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Chapter 145: War Escalation

On the road from Zhangjiakou to Duolun, a long convoy rumbled by with yellow dust. In order to prevent heavy self-propelled artillery from rolling the sandy road, Yang Feng also ordered them to walk along the way. Fortunately, it was winter and the soil was hard enough, and these heavy chariots were not even slower than those old trucks.

This scene left Wang Changhai, the commander of the cavalry of the 29th Army beside him stunned. He had seen the chariots at this time, and several of them were seized at the 29th Army at Xifengkou, and they could be said to be much faster than walking.

"Teacher Sun, your boss is really capable. You can even get such a good thing." He said to Sun Liren sitting next to him enviously. This guy didn't ride a horse if he had a car. He sat in the convertible little jeep to study how to cooperate with Sun Liren.

Sun Liren looked at the carriage behind in awe of regret. The guy Yang Feng was hugging Margrit inside, which was quite tempting to be the last emperor of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Gao Wei, who led Xiao Lian to the war.

Indeed, this expedition was purely for Yang Feng to abuse the Japanese to relax. Sun Dianying's 30,000 troops were not easy to fight against a Japanese army in a gang. Just take the cannons and ravage them directly.

However, the fact was not the case. Just when he was rushing to Doron, Sun Dianying was having a headache on the battlefield north of Yinshan. He was already on the south bank of Xilin River. The Japanese-Mongolian coalition forces were just making a little defense on the Kuitun River. Soon they retreated north under the attacks in the air and on the ground, trying to destroy this enemy. From then on, Sun Dianying, who had no one dared to compete in the grassland, followed closely behind and pursued them all the way despite the reminder of the US Chief of Staff.

The Japanese and Mongolian coalition forces retreated to the north bank of Xilin River, and then stopped retreating, using the fortifications arranged by their left-behind troops to defend the river. Sun Dianying rushed twice in a row, but failed to break through the opponent's defense line.

"Captain Sun. We must retreat. You should be clear that if the Japanese army leaves the shed, we may cut off our retreat at any time." His Chief of Staff, Colonel O'Connor, reminded him.

Sun Dianying was also hesitating. He naturally knew that there was a Japanese army corps stationed in Jingpan, but he also knew that since the Japanese army disguised as Mongolians, it meant that they were not ready to tear their faces apart.

"Roar again, if you can't rush over, then let's retreat!" After thinking for a while, he gritted his teeth and said.

As soon as he finished speaking, a cavalryman ran over behind him, jumped off his horse and said breathlessly: "Captain, a large number of puppet troops have left the sanctuary!"

"Puppet Army? Whose troops?" Sun Dianying frowned and asked hurriedly.

"The flags were the Xing'an Army!"

"Xing'an Army? How did they come here?" Sun Dianying immediately realized something was wrong. Xing'an Army was a puppet army in Western Inner Mongolia. They were stationed in Zhengjiatun and they appeared in Jingpan, which showed that this was a trap, a trap targeting him.

"Damn it, a group of puppet soldiers wanted to kill me. These guys look down on me too much! No, the Japanese are not that stupid!"

"If they change their clothes, they can change into Mongolians. They can also change into Chinese." O'Connor said in stiff Chinese.

"Retreat!" Sun Dianying immediately made a choice.

If that's the case, it's a big trouble.

Sun's troops, who were attacking, quickly turned around and retreated south. But it was a little late at this time. The puppet troops, or the mixed Japanese and puppet troops who were leaving the west of Zhuang, had already begun to attack his several settlement sites, and Sun Dianying immediately fell into a situation of being attacked from front and back.

This is indeed a trap, a trap against him. The Japanese have long been unable to bear it anymore. Over the past year, at least thousands of immigrants from the Japanese pioneer regiment have died at the hands of his snatching team. These old bandits are used to being cruel and ruthless. The methods of dealing with Japanese civilians are no worse than those of the Kwantung Army to deal with the Chinese. They have done almost everything they should do.

The Japanese had long wanted to completely solve this disaster. But Sun Dianying is an extremely important part of the entire defense line of the Chinese team. If he attacked alone, he would have a chain reaction. The 29th Army would not sit idly by and watch its barriers be lost and would inevitably join the war. The Japanese Kwantung Army may not be afraid of Sun Dianying, but he is indeed a little scared of the 29th Army. The losses at Xifengkou were too great. Nearly a brigade fought against the 29th Army head-on. Now many Kwantung Army soldiers were frightened when they remembered their Thomson's assault with the big sword.

Even if the Kwantung Army has the confidence to solve the 29th Army and Sun Dianying at the same time, there is the Jinsui Army behind the 29th Army, and Yan Laoxi will not watch his own barrier loss. Moreover, there are the Chinese Yang Army and the Northeast Army on the Great Wall line. Everyone knows what the Great Wall line will face without the flanking threat of Chahar. The result of the last Great Wall battle has given the Chinese team enough confidence, and they have no fear of the Japanese army.

Attacking Sun Dianying means another full-scale war. Unless a large increase in the country can be obtained, there will definitely be no hope for the Kwantung Army alone. They can also see clearly the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the Chinese team in the past year.

But the bald man continued to take time in North China, allowing them to see opportunities, and the huge profits of silver smuggling also gave them courage, and King De's surrender also gave them a way to solve Sun Dianying, and replaced the Mongols' vest to take action.

First, he used the excuse of King De's resistance to Sun Dianying's settlement as an excuse to attack the settlement site, and limited the two sides of the war between King De and Sun Dianying. He first transferred Sun Dianying out of Doron. Then, in the name of helping his clan, the Xing'an army cut off Sun Dianying's retreat in the name of helping his clan, and attacked Sun Dianying in the north of Yinshan, and the real highlight was in the south.

The entire Eighth Division was replaced by the puppet army of Li Shouxin's troops. While the 14th Japanese Cavalry Brigade, which had changed into Xing'an Army's vests, also began an attack on Duolun. Li Shouxin was also a Mongol, and could also help King De with confidence.

The whole plan is perfect. North China is now empty, and both the Luanhe defense line and the Great Wall defense line are a little stretched. In this case, He Yingqin must not want to start a war. As long as he shows in this way, he only deals with Sun Dianying, then he has an excuse to watch. With his suppression of the 29th Army, he cannot participate in the war. It is just that Sun Dianying and Feng Zhanhai are easy to deal with. One and a half divisions and a cavalry brigade, and more than 30,000 messy puppet troops, and together they cannot deal with a group of bandits, the Kwantung Army can collectively cut off the stomach.

And the most important point is that for the Kwantung Army, another disaster for Tang Juwu. It is now Maodong in Changbai Mountain! Such a season will definitely not come out, and they can mobilize their troops with confidence and boldness.

However, the Japanese side still missed a person. They did not expect that Yang Feng was returning to China at this time, and they also ran to Doron to play war games with great enthusiasm. Just as the Japanese army launched an attack on Doron from the Waichang and Fengning at the same time, Yang Feng led his mechanized troops to arrive.

Feng Zhanhai is now in a state of trouble. He only has more than 10,000 people, but he needs to face the attack of a Japanese division and more than 10,000 puppet troops. If it weren't for the construction of a large number of reinforced concrete permanent fortifications with the help of Yang Feng over the past year, he would not have been able to stop the first wave of attacks by the Japanese army. He was not a general who was very good at fighting. Before the fall of the Northeast, he was always the captain of Zhang Zuoxiang's guard and had never led troops to fight.

So I can be said to be overjoyed by Yang Feng's arrival.

"Brother Feng. How about asking Fumin to command on your behalf?" Yang Feng was not polite either. The Japanese made him a little confused. Now he is really in no mood to be polite.

"Okay!" Feng Zhanhai looked at Sun Liren and said. He was very self-aware. Sun Liren was much better than him in any aspect. During this period, he trained the security guards to be lively, and everyone could see clearly this.

Sun Liren was not polite. As soon as he arrived at Doron, he found that the command here was chaotic and he could not play the role of permanent fortifications. He had conducted in-depth research on Doron's defense system, because it was originally created by the American mercenaries under Yang Feng. The security guard had a complete set of defense maps, and he had already studied it thoroughly.

After taking over the command from Feng Zhanhai, he immediately used 152mm heavy artillery to attack the Japanese army, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Japanese army being dizzy and quickly adjusted his subordinates and gradually stabilized the defense line.

At the same time, Sun Dianying, who was north of Yinshan, also quickly made a choice, abandoned all settlement sites in Dalibo area, and retreated west along Kuitunhe River. At the same time, he ordered the West Road to abandon the settlement sites in Chagannur and defend Duolongdabang. The 14th Japanese cavalry brigade who blocked him took the lead in occupying Nuogong, cut off his retreat to the south, and trapped Sun Dianying's troops and the main forces led more than 50,000 reclamation troops.

However, on the empty grassland, it was not realistic to surround Sun Dianying with this little man alone. The Japanese army's goal was very simple, to stop him from retreating as much as possible, and then conquer Duolun at the fastest speed in the southern line. At that time, Sun Dianying had no way to advance or retreat, which means that the most important thing was to take Duolun as soon as possible.

But here the Eighth Division hit the iron plate.

The first time the 2c3 self-propelled artillery was that with its extremely long range and with the cooperation of aerial reconnaissance, the few 150-heavy howitzers in their hands were blown into parts, and then they easily began to clean up the field guns and mountain guns.

The maximum range of Japanese field artillery and mountain artillery is no more than ten kilometers, and the maneuverability is even greater than a huge difference. There is no power to fight back in front of 2c3.

While self-propelled artillery abused the Japanese artillery, Yang Feng pulled the double 37mm anti-aircraft artillery of the Air Defense Battalion to the front line. Twenty double 37mm anti-aircraft artillery shells were directly used as howitzers. The shells loaded with time fuses hit the Japanese infantry like raindrops. In just a few minutes, a Japanese brigade that had almost broken through the defense line of the 63rd Army was blown away by the 37mm shells that had hit the head and the flesh flew everywhere.

"Who said that anti-aircraft artillery can only be used to fire the aircraft?" Yang Feng held up his telescope and looked at the Japanese army engulfed by gunpowder in the distance, and said to Sun Liren beside him with a proud look on his face.

"You save some shells! With this kind of shelling, the shells we brought will be exhausted." Sun Liren said expressionlessly.

"It's okay, isn't it just 37 shells? I have reserved hundreds of thousands of rounds and have been preparing to replace them with new shells in a few days. Now it's time to clean up the warehouse, and the transport plane will be transported in a while." Yang Feng said indifferently.

The commander of the 8th Division opposite him, Takataro Nakamura, almost vomited blood. He was holding a telescope with a look of praise, waiting for the imperial army in front to break through the defense line of China! Then in a blink of an eye, the imperial army disappeared. What kind of shelling is this? How many cannons are there? Who has ever seen a shelling that smashed thousands of shells in one minute. Although the accuracy is relatively poor, it cannot withstand the density.

In particular, most of these shells exploded in the air, and the shrapnel scattered into an iron net of death. The smoke of gunpowder dissipated. General Nakamura looked at the frontier positions and could still see the figures of hundreds of imperial soldiers standing at stars. It was really good that he did not vomit blood.

The originally lively battlefield suddenly became silent, and the Japanese army that was attacking was really scared by this high-density shelling. This was even more terrifying than the 152mm heavy artillery. In one minute, the top of the head was as terrifying as the magma ejected from a volcano.

Let alone them. Even the defenders on Feng Zhanhai were shocked. In a blink of an eye, the Japanese soldiers in front of them turned into dense corpses. Who has ever seen this way of fighting?

The Japanese army attacked for the next whole day, but they failed to recover their morale. Although Yang Feng did not use anti-aircraft artillery to play ammunition again, the Japanese army was always worried, fearing that nightmare scenes would come to him.

Dolun is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there are only two highways coming from Weichang and Fengning respectively. The Weichang is considered a big road and Fengning is a small road. Due to the limitations of boundary division, Sun Dianying was unable to arrange defense lines in the mountains, but he also had advantages, that is, the river water networks spread across the periphery of Dolun, and even lakes of all sizes. To form a natural barrier, he only needed to block the gaps in the water network.

This also caused the Japanese army's attack surface to be too narrow, and the losses would be huge once it was shot. Although this also made the defense line too long, the problem was that Yang Feng's artillery was purely mechanized and could support it at the fastest speed no matter where the danger occurred.

The Japanese army attacked for a day in artillery fire, and found nothing except leaving nearly a thousand bodies.

Just when the two sides of Doron were fighting, Sun Dianying also began to attack south.

"Brothers, I'm worried that I won't have the chance to fight a decisive battle with these bastards. Now they are delivered to their door. As long as we win this battle, we will have the final say in the north of Yinshan. At that time, we need land and women, and we will also taste the taste of being the King of Mongolia!" Sun Dianying said to his men.

The old bandits were naturally excited. They tasted the sweetness of settlement over the past year. They used to be with Sun Dianying just to have enough food, but now they are not just having enough food, and they even have pocket money on hand. Who doesn’t like such a good life? Now someone wants to touch their old capital, so they naturally have to work hard.

Sun Dianying played drum tactics, and the 50,000 troops were battling step by step, like a heavy giant elephant, moving forward little by little. He did not lack food, and brought enough food when retreating in the settlement site. He would not be hungry for a month even if he moved for a hundred kilometers, nor would he lack ammunition. It is hard to say anything else about Yang Feng's transport aircraft, and bullets were not easy. In addition, after learning that Yang Feng arrived, Duolun was not in danger, so he was even less anxious.

They were not in a hurry, and the Japanese army was not in a hurry. Their task was to hold Sun Dianying, as long as he didn't let him rush back before capturing Duolun. It would not be too late to take down all retreats and then slowly clean up.

Just during the Battle of Chabei, Peking also had a big uproar. The capitalists may not care about what Sun Dianying fought, but it would be different when Yang Feng went to the battlefield. If something happened to him, I don’t know how many people would go bankrupt. The capitalists who were originally most afraid of war now went wrong, and they all rushed to He Yingqin and asked him to find a way to solve the war in Dolun quickly.

"Chairman He and Doron have become like this, so the National Government cannot take any measures. King De is a rebellion and colludes with people from the puppet Manchukuo State. This is an open treason. Shouldn't the troops be sent to suppress him?" Liu Haining yelled at He Yingqin with a beard and glaring at him.

He Yingqin dared not offend him. This old guy is now the leader of the Pingjin business community. The more than 100,000 troops in North China are all supported by the tax paid by these capitalists.

"Mr. Liu, this matter involves the Mongolians. It must be reported to Chairman Jiang for the decision. I am only responsible for the defense of Pingjin and have no right to handle ethnic affairs." He Yingqin quickly pushed the matter to the bald man. Anyway, you can't go to Jiangxi to find him.

Not only did these capitalists ask for troops to help Sun Dianying, but even the 29th Army also asked for troops to be sent. In fact, Feng Zhifu's Ministry of Security in Guyuan was ready to kill Fengning at any time to cut off the Japanese army's retreat on the southern front. Song Zheyuan's report on requesting troops sent was one by one, which made He Yingqin feel frustrated and now he was almost regretful.

"If I had known this, I wouldn't have agreed to Yang Feng send troops!" He rubbed his head and said to Huang Hui.

"The 29th Army is absolutely not allowed to move. If the 29th Army joins the war, the Japanese will definitely make moves on the Luanhe defense line. Now the troops in North China are empty, and the result is unpredictable if the fight is really a problem." Huang Hui was also very troubled.

The Japanese Consul General in Peking ran to him eight times a day to protest, protesting against the Peking media making a fuss and deliberately fabricated the Kwantung Army to pretend to be Mongols to participate in the attack on Sun Dianying.

But this also relieved him. The Japanese didn't want to have another Great Wall Battle.

He Yingqin had a headache. The bald man who was sitting in Nanchang and commanding various troops to pursue him could only curse himself, scolding King De. He was still very fond of him, so he blatantly turned to the Japanese.

He also scolded Sun Dianying for causing trouble. Why do you do it on others? It is both open up and graze, and even recruits other people's subordinates. No one can stand it.

He also scolded Yang Feng for being full and living a good life, but he had to go to the battlefield to join in the fun.

No matter how much he scolds, as the supreme leader of the country, he still has to make some statements. Just when Doron was fighting fiercely, the National Government issued a strict order, requiring King De and Sun Dianying to immediately cease the war and return to their original positions. At the same time, he asked the puppet Manchukuo to strictly restrain his subordinate troops and stop the invasion of Chahar.

Of course, this is a command that is destined to be ignored. The battle of Doron is getting more and more intense. Yang Feng's mechanized army will eventually be subject to supply restrictions. It is impossible to push the ammunition flat and keep playing. The real battle still depends on the real swords and guns of the soldiers on both sides. He can only act as a firefighter.

However, because the Japanese army lacked heavy firepower and Feng Zhanhai's troops had solid fortifications to rely on, under the command of Sun Liren, they still firmly defended the Duolun defense line.

Sun Dianying was still advancing steadily, which was the best response when he was attacked from front and back. 50,000 people were brought into a group, and the Japanese-Mongolian puppet coalition could not be chewed no matter what.

Song Zheyuan weighed the pros and cons, thinking that Yang Feng's side was still important. On the third day of the Japanese attack on Doron, Feng's Ministry of Security finally crossed the border of the Rehe River. (To be continued, please search for Piaotianwen, the novel is better and faster!

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