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I don't know if it was the expectations of Feng Yuxiang, Deng Yanda and others who played a role, or whether those Kuomintang reactionaries had a rare conscience to discover? Just two or three minutes after the Japanese artillery fire was raging, 24 A-1 biplane dive bombers slowly arrived from the skies over the Kaishan and Qishan battlefields more than ten kilometers away

It turns out that the air-ground cooperation in this time and space is still very primitive, and there has never been any training between the Kuomintang Army Aviation and the Chinese G and the National Alliance, so there is no coordination at all. The dozens of dive bombers responsible for dropping bombs on the outer city walls of Jinan just blew the city walls to shreds, and then flapped their wings and flew away after a random strafing of them...... However, there were no other aircraft to replace them to provide air support for the Red Army and the National Coalition Army, so it was an unforgivable mistake to let the Japanese artillery group take advantage of the loophole and kill thousands of ** martyrs.

However, it is definitely not only the Kuomintang that is making mistakes in today's chaotic battlefield, but also the Japanese. Their artillerymen do not know if they are not accustomed to fighting under the bombardment of enemy aircraft, or are they really not afraid of death? In short, until twenty-four A-1 dive bombers staggered over their heads, these Japanese artillerymen were still happily firing* and did not even notice that twenty-four hundred-kilogram bombs were about to fall

Twenty-four A-1 dive bombers slowly lined up in a bombing formation as if they were training, and then one after another completed the prescribed action of dive bombing, and lifted all the 12 Taisho four-year 150mm field heavy howitzers of a Japanese heavy artillery brigade that was busy bombarding the Chinese army with shells...... After a roar of shaking the mountains, the entire battlefield suddenly fell silent

"Avenge the dead brothers, fight with them" With an angry roar resounding on the battlefield, the Red Army and the National Alliance Army's charging infantry, which were still a little more than 3,000, once again accelerated the pace of their charge.

More than 3,000 people shouted in unison and rushed towards the huge gap in the wall of the outer city of Jinan, which was blown up by dive bombers. There, too, thousands of Japanese marchers with long rifles with bayonets screamed to meet them...... However, this time the Chinese did not intend to fight with them, but extravagantly used automatic firearms With the sound of clattering gunfire, 3,000 submachine guns fired tens of thousands of 9mm bullets at the oncoming Japanese soldiers in an instant. The dense bullets were like a fire net, so that the Japanese troops who were caught off guard could not dodge, and were knocked down in rows like wheat harvesting.

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Boom Boom Boom ......

The shelling on the battlefields of Kaishan and Qishan continued endlessly, and for the Japanese officers and soldiers who were huddled in the trenches with their heads in their arms and shivering, time seemed to stop at a certain point, and the sharp whistling and loud explosions were intertwined, and the high ground correspondingly rose and fell. The earth shook violently, as if the end of the world had come. The raging heat swept over the Japanese positions over and over again, carrying small pieces of metal, as if to turn all life into ashes.

However, all this is not the most terrible, the really terrible shells fall directly into the trenches or hit the hastily built civil fortifications, which often represent the death of the whole squad and platoon, and for the officers and soldiers of the Japanese Fifth Division who were bombarded, the shells fell directly to their side and took away everything from them seemed to be a matter of time, and they had no choice but to resign themselves to fate, or fantasize about a happy life after "becoming a god......

I don't know how much time passed, but the sound of the landslide and tsunami finally turned from dense to thin, and after a while, the last muffled thunderous roar finally put an end to this terrible shelling that seemed to last until the end of the world.

Before the smoke of artillery fire had dissipated, the yellow-colored stragglers of the Kuomintang ** Army rushed towards the main Japanese position. Nearly 3,000 officers and men of the 17th Infantry Regiment of the National ** Army were responsible for launching the first wave of the offensive. Luo Yaoguo's order to Li Zongren, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy in the northward column, was only to make a feint to attract Japanese reinforcements and reduce the pressure on the breakout troops in the inner city of Jinan, nothing more. Therefore, Li Zongren and Xia Wei will not fight hard to launch a strong attack, but unhurriedly start a textbook-style "slow-paced positional warfare". However, this does not mean that the attacks of the National Army are not sharp.

In fact, this kind of steady tactics is more difficult for the defending side to deal with than the tactics of crowds of people. Of course, the premise is that the attacking side must have air superiority and firepower superiority, and also have good command and training, so that air firepower, artillery firepower, and infantry can effectively coordinate and give full play to the maximum power of air, infantry, and artillery coordinated operations. In order to let the National ** Army do this, Luo Yaoguo, a little reactionary "big butterfly", has been trying to stir his wings. Not only did they assign unimaginable homework burdens to the students of the Whampoa Military Academy, but they also invited German instructors who were obviously supported by the devil to train and assess them strictly. In addition, there is endless on-the-job training, and if you want to be promoted and make a fortune, you have to go to the army university, which is so difficult to pass to death, and finally gnaw through the stacks of books as high as a hill in the army university, and learn all the knowledge needed in contemporary warfare and supposedly future wars, before you are eligible to be promoted to the rank of general...... At present, the reactionary officers of the Kuomintang are almost all about to be educated as scholars

Today, the person in charge of commanding the battle on the front line is such a "scholar-type general", Xu Yunfei, a double-level high-achieving student who graduated from the first phase of Huangpu and the first phase of Lu University. This Kuomintang major general, who looks polite, has a slightly thin figure, and wears a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, is now the chief of staff of the Fifth Division of the National ** Army. The specific battle plan for this feint attack on the southern front of the Japanese army was arranged by him and the German military adviser Lieutenant Colonel Kluger, and the two famous generals in history, Li Zongren and Xia Wei, now only need to sign the battle plan and say, "Well, that's good." Then sit in the former enemy headquarters in Gushan Town, drink tea, and wait for the good news.

However, there are also side effects of this studying...... The Kuomintang reactionary officers were already very afraid of death, but as soon as they were educated by the Germans in the Army University, they were even more afraid of death. For example, Colonel Wang Yaowu, the commander of the 17th Infantry Regiment, did not personally lead the charge at the moment, but hid behind to command. The junior officers in this 17th Infantry Regiment who were responsible for leading the charge of the troops were also very afraid of death and changed into "training uniforms" that were very close to the soldiers' uniforms, and also replaced the pistols representing the identity of officers with rifles or submachine guns, and rushed together in the skirmish line, for fear of being "named" by the Japanese snipers.

Under the leadership of these reactionary officers who were afraid of death, the attack of the 17th Regiment was also weak. As soon as the Japanese machine-gun sounded, more than a dozen tongues of fire swept down from the Kaishan Heights, and the Kuomintang soldiers immediately found their own terrain and crouched down, slowly squirming forward with the help of the terrain. At the same time, more than a dozen grenadiers and several mortars were also erected, and the snipers attached to the battalions also picked up the 13 rifles equipped with scopes, and all kinds of ammunition smashed at the dozen or so Japanese machine guns that had just emerged. Then the Kuomintang soldiers, who were afraid of death, began to charge slowly, until the Japanese machine guns rang out again......

In addition to following the infantry movement to show their might with mortars and grenadiers, the six Min-13 75mm mountain guns attached to the artillery company of the 17th Infantry Regiment and the six Min-16 70mm infantry guns attached to the infantry battalions were also lined up in front of the offensive starting position of the Kuomintang army at the foot of the mountain. Using direct fire to support the infantry's charge, with the current shooting technology of the artillery of the National ** Army, to fire directly at such a close distance is simply a hundred shots. The Japanese defensive positions were turned into a sea of fire, and these Japanese could only grit their teeth in the sea of fire and persist in fighting until the last moment of their lives

In the Japanese advance command post on the Tiger Cave Heights, about three kilometers northeast of the side of the Shoyama Heights. The commander of the 5th Division, Makitayaki, and the commander of the 11th Wing, Okamura Ninji, both held binoculars and watched the scene on the front line. I saw with my own eyes the tremendous power of the multi-arms coordinated operation adopted by the Chinese army.

There were several hot air balloons painted with blue sky and white sun symbols floating over the battlefield, which were aerial observation posts for the Chinese army's artillery, and as soon as the Japanese mortars and mountain artillery fired, these observation posts would immediately guide the Chinese army's heavy artillery groups to suppress them. Dozens of biplanes, also belonging to Chinese troops, circled over Japanese positions, most of them with black bombs hanging under their fuselages. As long as the Japanese heavy artillery dared to counterattack, these bombs would fall from the sky, so the 90 cannons assigned to the Fifth Division were now disposable, and they could only be fired once, and then most of them were gone...... However, the Japanese troops on the Kaishan and Qishan positions, which could not be supported by their own artillery, became the targets of all kinds of light artillery of the Chinese army, which were so numerous that they could die, and as soon as the machine guns opened fire, they could not finish 30 rounds, and they would immediately find grenadiers and mortars to strike. As a result, these machine guns have also become disposables, and if the machine guns are exhausted, what will the Japanese soldiers on the Kaishan and Qishan positions use to fight? Is it possible to use a single-shot rifle to deal with such an overwhelming firepower?

Mu Dazhi put down the binoculars and whispered, "It seems that we shouldn't have come here......"

Okamura Ninji also put down the binoculars and shook his head slightly: "Your Excellency, we should come here...... The loss is totally worth it now. The people of China are now using actual combat to tell us how to fight, and the heavy industry and military strength of the empire, as well as the bravery of the imperial army, are all superior to them. It's just that we didn't make good use of it, and we didn't know how. And now our enemy, the Kuomintang in China, is telling us how to give full play to our strengths. ”

Mu Dazhi smiled bitterly: "It seems that the empire needs to be paid and tasted bravely." He pointed to the ravaged positions on the other side: "There should be a camera that filmed everything here and showed it to the fools who only knew the empty slogan of 'conquer China'...... What are we going to do to conquer people? Damn it, I used to be that kind of idiot, how could things be like this? ”

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April 1 at half past nine in the morning. After more than an hour of hard fighting, the Anti-Japanese Allied Army, composed of the Red Army, the Nationalist Army, and the Anhui Beiyang Army, finally seized the outer city wall of Jinan with the support of the Kuomintang Army Aviation Corps, opening the first gate to break out of the encirclement. However, the second line of resistance of the Japanese army, with the Jinan Railway Station and the telegraph building as the main support points, appeared in front of the warriors of the Anti-Japanese Allied Army.

Both tall and sturdy buildings were built by German colonists before the World War. Well, the quality of the Germans' engineering was naturally so good that it was reactionary...... Where are the two civilian buildings, obviously they are two fortresses, a wing of the Japanese Sixth Division now occupies these two buildings, and also spent a night transforming them into impregnable fortresses, all the windows have been converted into firing points, and all the entrances and exits are protected by layers of sandbags. The four mountain guns were dismantled and transported to the top platforms of the two buildings, from where they could be fired accurately at all four shots.

In a temporary former enemy command post converted into a gate hole in the outer city of Jinan. Feng Yuxiang, Deng Yanda, and He L all turned blue and their eyes were red, staring at the Japanese blocking line opposite, as if they wanted to melt them with their eyes.

"Commander He, how many shells do you have in your artillery division now?" Feng Yuxiang took a breath and glanced at He L beside him: "Can you use the artillery of the artillery division to collapse those two buildings?" ”

He L frowned, as if calculating how much ammunition was left in the Red Army artillery division. However, before he could figure it out, Deng Yanda on the side sighed first and denied this possibility: "This is impossible, they are two very strong reinforced concrete buildings, and their pillars are poured out of reinforced concrete one meter square...... The craftsmanship of the Germans, sturdy to death, is enough to use our 75mm mountain cannon for a thousand years, how can it be impressed? ”

"So what? Are you just here waiting to die? The Japanese army has already entered the inner city......" Feng Yuxiang said calmly.

Deng Yanda blinked tiredly: "Let's contact the Kuomintang air force, their 100-kilogram bombs are more effective than our mountain artillery, and even if they can't collapse, they should be able to kill more than half of the defenders there...... If it doesn't work anymore, you can only storm it and fill it with human lives."

He L looked up at the Kuomintang planes hovering in mid-air, and sighed: "It seems that this air force is really a treasure, and it can't be without them in a war."

Ten minutes later. Twenty-four A-1 dive bombers, which were responsible for providing air support to the anti-Japanese Allied forces, formed a bombing formation, divided into two teams and began to dive and drop bombs one by one...... After a series of earth-shaking roars, the two sturdy buildings were still standing, but their interiors were already unrecognizable. Two and three bombs pierced through their roofs, and there was a big explosion inside the building, and the Japanese troops in the two buildings suffered heavy damage in an instant

The officers and men of the Red Army and the Nationalist Army, who had been waiting for a long time, rushed out of several gaps in the outer city wall with loud shouts. It was a majestic formation of almost two regiments, with all the rifles loaded with bayonets, and marching forward under the leadership of the officer. At the same time, the artillery divisions of the Red Army also took out the last stocks of shells and desperately bombarded the Japanese positions on the opposite side. More than 30 Kuomintang planes in the air also used machine guns to strafe the Japanese positions over and over again. Fifteen dive bombers, which had not yet dropped their bombs, continued to hover at high altitude, waiting for Japanese artillerymen who did not know whether they were alive or dead to open fire and expose their targets.

Nearly four thousand bayonets lined up a dozen columns of dense skirmishers and rolled forward, like the Japanese troops who broke through the Nationalist line on the night of the thirtieth. They crossed improvised obstacles and endured sporadic or cascades of bullets fired from Japanese positions. The Japanese were also under heavy fire from the ground and from the air. This battle is a contest of will and strength of both sides, and both sides must fight under the premise of suffering a large number of casualties. Whoever can't afford this kind of loss will immediately collapse...... And if both sides can grit their teeth and withstand the killing of all kinds of firepower, it will depend on whose life is a little more

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Weixian, the General Headquarters of the Japanese Shandong Dispatch Army.

In the headquarters of General Muto Nobuyoshi, Muto sat there silently, his face pale, and in his hand he held two urgent telegrams "requesting tactical guidance," one of which was sent by the Hiroshima Fifth Division, which was holding a blocking position southwest of Jinan and blocking the Kuomintang reinforcements. The other was photographed by the Kumamoto Sixth Division, which blocked the breakthrough of the anti-Japanese Allied forces in Jinan City. It is ridiculous that two elite Japanese Army permanent divisions, which are said to be invincible, sent an urgent telegram for help at the same time, right?

I don't know how long it took, but Muto Nobuyoshi sighed softly: "Let the Second Division send a brigade to reinforce the Fifth Division, and the rest will continue to attack the inner city of Jinan......"

"Your Excellency, it's better to let go of the Chinese army in Jinan City." Before Muto's order could be given, he was interrupted by Ishihara Waner, a staff officer of the headquarters standing beside him.

"What do you say? Destroy the Shina army in Jinan City, but it's your suggestion," Muto turned his head and glared at Ishihara. The battle has come to this...... Isn't letting go of the 100,000 troops in Jinan City a failure? How can you ask for a sky-high price?

Ishihara still had a gloomy expression that could not be seen in joy and anger, he snapped upright, straightened his waist and said loudly: "Your Excellency, the current situation is grim, and it is no longer about how to expand the results of the war, but about how to ensure that this war is not a success or failure."

"Eight grids" Muto Nobuyoshi stood up suddenly, picked up a slap and slapped him: "How can you say such a thing?" How could my invincible Imperial Japanese Army be defeated?"