24th Regiment Headquarters.

The commander asked in a deep voice: "Chief of Staff, is there any news from the reconnaissance team?"

The chief of staff responded: "No!"

The captain shouted: "It's been four hours, why is there no news at all?"

The chief of staff responded: "Your Majesty, Wing Commander, maybe they are on the way to retreat!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a wounded veteran walked out of the tent.

His face suddenly darkened, and the captain shouted: "What's going on? Why are you the only one coming back?"

With a drooped face, the Japanese veteran shouted: "Your Excellency, the captain, our reconnaissance unit was discovered by the Chinese army while performing a battlefield reconnaissance mission. I managed to escape only after fighting for my life!"

The captain shouted: "Nani? Where are the soldiers of the other empires? Are they all broken into pieces?"

The Japanese veteran shouted: "No! They were all captured by the Chinese army! In order to report the situation to you, I killed two of their sentries!"

The captain shouted in a low voice: "You did a good job. You are a brave soldier of the empire. Now go down and heal!"

The commander of the alliance commander gave a heavy nod, and the Japanese veteran shouted: "Hai! Thank you very much, your Excellency, commander of the alliance!"

At this time, the chief of staff shouted: "Your Excellency, division commander, it seems that the commander of the China Army opposite is not a good person!"

Sighing slightly, the captain shouted: "That's true. I didn't expect that they still saw through our plan after we arranged it so carefully!"

The chief of staff shouted: "Your Excellency, Wing Commander, then we can only attack directly!"

Nodding, the captain shouted: "That's all it can do now! When will the imperial aviation arrive on the battlefield?"

The chief of staff shouted: "It's estimated that there will be another hour!"

The commander of the regiment asked again: "Has the heavy artillery arrived in Guanjia Town?"

The chief of staff shouted: "Reporting to your Excellency, the commander of the regiment, six heavy artillery pieces have just arrived!"

The commander's voice was a bit excited: "Yoshi! What are you waiting for? Hurry up and bombard the China Army!"

Frowning slightly, the chief of staff shouted: "Unfortunately, according to the latest intelligence, our artillery shells were ambushed by the Gui army midway along the railway!"

His face fell again, and the commander exclaimed: "Nani? When will the second batch of shells arrive?"

Sighing slightly, the chief of staff shouted: "It will still be three hours later!"

After pondering for a moment, the commander of the regiment shouted: "Three hours, I can't wait any longer. Order the infantry groups and aviation units to cross the river immediately after completing the bombing mission against the Chinese Army on the other side!"

The chief of staff responded: "Hai!"

At this time, an engineer squad leader came to report.

After giving a salute to the commander, the engineer squad leader shouted: "Reporting to your Excellency, the commander, the rubber boat is ready!"

The captain shouted: "Yoshi! Well done!"

Immediately, the commander of the regiment shouted to the chief of staff: "Order!"

The chief of staff suddenly paused and raised his neck.

The captain of the regiment groaned and shouted: "The first brigade, as the first attack echelon, will cross the Huaihe River first, the second brigade will cover on the shore, and the third brigade will serve as a reserve force and follow up to support at any time!"

With a heavy nod, the chief of staff shouted: "Hai!"

Soon, the Japanese soldiers along the Huaihe River boarded the boats one after another, preparing to cross the Huaihe River at Xiaobengbu and take the river beach position in Bengbu City.

Before the Japanese soldiers had finished boarding the ship, they heard the roar of bomber engines behind them.

The Japs from the first brigade cheered.

Every Japanese soldier raised his hand and shouted loudly: "The empire will be victorious! The empire will be victorious!"

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Bengbu river beach position.

Upon hearing the bad news that the Japanese had escaped and killed two sentries, Liang Shanhao was so angry that he kicked Han Chongcheng hard.

Liang Shanhao cursed angrily: "Captain Han, what are you doing for food? You can't even keep a few Japanese prisoners in check, and you even made two brothers lose their lives!"

With a drooped face, Han Chongcheng shouted: "Commander, please calm down, I don't want to do that either. Who knew that Japanese veteran was so ruthless that the sentry guarding him was killed with his bare hands before he even had time to draw his gun!"

After thinking for a moment, Liang Shanhao shouted: "As of now, I can't blame you entirely for this matter. It's true that the Japanese veterans are fierce, but you can't escape your involvement in the death of two sentries!"

With a look of remorse on his face, Han Chongcheng cried out in a tearful voice: "Tuanzuo, I'm sorry for my dead brother, I'm willing to be punished!"

Liang Shanhao shouted: "What's the use of punishing you now! I'll give you a task!"

Putting away the remorseful look on his face, Han Chongcheng shouted: "Everyone in the group! Please speak!"

Liang Shanhao groaned and shouted: "The remaining Japanese prisoners cannot take advantage of them, they should all be on guard for me!"

After a slight hesitation, Han Chongcheng shouted: "The group seat means..."

With a bad smile on his face, Liang Shanhao snorted coldly: "Let them make a human wall to disgust the little devil!"

Han Chongcheng shouted in a low voice: "Commander, isn't it a little inappropriate to do this? Isn't it abusing the prisoners of the warring countries?"

Liang Shanhao shouted: "Why is it not appropriate? I think it is quite appropriate. I want to see if the little devil dares to attack one of my own!"

Han Chongcheng shouted: "Okay, then I'll go down and prepare now!"

As soon as Han Chongcheng walked out of the shelter, the sound of Japanese bomber engines could be heard in the sky.

At that moment, Liang Shanhao quickly jumped out of the shelter.

At this time, the soldiers of the 720th Regiment had already hid in the air-raid shelter in an orderly manner according to Liang Shanhao's pre-war order.

The cat crouched and walked quickly towards the air defense position. Liang Shanhao shouted repeatedly: "The anti-aircraft machine gun is not allowed to fire without my order!"

After hearing Liang Shanhao's order, the three anti-aircraft machine guns quietly waited for the Japanese planes to fly over the position.

Japanese bombers formed a line on the south bank of the Huaihe River and flew towards the north bank.

Holding his breath, Liang Shanhao carefully calculated the distance between the Japanese aircraft and the anti-aircraft machine guns.

Soon, Japanese bombers flew over the river beach position, and then aerial bombs began to fall on the position one after another!

call out!

Mixed with a piercing roar, an aerial bomb exploded, destroying part of the fortifications.

Some soldiers of the 720th Regiment were very unlucky. Although they had already hid in the air-raid shelter before the Japanese planes arrived, the Japanese aerial bomb hit the air-raid hole head-on.

All the soldiers in the anti-gun cave were buried alive by the collapsed anti-gun cave.

With red eyes, Liang Shanhao raised his voice and shouted: "All air defense machine gun groups, listen to my orders!"

Upon hearing this, the three anti-aircraft machine gun groups took off the camouflage on their machine guns, and three Maxim heavy machine guns appeared under the Japanese bomber.

A Japanese bomber thought that the Chinese army had no anti-aircraft weapons, so it kept flying very low to increase its hit rate.

But this provides an excellent shooting target for anti-aircraft machine guns.

Staring at the Japanese bomber, Liang Shanhao shouted: "At 12 o'clock, hit me!"

The three anti-aircraft machine guns turned their muzzles one after another and fired wildly at the Japanese bomber!

Da da da!

In an instant, three streams of iron shot straight towards the belly of the Japanese bomber.

In a flash of lightning, the Japanese bomber's fuselage was riddled with bullet holes, and at the same time, the fuel tank was also hit by bullets and caught fire.

The Japanese bomber had no choice but to rush straight towards the anti-aircraft machine gun and crashed down!

The machine gunners couldn't help but lower their heads.

Facing such a big scene, Liang Shanhao had a look of astonishment on his face but his expression remained unchanged.

Finally, there was no danger. The Japanese bomber passed over the heads of the machine gunners and fell at another position at 12 o'clock.
Chapter completed!