After all the officers and men of the 59th Brigade crossed the Zhufu River, which had blocked them for several hours, they accelerated their march and finally arrived at the outskirts of Gunzhou within the time specified by Sun Yumin. The short distance of more than 100 kilometers tired the two regiments of the 59th Brigade enough.

Sun Yumin finally received a telegram from Li Tiedan's 59th Brigade, and his hanging heart finally let go, and said to Tang Chunhong, who was waiting for the record order beside him: "Inform Tie Niu to start a feint." ”

When this order was transmitted to Lai Wenli through the radio waves, a smile appeared on his dark face, he picked up the temporarily arranged field phone, and said into the microphone: "Battalion Commander Qiu, let's start." ”

Three red flares rose into the sky, dragging their long tails and drawing three wonderful arcs across the dark sky.

Fujiwara, the captain of the Japanese army standing on the city wall, looked at the three arcs, and his heart shrank inexplicably, as if his heart suddenly stopped breathing.

The three flares had just disappeared from the sky, and immediately a cannonball, dragging its orange tail, swept through the sky that had just fallen in color, and with a terrible scream, it fell rapidly towards the castle tower.

Fujiwara is a veteran, and he can hear the type of shell in the distant sound of the shell, which is the German-made Krupp 75mm caliber field gun, the most common artillery mounted by the Chinese army's artillery.

He shouted in Japanese: "Shelling, dodge!" ”

Since the invasion of China, the devil soldiers have hardly tried the taste of being bombed, and the same is true of the brigade led by Fujiwara, most of the devil soldiers on the castle tower stretched their necks and looked at the orange flames that came quickly. Even though their captain pulled his throat and screamed, no one paid any attention to him.

The first shell grazed the roof of the castle tower and crashed into the street, and the destructive force of the explosion caused a small crater in the street where the bomb hit, destroying the wooden doors and windows of several nearby shops.

Lai Wenli couldn't help but sigh deeply when he saw through the telescope that the first shell fired had deviated from the target, and his fist-clenched hand also smashed a punch on the tree next to him.

Qiu Zehua's artillery battalion only has three 75mm caliber Krupp field guns, and five Type 20 82mm mortars, although it cannot be compared with the Japanese army's cluster bombardment of dozens of howitzers, but it is enough for these Japanese soldiers and puppet troops in Jining City to drink a pot.

The first test firing deviated slightly from the target, the observer passed back the corrected mark, the artillery commanders quickly set the Zhu Yuan, the red flag in Qiu Zehua's hand was thrown down, and three 75mm field artillery shells and five 82mm mortar shells flew towards the city wall of Jining City with a sharp sound.

Fujiwara never imagined that in a heavily guarded city, there would be an army of Shina who was not afraid of death, daring to carry artillery to attack the city. When he received a secret report that Juye County had been breached and that all his squadrons were shattered, he had already reported to the wing commander and brigade commander, thinking that the upper echelons would send troops to recapture Juye County. But I didn't expect to get the order to abandon the outer county towns and stick to Jining, if the Chinese army dares to attack, it will definitely mobilize troops and wipe out all of them under the city of Jining.

Now, the arrogant Chinese army has really attacked on a large scale, and there are also formed artillery, which makes Fujiwara very surprised and excited, because he knows that the Chinese army can be equipped with artillery, at least the troops above the integrated division of the Central Army, which shows that it is a regular army at the division level that has invaded Jining.

When he reported the enemy situation to the commander of the 10th Wing, Akashiba Yaezo Daisa, he received a reprimand and an order to crush the attack on Jiningchina.

Fujiwara, who was originally full of excitement, seemed to be poured on his head by a basin of cold water, and in desperation, he summoned the leaders of the Seventh Independent Brigade of the Imperial Allied Army to discuss countermeasures, and finally agreed that once the number and number of the Chinese troops besieging the city were confirmed, they would report to General Kei Seya in the joint name of the two sides, and directly bypass the captain of the wing, Akashiba Yaezo.

Fujiwara took Huang Xiaojun, the commander of the puppet army brigade with the rank of major general of the puppet government, to personally go up to the city gate tower and deploy combat preparations.

Not long after they came up, they were shelled by the Chinese army, and the two looked at each other, and after being shocked, they immediately sent a report to General Kei Seya of the 33rd Brigade.

After getting the report, Seya Kei asked the chief of staff to open the map, observe it carefully, and then sneered: "Some time ago, the National Government of China shot Han Fuyu, the commander of the Third Group Army who lost Shandong, and then appointed a young Zhuang soldier as the division commander of the 20th Division, which had the strongest combat effectiveness in the Korean Division. He flipped out a copy of the Central Daily on a pile of maps and documents on the table, with a portrait of a major general of the national army printed on the front page, and the hideous scar on his blurred face was very impressive, and Seya continued: "Sun Yumin, the commander of the 20th Division of the 12th Army of the Third Army of the Chinese Army, was born in Hunan, fought with our army on the Songhu battlefield, and was the company commander at the time; Nanjing City garrisoned Guanghuamen, and fought with the Wakisaka Wing of the Ninth Division for four days and three nights, severely inflicting heavy losses on the Wakisaka Wing, and its troops were also killed and wounded; Not long ago, our squadron of Torikawa strayed into its hinterland and was completely annihilated by this man; Now, he arrogantly led his troops to attack the city guarded by nearly 10,000 imperial armies and imperial alliance troops, this person is really not to be underestimated. ”

"So what now? Will you concentrate the brigade forces to eliminate this Sun Yumin in one fell swoop, or will you follow General Isoya's instructions and attack Linyi? Chief of Staff asked.

"Di Bujun, we not only want to help Ning, but also attack Linyi." Kei Seya said.

"No, Your Excellency General, in this case, our forces are too scattered, and once we lose, it will be too late to retreat!"

"Hahahaha......" Seya Qi smiled: "Retreat, there are no two words in the dictionary of the 33rd Brigade, even if the attack is not smooth, don't forget that there is an entire division behind us, and General Isoya still has tens of thousands of imperial elites in his hands." ”

Seeing that the brigade commander had already made up his mind, it was not easy to dissuade him. In the Japanese military system, the chief of staff basically has no weight to speak in front of the military commander.

Seya immediately issued an order: "The 10th Infantry Wing of the Akashiba Yaezo immediately sent troops to Jining to rescue the besieged Fujiwara Brigade, the 10th Independent Machine Gun Brigade, the 10th Independent Armored Vehicle Squadron, the Temporary Field Artillery Squadron, and the Temporary Mountain Artillery Squadron; The 63rd Infantry Wing, together with the 10th Field Artillery Wing, Haruji Taniguchi, the 12th Independent Armored Vehicle Squadron, the 2nd Field Heavy Artillery Wing, and the 3rd Brigade of the Howitzer Artillery Wing attacked Linyi and Zaozhuang. ”

After the operational staff officer recorded the order, Seya Qi said to Di Bujiagui again: "Chief of staff, you lead the 63rd Wing and other main forces to enter the front line of Linyi and Zaozhuang. I took the 10th Infantry Wing to meet this Sun Yumin. ”

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Lai Wenli saw that after the first test shot, the shells seemed to have eyes, and they fell one after another towards the city gate tower and the city wall.

The city wall of Jining City was in a semi-deserted state because of disrepair, and this time the Japanese army recruited people to rush to repair it, and the degree of solidity can be imagined. After being bombarded, several places have collapsed to varying degrees, which makes Lai Wenli very embarrassed, if this is a real attack, such a big and so many gaps, I am afraid that I will wake up with a smile in my dreams, but now it is just a feint, these gaps have become a burden, I have to send troops to pretend to attack, you must know that there will be casualties when you attack, and the bullets and grenadiers of the Japanese army are not vegetarian.

When Lai Wenli gave Dai Cunxiang the order for the first wave of feints, his hands trembled a little, which was obviously sending people into the tiger's mouth, but he had no choice but to do so, so he had to explain to him before leaving: "What I want is not to take the city tower in a wave of attacks, I only need you to attract the distribution point of the enemy's heavy firepower, you must avoid the enemy's attack when you attack, do your best to reduce the casualties of your troops, and I will let the firepower cover you with all my might." ”

Dai Cunxiang nodded silently, he also knew that this was not a good messenger, but after receiving such care and advice from the new head of the regiment, even if it was a dead end in front of him, he was at least relieved in his heart.

The 115th Regiment built two encirclement lines around Jining City, and almost all the machine guns in the regiment were arranged on the trenches at the forefront.

Fujiwara was extremely depressed by a cannon bombardment before, the shelling stopped, at least dozens of machine guns fired countless bullets at the main gate tower facing south, seeing that his soldiers and the soldiers of the Imperial Association Army were suppressed and hiding under the city wall and did not dare to show their heads, and a large number of Chinese soldiers outside the city were rushing quickly, he was so anxious that he took out the Wang Ba box, and at a few soldiers of the Imperial Association Army who were crying and crying like pigs in a group, and were afraid, he ran out of bullets in a magazine, and shouted in his mouth: "Counterattack, counterattack!" ”

Perhaps it was the soldiers of the Imperial Association Army who were shot by Fujiwara that these soldiers were shot by Fujiwara, and the miserable appearance of blood convulsions was continuous, which stimulated other people, whether it was the devil soldiers or the puppet army, they began to shoot at the city under the rain of bullets. The Type 97 heavy machine gun, the Type 96 light machine gun, the Type 11 light machine gun, the 38 large cover, and the grenadier canisters all began to roar, mixed with various shouts and screams in Japanese and Chinese, and a symphony was played on the castle tower.

Dai Cunxiang and his two companies fell to the ground when they were counterattacked by the first wave of counterattacks on the city tower, but even if they reacted quickly, there were more than ten or twenty soldiers who fell in a pool of blood, and several soldiers who were hit rolled on the ground screaming, and a few soldiers on the side got up from the ground and ran over, but they were all knocked over by the machine guns on the city tower, and Dai Cunxiang was so anxious that he shouted on the ground: "Don't move, don't move while lying on your stomach!" ”

Lai Wenli saw that his soldiers were put down in the blink of an eye, and he was so anxious that he scolded: "What about the machine gunner? Suppress! Suppress! Are you all dead, suppress me, can't you see that the brothers in front of you let the devil machine guns of the dog day beat? ”

Seeing that the effect of machine gun suppression was not very good, he picked up the field phone and shouted into the microphone: "Battalion Commander Qiu, shell me!" ”

Qiu Zehua had nothing to do with him, and said on the phone: "Commander Lai, your troops are still under the city, and I am afraid that I will blow up my own people." ”

Lai Wenli roared angrily: "If I ask you to open the cannon, you will open the cannon, don't be verbose, I will naturally go to you to settle accounts with Qiu Da Stick if you blow up my people, if you don't fire the cannon again, all my people will die under the city tower, and then I will see how you compensate my soldiers." ”

Qiu Zehua was speechless, he said, "Lai, you are too unreasonable. After he hung up the phone, he shouted at his artillerymen: "Three rapid-fire shots per gun." ”

When the tower of the city was shelled by the Chinese army again, the machine guns under the city began to fire again, this time the devil soldiers and pseudo-real people could not probe, they could only watch Dai Cunxiang retreat with people, and watched the Chinese army take the dead soldiers and wounded soldiers down one by one.

Lai Wenli saw his troops withdraw, and hurried to their resting place.

There were no words, just endless sadness and a shocking crimson.

After the attacking Chinese troops were pushed back, the shelling and machine guns ceased. Fujiwara finally took a breather, the casualties caused by this wave of attacks have not yet been counted, but with his many years of experience in the army, there must be a lot of casualties, since 918, the subordinate units of the 10th Division have been shelled by the Chinese army on a large scale, this is the first time. Fujiwara didn't care about the deaths and injuries of the Imperial Allied Army at all, he only cared about the safety of the soldiers of his own brigade, and after several squadrons reported the battle damage, a little smile finally appeared on his face. More than twenty were killed and more than a dozen wounded, and for such a fierce attack, this casualty was acceptable in the eyes of any commander. The losses of the Seventh Brigade of the Imperial Allied Army were not small, more than 200 were killed on the castle tower, and nearly 100 were wounded.

After reading the battle report, Fujiwara finally received a call back from Seya Kai, and when he learned that the brigade commander personally led the troops to the rescue, his heart suddenly blossomed, and the smile on his face could not hide his kind eyes and cunning demeanor, and he said a sentence fiercely: "Shina soldiers, I will kill you all under the city of Jining." ”

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Sun Yumin's headquarters was temporarily located in Jiaxiang County, which was abandoned by the Japanese army, and the conference room of the county government was arranged by him as a war room.

A telegram passed through Tang Chunhong's hand and was transferred here. Her crisp and concise words saved Sun Yumin a lot of time in reading telegrams.

From Tang Chunhong's report, the huge battle situation unfolded in front of Sun Yumin's eyes like a picture scroll: after Jining was surrounded, the devils stationed there quickly sent a telegram asking for help. The Japanese army in the direction of Gunzhou reacted the fastest, and sent reinforcements as soon as possible, and about a squadron of devil soldiers and about a regiment of puppet troops were firmly blocked near Gangshang Village by the newly formed regiment. When Sun Yumin received this news, he immediately ordered Li Tie to lead his troops to attack the city, but it didn't take an hour for Gunzhou to be taken. The Japanese army in Wenshang was attacked in Jining within half an hour after the gathering of about two squadrons of devils and about a regiment of puppet troops, ambushed by the 116th regiment led by Zhang Xiaohu, after nearly an hour of hard fighting, was completely annihilated near Kangyi Town, the 116th regiment also paid nearly half of the casualties, even Zhang Xiaohu was slightly wounded, leaving a battalion to clean up the battlefield, Zhang Xiaohu personally took the remaining troops to take the almost empty city of Wenshang County.

Just as Sun Yumin was about to order Li Tietang and Deng Dongping's 59th Brigade to divide their troops to take Zou Cheng and Qufu directly, he received news that he did not expect, the Fifth Theater Command sent an urgent telegram: The 33rd Brigade of the Japanese Army in Tai'an suddenly divided its troops, and one part of it was rushing to Qufu and the other to Linyi. In the telegram, Li Zongren, commander of the Fifth Theater, told Sun Yumin to be careful and not to underestimate the enemy.