On the night when the 1st Regiment of the 1st Brigade surrounded and annihilated the Japanese army in Zibo, Wang Kun, the commander of the 3rd Brigade, received a telegram from Ge Yunfei and immediately led his troops to secretly go south from the western foot of Daze Mountain, and inserted between the Wei River and the Jiaolai River in the north-south direction to block the Japanese troops in Weifang from fleeing eastward and the Japanese troops reinforced by Pingdu. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoAt that time, Ge Yunfei ordered Wang Kun's troops to retreat westward, but in fact, he secretly turned to Daze Mountain in the south of Laizhou to stand by. The 3rd Brigade was pulled to Daze Mountain to stand by, and everyone thought that this move was aimed at Pingdu, but this chess piece was indeed a bad star to bury the 120th Wing.

After the siege and annihilation of Zibo began, Wang Jiefang, commander of the 1st Brigade in Shouguang, received Ge Yunfei's order and immediately sent reconnaissance troops to pay close attention to the movements of the Japanese army in Weifang. At 11 o'clock that night, the commander of the 120th Wing, Maeda Osa, did not dare to slack off after receiving Kameda's report, and immediately reported to the Japanese headquarters in Jimo.

According to general military common sense, there was no problem with Kamio Mitsutomi deploying like this, but where did he expect to encounter a terrifying opponent who was different, and all his military deployments had been predicted by the opponent, and he really didn't know it.

When Wang Jiefang learned that the 120th Wing of the Japanese Army included an artillery squadron, most of the logistics brigade was dispatched, and only one logistics squadron was left at Weifang Station to defend, Wang Jiefang found a fighter and immediately ordered the 2nd Regiment to advance to Weifang Station and quickly capture Weifang.

At the same time, Wang Jiefang led four regiments to the south along the Wei River and stopped the Japanese near the railway line. At about 2 o'clock in the morning, Wang Jiefang led his troops to the vicinity of the railway bridge and built a defensive position on the west bank of the Wei River to block the attack.

Less than an hour after the troops arrived, and the defensive positions did not have time to be constructed, the Japanese forward troops arrived, and the battle broke out instantly. A round of attacks by the Japanese forward troops was fruitless, and then Captain Maeda led a large group of men and horses to arrive. Maeda believed that this was a blocking force of the enemy and immediately ordered artillery bombardment.

The life of the 252nd Brigade of the Japanese Army hung by a thread, and Captain Maeda did not know about it. At present, the 120th Wing includes the 253rd and 254th Field Brigades, artillery squadrons, logistics units and other affiliated units, with a total strength of more than 2,800 troops. Originally, the 120th Wing had an artillery brigade, but in order to attack Qingdao, the two artillery squadrons under it were requisitioned, leaving only one artillery squadron. The artillery squadron had 4 75-mm mountain guns, as well as several small-caliber guns. Wing Commander Maeda ordered the artillery to concentrate on bombarding both flanks of the railway bridge to strike at the enemy's will to resist.

He thought that a cannon bombardment would cause the Chinese army to flee in fear, but Maeda was wrong. The Japanese troops sent two squadrons and charged along the railway line, only to be intercepted by crossfire from the opposing heavy machine guns and unable to cross the railway bridge. The attack was fruitless, and Maeda ordered the entire line to attack. The attack on all fronts meant a group attack, and the tactics of attacking the enemy with great momentum and rushing forward and following one after another were adopted to destroy the enemy's sense of resistance, which was the killer weapon of the Japanese army in attacking fortified positions. However, Maeda's reckless attack met a formidable opponent.

"Brigade commander, the Oriental devil is going to play with his life!" The brigade chief of staff was in a bit of a hurry. "Order the regiments to use grenades to intercept at close range!" Wang Jiefang shouted loudly, to deal with the Japanese group charge, close grenades are the most effective way to contain the enemy's charge. Sure enough, the Japanese stormtroopers soon approached the creek. Since it was a dry season, the width of the creek was only about 30 meters, and the deepest part could not submerge the knees, so it was easy to wade through the creek with a high-speed impact, and it was obvious that the Japanese army knew the hydrological situation well.

However, in the midst of the electric light, there was an unbelievable scene for the captain of the Maeda team. In the firelight, the soldiers frantically rushed to the river bank and entered the water, and the breakthrough was imminent. But the next scene surprised him, only to see a dense group of grenades explode in the group of charging soldiers, and the explosion of air rose and flamed into the sky. The tactical discipline of the Japanese army required soldiers to charge to the death no matter what the situation they encountered. The Japanese troops behind did not stop, and the enemy's grenades continued to explode one after another.

"Your Excellency Dazuo, the enemy's defensive tactics have been specially drilled, and our battle losses are too large!" Subordinate reports. "Keep throwing in the troops!" Maeda gritted his teeth. Group charge was the usual tactic of the Japanese army in the Russo-Japanese War, and this set of customary tactics of the Japanese army will not change when encountering the Chinese army. If the defensive force was insufficient, the Japanese army's decisive charge would be extremely efficient, but Maeda did not expect that the Chinese army on the opposite side had 4,000 people, and the defensive force was far more than his own.

White-knuckle battles broke out locally, and the Japanese soldiers did not take advantage. A stormy battle lasted until the east revealed the white of the fish's belly. Maeda looked at the large number of Japanese corpses on the charging route, which made Toshichi even more dizzy, and ordered the logistics troops to enter the battle and continue to launch a fierce attack. On the defensive position, the chief of staff said: "Brigade commander, the Oriental devils are crazy, they are simply taking the lives of soldiers as a child's play." The ministries have reported that the casualties have reached more than 600! "Damn, since the little devil is playing with his life, then let him come and put it in the reserves!"

Just as Oda was desperate, two fast horses galloped over, and a Japanese soldier rolled his saddle and dismounted: "Report, Weifang was suddenly attacked by the Chinese army, and the strength is about a regiment. "The day before yesterday, when I heard that it was not good, I immediately ordered the troops to retreat. The sudden appearance of a large number of Chinese troops in Weifang shows that the Chinese army is eating itself. The Japanese retreated quickly, did not have time to deal with the wounded, and only blew up the artillery. The speed of the Japanese army's retreat was definitely textbook-like, and the speed was extremely fast.

"Report to the brigade commander, the Japanese army has stopped attacking! The Oriental devil is cowardly! The Chief of Staff let out a sigh of relief. Report to the brigade commander, it seems that the Japanese army is going to escape! "Obviously, the 2nd Regiment captured Weifang, and the Japanese army got the news, damn it, the fighter plane was delayed, and ordered the troops to pursue it immediately!" Wang Jiefang was remorseful, he did not judge the Japanese army's intentions in the first place, and if the Japanese army stopped attacking and chose to counterattack, the Japanese army would not be able to escape at all. The soldiers jumped out of the trenches and pursued the Japanese in pursuit.

Maeda ordered his subordinates to love at all costs, and a brutal attack, losing 2/5 of his troops. On the way to escape, he realized that this time the Chinese army did not rush into the battle, but a planned and premeditated counterattack. In particular, the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army gave him a clear understanding that this situation must be reported to the headquarters, otherwise the entire 18th Division will face a desperate situation. Two hours later, Maeda led his troops to Zibo. Seeing that Zibo had been occupied by the Chinese army and that there were pursuers behind, Maeda ordered to bypass Weifang and continue to retreat in the direction of Pingdu.

Due to the fact that the radio station was too bulky (the radio station is so large nowadays that it must be carried in a horse-drawn carriage), Maeda ordered the radio station to be destroyed and discarded. When he set out in Weifang, he received an order from Mitsutomi Kamio, and the 29th Brigade had already sent support from Pingdu. Maeda led his troops over Weifang, thinking that he had escaped danger.

After the 2nd Regiment captured Weifang, it thought that the Japanese army would retreat and attack the city, so it prepared to meet the battle, but it did not expect that the Japanese army would flare a shot and continue to flee eastward.

Ge Yunfei's subordinate only had a radio station at the brigade level, but the regimental units did not have a radio station, so the 2nd Regiment did not know that the Japanese troops had fled in a hurry. But the commander of the 2 regiment was shrewd and ordered the troops to pursue. Soon after the 2nd Regiment went out of the city to pursue, the main force also arrived and joined forces to continue the pursuit of the Japanese army. Maeda led his troops to continue to run for their lives, and a tired army did not think about entering the place of death. At this time, the 13th and 14th regiments under the command of Wang Kunbu of the 3rd Brigade had already built fortifications in Dong'an, Weihe and waited for work.

The Japanese army was in a rout, and the commanders of the two regiments saw that the Japanese army was already a tired division and that their strength was dwarfed, so they decisively ordered the whole line to attack. Maeda did not expect the appearance of Chinese troops in the Weihe River, and it was too late to defend on the spot, so he could only rush to meet the battle, and the two sides immediately fell into a scuffle, and then a white-knuckle battle broke out. Ge Yunfei's elite troops, the stabbing technique is superior to the Japanese soldiers, because the Japanese soldiers travel long distances and are extremely tired, and the 13th and 14th regiments are waiting for work, and the Japanese soldiers in hand-to-hand combat are difficult to parry.

When the two sides were fighting, the pursuing troops from the west arrived and quickly entered the battlefield, and it was only a matter of time before the remnants of Maeda faced annihilation. At the time of this scuffle, Wang Kun led four regiments to block and support the 29th Brigade of Weifang on the west bank of the Jiaolai River. At this time, Wang Kun was directing the battle, and a fast horse galloped over. "Report to the brigade commander, the 13th and 14th regiments have blocked the Japanese troops fleeing east, and they are currently fighting fiercely."

"Haha, great, immediately inform all the officers and soldiers of the good news, and resolutely block the Japanese army" Wang Kun was excited, and the haze of the days was swept away. When the officers and men of the unit heard that the 120th Wing of the Japanese Army was being surrounded and annihilated, their fighting spirit was even higher.

At this time, on the platform of Zhoucun Station, a military column was ready to go, and Ge Yunfei stood on the platform, as if he was thinking about something. An officer got out of the car with a telegram in his hand and reported: "Report to the overseer, Wang Jiefang is calling, the headquarters is encircling and annihilating the remnants of the 120th Wing of the Japanese Army, and the battle will end before dusk!" "Where have He Zhi and Hu Wannian's troops arrived?"

Chief of Staff Guo Binghui said: "The overseers, according to the speed of their march, are almost to Weifang. "Telegraphed to He Zhi that the battle situation had changed, and the headquarters would not stay in Weifang, but would continue to advance eastward, and asked the headquarters to arrive in the northeast of Pingdu tomorrow night to stand by." Ge Yunfei continued: "Order Hu Wannian's department to advance to Gaomi through Weifang, and there must be no mistake." Order Wen Biao's department to launch an attack on Gaomi tonight and seize Gaomi. "At present, the main force of the 18th Division is concentrated in Jimo. At this time, the timing was just right to cut off the supply lines of the Japanese army.

"Report to the overseer, column commander Jiang Fangzhen called, the headquarters has assembled at the southern foot of the Wulong River." "Send a report to Commander Jiang and deploy according to the original battle plan!" After Ge Yunfei finished speaking, he boarded the train and continued to move eastward, his headquarters was to be located in Weifang. The next step is to eat the 29th Brigade of the Japanese Army, and the initiative on the battlefield will be completely controlled in his own hands, and Ge Yunfei seems to have reached the dawn of victory.