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On the night of March 30, about six kilometers away from the main positions of Maoling Mountain and Yanchi Mountain, the southern slope of Tanuki Mountain. About 700 Kuomintang sappers wearing steel helmets with big ears and yellow military uniforms were sneakily lying in a large wooded area on the hillside. All of them stared nervously at a Japanese unit on the winding mountain road at the foot of the mountain. There were about a thousand Japanese soldiers, more than 100 mules and horses carrying heavy loads, and marching slowly in the darkness.

This engineer battalion was brought to Jinan by Sun Liren to help the Anti-Japanese Allied Army repair fortifications and lay mines. After they had finished laying mines on the main road from Zhangqiu to Jinan, they withdrew into the mountains to the south according to Deng Yanda's order, and they were supposed to retreat overnight to a railway station on the Jinpu line, more than 20 kilometers away, and then take a train back to Xuzhou to end this thrilling combat experience. However, these young men who experienced the war for the first time seemed to be a little too excited, and they didn't hurry to leave this place of right and wrong, but also found a place with a good line of sight in the mountains south of Jinan, and prepared to watch the war from a distance, especially the "famous anti-Japanese general" Sun Liren, and deliberately climbed to the tree, took a six-fold military telescope produced by Zeiss China and looked around, and the result was ...... I found a team of unknown numbers, unknown identities, and who looked like Japanese devils from their height, taking advantage of the night to slowly crawl along the mountain path

In the end, he is a famous general in history, and his observation ability and eyesight are superb. On such a dark night, with just a little moonlight, it was the Japanese army that could be determined, not a "friendly army", and it was really not simple to find that there was prey sent to the door, Sun Liren immediately gave the commander of the engineer battalion, Major Ren Tianmin, who graduated from the third phase of the engineering department of Huangpu, a combat order, he decided to ambush this Japanese army, uh, this "lieutenant colonel engineer" really dared to give an order, and the little engineer battalion commander who looked quite clever actually obeyed...... So hundreds of sappers who were a little excited, but didn't know that they were afraid, quickly planted dozens of mines on the mountain road, and then crawled in the woods on the southern slope of Tanuki Mountain to prepare for an ambush.

As the Japanese army slowly approached, the group of sappers in the woods who did not know whether they were alive or dead were also making final preparations. Probably because Song Meiling was a shareholder of the China Military Industry Corporation, Lao Jiang "generously" equipped all the sappers and baggage soldiers with rifles and light machine guns, in addition to two 60mm caliber "sapper barrier-breaking mortars" in each engineer battalion. At this time, several Min-15 light machine guns (7.62mm calibre modified from the Czech) were set up in the best firing positions, and the machine gunners carefully pulled the bolts and could fire at the first command; Two 60mm mortars were arranged in the middle, but I don't know if the ammunition used to "break obstacles and clear mines" can kill? In addition, each rifleman was given ten grenades with wooden handles.

"Attention, prepare for battle...... Ready to fight......"

I saw that the Japanese brigade with plaster flags had already entered the firing range and was slowly approaching the dozen or so mines. The officers of the engineer battalion lowered their voices to remind the soldiers to be ready for battle, and the sound of pulling the bolt of the gun converged into a film. Immediately after that, the squad leaders of each squad began to arrange their own combat arrangements for the soldiers under their command -- the current Kuomintang Army has been trained for more than a year by more than 1,000 German military advisers who always have a straight face, and who look unkind and unreasonable, and they are indeed more elite. Seeing this scene, even Sun Liren, who had never looked down on domestic officers, couldn't help but nod, and the combat skills and battlefield organization displayed by this ordinary engineer in front of him were definitely much stronger than the current loose and crumbling US Army infantry

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A dull explosion was followed by a deafening cry, well, an unfortunate Japanese soldier stepped on a mine and blew his foot off. At the same time as the explosion sounded, several hundred rifles and twenty light machine guns also opened fire at the same time, and sporadic or strings of bullets flashed orange-red as they flew at great speed from the ambush positions in the woods to the Japanese marching brigade. Almost at the same time, the two mortars deployed in the rear of the infantry also began to drop ammunition at a very high speed at the panicked Japanese crowd, and a ball of fire continued to rise in the ranks of the Japanese army, and the fragments of shells scattered in all directions swept across the crowd, sweeping the Japanese invaders to the ground.

It was the first few seconds that would determine the outcome of this ambush. The Japanese army is, of course, highly trained "samurai", but these guys also need a reaction time when they are hit suddenly. After a few seconds, the rigorous training they had received would do their job, and all of them would disperse at the first moment, looking for cover, or simply prostrate on the ground, and then they would start firing back. Therefore, the first bullet fired by each rifle of the engineer battalion, the first shot of each machine gun, and the first shell fired by the two mortars are the most powerful, and to maximize the power of this surprise attack is inseparable from the usual rigorous training. Although these people are engineers, they also have 500 to 1,000 rounds of live-ammunition shooting experience, and the entire Kuomintang army now uses as much as 500 million rounds of ammunition for training every year, and even when reloading ammunition is used, the expenditure is still as high as 60 million yuan

Of course, that's a requirement in training, and in actual combat, it's almost a 30% hit rate. That is, 600 rifles, 20 machine guns and two mortars killed and wounded more than 200 Japanese in the first seconds of the engagement. Among them was Captain Koizumi Nakasa, who rode a tall horse, whose skull was hit by a 7.62mm rifle bullet, tearing off half of his skull and splattering his white brain. In addition, most of the officers of this brigade also "became gods" in these few seconds, who made them wear beautiful uniforms and carry command knives, so that people could see at a glance that they were officers?

Under the blow of sudden firepower, although the Japanese troops at the foot of the mountain suffered heavy casualties, they quickly woke up from the shock. Almost without the orders of the officers or officers, all the Japanese soldiers quickly dispersed, lay down, set up their machine guns, raised their rifles, and began to return fire.

"Retreat retreat now retreat ......"

Seeing that the battle might fall into a stalemate, Lieutenant Colonel Sun Liren, the "engineer" who actually commanded the battle, decisively gave the order to retreat.

The retreat was also arranged in advance, and it was the machine gunners who retreated first, who were the main targets of the Japanese mortars and grenadiers, so they had to run first; followed by riflemen; Finally, there were the two mortars, which fired frantically for a whole minute, and were destroyed by the gunners with grenades after all the ammunition was gone. It took only one minute for the entire ambush to disengage from the beginning of the firefight, and more than 700 Kuomintang soldiers disappeared into the night in a panic, leaving only the devil brigade on the mountain road, which had suffered heavy casualties, to shoot indiscriminately in the direction of the hillside......

This ambush battle, which was exaggerated by the Kuomintang propaganda organs as a "one-minute victory", paid the price of six people killed, 12 wounded, and two mortars lost. According to the casualty figures released by the Japanese army, 58 people were killed and 115 were wounded in the Koizumi Brigade of the 11th Japanese Wing, and the list of casualties also included the captain Junichi Koizumi himself

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Although the "one-minute victory" was a great tactical victory, it could not change the dangerous situation in which the Chinese army found itself in the entire Jinan Campaign.

When Sun Liren returned to the battlefield in the eastern suburbs of Jinan after walking for several hours with the jubilant Kuomintang engineer battalion, he saw a defensive line that was about to collapse.

Half of the main positions of Maoling Mountain and Yanchi Mountain have been lost, and the unrecognizable Yanchi Mountain Heights that have been bombarded by the Japanese heavy artillery are hunting and fluttering in the wind. And the Maoling Mountain Heights are also full of fire, guns, shouts resounded in the sky, obviously a life-and-death decisive battle is being staged at this time, the northern section of the defense line in the eastern suburbs of Jinan no longer exists, Liu Yufen's Second Division of the National Alliance Army was taken by the Japanese Sixth Division in less than two hours, and even after receiving reinforcements from Li Mingzhong's Third Division, it was not able to stabilize its position, and the two divisions of nearly 20,000 troops were on the plain in the eastern suburbs of Jinan. The Japanese Kumamoto Sixth Division, which had 27,000 men, was defeated in one blow, even if Commander-in-Chief Feng Yuxiang personally led the Guards Brigade to supervise the battle, it could not recover the decline, and finally had to invite the Red Second Army of the Central G to go into battle, so that it could stabilize its position, and it was about ... A thin reserve line was formed on a six-kilometer front.

This so-called defensive line of more than 3,600 meters is actually just some sparse foxholes, there is not a single trench at all, there is not an inch of barbed wire, only 8,000 soldiers of the Fourth Division of the Second Army of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and it is precisely these Red Army soldiers wearing blue-gray military uniforms and octagonal hats who withstood round after round of attacks by the 6th Kumamoto Division, the most elite of Japan, with the simple weapons in their hands, and created one battlefield miracle after another

"GCD members, Komsomol members, rush with me"

This loud slogan was shouted by Jiang Xianyun, commander of the Fourth Division of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and then the young GCD man did not hesitate to pick up a bayonet-mounted Min 13 rifle and rush to the rapidly approaching 13th Wing straggler line. Behind him, countless Red Army commanders and fighters in gray-blue uniforms also carried rifles with bayonets and launched a counterattack with shouts. In the blink of an eye, thousands of Red Army soldiers and almost the same number of Japanese troops were entangled together, making the Japanese army's firepower advantage suddenly useless.

The white-knuckle fighting between the two armies began in the bloodiest and most brutal way, and although the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army participated in fewer actual battles, the training it received was much more formal. At the beginning, it was the Kuomintang officer corps headed by Deng Yanda, and later the Soviet military advisory corps led by General Galen, both of which taught each other all the strengths of the First Division of the Guangdong Army and the Soviet Red Army to the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and white-knuckle warfare was the best fighting method of the Russian Army and the First Guangdong Division. The Chinese Red Army, which inherited the superiority of the two armies, naturally attached great importance to the training of white-knuckle combat.

Of course, compared with the level of white-knuckle combat of the Japanese army, the Red Army soldiers were still slightly at a disadvantage. It's not that they didn't train hard enough, or that the Soviets were inferior to the Japanese in their white-knuckle warfare skills. Rather, the Red Army soldiers were visibly emaciated, and due to the barren land in the Soviet districts, supplies were difficult. The Red officers and men were visibly poorly nourished, and many even suffered from night blindness, barely fighting by the light of the fire and the rising flares. Therefore, this white-knuckle battle between the Red Army and the Japanese army was basically carried out in a two-to-one or three-to-one exchange ratio...... Seeing that the Red Army was about to gradually fall apart.

Jiang Xianyun, the commander of the Red Fourth Division, was also in crisis at this time, and he encountered a Japanese officer wielding a long katana on the battlefield. The guy was short, stocky, with a meaty face and a messy beard. And it seems that he will also order "kendo", and in the blink of an eye, he killed six or seven Red Army soldiers and then found Jiang Xianyun.

"It seems that you are going to sacrifice yourself for the cause of communism, right?" Jiang Xianyun was scrambling to resist, while secretly thinking to himself: "It's a pity that it's not the day of victory" Probably due to his cranky thoughts, Jiang Shi's feet tripped over something, fell to the ground, and the rifle in his hand was thrown out without holding it, and the bearded Japanese officer laughed, raised his katana high, and saw that it was about to be chopped off

Suddenly, pop pop ...... Shots rang out. Several bullets flashing with orange-red light flew from a distance at an extremely fast speed, piercing the skull of the Japanese bearded officer at once, and also saving Jiang Xianyun's life.

The gunfire continued to sound sparsely, and rows of orange-red rays came from behind the Red Army soldiers, most of whom accurately hit the Japanese officers and soldiers who were engaged in white-knuckle combat. Jiang Xianyun looked back, and a scene that made people laugh and cry appeared in front of him. There are about a few hundred officers and soldiers wearing steel helmets with big ears and ears, shooting from a distance in a kneeling and lying position, and oh my God, people are fighting white-knuckle battles, are you shooting indiscriminately like this? It's still so far away, and it's so dark, what should I do if I get injured by mistake?

These hundreds of people who were shooting indiscriminately from dozens of meters away were naturally the engineer battalion that Sun Liren had brought back. These sappers, who had just fought a beautiful ambush, were feeling good about themselves, each feeling like a sharpshooter with all sorts of shots. Just now, I was watching the battle from the sidelines, and when I saw that the Japanese army seemed to have the upper hand, I actually picked up my gun and started shooting, regardless of whether I would accidentally injure a good person......

On the roof of a farmhouse about a kilometer away from the defense line of the Red Fourth Division, He L, commander of the Red Second Front Army and commander of the Red Second Army Corps, witnessed this somewhat nonsensical battle through a telescope.

Putting down the binoculars, He L shook his head and asked Zhou Shidi, the chief of staff beside him, in a calm voice: "What part are they?" How did it appear on the battlefield? ”

Zhou Shidi furrowed his eyebrows and shook his head. At present, this anti-Japanese alliance army was originally a hodgepodge, and the armies of the Kuomintang Alliance, the Anhui faction, and the Central G faction were temporarily put together. Although nominally they accept Feng Yuxiang's unified command, in fact they are not subordinate to each other, and no one can command other people's armies. And tonight's battlefield is obviously a little chaotic again, the northern section of the defense line collapsed, countless Nationalist coalition troops were defeated in all directions, and the Yanchi Mountain on the other side was lost and the whole line was shaken, only the Red Army still remained calm and supported the whole situation. Just those friendly forces......

He L took a deep breath and smiled bitterly, "They shouldn't be enemies, right?" Send someone to bring their head over and see ...... Can you get them to join us? These people's marksmanship is really good, and they can maintain this state in such a chaotic battlefield, they should be veterans of battle."

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At the same time as the Chinese and Japanese armies were fighting to the death under the city of Jinan, the banquet in the county government of Weixian County, Shandong Province was also interrupted by sudden bad news.

A Japanese staff officer suddenly ran headlong into him, his face was solemn, and he was still holding a telegram that had just been translated: "Your Excellency Commander, the commander of the Fifth Division's Mudazhi Division is in an urgent message. The vanguard of the 5th Division, about a division of the same branch near Tanuki Mountain, encountered the death of the captain Junichi Koizumi Nakasa, and the 11th Wing suffered more than 200 casualties."

"Nani" Muto Nobuyoshi turned his head sharply and looked at the staff officer with a displeased expression: "Mu Dazhi didn't say which division of the Shina Army he encountered?" And how's the battle going? ”

The staff officer woke up like a dream, snapped upright, raised the telegram with both hands and handed it to Muto: "Your Excellency Commander, the Fifth Division did not say which army it encountered, and it did not inform the outcome of the battle, but only that the enemy army had retreated, so it should be our victory, right?" ”

"Didn't you say how many enemies were destroyed?" Muto frowned slightly, and a bad premonition suddenly came to his mind. There seemed to be too many accidents in this war, first the Second Division was bombed by Kuomintang bombers. Now there is another branch on the front line of Tanuki Mountain...... Who could that be? The Red Army of the Chinese GCD or the National Coalition Army of Feng Yuxiang?

"The Fifth Division has not reported the number of enemies destroyed, so it must have not been counted yet, right?" The staff officer shook his head and replied.

Muto nodded lightly: "Send a telegram to Mu Dayuki, let him leave a wing as a guard, and the rest of the troops will continue to complete the roundabout task, and they must take Thousand Buddha Mountain tomorrow, oh, before noon today."

"Hi" The staff officer bowed slightly, turned around and left.

Muto Nobuyoshi shook his head, turned his head and said to Kawashima Yoshiko with a smile: "Miss Yoshiko, I'm sorry for you to go to Xuzhou, please tell Marshal Luo Yaoguo." The empire had no intention of fighting the Kuomintang, and this time it was all for the protection of overseas Chinese, and if the Kuomintang was willing to pay 20 million silver dollars in compensation, the imperial army would withdraw from Shandong...... And it can also be returned to Qingdao and Jiaoji Railway. ”