At 12:15 noon, on the Baohua Plain of Huai Province, an army of nearly 10,000 people was staggering towards Jinling City, 32 kilometers away.
This team was naturally the one who escaped from Zhenjiang and headed towards the 29th Division last night while taking advantage of the darkness.
Since they left Zhenjiang at 11 o'clock last night, the soldiers of the 29th Division have been walking non-stop for 13 hours and have marched 44 kilometers.
Now everyone's feet are like lead, and every step needs to be done with all one's strength.
The old muffs on their backs weighed them down and they couldn't lift them up. There were big beads of sweat on their foreheads, and the whole army looked exhausted.
Yu Boheng lay on the horse with a pale face and weakly made suggestions. "Master, I can't stand it anymore. Five kilometers ahead is Xuanwu Town. Let's stop here for a rest. If we continue walking like this desperately, all of us in the 29th Division will be gone!"
Upon hearing this, Qi Lu wiped the sweat off her forehead and turned around in a daze.
The current 29th Division still looks like an army. It is no different from a defeated army.
When they left Zhenjiang City last night, there were still more than 10,000 men in the 29th Division. As a result, now, there are only more than 9,000 remnant soldiers left in the division with trembling feet.
As for where the nearly 1,000 remaining people went, of course they took advantage of the darkness to run the ball directly!
After all, most people were forced to join the army. They were just trying to make ends meet and ran away when the situation was bad. This was the characteristic of the army in this period.
What's more, with the kind of treatment you get from the warlord army, where you get three meals of rice porridge a day, and your monthly salary of two silver dollars has to be deducted by your superiors, you still want to expect the soldiers to risk their lives for you?
If it weren't for the supervising team, who stared at the team with eager eyes, the 29th Division would have probably been disbanded when it withdrew from Zhenjiang City last night.
"Well, we are not far from Jinling. Deputy Commander Yu, please quickly ask the soldiers to stop for a while." After saying that, Qi Lu turned over and dismounted, feeling her stomach growling, and continued to give instructions:
"By the way, there is Xuanwu Town ahead. Deputy Commander Yu, take a rest and then take two companies of soldiers directly to Xuanwu Town to borrow some food."
Yu Boheng showed an expression of understanding, thinking that he was just letting his troops seize food. This was not something that could be easily captured. "Yes, Master!"
The 29th Division received the order to rest, and all the soldiers showed expressions of relief.
Regardless of whether the ground was clean or not, they dispersed, threw away their guns, and fell asleep directly on the ground.
In a leafy grove in the distance, a pair of sharp eyes on an SdKfZ250 command armored vehicle covered with camouflage nets was staring at them through binoculars.
The picture shows the SdKfZ250 command armored vehicle
"The lamb is on the Baohua Plain, and it seems that it does not intend to enter the sheepfold. It is recommended that the wolves take the initiative to attack."
The soldiers on the side quickly reported the situation and coordinates through the walkie-talkie.
Huang Foyin, who was waiting for help in Xuanwu Guard, was naturally ecstatic when he got the news.
He immediately decided to take the initiative and ordered the light armored regiment to rush to Baohua Plain to encircle and annihilate the 29th Division.
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About twenty minutes later, most of the soldiers of the 29th Division had already fallen asleep, leaving only 40 soldiers on alert, sitting on the side of the road drowsily.
"Wang Laosi, look at what's going on? Why do I feel a rumbling sound?"
"Damn it, what the hell is this? I won't stop you even if I take a nap."
"Hey, I feel like this place suddenly shook. Let me take a look."
The soldier who was called Li Laosi reluctantly took off the big-brimmed hat covering his face, opened his confused eyes, slowly stood up and took a look into the distance. He was so scared that his eyeballs almost fell out.
"My mother-in-law, what the hell is that!"
After hearing the words, other soldiers stood up to check, and saw smoke billowing on the distant horizon. The roar shook the sky and the earth, as if they were about to tear the entire earth apart. Hundreds of mighty and powerful steel beasts were looming.
This is naturally the light armored regiment that rushed from Xuanwu Town, which is 5 kilometers away.
Leading the way were 50 M5A1 light tanks, followed by more than a hundred tracked armored vehicles.
The army of nearly two hundred armored vehicles and tanks was like an unstoppable iron wall at this moment, charging towards the 29th Zhizhi Division unstoppably.
"Oh my god, this is a man-eating monster!"
"Brothers, run!"
Just as these dozens of soldiers reacted, 50 M5A1 light tanks had already reached 800 meters. They all reduced their speed and, with the help of gyro stabilizers, opened fire directly on the 29th Division.
Hundreds of M6 37mm artillery fired a salvo, and in the blink of an eye, 100 M63 anti-personnel bombs roared and fell into the crowd of the 29th Division.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
Like a grand fireworks show, brilliant flames bloomed amidst the smoke and dust. Many soldiers turned into flesh and blood while they were still in their dreams, and went to heaven without any bones.
The violent explosion naturally woke up Qi Lu, who was sleeping soundly. When he saw these hundreds of armored tanks with his own eyes, he almost died of fright on the spot!
What kind of shitty luck did Lu Yongxiang have? The great powers behind him even directly provided tanks. This kind of assistance must be too great!
As an officer who had studied at Fuso Military Academy, Qi Lu naturally recognized tanks, a major weapon on land. After all, the combat team section of Fuso Military Academy had dozens of tanks imported from the West.
At the same time, he also understood how sad it was for the infantry to encounter armored troops in the wide plains. It was like an egg hitting a rock.
"Artillery Battalion, you should launch artillery fire on the tanks in front immediately!" Qi Lu shouted angrily at the Artillery Battalion before she had time to think about it.
In her panic, Qi Lu completely forgot that the artillery battalion of the 29th Division had long since ceased to exist.
Without the threat of tanks, fighting against light infantry is a crushing battle without any suspense.
The round of shelling just now killed hundreds of people on the spot and indirectly led to the defeat of the 29th Division.
The panicked soldiers suddenly dispersed like a hornet's nest. Seven or eight thousand people got up in panic and fled in all directions in groups.
There were about a thousand soldiers left who picked up their rifles and mustered up the courage to shoot at the tanks in the distance.
The sparse bullets pinged against the armor plate, but could not cause any damage to the tank.
What's more, the defense of the M5A1 light tank is really not low. It is said that it can withstand the firing of the Hansi PaK 36 37mm combat anti-cannon at a distance of 100 meters, not to mention these old-fashioned rifles of the Strait Army.
In the blink of an eye, 50 M5A1 light tanks had advanced to 400 meters, and the M1919A4 machine guns on the tanks began to spit fire snakes.
Dense green tracer bullets, like fireflies, guide the direction of the machine gun shooter.
"Da da da!"
Most of the soldiers who were still resisting were beaten with thousands of 7.62 rifle bullets in the blink of an eye. Their blood was dripping from the whip, their flesh and blood were flying everywhere, and they fell to the ground dead.
"Fight back!"
Qi Lu and the supervising team also wanted to prevent the troops from disintegrating, but countless people escaped.
Qi Lu, who lost her mind, shot and killed two or three defeated soldiers in a frenzied manner.
"Boom!"
An M63 anti-personnel bomb hit Qi Lu's feet, blasting him into a pile of minced meat.
The men who were supervising the battle team were so frightened that they quickly fell to the ground and were ready to run away when they saw this.
"Master is dead, let's run away!"
"Run Hammer, pretend to be dead!" A veteran in the supervising team immediately made a suggestion. After that, he started to pull up the blood mud on the ground and wipe it directly on his face.
When the other people saw this, they called Lao Tie 666 in their hearts and immediately followed suit.
Huang Foyin looked at the fleeing Zhizhi troops through the commander's periscope, and issued an order through the radio, "Armored soldiers, stop attacking now. It's time for Commander Long's infantry to perform!"
Commander Long in another armored vehicle smiled when he heard this and ordered over the radio:
"According to the original plan, we will disperse in armored vehicles and hunt down the remaining soldiers. Don't kill people unless absolutely necessary, and try to capture as many prisoners as possible."
After all, the thunderous attack just now was just a means to undermine the morale of the Zhi army.
Now that the 29th Division has been completely defeated, there is no need to kill them all.
Hundreds of armored vehicles loaded with infantry began to form into groups of twos and threes according to the order and dispersed in all directions.
Like a well-trained wolf pack, they hunted down the defeated troops of the 29th Division.
As a result, many funny scenes appeared on the vast Baohua Plain.
In front of them were dozens or even hundreds of broken soldiers running wildly for the road, while several armored vehicles loaded with infantry were slowly pursuing them from the rear in an extremely leisurely manner.
"Our army treats prisoners preferentially and will not kill them unless they surrender their guns. I suggest you stop running away and surrender immediately where you are."
Hearing this, many defeated soldiers could no longer run away and had no choice but to surrender on the spot with their hands raised.
There were still many defeated soldiers, probably long-distance running champions, who simply refused to listen and continued to flee.
There were also a handful of defeated soldiers who couldn't tell the difference between the king and the king, and actually wanted to fight back with guns.
For this kind of self-destruction, the machine gunner on the armored vehicle had no choice but to use the MG34 machine gun to deliver him to heaven on the spot.
