The Japanese army quickly recovered from the panic after the sudden onslaught. Around 4:40. The Japanese artillery group also began to roar, and fifty-four guns, seventy-two guns, and thirty 150mm heavy howitzers joined the symphony played by the artillery. The flash of nearly 600 cannons fired at the same time made the entire sky turn red. Shells on both sides come and go. Countless crimson firelights shuttled across the sky at lightning speed. Artillery shells frequently exploded on the front lines of the Chinese and Japanese armies with unprecedented density, and the powerful shock wave swept everything furiously carrying countless metal fragments. The whole earth shook violently, as if the whole world was about to be swallowed by this hell of fire.

The artillery battle between the Chinese and Japanese armies lasted about half an hour. At five o'clock sharp, the armored army of the National Revolutionary Army first began to instigate the attack. More than 160 Renault 7 light tanks forced their way across the shallows of the Xiaoqing River, and they easily broke through the weak guard position on the flank of the Japanese army on the flank of the northern front in a neat line, and quickly advanced in depth. The tanks were followed by armoured transports and trucks full of infantry. Their task was to quickly follow up on the results of the battle after the armoured army had broken through the opponent's defensive positions. The last to cross the river was the 19th Infantry Division of the National Revolutionary Army, advancing on foot, whose mission was to consolidate the positions occupied by the armored and motorized armies, or to destroy the remnants of the Japanese army that were holding some of the fortifications and were fighting to the death.

Placed on the guard position south of the Xiaoqing River were the 8th and 9th Engineer Wings of the 8th and 9th Divisions of the Japanese Army. Although the Japanese army's engineer wing was called the "wing," its actual strength was less than 700 men, and the two engineer wings of 14,500 men were scattered on a guard position several kilometers long. As a result, in the previous bombardment, almost all the members of the jade were shattered, and those who were lucky enough to escape the shells were also crushed into meat sauce by the tanks that rumbled later. The whole exchange of fire lasted only ten minutes. Moreover, this alert army did not have time to give any warning to the headquarters of the Japanese 8th Division, which was located in the town of Tangwang six kilometers away, and it was destroyed.

Therefore, after the artillery bombardment of the squadron by Lieutenant General Shinzaburo Mazaki, commander of the 8th Division, who had not received any warning, he dispatched the 8th Cavalry Wing under the command of Usami Koya Osa, in accordance with the orders of the Dispatch Army Headquarters. The cavalry wing of the Japanese army was the same as the engineer wing. There was no brigade level, and the total strength of the cavalry wing was less than that of the engineer wing, but four cavalry squadrons and one machine gun squadron, less than five hundred cavalry. Such a water-injected wing became the second Japanese army to be ravaged by the 1st Tank Regiment of the National Revolutionary Army today.

Although this battle was later called "the battle of the five hundred Hirosaki warriors to become gods" in Japan." However, it was still a good thing on the battlefield that day. It's just a "warrior" who takes the wrong medicine and rides a high-headed horse. The long saber raised in the air instigated a decisive charge against more than 160 rumbling tanks, and was soon swept away by the merciless bullets fired from the machine guns equipped with the lower tank of the Lei FT17, and the corpses of men and horses were scattered three or four hundred meters in front of the tank formation. Again, the battle lasted only ten minutes.

April 26, 5:40 a.m.

The premises about four kilometers south of the Xiaoqing River. Major General Huang Guyu, commander of the Kuomintang Army's armored teaching brigade, who graduated from the first phase of Huangpu, is on his Renault FT1 tank. He wears a crisp military uniform and a large cap with goggles. On his feet are shiny riding boots. made his slightly weak body look a lot more energetic.

And at this time next to him. Twelve Min-13 guns, towed by GM1 armored personnel carriers, were raising their short barrels and facing targets not far away. The current armored army of the Kuomintang is much stronger than it was more than a year ago. However, it is still in the initial stage, and there is no such advanced weapon as self-propelled artillery. However, in order to make up for the weak firepower of the Renault F, the tank regiment and the motorized infantry regiment were still the same as the ordinary infantry regiments, each with 60,000 men. m mountain artillery. At the moment, these mountain guns are being used to bombard the Japanese defense two kilometers away. The Japanese troops of about an infantry wing had planted a defensive line outside a small town called Tangwangzhen, apparently trying to stop the assault of the Kuomintang armored corps.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble!..

Accompanied by a loud sound. Large columns of smoke and flames rose from the Japanese defense on the opposite side, and the fragments of the shells swept through the Japanese positions like a storm. The smoke filled the entire defense line in an instant. Fragments of the human body can be seen faintly being lifted half a day high. The Japanese defense seems to have been planted in a hurry, there are no trenches, no civil fortifications, and no anti-artillery bunkers, just foxholes. How could it be possible to block the assault of the armored army with such a defensive position? Huang Guyu saw the Japanese army's defense clearly through the high-powered telescope in his hand. While looking at him, he nodded slightly: "It looks like the Japanese were caught off guard by us, and if this situation can continue, it will be won." With that, he glanced back at the advisor standing next to him. After a pause, he continued: "Give me the order to the armored army to assault. I'm going to end the fight in half an hour! ”

Five minutes later, the massive shelling of the Japanese defenses by the armored army finally stopped. Then the green Renault tanks started to start, and they began to crawl slowly forward like giant beetles. The steel tracks made a strange noise stirred the soft earth. And Colonel Ouyang Tong, the commander of the 1st Tank Regiment sitting in the middle command car, looked very excited. He even lost his arm tactically and directly stretched half of his body out of the tank's conning tower in order to command the entire armored cluster with gestures. This is also due to the fact that the current communication equipment is still very primitive, and none of these Renault tanks are equipped with radios, and the coordination between the tanks is all based on gestures.

Along with the tanks, nearly 3,000 men wearing steel helmets and khaki uniforms were joining the tanks. Infantry armed with rifles and submachine guns. They were the 1st Motorized Infantry Regiment, and it was their mission to charge along with the tanks.

The first to meet this wave of tanks and infantry were the Japanese mortars.

This Japanese army was not equipped with 75mm

Mountain artillery or field artillery. Maybe there was no bargaining, only after the loss in the previous battle. And these mortars, which were fired inexhaustibly behind the battle line, became their most powerful heavy weapon. 80mm and 60mm mortar shells were inexhaustibly projected into the charging formations of the Kuomintang troops. Clusters of fire and smoke rose endlessly. However, the damage caused is actually not very high. The infantry of the 1st Motor Infantry Group of the Kuomintang Army was obviously a well-trained elite who could make good use of the tank's huge body to cover themselves when charging, and the fragments and shock waves of the mortar shell explosion were simply insignificant to the tank's thick steel armor.

Almost in the blink of an eye, more than a hundred tanks covered the infantry and crashed into the Japanese defense. More than a hundred machine guns and more light machine guns, submachine guns, rifles, mortars, grenadiers, and the twelve mountain guns that fired shells into the rear of the Japanese positions to cut off the Japanese reinforcements formed a dense network of fire. Quickly and ruthlessly harvested the lives of the Japanese soldiers. The battle lasted less than half an hour, and the Japanese reinforcements did not arrive. On the contrary, an infantry brigade of the 19th Division of the Kuomintang Army reached the battlefield again and quickly pressed up. Thirty minutes later, the Japanese army's hardly organized defensive ground was lost, and then Tangwang Town, where the headquarters of the Japanese Eighth Division and the material storage place, was captured by the Kuomintang army. Although the headquarters of the Eighth Division has been transferred in advance, the materials that have accumulated in Tangwang Town have all changed owners...

After putting an end to this one-sided killing. The armored army again began to advance slowly at a speed of less than five kilometers per hour, and began to slowly sweep across the rear assembly area of the Japanese army. From afar, it looks like a large string of moving giant iron beetles. But they looked terrible to the eyes of the Japanese officers and soldiers, because they didn't know what weapons to use to attack these deadly green machines. In fact, the Japanese army divisions at this time were simply not equipped with any professional anti-tank weapons. And there are also that kind of slow-flying A1 dive bombers hovering over the heads of these tanks and armored vehicles. Constant diving. Throw bombs or strafe any Japanese who try to stop the advance of the large string of iron beetles. The group of tanks and armored vehicles was joined by about 30,000 infantry. In fact, most of the battles were fought by these infantry. And the 168 so-called tanks with only one machine gun are actually just tools to scare people and cover the infantry attack, and they do not have any great combat effectiveness.

However, these tanks, which did not have much actual combat effectiveness, became the decisive force in this Sino-Japanese Shandong battle after being closely integrated with airplanes, vertical guns, and well-trained infantry according to the latest tactical theories!

At the same time that the armored army swept through the rear assembly area of the Japanese army. The 5th and 18th Divisions of the National Revolutionary Army, which were placed in front of the Japanese army, also launched a fierce attack on all fronts according to the plan.

The commander of the 18th Division, whose division headquarters was serious, was swept into the reinforced concrete shelter at the top of Lianhua Mountain last night, which was the commanding height of the entire battlefield, and it was only four or five thousand meters away from the highlands on the first line of Yu, Lingshan, Yuhuang Mountain, Weizi Mountain, and Qiushan controlled by the Japanese army, and the entire battlefield could be clearly seen with sixfold military telescopes.

At this time, the 35th and 36th Brigades of the 18th Division had already sent a regiment to spread out a skirmish line in front of the Japanese position, and nearly 5,000 infantry lined up in several waves of earthy yellow human lines, and were pressing towards the Japanese position at a brisk pace. Sixty thousand men attached to two brigades. After a pause of several minutes, the M-Mountain cannon began to fire unhurriedly again. This time the shelling was behind the front-line positions of the Japanese army. to block the Japanese reinforcement route or retreat route.

Perhaps the 30 minutes of artillery bombardment just now achieved good results, but the firepower on the Japanese front-line positions was very weak at this time. Only sporadically fired at the charging infantry with rifles, but the Japanese were good marksmanship. Countless Kuomintang officers and soldiers were knocked to the ground. For a while, the screams, shouts, and gunfire on the entire battlefield were intertwined and resounded in the sky.

In the blink of an eye, the rifle and machine gun fire on the Japanese position were fired together, and the sound of the salvo was like a strong wind blowing on the battlefield. However, the Kuomintang army's stormtrooper formation was very separated, and as soon as the sound of machine guns rang out, the charging officer immediately lay down, borrowing the terrain and features to move forward inexhaustibly, and at the same time, rows of mortars and grenadiers fired ammunition also hit it, and columns of fire and smoke rose inexhaustibly in front of the Japanese army's forward positions, and more than a dozen machine gun fire points were immediately lifted into the sky. Naturally, the firepower on the Japanese positions was greatly reduced. Take advantage of this opportunity. The charging infantry got up again and continued the charge, and soon poured into the Japanese position, engaging the enemy in hand-to-hand combat. Only ten minutes later, the first line of Japanese positions was lost. The blue sky and white sun flags blackened by gunpowder smoke danced vigorously on the position that had just been usurped!

Watching the battle seriously in the shelter department, he put down the binoculars in his hand and sighed softly, just wanting to praise a few words. Chen Daqing, the division adviser on the side, spoke first: "Teacher, we took the first line of positions in less than thirty minutes, and the enemy's defense seems to be too weak, and it doesn't seem right.

smiled seriously and glanced back at Chen Daqing, who was a little nervous. This young man with a round dough face was his student, and he was only twenty-four or five years old this year, and he was now the chief adviser of the major general's division. Although he is a graduate of the first phase of Whampoa and the first phase of Lu University. However, the experience is still a little lacking.

"Yang Hao. You also intervened in the development of the attack plan this time, right? Can't you see the situation on the other side? The rear of the Japanese was stirred up by our armored troops. So they're supposed to retreat. It was a small number of troops who had just held their positions, and it was likely that they were mainly wounded who had not been able to move. ”

Chen Daqing frowned at his thin bald eyebrows, meditated for a while, and slowly bowed his head: "Teacher Gao Jian." It seems that these Japanese generals still made the most correct response at the first time....

Seriously smiled. Turning his head sideways, he asked, "What do you mean?..

Chen Daqing sighed lightly. He said in a low voice: "At present, our armored army's ability to continue the attack is insufficient, and we will have to stop and rest after a dozen or twenty kilometers of assault." At the same time we have a lot of heavy weapons. Shandong's roads are also in poor condition. If the Japanese abandon the roller heavy artillery and flee lightly... only

I'm afraid it's hard for us to catch up with them. In this way, the Japanese army should be able to save part of the army.

Seriously hearing this, he bowed his head slightly, and his eyes showed a hint of approval. It seems that those Germans at Lu University have taught a lot of real tools to the students. This explanation is still very in place, and now the Japanese can throw down the cannon and insert the weight, leaving a small number of troops behind the palace to flee lightly. The Kuomintang army had to chase after it with artillery, and the road conditions in Shandong were also terrible. It was simply difficult to catch up, so in this battle plan was also placed to cut off the army.

"Although we placed the main force of the Fourth Division to attack Linzi County from Yimeng Mountain to cut off Jiaoji County, the Japanese army can still escape to the northeast. Escape from the beach in Bohai Bay. As long as the Japanese army makes a correct judgment, it will be a little difficult for us to completely annihilate it. In addition, there are 60,000 Japanese troops in the city of Jinan, and they are likely to use this opportunity to break through and escape! Therefore, our main force is not too far to chase. Chen Daqing snapped his fingers and said. Told a few worries that had been hidden in my heart for a long time.

After listening to Chen Daqing's explanation, he just smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "Yang Hao." Bing Ge never has a perfect plan, "There are always many loopholes in any side's battle plan. And as a military commander, you have to find the loopholes of the opponent from the confusing battlefield. Make the right decisions the first time.

Regrettably, when the commander of the Japanese army, General Yoshinori Shirakawa, discovered that there was a legendary mechanized army that was sweeping through his right rear. He made the most correct reaction at the first time and fled!

"Order the 8th Division Tian to do everything possible to delay the offensive of the mechanized army of the Chinese army. The 9th Division and the 10th Regiment were ordered to hold their positions with one part of the army, and the rest of the army was to abandon the heavy position. Blow up the cannon and concentrate lightly on Zouping County....

"Your Excellency, are we going to abandon the imperial army besieged in Jinan City and escape?" An advisor stepped forward and asked aloud.

Shirakawa Yoshinori glanced at this young man named Yukio Kasahara, and shook his head with a wry smile: "We actually ran away to understand the relief of the 60,000 imperial soldiers in the southern city. As long as the Kuomintang army in the southern branch focuses on us, the chances of them breaking through are much greater. Kasawara-kun. Hurry up and make a plan to retreat to the Bohai Bay, and the combined fleet of the empire will send warships to wait for us there....

Yukio Kasahara was stunned when he heard this, according to the draft proposed by Shirakawa Yoshinori, the 8th, 9th, and 10th divisions were almost fleeing in embarrassment! The seventy or eighty thousand army can run away and lose half of it is already the blessing of Aunt Amaterasu, and all the radial weights and artillery must be discarded. In the end, he was caught on a ship by those guys in the navy and loaded back home, and this humiliation was no better than the total annihilation.

"Your Excellency! We can retreat to the line of Yuling Mountain, Yuhuang Mountain, Qiu Mountain, and Jiangjun Mountain to establish a consolidated position and wait for reinforcements. As long as it is compared to the 1st and 16th Divisions... We have eight divisions in Shandong, and there is still hope for this battle! ”

Yukio Kasawara knows not to be. But I still don't want to leave it behind. He took two more steps closer and presented his plan in a earnest tone.

Shirakawa sighed, paced a few steps in the headquarters with his hands behind his back, suddenly stood still, and said lightly to Yukio Kasawara, who was full of grief: "Your plan is not approved, Kasahara-kun, go and retreat, this battle will end here." The opponent of the empire is not the Kuomintang in the southern branch, but in the northern branch, our purpose of fighting this war has been achieved, and there is no need to put the great cause of the entire empire into it.

Yukio Kasawara's eyes darkened slightly, nodded his head with difficulty, and with a light sigh, he turned around and made an escape plan. As a top student of the Japanese Army University. Kasahara certainly knew that the current situation was so rotten that it could not be cleaned up. The 8th, 9th, and 10th Divisions have actually been defeated now, and if they don't leave, they will end up in the same fate as the 60,000 Japanese troops in Jinan, and there are no hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians here to "block shells" for them. As for the rescue of the 1st Division and the 16th Division, I am afraid that they will end up with the same fate as their own people, and they will be destroyed by the Kuomintang army again. By then, the empire would have lost more than half of its army. This price may be affordable by the Japanese Empire. But the Japanese Army could not bear it

At a time when more than 100,000 soldiers of China and Japan were engaged in a battle of sacrifice for their lives more than 10 kilometers east of Jinan.

In an inconspicuous battlement in the north wall of the inner city of Jinan, a pair of artillery mirrors were quietly erected. Swinging from side to side, he took in all the situation around the outer city wall that had turned into a mound on the opposite side. This is the blocking position of the Kuomintang army, after more than ten days, the Kuomintang army here used the mound formed after the collapse of the city wall to strengthen and expand. A continuous trench was constructed. Barbed wire was installed. Stretching across into a complete front. The commanding heights of the mound were transformed into a heavily fortified launch base. Sufficient automatic fire was set up to cross the entire front, although the artillery positions could not be seen. However, the fact that 60,000 Japanese troops were outflanked has proved the great power of the Kuomintang artillery. There were only a few figures on this front, and there were occasional cavalry passing behind. It seems that they are all passing on commands.

The person who observed through the artillery to the mirror was the supreme commander of the last Japanese division besieged in the city of Jinan, General Muto Nobuyoshi, who had just been appointed by the commander of the First Army. This Japanese general, who had won the Second and Second Russian Wars and was only one step away from the marshal's throne. At present, the beard and hair are all white, and the person has lost a lot of weight, and his face is pale. A group of Japanese soldiers and adviser officers lay around the battlements, guarding their commander. It's only a few hundred meters away from the position of the opposing Chinese army! A single mortar shell can send the Earl General to the Yasukuni Shrine. His Excellency Muto actually went to the front line to observe the enemy's position. Thinking that it was possible to become a god with Muto Nobuyoshi, who was almost worshiped as the "god of war", those Japanese junior officers and soldiers who had already put life and death aside had a faint expectation in their hearts for the mortars coming from the other side

However, they didn't know that Muto Nobuyoshi didn't want to commit suicide with the 60,000 officers and soldiers of the newly established First Army. Muto wanted to bring some of them back to Japan in their entirety, even if only a small number. Because he is well aware that the three consist entirely of recruits and reserve officers

Rouge's new division. It is absolutely not comparable to the division and regiment that has been raised by outstanding soldiers who have survived a hundred battles as the backbone! And these excellent soldiers also have the defeat of the Jianna Kuomintang Army, one of the strongest armies in the world, but these experiences exchanged for countless lives are still priceless, and they will never die here like this! Thinking of the overwhelming firepower of the Kuomintang army, and the almost perfect coordination of artillery infantry and air services, Muto Nobuyoshi's face twitched.

You must know that at the moment, the Kuomintang has not yet unified China! Even if it is only three and a half years since the unification of the southern half of China, such an army with powerful firepower has already been established. It seems that the potential of this country is definitely not comparable to that of an island country like Japan, and if it is a few years later, when the potential of this country is fully tapped, it seems that after the end of this war. The Empire must rise up! Heavy industry must be strengthened, heavy artillery, aircraft, and tanks must all grow, and if those chaebols cannot do it, the state should be allowed to do it, in short, we must link up the leading edge.

"Your Excellency! Dispatch the army to rush the telegram! A deliberately muffled voice suddenly pulled Muto Nobuyoshi out of his thoughts, and a panicked advisor squatted behind Muto, holding a telegraph in his slightly trembling hand.

"That guy from Shirakawa also lost the battle? That's fast! Muto Nobuyoshi smiled bitterly, raised his wrist and looked at the time, the hour hand had just pointed to the Roman numeral nine! In just over four hours, the 70,000-strong army was defeated!

"Your Excellency!" There were a few tears in the eyes of this advisor, and his voice was a little choked: "The right rear of the main force of the Dispatch Army was attacked by the mechanized army of the China Army, and it has been completely destroyed, and now the main force of the Dispatch Army has begun to retreat!" Admiral Shirakawa asked us to break through quickly. Don't look any further."

"Got it...... Muto Nobuyoshi just replied lightly and left the artillery mirror. The cat walked up the stairs of the city wall.

At this time, on the edge of Daming Lake on the inner side of the city wall, the bell is full of people! The Japanese officers and soldiers of the brigade were huddled together, looking nervously at each other, silently tightening their shoelaces and leggings. Not a single person spoke, only the sound of bayonets and rifles colliding with each other could be heard. All of them held their breath, waiting for the order to strike.

After several evasions of the decisive battle with the Kuomintang army, Muto Nobuyoshi finally decided to take a gamble! After learning of Commander Muto's determination. The advisers of the command of the First Army of Japan completed all the desperate preparations and plans in just a few days with the utmost enthusiasm and efficiency.

According to the plan submitted by the advisers of the Japanese First Army, the purpose of this breakthrough will be on the northern front. Of the 12 wings of the three divisions and regiments of the First Army, except for two wings used for the purpose of defending the remaining three targets, more than 30,000 officers and men of the other 10 wings will be fully invested! The entire artillery that the First Army now possesses, including twenty Taisho four-year 150mm heavy field howitzers, is also concentrated for this target purpose!

In other words, the First Army of the Japanese Army will make a desperate bet on this target and use the sea of people and fire to break through the defense of the Kuomintang army!

After that, the headquarters of the First Army will throw away all the heavy artillery and completely lightly attack the target of the Luokou mark on the Yellow River. According to the information sent by the Japanese spies lurking in the Jinpu Railway Administration, the Luokou Bridge on the Yellow River was only blown up in a short section, about five or six meters. For this reason, the Japanese sappers have made a seven-meter-long shelf out of wood, and when the time comes, as long as it is placed on the gap in the blown up Luokou Bridge, the army will be able to cross the Yellow River!

Defend the northern section of the siege of Jinan, which is about to be attacked by the Japanese army with fire and people. It was 8,000 officers and soldiers of the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Division of the National Revolutionary Army. The commander of this brigade was Mo Xiong, a fierce general in the former Guangdong army. His current military rank is Lieutenant General, the highest rank and oldest qualification among all the forty-four brigade commanders of the National Revolutionary Army! However, the current exclusion is also obvious to all. As a lieutenant general succumbed to the brigade commander. And the position of this brigade commander is also crumbling, if it weren't for Sun Yat-sen's words, it is estimated that he would have been swept into the reserve at this time. He, the brigade commander, is not welcome. Even the 2nd Brigade of the 1st Division of the National Revolutionary Army was refrigerated. It's not just that the main force can't be beaten. They were also thrown on a mound of earth five or six meters high, and it looked like they could only sit and wait for the war to end.

At this time, the headquarters of the 2nd Brigade was located in a Christian church about two kilometers from the forward position, that is, the dirt slope.

Brigade Commander Mo Xiong doesn't care much about combat now. It's just that together with the adjutant director Liu Mufo, he invited some Cantonese regiment commanders and battalion commanders of the Second Brigade every day to go to the tavern on the side of the Yellow River to have a wine party.

In fact, in charge of military affairs at the brigade headquarters were Colonel He Shaozhou, chief adviser of the Second Brigade, and Colonel Liao Yunze, deputy brigade commander, both of whom graduated from the first phase of Whampoa. Among them, He Shaozhou is also the nephew of He Yingqin, deputy chief of general counsel, who has just graduated from the first phase of Lu University and was assigned to the second brigade as chief adviser. This time, the overall fortification of the northern section of the siege of Jinan is the masterpiece of He Shaozhou, well, at least he thinks so.

The distance between the north wall of the outer city of Jinan and the inner city is very close, only six or seven hundred meters. Therefore, the soil slope formed after the collapse became the first line of defense, and behind this soil slope, the second brigade dug two more trenches and a series of communication trenches as reserve positions. Behind the reserve position is Xiaoqinghe. On the north bank of the Xiaoqing River was the artillery position and rear assembly area, and the 2nd Brigade had all 300,000 men. The mountain cannon was placed there. Further north of the Xiaoqing River is the Yellow River, and if the Japanese army wants to break through to the north bank of the Yellow River, not far away is the Luokou Yellow River Bridge, which has been blown up for a short time.

Let's be honest. He Shaozhou especially wants to blow up this bridge! In this way, the Japanese army's escape to the north can be cut off, but after it is sent to Li Jishen, it will sink into the sea, but fortunately, at present, the victory of Jinan's eastern front has been decided, and before dark today, there should be a division of military strength strengthened to the Jinan siege and defense, and then it will be impregnable. Thinking of this, He Shaozhou sighed lightly, glanced at Liao Yunze, who was sitting in the command headquarters with him, his face was slightly pale, and said with a smile: "Brother Huichuan. What's on your mind? Are you worried about applying for Lu University? Actually, it's not that hard. ”

Liao Yunze didn't get into the first semester of Lu University last time, and he was busy driving the night train to review his homework before the war! His right now

The rank of Colonel is up. If you can't get into Lu Dake, it will be difficult to get the opportunity to be promoted to general, and this system is really a bit rigid! It's like after the battle of mountain friends, a large number of meritorious Whampoa colonels inside. The first phase of Lu University will be a general within two years of completion. Most of the people who have not entered the army are still colonels, and of course, the special branches of the aviation and armored forces are certainly exceptions at the moment.

"Brother Shao Zhou seems to be too determined. Liao Yunze glanced at the chubby "nephew" He Shaozhou, and said lightly: "It is very likely that the Japanese army will break through on the northern front soon!" Can we rely on more than 8,000 people in our brigade to stop it? There are at least 60,000 of them! ”

"What do you say? It's daylight! Our plane can be" It's just that He Shaozhou's voice hasn't fallen yet. Explosions immediately exploded almost simultaneously along the entire front line!

Concubine! Rumble! rumble

The whole earth shook suddenly, and all the tools in the headquarters of the Second Brigade were beating. The Christians where the brigade headquarters is located are being shelled by the Japanese army! A bullet exploded in the open space outside the church, and the loud explosion sounded like the roar of death. In an instant, all the glass was shattered, and everyone in the church was also knocked down at the same time. The Japanese army actually lost the air superiority of the Kuomintang army and initiated an unprecedented and fierce artillery bombardment!

The Japanese artillery group, which had been dormant for many days, finally began to exert its might, and a shiny brass shell was inexhaustibly filled into the chamber. Then spit out. On the defensive ground that the Kuomintang army had worked so hard to build, huge clouds of smoke suddenly rose and soared into the sky in various incompatible postures. At first, the columns of smoke rose in rows almost at the same time, and then later. It simply rose up piece by piece, completely covering the entire forward position of the Kuomintang army.

In just 15 minutes of shelling, more than 5,000 shells of various calibers were fired from more than 100 artillery pieces of the three divisions of the Japanese First Army. Almost all the shells stored in the First Army were emptied, and then the Japanese artillerymen stuffed the explosives bags into the still hot barrels according to the order. Blow up all the artillery!

At 9:30 a.m., the shelling stopped abruptly. All the gates on the north wall of the inner city of Jinan have been opened, and from the open doorways are huge waves of earthy yellow people. At the forefront were the junior officers of the Japanese army wielding command swords, followed by nearly 6,000 infantry from two wings. The Japanese officers and soldiers poured out from the various doorways and finally merged into a huge wave. Rushing to the position of the 3rd Regiment of the Kuomintang Infantry on the opposite side with full charge. The heavy machine guns erected in various places on the north wall of the inner city of Jinan were also fired one after another, and one by one the bullet plates were sent in. Swiftly, it spat out a stream of scorching fire to the opposite side. It flew over the head of the surging realm soldiers, and swooped straight into the blocking position less than seven hundred meters away!

On the blocking position, Lieutenant Colonel Li Liangrong, commander of the Third Infantry Regiment of the Kuomintang Army, was stunned by the scene in front of him as soon as he climbed out of the anti-artillery bunker. On the other side, there was no longer a skirmisher line, but a huge sea of people rolling over quickly. The invincible Japanese soldiers, holding rifles with long bayonets, seemed to be lined up in a side-by-shoulder phalanx! Howling all kinds of unintelligible slogans, they quickly rushed towards their positions, and behind them, the Japanese troops were still pouring out. It seems endless

"Hold your mother!" Li Liangrong scolded, then straightened up and ordered: "Brothers, fire!" Fire! Fire now! Although the Japanese army has not yet entered the so-called optimal range, it is not easy to miss the bullet in the face of such a dense crowd. And in the face of the Japanese army's surging crowd tactics, Li Liangrong did not have the courage to put the enemy close before fighting. He would rather spend more ammunition than keep the enemy as far away as possible.

As the shouts of officers at all levels sounded, the Kuomintang infantry, who were also shocked by the sea of people in front of them, woke up like a dream, picked up all kinds of weapons at hand, and sprinkled all kinds of ammunition at the charging Japanese infantry without hesitation. Hot bullets and shells rained down. However, the crowd of people in the middle of the process increased their speed, and they were about to rush into the trenches of the Kuomintang army!

At the last moment, the artillery group of the Kuomintang army also began to roar as if they had just woken up from a dream. The Japanese army is on the side of a dense queue. Suddenly, there were plumes of smoke. Each time a pillar of smoke rose and fell, a gap appeared in the Japanese army's crowd, but it was immediately filled. Artillery fire ploughed from the front of the infantry to the rear, each roaring. and a mass of flesh and blood. It's just that the Japanese officers and soldiers are still going forward one after another, and they are not afraid...

This sudden attack seemed to disrupt the position of the Kuomintang army besieging the city. The heavy artillery regiment of the 1st Division did not open fire at the first time to block the Japanese offensive line, but was busy suppressing the artillery group that had already been destroyed by the Japanese artillery itself. Other than that. The dive concubine bomber of the Kuomintang Air Force. It is also still on the battlefield on the Eastern Front more than a dozen kilometers away. Although it was only a few minor misses. But for the 3rd Infantry Regiment of the Kuomintang Army stationed in the blocking position, the consequences were extremely serious.

Only 300,000 men of the 2nd Brigade. Although the firepower provided by the M Mountain Artillery was also fierce, it could not stop the surging sea of Japanese soldiers.

This wave of the sea of people offensive. In practice, it is to use human life to fight firepower, as long as the people's dense seat crosses the density of firepower. Not suddenly... It's a war math problem, and it's a bet! If the heavy artillery group of the Kuomintang army threw fire on the right address, if the dive bombers of the Kuomintang army threw those hundred-kilogram bombs into the crowd of the Japanese army in time, just the war did not if!

In a corner of the northern section of the city wall of Jinan's inner city, Muto Nobuyoshi, Akai Harumi, and Makidayuki all held binoculars and stared at the opposite scene. I watched my super-dense people Xiang being killed one by one by all kinds of firepower from the squadron. How many people have died, and no one seems to care anymore. As for whether these people died meaningfully. It's even less important. At least in Japan, no one would consider that the war was almost over, and that if a certain amount of concessions were made in the negotiations, the lives of these young people could be saved.