." Although he was extremely reluctant to admit that he might face defeat, for the sake of the overall situation, Zhang Zizhong had to inform the Southwest Army of the battle situation here, because according to his and Fang Shuhong's predictions, the position would be breached in the evening. The two divisions could no longer bear it.

The focus of the Japanese attack was on.

Subsequently, Zhang Zizhong ordered to the communications staff: "Send power to Peiping and ask for support."

"Report, the commander of the 38th Division of the Communist Party of China, Zhang Zizhong, called us and asked us to prepare for the worst." Ma Wenwu, the forward commander of the Baoding offensive force, received the report.

Ma Wenwu pondered for a moment, discussed with Gao Feng, chief of staff of the Third Division, and then ordered, "The first regiment of the Eighth Division of the Garrison Division immediately moved to the direction of Xushui, and the second regiment moved to the direction of Xin'an, waiting for orders, ready to invest

Support the fight."

"The military department is right in thinking that Japan may not be able to stop the Japanese army."

Gao Feng said with emotion that the military department was worried that the encirclement and annihilation operation would fall short due to the weakness of the army in the area of ​​​​attack, so it mobilized two divisions and two garrison regiments to participate in the encirclement and annihilation. In fact, according to Jiang Baili's calculations,

The two main southwest divisions are fully capable of eating up the fifth division.

The two extra garrison regiments were actually prepared to prevent unexpected events.

"Well, now the Fifth Division has been surrounded by us. When the bombers are in place tomorrow, we can launch a general offensive and quickly resolve the battle. By then, we may be able to defeat the two Japanese divisions in Xushui and Xin'an.

A turnaround."

Ma Wenwu gestured on the map and said, and the two began to discuss the issue of general attack.

"Commander, Peking Secret Telegraph."

Zhang Shusheng was dealing with a report on the construction of a large hydropower station on the Jinsha River in Sichuan. When he heard that it was a secret power station in Peking, he took out a secret phone after Mao Yun went out and closed the door.

"I am Zhang Shusheng."

"Teacher, I am Chen Jun."

On the other side of Peiping, Chen Jun was picking up a long-distance phone to report in a secret communications office manned by agents from the Special Intelligence Department. "We have just received a request for help from the Xuzhou and Xin'an interception forces forwarded by Chen Cheng. Four

The division is fighting very hard and can hardly hold on any longer. It seems that he wants us to rescue these two places.

The situation here in Peiping is that two Japanese divisions are frantically attacking the defense line, specifically attacking the positions defended by the second-class division. Although the battle is not as brutal as the Baoding battlefield, the casualties are also very high.

In the direction of Baoding, the two reserve regiments have moved towards Xin'an and Xushui and are ready to block the gap. They only need to delay the Japanese army for one day to complete the task, so it is enough."

"Well, the Baoding Annihilation War caught the Japanese army by surprise. If time permits, more military divisions are mobilized for blocking operations, and the sudden 'nature' of the battle will be lost." Zhang Shusheng understands this truth, not that it means

It would have been better to mobilize seven or eight divisions to serve as blocking troops, but the poles and cylinders might slip off at both ends. Therefore, we only secretly removed two ** divisions and two divisions on the railway line.

However, although Shirakawa Yoshinori was too afraid of the main division in the southwest, so he unexpectedly mobilized two divisions to rescue the fifth division, this does not mean that the earlier arrangement was wrong. Just imagine if more divisions had been deployed before

Heading to Baoding, if the Japanese army adopts the tactic of encircling Wei and rescuing Zhao, and concentrates four divisions to attack the Peiping defense line, which has mobilized a large number of troops, especially when the main southwest force heads to Baoding, the battle situation may only become more tragic.

"Teacher, Chief of Staff Chiang and I mainly have two considerations regarding **'s request for help. One is to let it go, and the other is to rescue. On this point, you need to make the final decision."

Zhang Shusheng was silent for a while. He was not surprised that Chen Jun said such words. The battle between camps is not absurd. On the contrary, it is a common phenomenon in China's cultural heritage. From Chen Jun's perspective,

As a general in the southwest, while ensuring the final undefeated battle, while weakening the Japanese forces, and in this situation of whether he can be saved or not, people will be unable to find any fault.

After a long time, Zhang Shusheng finally made a decision, "Let the airport perform air support missions and conduct air strikes according to the first-level support standards. In addition, the two regiments from Baoding have also invested in it. There is no need to rush. We will wait until the Japanese are defeated."

He knew that he was not yet a qualified politician. If Chairman Chiang had received the same call, he might have given the opposite order. This had happened before in history. Although there are different opinions, the committee member

The leader did indeed resort to some conspiracies and tricks that were harmful to others and not beneficial to himself.

At...forty o'clock in the afternoon, Daxing Airport suddenly sounded a piercing combat siren, and the bomber formations on the second runway that were on standby 24 hours a day finally began to take off one after another.

Almost at the same time, on the second newly built runway of Taiyuan North Airport, various bombers and fighter planes that had completed the final pre-takeoff inspection procedures began to enter the take-off procedure.

The ones at the front are the Type-31 medium-range bomber modified from the Type-31 transport aircraft and the H-2 and H-3 bombers.

With a straight-line distance of more than 300 kilometers, old-fashioned fighters are no longer suitable for participating in combat. Therefore, in addition to the H-2 modified bombers, the ones taking off this time are H-3 bombers, -31 modified bombers and the combat radius has been greatly improved.

J-3 fighter jet.

According to the combat deployment, this batch of fighter planes will support Baoding's Southwest Army from the air, conduct the first wave of air strikes against the Japanese army, and help quickly annihilate the Fifth Division.

The fighter planes taking off from Daxing Airport are mainly temporary operations and will provide emergency air support to the anti-Japanese forces in Xushui and Xin'an.

Four ten in the afternoon.

Zhang Zizhong lay in the temporarily dug trench, lighting up a cigarette with trembling hands. The battle was already heating up. The Japanese army seemed to have discovered that the resistance of the Chinese Army had dropped to a dangerous level, and began to launch a more desperate attack.

As the division commander, Zhang Zizhong had already chopped down two Japanese soldiers with his command knife. If he hadn't taken the lead, the frontal position that the second regiment was responsible for just now would have been lost. The positions of the other two regiments were not much better.

In a precarious state.

"Division Commander, Commander Fang is injured and has been sent to the field hospital."

The signal corps once again brought bad news.

"A general dies in a hundred battles, but his loyal bones are buried in the green mountains."

Zhang Zizhong stood up with support, looked at the great rivers and mountains in the distance, and couldn't help but sigh, "Commitment, committee, if I have the strength of Southwest, why should I be afraid of the Japanese?"

Over this period of time, he has gained a considerable understanding of the combat effectiveness of the Southwest Army. As far as he knows, although the Southwest Army seems to have performed exceptionally well on the battlefields of Tianjin and Beijing, it is actually far from their true strength. Rumor has it that their

The reason why the main division is composed of three regiments of infantry is because it is reserved for tank troops. I heard that their main divisions in the first few serial numbers even had a tank regiment. Moreover,

They also had strong air support. If the battlefield was in the south, he believed that the Japanese army would be blown to pieces by the huge air force in the southwest. In addition, some news from the army and what he saw on the railway line

It seemed that the Southwest Army was transporting artillery to the Tianjin-Beijing battlefield on a large scale. While he was stationed on the railway line, he just learned about it by the way and got an astonishing prediction number.

He knew that the southwest was controlled by logistics, while the party-state was controlled by overall strength. He firmly believed that the victory of the Anti-Japanese War would belong to China simply because China's most powerful military force was dormant in the southwest.

"Whether the equipment is poor or the training is not enough, the battle will eventually be fought. I really hope to see the day when the Japanese invaders surrender..." Perhaps because he realized that he was about to die in battle and die for his country, Zhang Zizhong felt a little inexplicable.

"Commander, the Japanese army has launched another attack."

Zhang Zizhong just glanced through the observation hole of the trench and knew that the time for the decisive battle had arrived. Looking around, he saw that the entire two to three hundred meter long hillside was full of Japanese troops. Looking at the position, there were less than three people capable of fighting.

One-tenth of it.

"Brothers, I have never been kind to you, Zhang Zizhong, but today, I am not afraid of death and will accompany my brothers all the way to the end."

Zhang Zizhong knew that even if Xinan put aside his prejudices and came to support him, it would probably be too late.

"Bang bang bang..."

"Da da da..."

"boom……"

The battle has begun again, but defeat is approaching. If we do not choose to retreat towards Baoding, we can only choose to die collectively or unfortunately be captured.

"Buzzing..."

At this moment, a strange sound began to come from far away.

"The sound of the propeller" Zhang Zizhong was suddenly startled, quickly fired the bullet from the barrel of the rifle, and then looked up.

"Commander, plane, plane"

Just when Zhang Zizhong was worried that it might be a Japanese aircraft, the densely packed group of aircraft that had just arrived were already swooping or dropping, and the target was actually not the Japanese army, but the attacking Japanese army.

"Boom...boom..."

The aerial bomb made a long whistling sound, fell freely, and fell into the Japanese offensive formation. The 500-kilogram heavy aerial bomb set off a huge explosion. With the naked eye, Zhang Zizhong saw at least twenty or thirty people.

The devil was blown away.

It was completely useless to dodge. Even the Japanese soldiers hiding behind the rocks were easily blown away and torn apart. At this time, the so-called well-trained soldiers could not save these Japanese soldiers.

Regardless of whether he is a sergeant or an ordinary soldier, whether he is a major or a lieutenant, as long as he is on the offensive route, he will be bombarded by emotion. Some Japanese soldiers followed the soldier's "drill" code and hid behind big rocks, preparing to wait for a short period of time.

The air attack was carried out because the Japanese aircraft had less explosive power and had a shorter stay in the air.

However, the aircraft in Southwest China were different. The heavy bombs dropped one after another, the lightest one weighing 100 kilograms. This kind of power was far beyond the power of heavy artillery.

Looking around, some stumps flew higher than the ** positions. Two Japanese stumps even fell into the trenches of the 38th Division. The violent explosion made people never see the power of the 500 kilogram aviation bomb in the southwest.

The ** officers and soldiers felt an aura that was close to the anger of heaven and earth.

"Da da da..."

It is similar to the sound of Maxim machine gun fire, but the sound of machine gun is much denser. It is the roar of the Southwest fighter planes that dive and fire at low altitude. The aviation machine guns under the belly of the aircraft continue to plow through the Japanese ranks.

The two roads of death started from the foot of the mountain and stretched all the way to the top of the mountain. When they were approaching the Japanese position, they suddenly pulled up the nose of the plane and passed over the heads of the Japanese soldiers.

Even Zhang Zizhong himself could clearly see the golden dragon flag, iron blood flag and five-star logo on the belly of the plane. Some soldiers even saw the mysterious pilot in the cockpit of the plane, whose whole body was covered by clothes and hats.

"This is the reinforcement... Brothers, the air force brothers in the southwest are supporting us. Everyone, work harder to hold off the Japanese on the last day. We will annihilate the fifth division and win the final victory."

Zhang Zizhong shouted excitedly and issued the combat order. The soldiers recovered from the initial shock and continued to shoot at the Japanese army.

The arrival of the Southwest Air Force made everyone's blood boil. At this time, no one cared about whether it was a Southwest aircraft or anything else. They only needed to know that it was a Chinese aircraft.

Looking at the Japanese soldiers who were blown away and torn apart one by one, everyone felt a sense of revenge.

Aren't you just his mother-in-law who bullies the weak Chinese people by relying on their strong military capabilities?

Aren’t you the ones who call us the sick men of East Asia?

Aren't you the ones who wantonly massacred people in China?

Look at you now, you have been massacred even more brutally, but you are equally powerless to fight back.

"If you have the guts, you **** have the guts to fight back, if you have the guts to pick down the plane with your bayonets, hahaha..."
To be continued...