At this moment, the Japanese discovered that they could quickly turn into bloody corpses, just like the Chinese they had always looked down upon; Under the rain of bullets made of steel, they are also so fragile and so easy to die; In the face of a formidable enemy, they can be easily slaughtered.

After the plan was decided, the Chinese army began to move separately against the Japanese army. After preparing for the attack, the Beiyang 5th Division launched an artillery bombardment of the Japanese positions in Qingzhou at dusk. In order to support the offensive led by the infantry, Fu Xiao'an, the commander of the Fifth Division, mobilized most of the heavy artillery in his hands to be put into the front line for artillery bombardment, with a total of 50 150-mm heavy howitzers (all the artillery of the new heavy artillery brigade), 36 75-mm field guns, and 18 75-mm mountain guns, a total of 104 heavy guns, and for this operation, half of the division's stock of shells was specially used for this operation.

Xie Xun, commander of the artillery regiment of the Fifth Division, who served as the commander-in-chief of the artillery, was a high-achieving student who had studied at the Berlin Army University in Germany, majoring in artillery.

Due to the excessive contempt of the Chinese army in Qingzhou and the carelessness brought about by the previous victory, the fortifications built by the Japanese army in Qingzhou were very rudimentary, the trenches were dug very shallowly, and the shelter was not strong enough, and in order to prepare for the upcoming night attack, the Japanese soldiers were all densely crowded in the trenches, and as a result, under the heavy artillery fire of the Chinese army, they suffered heavy casualties and losses, which were far more severe than Fu Xiao'an expected in advance. In the first round of artillery bombardment by the Chinese army, a number of Japanese officers, including the wing commander, were blown to pieces by a 150-millimeter heavy artillery shell that fell into the trenches, and the casualties of the Japanese officers and men who were squeezed into the forward trenches to prepare for a night attack were extremely heavy, and the entire 1st Brigade of the 29th Brigade Hamamatsu Wing and the 1st Brigade of the Shizuoka Wing lost almost half of their combat strength after the first round of shelling, and the 2nd Brigade of the Shizuoka Wing assembled at the main attack point of the Chinese army suffered more than two-thirds of the casualties. The 1st Brigade of Hamamatsu Wing fared slightly better, but almost a third of them were killed.

The frightened Japanese soldiers hid and waited for the second round of shelling by the Chinese army, but to their surprise, the Chinese army's shelling suddenly stopped.

At this time, the Japanese officers and soldiers were completely frightened by this stormy artillery bombardment, and no one paid attention to the order to launch an attack, and the few Japanese artillery pieces sounded like crazy at this time, and they let off at the opposite Chinese army position for almost half an hour before stopping.

The bold shelling of the Japanese artillery did not have the slightest effect, because at this time the attacking units of the Chinese troops did not enter the positions and did not suffer losses at all. The Japanese lost their supreme commander and were unable to judge the true intentions of the Chinese army for a while, and their poor ammunition reserves prevented them from concentrating the fierce firepower of their opponents, so the Japanese had no choice but to stop the shelling, which just reduced the resistance to the night attack of the Beiyang Fifth Division.

In the early hours of the morning, the Chinese artillery began to prepare for another firepower, and the sky flashed again with a dazzling red glow, at this time most of the Japanese officers and soldiers had withdrawn to a relatively safe rear, and even some of the alert troops had taken refuge in the anti-artillery holes, and what the Japanese did not expect was that the 400 broadsword team members led by Sun Yansong, the leader of the Shandong militia group, were armed with revolvers and broadswords, some of them bent down and bowed forward, and some were crawling on the ground to sneak towards the Japanese position. At the risk of being accidentally injured by their own artillery fire, they had quietly touched a place less than two hundred meters from the forward trenches of the Japanese army.

Since the Japanese army captured Qingdao and forcibly occupied the Jiaoji Railway, in the occupied area in the name of "military management", set up a military administration and a civil affairs bureau, to implement barbaric colonial rule against the local Chinese people, unwilling to be humiliated Shandong people to carry out fierce resistance, many local people automatically organized militia groups to confront the Japanese army, after Japan declared war on China, this resistance from underground to open, when the Chinese army entered Shandong, the local gentry and people in Shandong responded en masse, organized a large number of militia groups to support the Chinese army to fight against the Japanese armyMany militia groups simply joined the regular army to take command.

For Sun Yansong, a distance of 200 meters meant that his broadsword team could kill the Japanese position in half a minute. ,

According to the battle plan, the task of Sun Yansong and the Dadao team was to tightly entangle the Japanese troops in the trenches and buy time for the main force less than 1,000 meters behind to cross the enemy's fire blockade line.

"Give the order to go down and tell everyone to stay still and wait for the shelling to end." Sun Yansong whispered to one of his subordinates, who slowly turned backwards and gave an order to a militia leader, who in turn turned to convey it to the others, and spread it throughout the broadsword team in turn.

At this time, the Japanese positions were full of dazzling flashes of explosions, deafening sounds, and screams of Japanese soldiers. In the sound of the explosion, Sun Yansong, who was very familiar with the Japanese language, could even hear the Japanese soldiers scolding, complaining that the artillery had indiscriminately fired the artillery and provoked the Chinese to retaliate.

On the trembling earth, splashed earth and rocks fell from the sky from time to time, but the members of the broadsword team at this time were as steady as Mount Tai, and they lay on the ground one by one, waiting for the end of all this.

Although they were not regular soldiers, they had a much higher will to fight than the regular soldiers, although many of them had only received a short period of military training.

As the loud sound of the last cannonball died down, Sun Yansong stood up suddenly, raised the ring-headed broadsword with a red ribbon floating high, and shouted: "Brothers! Come on! ”

The 400 broadsword members jumped up almost at the same time, the snow-bright broadsword and the dark revolver shone with a terrifying light, and one by one the fierce figures swept across the land like a whirlwind, and after dozens of seconds, the forward positions of the Japanese army were completely immersed in a shouting of killing.

Sun Yansong took the lead in jumping into the trench, and saw a Japanese soldier dragging a rifle and panicked out of the anti-artillery hole, after the other party found him, he howled wildly, stood there and raised his gun, and put on a standard shooting posture, but at such a distance, Sun Yansong did not give the opponent a chance to fire, he stepped forward, his hand raised the knife, and the ring head knife cut off half of the opponent's head at once, and then he ran into a Japanese officer head-on, he did not wait for the other party to pull out the knife, He shot the opponent in the head from a distance of less than five steps.

Sun Yansong led more than ten guards all the way down to kill, killing as many as 100 Japanese soldiers one after another, until the main force arrived, and his left arm was pierced by a bullet, he was still brandishing a big knife and fighting with the enemy!

Under the fierce attack of the Chinese army, the entire line of the 29th Brigade of the Japanese Army felt terrible pressure, and Major General Hayakawa, who had just acted as the brigade commander, panicked for a while, because he did not know what was happening, he did not know which direction to throw the reserves, and the news coming back from the front was always contradictory: after a while it was reported that the positions of the 2nd Brigade had been infiltrated by enemy troops, but they still had the strength to hold on; A few minutes later, the 2nd Brigade reported that the position had been broken through and could not be supported, and a few minutes later the 1st Brigade reported that they were facing a collapse on the whole line and requested reinforcements; After a while, the 3rd Brigade reported that it had been subjected to a heavy onslaught from the enemy's regiment, and that they had abandoned their positions; Immediately after that, it was reported that contact with the 2nd Brigade had been lost, and Major General Hayakawa was so overwhelmed by this information that he did not know what to do.

Until Major General Hayakawa was forced to give the order to retreat, he was not able to give a single meaningful order in these most critical hours, and it was only a matter of time before the entire line of the Japanese 29th Brigade collapsed.

In less than three hours, the vanguard of the Beiyang 5th Division broke through the left flank defense line of the Hamamatsu Wing of the 29th Brigade of the Japanese Army, and advanced to the depth of the Japanese army after dawn, and together with the cavalry regiment of the 5th Division that came to support, they repelled a Japanese cavalry that counterattacked, and then together with the follow-up troops, they routed a retreating Japanese artillery unit and captured part of the Japanese artillery.

By the night of the next day, the battle line laid by the commander of the 29th Brigade of the Japanese Army along the railway in Qingzhou had completely collapsed, and the Beiyang Fifth Division tore through the Japanese front line from the center and left flank respectively, and then routed the defenders of the Japanese right flank, annihilating more than 6,300 Japanese troops in one day, and oppressing the remnants of the Japanese army to Weixian.

For the Japanese troops on the Shandong Peninsula, the situation began to take a turn for the worse.

Qingdao, the German Governor's Palace.

"The Chinese army has just captured Qingzhou." A Japanese ronin dressed as Chinese said to Lieutenant General Mitsutomi Kamio, "There is no doubt about it, Your Excellency General." ”

"I haven't received any relevant reports, and the situation in Qingzhou is still to be verified." Kamio Mitsutomi looked at the Japanese ronin in front of him with some annoyance, "The Chinese were also hit hard last time, they can't come so quickly!" ”

"But our people have already seen the Chinese army enter Qingzhou! If you send someone over right away, you'll know what's going on! The Japanese ronin slammed the Chinese dome hat on his head to the ground and shouted, "I really don't understand how the army's intelligence work is done!" ”

"It's not your turn to teach me how to do intelligence work!" Kamio Mitsutomi was also on fire, "Please pay attention to your identity!" ”

Listening to Kamio Mitsutomi's rebuke, the Japanese ronin couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, but soon remembered something, and a trace of embarrassment flashed on his face.

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