"Yes! We would have had a hard time without the Air Force's cooperation!"

Nobu Nobuya Takaoka Nobuna nodded worriedly and said, "The Imperial Army is much worse than the Chinese Tiger Army in terms of technical equipment, and the other party has the advantage of ground-to-air joint combat, which is even more powerful.

Although the Northern Shandong Plain Empire concentrated more than 200,000 troops and built a large number of fortification defense groups, passive defense could not stop the frontal attack of the Chinese Tiger Ben Army!”

"After all, it's still an Air Force issue."

Maedaji said with a dark face: "I don't understand why the air force formed by the great Japanese Empire can't defeat the air force of a Chinese warlord?"

"This is indeed an insolvable mystery!"

Nobu Nobuya took a deep breath and said in a comforting tone: "It is said that the new Imperial Air Force fighter will be successfully developed. I believe it won't take long to go, and the Imperial Air Force will be reborn again."

"I hope this day will come soon, otherwise the Imperial Army of the Great Sun Empire would be too frustrated!"

Maedaji sighed, this has always been his heart disease.

In the past or two years, Maedajima could be said to have been worried all day long. He was afraid that the Hu Ben Air Force would go crazy when he sleeps at night. He carried out indiscriminate bombing of surrounding cities at night, leaving himself in a frustrated way in his sleep.

When going out during the day, Maedajima often encounters the Huber fighter jets that come to perform reconnaissance missions hovering overhead. From time to time, they will also encounter the Huber fighter jets that dive down and shoot wildly, killing the Japanese and furiously overturning them, scaring Maedajima to death.

After a while, Maedajima not only did not dare to sleep on the ground, but basically spent the night in the underground air defense room, but also suspicious during the day, which made him feel a little nervous now.

Operation room of the 12th Japanese Army Command in Jinan.

Kobayashi Asazaburo pointed to the sand table and said, "At present, the main attack direction of the Chinese Tiger Ben Army is the defense line of the north bank of the Yellow River of the Imperial Army. They used hundreds of heavy artillery pieces at the same time to launch violent artillery attacks in three areas of Qidong County, Qingcheng County and Putai County!

Judging from all the signs, the Chinese Tiger Army is planning to find a break from the Yellow River defense line, and then break through the Yellow River and attack the northern Shandong Plain in one fell swoop!"

"The northern Shandong Plain is flat, and there is no dangerous terrain to stick to. The only natural danger of the Yellow River can be relied on. However, because the Yellow River is broken and diverted from the Yellow River, the Yellow River flow in Shandong has greatly reduced the flow rate, which can no longer be called a natural danger!

If the Chinese Tiger Army breaks through the Yellow River defense line at all costs, it will be difficult for the Imperial Army to stop it!

Once they are allowed to cross the Yellow River and break through the Yellow River defense line, the Imperial Army will have to fight with them in a decisive battle in the plains!”

"Since this is the case, they cannot break through the Yellow River defense line, make the Yellow River defense line an insurmountable natural barrier, and make it the tomb of the death of the Chinese Tiger Army."

The turtle with a gloomy color hid below and stood up, picked up the long wooden stick and gestured:

"The Great Japanese Empire has built a solid defense line of more than 200 kilometers on the original basis of the Yellow River defense line for another two years. There are strong and powerful bunker defense chains inside and outside. Can it be destroyed by bombing aircraft and cannons alone?"

Kobayashi Asazaburo said with a bitter face: "Otaka Jun, the most important thing at the moment is that the Imperial Army does not receive strong support from the Imperial Air Force, so that the Tiger Army bombers and heavy artillery units can unscrupulously bomb the Imperial Army's defense line along the river... "

"Then let them blow it up hard. I don't believe that their shells will be used up! When they consume the shells, the next battle will see what they use to fight against the Imperial Army!"

The Takagi Tsubasa interrupted with disdain and snorted coldly: "Even if they can destroy some ground targets, the Imperial Army of the Great Sun Empire can still make them bleed with the remaining fortifications!

What's more, sticking to the Yellow River defense line is the task of the 21st Army and the 22nd Army, so we don't need to worry about it now!"

At this time, Jing Shitiezang, the commander of the 32nd Division, spoke out: "What the commander said is that our main task is to stick to Jinan Prefecture. Beizhi believes that the Hu Ben Army will not only break through the Yellow River defense line to attack the northern Shandong Plain, but also want to conquer the military goal they want to conquer should still be Jinan City!"

"Then you don't have to worry about it! Our Jinan city is as solid as a rock, with an extremely strong defense system, and a total of 100,000 imperial troops stationed! You are not afraid of them coming to attack, you are afraid that they will not attack!"

Tai Gao Tutuzuma waved his hand confidently.

“…”

Kobayashi Asazaburo really doesn’t know what to say, and I really don’t know where the courage and confidence of Takaratoshi came from.

The situation is very clear at the moment, that is, the Hu Ben Army is serious this time, and it is definitely not a small fuss.

According to Yang Fan's previous battle examples and style of work, it is obvious that he is a master who plans and then acts and never fights a battle without confidence. This time, such a big fight will definitely not be that simple.

"The engineer boat bridge troops began to build pontoon bridges, dispatch ground attack aircraft and helicopters to be responsible for vigilance, and the artillery troops were responsible for cover and fire suppression at any time."

After one or two hours of crazy artillery bombardment, until the Japanese defensive lines along the river within a few kilometers of the other side were unheard of, and it seemed that they had no chance of life, Song Guoqiang ordered the engineers to set up the floating bridge.

Before the Huayuankou dike broke, the Yellow River surface in Qidong County is more than 200 meters wide, and now there is only a river surface less than tens of meters wide.

The mudflats on both sides of the strait gradually became hard after drying for a long time, so it was not difficult to build bridges. Of course, the prerequisite was that they had air supremacy and that Japanese artillery was suppressed.

After the bridge building order was issued, more than ten heavy construction vehicles drove down the gentle slope.

At the same time, four helicopters and two ground attack aircraft were also dispatched to be responsible for being alerted above and dealing with possible dangers at any time.

In a short while, more than ten heavy-duty construction vehicles arrived by the Yellow River.

Plop! Plop!

As soon as they arrived at the place, the engineers jumped out of the carriage and unloaded the pontoon bridge module on the project into the river at the fastest speed, and then began to build the pontoon bridge.

These pontoon bridge modules are modern bridge building technology, which is simple and fast to operate, and can be fully accessible to the main battle tank after being built.

"Nani, what is that?"

"Can you build a pontoon bridge like this?"

"Baga! No, hurry up, organize firepower to destroy immediately!"

After the shelling was over, the Japanese soldiers on the other side emerged from the underground bunker and lay on the edge of the trenches that had been broken and prepared for battle.
Chapter completed!