The Travelers of the Heavens

"Chairman, do you think we should send planes to bomb these Zhou Japs heading toward Guilin?" He Yingqin asked.

"Send some bombers," Jiang said.

""Yes" He Yingqin responded

"Chairman, there is news from Guangxi that the Guangxi clique is still expanding its troops. At present, they have formed the 46th and 56th armies." As soon as He Yingqin left, Dai Li came

"oh? snort! Li Delin is getting more and more excessive. He only wants to block the flow of reinforcements. Now he is actually expanding the army privately. What is he going to do?! Does he still have me as the chairman of the Military Commission in his eyes?" Jiang was very dissatisfied after hearing Dai Li's report.

In addition to the rebuilt 7th, 48th, and 123rd armies, the Guangxi faction also built new 124th and 123rd armies. 126 two armies, and soon the 31st, 39th, and 84th armies were established, and recently the 46th and 56th armies were newly built.

Currently, the Guangxi clique has 10 armies and 23 divisions, with a total strength of 250,000.

Yuanyuan Continuous military reinforcements and Li Zongyuan's prestige mean that today's Guangxi clique has neither equipment nor soldiers. Most of the soldiers in the 46th, 56th, 124th, and 126th armies are not from Guangxi, but from neighboring provinces. There are many young people who have defected to Guangxi, and there are more young people on their way to Guangxi. Li Zongyuan and Bai Chongxi welcome them very much.

We have reason to believe that if the Southern Front Corps of the Kyushu Army had not come to the door at this time, the final strength of the Guangxi clique would have been There are definitely more than 10 armies in size.

Almost all of these rebuilt or newly built Guangxi troops have been equipped with beautiful weapons. From the perspective of equipment, they are out-and-out elite troops, but the training progress of the personnel in each department is not ideal. , so their combat effectiveness is not strong.

After Chi Lian arrived in Chongqing, he found that another Jiuzhou Army that came in a truck had not arrived. After asking, he learned that three armies (the 96th, 104th, and 108th Army) had not yet arrived. After arriving in Chongqing, another army (the 103rd Army) actually set off for Guangxi without receiving orders after arriving in Chongqing.

The 103rd Army belonged to the 22nd Corps. Commander Shen Chong knew about this but chose Chi Lian arrived in Chongqing and learned of the situation. She criticized Shen Chong for allowing his subordinates to act randomly, and then ordered the 103rd Army in advance to immediately stop advancing and find favorable terrain to build positions to wait for the main force to follow. The

103rd Army in front of the advance was exactly Later, Chengdu discovered the troops marching towards Guilin through aerial reconnaissance.

Lieutenant General Li Ming, commander of the 103rd Army, was a man who was very happy with success. After he led his troops to Chongqing, he found that many troops had not arrived yet, so he had the idea of ​​​​taking credit and planned to capture it first. Guilin, and then attack Kunlun Pass, and then go straight to Nanning depending on the situation. Li Ming is very confident in his 103rd Army. The army has more than 100,000 troops, hundreds of cannons and more than a dozen tanks. Is such strength still possible? Why don't you break Guilin and Kunlun Pass?

Just as Li Ming was rushing forward, the president's order arrived, asking him to immediately stop advancing and wait for help.

Although Li Ming was very dissatisfied with this, he had to obey the order.

Just in the 103rd Army When building their position, five B-17C bombers of the Kuomintang Air Force attacked the unit, destroying more than ten cars, two tanks, five heavy artillery pieces, and killing and wounding more than 200 Kyushu soldiers.

But the army The anti-aircraft guns also damaged two B-17 bombers, so the bombing was not in vain. On

April 19, 1939, the main force of the Southern Front Corps joined Li Ming and continued to advance towards Guilin.

During this period, bombers and fighter jets of the Kuomintang Air Force Several air strikes were launched against the Southern Front Corps, but despite the resistance of more than a thousand anti-aircraft guns across the Corps, the Kuomintang aircraft did not take advantage. Three B-17 bombers and nine P36 fighter jets were shot down, and dozens of crew members were killed.

4 On March 25, Kuomintang planes struck again.

P36 fighter jets strafed the Kyushu Army at low altitude.

The command vehicle Chi Lian was riding in was parked on the side of the road. She and several senior officers were studying the map. The troops on the dirt road were slowly advancing.

"There's an airstrike! President, beware!"Liu Changwu saw the plane coming and immediately shouted

"Get down quickly! Get down quickly!"Then someone shouted again.

The Kyushu Army, which was suddenly attacked by an air attack, began to conduct air defense operations. Anti-aircraft guns and machine guns fired at the Kuomintang aircraft in the sky.

A P36 fighter jet rushed straight down towards Chi Lian's location, and the 12.7 mm machine gun on the aircraft began to fire. strafing

"Da da daDa da da"The bullet hit the bulletproof command vehicle.

But Chi Lian and other officers were safe because they had taken personal protection in advance.

Chi Lian, who was lying on the ground, took a mouthful of dirt.

"puff! spit! I'll fight with you all!"The disgraced Chi Lian swore angrily. She stood up and rushed onto the dirt road, pulled out the pistol from her waist, and fired at the Kuomintang aircraft that were circling back and forth. At this time, a"Mo" tank happened to be parked next to it. The tank soldiers He was also operating the 13.2mm machine gun on the top of the turret to shoot in the air.

Chi Lian jumped onto the tank with a quick step.

"go out!"She drove the tank soldier who was manipulating the machine gun out of the tank, and then stood in that position herself

"Damn fly, come on"Chi Lian yelled and controlled the 13.2mm machine gun to fire at the diving fighter jets.

"Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta-ta.. Da da da.."Click, click, click" 13.2mm machine gun bullets splashed into the air

"Bang!" A P36 fighter jet was hit by Chi Lian's machine gun in the head engine position. It burst into flames and then staggered into the nearby woods while smoking. Then only an explosion was heard.

"oh.. oh"The nearby Kyushu soldiers who were escaping in various directions cheered when they saw this scene.

Chi Lian's move also boosted morale

"Da da da.. Da da da"

"boom.. boom"

The anti-aircraft guns of the Kyushu Army continued to fire into the air, and the dense shells exploded into black fireworks in the air.

Seeing that the Kyushu Army's air defense firepower network was getting tighter, the Kuomintang aircraft adjusted their course and retreated.

"Damn it, I will take care of you sooner or later." Chi Lian jumped off the tank, looked at the Kuomintang plane flying away, and swore again. In this air strike, the Kuomintang plane destroyed nineteen Kyushu military vehicles, killing another More than a hundred Kyushu soldiers were injured.

After driving away the Kuomintang planes, the Southern Front Corps continued to advance.

More than one million Kyushu soldiers lined up in a long formation stretching for hundreds of miles and marched toward Guilin.

At this time , Guilin is not guarded by any regular Kuomintang troops. The city's garrison force only has one local security group. What's going on? This blame has to be shouldered by the Jiuzhou Army. In the past two years, the Jiuzhou Army launched several major battles that defeated the main force of the Kuomintang army. Annihilating all of them, the national army has been busy accepting M aid and rebuilding its troops in the past two years, and has no spare time to take care of places like Guilin, Kunlun Pass and even Changsha, Hunan. At this time, Jiang sent a telegram to Li Zongyu in Guangxi, asking him to send The troops guarded Guilin and Kunlun Pass.

Even if Jiang did not send a telegram, the Guangxi clique had already discovered the movements of the Kyushu Army, but it was too late. At this time, it was too late to send troops to Guilin to meet the enemy in a hurry, which was very detrimental to the troops..

However, Bai Chongxi still sent four divisions of the 124th and 126th Army to seize the Kunlun Pass and set up an ambush on the road to Nanning to wait for the Southern Front Corps to pass by so as to stage an ambush.

At the same time, Bai Chongxi also sent an additional division of the 56th Army to Nanning to strengthen. Defend the area.

Obviously, the troops of the five divisions of the Guangxi Clan cannot resist the Kyushu Army at all. However, fortunately, the terrain from Kunlun Pass to Nanning is complicated, which is not conducive to the deployment of large corps. When the Kyushu Army cannot deploy, it can only rely on" The"add fuel" tactic attacks forward.

But this is not a problem at all for the Kyushu Army, which has a large number of people and fierce firepower. On the contrary, the"add fuel" tactic is the Kyushu Army's favorite tactic.

Moreover, the Kyushu Army's artillery has a long range and power. Better than similar products from other countries in the world, Kunlun Pass and Nanning may have been blown into a pile of broken bricks by mountain-drilling artillery shells before the"adding fuel" tactics were implemented.