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Chapter 461 Arriving in Xuzhou

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    In the Xuzhou City Railway Station, large numbers of national army troops were mobilized from various places to carry out defensive operations along Jinpu Road.

    Since the Japanese army won the Battle of Songhu, they began to prepare for Xuzhou, which is located at a transportation hub.

    At the beginning of 1938, they began to send troops to forcefully cross the north bank of the Huaihe River in an attempt to invade southern Henan, and from this direction, they formed an encirclement situation in the Xuzhou area.

    But they obviously underestimated the determination of the national army to defend this area at that time.

    Until mid-to-late February, under the attack of the 59th Army led by Zhang Zizhong, the Japanese troops who had forced their way to the north bank of the Huaihe River were basically unable to realize their strategic intentions and were being slowly eliminated by the National Army.

    But the failure on the north bank of the Yellow River did not affect the Japanese base camp and the plan to open Jinpu Road.

    The Second Army of the Japanese North China Front, commanded by Nishio Hisao, began to attack Taierzhuang.  In an attempt to open the gate to the north of Xuzhou, Xuzhou fell into the front of the Japanese army.

    The top brass of the national army dispatched "Little Zhuge" Bai Chongxi to command the operations in the Xuzhou area together with Li Zongren, the commander-in-chief of the Fifth War Zone.

    At this time, there is already some warmth in the Xuzhou area.  The cold in northwest Shanxi seems like yesterday.

    Xia Yang walked out of the carriage with turbid air, and then saw the three characters "Xuzhou Station".

    Following him were groups of soldiers and commanders.

    The roars of each platoon leader, company commander, and squad leader began to echo inside Xuzhou Station.

    "You idiot, stop looking at this girl and come here and join the team."

    "Fuck! You should be so damn smart with your movements, be careful when the big ear slaps you!"

    Xia Yang looked at the tactical watch on his wrist, and then looked at other troops who were also members of the national army.

    These troops were also drawn from other areas, and some of them retreated here with the large troops after the Battle of Songhu.

    "Brigade, we have been ordered by the superiors to stand by outside Xuzhou City. Only after the supplies and supplies for us arrive, can we set off for Pei County." He Changxing, the leader of the first regiment, ran over at this time and said.

    Xia Yang took a look at the telegram. The order above was quite detailed, and he even thought about the area where they would be stationed.  Just outside a village five miles north of Xuzhou City.

    But as for their supplies, it will take three days before they can reach Xuzhou.

    This is not to say that there is no supplies in Xuzhou City now, but that there are too many troops to receive supplies, and they have to queue up honestly.  By the time they arrive, it will probably be three days later.

    The long-distance march in the northwest region of Shanxi consumed 77% of the food that Xia Yang and the others originally carried.  Although they also obtained some supplies along the way, when the food arrived in Xuzhou, there was not much left.

    In addition to basic food supplies, there are also supplies of ammunition and firearms.  However, the replenishment of these firearms needs to be received from the 178th Division Logistics Department after they arrive in Peixian County.

    Five minutes later, Xia Yang's troops had all disembarked from those trains and stood neatly in the square outside Xuzhou Railway Station.

    The national army troops originally at the train station had already seen troops from other regions and were transferred to Xuzhou.

    But Xia Yang and his fourth brigade still succeeded in attracting Xia Yang and his team's attention.

    Not only because Xia Yang and his troops were very neatly dressed, their weapons and equipment were also very advanced.  There are even many weapons inside that these national army soldiers have never seen before.

    For example, there are large-caliber sniper rifles for sniper teams, automatic rifles for security companies, and a large number of walkie-talkies for troops.

    The most important thing is that the spirit of Xia Yang and his troops is fundamentally different from other troops.

    Since the formation of this team, no one in the team has made a sound.

    Under the huge square of Xuzhou Station, this troop that maintained absolute silence exuded a vague coercion.  When people look at it from a distance, they feel a sense of awe.

    Generally speaking, armies are often divided into the following types.

    The first type is a mob without any training. They often have no tactics when charging, and they have no discipline at all.  This kind of troops, no matter what equipment they are given, will collapse at the first touch and have no combat effectiveness at all.

    ?The second type is soldiers who have been trained. They already have certain combat capabilities and can show strong willpower in battle.

    The third type is those death squads who have been carefully selected.  These people put life and death aside, and with their lonesome courage, they are often able to exert combat effectiveness that ordinary armies cannot.

    There is also the last type, which is the silent army.  The discipline and organization of this kind of army are already very strong, and they have gone through countless battles.

    In the long battle, they are tenacious and will risk life and death for a goal.  With only one order, these people would not hesitate to rush forward and fight against people ten times their size.

    "These kids are extraordinary! I have only seen this kind of momentum from the most elite troops of the Central Army." A veteran from Sichuan commented while smoking a cigarette.

    "As he said this, he thought of the Chinese army's German armorers who stepped on the corpses of Japanese soldiers and their comrades in the cold rain on the Songhu battlefield, facing the advance of Japanese artillery fire.

    "Reporting to the brigade, the first regiment has assembled! The second regiment has assembled! The independent regiment has assembled! The guard company has assembled!"

    Xia Yang stood at the front, looking at the dark troops, and he really felt a bit "like Xu Rulin".

    These soldiers have basically experienced many battles.  And the backbone of them are all veterans who escaped from the battle in Mancheng.

    Even new recruits have undergone rigorous training.  That's why he was able to exude such oppressive momentum at this time.

    "Let's go!" Xia Yang roared, then got on the war horse that was transported by the train, and set off to the station outside Xuzhou City.

    And just as they were leaving for the station outside Xuzhou City, two women with their children boarded a train bound for Luoyang under the guidance of an old man.

    They will take this train to Luoyang.  Then cross the Yellow River from Luoyang, enter the Shanxi region, and go along the Taihang Mountains to Datong.

    It is Dai Caixi and Hu Naichong.

    Dai Caixi would not know that the person they had just passed by was not another army, but the Xia Yang's unit they had been looking for.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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