"Did you hear it?"

Zhu Yourong was so excited that she choked her throat and said for a long time:

"I... heard..."

"Then you order."

"Okay...I'll order..." Zhu Yourong paused and said a little embarrassedly, "How should this... be issued?"

Xiang Xiaoqiang smiled and said to the microphone:

"This is what I ordered all the officers and soldiers of the People's Guard Mobile Team..."

Zhu Yourong followed and said:

"I order all officers and soldiers of the People's Guard Mobile Team."

Xiang Xiaoqiang said again:

"Immediately prepare and go out and go five to ten kilometers south of Nanjing..."

Zhu Yourong followed and said:

"Immediately prepare and go out and go five to ten kilometers south of Nanjing."

Said to Xiaoqiang:

"Take the initiative, courageously and tenaciously to fight the enemy's army and prevent the enemy from invading Nanjing..."

Zhu Yourong followed and said:

"Take the enemy actively, bravely and tenaciously to prevent the enemy from invading Nanjing."

Xiang Xiaoqiang licked his lips, and finally made up his mind to say:

"And to the best of our ability, divide, encircle and annihilate it."

Zhu Yourong was quiet for a while and Xiang Xiaoqiang could feel her breathing becoming rapid. He seemed to be unable to believe that he could "divid, encircle, and annihilate" the Qing army. Finally, her voice became very cheerful and said loudly:

"And to the best of our ability, divide, encircle and annihilate it!"

Xiang Xiaoqiang also had a burst of blood rolling across his body at this moment, saying:

"I obey the order!"

Hang up the phone and strode towards the roar of the sky outside.

...

The vast torrent of steel headed south along the ring road. Because it was unlikely to meet the Qing army in this section, all vehicles turned on their lights and speeded up. They tried to occupy a favorable position before the Qing army and also stayed as far away from Nanjing as possible.

But Xiang Xiaoqiang did not want to make the mistake of the newly-edition 74th Motorcycle Division, so he sent out the guard troops early. A long way to the south had sent a sideboard motorcycle for reconnaissance. The fields on both sides of the highway had also spread out the warning screen from afar, which was a tracked armored vehicle with machine guns and strong traffic capacity.

In the armored command vehicle, Xiang Xiaoqiang, the regiment commander and the staff studied the combat plan.

Xiang Xiaoqiang gestured on the map and said:

"Let's calculate the speed of the Qing army's march. The Qing army captured the fortress of my mother and son at six o'clock last night and climbed the east coast at around seven o'clock. Since then, they have been trying to build a pontoon bridge, but due to the heroic obstruction of our Yangtze River fleet, they did not build a pontoon bridge until about ten o'clock in the evening. After that, they could transport large-scale equipment such as mountain cannons, horses, and baggage trucks. According to the soldiers who escaped from the 74th MoF, this Qing army has these equipment. That is to say, they first set out from the riverside after ten o'clock and advanced to the ambush site.

"The defeated soldiers of the 74th Division said that the battle occurred almost at around 12:30 in the middle of the night, near Moling Town, which is about 10 kilometers away from the landing site of the Qing army. This Qing army marched 10 kilometers in two and a half hours, and the speed was 4.1 kilometers per hour. It is already half past one. At this speed, the vanguard of the Qing army should now reach the vicinity of Dongshanqiao Town.

"The Qing army's speed is 4 kilometers per hour, and our current speed is 15 kilometers per hour, which is nearly four times theirs. Therefore, our determination to fight this time should be to encircle and annihilate the enemy."

As soon as this sentence was said, everyone was a little surprised, because the previous policy in everyone's mind was to "repel the Qing army", and they did not dare to "encircle and annihilate" the Qing army. Except for Rommel. He listened to A Tie's translation, pinched his chin and looked at Xiang Xiaoqiang, with no reaction on his face, as if this should have been the case.

Xiang Xiaoqiang looked at his pocket watch and said directly:

"Now every minute is precious. Everyone hurry up and talk about their ideas. Let's briefly summarize it, and it is the combat plan."

Rommel looked at it and didn't say anything, then raised her index finger and smiled at Xiaoqiang, thinking that this is the Rommel in my mind.

"Lt. Col. Rommel?"

The wrinkles at the corners of Rommel's eyes seemed to be even more bent, and the small eyes in his sockets were turning, staring at the map, and saying:

"I have a small idea..."

Xiang Xiaoqiang stared at his mouth that spoke German, and the teeth under his thin lips were white and shining, like the teeth of some kind of beast...

...

At 2:30 at night, the 6th Division of the Eight Banners of the Qing Army marched north along Ningyi Highway.

This time, the 6th Division of the Eight Banners did not carry motorcycles, but all used horses. The division commander judged that in such heavy fog conditions, the sound of the engine of the vehicle would expose the troops' positions far away.

The division commander Hafenga rode a tall horse and was walking among the division. Looking at the heavy fog around him and listening to the large troops around him marching without much sound, he couldn't help but feel how correct his decision to "de-motorize" was.

A few hours ago, relying on the quietness of the troops, God had unconsciously penetrated the Ming army's defense line. Now he had to touch as much as possible without hesitation. If possible, he would touch it all the way to Nanjing City.

But it is unlikely, because a war was fought in Moling Town more than two hours ago and completely wiped out the 74th Division of the Ming Army. People must have known their existence.

The only possible opponent is the People's Guard. It is said that it is a division composed of tanks and armored vehicles. But Hafenga doesn't care at all. The reason is very simple. In this visibility, tanks and armored vehicles cannot play a role. Once the opponent can only rely on infantry to fight, he is not his opponent at all.

...

At the forefront of the team is the vanguard of this division - the division's reconnaissance battalion.

On the road, there were ten Qing soldiers riding bicycles every fifty meters in front and behind. This was the bicycle company of the reconnaissance battalion. They carried rifles on their backs, and behind each of the bicycles, there was a light machine gun or a thick anti-tank gun. These reconnaissance soldiers were cautious and did not say a word. They arched their waists and pedaled their bikes. White mist sprayed out from their mouths and noses, and their ears listened carefully to the quiet Siye. They looked at them with their eyes, but it was too dark and there was fog, so they could only see that they were less than ten meters away.

Within more than 100 meters on both sides of the road, Qing soldiers were riding horses. They were cavalry companies of the division's reconnaissance battalion. At this moment, they were trotting on the reins and trotting on horses. The horse's hooves were rumbling over the fields, and there was no sound. The cavalry company was also equipped with several light machine guns, anti-tank guns, and 50mm mortars.

A few dozen meters behind them are the support company of the reconnaissance battalion. There is an anti-tank platoon with 3 37mm anti-tank cannons and an infantry cannon platoon with two 57mm mountain cannons. Once the light-equipped scouts in front encounter an attack, the support company can immediately pull the cannon up and attack.

It should be said that such a reconnaissance lineup is still very strong. That is, the elite Eight Banners Division, which is difficult for other ordinary infantry divisions to achieve this configuration.

Less than a kilometer behind the reconnaissance battalion, it is the main force of the Eight Banners Sixth Division. The safe distance should have been wider, but now it is night, and the visibility is too low, so all kinds of distances have to be shortened a lot, and the entire division's marching queue is much tighter.

Sudden……

The bicycle in front suddenly stopped, and the Qing soldier raised his arm and whispered:

"Stop moving forward!"

Suddenly, the bicycle rows in front and back stopped and ordered to whisper to both sides. The cavalry in the fields also tied the reins and observed the surroundings uneasily.

A breeze blew by, and the fog in front seemed to be a little weak, and a tank appeared faintly.

The company commander of the bicycle company quickly waved his arms and signaled his subordinates to retreat immediately.

Dozens of bicycle soldiers bent over and tiptoed back with their bicycles. Soon, the cavalry on both sides slowly retreated to the distance.

The company commander stayed alone and observed the tank. The tank was parked in the middle of the highway, not activated, very quiet, and did not find himself.

It should be the People's Guard's warning network.

The tank was not too high, but very wide, and the 37mm cannon on the turret was facing it. It should be the Ming army's Lightning 2 light tank.

He pushed the bicycle nervously, trying not to make a sound, and retreated dozens of meters later.

The company commander waved his hand and a soldier came up:

"Sir!"

"Go," said the company commander, "notify the division headquarters that there was a Ming army tank ahead, but there was only one."

"Yeah!"

The soldier stepped onto the car and rode backwards.

The company commander wiped the sweat from his head and let out a sigh of relief, glad that he discovered the other party first, not the other way around. If the tank discovered these people first, at least he would have to suffer heavy casualties.

He said to the people around him:

"We have to kill this tank."

"Use an anti-tank gun?"

"No," he shook his head, "Anti-tank gun cannot control it with one or two shots, and we will have to die. Now that the tanks have not found us, we can take a lot of advantage and be more secure. Ask the support company to push the three anti-tank guns up."

"Yeah!"

After a while, the support company behind pushed up three 37mm cannons. The three gun crews held their breath and gently pushed the cannon forward on the road, staring at the deadly tank ahead, for fear that the cannon's tire would be pressed on a stone or something, and then they would be done.

A gunner asked in a cold sweat, squeezing:

"Okay? Do you still have to move forward?"

The company leader's hair was almost standing up, but he still ordered:

"Continue pushing, try to get closer!...Okay, okay, stop here!"

Three small cannons were scattered on the road, with the muzzle facing the tank less than ten meters ahead. The tank was still motionless, as if there was no one inside.

The gunners began to slowly shake the handle and press the barrel down. Then they held the shells larger than the carrots in their hands, carefully pulled the chamber open and filled the shells gently.

At this moment, the tanks in front suddenly started, and the tracks were creaking and retreating at a high speed of 30 kilometers. In the blink of an eye, it disappeared into the fog in the distance.

After more than ten seconds, several gunners got up from the ground in a daze and looked around half kneeling.

There was no sound anymore. The night wind was filled with mist, and there was a silence far away around him, and there was no sound of the engine at all. I don’t know if the tank had gone away, or was hiding somewhere and turned off the engine.

Not only the gunner, but also the bicycle company commander behind him felt a little creepy.

A strange atmosphere drifted in the heavy fog.
Chapter completed!