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"Isn't it?" Sakanishi Rihachiro smiled deeply: "Actually, the conditions proposed by the empire this time will not embarrass Luo Yaoguo too much. I hope Miss Yoshiko can give it a try."

Chapter 0422 Battle of Jinan ([-])

On the night of March 700th, on the southern slope of Limao Mountain, about six kilometers away from the main positions of Maoling Mountain and Yanchi Mountain.About 100 Kuomintang engineers and soldiers wearing large-eared steel helmets and khaki military uniforms are sneaking in a large forest on the hillside.Everyone stared nervously at a Japanese army unit on the winding mountain road at the foot of the mountain.There were about a thousand Japanese soldiers there, and more than [-] mules and horses carrying baggage, lined up in a long procession, slowly advancing on foot in the dark.

This engineer battalion was brought to Jinan by Sun Liren to help the Anti-Japanese Allied Army build fortifications and plant landmines.After they planted mines on the main road from Zhangqiu to Jinan, they retreated into the mountains to the south according to Deng Yanda's order. Originally, they were supposed to retreat overnight to a railway station on the Jinpu Railway, more than 20 kilometers away, and then take a bus back to Xuzhou , to end this near-miss battle experience.However, these young men who experienced the war for the first time seemed a little too excited, they didn't leave this place of right and wrong quickly, and found a place with a good view in the mountains in the south of Jinan City, ready to watch the war from a distance!In particular, the "anti-Japanese general" Sun Liren deliberately climbed up a tree, took a six-fold military binoculars produced by Zeiss China, and looked around. As a result... he found a team of unknown numbers and unknown identities. Judging from their height, they seemed to be Japanese The devil's guy is taking advantage of the night, slowly crawling along the mountain path!

After all, he is a famous general in history. His observation ability and eyesight are both superb.On such a dark night, it is really not easy to be sure that it is the Japanese army and not the "friendly army" with just a little moonlight!After discovering that prey was delivered to the door, Sun Liren immediately issued a combat order to the commander of the engineering battalion, Major Ren Tianmin, who graduated from the engineering department of the third phase of Whampoa, and he decided to ambush the Japanese army!Uh, this "Lieutenant Colonel Engineer" really dared to give orders!And the little engineer battalion commander who looked quite clever actually obeyed... So hundreds of engineers who were a little excited and didn't know they were afraid quickly planted dozens of landmines on the mountain road, and then crawled on the civet cat. An ambush is ready in the woods on the southern slope of the mountain.

As the Japanese army slowly approached, the group of lifeless engineers in the woods were also making final preparations.Probably because Song Meiling is a shareholder of China Military Industry Co., Ltd., Lao Jiang "generously" equipped all engineers and transport soldiers with rifles and light machine guns. In addition, each engineer battalion also had two 60mm "engineering broken guns". Barrier Mortar".At this moment, several Min-7.62 light machine guns (improved from the Czech type, 60mm caliber) were erected in the best shooting position, and the machine gunners carefully pulled the bolts, and they could fire with only one order; The first [-]mm mortar is arranged in the middle, but I don't know if the ammunition used to "break barriers and mines" can kill people?In addition, each rifleman was assigned ten wooden handle grenades.

"Attention, prepare to fight... prepare to fight..."

I saw that the Japanese brigade with plaster flags had entered the range and was slowly approaching the dozen or so landmines.The officers of the engineer battalion lowered their voices to remind the soldiers to be ready to fight at any time, and the sound of pulling the bolts gathered together.Immediately afterwards, the squad leaders of each squad began to arrange their own combat deployments for the soldiers under them-the current Kuomintang army has been trained by more than 1000 German military advisers who are always stern and unreasonable at first glance. After more than a year, it really is a bit more elite.Seeing this scene, even Sun Liren, who has never been very fond of domestic officers, couldn't help nodding. The combat skills and battlefield organization displayed by this ordinary engineer in front of him are definitely better than the current loose US Army infantry. To be stronger than a lot!

boom!

After a dull explosion, there was a deafening cry, uh, there was an unlucky Japanese soldier who stepped on a landmine and blew up his foot.At the same time as the explosion sounded, hundreds of rifles and twenty light machine guns also fired at the same time, sporadic or clusters of bullets flashed orange, and flew from the ambush position in the woods to the Japanese army's march at a very fast speed brigade.Almost at the same time, the two mortars deployed behind the infantry also began to project ammunition at a very high speed to the panic-stricken Japanese army crowd. Groups of flames continued to rise in the Japanese army marching ranks, and fragments of shells scattered around. Sweeping across the crowd, these Japanese invaders were swept to the ground one after another.

It was actually the first few seconds that decided the victory of this ambush.The Japanese army is of course a rigorously trained "samurai", but these guys also need a reaction time when they are hit by a sudden attack.After this short few seconds, the rigorous training they have received will take effect, and all the people will disperse immediately, seek cover, or simply crawl on the ground, and then they will start to fight back .Therefore, the first bullet fired by each rifle in the engineer battalion, the first burst fired by each machine gun, and the first shell fired by the two mortars are the most powerful!But to maximize the power of this surprise attack is inseparable from the usual rigorous training.Although these people are engineers, they all have 500 to 1000 rounds of live ammunition shooting experience!The entire Kuomintang army now uses up to 6000 million rounds of ammunition for training every year!Even with the use of reloading ammunition, the expenditure is still as high as 100 million yuan!The result of this almost wasted live ammunition training is that every soldier can hit a slow-moving humanoid target within a distance of [-] meters!

Of course, that is a requirement in training, and in actual combat it is almost a 200% hit rate.That is to say, six hundred rifles, twenty machine guns and two mortars killed and wounded more than 7.62 Japanese in the first few seconds of the engagement.Among them was Lieutenant Sergeant Koizumi, the captain of the squadron who was riding a tall horse. His skull was hit by a [-]mm rifle bullet, half of his skull was knocked off, and white brains splashed all over the floor.In addition, most of the officers of this brigade also "became gods" in these few seconds. Who made them wear beautiful wool uniforms and carry command knives, so that people can see that they are officers at a glance?

Under the sudden firepower, although the Japanese army at the foot of the mountain suffered heavy casualties, they quickly recovered from the shock.All the Japanese soldiers quickly dispersed, lay down, set up their machine guns, raised their rifles and began to fight back, hardly needing orders from officers or sergeants.

"Retreat! Retreat! Now retreat..."

Seeing that the battle might fall into a stalemate, Lieutenant Colonel Sun Liren, the "engineer" who actually commanded the battle, decisively issued an order to retreat.

The retreat was also pre-arranged. The machine gunners were the first to retreat. They were the main targets of the Japanese mortars and grenades, so they had to run first; the riflemen followed; and the two mortars last. The two mortars fired wildly for a full minute, and after all the ammunition was shot, they were destroyed by the gunner with a grenade.The entire ambush took only 1 minute from the start of the firefight to the disengagement! More than 1 Kuomintang soldiers disappeared into the night in a panic, leaving only the devil brigade on the mountain road with heavy casualties shooting at random in the direction of the hillside...

In this ambush that was exaggerated by the Kuomintang propaganda organization as a "one-minute victory", the Kuomintang military engineering battalion that participated in the battle paid the price of six people killed, 1 injured, and the loss of two mortars.According to the number of casualties released by the Japanese army, 12 people were killed and 11 people were injured in the Koizumi Battalion of Japan's No.58 Wing.

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Although the "1-minute victory" was a great tactical victory, it did not change the dangerous situation of the Chinese army in the entire Jinan campaign.

When Sun Liren took the beaming Kuomintang engineer battalion back to the battlefield in the eastern suburbs of Jinan after walking for several hours on the mountain road, what he saw was a line of defense that was about to collapse.

Half of the main positions of Maoling Mountain and Yanchi Mountain have been lost!On the unrecognizable Yanchi Mountain Highland, which was bombarded by heavy Japanese artillery, a rising sun flag was fluttering in the wind.And the highlands of Maoling Mountain were also full of flames, and the sound of guns and shouts resounded through the sky. Obviously, a decisive battle of life and death was being staged!At this time, the northern section of the defense line in the eastern suburbs of Jinan no longer existed, and Liu Yufen's second division of the national coalition army was captured by the Japanese sixth division in less than two hours!Even after receiving reinforcements from Li Mingzhong's 7000rd Division, they were unable to hold their ground. The nearly [-] troops of the two divisions were defeated by the [-]-strong Japanese Kumamoto Sixth Division on the plains in the eastern suburbs of Jinan!Even Commander-in-Chief Feng Yuxiang led the Guards Brigade to supervise the battle, but he couldn't restore the decline. In the end, he had to invite the Second Red Army Corps of the Communist Party of China to join the battle, so that he could hold his ground. A thin line of defense was established on the front line.

This so-called defense line of more than 600 meters is actually just some sparse foxholes, without a trench or an inch of barbed wire at all!There are only [-] soldiers from the Fourth Division of the Second Corps of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army!And it was these Red Army soldiers in blue-gray military uniforms and octagonal caps who, with their crude weapons, withstood round after round of attacks by Japan's most elite Kumamoto Sixth Division, creating one after another. The miracle of the battlefield!

"Communist! Communist Youth League member! Come with me!"

It was Jiang Xianyun, commander of the Fourth Division of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army who yelled this resounding slogan, and then this young communist took up a bayonet-mounted 13-style rifle without hesitation, and was the first to charge at the fast-approaching Japanese army. No.[-] regiment skirmish line.Behind him, countless Red Army commanders and fighters in gray-blue military uniforms also held bayonet-mounted rifles, shouting and launched a counterattack.In a blink of an eye, thousands of Red Army soldiers and almost the same number of Japanese troops were twisted together, making the Japanese army's firepower superiority immediately useless.

The hand-to-hand combat between the two armies started in the bloodiest and cruelest way from the very beginning!Although the Red Army of Chinese Workers and Peasants in this time and space participated in less actual combat, the training they received was much more formal.At the beginning, it was the Kuomintang officer corps headed by Deng Yanda, and later the Soviet military advisory group led by General Galen. To the Chinese Red Army of Workers and Peasants!And hand-to-hand combat is the best fighting method of the Russian Army and the First Guangdong Division.The Chinese Red Army, which has inherited the advantages of the two armies, naturally attaches great importance to the training of hand-to-hand combat.

Of course, compared to the level of hand-to-hand combat of the Japanese army, the Red Army soldiers are still slightly at a disadvantage.This is not because their training is not hard enough, nor is it that the hand-to-hand combat skills of the Soviets are inferior to those of Japan.It is that the bodies of these Red Army soldiers are obviously thin. Due to the barren land in the Soviet area, supply is difficult.The officers and soldiers of the Red Army were obviously malnourished, and many of them even suffered from night blindness, so they could barely fight with firelight and rising flares.Therefore, this hand-to-hand combat between the Red Army and the Japanese Army is basically going on with a two-to-one or three-to-one exchange ratio... Seeing that the Red Army is going to be exhausted.

Jiang Xianyun, the commander of the Fourth Red Division, was also in crisis at this time. On the battlefield, he met a Japanese officer wielding a long katana.The guy was short and stocky, with a thick face and a messy beard.And it seems that he can do "Sword Dao", killing six or seven Red Army soldiers in the blink of an eye!Then he found Jiang Xianyun again.

"It seems that he is going to sacrifice his life for the cause of communism?" Jiang Xianyun frantically resisted, while thinking to himself: "It's a pity that the day when the revolution will win!" Probably because of distracted thoughts, Mr. Jiang's I tripped over something under my feet, fell to the ground, and threw the rifle out of my hand!But the bearded Japanese officer laughed out loud, raised his samurai sword high, and saw that he was about to strike it down!

Suddenly, bang!Snapped!Crack... The gunshots rang out.A few bullets flashing orange-red light flew from a distance at an extremely fast speed, piercing through the head of the Japanese bearded officer and saving Jiang Xianyun's life.

Sparse gunfire continued, and rows of orange-red light shot from behind the Red Army soldiers, most of which accurately hit the Japanese officers and soldiers who were engaged in hand-to-hand combat.Jiang Xianyun turned his head and looked around, and a scene that made people laugh and cry appeared in front of him.There are about a few hundred officers and soldiers wearing steel helmets with large ear brims, shooting from a distance in kneeling and lying positions!God!People are fighting hand to hand!Have any of you shot indiscriminately like this?It's still so far away, and it's so dark, what should I do if I accidentally hurt him?

These hundreds of people who were shooting randomly tens of meters away were naturally the engineer battalion brought back by Sun Liren.These sappers who just fought a beautiful ambush battle are now feeling good about themselves, and each of them feels that he is a sharpshooter with every shot.I was just watching the battle from the sidelines, and saw that the Japanese army seemed to have the upper hand, so I picked up my gun and started shooting!Regardless of whether it will accidentally hurt a good person...

On the roof of a farmhouse about 1000 meters away from the defense line of the Red Fourth Division, He Long, commander of the Second Red Army and head of the Second Red Army, witnessed this somewhat nonsensical battle through a telescope.

Putting down the binoculars, He Long shook his head, and asked in a calm voice the chief of staff Zhou Shidi beside him: "Which part are they from? How did they appear on the battlefield?"

Zhou Shidi frowned and shook his head.The current Anti-Japanese Allied Army was originally a hodgepodge, with the three factions of the Nationalist Alliance Army, the Anhui Faction, and the CCP improvised.Although they accept Feng Yuxiang's unified command in name, they are not subordinate to each other in reality, and no one can command other people's troops.And tonight's battlefield was obviously a little chaotic again. The northern defense line collapsed, and countless defeated Nationalist coalition troops ran around. On the other side, Yanchi Mountain was completely shaken when it fell. Only the Red Army remained calm and supported the whole situation.Just those allies...

He Long took a deep breath, and said with a wry smile: "They shouldn't be enemies, right? Send someone to invite their leaders over to see... if we can let them join our team. These people's marksmanship is really good, and in the To be able to maintain this state on such a chaotic battlefield should be a battle-hardened veteran!"

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While the Chinese and Japanese armies were fighting to the death under the city of Jinan, the banquet in the county government office in Weixian County, Shandong was interrupted by sudden bad news.

A Japanese army staff officer suddenly bumped in, with a serious face, holding a newly translated telegram in his hand: "Your Excellency, Commander, the head of the Fifth Division, Mu Dazhi, has an urgent message. The leading troops of the Fifth Division, An encounter with a division of the Chinese Army near Tanuki Mountain! Lieutenant Commander Koizumi Junichi died in the line of duty, and the No.11 Regiment suffered more than 200 casualties!"

"Nani!" Nobuyoshi Muto turned his head sharply, and looked at the staff officer with displeasure on his face: "Mu Tachi didn't say which division of the China Army he encountered? And how is the battle going?"

The staff officer just woke up like a dream, stood at attention, raised his hands and handed the telegram to Muto: "Your Excellency, Commander, the Fifth Division did not say which Chinese army they encountered, and they did not inform The outcome of the battle just means that the enemy has retreated, so we should have won, right?"

"Didn't you say how many enemies you wiped out?" Muto frowned slightly, and a bad feeling suddenly came to his mind.There seemed to be too many accidents in this war. First, the Second Division was bombed by Kuomintang bombers.Now there is another Chinese teacher on the front line of Limao Mountain... Who could it be?The Red Army of the Communist Party of China or Feng Yuxiang's National Coalition Army?

"The Fifth Division didn't report the number of enemies wiped out, presumably it hasn't been counted yet?" The staff officer shook his head and replied.

Mu Teng nodded lightly: "Give Mu Dazhi a power, and ask him to leave a wing to act as a guard, and the rest of the troops will continue to complete the detour mission. They must take the Thousand Buddha Mountain by tomorrow, oh, before noon today!"

"Hi!" The staff officer bowed slightly, turned around and left.

Nobuyoshi Muto shook his head, then turned his head and said to Yoshiko Kawashima with a smile: "Miss Yoshiko, I will trouble you to go to Xuzhou, please tell Marshal Luo Yaoguo. The empire has no intention of fighting against the Kuomintang. Come on, if the Kuomintang is willing to pay 2000 million silver dollars in compensation, the imperial army will withdraw from Shandong...and return Qingdao and the Jiaoji Railway.”

Chapter 0423 Jinan Defense Battle ([-])

In the eastern suburbs of Jinan, the former enemy command post of the Second Red Army Corps.

In the command room, He Long, commander of the Second Red Army and commander of the Second Red Army, Ren Bshi, political commissar of the Second Red Army, Zhou Shidi, chief of staff of the Second Red Army, and Sun Liren and Ren Tianmin of the Kuomintang Army are surrounding a military map front.Uh, no matter how you look at it, this scene is a bit weird...

"Mr. He, our battalion is here—the Japanese army ambushed by Limao Mountain." At this moment, Ren Tianmin's face was also slightly gloomy, and he poked his finger in the direction of Limao Mountain on the map: "There are about a thousand Japanese soldiers. We are here. They planted dozens of landmines in the direction they were heading, and then our battalion ambushed in the woods on the southern slope of Limao Mountain... The whole exchange of fire lasted only one minute, and we probably killed and wounded more than 1 of them. We also lost six brothers , Twelve people were injured, fortunately, they were all minor injuries. As for whether there are troops behind them...we didn't pay attention."

He Long looked at Ren Tianmin and asked quietly, "When did that happen?"

Ren Tianmin snapped his fingers: "It's been three or four hours, right? After we finished the fight, we took a detour across the mountains and it took a lot of time."

He Long took a deep breath, his face turned livid, his eyes were fixed on the military map, and he said nothing.The situation reported by these two Kuomintang engineering officers is too important!If what they said is true, it is very likely that a Japanese army is outflanking the southern line of Jinan City!Those defending there are veteran soldiers from the Anhui Department. How can these troops be the opponents of the Japanese army?Moreover, the Qianfoshan position on the southern line did not have many fortifications at all...

"Perhaps, that's just a reconnaissance unit of the Japanese army?" Ren Bishi turned to Sun Liren and Ren Tianmin, with a strange look on his face, and a smile on his lips, as if doubting their reports.Can an engineering battalion of the Kuomintang Tofu Army retreat unscathed when encountering a brigade of Japanese soldiers?Does anyone believe it?Most of this is because they are lying about the military situation in order to pretend to be rewarded.

He Long seemed to be nodding his head lightly, and his face looked better. He glanced at the two Kuomintang officers and smiled: "Okay, we already know about this matter, and we will notify the Allied Army Command. You have worked hard How about I send someone to escort you to Jinan Railway Station and meet up with the Kuomintang air force there?"

Ren Tianmin seemed to want to say something, but Sun Liren next to him spoke first: "Then thank you, Chief He, and we have to report the military situation to Shangfeng as soon as possible, so I won't disturb you." Ren Tianmin was stunned, and the two left together.

"Boss He, do you believe what they say?" Seeing the two Kuomintang officers walking out, Ren Bish hurriedly stepped forward and said in a low voice, "They...seem to be a little bit okay, could they be the Kuomintang's secret agents? ?”

He Long wrinkled his eyebrows and smiled wryly: "Maybe? They might want to destroy the good situation of the Jinan War of Resistance, but it may be true. Did you see that they helped our Red Fourth Division repel an enemy attack just now? "

"This... is even more suspicious." Ren Bishi said calmly, "A group of engineers are so good at marksmanship, do you think it's possible? I don't think even our guards can compare to them."

"En." He Long nodded, remained silent for a while, and said again: "Let's report it, and ask the Fifth Red Division to send a regiment to deploy defenses on the southern city wall, just in case."

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