Bright Sword: Leading the Special Operations Squadron to Fight the Japs

Chang Guangzhou now had a feeling of being stabbed in the back, which made him feel very uncomfortable, and he seemed to smell a breath of danger. This feeling had been felt repeatedly on Dai Anlan.

Is it possible that Hu Lian is also going to join the Independent Column?

No, if it is not for my use, then the welfare column cannot get it!

"As a leader of a country, one cannot just consider military aspects, but also politics and economy. Hu Lian would not understand this.

Send him a telegram and return immediately without delay!"

Chen Bulei looked embarrassed. Why did Hu Lian suddenly come back?

"Sir, should Junru go back to the First War Zone or Chongqing?"

"Don't go to the First War Zone. Go back to Chongqing directly. I want to talk to him in person!"

"Yes."

Chen Burei immediately sent a telegram to Hu Lian in the name of the attendant office, ordering him to return to Chongqing immediately.

After receiving the telegram, Hu Lian sneered.

"Haha, it seems that my telegram has at least not fallen on deaf ears. Someone is worried!"

"General, what should we do now? Go back to Chongqing?"

"Well, I have to go back, but I haven't finished visiting the battlefield of the Independent Column yet. Let's put it off for now. Tomorrow I'll go north of the Yellow River and visit my old friends!"

Early the next morning, Hu Lian said goodbye to Wang Meng and prepared to visit Dai Anlan's position in the Third Army.

"General Hu, I also suggest that you talk more with General Dai Anlan. It may be of great inspiration to you. Some things are more clear to the bystanders than to the parties involved. Go out and see more."

"Haha, thank you Chief of Staff Wang for your reminder, but sometimes I can't help myself! Goodbye!"

“Take care along the way!”

Hu Lian lifted the curtain of the tent and set out on the journey north again.

However, Wang Meng played tricks and did not plan to return to Pingshun. Instead, he prepared to have some fun on the front line.

"General Jiayu, the situation in central Henan has stabilized. Next we should consider launching a counterattack! What's your plan?"

Li Jiayu walked to the front of the sand table and pointed at Yanshi, Gongyi and Dengfeng with a stick.

"Chief of Staff, the Japanese troops on the northern front, the 1st Division, the 110th Division, and the 3rd Tank Division have been severely damaged, and Gongyi only has one independent mixed brigade, the th.

So, my idea is that the 122nd Armored Division will attack Yanshi and Gongyi along the south bank of the Yellow River, and the 123rd Armored Division will attack Dengfeng in the southeast, and then advance to Xinmi! "

Li Jiayu then pointed to Yuzhou, northwest of Xuchang.

"Two divisions and one infantry brigade of the Ninth Army will attack Yuzhou, and then join forces with the Tenth Army heading north from Luohe to encircle Xuchang!"

At this time, Xuchang had already assembled the 5th Independent Mixed Brigade, the 7th Brigade, the 32nd Division, and the 35th Division, a total of more than Japanese soldiers. In addition, there were also a large number of puppet troops, estimated to be at least more than .

Among them, the 5th Independent Mixed Brigade is stationed in Yuzhou, northwest of Xuchang.

The 7th Independent Mixed Brigade was stationed in Changge, just north of Xuchang.

The 32nd Division was stationed in Linying, just south of Xuchang.

The 35th Division was stationed around the city of Xuchang.

"Okay, but in order to avoid turning this into a protracted war, we must take advantage of our strong mobility. Tomorrow morning at six o'clock, I will order the Fourth Army north of the Yellow River to advance towards the Yellow River Bridge and cut off the Japanese's traffic to the north.

When the Japanese come back to help Zhengzhou, you can use your speed to defeat their slowness and kill them by surprise!"

"Yes!"

Wang Meng immediately reported Li Jiayu's plan to the independent column headquarters. Li Yunlong was sulking in the Pingshun Military Fortress at the moment, and he was so angry that he gasped for breath when he received Wang Meng's telegram.

"I agree! But let Chief of Staff Wang return to Pingshun immediately. We have to stay here together. There's no reason for me to stay alone!"

But this telegram seemed to have disappeared without a trace.

The order to attack the Yellow River Bridge has been conveyed to the Third Army.

Dai Anlan immediately ordered the Sixth Army to hold Anyang and cut off possible reinforcements from the north. The 119th Armored Division, 120th Armored Infantry Division and 121st Infantry Brigade of the Seventh Army launched an attack on the Yellow River Iron Bridge from Xinxiang.

Chu Yunfei's mountain infantry division will secretly march to the official factory on the east side of the Yellow River Iron Bridge, ready to receive the next combat order at any time.

At six o'clock in the morning of the second day, planes from the three aviation divisions of the Independent Column prepared to take off and bomb the Japanese defense forces in Lizhuang, north of the Yellow River.

Tens of thousands of Japanese devils and puppet troops that Okamura Neiji had gathered from various strongholds on the north bank of the Yellow River were living leisurely in Lizhuang.

They thought it was another idle day, but when they saw the densely packed planes in the sky, they were all dumbfounded.

Originally, the combat effectiveness of these more than 10,000 Japanese devils and puppet troops was not very good. They were OK at guarding the artillery towers at ordinary times, but if they fought a positional war, they would be as useless as tofu dregs.

Fortunately, there were more than 8,000 puppet troops among the 10,000 mixed forces. They fully utilized the advantages of civil engineering and built the trenches beautifully and neatly.

According to the words of the puppet army, if the fortifications are well built, they can save lives, but if they are poorly built, they can become graves.

After the bombers of the aviation division of the Independent Column Air Force circled over Lizhuang twice, they ran away, wagging their tails with an unsatisfied look.

The 119th Armored Division, which was responsible for the main attack on Lizhuang, had already figured out the composition of Lizhuang's forces. It was not worth wasting energy on any tactics with this group of hastily assembled troops. All they had to do was launch a salvo of artillery fire, and then the tank regiment and armored infantry regiment would push forward.

Sure enough, after 20 minutes of artillery preparation, the Seventh Army Artillery Brigade used up a basic amount of ammunition. The puppet troops in Lizhuang could no longer bear it. When they were guarding the artillery tower before, they were at most hit by small steel cannons. How could they be hit by plane bombs and heavy artillery now?

The fortifications they dug could easily block ordinary small bombs, but they would be blown to pieces by howitzers and infantry guns with a caliber of 105 mm or above.

When the artillery fire stopped, the puppet troops were driven out by the Japanese soldiers, and then they showed their heads tremblingly.

Those puppet soldiers who escaped the disaster secretly rejoiced as they looked at their "comrades" who were blown to pieces around them.

But before I could be happy for long, I was hit hard by reality.

Looking along the horizon, rolling yellow dust appeared at the end of the distance.

The rumbling sound caused the yellow soil in the trenches to fall down. If nothing unexpected happened, it was the armored group of the 119th Armored Division.

The puppet army was completely broken. Didn’t they become puppet soldiers just because they were afraid of death? How did they become “hot-blooded men” willing to fight to the death?

In one word: bullshit!

The puppet troops, who were very perceptive, began to retreat on a large scale. Although the Japanese soldiers wanted to stop them, there were too many puppet troops to stop them.

By the time the 119th Armored Division was 200 meters away from the Lizhuang position, the Tiger tanks had only been hit by a few small cannon shots, and there was no other heavy fire attack, not even the "clang, clang, clang" of rifles could be heard.

In less than two hours, the first temporary defense line set up by General Okamura to the south of the Yellow River Bridge was breached.