November 9th is the second day after the beginning of winter. Although there has not yet been snow in Xi'an, the cold in the early morning is already biting.

Faced with the soon-to-be victory, the Japanese army on the front line did not find that the main force of the opposite defenders had quietly evacuated overnight after two months of war.

It was not until the sky became brighter and the Japanese army broke into the defending positions through the newly built floating bridge under the cover of artillery fire, and found that as they had encountered in Weinan, Lintong and other places, the main force of the defending army had escaped again!

"I'm going to get to the city of Xi'an. I want to see how long the Chinese government forces can escape! Order the front troops to speed up the advancement! Before noon today, the Xi'an battle will end!" After receiving the battle report in front, Tuqiao, who was in charge of Lintong, smiled disdainfully. After giving the order, he said, "Jimujun, what do you have to add?"

When Hu Zongnan and other troops retreated, they destroyed railways, highways and bridges on more than ten rivers between Tongguan and Xi'an, and buried mines along the way to destroy traffic, delaying the speed of Japanese troops' advance. This also made the chariot cluster commanded by Jimu Zhenyi not exert its due power of strong mobility, which gave Tuqiao a time to lead his troops to follow up. When the vanguard was blocked by the Ba River and Wei River, Tuqiao led the command headquarters to Lintong and met with Jimu Zhenyi again.

Although he was dissatisfied with Tuqiao's dominance after the meeting, facing the upcoming victory, Yoshimu Shizuki was unwilling to argue with him. He said calmly: "Appoint the troops in the front to be vigilant of the Chinese army's small means when advancing to avoid unnecessary casualties. In addition, in addition to taking Xi'an as soon as possible, the troops in the front should continue to advance west along the Wei River. The north bank should advance to martial arts, and the south bank should advance to Yuji, and be prepared to prevent the People's Army! Also, the troops attacking north should maintain contact with the headquarters and do not go too far."

The Japanese troops operating on the north bank of the Wei River were all Tuqiao's troops at the first time. Since Tuqiao took the lead in his words and deeds, Jimu took the opportunity to interfere in the command of Tuqiao's troops.

"Ji Mujun, go west to martial arts and go to the throne. This is indeed necessary to prevent the People's Army. But in northern Shaanxi, the power is weak, and it is the time to take the opportunity to eliminate it!" Seeing that Ji Muzhen's leader stretched out too long, Tuqiao pulled his face down at one time. He insisted, "If there is no major reason, our 35th Division will go north through Chengcheng, Baishui, Tongguan and other places, and directly hit the **'s nest!"

"The power is weak, but if the People's Army goes south along the Jing River and then advances eastward along the Wei River, the retreat of the troops advancing north will be cut off!" Ji Muzhen retorted, "Before the battle in Xi'an has ended and the Guanzhong area has not been pacified, the troops cannot be too dispersed!"

Just as the two old Japanese were arguing with each other, there was a continuous roar of planes outside, and the sharp whistling sounds when the bomb landed and the explosion after landing.

"Baga! What's going on?" Tobaki was shocked at first, and then said angrily. "Aviation troops attacked by mistake, and they should be subject to military law!"

After two months of combat, the Chongqing authorities and the US Air Force in China were either unable to fight due to damage to fighters or lack of oil. Since the capture of Hangu Pass, Japanese aviation troops have been rampant over Guanzhong, southern Shaanxi, southwestern Shanxi and other places as if they were in a no-man's land. This made Tuqiao subconsciously think that it was a mistaken attack by Japanese aviation troops after an air strike.

"Wake up, idiot! This is not the voice of the Imperial plane, it must be the People's Air Force!" Yoshimu Shizuki's face changed drastically, pointed at the sky outside, and shouted at Tuqiao, "The People's Army is about to march into Guanzhong, and we must report to the commander of the Front and the dispatch army as soon as possible! Why don't you concentrate your troops quickly?!"

When he heard that the People's Party Air Force was dispatched, Tobaki didn't care about a verbal battle with Yoshimu Shin, he widened his eyes and said in surprise: "How could this happen?"

"Two commanders, the enemy is about to bomb this side, leave here quickly!" The Chief of Staff of the 12th Army Tadao Nagaki rushed in in a daze. He didn't care about his rudeness and ran out at one time. With the help of the two staff officers of the command center, Shinichi Yoshimu also ran out together.

The Japanese command center in Lintong was too close to the local residential areas and was not bombed by the People's Party Air Force on a large scale, which allowed the two old Japanese devils, Jimu and Tuqiao, to escape. However, the other Japanese troops, especially the Japanese troops on the front line fighting around Xi'an, did not have such good luck.

In order to give the People's Army time to enter Xi'an east before the Japanese, the People's Party Air Force dispatched three aviation divisions, a total of more than 430 fighter jets to carry out air strikes on the Japanese army in Guanzhong. Among them, two aviation divisions carried out air strikes on the Japanese army around Xi'an to kill their living forces and delay their advancement speed; while another aviation division carried out air strikes on the rear of the Japanese army east of Xi'an to Tongguan to destroy its rear command system and paralyze its logistics transportation.

After confirming that the defenders on the other side of the river retreated, the cavalry corps of the 3rd Division of the Japanese Division, the 32nd Division, the chariot squadron of the 32nd Division, the chariot cluster of the Ba River on the eastern suburbs of Xi'an and the chariot squadrons of the four divisions all relaxed. While queuing up at the floating bridge to cross the river, many Japanese soldiers began to talk loudly about their respective "achievements" since the battle, in order to pass the unbearable morning in winter.

Before these vanguard troops, especially those hundreds of chariots, crossed the river, the Japanese follow-up troops were difficult to surpass. Before the front had crossed the river, the troops behind rushed up again, which made the Wei River and Ba River banks look like noisy markets. Some Japanese squadrons even set up marching stoves nearby and were busy making breakfast to fill their stomachs.

Just when some of the Japanese troops had already crossed the river and most of the other troops were still in a slack state, three aviation divisions led by Lin Xiang, commander of the 4th Air Division of the People's Army, roared over the Japanese army.

"We pinched it very accurately, and we were lucky! We caught big fish!" As soon as we arrived over Xi'an and saw the situation near the Wei River and Ba River, Lin Xiang laughed and ordered through the on-board intercom channel, "Lao Wu cleaned the garbage with me! Lao Liu continued to go east, pay attention to preventing flies taking off from Luoyang!"

Last night, after Zhou Mingyuan deciphered the telegram from Chiang Kai-shek to the Eighth War Zone, Zhao Zhenzhong issued an order to launch a "blizzard" battle. Considering that it was late in winter and it took time for the Japanese army to eat breakfast and cross the river, the time for the Air Force to arrive over Xi'an was set at 6:40. Lin Xiang and others arrived on time. It happened to be the time for the Japanese army to cross the river!

"Old Wu understand!" Ge Donglei, the commander of the Fifth Air Division, responded quickly with his eyes lit up.

"The sixth brother received it!" Lu Tao, the commander of the Air Sixth Division, looked at the Japanese soldiers who seemed to be waiting for the knife below, sighed regretfully, and continued to fly east with his troops.

"Lao Wu is responsible for the Wei River, and I am responsible for the Ba River. First destroy the floating bridge, then blow up the chariots and Japanese devils! At the same time, be prepared to be prepared for flies!" Lin Xiang continued to issue orders while adjusting the course.

"I understand!" After accepting the order, Ge Donglei immediately shifted his landline northward, left Lin Xiang's troops, and headed towards the Wei River.

Lin Xiang continued to keep the east-west direction and rushed towards the Japanese army on both sides of the Ba River. Taking advantage of the opportunity when the Japanese army was in panic on the ground, Lin Xiang lowered the nose of the aircraft. When the F2 fighter jet flew over the Japanese Wei River floating bridge, he threw two bombs down. One of them blew the pontoon bridge into pieces, and the other missed, but it splashed several feet high of water columns, which was terrifying.

Seeing that the floating bridge was destroyed, the Japanese army on the east bank of Ba Bridge became even more panicked. Some Japanese infantry were busy avoiding air strikes, while some wanted to set up machine guns to shoot at the air. However, the chariot clusters crowded near the shore were destroyed because the floating bridge in front was blocked by the following transport vehicles behind. They could only wait for the bombing!

Captain Kentaro Watanabe, the captain of the 17th Japanese tank chariot, shouted for a while, and saw that the vehicles behind could not retreat for a while. The People's Army's fighter planes came up on their heads again, looking at the bombs falling from the sky. He sighed in despair: "This is all over!"

"It's time for these bastards to be today!" After crossing the Ba River, Lin Xiang was flying over the Japanese chariots, looking at the iron shells on the ground and the Japanese who kept waving their hands and shouting, and threw down the other two bombs mounted by the F2 fighter. At this moment, Kentaro Watanabe was also split into pieces!

The f2 fighter has six external devices, with a total load weight of more than one ton. However, considering the need for air combat, the f2 fighter attacked by Lin Xiang and other units this time only carried four 200 kilogram bombs. As for the real ground bombing, it must be undertaken by each aviation division carrying a larger b1 bomber regiment.

After throwing the bomb, Lin Xiang used a machine gun and the machine cannon fired a round of Japanese troops on the ground, then raised the height and commanded the two F2 aviation regiments to conduct air alert for the B1 bomber regiment.

The only one Japanese army used for combat in Xi'an was the 1st Flight Regiment under the jurisdiction of the Expeditionary Army. The unit had more than 160 fighter jets of various types. However, after more than two months of combat, due to war damage and mechanical failures, by early November, only more than 120 were still available for combat.

As the Japanese army captured Tongguan and entered Guanzhong, and the defenders were in short supply in the Longhai line, according to the orders of the Dispatch Army Command, the 1st Flying Regiment of the Japanese Army, in addition to sending some aircraft to reconnaissance and support front-line operations in Guanzhong every day, the main force turned to southeastern Shaanxi to fight in order to cooperate with the 40th, 58th and 60th divisions attacking Shangnan and open the passage to attack northern Sichuan through southern Shaanxi as soon as possible.

The dispersed use of Japanese aviation forces, especially more than 30 Japanese fighter jets that took off from Luoyang Airport to Guanzhong were wiped out east of Weinan due to being attacked by Lu Tao's troops of the 6th Air Division, resulting in the two parts of Yoshimu Shichi and Tuqiao who were fighting in Guanzhong obviously lacked air protection at one time.

In addition, the Chongqing authorities were unable to threaten the Japanese air force, and the Japanese were negligent and did not make air defense preparations when crossing the river. The People's Party Air Force was unexpectedly dispatched. These many factors combined mean that the Japanese were destined to have a tragic result under the air raid.

In the first round of air raids of about two hours by the People's Army Air Force, except for the 35th Division who entered Guanzhong, which did not encounter air raids due to being in Baishui, Pucheng, Tongguan and other places, the other five divisions, a total of more than 90,000 Japanese troops, had more than 8,000 casualties! In addition to the casualties, what the Japanese army could not bear was that the chariot cluster and other chariot squadrons assigned to the five divisions were attacked because they were concentrating on crossing the river, causing more than half of them to lose!

During this air strike, the middle and senior Japanese commanders also suffered casualties. Among them, Colonel Kentaro Watanabe was bombed and the body was gone. The commander of the 32nd Division of the Japanese Army who was on the front line of the Ba River was also seriously injured.

"How should I explain this to Commander Okamura?" Yoshimu Sadaichi, who had been happy to be able to command the chariot cluster, sighed with a grim look after receiving the battle report from Xi'an.

Tobashi once changed his previous spirit of fighting with Yoshimu Shizuki, and turned into his brother-in-law. He even comforted him: "Yimujun, this is the crime of the Chinese People's Party's armed forces. It has nothing to do with you. Okamura will understand. Unfortunately, he is about to win, and now it's all over!"

"It's not just the losses of the chariot cluster." Yoshimu Shin-sharp shook his head and said with a sad face. "The Chinese People's Party's air force has been dispatched, and the attacks of the ground troops of the People's Army should not be far away. I just don't know how many troops the enemy will dispatch. How will the front and dispatched troops deal with the enemy's attack in Guanzhong?"

The Japanese army was beaten to the ground by the Soviet army in the Battle of Nomenhan, but the Soviet army lost its territory in the confrontation with the People's Army last year. Even the Soviet Union was forced to sign an agreement with the People's Party on territorial issues at the beginning of this year. Not to mention the previous achievements of the People's Party against Japan, the fact that it made the Soviet Union bow its head alone was enough to make the Japanese have a serious fear of the People's Party's armed forces.

What Yoshimu Shinichi is worried about now is that if the nearly one million troops used by the People's Army in the war against the Soviet Union appeared on the Guanzhong battlefield, the pieces together may disappear completely! And once the mobility of this dispatched army is lost, the North China Front Army and the entire Chinese dispatched army will suffer an unprecedented dilemma! Even under the joint attack of the People's Army and the Guards, the situation in North China may be subverted!

After Yoshimu's analysis, Tobashi's eyes changed and hurriedly said, "Yimujun. We should report the relevant situation to the front army as soon as possible, and the decision will be made by the Commander Okamura!"

"That's all!" Jimu Shin nodded and sighed with a breathless look.

Just as the relationship between the two old Japanese men improved greatly and sighed about the losses and future, the roar of planes that disappeared soon, the roar of bombs, and the explosion sounded again. Half an hour after the first air strike, the second round of air strikes of the People's Army Air Force arrived again!

"Baga! The air strike is coming again!" This time, without Jimu's reminder, Tuqiao rushed out of the door and greeted. "Jimujun, avoid it quickly!"

After the first round of air strikes, Lin Xiang led the team back shortly after, three aviation divisions led by Luo Qingrui appeared between Xi'an and Tongguan and launched another strike against the Japanese army. Although the Japanese army took off more than 80 fighter jets of various types from Luoyang and Wuhan Airport to provide air protection for the Japanese army in Guanzhong, some of which were proud of Zero fighters, but the People's Army's seventh, eighth and ninth third aviation divisions had nearly 300 f2 fighters alone, and the Japanese's air power was no match for Luo Qingrui and others at all!

From Xi'an to Tongguan, and even to Hangu Pass, the relevant airspace became a battlefield for the People's Army to fight between Japanese fighters. Although he could not get assistance from ground air defense forces on this line, Luo Qingrui and others still used the excellent performance of the F2 fighter jets and the strong air combat skills they had learned for a long time to wipe out the more than 80 Japanese fighters who wanted to find a place!

After dealing with the Japanese fighter planes, Luo Qingrui ordered again, "Each division will give all the ammunition to the Japanese on the ground! The airplane will return!" Under this order, the Japanese army in Guanzhong suffered another disaster!

Although the Japanese army was prepared this time, most Japanese soldiers found a place to find a place to find a cat, but the Japanese army's heavy equipment and where the combat materials were stored could not be avoided! In this round of air strikes, the number of casualties in the Japanese army dropped to about 3,000, but the loss of combat materials rose sharply! Most of the losses of equipment that were difficult to hide, such as artillery, cars, etc., were even damaged by the ammunition and food carried by the 36th Division's logistics regiment, and the division also had a dilemma of not continuing to maintain its ammunition!

The People's Army's successive air strikes not only made the Japanese army's capture of Xi'an a shadow, but also destroyed most of the fighter jets of the Japanese 1st Flying Regiment, severely damaged the five divisions and a chariot cluster used by the Japanese army in the Guanzhong direction, causing the old Japanese to wait for Shinichi Yoshimu and Tobashi to lament the failure of Xi'an's combat efforts.

In contrast, although the People's Party was happy about the result of the air battle, the relevant insiders also knew that this was just a prelude to the "snowstorm" battle.

"Although the air combat result is good, in this era, it is still too far away from zero casualties!" After receiving the Air Force's report on the first air strike, Zhou Mingyuan sighed, "If you want to solve the problem, you still need ground operations to cooperate! I don't know if Xu Mingyi, Dong Bicheng and the others can arrive in time."

"Tactics must be combined with equipment. Now that the technical level cannot reach that level, don't be too ambitious!" Zhao Zhenzhong mentioned and said, "As for the second and third army, it is estimated that the results will come without noon!"

In order to arrive before the Japanese army entered Xi'an, the People's Army dispatched air force to strike and delayed the Japanese army's operations, the second and third armies were also advancing eastward quickly!

After sending elite forces to control the passage into Guanzhong a few days ago, several infantry divisions of the Second and Third Army of the People's Army quietly moved east while the night was at the same time and hid in the counties of Wenyang and Yongshou. The armored troops and artillery divisions of the two armies, due to their prominent targets, waited until last night that the generals of Dong Zhao were determined to evacuate from Xi'an overnight before they arrived in Wenyang and Yongshou, and after replenishing oil there, they drove towards Xi'an at around 4:30 in the morning. From the time point, they could arrive in Xi'an by about 10 a.m., and by then, the second round of air strikes may not have ended yet.


Chapter completed!