readx; Jiaozhou, Shandong, in the headquarters of the Third Army, Xu Lishan and many generals together, and in front of them is a huge sand table around Qingdao, on the sand table is marked in detail many small flags representing various troops, on behalf of the German army is the black flag, on behalf of the national army is the red flag, and on the sand table, Qingdao periphery is almost densely surrounded by layers of red flags, these red flags represent the Third Army Command under the many national army units, including three infantry divisions, a mixed brigade and two reading artillery regiments. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Military seat, judging from the intelligence collected in the early stage, the German army should have concentrated its defensive forces mainly in the central fortress, and there were not many troops in the Taitung Town Fortress and Xiaokanshan Fortress, and most of the German troops were concentrated in these five fortress areas." It was Major General Chen Jingfei, chief of staff of the Third Army, who was the colonel of the First Regiment of the former Guards Division, who had been promoted to major general and served as chief of staff of the Third Army last year.

Chen Jingfei continued: "The total number of German troops in Qingdao should be about 10,000 now, but it is worth noting that among the 10,000 German troops, only about 4,000 and 500 are regular troops, and the rest of the personnel are temporarily armed mobilized troops. In addition, at least half of these more than 4,000 regular troops were artillery, that is, the German army could not deploy more than 2,000 regular infantry units in the fortress areas of the front! ”

Song Junpeng, the commander of the Third Division, spoke at this time: "Although their regular infantry unit is only about 2,000 people, there should be at least 2,000 to 3,000 mobilized troops in each fortress area!" ”

Chen Jingfei nodded and said, "Overall, in our early attack, the main enemy army we faced should be about 4,000 people, not more than 5,000 people. However, as you all know, these fortresses built by the German army are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and our army will definitely encounter great resistance if it wants to attack! And this resistance is mainly from the enemy's heavy artillery units! ”

At this time, an Air Force colonel wearing a white military uniform next to him interjected: "Maybe you don't know yet, just now I received a telegram from General Li Tunyang, which said that the attack unit of our air force has returned!" ”

Xu Lishan, who was on the side, showed joy when he heard this: "Oh, has General Li's bombers already attacked and achieved results?" ”

The air colonel nodded and said: "Yes, our air force dispatched more than 50 planes to carry out a large-scale bombardment of the enemy's Bismarck battery and the Ilqis North battery, and the results were brilliant, and it is reported that at least five enemy heavy guns were blown up!" ”

"Really? If the air force colleagues can effectively suppress the enemy's heavy artillery units, then our attack will be twice as effective with half the effort! Song Junpeng was also happy.

However, the air force colonel shook his head and said: "I am afraid that it will be difficult to achieve such great results in the next air raid, this time we mainly rely on surprise to attack its unpreparedness, if the enemy army has air defense preparations, the air attack effect of our air force will be greatly discounted!" ”

What he said is true: In recent years, the planes flew too slowly, and the B3 bombers only had a speed of more than 150 kilometers, and if they were to bomb, they would have to reduce their altitude in order to ensure the accuracy of the bombing, and at that time, as long as the ground forces organized effective anti-aircraft firepower, even the anti-aircraft firepower of heavy machine guns and light machine guns would be enough to cause heavy damage to the B3 bombers. This kind of thing was already bitter when the Nationalist Air Force was engaged in an air operation battle in Chaohu last year, so it is unlikely that the Air Force will continue to carry out today's low-altitude bombing mission under the enemy's large amount of anti-aircraft firepower. And today, it depends on a sudden surname, after all, except for the Beiyang Army, no other army in the world has ever eaten the news of large-scale bombing. However, after such a while today, the German army will definitely deploy anti-aircraft firepower, although there are no special anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns in these years, but they can completely add up heavy machine guns temporarily as anti-aircraft machine guns, although the limitations are very large, but only to protect the battery from air raids, it can still play a considerable role.

When the air force colonel said this, Song Junpeng was a little disappointed, and he also hoped that the air force would be able to knock out all the heavy artillery units of the German army, and then his infantry would not have to suffer heavy casualties when they attacked.

At this time, Xu Lishan spoke: "Please also tell General Li, just say that the brothers of the army will ask the air force!" ”

In order to reduce the casualties of his troops, Xu Lishan didn't mind buying Li Tunyang a big face, and then turned to the other generals and said: "To get back to the point, what is standing in front of us now are these five German fortresses, and the combat missions of each unit have also been assigned, the third division is in the center and is responsible for conquering the central fortress, while the 28th division is located on the left flank of the third division and is responsible for the Xiaokanshan fortress, and the 29th division is located on the right flank of the third division, responsible for the Taitung Town fortress and the coastal fortress. The fifth mixed group served as a reserve after sojourn. The two Reading Artillery Regiments are also to provide artillery support to the front-line troops according to the predetermined battle plan! ”

At this time, Zhang Zuolin on the side said: "Military seat, although we have made arrangements for Qingdao, but I heard that 'I may also want to intervene, now Shandong is our third army, if you say, 'I intervene, it will not be easy to do!'" ”

Zhang Zuolin is different from several other Beiyang generals, he did not carry the title of the old Beiyang department, Xu Shuzheng, He Zonglian and Cao Kun, the generals who surrendered to Beiyang, used to lead the troops to fight to the death with the national army, although now they have surrendered and become a part of the national army, but there are naturally gaps, for example, after He Zonglian, the commander of the 28th Division, led the troops to Shandong to deploy defense, he rarely interacted with people, and he would never open his mouth if there was no need for some combat meetings, in short, he would carry out orders if they were there, However, he will never take the initiative to ask for any combat mission, nor will he put forward his own views at the military conference of the Third Army. And Zhang Zuolin was the same as Long Jiguang before he defected to the Cheng National Army, and he belonged to a small warlord surnamed Yuli, so after he defected to the Cheng National Army, he did not have as many scruples as Xu Shuzheng, He Zonglian and Cao Kun, but if he had something to say, he wanted to climb up after making meritorious contributions.

After Zhang Zuolin said this, Xu Lishan said: "Rest assured, this kind of deployment staff involving the overall strategy has been planned for a long time, the ninth division of the first army and the fifth division of the second army are now rushing to Shandong, it is expected that it will not be long before they can reach the Jiaozhou railway, and when the time comes, our army will gather more than 100,000 people in Shandong. ”

Speaking of this, Xu Lishan glanced at the generals present, and then said: "You don't have to worry about other things, whether it is the replenishment of recruits or the supply of ammunition and ordnance, the president has personally told me that he will give full priority to supporting the operation of our Third Army." So all you have to do is to take Qingdao down! ”

After saying that, he said: "For the rejuvenation of China, please also ask you to work hard!" ”

Xu Lishan specially said this passage to make He Zonglian and Zhang Zuolin feel at ease, and tell them that you are now staying in the national army, the national army has the rules of the national army, and the front-line generals should worry about how to win, not to worry about any political changes, let alone treat the army as a private soldier to deliberately preserve strength!

He Zonglian is also a smart person, and he also heard Xu Lishan's voice, to be honest, he does have the idea of preserving strength, although he knows that the losses of soldiers and ordnance in the national army will be uniformly arranged and supplemented by the National Military Commission, but he He Zonglian is a little worried that if his 28th Division suffers too many casualties, will Chen Jingyun take this opportunity to dismantle the 28th Division? When the time comes, will he and He Zonglian be idle? As a surrendered general, it is normal for He Zonglian to have these worries.

However, after listening to Xu Lishan's words today, I knew that if I didn't work hard, I was afraid that the end would not be any better, and when he returned to the front-line headquarters of the 28th Division from Jiaozhou, He Zonglian also thought about it for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and secretly made a decision in his heart. Anyway, this 28th Division is not his descendant unit, and the 28th Division at the surrender site has only about 7,000 people, and only a dozen artillery pieces with heavy weapons, but after arriving in Shandong, due to the preparation for Qingdao, his 28th Division has almost been replenished with full strength, and its personnel have expanded to nearly 13,000 people, and the artillery regiment also has 36 artillery pieces.

He Zonglian thought that most of the 28th Division was Chen Jingyun's people and guns, if he himself didn't have heartache and was ready to use it as cannon fodder, what else could he He Zonglian say. If Chen Jingyun deliberately used the 28th Division as cannon fodder just to suppress him, a Beiyang general, then He Zonglian could only say that Chen Jingyun's family had a great cause, and he didn't take an entire infantry division seriously, and he had to scold Chen Jingyun for being stupid.

To estimate the suppression of He Zonglian, Chen Jingyun can transfer him from the position of division commander of the 28th Division with a warrant, and he is not guilty of sacrificing the 28th Division to suppress him.

After figuring out these things in her heart, He Zonglian also made up her mind, since she wants to fight, since she is ready to be cannon fodder, then she should show it to Chen Jingyun, maybe she will really have the opportunity to be promoted to the head of an army like Xu Lishan in the future.

After having this thought in his heart, and the order for the general attack had begun, he also commanded the 28th Division to begin to attack the German fortress, and also launched a night attack that night, although it also successfully broke through several German strongholds, and then the 28th Division suffered huge casualties, with more than 300 dead and wounded in just one night!

Not only the 28th Division, but also Zhang Zuolin's 27th Division and Song Junpeng's 3rd Division found that the German fortresses in front of them were even more difficult to gnaw than they imagined, and in just one day, the three divisions of the Third Army that launched the attack on the front line had suffered more than 1,500 casualties, and what can be confirmed is that the results achieved by the army are only more than 200 German soldiers killed and wounded!

Five days after the attack, the cumulative casualties of the Third Army had exceeded 4,000, and the huge casualties made Xu Lishan have to issue an order to suspend the attack and rest on the spot on August 12, and then sent a telegram to Nanjing requesting reinforcements!

The first stage of the Nationalist Army's offensive on Qingdao ended in complete failure!