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Chapter 435 The Big Bang

At 7:40 a.m. on 2 May, the First Group Army of the National Revolutionary Army withdrew from Jinan, and General Liu Zhi commanded the baggage troops of the First Army Corps to leave Jinan West Railway Station by seven trains and head for Tai'an. The Second Army Corps, under the command of General Chen Tiaoyuan, marched north through the east of the city to the Longshan line, and the forward troops of General He Yaozu's Third Army Corps and General Fang Zhenwu's Fourth Army Corps had also reached the Changqing line and began to cross the river to the north. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The provincial capital compound was in a mess, the guard troops loaded important materials onto more than ten trucks, Commander-in-Chief Chiang got into the car surrounded by the generals and colonies, and set off quickly under the escort of the guard troops of the three regiments. When the convoy drove out of the east gate, Commander-in-Chief Jiang remembered An Yi, remembering that An Yi was still dictating telegrams in the confidential room before leaving, and asked An Yi if he had withdrawn?

Wang Shihe, the chief of the guard who was sitting in the co-pilot seat in front, turned around and replied: "It is estimated that he is following behind, Senior Brother An said that he rode a horse and broke off with General Li Shilong commanding the Seventh Division." ”

Zhu Peide, beside Chiang Kai-shek, said: "Commander-in-chief, you can rest assured, An Yi, this kid knows in his heart, after the order to retreat at half past five in the morning, the Japanese army reacted extremely fiercely, at first I thought we were going to clean them up, urgently gathered the army, rushed to the various street entrances and commanding heights of the commercial port to set up machine guns, the whole city was shaken, and then the Japanese army reacted, realized that we were going to retreat, and immediately sent more than 300 people to seize the railway station, but I didn't expect that in the end it was An Yi who was a chess player, Within 10 minutes of the issuance of the order, Brother Guiyan and General Mingsan were notified to seize seven trains and 12 locomotives, fully loaded with the Fourth Army Corps stationed on the front line of the station and a regiment of Brother Guiyan, and quickly drove to Yangjiazhuang Station, seven kilometers in the western suburbs, to get off and put down, and then transported the logistics and baggage units of various departments of the First Group Army to Tai'an in batches.

The entire retreat route was drawn up by this kid, he deployed the armies in an orderly manner, without any confusion, and the generals of the armies also gave him face, basically obeyed his words and executed them very well. This kid can be fearless in the face of danger at a young age, his heart is as careful as a hair, and he is a handsome talent! ”

Chiang Kai-shek let out a long sigh, glanced at the officers and soldiers who were hurrying outside the car window, felt sad in his heart, closed his tired eyes and stopped asking anything.

In the city of Jinan, the frightened citizens all closed their doors and did not dare to travel, and there were not many people in Jinan City, and there was garbage and dust everywhere, and it was dirty.

More than 600 Japanese troops under the command of the wing commander Saimoto, rushed left and right in a chaotic manner, they did not expect that the revolutionary army would suddenly withdraw from Jinan, the commander Saimoto began to think that the revolutionary army saw through their strategy and wanted to strike first, while urgently reporting to the division commander Fukuda Hikosuke, on the other hand, hurriedly arranged troops to block all the streets of the Japanese overseas Chinese area, but did not wait for the departments to be in place, Fukuda Hikosuke's urgent order had arrived, requiring Saimoto to blow up the Yellow River iron bridge at all costs, and do everything possible to cut off the revolutionary army's way north, trapping all the revolutionary troops in the Jinan area north of the Yellow River.

At this time, Saimoto, who had only come to his senses, immediately sent more than 80 officers and soldiers to escort the engineering squad to rush to the Yellow River Bridge, and then sent a squadron to seize the railway station.

At 8:10, six kilometers north of Jinan, on the north bank of the Yellow River Railway Bridge.

Miao Ping'an, who was crawling under the railway embankment on the north bank of the Yellow River, nervously stared at the brothers of the demolition detachment Han Xianzhi who sneaked to the north arch bridge deck to plant explosives, and from time to time looked at the noisy Japanese soldiers in the center of the iron bridge hundreds of meters away.

Miao Ping'an, who is only twenty-eight years old, is a veteran ruffian with ten years of military age, born in the original mountain hunters, and later became the old nine under the bandit king Liuzhen fire in Guanxian County, the bandit name is "Nine Lives Cat", the Liuzhen fire bandit department has always been famous for its courage and good fighting, and often more than 10 people frustrate more than 100 officers and soldiers, and the official system cannot be controlled, and then in the sixth year of the Republic of China, it was incorporated into the security team by the local government, and then transferred to the subordinates of various warlords, after ten years of chaotic war. Miao Ping'an, who has rich experience on the battlefield and seems to be rude but is actually cunning, is promoted to the company commander of the Zhilu Army step by step with accurate marksmanship, ruthlessness, and good at setting traps in mountain and forest operations. Let's ...... with the six majors."

However, Miao Ping'an, who had suffered defeat and hid in the mountains, had just been selected to follow Li Fuqiang's special forces for less than six hours, and he no longer dared to be, and he may never forget the scene an hour ago in his life: Li Fuqiang and An Jin, who were wearing beggar clothes and nodding their heads under the guns of the Japanese sentries, stabbed two Japanese sentries in front of him and five or six brothers of the Zhilu Army who had just surrendered, and several special forces brothers who were as light as swallows jumped out almost silently. In the blink of an eye, all the three Japanese soldiers and one soldier sleeping in the bridgehead post were killed.

At that time, a brother of the Zhilu Army who was trembling and trembling asked Li Fuqiang: You dare to kill the Japanese...... Unexpectedly, Li Fuqiang asked angrily: What kind of egg? The Japanese don't anymore? As a result, it almost made the brethren of the special brigade laugh out loud.

Young An Jin and a brother of his own detachment put on the Japanese military uniform, standing at the head of the bridge with the Japanese army's 38 big cover, not afraid of a large number of Japanese troops in the middle of the bridge who are more than 100 meters away from themselves are nervously installing explosives, around eight o'clock, the Japanese troops who installed the explosives slowly retreated to the south bank, a Shao Zuo and two sappers hurriedly wired, step by step retreat, the enemy Shao Zuo in the center of the bridge suddenly shouted and waved to An Jin, meaning to let An Jin and them all withdraw to the south bank, but how did An Jin know what the Japanese army called? Still standing at the head of the bridge with a gun in hand, motionless.

The Japanese Shaozo felt that the situation was different, and immediately ordered all to stop retreating, dozens of Japanese soldiers turned around together, raised their guns and aimed at An Jin and his brothers, An Jin and the two immediately lay down under the conditioned reflex, and immediately provoked a howl of the Japanese army, and five or six Japanese soldiers immediately rushed to An Jin and the two with guns.

Luo Yi, the deputy captain of the brigade who was prostrate in the grass on the north bank to protect An Yi, saw that the situation was urgent, and slowly pulled the trigger of the sniper rifle, and a gunshot sounded, and the head of the Japanese Shaozo rose with a blood mist, and his body quickly fell backwards, knocking the engineer who pulled the detonation line behind him to the left, and his heavy body was just pressed against another companion holding the detonator, and the two of them climbed down the roadbed together, fell down heavily, and the square blaster that got out of his hand turned half a circle in the air and smashed to the ground, and he was unexpectedly connected to the power supply, "boom" A loud bang broke out immediately, and the middle two-arch bridge deck rose into the air in the flames and split apart, and the fragments of more than 100 Japanese troops on the bridge deck were mixed with the fragmented rails, sleepers, bridge decks, and steel rubble.

The explosion of the mountain shaking the ground caused the bridge deck of more than 40 meters to disappear completely, the narrow bridge deck on both sides of the fracture and the sleeper railroad tracks twisted frequently, rattling, and seemed to fall down at any time, the two people of An Jin at the north bridgehead had already fallen on the railway, and the explosion shook the more than 300 brothers who were crawling on the north bank with deafness, and their hearts twitched, and the whole Jinan city buzzed and shattered.

After the debris fell from the sky, Luo Yi picked up the gun and jumped up, rushed to Li Fuqiang's side and shouted anxiously, Li Fuqiang's ears were still buzzing, and he didn't hear anything, Luo Yi hurriedly pulled Li Fuqiang to the bridge, and pointed to Han Xianzhi and seven or eight brothers who floated up in the river, Li Fuqiang knew that the brothers of the demolition team had not blown up the bridge and were all shaken into the river, and seven or eight heads were sinking and floating on the water, and they didn't seem to be able to swim, so they hurriedly rushed back to the north bank and pulled more than a dozen brothers to run down the river bank to salvage.

Luo Yi and his assistant supported An Jin, who seemed to be drunk, and the two quickly returned to the north bank, and after more than ten minutes of busyness, they retreated to a place more than 200 meters north with the brothers of the demolition detachment who climbed ashore wetly.

The officers and men of the General Headquarters marching a few kilometers away from the southern suburbs of Jinan were also startled by the huge explosion that came from them, and the two-kilometer-long procession suddenly stopped, and thousands of officers and men turned their heads to look in the direction from which the explosion came from, and the exclamations and discussions rang out in one voice.

Zhu Peide's face in the sedan instantly turned pale, and he muttered "so dangerous", Commander-in-Chief Jiang suddenly opened his eyes and ordered to stop, the attendant opened the car door, and the two quickly got out, looking at the large area of gunpowder smoke that had not dispersed for a long time over the Yellow River Iron Bridge in the north, and sighed. A few hundred meters behind, An Yi, Gu Changfeng and others rode through the road vacated by the officers and soldiers, and slowly chased after Commander-in-Chief Jiang and Zhu Peide.

Commander-in-Chief Chiang stared at the thick smoke of gunpowder in the distance and sighed: "The Japanese army is really despicable and filthy, and they will do everything to achieve their goals......

"Yes! The Japanese army brazenly blew up the Yellow River Iron Bridge in order to delay our steps as much as possible, and without the decisive order of the commander-in-chief, I am afraid that we would not be able to withdraw even if we wanted to. The subordinates estimated that the main force of the Futian Division had reached between Puji and Zhangqiu, and it would soon be able to drive to Jinan, and the next step would be to see how the Japanese army reacted. Zhu Peide sighed.

Chiang Kai-shek nodded: "Before noon, the main forces of the three corps of our army can cross the north bank, two ferries in the eastern section and four ferries in the western section, the speed will not be slow, as long as all the armies follow the requirements of the plan and detain all the ships on the north bank, the Japanese army will have no way to chase them." The terrain of the first army on the Taishan Laiwu line was complicated, and it was believed that the Japanese army's 20,000 or 30,000 troops would not dare to go deep rashly, and then they would mainly rely on diplomatic mediation. There was Brother Yue Jun (Zhang Qunzi) in Shanghai to negotiate with the Japanese envoys, and Brother Yingbai in Jinan to negotiate with Futian, and things would not deteriorate. ”

An Yi came on a horse at this time, flew off the horse, and ran to Chiang Kai-shek and Zhu Peide to report, Chiang Kai-shek confirmed the news of the Yellow River Iron Bridge to An Yi, An Yi was quite apprehensive in his heart, knowing that his demolition detachment's more than a ton of pitiful explosives could not have such a great effect, but he could only answer hard:

"Since the confidential departments are all on the march, the subordinates have not yet received an exact report, but, judging from the direction and intensity of the explosion, this possibility is very high, and the Japanese army has long wanted to occupy the bridge, and when they saw our army retreating in all directions, they must have thought that their tricks had been discovered by our army, and they were worried that our army would force their way through, so they hurriedly blew up the bridge. His subordinates thought that such a big matter was not something that Saimoto dared to decide, but it must be the result of Saimoto seeing the evacuation of our army and urgently reporting Futian. ”

"Well, it makes sense, although the Japanese army is brutal, it is still very disciplined. The intersection in front of the road to the south is the Dangjiazhuang, your senior brother Yu has already led a regiment of guards to arrive there in advance, let's set off, I need to get the exact news when we get to the Dangjiazhuang. Chiang Kai-shek commanded.

"Yes!"

After An Yi finished answering, he sent Chiang Kai-shek and Zhu Peide on the car, and he also turned over and took the lead in rushing to the party's village, his two regiments and brothers were still on the north bank of the big iron bridge, and the other regiment and more than 3,000 troops were still in Changqing County, and the main force of the Japanese army was coming soon, maybe the annoyed and angry Japanese army really wanted to fight, so the crossing of the river in each army needed to be verified and understood, if he was not prepared to be caught off guard by the enemy, it would be too unworthy, so he was more anxious than anyone else.