Chapter 291: Zhongxian Counterattack

March 27, 1941, Zhong County

Li Yunlong's "Marine Police Force" naturally couldn't play such a record, but Lao Li was also an admiral after all, and one of the conditions for him to be willing to send this small fleet in his hands was that the navy must keep the best officers and sailors for himself, so that the G-5 torpedo boats in his hands could give full play to their maximum combat effectiveness, so these four G-5 torpedo boats can be regarded as the last elite of the Chinese Navy.

The Japanese Navy thought it would be safe to retreat under the cover of its own army artillery. However, it was not just after the torpedo boat disappeared into several small rivers along the river, and a large number of drones rushed out of the thick smoke and pressed in the direction of the Japanese fleet.

The Japanese Navy and Army immediately launched a covered artillery bombardment on the river, and for a time the entire Zhongxian River was like a pot of boiling water, but no matter how fierce the Japanese artillery fire was, there was no way to completely cover the river, and those small boats still had a certain bulletproof ability and wind and wave resistance, although countless small boats were destroyed, but a large number of small boats still hit the Japanese fleet, and in just a few minutes, the few remaining warships of the Japanese were torn apart.

The 750-milliliter motorboat that Wang Yue ordered from the Binzhou Fishing Boat Shipyard can carry six heavily armed soldiers, and now each one is loaded with half a ton of ammonium nitrate explosives.

After this wave of shocking offensives, Li Yunlong's new First Army appeared on the battlefield of Zhongxian for the first time, and he did not take over the defense line of Zhongxian, nor did he deal with the remnants of the defeated generals of the national army, but directly rushed forward with the tank regiment that had been expanded from the original tank battalion of the 68th Division.

In the past few days, the national army has been on the defensive, not only the little devils, but even the puppet army is very arrogant, and they never thought that the national army still has the ability to launch a counteroffensive, but now the national army has not only launched a counteroffensive, but also invested more than 100 Valentine infantry tanks at one time, forming a number of wedge-shaped arrows, covering the infantry to break through the defense line of the puppet army.

In this case, Lieutenant General Anan Weiji, who was on the front line, immediately wanted to let the artillery group open fire, but at this time, the sound of the engine came, and the Huaxia Air Force, which had not moved for several days, reappeared on the battlefield in the evening, only this time the scale was much larger than the previous ones, more than 200 P-39 fighters, more than 100 B-25 bombers, covering the sky and the sun from the west, and even the afterglow of the setting sun was obscured.

The Japanese intelligence organs believed that the fuel reserves of the Huaxia Air Force were basically exhausted, the bombers were in a very bad state under high-intensity operations, and there was a shortage of spare parts, and they did not have the conditions to launch another large-scale bombing.

For a time, there was thick smoke billowing from the Japanese positions in the northern part of Zhongxian, and most of the artillery units that Anan had easily formed were buried in an instant, and the Japanese fighter group responsible for covering did not dare to break into the battle group in front of more than 200 P-39 fighters, but kept attacking and harassing the periphery of the battle group, but even so, there were still fighters shot down, even those latest Zero fighters were no exception.

Lieutenant General Anan Weiji did not panic in this situation, but constantly filled in the puppet army troops in his hand, he was not afraid of consumption, there are more than 200,000 puppet army troops on the battlefield in eastern Sichuan, even if he is killed half, he will not feel distressed.

What the Japanese did not notice was that after the battle on the Yangtze River ended, the Huaxia Navy did not stop releasing smoke bombs into the water, and at this time, the entire Yangtze River near Zhongxian and the coastal areas had been covered by a thick smoke screen, and in the rumbling artillery, the T-38 tank of the 70th Tank Regiment of the provisional 70th Division suddenly rushed up to the river bank from the smoke screen, and suddenly inserted itself behind the puppet army troops.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Li Yunlong sent a signal to the heavy artillery group that had just been in place, and thousands of artillery pieces, including 400 Soviet-made M1910 122mm howitzers, opened fire at the same time, instantly submerging the battle line of the puppet army, and after the short artillery preparations, the tank regiment of the provisional 68th Division and the tank regiment of the provisional 70th Division started again, and after a while, the hundreds of thousands of puppet troops were scattered, and even a cavalry wing with devils was also involved.

The Devil's Cavalry Wing is a very special establishment, with a large establishment of more than 2,000 people, but a cavalry wing of 6 or 700 people in the occupied area is the normal state, and the cavalry of 6 or 700 people is swept into a troop of more than 100,000 people, and no matter how strong the combat effectiveness is, it is useless.

It didn't take long for it to get dark, and I thought that the battle would be suspended, after all, it was still easy to have accidents in the movement of large corps at night, but what Anan would never have dreamed of was that the Huaxia Air Force actually dropped flares over the battlefield regardless of the cost of work, illuminating the northeast of the entire Zhongxian County as if it were daytime.

The remnants of the Huaxia Navy also took advantage of the darkness to enter the vicinity of Fengjie and began to carry out artillery bombardment on the troops of the Sixth Division of the Devils who were resting here.

By the time the sky was bright on March 28, the battlefield in Zhongxian County had gradually fallen silent, and the new first army annihilated 20,000 puppet troops at the cost of 3,000 killed and 5,000 wounded, and captured 50,000, and another 450,000 puppet troops were directly dispersed.

Originally, according to Li Yunlong's intention, he wanted to continue north, but the devil's agents attacked the transportation line again, resulting in the destruction of the gasoline transported in the rear, and his tank troops no longer had the ability to continue to advance.

The prisoners were taken over by other troops in the Sixth Theater under the command of Xiao Zhuge and the battlefield was also handed over to them to clean up, and Li Yunlong personally led the New First Army into the original Sixth Theater defense line near the county seat of Zhongxian County, which is also ridiculous to say, because the Sixth Theater retreated too quickly, and the Japanese army advanced very quickly, so the semi-permanent fortifications before the Sixth Theater were still completely placed there, and now the New First Army does not even need to repair the defense line.

In fact, the intelligence of the Japanese intelligence agency is not false, the fuel reserves of the Yamashiro government have been exhausted, and they are not able to support the attack of the air force and tank troops, but they did not mean that Wang Yue did not, in order to support the resistance of the people of the third world, there is no upper limit on his purchase of crude oil from small refineries.

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