When Chen Dayong commanded the main force of the Seventh Brigade to move in a roundabout way to the south side of the 33rd Division's camp, the entire 33rd Division's camping area was already snoring.

There is no way, with the powerful 14th Division, safety is no problem, I don't know which tendon of the division commander is wrong, I have to repair the fortifications, and the soldiers are exhausted, at this time even the birds are sleeping in the nest, not to mention the sleepy and tired people?

The Fifth Division camped in the area around Wangcun, the 14th Division camped between Puji, Guanzhuang, and Wangcun, the 33rd Division camped between Shuangshan and Guanzhuang, and the 2nd Division and the Reading Mix formed the 1st Brigade and the 7th Brigade camped between Xianggongzhuang and Puji, north of Jiaoji Road. The devil's three-way army formed a triangular attack arrow, in which the fifth division aimed directly at Zhoucun, the second division aimed at Zouping and Qidong, and the 14th division aimed at Zichuan. Of course, if the attack of the Fifth Division is blocked, the troops on both flanks will soon be outflanked.

The highway from Jinan to Zhangqiu has now been taken over by a 08th Division, and these devils have simply camped on the highway, making the Jinan-Qingdao Highway between Jinan and Zhangqiu full of lights, and it looks like a ghost fire from a distance.

After listening to the report of the reconnaissance company, Chen Dayong and Liu Yi led the cadres of each regiment to take advantage of the night to make a close observation of the camping area of the 33rd Division.

Zhangqiu is an overrun zone between Jinan and Zhoucun, Zhangdian and Zichuan, densely populated, with many and large villages. The 33rd Division set up a long snake formation on the section between Shuangshan and Guanzhuang one or twenty miles away, and the fortifications were also decently repaired, and the devils guarding the fortifications seemed to be very vigilant, at least the sentry posts were well arranged, and there were patrols patrolling between the various camping sites, and each camping site was on duty with machine guns.

After seeing the situation, Chen Dayong made arrangements on the spot, ordered the reconnaissance company to approach the devil's position in concealment, and after the attack began, he disguised the devil's rout and shouted in Chinese language, "The main force of the Eighth Route Army is coming, the captain of the brigade is dead, the joint commander is dead, and the division commander orders to retreat," creating confusion and urging the enemy to collapse.

The 1st Sniper Squadron, which had already converged with the main force, was ordered to infiltrate the vicinity of the Devil's position, focusing on solving the fire points of the Devil's middle and lower rank officers, machine guns, and grenadiers.

The artillery regiment was ordered to build a position, and at the beginning of the attack, the artillery fire was concentrated to attack the camping points of the various units of the devils.

ordered the 19th Regiment to command the 20th Regiment and the 21st Regiment to attack Shuangshan; The new 7th Regiment was ordered to command the supplementary regiment to attack from Zhujiayu, storm the area around Yangjundian, cut off the contact between the front and back of the 33rd Division, divide the devils, and monitor the movements of the 14th Division.

After issuing the combat order, Chen Dayong said to the cadres: "From the Third Division to the Seventh Brigade, although we have fought some battles, we are still a new unit compared with the First Brigade, the Second Brigade, and the Third Brigade. Compared with the 4th and 5th Brigades, the record is inferior to them. This time, the division commander used us as the main force of the Ludong Army, which was worthy of teaching the Seventh Brigade. Our training over the past few years, the training we have been honing over the past few years, will be tested tonight. All regiments must take out the things at the bottom of the box, infantry guns, mortars, grenadiers, rocket launchers, flying thunder cannons, light and heavy machine guns, all for Lao Tzu, the firepower must be fierce, the attack must be fierce, and the attack must be fierce, and it is necessary to form an indomitable and overwhelming wave of attack to drown the little devils in one fell swoop. Completely destroy the will of the 33rd Division to resist and completely crush them! Let them see if it is our old Red Army's courage and tenacity, or their bushido! If any regiment can't be attacked, don't blame Lao Tzu for being unkind, the regiment commander and political commissar will all go to the first branch of the Anti-Japanese University to study, and teach the Seventh Brigade not to be an invincible and invincible commander! Did you hear it all? ”

The cadres all shouted loudly: "It's clear! ”

Liu Yi saw that Chen Dayong's mobilization posture was becoming more and more like that of a division commander's mobilization, and hurriedly added: "Please pay attention to comrades, this is a rout war, not a war of annihilation. All units are not allowed to encircle the devils, and they must leave gaps and force the enemy to flee. We must not show the courage of the moment, and see that as soon as the devils are defeated, the idea of annihilating the devils will arise, in that case, we will be dumplings by the 14th Division and the 108th Division. After the devil broke and fled, he had to control the rhythm of the pursuit by taking advantage of the victory, and as soon as he encountered the 14th Division and the 108th Division, he had to immediately stop the pursuit and retreat quickly. This is discipline, and everyone must remember. ”

Chen Dayong asked again: "Do you know what the political commissar said?" ”

Once again, the cadres answered clearly.

Chen Dayong waved his hand and asked the troops to move quickly, and he and Liu Yi moved the brigade headquarters to the position of the artillery regiment, so that the signal corps could quickly set up telephone calls with the regiments.

At one o'clock in the night, the troops had already moved in place, and they heard the faint sound of artillery on the side of Wangcun from a distance, knowing that Li Deguang and they had already begun to move, Chen Dayong immediately ordered the artillery regiment to open fire to cover the attack of the troops.

In fact, although the 33rd Division returned to repair the fortifications in accordance with the order of Lieutenant General Gansu Shigetaro, after all, it was a large corps operation, and it had just left Jinan, and the recruits of the 33rd Division never dreamed that the thunderous blow of the Eighth Route Army would fall on their heads first, you must know that there are two elite divisions in front of them, the Fifth Division and the Fourteenth Division, taking the lead! Therefore, the position of the devils was only a little deeper in the trenches and a little more standardized, and there were no mines or barbed wire at all. Because it's not a long-term stubbornness, I'm going to start moving forward early tomorrow morning, and it's very troublesome to get that thing! And only sentries and small units on duty were left on the position, and most of the soldiers were asleep.

After the artillery regiment's positions were built, the artillery observers went to the front of the regiments to observe the situation in the camping area of the artillery regiment and provide the artillery with artillery parameters.

In this way, the first round of attacks of the Seventh Brigade Artillery Regiment was not aimed at the forward positions of the devils, but at the camping points of the devils. Not to mention the devils who live in the village, the devils who sleep in the wild are the first lucky ones to report to Amaterasu.

Liu Lizhi, head of the 19th Regiment, and Yu Wenfeng, political commissar, are all backbone cadres of the old Red Army. Before joining the Red Army, Liu Lizhi studied in a girls' middle school in Hunan, and later worked as a tailor, and was very good at homework and staff officers. When the Xikou battle eliminated Chen Guangzhong's division, because Liu Lizhi pointed out that the heavy machine gun position was set up unreasonably, Liu Yimin's attention was aroused, and he first worked in the staff office of the Red Eighteenth Regiment, and later worked in the guard regiment of the Red Seventh Army. This Liu Lizhi usually looks like a quiet and delicate talent, but he is extremely brave when he fights, holding a shell gun in one hand and a mountain knife in the other, charging into battle, unstoppable.

The 19th Regiment is the main force of the 7th Brigade, the whole regiment has more than 3,000 people, and the firepower is not weak; after the capture of Qingdao this time, the weapons, ammunition and various materials captured by the 7th Brigade have all been handed over, but now is a period of fierce fighting, and good weapons must first meet the needs of the combat troops. Therefore, after approval, not only did the Seventh Brigade set up an artillery regiment and all field artillery, but the fire support battalions of each regiment and the firepower of each battalion, company and platoon were greatly strengthened. The fire support battalion of the 19th Regiment of the Xiangjiao Regiment was organized into five companies, two infantry artillery companies, one 60 mortar company, one heavy machine gun company, and one thunder artillery company. The fire support companies of each battalion were also divided into four platoons, one infantry artillery platoon, one mortar platoon, two heavy machine gun platoons, and grenadiers were arranged in infantry platoons and infantry squads.

Liu Lizhi and Yu Wenfeng, who were born in the old Red Army, both knew that tonight's battle was actually extremely dangerous, and they had to attack and fight quickly to defeat the devils in one fell swoop. Once the devils organize a defense and stabilize their positions, the 14th Division will immediately pounce, it is the elite division of the devils, which not only strengthens a heavy artillery brigade, but also basically realizes mechanization, and the attack speed is very fast. Therefore, Liu Lizhi's deployment was to teach the 1st Battalion of the 19th Regiment to be an attack arrow, tear through the devil's defense line, and bravely assault. The second battalion and the third battalion followed up with the first battalion, and they wanted to drill into the devil's defense like an awl. The 20th Regiment and the 21st Regiment poured in from the opening torn by the 19th Regiment and expanded to the two wings, completely tearing apart the devil's defense line. The three main regiments attacked side by side, forming an unstoppable attack wave that completely destroyed the devil's will to resist.

In order to ensure the success of the attack in one fell swoop, Liu Lizhi gathered all the infantry guns, mortars, grenadiers, heavy machine guns, and flying thunder guns of the three regiments, lined up neatly, and stared at the devil's defense line with fierce eyes.

The first wave of the brigade artillery regiment was the enemy of the Twin Mountains. Because it has been clearly investigated, there are logistics units such as the two infantry wings, the baggage wing, the mountain artillery wing, and the hospital stationed around Shuangshan, which are the main location of the 33rd Division. The reason why Chen Dayong concentrated all the three main regiments here was to defeat the main force of the 33rd Division in one go.

When the brigade artillery regiment opened fire, Liu Lizhi ordered the assault to begin, and the heavy firepower of the three regiments was all poured into the devil's position, which soon drowned the devil's position in a sea of fire.

Before the first wave of firepower was over, Liu Lizhi ordered the trumpet to be sounded and an attack was launched. Infantry artillery was ordered to fire extended, and mortars, grenadiers, heavy machine guns, thunder guns and rocket launchers were ordered to quickly move their positions and follow up the attacking troops and provide fire support.

There were not many troops on the front of the assault on the devil's position, and after being covered by the fire of the three main regiments, there were very few devils alive. The 1st Battalion, which served as the assault battalion, easily broke through the devil's position, and then the 2nd and 3rd Battalions, the 20th and 21st Regiments, poured in from the gap and began to attack the devils who had just woken up from their sleep.

At this point, there was no suspense in the battle, and the defeat of the 33rd Division was already a foregone conclusion.

That night, the commander of the 33rd Division, Lieutenant General Tataro Gansu, stayed in the compound of a landlord in Shuangshantun. Of course, the owner of the compound had already fled, and the house was empty, and Lieutenant General Jutaro had to ask the guards to open the marching bedding and spread it on the carved bed of the landlord's house, and would sleep for the night.

That night, there was no wind, and it was so hot that Lieutenant General Tataro couldn't sleep for a long time, so he had to ask the two guards to find two fans and keep fanning them. I finally fell asleep, but I had nightmares again. It seems that the Eighth Route Army has caught up, and there are cannons and gunfire everywhere. The barrels of the Type 92 heavy machine gun and the Taisho 11 young machine gun were all red, and the attacking Eighth Route Army was staggered, and the corpses of the Eighth Route Army in gray uniforms were all over the mountains.

Suddenly, a small unit of the Eighth Route Army attacked and directly rushed into the headquarters of Lieutenant General Ganji Shigetaro. Jutaro took out his pistol and was about to shoot, but the trigger was pulled and the gun did not go off, and the pull again did not go off. Ganji Jutaro's face was sweaty, and he was so anxious that he threw away the pistol and went to pick up the command knife, but before the knife was pulled out, the ghost head knife of the Eighth Route Army was chopped down. With a bang, Ganji Jutaro woke up.

When he woke up, he saw that the guards were holding his hand and shaking it desperately. Listen to it again, why is there gunfire all around? Is it still in a dream?

But time did not allow him to hesitate, and the chief of staff came in to report that the main force of the Eighth Route Army had attacked and that the defensive line had been breached. The camping points of all wings were heavily shelled by the artillery of the Eighth Route Army and suffered heavy losses. Now that the Eighth Route Army has attacked in depth with the division, the speed is very fast, and it must retreat immediately, otherwise it will be too late.

Jutaro Kan woke up at once, and what happened in his sleep really happened, and immediately ordered the chief of staff to organize all troops to resist on the spot, and immediately contacted the 14th Division to ask for urgent reinforcements.

The Chief of Staff hurriedly reported that telephone lines had been cut and that the radio could not call the Wing Commanders. The attack of the Eighth Route Army came too suddenly and violently, and the troops were all in camp, and the soldiers could not find the generals, and the generals could not find the soldiers, so how could they organize resistance? It is better to retreat quickly and move closer to the 14th Division or the 108th Division, otherwise you will be taken prisoner.

As soon as he heard that he might be a prisoner, he shivered all over his body, stopped being wordy, jumped out of bed three times and divided two by two, put on his clothes, picked up his command knife and ran out.

When I arrived at the entrance of the village, I saw that my 33rd Division was completely chaotic, and there were soldiers running around everywhere, and the pursuit troops of the Eighth Route Army chased after them with shouts, bullets and shells flew everywhere in the rout of the imperial army, and there were soldiers who kept shouting that the captain was killed, the wing commander was killed, and they ran quickly, and they were beheaded if they were late.

At this time, Gansu Shigetaro didn't care about finding out who was shouting again, but he didn't give up, if he didn't resist on the spot, how could he explain to the base camp about this rout? He immediately ordered the guards and staff around him to stop the rout and organize resistance on the spot. As a result, the troops were not organized, but instead attracted an artillery bombardment, and the soldiers were blown up to pieces. Seeing that it was impossible to do anything, Ganji Shigetaro sighed and had to retreat in a hurry with the guards with the rout.

The 14th Division is the ace division of the Chinese army, and its combat effectiveness cannot be compared with that of the 33rd Division. At the time of the Battle of Lanfeng, in the face of the fierce attack of Xue Yue's corps, the 14th Division was able to resolutely resist and not retreat.

At this time, Kenji Dohihara had already received an order to be transferred back to Tokyo and serve as an attachment to the General Staff Headquarters due to his violation of military orders in the Battle of Lanfeng in eastern Henan, and the new commander of the 14th Division was Lieutenant General Takamasa Sekii.

When the artillery regiment of the Eighth Route Army opened fire, the commander of the 14th Division, Lieutenant General Takamasa Sekii, was awakened, and his first reaction was that the main force of the instructors of the Eighth Route Army was coming, and his 14th Division was about to face a catastrophe. Therefore, Lieutenant General Sekii Takamasa immediately ordered all units to end their camps, take all positions, and resolutely repel the attack on the Eighth Route of Tsuchi.

After a while, Sekii Takamasa calmed down and observed clearly, seeing that the Eighth Route Army was concentrating on attacking the 33rd Division, Sekii Takamasa ordered all units to make preparations for the attack, preparing to reinforce the 33rd Division and flank the Eighth Route Army.

The movement of a large army has many people, horses, horses, vehicles, guns, and artillery, and many verbose things. In the middle of the night, the soldiers were awakened in their sleep, and many of them were not even dressed properly, so where could they quickly prepare for the attack? By the time the 14th Division was ready to stop, the 33rd Division had already begun to retreat.

Sekii Takamasa was about to order the heavy artillery brigade to fire at the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army to cover the retreat of the 33rd Division, when the chief of staff reminded: "Your Excellency Division Commander, our division has never fought with the Eighth Route Army, but according to the report of the North China Front, Liu Yiminjiao, the instructor of the Chinese Army, has at least eight or more artillery regiments. Now it is only a field artillery regiment that fires artillery, and the others are Type 92 infantry guns, mortars, and grenadiers. So where are the other artillery regiments of the Eighth Route Army? What do they want to do? Food for thought! ”

When the chief of staff said this, Sekii Takamasa was stunned for a moment, yes, what he was facing was the instructor of the Eighth Route Army who eliminated the Eighth Division and the Tenth Division in one fell swoop, but don't accidentally send the 14th Division into the tiger's mouth, in that case, he will be the shortest-lived division commander in the history of the army. Who can tell how many cannons and machine guns are aiming at their 14th Division in this dark night, be cautious!

Sekii Takamasa's caution did not matter, the life-saving straw of the 33rd Division flowed eastward, and under the strong attack of the Eighth Route Army, it could only retreat and retreat, and finally completely evolved into a great rout.

It didn't take long for the rout of the 33rd Division to arrive, and behind the butt was the pursuing Eighth Route Army.

The rout of the 33rd Division was an eye-opener for the warriors of the 14th Division, and these recruits basically did not wear steel helmets, not even military caps. Many of the soldiers escaped with their bare hands, not unlike the homeless peasants on the outskirts of Sendai when the typhoon hit.

Fortunately, the 14th Division's position was strong and its firepower was fierce, and it finally blocked the pursuing Tuba Road, and the defense line did not collapse due to the onslaught of the 33rd Division's rout. If the 14th Division were to be replaced by a newly formed unit like the 33rd Division, it would probably turn into a major rout.

At this time, Sekii Takamasa became more and more cautious, because he was afraid that the defeat of the 33rd Division by the instructor was just a bait, and the purpose was to lure the 14th Division to leave the established position and go in pursuit. In this way, the Eighth Route Army could avoid a positional battle with the 14th Division, and could ambush the 14th Division during the movement.

(To be continued)