"Prepare, release" The commander of the artillery team dragged a long tone and waved down the triangular red flag in his hand, and the six 75 mountain guns that had already been prepared for the shelling fired their first shells, and the Japanese troops on the opposite side were assembling, and the artillery observers of the 74th Army had already calibrated the coordinates of the shelling.

"Boom" "Boom" A series of explosions sounded in the distance, and the smoke rolled in the air was very beautiful, but Zhang Lingpu, who commanded the forward troops, tightened his face, his troops had already lurked and approached the position of only 200 meters away from the Japanese army's assembly place, if the Japanese puppet army did not surprise as the guys, his carefully arranged ambush would be in vain.

"Quick, quick, let's move the place." After the artillery team finished two rounds of salvos, it was busy shifting positions, and the Japanese army also had artillery wings in their hands, and they also had howitzers with a caliber of more than 150 mm, and one shot could overturn a mountain artillery of the 74th Army, and the 74th Army could not afford such a loss now. The towing frame of the mountain artillery was hung on the back of the truck, and the gunners of the 74th Army even loaded the shell casings on the ground and took them away, but two minutes later, only a few empty shell boxes remained on the position where the artillery was rumbling just now.

The "boom" shook the mountain so that the speeding truck could not stop shaking, and the artillerymen in the truck compartment could not help but feel a palpitation, if they ran slower, they would all become the souls of the Japanese heavy artillery bombardment. The 74th Army's sortie plan had three artillery units to cooperate in the operation, and this mountain artillery unit that fired first was only an introduction for Wang Yaowu, and his purpose was to find out the position of the Japanese heavy artillery, and if the Japanese heavy artillery was not disposed of, Zhang Lingpu's division in the forward position would have to suffer incalculable casualties.

After the second round of shells from the Japanese heavy artillery came over, the observation posts that arrived to reconnoiter calculated the approximate location and range of the Japanese heavy artillery. Artillery to artillery, no one believed in Zhao Zhi's arrangement before the war, the Japanese army made it a heavy artillery, and the biggest run of the 74th Army was the 75th mountain artillery, the difference between the two was too far, the Japanese army could bombard the artillery position of the 74th Army, and the mountain artillery of the 74th Army could only stare dryly and have no temper.

"Who said I was moving a mountain cannon?" After the position of the Japanese heavy artillery was roughly calculated, Zhao Zhi signaled Luo Ying to send a telegram according to the original plan. The time for the 74th Army to start the battle was 6 o'clock in the morning, and long before the 74th Army started the battle, Zhao Zhi had already ordered a fighter squad in the temporary airport in Liaocheng to take off and stand by. A fighter squad composed of 6 escort fighters, 3 bombers and 1 large transport plane flew from Liaocheng, 200 kilometers away, to Zibo in a short time, at least the Japanese puppet army confronted the 74th Army did not expect that Zhao Zhihui would call up fighters to help in the battle.

The guide on the ground quickly contacted the fighters circling and controlled, and after sending the coordinates, another mountain artillery unit of the 74th Army, which was arranged on the flank, opened fire to attract the attention of the Japanese heavy artillery. The Japanese army obviously did not expect that there would be two artillery positions in the opposite Zhina troops, and the gunners of the 74th Army, who had fought two rounds according to the order, had already withdrawn from their positions with mountain guns, and the Japanese army's large-caliber grenades had only arrived. "Boom", "boom", "boom" The smoke rolled in mid-air rose high, and the Japanese heavy artillery positions were jubilant, but unfortunately they didn't know that it was only the explosives arranged by Zhao Zhi in advance that exploded, and the mountain artillery and artillery of the 74th Army had long since run away without a shadow.

"Find the target location, let's go down." The fighters hovering at high altitude first discovered the Japanese heavy artillery position, and the flight officer who led the command of the team pressed down the handle and dived down, followed by the other five escort fighters. Okamura Ninji equipped the front-line troops with fighter planes to assist in the battle, but the Japanese commander who commanded the defense of Zibo believed that the infantry alone could defeat the invading enemy, so after the 74th Army launched an attack, he did not call in fighters to help in the battle. Without the shadow of the Japanese fighters, the escorting Thunder fighters had to use themselves as aerial machine gun firepower, otherwise they would have to bring the ammunition for the machine guns back to the airfield.

"All of them" 6 fighters took turns to dive down, and the machine guns mounted on the fighters sprayed ammunition to the Japanese puppet army below, and the power of the fighter machine guns was much more powerful than the thundering large-caliber Browning heavy machine guns, and when the heavy machine guns came, you could still lie down or hide in the trenches, but the fighters attacked from the air, even if you were hiding in the trenches, the bullets of the machine guns would drill through the soil and tear you into pieces.

More than a dozen columns of smoke rose high on the Japanese heavy artillery positions, and the thick machine gun bullets hit the guns of the Japanese heavy artillery and splashed sparks, and the Japanese artillerymen who were shrouded in bullets could only hug their heads or lie down under the heavy artillery bodies to pray for God's blessing. The bombers, whose flight speed was not as fast as the fighters, began to dive and drop bombs with a screeching sound, and four shiny and efficient incendiary bombs were dropped, and a moment later, the Japanese heavy artillery position became a sea of fire.

The means of killing and injuring the enemy by heavy artillery is not only the shrapnel scattered after the explosion of the shell, but also the shock wave generated during the explosion, the shock wave formed by the explosion of a 150-caliber shell can shock all living creatures within 20 meters of the explosion range, and the living creatures close to the center of the explosion 10 meters have almost no chance of surviving. And this is only the effect of the explosion of a heavy artillery shell, the bomber detonated dozens or hundreds of large-caliber shells, and the effect of the explosion is naturally not comparable to a single shell.

"Guys, how about we go teach those Japanese monkeys a lesson?" The three bombers that came to help in the war not only carried four incendiary bombs, but also ordinary heavy aerial bombs in their bomb bays, and it would take more fuel to fly back with these big guys, and the bomber pilots on a whim planned to throw none of these big guys on the Japanese position.

"It's a thunder plane" Zhang Lingpu's telescope was raised high, and the wings of the fighters hovering in the air carried a big lightning sign, and they didn't need to think about it to know that it was the thunder fighter unit. When Zhang Lingpu followed the 74th Army south to Burma to bypass Thailand, he had already seen the Thunder fighter unit in Jingdong, and those big guys with lightning signs were itching in their hearts, if the 74th Army also had a flying team of this size to help in the war, it would no longer be a dream to drive the Japanese army out of China.

"Haha, division commander, all the airdropped are machine guns and mortars, these are okay, Lao Tzu can enter Jinan in one go." One of Zhang Lingpu's regiment commanders ran over with a machine gun in his arms. When the bombers were busy bombing the Japanese heavy artillery positions, the transport planes circling in the air had already dropped a batch of machine guns and mortars on Zhang Lingpu's position, and after a while his troops were about to collide with the Japanese troops on the opposite side, and these machine guns and mortars were just the right use.

"Order the troops to prepare for the attack, wait for my orders." Zhang Lingpu glared at the regiment commander, fortunately, his forward command was full of his own people, if this was seen by the people of Thunder, maybe he would laugh at them The people of the 74th Army are all dirt buns who have never seen the world. Although the 74th Army is all equipped with American-style weapons, where would the soldiers dislike their weapons with more firepower, Zhang Lingpu had to secretly sigh Zhao Zhi's thoughtfulness, and this batch of airdropped weapons can just come in handy.

At the moment when the fighter squad that had come to help in the battle returned to the plane, Zhang Lingpu's order was transmitted through the walkie-talkie that had been equipped with the battalion company, and more than 8,000 officers and men of the 58th Division commanded by Zhang Lingpu rushed forward like tigers on the opposite side of the Japanese puppet army. Without the threat of the Japanese heavy artillery wing, the artillery of the 74th Army fought very smoothly, and the smoke rising from the Japanese positions gradually became a piece, and there was a tendency to become more and more intense.

"Let's go, let's go back, there's nothing to see." Zhao Zhi, who had been watching the battle from the rear flank of the 74th Army, turned around and left, with the cooperation of the fighter troops and the strong fire support of more than 18 75 mountain guns, if Zhang Lingpu could not command his 58th Division to take the enemy on the opposite side, then the title of the 74th Army could be regarded as blind. The cooperation with the 74th Army to attack Shandong was due to Chiang Kai-shek's arrangement and proposal, Zhao Zhi did not fully trust the Nationalist Government and the troops of the Nationalist Army, and the matter of the Taiyuan offensive and defensive battle made him angry, which is why Zhao Zhi handed over the command to Wang Yaowu.

The 300,000 national army reserve troops transferred by Zhao Zhi from Shanxi are currently on standby around Liaocheng, and as long as Okamura Ningji continues to increase troops on the Qingzhou and Yishui lines, the 300,000 reserve troops hidden in Liaocheng will launch an attack on Jinan with the cooperation of the Second Panzer Division. These 300,000 reserve troops are not comparable to the Burmese mercenaries who besieged Jinan in the early stage, and there are also fighter units and the participation of the 2nd Armored Division, if Okamura Ninji does not transfer troops from other places to reinforce Jinan, this historical city that was thrown to the Japanese by Han Fuqu will return to the hands of the Nationalist Government.

Once the 300,000 reserve army and the 74th Army converged in Shandong, Chiang Kai-shek would order the formation of a new army group, and Wang Yaowu would be promoted to the first commander of this group army, and the only task of this group army was to inflict the greatest possible casualties on the Japanese puppet army in Shandong. The group army with the name Huben only accepts the direct command of Chiang Kai-shek, counting the more than 200,000 Burmese cannon fodder troops sent by Zhao Zhifeng, Wang Yaowu's Huben group army will become a behemoth with 500,000 troops, and it is believed that it will be enough for Okamura Ningji to gnaw until defeat and return home.