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Thinking of this, everyone raised their heads one after another, looking at the distant sky, hoping that those somewhat reactionary but powerful planes would quickly return to this battlefield where the life and death of a hundred thousand troops were at stake!

Chapter 0427 Breakthrough ([-])

I don't know whether the expectations of Feng Yuxiang, Deng Yanda and others played a role, or those Kuomintang reactionaries had a rare conscience discovery?Just two or three minutes after the Japanese artillery fire raged, 3 A-24 biplane dive bombers came slowly over the battlefields of Kaishan and Lushan more than ten kilometers away!

It turns out that the space-time air-ground cooperation is still very primitive, and the Kuomintang Army Aviation Corps, the Chinese Communist Party, and the National Coalition Army have never trained together at all, so there is no such thing as any cooperation.The dozens of dive bombers responsible for dropping bombs on the city walls of Jinan's outer city just smashed the city walls to pieces, then strafed indiscriminately, and flew away with wings...but there were no other planes to replace them for the Red Army and the people. The coalition forces provided air support, so that the Japanese artillery group took advantage of the loopholes and killed thousands of revolutionary martyrs!What an unforgivable mistake.

However, it is definitely not just the Kuomintang who make mistakes in today's messy battlefield, the Japanese are also making mistakes.I don't know if their artillery is not used to fighting under the bombing of enemy planes, or is it really fearless?In short, until the 24 A-1 dive bombers staggered and flew over their heads, these Japanese artillerymen were still firing happily, and they never noticed that 24 bombs weighing [-] kilograms were about to fall!

The 24 A-1 dive bombers slowly arranged the bombing formation as if they were training, and then one followed the other to complete the prescribed action of diving and dropping bombs, killing a Japanese heavy artillery who was busy bombing the Chinese army with shells. The twelve Taisho four-year-style 150mm field heavy howitzers of the brigade all took to the sky!By the way, it also blew up the shells piled up on the side... After the earth-shaking roar, the whole battlefield suddenly fell silent!

"Avenge the dead brothers, fight them!" With a roar on the battlefield, there were still a little over 3000 Red Army and Nationalist Alliance assault infantry speeding up their charge again.

More than 9 people shouted in unison and rushed towards the huge gap in the wall of the outer city of Jinan that was blasted by dive bombers.There were also thousands of Japanese volunteers with bayonet-mounted long rifles coming forward with strange screams... It's just that this time the Chinese didn't intend to fight hand-to-hand with them, but used them extravagantly. Automatic Firearms!With the sound of rattling gunshots, [-] submachine guns fired tens of thousands of [-]mm bullets at the oncoming Japanese soldiers in an instant.The dense bullets were like a fire net, making it impossible for the unprepared Japanese troops to dodge, and they were knocked down row by row like cutting wheat.

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boom!boom!boom……

The shelling on the Kaishan and Jishan battlefields continued endlessly. To the trembling Japanese officers and soldiers curled up in the trenches with their heads in their hands, time seemed to have stopped at a certain point!Sharp whistles and loud explosions are intertwined, and the high ground responds one after another.The whole earth shook violently, as if the end of the world had come.The violent and hot air wave was wrapped in pieces of tiny metal fragments, and swept across the Japanese army's positions over and over again, as if to turn all life into ashes and dust.

But all this is not the most terrible thing. The really terrible shells fall directly into the trenches or hit the hastily built earthworks, which often means the death of the whole squad and platoon!And for the officers and soldiers of the Japanese Fifth Division who were bombarded, it seemed that it would be a matter of time before the shells fell directly on their side and took away everything from them!But they have no choice but to resign themselves to fate, or fantasize about a happy life after "becoming gods"...

After an unknown amount of time, the sound of the landslide and tsunami finally turned from dense to thin, and after a while, the last thunderous roar finally brought an end to the terrible bombardment that seemed to last until the end of the world.

Before the smoke from the artillery fire cleared, the khaki National Revolutionary Army skirmishers rushed towards the main position of the Japanese army.Responsible for launching the first wave of offensive were nearly 17 officers and soldiers of the No. [-] Infantry Regiment of the National Revolutionary Army.Luo Yaoguo's order to Li Zongren, the former enemy commander-in-chief of the northward column, was only to feign an attack to attract Japanese reinforcements and relieve the pressure on the breakout troops in the inner city of Jinan, nothing more.Therefore, Li Zongren and Xia Wei would not fight hard to launch a strong attack, but played a textbook-style "slow-paced positional warfare" in a leisurely manner.However, this does not mean that the Nationalist Army's attacks are not sharp.

In fact, this steady tactic is more difficult for the defensive side to deal with than the swarming crowd tactic.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 be effectively coordinated to exert the greatest power of air, infantry and artillery coordinated operations. .In order for the National Revolutionary Army to achieve this, Luo Yaoguo, a somewhat reactionary "big butterfly", has been working hard to flap his wings.Not only did the students of the Whampoa Military Academy have an unimaginable academic burden, but they also invited German instructors, who were apparently the devil, to conduct strict training and assessment.And there is endless on-the-job training. If you want to get promoted and make a fortune, you have to go to the army university that is so difficult to pass!Finally, after reading the books piled up as high as a hill in the Army University, and learning all the knowledge needed in contemporary wars and supposedly future wars, they are eligible to be promoted to the rank of general... The current Kuomintang reactionary officers are almost Be educated to be a scholar!

Today, it is such a "scholar-type general" who is in charge of commanding the battle on the front line, Xu Yunfei, a double high-achieving student who graduated from the first phase of Whampoa and the first phase of Lu University.This gentle-looking, slightly thin figure, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, the Kuomintang major general is currently the chief of staff of the Fifth Division of the National Revolutionary Army.He and the German military adviser, Lieutenant Colonel Kluge, arranged the specific operational plan for this false attack on the southern front of the Japanese army. Li Zongren and Xia Wei, two famous generals in history, now only need to sign the operational plan and say "" Hmm, not bad." Then just sit in the former enemy headquarters in Gushan Town, drink tea and wait for the good news.

But this study has a lot of side effects... It's more afraid of death!Uh, the Kuomintang reactionary officers were already very afraid of death!As a result, I was even more afraid of death once I was educated by the Germans in the Army University.For example, Colonel Wang Yaowu, the head of the No.17 Infantry Regiment, did not lead the charge in person at the moment, but hid behind and commanded.And the junior officers in the [-]th Infantry Regiment, who were in charge of leading the troops to charge, also changed into "training uniforms" that were very close to the soldiers' uniforms, and replaced the pistols that represented the officers' status with rifles or Submachine guns, rushing together in the skirmish line, for fear of being "named" by Japanese snipers.

Under the leadership of these reactionary officers who were afraid of death, the No.17 regiment's offensive was also weak.As soon as the Japanese machine guns rang out, more than a dozen tongues of flames swept down from the high ground of the mountain, and the Kuomintang soldiers immediately found the terrain and crawled down, using the terrain to slowly move forward.At the same time, more than a dozen grenade launchers and several mortars were set up, and the snipers attached to each battalion also took up the Min [-] rifles with scopes, and smashed all kinds of ammunition at the dozens of them. The Japanese machine guns that had just emerged were all misfired within a few hits.Then those Kuomintang soldiers who were afraid of death began to charge slowly again, until the Japanese machine guns sounded again...

In addition to following the infantry movement, mortars and grenades are showing their prowess, the six Min 17-type 75mm mountain cannons attached to the No.70 infantry regiment artillery company and the six Min [-]-style cannons attached to each infantry battalion The [-]mm infantry guns are also lined up at the foot of the mountain in front of the starting position of the Kuomintang army's attack.Using direct fire to support the infantry's charge, using the current shooting technology of the National Revolutionary Army's artillery to shoot directly at such a short distance, is simply a hundred shots.The defensive position of the Japanese army was turned into a sea of ​​flames, and these Japanese could only grit their teeth and fight persistently in the sea of ​​flames until the last moment of their lives!

It is in the Japanese advance command post on the Laohudong Highland about three kilometers northeast from the side of the Proshan Highland.The head of the fifth division, Mu Tatsuyuki, and the commander of the No.11 regiment, Neiji Okamura, both held up binoculars and stared at the front line.I have seen with my own eyes the great power of the multi-arms coordinated operations adopted by the Chinese army.

There were several hot air balloons with blue sky and white sun signs floating above the battlefield. They were aerial observation posts for the artillery of the Chinese army. As soon as the Japanese mortars and mountain artillery fired, these observation posts would immediately guide the Chinese army's heavy artillery to suppress it.Dozens of biplanes also belonging to the Chinese army hovered over the Japanese positions, and most of them had black bombs hanging under their fuselages.As long as the heavy artillery of the Japanese army dares to fight back, these bombs will fall from the sky!Therefore, the ninety cannons assigned to the Fifth Division are now disposable items!You can only fire once, and then most of them are gone...The Japanese troops in the Kaishan and Jishan positions without the support of their own artillery became the targets of the Chinese army's plethora of light artillery. , If you can't finish firing thirty rounds, you will immediately find grenadiers and mortars to attack.So these machine guns have also become disposable items!If the machine guns were exhausted, what would the Japanese soldiers on the Kaishan and Jishan positions use to fight?Is it possible to use a single-shot rifle to deal with this overwhelming firepower?

Mu Dazhi put down the binoculars and said in a low voice, "We don't seem to be here..."

Neiji Okamura also put down his binoculars and shook his head slightly: "Your Excellency, we should come here... the current loss is completely worth it. The Chinese people are now using actual combat to tell us how to fight! The heavy industry and military strength of the empire and The bravery of the soldiers of the imperial army must surpass them. It’s just that we didn’t make good use of it, and we don’t know how to use it. And now our enemy, the Chinese Nationalist Party, is telling us how to play to our advantage.”

Mu Dazhi smiled wryly: "It seems that the empire needs to suffer a lot." He pointed to the position that was being ravaged opposite: "There really should be a camera to record everything here, so that those who only know nothing about 'conquer' Look at the idiots of the China' slogan... What are we going to conquer people with? Damn it, I used to be one of those idiots myself! How did things turn out like this?"

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09:30 am on April [-]st.After more than an hour of bitter fighting, the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces, composed of the Red Army, the National Army and the Anhui Beiyang Army, finally captured the outer city wall of Jinan with the support of the Kuomintang Army Aviation Corps, and opened the first gate to protrude from the encirclement.However, the second blocking line of the Japanese army with 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.Uh, the engineering quality of the Germans is naturally so good that it is reactionary!This... Where are the two civilian buildings, they are obviously two fortresses!A wing of the [-]th Division of the Japanese Army now occupies these two buildings and spent the night transforming them into impregnable fortresses!All the windows have been transformed into fire points, and all the entrances and exits are protected by layers of sandbags.The four mountain cannons were disassembled and transported to the top platforms of the two buildings, from where they could fire accurately in all directions.

Inside a temporary former enemy command post converted from a gate in the outer city of Jinan.Feng Yuxiang, Deng Yanda, and He Long all had livid faces and red eyes, staring at the Japanese blocking line opposite them, as if they wanted to melt them with their eyes.

"Commander He, how many shells does your artillery division have now?" Feng Yuxiang took a breath and glanced at He Long beside him: "Can you use the cannons of the artillery division to blow down those two buildings?"

He Long frowned, as if he was calculating how much ammunition the Red Army Artillery Division had left.But before he figured it out, Deng Yanda on the side sighed and denied this possibility: "It's impossible, those are two very strong reinforced concrete buildings, and their columns are all made of reinforced concrete with a square meter. It was poured... the craftsmanship of the Germans is so strong that it can last for 1000 years! How can our 75mm mountain cannon work?"

"Then what should we do? Is everyone waiting to die here? The Japanese army has already entered the inner city..." Feng Yuxiang said calmly.

Deng Yanda blinked tiredly: "Let's contact the Kuomintang's air force. Their [-]-kilogram bombs are more effective than our mountain cannons. Even if they don't collapse, they should be able to kill more than half of the defenders inside... …If it doesn’t work, there is only a strong attack! Fill it with human life!”

He Long looked up at the Kuomintang army planes circling in mid-air, and sighed: "It seems that the Air Force is really a treasure, and we can't fight without them!"

10 minutes later. The 24 A-1 dive bombers responsible for providing air support to the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces lined up in bombing formation, divided into two teams and began to dive and drop bombs one by one... After a series of earth-shaking roars, two solid buildings Although they are still standing, their interiors are beyond recognition.Two and three bombs penetrated through their roofs respectively, and there was a big explosion inside the building, and the Japanese troops in these two buildings suffered heavy losses in an instant!

The soldiers of the Red Army and the National Army who had been waiting for a long time rushed out from several gaps in the outer city wall with loud shouts.This is a majestic formation of almost two regiments, all with bayonets on their rifles, marching forward under the leadership of officers.At the same time, the Artillery Division of the Red Army also took out the last stock of shells and desperately bombarded the opposite Japanese position.And more than 30 Kuomintang planes in the air also used machine guns to shoot at the Japanese positions over and over again.The fifteen dive bombers that hadn't dropped their bombs continued to hover at high altitude, waiting for the Japanese artillery who didn't know whether they were dead or alive to fire and expose their targets.

Nearly [-] bayonets were lined up in more than a dozen dense skirmish lines, rolling forward, just like the Japanese army breaking through the national army's defense line for [-] days and nights.They crossed various temporary obstacles and endured sporadic or clustered bullets fired from the Japanese positions.The Japanese army also had to bear the attack of fierce firepower from the ground and the air.This battle is a contest of will and strength between the two sides, and both sides must fight under the premise of suffering a large number of casualties.Anyone who can't bear this kind of loss will immediately collapse... and if both sides can grit their teeth and withstand all kinds of firepower, it depends on who has more lives!

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Weixian, the headquarters of Japan's Shandong Expeditionary Army.

In the headquarters of General Muto Nobuyoshi, Muto sat there silently with a livid face, holding two urgent telegrams "requesting tactical guidance" in his hand!One of them was sent by the Hiroshima Fifth Division, which stood firmly in the blocking position southwest of Jinan and blocked the Kuomintang reinforcements.The other was taken by the Sixth Division of Kumamoto, which was blocking the breakout of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces in Jinan City.Two supposedly invincible elite permanent divisions of the Japanese Army sent urgent calls for help at the same time!This thing is really too absurd, right?

I don't know how long it took before Nobuyoshi Muto sighed softly: "Let the second division send out a brigade to reinforce the fifth division, and the rest will continue to attack the inner city of Jinan..."

"Your Excellency, why don't you let the Chinese army in Jinan City go." Before Muto's order was finished, he was interrupted by Ishihara Waner, the staff officer of the headquarters standing beside him.

"What did you say? It's your suggestion to eliminate the Chinese army in Jinan city!" Muto turned his head and glared at Ishihara.The battle has come to this point... Isn't it a failure to let go of the [-] troops in Jinan City?How can you ask for prices?

Shi Yuan still had a gloomy expression that could not be seen, he snapped to attention, straightened his waist and said loudly: "Your Excellency, the situation is already grim, and we are no longer thinking about how to expand the results of the war, but how to Make sure this war is not won or lost!"

"Bage!" Nobuyoshi Muto stood up abruptly, slapped his face and said, "How can you say such a thing? How could my invincible Imperial Japanese Army be defeated!"

Chapter 0428 Breakthrough ([-])

Ishihara, who was beaten up, let out a sigh of relief, and lowered his head towards Nobuyoshi Muto who beat him up.However, he did not admit his mistakes, but continued to insist on his own point of view: "Your Excellency, the imperial army is still the winner so far, but if the fight continues like this, the imperial army will lose the war! Now the battle of the emperor in Jinan The army was in an extremely dangerous situation. On the one hand, the Imperial Army could not complete the task of annihilating the Jinan China Army with two divisions. On the other hand, the Fifth Division was defeated by three divisions of the South Branch Kuomintang Army. There is no way to fight back! And... It is obvious that the Kuomintang troops did not use their full strength. According to the battle report sent back by the Fifth Division, the Kuomintang army only dispatched an infantry regiment. More than 100 heavy artillery and dozens of With the support of planes, they attacked the main positions of the Fifth Division's Kaishan and Jishan, and the rest of the troops did not move out! But that's it, the Fifth Division is already hard to parry! If all three divisions of the Kuomintang Army are involved... the first The Fifth Division has probably already been defeated, right? Once the Fifth Division is defeated, the remaining Second and Sixth Divisions will immediately be besieged by hundreds of thousands of that army!"

"How is that possible!" Nobuyoshi Muto sneered twice, and waved his hands indifferently: "The southern branch of the Kuomintang hopes to see us wipe out the northern branch coalition forces in Jinan City. That's why they didn't actively attack the Fifth Division. ...And we still have two divisions that will soon arrive in Jinan. By that time, five divisions will attack three Kuomintang divisions! Victory still belongs to the imperial army."

Ishihara Waner slowly raised his head, looked at Muto coldly, with a strange smile on his face: "Your Excellency, two of our divisions are about to arrive in Jinan. However, two divisions of the Southern Branch of the Kuomintang have also lost their traces. Do you know where you are now? And these two unaccounted-for divisions also include the No.18 Division of the Chinese Nationalist Party that defeated [-] Red Army in Zhalai Nuoer!"

Muto Nobuyoshi's old face froze all of a sudden, and beads of sweat the size of soybeans rolled down his cheeks.The Sixth Division and No.18 Division of the Kuomintang Army were originally concentrated in Xuzhou, and they have been under the surveillance of Japanese spies.But they disappeared three days ago, and no one knows where they went?In three days, you can walk at least 100 kilometers on foot. If you are marching towards Shandong...it should be in the area of ​​Yimeng Mountain. It is only [-] kilometers away from Weixian County, where the headquarters of the Shandong Expeditionary Army is located, and it will take three or four days at most. It's coming!At that time, the entire Shandong Dispatch Army will be...made dumplings!And in three or four days, can the five divisions of the Shandong Dispatch Army take down the three divisions of the Kuomintang?If it was in the past, there is no need to doubt this kind of thing at all.But right now there is a living example in front of us, the Fifth Division was attacked for a few hours and couldn't bear it anymore!And they obviously didn't do their best, otherwise the Fifth Division might have been defeated by now.

"The best way now is to let the [-] Northern Allied Forces in Jinan escape, liberate the Second Division and the Sixth Division, and then dispatch the main force of the two divisions to reinforce the Fifth Division on the southern front. , and insisted on withdrawing to Jinan City after dark to repair and stick to it. The Fourth Division and the Tenth Division deployed defenses along the Jiaoji Railway to ensure that the logistics line of the army would not be cut off by the Southern Branch of the Kuomintang Army. At the same time, they ordered to join us Zhang Zongchang’s troops seized Yantai, Weihai and other ports. In this way, even if the Jiaoji Railway is not guaranteed, the dispatched army will have spare ports to transport supplies.”

Ishihara Waner took out a red and blue pencil to draw on the military map, and then slowly revealed the secret plan he had prepared: "Your Excellency, please see that our five divisions will be placed along the Jiaoji Railway at that time." Create a long snake formation to prevent the confrontation between the southern branch of the Kuomintang army. And the half of Shandong northeast of the Jiaoji line is under the control of the imperial army. Then the empire will have enough capital to negotiate with the southern branch of the Kuomintang... This The winner of this war is undoubtedly the Great Japanese Empire!"

Nobuyoshi Muto half-closed his eyes, and with his hands behind his back, he paced slowly in the headquarters, as if he was calculating gains and losses.

Ishihara Waner took another step forward, almost standing in front of Muto's nose, and lowered his voice: "Your Excellency! The second, fifth, and sixth divisions have suffered considerable losses in the battles of the past few days. , especially the artillery of the [-]nd and [-]th divisions suffered heavy losses, and there is no replenishment at the moment. Without the artillery, the combat effectiveness of these two divisions will be reduced by at least half. Therefore, our five divisions actually only have four divisions Our opponents have five infantry divisions no less than the permanent divisions of the Imperial Army, and their air superiority can at least equal the combat effectiveness of one division. In this way, we are fighting with four divisions. Six divisions! If we don’t switch to defense in time and stick to the benefits we have gained, we will probably lose the second half of the war. Then our Shandong dispatched army will set a record for the defeat of the imperial army... The imperial army of Japan was in the Meiji Restoration Since then, I have never lost a battle, do you want to be the one who pioneered it?"

Nobuyoshi Muto just let out an oh, walked a few more steps with his hands behind his back, stood still suddenly, turned his head and said indifferently: "Ishihara, do you think the current empire still has a chance to dominate the mainland?"

Ishihara Wan'er was startled when he heard the words, and was silent for a while, nodded his head heavily, and said loudly: "Yes! The overall industrial, economic, and military strength of the empire is not weaker than that of the southern branch, far better than that of the northern branch, and there are also Soviet colleagues. The empire joined hands to carve up. However... the foundation for the empire to become the hegemony of the mainland is not Shandong, but Manchuria. Therefore, this war is not necessary for the empire at the moment. While it can still gain certain benefits, hurry up and see each other. Take it."

"Manchuria..." Muto Nobuyoshi's eyes suddenly became a little sharper: "What can you do about Manchuria?"

"Yes!" Ishihara smiled coldly: "What the empire needs are the resources and land of Manchuria, but there are many ways to obtain these benefits, and it does not necessarily mean that Manchuria will be merged into Japan immediately, nor will Manchuria be incorporated immediately." Manchuria is separated from the territory of China. As long as we support a sufficiently obedient puppet in Manchuria, we can get the resources there to develop the empire's heavy industry, and use the vast land there to relieve the domestic population pressure. Wait until the empire uses Manchuria's After the resources grow stronger, it will not be too late to turn it into a part of the empire."

Nobuyoshi Muto nodded with a smile, stretched out his right hand and patted Ishihara's shoulder lightly: "Good job! You really deserve to be 'Strategist Ishihara'. Now you make a plan to switch to defense and win for me. The throne of the Chief of Staff or the Minister of War! Your Manchuria plan cannot be realized without the support of the Chief of Staff or the Minister of War."

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"Does the Japanese army really want a decisive battle?"