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Chapter 268 The Destruction of the Shanghai Expeditionary Army

Since it was the call from Boss Yang himself, whether it was Yan Xishan or Yan'an, it must be given face. Besides, the North China coalition forces have been invincible in recent years, and they have defeated the Japanese and have only become groundhogs. With them, they are nothing more than fighting dogs, but they can gain a good reputation for counterattacking the Northeast. Who doesn't like to do such a good deal?

So Yan Xishan developed two divisions, Chen Changjie's 72nd Division and Guo Zongfen's 71st Division, all under Fu Zuoyi's command. These two divisions were considered capable of fighting in the Jin army, especially Guo Zongfen was Yan Xishan's confidant.

As for the 18th Army, there was a division, which is understandable. Although they were a group army, there were only three divisions, but this division was quite satisfied with Yang Feng. Yan'an directly sent Taizu's confidant, Lin Shuai's 115th Division.

However, because the journey is long, they have to wait for a while on the road, which is nothing. Boss Yang doesn't care about waiting for a while. To put it bluntly, this counterattack is just a show. Since it is a show, the early publicity work must be done well. For a time, the newspapers are the first. The Second War Zone will jointly launch a counterattack battle code-named Jinglei in the north. Even the commander-in-chief of the Second War Zone, Yan Xishan, the commander-in-chief of the Second War Zone, and the second-level general Zhu de, personally flew to Peking. The commander-in-chief of the same war zone, Zhu Peide, the commander-in-chief of the Northeast, and the commander-in-chief of the Northeast, Zhang Zuoxiang, the commander-in-chief of the Northeast, jointly held a military meeting to deploy the combat plan.

Of course, when three first-level generals and one second-level generals gathered together to play mahjong, the real combat plan was already formulated in the newly built Joint Chiefs of Staff Building, a pentagonal building designed by Boss Yang himself, and was presided over by Major General Huang Baitao, and then the chiefs of staff of each department voted to pass.

There is nothing to plan. From Jinzhou to Kailu. The permanent troops of Guangre River exceed 200,000. It can be said that some of them are just enough to fight across the board. It is nothing more than to distinguish the main and secondary. The north bank of the Daling River is a feint attack, and it is enough to scare Ryuki Ryuki. The real focus is Tongliao.

However, Tongliao is not easy to fight. After so many years of fighting, this originally ordinary small city has long been built into a real fortress by the Japanese. The three circular defense systems were built with reference to the Maginot Line of Defense. Trenches were connected by countless reinforced concrete castles, and even rotating turrets, with landmines everywhere on the periphery.

In addition to two infantry divisions, the defenders also had a field heavy artillery brigade, which even equipped them with the latest 150 heavy cannons with a range of 25 kilometers. In addition, there is also a First Mechanized Brigade stationed in Siping, where you can attack attacking offensive troops from the flanks at any time.

"There is no place to take advantage of this battle. We must fight with our lives, use cannons, bombs, and bayonets to tear open the Japanese turtle shells!" At the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Boss Yang waved his fists and shouted.

Of course this is just a talk. He couldn't bear to spend the capital he had saved up so hard that he would spend it in a purely show-off battle. According to the combat deployment, the main offensive mission would be led by the Northeast Advance Army. In addition, the 29th Army and Sun Dianying's 41st Army, Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army and the two divisions that Yan Xishan had assigned him. There were also the 115th Division. Since they were here to show their faces, they naturally had to show themselves in the most important position.

The Pingjin Security Division dispatched an armored brigade, plus the newly formed field heavy artillery brigade, which is the 100 130 cannons that Yang Feng had newly obtained this time. Since it is a fortress attack, it naturally has to play cannons. Together with the main attacking armies, the troops besieging Tongliao had more than 300 heavy artillery pieces of caliber 105 mm or more. Not to mention mortars and anti-aircraft guns, all the artillery pieces of the body were more than 1,000. Not to mention a Japanese counterfeit Madino, even the original ones were probably unable to withstand it.

This is from the northern line, and there is nothing to say about the direction of Jinzhou. Although the five Tang Ju tribes who had just entered the pass were also incorporated into the Northeast to advance, they acted alone because of the complexity of the components. The three tribes of Shang Zhen, He Zhuguo and Pang Bingxun in North China were close to 200,000, which was enough. As for the main force of the security division, Han Fuju and Yu Xuezhong tribes, they were still inactive, and they had to prevent the Japanese army from landing in Shandong.

All combat preparations were under intense and vigorous development. The entire North China military and civilians were excited. Even Nanjing sent the chairman's encouragement to encourage all the North China troops to work together to recover the Northeast in one fell swoop and save their compatriots under the iron hoof of the Japanese invaders.

Boss Yang's slogan was so anxious that Yang Feng shouted the slogan so loudly that even the United States and Europe knew that the North China coalition was going to counterattack the Northeast. He was not the worm in this guy's stomach, but he didn't know what was in his intestines? At this time, the Japanese army in Northeast China did not strengthen, but even weakened a lot. In order to land in Guangzhou, the Japanese Army transferred the First Division, which was originally stationed in the Northeast, to the south.

So now Ryuki Ryuki only has six divisions in his hands. After the last Battle of Rekawa, the second, sixth and eighth three Japanese divisions were wiped out. Although they were later rebuilt, they had been transferred to the Shanghai front. He only had four divisions in his hands, plus two additional divisions later. Because he is now the commander of the Korean army, he can also mobilize North Korea's 19th and 20th divisions, as well as the first mechanized brigade, the first, 11th and 23rd mixed brigades, the first, 3rd and 43 cavalry brigades, the total strength of 200,000 nodded. Now he has to face twice the enemy, and they are all like wolves and tigers. He has beaten him all over the ground to find teeth, which has turned General Ryuki Ryuki Ryuki whiten's head.

Fortunately, what surprised him was that the **s in Manzhou performed very positively, of course, mainly because the upper class was active, and the lower class officers and soldiers were still half-dead, but this already made him very relieved. Speaking of which, they were all forced by Longteng Company's unscrupulous plunder. The traitors understood that these guys in North China were not worse than themselves in terms of greed. If they really wanted them to conquer the Northeast, they would not even give them the scum.

So when Yang Feng was preparing to fight for the horse, the Japanese and puppet troops in the Northeast were also intensively deploying, waiting to give him a head-on attack.

But before Yang Feng could start? The bald man in the south took action first. At this time, the Japanese army had been compressed to the south bank of Taihu Lake. In fact, they had voluntarily abandoned the Huangpu River front. Instead, they used the Bald man's hard-working Chapingjia defense line to defend. In addition, the western front also blocked the ** team at two points in Huzhou and Lin'an. Because of the supply from Zhenhai Port, they defended extremely tenaciously.

Wuxing, the south bank of Taihu Lake, the ancient Jiangnan town at the northern end of Tianmu Mountain has now become like a Shura Field, fighting for several months. From the Japanese attack, the Chinese team defended, to now, the Chinese team attacked, at least 100,000 people on both sides corpses, the rotten corpses were not at ease to clean up, and the deposited blood made the soil appear a dark red, and the white bones with mud were everywhere like broken branches, and even the discarded guns were rusted in the rain.

The bald man's confidant was responsible for the battle on the front line of Wuxing. Gu Zhutong, the commander of the Third War Zone, now under his command, includes the 22nd Army of Deng Xihou, the Sichuan Army with the strongest attack power, the Fourth Army of Jiang Dingwen, and the Fifth Army of Shangguan Yunxiang, the 5th Army of Shangguan Yunxiang. The troops are not bad, but even so, they still cannot break through the defense lines of the first and eighth divisions of the Japanese army. Of course, this is also related to Deng Xihou's not wanting to fight the Japanese. He is much more treacherous than Yang Sen, and he is perfunctory on the battlefield most of the time.

In fact, with the strength of his troops, if he really wants to fight, the First Division and the newly formed Eighth Division really can't stop him, but even so, Gu Zhutong was very grateful to him. In the previous period of the Japanese offensive, it can be said that he had relied on the Sichuan Army to turn the tide several times. Without the 22nd and 23rd Army, the Huzhou defense line had already allowed the Japanese army to break through.

But now there is no need for the Sichuan Army. Because the bald man's trump card has arrived, more than 300 tiger tanks in the cold autumn rain, accompanied by a brigade of the teaching corps, rushed towards the Japanese positions ahead like a torrent of steel.

"Character!" The Japanese army, who had been in the mud and water of the trenches for almost a month, immediately shouted in horror. Then the sound of fire from war defense artillery sounded, and armor-piercing shells hit the front of the tiger tank with a roar that broke through the air, and then they were shot without a trace by the hard alloy armor. Then they saw the tank turret rotate, and the four-7 mm shells quickly blew one war defense artillery after another.

The infantrymen who were attacking were hiding behind the tanks, holding the semi-automatic rifles in their hands, and shooting dense bullets at the Japanese army on the defense line. Behind the tank group, Yang Mingchuan, who was ranking major general, was exposing his head outside the turret, holding the radio microphone in his hand and shouting loudly. On another tank not far from him, Qiu Qingquan, the commander of the Armored First Division, stared at the front with a nervous look. Whenever a tank was hit by a war defense artillery, he immediately showed a heart-wrenching expression, and then he would be relieved that the tank was intact.

"Teacher, this speed is too slow. You must be faster. Let the infantry run behind and rush across the Japanese defense line!" Yang Mingchuan turned to yelled at him. His current identity was the chief of staff of the First Armored Division. In his opinion, tanks with an off-road speed of more than 40 must be climbing forward like a turtle like an insult.

Qiu Qingquan has always been obedient to his words. In a sense, he is actually the apprentice of this guy. The entire armored first division was taught by Yang Mingchuan, and even the Bun Tan collaborative tactics of the teaching corps, which was also taught by this guy.

With Qiu Qingquan's order, more than 300 tanks accelerated at the same time, and they were like striking tigers on the soft land. The infantry behind had to start trotting and following. As the distance approached, the most effective weapon of the Japanese army, those standing teams with explosives on their bodies, finally appeared. These shirtless guys tied with explosives on their bodies roared out of the trenches one by one, but were torn apart by the accompanying infantry with dense bullets.

However, hundreds of forwards charge together, and there were still one or two fish that escaped the net. A Japanese soldier finally rushed towards the tank, and saw a suitable angle to pull the explosive pack and rush to the tank that had already stopped. But at this moment, the tank suddenly fell backwards, and the excellent performance of the twin engine and hydraulic transmission was instantly reflected. The unlucky Japanese soldier pounced in mud and water. He raised his head in shock and then smashed to pieces with an explosion.

The tiger tank was also shocked by the close-range explosion and stopped immediately, but at the same time, the two tanks bypassed it left and right and rushed to the front. The infantry accompanying them immediately climbed onto the tank and dragged the shocked members out of the inside. Another group of members got in and restarted the tank and continued to charge.

More than 300 tanks quickly passed through the Japanese positions like a tide. These giant steel beasts mercilessly rolled over the bodies of Japanese soldiers. The anti-aircraft machine gunners standing on the turrets were straggling around with large-caliber machine guns. One after another, the Japanese firepower points were blown away in the explosion of tank shells. The accompanying infantry carefully cleaned up the crushed Japanese positions with rifles in their hands and even the spear cones on the guns.

After breaking through the first line of defense, the First Armored Division did not stop at all, and then rushed towards the second line of defense, like a huge siege hammer, breaking gaps one by one in the Japanese position.

The first appearance of the First Armored Division was perfect. Without a tank, it broke through the defense line of the First Japanese Division in Wuxing. The three armies following behind quickly poured in from the opened gap. The Japanese troops on the Huzhou defense line retreated across the board, and then the First Armored Division then rushed to Jiaxing.

Matsui Ishien, who was defending the defense line of Chapingjia, had to retreat to Hangzhou as he was attacked from both sides. At the same time, the Chinese Air Force dispatched a large-scale operation again, and rarely bombed the four floating bridges set up by the Japanese army on the Qiantang River at any cost.

The bald man's goal is clear, and he cannot let his old friend retreat south of the Qiantang River no matter what.

On the Lin'an front, Yang Sen's troops suddenly broke out. He changed his previous somewhat listless spirit and quickly rushed out of the defense line of the 114th Division of the Japanese army with a fierce attack to attack Hangzhou.

As soon as the two divisions led by Matsui Ishigen retreated to Tongxiang, the First Armored Division, carrying infantry escaped from the main force, gave him a half-hit blow. The retreat, which was originally orderly, instantly turned into a defeat.

"Separate, separate them, and disperse them in units of the camp. Don't worry about the goal, increase the speed as fast as possible. rush to places with Japanese people, and don't fight after rushing up. Now our task is to rush them and destroy them!" Yang Mingchuan stood on the tank and yelled. He didn't bother to discuss with Qiu Qingquan now, and directly crossed over to command him. Anyway, he was not interested in developing under the bald man, so he naturally wouldn't care about those messy things.

Qiu Qingquan was excited at this time, and he was not worried about these things. He destroyed the four Japanese divisions in less than a day. After hundreds of thousands of troops fought fiercely for Jingyue, he failed to break through the defense line. He broke through in less than half an hour, and no one in the Huangpu Group could match this.

The First Armored Division immediately dispersed and rushed across the plain Jiangnan Plain. The tiger tanks with a little more than ten tons had no restrictions on such terrain, and even muddy rice fields could drive at high speed. In order not to be thrown away by these crazy tanks, the infantry sitting on them had to tie themselves to the tank.

They were so happy that Matsui Ishigen was getting moldy. His two divisions had been completely dispersed. There was less than one squadron around him. The old guy ran so hard that he couldn't do it until the end, so he could only let a confidant run on his back.

But how could their two short legs run better than the tank? A team of tanks had already set their sights on them. Although the distance was too far and could not be seen clearly, Guo Shangyan, the battalion commander of the tank battalion, still realized that there was something wrong with the Japanese army, especially the guy who was running on his back was definitely a big fish.

"Quick, speed up!" He put down his telescope and waved his hand. Dozens of tanks immediately accelerated to the limit amid the curses of infantry and rushed up all the way.

The vibration on the ground and the roar of tanks coming from behind were soon noticed by the fleeing Japanese army. Matsui Ishien stopped running away at this time. What would be the result of racing against the tanks?

"You guys, kill yourself to repay the emperor's kindness!" The old guy pulled out his sword and roared. The team of Japanese soldiers following him also took their own efforts. They began to look for hidden places, waiting for the enemy with rifles. Even Matsui Ishien was lying in a mud pit with a small Nanbu pistol.

Their actions had been clearly seen by Guo Shangyan with a telescope. He sneered and asked the tank to pause, and the infantry accompanied the car, and then used the tank gun to attack first. The tank restarted, slowed down and rushed up with the infantry.

A tank battalion and almost two companies of infantry riding in tanks deal with Japanese infantry with only one squadron. Such a battle is simply crushing. Japanese soldiers without any anti-tank weapons cannot stop the advance of these steel beasts. Soon dozens of tanks rushed into the middle of the Japanese army and roared and ran over their bodies.

General Matsui shrank into the mud pit, peering at the raging tanks like a dead face, then sighed and raised the southern pistol in his hand and pointed it at his head, gritting his teeth and pulling the trigger.

However, the gunshot did not sound. He looked at Xiao Nanbu who was stuck in sorrow that he was so angry that he threw it into the mud and water. Then he groped and picked up his saber. As soon as he pulled it out, he suddenly felt it was hit in half by a bullet opposite.

"Don't move!" A soldier holding a semi-automatic rifle pushed the gun onto his head.

"Sir, catch an old Japanese man!" Guo Shangyan, who stopped beside him, shouted.

Guo Shangyan looked at Matsui Ishigen sitting on the ground covered in mud and said, "Wipe the epaulette on his shoulders."
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