Wan Xiangyun was blinded by his own greed and seriously underestimated the response speed of Dameishan Military Division.
Especially now that the Dameishan Military Division has just established its first armored regiment, its mobility has been greatly improved.
Just after Xu Rui issued a warning to the 32nd Group Army, the cavalry battalion, the guard battalion, and the first battalion of the 1st Armored Regiment, as the vanguard of the Dameishan Military Division, had already moved ahead and marched toward Feicheng along the highway.
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Mei Jiuling, who had just been promoted to commander of the 1st Armored Regiment, accompanied the 1st Battalion and personally drove the 101-numbered 101 medium tank as the vanguard of the entire armored battalion.
The car was stuffy, and after driving forward for a while, Mei Jiuling handed over the driving task to He Dacong, then opened the turret cover, climbed out from inside the turret, and took a breath.
The First Armored Battalion has a total of three armored companies, each of which is equipped with ten tanks. The first and second companies are equipped with Type 97 medium tanks, and the third company is equipped with Type 95 light tanks. With the armored battalion,
With thirty tanks, the officers and soldiers of the guard camp no longer have to march on foot.
As a result, the officers and soldiers of the guard battalion swarmed onto the tanks of the armored battalion and took a ride.
After successive battles, the guard battalion has reduced its strength by more than one-third, and now there are only about 400 people left, so each tank can only carry a dozen people, and the total weight of a dozen people is less than one
tons, which is nothing to the Type 95 light tank, which weighs more than seven tons, and it is even less worth mentioning to the Type 97.
Even Mei Jiuling's No. 101 tank was covered with officers and soldiers from the guard battalion.
Guard battalion commander Qiu Feng happened to be sitting on Mei Jiuling's No. 101 tank. When he saw Mei Jiuling getting out of the turret, he couldn't help but joked: "I said Mei Xiucai, you are so powerful now, the whole army
There are so many regiment commanders and battalion commanders in the division, and among them you are the most majestic."
"It made Camp Commander Qiu laugh." Mei Jiuling chuckled, unable to hide the proud look between her brows.
"Look at your virtue, you are really out of breath when you are said to be fat." Qiu Feng laughed and scolded, "I remember when the regiment commander appointed you as the engineer battalion commander. That guy, with that little pout,
You can even hang an oil bottle." As he said this, Qiu Feng pouted in a serious manner, and the officers and soldiers of the guard battalion who were hitching a ride burst into laughter.
Mei Jiuling just laughed, looking harmless and saying whatever you want, I won't be angry.
Mei Jiuling thought in her heart: Lao Qiu, I know you are upset, because before yesterday we were on the same level, but now I am the regimental commander, but you are still the battalion commander, so I don't know the same as you.
So if your guard camp wants to take a ride or something, I don't care.
While marching, the cavalry battalion commander Tiegang caught up with him on horseback and said to Mei Jiuling: "Mei Xiucai, it looks like it's going to rain today. Did your 1st Armored Battalion bring a raincoat? Lend it to us."
"Raining?" Mei Jiuling really didn't pay attention to the weather.
Looking up, Mei Jiuling found that the sky was covered with dark clouds and the pressure was very low. It really looked like it was going to rain.
Mei Jiuling didn't even think about it. If it weren't for the heavy clouds, how could Xu Rui dispatch the armored troops so easily? Do you really think that the Jaap's aviation force was just a display? Once the Jaap's reconnaissance plane discovered the armored corps of the Dameishan Military Division, less than one
Hours later, the Japanese bombers would swarm in, and even a tank division would be destroyed.
Before Mei Jiuling could answer, Qiu Feng asked casually: "Didn't your cavalry battalion bring raincoats?"
"I forgot." Tiegang shook his head and said with a wry smile, "Isn't this the day off I just took off in the morning? I took off all the makeup, and then just after lunch, I gathered again. I left in a hurry and left all my clothes hanging on the ground.
I have forgotten the raincoat and blanket outside, and I am still worried about what I will do when I camp at night."
Qiu Feng said: "It's such a cold day, how can we do without a blanket?"
After finishing speaking, Qiu Feng turned around and shouted: "Young man, give all the blankets of your third company to the cavalry battalion. Your brothers in the third company will squeeze in with the brothers in the first company and share the same blanket."
"You want it." Xue Laoyao stood up and shouted, "Brothers of the third company, please give your blankets to the cavalry battalion."
"Thank you, Lao Qiu. I'll treat you to a drink later." Tiegang raised his one arm and saluted Qiufeng with a military salute, then turned to ask Mei Jiuling, who was still in a daze, "I said, Mei Xiucai, do you have a raincoat?"
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Having already borrowed a blanket from the guard camp, Tie Gang was too embarrassed to borrow a raincoat.
"No." Mei Jiuling shook his head, "We are armored soldiers, what are we doing with that thing?"
"I'm going, then you should have told me earlier." Tiegang grunted, and accelerated away with his hands on the horse's belly.
After Tiegang Dama left, the clouds in the sky became lower and lower, and the color became darker and darker. However, the rain still did not fall after all. Instead, Xu Rui drove a truck himself and chased after him.
Following Xu Rui, there was also a whole truckload of Langya, and Langya captain Leng Tiefeng was also among them.
After catching up with the cavalry battalion, the guard battalion and the marching column of the 1st Armored Battalion, Xu Rui immediately summoned Mei Jiuling and Qiufeng Buyou Tiegang to him and held a short meeting. During this short meeting, Xu Rui
Rui informed Mei Jiuling, Qiu Feng and Tiegang of the latest news: the 32nd Army had not given up and was still attacking Feixi Town.
"Wan Xiangyun is looking for death!" Xu Rui said in a ferocious voice, "Since he wants to die, then we will help him!"
After a pause, Xu Rui shouted again: "Now I order the cavalry battalion, the first armored battalion and the guard battalion to advance at full speed and must reach Feixi Town before evening!"
Good guy, Xu Rui was really angry. He originally said he would arrive at Feixi Town before noon tomorrow, but not long after, he immediately changed his intention to arrive at Feixi Town before evening!
However, this is really not a slap on the head decision, but the result of Xu Rui's careful calculation, because it is almost a hundred kilometers from Meixian County to Feixi Town. If you march on foot, it will take at least a day and night, but if you march by car
, then the speed will be greatly accelerated and the time will be greatly shortened.
The maximum speed of the Type 97 medium tank is close to 40 kilometers per hour, while the maximum speed of the Type 95 tank is closer to 50 kilometers per hour. Even if you fold it in half, 100 kilometers only takes four hours. Considering that it is a highway
Maneuvering, even if it can't reach the maximum speed, it should not be a problem to reach 70 to 80% of the maximum speed.
Therefore, it is not impossible to reach Feixi Town before evening.
However, in this way, Xu Rui can only rely on the strength of the armored battalion, the guard battalion and the cavalry battalion to deal with the 32nd Army. The marching speed of the main force of the military division is impossible in any case.
Catch up with the speed of this mechanized battle group.
On the surface, it seems a bit risky for Xu Rui to do this.
But in fact, these three battalions are really enough.
Because Xu Rui is familiar with history and knows that the National Army at this time had a very serious decline in both the quality of its soldiers and the level of equipment compared to before the Battle of Songhu. Wan Xiangyun's 32nd Army was even worse, so he said
The Southern Anhui Incident, if not for the concentration of 80,000 troops, might not have been able to defeat the 9,000 New Fourth Army!
Therefore, despite the fact that Wan Xiangyun had assembled four divisions of nearly 20,000 troops in Feixi, Xu Rui really didn't take the 20,000 people seriously. Although the guard battalion plus the cavalry battalion only had less than 1,000 men, the key point
There is also the 1st Armored Battalion. The Thirty-Second Army does not know their details, so they were probably frightened to death immediately after seeing the 1st Armored Battalion.
It was for this reason that Xu Rui dared to use three battalions to kill Feixi.
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Feixi Town.
The 73rd Army's attack had just been defeated again.
Wan Xiangyun called Liu Mingquan in front of him and cursed angrily: "Liu Mingquan, what do you do with the 49th Army? There are 7,000 men in one division, facing more than 1,000 bandits. They have been fighting for a day and a night, but they still can't defeat them.
, and there were more than two thousand casualties. How did you become the commander of the army? How did you lead the troops?"
Liu Mingquan stood dejectedly in front of Wan Xiangyun, not daring to say a word.
There’s not much to say. In the battle of Feixi Town, the Forty-ninth Army did not fight well. Although there are many objective reasons, such as the poor coordination between the mountain artillery battalion and the infantry artillery of the Forty-ninth Army, the artillery shells often exploded.
People, for example, the enemy is well equipped and has sufficient ammunition, but these are not the main reasons.
The main reason is that the combat effectiveness of the 49th Army is too weak.
Seeing Liu Mingquan being scolded so badly by Wan Xiangyun, Xia Hanzhong and Wang Xiyuan stood nearby, but they felt secretly happy in their hearts. You bastard Liu Mingquan, you can't take care of your house in the Dabie Mountains, so you have to go to Feixi.
Are you hitting a wall in picking our peaches? Hehe, the peaches from the Damei Mountain Independent Group are not so easy to pick.
Wan Xiangyun seemed to have eyes behind his back. He seemed to be able to see Xia Hanzhong and Wang Xiyuan gloating over his misfortune. Then he turned around and reprimanded the two of them: "Don't gloat over your misfortune, you two. You Seventy-three Army, Seven
The performance of the 19th Army was not much better. Before the arrival of the 49th Army, you fought for two days and one night and failed to defeat it."
Xia Hanzhong couldn't help but said: "Chief, that's different. At that time, the bandits in Qipan Village were very strong."
"That's right." Wang Xiyuan also added, "And when we attacked Feixi Town, we didn't have artillery to help us."
Xia Hanzhong continued: "If there were only four or five hundred bandits in Feixi Town at the beginning, and with artillery coordination, we would have taken it down long ago. How could it have been delayed until now?"
"That's enough." Wan Xiangyun said coldly, "What's the point of speaking sarcastically?"
After a pause, Wan Xiangyun continued: "Since your 73rd Army and 79th Army are so capable of fighting, I will hand over the task of the general offensive to you. However, I will tell the ugly story first. If this time it is still
If you can't take Feixi Town, then you guys will just talk about it and not listen to it."
