Chapter 397 I am willing to guard Wuhan

"It is better to transfer some of the 54th Army to assist in the defense of Wuhan. The 54th Army assumed the responsibility of defending Wuhan, so naturally it needs to be careful. If Wuhan is in a mistake, it can be investigated for its mistakes." Chen Cheng took the opportunity to speak out. At this time, Wuhan's defense pressure was very high. Once it was lost, the prestige of the Central Army would inevitably be hit again. On the contrary, the territory of the vanguard army did resist the attack of the Japanese, and its prestige was even greater.

This rise and fall will make the central government more passive. It would be better to drag the vanguard army in. If Wuhan is defended, the Central Army will benefit the most; if it cannot be defended, the vanguard army will also take responsibility and lose its reputation. Besides, the vanguard army's army is defending Wuhan, and can buy one or two nearby for later use.

Lao Jiang laughed but said nothing.

"I am willing to guard Wuhan!" This is Meng Xiang's reply to Lao Jiang.

Wuhan is the thoroughfare of nine provinces and is also the largest central city in central China. Meng Xiang was also jealous, but Chiang Kai-shek never let him intervene and he was not able to intervene before. However, after a short rest, the occupation of Beijing and Tianjin areas has gradually consolidated with the basic implementation of the minimum living allowance before the Spring Festival. The newly occupied Datong and Guisui and other places were also under the control of the 38th and 18th Divisions, and the situation has gradually stabilized.

Once internal stability is settled, Meng Xiang has more power to expand outward. Since Chiang Kai-shek has opened the door of Wuhan to the vanguard army, how can he be unreasonable?

Only the same thing is that if the Pioneer Army goes to Wuhan to fight, I am afraid that there will be no base to follow me. Now all sub-bases are being used, and even if there are free, they will not be transported to Wuhan. Moreover, there seems to be no coal mines near Wuhan. Without the nearby support of the base, I am afraid that the logistics pressure will be greater.

"I can also replenish the air transport in my hand." Meng Xiang took a look at the resources in his hand and breathed a sigh of relief. The Air Pioneer Army still had the advantage. With the air advantage, the Japanese gunboats in the Yangtze River could not get any advantage. Only fighting ground wars, the Pioneer Army was not afraid.

Hearing the Japanese approaching, he saw the Japanese in the movie of the Pioneer Army, and the cruel Wuhan people were avoiding each other, and there were also passionate young people who helped guard and build fortifications.

There was news ahead that the Japanese had broken through the defense line of Xishui River and were attacking the second defense line built on the Ba River. New news came from the front line from time to time, and the people were still habitually busy.

"Buzz" the sky in Wuhan suddenly dimmed.

"Airplanes? Why are there so many planes? Why are the air defense alarms not ringing?" someone said in surprise.

"It's the Pioneer Army's plane!" someone shouted happily. The big sign on the body of a lowered aircraft was very conspicuous.

"The destination ahead has arrived!" The radio reconnaissance plane received information about arriving at Wangjiadun Airport in Wuhan.

All types of reconnaissance aircraft have been labeled as "electronic". The reconnaissance aircraft is a relatively early aircraft produced by Meng Xiang.

The DSL reconnaissance aircraft was renamed by Meng Xiang based on the Caiyun carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft of the famous Japanese little Japanese. Because Meng Xiang's military level is amateur, he only remembers the Caiyun reconnaissance aircraft of the little Japanese little Japanese little Japanese. The message "The invincible fighter behind him pursues" is unforgettable.

When the Caiyun reconnaissance aircraft, which increased the base's cost due to the delayed production date, Meng Xiang once thought in a vulgar way: "When the Japanese develop Caiyun, will they sue them for infringement?"

Although the speed of 724 kilometers per hour of Thunder N is faster than that of Caiyun reconnaissance aircraft 610 kilometers per hour, in order to disgust the Japanese and the professionalism of Caiyun carrier-based reconnaissance aircraft, the name of the DSLR reconnaissance aircraft still fell on its head.

Originally, there was a name for lightning, but the p-38 was taken away in advance. The name of Jidian was inconspicuous, but the Japanese had a high optical level and the camera level was not low. The high speed of the Caiyun reconnaissance aircraft was enough to allow the pilot to escape quickly.

Li Zhan was driving a fast electric flying at the front of the team at this time.

Because he was flying with the large army formation, he felt a little regretful. He could not fly out of the super cool speed of more than 600 kilometers like the squadron leader. But he still reported some of the situations at Wangjiadun Airport ahead with conscientiousness. There were three members on the Caiyun reconnaissance plane, so there was no need to take photos at this time. He simply analyzed the surrounding situation, which was very easy for Li Zhan who flew through this journey twice.

The Pioneer Army and Wuhan have flights every day and are already familiar with these routes. However, there are a lot of planes dispatched this time.

Nearly a hundred Junker Aunts carried more than a thousand fully armed vanguard soldiers and flew from the Seventh War Zone to Wuhan in a short time. It was still 36 lightning-type N-type drawn back to perform the aircraft's escort mission. The naval battle between Weihai and Yantai made the Japanese Navy not want to come to attack for the time being. The Canglong aircraft carrier has increased its patrol efforts and controlled the entire Bohai Sea area.

The lightning was drawn out and took on this escort mission.

On the way, the Japanese fighter jets came to intercept, but it was not a zero-type. More than 60 lightning bs flying from Xinxiang and other places had already attracted more than 40 zero-type attacks. The more they fought, and the more they fought, and the average level of the pilots of the China Airlines were a little worse than HNA. One hour later, the battle ended 7-4. The meaning of temptation and entanglement was greater than that of real practice.

On the other hand, the escorted Thunder N inherited the thick skin and rough flesh of the Thunder N family. With 8 machine guns, they drove away all the old-fashioned planes that came to harass and intercept the Japanese and sent them all the way to the vicinity of Wuhan. The first time the transport was a sudden, and the Japanese interception was also relatively hasty. Only two escorted Thunder N were injured, but they were afraid that they would not be so smooth in the future.

As soon as they arrived at Wangjiadun Airport, soldiers from the 1st Brigade and 1st Regiment of the Second Division of the teaching teams in each plane began to come down one after another. This time, the plane only transported two battalions.

Looking at the neatly arranged vanguard soldiers, the crowds greeted at the airport were talking.

"They are people from the Pioneer Army? Look at the equipment, when compared with our Central Army, you can tell at a glance that they are not raised by the same parents!" Someone envied.

"That was bought by someone himself, and he didn't spend a cent on the central government." Someone sighed.

"Didn't spend money? Didn't you pay taxes?" Someone said disdainfully. Indeed, the national tax part in the Seventh War Zone has been dragged by Meng Xiang, who often cried and had not paid for a long time.

"Their taxes are all used for compulsory education and subsistence allowances. They are taken from the people and used for the people!" Someone appreciated it. Someone had carefully calculated and published it in the newspaper that the military expenditure of the Pioneer Army and the subsistence allowances, and the cost of compulsory education has exceeded the total tax collected. It is just that taxes represent the majesty of the country and are no longer useful at this time. The separation of taxes also shows that Meng Xiang has long been a complete warlord.

The two battalions, which had a short rest, immediately organized a defense line to the Bahe area, which was already in danger.

The reinforcements of the Japanese on the ground kept coming, and Aunt Junker of the Air Pioneer Army was also transporting personnel and weapons one by one under the escort of the lightning plane.

The Zero aircraft of Zhengzhou's Army is no longer a question of interception. At this time, they are busy cleaning up the wreckage of Zhengzhou Mazhai Airport.

Mazhai Airport in southwest of Zhengzhou was originally abandoned. However, it was renovated by the Japanese and became one of their military airports. In order to facilitate the attack on the Pioneer Army, more than 20 Zero aircraft were temporarily concentrated there. Although they knew that the giant cannons had a long range, the Zero aircraft that had just finished fighting with lightning were only temporarily settled. They didn't know that it was also within the direct jurisdiction of the sub-base, and their location was directly displayed on the large screen of the base. Moreover, the aiming accuracy of the giant cannons at there was greatly improved. So Meng Xiang began to bombard Mazhai Airport again.

A giant cannon can cover a place as big as a basketball court. The Japanese Zero plane had just returned and had not had time to fly again, but they were bombarded by the giant cannon shells. In the half-hour bombardment, except for six Zero planes in Mazhai, all 15 of the other 15 were destroyed.

Even though the escaped plane was bombarded by the lightning that flew to Mazhai Airport again. Stuka, who was accompanying him, threw some bombs on the cake, completely dismantling all the facilities in Mazhai Airport.

This place is too close to Xinxiang, and the information of the radar station is somewhat delayed. If we hadn't waited for such an opportunity to hit it, how could they be allowed to stay nearby?

After this battle, only a dozen Zero-type Japanese soldiers were concentrated in the Xuchang area. They could no longer pose too much threat to the vanguard's transport aircraft fleet. The second division's first brigade was gathered one after another.

As the personnel expanded, the organization of the teaching team was changed to the structure of the division and brigade organized by the 33rd organization. The current teaching team is equivalent to an army with three divisions. The first division is a mechanized division of the Hu Er and cannot be transported, so there is no one to send a second division.

The front line was in crisis, and the two battalions that rushed over in advance were also asking for support. Niu Yi personally led the 1st Brigade of the Second Division to the Bahe Front.

"Ge, the Japanese are quite fierce!" Zhu Yanchao sat in front of the machine gun fortification built by the Central Army and drooled, moistening his hoarse voice by the fireworks.

The main force of the Central Army has retreated to the back. After the right wing of the defense line near the Yangtze River was handed over to the First Brigade of the Teaching Team, their main force has begun to prepare for a strategic transfer.

When I remembered the platoon leader of the Central Army who blushed and called out to the fellow villager, I gave them a back of my head. Although they were also injured a lot, the main force was still there and they called for retreat. They really didn't have the courage to do so.

He completely forgot the team he used to, but he was proud that he is now a member of the brave vanguard army.

Before coming to Wuhan, in Peking, the photos I took were taken by a reporter were also put on the newspaper. Even when the instructor showed it to him, he didn't believe it. In addition to taking photos when he took the photos, he went to the newspaper for the second time when he took the photos?

He asked the instructor to come to the newspaper, and he still kept it in his arms. When he returned to his hometown one day, he could show his snobbish brother, who is also a celebrity. Unfortunately, his dead parents couldn't see it. Maybe he should find another copy and burn it to them in front of his parents' grave to make them happy.

This can be helped by instructors who are literate and knowledgeable. They are very enthusiastic about ordinary soldiers, not as rigid as the company commander Niu Qiansui.

However, although the company commander was rigid, he was not vague at all when fighting.

Today, there were many casualties in the company. Before Commander Niu brought the main force of the First Brigade, more than 30 casualties were killed in the company in just half a day. This was something that had never happened before, but the company commander was guarding the machine gun position of the heavy fire support platoon without retreating. The heavy rain machine gun he operated was better than himself.

Zhu Yanchao touched the machine gun in front of him, and couldn't help feeling a little regretful.

The aircraft had limited carrying capacity, and the equipment transported was mainly light weapons, which lacked the support of artillery. However, the Japanese on the opposite side had a lot of heavy artillery and even armored vehicles, which made the largest 80 mortar of the 1st Brigade of the Second Division a little unscrupulous. The firepower of the Japanese on the opposite side was too fierce. Although it was not as exaggerated as the Pioneer Army, the 6th and 9th Divisions were both elite divisions. Their large and small artillery fire faced the 80 mortars of the teaching team at this time, so the Japanese were overwhelmingly formed at the beginning.

"I would have liked that the artillery brigade of our teaching team is here, and the firepower will definitely make the Japanese on the opposite side cry!..." He couldn't help but talk again.

There were screams of artillery shells falling from the air. Zhu Yanchao was about to lie down, but then he felt something was wrong. When he looked at the sound, he saw the smoke and dust of the explosion of the artillery shells rising up on the Japanese position. Then more bombs fell, and looking from afar, the Japanese position became a sea of ​​fire.

"Our plane!" someone cheered not far away.

It was difficult for transport aircraft to transport artillery. In addition to the help of giant birds, Meng Xiang also considered the bomber. The b-17 was too wasteful and Stuka's attack power was too small, so he chose a universal bomber like Ju-88. But he did not expect that the Central Army's front was already in danger. The first two battalions that arrived were reconciled and were transferred to the front line after a quick rest. He nodded at the time, but unexpectedly, in just three hours, the damage of the two battalions exceeded more than 300 people. The Pioneer Army had never suffered such a loss before.

This is mainly because the Central Army's fortifications have poor anti-aircraft capabilities, the positions taken over by the two battalions are easy to attack and difficult to defend, and the Japanese's artillery fire is powerful. But no matter what, when Meng Xiang heard the news, he immediately ordered the ju-88 brigade to speed up. After all, the vanguard army did not have heavy firepower there, which caused too much loss.

The ju-88's slowness was not because of the Pioneer Army, but mainly because there were so many aircraft concentrated at Wangjiadun Airport, which made it impossible to transfer there. At this time, there were only two airports in Wuhan, and Nanhu Airport was built since last year, and some places were still imperfect. Wangjiadun Airport still needed to take off a large number of fighter jets to deal with the Japanese fighter jets.

This made the lightning that escorted the Junker Aunt Transporter a little slowed down. Although the ju-88 bomber is versatile and can be modified as a heavy fighter, most of the bombing models are B and also require appropriate escort, so there is some delay. However, the land attack did not receive effective air support and the losses were large.

"The thin army light weapons are still at a disadvantage! No wonder the Central Army's elite German division's light weapons are also good, and they always suffer in the hands of the Japanese. The name of the King of War of Artillery is not fake." The Pioneer Army's teaching team was bombed as soon as they arrived in Wuhan, which made Meng Xiang feel a little angry. He immediately instructed, "Our artillery is transported over and beat those Japanese hard."

"Oh my God! There is such a big plane!" When the me 323d giant plane landed in Wangjiadun, the people at the airport were shocked. They had vaguely heard that the Pioneer Army had a large plane, but they heard that it was much different from what they saw with their own eyes. When they saw it with their own eyes, they fell from the sky like a giant bird from the prehistoric world covering the sky, people were shocked from the heart.

The giant bird landed slowly, and before the rolled dust had fallen, its shell-shaped nose cargo door was opened, and two 105k18 howitzers and a large amount of ammunition were dragged out. The people watching were shocked again after seeing it.

Meng Xiang had nothing to worry about about the leak of this giant bird. The most important thing about this kind of aircraft is a powerful engine. The engine with advanced technology for a few years is not something that the engine can afford at this time. Otherwise, the Germans would not have failed repeatedly and were only produced in the middle and late stages of World War II. And without the protection of the escort aircraft, it would be too easy to hit such a target.

Three giant birds descended in a row, and there were giant birds flying in behind. I felt that this thing was really useful. Meng Xiang vigorously produced it. There were already 18 in the hands of the Pioneer Army. However, they needed more escort aircraft, and most of the planes of the Pioneer Army were short-legged. Whether it was Thunderbolt B or BF-109, their range was not very long. Short-distance escort was OK, but long-distance escort was still much worse.

At this time, there were not many long-range escort fighters that became what he needed most urgently.

Since the Japanese did not expect that the Pioneer Army would run directly to Wuhan to participate in the war. Facing the Central Army's air superiority, the Japanese army did not have many air defense weapons at all, and a few air defense weapons also collected from the troops surrounding the Pioneer Army. Therefore, the artillery position of the 6th Division on the opposite side suffered heavy losses under the sudden bombing of the universal bomber and immediately lost its majesty.

"Baga!" Major General Niujima-man, the commander of the 36th Brigade of the 6th Division, said angrily.

The sudden appearance of the Pioneer Army surprised the Japanese. At first, the Japanese soldiers who didn't know that the Pioneer Army was on the other side, but still used collective charges to shout that the onboard was swept down a large area. In just a short time, more than 400 casualties were killed and killed, which surprised him a lot. If it weren't for the artillery suppression of the 6th Regiment of the Field Artillery, I'm afraid that more would have been sacrificed.

Even after the bombardment, several consecutive attacks were still hit back. Niujima Man realized that there was something abnormal in the army opposite. This was not the elite of the Central Army.

Still don't know whose artillery was still bombarding. If they knew that the two battalions on the opposite side were vanguard troops, they might have been more cautious. But they were arrogant and focused on bombarding the opposite side, and there were not many artillery counterattacks that made them even more unscrupulous. When the ju-88 bombed, they were in a tragedy. With the sound of rolling flames, three artillery positions were destroyed, and half of the artillery of the Sixth Artillery Regiment were lost.

Also during the bombing, the unprepared 36th Brigade had more than 800 casualties. The total number of soldiers killed more than 700 were killed.

"Are they a vanguard army?" The intelligence was soon found. If the Japanese were more cautious, they would have obtained this information in advance. However, the 6th Division, which had never experienced the powerful firepower of the vanguard army, underestimated the enemy.

"It's true that it's well-known and has strong firepower!" Aoshima Manta couldn't help but inhale. There are many sayings about the Pioneer Army circulating among the Japanese, each with different characteristics, but the Pioneer Army's excellent weapons and strong firepower are the same.

"Continue to attack!" Niushima Man said fiercely, "No matter who is opposite, they will not stop the brave imperial soldiers!"

He knew that after the plane was bombed, it would take a long time to have a second attack, and the vanguard army on the opposite side seemed to have insufficient firepower. Although the Japanese suffered heavy losses, they still had the ability to fight. This seemed to be an opportunity to defeat the vanguard army.

The seven or eight 75 field cannons from the two artillery positions of the Japanese behind kept bombarding, but they were much weaker than at the beginning. From time to time, the 80 mortars of the vanguard army also hit back. Although they could not fire the field cannons at a distance, they were still very effective in dealing with dense infantry areas. The Japanese attacked and did not build too many fortifications, and their anti-aircraft ability was also poor.

"Give it to the rabbit!" Colonel Sano Tora, the captain of the 23rd Infantry Regiment, stood in front of the team to command.

He didn't know that Chen Ergou could already see his beard in his scope.

"Bang!" With a crisp sound, a big hole was opened in Sano Tota's head and fell down like a piece of wood.

"The 99th one!" Chen Ergou was surprised and excited after seeing the assistant officer fall, he immediately rolled to the side, crawled out more than ten meters with his hands and feet, and a roar of shells came from behind him.
Chapter completed!