almost at the same time, and invested as many as 10 divisions and several brigades, which was almost exactly the same as the pre-war warning given by Gao Jianwu through the allied forces.

For such a situation, Chief Xue didn't expect that the young man was so determined and attacked so fiercely this time, in less than a day, the outer defense line was almost completely breached, it was not for the brothers who did not work hard and did not work hard, the 6 infantry divisions of the outer defense line were almost wiped out.

In every aspect, the artillery dispatched by the little devils is more than dozens of large-caliber howitzers, and there are also a large number of air forces to bomb.

Looking at the little devil attack troops marked on the map and the positions and troops lost by our side, the losses in just one day have exceeded the previous battle for more than a week.

Although it is said that the current losses are not his descendants, the 40 divisions deployed along Tanzhou and Hengzhou have now lost 6 divisions in the war, and this loss is also something he cannot bear.

"Chief Xue, for the sake of today's plan, it is best to immediately ask for help from the expeditionary force cluster in Hengzhou, the expeditionary force cluster can fight well, annihilate hundreds of thousands of devils in the Southeast Asian theater, and make great achievements, which will have an immediate effect on changing our current unfavorable situation." Chief of Staff Zhao Zili in the theater looked at the front line on the map and the danger, and suggested to Chief Xue.

Chief Xue glanced back at Chief of Staff Zhao Zili, and the other party stared at him very calmly. As if this was a very common suggestion.

But Chief Xue knew that Zhao Zili was not a simple person, this was the henchman arranged by the principal beside him, and he had always been very dissatisfied with his monopoly on the power of Hunan land.

It's just that between Chief Xue's great achievement of killing more than 100,000 little devils in the previous three Tanzhou battles, the principal is not good to directly intervene in the personnel arrangements here, but he is firmly in control of the development of the army.

Zhang Deneng, the commander of the Fourth Army next to him, seemed to see through the thoughts of his patriarch, and stood up and said, "Little devils, we haven't fought before, which of the three times we fought before didn't beat them to the ground?" Chief of Staff Zhao's eyes This small setback is nothing, when we let them in and close the door to beat the dogs, this time we can also clean up the little devils. ”

The tactic that Zhang Deneng said was the "Heavenly Furnace Tactic" that Chief Xue relied on to become famous, with layers of fortification to let the little devils consume in the blockade, and then after the lone army went deep, he concentrated the main force and the two wings to encircle and wipe out the little devils who went deep.

In the first three battles of Tanzhou, Chief Xue relied on this tactic to clean up the little devils, and the three battles totaled the little devils who were annihilated by more than 100,000 near the left of Tanzhou.

It's just that with the rise of Gao Jianwu, in Jindi, in the British territories of Burma and Southeast Asia, the little devils were killed, and now the Battle of Qiongzhou and the Battle of Hong Kong and Kowloon in the Pearl River Delta, the cumulative annihilation of more than 300,000 captured little devils has exceeded 300,000.

It is equivalent to eliminating the little devil in one front army, and his reputation has long surpassed that of Chief Xue.

Chief of Staff Zhao Zili glanced back at Zhang Deneng, "Commander Zhang, the situation on the front line is now dangerous, if there is no strong reinforcements. Can your Fourth Army withstand the little devils in Tanzhou? Although Chief Xue's tactics are very powerful, they are also very dangerous, and they need to have strong troops in Tanzhou to make the little devil unable to move, so that the outflanking of the two flanks is meaningful. ”

"Otherwise, luring the enemy deeper will become luring the wolf into the house. Can you afford to lose the responsibility of losing the entire Hunan region? ”

As soon as Chief of Staff Zhao Zili's words came out, Commander Zhang Deneng immediately felt like he had blown up. "Chief of Staff Zhao, what do you mean by that?"

Chief of Staff Zhao smiled coldly, ignoring the anger burning in Commander Zhang's eyes, "I'm just talking about things, the little devils now are completely different from the little devils in the previous two years." Can't you see? The front line of our deployment was almost punctured and broken. The little devil's firepower equipment is completely different from what we estimated. ”

"Now the little devil is coming in three ways, in one day, we can overcome our three lines of defense, and defeat 6 entire divisions of our army, if we let the powerful reinforcements sit by and watch from the side because of our own selfishness, then the responsibility of losing the city and losing the land will naturally be borne by you Commander Zhang."

Although Zhang Deneng wanted to further refute, he didn't know how to talk about it, and now the situation is indeed as Chief of Staff Zhao said, and the entire front is more fragile than expected.

It's not that they have fewer forces deployed, but that the enemy is stronger.

"Okay, stop arguing, now we should be in the same boat and get through the difficulties together." Chief Xue saw that his henchmen were being manipulated by Chief of Staff Zhao, and stood up to relieve him.

"Chief of Staff Zhao's current situation has not yet reached the point you said, the main force of our army still exists, and the expeditionary force cluster remains in Hengzhou, which is always a support, and when it is necessary, I will ask them for help." Chief Xue continued,

"It's just that the Air Force also asked Chief of Staff Zhao to ask Shang Feng for instructions, so that the Air Force of the United States can be dispatched as soon as possible to remove the threat of aerial bombardment for our army."

It is impossible to easily put in the expeditionary force cluster, it is easy to invite this group of people, but it is difficult to send them away. Chief Xue himself is also such a person, so he occupies the current Hunan land.

What's more, what the expeditionary force cluster has just done in Guangdong made Chief Xue even more vigilant. As a last resort, he would never use the expeditionary force cluster.

But the Air Force can, because the air base is on the Hengzhou side.

Chief of Staff Zhao knew very well what he meant, that is, he wanted to muddy the waters here and let the expeditionary force gather in, so there would be another force here, and for Chief of Staff Zhao, there would be even more opportunities to reach out.

After all, he was representing the principal.

"If only the Air Force. Personally, I don't think it's enough to reverse the current unfavorable situation. Chief Xue, I will report the situation here to the principal truthfully. Chief of Staff Zhao was unimpressed by Chief Xue's words.

As far as he was concerned, the last thing he wanted was to see the place become a monolithic and become an independent kingdom, so that the headmaster's words would not work here.

Therefore, anything that can make Chief Xue not very happy, Chief of Staff Zhao is very willing to do it. This does not mean that Chief of Staff Zhao recognizes the expeditionary force cluster.

In fact, he knew very well that in the eyes of the principal, the expeditionary force cluster was also as unruly as Chief Xue and needed to be cleaned up.

Take advantage of this opportunity for the little devil to attack. Chief of Staff Zhao hopes to clean up these two disobedient ones.

"Chief of Staff Zhao, please." Seeing that Chief of Staff Zhao didn't give him face at all, Chief Xue said with a pale face.

He had asked for air reinforcements from Shangfeng several times, but so far, the air force of the beautiful country has remained unmoved.

Of course, he knew that it was Shangfeng who was beating him.

To be honest, the current situation of the war is also beyond his expectations. Luring the enemy deep is the inherent tactic of his Heavenly Furnace Tactics, but it is not as fast as this, it is like a rout.

If all the troops were like this without fighting, then his Heavenly Furnace tactics would have become a joke.

Because no matter how strong the tactics are, they need to be supported by combat effectiveness. Now the little devil's combat effectiveness is far beyond his imagination, and the positions of the 6 integrated divisions have been broken through in one day.

This offensive efficiency is simply terrifying.

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Hengzhou.

"Commander-in-Chief Gao, are you going to send the air force to reinforce the Tanzhou side?" Commander Fang obviously didn't understand Gao Jianwu's approach.

After all, in his opinion, Chief Xue has not lowered his son to ask for help, and if he sticks it now, wouldn't it be a self-depreciation?

"Yes, the little devil broke through our first line on the first day of menacing this time. Friendly forces on the front line have suffered heavy casualties, and we cannot sit idly by here. Gao Jianwu said.

"But now that Chief Xue has not yet received a military order, will it be a little inappropriate for your army to fight on its own." Commander Fang asked cautiously.

He and Chief Xue are on the same page, and now the two divisions originally planned by the Hengzhou defense line have not yet been released by Chief Xue. Chief Xue clearly used his position to bully him, and Commander Fang was helpless.

The expeditionary force cluster appeared in Hengzhou like timely rain this time, and for Commander Fang, it was like a long drought and a rainy day.

With the expeditionary force cluster in charge, he now feels that his defense line is very stable, so for Chief Xue, he hopes that the other party will be as miserable as possible.

"We are working in a group of expeditionary forces, but we just want to be worthy of my heart." Gao Jianwu replied.

At the moment of the great enemy, the generals here are still fighting separately from Germany, and even wary of each other. This made Gao Jianwu, who had crossed over and experienced this situation for the first time, very irritable.

No wonder in his memory, this battle would have been lost so badly, and the 400,000-strong army would be almost destroyed.

But now that he's here, and he has the power to turn the tide of the battle, then he won't think too much about it and just do what he wants to do.

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Hengzhou Airport.

"Lu, is there a combat mission in it today? There were 40 sorties at a time. Hengzhou Airport Beautiful Air Force Colonel Howard watched Lu Xingguo order to attack, and couldn't help but ask with some curiosity.

"Yes, Colonel Howard, our target for today's battle is the little devil fighters in the sky north of Tanzhou, no matter how many of them come." Lu Xingguo said as he picked up his helmet.

Although Howard knew that the imp air force was wreaking havoc not far away. But there was no order from above, and his fighters could only stand still.

In the past few days, through confrontation training, Lu Xingguo and others have won the respect of Colonel Howard, because these people are really training to improve themselves, even if they still lack a lot of operational skills compared to the elite of the air force in the beautiful country.

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But they dare to fight, and the time they spend on training every day far exceeds that of the Air Force of the United States. Although this is very influential in terms of fighter life, in this situation, the life of a fighter may be the next battle, and it is not so much to care about.

"I wish you all the best!" Howard shook his head and extended his thumb to encourage Lu Xingguo. He also wanted to take to the air to fight, he didn't understand why the order had not been issued yet, and he heard that the little devil air force was already raging in the north of Tanzhou.

"Thank you!" Lu Xingguo responded with a smile. Because of Major General Smith, Lu Xingguo has a good impression of the beautiful air force now.

For Colonel Howard, the bearded man, Lu Xingguo was also very grateful that he readily agreed to be their sparring opponent, so that the brothers' technical level could continue to rise.

Returning here from Southeast Asia, transferring and fighting along the way, the air cluster of the expeditionary force cluster has grown very rapidly, with the accumulation of flight time and the improvement of the level of operation, the vast majority of pilots have thoroughly eaten all aspects of the Mustang fighter, compared to the beautiful king pilots, now everyone lacks actual combat.

Therefore, for Gao Jianwu's order, Lu Xingguo was far more excited than worried.

The 40 fighters were divided into five waves and gradually lifted into the air, and now there is no radar to give early warning, and everyone can only estimate the airspace and number of opponents according to experience.

In yesterday's battle, Gao Jianwu received information from the intelligence system that the air force dispatched by the little devil was the 3rd Flying Regiment, which dispatched the 27th Flying Squadron, the 59th Flying Squadron, and the 75th Flying Squadron respectively, with a total of 116 fighters and bombers.

And today, Gao Jianwu received a new reminder that today the little devils will dispatch 48 Nakajima Ichi Hayabusa fighters of the 27th Flying Squadron and 32 Type 99 light bombers of the 59th Flying Squadron!

However, of course, Gao Jianwu would not tell Lu Xingguo directly about this intelligence information, but instructed them to dispatch 40 Mustang fighters to the area where the little devil fighters were active.

Compared with the combat effectiveness of the Nakajima Ichi Hayabusa fighter, Gao Jianwu felt that dispatching 40 Mustang fighters was already looking down on them.

Lu Xingguo They don't care about anything else, in their opinion, even if they can't meet a little devil in today's battle, but if they appear in the sky above their friendly positions, cheer for their friendly troops. So today is also a gain.

Even for friendly forces, Lu Xingguo and they can't get used to the current intrigue of their great enemy. But Lu Xingguo, almost all of them were born in this system, and now they can do their part for them, Lu Xingguo and they are of course very proud.

The airspace indicated to them by Commander-in-Chief Gao was over the middle and west roads of the little devil's attack, and this time their combat target was the little devil's fighter, so the fighter was full of machine gun bullets.

Didn't carry any bombs.

All fighters were organized into four combat groups, with experienced pilots as the leader and a relatively late pilot as the wingman, forming a two-fighter group.

After all the fighters took off, everyone was in a state of silence, flying to the target according to the pre-planned route, and due to the limited battery capacity of the walkie-talkie configuration, no one wasted a single ounce of power for small talk in the absence of an aerial generator.

On the other side, Commander Fang walked in the window, looking at the fighters of the expeditionary force cluster that gradually disappeared into the north in the sky, and had some new understanding of the expeditionary force cluster in his heart.

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A certain air base on the front line of the little devils.

"Chief Kuroda, be careful, I wish you victory!" The captain of the Little Devil Frontline Airport Guard Group, Kazuo Iwata, saluted and blessed the 27th Flying Team Kuroda Hisafumi Nakazuo.

"Thank you, Iwata-kun, when I triumph, I will definitely invite you to drink!" Kuroda Hisafumi turned around and smiled back. "If it's routine, don't worry."

The beautiful air force cowered at Hengzhou Airport and did not move, for Kuroda Hisafumi, now is to go out and reap a wave of achievements.

Although his 27th flying team is equipped with a relatively long Nakajima Ichi fighter, it is just as powerful as it is in the face of the strafing of the Chinese army on the ground.

The positions of Zhina, which had no anti-aircraft fire at all, were simply their own place to wreak havoc.

Therefore, in addition to taking on the cover of the 59th Light Explosive Flying Team, the 27th Flying Squadron poured the bullets it brought out on the positions of the Chinese army when they returned.

According to the internal information obtained by the intelligence department, the air force of Hengzhou Meili has not yet received orders from their superiors, so they will not be dispatched, and the 27th Flying Team will have no opponent in the air.

Everything is under control. With a light-hearted mood, Kuroda turned and boarded his own fighter.

The 27th Flying Squadron and the 59th Light Explosive Squadron all took off and flew to their targets as planned.

Today, they want to cooperate with the front-line troops to break the second line of defense of the Chinese army and divide the 15 integrated divisions deployed in the first and second fronts in the Ninth Theater!

Today, the Kawasaki Type 99 light explosive fighter that can carry 8 50-kilogram aerial bombs is the protagonist of the battlefield, and 256 50-kilogram aerial bombs are enough to collapse the positions of the 2 divisions of the Chinese army!

Especially their heavy weapon firepower points, this time it will definitely be completely destroyed!

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"Attention to the groups, we have entered the clouds over the target, and now the whole army is hiding in the clouds at the flight altitude, and the No. 1 and No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4 are flying out of the clouds for reconnaissance." Lu Xingguo turned on the whole channel and issued the first order.

Soon, the 4 fighters swooped down and flew out of the clouds, and as the flight altitude decreased, the targets on the ground began to gradually appear in front of Lu Xingguo's eyes, and the trenches crisscrossing the ground were also familiar flags, this is the target area.

Seeing the fighter jets appear in the sky, the soldiers on the ground on the ground panicked.

The power of the little devil's bombardment has been reflected in their minds like a nightmare.

There was a rush on the position, and everywhere there was a bombardment to hide from the little devils.

Lu Xingguo looked at the chaotic situation below, naturally knew what they were doing, he knew that he couldn't shout to them now, to make them believe that this was his own person, he had to reduce the altitude so that they could clearly see the marks on the fuselage.

"On the 3rd and 4th, we lowered the altitude by 500 meters and flew around at low speed twice from the side of the position to give the brothers on the ground a chance to see clearly!" Lu Xingguo lowered his altitude while calling No. 3 and No. 4, and the No. 2 wingman behind him naturally followed him closely.

When they flew around the position for the first time, the soldiers on the position were still panicked, but as Lu Xingguo and they began to fly around the position for the second time, someone finally saw the difference.

"Ge Laozi, don't be afraid, that's a Mustang fighter, this is our own plane! It's our own plane! A somewhat knowledgeable battalion commander looked up for a long time, and finally saw that there was no dog skin plaster symbol on the plane, but a large five-pointed star symbol, and the paint was obviously not the color of the little devil's gray.

Gao Jianwu's choice for the Air Force is not the bells and whistles of the Flying Tigers, but a silver-gray low-visibility paint, which is almost invisible in the sky, although this kind of paint is not as powerful as the shark's mouth or tiger or something, but it is practical.

Hearing the battalion commander shout, some bold soldiers on the position began to stop and carefully observe the fighters in the air, and sure enough, they found that this plane was indeed significantly different from the little devil.

The most important thing is that he walked around the sky for half a day and did not drop a bomb.

Lu Xingguo and they saw that someone on the position finally recognized them, and took the lead in shaking their wings left and right to signal, although most of the soldiers on the ground could not see this action, but some people still guessed that it was a fighter in the sky greeting them, and they couldn't help but jump up, causing a burst of cheers on the position!

Only then did Lu Xingguo pilot the fighter plane and began to raise the altitude to find the traces of the little devil fighter.