Chapter 1 A Difficult Situation

Mao Wenxing, who had landed at Xuzhou Airport, was now in a very difficult situation.

Not only was his mood difficult, but his circumstances were also very difficult.

Because the reconnaissance plane he was flying could no longer take off after being parked at the airport.

There were two reasons: the first reason was that it was out of gas!

He had flown the plane here to refuel.

Originally, Mao Wenxing was also thinking of going to Tengxian to take a look after refueling.

It wasn't that the entire airport was out of fuel, but that his reconnaissance plane belonged to the Special Operations Brigade.

It was simply not within the fuel supply of the Fifth War Area.

In fact, the entire supply of the Special Operations Brigade had not yet been determined.

The airport ground crew was also very helpless: "We do everything according to the rules.

Although it is wartime now, the rules that should be there are still necessary.

Without an order from a superior, we cannot refuel a plane of unknown purpose."

Of course, this was not without a workaround: pay directly for fuel.

The Special Operations Brigade had money, but Mao Wenxing didn't have any money in his hands.

When he flew the plane to Xuzhou, he never thought that he would need to pay for fuel.

This wasn't anything, the second reason was deadly:

Because he was flying a Japanese reconnaissance plane.

He was detained by Zhen Duoyu, the chief of the airport logistics supply, on the grounds that he was suspected of being a Japanese spy.

Mao Wenxing didn't even have a chance to make a phone call to Lin Fan.

Zhen Duoyu was a student in the sixth class of the military academy run by President Chiang Kai-shek.

The intelligence he sent to the Military Intelligence Bureau immediately received attention.

Mao Wenxing, along with the plane, was heavily guarded.

Lin Fan was very strange that Mao Wenxing had not reported his safety to him.

In order to prevent him from flying out of radio communication range, the Special Operations Brigade had specially installed a radio station on this reconnaissance plane.

It could contact the Special Operations Brigade even thousands of miles away.

In order to know Mao Wenxing's whereabouts.

Lin Fan specially sent a telegram to the headquarters of the Fifth War Area to inquire.

The headquarters of the Fifth War Area immediately called Xuzhou Airport to look for a reconnaissance plane of the Special Operations Brigade.

Did it land at the airport?

The Special Operations Brigade had reported this plane before it came to Xuzhou.

The airport reported: no such plane had landed.

The commander of the Fifth War Area had seen too much of this situation.

Many planes were like this, never reaching their destination.

They were shot down by the Japanese on the way.

Lin Fan received a telegram in reply:

No sign of Mao Wenxing landing at Xuzhou Airport had been found.

He wondered in his heart: could there have been an accident on the way?

Lin Fan knew clearly: accidents happened frequently on the battlefield.

Besides feeling grief in his heart, there was nothing else he could do.

At six o'clock in the morning on March 17, the Japanese Tenth Division and the 106th Brigade jointly launched a bombing of Tengxian County.

This time, Division Commander Isoya Renjie had completely let go.

No longer paying attention to the American church north of Tengxian, he included the north of the city in the bombing range.

This was because he had discovered that the Sichuan Army defending Tengxian was too tenacious.

The Japanese plan was: if the outer defenses of Tengxian were taken down, the troops in Tengxian would run away.

The reality was: the outer defenses of Tengxian had been occupied.

The Sichuan Army defending Tengxian had no intention of retreating at all.

This put the Japanese in an awkward position.

In order to capture Tengxian, they couldn't care about anything now.

The bombing that started at six o'clock was concentrated with all the artillery of the more than 30,000 Japanese troops.

Including an independent artillery regiment, the artillery battalions of each regiment in the division, the infantry guns in each infantry battalion.

And the tank guns on the tanks, all joined the bombing.

Even so, Division Commander Isoya Renjie had invited outside help.

A bomber group took off from Beiping Nanyuan Airport.

Upon receiving his request, the Japanese Army Air Force team at Nanyuan Airport was very unwilling to send out bombers.

This was because, in the past few days, they had already lost more than thirty planes in Tengxian.

But as an Army Air Force team, it simply did not have the courage to say no to Division Commander Isoya Renjie of the Tenth Division.

Although Division Commander Isoya Renjie was only a division commander, the combat effectiveness of his Tenth Division.

Was known throughout the entire empire, not to say it was number one in combat effectiveness.

It was also one of the top-ranked divisions in combat effectiveness among all the divisions in the entire empire!

It was only a matter of time before such a division commander became an army commander!

Beiping Nanyuan Airport dared not not send out a bomber group.

Based on the actual situation of the two squadrons being wrecked in Tengxian in the past few days.

Nanyuan Airport Commander Mizusawa Yūki ordered: send a fighter squadron to escort.

He specially instructed Captain Hatori Daisuke, who led the fighter squadron: be sure to eliminate the anti-aircraft fire of the Tengxian defenders first.

Thirty-six fighters escorted thirty-six bombers, and seventy-two planes flew mightily towards Tengxian.

The 22nd Army, which had been busy all night.

Could finally relax a little now.

Japanese shells rained down on Tengxian County.

The air defenses and fortifications built by the Sichuan Army overnight immediately came into play.

It was just that the houses in Tengxian County were once again in trouble.

The entire county was shrouded in the smoke of artillery fire.

One house after another collapsed in the Japanese artillery bombardment.

One shell crater after another also appeared on the streets.

This bombing lasted until seven o'clock.

A dark mass of black dots appeared in the sky to the north.

This was the squadron led by Captain Hatori Daisuke.

It was composed of a fighter squadron and a bomber squadron.

After taking off from Nanyuan Airport, Captain Hatori Daisuke had already arranged the formation of the entire squadron.

There were no Nationalist fighters in this sky long ago.

Except for the empire's fighters, there were no Nationalist fighters flying.

Therefore, the entire fighter squadron was at the very front of the fleet.

Captain Nikko Toshio led thirty-six bombers behind.

On the way to Tengxian, the atmosphere in the air with seventy-two planes was very relaxed.

As far as these Japanese could remember: they had never dispatched so many planes at once.

Even when fighting with hundreds of thousands of Nationalist troops at the Great Wall, they had not dispatched such a large air fleet.

Yamada Jiro, the captain of the first bomber squadron, said with a smile on the radio:

"Everyone, today will surely be a day recorded in history.

The North China Front Army has dispatched two air squadrons to fight for the first time.

And it is to bomb a small county.

After today, the entire Tengxian will cease to exist."

His words caused a chorus of agreement in the entire fleet.

The thirty-six bombers that went to carry out the bombing mission this time.

Because they didn't need to carry out other tasks, they all used their maximum capacity to load bombs.

The weight of the bombs on each bomber exceeded three tons.

One hundred and eight tons of explosives were all dumped into one county.

These Japanese couldn't imagine what would be left of that county.

Captain Kito Jusan of the bomber squadron said with a smile:

"Perhaps Tengxian after today will be a memory.

With more than one hundred tons of bombs dumped down, everything in this county will be turned into ashes!"

The power of these more than one hundred tons of bombs immediately aroused endless imagination among these Japanese in the air.

Speaking of Tengxian, these Japanese began to discuss that after erasing Tengxian from the map.

The Tenth Division would definitely take Xuzhou in one fell swoop.

At that time, the Nationalist army would definitely surrender and sign an agreement with the largest war defeat compensation amount in history.

When talking about this, Captain Nikko Toshio suddenly said:

"During World War I, Germany compensated the world with 132 billion gold marks.

Equivalent to 33 billion US dollars.

This time, the amount of compensation we demand from the Nationalist army must not be lower than this number."

This caused another wave of discussion.

Captain Hatori Daisuke said: "In the last war, let them compensate our country with one or two taels of silver per person.

This time, it would be good to let them compensate us with one or two taels of gold per person."

Captain Musashi Kotaro immediately began a tense calculation:

"They have 400 million people, which is 400 million taels of gold, 20 billion grams of gold.

Now one gram of gold is one dollar.

It is only equivalent to 20 billion US dollars.

Captain Hatori, I strongly oppose your proposal.

At least they have to compensate two taels of gold per person."

His words caused another burst of relaxed laughter among all the Japanese in the air.

Captain Hatori Daisuke didn't mind Musashi Kotaro's opposition at all.

He laughed and said: "Accept Captain Musashi Kotaro's opinion, let them compensate us with two taels of gold each.

At that time, the entire empire would have less than 80 million people, and each person could get ten taels of gold."

"Ten taels of gold!"

Just thinking about it could make these Japanese in the air salivate.

This was an ideal, also a fantasy.

In the eyes of these Japanese, this fantasy was so easy to realize.

They only needed to persevere a little longer and work harder.

Forcing the Nationalist army led by Chiang Kai-shek to surrender and sign the agreement would do.

These Japanese were full of infinite fantasies about the future.

Captain Yamada Jiro, who was flying at the front, reported loudly:

"Captain Hatori Daisuke, Tengxian is ahead.

I can already see the smoke rising from the county."

"That is the Tenth Division bombing Tengxian, now it's our turn to add fuel to the fire."

Captain Hatori Daisuke said excitedly.

Captain Musashi Kotaro asked suspiciously:

"The Sichuan army has all shrunk into Tengxian County, where are their air defense positions?"

Captain Kito Jusan said loudly: "The empire's artillery fire is so fierce.

Even if they have air defense positions.

At this time, they have already been blown to ashes."

This idea made sense!

Very reasonable.

Hatori Daisuke also thought it made sense, so he ordered:

"Fighter squadron, strafe the Sichuan army's positions in Tengxian.

If you find any artillery, call for support immediately.

Bomber squadron, bomb the Tengxian defenders' positions immediately."

His command obviously allowed the entire fleet to find their own targets to fight.

Of course, the entire squadron of seventy-two planes could not be concentrated together.

There was nothing wrong with this arrangement.

Captain Yamada Jiro had already led his squadron of twelve planes to swoop down towards the north of the city.

The previous two batches of Japanese planes had received orders when they set off:

They must not attack the north of Tengxian.

Of course, it was because there was a foreigner's church in the north of the city.

Not attacking them was to avoid international disputes.

Because the Sichuan army resisted too resolutely, this ban had been lifted.

Captain Musashi Kotaro slightly deviated and rushed towards the west of the city.

Captain Hatori Daisuke led another twelve fighters and rushed towards the east of the city.

Behind these fighters, each followed twelve bombers.

Although Captain Hatori Daisuke had allowed the bombers to move freely.

Captain Nikko Toshio was a very careful guy.

He still ordered each bomber squadron to closely follow behind the fighter squadron.

In this way, even if the Sichuan army still had hidden air defense forces in Tengxian County.

They would be discovered and shot down by the fighter squadron in the front.

Brigade Commander Setakei Hei of the Japanese Eighth Brigade personally led the team to attack the north of the city today.

He was also the first Japanese to see the plane fleet coming over.

The dark mass of planes in the air also stunned him.

Brigade Commander Setakei Hei never thought that today's air support would be so strong.

If he had known there was such strong air support.

The artillery bombardment just now could have been reduced a bit.

The 39th Regiment of the Eighth Brigade was attacking the north of Tengxian.

Regiment Commander Numata Takakazo looked at the planes flying over to add icing on the cake.

He was not particularly excited.

But the Japanese under his command were very excited.

Captain Kuiki Iimitsu pointed to the planes in the air and shouted loudly:

"Look! Planes!

Our planes!"

His squadron had received the order: it was one of the first teams to attack the north of the city.

Although the artillery bombardment was still continuing, these attacking teams were ready.

The Japanese in the entire Kuiki Iimitsu squadron were ready.

These Japanese were satisfied with the artillery bombardment that had lasted for an hour.

But they believed that the artillery bombardment was still somewhat insufficient.

It had not been able to blow down the city wall north of the city.

Now that bombers were coming, the Japanese in the Kuiki Iimitsu squadron had only one wish:

Blow up the city wall!

This was not the wish of one squadron.

The Weita Daxiang squadron, which had accepted the mission with them and was the first to attack the north of the city, also thought so.

These Japanese stood 1,000 meters away from the city wall.

They patiently watched the smoke rising from Tengxian County.

They looked forward to the still tenacious city wall in the distance.

Regiment Commander Noe Yoshio of the 40th Regiment also discovered the fleet that had appeared in the air.

The infantry of the entire regiment had not yet begun to attack.

When they saw the planes appearing in the air, they shouted excitedly on the ground.

These Japanese knew that with the help of these planes in the air.

Their attack on Tengxian would not be like yesterday.

Yesterday they paid a heavy price, but there was no effect.

Today was different, the strafing of the fighters and the bombs of the bombers would make the defending Sichuan army collapse.

The Watanabe Battalion and the Rikuzen Sōemon Battalion, which suffered heavy casualties in the attack yesterday, had been adjusted to be reserves today.

Now the 40th Regiment had appointed the Yokoyama Mitsuki Battalion as the vanguard team to attack the south of the city today.

Battalion Commander Yokoyama Mitsuki looked at the city wall still standing in the south of the city.

His wish was the same as that of the Japanese in the north of the city:

He hoped that the bomber fleet that had just arrived could blow up a section of the city wall.

Opening up a passage for them in the following attack.

This wish was beautiful.

In the eyes of the Japanese in the Yokoyama Mitsuki Battalion: it was also very easy to realize.

More than 30,000 Japanese who besieged Tengxian all saw the seventy-two planes in the air.

Their morale was unprecedentedly high, and if there was a lid on the sky, it would have been lifted by the morale of these Japanese.

Lin Fan calmly watched the Japanese fleet arrive in Tengxian and divided into three small fleets.

Saying they were small fleets, each fleet was actually two squadrons of Japanese.

They were already not small.

The Sichuan army brothers in Tengxian County, who were suffering from the Japanese shells.

Also discovered these Japanese planes.

Division Commander Wang Mingzhang looked at so many planes in the air and said with a wry smile:

"Let the bombing come more fiercely!"

The Japanese today were completely trying to erase the entire Tengxian in one fell swoop.

Lin Fan ignored the enemy planes rushing towards the west of the city.

The first thing he attacked was the fleet attacking the east of the city.

This was personally led by Captain Hatori Daisuke.

There were too many Japanese planes, and Lin Fan's movements were fast.

One minute, without spending a second more.

Twenty-four shells were fired.

Immediately, he changed direction again and welcomed the Japanese who were flying towards him.

Captain Musashi Kotaro only heard on the radio:

"Ah!"

"Ah!"

Such sounds, and he didn't even know what was happening.

Although he didn't know what had happened, he had already discovered the anti-aircraft gun west of the city.

He loudly ordered on the radio: "Anti-aircraft gun discovered.

It is on the city head west of the city.

I have led the team to start diving and will be able to take it down immediately.

Gentlemen, be patient, it will be over soon."

His squadron, without giving an order, all the Japanese in the entire squadron pounced on Lin Fan.

Lin Fan only sent them a volley of shots to express his welcome.

Obviously, Lin Fan's sincerity was insufficient.

In one minute, twenty-four shells were fired.

Immediately, he adjusted the angle of the anti-aircraft gun, and this time he was going to target those planes flying towards the north of the city.

Captain Yamada Jiro clearly heard what Captain Musashi Kotaro said.

But his eyes saw the wonders of the sky and the ground east of the city.

Clusters of fireworks exploded in the air, that was Captain Hatori Daisuke and the twenty-four planes that were acting with him.

They all turned into fireworks.

Some were still in the air, the fireworks had not yet dissipated, and it was obvious that they were still emitting a fiery light.

Huge mushroom clouds appeared on the ground.

This was something they had not seen before arriving in Tengxian.

Captain Yamada Jiro felt that his eyes were too few and he couldn't see enough.

The Musashi Kotaro squadron, which had vowed to take down the Sichuan army's anti-aircraft gun, seemed to have also been hit.

Countless explosions and flashes of fire appeared in the air again.

Now Captain Yamada Jiro couldn't care too much.

He ordered loudly: "Pull up the plane, leave Tengxian!

All planes turn around immediately and leave Tengxian!"

His squadron, along with the Kito Jusan bomber squadron following behind him, were all swooping down towards the north of the city.

At this time, they could no longer care about strafing, and they could no longer care about dropping bombs.

They began to flee separately.

Captain Yamada Jiro, in the midst of his busy schedule, was still not out of his mind.

He nervously analyzed the current situation: "There are countless plane wrecks and debris on the east and west sides.

Turning to these two directions at this time will crash into these debris, and life and death are unpredictable."

After thinking about it, he issued the latest order: "Pull up, try to pull up as high as possible to turn around.

Don't crash into the debris and wrecks."

Lin Fan did not hear his order, but he paused.

He did not fire immediately.

An Ping, the platoon leader who had led the soldiers to load the shells, asked:

"Brigade commander! Is there a problem?"

He saw Lin Fan stop for a while and not fire.

It was completely inconsistent with the brigade commander's style!

Just now, he was firing so urgently that he could accurately hit a plane with one shell.

Why did he stop now?

It was not only Platoon Leader An Ping who had doubts.

In the Zhang Jinghu's mansion in Tengxian County, Division Commander Wang Mingzhang was also waiting.

The Japanese planes that had rushed to the north of the city exploded in mid-air in an instant.

This stunned everyone in the 122nd Division headquarters.

Immediately afterwards, the Japanese planes rushing to the west of the city also exploded in mid-air.

Chief of Staff Zhao Weixian exclaimed: "Is Brigade Commander Lin performing magic?"

Then, the Japanese planes rushing to the north of the city had not dropped a single one.

"Why?"

These Sichuan army brothers guarding Tengxian County all had the same question.

Lin Fan smiled and said to An Ping: "Let the planes fly for a while.

If we shoot them down now, these planes will fall into Tengxian County.

Look at the east of the city and in front of us.

Where those planes fell, clusters of mushroom clouds are rising.

That is because after the planes disintegrated, the shells they carried fell on the ground and exploded."

Platoon Leader An Ping suddenly realized: the brigade commander was afraid of bombing his own people!

Lin Fan smiled silently, just staring at the Japanese planes in the air.

He waited until these enemy planes had all pulled up to a high altitude before firing.

Division Commander Wang Mingzhang watched the Japanese planes disintegrate one after another in the air.

He also understood: "Brigade Commander Lin is a good brigade commander!"

"Division commander! Why are you making such a sigh?" Deputy Division Commander Luo Jiaxin asked.

"He didn't fail to hit these enemy planes just now.

Brigade Commander Lin was waiting for these enemy planes to escape the county's range before firing.

The purpose is not to let these Japanese planes fall into the county.

You have all seen the mushroom clouds rising in the east and west of the city.

Those were all caused by the crash of the Japanese planes.

The bombs loaded on the Japanese bombers should not have had time to be dropped.

They fell to the ground and exploded."

Everyone understood now.

"It would be great if they could bomb the Japanese." Chief of Staff Zhao Weixian said with a smile.

At this time, the planes in the air had all exploded and were falling to the ground.

Another round of mushroom clouds rose.

The Japanese in the Yokoyama Mitsuki Battalion saw the beginning of the arrival of the planes in the air.

They fantasized that these planes could blow Tengxian to pieces.

They also hoped that these planes could blow open the city wall.

Their soap bubbles of fantasy were colorful.

When they were blown bigger and bigger, they burst all of a sudden.

The planes in the air seemed to explode in an instant as if they had all been enchanted.

Before these planes arrived, the Tenth Division and the 106th Brigade, which were attacking Tengxian, had already bombed Tengxian for an hour.

It wouldn't have made much difference whether these planes came to help or not.

It was just that after they arrived, all the Japanese gave them too much hope.

How high their expectations were just now, how much their morale rose.

Now they have fallen just as deep.

The plane crashes were just a blow to the morale of the Japanese in other positions.

The spiritual level of things could not be seen directly.

The Japanese in the Numata Takakazo Regiment in the east of the city suffered a double blow of spirit and body.

Those pilots of the empire who came from afar used their lives to send a rain of bombs to the area where the entire regiment was located.

The plane wrecks that fell from the twelve fighters that disintegrated in the air, even if they hit a few Japanese.

The casualties would be limited, a minor problem that could be ignored.

The twelve bombers that flew over with these fighters each had a ton of bombs on them.

Now: twelve tons of bombs were scattered over the entire 39th Regiment.

They fell into the area where they were gathered.

One bomb after another exploded on the ground.

The Japanese teams in the Kuiki Iimitsu squadron and the Weita Daxiang squadron, who were ready to attack at any time.

Each bore two 360-kilogram bombs.

Such heavy bombs were enough to kill all humans and animals within a radius of 200 meters.

They were originally used to bomb fortresses and solid city walls.

At this time, they were used on the heads of two Japanese squadrons.

The two squadrons, who had been cheering just now, a total of nearly 400 Japanese.

All fell to the ground in an instant.

Whether they were hit by the fragments produced by the explosion of the bombs on their bodies or not.

The shock wave and the vibration from the ground were enough to make these Japanese die coldly.

The bombers that fell from the sky seemed to be afraid that these Japanese would not die completely.

They sent down another bomb of the same equivalent.

The Japanese in the Kuiki Iimitsu squadron and the Weita Daxiang squadron did not have two lives, nor did they have two blood bars.

They had already died when the first bomb exploded.

The second round of explosions was just bombing a loneliness.

All this was unknown to Lin Fan and the Sichuan army brothers in Tengxian County.

Such a scenario was not an isolated case. The 39th Regiment was not the only unlucky one in the Kuiki Iimitsu squadron and the Weita Daxiang squadron.

The entire regiment lost at least a battalion of troops in this unexpected disaster from the sky.

Even more unlucky than them were the Japanese in the 63rd Regiment.

Originally, the mission they received yesterday was to attack the west of the city.

At that time, the entire 63rd Regiment came from Zhangzhai and Huangjiashan, and the entire regiment was exhausted.

Regiment Commander Fukuyo Shinpei ordered the entire regiment to rest, and the attack would begin this morning.

As a result, Division Commander Isoya Renjie adjusted the offensive deployment last night, ordering the 63rd Regiment and the 40th Regiment to attack the south of the city together.

This was to make the south and west of the city a breakthrough.

Just in the process of the plane crash just now.

The Yamada fighter squadron and the bomber fleet following them, which Lin Fan had intentionally let go and allowed them to live a little longer, had several planes explode over the heads of the 63rd Regiment.

Then, one heavy bomb after another caused the 63rd Regiment, which had rested overnight and was full of energy, to suffer heavy casualties in an instant.

Regiment Commander Fukuyo Shinpei looked at the gathering place of the two battalions in front of him.

Two huge mushroom clouds rose up.

He couldn't catch his breath and almost fainted.

The Fukuyo Shinpei Regiment was not the most unlucky.

It could only be said to be the most unlucky in the Isoya Division.

The damage that these two air squadrons from Beiping Nanyuan Airport brought to the Japanese attacking Tengxian was far more than that.

The 106th Brigade, which had just arrived on the battlefield last night, was what Division Commander Isoya Renjie had placed high hopes on.

There was no other reason, just that there were more Japanese in this brigade now.

There were as many as 10,000 Japanese.

In order to facilitate the command of Brigade Commander Yamashita Daiki of the 106th Brigade.

Division Commander Isoya Renjie only gave it one mission: attack the west of the city.

Brigade Commander Yamashita Daiki was full of confidence.

In his opinion, there were more than 30,000 Japanese attacking Tengxian, and less than 5,000 Sichuan troops were defending Tengxian.

There was a disparity in strength and a disparity in weapons and equipment.

This was completely incomparable.

If the commander of the Sichuan army was calm, he should have taken the initiative to retreat last night.

Persisting until now could only show that the Sichuan army was stupid.

When he saw the planes coming to help, Brigade Commander Yamashita Daiki was very excited.

He had already made up his mind: his brigade must be the first to step into Tengxian.

Everything that happened next was too magical.

Brigade Commander Yamashita Daiki couldn't believe his eyes.

He rubbed his eyes several times before he had to believe that it wasn't his eyes that were bad.

It was just that the situation on the battlefield was changing too fast, and he didn't adapt.

All the planes in the air were blown up.

Twelve fighters disintegrated in the air, and all the plane wrecks fell like debris on the more than 10,000 Japanese on the ground.

What was even more terrifying was that twelve bombers, loaded with heavy bombs, flew over from Beiping.

And had not dropped a single one yet, so they were all dropped on the head of the Yamashita Daiki Brigade.

Tens of thousands of Japanese were distributed in a large area west of the city.

This gave those bombers a lot of room to play.

No matter where the bombs dropped by these twelve bombers were, they could accurately be received by the Japanese on the ground.

The Japanese in the Yamashita Daiki Brigade silently endured the bombing of twelve tons of bombs.

The number of these bombs was definitely not as many as the shells they had just fired into Tengxian.

But the equivalent of explosives they carried was definitely more than what they had fired into the city.

This also caused the entire Yamashita Daiki Brigade to lose at least 3,000 Japanese in such a wave of bombing.

Division Commander Isoya Renjie, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese attack on Tengxian, immediately felt that the sky was about to fall when he received the report sent back from the front line.

This air squadron was what he had strongly ordered Beiping Nanyuan Airport to send.

As a result, they not only did not make any effort to attack Tengxian, but instead disrupted his carefully arranged offensive plan.

Now the time was only 7:15 am on March 17.

The offensive had not officially started today, and the entire attacking Japanese army had already suffered 6,000 casualties.

Equivalent to the loss of a regiment.

Division Commander Isoya Renjie, furious, ordered loudly:

"Attack! Attack! We must capture Tengxian today!

No matter what the cost, we must occupy Tengxian."

Division Commander Isoya Renjie's anger had soared to the ninth heaven.

More than 20,000 Japanese who had surrounded Tengxian, after receiving the order.

They simultaneously launched an attack on Tengxian.

Before the Japanese planes arrived, they had already bombed Tengxian for an hour.

The Sichuan army's positions defending Tengxian had been bombed almost completely.

Whether it was the Sichuan army's positions in the south, north, or west of the city, they were severely damaged by the Japanese artillery bombardment.

Now the Japanese infantry began to charge.

The gap in the southeast corner of Tengxian County was still the focus of the Japanese 40th Regiment and 39th Regiment's attack.

Yesterday, the Nagano Yoshio Regiment had attacked in.

Now Battalion Commander Yokoyama Mitsuki changed the offensive mode again.

With the help of the 39th Regiment, the Japanese troops of the two regiments were able to cooperate.

They concentrated forty-eight heavy machine guns and eight Type 92 infantry guns.

They fired directly outside the south of the city.

Battalion Commander Yokoyama Mitsuki ordered the Japanese under his command to send a squad to charge each time.

Each squad was 150 meters apart.

Regardless of the attack situation of the squad in front, the squad behind would continue to charge up.

This was the wave tactics adopted by Battalion Commander Yokoyama Mitsuki.

With so many heavy machine guns and infantry guns providing cover, the charging Japanese squad would not be attacked by the Sichuan army outside the city at all.

The defenders on the city wall could not raise their heads due to the fierce Japanese artillery fire.

They could only send heavy troops to the gap to wait for the Japanese to charge in.

Squad Leader Isozu Daiki led more than forty Japanese under his command to take charge of the first wave of attack today.

Originally, the Japanese under his command were fully staffed.

It was just that in the plane crash just now, a few unlucky ghosts were hit by the debris falling from the sky and died on the spot.

These Japanese carefully stayed on the front line of the battlefield, and they never thought that they would be smashed to death by planes.

Now these Japanese had rushed to the gap.

This position was also the only gap in the entire Tengxian County that had been blown open by the Japanese.

Squad Leader Isozu Daiki watched the Japanese under his command enter the gap by two meters.

They had not been attacked yet, and he was still a little excited:

"Has the Sichuan army run away?"

They had not been attacked by a single shot or bullet since they started charging.

He inevitably had such thoughts.

The next moment, Squad Leader Isozu Daiki knew that he was terribly wrong.

Company Commander I Hongbao, who was guarding here, only gave a one-word order: "Throw!"

Master Wang replenished his company with 100 grenades last night.

He didn't think of keeping one.

When 100 grenades were thrown out.

The Isozu Daiki squad, with only more than 40 Japanese, bore an average of two grenades per Japanese.

They could not bear such a great gift.

The entire squad fell in the constant explosion!

Not a single Japanese ran out.

The Japanese in the Isozu Daiki squad had just died.

The wounds on the corpse were still gurgling with blood.

The Fujiyama Hideki squad following behind it approached the moat again.

Company Commander I Hongbao looked at the Japanese who fell at the gap.

He shouted loudly to encourage: "Brothers! Just now we killed another squad of Japanese.

Today is just the beginning, we will kill one Japanese who comes up.

We will not let a single Japanese go back alive."

His mobilization had just ended, and the Japanese in the Fujiyama Hideki squad showed their heads again.

"Hit!" Company Commander I Hongbao ordered loudly.

The grenades of his company had just been thrown out.

Now he could only use bullets to greet these Japanese.

The Fujiyama Hideki squad, which had just rushed into the gap, immediately lay on the ground and began to fight back.

Without grenades, a sudden destructive weapon of such a large area.

The counterattack of the Japanese in the Fujiyama Hideki squad was very effective, which also made the defense of Company Commander I Hongbao very difficult.

Just after the contact, there were casualties.

Wu Dazhuang's machine gun and his bunker played a huge role.

They firmly suppressed the Japanese in this squad at the gap.

Even so, the Japanese in the Fujiyama Hideki squad had not died yet.

The Kamizato Yuto squad, which was following behind them, also entered the gap.

Company Commander I Hongbao was under greater pressure.

He had to request reinforcements from the command.

Division Commander Wang Mingzhang, who had no soldiers to send, could only leave a squad of his guard company to protect the division headquarters.

The remaining soldiers were all sent to the southeast corner.

The entire defense of Tengxian was not only tight here in the southeast corner.

On the south city wall, Battalion Commander Yan Yu, whose weapons and equipment had been greatly changed yesterday, was also facing the same difficulties at this time.

Although the weapons of his battalion had been replaced with better ones.

The weapons and equipment of the Japanese who rushed up outside the city were even better than yesterday.

Although his battalion could still persist in fighting back against the Japanese outside the city.

But the casualties of the soldiers were increasing every minute.

Several times he wanted to ask the Special Operations Brigade in the west of the city for help.

But he heard the sound of gunfire from the west of the city, which was denser than in his direction.

He had to suppress this idea.

The sixteen tanks captured by the Special Operations Brigade yesterday had not played a role yet.

They were shot down by the dense Japanese artillery fire.

Just after Lin Fan blew up all the Japanese planes, he was wondering where this kid Mao Wenxing had gone?

At this time, if there was a pair of eyes in the air to command, he could also counter the Japanese artillery.

Now the Japanese artillery was rampant, and the tanks that had been hard to get back yesterday were scrapped again.

Even so, the fortifications set up by the Special Operations Brigade outside the city, relying on six tanks, were still there.

Although they had suffered some damage in the Japanese artillery bombardment, there were no casualties.

Brigade Commander Yamashita Daiki of the 106th Brigade had learned everything from the reports of the Japanese who were observing on the front line.

He knew that the artillery that had caused the planes to crash was in the west of the city.

This angered the brigade commander who had lost