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Chapter 1527: Feast of Steel (please vote for me)

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    While Jiang Feng led the main force to rapidly advance towards Jingle, a division under Cai Xiongfei and an infantry brigade of the Japanese army moved north from Taiyuan to reinforce Jingle.

    Since the puppet army was stationed in Loufan, less than 50 kilometers away from Jingle, its vanguard had already arrived at Jingle at 2:30 pm on June 6.

    At this time, Jiang Feng¡¯s troops had not long taken over Kelan County.

    In view of the fact that Japanese fighter planes were constantly circling the Kelan front line, Jiang Feng did not let the armored troops and artillery appear. Instead, he asked them to hide in the dense forest outside Kelan City, while the cavalry and infantry advanced on foot.

    Kelan is more than 80 kilometers away from Jingle. If the troops march on foot, it will take at least a day and a night.

    Therefore, when Cai Xiongfei's troops arrived at Jingle, the Ninth Army was still marching on the road.

    When the Japanese reconnaissance plane reported the situation to the First Army Headquarters, it said that although the number of Chinese troops was large, they were all advancing lightly, and no heavy artillery or other technical arms were seen in the marching team.

    After receiving the news, Major General Yamagang Budo breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately sent a report to the Japanese commander-in-chief Okazaki Okazaki and Cai Xiongfei on the front line, ordering them to rely on Jingle City to use all their strength to block the invading army.

    After discussing with Colonel Okazaki and Cai Xiongfei, they agreed that Jingle City was too small to accommodate their more than 8,000 troops.

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    There happened to be the Fen River flowing outside Jingle City. Okazaki and others decided to pull the main force to the left bank of the Fen River outside the city to set up a defense line, using the riverbed and trenches to block the Chinese army.

    What they didn¡¯t know was that it was precisely because of their decision that the 8,000 Japanese puppet troops were sent into the 177th Division¡¯s mouth.

    The Japanese reconnaissance planes only saw the marching infantry troops of the 177th Division, and these troops only accounted for one-third of Jiang Feng's troops.

    After the sun went down, and after guessing that the Japanese fighter planes had returned to their base and would not come out again, Jiang Feng immediately ordered the cavalry and armored troops who had rested for most of the day to take action immediately.

    The infantry may need to walk for 10 hours without sleep to cover a distance of 80 kilometers, but for mechanized troops and cavalry, it only takes a few hours.

    At ten o'clock in the evening, the armored regiment, cavalry troops, and baggage transport regiment surpassed the infantry that had started moving during the day and arrived outside Jingle City.

    At this time, the reconnaissance force reported back the Japanese army's layout outside Jingle City. Jiang Feng already knew the basic situation of the enemy army.

    Jiang Feng was happy when he learned that the Japanese and puppet troops were preparing to fight with them outside the city.

    If they were all infantry, the Japanese and puppet troops would still have good plans. After all, across the Fen River, it would be difficult for the national army to break through the river bed and attack Jingle City.

    ¡° Moreover, the Japs have also built a large number of trenches and firepower points on the left bank of the Fen River. If such a line of defense is attacked by force, the casualties must be unimaginable.

    But right now, the Japanese army is seeking death by doing this.

    Firstly, I have a complete armored regiment in my hands this time. This powerful assault force suddenly appeared on the battlefield. Jingle's defenders cannot do better than Kelan's defenders.

    Secondly, there is a lack of rain in northwestern Shanxi this year. It has not rained at all since the beginning of summer. The Fen River is almost dry and cannot stop the tanks at all. If the Japanese army wants to rely on the river bed to stop them, it will definitely not work.  .

    Once the effective force outside the city is defeated, the troops in the city alone will not be able to hold on for long.

    At the moment, after the troops arrived near Jingle, Jiang Feng first ordered the telecommunications troops to immediately bypass the battlefield, place signal jamming devices near the county seat, and first cut off the communications between the Jingle defenders and Taiyuan and other places.

    This method was personally researched by Li Guoyao and was used in the battle into northwest Shanxi. The telecommunications troops were responsible for the sudden loss of contact between the Kelan defenders and the Taiyuan First Army Headquarters.

    After doing this, Jiang Feng immediately ordered the armored troops to immediately launch an attack on the Japanese and puppet defense lines.

    When the national army¡¯s offensive began, Cai Xiongfei was at the front having a meeting with several regiment leaders.

    Cai Xiongfei is from the Northeast and served in the Northeast Army in his early years. After the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War, he transferred to the Shanxi-Sui Army with the 68th Division and became the deputy commander of the 68th Division of the 19th Army. He can be regarded as a senior commander in the Shanxi-Sui Army.

    But this guy is an opportunist. He sees the Shanxi-Sui army retreating steadily, and the national army is in various battlefields in North and Central China.They suffered heavy losses and half of the country fell, so they lost confidence in the war. So in the spring of 1939, together with the regiment leader Tang Jiamo, they were captured and surrendered to the enemy in Lishi, Shanxi.

    After Cai Xiongfei surrendered to the enemy, he gained the trust and reuse of Yoshio Shinozuka, the former commander of the Shanxi First Army. First, he expanded one regiment of the unit into two regiments. Later, Cai Xiongfei performed well. Soon after, the unit was expanded again, until Cai Xiongfei is now in charge of the unit.  The army has actually been expanded to two infantry divisions plus an independent brigade, with a total strength of more than 15,000 people, making it the largest force in the entire Shanxi puppet army.

    Cai Xiongfei himself also won the trust of the Japanese. Apart from the lack of large-caliber artillery, the weapons and equipment of these troops were quite sophisticated. The rifles were all Chinese and formal, and the machine guns were Czech and Maxim. They were completely national.  The standard equipment of the Central Army.

    Because of this, Cai Xiongfei was happy to work for the Japanese.

    Not long ago, one of his divisions was transferred to the Xinkou front line. Now he is rushing to the Jingle front line with the remaining division, and he has also been appointed as the commander-in-chief of the main battlefield on the Western Front.

    Not only can he command the 6,000 puppet troops under his command, but he can also command the 500 elite Japanese troops assigned to him by Okazaki.

    Although the headquarters deployed so many troops on the Jingle front line, Cai Xiongfei still felt unsure.

    Because according to the information returned by the reconnaissance plane, the invading Chinese army had more than 10,000 people, and they were fighting under the banner of the 177th Division of the Ninth Army. This unit was Li Guoyao's starting force and was the absolute leader of the entire Ninth Army.  Main force.

    Facing such an elite force, Cai Xiongfei did not dare to be careless. After all, the troops who despised this force were either annihilated or disabled. Cai Xiongfei did not want to follow in their footsteps.

    This meeting lasted for more than two hours. It not only discussed the loopholes in the current defense plan, but also prepared to make adjustments to the frontline troops.

    Cai Xiongfei planned to withdraw part of the 6,000 puppet troops outside the city, and then set up two more defense lines between Jingle City and the Fenhe defense line to prevent the national army from approaching the city after breaking through the first-line positions.

    At the same time, Cai Xiongfei is also preparing to apply to Colonel Okazaki to transfer all the machine gun troops in the city to the front-line battlefield. After all, this will become the main battlefield for the battle. The more automatic firepower, the more difficult it will be for the enemy to cross the river.

    Generally speaking, although Cai Xiongfei's character and vision are not very good, he is an experienced commander on the battlefield after all, and he is still an expert in marching and fighting.

    After his improvement, the defense plan of the Japanese and puppet troops was indeed very good. If the national army did not have a strong assault force and relied on infantry to attack alone, even if tens of thousands of troops attacked together, it would be difficult to break through the opponent's defensive position.

    And even if it is won, the losses will be unimaginable, and in the end the gains will outweigh the losses.

    "It's a pity that what Cai Xiongfei and others didn't know was that the Chinese army had no intention of using infantry to charge this time, but instead prepared a sumptuous steel feast for them.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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