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In the early morning of April 9, on the outskirts of Pingyuan County, Shandong

The dim and lowered sky was lit as if it were day by the bright light of bursts of artillery fire and explosions. The orange-red rays of light in the night sky were like lightning bolts tearing through the dark clouds. The sharp and unpleasant whistling sound of the cannonballs rubbing against the air spread far away, like the terrible howl of death, and swept the entire battlefield.

Boom Boom Boom ......

Bursts of thunderous explosions followed, and fireballs rose endlessly. The cannonballs exploded, turning into countless tiny pieces of metal, scattered and swept through everything under the influence of the violent waves. In line with the Japanese army's previous separate shelling of the entire defensive area, this round of Japanese troops concentrated on shelling the positions of the Third Division of the National Second Army directly south of Pingyuan County. It was obvious that this would be the key breakthrough point for the 4th Division of the Japanese Army.

On the roof of a brick house in the village where the Japanese advance headquarters was located. Lieutenant General Sadao Araki, chief adviser of the Shandong Dispatch Army, and Lieutenant General Takashi Hishigari, commander of the Fourth Division, both held binoculars and stared at the scene opposite. Both of them had a calm face, and Sadao Araki's European-style mustache was still trembling slightly.

This round of onslaught was launched at the strong request of Sadao Araki. In fact, apart from breaking the "Chinese GC Army that dared to defy the imperial army", this almost desperate attack was of no value, and it was even possible to bury the entire division, because the three Japanese divisions in Jinan had shrunk into the city and were in a state of being besieged by regiments, so the Fourth Division was actually on its back to the enemy, and the Kuomintang army south of the Yellow River could send a division to cross the river north at any time and attack the Fourth Division with the Red Army and the Nationalist Army. Therefore, the most correct action of the Fourth Division at present should be to abandon the operation of buying the Jinpu line, "turn in" to the east, bypass the Red Army and the Nationalist Army defending the plains and Dexian, and then retreat north to Tianjin through Cangzhou. It's just that Sadao Araki doesn't think so......

After firing four or five thousand shells, the Japanese artillery group finally extended its fire to the rear, and now the firepower was completely dispersed, and it was not as dense and ferocious as when it concentrated on the positions of the Third Division of the Second National Army, but it still had a very great lethality. The reserves assembled in the rear, the masses in front, all sorts of mules and horses, and even shells fell near the former enemy headquarters of the Second National Army. The entire rear assembly area immediately presented a considerable amount of chaos.

"All stand and move forward with bayonets"

With a burst of shouts that seemed to have exerted all the strength of the dantian. The nearly 6,000 Japanese soldiers in the trenches all stood up in a hurry and inserted a shiny snow bayonet into the front end of the Type 38 rifle. The officers wielding their swords were the first to leap out of the trenches, followed by two full wings of infantry. The mighty flow of people merged into a huge wave, rolling, shouting, and rushing to the position of the 3rd Division of the 2nd National Army under General Yang Huchen on the opposite sideAfter a whole day of fierce fighting, the advisers of the 4th Division of the Japanese Army had already figured out the reality of the opposite squadron. The left flank defended by the 2nd Red Army was almost impregnable - at least by the 4th Division. The right flank of the front, which was held by the Nationalist Army, was significantly weaker than the left, and it was almost destroyed in today's daytime attack. Therefore, in tonight's decisive battle, Sadao Araki and Takashi Hishikari decided to take a desperate gamble and concentrate their forces entirely on the weak right flank of the squadron, trying to concentrate the maximum energy to rush it away in one fell swoop and then sweep the entire defensive ground.

On the position of the Nationalist Army, General Sun Weiru, the commander of the Third Division, was squatting in the trench with his head in his arms, his head covered with dirt. A burly guard also protected him with his body, as if to help him block the shells. As soon as the shelling was extended, Sun Weiru immediately pushed the guard away and shouted: "Brothers, give Lao Tzu some spirits, let those little Japan see that our gentlemen in Guanzhong are all good."

After shouting, General Sun spat out the foam, rubbed his eyes and looked at the other side. It was the early hours of the morning, when the sky was bright, the visibility was not very high, and the smoke that had spread around the position had not dispersed, and nothing could be seen clearly. I only heard the shouts of "onboard and onboard" from the opposite side, as loud as a mountain and a tsunami, and even overshadowed the sound of artillery that had been extended. The officers and men who were hiding in the trench also got up at this time, set up their machine guns, and picked up their rifles. A few gusts of wind blew, the smoke cleared a few points, everyone looked at it again, and an amazing scene appeared in front of everyone's eyes, and everyone gasped.

The whole two wings of devil infantry, almost 6,000 men, discharged a wave of extremely dense skirmishers, so dense that it was almost a nineteenth-century line of infantry lined up to shoot in a line formation, and the Japanese officers stood at the head of the line, raising their katanas in their hands to lead the infantry forward. Rows of Type 38 rifles with long bayonets rolled and pressed over like a vast forest of steel with no edge in sight

"It's broken" Sun Weiru looked at everything in front of him dumbfounded, and there was only one thought in his heart, that is, it was broken, the position was about to lose one, and the full strength of one division was only more than 8,000, and after a whole day of fierce fighting and the shelling just now, the casualties were also less than 2,000, and now it was one-on-one with the devil.

Bang Bang Bang ...... Dadada......

At this time, gunfire began to ring out one after another on the position, and sporadic or strings of bullets, emitting orange-red light, rushed towards the Japanese crowd at a very fast speed. It's just that...... The Japanese troops on the opposite side were not hit in rows, but still pressed towards the positions of the Nationalists at the speed of their march. It turned out that those Japanese had not yet entered the effective range of the Jin-made rifles equipped with the Second National Army

This scene was clearly seen by the chief adviser of the Japanese army's Shandong dispatch army, Sadao Araki, who was supervising the battle on the other side, he put down his binoculars and let out a sigh of relief: "These so-called national troops are really relatively weak opponents. Their shooting discipline was also a mess, and they began to shoot indiscriminately from a distance, eager to cover the imperial army far away. Looks...... They're completely panicked, and we've won this battle. ”

The commander of the Fourth Division, Ryokari Takashi, also lowered his binoculars and bowed slightly: "The artillery of these Chinese armies is also very poor, they just separate the artillery in the bunkers at the front of each position and bombard our infantry with direct aiming, although it has caused great casualties to our daytime attack. However, their artillery has also been destroyed by us because of the outpouring of targets, and now it seems that there is no artillery to support their infantry. ”

Sadao Araki touched his beard and said with a smile: "When we destroy the National Army in front of us, we will roll back the Red Army on the right flank of the Chinese Army." That Red Army should be the most capable of fighting in the Chinese Army on the north bank of the Yellow River, and as soon as they collapse, the entire north of the Yellow River will be left to us to move freely."

A hint of surprise flashed across Ryokara's face: "Araki-kun, the advisory headquarters has instructed the forbidden ......."

Sadao Araki sneered twice: "I know that I can't cross the Shandong provincial border to take military action, but ...... Bong will still feel the pressure on us. As long as they give in to the Empire and allow the Empire's reinforcements to pass through the ground of Zhili, then the situation of the Battle of Shandong may be reversed."

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Speaking of which, these Second National Army are also pitiful, and the whole first uncle doesn't care for the wild children that his grandmother doesn't love. Although the Kuomintang also paid them some military salaries on time, it never had the intention of arming them. Only Feng Yuxiang's Nationalist First Army had received a batch of arms and ammunition from the Kuomintang on the eve of the defense of Jinan. However, the Second National Army had no share, even this time Feng Yuxiang took the guns and bullets sent by the Feng Department to arm his own Tomorrow Department, and not a single bullet was given to Yang Huchen...... Everyone was like this in the warlord era, but in fact, it was not the patent of the Kuomintang.

The rifle of Yang Huchen's department was taken from Yan Xishan in Shanxi Province five years ago when Luo Yaoguo was helping to prepare the "Northwest New Army" (the predecessor of the Red Army). Later, the Red Army gave some of the Jinzao rifles they had eliminated to Yang Huchen. However, these rifles have been used for five years, and the barrel has not been replaced, the rifling is almost worn out, and the bullets are mostly reloading bullets using inferior gunpowder, so this effective range is only two or three hundred meters.

The dense straggler line of the Japanese army, which was still in tight formation, finally fell within the effective range of the old lost teeth of the Jin-made rifles of the Second National Army. Dense bullets rained down, knocking down rows of charging Japanese officers and soldiers. This time, however, the vendors in Osaka did not lie down and hide their bullets, but instead accelerated their charge, shouting the slogan "onboard and onboard" and rushed forward. It's almost going forward and succeeding, and seeing death as home

Almost at the same time, mortars, grenadiers, and heavy machine guns owned by the two Japanese wings also opened fire. Fireballs of bullets and shrapnel swept through the trenches of the Nationalist Army like a storm, instantly turning the Nationalist positions into a flesh and blood crucible. Many died before they could react, and many more, in order to save their lives, retreated into the trenches at the height of the Japanese fire. As a result, the firepower on the position was naturally weakened a lot, and the Japanese army broke in......

Hand-to-hand combat immediately began on the side of the trenches of the Second National Army. Both sides used 38-type rifles with long bayonets, but one was an original and the other was a knockoff sold by Yan Laoxi...... But it's almost the same when it comes to fighting with a white knuckle. The Japanese army's stabbing skills were better, but the Shaanxi veterans of Yang Huchen's department were also brave and good at fighting white-knuckle battles. If it were the peasant samurai of Sendai who were attacking today, the Second National Army would not be able to support it for a quarter of an hour. However, those Osaka city soldiers are always a little hesitant to fight for their lives, and they always put their lives first when they are on the front line of life and death. It was only as time passed minute by minute that the numerical superiority of the Japanese army gradually became apparent...... It turned out that after seeing that the hand-to-hand combat on the front line was almost deadlocked, Sadao Araki and Takashi Hishikari did not hesitate to join the other two infantry wings, and almost 12,000 infantry swarmed into the trenches of the third division of the Second National Army. At this time, the rear of the position of the Third Division of the Second National Army was blocked by Japanese artillery fire, and the reserves sent by Yang Huchen could not reach it in time...... The positions of the 3rd Division of the 2nd National Army were finally broken through by the Japanese

The Japanese Fourth Division finally fought a beautiful battle in the early morning of that day, and the whole breakthrough process looked quite complicated, but in fact, it took less than an hour from the beginning of the shelling, and the Red Second Army on the left side of the position of the Second National Army did not even have time to react, and was caught off guard by the Japanese troops sweeping from the flank.

The two sides collided together, and it was the most tragic white-knuckle battle at the beginning. The clatter of a bayonet piercing into a human body was heard incessantly. Occasionally, there are some heart-rending screams. Soldiers on both sides scuffled in trenches, and even the bodies of those killed in battle were often connected to the last fighting posture of their lives, the bayonets had already sunk into each other's bodies, and they themselves were killed by bullets fired from unknown places, or by the bayonets of another enemy. The lives of both sides are consumed as quickly as if they didn't want money. The most intense trenches were stacked with corpses from both sides, and the trenches had almost been filled

Just when more than 10,000 people from four infantry wings of the Japanese army broke through from the flank of the Red Army, they were in front of the defensive ground of the Red Second Army. The cavalry wing, engineer wing, and baggage wing of the 4th Division of the Japanese Army also proposed a general attack, and more than 4,000 Japanese troops either rode war horses, brandished sabers, or held rifles with long bayonets, and shouted and swarmed to join this extremely tragic hand-to-hand combat. For a time, the Red Second Army was in danger of being attacked by the enemy......

"GCD members and Komsomol members rush with me"

This was the roar of Jiang Xianyun, deputy commander of the Red Second Army, after sending an urgent telegram for help to He L, Feng Yuxiang and others in Texas. Jiang Xianyun took all the personnel who could be gathered in the former enemy headquarters of the Red Second Army, including advisers, guards, communication soldiers, caterers, etc., about two or three hundred people, picked up their rifles, and also joined this inexhaustible furnace of life, the current battle situation is the most critical moment, if you take a step back, it is possible to disintegrate into a jade line, and a disintegrated army, even the Red Army, will still become a lamb shot by the enemy at will. Now I can only grit my teeth and hold on, and insist on sending reinforcements from the Texas side; The Kuomintang air force, which had held out to Tai'an, rushed to provide air support; Or hold out until the Japanese army is too late to bear the cost of human life......

As the deputy commander of the Second Red Army personally led the charge, the morale of the Red Army officers and men on the battlefield seemed to be boosted in an instant, or they had completely put life and death out of the way. Especially those GCD members and Komsomol members, the backbone and pillars of the Red Army at this most critical moment, they are no longer taking the lead in the charge, but taking the lead and dying together with the murderous Japanese invaders, and the slogan "Long live GCD" is not heard in the trenches, and then there is a roar of grenade explosions. Shouting the slogan of long live the emperor, they also came to the Red Army and died together, which seems to have happened from time to time during the Russo-Japanese War. Fortunately, it was the profiteers of Osaka who were on the battlefield today - profiteers were always more afraid of death than samurai. With the temporary setback of the arrogance of the Japanese army, this tragic battle gradually fell into a stalemate again, but it was ...... The Japanese army, which had an absolute numerical advantage, would eventually win the victory. And only "tactical victory", the strategic victors remained the Red Army and the Chinese people

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On April 9, 1928, the 4th Division of the Japanese Army in Osaka defeated the 2nd National Army and the 2nd Army of the Red Army to occupy Pingyuan County, and the two sides fought hard for nearly two days. Nearly 30,000 officers and soldiers of the Second National Army and the Second Red Army suffered losses of nearly 60 percent, and only nearly 9,000 broke through and retreated to Dezhou, killing nearly 15,000 people, including General Jiang Xianyun, deputy commander of the Red Second Army Corps (posthumously presented by President Sun Yat-sen after the war...... More than 8,000 were captured (including more than 4,000 wounded soldiers), mainly officers and soldiers of the Second Army of the National Alliance. After this battle, the Second Army Corps of the Red Army and the Red Army Artillery Division had suffered all casualties, and the remnants were only four or five thousand people, and there were few weapons and equipment left......

Japan's Osaka Fourth Division, with the exception of a heavy artillery brigade, also took part in the battle. Nearly 5,000 officers and men were killed and about 8,000 were wounded, of which nearly 5,000 were seriously wounded. There is also not much ammunition left. After this battle, the Japanese Fourth Division also lost more than half of its combat strength and was unable to advance into Texas. The 4th Division rested on the plains for a day, turned eastward on 11 April, made a detour to Zhili, and retreated to the Japanese concession in Tianjin four days later. The whole journey was nearly 200 kilometers, and the road was smooth and unimpeded, and the warlords of the Feng family did not send a single soldier to stop it

In addition, it is worth mentioning that more than 30 kilometers from Dezhou to Pingyuan County, the 100,000-strong army of Commander-in-Chief Feng of the Nationalist Coalition Army walked for a whole day, and it still did not reach the end of the Battle of Pingyuan, and the dive bombers of the 1st Army Aviation Division of the Nationalist Army never showed their heads from beginning to end...... As a matter of fact, the Kuomintang Shandong Front Army Headquarters in Tai'an, as well as Luo Yaoguo, the chief adviser of the Wuhan General Adviser, did not know that there was a great battle on the plains from the beginning to the end, and it was not until 12 April that they read in the newspapers the news of the "great victory on the plains" of the Sino-G and the Kuomintang coalition forces.

"Hmm...... The battle of Zhongg was fought well, blocking the Japanese army on the plain for nearly two days, killing and wounding nearly 20,000 Japanese invaders, and also recovering the three counties of Pingyuan, Qihe, and Yucheng, which is really an unprecedented victory worthy of our national army......

Luo Yaoguo looked at a southern version of Ta Kung Pao and bowed his head while reading it, and his face was full of admiration. He knew the weapons and equipment of the Second Army of the Red Army and the National Alliance. And these two armies also suffered heavy losses in the previous defense of Jinan, and they regained their combat effectiveness in less than ten days, and they also defeated the permanent division of the Japanese army, which is known as the elite, which is really surprising.

"Hehe, I didn't expect you, the chief of the general counsel, to learn about the war situation from the newspaper" Sitting opposite Luo Yaoguo was the Japanese underworld grandfather Toushan Man...... Today, his asking price has been reduced to 20 million silver dollars in compensation, plus the extension of the lease period in Kanto Prefecture for thirty years