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Feng Dafei glanced at the two of them, and shook his head: "It's not that General Zesheng doesn't believe it, he just... is more serious and serious, and his intentions are good. Oh, from what you say, he seems to be very knowledgeable about artillery, doesn't he?"

In fact, Feng Dafei was also from the Guangdong Army. He attended the Guangdong Army Surveying and Mapping School and the Xijiang Lecture Hall. He served as a lieutenant in the Guangdong Army and had a close relationship with Deng Yanda.It was Deng Yanda who was brought to Yan'an to create the "Northwest New Army", which was later the veteran of the Red Army.After that, he joined the CCP and was selected by the organization to go to the Soviet Union to enter the Moscow Advanced Aviation School and the Army University for further study.After graduation, he returned to China to serve as an instructor of the Red Army University. Not long ago, he was selected by Zhou Enlai to serve as the commander of the Red Army Air Force, which currently only has one plane.

"Hehe, of course I understand." Liu Yongyao laughed, pointed to the pilots around and said with a smile: "Most of the people here graduated from the artillery department in the first four phases of Whampoa, and then switched to aviation. I, Jixian (Li Wenhua) ), and that nice gentleman, Ye Yifeng (Ye Qiu), both served as artillery regiment commanders!"

"Oh, I didn't expect you to be experts in artillery!" A slightly Huaiyin voice suddenly came from behind the crowd, and everyone looked back, and it turned out that Zhou Enlai had also appeared on the city wall at some point.But at this moment, his face was slightly dignified: "Then analyze it, can the Japanese defeat our defense line with this kind of firepower?"

"Yes!" The one who answered this question was Ye Qiuye Yifeng, known as Mr. Hao Hao.This aviation colonel with fair skin, a slightly high nose, a pair of raised eyebrows and a pair of sharp eyes, stood up and walked to Zhou Enlai, shrugged and sighed: "Two hundred really useful cannons, In addition, about [-] mortars that can be used correctly, and tens of thousands of infantry who have received strict training and know how to cooperate with artillery... The Japanese should be able to launch a very powerful artillery attack. Feng Huanzhang's I'm afraid the National Coalition Army won't last long!"

Zhou Enlai nodded slightly, his thick eyebrows were furrowed, and he glanced at the flames of the battle line in the distance.If it can't support there, the CCP's Second Red Army will be on top...

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Han Fuju and Wu Huawen are suffering now, they are suffering from shells!This is not what you can experience by watching the war with a telescope from a distance!Wu Huawen, head of the Second Regiment of the National Alliance Army, and Han Fuju, commander of the First Brigade of the National Alliance Army, who was on the front line to supervise the battle, were huddled in an alleyway on the hillside of Maoling Mountain.Wu Huawen sat cross-legged at the bottom of the alleyway with a calm expression and closed eyes.Han Fuju's face was ashen, and he was chanting words, as if he was praying to some god, so that the damned shells would not hit the exit of the alleyway.In fact, this probability is very low, according to Sun Liren, it is only one in ten thousand possibility.But after Han Fuju multiplied this one ten-thousandth by the number of shells owned by the Japanese army... he kept praying.

I don't know how long it took, the sound of shelling like a mountain roar and a tsunami finally turned from dense to thin, and after a few minutes the night sky suddenly quieted down, and the Japanese shelling finally ended.But both Han Fuju and Wu Huawen knew in their hearts that the battle tonight had just begun.

Wu Huawen opened his eyes, glanced at the pale Han Fuju, and sighed softly: "Brother Lu Zuo... let's go first! If Lu Zuo can pass this hurdle, don't forget to put more money on brother's grave. Burn some paper money, don’t let the brothers suffer and suffer poorly, and then go to the army to eat.” After saying this, I was almost crying, and after I finished speaking, I paid a military salute to Han Fuju, and then turned and left, commanding the next The battle is over.

"Get up, damn it! Get up! Get ready to fight! Get up, everyone who can breathe! Where is the energy from eating meat just now!"

After a while, the sound of shouting and cursing sounded, and it quickly spread to all the trenches.The lower-level officers of the National Coalition Army who were crawling in the trenches stood up one after another, urging every soldier who could still move around to take up the combat position.The soldiers who were shivering before were forced to move obediently one by one.Some fastened the helmets on their heads, some picked up the Min-13 rifles they had just changed into, and some pushed the heavy machine guns with steel baffles and wheels to the predetermined positions.The entire trench suddenly became busy, and the tense atmosphere quickly spread.

"Crack! Crack! Crack..."

Gunshots rang out one after another, and the national coalition forces on the position had just entered their combat positions, and blurred figures appeared in the distant night.The first wave of the Japanese offensive seems to have begun!

Wu Huawen also entered the "Artillery Observation Post" on the top of Maoling Mountain at this time. The name of this place seems to be for artillery.However, Wu Huawen waited for a long time and did not see any artillery coming here to observe, so he took this seemingly strong reinforced concrete bunker as his former enemy command post.

Chapter 0421 Battle of Jinan ([-])

As expected, Maoling Mountain and Yanchi Mountain, the two small hills, were the focus of the Japanese attack.During the shelling that lasted half an hour just past, the 24 Taisho Four-year-style 150mm field howitzers owned by the two and a half artillery regiments of the Japanese army (most of the artillery regiments of the Second Division suffered losses in the air strike) gathered at this place. Nearly [-] shells were fired from the two hills!Each of Wu Huawen's [-] officers and soldiers can get two rounds on average!In this round of shelling with a terrifying density, the casualties of the Wu Hua Cultural Regiment were close to [-]%!Wu Huawen looked down from the command post on the top of the mountain, and the entire Maoling Mountain was completely changed, with huge bomb craters all over the mountain.On the eastern slope of Maoling Mountain, where the Japanese army bombarded most intensively, it seemed that the entire area had been plowed by artillery fire. The barbed wire and minefields that had been carefully arranged had long since disappeared, and it was finally cut into a steep slope and collapsed by shells into a place for infantry. The gentle slope of the charge.Obviously, the Japanese used artillery shells to clear an attack channel for the infantry, and the most violent impact tonight should happen there.

"Attention all! Start... attack! Go! Go!"

With a sound that seemed to tear his throat, the voice of the password squeezed out of his chest.All the Japanese soldiers in the trench stood up with a bang, and the junior officer waving a command knife jumped out of the trench first, followed by nearly [-] to [-] Japanese infantrymen.The first wave of attack organized by Hideki Tojo was actually tentative, and only an infantry brigade was invested.The purpose is to attract the machine gun firepower of the Nationalist Allied Forces on Maoling Mountain and Yanchi Mountain.As long as these machine guns are fired, the target will be exposed immediately, and usually after twenty to thirty rounds of bullets have been fired, they will be attacked by Japanese mortars or grenadiers!

Seven or eight hundred well-trained Japanese soldiers quickly formed waves of offensive formations under the organization of the officers, and then slowly approached at a walking speed.From time to time, some people stopped and fired a few shots at the position of the National Coalition Army on the opposite side, as if to lure the other party to fire.More than a dozen heavy machine guns were also set up and fired continuously from the side to cover the infantry's attack...

At this time, on an open flat ground about 3000 meters behind the main positions of Maoling Mountain and Yanchi Mountain, a Red Army artillery unit with red flags, blue-gray military uniforms, and octagonal caps has quietly deployed.This artillery is currently the only artillery division in China!The official designation is the Artillery Division directly under the Military Commission of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army. It has 110 four civilian 75-style [-]mm mountain guns.

A tall, majestic Chinese-character face, a slightly high nose bridge, and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, a senior Red Army officer was standing behind the artillery position, frowning and looking at the flustered Red Army artillery in front of him.

He is Zhu Rui, a top student of Moscow Oriental University and Soviet Krasin Artillery School!Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of China.A loyal communist and military expert, as soon as he returned to China, he was reused by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Central Military Commission. He was by-elected as a member of the Central Committee, and served as the commander and political commissar of the newly formed Red Army Artillery Division!But looking at his tightly knitted eyebrows at this time, it seems that he is dissatisfied with his artillery division.

Actually very dissatisfied!The formation time of this artillery division is too short!Only a few days!There are too few professional artillerymen. Most of them have never touched cannons before, and only a small number of them were transferred from the artillery brigades of the various fronts of the Red Army.However, Zhu Rui also seemed to be a very amateur artilleryman... He couldn't even send artillery observers to the artillery observation posts on Maoling Mountain and Yanchi Mountain when he was an amateur!We had to send Wu Ting, the deputy commander of the Korean army, to the concrete bunker on the top of Yanchi Mountain to act as the eyes of the artillery, but these eyes may be a bit short-sighted.Wu Ting graduated from the Northeast Academy of Martial Arts and came out of a crash course. This skill is inevitably a little...

In addition, the artillery assigned to this artillery division also made him dissatisfied.These artillery are all 75mm mountain cannons with a range of 6300 meters. They are not bad for regiment-level fire support, but it is really difficult to form artillery divisions to provide fire support for the entire campaign.Their range is too short compared to the entire battlefield, and their calibers are also smaller.It would be ideal to have 36 heavy guns of 105mm or 150mm.

At this time, the Red Army artillerymen, who had been in a hurry for a while, finally lined up the four 110 cannons.The cannons shook slowly, and the muzzles were raised high, pointing in the direction of the main positions of Maoling Mountain and Yanchi Mountain.The gunners were all in place, and the ammunition held the shells in their hands, nervously waiting for the order to load and launch.

Seeing that the artillery division was finally ready, Zhu Rui let out a sigh of relief.He adjusted his military uniform, strode back to his command position, stretched out his hand to take the command flag from his orderly, held it high in the air, stopped for a while, and swung it down: "Ready—fire! "

110 The cannon group composed of four mountain cannons shook violently at the same time, bursts of flames spewed out, and then there was the muffled sound of the cannons, filled with smoke, and in a blink of an eye rose up in front of the main positions of Maoling Mountain and Yanchi Mountain. There were huge orange fireballs.

When the explosion sounded, Hideki Tojo, who was watching the battle behind the Japanese army's position, also trembled unconsciously.Although he had already learned through intelligence that the Chinese defenders in Jinan City also had a certain number of mountain artillery.However, he never imagined that the Chinese would organize more than one hundred mountain cannons into an artillery division, and they would fire them indiscriminately without test firing!But the hit was quite accurate, and almost all of them hit the head of the infantry brigade that was attacking the main position of Maoling Mountain.

What happened to the infantry brigade was disastrous. Hundreds of 75mm caliber mountain artillery shells roared and rushed straight down.Almost in an instant, the entire line of skirmishers attacking by the Japanese army was submerged by groups of fireballs.Almost all the shells exploded in the ranks of the Japanese army, and the scorching air waves swept across everything with countless tiny metal fragments, causing the Japanese attacking infantry to scream and be swept down in strange ways.In just a few seconds, more than half of the elite brigade belonging to the Japanese Fourth Wing suffered casualties, and the remaining officers and soldiers who were not killed by the first round of shelling also lay on the ground looking for cover nearby, enduring the opponent's shells around them It exploded.

This time the ferocious shelling lasted only 3 minutes before it came to an abrupt end, so it was later called the "3-minute Hell of Fire" by the Fourth Wing during the war.In just 3 minutes, the entire brigade was disabled, and the first round of attack organized by Hideki Tojo...and his arrogance were repelled.

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The main positions on Maoling Mountain and Yanchi Mountain were temporarily stabilized due to the wonderful performance of the Red Army Artillery Division or good luck.However, as far as the entire front in the eastern suburbs of Jinan is concerned, the Japanese army's first wave of offensive still achieved considerable breakthroughs.What was breached was mainly the defense line about five kilometers north of Maoling Mountain and south of Xiaoqing River.Guarding here are the two brigades of the Second Division of the National Alliance Army, and the Japanese army in charge of the attack is the Kumamoto Sixth Division, which is also known as the two elite Japanese troops along with the Sendai Second Division!They are the ones who created the Nanjing Massacre in the history of another time and space!

Unlike Maoling Mountain and Yanchi Mountain, where there are dangers to rely on, the five-kilometer defense line guarded by Liu Yufen's Second Division of the National Alliance Army is as flat as a table, and there is no danger at all.Moreover, due to insufficient preparation time, they did not build a strong enough defensive position. They just dug a few trenches hastily, and arranged a few barbed wire fences and more than 1 mines outside the first trench.

Today, Liu Yufen is on the front line to guard the [-]rd Brigade of the National Alliance Army under the command of Sun Liangcheng, one of Feng Yuxiang's [-]th Taibao.As soon as the bombardment of the Japanese army stopped, the famous "rebel general" in history led the supervising team and went to the line of fire.Although he knew that his defense would not be able to survive tonight, he still had to grit his teeth and work hard... That unreasonable Commander-in-Chief Feng is now supervising the battle on the gate tower of Jinan Dongguan!If he saw that his position was breached in the first wave of the Japanese offensive, the one waiting for him would really be shot, right?

As soon as Sun Liangcheng arrived at the front line, he was stunned by the scene in front of him. The hastily dug trenches were already in dilapidated condition. There were bloody corpses everywhere in the trenches. Burnt stench.A large section of land in front of the trench seems to have been completely torn off, densely packed with large and small bomb craters, and the barbed wire and minefields have long since disappeared.

"Get up, brothers! Prepare to fight! Prepare to fight..." Heart-piercing roars followed one after another and spread throughout the entire front.The Nationalist coalition officer who survived the Japanese shelling had no time to cry for his dead brother, so he gritted his teeth and shouted the command to fight.The position filled with the breath of death seemed to come alive in a blink of an eye. Every trench, every foxhole, and every firepower point was full of National Army officers and soldiers who came out of nowhere.They wore steel helmets with big ears on their heads, and they held rifles and submachine guns tightly in their hands. Some of them were lying behind the machine guns, with both hands tightly holding the triggers.Others unscrewed the back covers of the grenades one by one and placed them neatly within their reach.A kind of solemnity and heaviness that can only be found on the battlefield quickly spread across the entire front. Even Sun Liangcheng, who was about to turn around and flee for a while, was infected. He gritted his teeth and stood behind the front, acting as the backbone of the officers and soldiers.

The flares went up into the air one after another. They illuminated the earth, the sky, the entire national coalition front, and the thousands of officers and soldiers of the Japanese No.13 Wing who were in the attack.

A whole regiment of Japanese troops set up a majestic battle formation in front of the front of the Nationalist Alliance Army, all rifles were bayoneted, and they marched forward under the leadership of the officers.The commander of this attack was Rikichi Ando, ​​who graduated from the No.16 Infantry Department of the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer Academy. Unlike Hideki Tojo's cautious probing, this colonel with the most popular mustache in the 13th century in Europe seemed to be I am also particularly fascinated by the dense skirmish lines of the nineteenth century.Under his command, thousands of bayonets from the No.[-] Regiment of the Japanese Army also lined up a dense skirmish line, more than ten rows deep, rolling forward.

At the same time, all the heavy weapons owned by a Japanese regiment also opened fire.Dozens of heavy machine guns were set up, and a series of hot chains of fire swept across the positions of the National Army.Four Meiji 41-year-old 75mm mountain guns were also pushed to the front line, where the national army's firepower was exposed by direct aiming and bombardment.In addition, more than a dozen mortars and hundreds of grenades also frantically poured ammunition into the National Army positions.

The position of the [-]rd Brigade of the National Coalition Army was immediately shrouded in groups of fireballs and smoke columns. Unlike the situation just now, this time the Japanese army carried out infantry attack and artillery support at the same time.As long as the two sides have not been twisted together, these well-trained Japanese artillery and grenadiers are sure to accurately put firepower on the heads of the Chinese defenders.But the Chinese defenders could not crawl into the trenches to avoid the artillery fire!He could only grit his teeth and endure the huge casualties, and fought back desperately with the rifles and machine guns in his hands!

What is even more heartbreaking is the great power of the Japanese mortars and grenades in the offensive and defensive battles of the Japanese army!Mortars were originally born for positional warfare. These 60mm, 80mm mortars and 50mm projectiles seem so small that they cannot be compared with 150mm heavy artillery.But in real positional warfare, their role may be even more powerful than those large-caliber suppression artillery!Of course, this is not to say that large-caliber heavy artillery is useless. In fact, these artillery are used in positional warfare to destroy fortifications and suppress the opponent's infantry support artillery.If the army defending Jinan tonight was replaced by the National Revolutionary Army, if the Japanese's mountain artillery, grenades, and mortars were so reckless, they would have been blasted to pieces by the Min [-] and Min [-] heavy artillery up.

After only ten minutes, dozens of machine guns of the [-]rd Brigade of the National Alliance Army completely misfired under the focus of the Japanese army's mountain artillery, mortars, and grenades.All that was left was rows of fired rifles, firing sporadic bullets into the slowly approaching bayonet jungle.At this time, the defense of Jinan had just started, and the position of the [-]rd Brigade of the Nationalist Coalition Army was in jeopardy under the pressure of the absolute superior firepower of the Japanese army.

On the city wall of Dongguan's gate in Jinan, all the people held up their binoculars and watched the deathmatch that took place on the position of the Third Brigade of the National Alliance Army.I also saw the powerful firepower and attack power of the Japanese army.Standing beside Feng Yuxiang as a senior counselor, Deng Yanda shook his head lightly: "No, the second division's defense line is about to collapse. The Japanese's attack power is too strong. Hurry up and send reinforcements, or shrink back."

Deng Yanda was just a "senior ginseng" and did not have the final decision-making power. Everyone turned their attention to the ashen-faced Feng Yuxiang, waiting for his decision.

Feng Yuxiang's eyebrows were tightly furrowed. Although he was calm on the surface, his heart was trembling with pain.The Japanese are so amazing!But it greatly exceeded Feng Yuxiang's expectations.At the moment, those who are desperately fighting in the front are all his family members and direct descendants of Feng Yuxiang... The Kuomintang and the CCP are basically watching a show right now!If he loses all his capital, what will he use to confuse the market in China's political arena in the future?Even if he kept Jinan, so what if he became a national hero?Can a polished commander still own Shandong territory?Looks like this one is going to...

Feng Yuxiang put down the binoculars in his hand, and said in a cold tone, "Let the second division retreat to the second line of defense."

Then he turned his head to look at Deng Yanda beside him, and smiled wryly: "It seems that we can't defend Jinan with our own strength. Please ask Commander Luo in Xuzhou for help. We don't ask the National Revolutionary Army to obey the Anti-Japanese Allied Army." I have ordered... Is this the head office?"

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Shandong, Weixian.The headquarters of the Japanese Army Shandong Expeditionary Army is now set up in the dilapidated and low Weixian County Government.While the Chinese and Japanese armies were fighting to the death on the front line in Jinan, the dispatched army headquarters in Weixian County was full of singing and dancing.In the hall of the back hall of the county government office, a casual banquet was reaching its climax.

The table is full of exquisite Chinese dishes, accompanied by Japanese sake, and there are several Japanese geisha singing and dancing with heavy makeup and exquisite kimonos.

"Miss Yoshiko, it's thanks to you that the imperial army took Weixian so smoothly this time." Nobuyoshi Muto approached Yoshiko Kawashima, who was also wearing a kimono, with a smile on his old face.

Kawashima Yoshiko just smiled faintly, and bent slightly at Muto Nobuyoshi: "Your Excellency said that it was all due to the prestige of the empire, and Yoshiko just happened at the right time."

"Hahaha." Muto Nobuyoshi looked up to the sky with a big smile and waved his hands: "Who doesn't know what Ms. Yoshiko is capable of? You alone can be worth a division of the empire! This time the empire wants to end decently in the Shandong Incident I'm afraid I still can't do without Miss Yoshiko."

Yoshiko Kawashima frowned, as if she heard something strange from Muto Nobuyoshi's words, she glanced at Muto, and said with a smile: "Your Excellency, if there is anything you can use for a little girl, just ask."

Muto smiled slightly, sat up straight, did not speak, but glanced at Rihachiro Sakanishi who was sitting beside him.

Banxi immediately smiled and took over the topic: "Miss Fangzi, do you have some special relationship with Luo Yaoguo, the God of the Chinese Army?"

Yoshiko Kawashima raised her eyebrows, and shook her head with her mouth flattened: "If you want me to do Luo Fuwen's job and get him to agree to make peace with the empire on favorable terms, I'm afraid it will be very difficult to be effective."

Wu Teng took a sip of his wine, and said with a smile: "Oh, can't Miss Fangzi's peerless beauty still hold Luo Yaoguo's heart?"

"Peerless beauty?" Yoshiko Kawashima smiled bitterly, "Do you really think he is a lustful man?"